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+[{"query": ["With all my heart \u2014 Lucy is gone for ever \u2014 this place is hateful to me \u2014 amid the perils of the ocean , I may find my best relief \u2014 come .", "Dare I ? you have among you awakened the wolf within my heart , and beware how it snaps .", "She has !", "Murder !\u2014 no \u2014\u2019 tis now eighteen years \u2014 eighteen years this very day since \u2014", "And speaks \u2014 lives \u2014 then Gwinett , Gwinett the husband of Lucy \u2014 my", "Never !", "Lucy , Lucy , upon my knees \u2014 I meant not what I said \u2014\u2019 twas passion \u2014 madness \u2014 eh , what \u2014 now she takes him by the arm \u2014 they \u2019 re gone \u2014 I feel as I had drank a draught of poison \u2014 never sound her name again ? yes , and I deserve it \u2014 I am a wretch !\u2014 a ruffian ,\u2014 to breathe a blight over so fair a flower . I feel as if all the world ,\u2014 the sky , the fields , the bright sun were passing from me , and I stood fettered in a dark and loathsome den \u2014 my heart is numbed , and my brain palsied .", "So now for my task ; this is a day of triumph for me ; I could have dressed myself as for a holyday ; this Gwinett once dead who knows how time may work upon Lucy ; perhaps I had rather the gang had seized and torn the lad away \u2014 but they deceived me \u2014 they took my money for the service , and have never since shewn themselves ; after all it may be better as it is \u2014 Gwinett might have regained his liberty \u2014 have returned \u2014 there \u2019 s no marrying with the dead \u2014 no , \u2019 tis best \u2014 much the best .\u2014 Enter BOLT , the Gaoler . L . A good-day to you , master Bolt .", "Villain ! do you make mirth of my sufferings ? am I sport for fools ? answer my question , or I \u2019 ll shake your soul out on the wind \u2014 tell me \u2014", "Oh , plenty \u2014 I have an old set of chains in hand ; an hour \u2019 s work will make them fit for any body \u2014 so let me at once measure the prisoner .", "What ! would you go with him , Lucy ?", "Two !", "Ah ! I had forgotten \u2014 gaoler , chains for this man , to be made an Emperor , I could not forge \u2014 if you will , say so to the governor : for the other prisoner , I \u2019 ll work \u2014 oh , how I \u2019 ll toil \u2014 but come a moment , George \u2014 let my heart give a short time to friendship , \u2019 ere again \u2019 tis yielded up to hate .", "He is the assassin .", "Aye , it is the fashion now-a-days \u2014 let a knave only rob an orchard , and he \u2019 s whipped and cried at for a villain \u2014 let him spill blood , and it \u2019 s marvellous the compassion that awaits him .", "No , you are deceived , old man \u2014 you are deceived ; but let to-morrow shew , I \u2019 ll not \u2019 cumber your room , master Collins ; I leave it to more gay visitors than Ned Grayling ; I leave it till to-morrow \u2014 good-night \u2014 good-night , gay master Gwinett ,\u2014 a pleasant night \u2019 s rest \u2014 ha ! ha ! ha !", "What cries are these ? master Collins murdered ! where is Gwinett ?", "This morning \u2014 what kind of man ?", "Want !Oh ! Lucy , Lucy ! nothing .", "Softly , master Collins , softly ,\u2014 come , there is life in you yet , man .", "Why , perhaps she would , and perhaps she wouldn \u2019 t . I tell you , master Collins , my heart \u2019 s set upon the girl \u2014 if she refuse me \u2014 why I know the end on \u2019 t .\u2014 Ned Grayling , once the sober and industrious smith , will become an outcast and a vagabond .", "Lucy , for I loved her first \u2014 is no murderer .", "Aye , it \u2019 s ever thus .\u2014 Do you think I bring the plague into your house , that you look so fiercely at me ?", "To the trial then .", "I meddle not with the course of law , Lucy Fairlove .", "And why is my money not as good as a finer customer \u2019 s ? why can \u2019 t you take my money ?", "But is he not an assassin ?\u2014 a midnight murderer ?", "Indeed !", "Did I say revenge was gone ?\u2014 no , it rages again with redoubled fury \u2014 he shall not foil me \u2014 this time his death is sure .", "And no hopes of mercy ?", "Millions should not buy them , till they had served my purpose \u2014 oh , it all bursts on my maddened brain \u2014 relieved \u2014 pitied by him !\u2014", "That scar \u2014 in that scar I read the preservation of my life \u2014 alas ! now worthless \u2014 can I forget that the knife aimed at my heart , struck there \u2014 there \u2014", "Here .", "Because it pleased me : a man may use his own lungs I trow .", "Ah ! this knife \u2014", "No matter for that ; but , Sir , take my word , you had better not put up at the Blake \u2019 s Head .", "Thy husband ?", "And why should you think ? but I \u2019 m wrong to be so passionate \u2014 think no more of it , good Gilbert .", "No ; I see nobody but you and Mrs. Lucy \u2014 I beg her pardon , Mrs. Lucy Gwinett .", "The murderer \u2019 s fate is \u2014", "Ah ! let search be made .", "Pity \u2014 havn \u2019 t I to do my work \u2014 havn \u2019 t I to measure the culprit \u2014 havn \u2019 t I to \u2014", "What have you there ?", "These are the savings of a life of toil \u2014 I had hoarded them up for a far different purpose \u2014 but so that they buy me revenge \u2014", "Aye , and ought to be to every honest man ! \u2019 tis for rogues to be sad , when rogues are caught .", "Your wrist , George .", "Oh you remember it then .", "Nothing \u2014 nothing \u2014 where we have facts what need of words ? the artless timid Lucy , she who moves about the town with closed lips and downcast eyes \u2014 who flutters and blushes at a stranger \u2019 s look \u2014 can steal into a wood \u2014 oh ! shame \u2014 shame .", "I had forgotten ; yes , it is the very day \u2014", "Perhaps I do , and what then ?", "No \u2014 not Grayling the robber \u2014 but , there , Gwinett the convicted murderer .", "Good kind Master Grayling \u2014 you speak falsely Lucy Fairlove \u2014", "Stout , able ,\u2014 yes , I was , and might be so again ; but thoughts will sometimes come across me , and I feel \u2014 I tell you once more , master Collins , my heart is set upon the girl .", "And what would you do with it ?", "There are some matters very , very easy . It is easy for you , a man well in trade , with children flourishing about you , and all the world looking with a sunny face upon you \u2014 it is easy for you to say to a man like me , \u201c You are poor and friendless \u2014 you have placed your affections on a being , to sweeten the bitterness of your lot , to cheer and bless you on the road of life , yet she can never be yours \u2014 think no more of her ,\u201d this is easy \u2014\u201c nothing so easy .\u201d", "There still \u2014 not gone yet ?", "oh ,", "This day ,\u2014 and why", "I have scarcely broken bread these two days .", "Then I leave my rival to the undisturbed possession of \u2014 oh , the thought is withering \u2014 no , no , I cannot .", "Ask Lucy \u2014 the wood , Lucy , the wood .", "Aye \u2014 secure the prisoner .", "Your uncle \u2019 s \u2014 behold the murderer !", "Ha ! ha ! the conscience of an innkeeper .", "I spoke the truth , the truth of facts .", "Spare ! and why should I spare ? Hasn \u2019 t she wirled , despised me ? isn \u2019 t she Mrs. Lucy Gwinett , the wife of the murderer , Gwinett ? hasn \u2019 t she spoken words that pierced me through and through ? and why should I spare ?\u2014 Felon , you know your sentence ; come , let me measure you for the irons , that \u2014", "How do you know that ?", "Blackthorn \u2014 Ash \u2014 dare but to lay a robber \u2019 s hand on a single doit , and I \u2019 ll alarm the house .", "Why I was the prison-smith \u2014 had the irons fitted the corse , it must have been cut to pieces , \u2019 ere it could have been removed .", "Pray , good Gilbert , tell me , do you know whether Miss Lucy has any admirers ?", "Lucy ! who said any thing about Lucy ?", "What are you looking at man ? I shall pay my score \u2014 aye , every farthing o \u2019 t , though I may not dress so trimly as some folks ."], "true_target": ["Aye , history , yes , I have seen proud knaves grovelling in the dust , and poor industry raised to wealth .", "That would have been the road once \u2014 but \u2019 tis many years since that was blocked up .", "\u2019 Tis well \u2014 thus I shall be revenged \u2014 Lucy , if you are resolved to hate , at least you shall have ample reason for it .", "Yes \u2014 here is one .", "Eh ! George \u2014 George Wildrove \u2014 my earliest , my best of friends ,Oh ! and to meet you now , and in such a place \u2014 and I \u2014 the wretch employed to \u2014", "Oh Lucy !\u2014 what a wretch am I , to stand like a heartless monster unmoved by every touch of pity \u2014 it was not once so \u2014 once \u2014 but my nature \u2019 s changed , all feelings , save one , are withered ; love has turned to hate , a deep and settled hate , I feel it craving for its prey ! now to let it feed and triumph on my rival \u2019 s pains !", "I was about to say it was eighteen years since the last execution for murder happened in these parts .", "You are no stranger then to the town ?", "Thou liest \u2014 stop \u2014 there was a time , when at such a word , I \u2019 d seen thee sprawling at my feet ; but now , I can \u2019 t tell how it is \u2014 I cannot strike thee .", "Looking at her !\u2014 how ?", "Despises !\u2014 did she ever say ,\u2014 no ! no ! she couldn \u2019 t , yet when I met her last , though she uttered not a sound , her eyes looked hate \u2014 as they flashed upon me , I felt humbled \u2014 a wretch ! a very worm .", "Never ! Oh , George , I am a wretch , a poor forlorn discarded wretch \u2014 the earth has lost its sweetness to me \u2014 I am hopeless , aimless \u2014 I had thought my heart was wholly changed to stone \u2014 I find there is one \u2014 one pulse left , that beats with gratitude , with more than early friendship .", "Gwinett \u2014 Ambrose Gwinett \u2014 ha ! ha !", "Reform ! too late \u2014 too late . Had I the will time would not let me ; a few months \u2014 nay , weeks , days \u2014 and the passenger may pause at the lifeless corse of Grayling stretched in the highway . Every eye looks scorn upon me \u2014 every hand shrinks at my touch \u2014 every head \u2019 s averted from me , as though a pestilence were in my glance .\u2014 Intemperance and fierce passion have brought upon me premature old age \u2014 my limbs are palsied , and my eyesight fails .\u2014 What \u2019 s this , alms \u2014 alms \u2014 won by wretched supplication ? well , \u2019 twill buy me a short forgetfulness \u2014 oblivion is now my only happiness .", "Sailor !", "No !", "Grayling \u2014 Ned Grayling \u2014 once a sound hearted happy man , but now \u2014 come , Sir , all the inns will be full .", "Gallows !\u2014 no , all was lost \u2014 good name \u2014 hopes \u2014 happiness \u2014 but yet I had revenge \u2014 I hugged it to my heart \u2014\u2019 tis gone , and Grayling has nought to live for .", "\u2019 Tis full of company . The judges are now in the town to try the prisoners .", "And he escaped from you ?", "No , no , but you startled me .", "Tear them apart , gaoler , tear them apart , I say .", "Were there no wretches \u2014 no monsters \u2014 no bloodsuckers , look you , there need no prison smiths : chains and fetters are not made for honest men .", "How now !\u2014 what would you ?", "Wretch ! well , granted \u2014 it is true : I am a houseless , pennyless , broken-hearted wretch ! I have seen every earthly happiness snatched from me \u2014 I have sunk little by little , from an honest industrious man , to the poor crawling , famishing , drunkard \u2014 I am become hateful to the world \u2014 loathsome even to myself . You will not then suffer me to be your porter ?", "I am almost ashamed to do it , yet I will .", "I can tell you the whole \u2014 every word of it . He was sentenced to be hung in chains \u2014 another that was to suffer with him , was pardoned ; so the murderer died alone . Never shall I forget the morning .\u2014 Though eighteen years ago , it is now as fresh in my memory as though it was the work of yesterday : I saw the last convulsive struggle of the murderer \u2014 nay , I assisted in rivetting the irons on the corse \u2014\u2019 twas hung at the destined spot ; but , when the morning came , the body was not there .", "I confess I am very foolish .", "Her uncle \u2019 s murderer , eh ? are not those the words ? with all my heart , I would rather have the deadly hate of Lucy Fairlove , than the softest pity of Lucy Gwinett . Oh ! I thought there was a world of mischief under the smooth face of the assassin \u2014 had he struck for a deep revenge I could have pardoned him , for it might have been my own fate \u2014 but to murder a man for gold ! for a few pieces of shining dross \u2014\u2019 tis a crime to feel one touch of pity for so base a miscreant .", "Come on then ; follow me into the town , and when the night comes on , I \u2019 ll find means to throw your victim into your hands ; bear him away with as little noise as possible .", "Anything but this \u2014 the owner this morning relieved my necessities \u2014 hundreds passed and heeded not the outcast , famishing , Grayling \u2014 he who claims this gave me alms , and bade me repent \u2014 I am a wretch , a poor houseless , despised wretch \u2014 yet villain as I am , there is some touch of feeling left \u2014 my hand would fall withered did I attempt to touch it .", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "Oh ! Lucy , that voice , my heart leaps to it \u2014 leaps to it as it did \u2014 but all \u2019 s past ; Lucy , you will not curse me when I \u2019 m dead \u2014 there are those who will \u2014 but let them \u2014 you will not : the earth is sliding from beneath my feet \u2014 my eyes are dark \u2014 what are these ?\u2014 tears \u2014 Lucy \u2019 s tears !\u2014 I am happy .DISPOSITION OF THE CHARACTERS AT THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN .", "Well , well , delay no longer .", "Aye , it was but yesterday when the gay trim master Ambrose scorned and contemned me ! but yesterday , and Lucy hung upon his arm ! and to-day \u2014 ha ! ha ! ha !\u2014 I stood against him at the fatal bar ; as I passed , his brow blackened , and his lips worked \u2014 his eyes shot the lightnings of hate upon me \u2014 at that moment my heart beat with a wild delight , and I smiled to see how the criminal shrunk as I told the tale that damn \u2019 d him \u2014 to see him recoil as though every word I uttered fell like a withering fire upon his guilty heart .Ah ! the trial is ended .say \u2014 the prisoner \u2014", "Aye , Falsely ! she thinks me neither good nor kind \u2014 but I see how it is \u2014 I have thought so a long time ,I see how it is \u2014 ha ! ha ! ha !", "I am \u2014 no matter for that \u2014 let me to my work , for time speeds on .", "You say one man escaped you this morning , now I \u2019 ll lead you to him ; moreover , if you secure him , this purse shall be your reward .", "Lucy \u2014 aye , master Collins , she has a tender heart I warrant \u2014 I could work at my forge all day in the hottest June , so that Lucy would but smile , when \u2014", "Aye \u2014 yes \u2014 come will you fight with me ?", "Oh , the best man may be thrown , and the best horse throw too ; but come , you have no bones broken . Had any man but myself , Ned Grayling , shoed your horse , I should have said something had been amiss with his irons \u2014 but that couldn \u2019 t be .", "Mistaken \u2014 how so ? isn \u2019 t this the Blake \u2019 s Head ?", "Now I sha \u2019 n \u2019 t go .", "Oh it will be a sweet revenge \u2014 one moment \u2014 how stands your pocket ?", "What mean you ?", "Yes ; it was supposed the relations of the murderer had stolen the body to give it burial : the murderer \u2019 s uncle , and wife were examined \u2014 but after a time , no further stir was made .\u2014 Curse upon the trick , it cost me my bread .", "Well , \u2019 tis all one ; yet you might , I think , let a starving fellow creature earn a trifle .", "Doubts !\u2014 There might have been among those who are touched with a demure look ; but no , he was guilty \u2014 guilty of the murder \u2014 and I saw him die the death of an assassin .", "It was .", "Ever since I was born .", "Lucy my wife , no , no .", "So ! no one here \u2014 I can see nothing of Blackthorn or Will Ash \u2014 well , all the better , I may be spared some mischief \u2014 and then how to live ?\u2014 live , can I call this life \u2014 a dreadful respite from day to day \u2014 hunger and disgrace dogging my steps \u2014 what do I here ?\u2014 there is a charm that holds me to this spot , and spite of the taunts , the rebukes that \u2019 s showered upon me , I cannot quit it , nor ever whilst Lucy is \u2014 eh ! who have we here ? Enter BLACKTHORN and WILL ASH cautiously from door in flat with Gwinett \u2019 s portmanteau . Blackthorn !\u2014 Ash !", "If he be guilty \u2014 who can doubt his guilt ?", "I shall but make my agitation the more apparent . Never till this moment did I feel the fulness of my passion . Come , rouse man , stand no longer like a coward , eying the game , but take the dice , and at one bold throw , decide your fate .", "Hem ! holloa ! there .", "No \u2014 no \u2014 yes \u2014 yes \u2014 but duty you know , Sir ,but if they stand leave-taking all day , I shall have no time to finish the work .", "Lose ! and what can I lose ? hasn \u2019 t he all that I could lose ?", "Do you not see ?", "And why not with Gwinett ?\u2014 with Gwinett , I say , the murderer ?", "Private ! than what does he here \u2014 Gilbert , some ale .", "Hold for your lives \u2014 you must not , shall not , touch this .", "As you will \u2014 I \u2019 m fit for any work .", "See \u2014 his ghost , the ghost of the victim rises from the grave to claim the murderer \u2014 I am revenged \u2014 I triumph \u2014 ha ! ha ! ha !", "Measure ?", "Answer \u2014", "Fine words !", "Are you there , Lucy Gwinett \u2014 think of my agonies \u2014 my hopes all blighted \u2014 my affections spurned \u2014 think of my sufferings for eighteen years \u2014 look at me \u2014 can you kneel before the ruin which your scorn has made \u2014 but now , new I triumph \u2014 seize upon the murderer .Nay then , I will proclaim the tale throughout the town .", "Bolt .", "Good , and you think I am to be hushed with fair words like a child , whilst he , that thief , for he has stolen from me all that made life happy , whilst he bears away Lucy and leaves and broken hearted .", "Turn sailor ?", "Poor Ambrose Gwinett \u2014 you are mightily compassionate , master", "Venom \u2014 aye \u2014 the right word , venom ,\u2014 and yet who \u2019 d have thought we should have found it where all looked so purely .", "Give me your hand , friend ; so ,this is an ugly task of mine , but you bear no malice ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Another time ; it is a tedious story , the night you thought me killed , I had left my chamber to procure assistance to staunch a wound \u2014 scarcely had I crossed the threshold , than I was seized by a press-gang , and hurried \u2014 but see to yon unhappy man .", "Grayling , will you quit the room ?", "She has said so , and do you suppose she would speak any thing but truth ?", "Tut \u2014 tut \u2014 this is all idle and girlish \u2014 the man loves you , Lucy .", "How fares it now , Grayling ?", "And shall be welcome , sir ; come , Lucy , Gilbert , stir , and prepare supper ; there \u2019 s a rough night coming on I fear , and you might fare worse , master Ambrose , than as guest at the Blake \u2019 s Head \u2014 here , by the way , is a letter for you .", "There must be no more of this . You know I have told you more than a hundred times that Lucy cannot love you .", "How now , master Grayling , you have mistaken the room .", "Well , as it is not long , and the time will be slept out , I will ,\u2014 but take heed , Lucy , and let not a foolish distaste prejudice you against a worthy and honourable man .", "For me ?", "Wonders , indeed ! Gwinett , \u2019 tis but within this past half hour , I have heard the story of your sufferings .", "What do you mean ?", "Then go out by the back gate ; but stop , as the latch is broken in the inside , you had better take this knifeto lift it ; we shall wait breakfast until your return .", "A plague take that doctor , he has bound my arm up rarely \u2014 scarcely had I got into bed , than the bandage falling off , the blood gushed freshly from the wound ; if I can reach Gilbert , he will assist me to stop it \u2014 or stay , had I not better return to master Gwinett , who as yet knows nothing of the matter ? no , I \u2019 ll even make my way to Gilbert , and then to bed again .", "No matter , we \u2019 ll talk more of this to-morrow . Go to your chamber , girl .and now , sir , we will to ours .", "Eh ! why \u2014 what \u2019 s all this ?\u2014 Grayling has not \u2014 if he has \u2014", "This is all folly \u2014 a stout able fellow turning whimperer ."], "true_target": ["Why , there in your hand \u2014 that letter .", "Aye ; Ned is not so sprightly and trim a lad as many , but he hath that which makes all in a husband , girl \u2014 he has a sound heart and a noble spirit .", "Aye , as it is but for once , we must contrive \u2014 let me see \u2014 as we have no other room , master Ambrose can take part of mine \u2014 so bustle Gilbert , bustle , and see to it .", "Give it to me \u2014 I expect him here to-night .", "Aye , standing at the door just now , his uncle told me that he expected him at Deal to-day , but being compelled to be from home until to-morrow , he had left word that master Ambrose should put up here , and asked me to make room for him .", "He bear away Lucy \u2014 you are deceived .", "Well , Lucy child , where hast been all day , I havn \u2019 t caught a glance of you since last night \u2014 what have you got there , Gilbert ?", "That may be ; but this is my private apartment .", "No matter , I can now make my way homeward : but , hark \u2019 ye , not a word about this accident , not a syllable , or I shall never be able to sit in a saddle again , without first hearing a lecture from my wife and Lucy .", "But why so early ?", "You \u2019 ll get the better of this , think no more of her : nothing so easy .", "Farewell , good fellow , I meant not to insult or offend you . If you can obtain my niece \u2019 s consent , why , to prove that I love honesty , for its own sake , I \u2019 ll give you whatever help my means afford . If , however , the girl refuses , strive to forget her . Believe me , there is scarcely a more pitiable object than a man following with spaniel-like humility , the woman who despises him .", "This is needless ; good Grayling leave us .", "My friends . Lucy .", "Then expect to lose \u2014", "But you do know , and so does all the town know ; come , be just to him if you cannot love him ; but for my part , I see not what should prevent you becoming his wife .", "To be thrown from a horse after my experience \u2014", "Now , Lucy , that we are together , I would wish to have some talk with you . You know , girl , I love you , as though you were my own , and were sorrow or mischance to light upon you , I think \u2019 twould go nigh to break my heart . Now answer me with candour \u2014 you know Grayling \u2014 honest Ned Grayling ? why , what do you turn so pale at ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Master \u2014 oh ! day of wonders !\u2014 the dead come back .", "Those , master Grayling , who do not let their hate stand in the light of their clear judgment . This is , I warrant me , a rare day of triumph for you .", "I tell you I can \u2019 t think with calmness and speak on it . A fine open hearted youth , and see the end of it . Not one of his accusers but is come to shame . Look at Grayling \u2014 Ned Grayling the smith \u2014 don \u2019 t good folks shake the head , and the little children point at him as he goes by \u2014 and then those two churls who scoffed at him , as he was on the road to death \u2014 has either of them had a good crop since ?\u2014 havn \u2019 t their cattle died ?\u2014 their haystacks took fire \u2014 with all kinds of mischief falling on them ?", "Come along , Jenny , come along ; it will be all over in a few minutes .", "I don \u2019 t know , but you do !\u2014 Is there nobody here that you are ashamed to gaze upon ?", "You \u2019 ll see him then ? Ah I knew you \u2019 d think better of it . He \u2019 s a very pleasant kind of gentleman ; and asked after you so earnestly , that I \u2019 m sure he cannot mean but kind . Enter GRAYLING ,L . Well , and what do you want ?", "You stir not a foot \u2014 if a murderer must be hanged , it shall be for strangling such a serpent . Grayling and Gilbert struggle , Grayling throws Gilbert from him , and with the rest of the characters following , rushes up the stage . As he is about to exit at back , the folding doors fly open , and Collins , an old grey-headed man , presents himself at the entrance ; a general exclamation of \u201c Collins \u201d from all the characters who recoil in amazement .", "Villain !", "You know we used to do Jenny , some eighteen years ago ; then I was waiter and ostler here , and you were dairy maid at squire \u2014", "How , why like a dog that had once been well kicked , and was afraid of being known a second time .", "What then ! why then you overcount your profits : take my simple word for it , she hates you ! hates you as much as she loves \u2014", "Aye , that \u2019 s so general a character ; couldn \u2019 t you descend a little to particulars ?", "What here , master ? why there \u2019 s not a corner \u2014 not a single corner to receive the visit of a cat \u2014 the house is full to the very chimney pots .", "Oh \u2014 aye \u2014 it is a letter .", "Yes I would , if I thought it would answer any right purpose ; I tell you he \u2019 s not in the house \u2014 and pray who are you ?", "How now , Miss Lucy , you seem a little frightened or so ?", "I should like to know what right a man has to be startled when I say Lucy \u2014 why one would think you were married , and it was the name of your wife .", "Well , well ; I leave it all to you to day , Jenny : I \u2019 m not fit to attend to the customers . Ah ! good fortune has been showered upon us \u2014 little did we think of seeing ourselves owners of this house ; but I \u2019 m sure I \u2019 d walk out of it with a light heart , if it \u2019 s old owner , poor Robert Collins , could but come back to take possession of it \u2014 but that \u2019 s impossible , so we \u2019 ll talk no more of it .", "But I \u2019 ll tell you how it is \u2014 the title \u2019 s a just one \u2014 you feel it sink into your heart \u2014 and your arm is palsied ; once more , leave my house .", "Grayling \u2014 yield ere your fate is certain .", "Well , now master \u2019 s gone out , I think I have a little time to see my Jenny \u2014 master and mistress have no compassion for us lovers \u2014 always work , work ; they think once a week is quite enough for lovers to see one another , and unfortunately my fellow servant is in love as well as I am ; and being obliged to keep house , I could only get out once a fortnight , if it wasn \u2019 t for Lucy .", "But not the less to be remembered \u2014 it is now eighteen years this very day , since poor Ambrose Gwinett died the death of a murderer !\u2014 I \u2019 m sure he was innocent \u2014 I \u2019 d lay my life on it .", "You \u2019 ve been some time in his service , I suppose ?", "A word with you , the sharks are out to-night .", "Why perhaps I may take a turn that way \u2014 but I shall be back soon \u2014 eh ! who \u2019 s this ?", "You will not be that wretch .", "Dragged from the country !", "Well , now for my sake , see the gentleman .", "Has he any friends in these parts ?", "Yes , sir , yes .\u2014I \u2019 m sorry master \u2019 s got that letter though ; it was an ugly postman that brought it , and it can \u2019 t be good .", "No no , I know you meant no harm , Jenny \u2014 but you will talk \u2014 well I shall go and take a round .", "What follows now ? why the grave-digger , I \u2019 m afraid ; I say , I wonder you didn \u2019 t add the trade of undertaker to that of doctor .", "Bless me \u2014\u2019 tis all like a dream \u2014\u2019 twas but yesterday , and we were all as happy as the best .", "We \u2019 ll try then .", "I dare say now you think this will serve your turn with Miss", "Where , sir ?", "He \u2019 s innocent \u2014 I knew he was innocent \u2014 good friends \u2014 kind neighbours \u2014 let not this be spoken of \u2014 heaven has by a miracle preserved a guiltless man \u2014 you will all be secret \u2014 no one here will tell the tale .", "Oh !\u2014 what he in the Dolphin ?", "A great deal : when a man gets to the top of the hill by honest industry , I say he deserves to be taken by the neck and hurled down again , if he \u2019 s ashamed to turn about and look at the lowly road along which he once travelled .", "Who does it come from ?", "But tell me , master , how is this ? dead ! and not dead , and \u2014", "Give me those papers .", "Can \u2019 t you ? I \u2019 ll tell you \u2014 we \u2019 ve no doctors with us ; no body but you , and you \u2019 ll never do any harm , because \u2014", "Aye , your wit is , I suppose , like your medicine \u2014 it must be well shaken before it \u2019 s fit to be administered ; now how many of your jokes generally go to a dose ?", "An unruly customer , Sir , that \u2019 s all \u2014 I \u2019 ll take care he does not disturb you .This is the gentleman who would speak to you .", "Why you must pass through the church-yard .", "Nothing , only if ever you had any patients , I thought you might have felt some qualms in taking that road .", "Know him !\u2014 I believe I do \u2014 a very fine , noble spirited ,\u2014"], "true_target": ["If the fox had never ventured where he had no business , he \u2019 d have kept his tail .", "I did ! It \u2019 s a good Christian name , isn \u2019 t it ? and no treason in it .", "I \u2019 ll attend him directly \u2014 and then I \u2019 ll go and take my melancholy round .", "Why , upon my word , it \u2019 s a very nice distinction : I can \u2019 t judge very well , so I \u2019 ll take you at your own word .", "Why we all know you , and there \u2019 s few will give you the chance ; who do you think would employ a doctor who goes about calling at peoples \u2019 houses to mend their constitutions , as tinkers call for old kettles .", "A mistake \u2014 yes , I suppose you intended to be a very honest fellow , but by accident are become a convicted scoundrel .", "Nay , he has something he says to tell thee privately \u2014 I \u2019 ll be within call .", "Because it \u2019 s brought by so black-looking a postman .", "Nothing \u2014 only at first I didn \u2019 t know whether it was a man or a bear .", "No , I should think not indeed .", "Stay but one moment longer , and as I am a man , I \u2019 ll send thee headforemost into the street .", "Gwinett ! what , Ambrose Gwinett ?", "What ! to night ?", "I warrant me , that \u2019 s a fellow that never passes a rope maker \u2019 s shop without feeling a crick in the neck .", "Nay , but you must see him ; I promised you should .", "Aye , the blue-jackets , the press-gang \u2014 now you \u2019 d be invaluable to them ; take my word , if they see you , you are a lost man .", "If you had minded your own affairs , you \u2019 d not have lost your temper .", "And there again ; Lucy , Gwinett \u2019 s widow , though almost broken hearted \u2014 doesn \u2019 t she keep a cheerful face , and look smilingly \u2014 whilst her husband \u2019 s accusers are ashamed to shew their heads \u2014 I say again , I know he was innocent . I know the true murderers will some day be brought to light .", "That fellow has killed more people than ever I saw ; how he looks his trade , whenever I behold him , he appears to me like a long-necked pint bottle of rheubarb , to be taken at three draughts ; but I must put all thing , to rights \u2014 here \u2019 s my master and Miss Lucy will be here in a minute ; the house is full of customers , and it threatens to be a boisterous night .", "Why , in truth , Grayling , I \u2019 m afraid \u2019 tis gained by too foul a business .", "No , \u2019 tis you are wrong , Mrs. Lucy Gwinett , how do you know but he may bring you good news ?", "Now it strikes me that this letter contains some mischief .", "Why ! how nicely you could make one business play into the other : when called in to a patient , as soon as you had prescribed for him , you know , you might have begun to measure him for his coffin .", "Clear !\u2014 and you , Grayling , are you not ashamed ?\u2014 do you not fear the gallows ?", "Oh , yes \u2014 and has been asking for you these dozen times ,\u2014 here by-the-by is a letter for \u2014 but mum \u2014 here comes master .", "There \u2014 Grayling the robber .", "Lucy .", "No , sir \u2014 it \u2019 s for master Ambrose Gwinett .", "Well , I \u2019 ve looked all through the house , fastened the doors , hung up the keys , and now have nothing to do but to go and sleep until called up by the cock . Well I never saw love make so much alteration in any poor mortal as in master Grayling \u2014 he used to be a quiet , plain spoken civil fellow \u2014 but now he comes into a house like a hurricane . I wonder what that letter was about , it bothers me strangely \u2014 well , no matter \u2014 I \u2019 ll now go to bed \u2014 I \u2019 ll go across the stable yard to my loft , and sleep so fast that I \u2019 ll get ten hours into six .", "Grayling , leave the house ; at any time I \u2019 d sooner look upon a field of blighted corn , than see you cross my threshold ; but on this day , beyond all \u2014", "What , master Label , ah ! bad work for you \u2014 all hearty as oaks \u2014 not a pulse to be felt in all Deal .", "Yes \u2014 hope your master slept well \u2014 I wasn \u2019 t at home last night when you put up , or I should have paid my respects :\u2014 he \u2019 s from India I hear .", "No , indeed .", "A cool way of settling matters : you first fly at a man like a dragon \u2014 make his heart jump like a tennis ball \u2014 and then say , think nothing of it , good Gilbert .", "Unhappy wretch \u2014 give me those papers .", "Call in assistance .There , secure the prisoner .", "Hundreds \u2014 don \u2019 t the whole town admire her ? don \u2019 t all our customers say pretty things to her ? don \u2019 t I admire her ? and hav \u2019 n \u2019 t I seen you looking at her ?", "Deliver it ? why I don \u2019 t mind , but if you \u2019 ve any tricks you know .", "Gwinett !\u2014 Ambrose Gwinett !\u2014 it can \u2019 t be .", "Admirers ! to be sure she has .", "So my brave fellows , here you are \u2014 three knaves between a parenthesis of bullets .", "Aye , it \u2019 s all no use , master Grayling ; Lucy Fairlove is no match for you . No , no , if I mistake not there \u2019 s another , smoother faced young man has been asking if any body \u2019 s at home at the heart of Lucy \u2014 but mum \u2014 I \u2019 m sworn to secrecy ,\u2014 and now for Jenny ! dear me , I \u2019 ve been loitering so long , and have so much to say to her \u2014 then I \u2019 ve so much to do \u2014 for the Judges are coming down to-morrow to make a clear place of the prison \u2014 and then there \u2019 s \u2014 but stop , whilst I am running to Jenny , I can think of these matters by the way .", "Not a word ; if you are inclined to ask questions , a little farther on there \u2019 s a finger post \u2014 when you have read one side , you know you can walk round to the other .", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ? you are looking at me as if , like a highwayman , you were considering which pocket I carried my money in .", "Oh , spare your confession : people will judge for themselves .", "Why I think of the two , the flip would be far the most desirable ; but if you will go , why , a good night to you , and a happy escape .", "Here \u2014No \u2014 no matter \u2014 I thought you had left your civility behind you .", "Why I don \u2019 t know what to think : matters stand very strong against him \u2014 but then he looks as freshly , and speaks as calmly \u2014 no he can \u2019 t be guilty \u2014 and yet the knife \u2014 and my master \u2019 s bed filled with blood \u2014 and then where is my poor master \u2014 every search has been made for the body , and all in vain \u2014 if Gwinett be guilty \u2014", "I tell thee , Jenny , I can \u2019 t help it ; ever as this day comes round , I \u2019 m melancholy , spite of reasoning ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["I have heard but a confused account of the transaction .", "Well , be it as you will : I believe nought but truth , but innocence in Lucy Fairlove , and by this kiss \u2014 GRAYLING looking from wing . R .", "Perhaps it was the deed of friends .", "It is even so , good Gilbert \u2014 though wonderful \u2019 tis true .", "His grave !", "I do bring you comfort \u2014 News of your husband .", "Wretch ! begone \u2014 you serve me not .", "This is a most mysterious assignation .\u201c If you are a man , you will not fail to give me a meeting at twelve outside the house , I have to unfold a plot to you which concerns not you alone .\u2014 Your \u2019 s , a Friend .\u201dMaster Collins , I may rise to-morrow morning \u2019 ere any of your good people are stirring , you will therefore not be surprised to find me gone .", "Wretch ! dare you beneath her uncle \u2019 s roof \u2014", "The very ruffian I encountered in the wood .", "He lives ! he lives ! the world beholds me innocent ! beholds me free from the stain of blood !", "Were there not , if I remember rightly , some doubts of Gwinett \u2019 s guilt ?", "Prisoners ! you have , I trust , but few convictions \u2014 at least , for very great offences \u2014 for murder now , or \u2014", "I feel as if within these two days , infirm old age had crept upon me \u2014 my blood is chilled , and courses through my veins with lazy coldness \u2014 my brain is stunned \u2014 my eyes discern not clearly \u2014 my very hair feels grey and blasted ; alas ! \u2019 tis no wonder , I have within these few hours been hurled from a throne of earthly happiness \u2014 snatched from the regions of ideal bliss \u2014 and cast , bound , and fettered within a prison \u2019 s walls \u2014 and my name \u2014 my innocent name , stamped in the book of infamy \u2014 oh ! was man to contemplate at one view the evil he \u2019 s to suffer , madness would seize on half his kind \u2014 but misery , day by day works on , laying at intervals such weights upon us , which , if placed at once would crush us out of life .\u2014 Ah ! the gaoler !", "There I cannot die in peace : in one brief minute I should see all the actions of my infant life , as in a glass \u2014 there , there , I cannot die \u2014 is there no help ?", "Unhappy creature \u2014 here \u2014no , I will not trouble you . Go , get food , and reform your way of life .", "Shame ! villain ! but no , to infamy so black as this , the best return is the silent loathing of contempt .", "Gracious heavens ! your name is \u2014", "Villain !", "He did , and gave me this locket \u2014 it contains your hair .", "What !\u2014 at \u2014 oh !\u2014 if there be one touch of mercy in my judges \u2019 hearts , I beseechI implore you \u2014 any other spot \u2014 but there \u2014 there \u2014", "No ! begone .", "The \u2014 oh , heavens , the thoughts like fire flash into my brain .\u2014 I had forgotten \u2014 there is no \u2014 no grave for me .", "Your servant , master Collins \u2014 I must I find be your tenant for the night .", "Eighteen years \u2014 it is \u2014 it is the day .", "Well , what does it matter ; it is but in imagination \u2014 nothing more .", "I would speak of Ambrose \u2014 but , start not \u2014 he died not at the hour men think .", "I attend you , Sir , farewell Lucy \u2014 heaven bless and protect you .", "Good people , there are I see many among you whose tears bespeak that you think me guiltless \u2014 may my soul never reach yon happy sphere , if by the remotest thought it ever yearned for blood :\u2014 circumstances \u2014 damning circumstances have betrayed me :\u2014 I condemn not my judges \u2014 farewell , for the few hours I dwell among men , let me have your prayers ; and when no more , let me , I pray , live in your charitable thoughts . When timeshall reveal my innocence \u2014 should ought remain of this poor frame , let it I beseech you , lie next my mother \u2019 s grave , and in my epitaph cleanse my memory from the festering stain of blood-farewell ,\u2014 Lucy !", "I have armed myself \u2014 and am determined to meet the appointment ; if there be any foul play intended , they will find me prepared , if not , the precaution is still a reasonable one \u2014 the latch is broken , said the landlord , the knife however will stead me .", "Well \u2014 be quick \u2014 for my minutes are counted \u2014 I must play the miser with them .", "Where is the place , that \u2014 my heart swells as it would burst its prison \u2014 the \u2014 you understand .", "Aye and his own legs , they cannot do him better service than by removing him from where he is not wanted .", "Come , come , confess it .", "Ambrose !", "It was , indeed , a warning dream : hear the end . We were at the altar \u2019 s foot , girt round by happy friends , and thou smilest \u2014 oh , my heart beat quickly with transporting joy , as with one hand clasping thine , I strove to place the ring upon thy finger \u2014 it fell \u2014 and ringing on the holy floor , shivered like glass into a thousand atoms \u2014 astonished , I gazed a moment on the glittering fragments ,\u2014 but when I raised my head , thou wert not to be found \u2014 the place had changed \u2014 the bridal train had vanished , and in its stead , I saw surrounding thousands , who , with upturned eyes , gazed like spectres on me \u2014 I looked for the priest , and in his place stood glaring at me with a savage joy , the executioner \u2014 I strove to burst away \u2014 my arms were bound \u2014 I cast my eyes imploringly to heaven \u2014 and there above me was the beam \u2014 the fatal beam \u2014 I felt my spirit strangling in my throat , \u2019 twas but a moment \u2014 all was dark .", "Aye , there it is , they class me with those desperate wretches , who \u2014 oh , would the hour were come \u2014 I shall go mad \u2014 become a raving maniac : what a life had my imagination pictured : blessed with thee Lucy , I had hoped to travel onward , halting at the grave , an old grey headed happy man , and now , the scaffold \u2014 the executioner \u2014 can I think upon them , and not feel my heart grow palsied , my sinews fall away , and my life \u2019 s breath ebb \u2014 but no , I think , and still I live to suffer .", "How so ?", "Wretch ! fool that I am , thus forgetful in my miseries to torture this sweet sufferer .", "But not recklessly believe me .", "Unless my memory deceives me , yonder must be our path .", "You , my friend , do not seem to have belonged to the fortunate class ."], "true_target": ["A little appointment \u2014 I shall return to breakfast .", "Pray was not part of his sentence by some means evaded ?", "I am sure you did not . It was my own waywardness that misconstrued you \u2014 I am sorry \u2014 pardon me , good man \u2014 and if you would yield a favour to a hapless creature , now standing on the brink of the grave , leave me \u2014 I fain would strive to look with calmness into that wormy bed wherein I soon must lie .", "Such was the forerunner of the coming horror \u2014 so will ten thousand glut their eyes upon my misery \u2014 and then the hangman \u2014", "Wretch ! monster ! what do you here ? come you to glut your vengeance on my dying pangs ?", "Would you quarrel , fellow ?", "And the culprit \u2019 s name was \u2014", "Wretch ! heartless ruffian !", "Then wherefore did you call ?", "Let me be calm , lest too suddenly the secret burst upon her \u2014 she knows me not \u2014 time and peril have wrought this change .", "Starving !", "How now \u2014 what want you ?", "Falsely ?", "Often he strove to inform you \u2014 often wrote , but ne \u2019 er received an answer ,\u2014 twelve years ago he set out , resolved to dare all hazards and seek you , when he was taken by the Moors and sold for a slave \u2014 I knew him whilst a captive .", "Still she knows me not \u2014 how to discover myself !\u2014 oh Lucy , what a ruin has sorrow made of thee .", "I thought I could not be deceived .", "\u2019 Tis necessary for the memory of one you once loved .", "Hope , Lucy , none \u2014 my hour is at hand , and the once happy and respected Gwinett , will \u2019 ere sunset die the death of a felon ! a murderer ! a murderer !\u2014 Oh , heavens ! to be pointed , gazed at , executed as the inhuman , heartless assassin \u2014 the midnight bloodshedder !", "Happiness \u2014 alas , no ; my very dreams are but a counterpart of my waking horrors .\u2014 Last night , harassed , I threw me down to rest \u2014 a leaden slumber fell upon me , and then I dreamt , Lucy , that thou and I had at the altar sworn a lasting faith .", "Why coming to meet me through this lone road !", "Remember ?", "But tell me , dearest Lucy , what say my fellow townsmen of the hapless Ambrose ; do they all , all believe me guilty ?", "\u2019 Tis she ! oh , heavens ! all my dangers are repaid .", "Or perhaps Lucy there is another whom you would prefer to make this proposal .", "Many years after , the whole world believed him dead \u2014 your husband lived .You know \u2019 twas thought the body had been stolen for interment .\u2014 Listen , I knew your husband \u2014 met him abroad : to me , he confided the secret of his escape ; to me , he described the frightful scene \u2014 the thronging multitude \u2014 the agonies of death ! The dreadful ordeal past , the ministers of justice executed the remaining part of the sentence \u2014 the body was suspended in chains . Whether it was from the inexperience of the executioner , or the hurried manner in which the sad tragedy was performed , I know not ,\u2014 but your husband still lived \u2014 the fresh airs of night blew upon him , and he revived \u2014 revived and found himself hanging .\u2014 Oh ! my blood thickens as I think upon the torture that was his \u2014 fortunately , the irons that supported him , hung loosely about him ; by a slight effort he freed his limbs , and dropping to the earth , hastened with all speed , to another part of the coast , took ship and quitted England .", "Why , do you fear a refusal ? Why should he refuse \u2014 have I not every prospect \u2014 will not my character \u2014", "Fellow , look not with such devilish malice but give your venom utterance .", "You have spoken to your uncle ?", "No ; it is my native place \u2014 that is , I lived in it some years ago .\u2014 Have you been long here ?", "No , no ; to your story .", "As you loved your husband living , and weep him dead , I charge you conjure up all the firmness springing from woman \u2019 s love , nor let one sound or breath escape you to publish the sad history I \u2019 m about to tell .", "Come , this is kind of you \u2014 nay , it is more than I deserve .", "Within there \u2014 Enter JENNY . R . assist me to remove her \u2014 she will recover shortly \u2014 come , madam .", "And are doubtless well acquainted with the history of most of its inhabitants .", "Hold ! hold ! she knows not \u2014 spare her .", "Was no enquiry instituted ?", "I would , Madam ; is there no one within hearing ?", "My grave !\u2014 oh madness ! even this last solace is deprived me \u2014 she \u2019 ll never weep o \u2019 er me \u2014 never pluck the weeds from off my tomb \u2014 but if she \u2019 d seek the corse of Gwinett \u2014 there ! hung round with rattling chains , and shaking in the wind , a loathsome spectacle to all men \u2014 there she must , shuddering , say her fitful prayer .\u2014 Oh ! I \u2019 m phrenzied , mad ,\u2014 Lucy thus distracted , locked in each others arms , we \u2019 ll seek for death .", "And why not ?", "Why not !\u2014 the cottage wherein I was born looks out on the place \u2014 many a summer \u2019 s day , when a child , a little happy child , close by my mother \u2019 s side , my hand in her \u2019 s , I have wandered there picking the wild flowers springing up around us \u2014 oh ! what a multitude of recollections crowd upon me \u2014 that meadow !\u2014 many a summer \u2019 s night have I with my little sisters , sat waiting my father \u2019 s coming \u2014 and when he turned that hedge , to see his eyes , how they kindled up , when the happy shout burst from his children \u2019 s lips \u2014 ah ! his eyes are now fixed closely on me \u2014 and that shout is ringing in my ears !", "Wretch ! would you say \u2014", "\u201c Good-day \u201d friend ! let good days pass between those happy men , who freely may exchange them beneath the eye of heaven .\u2014\u201c Good-day \u201d to a wretch like me ! it has a sound of mockery .", "I \u2019 ve distanced them \u2014 but i \u2019 faith I \u2019 ve had to run for it .\u2014 No , no , fair gentlemen , I hope yet to have many a blithe day ashore \u2014 high winds , roaring seas , and the middle-watch have no relish for Gwinett \u2014 make a sailor of me , what , and leave Lucy Fairlove ?\u2014 I \u2019 ve hurt my wrist in the struggle with one of the gang \u2014It is but a scratch \u2014 if I bind it up again it may excite the alarm of Lucy \u2014 no , Time is the best surgeon , and to him I trust it .Eh ! who have we here ? by all my hopes , Lucy herself ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Oh ! good Gilbert .", "I cannot refuse you . Heaven knows what would have been my fate , had I not found a friend \u2014 a protector in you .", "Did you so ? Ambrose , did you so ?\u2014 Oh ! \u2019 tis a happy presage : the dream was sent from heaven to bid you not despair .", "Bloodshedder ! oh , Gwinett .", "What is kind or more than you deserve ?", "Oh ! speak it not \u2014 think it not \u2014 my heart is broken .", "Yes , more than satisfy him , but \u2014", "Alas , what avails this now \u2014 let the dead rest unspoken of \u2014 break not the silence of my Gwinett \u2019 s grave .", "Possibly \u2014 I do not know .", "I know not \u2014 hearing his cries , I rushed into his room \u2014 he was not there , but his bed was steeped in blood .", "You were wrong , good Gilbert , I cannot see him .", "Oh ! heavens .", "Meet you \u2014 what vanity \u2014 not I indeed , I was merely taking my morning \u2019 s walk , thinking of \u2014 of \u2014", "Ah ! perhaps , yes , I see it \u2014 you can tell me where they laid his cold remains \u2014 can lead me to his grave , where I may find a refuge too .\u2014 You weep , nay then I know your mission is one of kindness \u2014 of charily to the widow of that unhappy guiltless soul , who died a felon \u2019 s death on yonder hill .", "Loves me !", "Aye , my husband , I swore to be his and none but his \u2014 my oath was taken when the world looked brightly on us both \u2014 the world changed , but my oath remained ; and here , but an hour since , within a prison \u2019 s walls , with none but hard-faced pitiless gaolers to behold our wretched nuptials ; here I kept my vow \u2014 here I gave my hand to the chained , the despised , the dying Gwinett ; and whilst I gave it , whilst I swore to love and honour the outcast wretched felon , I felt a stronger pride than if I \u2019 d wedded with an ermined king . ( embracing Gwinett ; Grayling , who , during this speech , is become quite overpowered \u2014 by an effort rouses himself , exclaiming wildly \u2014", "Hard-hearted man \u2014 but you carry with you your own torment , a blighted conscience \u2014 alas , why do I stand raving to this heartless being \u2014 the time wears on \u2014 to-morrow \u2014 oh ! what a world of agony is in that word , let me still pronounce it , that I may ceaselessly labour in the cause of misery \u2014 but if relentless law demands its victim , the grave ! the grave ! be then my place of rest .", "No one \u2014 but why such caution ?", "Oh , no \u2014 not frightened , only hurried a little \u2014 is my uncle in the house ?", "Ambrose .", "Can he make the dead live again ? Good news !", "Oh ! uncle , I beseech you , name him not .", "There is then no hope \u2014 no , think not to deceive me , the terrible certainty frowns upon me , and every earthly joy fades beneath the gloom ! I shall not long survive you \u2014 a short time to waste myself in tears upon your grave .", "Oh , Gilbert !", "On the contrary \u2014 to desire you to defer \u2014", "His wife ? oh , uncle , if you have the least love \u2014 the least regard for me , speak no more upon this theme \u2014 at least for the present . I will explain all to-morrow , will prove to you that my aversion is not the result of idle caprice , but of feelings which you yourself must sanction . In the mean while be assured I would rather go down into my grave , than wed with such a man as Grayling .", "This is unkind \u2014 you do not believe so .", "Friends !\u2014 But to your errand , Sir , what would you say ? speak it quickly , lest my reason desert me , and you talk to madness :\u2014 I was told you brought me comfort , I smiled at the word ; it seems my unbelief was right .", "I \u2019 m fixed as stone \u2014 should my husband rise before me , my heart might burst , but not a cry should escape me ."], "true_target": ["There yet remains a hope \u2014 your judges are petitioned , they may relent \u2014 then years of happiness may yet be ours .", "Oh ! you wake a thousand horrors in my soul ; he has no grave ; they stole him from me \u2014 they robbed the widow of her last bitter consolation .", "Grayling , if e \u2019 er you felt one touch of pity , in mercy leave us , cheat me not of one moment , with \u2014", "Whom mean you ?", "Died not ?", "Well then I do confess , I wished to meet you , to tell you that \u2014", "And did he die in slavery \u2014 oh , your looks declare it \u2014 unhappy wretched Gwinett ,\u2014 but no , happy , thrice happy , he died not on a scaffold . Did he hope you would ever see his miserable widow ?", "Oh ! in mercy speak not that name \u2014 I dare not breathe it to myself ; once loved \u2014 oh ! this agony \u2014 you probe into a breaking heart .", "Do not leave me .", "No , no , it is I who am to blame , for speaking thus strongly \u2014 wait , dearest uncle \u2014 wait till to-morrow .", "Dear uncle , is not this sufficient excuse for my aversion .", "Mercy ! mercy !", "Ambrose \u2014", "Gone , to prison \u2014 death \u2014 no they cannot , dare not fulfil the dreadful sentence \u2014 he is innocent ! innocent as the speechless babe \u2014 the whole town believes him guiltless \u2014 they will petition for him , and if there be mercy upon earth he must yet be saved \u2014\u2014 Grayling ! oh Grayling \u2014 your evidence has betrayed him \u2014 but for you he had escaped \u2014 whilst you spoke \u2014 whilst at every word you uttered my blood ran cold as ice , I prayedprayed that you might be stricken dumb ; but he , even he who stood pale and withered at the bar must have felt far above you as man above a worm .", "You would speak to me , Sir ?", "My uncle !", "Expect master Ambrose here to-night , uncle ?", "Grayling .", "Ah !\u2014 what was that ?\u2014 no no , I wander \u2014 yes , it is \u2014oh heavens it is my husband !", "And I !\u2014 I not to know of this \u2014 unkind .", "Alas ! oh , heaven \u2014 he is \u2014", "It is my uncle \u2019 s \u2014", "Ob , no \u2014 some there are who , when your name is mentioned , sigh and breathe a prayer for your deliverance ,\u2014 and some \u2014", "Alas ! I fear some violence .", "Grayling , never again , in town or field , under my uncle \u2019 s roof , or beneath the open sky , that you have so lately made a witness to your infamy , dare to pronounce my name ; there is a poison festering in your lips , and all that passes through is tainting \u2014 your words fall like a blight upon the best and purest \u2014 to be named by you , is to be scandalised \u2014 once whilst I turned from , I pitied you \u2014 you are now become the lowest , the most abject of created things \u2014 the libeller , the hateful heartless libeller of an innocent woman . Farewell , if you can never more be happy , at least strive to be good .", "Yes , but urged with malice , wholly devilish \u2014 but oh Grayling \u2014 all shall be forgiven \u2014 all forgotten \u2014 strive but with me to awaken mercy in the hearts of his judges \u2014 strive but \u2014 ah no \u2014 I see in that stone-like eye and sullen lip , that the corse of Ambrosethat to you his death knell would be music , for then you would no longer fear his marriage chimes .", "Oh ! dearest Ambrose \u2014 is there no hope ?", "Oh , heaven ! my uncle \u2019 s murdered ! Servants and others run on . R .", "For heaven \u2019 s sake ! subdue this rashness \u2014 Gwinett \u2014 Grayling \u2014 good kind Master Grayling \u2014", "Oh , give it me \u2014 oh , well do I remember when I saw it last , Gwinett was gazing at it with tearful eyes , when the prison bell \u2014 oh , that sound ! \u2019 tis here still \u2014 I \u2019 m sick at heart ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Aye , that \u2019 s enough ; I want to see him \u2014 he \u2019 s in he house .", "I \u2019 ve a little business here with a gentleman : do you know one", "Why , to say the truth , messmate , he was a trim taut-rigged craft , and a devilish deal better looking than you are .", "I \u2019 ve a letter to Mr. Gwinett \u2014 it \u2019 s of great consequence .", "I say young man ,why what are you starting at ?", "Why not a shot in the locker .", "That \u2019 s right my hearty \u2014 come , scud away \u2014 eh , what have you brought yourself up with a round turn for ?", "Tricks , you lubber , give him the letter , and no more palaver .", "The writer !", "Aye , that \u2019 s a bad commodity ; for when people are inclined to purchase , they \u2019 ll do it at any rate ; but I say , no foul tricks you know .", "Oh , never fear \u2014 if he attempts to hallo , we \u2019 ll put a stopper in his mouth to spoil his music .", "Mr. Gwinett ?", "Umph !", "What would we ?\u2014 why , what do you think of topping your boom \u2014 pulling your halyards taut , and turning sailor ?"], "true_target": ["Shall it ! we are the boys ; and what \u2019 s more , we don \u2019 t mind giving you your discharge into the bargain .", "Will you deliver it ? if as you say he \u2019 s not here when he comes ?", "A plague take these woods , I see no good in \u2019 em \u2014 there \u2019 s no looking out a head the length of a bow sprit ; I know he run down here .", "Indeed \u2014 and which do you think it is now ?", "Yes , but that \u2019 s more than we intend to let you do , so come .", "Sailor \u2014 what \u2019 s the use of turning the word over so with your tongue \u2014 I said sailor \u2014 it \u2019 s a useless gentility with us to ask you \u2014 because if you don \u2019 t like us , I can tell you we have taken a very great liking to you .", "Aye \u2014 why you look as surprised as if we wanted to make you port admiral at once .", "Would you tell me a lie now ?", "Cannot ! we \u2019 re not to be put off , and by a landsman \u2014 so come , there \u2019 s one fellow already has outsailed us , piloting among these breakers ,\u2014 one follow this morning \u2014", "Eh ! how did you come by all that ? you hav \u2019 nt run a pistol against a traveller \u2019 s head , eh ?", "Who am I ? why \u2014 I \u2019 m \u2014 I \u2019 m \u2014 an honest man .", "The same .", "He was a smart clean fellow , and would have done credit to the captain \u2019 s gig .\u2014 Eh ! who have we here ?\u2014 come , one man is as good as another , and this fellow seems a strong one .", "Why ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Some twelve years .", "No , no , it won \u2019 t do , I \u2019 m not to be drawn out now \u2014 I \u2019 ve no time to be comical , I must away for Dover this instant .", "He had when he left , or rather when he was dragged from this country , some eighteen years ago .", "So far safe ; egad Gilbert \u2019 s advice was not altogether unnecessary , for I \u2019 ve had to keep up a running account for these five miles \u2014 eh \u2014 what a crowd of people are coming here . Enter 1st . VILLAGER . R . why my friend , you seem in haste . 1st . Vil . Haste ! yes , I would \u2019 n \u2019 t lose the sight for the world .", "Ever had any patients , I \u2019 ll whisper a secret in your ear ; I \u2019 ve had one in this house ! Now what do you think of that ? What follows now ?", "Ah , that \u2019 s it , humble merit may trudge its shoes off , and never finger a fee , whilst swaggering impudence bounces out of a carriage , and all he touches turns to gold . Farewell , good Gilbert , farewell \u2014 I \u2019 m off for Dover .", "And who do they say he \u2019 s murdered ?", "A good young man , is that such a sight among you ?", "Collins !the devil ; there may be some of my marks found upon him \u2014 and \u2014 and what have they done with the body ?", "Why ?", "The judges \u2014 what the doctors ! ah my dear , I know , by myself , that the doctors are frequently no great judges \u2014 what \u2019 s his complaint ?", "What then you have no curiosity ?", "Yes , directly .", "Sight ! what sight ? 1st . Vil . What , don \u2019 t you know ?then my service to you .", "All the same thanks to you for your intelligence ; press me , bless you they \u2019 d sooner take my physic than me ; no , no , I \u2019 m a privileged man \u2014 good-night , good-night .", "From India !\u2014 and as rich , and as liberal as an emperor .", "Never fear me , the blue-jackets , bless you , if they were to catch hold of me , I should run off and leave a can of flip in their hands ; now what do you think of that ?"], "true_target": ["Ah , you \u2019 re a droll fellow , but we won \u2019 t quarrel ; I dare say you think me very dull now , but bless you I \u2019 m not , when I \u2019 m roused I can be devilish droll \u2014 very witty indeed .", "Ambrose ! why you don \u2019 t mean Ambrose Gwinett ?", "Ah ! very likely \u2014 I begin to feel very uncomfortable \u2014 well go home , my good girl , go home .", "Nobody but loved him \u2014 i \u2019 faith if they \u2019 ve all such pretty faces as you , he must have had a fine time of it \u2014 but what \u2019 s the matter with him \u2014 is he going to be married \u2014 is he dying \u2014 or dead ?", "Yes pressed \u2014 he was taken on board ship at dead of night ; the vessel weighed anchor at daybreak \u2014 started for India \u2014 and there my master , what with one and another piece of luck , got his discharge : but I believe he wishes to see you .", "Well , now let me see , where \u2019 s my next point of destination ? ah , Dover . Thus I go through the country , and by both my trades of barber and doctor , contrive to look at the bright side of life , and lay by a little for the snows of old age . Had bad business here at Deal : all the people so plaguily healthy \u2014 not a tooth to be drawn \u2014 not a vein to be opened ; the landlord here , master Collins , has been my only customer \u2014 the only man for whom I have had occasion to draw lancet . Now it \u2019 s very odd why he should be so secret about it \u2014 all to prevent alarming his wife he says ,\u2014 good tender man .", "I \u2019 m puzzled , the body not to be found ; if I go and tell all that I know \u2014 inform the judges that I bled master Collins , perhaps they may secure me , and by some little trick of the law , make me accompany master Gwinett \u2014 again , allowing I should get clear off , the tale might occasion some doubt of my skill , and so my trade would be cut up that way \u2014 no no , better as it is , let the guilty suffer , and no more said about it \u2014 it will all blow over in a week or two . That same Gwinett , for all he used to laugh and joke so gaily , had I now begin to remember a kind of hanging look \u2014 he had a strange , suspicious \u2014 but bless me when a man falls into trouble , how soon we begin to recollect all his bad qualities . I declare the whole country seems in a bustle \u2014 in the confusion I may get off without notice \u2014\u2019 tis the wisest course , and when wisdom comes hand-in-hand with profit , he \u2019 s a fool indeed that turns his back upon her .", "Servant , Sir ,\u2014 you are the landlord .", "Ah , I can \u2019 t think how that is .", "Because \u2014 because what ?", "No , will you tell me ?", "What of that ?", "This is highway politeness , and to a man of my profession \u2014 eh !\u2014 thank heaven , here comes one of the other sex \u2014 it \u2019 s hard if I don \u2019 t get an answer now . Enter MARY ROSELY . R . Well my pretty maid , are you going to see the sight ?", "Well , then , never take on so \u2014 he \u2019 ll get over it .", "Nobody knows me \u2014 no one sees the valet in the steward , the late Label , barber and doctor \u2014 and only think that I should meet with Master Collins \u2014 a man who was thought murdered \u2014 alive and flourishing in India \u2014 poor Gwinett \u2014 poor Ambrose \u2014 I have never had the courage to tell my master that sad story \u2014 he little thinks that an innocent man has been hanged on his account \u2014 somehow I wish I had told him \u2014 and yet what would have been the use ; he couldn \u2019 t have brought the dead man alive again , and it would only have made him miserable . But now he can \u2019 t long escape hearing the whole tale , and then what will become of me \u2014 no matter ; I must put a bright face upon the business , and trust to chances .", "Murdered a man ! that \u2019 s a fatal disease with a vengeance .", "The sharks ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["What say you , murdered ! where ?\u2014 how ?\u2014"], "true_target": ["Gwinett ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Well that \u2019 s all past , where is the use of looking back .", "Well , I didn \u2019 t mean that .", "Well I declare this is all waste of time \u2014 we \u2019 ve the house full of customers , and here we \u2019 re standing talking as \u2014", "I \u2019 m sure I hope they will ; but in the mean time , we musn \u2019 t stand talking about it , or no one will come to the Blake \u2019 s Head .", "Yes , and poor Lucy ."], "true_target": ["Oh what a shocking thing ! Master Gwinett tried for murder \u2014 I \u2019 d lay my life he \u2019 s innocent .", "You \u2019 re going to the meadow , at One-Tree-Farm to mope yourself to death .", "Well , well ; but it \u2019 s so long ago .", "But there \u2019 s no occasion to be so violent .", "Why it \u2019 s the servant of the rich old gentleman , from the", "Indies ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["None ."], "true_target": ["Guilty ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["\u2014 Enter Neighbours from the Court with Officers guarding"], "true_target": ["GWINETT . L ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Which is he ?", "Death !", "Aye ! it is the sentence of the court that the prisoner be hung in chains ."], "true_target": ["No ; for mad George !", "The office is doubtless an ungrateful one ; being a fellow townsman you needs must feel for him .", "Grayling , you , as smith for the prison , must measure the culprit for his fetters ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["No , Sir , not yet .", "Why , Sir ; it \u2019 s \u2014 it \u2019 s \u2014 it \u2019 soh such a good young man .", "That can \u2019 t be found any where : it \u2019 s supposed that Ambrose \u2014 no , no , not Ambrose , but the villains that did the horrid act , threw the body into the sea .", "Oh yes , Sir , that \u2019 s his name .", "The sight ! oh bless you , Sir ,\u2014 no , not for the world .", "Master Collins ."], "true_target": ["Oh no , Sir , he \u2019 s sure to die \u2014 the judges have said so .", "Miss Lucy .", "Oh no Sir \u2014 not that \u2014 and yet there was nobody but loved him .", "Complaint , Sir , why they say he \u2019 s murdered a man .", "Curiosity , Sir ,\u2014 do you know what sight it is ?", "But it \u2019 s false , Sir , a wicked falsehood \u2014 he murder \u2014 why , Sir , he was the best , the kindest young man in all these parts \u2014 there was nobody but loved poor Ambrose \u2014", "Home ! no that I won \u2019 t ; I \u2019 ll go and see if I can \u2019 t comfort poor"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Day time ! day is night if no one sees . He \u2019 s gone to the", "Even as you will , I speak for your own good .", "Tush .", "Well ,\u2014 there \u2019 s the money \u2014 now we \u2019 re clear .", "Satisfy ! why you may be satisfied \u2014 the men who killed Collins , doubtless did it for his gold \u2014 they were disappointed , and instead of the money going to villains and blood-shedders , it has fallen into the hands of honest men .", "Well , no matter , we can even do this job without him ; but one lucky hit and we are made men .", "And get a prison for your pains .", "No help ! yes the bag \u2014 the gold !", "You were wrong to let him pass you : had you but watched my motions , he could not have escaped .", "What ! hav \u2019 n \u2019 t eighteen years cured you of that trick ?", "Eh !\u2014 how does the wind blow now ?\u2014 and why not I pray ?", "Aye , a little reasoning as you say , does much in such matters .", "Away with all this \u2014 will you be a man ?", "That \u2019 s right , and now listen to me . We must have a peep into that portmanteau .", "The truth ! it is too dangerous a commodity for us to deal in at present \u2014 we know we picked it up a few paces from the Blake \u2019 s Head , doubtless dropped from Collins in his struggle with the murderers \u2014 but how are we to make that appear \u2014 our characters , Will Ash , are not altogether as clear as yonder white cloud , they are blackened a little ever since that affair with the Revenue Officers \u2014 you know we are marked men ."], "true_target": ["No , then it would be fools , upon whom fortune had thrown away her favours \u2014 Collins is dead ! mountains of gold could not put life \u2014 no , not even into his little finger \u2014 what good then can come of returning the bag , and what harm to the dead or to the world , by our keeping it ?", "Come then and assist \u2014eh \u2014 he \u2019 s well provided \u2014ah !\u2014 here \u2019 s gold \u2014Dos \u2019 t hear it chink ?\u2014 Grayling , come and assist , man .", "Plunder , and good booty too I take it .", "Stay \u2014 is there no surer way \u2014 I have it \u2014 we \u2019 ll even shake its contents a bit , and leave the trunk here \u2014 what say you , Grayling ?", "What !\u2014 that question from Grayling ?\u2014 come let \u2019 s away .", "Not so , we \u2019 ll to the Inn : where can Grayling be ?", "Well , farewell , for the present , but meet me round the lane , leading to the back part of the house .", "Ah , this may be all very well .", "Still whining , still complaining , what good could the money do to the dead ?", "Blake \u2019 s Head .", "You are in no situation , Will Ash , to study niceties \u2014 when your children shriek \u201c Bread \u201d within your ears , is it a time for a man to be splitting hairs , and weighing grains of sand ?", "Why what \u2019 s the matter ? it \u2019 s all a mistake .", "Yes , and a man may be hanged in that consciousness \u2014 be hanged as I say , and leave the consciousness of his innocence , as food and raiment for his helpless family .", "You refuse then ?", "Hush \u2014 not a word .", "Tut tut \u2014 all trifling I tell you \u2014 all the fears of a foolish girl \u2014 come , come , Will Ash , be a man ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Round by the lane \u2014 no , that I can \u2019 t do : I must pass my wife and children \u2019 s graves \u2014 I have not dared to look upon them this many a day .", "Lost ?", "Cured me \u2014 that bag of money \u2014 that bag \u2014\u2019 twas the first thing that turned me from the paths of honesty and grievously have I wandered since .", "I no help \u2014", "Impossible !", "And what good has it done us ? but let \u2019 s not talk about it .", "Aye , this has been your cry year after year \u2014 luck ! I think I see our luck in every tree , and in every rope .", "And yet the greatest rogues may commit crimes with as fair a shew of necessity \u2014\u2019 tis not Blackthorn \u2014\u2019 tis not in the nature of guilt to want an excuse .", "That \u2019 s what I would be , master Blackthorn , but you will not let me \u2014 I would be a man , and return this same bag of money .", "But the truth \u2014", "Oh !\u2014", "I am assured of it , and could I satisfy myself \u2014"], "true_target": ["Oh , heavens ! my wife and children homeless , starving outcasts \u2014 and", "We cannot \u2014 the portmanteau will be missed , and we instantly pursued .", "But in the day time ?", "Ah !\u2014 yes !\u2014 it must , it shall be done ! the husband and the parent \u2019 s tugging at my heart \u2014 oh ! be witness heaven ! and pardon , pardon the frailties of the man in the agony of the father \u2014 come , child , your mother and your sisters , though the trial be a hard one , yet shall smile upon the oppressor .", "You speak rightly , a little reasoning \u2014", "Not far off I warrant .", "I will \u2014 come what will , I \u2019 ll return the gold \u2014 farewell \u2014", "Do not , Blackthorn , do not speak thus ; for in such a case it is not reason , but madness that decides .", "Aye , I never pass the door , but my heart beats and my knees tremble .", "No ; I \u2019 ll meet you , but for the path , that I \u2019 ll chuse myself .", "Yes , but unjustly so ; I am conscious of my innocence .", "Honest \u2014 aye if we return it ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Oh father ! father , all is lost"], "true_target": ["Yes , our cruel landlord has seized on every thing , mother and my little sisters , Jane and Ann , all driven out , must have slept in the fields , if farmer \u2014"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["A good-day \u2014 you are late , master Grayling \u2014 you will have scarcely sufficient time to perform your task .", "Why , at the corner of the meadow , just by One-Tree Farm .", "Do you not remember the sentence ?", "Come , come , be more composed .", "Aye ; we have to day received an order that \u201c mad George ,\u201d as he is called , who was last Sessions convicted for shooting an Exciseman , is to suffer with poor Ambrose Gwinett .", "Come , master Grayling , you know there is another prisoner .", "For shame ! for shame , master Grayling , have you no pity ?", "That \u2019 s right \u2014 come , look boldly on it .", "Holloa ! Tom , bring poor George hither . Poor fellow , he had begun to hope for pardon just as the warrant came down .", "Why , for the matter of that , if a man \u2019 s a gaoler , I see no reason why his heart should be of a piece with the prison wall .", "Why , there is another little ceremony \u2014 you know the sentence is \u2014"], "true_target": ["Poor fellow , I could almost cry to look at him .", "A good-day to you , master Ambrose .", "I \u2019 m afraid , Sir , none : the judges have quitted the town \u2014 but banish these thoughts from your mind \u2014 here comes one that needs support even whilst she strives to comfort others .", "And yet believe me , Sir , I meant not so .", "He \u2019 s engaged , at present , taking leave of poor Lucy Fairlove ; eh ! why what \u2019 s the matter with you ? why you start and shake as though it was you that was going to suffer .", "The prisoner ! do you not know that there are two to suffer ?", "And why not there , master Ambrose ?", "Why , how now , master Grayling ? once you would not have talked in this manner \u2014 you had one time a heart as tender as a girl \u2019 s \u2014 I have seen you drop a tear upon the hand of a prisoner , as you have fitted the iron upon it . Methinks you are strangely changed of late .", "Poor fellow , he forgets \u2014 but good master Gwinett \u2014", "Well , you can first begin with mad George .", "But the whole of it ?", "True ; and yet I cannot but doubt \u2014 I do not think a man with blood upon his head , could sleep so soundly and smile so in his slumbers , as does master Gwinett ; the whole country feels for him ."], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["Aye , I remember , to be placed as a scarecrow to my brother smugglers ,\u2014 well , no matter , they \u2019 ll let me , I hope , hang over the beach with the salt spray sometimes dashing upon me , and the sea-gull screaming around .", "Well \u2014", "What new alarm ? What holds you now ?", "Oh , a schoolboy frolic , go on , good Ned ."], "true_target": ["What ?", "Nay , Grayling , this is weak \u2014 your task is not a free one , \u2019 tis , I know , imposed upon you \u2014 to the work , and whilst you measure the limbs of mad George , the felon , think not , for I would not think of him \u2014 think not of George Wildrove , the school-boy .No , no , not if these prison walls were turned to gold , and I by fulfilling this hateful task , might become the whole possessor , I would not do it \u2014 as I have a soul , I would not .", "I never knew it when I was a free and happy man , and should never feel it in my dying hour \u2014 and to prove to you that the fear of death has not wasted my powers ,\u2014 there , bend that arm before you measure it \u2014 stronger men than you , I take it , have tried in vain .\u2014Ah ! there was but one man who could do this \u2014 he who did it when a boy \u2014 surely you are not \u2014 yes , it is \u2014 Grayling !", "Now , what further , good master Bolt ?"], "play_index": 0, "act_index": 0}, {"query": ["And of the sad Prince lyes .", "And with the weight not only crack his scull ,", "And bid her send her Mistris presently", "All but your faithful Servant .", "The month thou hast given thee is a month of misery ,", "I am an Asse , go , give him the fine cordial ,", "Say withal ,", "This day on earth ; I'le tell thee why Valerio ,", "If he recover it , there is no heat in Hell sure .", "Hither , she shall come ; your Grace dare speak unto her ?", "And cry and curse , give me but power .", "But his fair credit ; the exquisite vexation", "Nay shrink not back , indeed you shall good Sister ,", "Crosses .", "A powerful Prince should be constant to his power still ,", "I'le tell ye all the circumstance", "Neither , I dare speak , thou art still as lusty", "If thou discover this command unto her ,", "\u2018 Tis very likely .", "And miserably dye .", "And when you have done go dig his grave , good Frier ,", "As if they were the patterns of the Kingdom ,", "Than I feel here ; as you are honourable ,", "Many eyes set , that shall o'rehYpppHeNlook your actions ,", "Good men , and great names best agree together ;", "I will no more to Court , be no more Devil ,", "O then , then , then what was my glory then Father ? The favour of the King , what did that ease me ? What was it to be bow 'd to by all creatures ? Worship, and courted , what did this avail me ? I was a wretch , a poor lost wretch .", "Or to a friend that shall importune thee ,", "She brought not her perfections to the world ,", "Would I had any thing that would dispatch me ,", "Honest brave things , and stile them with such Titles ,", "And where thou think'st each hour shall yield a pleasure ,", "Whilst I conceive \u2018 tis you she has wrong 'd , I hate her ,", "Go get a pair of Beads and learn to pray , Sir .", "He shall live after this to beg his life too ,", "I'le find him out ,", "For so the outside says .", "The Queen .", "That was my Love now , and the more he loves me", "Dost thou see this Ring ?", "His jollity is down , valed to the ground Sir ,", "If you transgress ye know , and so I leave ye .", "E 're your command be o n't .", "\u2018 Tis true , I have done Offices abundantly", "Did you but see him Sir , but look upon him ,", "Or bed-rid with old age , I 'll make him curse ,", "All thou esteemest , and build'st upon for happiness ,", "Curses or envies , on Valerio 's head ,", "And would I had enough to serve your pleasure .", "Poorly and honestly , and redeem my ruines ,", "And whilst I was a knave I sought his death too .", "And how my soul sighs for the beastly services ,", "\u2018 Tis the Kings will .", "And worthy Father see , within this viol", "s , and some sighs between ,", "How are you nearer the desire you aim at ?", "And good day to the good Lord Rugio ,", "I shall more love your Grace , I shall more honour ye ,", "That I could counsel ye to fling from Court , Sir ,", "There are such women that will dye with pleasure :", "And trench upon that honour that he brags of ,", "You have a good sweet Lady ,", "All I have I have brought ye ,", "For joy , for pleasure , for delight is past thee ,", "Would you take my counsel , Sir , they should all light ,", "Be sure you hit her home , and kill her with it ;", "As I would hope remission of my mischiefs .", "And patience now will best become thy nobleness .", "As you are charitable look gently on me ,", "And let it work , shall more afflict his soul ,", "To fetch her Maiden head , and dispatch her quickly ;", "And in the height of that opinion Sir ,", "It must fall necessary ,", "To day as I attended , make some stops ,", "Some broken speech", "You shall put on again , and she must meet ye .", "Look for a killing pain , for thou shalt find it", "I'le be as plain with you , Sir ,", "Why do you blush ? the good King will not hurt ye ,", "ate thee deadly , I could pity thee ,", "My Mother 's dead indeed , and some few Cousins", "He walks now in a mist , with what a silence ,", "Laugh at your poor relenting power , and scorn ye .", "So it were down , and I out of this fear once .", "Though he lye next thy heart hid , I'le discover him ,", "Of sound and honour , wealth and promises ,", "You would wonder and admire for all you know it ,", "And like himself able to make all excellent ;", "And talk and jeer ! how I shall pull your plumes , Lords", "His wanton pleasures have flung on my weakness ,", "Death were a pleasure too , to pay proud fools with .", "A flourishing estate again in Naples ,", "And like a wanton dream already vanisht .", "Twenty to one by this thread , as I 'll weave it ,", "And lawfully as thou think'st may'st injoy her ,", "That 's the least thing of a thousand ,", "That hopeful Gentlemans , that was brought up with ye ,", "But Father , when I felt this part afflict me ,", "My wary fools too : have I caught your wisedoms ?", "They come here to do honour to my Sister ,", "To my Sisters Gentlewoman , you know her well ,", "And no more of Valerio but his shadow ,", "A revenge equal , not a pity in you .", "I had thought you had been absolute , the great King ,", "A scorn of this high kind should have call 'd up", "And from your piety believe me Father ,", "Good Sir , no more pity .", "How he studies for it ! Hanging 's the least part of my penance certain .", "If not too much for Court .", "If thou dost offer to touch Evanthes body", "The easiest to atchieve .", "See this , and give me fair attention good my Lord ,", "You must retire my Lords .", "You'l sing me a new Song anon Valerio ,", "What infinite pleasure this poor Month shall yield him .", "Then shall the world know you are the cause of Murther ,", "Now if ye love her , ye may preserve her life still ,", "Before thou dyest , each minute shall prepare it ,", "And then your Brothers name I heard distinctly ,", "Her Grandmother , and worm-eaten Aunts left to her ,", "Mistake not , yet I must needs say , \u2018 tis a noble care ,", "I care not of what nature , nor what follows .", "She is coming in .", "Yes , and the best you ever will arrive at if you be wise .", "Evanthe shall be yours .", "A Woman of so even and still a temper ,", "Your will and your commands unbounded also ;", "Some Aunts I have , they have been handsome Women ,", "And will run mad to miss ; but if you hit her ,", "As when thou lov'dst her first , as strong and hopefull ,", "Nor adde more Hell to my afflicted soul", "And you shall see what joy , and what delight ,", "And ye proud peat , I'le make you curse your insolence .", "With what a troubled and dejected nature", "Will make him curse his Birth ; I told ye which way .", "You know what they work , she is a compleat Courtier ,", "I mean my Sister ,", "That are now shooting up , we shall see shortly .", "And she were my Mother ,", "They should be lovers of your commands ,", "If not , you know the worst , how falls your month out ?", "Till in the midst of all my grief I found", "Will your Grace speak ?", "I have done his pleasures , these be witness with me ,"], "true_target": ["And by your charge , nourish 'd and fed", "You mold things handsomely ; and then neglect \u2018 em ;", "No , she is constant to thee ,", "She must dislike him , quarrel with his person ,", "To satisfie your angers that are just ,", "By vertue of this Ring this I pronounce to thee ,", "He seeks obscurity to hide his thoughts in ,", "Nor how to take it to secure mine own life ;", "Add but your power unto me ,", "And shake her nearness off ; I study , Sir ,", "And why thou abstainest , and from whose will , ye all perish ,", "Ready to fling my soul upon your service ,", "How fares the sad Prince I beseech ye Sir ?", "Cast off the glorious favours , and the trappings", "Muster before his conscience and accuse him ,", "I know it , I have seen it , \u2018 tis Valerio 's ,", "And curse thee too .", "If you sit down here they will both abuse ye ,", "For Heaven sake scorn me not ,", "She knows not anger ; say she were a fury ,", "Then mark me ,", "You know I am private as your secret wishes ,", "Bid him come hither , and bring the Lady with him .", "You are too remiss and wanton in your angers ,", "And at the price of all my wealth I bought it :", "I would as willingly unclothe my self", "I groan and bow under this load of honour ,", "It will in half a day dissolve his melancholy .", "Constant to all thy misery she shall be ,", "It shall be now revenge , as I will handle it ,", "Make me but strong by your protection ,", "A Princes rage should find out new diseases ,", "Of my misdeeds and mischiefs \u2014", "And if I had a dozen more , they were all yours :", "And at their ends will thank you for that honour ?", "Do you hear , Sir , how privily they whisper ?", "A child may take it , \u2018 tis so sweet in working .", "And great Alphonso reign that 's truly good ,", "To tell her what her Beauty must arrive at .", "How they jeer , and look upon me as I were a Monster !", "You do not know Sir", "Within this hour , but sure I heard your grace", "To laugh at your severity , and fright us ;", "Than fear of Death in all the frights he carries ;", "A Charm for the tooth-ach , here 's nothing but Saints and", "Hope shall not trouble ye , nor he three dayes .", "The remedy and cure of all my honour ,", "They pry into our actions , they are such", "Be thou too then , \u2018 twill try thee ,", "They are Verses to the blest Evanthe .", "You have shew 'd a modesty sufficient ,", "For women once deluded are next Devils ,", "Pray let me hear o n't , and carry it close my Lords .", "And mark the man , you'l scarce know \u2018 tis Valerio .", "Besides I'le set in .", "If they had power , what would these men do ?", "That minute she shall dye .", "I have sent him that will make a bonfire in 's belly ,", "I have sent my man unto her ,", "You have fool 'd enough , be wise now , and a woman ,", "If the King knew it I must lose my head ,", "He honours ye , and loves ye .", "And his high hopes of full delights and pleasures", "The Axe will follow else , that will not fail", "And roaring up and down for Aqua vitae ,", "And ring so many knels to sad afflictions ;", "And hold up what he builds , then People fear him :", "I'le do it neatly too , no doubt shall catch me .", "But that I", "With what remorse I ask , nor with what weariness", "The King has given thee a long month to dye in ,", "Your great names , nor your Country cannot save ye .", "How can their single deaths give you content , Sir ?", "She is most willing ,", "For his foul ends , when they shall once appear to him ,", "Petty revenges end in blood , sleight angers ,", "To the sick Prince ,", "Ever by a surfeit you have a julep set to cool the Patient .", "Such rubbing , and such nointing , and such cooling ,", "And worthy vertuous servants ; if you will see", "Ill and prodigious to the Prince Alphonso ,", "And much good may it do ye my dear Brother ,", "And such like toyes , and bring it to me instantly . Away .", "I know I must be hated even of him", "Do you hear this Sister ?", "are a Fool . Evan , You are that I shame to tell ye .", "At the same Table , with the same allowance .", "See ye observe it well ; you will find about ye", "The use is all she breeds \u2018 em for , she is yours , Sir .", "There be some Lords", "Of him I had this Jewel ; \u2018 tis a Jewel ,", "How I shall humble ye within these two daies !", "When he lets loose his hand it shews a weakness ,", "And wish these hot words \u2014", "I have devis 'd , so please you give way i n't ,", "No , \u2018 tis a Cousins , and came up with a great Cake .", "Podramo go in hast", "Upon some business to come presently", "Or if it be revenge your anger covets ,", "I 'll make him wish he were dead on his Marriage-day ,", "Do my good fools , my honest pious coxcombs ,", "The foolish people call their Countries honours ,", "Would ye have it so ?", "Before your pleasures .", "A Jew , an honest and a rare Physician ,", "And chuse to serve my countries cause and vertues ,", "Pray ye speak it , is it my head ? I have it ready for ye , Sir :", "Yes , and given him that Sir", "This is enough to vex ye .", "The lesser Cabinet she keeps her Letters in ,", "Repentance , and a learned man to give the means to it ,", "You never dream't I knew an Antidote ,", "And men examine or contemn his greatness :", "Upon the self-same forfeit : are ye fitted Sir ?", "And followers of your will ; bridles and curbs", "A pair of Gloves the Dutchess gave her ,", "What satisfaction can their deaths bring to you ,", "Of title , that becomes me not I know ;", "Go to your pleasures , let me alone with this ,", "And some sad wishes after .", "To the hard headed Commons that malign us ,", "The fouler and the more falls his displeasure ,", "And as \u2018 tis requisite your life shall pay for't .", "I , now there 's none to trouble ye .", "With whom you please , you must not be deny 'd , Sir .", "This inward part , and call 'd me to an audit", "The fountain of all honours , plays and pleasures ,", "As if he were the shrowd he wrapt himself in ,", "To lock them in a case , or hang \u2018 em by her ,", "And talk at random of our actions ,", "Princes are fading things , so are their favours .", "Give him this drink , and this good health unto him .", "Some two hours hence we shall have such a bawling ,", "Are turn 'd tormenters to him , strong diseases .", "Thou art the poorest miserable thing", "Large golden promises , and sweet language , Sir ,", "These are all Rings , Deaths-heads , and such Memento 's", "Is't any action in my power ? my wit ?", "Hail holy Father ,", "You stubborn toy .", "And willingly , most willingly I would suffer ,", "Which makes them proud , and prone to look into us ,", "That are prepar 'd , and proud to dye , and willingly ,", "Beyond a kiss , though thou art married to her ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But \u2018 tis a thing thou canst not like .", "Now Captain , what have you done with your prisoner ?", "I would tell thee ,", "I am in love .", "Although my thoughts seem sad , they are welcome to me .", "Are they all gone ?", "Look in that Box , methinks that should hold secrets .", "But with whom , Sorano ?", "Good Jac . be patient , and but hear", "Are of that sweetness , whiteness , tenderness ,", "O let me have a lusty Banquet after it ,", "Thou shalt not go believe me , sweet Evanthe ,", "As my Evanthe .", "You have another Gamester I perceive by ye ,"], "true_target": ["You durst not slight me else .", "Let her wait there , I talk not of her Garden ,", "Speak , who dare take her for one moneth , and then dye ?", "Bid those depart .", "Softness , and satisfying blessedness", "No Rose , nor Lilly , nor no glorious Hyacinth", "And thy friends mighty .", "I talk of thee sweet Flower .", "If you yet doubt it , by my soul I am .", "What I can say , you know I am your friend ,", "So rich and potent I will raise thy fortune ,", "Enter Evanthe , Camillo , Cleanthes , Menallo , Fool .", "So high I will advance thee for this favour ,", "I will be high and merry .", "Let me alone , Sorano ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Ten if you please .", "You shall injoy the abstract of all sweetness ,", "Was there ever heard of such a Marriage ?", "A plaguey fool : but let 's consider , Gentlemen ,", "The Castle bell : Stand sure , Sir , and move not , if you do you perish .", "Lay hands upon \u2018 em ,", "Haste you to perfect yours .", "And seat him in his rule , he was his eldest", "So blunt ?", "And have no Month remembred . How now Tony ?", "The good Brandino Father to the Princess", "Continue undiscover 'd .", "We did you wrong , you need no wine to warm ye ,", "Come , let 's away , send my friends happier weddings .", "With your forbidden feet to touch this ground ,", "You should conceal your self , or hope it can", "Frederick the younger .", "The nearer to his own bloud , still the honester ;", "Stand .", "Why the Queen strives not to oppose this sentence ,", "They'l burst and stink , then all the world shall smell \u2018 em .", "But he has honest servants , the grave Rugio ,", "We understand so .", "Or on their rotten Tombs ingrave an Angel ;", "Laden with griefs and thoughts , no man knows why neither ;", "Nothing , nor ne'r look 'd after .", "That 's no news , Fool .", "Chear up my noble Lord , the minute 's come ,", "If thou had'st raign 'd !", "Whose water are you casting ?", "The Kingdoms honour suffers in this cruelty .", "That blunt rude fellows call good Patriots ?", "So do I too . The King with his Contrivers ,", "And some few infirmities else ; he looks again ,", "Yes , we hear ye , Enter Alphonso , Rugio , Marco , Castruchio , Queen , with Guard . And we have found the Traytor in your shape , Sir , We 'll keep him fast too .", "We have all the keys , Sir . And no door here shall shut without our Licence .", "And Fryar Marco , that wait upon his Person .", "Treason ?", "Were he saluted Caesar : but I fear", "Or get all the Almanacks burnt , that were a rare trick ,", "To his own Wife especially , or to his Sister ,", "Come let 's retire , certain \u2018 tis some she-business ,", "Art makes all excellent : what is it , Gentlemen ,", "I think so , \u2018 tis faith enough if they name \u2018 em in their angers ,"], "true_target": ["To give more ease and comfort to his sickness ;", "No , if he be a neat one , and a perfect ,", "Keep back those Citizens , and let their wives in ,", "I , this is something .", "Their handsome wives .", "And in a Monastery he lives .", "And \u2018 tis beyond my reason , he being dead ,", "Mine 's troubled in the Country with a Feaver ,", "Or kill them suddenly .", "That do attend his person ; Speak , what are you ?", "Let \u2018 em in .", "And noblest too , had not fair nature stopt in him ,", "I am glad to see you merry Sir .", "If thou advance an inch , thou art dead .", "For which cause this was chosen to inherit ,", "Let in those Ladies , make \u2018 em room for shame there .", "In a good cause to kill a dozen Coxcombs ,", "Stand :", "You tell us wonders .", "Stay , there 's another , and a Gentleman ,", "He is kept privately , as they pretend ,", "I would applaud him ,", "I am taught my part ;", "What have we to do with the times ? we cannot cure \u2018 em .", "Is for this Ladies love .", "There want such honest men , would we had more of \u2018 em .", "These long protracted counsels will undo us ;", "Break \u2018 em more , they are but brusled yet . Bold Rascals , offer to disturb your wives ?", "Well , brave Alphonso , how happy had we been ,", "His habit shews no less , may be his business", "To free Alphonso from this dull calamity ,", "Begin to putrifie ?", "Let \u2018 em go on , when they are swoln with Surfeits", "Desire shoots through your eyes like sudden wild-fires .", "No , no , till the Bride come Sir .", "Nothing but sad and silent melancholy ,", "This new Lord is imployed .", "What new design is hammering in his head now ?", "Sacred to Caesar only , and to these", "Does not the body", "You are rude and sawcy ,", "This is no place for us .", "Used all the art and industry that might be ,", "There be them would have spared ten days of that too ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To our demands , and promis 'd , if \u2018 twere not", "They do Sir , and some dance well .", "We should prepare us for the journey , which", "\u2018 Tis Lisander , a handsome timber 'd man ?", "A toy that I grow weary of .", "I'le believe ye when you have endur 'd the test .", "What you contended for .", "The strangest love I ever heard .", "I know he loves me , as he loves his health :", "Nay take your place , no Paris now sits judge", "Of sickness , yet I know not how a dulness", "One of your languish", "And feast the worms ?", "Where is the man , good Sir , that we may honour him ?", "Deny 'd to him by fate , he would forewarn me", "With that respect and honour that befits him ?", "You both look blank , I cannot blame you .", "You reprehend me justly : gentle Madam ,", "Your leave of fair Olinda ?", "To make question this act could be another mans :", "Know you his name ?", "What 's that ?", "Dispos 'd of my estate , confess 'd my sins ,", "But on that price my Lord \u2014", "That loss my wife \u2014", "Of their long love will follow : have you took", "Have you been let bloud of late ?", "To be merry with you .", "This night I should be with him : did you not meet it ?", "Come Sir , I know you are sickly , so are your men .", "Saw it , and heard it with me , it made answer", "But a Month married , then to lose his life for't ? I would have a long Month sure , that pays the Souldiers .", "Had you brought news Lisander were return 'd too ,", "Is not known yet , some worthy fellows certain .", "I am troubl 'd ; these strange apparitions are", "And all the rest , forgive me , I'le endeavour", "And break in to my rescue .", "And have remission from my Ghost", "A noble friend , all that was excellent", "How came you off ? for I even long to hear that .", "\u2018 Twixt this , and Fountaine-Bleau ,", "You lock 'd all your delights in , it would grieve you :", "To fear my self , my inward strengths forsake me ,", "Let 's pray heartily", "You ow 'd your husband : I have lost a friend ,", "What pause you on ?", "Is most uncertain : if so , every hour", "I shall not live to speak so many to you .", "But even now the spirit", "What think you of this Marriage of Valerio 's ?", "You shall hear to morrow , to morrow provide Surgeons .", "I cannot sleep , strange visions", "To win the prize , and your despair to lose", "And chearfully I welcom it : I have", "Already both look pale , between your hopes", "In the wild Forest ?", "You must sit up ; and they had come to your Chamber", "Invades me all over . Ha ?", "Proceeded not from fancy , Dorilaus"], "true_target": ["His name , Sir ,", "ng servants .", "And Heaven knows I love him .", "C", "To the divine decree , not argue it ,", "She is gone Sir .", "O think not so . If you had lost a Sister", "A man may live a bawd , and be an honest man .", "None of our heads meet with it , my Wife 's old ,", "In man , or man-kind , was contain 'd within him ,", "Their blunted departure troubles me : I fear", "That 's all my comfort .", "Shews me my death in its most dreadfull shape .", "To build \u2018 em fairer , may be done with honour ,", "For the most part fatal .", "Prithee tell us some news .", "Nay we must see you toward your bed my Lord .", "Make this poor life , I fear 'd of late to lose ,", "The Deitie that must make curst or happy", "What rampire can my humane frailty raise", "Are they so tender ?", "Of my approaching end , I feel no symptome", "What is his Malady ?", "They say their seconds too ; but what they are ,", "Do you shake now , Lord Sorano ? no new trick ? Nor speedy poison to prevent this business ? No bawdy meditation now to fly to ?", "What pranks would they have plaid ! how came the door open ?", "Lighted you among these ?", "Somewhat revives me ; but his sight would cure me .", "We confess ye happy ,", "Enter Calista , with a purse .", "y Father ,", "All nights and days be such till you grow old Sir .", "Can you discover by whose means I must dye ?", "I must call out for help . Within there ? haste ,", "I am struck with wonder .", "How ever let 's to supper .", "Of my dead Host appear 'd , and told me , that", "This is a monstrous lye .", "A suddain and a dangerous division", "It went out at that door .", "You make fair use Sir .", "I see no enemy near ; and yet I tremble", "And we could well wish such another Banquet ,", "My Lisander ! Was this friends absence to be mourn 'd ?", "On the contending goddesses . You are", "To pull down Churches with pretension", "A little you would wander from the fondness", "Against the assault of fate ? I do begin", "And all this time believe no gods .", "By this aerial voice , as in a glass", "Nothing more certain than to dye , but when", "Like a pale coward : my sad doom pronounc 'd", "\u2018 Tis Lisander . O my base thoughts ! my wicked !", "Lock the doors fast , the Musick , hark , the King comes . A Curtain drawn . The King , Queen , Valerio , Evanthe , Ladies , Attendants , Camillo , Cleanthes , Sorano , Menallo . A Mask . Cupid descends , the Graces sitting by him , Cupid being bound the Graces unbind him , he speaks .", "Is not to be put off , I must submit", "Does he use his Brother", "Being at peace too here : the apparition", "No name , no being ?", "I were most happy ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Weeps till the stubborn Marble sweats with pity ,", "Yes , and a wise man too , \u2018 tis a vertuous calling .", "Would I had his Disease ,", "A pestilent fool ; when wilt thou marry , Tony ?", "\u2018 Tis the old Proverb , now they come together .", "No doubt the Queen , though she be vertuous ,", "Me thinks my nose shakes at their memories ,", "Whilst in Devotion , the Quire sings an Anthem :", "Why are not we in Arms then ? And all the Island given to know \u2014", "Give \u2018 em that they came for .", "\u2018 Tis full of sadness ,", "Doors .", "How piously he kneels , and like a Virgin", "\u2018 Tis time , for strangers come to view the wonder .", "We attend Sir , but first we must look to th \u2019", "What bounsing 's that ?", "She hopes to rock asleep his anger also ;", "To see him when he comes to his Fathers Tomb ,", "What Month wouldst thou chuse , Tony , if thou hadst the like Fortune ?", "\u2018 Tis e'en as much , as easie too , as honest , and as clear ,", "Marriage and Hanging go by destiny ,"], "true_target": ["No sure , I would not .", "Take the women aside , and talk with \u2018 em in private ,", "Keep \u2018 em in breath for an Embassadour .", "So he were right again .", "Winks at the Marriage , for by that only means", "These are undoubted .", "It rings your knell ; Alphonso , King Alphonso .", "Shall we go see the preparation ?", "And to his groans the whole Quire bears a Chorus .", "To ravish Matrons , and , deflower coy Wenches ,", "As once a day that is his Pilgrimage ,", "And a sweet issue of this sweet night crown ye .", "To be a villain is no such rude matter .", "But here they are so willing , \u2018 tis a complement .", "Mine 's ugly , that I am sure on ,", "The Kings flame lessens to the youthful Lady ,", "An age Sir ?", "If not goes out ; within this Month , I doubt not ,", "My Lord , no doubt you'l prove a perfect gamester .", "And I think honest too , \u2018 twould make me start else .", "That some cross Fate had cozen 'd of her Love ,", "Tyed like a Leprosie to my posterity ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The tyrants will , and his power taught to murther ,", "You hours of night be long , as when Alcmena", "And cry it to the world thou hast ruin 'd vertue ;", "I set into him , entertain 'd the Turk ,", "But in the school of Hell , Earth is too innocent ;", "I'le make an age , I'le reckon each embrace", "But all this time", "To grow as old as Time in her embraces ,", "And like a cold fit of a peevish Ague", "Stuck all with stars of honour shining clearly ,", "\u2018 Tis so , Sir , thou most glorious impudence ,", "That I may never know my self again , forget", "Yes , and I fear it not , danger 's my play-fellow ,", "Steep their dull senses in the healths they drink ,", "I'le not be far off , because I doubt the cause .", "Sits handsomer upon you than your scorn ,", "Labour , and loss of time ; what should I live for ?", "Thy innocent life , that I forbore thy bed ,", "Is my love false ?", "Where no allay of actuall dull desires ,", "Feed on the sweets of one anothers souls ,", "Other men see the Sun , yet I must wink at it ;", "My poor sad heart under your feet I lay ,", "Had but a Lady of that youth and beauty", "They must before the Ladies ,", "But thou must pick me out to make a Monster ?", "Shall we love vertuously ?", "And makes all eyes hang on their expectations ,", "She is useless to your Grace , as it appears , Sir ,", "My Country , kindred , name and fortune ; last ,", "No loose thought can come near , nor flame unhallowed ,", "\u2018 Twere nothing else ,", "In walls so thick no hope may e 're come at me ;", "Shame attend the sinful , I know my innocence .", "Though as I am a man , I am full of weakness ,", "Keep back the day , and hide his golden beams ,", "Such a malignant Fiend .", "The game of death was never plaid more nobly ,", "The meager thief grew wanton in his mischiefs ,", "To be unable , bed-rid with diseases ,", "I do love so dearly ,", "For by description you were his Evanthe .", "That Hat and Feather , Lord what a Taylor 's this ,", "You will make me bashfull else , I am so foolish ,", "I 'll see you dead first , with this caution ,", "I despise thee fellow ,", "Would'st thou live so long till thy strength forsook thee ?", "In Heaven we shall meet , Captain , where King Frederick", "O Devil \u2014", "When I am gone , take those that shall succeed me ,", "And bred amongst wild rocks , thy nature wild too ,", "And you dear friends , the King has honour 'd me ,", "And from me shall be registred Authentick ;", "But by the knowledge of a Hell . These shooes are heavy ,", "I'le do no more , since you are so nobly fashion 'd ,", "Mine own delights , yet dare not touch .", "Good night my noble friends .", "Or halt on Crutches to meet holy Hymen ;", "The happiness of love is contemplation ,", "A labour 'd one too , though you mean a blessing .", "Heaven be not angry , and I have some hope yet .", "I have lamented too , and yet I keep", "Since I was man \u2018 thas been my best companion ,", "Which anger has no power to snatch me from ,", "Enter Cassandra .", "Your anger though it be unjust and insolent ,", "And make me pave it too ? But that thy Queen", "Why , sure I think it might be done .", "And give thee cause so I may dye immediately ;", "And leaves the body but a poor repentance ,", "Will you give me leave , sweet ?", "But Kings are men , and live as men , and dye too ,", "Rheums , coughs , catarrhs , we are but our living coffins ;", "No heart that is not hired from Hell dare think of ;", "Deaths twice so many , to dismay the approachers ,", "Where now thou grow'st a sweet bud and a beauteous ,", "I swear \u2018 tis false ; my life and death are equal ,", "Alas poor wench , how shall I recompence thee ?", "Sign of fair peace , O this nights blessedness !", "In private to bestow their Beauties on \u2018 em .", "The good night should be thine ; good night for ever .", "For if I had toucht thee thou hadst dyed , he swore it .", "A moneth 's an age to him that is contented ,", "I have obtain 'd Evanthe , I have married her ,", "All , if thou please , put all afflictions on me ,", "The only relique that he left behind , Sir ;", "\u2018 Tis very like I dote much on your Honour .", "But what can last long ? strength and spirit wasted ,", "Is but to violate thy spring , and spoil thee .", "They stay sure , come , I hear the Musick forward ,", "Besides , the fair soul 's old too , it grows covetous ,", "There was acquainted , there my soul grew to him ,", "My growth of Honour ? Do you speak this truly ,", "n ,", "Ca", "Where the chaste watchful morning may not find \u2018 em ;", "That reverent duty that I owe my Sovera", "To such a woman ; all our lives and actions", "And all the motions of your mind Celestial ;", "Enter Sorano .", "Peace in thy soul , desire the King to kill me ,", "I pray to Heaven when I am gone Evanthe ,", "Thou art a man \u2014", "Is of that excellent honesty ,", "Mourn both our fortunes , our unhappy ones :", "Sweet rest unto ye , to ye all sweet Ladies ;", "Can ever mix , let 's fix on that Evanthe ,", "Do any thing that 's honest ,", "Come , do not weep , sweet , you dishonour me ,", "Button , apace .", "Upon so suffering , and so still a subject ;", "I shall take thy counsel .", "Let 's sit together thus , and as we sit", "I am thy Martyr , Love , and time shall honour me .", "Hark , hark , proud Frederick , that was King of mischief ,", "Of our desires , the obtaining of our wishes ?", "Have the affections men have , and their falsehoods ;", "That my chaste love may never appear before me ,", "Upon thy Fathers charge , thy happy Fathers ,", "Yet thou must shake to tell me this ; they tremble", "\u2018 Tis true Evanthe ;", "And he that can pray with such a book in 's arms \u2014", "Griefs of the minde , pains of the feeble body ,", "Your tears and griefs but question my ability ,", "I would not lessen in my love for any thing ,", "Eternity breeds one , the other fortune ,", "\u2018 Twould make you merry had you such a wife ,", "When I have once enjoy 'd my sweet Evanthe ,", "Ye are \u2014 Oh , my heart 's too high and full to think upon ye .", "He that will spare no fame , will spare no name , sweet ;", "Then grudge not my felicity .", "Beshrew me Lords , the wine has made me dull ,", "Out of his gracious favour has much honour 'd me ,", "I care not of what nature , nor what cruelty ,", "A year of pleasure , and each night a Jubile ,", "For what time would your Grace desire her Body ?", "And will be hard to cut as a rough Diamond .", "Make me a traitor , any thing , I'le yield to it ,", "Shrunk in their heads to see his rage so bloody ,", "My business now is , Sir , to woo this Lady .", "Keep me from meat , and drink , and sleep , I'le bless thee ;", "Study thy brains out for \u2018 em , so this be none", "Tony good night .", "Nay make my self guilty of some faults to honour ye .", "To dye a young man is to be an Angel ,", "This were some comfort .", "And guarded with Divinity about her ,", "Had I a thousand more I would allow \u2018 em ,", "I have weigh 'd \u2018 em both , and find \u2018 em but one fortune ,", "I obey , Sir ,", "And stop the quicker revolutions ;", "A name too worthy of thy blood ; I have married her ,", "Thou envious Sun peep not upon our pleasure ,", "Of her afflictions ; wert thou a stranger to us ,", "I will not be your Bawd , though for your Royalty .", "To lose my self in all delightfulness ,", "I never lyed before ; forgive me Justice ,", "They drink abundantly , I am hot with wine too ,", "It will give way to no respect ; my life ,", "The ground would scarce yield Graves to noble Lovers .", "I thank ye , Sir .", "Your Majesty may guess ,", "How many nick chases I would make to night .", "From the best part of Love , my pure affection ,", "He clapt all linnen up he had to save him ,", "I thank your Grace ,", "Would you had tryed it ,", "This tyranny could never be invented", "Lock me in Prison where no Sun may see me ,", "And almost kill 'd with killing , \u2018 twas my chance", "Urbino .", "May not I love thy mind ?", "I must injoy her , yet when I consider ,", "Peace Sweet , look on my hand .", "He had intrencht himself in his dead quarries ;", "And for an hour gave him so hot a breakfast ,", "Of all our humane studies , and our travels ,", "I would not pull my heart back .", "\u2018 Tis mine , my hand and heart , if I dye for her ,", "As thou shalt hope for peace when thou most needest it ,", "And ever shall be bound unto your nobleness .", "But you are a shame to nature , as to vertue .", "Art thou so cunning ?", "Adopted thy brave arm the heir to victory ,", "Have I deserved this ?", "They are content , Sir ,", "I am prepar 'd what ever fate shall follow .", "She never shall claw off ? I humbly thank ye .", "Nay , to desire to taste too , I am Traytor ;", "Chide me again , you have so brave an anger ,", "O how I burn ! to pluck thee from the stalk ,", "I am no stranger \u2014 Hark to the bell , that rings ,", "That if your youth were honest it would blush at :", "I repent neither ,", "Nor hired by circumstance of place and honour ,", "Pray ye tell me , is't a hansome Mask we have ?", "And with what scorn , I look down on thy practice !", "She comes to bed , how shall I entertain her ?", "High as my Blood , all my desires upon me ,", "As thought .", "And that we most desire , let it be humane ,", "The silver Crescents on the tops they carried", "You shall have all Gloves presently .", "Nor I bound to obey in unjust actions .", "But if you sue to him , in Death I hate you .", "Is not the end of our ambitions ,", "The King is merry too , and drank unto me ,", "Deal such an Alms amongst the spightful Pagans ,", "When the rude sea threatens divorce amongst \u2018 em ,", "If once injoyed grows stale , and cloys our appetites ;", "I could wish many , many Ages , Sir ,", "I know your doom , \u2018 tis for a Moneth you give her ,", "To love the tree that bears such happiness ;", "\u2018 Tis a noble one , and I am much in love with malice for it ,", "My innocent life , I dare maintain it Sir ,", "But if my choice were two hours , and then perish ,", "Nothing to play withal ?", "A noble Souldier , and defied all danger ,", "I not desire it , I have cast the worst ,", "And unrelenting as the rocks that nourisht thee ,", "Nor of what length .", "And kindled with chaste flame , I will not flye from it ,", "But for his wealthy self and worth I lov 'd him ,", "I know not how to answer thee .", "There should be such a Devil in a Kings shape ,", "Of what thou hadst been ? till thy sword hang by ,", "Made up so strongly , I'le take my share with ye ,", "And only think our love ; the rarest pleasure ,", "And lazie Spiders fill 'd the hilt with cobwebs ?", "There first I saw the man I lov 'd , Valerio ,", "Blind as her self , and full of all afflictions .", "And be as careless of \u2018 em as your will is ;", "Mine own hopes with my Doctrine \u2014", "And though she blush the day-break from her cheeks ,", "Or if the day must come , to spoil our happiness ,", "Even as thou hatest me Brother , let no young man know this ,", "What should I seek for more ? give me my sword .", "That 's everlasting , the tother casuall ;", "Tye on my Scarf , you are so long about me ,", "Tongue of an Angel , and the truth of Heaven ,", "You have put upon me such a punishment ,", "Breathless and weary with oppression ,", "At least I would not , and methinks \u2018 tis impossible", "Hear me Evanthe ; I am all on torture ,"], "true_target": ["I honour ye , by all the rites of holy marriage ,", "The blessedness of love is pure affection ,", "So much above the base bent of desire ,", "I am betray 'd ; I do , Sir ,", "Go glory in thy mischiefs thou proud man ,", "O what a blessedness \u2018 twere to be old now ,", "Honest and honourable .", "Twenty sweet Summers I will tye together", "And even that worst to me is many blessings ;", "Give me some damned potion to deliver me ,", "And bear'st the prime and honour of the Garden ,", "You are grown a tyrant too", "Pull not my rage upon ye , \u2018 tis so just ,", "Undo thy Riddle ,", "May I make bold with your Queen ,", "We'l have a rouse before we go to bed friends ,", "Let me know it suddenly .", "Had you but plants enough of this blest Tree , Sir ,", "Have I not wrongs enow to suffer under ,", "Because your Grace shall understand it comes", "Nor fortune pointed out a path to Honour ,", "And though I know \u2018 tis perfect day , deny it :", "And but a loyal Wife that may be lost too ;", "As it increases , so vexations ,", "Affection in thee as thy breeding , cold ,", "The treasure of a few tears for you Lady ,", "I will dye old in love , though young in pleasure .", "Thou dew of wine and sleep hang on their eye-lids ,", "To do a wilfull ill and glory in it ,", "I hope there is .", "Stay my Evanthe ,", "And there must be a feeling heart within thee", "I am friends with all the world , but thy base malice ;", "Not to injoy her when she is my wife ?", "And blest my Youth with her most dear embraces ,", "\u2018 Tis fit , Sir .", "Who would be old ? \u2018 tis such a weariness ,", "I am no man .", "And round about his reach invade the Turks ,", "And will injoy her too .", "All I desire , and now have pity on me ,", "I thank ye , \u2018 tis a curse sufficient for me ,", "Charm 'd , or abus 'd with subtle drink ? speak villain .", "Straighter and nobler , if she had her eyes ;", "And that short moneth I have to bless me with her", "To give his ashes honour , Lady take me ,", "Would you had the like Sir .", "And in me keep Valerio 's love alive still ,", "Old doting Tython hold Aurora fast ,", "They that are senceless things shake at a tempest ;", "And would you force a high-way through mine honour ,", "If it might be carried thus .", "Faith no , I am unacquainted with the pleasure ,", "And this lye tears my conscience as I vent it ;", "Think but mans life a Month , and we are happy .", "I have a mind to her , and then \u2018 tis equal ?", "Is my strong body weakn 'd ,", "When she is willing too ?", "Or do you try me , Sir ? for I believe not ,", "Will this serve , Evanthe ?", "Invent some other torment to afflict me ,", "To bed , and I'le sit by thee , and mourn with thee ,", "I shame to say you will find it .", "Lay by the lusty side of Jupiter ;", "We'l have a rouse before we go to bed friends ,", "Good my Lords help , give me my other Cloak ,", "The King is wanton Lords , he would needs know of me", "Man is a lump of Earth , the best man spiritless ,", "And fresh supplies flew on upon this Gentleman ,", "Thou that hast been a Souldier , Menallo ,", "My Father 's had not been to me more cruel ,", "I beseech you leave me ,", "And beats my breast as it would break his way out !", "What should I do with that I cannot use Sir ?", "How I contemn thee and thy petty malice !", "You have parted us ,", "\u2018 Tis midnight , and the silent hour invites me ,", "When I collect my self , and weigh her danger ,", "And may slip happily into some ignorance ,", "As thou proclaim'st thy self ; thou art her Brother ,", "Ha my good Lords , that every one of you now", "And from his fury suffered sad eclipses ;", "The King 's to blame , it was to save thy life Wench ,", "If I had forty heads I would give all for \u2018 t .", "Was this the expectation of my Youth ,", "At my intrenching on your private liberty ,", "I cannot tell thee Tony , ask my neighbours .", "Hark , thou abhorred man , dost thou hear thy sentence ?", "Of pleasure that partakes with wantonness ,", "Now we are both of one mind , let 's be happy ,", "I saw the child of honour , for he was young ,", "The Vessel dancing under him for joy ,", "Bungle a set I may : how my heart trembles ,", "Nor find thee but the same in my short journey ,", "I have my wish , what 's left me to accuse now ?", "Thy threats , or flatteries , all I fling behind me ;", "I am I know not what .", "Heaven bear me witness , thou art all I love ,", "I have not room to breath , come button , button ,", "What did he tell thee , Evanthe ?", "Dare not appear to part us .", "Whether I dare dye ; Do you love intirely ?", "I would so right my self .", "I have done my journey here , my day is out ,", "Creeps to my soul , and flings an Ice upon me ,", "Since I was young .", "That I dare do , and kiss again .", "Too sensuall in my love , and too ambitious ;", "To have my joyes within my arms , and lawfull ,", "Our great good parts put wings unto our souls :", "I have done amiss , if it be a Treason", "A hated Wonder to the World ? Do you start", "Thou dost but jest , thou canst not be so monstrous", "And his shrunk hollow eyes smil 'd on his ruines .", "Certain it is , and there man makes his Center .", "Save Alphonso .", "And if I should be call 'd to dance they'l clog me ,", "Learn 'd Arms and Honour , to become a Rascal ;", "O hear me ,", "Besides , I have some few devotions Lords ,", "To make me up thus straight ! one sigh would burst me ,", "To limit me my time , for who would live long ?", "I prethee pardon me ,", "Like a wanton prodigal you have flung away ,", "And the young gent . dance ?", "You appear the vision of a Heaven unto me ,", "But since I landed , I have heard his fate :", "I know it too .", "And then his life you take that marries her .", "And the rough whistling winds becalm 'd to view him ;", "Youth and affection stop your ears unto me .", "I am not well my love .", "And we'l be wondrous merry ,", "That locks all powers of youth up : but prevention \u2014", "Enough for human eyes , and then to wander from .", "And wooe his friend because she was worthy of him ,", "And marry her that sanctity would dote on ,", "Have you the conscience , Sir , to leave me nothing ,", "Set round about your Court , to beautifie it ,", "And she mine own ; do you smile at this ? is't done well ?", "Every quick kiss a Spring ; and when I mean", "Good faith it needs not ,", "I prethee pardon me .", "Can any fortune keep me from injoying her ?", "Pray ye speak uprightly .", "A Paradise , as thou art , my Evanthe ,", "If Heaven would grant it , and you smile upon it ;", "To graft my soul to Vertue , and to grow there ,", "For on my Conscience she is very honest ,", "But she is up still , and attends the Queen ;", "And such an age to injoy her in .", "In a tall Ship I had to view the fight ;", "Indeed they have more power to make \u2018 em good ;", "The holy Law , and make her life the penance ,", "I would not have my joys grow old for any thing ;", "Of humane fire that burns out as it kindles ,", "To bless your selves this night with , would ye not ?", "To do it then too , when my hopes were high ,", "Let 's be to night then full of fruitfulness ,", "Thy warm embraces shall dissolve that impotence ,", "Enter Queen , Evanthe , Ladies , and Fool .", "Was I brought up , and nourish 'd in the Court ,", "Conceive me , Sir , this fruit was ne'r forbidden ;", "Which shews all honour is departed from us ,", "My veins are all on fire , and burn like AEtna ,", "For which of all my loves and services", "But to injoy thee is to be luxurious ;", "In spight of thee , and thy malignant Master :", "But for respect to her and to my duty ,", "Is only made to wonder at a little ,", "And we are Earth again .", "We'l leave ye then , and a sweet night wait upon ye .", "His towring sword flew like an eager Falkon ,", "And adde fresh fuel to my warm affections .", "Must prove the bane of me , youth , and ability .", "Heaven must want light , before you want a Husband ,", "And suckt the sweetness of all humane arts ,", "That I may quickly find my lov 'd Evanthe .", "Youth and desire beat larums to my blood ,", "Will she come do you think , Sir ?", "But to deny those rights the Law hath given me ,", "With thy most Royal Brother , and thy self ,", "Such a disease , that hangs like lead upon us .", "O how my heart akes !", "Yet at my years to be a bawd , and cozen", "Nay , dear , I'le learn of you .", "Till thou grew'st only a long tedious story", "\u2018 Tis late , and I shall trouble you .", "That that speaks other men most freely happy ,", "And all the service of my life .", "His mind and noble mold he ever mov 'd in ,", "Do not despise me , make me not more wretched ,", "For my loves safety .", "I cannot blame thee , Jewel .", "And my cold lye shall vanish with thy kisses ;", "I am descended nobly , a Prince by birth , and by my trade a Souldier , A Princes fellow , Abidos brought me forth , My Parents Duke Agenor , and fair Egla , My business hither to renew my love With a young noble spirit , call 'd Valerio ; Our first acquaintance was at Sea , in fight Against a Turkish man of War , a stout one , Where Lyon-like I saw him shew his valour , And as he had been made of compleat vertue , Spirit , and fire , no dregs of dull earth in him .", "I have my end , I have thy noble Sister ,", "And like a Lovers thought he fled our fury ;", "And flows so nobly from you , thus deliver 'd ,", "My free affections ready to embrace her ,", "To warm my love anew at his affection ;", "My tender care controlls my blood within me ,", "Of all he is worth , yet dare not offer it .", "That can tye up mens honest wills , and actions .", "The tale of Tantalus is now prov 'd true ,", "Thy love and vertue with a fruitfull husband ,", "To recompence thy noble patience ,", "All that the World has else is foolery ,", "Lustily warm , I'le steal now to my happiness ,", "But counterfeits in Arras to this vertue ;", "As my poor date is but a span of time now ,", "No man can ever come to aim at Heaven ,", "To raise up heirs of love and noble memory ,", "I made this voyage to behold my friend ,", "Not so well , nor so fortunate as you are ,", "What shall I do ? I am like a wretched Debtor ,", "Get me some pumps ; I'le tell ye brave Camillo ,", "That you might know the vertue but to suffer ,", "Thou that all Lovers curse , be far off from us .", "What a rare benefit ! but I am curst ,", "Is there not Heaven above you that sees all ?", "I lov 'd my friend , not measur 'd out by time ,", "That has a summe to tender on the forfeit", "But who shall work her , Sir ?", "If it be errour to desire to marry ,", "Is to do it double , double to be damn 'd too .", "Does not this bell ring in thine ears thy ruine ?", "I fall thus low , Sir ,", "To your unfortunate \u2014", "To bed Evanthe , art thou sleepy ?", "I do beseech your grace ,", "And his to me , we were the twins of friendship .", "How am I blest !", "Conceal her still ; thou heavy Wain stand firm ,", "Is such a studied and unheard of malice ,", "That I could suffer like a Child to hear ye ,", "\u2018 Tis not fit ye should ,", "I would not live to learn to lye Cleanthes", "Envy could not have studied me a way ,", "A lusty one , \u2018 twill make my blood dance too .", "For all the world , old men are prone to that too ;", "No man for pleasure , no womans man .", "And pleasures of chaste love , I wonder at ye ,", "I am no more a wanting man , Evanthe ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You may fall to .", "A lusty Knight , and one that shall be ruled by thee ,", "And in their eye their wishes ; my Sorano ,", "Get ye gone now , not a word more , y'are Rascals .", "I will have no such press .", "Wretched young Girl , it was his impotency ;", "I am not vex 'd at this , thou shalt enjoy her ,", "A strong man too , certain he lov 'd ye dearly .", "Hast thou been with him ?", "Yes marry is't . O Angelo how dost thou ?", "For that I urge it too .", "Behold how the tears flow , or pity her", "And stood at greater distance from my fury :", "Nor no eye sees they want their honesties .", "This is a jewel ,", "How do you now ?", "Dost thou mean seriously ?", "To take me for a woman ? ha , ha , ha .", "Get you gone both , and quickly , without murmuring ,", "Sir , Thus low as my duty now compells me ,", "And thou shalt see how nobly I 'll befriend thee ,", "However low in fortune , that his worst parts ,", "Against your innocent \u2018 Squire ? do you see this Sonnet ,", "Lawful and long 'd for too ?", "No , \u2018 tis Evanthe .", "Set off with golden , and perswasive Language ,", "I shall not keep my countenance .", "Worse than this too ,", "And either lose my self , or win her favour .", "You are familiar ; speak I say , unto her ,", "The Duke hath sent for me in hast .", "You live a right Lords life .", "Look how my Sister weeps .", "What if I did wench ?", "Ne 're wonder , I am living yet , and well ,", "To set thee out thus among Gentlemen ,", "I'le make you one first , and a wretched Devil ,", "I have done that already ,", "No more an Exile will I dwell ,", "You have bely 'd thus , I would swaddle ye ,", "My Sister made a May-game , might I not ?", "Away with her , let her dye instantly .", "Are you grown proud with your delight , good Lady ,", "You have kill 'd me \u2014", "My War is without rage or blows :", "What \u2018 tis to be the Rival to a Prince ,", "Farewel friend , what new 's with you ?", "I can assure you : saw ye Fabritio ?", "To swear it to him , with such tears as now", "Good night and long too , as you find your appetite", "All part of fellowship that may hereafter", "Look to the door Sirrah ,", "Till I could draw off both your skins like Scabbards .", "And get them noble friends \u2014", "Nay , I'le not defend ye .", "\u2018 Tis well consider 'd , let me have the Lady ,", "Now mark your sentence , mark it , scornful Lady ,", "Yet what is living in her Eye ?", "Yes marry do I .", "But is there hope of her ?", "By that Prerogative , a liberal choice", "Yes , but do not find it .", "Enter Valerio , and Podramo .", "Let in the Suitors . Yet submit , I'le pardon ye ,", "Ye are i'th \u2019 right Sir ,", "That 's but your modesty ,", "As I love truth I shall be very angry .", "I thank you Sister for your grief , pray keep it", "Why \u2018 tis thy Sister then , the fair Evanthe ,", "Do you come hither , only to tell this story , Prince Urbino ?", "Each several part about thee is a beauty .", "reads . You shall find us all at Signeur Angelo 's , Where Piso , and the worthy Leila Of famous memory are to be married , And we not far behind . Would I had time To wonder at this last couple in hell .", "As far from her as the Gallows .", "There 's no hurt done .", "The very wearing of his Cloaths , would make", "And to the height of adoration .", "I think he be", "How , Sir ?", "That way Fabritio .", "This is my Rival , that I knew the hand now .", "Now we shall live .", "If his affliction have allayed his spirit", "Till I am fitter for it .", "And make thee blush for shame at thine own errour ,", "He gives good counsel .", "My anger to that height , it may consume ye ,", "Go fortunately , be speedy too : here comes Valerio ,", "Tell her this ,", "Call hither Lord Valerio , and let none trouble us .", "Two arrant Knaves , and were it not for taking", "You dye both instantly ; will you love me now , Lady ?", "Enter Val .", "Thou shalt be any thing .", "You are very prodigal of your service here , Sir ,", "And shew of as inimitable modesties ;", "Any of thine .", "Take off my sentence also .", "If you accept the offer , free you from it .", "How now , what says he ?", "I 'll be thy friend if that may win thy courtesie .", "The joy and pleasure .", "Thou shalt not .", "I shall be bound unto thee .", "I would he were as sad as I could wish him ,", "Read them out , Sorano .", "Shall tell you .", "Oh do not think of such a thing .", "We will do it .", "You are too bitter ,", "So would any ,", "Richly .", "Go leave your knavery , and help to keep the door well ,", "So near our house , I'le force ye stay a while ,", "She waits upon my Queen ,", "Two better Gentlemen than you dare be ,", "Who 's that ?", "A Prince may beg at the door , whilst these feast with ye ;", "Course common things . You are welcome ; Pray come near Sir ,", "High in his favours too ; that has confer 'd", "To give thee the content of love .", "For that 's your latest time , you find not out", "To be a prating , and vain-glorious Ass ?", "To thy warm longing bed .", "Her breath stinks like a Fox , her teeth are contagious ,", "Has your young sanctity done railing , Madam ,", "Commend me to your friend .", "My tale will now be heard , but now I scorn ye .", "Upon his Person , whose least anger would", "An old one .", "I know it , Lady , no man to content ye ,", "From my Sisters chamber .", "Two Rascals .", "Yes , you may safely swear she loves him .", "To such a madness in his wine .", "As if she kept with you , and were a stranger ,", "One word more , and I 'll blanch thee like an almond ,", "I will woo her ,", "Before I find your fury , then strike home ,", "What 's that ?", "A golden Give , a pleasing wrong :", "And feel within my soul the smarts already ;", "To her old melancholy Lute , I'le keep", "What jealousie and anger may arise ,", "That you shall beat hereafter , and I'le tell ye", "I would have been kill 'd in your arms .", "Within this hour , return my humble service .", "And gently wrought , and cunningly .", "You are half undone already , do not wind", "She entertains it with as much desire", "Yet I must vex him further ;", "I 'll look thee out a Knight shall make thee a Lady too ,", "We shall have wars .", "Or never more be call 'd a man .", "Evanthe , stay a little ,", "The poor condition of this poorer fellow ,", "Turn not so angry from me , I will speak to you ,", "That man that you have wrong 'd thus , though to me", "How , and to whom , ye prate thus ; for this time ,", "By entreaty .", "Come speak it from your hearts , or by this light", "What bell is this ?", "I thank ye , Sir ,", "\u2018 Twas trusty still . I wonder , my Sorano ,", "Or sorrow did he utter at his end ?", "\u2018 Tis well maintain 'd , you wish and pray to fortune ,", "And flinging my sweet joys away :", "No soil nor stain shall appear on that , Valerio ,", "Mocking ? look how she weeps .", "Out of the Kingdom , you , or she , or both ,", "And cast the load off of my wantonness ,", "I would have ventur 'd .", "Fy Jacomo ? why do you let her kneel", "I will not say he offered fair Evanthe .", "Let those complain that feel Loves cruelty .", "Of your life more it seems .", "With deaths , as thick as frosty nights with stars ,", "A month or two , it shall be carried still", "Come hither Time , how does your noble Mistriss ?", "She 's angry , and t'other crying too , my suit 's cold .", "Enter Lawyer , Physician , Captain , Cut-purse .", "She is thy Sister .", "Lay it aside , what paper 's that ?", "I do deserve the deepest blow of Justice ,", "No certainer", "I would not have him worse .", "Let 's quit the place , she may grow jealous .", "Because I love you , because I dote upon ye ,", "And most chaste maids : and yet to augment their fortunes ,", "Come , shall we go ? \u2018 tis late .", "There 's no such cure for the she-falling sickness", "The first day of the following Month you dye for't ;", "She her self", "This loving Script ? do you know from whence it came too ?", "Kneel not , not all your Prayers can divert me ;", "They gave it not , or else it wrought not fully .", "That , that .", "Therefore the fitter , the older still the better ,", "Those , those .", "You clearly see now , brave Valerio ,", "Prethee hear me .", "Get from my sight , away .", "The cause ?", "Here , take my Ring , I am content he pay for't .", "Nature will be asham 'd to frame another", "I can yet heal you ; yield up your Evanthe ,", "You shall have one of \u2018 em , if they dare venture for ye .", "For there is vertue in his outward things .", "They are so piercing , that the beams they dart", "You tumble in delights with your sweet Lady ,", "So now you have made a fair hand .", "Void of all malice , which this Maid my Sister", "And such a joy \u2014", "I love thee to enjoy thee , my Evantbe ,", "And all this courtesie to ruine me ?", "I , I , your gravity will become the cause the better ,", "That have no more to justifie their actions", "And make my self sport with his miseries ,", "\u2018 Tis well done ,", "Some fitter time a cause sufficient for it .", "I shall silence \u2018 em ,", "Recover 'd ! then I am gone ,", "In the bestowing of her love .", "I think ye are .", "But their tongues ends ? that dare lie every way", "Gentle Evanthe .", "My sword shall flye among ye ; answer me ,", "Thou shalt have more than words , wealth , ease , and honours ,", "How to excuse your self if ye be able ,", "Were he but cold once in the tomb he dotes on ,", "And secretly it must be done .", "Do not I know thee , though thou hast some land", "With Roses gently has corected me ,", "You have private Visitants , my noble Lady ,", "He has enough for humane blood to carry ,", "Do this then , for without this \u2018 twill be impossible ,", "And flow with all delights .", "That other paper ?", "I am Frederick .", "Treason , Treason , Treason .", "There be a thousand , take where thou wilt .", "That in sweet numbers court your goodly Vertues ,", "You would be sworn too that they were pure Matrons ,", "I will not beat ye , though ye do deserve it", "And take heed , as ye love whole skins and coxcombs ,", "\u2018 Twixt love and scorn there 's nothing felt but hell .", "Hides all disgraces ?", "With folded arms , and sighs all day ,", "To interpose against a raging Lion ;", "I'le no more wantonness , I'le marry thee .", "Sorano work , and free me from this spell ,", "Thou art all handsomness ,", "But credit me the Captain is a man ,", "And I shall love you for your faith . What anger", "Go for him quickly , find him instantly ,", "Say why ye come , Sir , and what you are .", "Who will have her ?", "Could any brave or noble spirit stop here ?", "Hide not the noble nature of a Brother ,", "Yet I shall see you hamper 'd one day Lady ,"], "true_target": ["May be her ghostly Mother 's that instructs her .", "And keeps her Chamber ?", "I do not doubt it , for this heresie .", "Do you know this paper ?", "It is so , by the voyce :", "Upon his life I charg 'd him , but to try him ;", "It is enough .", "You will mad him .", "In your eye I believe you ,", "Than when I speak of him , or any other ,", "And to their shames within this week Sorano ,", "Take heed , wild fool .", "So long ?", "Would for the same fear sell thee unto misery .", "Abominable vile .", "Part with her for a while .", "Which is a poorer man , and nearer nothing .", "Nay , doted on his bravery .", "Sister , I brought you Jacomo to the door ,", "I am not bound to answer ye .", "Julio marry Clora ? Thou art deceiv 'd I warrant thee .", "He set your woman on ye to betray ye ,", "And I love thee still , pity thy wrongs , and dote upon thy person .", "Was life to be preferr 'd before affection ?", "You have your wish ,", "Do as you please , you know the penalty ,", "Yet upon necessary use \u2014", "Let me a while lament my misery ,", "You have it ,", "Better have lov 'd despair , and safer kiss 'd her .", "And then how willingly , O death , I'le meet thee !", "It shall be , Sir .", "My Mistriss smiles , and all my sorrows cease .", "And with a kind of pity I behold it ,", "That fool that fears to dye for such a Beauty ,", "I 'll speak but few words , but I 'll make \u2018 em truths ;", "She is in love I think , but not with you", "Your bawdy woman , or your sin solicitor ;", "I am call 'd home again to quiet peace ,", "I care not if I spare ye ; do not shake ,", "I do confess it .", "And hope springs up enflam 'd with her new fires .", "And ye are a fool , a tame fool , if you spare him .", "\u2018 Tis true , and with a cunning base fear too to abuse thee ?", "He never tendred yet a husbands duty ,", "But love Evanthe .", "As I have life , that which was thrown on you ,", "Give new light to the room .", "If when you are married , you but seek to \u2018 scape", "As the powder of a dryed Bawds Skin , be silent .", "Any that had the spirit of a man ;", "If I had stood him , certain one of us must have perish 'd . How now Frank ?", "We hear not from the Monastery ; I believe", "I know thou art as holy as an old Cope ,", "Fabritio 's command , and yours are both restor 'd .", "And a tall one too .", "If I should give him life , he would still betray thee ;", "To morrow is your last day , and look to it ,", "I pre'thee be more patient", "What is your hasy business friend ?", "Good pleasure to ye ,", "Though he be sick with small hope of recovery ,", "Podrano ?", "To be your own but one poor Month , I 'd give", "Two idle fellows ,", "So just an execution from his hands", "And high-bred spirit breaks not into fury ;", "I have sought you Gentlemen , and since I have found you ,", "To the blest Evanthe .", "Do you hear me ? This woman is my Sister , Gentlemen .", "I am betrai 'd , lock fast the Palace .", "You see a thousand that bear sober faces ,", "And will fall off I hope , I 'll ply her still .", "My anger is too poor else . Here he comes ,", "Yes , easily .", "I do not say he would have been Bawd himself too .", "What should I do ?", "As a Mill grinds ? from this hour , I renounce", "Such hearts ease , and such heaps of comfort on thee ,", "I am at heart . She staggers in her faith ,", "He has forgot all that he said last night ;", "If these no other joys imply ?", "I will be there", "Rather a hater of the grace I offer ;", "If you respect your Lady , good night to ye .", "That you two are two Rascals .", "Of what degree soever .", "The Sun of all my pomp is set and vanisht .", "But speak the words plain ; and you Lodovick", "Why , that is it that makes me scorn to name him .", "So pamper 'd with your sport you scorn to know me ?", "loth to come ,", "If when Valerio 's dead , within twelve hours ,", "And shame of that makes him", "What answer hadst thou ?", "And leave her walking by her self , and whining", "Reckoning the torments of my Hell ,", "Give me your Sword then .", "To morrow I will see you nobly married ,", "Urging your dangers too .", "Nor ducking out of nicety , good Lady ,", "I know you have suffer 'd , infinitely suffer 'd ,", "I pray but think what this man may deserve now ,", "Very well .", "And as I have a soul it shall be executed ;", "And load her with such favour too , Valerio \u2014", "My Court should be another Paradise ,", "I pray let it be so .", "Prethee do .", "They are so , and they are wise , they know no want for't ,", "Sad as the Earth .", "Say it be with one of thy Kinswomen .", "She must be wrought , I know she is too modest ,", "Yes , but \u2018 twas time to counterfeit , he was grown", "I'le be plain with thee .", "For what ?", "Go then : Farewel good Angelo ,", "Thou hearest me ,", "I am glad of this .", "Because I am a man that seek to please ye .", "Though at the expiring of that time you dye for't .", "Now thou art made , thou hast rob 'd her of her cunning :", "How all this difference \u2014", "Why then let 's dine together .", "You have the happiness you ever aim 'd at ,", "Cross my desires ? \u2018 had better have fed humblier ,", "No Sir , it must be but a moneth .", "Why , you must work her , any thing from your tongue ,", "You are bravely resolute .", "You shall have cause to chafe , as I will handle it .", "Shall bate so much of her own modesty", "Come hither , & hold your fann between , you have eaten Onions ,", "I 'll make ye both the happiest , and the richest ,", "Or looking big ; and yet before you go ,", "And eats good Broths and Jellies .", "Or being blest with her sweet tongue ,", "Was it not so ? deny it .", "And draw the minutes out in dear embraces ,", "But do it home , we 'll all be friends too , tell her ,", "Captain , bring out the woman , and give way", "Have you too , Gentlemen ?", "That has no cure for shame but Cloath of Silver ?", "But one Month to enjoy her as your Wife ,", "I 'll make your heart ake , stubborn Wench , for this ;", "Be gone , they are going to bed , I'le bid good night to \u2018 em .", "I , dye Sir , that 's the condition .", "Here in your Sonnet , and she has heard your prayers ,", "\u2018 Tis true , nor can your being born a Prince ,", "I must yet torture him a little further ,", "Nay look not pale , I am not used to fear Sir ,", "As \u2018 tis the fittest place for melancholy ,", "That stand so tally on your reputation ,", "The pity of a friend , from my afflictions ;", "Fool unexampled , shall my anger follow thee ?", "I know he did , and did it to please me too .", "Your Month take out in all content and pleasure ;", "Captain , indeed it shall . O my Sorano ,", "You shall be he shall speak it .", "And give allowance to your liberal jests", "You have no man , nay never look upon me ,", "I do confess my unbounded sins , my errours ,", "All that I have is yours , Sir .", "Make me take knowledg of ye , but for Knaves ;", "Could turn those tears to joys , a lusty Comforter .", "Come who will have her ?", "No man that can , or at the least , that dares ,", "Thou art a fool , and may'st do mischief lawfully .", "No , Sir .", "She should have one could comfort her , Cassandra ,", "For causes weighty , that concern your self ,", "Why , take her to ye ,", "If you talk ,", "I will have this confess 'd , and seriously ,", "And think'st the wearing of a gawdy Suit", "Take all authority , and be most happy .", "As others do their recreations .", "Tamer , and seasoning of a baser nature ,", "I come , pray God the business", "You are both , believe me ,", "It shall be for thine too ,", "Another Husband on the same condition", "Hast thou not found a loving and free Prince ,", "That 's all one , \u2018 tis my will .", "Thy eyes shoot through the door ,", "I did in policy to try his spirit .", "And then I will return her with such honour \u2014", "Give \u2018 em joy , I cannot now go ,", "And if you dare be worthy of my mercy ,", "You see rain from her .", "She is breeding then ?", "First joy unto you all ; and next I think", "Where were thine eyes", "Her feeling sense is fierce still , speak unto her ,", "That hope still lives , and mens eyes live upon it ,", "Consume a Legion of such wretched people ,", "Till she be better conversation 'd", "I am sure he did not , for I charg 'd him no ,", "My tender Wench .", "So many that I wonder his hot youth", "Ground into Gunpowder to shoot at Cats with ;", "I'le be divorced from her .", "Thou abused innocence , I suffer with thee ,", "It may be so .", "My work has end . Come hither , Lord Valerio ,", "Peace good Antiquity , I 'll have your Bones else", "I fear has pull 'd too many curses on me .", "Made thee believe , poor innocent Evanthe ,", "Or pull your face into a stich again ,", "Away with her , let her dye instantly .", "You had better study , Sir ,", "Do not mince the matter ,", "I know he wants no additions to his tortures ,", "To any Suitor that shall come to marry her ,", "Alas , good Lady , for it ,", "And in sad legends write their woes ,", "I can endure it .", "So much you dote upon your own undoing ,", "In the mean time have patience .", "I left Fabricio perswading him , but \u2018 tis in vain .", "How ?", "\u2018 Tis no matter .", "A favour or a grace , from such as I am ,", "A Gentleman at worst .", "These old women are all Elder-Pipes , do ye mark me ?", "What are all these that come , what business have they ?", "I 'll tell thee , Wench ,", "And to the point directly .", "My Youth , my Fortune , and then leave to live .", "My Mistriss eyes shine fair on my desires ,", "And add to these , I 'll make \u2018 em good , no mincing ,", "Those may discover ,", "To marry you again , you dye your self too .", "He be a stranger , yet I know so worthy ,", "Yes a week ago : Shall we dine ?", "Lay but his rough affections by , as worthy .", "I 'll warrant ye her honour shall be fair still ,", "Yes , I did Captain .", "Whilst my impatient heart swells high with choler ;", "Speak to the purpose ; tell her this , and this .", "All thou cou'dst ask ?", "Let me not stay upo n't .", "No more , let 's hear \u2018 em .", "I should have lov 'd him if he had ventur 'd for't ,", "And the mightiest too \u2014", "I'le have ye whipt .", "Incensing her ?", "And utterly destroy thee , fair Evanthe : yet I have mercy .", "Or I shall tell you once again .", "Now my young married Lord , how do you feel your self ?", "Or to infect mens minds with hot commotions ,", "I might , if it pleas 'd me , stand still and hear", "Who does not , fool ?", "She 's free , as you , or I am , and may have", "I do not wrong thee now , for I speak truth .", "And this now done , were but to draw you hither", "Do not I know thou hast been a cudgel 'd Coward ,", "All reason and all Law allows it to ye ,", "Hadst thou lov 'd me , and had my way been stuck", "Hold me not from this sport , I would not lose it ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["This note Sir , when you are free , will bring you where they are .", "My Lord , your servant stayes .", "No sure Sir ,", "With all the hast you can , she is gone to Church ,", "And mine ; she could not get out those ways", "Mistris sends me of a four hours errand : but if I go not", "Lisander ? Yes , I am sure it was Lisander ,", "Now must I walk : when there 's any fleshly matters in hand , my", "My Mistris would desire you Sir to follow", "Not yet brought out ?\u2014", "To marry Captain Jacomo , and Julio", "What shall I tell your Sister ?"], "true_target": ["As Cockles .", "Laelia .", "Yes .", "Fair Mistris Clora .", "My Mistris invited , is coming down the street , and the banquet", "Unless she leapt the walls ; and those are higher", "To do as much for the young merry Gentlewoman ,", "I pray you heartily , come away , oh , come , come , the Gentleman", "I saw their lips as close upon the bargain", "Than any Womans courage dare aspire at .", "His man told me , but he desir 'd my silence .", "About mine own bodily business as well as she , I am a Turk ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Be tender of my credit ,", "Than be a high Whore to eternity .", "But suppose this , Wench ,", "I'le tell your Grace , so dear I hold the Queen ,", "Rob 'd me of that thy love can never give more ;", "Pray ye call to me , I have some store to lend ye . Your name ?", "Good my Lord Bawd I thank ye .", "It is a cozening , and a bawdy mercy ;", "And Hellish furies blow it ; look behind ye ,", "Wrapt in the thunder that the Gods revenge with ,", "And when I see him faint under your sentence ,", "\u2018 Tis not well , thou mummy ,", "Can years and impotence win nothing on thee", "My tears of love to my dear Valerio ,", "Than be your Queen .", "\u2018 Tis true I have been tempted by the King ,", "There 's few that would have shun 'd so fair an offer .", "It was a Womans flash , a sudden valour ,", "A lye , to save your life .", "I have some business this way , your Grace can ne'r content .", "E 're they grow ripe , yet I shall far prefer \u2018 em", "Hold , hold , Sir , ye are too fleet ,", "Did you command him ?", "I fear there is .", "To set my woman on me \u2018 twas too base , Sir .", "My heart set round with hate against thy tyranny ;", "Ladies , no further service , I am well ,", "To make a story for the time that follows ,", "Thou could'st not have express 'd it more exactly .", "For my rude boldness : and know , my sweet Mistris ,", "And know it beyond doubt .", "\u2018 Tis impudently , basely done , thou durty \u2014", "Then dye , and let the wandring Bawds lament thee ;", "For I shall ne'r deny him , he 's so noble .", "But how \u2018 twill sit , and how men will adore it ,", "How should he know that ?", "\u2018 Tis rather on your part to be lamented ,", "Nor has no taste of fair affection in it ,", "To violate the chaste joyes of your bed ;", "Your nobleness , in that you have done otherwise ,", "And dye by pieces , rot into my grave ,", "And exercis 'd this Art the Devil taught thee ,", "And shine above the rest , and scorn all beauties ,", "To some base end ; now I look on thee better ,", "In saving me this way , thou hast destroy 'd me ,", "I should forget my Lord , and no more look on him .", "And forc't me to be weary of my duty ,", "Thou hast almost whor 'd my weak belief already ,", "Might offer worthier choice .", "Dost thou seek to make me dote on wickedness ?", "\u2018 Tis for this bad man , Sir ,", "That though they must be short , and snatcht away too ,", "And where thy bloud wants heat to sin thy self ,", "That but to gain thy life a fortnight longer ,", "And me thought when your name was sounded that way \u2014", "Upon my knees I ask your sacred pardon ,", "I would not be a handsome wench in your way , Sir ,", "You may speak now , and happily prevail too ,", "If that had caught me , and have known all delicates ;", "The cunning'st and the skilfull'st Bawd comes short of ;", "I know you do lye .", "Sure there is some trick i n't : Valerio ne'r was Coward .", "I shall make the worst honourable wench that ever was ,", "My Lord and I to one another freely ,", "Good night dear Madam ,", "A beastly bawdy face , I'le go no further .", "Ere stain or brack in her sweet reputation .", "Is our fair love , our honest , our entire ,", "Be nobler , Sir , inform 'd .", "Good Sir afflict me not too fast , I feel", "But I have fill 'd mine eyes again with anger ;", "And when they roar with pains , learn to make plaisters .", "Yet as I live I would be obedient to you ;", "It was and is to do you faithful duties ;", "Had I been my Valerio , thou Evanthe ,", "I would have dyed a thousand times .", "Pray captain tell the King ,", "\u2018 Tis like enough you may clap honour on them ,", "What business have I here ?", "And as I think she waits you in the Garden .", "Sir , you have loved me .", "In token of this truth , I lay my life down", "And privately , may do all other Ceremonies ,", "To have my shame and love mingled together ,", "I scorn ye not , I would you scorn 'd not me , Sir ,", "To say you were impotent , I am asham 'd o n't ,", "That could not lye conceal 'd .", "And shews more Kingly : I contemn your mercy ,", "You must learn to pray ,", "By this fair light I 'll spoil thy Bawdery ,", "The next grave they find open , are these fit Husbands", "His lodgings are below , you are mistaken ,", "Nor do not dare , \u2018 twill be an impudence ,", "Durst thou deliver him without my Ring ,", "I know your Grace , would I had never seen ye .", "They that are sad on Earth , in Heaven shall sing .", "To be unable to save me ? O misery !", "You will make my kindred mighty .", "And was not I as worthy to dye nobly ?", "That shall be my care ,", "I 'll have as pure tears from a dirty spout ;", "My Lord staies here .", "And I stand still and look on ? Sir , I thank ye ;", "Take off my Jewels Ladies ,", "I am a woman , and a wrong 'd one too ,", "Now you are merciful , I thank your Grace .", "Nor have no private business through these Chambers ,", "Having no errant motion from obedience ,", "You think it fit then , mortified Cassandra ,", "That 's good and honest , but thou must go on still ?", "So far transported", "To my dear Lord , with vertuous thoughts that scorn ye .", "Thou taught'st the way ; go follow your fine function ,", "How then I should bestir my self to thank ye ,", "Take thou heed , thou tame Devil ,", "Such are light enough ;", "Or like a Gentleman under the Surgions hands ,", "And what a monument would I have made him ?", "Thy lov 'd poor life , thou gav'st up all my duties .", "Never mock , Madam ;", "Leaving no memory behind to know me ,", "So dear that honour that she nurs 'd me up in ,", "One of your Gally-slaves , that cold and hunger ,", "You brainless Ideot .", "And if I have offended , be more angry ,", "The merriest Bride I 'll be for all this misery ,", "Was this my end ? I might have been a Queen , Sir ,", "Swear and be damn 'd , thou half Witch .", "Hung up my Picture in a Market-place ,", "Honour , and everlasting love his mourners ;", "And with that spell sit down ? dare men fight bravely", "Heaven keep this Gentleman from being a Suitor ,", "And shortly thou wilt turn this Land to Devils .", "Is well and merry , Heaven be thanked for it ,", "To tell you openly you lye too basely .", "My Father was no bawd , Sir ,", "I would have lyen with thee under a Gallows ,", "And hate me mortally , as I hate you ,", "Fortune protect this man , or I shall ruine him .", "Long winters , that thy Bones may turn to Isicles ,", "For a weak and wretched coward , you must end sure ;", "And both flung on me like a weight to sink me ,", "Her chaste and vertuous love , are these fit causes ?", "But when your time came how I should rejoyce ,", "Home to my heart again ; he be a Bawd too ?", "But I shall countermine , and catch your mischief ,", "The King should so delight me with his Company ,", "And named Evanthe once as your poor Mistris ,", "Can he weep that 's a stranger to my story ?", "I am so taken up in all my thoughts ,", "And shews thee falser still ; the King himself ,", "I do , and dare avouch it pure , and honest .", "And strongly too , with chaste obedience", "Thou art a brave Gentleman , and bravely speakest him .", "The proudest to some Eyes too .", "Decrepit misery , had made a mock-man ,", "Flyes from these vanities , as meer illusions ;", "And read variety of sins to wantons ,", "Come home again , my frighted faith , my vertue ,", "To your present lust , than Queen to your injustice .", "So strongly able ?", "But wretchedly to take a weakness to ye ,", "\u2018 Twill give thee nobler lights than both thine eyes do ;", "And like an Engineer blown up mine honour ;", "Then let 's to bed , and this night in all joyes", "Women and Page we'l be to one another ,", "Whither dost thou go ?", "And I shall love you , Sir , and I shall honour ye .", "Yours is no love , Faith and Religion fly it ,", "That holds my heart ? you unconsiderate Ass ,", "Betray 'd me to uncurable diseases ,", "Thou hast a bawdy face , and I abhor thee ,", "Shame your discretion , and your choice .", "As much , as noble , and as worthy of me ,", "And let a lye work like a spell upon ye ,", "Will ye to bed my Lord ? Come , let me help ye .", "\u2018 Tis true , she did her best , a bad old woman ,", "How scurvily thou cryest now ! like a Drunkard ,", "Who would not be a Queen , Madam ?", "There 's neither Heresie nor Treason in it .", "Good your Grace be patient ,", "O thou unfaithful fearful man , thou hast kill 'd me ,", "None of your valiant men dare venture on me ,", "You have shew 'd an impudence ,", "My poor Lord and my self are bound to suffer ,", "To be a Rascal .", "No Hell can thaw again , inhabit by thee .", "Peace , thou rude Bawd ,", "That like stern Justice I might fling it on thee ;", "Force thy decrepit will to make me wicked ?", "Will you then be willing", "I am too confident .", "A longing Maid , upon her wedding night also ,", "O would my hands could hold the fire of Heaven ,", "Though he be a King , whether he be sound or no ?", "With iron whips and forks , ready to torture me .", "What the damnedst Woman ,", "Victorious Thomyris ne'r won more honour", "And worn thee in my Bosome , to betray me ?"], "true_target": ["You may find time out in eternity ,", "Your Grace is pleasant ,", "It must needs be much honour .", "Her love to you , to all that honours ye ,", "And if thou canst be wise , learn to be good too .", "Upon this breast he should have slept in peace ,", "Your age and honour will become a Nunnery .", "If e 're there were ambition in Evanthe ,", "Or worse than drunk , hir 'd to convey me hither", "Thou old weak fool , dost thou know to what end ,", "But she that has been bred up under ye ,", "I do accept the Gentleman , I faint with joy .", "It tastes too hot of practis 'd wickedness ,", "Do , swear thou didst this ignorantly , swear it ,", "Then such a fearful lyar , thou hast done me", "At least reveng 'd , I can be mighty Lady ,", "Though the Hangman had been my Hymen , and the furies", "Yes , unworthy Brother , but all this will not do .", "Of her integrity , her piety ?", "Thou studied old corruptness , tye thy tongue up ,", "And mighty in command ?", "This little Fort you seek , I shall man nobly ,", "Can any thing be hoped for , to relieve me ?", "It stir 'd me , Sir .", "Goodness rest with your Grace .", "But I shall fit him .", "I had rather thou hadst delivered me to Pirats ,", "Am I still hated ? hast thou no end , O fate , of my affliction ? Was I ordain 'd to be a common Murdress ? And of the best men too ? Good Sir \u2014", "Shall I be rich do you say , and glorious ,", "I shall this night partake of with my Lord ,", "I do Sir , and I count it a great offer .", "Either in mind or body ? to defraud me", "Had you been drunk , \u2018 t had been excusable ,", "That would have woo 'd it too : Would I had married", "My anger 's gone , good my Lord pardon me ,", "And wish thee more deformed than Age can make thee ,", "If e'r I see thee more ,", "I could curse thee wickedly ,", "What shall the Queen do ?", "Deceit and violence in heavenly Justice ,", "On that condition if I had it certain ,", "For poor slight things , for drink , or ostentation ?", "That little time I have to live , your friendships ,", "Lye shamefully , and I could wish myself a man but one day ,", "I 'll tell ye more , it may be then I 'll yield too .", "Enter Frederick .", "A more experienc 'd bawd would blush and shake at ;", "That I should be a Whore ?", "And pitying powers above into pure crystal .", "Good Madam , dress me , you have drest my soul ,", "Or any thing that 's like thee , to affright me ,", "A most absurd one , and will show a Monster ;", "I am merry at the heart .", "My tongue with curses I have arm 'd against ye ,", "Before a tedious pleasure with repentance .", "And so not able , there had been some colour ,", "And art a starving in a Ditch , think of me ,", "And let my Ruff loose , I shall bid good night to ye ,", "I would have hug 'd thee too , though Hell had gap 'd at me ;", "He weeps too tenderly ;", "Thy Body Earth already , and Corruption ,", "Is thy Care like thy Body , all one crookedness ?", "Be gone , I charge thee leave me .", "And I still weeping till old time had turn 'd me ,", "Though he be wicked , and our Enemy ,", "Of such an opportunity ? Do you think I married you", "Shall my anger make me whore , and not my pleasure ?", "Still make ye fear , and shake , despised , still laugh at ye .", "And could he be so dead cold to observe it ? Brought I no beauty , nor no love along with me ?", "O my Valerio ! Be witness my pure mind , \u2018 tis thee I grieve for .", "I am no Counsellor , nor important Sutor ,", "Told me the truth .", "How ever in my nature I abhor you ,", "Wait on thee still , nor sleep be found to ease it ;", "And chaste delights \u2014", "Can know , and wish , certain his soul gives thanks too ;", "Only charg 'd ?", "Your hired base tongue ; is this your timely counsel ?", "And not an honour for a Prince to lye ;", "And glorious too , glorious and great , as you are .", "A fearful weakness , to abuse your body ,", "Come , your sentence , let me dye : you see , Sir ,", "If thou hadst liv 'd ten Ages to be damn 'd in ,", "Good Madam dress me ,", "Your Grace speaks very feelingly ,", "Blessing defend ye ; do you know the danger ?", "I , marry wench , now thou comest to me .", "Crawling diseases that must creep into", "When thou wantest Bread , and common pity towards thee ,", "My tears are gone ,", "And trouble you no farther .", "To lull you in my arms , and kiss you hourly ?", "To mistake a Nettle for a Rose .", "I would first take to me , for my lust , a Moor ,", "What the report will be , and \u2018 twill be true too ,", "Or disability do you see in me ,", "Well , Sir ,", "Thou that art fit for Prayer and the Grave ,", "Use it to your bawds ,", "That I may remember ,", "I would not give my Youth up to infection .", "I have man enough already to content me ,", "And with no few and potent charms , to wrong ye ,", "Perpetual hunger , and no teeth to satisfie it ,", "\u2018 Tis a most wicked one ,", "A Bottle-head .", "Than I shall do in conquering thee ; farewel ,", "The gracious Queen , Sir ,", "Ne'r think to face it , that 's a double weakness ,", "So possest Madam with the lawfull sweets", "I do beseech your grace to give us this leave ,", "Is this the business ?", "There can be no such man , I am sure no Gentleman ;", "To make your self no man , to a fresh Maid too ,", "A Moneth 's a dangerous thing .", "Only this trifle : you set my woman on me , to betray me ;", "And I beseech your Grace be angry with me .", "Still growing strong by example of your goodness ,", "As all the World can yield .", "There are your tears again , and when yours fail , Sir ,", "Is still the question . I'le tell you what they'l say , Sir ,", "And for their lawful loves fly off with fear ?", "And cow you in your end , so despise you ,", "Thou speakest to the point still ;", "These are the issues of her impudence :", "For a new Gown .", "And those not taking hold , to usurp your state ;", "I am no Vaulter , Wench , but canst thou tell me ,", "Thy great sufficiency would break out .", "O were it but so powerful to consume ye .", "Thou all Pandora 's Box in a Kings figure ,", "Save my life ! that expected to dye bravely ,", "To what betraying end he got this Casket ?", "And it must needs be comfort to your Master ,", "But when I have lain with him , what am I then , Gentlewoman ?", "And daily fed upon your vertuous precepts ,", "Follow 'd thus far ? nay then I smell the malice ,", "My tongue shall study both .", "I had rather be a Leper , and be shun 'd ,", "Thou art a King of Monsters , not of men ,", "My sudden inconsiderate rage abuse me ?", "I would be your any thing , and you should injoy me ,", "For her you have loved , Sir ? though you hate me now ,", "If noble spirits after their departure ,", "I 'll leave thee neither Eyes nor Nose to grace thee .", "And sensible I am of my abuses ,", "Your grace desires that that is too free in me ,", "To dye at the time prefixt ? that I must know too ,", "I would dye with you , but first I would so torture ye ,", "To give her such a dor .", "Or a Command from mine own mouth , that Cabinet", "You know I do .", "Have I reliev 'd thy Age to mine own ruine ?", "Life in the grave , and death among the blessed ,", "Thou woo 'd'st me to it ,", "Or is it fit ? I thank you for a pity , when you have kill 'd my Lord .", "I 'll to the Queen .", "To be a Whore , because he has sufficiency", "With Maiden curses , that Heaven crowns with horrors ,", "Only for pleasure , or content in lust ?", "An Eunuch , that had truly no ability ,", "Good night wise Master Tony ;", "Thou art grown a learned Bawd , I ever look 'd", "Such grave Instructors , get thee thither , Monster ,", "We left them at the stair-foot .", "As he that married me ? what weakness , Sir ,", "\u2018 Thas pleas 'd his goodness to be pleasant with me .", "And \u2018 twill go out again , he may forget all .", "Divorce ye from a Woman of her beauty ,", "And there indanger both their lives and fortunes ,", "I would he had been ,", "In cutting off the Royal head of Cyrus ,", "Some Hellish flame abuses your fair body ,", "And arm 'd with honesty , defies all promises .", "They are dead already ,", "Under your sacred foot , to do you service .", "O my anger ! at my years to be cozen 'd with a young man !", "A scurvy courtesie , that has undone me .", "But juster than thou art , in pity of my injuries ,", "To me use cruelty , it best becomes ye ,", "To make a hundred ? O thou impudence !", "Give his heat way , Madam ,", "You arm me bravely .", "And sold me to wild Bawds .", "Nor of that worshipful stock as I remember .", "I had rather be a Whore , and with less sin ,", "This is the Kings side , and his private lodgings ,", "To see your throat cut , how my heart would leap , Sir !", "Abominable bad , but yet my Brother .", "Because \u2018 tis ten times worse than thou deliver'st it ?", "To seek him this way , o \u2019 my life thou art drunk ,", "She weeps . Sweet Lady", "Those hands that gave the Casket , may the Palsie", "Fye , Sir , a person of your rank to trifle ,", "Come to this hazard ?", "And buried in mine arms , that had been noble ,", "There are houses of delight , that want good Matrons ,", "What will you do to me , when I have cloy 'd ye ?", "For ever make unuseful , even to feed thee :", "\u2018 Tis true , Madam ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Hollow , good Gill , you hobble .", "What then old Maggot ?", "There 's an old Lawyer ,", "Why , she is his Sister .", "Sir .", "My Lord sent for ye .", "They are written songs , Sir , to provoke young Ladies ;", "And the false Orthography , they write old Saxon .", "Why these are Rascals .", "Never a Conduit-Pipe to convey this water .", "I marked the man , if he be a man .", "But \u2018 tis a womans , Sir , I know by the hand ,", "Thou wilt be whipt ."], "true_target": ["It shall be done Sir .", "A glass of Water too , I would fain taste it ,", "I'le follow thee .", "I am gone .", "Trim 'd up like a Gally Foist , what would he do with her ?", "Lord , here 's a Prayer-Book , how these agree !", "Who are all these that crowd about the Court , Fool ? Those strange new faces ?", "Out you base Rogue .", "\u2018 Tis Paint , and curls of Hair , she begins to exercise .", "Good sweet Madam .", "Here 's a strange union .", "But I am wickedly afraid \u2018 twill silence me ,", "A Letter ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Can you do this ? have ye this Magick in ye ?", "You are every one a new death , and an odious ,", "Goodness forbid my Lord , sure you abuse your self .", "Poor wretched people , why do you wrong your selves ?", "Though I fear 'd death , I should fear you ten times more ,", "Once more forgiveness ?", "By Act of Parliament an honesty ,", "And so receiv 'd by all , I'le hearken to ye .", "Have you not such a title to bestow too ?", "And with a cunning patience checkt my impudence ;", "Let me be honest too , and then I'le thank ye .", "Heaven guide your Grace .", "Their eyes from gazing at my glorious folly ,", "Nor I , I hope : get wantonness confirm 'd"], "true_target": ["I'le chide no more , you have rob 'd me of my courage ,", "And they that read my wanton life from curses ?", "Can all the power you have or all the riches ,", "The earth will purifie corrupted bodies ,", "Time that shall come , from wondering at my impudence ,", "If I prove otherwise , I would know but this , Sir ;", "But tye mens tongues up from discoursing of me ,", "Can you tell why ? what has she done against ye ? Has she contrived a Treason \u2018 gainst your Person ? Abus 'd your bed ? does disobedience urge ye ?", "Dream not of Wives .", "I believe not , nor never shall ; our time is out to morrow .", "This is not in your power , though you be a Prince , Sir ,", "You 'll make us worse and stink eternally .", "No more than evil is in holy Angels ,", "Go home , go home and get good Nurses for you ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Though they paint it ugly , that 's but to restrain us ,", "For learning how to use thy few hours handsomly ,", "The poor Slave that lies private has his liberty ,", "For preservation of Mankind I take it ;", "Be lusty Lord , and take your Lady to ye ,", "They will be years I hope ; off with your Gown now ,", "Lay down the bed there !", "Or anger so inhumane to pursue this ?", "A worthy wife , a long and happy ; follow Sirrah .", "His will like torrents , not to be resisted ,", "He must be more than man then that dare break it .", "My worthy maid , and as that name shall vanish ,", "Are you there ? then I see his shame .", "To justifie his Will ? what Act or Statute ,", "Put all the wanton Cupids in thine eyes ,", "And that thy sentence is so welcome to thee ,", "With an innocent neglect of what he can do ,", "My wench , I thank thee heartily ,", "Make up thy beauty to that height of excellence ,", "Can there be any nature so unnoble ?", "By Humane , or Divine establishment ,", "And prethee be merry .", "Evanthe , make ye unready , your Lord staies for ye ,", "As amply as his Master , in that Tomb", "When Memory and Vertue are our Mourners ;", "You shall be merry , come , I 'll have it so ,", "Infected , that he flies me ? Fair Evanthe ,", "What pleasure 's there ! they are infinite , Evanthe ;", "Stamp such a deep impression of thy Beauty", "Begins with him first , he must suffer for it ,", "Come , dress ye handsomely , you shall have my jewels ,", "So suddenly departed ! what 's the reason ?", "That make their own Hells ; \u2018 tis such a benefit", "Is some Incitement , every thing alike ,", "And what Law , or what Justice can he find", "Outlook his anger .", "For every living thing would love it else ,", "Unless it be to tortur 'd minds and sick souls ,", "And put a face on that contemns base fortune ,", "Then shew thy Vertue , then again despise him ,"], "true_target": ["When it comes crown 'd with honour , shews so sweet too !", "Into his soul , and of thy worthiness ,", "And all his power , then with a look of honour", "So hateful to him ? or my conversation", "But when we love with honour to our ends ,", "Does my approach displease his Grace ? are my eyes", "Make him know his cruelty", "That when Valerio and Evanthe sleep", "Fly boldly to their peace ere Nature call 'd \u2018 em ;", "Honest fair Wedlock ? \u2018 twas given for encrease ,", "Only , my vertuous Wench , we want our senses ,", "In his most rugged anger , when thou hast him ,", "In one rich earth , hung round about with blessings ,", "Your fears are poor and foolish ,", "Yet Law and Justice go along to guide him ;", "The Earth as light upon him , and the flowers", "I'le have ye whipt ye Rascal .", "He may run mad , and curse his act ; be lusty ,", "I 'll teach thee how to dye too , if thou fear'st it .", "Though he be hasty , and his anger death ,", "The Rest we have from labour , and from trouble", "The Blessings of the people would so swell us .", "Death is unwelcome never ,", "And kneeling at thy conquering feet for mercy ,", "And lazy to look up to happier life ,", "And to thy noble Lord , you long to meet it .", "Why then good night , good night my best Evanthe ,", "\u2018 Twill do better , come , shrink no more .", "Left to direct us , that makes Marriage death ?", "But shew it not , I would so crucifie him", "\u2018 Twill make him more insult to see you fearful ,", "Come away Sirrah .", "I 'll help thee , and forgive thee , as if Venus", "That benefit we are barr 'd , \u2018 twould make us proud else ,", "And all the graces on that nature gave thee ,", "That grow about him , smell as sweet , and flourish .", "Were now again to catch the god of War ,", "A brave strong pious scorn , that I would shake him ;", "Mingled with noble chastity , strike him dead .", "And that power that shall part ye be unhappy ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Ne'r blush Evanthe , \u2018 tis a very sweet one ,", "Rise my true friend , thou vertuous bud of beauty ,", "And that rude nipping wind , that seeks to blast thee ,", "\u2018 Tis strange to find thy modesty in this place ,", "A golden dream , that may delude a good mind ,", "Does he rain gold , and precious promises", "Thou Virgins honour , sweetly blow and flourish ,", "Or taint thy root , be curst to all posterity ;"], "true_target": ["Into thy lap ? will he advance thy fortunes ?", "Shalt thou be mighty , Wench ?", "He will Marry thee ?", "Does the King offer fair ? does thy face take him ?", "Yes , and the King shall know \u2014", "Wilt thou remember me ?", "What shall become of me ?", "\u2018 Tis true Evanthe , \u2018 tis a brave ambition ,", "To my protection from this hour I take ye ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["As I take it , Madam ,", "Go to , be wise , I do not bid you try him ;", "That kept \u2018 em cool still to the World . I think you are blest ,", "That am both old and vertuous ?", "You sawcy Sir , that came in my Ladies name ,", "And make no scruple , he is your Brothers Gentleman ,", "That keeps you clear , for where your will 's compell 'd", "Why a Whore , Madam ?", "A little evil may well be suffered for a general good , Sir ,", "For her gilt Cabinet , you cheating Sir too ,", "For he brings comfortable things .", "What are you ? why , the same you are now , a woman ,", "\u2018 Tis most true , mighty Lady .", "I would not for the World attempt her Chastity ,", "Little or nothing ; say an hours or days sport ,", "And when \u2018 tis done , your Lord and you may live", "To play the pilfering Knave ? there have been Rascals", "That I have heard proclaim him a new Hercules .", "Why are you vex 'd thus ?", "And my experience too ; say the King loved ye ?", "And if the Law will do me right \u2014", "There will be the danger ,", "I 'll take my leave of your Majesty .", "How durst thou come to me with a lye in thy mouth ?", "Attend Cosroe ; though Persia be styl 'd", "Or such a toy , the end to it is wantonness .", "When she was ravish 'd , she was a reverend Saint ;", "Your Lords life , and your own are now in hazard ,", "So quietly , and peaceably together ,", "But that they may live lovingly hereafter .", "That have been hang 'd for less , whipt they are daily ,", "I am sure she sighs , Sir , and weeps , good Lady .", "Alas , she is honest , Sir , she is very honest ,", "The Nurse of Pomp and Pride , we 'll leave to Rome", "That 's the main hazard , for I tell you truly ,", "Touching at what is noble , you become so .", "As sound as honour ought to be , I think , Lady ;", "Two precious lives may be redeem 'd with nothing ,", "\u2018 Tis a kind of Rape too ,", "An impudent lye ?", "Upon my life and conscience , a direct way \u2014", "These are fine words , well Madam , Madam .", "But a compell 'd necessity of honour ,", "This we have for our good wills .", "Were term 'd a Whore , who would be honest , Madam ?", "And might not I upon the same security deliver him a Box ?", "To fling away when you please ? there be young Ladies", "A stinking lye , more stinking than the teller ,", "A vertuous Woman , and a noble Woman ,", "As a Gentlewoman may do in her case that 's newly married , Sir : Sickly sometimes , and fond o n't , like your Majesty .", "Yes , Sir , but does your Grace think I am fit ,", "At first encounter too , to meet with one", "A comfortable man does well at all hours ,", "But it has been on the ice of tender honour ,", "A Roman Princess , and a Caesars Sister", "May prove a gentle Mistriss .", "And do you think she yielded not a little ?"], "true_target": ["And for any thing I know , an honest man ;", "If you be so wilful proud .", "That 's it that stirs me up , Sir ,", "Although your mind be good , yet your weak Body ,", "She wants much of her colour ,", "Do you think Princes favours are such sleight things ,", "Her native Cruelty . For know , Aurelia ,", "And be what you please .", "And modest to the world too , wondrous modest ,", "Though late , like thee captiv 'd , I can forget", "But if he love you well , and you neglect him ,", "Both fair and honourable , that would leap to reach \u2018 em ,", "If every Woman that upon necessity", "Thy mangy hide , embroider 'd with a dog-whip ,", "She was before a simple unknown Woman ,", "Did a good turn , for there 's the main point , mark it ,", "You that are young , and fair scorn us old Creatures ,", "Your maiden-head lies not in that Cabinet ,", "I did not bid you sin .", "You being but a young and tender Lady ,", "You scurvy Usher , with as scurvy legs ,", "I did but tell ye .", "A most insulting Tyranness , I to thee", "And had a kind of will to have been re-ravish 'd ?", "Your Lords life hanging on the hazard of it ,", "Of wondrous loyal Women , that have slipt ,", "At the first word commit your Person to him ,", "Almost above belief ; there be some Ladies ,", "All greatness ever", "Thy Mother was carted younger ; I 'll have thy hide ,", "Had Lucrece e'r been thought of but for Tarquin ?", "You 'll repent this .", "Fair as the day , and clear as innocence ,", "As it is now with potent Pox , and thicker .", "Of his unconquer 'd strength .", "As you may make it , infinite , and safe too ,", "And her disgusts .", "Thy barbarous usage ; and though thou to me", "I have heard report speak he is an infinite pleasure ,", "Believe it , yes : there are a thousand stories", "That have had the blessedness to try his body ,", "A faithful one .", "And would you have my gravity \u2014", "And a worse face , thou poor base hanging holder ,", "I saw you go with him ,", "But you must know my years , ere you be wise , Lady ,", "\u2018 Tis true , Sir .", "Yes Sir .", "Brought up to fetch and carry , like your Worship ,", "Say it were nothing else ?", "Though you yield up your Body you are safe still .", "You have a Closer , and you keep the Key too ,", "You may ,", "And has her qualms as Ladies use to have , Sir ,", "And leap aloft too .", "didst shew thy self ,", "That have such an occasion in your hands to beget a Chronicle ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Enter Cassand", "You may be knaves then when you please , stark knaves ,", "Put ye all in ? you had best come twenty more ; you", "A weather-beaten Lady new caresn 'd .", "Nor if a young Lord offer you the courtesie \u2014", "He 's a wise man I hope .", "You would go a Maying gayly to the Gallows .", "Worse than the prodigal fool the Ballad speaks of ,", "Some to get home their wives , those be their own fools ;", "For lightly he is ever one at Weddings .", "There be also of the race of the old Cockatrices ,", "I 'll tell you more , there was a Fish taken ,", "Good night my Bird .", "A monstrous Fish , with a sword by his side , a long sword ,", "You may be honest , and poor fools , as I am ,", "You may have Heirs may prove wise Aldermen ,", "Some mortar-pieces that are plac 'd i'th \u2019 Suburbs ,", "How the fool is sought for ! sweet Malt is made of easie fire ,", "And some I fear to curse thee , those are poor fools ,", "Thou wilt be anon , the young smug boy will give thee a sweet cordial .", "And you had such a Pipe , that piped so sweetly ,", "Besides they cough so loud they drown the Musick .", "Besides , the next Mask if we use \u2018 em so ,", "They have crowded me to Verjuyce ,", "Thy Lord will pipe to thee anon , and make thee dance too .", "And build fair houses , but your heirs shall have none of \u2018 em .", "That got a Mermaid with child as she went a milking ,", "How they post to see their own confusion !", "Do you think I would tell you truths , that dare not hear \u2018 em ?", "The old fool will lye quieter than the young one ,", "Shall not the fool stay with thee ?", "He will then be troubled with a pain in his Neck too .", "Think \u2018 tis easie , a trick of legerdemain , to put ye all in ,", "Where do you dwell ?", "I 'll tell you news then ; There was a drunken Saylor ,", "Yes good filly ,", "The infant-Monster is brought up in Fish-Street .", "I sweat like a Butter-box .", "And give thee more sleep , thou wilt look to morrow else", "That swarm like Bees in May , when they see young wenches ;", "And now she sues him in the Bawdy-Court for it ,", "You may both make the Law , and marr it presently .", "The young ones are too stirring for their travels .", "You are honest things , we Courtiers scorn to converse with .", "That will provoke me more , I'le talk with thy husband ,", "The fool and thou art parted .", "They'l come by millions to expect our largess ;", "There be some Guns that I could bring him too ,", "And with what joy the women run by heaps", "If you be thrust up hard , we thrust most furiously .", "He should not live above a Month , by his Urine ,", "Give me your hand , you are my Brother fool ,", "That would dispatch him with once looking on him .", "The whole Court cannot do it ;", "this Lesson from a fool .", "I am sorry for't , go and forget your wives ,", "A Pike in 's Neck , and a Gun in 's Nose , a huge Gun ,"], "true_target": ["Do you love a wench ?", "If thou beest so , go lye with me to night ,", "A set people call them honest . Look , look King , look ,", "This from an Almanack I stole , and learn", "Go , or I'le call the Guard .", "Be very merry , Chicken ,", "That brushing , dressing , nor new naps can mend ,", "And blow your fingers ends .", "It may be so , you have Women of all Vertues :", "To turn \u2018 em loose to a company of young Courtiers ,", "You must not squeak .", "And shift for your selves ; we must have no old women ,", "Nor you must not grumble ,", "Some come to gape , those are my fellow fools ;", "\u2018 Twould pose a fellow that had twice my body ,", "You would dance to death , you have learnt your sinque a pace .", "And letters of Mart in 's mouth , from the Duke of Florence .", "That was squeez 'd through a horn .", "This is a merry world .", "They have given him a hot Custard , and mean to burn his mouth with it ; had I known he had been given to dye honourably , I would have helpt him to a Wench , a rare one , should have kill 'd him in three weeks , and sav 'd the sentence .", "I do confess it :", "I would chuse a mull 'd sack-month , to comfort my Belly , for sure my Back would ake for't , and at the months end I would be most dismally drunk , & scorn the gallows .", "And as \u2018 tis hop 'd , new tayls .", "Though it were all made into chines and fillets .", "A hasty horse will quickly tire , a sudden leaper sticks i'th \u2019 mire ,", "You would go in too , but there is no place for ye ?", "Get you two in then quietly ,", "I 'll tell ye all I know ,", "The glasses of her eyes are new rub 'd over ,", "\u2018 Tis impossible ,", "The weak things that are worn between the leggs ,", "To see this Marriage ! they tickle to think of it ,", "She layes her breasts out too , like to poch 'd eggs", "Nay I come after too , take the fool with ye ,", "Truth is not worth the hearing ,", "Lay thy hand o'thy heart King .", "New teeth , new tongues , for the old are all worn out ,", "And the worm-eaten records in her face are daub 'd up neatly ?", "Is very sick , much troubled with the Stone ,", ", an old Lady passing over .", "Still how they run , and how the wittals follow \u2018 em ,", "Would tear him into quarters in two hours ,", "I think so too , you would not be so mad else", "Or pray they may be able to suffer patiently .", "Shall I get into it and warm it for thee ? a fools fire is a fine thing , And I'le so buss thee .", "Not I , unless you will give me a longer lease to marry her .", "About St. David 's Day it will go hard with him ,", "We have broke a hundred heads .", "They are out of use , unless they have petitions ,", "A sick Gentlemans ,", "You are too securely arm 'd ; how they flock hither ,", "That had the yelks suckt out ; they get new heads also ,", "For old Courtiers ,", "Some to rejoyce with thee , those be the times fools ;", "They hope for every month a husband too ;", "Phlebotomy and the word lye nigher , take heed of friend I thee require ;", "Art thou a wise man ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Two broken Citizens .", "They lye my Lord , they come to seek their wives ,", "But \u2018 twas behind , before they have all murrions .", "They are no Ladies , there 's one bald before \u2018 em ,", "Husband ? a fine sharp sallet to your sign ."], "true_target": ["When I mean to be hang 'd , & \u2018 tis the surer contract .", "Keep the Dogs from your door ; Is this Lettice Ruff your", "A gent . bald , they are curtail 'd queans in hired clothes ,", "A hungry man would hunt your house out instantly ,", "They come out of Spain I think , they are very sultry ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You two are pretty women , are you their husbands ?"], "true_target": ["But you 'd go out like a Lamb when you went to hanging ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Embrace , and melt away my Soul in pleasure .", "I would take April , take the sweet o'th \u2019 year ,"], "true_target": ["And kiss my Wench upon the tender flowrets ,", "Tumble on every Green , and as the Birds sung ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You have taken too much leave , and too base leave too ,", "And canst thou look up to the peoples loves ,", "And my weak mind .", "And no shame touch thee ?"], "true_target": ["That call thee worthy , and not blush , Valerio ?", "To wrong your love ; hast thou a noble spirit ?", "Canst thou behold me that thou hast betray 'd thus ,", "I thank your Grace , you have prepar 'd me strongly ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And the brave Masque too .", "Good Master Tony , put me in ."], "true_target": ["Forsooth , at the sign of the great Shoulder of Mutton .", "We know the worst ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["We know what \u2018 tis , Sir ."], "true_target": ["Will you put me in too ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And me , good Master Tony ."], "true_target": ["No Sir , we are better tutor 'd ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I hope your honour has taken into your consideration", "Strangers that travel to us are daily loaden with ,", "The miseries we have suffered by these Out-laws ,"], "true_target": ["The losses , hourly fears ; the rude abuses", "Our Daughters , and our wives complaints .", "We will get in , we'l venture broken pates else ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Enter 'd , he is gone to th \u2019 Temple now ."], "true_target": ["What a noise do you keep there ? call my fellows", "O \u2019 the Guard ; you must cease now untill the King be"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Look to that back door , and keep it fast ,", "Pray ye hear , Sir ,"], "true_target": ["They swarm like Bees about it .", "We have found where she went out , her very footing ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To say she is here or there , or what she is doing ;", "It must be hers , or none , Sir .", "Stand further off there .", "We are no gods , Sir ,"], "true_target": ["The Devil 's in their throats ; anon , anon .", "But we have search 'd .", "But there the ground being hard , we could not mark it .", "To the Park it leads us ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I have sweat-meats for the banquet ."], "true_target": ["Drawer .", "I am one of the Musick Sir ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Let me behold the beauties , then clap high", "And Poverty in poor attire ,", "Come away :", "And to a measure let them nobly move .", "Distrust and Jealousie , be you too here ;", "Cupid and the Graces ascend in the Chariot .", "I am satisfied , bind me again , and fast ,", "Consuming Care , and raging Ire ,", "My angry Bow will make too great a wast", "My cullor 'd wings , proud of my Deity ;", "Too long , too long you make us stay ;"], "true_target": ["Now let me look upon what Stars here shine ,", "Fairly , nobly , gently move .", "Away , I have done , the day begins to light ,", "Lovers , you know your fate , good night , good night .", "Fancy , Desire , Delight , Hope , Fear ,", "March fairly in , and last Despair ;", "Come you servants of proud love ,", "Call with a Song , and let the sports begin ;", "Unbind me , my delight , this night is mine ,", "Of beauty else , now call my Maskers in ,", "Now full Musick strike the Air .", "Call all my servants the effects of love ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To be with care perus 'd ; and \u2018 tis my wonder ,", "In such a beauteous Inne ! Mistake us not ,", "By my Crown a lying face .", "In this from justice to relieve my mercy ;", "I grant his pardon at your intercession ,", "To make this good ?", "Let us survey you nearer , she 's a book", "rysanthes :", "If any superficial gloss of feature", "And as some recompence for what you have", "Distress 'd , without some pity ; but no King ,", "By us you are commanded , in defence of", "We allow", "Impudent too ? well , what have you sworn ?", "I were no man , if I could look on beautie", "For your dear friend , Cleander 's wretched fate ,", "These to their merits \u2014 with mine own hand , Lady ,", "So many pressing me , and with such reasons", "Though we hold her such ,", "Be censur 'd levity in me , though I borrow", "Pronounce you innocent .", "With too much rigour in your trial suffered ;", "The flower de Luce , and after one years sorrow", "It may be so ; but that it may be , must not", "But to the cause , Cleander 's death , what proofs", "Carry him off , his fear will kill him .", "Then you confess you were her Bawd ?", "On suppositions ?", "I pray I may deserve your thanks , set forward .", "Thou hast express 'd thy self a desperate fool ,", "It moves a strange kind of compassion in me ;", "Suppositions ? how ? Is such a Lady Sir to be condemn 'd", "A monument for my Cloridon , and C"], "true_target": ["Moving compassion , I hope it will not", "The justice of thy King .", "No punishment due for you", "With an impartial eye , th \u2019 excelling beauties", "So , goodie Agent ? and you think there is", "I'le see you i \u2019 bed , and so good night ; be merry ,", "In expiation of your guilt , shall build", "We must look on", "It is a glorious one , and well sets ofOur Scene of mercy ; to the dead we tender Our sorrow , to the living ample wishes Of future happiness : \u2018 tis a Kings duty To prove himself a Father to his subjects : And I shall hold it if this well succeed , A meritorious , and praise worthy deed . Prologue . A Story , and a known one , long since writ , Truth must take place , and by an able wit , Foul mouth 'd detraction daring not deny To give so much to Fletcher 's memory ; If so , some may object , why then do you Present an old piece to us for a new ? Or wherefore will your profest Writer bea Plagiary ? To this he answers in his just defence , And to maintain to all our Innocence , Thus much , though he hath travell 'd the same way , Demanding , and receiving too the pay For a new Poem , you may find it due , He having neither cheated us , nor you ; He vowes , and deeply , that he did nospare The utmost of his strengths , and his best care In the reviving it , and though his powers Could not as he desired , in three short hours Contract the Subject , and much less express The changes , and the various passages That will be look 'd for , you may hear this day Some Scenes that will confirm it is a play , He being ambitious that it should be known What 's good was Fletcher 's , and what ill his own . Epilogue . < i > Still doubtfull , and perplex 'd too , whether he </ i > < i > Hath done </ i > Fletcher < i > right in this Historie ,</ i > < i > The Poet sits within , since he must know it ,</ i > < i > He with respect desires that you would shew it </ i > < i > By some accustomed sign , if from our action ,</ i > < i > Or his indeavours you meet satisfaction ,</ i > < i > With ours he hath his ends , we hope the best ,</ i > < i > To make that certainty in you doth rest .</ i > THE PILGRIM . A COMEDY . Persons Represented in the Play . Governour , of Segovia . Verdugo , a Captain under him . Alphonso , an old angry Gentleman . Curio , } two Gentlemen , friends to Alphonso . Seberto ,} Pedro , the Pilgrim , a noble Gentleman , Servant to Alinda . An old Pilgrim . Lopes , } two Out-laws under Roderigo . Jaques ,} Roderigo , rival to Pedro , Captain of the Out-laws . A Gentleman , of the Country . Courtiers . Porter . Master &} of the Mad folks . Keepers ,} 3 Gentlemen . 4 Peasants . A Scholar , } A Parson , } Madmen . An English-man ,} Jenkin , } Fool . WOMEN . Alinda , Daughter to Alphonso , Pedro 's Lady . Juletta , Alinda 's Maid , a witty Lass . Ladies . The Scene Spain . The principal Actors were , Joseph Taylor . Nicholas Toolie . Robert Benfield . John Thompson . John Lowin . John Underwood . George Birch . James Horn .", "Come to the Banquet , when that 's ended Sir ,", "At any price should ever find a lodging", "You have a sweet bed-fellow .", "To thrust thy head into the Lions jawes ,", "But still on this condition ; you Lisander ,", "Ask what you please , becoming me to grant ,", "The cause , and not the persons . Yet beholding", "Upon report , but till now never saw \u2018 em ,", "The rooms be foul within , expect no favour .", "Of this fair Lady , which we did believe", "agentship ?", "And to confirm you stand high in our favour ,", "Lidian ?", "Infer a necessary consequence", "And be possest of \u2018 t .", "Though we admire the outward structure , if", "Could work me to decline the course of Justice .", "Can you produce against her ?", "To cast away a Ladies life . What witnesses", "Marry Calista .", "And never henceforth draw a Sword , but when", "If such mishapen guests , as lust and murther ,", "The criminal judge shall sentence", "Take her aside . Your answer to this Lady ?", "I take you from the bar and do my self"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["That very minute", "A desperate poison has re-cur 'd the Prince .", "Though he be stubborn , and of a rugged nature , yet he is honest ,", "The Rogue against his will has sav 'd his life ,", "Something is a hatching ,", "Play gently as he passes .", "He cannot last long to disturb your Master ,", "A house I fear he will not be long out of .", "He seeks to wait upon his worthy Father ,", "We have e'n sham 'd our service ,", "And tears him , Lord .", "He is as well as I am ;", "\u2018 Tis the most fearful poyson , the most potent ,", "Now sing the Funeral Song , and let him kneel ,", "The night grows on , lead softly to the Tomb ,", "For then he is pleas 'd .", "And he most memorable love .", "This Crocodile mourns thus cunningly .", "And such abundance also to resist it ,", "And to his warm bed presently .", "For every day he is worse", "It wrought upon the dull cold misty parts ,", "He will pass back again .", "And of some bloody nature too , Lord Rugio ,", "Told him Valerio 's worth among the people ,", "A desperate too , and found such matter there ,", "Most certain \u2018 twas , had the malitious villain", "Since any articulate sound came from his tongue ,", "A rare example of his piety ,", "But that we force his meat , he were one body .", "To whom would you apply it ?", "His Fathers breath forsook him , that same instant ,", "Given him a cooling poison , he had paid him .", "He will to th \u2019 Tomb , good my Lord lend your hand ;", "Brought our best care and loyalties to nothing ,", "When they are breeding , and \u2018 tis usuall too ,", "That is the place he honours ,", "Yes , good Sorano .", "Softly Captain , we dare not trust the Air with this blest secret , Good Sir , be close again , Heaven has restor 'd ye , And by miraculous means , to your fair health , And made the instrument your enemies malice , Which does prognosticate your noble fortune ; Let not our careless joy lose you again , Sir , Help to deliver ye to a further danger , I pray you pass in , and rest a while forgotten , For if your Brother come to know you are well again , And ready to inherit as your right , Before we have strength enough to assure your life , What will become of you ? and what shall we Deserve in all opinions that are honest , For our loss of judgment , care , and loyalty ?"], "true_target": ["He cools a little , now away with him ,", "You have done worthy service to his Brother ,", "Enter Castruchio .", "Heaven give him patience ; Oh it works most strongly ,", "Put off your sorrow , you may laugh now Lord ,", "Well , go on Sir .", "To me too , till I consider why it should do so ,", "Grew the same thing , and had not nature check 'd him ,", "To bed , good Sir .", "Set him down gently .", "We have it by experience ; so in him Sir ,", "Can you do him good ? as the King and you appointed him ,", "Strength , and ability , he had dyed that hour too .", "And now I have found it a most excellent Physick ,", "So he is still , as you desir 'd I think too ,", "Upon his souls health , that he be not cruel ,", "And love paternal , the Organ of his tongue", "\u2018 Tis full three moneths Lord Rugio ,", "And honours much Valerio .", "That clog 'd his soul , which was another poison ,", "That sympathize their wives pains , and their throes", "And wear away the dangerous heat it brought with it ,", "As \u2018 tis in nature with those loving Husbands ,", "For when his honour 'd Father good Brandino", "His fits and his disease he still inherited ,", "And sing not till I bid ye ; let the Musick", "The pure blood and the spirits scap 'd untainted .", "In this most noble spirit that now suffers ;", "Though he scape now .", "Yes , and charged him", "Fell sick , he felt the griefs , and labour 'd with them ,", "I pray see now , you are a trusty Gentleman .", "He weeps again , his heart is toucht sure with remorse .", "And how it must be punisht in posterity ,", "Was never heard to sound again ; so near death", "He 'll scald in Hell for't , that was the cause .", "O ye are welcome , how does your Prisoner ?", "Still better .", "Let 's pray , Heavens hand is strong ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Enter Alphonso , carried on a Couch by two Fryars .", "For now me thinks my heart is light again ,", "He points to'th \u2019 Tomb .", "Old and experienc 'd men , my Lord Sorano ,", "Would any thing \u2014 He comes , let 's give him comfort .", "That we should be so stupid", "The poyson 's strong , you would say .", "As lyons do to intice poor foolish beasts ;", "And give way to his prepar 'd tears .", "To trust the arrant'st Villain that e'r flatter 'd ,", "And blest us all , let our indeavours follow ,", "The Captain of the Castle .", "What new trick 's this ?", "What should the reason be Sir ?", "Are not so quickly caught with gilt hypocrisie ,", "\u2018 Tis like you know , you need not ask that question ,", "Go exercise your Art .", "And may it sweetly work .", "Within , Alphonso . Oh , Oh , Oh .", "Heaven lend thy powerfull hand ,", "As near as ours , I would they were as tender .", "O fair picture ,", "To me \u2018 tis most miraculous .", "Dear Sir , pass in , Heaven has begun the work ,", "His hot fit lessens , Heaven put in a hand now ,", "And all cool things .", "But will not he , Fryer Marco , betray this to the King ?", "You have your eyes and watches on his miseries", "Strong enough I'le warrant ye ."], "true_target": ["You shall have any thing .", "That wert the living hope of all our honours ;", "And ease this Prince .", "Embleme of noble love !", "What impudence is this , and what base malice ,", "\u2018 Twas Heavens high hand , none of Sorano 's pity .", "Have you writ to the Captain of the Castle ?", "Will he ne 're speak more ?", "I do believe , and give him sleep for ever .", "To preserve this blessing to our timely uses ,", "It must be so , come , let 's apply it presently ,", "Hark , Fryar Marco , hark , the poor Prince , that we should be such Block-heads , As to be taken with his drinking first ! And never think what Antidotes are made for ! Two wooden sculls we have , and we deserve to be hang 'd for't ; For certainly it will be laid to our charge ; As certain too , it will dispatch him speedily , Which way to turn , or what to \u2014", "Let our cares work now , and our eyes pick out", "How does Alphonso ?", "How are we banisht from the joy we dreamt of !", "An hour to shew ye safely to your Subjects ,", "Are we set here to poison him ?", "And beasts we should be too if we believ 'd ye ,", "And pale fear fled .", "And save his life ; there 's drink Sir in your chamber ,", "The bloodiest too , to believe a few soft words from him ,", "\u2018 Tis some rare vertuous thing sure , he is a good man ,", "To make us instruments of thy abuses ?", "Hold fast , he must to bed , Fryer , what scalding sweats he has !", "A secure hour .", "You are too late convicted to be good yet .", "What ails this piece of mischief to look sad ? He seems to weep too .", "And bring it to the noble end we aim at ;", "You pull your claws in now and fawn upon us ,", "Hold him fast Fryer , O how he burns !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Pygmalion pray 'd and his cold stone took life ,", "And I yours too ,", "Thus cunningly seek to betray a maid ,", "You do not know with what zeal I shall ask Sir ,", "There I shall better credit ye ; fie my Lord ,", "No sin we covet , pray let me undress ye ,", "To let me blow , and fall alone would anger ye .", "And unbeseeming , my beloved Lord ,", "But if we love not one another really ,", "Still blush ? prescribe your Law .", "I ever loved so .", "Now you shall know \u2018 tis not the pleasure Sir ,", "So much I love ye still .", "And with all duty to my Husband follow ye ;", "Spare not , they are your own Sir .", "And find us at this distance , what would they think ?", "\u2018 Tis a most noble one , adorn 'd with vertue ;", "Because I ever loved ye , I still honour ye ,", "I speak not by experience , \u2018 pray ye mistake not ;", "Pray ye let 's to bed .", "This is no school to argue in my Lord ,", "And am not worth your noble Fellowship ,", "In truth you make me blush , \u2018 tis midnight too ,", "All fond desire dye here , and welcom chastity ,", "And so make up the concord of affection ,", "Strive to abuse the pious love she brings ye .", "Nor have we time to talk away allow 'd us ,", "\u2018 Tis hard to dye for nothing ,", "That women aim at , I affect ye for ,", "Will ye put a maid to't , to teach ye what to do ?", "And put our bodies and our mind together ,"], "true_target": ["And what rare miracle that may work upon ye ;", "A maid that honours you thus piously ;", "As your warm Mistris arms .", "Come , kiss me and to bed .", "You shall help me ; prethee sweet Valerio ;", "Come , you have made me weep now ,", "No , I shall be worse if you look sad upon me ,", "For it must seem so , or ye are no man ,", "Our love will prove but a blind superstition :", "How long have you been destitute ?", "Be not so sad , the King will be more mercifull .", "\u2018 Tis for your worth ; and kiss me , be at peace ,", "How Sir ?", "To bed then ,", "seems ;", "Will ye to bed now ? ye are asham 'd i", "A younger , happier , I shall give her room ,", "I'le make ye well , there 's no such Physick for ye", "He weeps bitterly ,", "Is there no help my Lord in art will comfort ye ?", "But if you love me \u2014", "Your fellowship in Love , you would not else", "Old and ill favour 'd too , poor and despis 'd ,", "Honour and chastity , do what you please Sir .", "My care and duty , pardon me .", "\u2018 Tis my hard fortune , bless all young maids from it ;", "Now I see I am old Sir ,", "Why do you weep ? if I have spoke too harshly ,", "An innocent maid ? Are ye so cold a Lover ?", "Pray let 's dispatch , if any one should come", "Farewel my Lord , since ye have a better Mistris ,", "And \u2018 tis no stoln love , but authorised openly ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The damn 'd Slave ."], "true_target": ["A thousand curses on the Slave that cheated us ,", "Curst on our sights , our fond credulities ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I do not perceive I am so ; but if you think it ,", "Thy Master has let loose the Boy I lookt for ,", "Brother , have you so much provision that is good ?", "I am sure thou hast been there .", "Lelia , a cunning wanton Widow .", "AEtna , and all his flames burn in my head ,", "Speak any thing that 's good , that tends to th \u2019 matter ;", "Open thou Eastern Gate , and blow upon me ,", "Let them all sigh : Oh hell , hell , hell , Oh horror .", "Good Fathers , I thank Heaven , I feel no sickness .", "Some that I foster up .", "H'ad a great deal of reason , Sir .", "Her Lady-fairy , to oyl the doors o \u2019 nights ,", "Fabritio , a merry Souldier , friend to Jacomo .", "Were all the doors lock 'd ?", "And let me wear thy frozen Isicles", "Forsaken souls , the sighs are precious ,", "It may be she then ;", "I 'll jump ye , and I 'll juggle ye , my horses ;", "And Horses too .", "I am counsel 'd ; ye are faithful .", "Enter Alinda , and Juletta , like Shepheards .", "You know my mind ; if you do play the Rascal ,", "\u2018 Plague o \u2019 your Owls and Apes .", "How comes this English mad man here ?", "Let \u2018 em be horn-mad .", "An ignorant thing .", "That Boy I come to see .", "Why , prethee why ?", "And drink fair water , that will ne'r inflame him ;", "Get Apples , and be choak 'd : farewel .", "Our horses ;", "To clap unto my heart to comfort me ;", "And claw 'd her , claw 'd her , do you mark me ? claw 'd her ;", "A fine art . I feel it in my bones yet .", "Where , where ? go on .", "I'le have her worm 'd .", "My eyes burn out , and sink into their sockets ,", "O carry me where no Sun ever shew 'd yet", "Like Phaeton , in all consuming flashes", "For my lost wits", "I can talk to \u2018 em , and dispute .", "What Lady 's that that kneels ?", "I come to that end ; \u2018 pray let me see \u2018 em all .", "I had a Daughter ,", "And I'le so fumble her : is she grown mad now ?", "These ten hours at mine own improvidence :", "But she has made a holy-day ,", "Are ye so hot ? have ye your private Pilgrimages ?", "Henry Condel .", "My Chamber ? where my Chamber ? why my Chamber ? Where 's the young Boy ?", "With such a face once : such eyes and nose too ,", "Richard Burbadge .", "And she had a Filly that waited on her ,", "I understand ye .", "Do you stand staring still ?", "A handsome man ? a valiant man ? do you mark me ?", "Out of my doors .", "Sweet , your Petition ?", "I will discover , Dame .", "And bathe my scorcht Limbs in their purling Pleasures .", "And if I travel more , hang me .", "Draw me a river of false lovers tears", "\u2018 Shalt have both .", "My Brother Frederick , you shall have our Licence ,", "But once a week he shall s", "And as ye are honest Gentlemen , endeavour .", "Whether it be odd , or even ,", "That we may venture on with honest safety ,", "And get you in , and look to th \u2019 house . If you stir out , Damsel ,", "O miserable me !", "That they may open with discretion ,", "Ye have cozen 'd me ; I 'll make you mad .", "I 'll have all loose , and all shall play their prizes ;", "I will go in , and quietly , most civilly :", "I could rail now", "Give me more air , air , more air , blow , blow ,", "To be at home again , and free ,", "And pile your Wood up , fling your holy incense ;", "She is a fool , away .", "But I'le contain my self : O I could burst now ,", "You know the place we meet in ?", "Let her do what she please , I dare do nothing ,", "Basely convey 'd him hence .", "Why lay you from her ?", "A young man ? and an able man ? a rich man ?", "Nothing , Sir , nothing ;", "Thou would'st have pleas 'd my humour .", "Lyes my safe way ; O for a cake of Ice now ,", "Fling him i'th \u2019 Hay-mow , let him lye a mellowing ;", "Vintner .", "He sav 'd my life , though he purpos 'd to destroy me ,", "A Fool , an Ass , to give a Girl that liberty ;", "Thou art the Devil ,", "A face of comfort , where the earth is Crystal ,", "Know me , a pudding ,", "Just with such a favour :", "I know what to do , I warrant ye ; I am for all fancies ;", "Not stay for this mans health , or this great Princes ,", "Consuming flame , stand off me , or you are ashes .", "Can she flye in the air ? is she a thing invisible ?", "I have almost forgot a Church .", "Who lyes here ?", "Nor I'le be hangd if \u2018 t be so .", "None of your pieced-companions , your pin'dhYpppHeNGallants ,", "I have my eyes and ears in sundry places ,", "Fool , fool .", "Come , you must know .", "You have a gentle face ; they look like Dragons .", "Cl", "She cannot be , and we dividing suddenly .", "A thing I covet now , Castruchio .", "Can she slip through a Cat-hole ? tell me that ; resolve me ;", "What dost thou talk to me of noises ? I'l have more noise ,", "Fill all the cups and all the antick vessels ,", "No , no , \u2018 tis brave , Sir ,", "\u2018 Pox o \u2019 thy urship .", "She always kept that Key ; I was a Coxcomb ,", "Away with him ;", "I say again , my horses ,", "These are nothing , minion ;", "And leave your stubborn tricks ; she is not far yet ,", "And as I live , I 'll give thee a new Petticoat .", "Never in the Mad-mans Inne .", "Discretion ? hang discretion , hang ye all :", "No drink ? no wind ? no cooling air ?", "In such clothes ?", "Drawers .", "Like Jewels round about my head , to cool me ;", "And Banquets of sweet Hail .", "What dost thou think me mad ?", "Why do the people gape so ?", "May be I love a noise ; but hark ye , Sir ,", "And keep me this young Lirry-poop within doors ,", "Whips ? what am I grown ?", "How far beyond that ?", "For the King , and for the Queen ,", "Away , away , let 's fly to \u2018 em .", "Saddle my Horses , Rogues , ye drunken Varlets ,", "Bring all the worthy drunkards of the time ,", "Piso , }", "Angelo , a Gentleman , friend to Juli", "Nothing that bars the free use of my spirit ,", "Her Gin , her Nut-Crack .", "Wilt thou declaim in Greek ?", "Yes , it seems so .", "Mad Gallants ;", "Is her blood set so high ? I'le have her madded ,", "I met a fool i'th \u2019 Woods , they said she dwelt here ,", "I am all fire , fire , fire , the raging dog star", "I have been absent long out of the world ,", "Lelia 's Father , an old poor Gentleman .", "Ha , let me see , \u2018 tis wondrous like Alinda ,", "And as I turn me you shall see all flame ,", "Come hither , Juletta , thou didst love me .", "A dream I have lived , how does it look Castruchio ?", "Jacomo , an angry Captain , a Woman-hater .", "A strong chin'dhYpppHeNman ? I'le not be fool 'd , nor flurted .", "What can she have ? what could she have ? a Gentleman ?", "Where treasures of delicious Snow are nourisht ,", "Am I lunatique ? am I run mad ?", "This is an arrant fool ,", "And my infected brain like brimstone boils ,", "Clean through my breast , they are dull , cold , and forgetful ,"], "true_target": ["How now , what news ? what hopes and steps discovered ?", "Thank ye .", "What 's that , Sirrah ?", "And thou hast felt my bounty for't , and shalt do . Dost thou want Cloaths or Money ?", "I am abused .", "And let them drink their worst , I'le make them Ideots ,", "To your Prayers ,", "Give me some Rose-Mary , and let 's be going .", "\u2018 Pray let me see \u2018 em ,", "The King now gives her , she is thine own without fear :", "My dear best friend , Valerio .", "You juggle , and ye riddle ; fart upon ye ;", "That they may be wise , and seen", "What will ye sacrifice me ?", "Bring hither Charity", "This is most monstrous .", "Most admirable mad ; I love their faces .", "Drink , drink , a world of drink ,", "My tongue 's a new tongue Sir , and knows his tither ,", "On the bare boards he shall lye , to remember", "Upon the Altar lay my willing body ,", "Methinks he 's best now .", "Into a rogues hands .", "What dost thou talk to me of Dukes , and Devils ,", "Reigns in my bloud , Oh which way shall I turn me ?", "Green sawce cure him .", "This is the rarest Rascal ,", "That Boy I say ; this is the Boy he told me of ,", "Me thinks the air 's sweet to me , and company", "Lodovico , } two Cowardly Gulls .", "The principal Actors were ,", "And Rivers run through my afflicted spirit .", "Hang her , hang her ;", "For which I'le save his , though I make it miserable :", "My bed will burn about me ,", "Mad in mine old days ? make mine own afflictions ?", "Your Brains in Butts , my Horses , ye pin-Buttocks .", "The Scene Venice , Spain .", "\u2018 Twill starve me Sir ; but I must bear it joyfully . I may sleep ?", "Best , hang ye ,", "I dare say nothing ;", "In a long pied Coat .", "Betwixt the cold Bear , and the raging Lyon", "And good Sir , let none of your tormentors come about me ,", "Do they keep Goats now ?", "And let me hug her , Fryer , they say she 's cold ,", "Well well , since wedding will come after wooing ,", "Persons Represented in the Play .", "Let \u2018 em be where they will , they are arrant Rascals ,", "Come chearfully . I 'll teach her to run gadding .", "Julio , a noble Gentleman , in Love with Lelia .", "Are these your cares ? your services ?", "Have ye no Boys ? handsome young Boys ?", "We and our friends ?", "I am inclosed , let me fly , let me fly , give room ;", "If ye do praunce .", "Or set a foot any new motion this way ,", "Gone , and none know it !", "He shall not .", "And needs not my devotion now", "Prethee keep on thy way", "That fellow there , will he respect and honour him ?", "Not season 'd by Sorano and his Cooks ?", "He speaks as if he had butter-milk in 's mouth ,", "Have Rivers made of cooling Wine run through me ,", "Distill thy cold dews , O thou icy Moon ,", "Frank , Sister to Frederick , a Lady passionately in love with Jacomo .", "Is't not a man I wish her to ? a strong man ?", "That flie to fitters , with every flaw of weather :", "When I come home", "Indeed I am angry ,", "Get from me .", "What 's he ? what 's he ?", "And if that please not , take her you .", "Will ye confess", "Alexander Cooke .", "The bad man shall attend as bad a Master ,", "Make haste there ;", "WOMEN .", "ra , Sister to Fabritio , a witty companion to Frank .", "And so thou hast used me .", "\u2018 Pox o \u2019 thy whaws , and thy whyms ,", "Dost thou dwell in Sigovia , fool ?", "Their devotion ended , I'le mark \u2018 em and nearer .", "William Ostler .", "But take an Ocean , and begin to all ; Oh , oh .", "Is this the Boy you would shew ? She-fool . I 'll give you two pence , Master .", "Let me know where she is .", "Madam , at Court I shall desire your company ,", "Waiting-woman .", "Whore , if she be above ground , I will have her .", "What Moon-calf 's this ? what dream ?", "I 'll tye her to the horse-tail .", "I'le lye upon my Back and swallow Vessels ;", "Tell me the truth ,", "Let her take her own course , Heaven ,", "\u2018 Pox o \u2019 your fools , and Bedlams ,", "Never to be dissolv 'd , where naught inhabits", "Is this the Lady that the wonder goes on ?", "And you shall know I am abused .", "I am your servant .", "Fling me into the Ocean or I perish ;", "And borrow pots , let me have drink enough ,", "And by this hand , I 'll hang all .", "I have been damn 'd for doing , will the King know him ?", "But night and cold , and nipping frosts , and winds", "Host .", "Maid Servants .", "Must ye be jumping , Joan ? I 'll wander with ye ;", "The experienc 'd drunkards , let me have them all ,", "Your precious diligence lies in Pint-pots ,", "And I will be abused , Sir ,", "And both shall be confin 'd within the Monastery ;", "Thou lyest ; \u2018 tis damnable ill , \u2018 tis most abominable ;", "Sorano you shall \u2014", "His rank flesh shall be pull 'd with daily fasting ,", "And where \u2018 tis possible she may go out ,", "Or wilt thou flye i'th \u2019 air ?", "Some pelting Rogue has watcht her hour of itching ,", "The cold , cold Springs , that I may leap into \u2018 em ,", "I dare not do otherwise , for fear thou should'st still follow me , Prethee be forgiven , and I prethee forgive me too : And if any of you will marry her .", "Set me there friends .", "Thou wert honest ,", "You 'll bear me Company ?", "Her Bawd , her Fiddle-stick ;", "Long here ?", "Heigh Boys .", "You that can aim at these , must know the truth too .", "For my Daughter , I would pray", "He stinks of Muskadel like an English Christmas ;", "Dig , dig , dig , till the Springs fly up ,", "I 'll see him in his lodging .", "That cut the stubborn rocks and make them shiver ;", "Ha ! whips ?", "Frederick , a Gentleman , Brother to Frank .", "A little foot ?", "Am I fool 'd of all sides ?", "And tear my self , but these rogues will torment me ,", "First I pray : and secondly", "Is not a metal 'd man fit for a woman ?", "Is this any thing akin to th \u2019 English ?", "Where lay she ? who lay with her ?", "THE CAPTAIN . A COMEDY .", "I will not out ; I will have all out with me ,", "I live in Hell , and several furies vex me ;", "Or shoot me up into the higher Region ,", "Come , come , thou wouldst have \u2014", "ell meat , he will surfeit else ,", "What wonders are abroad ?", "Honour 'd sweet Maid , here take her my Valerio ,", "You are wise and vertuous , when you please to visit", "I , that Boy , let me see , may be I know him ,", "And his immodest mind , compell 'd to prayer ;", "The wantonness he did commit in beds ;", "He has been look 'd upon they say : will he own him ?", "I thank ye Sir .", "And will give ease , let Virgins sigh upon me ,", "And it must need be she ; that Boy , I beseech ye , Sir ,", "Ever among the rank of good men counted ,", "Infinite cold Devotion cannot warm her ;", "Servants .", "Decrepit Winter hang upon my shoulders ,", "She knows too much ; search all the house , all corners ,", "None of your impt bravadoes : what can she ask more ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And till troth", "Most miserable wretches .", "Fai", "And thousand honours Crown the Queen .", "Then I see", "Gapes to have"], "true_target": ["Those poor fools that long to prove .", "All shall love , to love anew .", "Be in both ,", "Never till they both believe .", "\u2018 Tis a grave ,", "will be ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["For fear her womans tears should hinder us .", "I'le have my skin pull 'd o 're mine ears , my Lord ,", "He speaks again .", "Stay , I must part ye both ;", "You shall find , Sir , you have a friend to honour ye .", "Enter Alphonso and Fryers .", "To feed the fishes , \u2018 twas your will , I take it ,", "And all the holy men hung down their heads .", "That I may be sure I sleep not .", "Discreetly and privately it must be done , \u2018 twill miss else ,", "Know it by me , and stay the hour to attend it ,", "I ask 'd the reason .", "And stood not to capitulate .", "To morrow is your last hour .", "How does your Royal charge ? that I might see once .", "It is the Kings command , who bids me tell ye ,", "Though I am the Kings , I am none of his abuses ;", "And keep about the King to avoid suspicion ;", "He must go for dead ;", "He is dead , Sir , and his body flung into the Sea ,", "Bitterly weeping , and wringing of their hands ,", "And prove our ruines ; most of the noble Citizens", "But when I do a deed of so much villany ,"], "true_target": ["Your Brother 's dead , this morning he deceased ,", "Prepare your hearts and friends , let their 's be right too ,", "The chaste Evanthe .", "And stand like men , away , the King is coming .", "To argue with him , so I flung him off ;", "Keep you the Monastery .", "Sir , he speaks , and knows , for Heaven sake break my pate Lord ,", "I was your servant , and I wept not , Sir ,", "I fling off duty to your dead Brother , for he is dead in goodness , And to the living hope of brave Alphonso , The noble heir of nature , and of honour , I fasten my Allegeance .", "Enter Frederick and Sorano .", "His Lady would have seen , but I lockt her up ,", "Did you name the Monastery ?", "This in few words , Sir ,", "I did it from a strong Commission ,", "It shall be done , Sir .", "But I tell you truths , they are both well .", "Which hour shall not be long , as we shall handle it . Once more the tender of my duty .", "Faith little , Sir , that I gave any ear to ,", "Mistake me not , though I am rough in doing of my Office ,", "He would have spoke , but I had no Commission", "When you shall hear the Castle Bell , take courage ,", "I knew \u2018 twas for your good .", "I saw the Fryer this morning , and Lord Rugio ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Thou art to blame , I take thee for a Gentleman ,", "He may make bold with his own flesh and blood ,", "Now Signior firk .", "In a powdering Tub", "In sackcloth Smocks , as if thou wert Heir apparent", "Without a Mephestophilus , such as thou art ,", "Has mollifi 'd the man ; if he do marry her ,", "The best and lustiest , and drink good Wine , good Lady ,", "We shall have eggs then ;", "Obstructions of the halter are your ends ever ;", "In his own person , there 's the honest care o n't ,", "Will ye walk into the coal house ?", "You may snatch him up by parcels , like a Sea Rack :", "And shall I sit upon \u2018 em ?", "For o \u2019 my conscience there 's none else will trust him ;", "Will your Worship go , and look upon the rest , Sir ?", "Pray ye stay a little : let 's hear him sing , h'as a fine breast .", "It is but capering short , Sir ,", "Meat you shall eat , I have my Caters out too ,", "But why does not thy Lord and Master marry her ?", "He will bulge so subtilly and suddenly ,", "And hear what they can say for themselves .", "And shall I have a Coach ?", "Then he may pleasure the King at a dead pinch too ,", "And at the worst \u2014", "Marry you dye most commonly of choakings ,", "And then trying whether they be right or no", "And Gallen Gallinacius , but he has lost his spurs ,", "Every mans pocket is my Treasury ,", "To all the impious Suburbs , and the sink-holes .", "Cut-purse . Madam , take me and be wise ,", "Why dost abuse thy self ?", "Dainty fine Suitors to the Widow Lady ,", "You seldom stay for Agues or for Surfeits ,", "And you all halters , you have deserved \u2018 em richly . These do all Villanies , and mischiefs of all sorts , yet those they fear not , To flinch where a fair wench is at the stake .", "I have a tribute out of every Shop , Lady ,"], "true_target": ["I am sure thou wilt be hang 'd ,", "And read her over once a day , like a hard report ,", "And ingross the Royal disease like a true Subject .", "And no man wears a Sute but fits me neatly ;", "Pray leave your horn and your knife for her to live on .", "And \u2018 twere to morrow ; as many mourning Bawds for thee ,", "Are ye peeping ?", "I have lost a Ducket else , which I would be loth to venture", "Thou hadst best make one of \u2018 em , thou wilt be hang 'd as handsomly", "H'as much ado to be so ,", "For any thing else , she may appeal to a Parliament ,", "The broth may be good , but the flesh is not fit for dogs sure .", "Good quickening Wine , Wine that will make you caper .", "At the Months end , and as much joy follow 'd ,", "Without certainty . They appear .", "Will ye buss me ? And tickle me , and make me laugh ?", "As Usurers do with their Gold , he would look on her ,", "They were meant to be so , does thy Master deserve better kindred ?", "I'le go in presently .", "I believe ye , and both these you will bind her for a Jointure ;", "Canst thou make her a Joynture of thine honesty ? Or thy abiliy , thou lewd abridgment ? Those are non suted and flung o 're the bar .", "Sub Poena 's and Post Kaes have spoil 'd his Codpiece ;", "O fine , O dainty .", "\u2018 Tis the better , Fool ,", "Cloaths you shall have , and wear the purest Linnen ,", "God-ye-good even , Gaffer .", "A shaking fit of a whip sometimes o'retakes ye ,", "Stew thy self tender again , like a Cock Chicken ,", "There 's a Physician too , older than he ,", "He would fall a pieces else ; mending of she Patients ,", "And holy Nuns , whose vestal fire ne'r vanishes ,", "They are Suitors , Coxcomb ,", "Searcloths and Sirrups glew him close together ,", "He would be nibling too .", "And come but to warm him well at Cupids Bonfire ,", "I am rich and nimble , and those are rare in one man ,", "Feed his dull eye , and keep his fingers itching ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Among good people , and I dare not lose it ,", "I a n't like your Majesty , I am a Lawyer ,", "I can make her a Joynture of any mans Land in Naples ,", "e money got ."], "true_target": ["And she shall keep it too , I have a trick for it .", "Then farewel Madam ,", "This is like to be a great year of dissention", "There will"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["For me to repent in for my former pleasure ,", "Like AEson , by my art I can renew youth and ability .", "Dye , Sir ?", "One moneth is too little", "I dare accept her ; and though old I seem , Lady ,"], "true_target": ["Make it up a year , for by that time I must dye ,", "To go still on , unless I were sure she would kill me ,", "My body will hold out no longer .", "A n't please your Majesty to give me leave ,", "And kill me delicately before my day ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Men of ability , to make good a high way ;", "We have but two grand Enemies that oppose us ,", "They are quartered in the outside of the City ,", "Bless your good Ladiship , there 's nothing in the grave but bones and ashes , In Taverns there 's good wine , and excellent wenches , And Surgeons while we live ."], "true_target": ["Lady , take me , and I'le maintain thine honour ,", "I am a poor Captain , as poor people call me ,", "Very poor people , for my Souldiers", "The Don Gout , and the Gallows ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Adieu sweet Lady ,", "Though I steal Linnen , I'le not steal my shrowd yet ."], "true_target": ["Lay me when I am dead near a rich Alderman ,", "I cannot pick his Purse , no , I'le no dying ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To Caesar , and glorious victory .", "Miraculous .", "Mercie , dread Sir .", "He comes : he comes .", "We are ready , Captain .", "Happiness"], "true_target": ["Ha , ha , ha , ha .", "Victory , Victory .", "Away , away .", "Long live the King .", "Send ye a happy match .", "Alphonso , King Alphonso ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But there is another in the wind , some Castrel", "Or a fine hollow Tree , that would contain me ;", "Enter Alinda , and Juletta .", "The daily pilgrimage to my Fathers Tomb ,", "If I do find her , if I light upon her ,", "Some of the same he sent me by Sorano ;", "And eat , eat freely , Sir , why do you start ?", "Brought me into this danger ? Is there ne'er a hole ,", "More motion yet ? this is the prettiest Pilgrim ,", "I kept it for your goodness , but ne'rtheless", "As high as a May-pole ; and nasty Songs made on me ,", "Let her be the fairest Rose , and the sweetest ,", "But get some store of Wine : this fright sits here yet .", "Tears , sighs , and groans , you shall wear out your daies with ,", "I came too short .", "Let me know that ! she is fifteen , with the vantage ,", "That hovers over her , and dares her daily ,", "Thou tell me news ? thou be a guide ?", "And there I'le leave him .", "Does your devotion look for ? Still more ducking ?", "A Pilgrim too , and thereby hangs a circumstance ,", "And study to observe it : do it cheerfully ,", "I'le put this up again .", "Let her be rul 'd ; let her observe my humour ,", "As if she would shoot her eyes like Meteors at him :", "And what make I here to be hang 'd ? What Devil", "A plague o \u2019 your fools face .", "The pink of Pilgrims : I'le be for ye , Sir ;", "A poor viaticum ; very good gold , Sir :", "And turn , and gaze again , and make such offers ,", "And very Lousy .", "Did not I tell you , how she would undo me ? What Marts of Rogues , and Beggers !", "For their Commander now , their General ,", "Nor holy Shrines .", "Enough , enough , enough , Sir :", "I'le say no more . Is this the way to th \u2019 Town , fool ?", "If I were young again , I would sooner get Bear-whelps ,", "Have you your commendations ready too ? He bows , and nods .", "You know I am too indulgent .", "I pray sit down , I do beseech your Majesty ,", "I am a Gentleman , and a neighbour , rascal .", "And safer too , than any of these she-saints ,", "Daughters , and Damsels of the Lake , damned Daughters .", "And this cries mony for reward , good store too ;", "And if she be not ready now for marriage \u2014", "And outward holiness , she will undo me :", "Relieves more Beggars , than an Hospital ;", "What make ye this way ? we keep no Reliques here ,", "And all her face patcht over for discovery :", "Since it can prove but burthensome to your holiness ,", "Yes , I warrant ye ,", "They are all kill 'd by this time : Can I pray ?", "She is so full of Conscience too , and charity ,", "If men could sale to Heaven in Porridge-pots ,", "Come , let 's go in , and let me get my cloaths on ;", "If ere I stay here more to be thus martyr 'd \u2014", "All this is but prating :", "To your devotions : I take no good thing from you .", "And all poor Rogues , that can but say their prayers ,", "Your tongue has done much harm , that must be dumb now ;", "And that 's as ye deserve too : you know my mind ,", "This is a new way of begging , and a neat one ,", "But how \u2018 twill work on you \u2014 I hope your Lordship", "Let me see that first : I have too much fear to be faithful .", "I know \u2018 em ; and know your feats : if you will find me", "And I will make her \u2014", "Ye talk too broad ! must I give way , and wealth too", "Do ye discourse with signs ? ye are heartily welcome :", "Yet I know this fair Rose must have her prickles :", "And tune their pipes to Lamentations ,", "But why do I stand talking with a coxcombe ?", "He is a valiant man , and he is a rich man ,", "And have a commanding Gallows set up for me", "I hear \u2018 em coming : I feel the nooze about me .", "Be printed with a Pint-pot and a Dagger .", "A bed , a bed , Sir :", "Yes coxcomb , yes ; prethee farewel : a pox on thee . A plague o \u2019 that fool too , that set me upon thee .", "An easie composition calls him in again ,", "O that I had that boy : this is that Devil ,", "And the whole family I hate : young Pedro ,", "To every toy , that carries a grave seeming ?", "What are you ?"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis pity this pretty thing should want understanding .", "She'l like him ten times better . She'l doat upon him ,", "And hunt it narrowly .", "Walk in , I'le tell ye all , and then we 'll part again ,", "And Brother live , but in the Monastery ,", "If ere they come to grapling , run mad for him ;", "Are plaguy heavy Saints : they out-weigh a he-saint", "And praising of her vertues : and her whim-whams ,", "What are all these ?", "But I will break her .", "Something there is , and must be : but I shall scent it", "Three thousand thick ; I know : I feel .", "I grant ye Roderigo is an out-Law .", "These commendations beg not with bag , and bottle ;", "In a gray Hat .", "Where 's all my State now ? I must go hunt for Daughters ;", "She thinks she is bound to dance to : good morrow to you ,", "There was a fellow , old Ferando 's son ,", "\u2018 Twas she , a rot run with her ; she , that rank she ;", "Some flickring slave .", "Come Gentlemen ; leave pitying , and moaning of her", "I know what I would suffer .", "Be there any Saints , that understand by signs only ?", "That fairy Rogue , that haunted me last night ;", "And loves the fool : a little rough by custom :", "Where 's my Nag now ?", "Was ever man tormented with a puppy thus ?", "And this fond prodigality be suffer 'd ;", "With my eyes let her see ; with my ears listen ;", "What Country-craver are you ? nothing but motion ? A puppet-Pilgrim ?", "A Banquet to be merry with your Grace ;", "And readily , and home .", "That she hath plaid her master-prize , a rare one .", "Let him be what he will : he was a beggar ,", "Pray Heaven deliver me", "I know what it must come to : these Women Saints", "Well , well , the Sainting of this Woman , Gentlemen ,", "She has been here in Boys apparel , Gentlemen ,", "And your fine phrases .", "Me thinks you look not well , some fresh wine for him ,", "She is malleable : she 'll endure the hammer ,", "Have you no stomach to the meat I bring you ?", "Brother , I am come to see you , and have brought", "But I must be an Ass , see \u2018 em relieved , sirrah ;", "A gallant thing , and famous for a Gentlewoman .", "Did ye not meet the wench ?", "From such an ass , as thou art .", "But I have a candi 'd Toad for your Lordship .", "You need not fear ; Sorano 's a good Apothecary ,", "Dare you not taste ? have ye no Antidotes ?", "Would ye have mony , Sir , or meat ? what kind of blessing", "Noble and loving , seek me in your duty ,", "I am her Father : I begot her , bred her ,", "But that cause stands removed .", "And would be put into a better colour ,", "We shall have half the Kingdom strangers shortly ,", "That fellow I have seen her gaze upon ,", "Ne'r an old ditch to choke in ? I shall be taken", "H'as sleeves like Dragons wings .", "They are wise to gull us .", "I'le teach you to be good against your will , Brother ,", "Will pledge him too , me thinks you look but scurvily ,", "Is't your will too ? this is the last time of asking .", "It makes her proud , and sturdy .", "Must my good Angels wait on him ? if the proud hilding", "But holy men affect a better treasure .", "Where I lived , with the self same silence too ,", "And why not that strong workman that strikes deepest ?", "Would yield but to my will , and know her duty", "I thank you for't , it sav 'd my life , I am bound to ye ,", "Your diet shall be slender to inforce these ; too light a penance , Sir .", "Have you not forgot this face of mine , King Frederick ?", "Are we all kill 'd , no mercy to be hoped for ? Am I not shot do you think ?", "With masts of Beef , and Mutton , what a Voyage should I make !", "A hundred Crowns for a good tod of Hay ,", "That I may creep in deep enough , and die quickly ?", "And true ones too , you shall perform dear Brother ;", "Rise , Madam , those sweet tears are potent speakers ,", "Go to th \u2019 Devil :", "I must confess handsome , but my enemy ,", "And that you affect light prayer , fit for carriage ,", "Come , come , away with your flatteries ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Thomas Polard .", "Robert Benfield .", "John Lowin ."], "true_target": ["George Birch .", "John Underwood .", "Richard Sharpe .", "John Thomson ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["roar 'd out aloud ,", "Custom allows it . Now , now , come upon her", "Flinty , relentless , my love-passions jeer 'd at ,", "My solemn hums and ha 's , the servants quake at ,", "I 'll be hang 'd first ; one dram of't I beseech you .", "For which I have ventur 'd hard , my Conscience knows it ,", "They ran as they had flown ; now you must love me ,", "Gone at the Garden door ; there were a dozen ,", "I had forgot that , for this once forgive me .", "Last Lent , my Lady call 'd me her Poor John ,", "But that I shall be hang 'd , and that I look for ,", "As I live you shall bill ; ye may salute as strangers ,", "His purpose , that pleads for me .", "You should your self affect her ?", "She 's worse , obdurate ,", "To bed again , they are gone , Sir ,", "You shall direct me , still provided that", "I understand who is the man , and what", "I would not receive the Dor , but as a bosome friend", "My Presents scorn 'd .", "That knows my worth and value , though you scorn it .", "You may see through , and through me .", "Have you no imployment for me ?", "I 'll answer it :", "No Rhetorick with her ; every hour she hangs out", "To speak as I directed , he knows his lesson ,", "Some rimer should prevent me : here 's my Lady ?", "I have been fool 'd already , but now I am wise .", "And if some Cordial of her favours help not ,", "And I'le do it bravely .", "C", "I know I must dye , and what kind of death", "And bravely arm 'd , I saw \u2018 em .", "Nay keep the door my self .", "As I do when I find their print in the snow .", "But the Rogue taking me to be your Lordship ,", "Is lighted at the door , and longs to see you .", "Pray you forward .", "And the right way to please her ; this it is", "No , \u2018 twas at me , the Bullet flew close by me ,", "Only to ease the throbbing of my heart ,", "That 's good , I thank you .", "A little too on the Viol .", "It being for mine own ends .", "Of mine unmentioned , I 'll stand centinel ;", "You will say for me .", "Close by my ear ; another had a huge Sword ,", "As I will be .", "As poor as they are .", "This Chain which my Lords Pesants worship , flouted ;", "Pray you stay , Sir ;", "Flourish 'd it thus ; but at the point I met him ,", "The Poets urge for't , is , because I am not", "How far have you prevail 'd ?"], "true_target": ["Urge that point home , I am so .", "Too well , that makes her proud .", "And as I told you , Sir .", "You might add too my wealth ,", "Yet my works seldom thrive : and the main reason", "You are my friend ; yet as the Proverb says ,", "I have heard nothing that you spake :", "Or fear me for my Courage , Wench .", "When love puts in , friendship is gone : suppose", "Worthy the halter , in my youth or age ,", "In a qualm ; I am very faint .", "But one kiss from thy hony lip .", "I hear your praises with more faith .", "Which she contemns , five hundred Crowns per annum ,", "Conceal ? I know nothing", "Though I had not the heart to do a deed", "Before my condemnation , in fear", "Something given that way ;", "That I might not blush to look on her .", "Not thought upon , though offer 'd for a Joynture ;", "Into the private Arbour , from his mouth", "It is my destiny , I ever had", "Pray you resolve me , I shall go away else", "With all your Oratory ,", "Meer truth , Sir .", "As a young Advocate should , and leave no Vertue", "\u2018 Tis come about : I have pen 'd mine own ballad", "Yes , yes , go send for Leon , and convey him", "At my entreaty , come in friend \u2014 remember", "Would I were in heaven , or a thousand miles hence ,", "\u2018 Tis an apt time , my Lady being at her Prayers .", "I'le grow here rather .", "And breathe my last the wrong way .", "As she hath made me ; Love 's a terrible Clyster ,", "And therefore may come closer ; ne'r hang off ,", "I am a kind of nothing ,", "If you were a Nun I hope your Cousin German", "I will not bid you thank my valour for't ;", "A hanging look ; and a wise woman told me ,", "To have a head-piece .", "\u2018 Tis the kill-Crow , Dorilaus , and away", "Now I perceive ye love me ,", "But now I am grown a walking Skeleton ,", "Though they all stood open ,", "How ? to suffer ?", "I shall like an Italian , dye backward ,", "Some new Flag of defiance to torment me ;", "A hundred Crowns is your reward .", "She comes , my Lady .", "My name writ on the door , they dare not enter .", "Upon these lips .", "I should take a turn with a wry mouth , and now", "Yonder he walks", "instruct me what", "Might talk with you through a grate , but you are none ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Suppose they should , I am a Gentleman ,", "You are Poetical .", "Indeed you are much faln away .", "The principal means to save two lives , but since", "Will turn their mirth to mourning , he was then", "Clarinda 's still perverse .", "Discharg 'd her Ladies service , and what burthen", "Is a crime , as the Poet writes .", "Almost forgot to cast accompt .", "Nay go , and if upon my intercession", "Your composition with the Cook and Butler", "You are not jealous of any mans access to her ?", "And I grown valiant by the wearing of it :", "Hath a fair face , there 's a Dragon in the tail of't", "If not , let 's sink together .", "Dropping affection ; your high forehead reaching", "Is not alone contented in her self", "Shall first make answer", "His life", "You know your Lady , chaste Calista loves her .", "I then have drawn upon me is apparent ,", "As you shall , so I 'll promise . Then your qualities ,", "With all the under Officers of the house ,", "I 'll give it o'r ,", "Let her pray on .", "But when I touch your mind , for that must take her ,", "Good reason .", "This foolish Steward with some shadow of", "And kiss her footsteps .", "By your bloudless frosty lips ; then having related", "I thank you :", "You will not fail to come ?", "Fear you nothing .", "In strangers bounties , that she shall have all ,", "\u2018 Tis strange a waiting-woman ,", "She being my Cousin German . Fare you well , Sir .", "I am amaz 'd .", "Her best Revenue , and my principal means", "As I live , you have my pity ; but this is cold comfort ,", "A younger Brother 's fortune : must I now", "Yes Wench ,", "Clouts , Sope , and Candles , for my heir Apparent ,", "Then singing her asleep with curious Catches", "This beauteous Lady , I may stile her so ,", "Will feed him fat .", "Very likely ; fetch her", "I will be rul 'd . But you have promis 'd , and I must enjoy you .", "Nay , begg 'd it upon colder terms than can", "I will deliver her an Inventory", "But you must feed", "For which his life must answer , if the King ,", "That of a wise and provident Steward ,", "I 'll enlarge it ,", "For my sake , Sweet ,", "And you as \u2018 twere her Bailiff .", "I undertook to speak for him , any Bauble ,", "You do deserve it \u2014", "Is in it self excusable ; to be taken", "Of lust , Clarinda .", "How much you suffer for her , and how well", "But one word more Sir ,", "You are turn 'd stark Ass .", "While I am in the vein .", "Was an ear witness when he sought for peace ,", "Slew Clor", "For this Clarinda 's liberty is restrain 'd ;", "Clarinda 's bounty , though I labour 'd hard for't ,", "Such as live this way , find like me , though wenching", "You will follow ?", "Almost to the Crown of your head ; your slender waste ,", "I understand you ,", "Assaulted him , but such was his good fortune ,", "His will , the instrument .", "For Cony-Skins and Chippings , and half a share"], "true_target": ["Your self the means of comfort .", "To be our instrument .", "And I have done ; I was by accident where", "Whose arm is long , can reach him .", "They will hear shortly that", "Or slight employment in the way of service ,", "And in a friend lip-physick ; and now I think o n't ,", "rysanthes ,", "Almost find credit , his past deeds considered ,", "on , and Chrysanthes . I took it up ,", "I should do more , and will , so you deny not", "If she prove , as she swears she is with child ;", "These are the fruits", "To leavie half a Crown a week , besides", "By all means :", "I may be free .", "I am resolv 'd : how my heart pants between", "Of their own violent ends ; and he against", "I 'll ruminate o n't the while .", "The crop she reapt from her attendance was", "Observe .", "In her condition apt to yield , should hold out ,", "And held your Kinsman , under that I hope", "To seem , and be good , but desires to make", "Dares never come to challenge it : this sword ,", "That stings to th \u2019 quick . I must skulk here , until", "Without \u2018 em \u2014 nay no trifling .", "Besieging her .", "Do you think I 'll commit incest ? for it is no less ,", "Lisander met with Cloridon , and C", "She hath so far besotted you , that you have", "I take it uncompel 'd , that they were guilty", "That both fell under it ; upon my death", "For my conveyance to her , though you run", "Of your own making ; for as I have heard ,", "And all the weapons that I have , are ever", "Of your good parts : as this , your precious nose", "All such as have dependance on her , like her ;", "She do you not some favour , I 'll disclaim her ;", "No , Sir , to have your love return 'd .", "A future favour , that we may preserve him", "My hopes and fears ! she 's come ; are we in the Port ?", "Witty Girl , the plot ?", "To be surpriz 'd \u2014 the sin", "This happy Night .", "The means that I will practise , thus \u2014", "Nay , give me leave ,", "Devoted to thy service : Shall we bill ?", "I am very gamesome .", "But they deaf to his reasons , severally", "And Court-like back , and so forth , for your Body .", "Study upo n't : good morrow .", "And a back not like a threshers , but a bending ,", "Of that at leasure , Mistriss .", "There are two faln , and by his single hand ,", "Upon your knee receive it .", "And I in yours .", "A man of your place , reverend Beard and shape ,", "If that report speak truth , Clarinda is", "A loving fool I know it ,", "Have soure sawce after sweet meats ? and be driv'n", "First , for the undertaker , I am he ;", "No more , the Lady .", "And now in my possession ; the late Master", "It hath been the death of two . With this Lisander", "If that you make the least doubt otherwise :", "As playing on a Gyttern , or a Jews-Trump .", "Now if you please to make your self the door ,", "That you adore the ground she treads upon ,", "as your arts to thrive ,", "And though her kinsman , the gate 's shut against me ;", "The hazard of a check for't , \u2018 tis no matter .", "First , I 'll tell her that", "Broken in the handle , but that is reform 'd ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Will give us opportunity .", "Leave you a while , two hours hence I'le return friend .", "With her closest Chamber-service ; that Lisander", "How the sight", "We are on the Rack , uncertain expectation", "I'le stand the tryal .", "Look on thy rival , your late servant , Madam ,", "She is all honour , and compos 'd of goodness ,", "Here 's a Knight errant , Monsieur Malfort .", "Fall off or you lose me .", "The bold Lisander weeps too .", "Have you the Copy ?", "Against which I have heard with reason Musick", "I should desire", "When you shall find fit time to call me to it ,", "Having reveal 'd my fair intentions to ye ,", "That I , a simple waiting-woman , having taken", "And works divinely on it ; give me leave", "This Gentleman and I upon appointment ,", "\u2018 Tis to no purpose to send any whither ,", "and at dead mid-night", "I here deliver up my interest to her ;", "That he desires not ,", "How thinks your Majestie ? and I her servant ,", "Will I live ?", "The house and Master of it really", "Can easily imagine ! I have said , Sir .", "And all this business reckon but a dream .", "No humane thing to pass you , though it appear", "Outdone in all things ? nor good of my self ,", "Bewitching pain ,", "Hast thou so much brave nature , noble Lidian ,", "Let us not argue .", "Though you best know how well he has deserv 'd of ye :", "Though the fool be deaf , some of the house may hear you .", "For though I grant my Lidian a Scholar ,", "Things go better", "It is my wonder or astonishment rather ,", "I never saw a man so far transported .", "As blossoms on a bough in May , and sweet ones .", "And willingly comfort him .", "Of truth Sir : now , what 's the matter ?", "It passes through my ears unto my soul ,", "And it will come timely ,", "For while that she was chast , indeed I lov 'd her ,", "And at the place : My service to the Lady .", "I shall count it happiness ,", "I know you are valiant .", "I'th \u2019 Garden free .", "She endures to hear him nam 'd by no tongue but her own :", "And to know no Religion but her pleasure ,", "That will deny a blessing when \u2018 tis offer 'd ,", "We have now no spare time to hear stories , take this Key ,", "Get thither .", "In being made the happy instrument to compound", "For mine own sake ne'r doubt it ; now for Lisander .", "In my Ladies grace .", "And joyning thus your hands , I know both willing ,", "So tenderly to love thy Rivals memory ?", "Read that , and let that tell you , how he honours you .", "Well , Sir , we 'll meet you ,", "As many hopes hang on his noble head ,", "You know my weakness ,", "Get o 're the Garden wall , flye for your life ,", "I have it here shall fit him : you know where", "Never Madam : Sir ,", "Your sight and house for ever .", "To save his life that has sav 'd all your family ?", "A Song by the Novice .", "Some of your Balsam from your own hand given ,", "I love to laugh i'th \u2019 evenings too , and may ,", "It must be from your self immediately ,", "Civility of manners , Courtship , Arms ;", "Know ye not my voice ?", "In my Lords shape , or Ladies : be not cozen 'd", "I must first dispose of", "And tell it short , because \u2018 tis breakfast time ,", "Your anger on me .", "That lessens my belief ,", "And there behold Beauty still young ,", "Unto your just revenge \u2014 mine own I mean ,", "The bloudy difference .", "This nights task well ended ,", "Into her Ladiships service , on her slippers ,", "You eat not yester-night .", "Make his abode ?", "He is not come yet .", "He is superstitious , and he holds your hand", "How jealous may she grow ?", "It were the better ; you know my Ladies humour ,", "Of infinite power ; I would not urge this , Madam ,", "Of my dear friend confirms me .", "Of one that could but zanie brave Cleander ,", "I'th \u2019 way of a servant : all the house takes notice", "And amorous Myrtle ,", "\u2018 Twill make your passage to the banquetting house", "The late fright of her Brother has much troubl 'd her :", "Why should you vex at that ? young as Lisander ,", "You did outstrip me in the race of friendship ,", "Trouble not the King", "With valour , no Lisander shall come in again to fetch you off .", "For what follows ,", "In love , and that the sharpest war , are lawfull ,", "\u2018 Tis in your power ;", "Monsieur Malfort ,", "Why do you muse ? would ye go off ?", "Witness his grievous sufferings , your fair name", "For then he thinks \u2018 twould be no perfect cure , Madam ,", "I grant it , but with caution ;", "Why , then I'le tell ye , \u2018 twas a man I lay with ,", "I swore Sir for the King :", "To put your armour on , that with more safety", "And I am dead indeed , until I pay", "Suppose him otherwise : yet coming in", "As I were a sensual beast ? spiritual food", "And this wretch little better :", "The circumstance may make it good .", "A new born zeal , and friendship prompts me to .", "He would come private .", "As far as fits a Gentleman , he hath studied", "Nor move untill I call you ?", "That 's course , her Agent Sir .", "I hope your piety will not deny me", "All stratagems", "For his true sorrows ? but the heavy knowledge ,", "I am your equal now .", "Farewel , dear friend .", "That humour being unfed ; begone , here comes", "And that it cannot stand with your clear honour ,", "You must stand here to beat him off , and suffer", "But leave your sword behind ; enquire not why :", "Caught you in your own toyle , and triumph in it ,", "Let not that trouble you , he shall be with you ,", "If my Lady know not this \u2014", "I did entreat you", "Perform 'd my duties in my Ladies chamber ,", "And that your tenderness of honour holds", "Hang him .", "\u2018 Twill not be possible .", "Flye to the Fools that sigh away their time ,", "Was a fine timber 'd Gentleman , and active ,", "Come near ,", "There lives my love , thither my hopes aspire ,", "\u2018 Tis a vertuous longing ,", "Do you stare upon your", "With adoration carv 'd , and knee", "I will tell it ,", "Shall make way for revenge .", "In marrying you .", "You shall hear that at leisure ,", "I must be brief , my cousin hath spoke much", "How far off Father , doth this new made Hermit", "And where love pleases to bestow his benefits ,", "The fool Malfort ; he hath smoak 'd you , and is not ,", "A man without a rival : one the King", "he should quit", "It is a Heavenly Hymn , no ditty Father ,", "Of your ridiculous fopperie ; I have no sooner", "To its due desert ,", "And what by policy 's got , I will maintain", "Thus we embrace , no more fight , but all friendship ,", "I'le fashion something out of it , though I perish ,", "You may be exercis 'd too : I'le trouble no man .", "He 's dead ,", "But now devoted to a better Mistris ,", "I honour 'd my dead Lord , that no respect ,", "Will you go friend ?", "grows higher .", "So early stirring ? a good day to you .", "Argu 'd but small compassion ; the Groves", "The soveraigntie o 're your passions . Yet you have", "Only to beg a Blessing and depart again ?", "And honour 'd by Eternity and Joy :", "And I'le sit by you , Lidian .", "A very loving couple , mutually", "Believe you are , for you have a good face ,", "But never aim 'd at", "For mine own friend , since I stand Centinel ,", "A goodly tempting Lady , as she is :", "She would entreat to lye alone .", "My bodily oath , the first night of admittance", "Why should you stir at mine ? I steal none from ye .", "My innocence ; I hope", "With me ?", "And marry me to another : \u2018 twas for this ,", "You must swear not to stir hence .", "To meet no other object .", "Your honour , Madam , is in your own free keeping ;", "d unto ,", "Preserve this eagerness", "Till we meet nearer , there is something done", "O lying Rogue , Lisander stumbled , Madam ,", "In your behalf , and to give you some proof ,", "I simply thus surrender : heretofore ,", "But without leave hereafter from my Lady ,", "I must leave you ,", "I'le tell you true , Sir ,", "Nay , is not here , but would entreat this favour ,", "And usual too , a proper man I lay with ;", "Humanity , and in that he is a Master ;"], "true_target": ["Before you pass the walks , and back again ,", "Prethee read o 're her Letter . Lisander reads . Monsieur , I Know you have considered the dark sentence Olinda gave us , and thatit pointed more at our swords edges than our bodies banishments ; the last must injoy her : if we retire , our youths are lost in wandring ; in emulation we shall grow old men , and feeble , which is the scorn of love , and rust of honour , and so return more fit to wed our Sepulchers , than the Saint we aim at ; let us therefore make our journey short , and our hearts ready , and with our swords in our hands put it to fortune , which shall be worthy to receive that blessing , I'le stay you on the mountain , our old hunting place , this Gentleman alone runs the hazard with me , and so I kiss your hand . Your Servant Lidian . Is this your wench ? you'l find her a sharp Mistris . What have I thrust my self into ? is this that Lidian You told me of ?", "What your will is .", "How have you work 'd", "Of Lidians safety , and that joy encreas 'd", "How e 're my Kinsman , hath abus 'd you grosly ,", "I am glad , glad at the heart .", "and you having no business ,", "Your aids to further \u2018 em ?", "To tye my shooe .", "To quench lascivious fires , should such flame in you ,", "So please you breath a while ; when I have done with him ,", "I am he , Sir :", "Will you please to sit down ?", "She that is forfeited to lust must dye ,", "The priviledg of my place will warrant it .", "Give me leave , I am nearest to my self . What I have plotted", "And I must meet it .", "I am yours to morrow . Keep sure guard .", "\u2018 Tis he .", "The greatest torture .", "I may do in the Church my Friers Office", "Play to betray your game ? Mark but this letter .", "Desire to dye , to be bewail 'd thus nobly ?", "\u2018 Tis true ; but yet", "No , dear Madam : and", "A fair sword ; was it not Lisanders ?", "The debt I owe him in a noble way .", "For I am full of melancholy thoughts ,", "To do my function , in conveyance of", "A little to consider ; shall I be", "l , Go in , and counsel me , I would fain see him ,", "\u2018 Tis not yet out of fashion with some Ladies ;", "It may be ; but I have sworn unto my Lady never", "Refus 'd by my sick palat ? \u2018 tis resolv 'd .", "Why madam", "My first request is ,", "Than you deserve ; you carry things so openly ,", "Ye are welcome , follow me , and make no noise .", "did the feat ,", "He tells us truth good Lidian .", "That I , as the premisses shew , being commanded", "Sir , Lisander ? Lis . I .", "Pity so brave a Gentleman should perish ,", "To fair Olinda .", "I am free again ;", "If ye desire him not , let him pass by ye ,", "I 'll send him word back though I grieve to do it ,", "But by some new device to be kept from me :", "To be the speediest cure , \u2018 pray you apply it .", "About my years : there is not much between us .", "Would I were murther 'd so , I would thank my modesty .", "\u2018 Twill be a trouble to you .", "Let her suffer first ,", "Lady I am come to claim your noble promise ,", "Shift for your self .", "That \u2018 twas your peremptory will and pleasure ,", "nor of her former life ,", "O Rogue !", "And this night vowes to take me hence perforce ,", "You might defend me .", "Enter Malfort in Armour .", "But be not seen to talk with me familiarly ,", "Shall hinder me from lending my assistance", "For he is much hurt , and that he thinks would cure him .", "Not strain a courtesie to save a Gentleman ?", "She is above , but very ill , and aguish ;", "And that makes you so confident . You have got", "Nor by example ? shall my loose hope still ,", "For all the excellencies a Mother could", "Shall be pursu 'd : you must not over-rule me .", "Even in his least perfections ,", "And contents every way .", "Are going to visit a Lady .", "Now to my watch for Lisander , when he is furnish 'd ,", "From their affection to the brave Lisander ,", "If you desire to see him ,", "By this I see too much .", "I will make good what I have said .", "both saw and heard", "I will be with ye .", "By your example I did change my habit ,", "But since you find fit reasons to the contrary ,", "Her officer as one would say , and trusted", "Adieu fond love , farewel you wanton powers ,", "A lawfull way , it is excusable .", "I confident of my interest .", "Oli Do you put the first hand to your own undoing ?", "I am confident , so dearly", "Thou dull Disease of bloud , and idle hours ;", "I thank you for this visit cousin ,", "\u2018 Tis necessity \u2014", "C", "I entertain you as my servant ,", "If you are the fair Olinda \u2014", "That Time can ne'r corrupt , nor Death destroy ;", "Grieve at my soul , for certainly \u2018 twill kill him ,", "You must expect me , with all possible silence", "Be more temperate ,", "The viands of a fond affection , feed me", "My champion in Armour .", "Of what the court 's familiar with already .", "I ought to have my oath pass .", "That he cou 'd do fine gambolls", "Handy-work ?", "And I'le endure the Mulct impos 'd on Bawds ,", "Call it by the worst name .", "With a disguise .", "Calista 's Brother , if ever you have heard of that fair Lady .", "I grant you are made of pureness ,", "And what was got with cunning as you thought ,", "The same .", "\u2018 Tis my Lord ,", "Upon the rinde of every gentle Poplar ,", "Fond love declines , this heavenly", "We shall find time for that ; you are too hasty ,", "I will satisfie her .", "The deep points of Divinity .", "We shall not long disturb you .", "Leave him to me .", "Hold , great heart .", "to serve her will in all things ,", "Your care in me ; in him all honesty ;", "Affected one another : so much for them Sir .", "The warmer still the fitter . You are a fool Lady .", "Wish in her only Son .", "I was frighted too , it spoil 'd my game with Leon .", "And Kingdom gazes on with admiration ,", "To sin again .", "Then you have seen a wonder .", "Take heed of that by any means : O innocent ,", "Nor eyes but yours , to look upon his miseries ,", "Wait on him in .", "How e 're she carries it , I know she loves him .", "To make a Lady merrie ; that this pair ,", "Was gone before they rose .", "Dare ye not trust a hurt man ?", "My nobler love to Heaven doth climb ,", "Are ever at your service .", "I have none now , and the time is set so short ,", "Deliberation makes best in that business ,", "At the Stairs-head , and in the fall the shot went off ;", "I must alone .", "A man that comes like a poor mortifi 'd Pilgrim ,", "Lower , you are too loud ,", "And able too ; I grudge not at your pleasure ,", "That this Lady was", "The more I say the merrier .", "It strikes a sadness in me . I know not what to think of \u2018 t .", "My conference with a kinsman cannot call", "Who 's there ?", "But conceive me ,", "Like my evil spirit to me .", "Your rigor to command him from your presence ,", "This confirms", "But at fit distance , or not seen at all ,", "Left \u2018 em together : what they did , some here", "I dare not change discourse with you .", "And if you dare trust me , you shall do it safely ,", "How ever mine appears , swearing for you Sir ,", "You would some time , for reasons I will shew you ,", "Or fear \u2014 This Leon ,", "Things yet go right , persist , Sir .", "But only in a mans extreams to help him .", "He would but see you , that he thinks would cure him .", "And if you are the partie , as I do", "This you", "Or I will never use , nor know you more", "Hence , repenting Milk-sop .", "And take it as a special favour from me ,", "Unless men be at home by Revelation :", "Lisander to her chamber ,", "Never admire , \u2018 tis easie to be done , Madam ,", "What yester-night I whisper 'd : let it work ,", "You shall have the grace .", "Farther engag 'd unto his matchless vertues ,", "The Church , whose orders I have took upon me :", "You shall direct me ; something I will do ,", "Ye are nobly welcome ; I wait your business .", "This piece of motley to your ends ?", "Turn 'd Hermit ?", "Being my better , for adulterie ,", "Defer delivery of Lidians Letters", "Immortal sweetness by fair Angels sung ,", "You may come higher in time .", "With an unnecessarie repetition", "And in that time that no man shall suspect ye ;", "And she scarce down the stairs , but you appear", "Without compassion , and what receiv 'd he", "You could deny the service of Lisander ;", "Who would not", "I grow still", "As I must ne 're believe . Were I the wife", "All good rest to ye ;", "The whole house reels with joy at the report", "I must bear every way , I am once more", "A little business .", "A noble Husband , with allow 'd embraces ,", "Or of my Ladies bounties", "Make your self fit and I shall make occasion ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["My poor self in !", "In doing you service .", "Your cousin , and my true friend , lusty Leon ,", "Can the fish live out of the water , or the Salamander", "A nest of Hornets keep it ! what impossibilities", "My Lord ? and I his murtherer ?", "My honey-comb how sweet thou art , did not", "I am so full of wrath .", "A fee for my good news .", "Pray you take your mornings draught .", "She frowns .", "I did stay up to tell you so .", "\u2018 Tis well for him ,", "Madam , your noble Father \u2014", "Or never hope to enter ?", "Yes , \u2018 twas at that I trembl 'd . But were my false friend Leon here \u2014", "I have been", "I am struck dumb ;", "Clarinda 's placket , which I must encounter ,", "The rich heir is come Sir .", "The wench before he ask 'd her . I hear some footing :", "I am o'rehYpppHeNjoy ' d .", "Shall know how you use me .", "Stand , stand , or I'le fall for ye .", "If you are come , Sir , for Clarinda ;", "After some little conference with my Lady ,", "\u2018 Tis Leon .", "Where ? where ?", "Adieu ;", "My best defence .", "Of this room to give answer to her suitors .", "I am gone already ."], "true_target": ["The frying-pan of your favour ?", "Though this were Cannon proof , I should deliver", "I'th \u2019 other world , in Hell I think , these Devils", "do I find", "A natural Coward , and should Leon come ,", "I am bound upon I know not , but it is", "Love makes me undertake ! I know my self", "The clashing of my Armour in my ears ,", "With fire-brands in their paws sent to torment me ,", "I am glad I have her for you ; I resign", "\u2018 Tis he ; where shall I hide my self ? that is", "Yes Sir , and makes choice ,", "I am going away ,", "Who I ? you do me wrong ,", "What a cold pickle", "Sounds like a passing-bell ; and my Buckler , puts me", "You need not stop my mouth .", "What Monsters issue from thy dismal den ,", "But as I am , I am sure my shadow frights me ,", "Nor do I know this sword .", "Though I never did the deed , for my lewd purpose", "In mind of a Bier ; this my broad Sword a pick-axe", "Out of the fire ? or I live warm , but in", "My Mistresses pleasure that I should appear thus .", "I may perhaps be terrible to others ,", "Unty 'd ? you promis 'd that I should grow higher", "Is not your garter", "To be a Whore-master .", "What adventure", "To dig my grave : O love , abominable love ,", "My interest ; you 'll find her in her Chamber ,", "I never had the heart to kill a Chicken ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Attend him hither .", "Who gave warrant to this private parle ?"], "true_target": ["Kinsman ? Let me have", "How 's this ?", "No more of this , as you desire you may continue mine ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I grant it :", "In his affection to me , that no dotage", "Good Sir , to rest again , and I am now drowzie ,", "Thou canst not touch my credit :", "How it perfumes all air \u2018 tis spoken in !", "And obligation to Cleander , force me", "In that he was not noble to be nameless .", "Should be in one man , to do things thus bravely ,", "To be deaf to his complaints ?", "Lisander 's pardon .", "You fall no further .", "Their mortal meeting , my Lord is coasted one way ,", "I must take leave to speak : \u2018 tis true , he lov 'd me ,", "Ever receiv 'd a farther favour from me ,", "Not so well , Sir , to lie by ye , my Brothers fright \u2014", "I cannot tell .", "Clarinda ?", "He would maintain .", "You are truly valiant , would it not afflict ye", "Why do you kneel ? I know you come to mock me ,", "O me ! O me !", "Blast my fair fame , yet thou shalt feel with horror", "I'le mourn his going now , and mourn it seriously :", "Stand sad spectators of his death .", "He shall have many hands .", "Who 's that ?", "A third , and every minute we must look for", "How is my soul divided ! O Cleander ,", "I pay a mourning widows tears , I liv 'd", "And yet they smell as sweet , and look as lovely :", "Fie , Sir .", "I find it so :", "I am here , whatsoever Fate falls on me ,", "Why dost thou hang thy head wench ?", "My best deserving husband ! O Lisander ,", "Upon my humble knees to make my boon ,", "But we are ty 'd to grow alone . O honour ,", "Thou hard Law to our lives , chain to our freedoms", "This man Sir were a friend to give an age for .", "She pleases to elect : see all things ready", "The certain knowledge , which we must endure", "He that invented thee had many curses ;", "How e 're I stand accus 'd , to hold your honour", "To put him out of memorie .", "Hath took another , my Brother in Law Beronte", "Too much of this rare cordial makes me sick ,", "What do I suffer ! O my precious honour ,", "I am so already ,", "I hope you bring a fruitfulness along with ye .", "Which are too many , and too mighty , Sir ,", "Yet I could wish the cause had concern 'd others ,", "The nobleness and beauty of his person ,", "That was my slave , but never to such ends Sir ,", "A strong assurance , that emboldens me", "Coy , proud , disdainful , I acknowledge all ,", "So thou art , Clarinda ,", "Leave facing , \u2018 twill not serve ye ,", "Saving mine honour , any thing I had now", "T'upbraid me with the benefits you have giv'n me ,", "O dear Lisander ! would you break this union ?", "A comfort to you , you shall have no cause ,", "My heart was even a bleeding in my body .", "I will interpose", "Since our obedience to thee keeps us pure .", "Ye may , and worthily ;", "Dearer than life .", "Are practised to prevent the mischief following", "The lustie Vine not jealous of the Ivie", "Is it thy justice to repay me thus ?", "Let my pass 'd life , my actions , nay intentions ,", "I'le wait on you to your Coach .", "They draw offences nearer still , and greater :", "And his brave friend Clarange , long since rivals", "More than thou ought'st I am sure , why dost thou blush ?", "\u2018 Twas one in your Cousins cloaths then ,", "Yield any probability of truth", "At least have lent some counsel to his miseries ,", "And wantonly kiss one another hourly ,", "If I had sin 'd thus , and my youth entic 'd me ,", "Which always watches .", "And there stand close \u2014 my husband , close , Lisander .", "The fair Olinda , all desire to see him ;", "Yet in my justice I am bound to grant him ,", "But justice we should thy strict Laws endure ,", "My husband his true friend , my noble father ,", "And courted with felicitie , that drew on me ,", "And pulls the Curtain open to her shame too ;", "You add unto the gratitudes I owe you ;", "Besides my credit .", "Because she clips the Elm ; the flowers shoot up ,", "How confirm 'd", "I hope Lisanders love will now be buried :", "Make haste away , you see his mind is troubled ;", "But not in such a wanton way , his reason", "The bosom of my Lord ; and to thy utmost", "Thou hast thy ends , wicked Clarinda .", "I am going now , I have done my meditations ,", "Of my dear Lord , to whose sad memory", "Perish both life , and honour . Devil thus", "As far from lust in meeting with Lisander ,", "I might have met his sorrows with more pity ;", "Hold , good Sir .", "And dost thou glory in this sin ?", "Down to the Garden stairs , that way , Lisander ,", "And more a stranger to Lisanders worth ,", "For my return ; and I confess \u2018 tis justice ,", "Not for the World , retire behind the hangings ,", "Too happy in my holy-day trim of glorie ,", "But a reward , of humbleness , the friendship", "But let me sleep ; before you can call any body , I am abed .", "At mid-night conference with him ; but if he", "The envie , not the love of most that knew me ,", "From Hell , and like a furie breath it in", "What new fire is this ? Lisander \u2014", "No more words of Lisander .", "I am in a fevour .", "And I expect however you are calm now ,", "Into what box of evils have I lock 'd thee !", "Now I am mad to know him :", "Or malice can invent , fetch jealousie", "But foul ones too , that greatness cannot cover ,", "But to enjoy his sight , but his bare picture ;", "To err no farther in desire , for then , Sir ,", "Lisander ? \u2018 twas Lisander .", "Never , Sir , to a dishonest end .", "In your declining age , when I should live", "But mention him no more , this instant hour", "How will maids curse me if I kill with kisses !", "You grow saucie . Do I look further ?", "Would give a statue motion into furie :", "Let him come", "I will , pray ye lead .", "And build thy lusts security on mine honour ?", "As free , and innocent , as yon fair Heaven ;", "I thank Heaven for't .", "Love with honour .", "I am amaz 'd at it .", "My loyall breast between you and all hazard .", "Hard nature : hard condition of poor women !", "A soveraign medicine to allay displeasure ,", "Thy secrecie , and truth in hiding of it ;", "Away , dear friend ,", "Her absolute determination , whom", "How does your arm Sir ?", "I was ever vertuous ;", "You can enjoy but one .", "Is this sufficient warrant for thy weakness ?", "This Gentleman I must love naturally :", "Once more I receive you", "Is the house well ordered ? The doors look 'd to now in your Masters absence ? Your care , and diligence amongst the Servants ?", "Upon his hot bloud , and I hope \u2018 twill cure him :", "No , I will know all .", "Why ? what of him Sir ?", "May I sink quick : and thus much , did he know", "Where is my Lord ?", "He shall have all , my Prayers too .", "A Tyrant , yet to be obey 'd ! and \u2018 tis", "Than what a Sister might give to a Brother ,", "Make me his Saint , to me give this brave service :"], "true_target": ["She'l half perswade me anon , I am a beast too ,", "We all are bound in gratitude to compel thee .", "I dare not murther ,", "I will know .", "However I obey you .", "Awe me thy Mistris , whore , to be thy baud ?", "My Brother Lidian , new return 'd from travel ,", "Echo 'd through France between him and Lisander ,", "To Cupid against Hymen ! O mine honour ;", "Ship-wrack 'd in such a Daughter .", "Speak not so loud .", "Live I to hear this ?", "O my sad heart , my head , my head .", "And after death , your dear friends soul shall bless you .", "That so much honour , so much honesty", "O Jasper speak , \u2018 tis thy good Masters cause too :", "Such comforts Maids may grant with modesty ,", "O Fortune !", "That for my cruelty you should despise me ,", "A fall dear Father ?", "To have the horrid name of Coward touch you ?", "Of his life for appearing , on my soul", "But you are pleas 'd to abuse my thoughts ; who was't ?", "Secure asleep , \u2018 tis midnight too , Lisander ,", "With me ? ye monster .", "That Wife that by Example sins , sins double ,", "By one , and this the worst of my mis-fortunes ,", "The Oak 's not envious of the sailing Cedar ,", "For fair and rich Olinda , are to hear", "No on my soul .", "Adversity with such a constant patience", "Do you know the door ye came in at ?", "Yes , and asleep ;", "versation I had with him ,", "Stay , I will think upo n't ; where is he , Wench ?", "Into my service : but take especial care", "That troubled ye , here 's nothing to disturb me ,", "If I had been a whore , and crav 'd thy counsel", "I thought ye had liv 'd well , and I was proud of't ;", "We are both miserable .", "Out of my house , proclaim all that thou knowest ,", "Beside the mighty benefits I am bound to ,", "I would your sentence had been milder .", "You shall have ample testimony ; till the death", "My anger blushes , not my shame , base woman .", "To entertain \u2018 em : and on my displeasure", "I share in your despair , and yet my hopes", "Be forc 'd , or undermin 'd by thy base scandals ,", "I dare thy worst , defie thee , spit at thee ,", "His youth and faith , than it becomes her gratitude ,", "Methinks to enjoy you thus \u2014", "May be an argument to bring me off too ;", "\u2018 Twas but your care of me , your loving care ,", "And in my vertuous rage , thus trample on thee ;", "Among your manly sufferings , make this most ,", "Have not quite left me , since all possible means", "My heart 's almost at peace .", "Made fit to be his Monument : but wherefore", "I dare try .", "I shall do wrong unto all those that honour him ,", "Who 's there ?", "Still upon Lisander ?", "Do not deserv't , who lay with you last night ? What bed-fellow had ye ? none of the maids came near ye .", "He knows me then ?", "No , all well , Sir ,", "On such a firm base , that if e 're it can", "Come , tell the truth .", "It will break out ; Calista is unworthy ,", "To be the Master sinner to compel me ?", "Your royal promise , in a King it is", "Examine then .", "Truth will not suffer me to be abus 'd thus .", "Wench do not lye , \u2018 twill but proclaim thee guilty ;", "But by my soul I was honest , thou know'st I was honest .", "Heaven keeps no guard on innocence .", "Farewel , Lisander , thou joy of man , farewel .", "Why didst thou name Lisander ?", "As will set off my innocence , I hope Sir ,", "To thy sear 'd conscience , my truth is built", "Yet rather than be thus outbrav 'd , and by", "The voyce of truth , my husbands tenderness", "\u2018 tis that I wish , I am happy i n't ,", "For giving her the Helm , thou knowest , Clarinda ,", "How can that be here ?", "Sir , I dare not doubt", "Be by my grand accuser justly censur 'd ,", "Such is the Whore to me .", "Make me his Saint , I must needs honour him .", "Did not mine honour", "The shame I suffer for him , with the loss", "The trees grow up , and mix together freely ,", "In that she urges , then I will confess", "Where ?", "And young men flye th \u2019 embraces of fair Virgins ?", "For me you have forgot , and what I am to you .", "Once more , farewel ;", "A guilty cause ; the peoples voyce , which is", "Didst not thou perswade me too ?", "There 's thy reward for't ; speak it .", "I do make it apparent , I can bear", "My Father will bring joy enough for one moneth ,", "And will to bed ; make no noise , dear Husband ,", "Well , now I see you Sir ;", "Heav'n grant me patience : to be thus confronted ,", "In the conveyance of my fault and faithfulness ,", "And I mistrust my self , though I am honest", "Nothing can keep me off ; I pray you go on Sir .", "\u2018 Has miss 'd him happily ;", "Though now for honours sake , I must forget him ,", "That where we are most su 'd to , we must flye most .", "Come out again , and as you love , Lisander ,", "Look on me ; what , blush again ?", "O giddy thing ! he has met some opposition ,", "Colder of Comfort than the frozen North is ,", "And not bring forth his murtherer ?", "And neither make her poor nor wrong her bounty ;", "I confess I gave him a strong potion to work", "When you weep for him , Sir , I'le bear you company .", "I blush to grant it , yet take this along ,", "This impudence becomes thee worse than lying .", "She is married , and she is chaste ; how sweet that sounds !", "A foyl you strive to set your cause upon ,", "And kill 'd ; I am confounded , lost for ever .", "We are betray 'd else .", "Do you , that have both life and motion left you ,", "Dear , speak no more .", "\u2018 Twas but fancy", "And can ye hit it readily ?", "As the pure wind in welcoming the morning ;", "And wore a sword ; and sure I keep no Amazons ;", "All make against her ; for him , in his absence ,", "Noble Lisander , how fond now am I of ye !", "With other helps of nature , as of fortune ,", "And never know the name more of Lisander :", "That we may fall in superstition to him .", "I do , what inference from this to make me guilty ?", "This made me to presume too much , perhaps", "most truely noble .", "and if they", "Be ever honest .", "I am glad \u2018 tis come Sir ,", "My Father , though his hurts forbad his travel ,", "Come , pray sit down , but let 's talk temperately .", "I weep your miseries , and would to heaven \u2014 what noise ?", "Master 'd his passions : I grant I had", "Honest repentance yet will make the fault less .", "They are fruitless , Madam .", "For this time , friend , or here begin our ruins ;", "Too proud ; but I am humbled ; and if now", "Lyes hide our sins like nets ; like perspectives ,", "In all the co", "My drudg , my footstool , one that sued to be so ;", "This blossome glorying in the others beauty ,", "With that calm patience heav'n shall please to lend us .", "I heard you were hurt .", "The truest lover that e 're sacrific 'd", "Who did this Sir ?", "What may I do to recompence his goodness ?", "Ye shall err for once , I have a kind of noble pity on you ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Lock all the doors fast .", "The doors are shut fast .", "Alas !", "Farewel mine honest Host then ,", "Than I can stay to ask .", "Now as I live , it is his voice .", "Yes .", "How can I fear ? and yet I do , I am wounded ,", "For my Lisanders absence , one that stamps", "By all the tyes of love and amity fasten 'd .", "To bed again ,", "Yield villain .", "I yet shake at it ;", "O my dear Lisander . But I'le be merry : let 's meet him my Calista .", "Dearest , are you well ?", "To bed all , I have drunk a health too much .", "Are all things well ?", "And forc 'd ye in his arms thus .", "A brave still mean .", "To all my thanks . Encompass 'd thus with friends", "There is something more in this", "To my warm Bed then .", "Give us a quart of wine then , we'l be merry .", "Forgive me my Calista , and the Sex ,", "So do I , to rest , Sir .", "What do ye mean ? stand further off .", "Clarinda , and Leon !", "How insupportable the difference", "Methought there came a Dragon to your Chamber ,", "Lisanders conversation while I liv 'd ,", "My full love meets it ; make fire in our lodgings ,", "We thank ye for your Song .", "As if he had risen thus out of his Den ,", "What should this wonder be ?", "And methought he came", "As I do from these Hangings .", "My soul ; too true presaging Host .", "At these hours ? sure some thief , some murtherer ;", "And courteous too ."], "true_target": ["A reverend print on friendship , does assure me .", "A furious Dragon", "The fellow lyed sure . Enter Host . He is not dead , he 's here : how pale he looks !", "Thieves , my noble Father , Villains and Rogues .", "Rise , ho ! rise all , I am betray 'd .", "And be you henceforth provident , at sun-rising", "I never would seek change .", "Now I remember , I have heard mine Host that 's dead", "At any rate the certainty to enjoy", "You are rivals for a Lady , a fair Lady ,", "Heaven take mercy on", "Touch a lute rarely , and as rarely sing too ,", "We have time enough for that .", "From your first childhood to this present hour ,", "Her pleasure .", "What news ?", "Y'are a hard drinker .", "I am hurt in my minde : One word \u2014", "Still up ? I fear 'd your health .", "I am blest in a wife", "And in the acquisition of her favours ,", "Hazard the cutting of that Gordian knot", "A Pistol shot i'th \u2019 house ?", "Inferiour to none", "We'l trouble thee no farther ; to your Son .", "I had a frightful dream too ,", "You know all .", "Alas , poor soul ! what do you do out of your bed ? You take cold , my Calista ; how do ye ?", "We must part for a while .", "This , and sweet rest dwell with ye .", "Lying knaves ,", "Mortally wounded : nay it is within ,", "Of dear friends is , the sorrow that I feel", "Yet if I were a free-man , and could purchase", "A very frightful dream , my best Calista ;", "Where 's your Mistriss ?", "You are nobly welcom Sir :", "Mine honest merry Host ; will you to bed yet ?", "To tell us you were dead , come sit down by us ,", "I thank ye ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Into my solitary walk . Lisander , noble Lisander .", "My Lord and Brother ,", "And use your fortunes , I expect no favour ;", "You may love also , and may hope , if ye do ,", "A faintness to go on .", "I am too full of sorrow to be inquisitive .", "With zeal so long continued .", "The greater danger you oppose to win her ,", "For a false friend not worth a tear derided ?", "To comfort any man I find distress 'd :", "You know Sir , the cause that bringss hither .", "There shall you find fit wonder for your faith ,", "I will do that without a conjuration .", "In which I find more hours due to repentance", "The Birds my Bell to call me to devotions ;", "Weaken , but adde strength to our true affection ,", "Your servant Lidian ?", "The Crystal Rivers they afford their waters ,", "And holy prayers to boot I may cure you ,", "And grudge not their sweet streams to quench afflictions ;", "High providence for this good end hath brought him", "My dearest friend .", "Such holy men are Authors of no Fables .", "As you are a Scholar , knowledge make your Mistris ,", "Such reverend habits juggle ? my true sorrow", "O Clarange !", "Given sentence in a cause as much important", "I durst encounter it , and would , but that", "From dead Clarange : You shall hear his Testimonie .", "Priz 'd dearer than my being , and he dead ,", "His business to deliver you a Letter", "Being a Mistris to be ever courted ;", "Deep Rivers with soft murmurs glide along", "Let our swords argue , and I wish Clarange ,", "Honour 'd , but in a noble way , assures me", "As you are a profess 'd souldier , court your honour ,", "And of such weight as this fair Lady is ,", "Mine own free choice , Sir :", "My noble friend , I will bewail his ashes ;", "Leave not your seat of justice , till you have", "You would do the whole Sex , for know , Lisander ,", "Yet dearly will I sell my love , come on both ,", "As if you never saw me : hath my habit", "As thy religious shape was , I have learn 'd", "It must be so , Cupid draws on our sorrows .", "There is a Frier that came along with me ,", "Of Fortunes malice .", "Though she be stern , she is honest , a brave Mistris ;", "To raze her from my memory , as I wish", "And I'le abroad again , Farewel .", "A recreant , that prefers life before credit ?", "O my heart ! to witness how I lov 'd him ? would he had not", "Alter 'd my face so much , that yet you know not", "\u2018 Pray you support me ,", "Came he from Heaven ?", "And have still , I hope , good Father .", "His sorrows upon mine , he was my friend ,", "The shallow roar ; Clarange !", "Wood-bines shall grow upon his honour 'd Grave ;", "With good counsel , Sir ,", "Father , my reverend Father , look upon him ,", "Two reverend Fryers , one I know .", "Must not be put to fortune , I appeal", "to leave the world :", "Nay , brave Sir , come in too ;", "And where the lot lights \u2014", "I am a man , Sir , and my great loss weigh 'd duly \u2014", "As graciously with judgement will determine", "And for this acknowledgment , if I could prize you at", "She shews the sweeter , and rewards the nobler ;", "O Alcidon \u2014", "That 's constant to my heart .", "Peace to your conscience , Sir , and stare upon me ,"], "true_target": ["And on his hallow 'd Earth do my last duties .", "No Sir , I am arm 'd .", "And as they prosper , clasp to shew our friendship ,", "The victory is yours , Sir .", "The greatest curse brave man can labour under ,", "I should know this voice ,", "Contempt I hear it ! in a Wilderness", "He Sir , your humblest subject , I accuse Clarange", "My Legs deny their Office .", "His naming too my Sister , whom Lisander", "Weak as I am , my confidence shall meet ye .", "Wave upon wave rowls o'r me . My Sister ? my dear Sister ?", "His fortunes , and poor mine were born together ,", "As this you have determined .", "These are my contemplations .", "Of falshood in true friendship at the height ;", "My Book the story of my wandring life ,", "\u2018 Tis nobly said ; set on love ; and my fortune \u2014", "How ?", "I have made some trial of my strengths in this", "I purpose", "Nay , then my fortune 's gone , I know I must dye :", "And when they wither , I 'll dye too .", "Nor shall our equal suit to fair Olinda", "Though both wayes so infected . You look wildly ,", "Unto the King , and he whose wisedom knows", "Maintain thy treason with thy sword ? With what", "Womans best loves to hers meer shadows be ,", "A higher rate I should , he was my friend :", "In my retired hours , not counterfeited", "Welcome , Father .", "His honour 'd name", "And Thankfulness commands , and it may be", "And not rewarded for't , there is no justice ;", "The proud Olinda saw us .", "Yet they are quiet ; and the weary slumbers", "I live here poorly , but contentedly ,", "\u2018 Tis he .", "I 'll gather all the pride of Spring to deck him ,", "My miseries at the height contemn the worst", "I endeavour", "That it can be no other : I stand bound", "Great Sir , stay ,", "And I will weep \u2018 em both ; I will kneel by him ,", "I have lost a friend ,", "To do his subjects right in their estates ,", "For after death she weds your memory .", "Than time hath told me yet .", "Clarange on my life : I am defeated :", "I will sit down .", "Where I find men I preach this doctrine to \u2018 em :", "I am rooted here .", "In points of honour .", "The eyes catch there , softer than beds of Down , Friend ;", "Led me into his Grave , but sacrific 'd", "My solitary life ; and yet I find not", "Injoyn 'd one pennance .", "We both were suiters to this Lady , both", "I dare not blame your choice , Lisanders worth", "You 're welcom .", "The hollow rocks their beds , which though they are hard ,", "When Justice may determine such a cause ,", "Though I bleed hard , my honour finds no Issue ,", "Indeed too much : these wild fields are my gardens ,", "But to aid him that sav 'd my life , Religion", "Because I find enough to feed my fortunes ;", "Farewel friend , here let 's part upon our pilgrimage ,", "And for your eye in-imitable objects :", "What dost thou hold me ?", "We have our dispatches .", "And you 'll find it true , if you persevere .", "Is the strong Witch-craft of a Womans eyes ;", "The hidden beauties of the Heavens your study ;", "Pronounc 'd by such a treacherous tongue is tainted ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Whom she prefers , as she can choose but one ,", "When we know"], "true_target": ["By our so long tri 'd friendship we have vow 'd", "The other shall desist ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To give me warning ?", "Why do ye appear ?", "I hear it like a man .", "Heard ye of Lisander ?", "It shall be done .", "Do you know our travel ?", "Is't in our power ?", "He 's a good fellow ,", "Why then he shall come by your leave my friend ,", "Be proud of such a friend .", "\u2018 Tis late Sir , I hear none stirring .", "I'le fetch him up my self .", "My Brother Lidian , Clarange , and their seconds ."], "true_target": ["Of the Country people , \u2018 tis spoken every where .", "In him that is refus 'd , is not alone", "No work of excellence but still Lisander ,", "Go call your Master up .", "We have supp 'd well friend ; let our beds be ready ,", "But how this resolution will hold", "And such a one I know you love to laugh with ;", "Doubtfull , but dangerous .", "We must be stirring early .", "\u2018 Tis yet your purpose ,", "Pray ye one word more , is't in your power mine Host ,", "Answer me softly , some hours before my death ,", "Go thy waies , Worthy .", "Such is the rumour , and \u2018 tis general ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Hope for from me ; from Lidian I expect ,", "The sweetness of his manners , youth , and vertues", "A fairer fortune than they can in reason", "A kind of Majesty which should command ,", "Nay should I adde a Princess of the bloud ,", "My envie at her happiness would kill me .", "So vehement my affection is to both ,"], "true_target": ["When I have made him mine , all pleasures that", "Not sue for favour . If the fairest Lady", "Of France , set forth with natures best endowments", "Can give assurance of : but turning this way", "I thus look with equal eyes on both ; either deserves", "Did now lay claim to either for a husband ,", "To brave Clarange , in his face appears"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["It is not well , nor like a Gentleman .", "To what may love , and the Devil jealousie spur you", "Help , the Lady sinks , malice hath kill 'd her .", "Both noble servants , for whose gentle offers ,", "Go from me both contentedly , and he", "But how should I be assur 'd Sir", "O best friend , my honour 's at the stake too , for \u2014", "Abundance makes me poor ; such is the hard", "And to preserve your friendship I resolve", "That last makes his return , and comes to visit ,", "They should not be , their lives and their opinions ,", "My heart 's too big to utter more : come friend .", "My fears foresaw \u2018 twould come to this .", "Is too apparent : my name 's call 'd in question :", "How am I sham 'd ? how is your vertue tainted ?", "The most untimely death of such a Gentleman ,", "Is ever bound ; you love both , fair , and vertuously ;", "And afterward it fall out contrary ,", "Of this Gentlemans death ? if I should credit it ,", "Condition of my fortune ; be your own judges ;", "You are both brave gentlemen , I'le still profess it ,", "And that before my life I must prefer ;"], "true_target": ["To me Sir ?", "Then hear what for your satisfaction ,", "Against my self , and \u2018 tis not to be alter 'd :", "Witness these tears I love both , as I know", "I must confess I am not sorry Sir", "Your swords flie out , your angers range at large :", "If one I lean to , the other is disvalued ;", "It is at length resolv 'd .", "\u2018 Tis still more strange , is there no foul play in it ?", "As much amazes me , as your report Clarange 's dead .", "The undeserving , and the poor Olinda", "Would I could be so happy to content both :", "Then what a murther of my modesty follows ?", "Like brightest purest flames should still burn upwards ,", "I'le steer the same course with you .", "You burn with equal flames , and so affect me ;", "Comes to my bed . You know my will : farewel ;", "Which since I cannot , take this resolute answer ;", "For your fair fortune ; yet \u2018 tis fit I grieve", "You are fierie both , and love will make you warmer .", "If I should favour both , \u2018 twill taint my honour ,", "He was my worthy Servant .", "That for my love you should turn Hermit Lidian ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And those last Rites perform 'd , he did", "Command what you please ,", "Some tears of friendship on his Monument ,", "He did injoin me at his death to shed", "equeath you", "My youth can hope for , Madam , with him buried ;"], "true_target": ["Nor had I ever left my cell , but that", "He is so , and all comforts", "Or I indeed could wish to my embraces .", "And you shall see how willingly we will execute .", "Come let us not be idle .", "As the best legacie a friend could give ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Rivals and honours make men stand at distance .", "And Jacomo behind him .", "We then woo 'd with advantage , but were friends still ,", "So is a resty Jade a horse of service ,", "Time call 'd us on to Arms , we were one Souldier ,", "At length considering what our love must grow to ,", "We could not both enjoy the Ladies favour ,", "Farewel to ye .", "Me thinks a man is misery enough .", "To part both from her , and the last returning", "I will go far enough , and be the last too ,", "The like to you , fair Sir : pray you come near .", "If he would leave his nature ; give me one", "Gloried alike one in anothers nobleness :", "Be ready for I see Fabritio running ,", "Ever affecting , one bed holding us ,", "Not to be wean 'd , when I should marry him ;", "Saluted fairly , kept the peace of love ,", "By your leave Sir to make a husband of"], "true_target": ["Alike we sought our dangers and our honours ,", "And woo 'd a long time with one fair affection ;", "Without some scandal to her reputation ,", "One grief , and one joy parted still between us ,", "I'le home .", "A Gentleman of noble hope , one Lidian ,", "My self", "And she , as it appears , loves us alike too .", "We grew up till we were men , held one heart still :", "Or ne 're return .", "Yes , presently .", "One company , one friendship , and one exercise", "We lov 'd one woman , lov 'd without division ,", "We put it to her choice , this was her sentence ,", "When Arms had made us fit , we were one lover ,", "More than companions , twins in all our actions ,", "And for my part ,", "Should be her Lord ; we obey 'd , and now you know it ;", "Both brought up from our infancy together ,", "And covet in the end , this one was parted ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twas his desire to dedicate this service", "I am sure ye have touch 'd me deep , I came to be merry ,", "Your Hostesses in Innes should be blith things ,", "With strong assurance of her innocence", "The wish 'd recovery of her reputation ,", "When once he had drawn bloud , and flesh 'd his sword ,", "Her life in question , yet I would not purchase", "And is this all", "I have been shot that men might see clean through me ,", "When a slight woman was thought worth a quarrel .", "I heard it so too ;", "They have alledg 'd", "And trod down Troops to save their lives : so this man", "I like the noise well , and I come to trie it .", "Or lay it by your Master .", "I will stand nearer to him ,", "Then do mine host 's desire , and so return ,", "I may believe my Grannam . We will wash", "If they be , speak ?", "A SONG .", "And fitter for a bed than long discourses .", "To fright mens sleeps , have we ne 're a pispot ready ?", "When he once toss 'd his blade ! in face Adonis ,", "The same with which he rescued me .", "My Daughters reputation being wounded", "boldly commands me ,", "My good Genius did prompt her to it . LeAt your feet thus prostrate , I second her petition .", "Then o \u2019 my conscience he will come but lamely ,", "And discourse worse .", "Ready to answer with her life the fact", "And may stand an example in the Court", "To whom she ow 'd much more ?", "You are to undergo , will but refine ,", "Sir , \u2018 twas my ambition ,", "And yet I fainted not : besides my self ,", "That he deny 'd me too : a vow had bar 'd him .", "Is he i'th \u2019 house ?", "I am your servant .", "And stirr 'd , and laid about me with new spirit ,", "Lament what he had done , cursing her lust ,", "Be not offended if I anger ye .", "My men too with new hearts thrust into action ,", "I 'll see her ere I go .", "Such then he look 'd : and as her shield had arm 'd him .", "And \u2018 tis so common , I do half believe it ,", "And your horse shall have his sup :", "Leave crying , and I'le tell you ,", "A curl 'd hair Gentleman stept in , a stranger ,", "Thou hast a clear and noble soul ; for thy sake", "So near we were . Alas poor wench , wipe , wipe .", "Mine honest Host , here 's to ye .", "As the preserver of my life , the man", "For her good man ; well done ; here 's to Lisander .", "I'th \u2019 general opinion , to have it", "How many more have you to love so Lady ?", "As he rod by , belike he heard our bickering ,", "I should have heard o n't", "I did Son , but time , and arms have worn me out .", "I could wish you warmer company mine Host ,", "Hath printed some taint on her fame , and brought", "As he did in the Inn ? these waking dreams", "Of Justice . If she prove true gold when try 'd ,", "Take you yours , Lisander ;", "But I am dead and cannot do ;", "Coming to see you , I was set upon ,", "Suppose that she had chang 'd discourse with one", "I must confess I am weak ,", "I would so claw his pate .", "We will have a health unto Lisander .", "Me , and my weak men lodg 'd , and dress 'd ; I urg 'd him", "With the eyes of sorrow", "To bed , to bed , \u2018 tis very late .", "You told me of ? \u2018 thas been my custom ever", "But he is gone , thou fell'st untimely , Lidian ,", "But you fear 'd that .", "Rather your lewdness , I crave your mercy , women ,", "And not consume your honour .", "He told me he had business , crav 'd my pardon ,", "Two or three Guns ; I have one here in my buttock ,", "We 'll find Lisander , or we have ill-fortune .", "How does my poor Daughter", "How he bestirr 'd him ! what a lane he made !", "This is a special favour ,", "Not dreaming of an ambush of base Rogues ,", "On both sides by Saint Denis .", "To see what house you keep , they say you are bountifull ,", "Or write it on thy heart .", "If I had done so", "Pretty , and young to draw in passengers ;", "Brook her restraint ?", "And a Capon for the sinner ,", "And more than once or twice we made them shun us ,", "No , not this hour , I prethee sit and chat by me .", "Good Son bear up , you have many years to live", "Nay , if you fall to fainting ,", "To my unhappy Daughter , though it were", "And get your plaisters , and your warm stupes ready :", "Or place to argue now : this cause must be", "Let 's not leave him ; his mind 's much troubled .", "Our poor blouds were ingag 'd : yet we strook bravely ,", "I 'll hold that man mine enemy , who dares mutter ,", "I and my men , as we were singing frolickly ,", "And I shall smile though under ground .", "Calista to her fortune .", "Is he a bed with his wife ?", "You 'll sleep the better ,", "You shall find ready when you are up ,", "Come joy on all sides ;", "It was a grief might have concern 'd you near too .", "Among these murtherers ,", "I , I , and a good fellow ,", "That 's well said .", "Call for the best the house may ring ,", "Plover , Partridge for your dinner ,", "Or to be mercifull unto our souls ;", "Has not mine Host a wife ?", "And blew his fierie parts into a flame ,", "To me this protestation 's useless , I embrace you ,", "As all the Advocates of France can plead", "And took him with thee too , thou lov'st brave company ,", "A match my Son ; pray let your wine be living ,", "She , Beronte ?", "Like Pallas , when she sits between two armies ,", "Then here 's to ye , to comfort your cold body .", "Of my Lisander , for whose life , if found ,", "You'l find but cold drink in the grave ;", "I cannot sleep yet , where 's the jovial host", "At the meer name of hurt to change thy colour ?", "Decided by the Judge ; and though a Father ,", "How ever we are us 'd .", "Take \u2018 em in that tune .", "There 's comfort yet .", "Heaven can send ayds ,", "That she is charg 'd with .", "The Peers of France are pillage there , they shot at us ,", "She'l never fill her beds well , if she be not beauteous .", "When like to lightning he broke through his vanguard ,", "Lord what a lightning methought flew about him ,", "\u2018 Tis late and cold , stir up the fire ;", "I'le strike the first stroak at her .", "Rogues that would hang themselves for a fresh doublet ,", "For courtesie ; it is the Clients duty", "First hither , that I might more freely thank him :", "And shrink their rugged heads : but we were hurt all .", "Lisander \u2014", "Commend my love to her , and my Prayers for her health ,", "Shall he come out on 's coffin to bear us company ,", "Welcom welcom shall flye round ,", "Fitted his manly metal to his spirit ,", "When they are least expected , let us walk ,", "Sans question the murtherer .", "Forgive me , Madam ,", "Daughter you must remember him when I am dead ,", "The proof you can alledge ? Lisander guilty ,", "as your loves do ,", "Set on i'th \u2019 forest , I have forgot the name \u2014", "With a shaven crown ?", "Were he alive again , and well dispos 'd ,", "All that", "The Devils Oratrix .", "Hark , what 's that , a Lute ? \u2018 Tis at the door I think ."], "true_target": ["Ghosts never walk till after mid-night , if", "Or with some other guests ?", "How do you Son ?", "How do you find his Majesty affected ?", "But to the King and Heaven , to entreat you", "Thou ly'st , I'le prove it on thy head ,", "My Son Cleander bathing", "The Court is not the sphere where vertue moves ,", "Ne 're a great belly yet ? how have you trifl 'd ?", "Be ready .", "I know not that , from me he late departed ,", "But suppose Heaven hath design 'd some", "The rarest , and the roundest , of his friends ,", "A thousand .", "Trust not a Knaves look ,", "I do believe him .", "No , a Gun , dear Daughter ;", "These thoughts away with Wine , spight of Hobgoblins .", "That drew him to that blody fact .", "To your fair thoughts .", "But when his noble anger stirr 'd his metal ,", "Beronte , Alcidon ; more lights .", "Take up your part of sorrow , mine shall be", "And through their fierie Bullets thrust securely :", "\u2018 Tis morning sure , the Fiddlers are got up", "Unspotted hands before the King , this tryal", "While peace inhabited between his eye-brows :", "To parley with mine host .", "Adieu , Sir .", "\u2018 Twould trouble a Surgeons teeth to pull it out .", "As I rode sadly by , unto himself", "And take some little rest , an hour or two ,", "How the Greeks frighted ran away by Troops ,", "The same , the same , in that accursed Forest ,", "To see him rise and Fiddle \u2014 Hark , a Song .", "You bring no witness here , that may convince ye", "All happiness attend you ; go thy ways ,", "They were both fools to fight for such a Fiddle ;", "Why ? what forbids you ?", "Where had you knowledge ?", "With some compunction , though this devil had none ,", "He came to execute , and not to argue .", "A suit soon ended .", "To wait upon his Patron ; you prevent me ,", "What e'r they are , I am too old to fear .", "in a noble way ,", "And howsoever your affection", "But by a valiant hand , that 's some small comfort ,", "She 's mine : if not , with curses I'le disclaim her :", "Of breach of faith to your Lords bed , and hold up", "But I durst never tell .", "I will deliver her into the hands", "Who are to fight against your life , yet if", "They are like a Whores Oaths ;", "He might have liv 'd to have been your Master , Lady ,", "kill not so many", "You behold this preparation , and the enemies", "Business of much import .", "Set on by villains , that make boot of all men ,", "Have you ne 're a Shepheard that can tarr us over ?", "He sings well , the Devil has a pleasant pipe .", "The hardned villains wondring at his confidence ,", "Here \u2018 tis but a cold Ceremony , ere long", "I see you as a Brother : let your witnesses", "Remains of him lies there : look on this object ,", "I will , for now you please me : this brave youth ,", "Your bed of wanton down 's the best ,", "I would have her live ,", "When you are a bed ,", "And forty stoops of wine drank at thy funeral .", "\u2018 Twill prove a business else , we are so many .", "Here are an hospital of hurt men for ye .", "Bless my fair child , I am come to visit yee ,", "Cleander 's murtherer , in a wood I heard him", "Your mother groan 'd for't wench , so did some other ,", "Is this he ?", "Take leave of her , there \u2018 twill be worth the taking ;", "Saw our distresses , drew his sword , and prov 'd", "Hurt us , un-hors 'd us , came to the sword , there pli 'd us ,", "Of your imagination : can you think", "Dispers 'd these slaves : had they been more and mightier ,", "This wine drinks merrier still , O for mine Host now ,", "Against my will Sir .", "To flye hence with all possible speed , and leave", "There 's no redemption ; my excess of love ,", "Sit close , and draw the Table nigher ;", "Other saving means for her deliverance ?", "Nay put in dice and drunkenness", "And with my children , but to see one ruin 'd", "Who 's that ?", "Good luck , I never miss , I was ever good at it :", "I could wish you wenches too ,", "Dead both ?", "More lights Knaves ;", "As much to wake your sleeping mercy , Sir ,", "Opprest us with fresh multitudes , fresh shot still ,", "Be merry , and drink wine that 's old ,", "That will mistake sometimes a Gentleman", "A vain Chimera", "A hearty medicine \u2018 gainst a cold .", "The hour of tryal draws near .", "Weeping will do no good , you lost a servant ,", "By this fell accident \u2014 are they all dead ?", "Your Brothers , and your friends grief , servants sorrow .", "Another coffin , that is not so handsom ;", "And down the Rogues went .", "After our prayers made to Heaven to help us ,", "And nam 'd you mine : I think that 's all his knowledge .", "Sack , White , and Claret let them bring ,", "See Heaven sends remedy .", "It seems so .", "That am your humble Suitor .", "Find credit , the light breaks apace , let 's lie down", "\u2018 Tis time for me to trudge : art such a coward ,", "Be silent ; the King .", "Heaven will not suffer honest men to perish .", "To whom my son ows his , with life , his honour ,", "A comfort to us all : let 's in to supper ;", "And we not bid him welcom ? come mine Host ,", "Cur 'd by a publick trial ; I had else", "And in a noble sort requite his piety ,", "Distraction in your Family : see the tears", "Since I dare swear she 's innocent : \u2018 tis no time", "An Host !", "Humanity , and Nobleness waiting on her .", "Not alone trouble you , but strike a strange", "In his own gore . The Devil , to tell truth , i'th \u2019 shape of", "You have lost a Brother , wench , he lov 'd you well ,", "Mine Host would not as well have spoke to me now ,", "Lame as I was I follow 'd , and admir 'd too ,", "Where you shall tumble to your rest ;", "I love to make mine Host drunk , he will lye then", "Viewing with horrid brows their sad events ,", "Put in Clarange too ; off with't , I thank ye ;", "He had come off the greater , and more wonder .", "Speak , are ye dead ?", "Certain there was a dearth of noble anger ,", "And for a Scarlet Cassock kill their Fathers .", "This if told , will not", "Rescue ? where ? shew me your danger .", "And drink apace while breath you have ,", "I would give a brace of French Crowns", "And might have liv 'd to have done his country service ,", "I nam 'd you ,", "Before the King her Judge , with certain loss", "Thou hast him safe ?", "And then turn marble .", "Indeed ! I heard a Pistol , let 's search about .", "But not without that pious care to see safe", "Who 's that ?", "In his defence .", "Forborn your Majesties trouble : I'le bring forth", "Upon my knees , which yet were never bent ,", "My usual physick that way .", "This bud of Mars , for yet he is no riper ,", "Now , what 's the matter ?", "His quarrels , and his guests , and they are the best bauds too ,", "Of my poor Daughter , fair Olinda 's sadness ,", "I'le tell thee what I think , the plague , war , famine ,", "In any circumstance but shew her guilty ,", "Or my poor Daughter an Adulteress ?", "Remember but the storie of strong Hector ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["My good Calista ?"], "true_target": ["See how she blushes !", "\u2018 Tis a good sign you'l mend your fault , how dost thou ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["What think ye of these ? they are every one hurt soundly ,"], "true_target": ["Hurt to the proof , they are through , and through I assure ye ;", "And that 's good game , they scorn your puling scratches ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Since you forsook the Gentlemen you talk 'd with", "The vertuous Widow .", "Are full of penitence .", "This evening to her without fail .", "I know his name .", "At door , would speak with you on private business .", "And none but you I am sent to : wiser men", "\u2018 Tis you Sir ,", "press to see you ,", "Would have been thankful sooner , and receiv 'd it ,", "And will not be deny 'd .", "This only Sir ; she would intreat you come", "No Sir , \u2018 tis to you", "They need no Usher , they make their own way .", "He hath no such invention , for his looks", "He saies so , and brings haste about him .", "And from a woman of her excellence ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis not a fortune every man can brag of ,", "He must break through three doors , and cut the throats", "I am sure my Mistris sent it .", "Just at her door .", "Good Sir take it ,", "Of ten tall fellows , if that he \u2018 scape us ;", "There is a Gentleman", "Monsieur Lemure .", "One shot at me , and miss 'd me .", "As well becomes your Lordships Child .", "We will Sir .", "You ghess where .", "Two Gentlemen", "As fast as locks can make him ;", "And if you will , I'le swear she sent it to you ,", "Besides , as far as I can apprehend ,", "For I am sure mine eye never went off ye", "With such a resolution"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Guilty of the dishonour of your Daughter ,", "May I not kiss ye now in superstition ?", "And here the fury of the King shall find me", "For that I truly grieve for .", "A mischief above all I have groan 'd under ;", "Once more , and let me dye .", "The vertues of your mind I 'll make my Library ,", "Without a noise , with still prayers , and soft murmurs ;", "And I'le go on , can Heaven be pleas 'd with these things ?", "And may I be the same when I dishonour ye ;", "It should be exquisite .", "Unpunish 'd ? does she suffer so much for me ,", "To a vow 'd friend , no quarrels seconded", "I am amaz 'd ! So young , and so religious ?", "I 'll pay my true Repentance , to the times ,", "Like Crutches , carry my decayed Body", "Prepar 'd for Heaven , if I am mark 'd to dye ;", "Perish all such with thee that wish it longer ,", "Upon her Altars offer your obedience ,", "As you can tye unto your self , he 's ready ,", "And in a young man more remarkable .", "We should not prize too high .", "And Natures noblest , brightest flame burns in me ;", "\u2018 Tis no joy , Lady ,", "You see I am a Statue ,", "Euphrates , Ganges , Tigris , Volga , Po ,", "The last Act of my Play , till now applauded ,", "Prethee good Lancelot remember that", "I can pretend no right to : come not near me ,", "Death more than loss of Honour .", "Whatsoe'er thou art ,", "Can all the winds of mischief , from all Quarters ,", "The Roses in the pride of May shew pale to her ;", "Farewel , bright Lady ,", "O blessed Saints , forsake her in affliction ? can you", "What are these ?", "To see two hearts that have been twin 'd together ,", "Fix on your friendship Sir , I know you are noble ,", "Is of no moment ; my good Angel keep me", "Excellent Objects kill our sight , she blinds me ;", "I will be a dog else ;", "Beyond this , give it , and at once dispatch me .", "The Torturers part ; if that there be a blow", "Above belief : do you inhabit here ?", "The Chains of their Religion and Allegiance ,", "And be sure ye sleep not .", "His fall deserv 'd an Earth-quake , if compar 'd", "And holy Incense flung with white hand-innocence ;", "And write her name anew in the fair legend", "May challenge from me to be freely tender 'd ?", "And so pass by ; I am blind as ignorance ,", "Of one growth , of one nourishment , one health ,", "I sin 'd against Cleanders life , or live", "if thou flye not from me ,", "I do forget mine own woes .", "I am hurt here ; how sweetly now she blushes !", "A prettie wench too .", "As not one joint of my dismember 'd limbs", "It comes on louder .", "She is drawn with doves to shew her peacefulness ,", "I am worn away , my faith , my dull obedience", "O Tyrant , Custom ! and O Coward , Honour !", "And step but inward to your old affection ;", "You may look on me as a Homicide ,", "Can love be pleas 'd ? love is a gentle spirit ,", "Kill me , and save your self ; save your fair honour ,", "This blessed tract ? here 's in the heart no falshood", "I have tasted a blessedness too great for dull mortality ,", "Let me err that way .", "But yield a little , be one hour a Woman ,", "And know not where I wander , how I live ,", "In my afflictions ; they are so full already ,", "In th \u2019 agony of my spirit , I do accuse", "Is not so full of perfumes , as her breath is ;", "I may be piece-meal torn , and blown so far ,", "Lions and bloody Pards are Mars 's servants ;", "What I should speak .", "Married in friendship to the world , to wonder ,", "Here in a dream , as if it had no substance ?", "Shall any other pay my debt , while I", "My safety before hers ? shall innocence", "The life you give ,", "The house is here before us , and some may hear us ;", "In her be branded , and my guilt escape", "And with those eyes , that clearness will become ye :", "I nobly thank ye ;", "Answer me truly .", "Peace Knave ,", "Give fire unto it , while I nail my breast", "Examine but that soul grew to your bosom ,", "Try it to understand it , we 'll do nothing ,", "The edge will turn again , asham 'd , and blunted ;", "As we were dreaming both , let us embrace ;", "The Bridegroom too , and with just cause curse Hymen ;", "To think of his ,", "How ye compel me to put on mine own Chains !", "\u2018 Tis a terrible pang ,", "Speak it at large ,", "To mortal anger ? \u2018 gainst the man ye love most ?", "Have ye the name of vertuous , not the nature ?", "Light to direct me , for Devotions sake ,", "Here , or hereafter , circle me .", "And take some care for your hurts , then I will part too ,", "Ye wound her now ; ye are too superstitious ,", "My life ?", "Shall I shoot him ?", "This is some comfort", "That fire ye kindle to her deity", "But wherefore do I envy , and not tread in", "For you appear a thing that I would kneel to ;", "Still ready to lay down for your service ,", "Can you decline this nobleness to anger ?", "Unto his thundring mouth , that in the instant ,", "And false stamp 'd reputation to shake off", "Your hate should win the victory from both , with justice ,", "She is asleep ,", "From Blasphemy , and strike me dumb before ,", "Heavenly ones ;", "Honour of woman-kind , a heavenly blessing .", "That you deliver 'd him to me Clarange :", "Be added to it ?", "The Powers above , for their unjust permission", "They can find no encrease .", "Without the curses of my Creditors ;", "By any means , I love to see a Gentlewoman ,", "Thy Master 's life is in thy trust , and therefore", "Dead .", "Is this wound too narrow", "Yet happily you love too .", "Clarange dead ?", "The Candles are all out .", "March but an hour or two under Loves Ensigns ,", "Let it but clear Calista 's innocence ,", "O my base thoughts ! pray ye take this and shoot me .", "No , I adore it ; let me kiss your hand ,", "By giving the World just cause to say , I fear 'd", "Is my dear friend abed ?"], "true_target": ["Midnight ? and I stand quietly to behold it so ?", "Cleander ! Yet , why name I him ? however", "Heaven keep my hand from murther ,", "Or took into my bloud a drowzie Poyson ,", "And must I go ? Must here end all my happiness ?", "That yet may live to kill you , he stands nobly ,", "You 'll ne'r come to know pure good else .", "But if", "The Alarm rung , and I sleep like a Coward ?", "And \u2018 tis the Crown of Justice , and the glory", "Friend .", "Step to the Garden-door , and feel and't be open .", "The value of it is as time hath made it ,", "A man may here repent his sins , and though", "You must be silent then .", "And on my Sword your Chastity shall sit ,", "Here then ends my flight ,", "I'th \u2019 depth of meditation do you not", "I could not stand else as I had eaten Ice ,", "Honour ? what 's that ? \u2018 tis but a specious title", "Your Constancy , my Armour that I 'll fight in ;", "As from the Plague or Leprosie , cannot keep thee", "On all the bonds of gratitude I have seal 'd to ,", "But in the taste of that weak fears call evil ,", "The least beholdingness for that which she", "His sword as sharp , view him with that remembrance ,", "With penitence and true contrition wash 'd off ;", "I am wondrous honest .", "For me unworthy , and shall I decline", "The wind that blows the April flowers , not softer ;", "That comes but to behold those eyes again ,", "No sacrifice of bloud , or death she longs for .", "Societies and Kingdoms .", "Within her eyes \u2018 has lockt the graces up ,", "For my life to get out at ? Bring me to", "That lyes hurt in your cause , and bring him off ,", "That honorable attribute thou giv'st me ,", "Nor hazarded in brawles .", "And much less for the airy words of Honour ,", "Banish 'd , proscrib 'd , is there ought else that can", "Avert it mercy ! I will go to my Grave ,", "And seal the fair faith of a Gentleman on it .", "In which I 'll study the celestial beauty ;", "First , let 's relieve the Gentleman", "Write my self Bankrupt ? or Calista owe", "From being polluted .", "A Cannon loaded , and some pitying friend", "Till I receive from their bright influence", "You must lye there a while , I cannot help you .", "A memorable President to admonish", "With what true honour in Calista suffers ,", "Shall be against your enemies imploy 'd ,", "Of two of his lov 'd subjects lives , I 'll offer", "Of the word Reputation , murther follows .", "We are no gods , to be always tyed to strictness ,", "Be not enrag 'd , nor be not angry with me ;", "His hand like mine be stain 'd in bloud , it may be", "Be very carefull .", "Sometimes think of Olinda ?", "May all the miseries that can fall on man", "The bounds , Alcidon ?", "My obligation to her , to the King ,", "Of Vertue , innocent Vertue , to be branded", "in thought", "My cause Clarange too , view this brave Gentleman ,", "I warrant ye ;", "Go to your horse , and keep your watch with care , Sirrah ,", "Murther of him I love .", "Cloridon , Chrysanthes , spare my grief , and apprehend", "Others , however valiant , not to trust", "And not your brawls ; she 's won with tears , not terrors :", "Which being uncompell 'd , laid down will clear her ,", "This I may do again .", "A man whose life is forfeited to the Law ,", "And time and custome have too far insulted ,", "To one so well deserving , as to value", "As Innocents , that know not what we did ;", "You have done well hitherto ; where are we now ?", "Fierce Love hath clos 'd his lights , I may look on her ,", "To whom I stand accountable for the loss", "Be so unnatural to your own bloud ,", "And yet it will not do , I live yet , act not", "Of the best women ? seek not to disswade me ,", "Lidian , you are the pattern of fair friendship ,", "\u2018 Tis a presumption to shew too like \u2018 em ;", "A longing Bride if she stop here , would cry ,", "On your sacred hand , I vow to do it seriously .", "I may behold and live ; how sweet she breaths !", "Honour guard the innocent .", "Down to the Grave , I have no youth within me ,", "She is the abstract of all Excellence , and scorns a Parallel .", "The sin is none of ours then , but our fancies ;", "Present , and future , I 'll be register 'd", "Would ye serve love ? do it with humbleness ,", "The orient morning breaking out in odours", "The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy ;", "Paying at once their tribute to this Ocean ,", "You dare not heal me , Lady ?", "Thus mortally divorc 'd for one weak woman ?", "For sweetness of your spirit made a Saint ,", "I 'll vindicate her fair name , and so cancel", "To their abilities to dare , and do ,", "And holy Saints are all relenting sweetness ,", "Your servant , your most obedient slave", "Make it swell higher ? I am a Murtherer ,", "And pay some Vows I have to sacred Beauty ,", "With the least vicious mark .", "I will not , like a careless Poet , spoil", "Where it may kill with right , to save with pity .", "And has as great a promise of the day", "My base lascivious life , shoot quickly , Lady .", "You are the Saint I tread these holy steps to ,", "Well , sweet Lady .", "And lay the fault on me , let my life perish ,", "The principal means appointed to prefer", "Of thy profession", "I am infectious , the sanctity", "A third unfortunate , and willing wanderer .", "Terrour to rebel bloud .", "May ever be by search of man found out .", "Since grief must break my heart , I am ambitious", "With Challenges , which answer 'd in defence", "Is only gratefull when it 's blown with sighs ,", "I am ready Sir , fortune thou hast made me monstrous .", "Exampled for your love , and imitated ,", "You have prov 'd it , Lidian .", "We have Examples of great memories \u2014", "And give your Will but motion , let it stir", "My Villain thoughts !", "Other means ? that is", "Mine own in satisfaction , to Heaven", "View him , as you reported him ; survey him ,", "The Temple of true hearts , stor 'd with affections ,", "The course of Justice to draw out a life ?", "And try then if your sword will bite , it cannot ,", "What have I said ? what blasphemy to honour ?", "I have found a way , let 's slip into this errour", "Hold , or I'le turn , and bend my sword against ye ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Speedily back \u2018 em ; the Archers of the Kings guard", "Out-right . If you ride at this rate ,", "I am as fine a Fairie in a business", "\u2018 Tis a handsom girle , Mistris Clarinda .", "Another mans Wife , and do the feat .", "Here were a night to chuse to run away with", "\u2018 Tis not the first time I have gone invisible :", "Sir , I have bought", "Not far from the house , I hear by th \u2019 Owls ,", "Are every where in quest of you ."], "true_target": ["Fresh horses ; and as you respect your life ,", "You must resolve to kill your two a day ,", "There are many of your Welch falkoners about it ;", "Concerning night-work \u2014", "I warrant ye ;", "And that 's a large proportion .", "I see it simper hither , pray come this way .", "But one i'th \u2019 Parlour ,", "I will lose mine own , rather than hazard yours .", "I am gone , Sir ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Her innocence ; the oath she took , I swear to ;", "That fatal night when he in his own house fell ,", "To save the Father yesterday , and this morning ,", "If there be any odds in mine , we will exchange .", "I will retire the while , to the next room .", "The only way to make the Daughter doat on me .", "O Calista ! the fairest ! cruellest !", "I was viewing Sir ,", "Or that she had a hand i n't , I can prove", "I came prepar 'd for't ,", "And gives eternal being to fair beauty ,", "Now if you please go forward in your storie", "A sentence of much cruelty ;", "What is that Lidian pray ye ?", "I long to know him .", "Take what disguise", "No life to sacrifice , but part of hers ?", "Believe me it stands healthfully and sweetly .", "My Ladies Brother ?", "And offer up a guilty life to clear", "No cause to heave my sword against but his ?", "To help to kill the Son ? this is most courteous !", "Of your dear friend and Mistris .", "Ye are a fair storie of your friend .", "All 's fair here .", "The site of your house , and the handsomness about it :", "Leave your vanities :", "That part of noble love which is most sweet ,", "Calista 's woman ."], "true_target": ["But mild , compar 'd with what 's pronounc 'd on me .", "convey this Letter to", "With this purse", "And that ye fight to crown , ye kill , fair credit .", "I have made her mine . You know your work .", "I do confess : of what years is this Lidian ?", "No , no , I must on now ; this will be kindly taken ;", "And many daies before , I was distant from it", "To press you , I would go .", "Farewel friend .", "Honour , you hack i \u2019 pieces with your swords ,", "Do you fight straight ?", "Why ?", "And for Cleander 's death , to purge my self", "I have seen her Sir .", "To keep your self unknown .", "Why , what 's the matter ?", "From any colour malice can paint on me ,", "A long daies journey .", "I shall endure Sir .", "You in your own discretion shall think fittest ,", "Our loving youth is born to many miseries .", "I am no Capuchin , why should not I go ?", "And will , thou clear example of womens pureness .", "I return it :", "If it be not unmannerly", "They are very loud . Now what 's the news ?", "No indeed , to do you service , I account a pleasure .", "And't be but a little , you may take me with ye ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Like two learned Almanack-Makers , of the Stars ,", "Send me out the Dairy-maid", "Look back , you'l find it true ; nay , open it ,", "And tell what a plentiful year \u2018 twill prove of Drunkards .", "I am going , luck deliver me from the saw-pits ,", "\u2018 Tis good Gold I assure you .", "Yes ; and in that posture plaid at the old game ,", "Ye are a great woman with your Lady , and", "And if I sweat not in it ,", "You have lain crooked .", "Keep watch without it , I am apt to dance ,", "No , \u2018 tis a Cricket , ha ? here 's a Cuckold buried ,", "To knock my Nose against when I am nodding ,", "There is a noble Knight Lisander loves her ,", "I should sing like a Nightingale , but I must", "Whom she regards not , and the destinies", "Tasted his bounty , for which , from the skye", "Bountifull wench may'st thou ne 're want imployment ."], "true_target": ["Take heed of his horns , Sir , here 's the door , \u2018 tis open .", "There are 200. crowns dropp 'd in a Purse ,", "That by your means alone , he must enjoy her .", "With whom I am familiar , have deliver 'd", "Your hand again , yes , yes ; you have already", "If I had but a pottle of Sack , like a sharp prickle ,", "Yes Mistris and what 's past ;", "To play at trump with me , and keep me waking ,", "Nor who I am .", "My fellow horse and I must now discourse", "Acquainted with her counsels .", "Good fortune guide me from the Faries Circles .", "Or I am buried quick ; I hear a Dog ,", "At my return discard me .", "And the fortune-teller , his servant Lancelot .", "Promis 'd him your assistance , and what 's more ,", "And at it lost your maiden-head .", "Unglove your hand , by this straight line I see"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Games won and lost on equal terms shew fairest .", "I can give reason to make satisfaction", "A true friend will dye in your defence .", "I know you are so full of brave acquaintance ,", "May it end well .", "As a reward to any man that brings it", "Was at Lisander 's mercy , I live by it ;", "I am tutor 'd : pray you lead the way .", "This second service as a Sacrifice", "And worthy friends , you cannot want a partner :", "You know the custom , and the vantage of it ,", "I would be loth to stand still , Sir ; besides ,", "We'l talk of that", "When we are farther off , farewel .", "In brief , a challenge was brought to Lisander", "And Cloridon , a man in grace at Court ?", "And then make choice of a new piece of ground", "es ; and as far as valour", "I kiss your hand .", "To kiss your fair hand for him , offering", "Alive , or dead ; to gain this , every where", "Acquainted with the cause , if you love vertue ,", "We were all hurt , that bred the general rumour ,", "His house in reason cannot pass unsearcht ,", "Send , we'l defer an hour , let us be equal :", "In danger not secure ; I have no time", "But friends again all , and like friends we parted .", "The ancient difference between Lisander", "If you come in alone .", "Would give him leave , declin 'd by bold Lisander :", "They fought indeed , and they were hurt sufficiently ;", "For what I speak ; you cannot but remember", "To hasten his remove , if he had chosen", "Wil't please you bring a friend ? we are two of us ,", "I before I eat", "And be most welcom , I do beseech you take him ."], "true_target": ["Do me the honour :", "Never King", "Between him and your noble Brother known ,", "This Castle for his sanctuary .", "Y'are a noble Gentleman ,", "I hope so , so is your Son , Sir , so is brave Clarange :", "You'l share with me in both , as soon as you are made", "Alone he met the opposites , ending the quarrel", "Come he may see the Gentlewoman too ,", "I am glad o n't .", "By one Chrysant", "Be in your Brothers house ?", "Pour 'd forth his mercie on a worthier subject .", "Ye are opportunelyet .", "At the Altar of your vertues .", "The King incensed for his favorites death ,", "He is pursu 'd , and laid for ; and the friendship", "I grant it true , but as it now stands with him ,", "\u2018 Tis one in Armour . A bloudy sword in his hand .", "And for the noble favour , he desir 'd me", "To try our fortunes .", "And that 's the principal cause that drew me hither ,", "This I will swear too , for I was not far off .", "Take the Gentleman ,", "With both their lives .", "And here , their swords are equal .", "It is now reveng 'd :", "Hath set a price upon Lisanders head ,", "This will inform you .", "Save ye , Sir .", "Let us do our office first ,", "Must pay a vow I am sworn to ; my life , Madam ,", "And pity either , Sir , should be unfurnish 'd .", "In your votes", "But peace refus 'd , and braves on braves heap 'd on him ,", "Pray you instruct me for I know you not . With Monsieur Clarange I would speak .", "For circumstance , instruct me if Lisander"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Of late as white as innocence , and unspotted ,", "Now wears a purple colour , dy 'd in gore ,", "If I am kill 'd , I am happy .", "I have done a double murther ; and for what ?", "Divine Calista , from her sight , and converse ,", "I have cut off all hopes ever to look on", "For my pass 'd life , how vainly spent : I would", "With flattering hopes , would keep me from despair ,", "And this nights Sun will set in bloud ; I am troubl 'd :", "At any price , and speedily , to get fresh ones .", "Pleading I was provok 'd to it ; but my reason", "Will in a better language speak your service ,", "That follows it , should I be apprehended .", "Was it in service of the King ? his Edicts", "Than your unnecessary , and untimely care of my expence .", "Of all that I was born to , and that sits", "Will you please", "I'th \u2019 popular breath , a sandy ground to build on ;", "Two hopeful sons , that might have done their parts ,", "Enter Lidian , like a Hermite .", "My soul of the same tincture ; pur-blind passion ,"], "true_target": ["Like to a hill of Lead here , in my exile ,", "Are the horses dead ?", "Your duty in obeying my commands ,", "In this thicket", "Command the contrary : or for my Country ?", "In Cloridon , and Chrysanthes she hath lost", "To call my self unto a strict account", "I stood no farther guilty : but I have", "A heavier reckoning to make : This hand", "Bought with the Kings displeasure , as the breach", "Her Genius , like a mourning mother , answers", "You know my danger , and the penalty", "To morrow then ,", "In Parents , Kinsmen , Friends , as the fruition", "To keep th \u2019 opinion of my valour upright ,", "The balefull tidings of this day will break out ,", "Of Heavens decrees , the loss of my true comforts ,", "Breaking such thin and weak defences , tells me", "For ever banish 'd .", "To guard her from Invasion : for what cause then ?", "I will expect you : Here yet I have leisure"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And I have hit it home , and so I'le hold it ,", "The pond , and kitchin , and remember what", "Continue thus disguis 'd , Monsieur Malfort", "No time , nor place for repetition now .", "How had I lost my eyes ,", "Yield up your cause and live .", "Nor such pay boy .", "Ye have it Sir , deliver it , take breath ,", "Spoil me more gloves ,\u2014 enough for once , you'l surfeit", "shall provide", "\u2018 Tis said you can tell fortunes to come .", "Still more strange .", "A shrewd fellow ;", "I will find you imployment , fear not .", "At your intreaty .", "Very good sir , no more but up and ride , I apprehend", "Prevention , Madam , is the nail I knock 'd at ,", "\u2018 Twas manly thrust , this token to the Lady ,", "That may command .", "\u2018 Tis truth , but not to be confess 'd ; in this", "She should behold me like a man fight for her .", "I am glad o n't , to glory i n't is for a mighty Lady", "Your meaning , soft fire makes sweet mault Sir :", "You fight too high , my hand is", "Nay , since we trade both one way , thou shalt have", "That I could not know thee ? not a word of the loss", "They that love this sin , love their security ;"], "true_target": ["A fair ascent from my foot , his slavering kisses", "And you must pardon me , and be silent too ,", "A lodging for you , and good entertainment ;", "And suffer what ye see , and suffer patiently ;", "Pray you forget", "How ? lain crooked ?", "My Ladies pleasure is for th \u2019 entertainment", "There needs no more discoursing ,", "With a welcom answer , but till you receive it ,", "What ever estimation she holds of me ,", "Would she did ;", "I'le answer you in a Proverb .", "Your palmistry deceives you , something else Sir .", "Of my virginity .", "The same for me , come home brave Lidian ,", "Your curious comparisons , borrowed from", "Of her noble Father .", "Of your own making , howsoe'r I'le hear him", "Have at your life then .", "A cunning man", "I see ye bleed apace , ye shall have fair play .", "Some feeling with me , take that .", "I'le use all speedy means for your dispatch", "How , two Letters ? the first indors 'd to me ? this to my Lady ? Subscrib 'd Lisander ?", "I shall do worse else .", "With too much grace .", "Ask not ; I'le come off with honour ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And if it shall happen that you are in doubt of these my speeches , Insomuch that you shall spend more time in arguing at the Door , I am fully perswaded that my Mistris in person from Above , will utter her mind more at large by way of Urine upon your head , that it may sink the more soundly Into your understanding faculties .", "I am gone ; yet one thing e 're I go , there 's at the door", "The strangest things ; he knows ye are my Mistris ,", "Orlando , issu 'd forth .", "I shall beget on you , pray you give him hearing ,"], "true_target": ["The rarest Fortune-teller , he hath told me", "He'l make it good to you .", "I heard \u2018 em when they forc 'd it ; up I rose ,", "And under seal deliver 'd how many Children", "I would learn the art of memory in your table book .", "Took Durindana in my hand ; and like"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The news is bad enough , you need not press it ,", "Would Clarange", "If wishes cou 'd prevail .", "I hear my passing bell .", "Pray you think nobler ."], "true_target": ["I lov 'd him well , I lov 'd \u2018 em both .", "Most strange .", "And Lidian were here too , as they should be ,", "Good Sir , be tender to me ,", "We'l be merry too ,", "Were I to speak again , I would be wiser ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Stifle your judgment ; many an honest Father", "Second against your Brother , by his wisdom", "What you conceal yet .", "The principal , this woman ,", "In my unjust suspicion I did both ;", "I have seen Lisander wear it .", "Yes , and miss 'd him narrowly :", "I understand you not .", "For we are hungry .", "Be constant in your proofs : should you shrink back now ,", "Till when , upon your life be silent .", "And if we make it evident she is guilty", "None else .", "How came your sword into this stewards hands ? stand forth .", "Away with him .", "I join in the same suit .", "Drag the villain hence ,", "Here lyes Cleander dead , and here the sword", "To witness my repentance for the wrong", "Of false Lisander , too long cover 'd with", "That murther was the issue .", "Being presented to you , you'l roar out", "Your life must answer it , nor am I safe .", "Nor ever heretofore", "Than with his friend Cleander .", "A masque of seeming truth .", "Let not choler", "Your Brothers Sword secures you .", "Will much encrease his melancholy .", "In which he is more honour 'd , or more safe ,", "A question calmly : do you know this Sword ?", "My honour being engag 'd to make that good", "Royal Sir , touching that point my Brothers death ,", "The Rack shall force a free confession from him .", "there 's no place", "All was made peace , I'le tell you the rest at dinner ,", "If so ,", "Upon my knowledge he is not there ."], "true_target": ["I am truly sorry for't .", "Was not this Woman", "\u2018 Twas done nobly ,", "Exceeding sad of late ; and the hard fortune", "Which you affirm .", "Your countenance expresses hast mixt with some fear .", "Of one he values at so high a rate ,", "Have you not seen Lisander often wear it ?", "To keep your Husband absent ?", "He was one of the combatants , fought with this Gentleman ,", "Of the first crime we charge her with , Adulterie ,", "A lodging with us ; and at my intreaty", "In private with you , when you feign 'd a sickness ,", "To serve you I will shew it .", "Upon Lisanders life , for a fall given to Cloridon", "Conceal this from my Brother , he is grown", "My Brother ?", "That lies in you : you must , and shall produce him .", "They are well grounded Sir :", "Your instrument ? her silence does confess it :", "The rack", "And you most welcom ; this night pray you take", "What , dead ? ye pose me ;", "Of my dear Brother ,", "Here is one of \u2018 em , and sure this Gentleman 's alive .", "Sir , I look upon you as on a Father .", "I do ; and the foul plot of Cloridons kinsman", "Was he not with you in the house to-night ?", "That being the parent , it may find belief ,", "Her oath in Court . Come forward .", "Why good Sir ?", "\u2018 Tis my care .", "\u2018 Fore the King , as they encountred at a solemn tilting .", "Let me ask", "Give your revenge the reins , and spur it forward .", "With evident proofs her hand was in the bloud", "For many years her servant ; she hath taken", "We build on suppositions .", "Hath got a wicked Daughter . If I prove not"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["With pleading at the bars , none understand", "Let me alone .", "Walk in , and let me alone .", "Madam .", "Do ye compel me ? do you stand so strict too ?", "The greatest torment to a guilty woman", "Madam , ye are deceiv 'd , I look upright ,", "I did repent , and would offend no farther .", "I understand ye not : she has spied Leon ,", "\u2018 Tis he must mediate for me ; but when time", "The door left open , and your husband cozen 'd", "For your own peace ,", "You are the strangest Lady", "I do not know , I leave it to your conscience ,", "will but vex your Ladyship ;", "I do not blush .", "Yes , I had reason for't ,", "Without revenge , till I can fashion it", "Or if you had her , what can she say for ye ?", "I am lost ,", "That 's all one what I know ,", "Nay , then have at ye ; I shall rub that sore , Madam ,", "Your Ladyship is set I think to shame me .", "Shall pour it self on her nice chastitie", "I am caught .", "Men being so willing to believe the worst ,", "And now you are perswaded I'le make use o n't .", "I must submit , at least appear as if"], "true_target": ["Like to a torrent , deeds , not words shall speak me .", "And opportunity bids me strike , my wreak", "Your servant , I would speak with your Ladyship . CWhy dost thou look about ?", "Do not you stick to truth , she is seldom heard , Madam ,", "And on apparent proof , take heed of that , Madam ;", "I am stirring , Madam .", "With a feign 'd sickness ?", "Madam , they did .", "I have no cause that I find yet .", "That none must hear but your Lisander \u2014", "Monsieur Beronte my Lords Brother is", "To have these doubts of me ; how have I liv 'd , Madam ?", "So open eyed in this age to all infamie ,", "Must she not swear he came at midnight to ye ,", "What I will testifie is that shall vex ye ;", "I have private business", "A poor weak tongue she has , and that is hoarse too", "Now or never is an apt time to move her , Madam .", "If you were innocent", "Trust not a guilty rage with likelihoods ,", "In my own hopes forsaken , and must fall", "To put your fame in this weak bark to the venture .", "\u2018 Tis more than I know , Madam ;", "It were the weakest and the poorest part of ye ,", "And which of all my careful services deserves these shames ?", "The peace of your own conscience ask no farther ;", "Oblig 'd unto me for a private favour ;", "her ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To you , which witness he will leave the World ,", "Of a strange accident to try your temper ,", "This journey is devoted .", "Until those Rites and pious Ceremonies", "To give him hearing .", "The cankers of Religion ; his Sermon", "That confirms his", "His solitary Cell , he pen 'd a Ditty ,", "And on his Monument pay a tear or two ,", "He did desire , bathing my hand with tears ,", "Of all the hearers on him ; his own Letters", "My Novice too can sing it , if you please", "But of what value I must not discover ,", "It cannot shake you . You had once a friend ,", "Devotion to be real , no way tainted", "I buried him ;", "Deliver 'd , that it drew the admiration", "His last words were", "A noble friend , Clarange .", "Your false hopes deceive you ,", "Possess 'd of all thy wishes ; and of me", "That though I am th \u2019 unwilling messenger", "And from his dying mouth prevail so with you ,", "And strangely with it .", "His long , and last farewel to Love and Women ,", "And these to fair Olinda , his late Mistriss ,", "So full of gravity , and with such sweetness", "He 's dead ."], "true_target": ["Blessed in her embraces , may remove", "That ever express 'd Rhetorick , solicited", "Yes , Sir ;", "To you", "Some said he dy 'd of melancholy , some of love ,", "In which he hath with all the moving language", "That with my best care , I should seek , and find you ,", "With ostentation , or hyp", "After confession , live long , dear Lidian ,", "Remember your dear friends last request , your sisters dangers ,", "The Lady to forget him , and make you", "With the aids that you may lend her .", "With such poetical Raptures ; I was mov 'd ,", "isie ,", "Yes , and a devout one too ; I heard him preach .", "And of that fondness perish 'd .", "That you a while should leave your Hermits strictness ,", "To witness how you lov 'd him .", "So feelingly , that I confess however", "Ere he entred", "All scrupulous doubts .", "And your adieu unto the world so constant ,", "I expected that you would bear this better .", "There is a Legacy he hath bequeath 'd you ;", "I know your resolution so well grounded ,", "Tear open his Doublet .", "Are duly tender 'd .", "Keep your self conceal 'd , I am instructed .", "It stands not with my order to be taken"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Well Sir .", "Some two dayes journey Son .", "What have you done ? or what intend you ?"], "true_target": ["That were against a good mans charity .", "How do ye approve it ?", "You have abus 'd my trust ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Neither and't like ye .", "They are made Sir .", "Indeed you'l fail Sir .", "He is fast in 's grave , he has been dead these three weeks ."], "true_target": ["He cannot come Sir .", "No , but he is hard by Sir ;", "It shall be quick Sir .", "No certainly ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Where he lays hold , Sir , this is he that scorns", "bless my Buts , Sack is a Jewel ,", "Captain .", "Even so Sir .", "\u2018 Tis comfortable , Gentlemen .", "To wait upon ye Gentlemen ,", "Sweet Captain let me kiss thee , by this hand", "You are welcom noble Gentlemen ,", "My wife , bid her be right and streight , I come boy .", "Upon my conscience , th \u2019 other two are Pagans .", "Why she shall have besides my blessing , and a silver spoon ,", "To fill a grave .", "They shall return in peace .", "My brave old guest most welcom .", "In holy ground , for now I lye unhallowed ,", "And Sirrah , if they quarrel , let \u2018 em use", "\u2018 Thas been my duty living , now my farewel ;", "That is deny 'd me :", "Seek \u2018 em no farther , but be confident", "But my prediction is too sure ; prepare", "Then welcom death , come close mine eyes sweet Captain", "But if I can , so much alive I lov 'd ye ,", "What kind of man ?", "Small Beer should quench him ; or a foolish Caudle", "Would \u2018 t had been better .", "I grieve to be the messenger to tell you ,", "That note 's enough , he 's mine , I 'll fuddle him ,", "I come Sir ,", "And raise her house again .", "Yes indeed am I Gentlemen ,", "I have been dead these three weeks .", "By the clarks fault ; let my new grave be made", "Are sensible of sorrow for the living ,", "To make your peace with heaven . So farewel Sir .", "Enough to keep her stirring in the world ,", "Their own discretions , by all means , and stir not ,", "Next to entreat a courtesie ,"], "true_target": ["To keep my promise ; and as far as spirits", "Captain , adieu , adieu sweet bully Captain ,", "Not a rag ,", "Taste him , and tell me .", "Say I am recreant , I 'll get things ready .", "This shall be ipse ,", "Marry", "If I do not ,", "Yes and \u2018 tis this , to see my body buried", "I love thee next to Malmsey in a morning ,", "Or lye i'th \u2019 suds ; you will be here too ?", "And draw him out to mull amongst old Midwives .", "Spirits Sir , drink not .", "Yes , to seek your friends ,", "I cannot tell ye truly ,", "Has he no Beard to shew him ?", "There 's my Bells boys , my silver Bell .", "Go before finely Robin , and prepare", "It well becomes you , there 's no evading it .", "One kiss before I dye , one kiss .", "Bring him to Bed ; no , if he flinch I 'll shame him ,", "I will appear again , adieu .", "Thou shalt have all .", "And merry Hostes of my kind .", "And he that 's kill 'd shall be as sweetly buried ;", "Shall we bear up still ? Captain how I love thee !", "That in afflictions wander now .", "Amongst good fellows , that have died before me ,", "And then I go to peace .", "Oh , he 's a devilish biting wine , a Tyrant", "Not a Deniere , no , let her spin a Gods name :", "Of all things transitory .", "E 're many hours pass , you must resolve", "Do'st thou Captain ? Sweetly ? and heartily ?", "I fear ye are not us 'd accordingly .", "All my sweet boys farewel .", "Good night .", "Three little Children , one of them was mine"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The rule I err 'd by , you love him , I know it ,", "Is't come to this ? thou puling Rogue , dye thou", "I know it does , why would ye urge me Lady ?", "I wonder ye dare touch me in this point , Madam ?", "Whose sweet embraces circled ye ? not your husbands ;", "Stir her against ye in whose hand your life lies ?", "I nam 'd Lisander as my president ,", "That I dye unreveng 'd .", "And by my care and diligence you enjoy 'd him ,", "Will you have all your self ? ingross all pleasure"], "true_target": ["I'le make your shame blush , since you put me to't . Who lay with you t'other night ?", "Shall I for keeping counsel , have no comfort ?", "Are ye so hard hearted ? why do ye blush now , Madam ?", "Was that I brought you ? that maid had ne 're a petticoat ?", "By which I suffer , all I grieve for is ,", "More than your life , your honour ? what smug Amazon", "I grudg 'd not at it , but am pleas 'd it is so ;", "Why would ye be so curious to compel me ?", "Does it anger ye ? does it a little gall ye ?", "With prayers in thy mouth ; I'le curse the laws"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Your private Conference at mid-night urg 'd", "All Pythagoreans ? not a word ?", "Forbear , there is", "I do , too well .", "Too much blood shed already .", "On the pale Walls of Troy , when Hector fell", "Grown desperate from small disasters , makes us", "His dull invention , might draw to the life", "His Hermits life .", "Your Sword died in his heart-bloud was found near him ,", "Graze thy fill , now", "Lisander , Lidian , and two Reverend Fryars ?", "Of Murther and Adultery , and you", "Your friend , is murther 'd .", "Would never learn to tell a lie , being granted ,", "Thou hast done thy business ; ha ! who have we here ?", "Yet ere you hear it , with all care put on", "Is not yet written .", "I am for Lidian .", "Ill News had wings , and hath got here before me .", "For your sakes mourn 'd ; Clarange 's death , for so", "Give it way , \u2018 tis now no time to stop it ."], "true_target": ["The living Sons of Priam , as they stood", "With fair Calista ; which by her whose pure truth ,", "A common Painter eying these to help", "It must be told ,", "Are these the bounds that are prescrib 'd unto", "She by enrag 'd Beronte is accus 'd", "My Horse , though good and strong , mov 'd like a Tortoise ;", "How our humane weakness ,", "What a strange scene of sorrow is express 'd", "Her principal Agent .", "Your silence doth confirm , till now I heard not ;", "Under Achilles 's Spear ; I come too late ,", "I 'll follow him .", "This accident no doubt will draw him from", "In different postures , in their looks and station !", "The swelling seas of sorrow ?", "When the first syllable of greater woes", "Of passive fortitude ; the good Cleander ,", "Imagine them a period to our sorrows !", "Their fates I have long since", "concluded", "The surest armour anvil 'd in the Shop"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Sir , if you please to look upon", "Advise him , as he tenders it , to keep", "The Prisoner , and the many services", "About the King , though it swell others , cannot", "Sway 'd from the rigour of the Law ; yet so far", "The good success I wish 'd ; I mov 'd the King", "With my best advantage both of time and place ,", "I'th \u2019 favour of your Daughter .", "Her Father hath done for you \u2014", "The hearing of it ; her tryal will be noble ,", "Challenge much more respect ; and I am sorry"], "true_target": ["Not to be", "And to my utmost strength , where I may serve her", "Make me forget your worth and Age , which may", "One word more ; if you love Lisanders life ,", "This City cannot ransom him ; so good morrow .", "My near place", "That he resolves to have in his own person", "That my endeavours for you have not met with", "Out of the way ; if he be apprehended ,", "My aids shall not be wanting .", "The rarity of the Cause hath won upon him ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To act that bloudy Scene .", "Find passage to the mercy of the King ,", "Since from her dangers his distraction rises ,"], "true_target": ["Of Cloridon , and Chrysanthes , but it may", "His cause is not so desperate for the slaughter", "Were your Daughter free ,", "The motives urg 'd in his defence , that forc 'd him"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To lessen", "I am to suffer , and with my last breath"], "true_target": ["This wicked woman only guilty with me .", "The foulness of it , for which I know justly", "To free these innocents , I do confess all ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["1 Out-l . The Drum , the Drum , Sir .", "How would you have these meet ?", "Come to the Altar : let us do our duties .", "Both young and handsome ,", "I'le warrant he is well .", "And hunting Squirrels by Moon-light .", "So should I think too : has not her Father found her ?", "We'l cross these woods awhile then :", "We know how to use her ,", "Then to the holy Temple : there pay our duties ,", "I would we had a guide .", "Ye are more afraid than hurt , Sir .", "Take heed ye wrong him not : he is a Gentleman ,", "Nor pass by any body that could promise any thing .", "All her affections , like the dews on Roses ,", "A new Livery .", "Cur . Good hours wait on ye .", "Something we'l know , some cause of all this fooling ,", "Me thinks I have seen it too : but we are cozen 'd ;", "Make offer at the least glance of affection ,", "Fair as the flowers themselves : as sweet and gentle :", "Shot with a fiddle-stick : who 's here to shoot ye ?", "The wrongs ye do these men , may light on you ,", "She never with loose eyes stuck on his person .", "Certain she does not know , Sir .", "And so we'l take our leaves .", "And how he lives : his nature rough , and bloody", "Too heavy too : and then you will wish you had said less ;", "Alas , poor Lady .", "Do'st thou want any thing ?", "Would we could meet some living thing : what 's that there ?", "Boy , dost thou hear , thou stripling ?", "We'l even turn fairly home , and coast the other side .", "The more the Court must answer ;", "Deal calmly ;", "I never saw her yet", "We appointed him to meet in .", "She durst not be so confident , and guilty .", "That is as easie as a calm , and peaceful ,", "And so must be restor 'd and clear 'd in all points ;", "By no means , no : that were a sullen business :", "Here if we fail , we'l gallop to Segovia .", "So fair , and tender ? Can a Fathers nature ,", "A little Foot-boy .", "No sure , we met her not .", "A drum we saw indeed , a boy was beating it ,", "In blessedness of beauty , such a mirror .", "Good Sir , be patient ,", "You know what ground we have travel 'd .", "This was extreamly foul , to vex a child thus . Come , let 's along , we cannot lose our way now .", "Now , o \u2019 my conscience , we have lost him utterly ,", "By customary Rapines : now , her sweet humour", "This is the place then"], "true_target": ["Durst never venture else .", "Upon necessity she must doat upon him ?", "But fair befal thee Pilgrim , thou lookst lovely .", "Why do you fear , and fly ? here are no Souldiers ;", "And since our parting last at Roderigo 's", "\u2018 Tis she sure .", "\u2018 Tis charity", "Enter Alinda .", "She is certainly disguis 'd , her modesty", "\u2018 Tis strange , in all the circuit we have ridden ,", "He 's not gone home : we heard from thence this morning ,", "You amaze your servants .", "No pleasure in our journey : come , let 's cross here first ,", "And though he be old , he 's tough , and will endure well ;", "And if we light of no news there , hear nothing ;", "But not your way , for all your state .", "Make some discovery .", "Unless we found a quieter soul within ye .", "You know he is a banish 'd man : an Out-law ;", "Take heed Sir , be not madder than you would make him ;", "I grant ye Roderigo is all these ,", "Deal modestly .", "He 's well enough , he has a travel 'd body ,", "But certainly I think , though she might favour him ,", "Sure she does not know , Sir ;", "That his anger leads him a thousand wild-goose chases :", "We'l on sure ;", "Can any wind blow rough , upon a blossom", "We cannot cross her : no way light upon her .", "A short , and sweet Meditation : what are these here ?", "We shall hit it .", "Will ye allow no liberty in choosing ?", "Let him go on , he cannot live without it . But keep her from him , heaven : where are we Curio ?", "Let 's in , and visit him :", "We dare not leave ye ,", "You are strangely frighted ,", "What beasts would use a boy thus ? Look up , and be of good cheer .", "And love his goodness , as he was an honest man :", "A noble Fathers too ?", "You will not give \u2018 em time to answer ye .", "Though he be rash , and suddain", "A Father of so sweet a child , so happy ,", "The King shall be a Judge else .", "Strike , strike the surges , strike .", "Methinks , you are bound to love her for \u2014", "None from the King to vex ye .", "Can ye be angry ?", "But he is so violent to finde her out ,", "Only the Sun has been too saucy with him .", "Fye , Sir , so excellent in all endowments ,", "And a brave Gentleman : must it therefore follow", "But still so modest , wise \u2014", "And where we find the paths , let them direct us .", "A comely and sweet usage becomes strangers ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["We'l search the best we can ; if she light in our hands .", "We told ye how impossible ; he knows him not ;", "I dare not think so poorly .", "For certain if she had , we should have reach 'd her ,", "He has no guide , nor no man to attend him .", "Let her take any shape ,", "For if he had been awake , we should have met with him :", "They are all here , Sir .", "There 's some mony ,", "For long since as \u2018 twas thought on a griev 'd Conscience ,", "To be your Prisoner , we dare swear against it .", "It seems ye are holy Pilgrims ?", "Keep her from thy hands , I beseech .", "I knew we were thereabouts .", "And yet I have ridden all these coasts , at all hours ,", "Use them with favour , Sir , their shews are reverent ,", "That he is mad himself , and therefore fit", "If we may do the Lady any service ,", "He left his Father , and his Friends : more pity :", "A boy , I think , stay ; why may not he direct us ?", "Some stubborn Master has abus 'd the boy ,", "Ask with discretion .", "May wait upon this will of yours , as commonly", "Such a face for certain .", "A very pretty boy : what place is this , child ?", "Ye are too unreverent .", "Which shall appear , if ye dare now detain him .", "He may be sick , or faln into some danger ;", "Deal directly .", "And all those sides ?", "Ye had here , how , and what by your own relation ,", "I do not think she is gone thus far , or this way ,", "\u2018 Tis certainly .", "Which way shall we cast then ,", "Conceal it not , but deal plain .", "And let me see it once , I can distinguish it .", "Kneel reverently .", "Is but to seek a Moth i'th \u2019 Sun .", "You need not doubt him ,", "Not any thing : no other person stirring ."], "true_target": ["And to hope further of Alindas recovery ,", "Such a young Boy we met , Sir .", "I never saw such Pigeon-hearted people :", "The same : his face all patcht too .", "He guesses now , and chafes and frets like Tinsel .", "His nature , and his name : the seeming Boy too", "Mercy upon me , Sir , why are ye fear 'd thus ?", "We have told ye what he is : what time we have sought him :", "Observe then with more stayedness .", "Yes , I think so .", "Made some discovery , heard some news ; we have seen nothing .", "And if I be not much awry Seberto ,", "All circumstances we have clear 'd : That the Duke sent him", "Pray ye be gentle to her .", "Look ye ,", "Unless she light in 's teeth , to look about him .", "And beaten him : how he complains ! whither goest thou ?", "For all the Champion Country , and the villages ,", "For truth reports he was a noble Gentleman .", "And whither dost thou travel ? how he stares !", "He 's asleep sure :", "Sweet , gentle Soul .", "No , I'le be hang 'd then ; he has no patience", "He and his out-laws live .", "No doubt ye may compel her ,", "What thieves ?", "That brought him hither : the boy , and letter conterfeit ,", "\u2018 Faith let 's turn back , we have but a fruitless journey ;", "\u2018 Twas some trick", "A handsome well built person .", "But what a mischievous , unhappy fortune", "And get thee to thy Mother .", "And had an aim .", "Not far off should be Roderigo 's quarter ,", "Shall we part company ?", "For in this fastness if I be not cozen 'd ,", "What Drum ? what danger ? who 's that that shakes behind there ?", "In a wood I think , hang me if I know else .", "Such forcings ever end in hates and ruines .", "Come hither .", "Alas she is tender yet ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And gaffer , here 's a Crow-flower , and a Dazie ;", "Thou art wise then , valiant , and secure .", "And still you must pray , and pray .", "\u2018 Twas sent me from the Lady of the Mountain ,", "More set to take me ?", "What musick 's this ?", "I seek my self ; something I yet remember", "Unless we fool our own afflictions ,", "Be not far off .", "I know thou art truly faithfull : and thou art welcom ,", "You cannot if he die now .", "And then you must leap in naked .", "I shall obey ye . But , noble Sir .", "And I have a fine little house , made of Marmalad .", "That just above the Sun ?", "To day you shall wed sorrow ,", "He turns from us ;", "Farewel Nunkle .", "And far more tender ; for that self-sake", "That bears that Motto ; \u2018 tis not he , he 's younger ,", "Friendships and benefits beyond example ,", "Do , do , do , and see if they can .", "Here inhabits nought but fear ,", "I want my self ; indeed , ye holy Wanderers", "That can but rightly mannage the wild beast , Woman ,", "I know not . But they call the Captain Roderigo .", "When the world knows ye have prey 'd on a poor Pilgrim ?", "Are you of this Country , Sir ?", "Do this , ye are rich , else fools , and poor ;", "He called down his merry men all ,", "Retire ,", "Hope him a Star in Heaven , and there would stick him ,", "And I hope shall prevent it ; was he alone ?", "Has liberty ,", "A happy honour to this day ,", "Hale to this sacred place .", "When your strong heart melts , meditate my poor fortunes .", "A Sinon , that will seem a Saint to choak him .", "A goodly shape .", "Wash your hands , and pare your nails , and look finely ,", "Ha ?", "And glad I am got off ; O how I tremble !", "But your most vertuous eyes have cur 'd me , Pedro :", "Prithee go thither , and light me this Tobacco ,", "\u2018 Tis he and Roderigo ; what a peace", "And I must sup with the Moon to Night in the Mediterraneum .", "May be he would speak alone ; go off , Juletta ,", "Full of pinks , and Ladies gloves ,", "Prethee pardon me ,", "Away , away : enquire no more ,", "I care not for thy royal , I have other business ,", "Wench , if they ask it truly , I must give it :", "The blessing of a Father never reach 'd it :", "And these that know and love revenge will laugh at ye :", "Why , I should bury a hundred Husbands .", "Ha ?", "And then I'le bring you a sup of Milk shall serve ye :", "Thy gifts , and prayers : unload thy heaviness ,", "Such as are , bid them go sleep .", "Are not these wretches served yet ?", "These wild woods , and the fancies I have in me ,", "To be a monster and become the time too ;", "As those are plentiful , our cares are quenched then .", "Thou art honest sure ; but yet thou must not see me :", "Right holy Sir , how young , and sweet he suffers !", "I fear a plot , Heaven send me fairly from it .", "And fling a sop of Suger-cake into it ;", "Bless the good end I mean it for .", "And the more weight ye put on his foundation ,", "If once I grow to breeding , a whole Kingdom", "O Pedro Pedro !", "One word more", "I will hang here eternally , kiss ever ,", "To me ye appear so worthy of relieving ,", "No end of my misfortunes , Heaven ?", "I 'll bid you good ev'n , for my Boat stays for me yonder ,", "Serve \u2018 em plentifully ,", "By one , by two , by three ,", "Pray ye be not angry : if he must , I'le do it . But must he now ?", "Good even . What do ye seek ?", "now not .", "Command thy will : thy foul desires .", "\u2018 Tis not for thy discourse : Let 's in , and see", "If this be he , he has a manly face yet ,", "And so good night , the Moon 's up .", "Cruel in Heart , for I will cry ,", "I have a hundred little children , and they sing Psalms with me .", "And now come all the world , and all that hate me .", "Canst thou but shew me this ?", "Thou knowst I love thee too .", "To examine wants .", "What is there to be merry at ? what joy now ,", "has amaz 'd me strangly ,", "His modesty makes me afraid I have trespassed .", "This is more misery than I have scap 'd yet .", "Are said to seek much , but to seek your selves \u2014", "Such things are few , and far to seek ; to find one", "Give me your hand , and I 'll tell you what 's your fortune .", "Let me inherit death first .", "Now as I have a faith , this man so stirs me ,", "Command thy mind , and make that pure ;", "A blessing then thou maist beget .", "You shall never kiss the Kings Daughter else .", "What do you want ?", "The Pilgrim is betrai 'd , a Judas dwells with him ,", "And then thou shalt put off the fool .", "And here without , Be good ; he wept to see me . Juletta .", "The Saint ye kneel to , hear , and ease your travels .", "O , I cannot . My back , my back , my back .", "Ye suffer below him : lose all your angers .", "Whatever Vow , or Penance pulls you on , Sir ;", "I 'll sing ye a fine Song , Sir ,", "As strange fears too , I'le tell thee all my life then .", "Our actions , and our age ; and safe arrive at", "Will not contain my stock .", "Afflicted hearts fear their own motions .", "I would not tell ye else . Is that revenge ,", "But I appeal to vertue what my end is ;", "No , cannot : be not vext , you'l find it :", "And twenty mile and ten : and then you must pray , Gaffer ;", "But hark ye Sir , one word ; and pray ye resolve me . Let me speak privately .", "I am not watchful to do ill ,", "Alas Juletta ,", "A memory that shall become our ashes ,", "Pray ye think again ; and as your injuries", "I have been taken here by drunken thieves ,", "Now fortune , if thou darst do good , protect me .", "You seem to fear too .", "Remember me by this : and in your prayers", "And all the tortures ye can use . Let him die thus ;", "And purge thee perfect in his fire :", "Prepar 'd thus ?", "Then to your prayers : I'le dispatch ye presently . Now guide my tongue , thou blessedness .", "Who has been thy Tutor , Wench ?", "But to enjoy a man , from whose example", "You tremble sure .", "I thank ye , Gentlemen : I want such comforts :", "A Lacky Boy : I need not fear his fierceness .", "Nor pitiless to those that weep ;", "He speaks nobly ;", "And then Nunkle \u2014", "I thank ye little Gentleman : Heaven bless ye", "Drum to thy self , and daunce to it .", "The marygold-Jewel that lies in my little Cabinet ;", "\u2018 Tis very good to rub your understanding :", "Clap the Doves wings of downy peace unto him ,", "Lie not still , nor longer here ,", "I have no means to shift it .", "Let me hold thee ,", "Is this revenge ?", "Her glories ever spring , and show .", "Why are ye then so angry ? so perplext , Sir ? Patience wins Heaven , and not the heat of passion . Why do you rayle ?", "My head 's wild still .", "You must go over the top of that high steeple , Gaffer .", "I thank ye Gentlemen .", "And then come all the world : what shall I do now ?", "But now the last is he .", "O God , my side !", "Thou canst not sleep so sweetly ;", "This man ye rock asleep , and all your rages", "I have some pie in my pocket too .", "I am going to get Apples .", "Come hither ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis almost night again , and where to lodge me ,", "I am hungry , and I am weary , and I cannot find him .", "Meer men I know I may : and there a Woman", "Fortune will wait ye every where .", "For so I can say my Prayers , and then slumber .", "Will hang", "Or get me meat , or any thing , I", "And speedily : for I have strange faiths working ,", "I seek my self , and am but my selfs shadow ;", "Prethee tell me ,", "Nor glorious to pursue it still ;", "Believe so , and I am happy .", "Alas , poor man ! didst thou not meet him , Juletta ?", "A valiant man , and no doubt know both fortunes ,", "I have considered , and I know it certain ,", "I am no inquisitor , that were too curious ;", "Do you make sport , Sir , with their miseries ? Ye drousie Rogue .", "Dwells in their faces , what a friendly calm", "To make his enemy shake and tremble under him ;", "Such honest noble showrs , ne 're wanted fruit .", "Be who it will , take this .", "Pray ye think it no immodesty , I kiss ye ,", "Fye , fye , fye , fye , fye .", "This little Flower will make me fine ;", "And sink seven daies together ; can ye sink gaffer ?", "Are ye so willing to go to it ?", "Who will have me ? Who will be troubled with a pettish Girl ? It may be proud , and to that vice expenceful ? Who can assure himself , I shall live honest ?", "If ye love him , honour him , would heap upon him", "And what you wish for most , end all your troubles ;", "And did they walk together ?", "I love , and tender ye ,", "If I see a Sparrow dye ;", "Some great affliction hatches his Devotions ,", "Why this was like your self : but which way goes he ? Shall we ne 're happy meet ?", "He spake the words just as they stand engraven here :", "That I forgot to give to ?", "He would reveal , but dare not ; Sir , be comforted ,", "How constantly this man looks ! how he sighs !", "He knows me not ; will ye give me two pence ?", "Julettas face , and tongue ; is she run mad too ? Here may be double craft : I have no skill i n't .", "Shall this man die ?", "And I am a lone woman , and I spin for Saint Peter ;", "You 'll have two Wives .", "Of hearts-ease too , which we would fain", "As these are now", "How should I save him ? how my self from violence ?", "Vain-glory would seek more , and handsomer .", "Let me see it ;", "Here comes more Company ,", "A golden Lady .", "Nothing but ease , but ease , Sir .", "Are ye weary of me ?", "What means hast thou ? For mine are gone .", "What Poor attend my charity to day , wench ?", "A welcom partner to my miseries ;", "Enter Juletta .", "And is your reckoning straight Sir ?", "I durst not trust my self .", "Thus we kneel , and thus we pray", "Or I'le serve you out next : even out o \u2019 doors , sirrah ;", "\u2018 Tis so true , it must be he , or nothing ,", "And repentance will come to morrow .", "Gentle , I dare believe .", "Enter Juletta .", "I have been beaten Sir .", "we may steer our fortunes ,", "And o \u2019 my Conscience", "What poor afflicted wait our charity .", "Is this thy mirth ? are these the joyes of marriage ? Away light-headed fool ; are these contentments ? If I could find a man \u2014", "When saw'st thou Roderigo ?", "Be constant fair still ; \u2018 tis the Posie here ;", "Here lies the honour of a well-bred anger ,", "The Pilgrim , Wench ?", "And there before the Altar pay thy vowes ,", "And let him soar to Heaven , whilst you are sighing ?", "Now take his life .", "What would ye have me do Sir ? Heavens goodness bless me .", "Be constant good , in faith be clear ,", "Send me but once within his arms dear fortune ,", "And make them shew ridiculous ?", "Will run me mad .", "William would fain have been the first ,", "Hath almost made me senseless of my duty ,", "The habit of a Pilgrim ? yes , I know it ,", "Why does he look so constantly upon me ?", "Dost thou see that star there ,", "As we labour for , attain ;", "And long have buckled with the worlds extremities ,", "Are Requiems to his parting soul , meer Anthems .", "I know it : and those many I have cozen 'd .", "Full of hope , some comfort send .", "It takes away the holy use of charity", "Crowns both their souls !", "I would thank you too Father : but your cruelty", "I , two fine Gentlewomen ,", "Are great , and full , you suffer from this fellow ,", "I forgot to give him something .", "I am not proud , nor full of Wine ,", "O God my head .", "Are ye prepar 'd to die , Sir ?", "Come , I forgot , but I will recompence it .", "Ever happy to the King .", "without mercy ; ha ?", "And then you shall come to a River twenty mile over ,", "And would ye work your Master-piece thus madly ,", "Alas , he weeps too ; something presses him", "And", "Ye come for that ; and take it ; if it be want , Sir ,", "His contemplation now scorns ye , contemns ye ,", "I am your Steward ; Speak , and take ; he 's dumb still ;", "Seek \u2018 em , and make \u2018 em ,", "And I'le pray for ye too : pray ye keep this Nutmeg .", "Now as he stands , ye fix him still the stronger ;", "These for our selves : our hopes , and loves ,", "Doubt , nay , almost despair , and then confound him .", "I'le ease him presently .", "Put out and quench thy unhallowed fires :", "Come , good wench ,", "And sweetly govern with her . But no more of this , Wench ,", "A Drum ?", "\u2018 Tis a boy too ,", "I have been miserable ;", "Take this Key , and fetch me", "And stop it with the horns o'th \u2019 Moon .", "Bless my tongue still .", "And serve \u2018 em quickly too .", "You are a wise man ,", "Keep my wits Heaven , I feel \u2018 em wavering ,", "Go to Segovia ,", "Do not ye purpose so to suit your vengeance ?", "Thus our Sacrifice we bring", "You cannot shake him ;", "Ye dull Knave ,", "Make much of \u2018 em ; for they 'll stick close to you , Sir :", "Alas , my fears have so distracted me", "Take the bare name of honour , that will pity ye", "To morrow shed thy tears , and gain thy suit ,", "I go to Segovia Sir , to my sick Mother ,", "Amen , sweet Gaffer .", "Now they will tear me , torture me , now Roderigo", "Yet still I must know : would I had known nothing .", "Thou thinkst if there be a young handsome fellow ,", "Must I come in too ?", "O now I am lost , lost , lost , Lord , how I tremble !", "Guard me goodness .", "Hear me Heaven , and as I bend ,", "Talk , and discourse ?", "His life observe ; live in his School ,", "Married ? to whom , wench ?", "And these two , in two days .", "Though ye are honest men , I fear your fingers ,", "Which is the man , Sir ? I'le pluck up the best heart I can yet .", "I shall wait on ye .", "Conscience , or Love , or stubborn Disobedience ,", "No no , I dwell in Heaven .", "I am a boy , and weak , Sir .", "But still you foul \u2018 em faster .", "My Father , arm 'd in all his hates and angers ;", "Mis-us 'd , and rob 'd : extreamly beaten Gentlemen ,", "Your self ? who rob 'd ye , Pilgrim ?", "I thank ye , Sir ; peace guide your travels too ,", "To slight your cause , and Saint your enemy ,", "And weep away for joy .", "I think \u2018 tis that ; what eyes had I to miss him ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You have wish 'd me ill enough o \u2019 conscience ,", "I 'll make ye curse the hour ye vext a Woman ;", "What is your end , and whither you will pull me ;", "Mark but the end , old Master ,", "I'le haunt thy Ghost Alphonso ; I'le keep thee waking ,", "So doubtfull of my faith , and honest service ?", "Had been laid off to me that understand ye .", "Make me no worse for shame ; I see the more", "steals into our souls", "I will then , would yond \u2019 Woman", "Give me thy counsel quickly lest I perish .", "I am veng'ance angry , but that shall light on thee ,", "Truths bear a greater price than you are aware of .", "Of my repentance ; as thou lov'st me go .", "He would now persecute my harmless Mistriss ,", "My Mistress is my husband , with her I'le dwell still ,", "A good retreat is a great store .", "Now help me , Angelo !", "Before his sentence , why will you condemn me", "Wondrous civilly .", "Let me be most despis 'd of men \u2014", "Whither I will conduct ye , and new shape ye ,", "Alas , poor man ! I am lost again too , strangely .", "I am any thing , to do her good , believe me ;", "It is the better ; look you to your charge well ;", "Here they are both : now ye may boldly talk with \u2018 em ,", "Stay , I must counterfeit a Letter by the way first ,", "Stay , Sir .", "Why I did give thee inklings .", "Do you think I am corrupted ? base ? and treacherous ?", "I shall commend it .", "How I have truly , honestly wrought for her ,", "This was the first , and I will never hide", "And swear some certain blessings : then into that bush", "This is no more ; let 's go , I would fain be fit", "He 's gone in here : This is Roderigo 's quarter ,", "If I can cross the Captain too : Come Tabor .", "For being such a stranger to your Servant ,", "All this is lost upon me , Angelo ,", "Say I were guilty , Sir ;", "These of Purple , Damask green", "Pray wipe your eyes and kiss me ; take these trifles ,", "What a fright I have put \u2018 em in ; what a brave hurry .", "Did you observe him well ? \u2018 tis like it may be he .", "Yes , if my matter lye direct before me ;", "And I'le be with him soon : I'le startle him ,", "I'le make him know the Mare 's the better Horse .", "I am Juletta again , pray Sir forgive me ,", "Make \u2018 em lose Hats and Cloaks .", "You are my Ladies Father , and I reverence ye .", "Now had we dealt by force , we had never brought him .", "How lamentably he looks ! he has had discipline .", "Shall we not make Piso , and Lodowick friends ?", "There are so many cross ways , there 's no following her ;", "And I sit laughing : a hundred tricks , I have serv 'd him :", "I mean to his desires ; when , my dear Mistress ,", "Do'st thou hear boy ? thou pointer .", "A man as fit to suit his villanies .", "The god would choose out amongst a race of women", "I saw this many a day ; would he had all my wealth ,", "It was your counsel .", "E 're I produce the truth to witness with me ,", "What , has she musick ?", "Sometimes I do Sir , teach \u2018 em the way through ditches ; how to break their worships shins , and noses Against old broken Stiles , and Stumps .", "Thus sad , and full of thoughts .", "I'le give thee a royal but to go along with me .", "And so much good may do you , with your dreams of courtesie .", "Would he wou 'd stir me too , I like his shape well .", "And crucifie his crabbedness ; he 's my Master ,", "O I could burst : hold , hold , hold , hold o \u2019 both ends ,", "What were these women to a man that knew not", "And one more excellent , than all those figures", "How , Sweet ?", "Goodness and peace conduct ye .", "\u2018 Twas only when it call 'd you mild and gentle .", "Though you turn from me , and speak bitterly ,", "For the Lords sake we shall have him at ; I long to see it", "Do ye suspect me false ? did I ever fail ye ?", "And kickst and roar'st ; I'le make ye fart fire , Signior .", "Would I were even the Saint they make their vowes to ,", "They wonder at us ; let 's maintain that wonder ;", "Prithee ,", "And when you play any more pranks you know where to have me .", "Has not yet taught to love ought but the warrs ,", "And then I'le shew ye any thing .", "Heav'n grant you may be right again .", "This must be she , this is she , now I remember her ,", "Stay , thou art more than she , and now I find it .", "Would I were nearer to him ,", "If chiding would work any thing upon you ,", "Y \u2019 have conquer 'd me ;", "Thou hast commanded men of might ,", "And frights good people ,", "I did not think to yield , but make me now ,", "I shall love this fool extreamly for't :", "You are my Master , but you own an anger", "Would you know o \u2019 me , Sir ?", "I am well you see .", "I'le hear you any way ; love me though thus", "And from your tongue I'le take my part .", "And get him , if ye can fairly , to his lodging ,", "Mistriss , the most offending man is heard", "This way ; I'le be your guide .", "By your leave all .", "And yet I'le trot about these villages", "Even what you will , my Lelia , so I may", "\u2018 Pray speak again .", "With a train , I told him ;", "My Bilbo Master too : how got he loose again ?", "And let the World , the Flesh , and Devil examine it ,", "I'le see what I can do : I am almost foundred", "Conduct her fair , and keep her from this mad-man ,", "Yes , I must get a Drum : I am villanous weary ,", "If he be kind , and loving , and a right one ,", "How innocent I am of all your angers ?", "Shake not , but what ye purpose do discreetly ,", "Farewel thou cursed house , from this hour be", "Nor is it in our vertue to uncharm it .", "Which now you will put too short for ;", "That 's all my poor petition ;", "For all her outward shew , for sure she knew me ;", "Thou shalt go ,", "Not all your angers nor your flatteries", "Lord how she trembles !", "I have a business from the Duke of Medina ,", "Stay .", "For though I be bar 'd the liberty of talking ,", "And I will double \u2018 em , before I leave him ;", "Any good way ,", "Or , like an Eagle , could renew her vertues ,", "Excellent Master .", "Ha ? thou mak'st me smile , though I have little cause ,", "The more the merrier :", "How easily I would grant !", "I will not speak of ye , nor name Alinda ,", "And then , if Goodwife Fortune do not fail me ,", "Noble Fabritio , whom this age of peace", "Could I but see my Mistris now , to tell her", "I 'll tell ye what I know , and tell it liberally ,", "The better for him .", "Though she deserve this of the loosest tongue", "A Ring I know too ! the very same Ring ;", "\u2018 Tis very well , Sir .", "And come you in too , I dare stand your strictest .", "And in these woods : take heed , h'as got a new shape .", "For what you have seen hitherto", "And cast those by : at least consider , Lady ,", "And down in this ditch ; up again , and shake him ,", "Now will I see if I can cross her footing :", "Or fail of trust .", "Till I have got my will , and then have at ye .", "Is this a World to confess in ?", "I would I knew it :", "Pray at Segovia too , and give", "How I have worn my self away , to serve her .", "I'le follow her , but who shall vex her Father then ?", "For fear you should suspect I would betray ye :", "You could not seem thus serious , if you were married ,", "And therefore gone ; may be she is in love ;", "Pray ye peruse it well ; I shall be wi \u2019 ye ;", "Canst thou beat a Drum ?", "I have : and shift you too . I lay last night", "Not thus , for all the world , ye are undone then ;", "Am I not yours ? all yours ? by this light you shake still ;", "H'as flesh , and hide enough , he loves a whipping .", "Come quick , I'le conduct ye , and still serve ye ,", "He saw him not ?", "Command thy self , and then thou art right .", "I hope you are not angry ?", "And yet I must not now ; I hope she is right still ,", "When you will put them on : indeed I love ye ,", "Will you believe me ?", "Neither a bud , nor blown , but such a one ,", "Beshrew my sick heart , if I grieve not for ye .", "And I'le inform the Duke so : pray ye attend him ,", "To make a Mother of : she is outwardly", "Tell me , but tell me that I may not start at ,", "For if your house were Gold , and she not in it ,", "I shall so feed your fierce vexation ,", "To be thy friend again , for now I am no mans .", "May have the grudging of an ague on him ,", "You will find him gainful , but be sure ye curb him ,", "I will but see her once more Angelo ,", "You cannot still do thus .", "No .", "For if she were as good as she is seeming ,", "Such as the Poets , when their fancies sweat ,", "My self again .", "This comes in right to confirm their reverence .", "That brought a letter from the Duke of Medina", "And made him swear , and curse ; and pray , and swear again ,", "Well , Madam , ye have even as pretty a port of Pensioners .", "Sirrah , Sirrah . Thou scurvy Sirrah ; thou snotty-nos 'd scab , do'st thou hear me ? If I lay down my Drum .", "Especially fair Lady", "Madam , wanton youth is such a Cataplasme .", "I'le make your anger drop out at your elbows e 're I leave ye .", "\u2018 Twas ill done , Lady ;", "It was her will I should ; she is my Mistriss ,", "Lest I despise my self . Farewel .", "Thy Offrings up , repent , and live .", "A Drum at mid-night , ran tan tan tan tan Sir ,", "Danger , or want ; and let me try my fortune .", "And know by me , has been but honest service ,", "A curse else that shall never set", "You have look 'd on me ,", "Where he can never find him more ; whistled to him ,", "What strange Concealment ! Bread or Cheese , or a Chesnut ?", "Married to me ? Is that your end ?", "A young smug handsom holiness has no fellow .", "She said \u2018 twas good to rub my understanding .", "No indeed Sir ,", "You work the more upon me . Tell me truly", "A cheerful giving hand , as I think , Madam ,", "A piece of me .", "I ask your pardon , to whose marriage-bed", "O admirable Blockhead ! O base Eyes !", "A secure conscience never quakes ,", "A little better than I have done : all this long night", "As your old worship , worm 'd for running mad Sir .", "All the young Girls should hoot me out o \u2019 th \u2019 Parish ;", "There : before ye , there , do not turn coward Mistress ,", "Any more truth than this if I know , hang me ,", "I 'll marry you .", "I did not mean to ravish ye .", "No , the strongest man", "I rejoyce in any thing that vexes him ;", "Be but so truly happy to enjoy you .", "Boy , Boy .", "Madam .", "She now recovered , and her wishes crown 'd", "Having her sins before me , I dare see her", "The very same , how hastily it shifted !", "This boy in patches , was the boy came by me ,", "As a Rose at fairest ,", "Or if I had such tricks , you could discover", "And wear them for me , which are only rich", "A Letter must be had , and neatly handled ;", "In honour of the Kings great day : they wonder ,", "He 's in ; have at him ,", "I ask no more : but you shall hear more of me ,", "Pop goes his pate , and all his face is comb 'd over ,", "And send ye what ye wish : I will not see ye ,", "I am strange airs , and excellent sweet voyces .", "Still do ye doubt ? still am I terrible ?", "I pray , no more .", "Like Bones of Saints , you would work miracles ;", "My self too to attend ye .", "No more .", "Believe me Angelo , would do more mischief", "Shall I be made a happy man ?", "But others that have made a trade of begging .", "Sir , I should count it but a Cage to whistle in .", "And far more pestilent , if not repentant ,", "Than I may well deliver to the air ,", "With all his glory , or one more than he ,", "Hear her : hear her : if there be", "I 'll make ye shake when our Sex are but sounded ;", "You may a thousand .", "As ever Galen gave , I am sure more natural :", "An old woman , that tells fortunes .", "A fault without forgiveness , as I take it ;", "Here Madam .", "Yet still I'le watch his water , he shall pay for't ;", "I can depart again .", "Now if I can do my Mistris good , I am Sainted .", "That I may hate her more , and then I am", "For I must have her ; I will marry ye", "\u2018 Twas but a kiss or two , that thus offends you .", "If ye knew what ; well Love , if thou beest with her ,", "Is even as good a Pill , to purge this melancholy ,", "For sure she is much afflicted : till I do ,", "Madam , I think a lusty handsome fellow", "Should make me speak , but having no more interest"], "true_target": ["No I beseech you Sir ;", ",", "If all go right I may be fast enough too .", "O fair tears ! were you but as chast as subtil ,", "And raise your Worships storms ; I shall so niggle ye ,", "I 'll see him lodged , for so the Duke commanded me ,", "Make 's \u2018 em flock every hour : some worth your pity ,", "What a mop-eyed ass was I , I could not know her ,", "That walk a nights , and fright old Gentlemen ;", "Nature had made another world of sweetness .", "From that time no more ours , but what she pleases .", "I must not see it ;", "I left her by her self , in her own Closet ,", "But when I am forc 'd , and ferretted .", "I came not out so empty .", "I would not leave you .", "Do not consider , Angelo ,", "And heavily , and quickly , I pronounce it ;", "The men ye long 'd for ,", "This is the Devil thief , and if he take me ,", "If thou beest not sick o'th \u2019 Bots within these five hours ,", "When", "I will , farewel .", "Have at his Skirts ; I shall worse anger him", "As he hunts her , so I'le hunt him : I'le claw him .", "I shall do that that 's fit , Sir ;", "If you were young , Sir ,", "Such is my misery . I would I knew him .", "\u2018 Tis fit you should , Sir ,", "Or what power else that arms her resolution ,", "I am any thing ,", "Sacred to the vertuous Queen", "Come , pray ye think better ,", "None could deliver this , but she her self too ;", "And so will I then .", "A boy his face in patches ?", "A Ring my Mistriss took from me and wore it ;", "I think so , for I saw \u2018 em", "He was in company with that handsom Pilgrim ,", "And so I 'll to my Chamber .", "If it be for any mans sake , I'le cry Amen too .", "If I did know , and her trust lay upon me ,", "And you would give me ten , I would not tell ye ,", "I would be hang 'd before I would confess ;", "Handsome , and fitted to a Womans appetite ;", "Do but speak", "Let me know , but what you mean to do , and I am gone . I would be loth to leave you thus else .", "As much as for my wedding night ; I gape after it .", "How he looks , pray heaven , he be not mad indeed .", "Or vow 'd Devotion .", "At a poor widows house here in the Thicket ,", "The worthy Jacomo , and his fair Bride ,", "Imagine Juno is , or fair ey 'd Pallas ,", "Would he would believe her .", "That sad sweet man .", "Roderigo is abroad : many are looking for ye .", "Stay , I am uncharm 'd ,", "So weak , and sleightly woven , you might look through ,", "And think to grope out matters of some moment ,", "Faith thou shalt go , Angelo .", "I would live in a Coal-pit then , were I your daughter .", "That no dishonourable end o'rtake her ,", "And there I thought she had slept .", "At least of your way , Mistriss , long e 're this", "Make many stands , and then embrace each other .", "Will light upon thee : Say thy Prayers ,", "I would you would be merry :", "Reward me for \u2018 em .", "Farewel .", "And sends them to Segovia for their fortunes :", "Pretty innocent .", "Beat me away then , I shall grow here still else .", "He went by long ago , Madam .", "How loth she was to talk too , how she fear 'd me :", "Mistriss .", "How to prevent \u2018 em : pray ye put off this fools coat ;", "And his true friends , this Lady who is but", "Ye have done it handsomely ,", "So much I love to be commanded by you ,", "Mistriss ? not one word , Mistriss if I grieve ye", "And like a strong man , chide her well , and leave her .", "You know I do not .", "And do not fear ; hang fear , it spoils all projects .", "Methinks this shadow ,", "I am heartily glad thou art gone yet .", "She is ; but such a one \u2014", "For our advantage : how the Captain shakes !", "If you had so much shame as fits a woman ,", "Let me but speak one word .", "him out o'th \u2019 way , to try his patience ,", "I'le teach his anger to dispute with women .", "The same , the very same , that you so pitied ,", "And I a giddy-headed Girl , that car 'd for nothing ,", "Sure , Madam ,", "For such a fortune they themselves have run ,", "I had forgot me .", "Do you perceive him now ?", "And cry for anger ; I made him leave his horse too ,", "Let every man take his fortune .", "O how it tumbles me with joy ! thy mouth 's stopt :", "This thing , a Drum here . Didst thou never see a Drum ? Canst thou make this grumble ?", "Even this morning ,", "And have a cause to curse ye .", "And bring Fig-tree leaves into fashion again .", "No violence dare touch here ; be secure :", "Direct her to her wishes ; dwell about her ,", "Yet thou art bloody , and a thief .", "Nor once remember I had such a Mistris .", "Fear not , enough to serve ye ;", "Requires a heart as chearful .", "\u2018 Tis brave to be a mother of new Nations .", "In following him ; and yet I'le never leave him ,", "The thousand , thousand ways of their deceiving ?", "They are all here , Madam :", "I am glad o n't , I must leave you .", "Away , away , let them admire , it makes", "And suddenly , I fear not , finely , daintily ,", "And all this to no purpose that I aim at .", "But all this time , I cannot meet my Mistress ,", "And I am gone , for that I think will please you .", "To have one senior Alphonso , just such another", "\u2018 Faith I will not .", "And one that must carry some credit with it ; I am wide else ,", "Make but a curious frame unto thy self", "I'le crawl of all four first ; my cause is meritorious ,", "Had been ten fathom under ground , when first", "Lord , how ye look ! Is not my life ty 'd to ye ?", "This is more than errour .", "And never be ghess 'd at : be not afraid , nor faint not ;", "\u2018 Faith , marry , and be merry .", "You are so willing \u2014", "Basto ; who 's here ?", "\u2018 Tis known now , and will betray ye ; your arch enemy", "Retire ? \u2018 tis some neat Joy ,", "Or where to search for it , if I make a lye", "Pin me against a wall with my heels upward .", "I work by way of service to obtain ye ,", "Is there not an old Gentleman come lately in ?", "And best do know how to rejoyce at it ;", "He will be very rough .", "Becomes a School-Boy that hath lost his Apples ;", "For o \u2019 my troth , he is the handsomest man", "I cannot come to comfort her ; that grieves me ,", "Never spare him :", "I 'll follow him to yond \u2019 Town ; he shall not \u2018 scape me .", "All that bewitches sense ; all that entices ,", "Will ye force things into our knowledges ?", "I am afraid ye will not .", "You do , or should know , was but passion ;", "She is at home ; I am a little Foot-Boy ,", "Which I dare pin i'th \u2019 market-place to answer ;", "That I will go ; farewel \u2014", "In crossing that old fool , that parted from thee .", "I know it by the Posie :", "One flurt at him , and then I am for the voyage ,", "And when he thinks most malice , and means worse ,", "I am glad she is gone ; he raves thus .", "Would I might suffer with him .", "Are you the Master , Sir ?", "It seems they are holy Pilgrims :", "That carried not suspicion i n't , or flattery ,", "When ye please : pray look better on me .", "And when she speaks , oh Angelo , then musick", "More hated of me than a Leprosie .", "And under that bold Banner flies my vengeance ,", "I think she is gone , because we cannot find her ;", "Than ever I have done , and worse torment him .", "Fool , there 's a Royal for the sport thou mad'st me ,", "Thou hast been ill ; be so no more ,", "I have thought so , Lady .", "It does me good to think how I shall conjure him ,", "Such guests as can discern your happiness ,", "Thou hast as many sins , as hairs .", "May be in love , where you show no great liking ,", "Much might be done ; then you might fumble with me ,", "Be not so griev 'd , sweet Mistriss , what I said ,", "Stand you out too .", "Ha ! \u2018 tis a Ring , a pretty Ring , a right one ;", "Friend .", "Alas , you are mistaken .", "And in that hope , some few hours I 'll forget her .", "She may be there , and you may play the tyrant ;", "To hide your self from me , to fly my company ?", "And fit to cross your fooleries ; I 'll fail else :", "No Madam , and which made me wonder mightily ,", "Here we hang .", "And if thou seest me fall again , good Angelo", "That handsome youth should suffer such a penance ,", "For I must do it .", "Why are you still so fearfull of me , Lady ?", "I'th \u2019 name of innocence , what 's this the fool gave me ?", "Though I desire to be here more than Heaven ,", "Woe be to my Gally gaskins .", "I think she is weary of your tyranny ,", "Be honest , and good thoughts , and then", "I do not pluck my Cloaths up .", "But that 's all one ; I 'll lay that on the left hand ,", "As I am now , yet if my sight offend you ,", "But not this way , I had rather be an Adamite ,", "When I am my self", "If this do bolt him , I'le be with him again", "I must needs have thee as a witness with me", "And such pranks he has plaid .", "Why , thou art worse than I was .", "Enter Alphonso .", "How prettily it prattles !", "What riches had he found ? O he would think", "It never lied to you ; if it did ,", "To see how prettily thy fear becomes thee ;", "I dare not let him know my pranks .", "And twice as many flames , could fling upon us .", "And my part is obedience .", "\u2018 Tis strange thou should'st be thus , with thy discretion .", "Were she as catching as the plague , and deadly ,", "He 's in love with a Boy , there lyes his melancholy .", "And me to boot ; what ails she to grow so sullen ?", "I am sorry I deserv 'd no more .", "Why ?", "Thou art a Captain , let thy men", "With their love quivers , full of Ladies eyes ,", "Of all sorts , Madam ; your open handed bounty", "With a forc't smile , than twenty thousand Cupids", "Were there a Hercules to get again", "And come what can come .", "Now ye may view \u2018 em .", "And merrier for the heart , than Wine and Saffron :", "See how he shakes .", "So suddenly , and strangely , that we are", "Yet I can think unhappily , and as near the mark , Madam ,", "And all the power I have to serve , and honour ye ?", "Yes , I sent him ,", "I wish all good success , I have here brought you", "\u2018 Tis very true , Sir ,", "And then he would run through thick and thin , to reach me ,", "As thou wouldst shape an Angel in thy thought ;", "With a new part , was never play 'd ; I'le ferk him .", "I will not trouble ye : good Heaven preserve ye ,", "You have hit the cause I come for ; there 's a Letter ,", "Another secret from you .", "And therefore gone ; May be some point of Conscience ,", "A meritorious War , and so I 'll make it .", "Though it have kept ye secret for a season ,", "No , take her counsel .", "I have le", "I could now piss mine eyes out for meer anger :", "To gain your love , and envy my best Mistriss ,", "Am I twice sand-blind ? twice so near the Blessing", "So do I too : and if there be such a place ,", "Thou maist command , and lead in chief ,", "And tell her she is fouler than all those", "So , thou art fast : I must go get some fresh room", "you swore you lov 'd to do so .", "Her woman , Sir , and't like your Worship , Sir .", "Shalt thou find her ; she 's brown , but of a sweetness ,", "And do stil", "Let him want nothing , but his will .", "I would arrive at ? and block-like never know it ?", "That like continual spring should flourish ever .", "Do you take me for Juletta ? I am a Page Sir ,", "Both .", "If this be hate \u2014", "Art thou not strong enough to see a woman ?", "Even my own thoughts , Lady :", "Himself still dreaming of a blessedness ,", "As thou art honest , which I dare not be", "I am a Drum Sir ,", "I saw her eyes .", "If ye do love , carry your Love out handsomely .", "To laugh , and caper in : O how it tickles me !", "And juggle ye , and fiddle ye , and firk ye :", "I should chide ,", "\u2018 Tis no matter ! As long as ye leave sufficient men to stock ye .", "But let 's retire , and alter , then we'l walk free ;", "Alas , poor soul ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Will ye troop up , ye Porridge Regiment ? Enter Alinda , and Juletta . Captain Poors quarter will ye move ?", "Enter Alphonso , Curio , and Seberto .", "Your beasts will bolt anon , and then \u2018 tis dangerous .", "For that provokes thy stomach to ring noon ;", "Stand off , and keep your ranks : twenty foot further :", "Your friend ? and why your friend ? why goodman turncoat", "So ye shall , Sirrah ,", "O the infinite Seas of Porridge thou hast swallow 'd !", "They are too high fed , Madam ,", "Any of thy acquaintance hung in Gibbets ?", "Or what itch dost thou know upon me , tell me ,", "Thou feedst abundance , thou hadst need of sustenance ;", "There louse your selves with reason and discretion ."], "true_target": ["And yet thou lookst as if they had been but Glysters ;", "The Sun shines warm : the farther still the better ,", "Does the crack go that way ? \u2018 Twill be o'th \u2019 other side anon .", "\u2018 Tis ever so with thee , when thou hast done scratching ,", "Or any higher ambition , than an Alms-basket ?", "When I quarter the same louse with ye .", "I'le undertake five hundred head about \u2018 em ,", "Their stomachs are a sleep yet .", "Nothing but a general rot of sheep can satisfie \u2018 em .", "And that 's no needy Grasier .", "Alms do you call it to relieve these Rascals ?", "Hast thou any Friends , Kindred , or Alliance ,", "That I should be thy friend ? what do I look like", "What dost thou see within me , or without me ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Heaven bless our Mistris ."], "true_target": ["Poor people , and \u2018 t like your worship .Beg . Wretched poor people ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Pray ye friend ."], "true_target": ["I would be your worships friend ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Very hungry people ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis twelve o'clock ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Ye guess right , Sir ,", "Yet people poor enough to beg a blessing .", "And all good thoughts , and prayers dwell about ye ,", "And swear they cannot hold pace with her pieties ,", "This four days I have Travel 'd in his Company ,", "But far off bred ; my Fortunes farther from me .", "Yes , worthiest Lady ,", "The holiest we ere heard of ;", "I have liv 'd freer .", "A Daughter of that pious excellence ,", "The very Shrines of Saints sink at her vertues ,", "Abundance be your friend ; and holy charity"], "true_target": ["But little of his business , or his Language", "We come to see this Lady : not with prophane eyes ,", "Strangers that come to wonder at your charity ,", "But through our tedious wayes to beg her blessings .", "As yet I have understood .", "Ye keep a living monument of goodness ,", "Nor wanton bloods , to doat upon her beauties ,", "Yours ne'r begin ; and thus I seal my Prayers .", "Heavens grace in-wheel ye :", "Be ever at your hand to crown ye glorious .", "And bound far off , to offer our devotions .", "All my Devotions wait upon your service .", "He 's a stranger , Sir ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["\u2018 Bless my Mistris ."], "true_target": ["Heaven bless the Lady ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And sorrow for the sweet time ye have lost ?", "Kiss , kiss , it must be thus : stand up Alinda ,", "Why do you grieve ? do you find your penance sharp ?", "You had best begin the game then , I have no title in her ,", "I pray is this the party ?", "Bring me unto thy Captain : where 's thy Captain ?", "Or are the vows ye 've made too mighty for ye ?", "Has led me dancing ; the Devil has haunted me", "And yours appear no less , griefs for your fears ,", "As this sweet Lady ; we call 'd her nimble chaps .", "I am founder 'd , melted , some fairy thing or other", "Ye had a waiting woman , one Juletta ,", "And then a sorrow shews in his true glory ,", "You knew her mind ; you were of counsel with her ,", "O \u2019 thee , Sir ? I , o \u2019 thee , Sir ; what art thou Sir ?", "And let me get me home , and hope I am sober :", "For hours ill-spent , for wrongs done rash , and rudely ,", "I pray ye be comforted ."], "true_target": ["Does not the World allure ye to look back ,", "I 'll choak \u2018 em , famish \u2018 em , what say you , Wagtail ?", "Let me have drink enough : I am almost choak 'd too .", "How do'st thou Captain ?", "2 Out-l . He 's here Sir , there he stands .", "Tell me , and tell me true .", "I am the more child , and more need of blessing .", "What say you , Sirrah ? you ? or you ? are ye dumb all ?", "I'th \u2019 likeness of a voyce : give me thy Captain .", "Become fears well ; I dare not task your goodness ;", "I have lost my horse ; I am hungry , and out of my wits also .", "My Daughter 's run away : I have been haunted too ,", "When the whole heart is excellently sorry ,", "A manly made-up heart contemns these shadows ,", "A pretty desperate thing , just such another", "I have been fool 'd and jaded , made a dog-bolt .", "Pray take her , and dispatch her , and commend me to her ,", "Ye are young , and fair ; be not deluded , Sir ,", "For foul contempts , for faiths ill violated ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Or only a fair shew to guile his mischiefs ?", "I cannot die with fewer faults upon me .", "In such a harmony art thou begotten ,", "What noise is this ? what roar ? I cannot find her ,", "And can ye fail your Mistriss ? can ye grow cold", "What would ye say ? how my heart beats and trembles !", "Thou wouldst have sought me whilst I carried Arms ,", "In such soft air , so gentle , lull 'd and nourish 'd ,", "A hater of thy person , a maligner ?", "Dishonours self will cry you out a Coward .", "Long , and happy from annoy .", "Ye cut-throat rogues .", "I look not for't . The more unhallowed soul hast thou to offer it .", "What Devils vex ye ?", "Mark how it flies now every way . O love ,", "\u2018 Have lost my self ; and now am not so noble .", "This is a strange Conversion :", "Dig'st crafty pit-falls : thou sham'st the Spanish Honour ;", "Do you blush at this , in such as are meer rudeness ,", "You have the mightier hand .", "Dost thou seek more coals still to sear thy conscience ,", "I have seen , and lov 'd : what fair hands ! certainly \u2014", "But rather when I meet thee , tears to soften thee ;", "If I were now to learn to die I would sue thee :", "And as you have a Mistris that you honour ,", "I would not borrow from his courtesie", "Done something worthy feat ; Now poor and basely", "Or did I fear death , then I would make thee glorious .", "Pray ye speak it , and then shew it .", "To what I seem ; were I a Saint indeed ,", "And such a comfort ye have cast upon me ,", "Contending proudly who should first devour me ,", "Keep your selves carefull i n't .", "For though your government admit no president ,", "And plays , and peeps upon me ! sure such eyes", "Your hand I dare take ,", "And next obey .", "And all my whole life being but deaths preface ,", "As thou didst lately on mine innocence ;", "A daring man .", "And I beseech you , Sir , do me the honour", "To get his Daughter . Then thou shouldst have brav 'd me ,", "I never had such a mind yet to see misery .", "A sober youth :", "What makes he here , thus clad ? is it repentance ,", "She is got free again : but where , or which way ?", "\u2018 Tis here again , hark gentle Roderigo ,", "For rash and hasty heats , a sweet repentance :", "That bears the Stamp of Man , and not his Nature ;", "And rather make it honourable , than angry ,", "Submissive at his knees that knows not honour ,", "The patience of my death , shall more torment thee ,", "But my blood spilt ? do it thy self , dispatch it ;", "Whither should we go ? for we believe thy reverence ,", "But I'le deal free , and fairly , like a Gentleman :", "Alas , \u2018 twill breed delay . Bear no respect", "So far from that , I brought no malice with me ,", "They are very pleasant ;", "The noble Roderigo , now I call ye ,", "Will be delights to these : those have their ends ,", "Too mighty , and too many for my mannage ,", "I cannot go more joyfully to a wedding .", "This day , know Roderigo , I had set", "I could compel ye now without this circumstance ,", "You are not much hurt ?", "There needs no fear , hale reverend dames .", "Hadst thou been brave , and noble , and an Enemy ,", "As straight as truth , boy :", "How vilely this shows ,", "Be sure ye lock that close .", "And do their great commands , and do \u2018 em handsomely :", "For those die here , and seek no further being ,", "Alas , why sho", "I know thou dost , and since it is my fortune", "Now do me noble right .", "Farewel sleep , peace , all that are humane comforts ,", "You could not please me better ;", "I scorn to shift his fury , keep your obedience ;", "You seem 'd to court me to it ; you have found a time ,", "Ye inhumane slaves , off , off , and leave this cruelty ,", "This was a strange fit .", "I am , dear Lady ,", "He holds me hard by th \u2019 hand ; O my life , her flesh too !", "Mark me , a Mistris .", "To the King , honour , and all Joy ,", "I know not what to think : her tears , her true ones ;", "You had a fair desire to try my valour :", "Be no more Christians , put religion by ,", "Come , stand , and let 's go meet \u2018 em .", "The King has mercy , friend , as well as Justice :", "Farewel for ever .", "Ye dog-whelps .", "Pure orient tears : Hark , do you know me little one ?", "The mercenary anger thou serv'st under ,", "Whilst my good Sword was my profession ,", "And as thou takst the whole revenge unto thee ,", "How bravely now he is tempered ! I must fight ,", "In such a case ?", "And into weak condition draw my vertue ?", "In one that would command anothers temper ,", "Be not molested ,", "That , as he puts this off , puts off all injuries ,", "I'le thank ye Captain .", "And though , like angry waves , they curl 'd upon me ,", "Is not their honour ours ?", "Nothing rocks Love asleep , but death .", "And only now for honours sake defies ye :", "I am his humble Servant . Nay , good Sir , speak your will , I see you wonder , one easie word from you \u2014", "And that pulse beat back to your considerations ,", "For if there be a knocking there , a pricking ,", "Wouldst thou abuse their weak sights with , for amiable ?", "Noble Governour .", "I thank ye , Sir , I shall be too proud of ye ,", "Fear not , I will not .", "Come Souldiers , come , ye are roughly bred , and bloody ,", "Forgive us heaven , and be our friend .", "Thou seest more , than I feel , boy .", "When I put on this habit , I put off", "In executing impious commands ;", "Ha ! do I dazel ?", "Pity so heavy a cross should light upon him .", "Had I had in me , but given reins , and licence", "Deep in their knowledge , friend .", "A Captain of good government .", "Yet some men say thou art noble .", "All that can make me happy ;", "Work sacred innocence , to be a Devil ?", "And thus I bless it too ; Be constant fair still ,", "It stirs not me : it is the end I was born for .", "As ye are worthy of the name ye carry ,", "Thou hast neither point of Man , nor Conscience in thee .", "Let 's away", "And let not these poor wretches houl for thy sake .", "And drew me from the right mark all should aim at ;", "Now Roderigo stand .", "Have ye consider 'd", "Had I been over season 'd with base anger ,", "Pray Heaven recover him .", "Alas good Sir . This is the way never to hope recovery .", "That dares not meet the Lion in the face ,", "Pray ye be secure Sir ,", "Manly , or brave in these thus to oppress ye ?", "The fears ye live in and the hourly dangers", "Was it fair play ? did it appear to you handsom ?", "As you are gentle bred , a Souldier fashioned .", "One hour of life , to gain an age of glory .", "O Roderigo ."], "true_target": ["Where there is Christian faith , and this not reverenced :", "The most malicious of all Devils brought me ,", "For fear you should repent : that will be dangerous :", "I come a Spie ? durst any noble spirit", "To light into thy fingers , I must think too", "Then have among ye all , ye slaves , ye cowards ,", "O I could tell ye strange things .", "I pray ye what is he , Sir ?", "I wait your worst , Sir .", "Still braver .", "Put on this habit , to become a Traitor ?", "Or as I am a Gentleman : do ye brave me ?", "What .", "Take the whole sin upon thee ; and be mighty ,", "I'le trie that : and toth \u2019 purpose : ye told me Sir", "My sleep but at next door .", "Let me look once again : were it in such clothes", "Yet I would stem their danger .", "Bore no respect to honesty , Religion ,", "Of beasts , and fowls : so far I urge humanity .", "And dare you glorifie worse in your self Sir ?", "Thou setst Toyls to betray me ; and like the Pesant ,", "No faith , no common tye of man , humanity ,", "Those things that in thine own glass seem most monstrous ,", "And if it creep into your conscience once ,", "Ye may do what ye please .", "I want my self .", "In noble emulation , so I take it ;", "Ye have a Captain seals your liberal pardons ,", "Now , as you are a man , I know you are valiant ,", "Be good , and live to be a great example .", "It shall be welcome ; come , let 's keep up thus still ,", "As when I saw her last ; this must be she .", "All fires , all angers , all those starts of youth", "To a tempestuous will , as wild as winter ,", "How tenderly it stroaks me !", "This was the Musick .", "I cannot hinder ye ; less can I beg", "But these outlive all time , and all repentance :", "\u2018 Twill make ye cowards : feel no tenderness ,", "Shew your obedience , and the joy ye take", "Why should that stagger ye ? you know not holiness :", "I would not task those sins to me committed .", "ld I hurt him ? how he smiles !", "I cannot sleep friend ,", "And well maintain 'd .", "How ye have laid a stiff hand on Religion \u2014", "In this I have requited some : ye know me :", "Most willing :", "Every minute thus be seen ,", "To let me wait upon ye .", "They are excellent women ,", "Be not afraid , Man ,", "If he hang him himself .", "And constantly believe , we shall be happy .", "You know him Sir .", "And arm 'd with all thy Families hate upon thee ,", "Hark , hark : O sweet , sweet , how the Birds record too !", "And be so , \u2018 twill become ye : have no hearts ,", "Saw ye none yet ?", "The very shape , and sweetness of Alinda :", "To see me buried ; not to let his fury", "How the pretty Knave looks ,", "Why , what a thing will this be ? What strange confusion then will breed among ye ?", "I come a Spie ? no Roderigo , no ,", "I know , and honour ye .", "Leave your tongue-valour , and dispatch your hate , Sir ;", "A weapon in your hand , an equal enemy ,", "Ye us 'd me with much honour , and I thank ye ,", "And thus my love shall ever count , and hold ye .", "The nature of these men , and how they us 'd ye ?", "That clapt too rank a bias to my being ,", "2 Out-l. \u2018 Tis ten to one he will shoot him : for the Devil 's in him", "And violated faith .", "They would have found it .", "A violence to that habit ? ha ? Roderigo ,", "I'le put your hatred far off , and forget it ,", "Yes Sir , \u2018 tis a strong one ,", "Was it noble", "To be o'rehYpppHeNlaid with odds , and violence ?", "That be far from me , Lady , thus I kiss it ,", "Even in an Enemy shew me this antipathy", "But I reserve thee to a nobler service .", "What poor evasions thou buildst on , to abuse me !", "He might have cozen 'd me with his behaviour .", "And suited all occasions to my mischiefs ,", "In stead of stubborn steel , I put on prayers ;", "Was that we heard afar off ?", "That have stopt souls , that never knew things gentle ?", "Nor let a thing call 'd conscience trouble ye ;", "I seek my self , and am but my selfs shadow ,", "Take up that sword , and stand : stay ye base rascals ,", "Shows seldom alter me , Sir ;", "That though I struggle with mine own cal", "And when you fall : no more \u2014", "Your Town stands cool and sweet .", "Am I ? My habit shews me what I am .", "And can no sacrifice appease thy malice ,", "As small a price upon thy life and fortunes ,", "Only this honest office I desire ye ,", "The goodness of a man ne'r taught these principles .", "And then have cryed out , Pedro , I defie thee ;", "Then stuck Alphonso 's quarrel on the point ,", "And when you have done all , which is my poor ruine ,", "Enter Alinda , and Juletta , like old Women .", "Nor do not hang so greedily upon me ;", "Long weary steps , and vows , for my vain-glories .", "Nor hopes , nor punishments .", "Is it , thou thinkst to fear me with thy terrors ,", "It much delighted me .", "But knowing what , and how far I can suffer ;", "Be not so full of passion ,", "A handsome Mistris ,", "mities", "Yes boy , and ready ; prethee to thy business .", "Come turn not back , ye must , and ye shall know me ;", "To be excellent in evil , is your goodness ;", "If I must die , let it not trouble you ;", "Than all my life has fear 'd thee .", "I thank ye gentle child , you teach me truely .", "And every note they emulate one another .", "Mighty in evil , as thou art in anger :", "Murdering a man , ye Rascals ?", "And bear no bound in 's own ?", "Me thought I heard a voyce .", "Is it my life thou long'st for Roderigo ?", "I have those watches here admit no slumbers ,", "O my soul !", "I pray believe not .", "Their pretty airs , fall to their rests , enjoy \u2018 em .", "Be wise , and not discovered : O how I love ye ! How do ye now ?", "We would seek happier fortunes .", "Prethee make haste , and let that gulph be satisfied .", "And be as we appear ; Heavens hand may bless us .", "What strange Musick", "\u2018 Twill be ill taken .", "As you dare hold your self deserving of her .", "Let \u2018 em be what they will , they cannot hurt us .", "O my best Mistris !", "Expose my body to the open violence", "For our selves first , thus we bend ,", "Better ye had been Trees , or Stones , and happier ;", "Do't thy self for shame , thou best becom'st it .", "Come , do your worst , I am ready .", "The Birds sing louder , sweeter ,", "Contrite , and true , for I believe Roderigo ,", "Lie still and hear : These when they have done their labours ,", "No sure boy , \u2018 tis thy tenderness :"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["As I carried the matter ,", "In truth , not I , Sir ;", "For look you , Sir , if she had been i'th \u2019 Cellar \u2014", "I am sure she is not i'th \u2019 Cellar ;", "I saw her last night , and't shall like your Worship ,", "And every little Terse , that could but testifie ;"], "true_target": ["I lay with my fellow Frederick in the flea-Chamber ,", "Her Chamber-pot , and't please you .", "All mine .", "And't like your Worship , we are almost worried .", "When I serv 'd in her Livery .", "For I search 'd every piece of Wine ; yes sure , Sir ,", "And I drew hard to bolt her out ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And Robin fetch Tobacco for the Peacock , they will not be", "That opens to the Park , we first discovered it .", "Mull a pint of Sack there for the women in the"], "true_target": ["Flower-deluce , and put in ginger enough , they belch like potguns ,", "Searching the Garden at the little Postern", "Drunk till mid-night else : how now , how does my Master ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And twenty gallant things : I'le teach thee arms too ;", "Let me not take ye , let me not come near ye ,", "But if it should prove the Devil then .", "You think your Pilgrims Bulwark can defend ye ;", "I 'll wait upon your fortunes , that 's my way now ,", "4 Out-law . Not a word , Sir ,", "It danceth ;", "I want a pretty Boy to wait upon me ,", "And feel my sores , yet I unsensible ;", "This benefit has made me shame to see him ,", "1 Out-l. Ye might have hang 'd him :", "Things excellently mingled , and of pure nature ,", "Ye are in my hands , and I have Medicines for ye", "Let her do what she please : No , no Alinda", "Thou speak'st poorly ,", "What a Devil art thou ?", "Will none of ye obey ?", "The King intends against us yet ?", "That never heard of yet , nor felt your goodness ,", "Divides my life too .", "Master 'd my will , and power , and now laughs at me .", "\u2018 Tis not the name of Virgin shall redeem ye ,", "I ne 're had suffer 'd this .", "We have no sport ; whoring and drinking spoils us ,", "When fools and mad folks will be Tutors to me ,", "And he beyond my veng'ance , which torments me ;", "Where is the Boy ye brought me ?", "I would fain wooe his fancie to a peace ,", "Why should I wander thus , and play the Coxcomb ?", "Will ye sit down , and sleep ? the heat invites ye .", "Enter four Pesants .", "Stay , be not hasty .", ", Jaques .", "Was by me till I slept ,", "Sure \u2018 tis a kind of Sibyl , some mad Prophet ;", "No happy eye ?", "The Birds sing softly too : pray take some rest , Sir .", "Those I would have regarded ; \u2018 tis policy .", "Sure it was set by Providence upon me", "I'le make ye feel : I'le make ye know , and feel too ;", "What mops and mows it makes ! heigh ! how it frisketh !", "Her woman by her . The same Sir , as I live .", "Hark how yond purling stream dances , and murmurs ,", "Had we then come to competition ,", "Make thee mine heir .", "Go you first . I have less faith : when I have said my Prayers \u2014", "And in a noble mind , so low , and loosely", "When you were Master of this fame , and fashion ,", "A crying Girle , if she were here , should master thee .", "For this traytor . Go , put it on him , and then tie him up .", "Hear him not prate .", "No man love me ?", "Can make ye speak : pull off his Bonnet , Souldiers ;", "And what care have ye for that ? gone , and contemn 'd me ;", "My hopes are flatter 'd , as my present fortunes ;", "That would hang me .", "You should have seen this Sword , how e 're you slight it ,", "We let those pass that carry the best purchase .", "And happy fortune to us send .", "Why stand ye gazing ?", "I cannot guess ;", "Indeed he is strongly built .", "What a trim beard she has !", "I scorn to let loose so base an anger", "The Knave is hungry , yet he seasons all", "No not a foot : give me the gown : the sword now .", "Which I have often sought .", "And where you grieve , or joy , I 'll be a Partner .", "Nor where the Sword shall enter , no lost spirit ,", "I shall be hang 'd , or whipt now :", "Merchants , nor Gentlemen , nor whosoever ,", "If I had open 'd this when it was given me ,", "Yet my mind says you are not far from happiness .", "A piece of pretty holiness ; do you shrink , Sir ?", "Can two such storms meet then , and part with kissing ?", "No creature .", "The saddest appetite I ever lookt on ;", "For they shall pay .", "Love me , or love me not , I say thou shalt do it :", "I 'll give it him again , and add unto it .", "And keep him safe too : if he scape your guards \u2014", "And will not off .", "Let me be both the Sacrifice and Altar ,", "And keep your watches round .", "And I could curse my self , I made \u2018 em stranger ;", "What shall I do ? I do confess .", "There lies the misery : how cunningly she quit him ,", "And every cry was the young hopeful Pedro ,", "Can bring me off , or justifie me .", "To find this Villain too , for there 's my main prize :", "We took about him , which he griev 'd to part with ,", "That Devil in the Saints skin .", "See how it turns .", "You shall have any thing ; what think you now , Souldiers ?", "Come in : I'le tell you what I know : strange things .", "To steer my heart right , I am wondrous weary ,", "And be another thing , or not at all .", "I am drowsie : Boy ,", "Do not we see his Garrisons ?", "Prosperous be all his dayes", "And thank me too , and I sit still : well , trim Beauty", "If they be vertuous ,", "And so I 'll use it .", "Shall find and bring forth that , that 's rich and worthy .", "It is a handsome thing , but horribly Sun-burnt ,", "That thing i'th \u2019 Button'dhYpppHeNcap looks terribly . She has Guns in her eyes , the Devils Ingeneer .", "Will strike it dead ; Jaques , and Lopez , Lads ,", "3 Out-law . You speak now like a Captain .", "Enter Out-laws , Lope", "I was never so deserted ; sure these woods", "I 'll lye down , and take rest ; and goodness guard me .", "I 'll have all search 'd , and brought in : Rogues , and Beggars ,", "If thou lov'st me do it :", "A pretty Lad , and of a quick capacity ,", "And how she urg 'd ! had ye been constant to me ,", "And my rude will grow handsom in an instant ,", "O how I loath it now : for these know all Sir ,", "A Girl that scorns me too ? a thing that hates me ?", "\u2018 Twere sin to open such a petty purchase .", "And if he snap me then .", "Oh me !", "She is gone again too ,", "To make him merry now : methink yond rocks yonder", "Do ? why hang a Rascal ,", "The thing 's mad ,", "I'le forgive your holy habit , Sir , but I'le hang you .", "And Rascals , you shall tremble . Keep him here ,", "\u2018 Tis my will he perish ,", "The Kings and Queens , two noble honours meet ,", "As I live , ye die for't ;", "Hummings of higher nature vex his brains , Sir ,", "It labours high and hastily upon him ;", "But not by th \u2019 sword , pray you hear me , and allow me ;", "Not to thee ,", "Are ye seal 'd up ? or do you scorn to answer ?", "And felt it too ; sharper than sorrow felt it ,", "We get nothing ,", "Go sleep , fool , sleep .", "A smug young Saint . What Country were you born in ?", "Where took ye him ?", "His vertue startles me . I dare fight Pedro .", "What art thou ?", "It is my will : That in the Pilgrims coat there ,", "I'le have it done .", "Did not I say these woods begot strange wonders ?", "For all I dare do now , implies but penance .", "And here 's mine , to be true , and full of service .", "To fight , because I dare , were worse and weaker", "Why dost thou make that question ?", "I would not be traytor ,", "Those grandam things , those strange antiquities .", "And though unwilling , yet her Father wrought her", "I wash \u2018 em daily .", "That 's it that troubles me : O that base rascal !", "Can never fight \u2018 em up to fame again ;", "And I'le return ; she cannot be far gone yet :", "How sweet these solitary places are ! how wantonly", "Though I be rough by nature , shall my name", "1 Out-l. Wherefore this halter Captain ?", "O no mercy .", "Besides there 's something in his face I like well .", "A good boy .", "That 's a fine Riddle .", "May be some Wealth .", "Sir , Sir , y'are brave , ye plead now in a Sanctuary ,", "I would not be a knave again , a villain :", "Pilgrim ? a Pox o \u2019 Pilgrims , there the game goes ,", "And I'le allow thee horse , and all thy pleasures ,", "And thief-like thinkst that holy case shall carry thee", "Are ye so valiant ?", "Base Cowards ,", "The Boy is young , \u2018 tis fear , and want of company ,", "When you were bravest , Sir , and your sword sharpest ,", "I hope the fairest .", "Appear they how they will , they may have purses ,", "They talk of Fairies , and such demi-devils ,", "Stand nearer , ha ?", "Now I am Catechiz 'd , I would ever dwell here ,", "Here 's no inhabitants .", "Go with me , and discourse : I like thy company", "And yet I'le have it done : this child shall strangle thee ,", "It said true .", "Enter Lopez , and Jaques with Pedro .", "That men may hope , although the mind be rugged ,", "They come upon us still .", "And by and by the sound fled as the wind does ;", "Do you see this Rogue ?", "And more proclaim 'd me fool : yet I must confess", "I dare not speak : or if I do \u2018 tis nothing", "What wouldst thou have child ?", "The boy has stagger 'd me : what would'st thou have me ?", "How he weeps ! dear Heaven", "Hold sacred Love , and peace with one another ,", "So our hands had not do n't .", "And still the more I look , more like ; let him want nothing ,", "Give me an enemy , a thing that hates ye ,", "And have a care to your business : farewel ,", "Have ye conspir 'd , ye slaves ?", "You will not find it so .", "This goes nearer .", "I thank ye , and I'le study more to honour ye :", "Alas , some little money", "What Devil brought thee hither ? for I know thee .", "So you do well ; fall edge or flat o \u2019 my side ;", "In execution quicker than thy scorns ;", "If thy tongue could save thee ,", "Pilgrim , come hither , Sir , are you a Pilgrim ?", "Or what seems dangerous to Love , or fury ?"], "true_target": ["What dares not woman , when she is provok 'd ?", "This is a fine place to dance their gambols .\u2014", "Into new horrid forms again \u2014", "There 's all my fortune fled ; I know it , I feel it .", "I will not be thus baffled .", "2 Out-law . There come no Passengers ,", "Truss him I say .", "Abominably mad , her brains are butter 'd ,", "Through all my purposes , and so betray me ,", "The Devil in a Fools Coat , is he turn 'd Innocent ?", "And whilst we spend that idlely ,", "A desperate fool , and so thy fate shall tell thee .", "And thou hast been the heir of all this malice .", "Had I been stubborn friend .", "Yes , yes , how I sweat !", "I do , and must .", "And then they would have handled me a new way ,", "Inherit that eternal stain of barbarous ?", "They can sing admirably ,", "I feel it sink into me forcibly :", "You hear no preparation", "That were a benefit to mock the Giver ;", "Souldiers , come out , and bring a halter with ye ;", "I durst affront ye ; when the Court Sun gilded ye ,", "Thou art strong enough to tie him to a Bough ,", "To know him , blush .", "Why , my best boy ?", "When thousand women may be had , ten thousand ,", "I will do all .", "Are only inhabited with rare dreams , and wonders ;", "They never lose their maiden-heads : I would fool any way", "I had rather take mine own , Boy .", "Than if I had a woman in my cause , Sir ,", "And when I am sad or sleepy , to prate to me ;", "\u2018 Tis the fair Alinda .", "Ha ?", "No more , farewel .", "And then the Sword adds nothing to their lustre ,", "For I 'll so trim ye , I 'll so bustle with ye ;", "Dispatch him presently .", "1 Out-law . He 's within at meat , Sir ,", "And this I have taken upon trust , for noble ,", "Nor hide the beauty of that face in patches ,", "I am sure , none else shall touch her , none else enjoy her . If this , and this hold .", "I must melt too .", "Have got the trick now to become Bank-masters .", "No , not a Christian War , and that 's held pious .", "I am your servant , Sir , and now this habit ,", "The more shame mine : devise a way to fight thus ,", "And they would find me out .", "How now , who is this ? what have you brought me , Souldiers ?", "And rightly but consider how they move us .", "Who are out now ?", "And all your glories in the full Meridian ,", "Still I grow heavier , heavier , Heaven defend me ;", "He that divides ye", "What antick ? Speak Puppet , speak .", "\u2018 Twas loud , and shrill : sometimes it shew 'd hard by us ,", "And use him gently , all .", "And set me on , you cannot hold me Coward ;", "O , I am now more wretched far , than ever .", "Stare not , nor stagger , Sirrah ; if ye deny me ,", "Use all your service to my friend Alphonso ,", "Pray ye sit , and I'le sit by .", "You cannot , Sir , you have cast those by : discarded \u2018 em ,", "He will be quickly bold ; I 'll entertain him ;", "And how my heart laughs now me thinks within me !", "If she be not , expect me , when ye see me ;", "Here , prithee speak .", "And bred up neatly .", "Two Wives ?", "I have been ill , and", "And would he had been hang 'd , that 's all we care for't :", "For here is a kind of Court of Reformation ;", "That know their Quarters , as they know their Knapsacks ;", "Rots take ye , Rascals .", "Ha .", "Those heats that they add to us ,", "Thy heart", "And still run on ; I must think better , nobler ,", "The wind blows through the leaves , and courts , and playes with \u2018 em !", "All I can stagger at is the Kings anger ,", "Fear not ,", "O ! I am fool 'd and sleighted , made a Rascal ;", "I feel my wildness bound , and fetter 'd in me .", "If she be found i'th \u2019 woods , send me word presently ,", "Ye have a Spanish face ; In a dumb Province ?", "Is't not a Fairy , or some small Hobgoblin ?", "Tire out my peace and pleasure for a Girl ?", "She is not to be recovered , which I vex at ;", "Am I thus jaded ?", "That may deliver to the King my innocence ;", "What else ? who dare reprieve him ?", "Put to your powers , ye rascals , I command ye .", "That little devil has main need of a Barber ,", "Is your tongue found ? go off , and let me talk with him ;", "To make the Kingdom mine : if one must bleed ,", "We keep no Guards .", "No Sir ;", "All I can call a hurt , sticks in my conscience ,", "Thou should'st have seen all this , and shrunk to see it .", "May light on thee : See me no more , but quit me ;", "let us feel \u2018 em rightly ,", "And had your Mother too this excellent Vertue ?", "Make me not angry , Sirrah .", "O that I durst not suffer :", "This Roguy Box .", "Base as the act , thy end be , and I forget thee .", "The Devils dump had been danced then .", "pursu 'd it ,", "And turn him off : come , thou shalt be my Jewel ,", "And teach my Sword to hurt that that preserv 'd me ?", "Prating be thy bail , thou hast a rare benefit .", "You have the nobler soul , I must confess it ,", "When all was hush 'd ; the Midwife was dumb Midnight ;", "But I shall know it .", "Yet touching but the pureness of your metal ,", "And fret my self , and travel like a Carrier ,", "But since thou stealst upon me like a Spie ,", "These Jewels here , a part of which I sent her ,", "I bear a hate about me scorns those follies .", "Then like a Gentleman I would have us 'd thee ,", "But we have tribute .", "And you the Priest ; I have deserv 'd to suffer .", "Something shall shew like gold , at least shall glister ,", "Stony , and hard to work , yet time , and honour", "Though it be impossible I would now recover ,", "To look back , and collect such lumps , and lick \u2018 em", "That like the wounded air , no bloud may issue ,", "That pricks and tortures me .", "And take your ease ; I'le follow her recovery ,", "Dispatch the prater .", "And peep , and watch ? want Meat , and Wine , to cherish me ,", "To grace this day , two true loves at their feet .", "And Chastity , and all that seem to ruine me ,", "Thy father hates my friends , and family ,", "I 'll change that property : nor tears , nor angers ;", "Sirrah , I scorn my finger should be \u2018 fil 'd with thee ;", "As ye are men , and Christians .", "O , what torments me thus ? what slaves , what villains ? O spare me , do not murther me .", "Devotion , not distrust shall put upon me ,", "Good man , he 's troubled with matter of more moment ,", "If I have ever err 'd , \u2018 thas been in hazard ;", "Alonso 's sprightly Son ; then durst I meet ye ,", "So , now what are ye ?", "He knows , and loves ; use him not rough , and harshly ,", "Let the fool go there ,", "4 Out-law . Good fellows , Sir , that if there be any purchase stirring", "I have been covetous of all occasions ,", "For a hot appetite : why should I walk and walk thus ?", "The temper of my Sword starts at your Vertue ,", "I think \u2018 twill ravish me ,", "If they be not , the best Swords , and best valours", "Which if it come , I am prepar 'd to meet it .", "And have these of my Jury ; how light I am ,", "To take , and wear .", "And considered at the best , is but a short Breakfast", "None of you know her ?", "Cannot ?", "No tongue do you say ? sure she was a matchless woman ;", "He eats or drinks with many tears and sighings ,", "What 's that it points at ?", "All shall pray for you .", "Give him his hearts content , and me forgive too .", "My thoughts too , which add more burthen to me ;", "Will ye look blith ?", "Gag him , Sirrah .", "These know , and these have power .", "Certain he was begotten in a Calm ,", "And when we meet again .", "They show as if they were mortal ,", "O Child ! I love thy tongue .", "And if we spare , fley us , and coin our Cassocks ,", "Sure she 's inspired .", "And are the greater Master of your goodness .", "Shew like inchanted Cells , where they inhabit .", "2 Out-law . Here 's a small Box , Sir ,", "That it is she , this has confirm 'd me certain ,", "That is one main antipathy to sweetness ;", "The Kings proof-favour buckled on your body ;", "It has a mortal face , and I have a great mind to it ,", "Deserving ? what a word was that to fire me ?", "But rather calls in question what 's not doubted ;", "What a fine family is this man sprung from !", "That vertuous , valiant body , nor deface it", "And will flye off , nay it will weep to light ye ;", "1 Out-l . If I do't , let me starve for't .", "I guess at \u2018 em ,", "Ye have a speaking face .", "Then with a Souldiers arm I had honour 'd thee ;", "And that 's his fault .", "And set me on : 1 would not scare that body ,", "But when I wak 'd , and call 'd : O my dull pate here ,", "The poor Knave carried to defray his lodgings ,", "You cannot cozen me again in a Boys figure ,", "I 'll satisfie ye ;", "I would have him die .", "I 'll have none scape ; only my friends and neighbours ,", "And given thee the fair fortune of thy being ,", "I have been rude ; but shall I be a Monster ,", "This the meer Chronicle of my mishaps .", "Who are these ?", "Holy , or unholy , if I say it ,", "But otherwise nor gravities , nor shadows ,", "These shall be yours the whil'st , and do ye service .", "O villains , beasts .", "Nor shall your tongue again bewitch mine anger ,", "Those there , those , those things that come upon us ,", "Every new hour , a new praise ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The Devil that brought her hither , Sir I think", "In such a matter : Here are as pretty fellows ,", "His habit says he 's holy , if his heart", "About their belly-pieces ?", "This Pilgrim cannot want She-Saints to pray to .", "If we get under-ground , to fetch us out again ;", "She will take her patches off , and change her habit .", "Captain , do you need me farther ?", "Me thinks a woman dares not .", "Nor that thou seemst an honester man : for here", "We are taken in a toyle : snapt in a pitfal ;", "2 Out-l . Fly , flie , Jaques ,", "Come let 's to Supper ; then upon our watches .", "Certain Sir ,", "1 Out-l. Will he compel the child ?", "3 Out-l. A thousand horse and foot , a thousand pioneers ,", "But a good rogue ; \u2018 This boy will make 's all honest .", "Keep that proportion too , \u2018 tis best ye free him ,", "And so are all I think .", "We have no trading with such Tinsel-stuff ;", "Lay violent hands on holy things ?", "What has the boy done to him ? How dull , and still he looks !", "We keep his wallet here ; I am sure \u2018 tis heavy .", "And among us ? where were our understandings ?", "What 's his fault , Captain ?", "A wench , and we not know it ?", "He will compel some one .", "Another beats o \u2019 that side .", "The Boy has do n't : a Plaguey witty Rascal . And I shall love him terribly .", "He has too proud a nature :"], "true_target": ["And every one an Axe to cut the woods down .", "They are two mens trades , and let another execute .", "Wilt thou take a spit and stride , and see if thou canst outrun us ?", "To be an excellent thief , is all we aim at .", "For we ne 're knew , nor heard of her departure .", "As high in rage as ever ; the boy with him .", "Has carryed her back again invisible ,", "I could have ghess 'd unhappily : have had some feeling", "This Pilgrim scap 'd a joyfull one .", "Methinks I feel a Sword already shave me .", "Nothing else , Sir ?", "I am sure a handsome ;", "He shakes , and trembles .", "The boy 's a pretty Priest .", "He comes again ,", "And must have some body .", "Although I be a thief , I am no hangman ;", "We know not well , what a strange staving fellow ,", "I do not think \u2018 tis she , Sir ,", "We have no motions : what should she do here , Sir ?", "A handsome wench too ! sure we have lost our faculties ,", "He will mall him else .", "1 Out-l . I scarce believe that : but I like the boy well .", "He is bent to do it ,", "We could but give it ye .", "Has he no Sisters ? have you not been bouncing", "A cunning villain ,", "At the discovery of such a Jigambob :", "This is the dismalst night \u2014", "Sullen enough I am sure ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["For if ye mark , how earnest he was with him ,", "Ja", "That 's still and calm , no noise , nor flux of waters .", "1 Out-l. \u2018 Tis not the wind sure :", "1 Out-l. A little heat of love , which he must wander out .", "And give ye a volly of as good cups of Sack ,", "And sometime standing still , as if he had meant", "The next we take , we'l search a little nearer ,", "Let me come clear of these , and wipe that score off .", "For , look you , that might be compounded without prayers .", "He smil 'd , and yielded ; but not one word utter 'd .", "For that 's our Discipline .", "1 Out-l. Hark , hark , a charge now : my Captain has betray 'd us ,", "Money he has enough ; and when we threatned him ,", "We'l not be boyed again with a pair of breeches .", "And build us up with brick , take away our free-stone .", "Or any way deserve death ? is it not natural ?", "Thou wilt be hang 'd then .", "And left us to this ruine , run away from us .", "We are bad enough already : sins enough", "He does not envy thee : that 's not his quarrel ;", "Alas Sir , we never saw her :", "It beats again now .", "To view the best accesses to our quarters ;", "I think a woman , is a woman , that 's any thing .", "Will the boy do it ? is the rogue so confident ? So young , so deep in blood ?", "I am confident .", "Now it comes nearer : sure we are surprized , Sir ;", "Let 's drink round"], "true_target": ["And how he labour 'd him .", "The Boy looks cheerfully now : sure he will do it .", "He will not be long from us .", "And then again : hark .", "I hear a Drum , I think .", "We must be very carefull in his absence ,", "Upon the Skirt o \u2019 th \u2019 wood , viewing , and gaping ,", "1 Out-l . It concerns us nearly ,", "Bar us the Christian liberty of women ,", "Put me upon a felt and known perdition ?", "He shall not deny us that : we'l see ye under ground ,", "And very watchfull .", "Is the old man asleep ? 1 Out-l. An hour agoe Sir .", "No , he cannot .", "Some from the Kings command : we are lost , we are dead all .", "Are they all set ? 1 Out-l. All , and each quarter quiet .", "\u2018 Twas he most certain ,", "1 Out-l. Because thou art holier than he , upon my conscience", "To make our graves even loath us .", "What ?", "No living thing came this night through our watches . She went with you .", "To the boys health , and then about our business .", "Nor ever heard of her , but from your report .", "What would you have us do ?", "I have done as many villanies as another ,", "1 Out-l. That , that ;", "And have religious blood hang on our consciences ?", "Why should that be dangerous ,", "And with as little reluctation ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Tell me more , are Women true ?", "Do you want a Band Sir ? this is a course wearing ,", "Kill him , and wake him then .", "Peace of all hands , and look .", "But patience is as good as a French Pickadel ."], "true_target": ["What 's this lies here ? is it drunk , or sober ? It sleeps , and soundly too .", "Tell me more yet can they grieve ?", "Tell me dearest what is Love ?", "\u2018 Twill fit but scurvily upon this collar ;", "Peace , peace : it is the Devil Roderigo ,", "Would we had some of \u2018 em here ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I must needs kill him ,", "Or I .", "I , o \u2019 that condition we could Master \u2018 em ,", "\u2018 Tis he .", "That keeps sheep hereabouts : it turns , and stretches .", "It stands with my reputation .", "Yes , some are , and some as you .", "\u2018 Tis a lightning from above ,", "Yes , and sicken sore , but live :", "Since you men first taught to change .", "Ten year agoe ; we might have thought we had children ."], "true_target": ["I would he had been used thus", "When you men are as wise as they .", "Yes we hear ye ,", "\u2018 Tis an arrow , \u2018 tis a fire ,", "Have we got ye ? This was a benefit we never aim 'd at .", "\u2018 Tis a boy they call Desire .", "\u2018 Tis an old woman", "Some are willing , some are strange ,", "They are sturdy knaves .", "And you shall hear of us too .", "And be wise , and delay ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Fast , fast , and easie lest he wake .", "He would stand up stiffe girt , now pounce him lightly", "So , so , so , lay that by .", "What a sweet Homily would he say over him ,", "To kill him presently , has no pleasure i n't .", "H'as been tormenting of us , at least this twelve moneth .", "A Devil take their sturdiness ,", "Stand off , I say :", "It has a Beard too .", "We pay the Rent , and they possess the benefit .", "Stay , stay : let 's be provident .", "Speak softly .", "And as he roars , and rages , let 's go deeper :"], "true_target": ["You have tickled us at all points .", "Out with your knives , and let 's carve this Cockthief ,", "O , that Sir Nicholas now our Priest were here ,", "We can neither keep our wives from \u2018 em nor our States ,", "For ringing all in , with his wife in the Bell-frey !", "Or I : we will obey things handsom ,", "But to be made such instruments of mischief .", "And let us some way make him sure ; then torture him .", "We'l but tickle ye ,", "And tye it fast there : that to th \u2019 other bough there .", "And bad enough , and overdo obedience :", "Come near : you are dim-ey 'd : on with your spectacles .", "Softly again : no , no : take that hand easily ,", "Daintily carve him ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Come gentlemen , I'le see you at your lodging ,", "You look not lustily , a quart more .", "Gentlewoman , I pray you let me feel your face ; I am an", "I am a handsom , gracious fellow amongst women , and", "What a Devil have ye done , Pilgrim ? or what mischief Have you conspir 'd , that he should rage and rave thus ? Have you kill 'd his Father , or his Mother ? or strangled any of his kindred ?"], "true_target": ["Knew't not Gentlewoman ; how should I know these tears are", "I'le wipe the old wet off , fresh tears come , pox o n't", "Infidel , if she do not weep : Stay , where 's my handkerchief ?", "For me ? is not your Mother dead ?", "Fabritio ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Because I most affect ye : like your self Sir ,", "Then strike , and then ye know revenge ; then take it .", "And now ye have made him shake , seal him his pardon ,", "Do you ask a child ? I would have ye do most bravely ,", "His hopes no higher than your sword may reach at ,"], "true_target": ["Scorn him , and let him go ; seem to contemn him ,", "And fit for you , his pious Armour off ,", "When he appears a subject fit for anger ,", "Have ye ? do you not feel Sir ? do 's it not stir ye ?", "I hope I have turn 'd his mind ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But I see , Sir , your temper is too modest ,", "Would give me leave , I would turn and wait upon ye ;", "Here 's one o'th \u2019 house , a fool , an idiot Sir ;", "There 's fancies of a thousand stamps and fashions ,", "May be she is going home ; she'l be a guide to ye :", "I much mistake else ,", "You were to blame : too rash .", "Certain , I saw none such : But for the boy ye spoke of ,", "Since ye are willing ,", "Was sent in th \u2019 other night , a little maddish ,", "To me it shall be a pleasure to conduct ye .", "Ye are a stranger , Sir , and for humanity ,", "Like flies in several shapes buz round about ye ,", "But for such Gentlemen as you enquire of ,", "What fit 's this ? The Pilgrim 's off the hooks too .", "Affect you with more sadness , I could shew ye", "And so I kiss your hand .", "I will not say \u2018 tis he , but such a one ;"], "true_target": ["And where such people wait their cures \u2014", "Why are you still thus sad , Sir ? How do ye like the walks ?", "Just of that height .", "You are now within a mile o'th \u2019 Town Sir : if my business", "That it would make ye melt to see their passions :", "Where people of all sorts , that have been visited", "But that I would not", "To meet with these ?", "And some as light again , that would content ye .", "All you have told me is certain ;", "Ye have seen the Castle ?", "\u2018 Tis a house here", "Too much inclin 'd to contemplation ,", "A place worth view .", "And twice as many gestures ; some of pity ,", "Being come within our walls , I would shew you something .", "There you may quickly know .", "With Lunacies , and Follies wait their cures ,", "Complexion , and all else ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["These English men would stagger a wise woman .", "Here comes my Master ; to the spit ye whore ,", "For they are very mad , Sir .", "And stir no more abroad , but tend your business ;", "When they have a fruitful year of Barly there ,", "We should have all the women in Spain as mad as she here .", "Ye stinking Whore , who knew of this ? who lookt to him ? \u2018 Pox take him , he was sleepy when I left him .", "If we should suffer her to have her will now ,", "How the fool bridles ! how she twitters at him !", "Here 's all the Boys we found .", "As madly ;", "We have few Citizens : they have Bedlams of their own , Sir ,", "And tie the Parson short , the Moon 's i'th \u2019 full ,", "Thou art an ass ; in 's right wits , goodman coxcomb ? As though any man durst be in 's right wits , and be here . It is as much as we dare be that keep \u2018 em .", "The Devil has possest him in the likeness", "O , there 's the English man .", "And talk of no silk stuffs , \u2018 twill run him horn mad ."], "true_target": ["H'as a thousand Pigs in 's brains : Who looks to the Prentice ?", "And are mad at their own charges .", "All the whole Island 's thus .", "Keep him from Women , he thinks h'as lost his Mistris ;", "Peace , peace thou Heathen drunkard ;", "You shall have no more sops i'th \u2019 pan else , nor no Porridge :", "They 'll bounce her loins .", "He will commit us all : how is it with the Scholar ?", "I'le whip ye .", "For if that spirit creep into his Quorum ,", "Take away his Statutes ;", "The Boy , Sir ?", "Carry mad Bess some meat , she roars like Thunder ;", "Besides , I'le whip your breech .", "These English are so Malt-mad , there 's no medling with \u2018 em ;", "She is as leacherous too as a she-Ferret .", "If any of the mad-men take her , she is pepper 'd ,", "Of penal Laws : keep him from Aqua vitae ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I'le give thee a fine Apple .", "The Justice keeps such a stir yonder with his Charges ,", "They would strive who should be most fool :", "Away with her ."], "true_target": ["Who let the Fool loose ?", "For any thing I see , he 's in his right wits .", "Who a vengeance looks to her ? go in Kate ,", "And such a coil with warrants .", "Certain he made the fool drunk ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Down o \u2019 your knees , ye Rogues , and pledge me roundly ;", "Come , come away , I am taken with thy love fool ,", "And will mightily belabour thee .", "Fill me a thousand pots , and froth \u2018 em , froth \u2018 em .", "Fool , fool , come up to me fool .", "Give me some drink .", "And they shall tread thee too ."], "true_target": ["To the great Turk .", "A snuff , a snuff , a snuff . A lewd notorious snuff : give't him again , boy .", "I'le get thee with five fools .", "And make an admirable Tanzey for the Devil .", "I , I , and they shall be all addle ,", "And thou shalt lie ina horse-cloth , like a Lady .", "One , two , three , and four ; we shall all be merry within this hour .", "Drawn with four Turkeys ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Or scorn from what ye lov 'd ?", "What flaws , and whirles of weather ,", "This man is perfect ,", "Do you sleep a nights ?", "May stamp that there .", "And still grows louder .", "A civiller discourser I ne'r talk 'd with .", "For keeping this young man .", "Is there no unkindness"], "true_target": ["I'le assure ye , Sir , the Cardinal 's angry with ye", "We are sorry , Sir : and we have seen a wonder ;", "This is the place , and now observe their humours .", "His grief , and his imprisonment", "How dark , and hot , and full of mutiny !", "What ails him ? who has stir 'd him ?", "You have conceiv 'd from any friend or parent ?", "Or rather storms have been aloft these three daies ;", "From this hour we 'll believe , and so we 'll leave ye .", "Bless my old Unkles Bark , I have a venture ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Good Sir , you'l make him worse .", "Do not anger \u2018 em ,", "Yes , one , Sir ,", "Pray ye be mild Sir ;", "Here was a Boy .", "That run mad for tyth Goslings .", "And ye shall see him ;", "A little crazed ; but much hope of recovery .", "In with him ,", "He is a Mountaineer , a man of Goteland .", "We cannot help this presently , but we shall know ;", "I'le follow presently ,", "I must attend elsewhere .", "\u2018 Pray ye , Sir .", "Be not deceived , Sir ,", "Heaven may deliver ye .", "H'ad been a neighbour , and the man you speak him ,", "And whip her soundly , Sirrah .", "Away with the fool ,", "Do you see this Sir ?", "Yes , a little : go in with these men .", "My Service , and my self had both attended him .", "\u2018 Pray ye , Sir , be tamer ,", "That was the very Boy , Sir .", "These are his Cloaths .", "He be that perfect man ye credited ?", "They are nothing but Confusion , and meer Noises .", "Will make you start if they but dance their trenchmores ,", "Pray , and be civil ,", "He shall not ,", "No Sir ,", "What means this Gentleman ?", "You'l find it otherwise .", "\u2018 Tis too apparent .", "He must have Musick now : I must observe him ,", "And pin 'd a Plum in 's forehead , and a feather ,", "Mark but his look .", "Away with him .", "Ye are dog-mad : you perceive it not ,", "The Duke is very tender too .", "Is this your cure ? Be gone ; if the boy miscarry", "Sir , he must .", "And lock him fast .", "You must not be left so : bear your self civilly ,", "Yes , and a wild one too , but not a Prisoner .", "We are us 'd to that , Sir ,", "A very handsome Boy .", "Keep in thy Chamber Boy ; \u2018 shalt have thy supper .", "I 'll recompence your Care too .", "Or any else : but pray be not too violent .", "This Letter says the Gentleman is lunatick ,", "They are mad every where , Sir ;", "Nay , mark him better Gentlemen .", "Nay , Pray ye , Sir , be more modest", "For your own Credit sake ; the people see ye ,", "It has been stubborn weather .", "Do you hear , Sir ?", "And if he be rebellious \u2014", "To use the speediest means for his recovery ,", "Now he grows villainous .", "And we as rough as he , if he give occasion .", "Hither he came to seek one .", "Was found i'th \u2019 Town , a little craz 'd , distracted ,", "Now ye have hit the nick .", "He 'll come again to morrow , and bring peascods .", "He 's some great man ,", "Stay but one minute more , I'le complain to the Governour ,", "Did ye mark him , Sir ?", "And bid me sop ; and gave me these trim Cloaths too ,", "The Duke commands me with such care to look to him ,"], "true_target": ["And clean forget all , as he had done nothing .", "I have seen younger men of better temper .", "She-fool . The Boy is gone a Maying ,", "\u2018 Pray will ye make less stir , and see your Chamber ,", "How now , who 's this here ? Where is the Boy ?", "We must sweat then .", "How I have us 'd him , let him speak .", "Fetch out the Boy , Sirrah ; hark !", "A Parson , Sir , a Parson", "I dare not give him will .", "She-f . I , I , I , I gave him leave to play , forsooth ,", "Ye must eat nothing neither : \u2018 twill ease your fits Sir .", "A strange Boy , that last night", "Bring in the boy : do you see how he swells , and tears himself ?", "He run mad because a Rat eat up 's Cheese .", "Let me ne'r find you more , for I'le so hamper ye \u2014", "But go in quietly , and slip in softly", "I put my Cloaths off , and I dizen 'd him ,", "They will confound ye , Sir , like Bells rung backward ,", "They will appear to you .", "They all grow wild , away with him for Heavens sake ,", "I dare not Sir ; nor will not : I believe ye ,", "The elder Brother , Sir ,", "He will not hurt ye .", "A great deal the more pity : I have heard of ye .", "What do you mutter Sir ?", "I whips , and sore whips , and ye were a Lord Sir ,", "And put \u2018 em on .", "Yet on a sudden , from some word , or other ,", "When no man could expect a fit , he has flown out :", "Their fits are cool now , let \u2018 em rest .", "You do but draw more misery upon ye ,", "Be civil and be safe : come , for these two daies", "Call in more help , and make the Closet ready .", "\u2018 Pray ye do not disturb \u2018 em , Sir , here lie such youths", "His fit will grow too full else .", "And those he must find sharp .", "Alas , that 's no question ;", "I 'll bring your bones .", "I , the Boy , Sir .", "Pray talk with him again then .", "Many have sworn him right , and I have thought so :", "No , my pretty Lad ;", "\u2018 Pray ye , Sir , observe him ,", "Now what think ye of him ?", "And so sent hither .", "But where 's the Boy ?", "If ye be stubborn here .", "I am heartily sorry . If ye allow him sound , pray ye take him with ye .", "And I would use ye with the best .", "Sir , ye are much to blame .", "He gave me this fine money , and fine Wine too ,", "They will so tew ye , else , I am commanded Sir .", "Very far mad : and whips will scant recover ye .", "You see \u2018 tis done Sir ,", "What would you with him ?", "And add to your disease .", "Yes , Sir , here be such people ; but how pleasing", "Now tell me how ye like him : whether now", "And buss 'd him twice , and bid him go seek his fortune ;", "And \u2018 twill be better for ye : swell not , nor chafe not .", "I half suspected it .", "And if he grow too violent , to correct him ,", "Now he will in himself most quietly ,", "And will restore him up : had I known sooner", "I'le wait upon you .", "But two days ;", "He was gone first .", "My service to his Grace .", "He 'll bring me home a Cuckows Nest ; do you hear , Master ?", "How got ye him hither ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["We can find nothing in him light , nor tainted ;", "I must pity him .", "I must tell ye true , Sir ,", "Alas poor man .", "Learning , and handsome stile .", "Yet to discharge your care \u2014", "No startings , nor no rubs , in all his answers ,", "You find no sickness ?", "And I more than I would wish to lose ."], "true_target": ["Here 's his discharge from my Lord Cardinal ;", "That will be needless , we have tried him long enough ,", "Have ye no fearful dreams ?", "Mercy upon me : how his eyes are altered !", "I think ye keep him here to teach him madness .", "And if he had a taint we should have met with't .", "Ha ! how he looks !", "In all his Letters nothing but discretion ,", "And come Sir , go with us .", "Strange work at Sea , I fear me there 's old tumbling ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Else I am all one piece .", "Let it blow on , blow on : let the clouds wrastle ,", "The Sea in hideous mountains rise and tumble", "Nor nothing that diverts my understanding .", "No devouring Fish come nigh ,", "And farewel Master .", "And not a Surge so saucy to disturb her .", "Upon a Dolphins back , I'le make all tremble ,", "Down ye angry waters all ,", "Amphitrite with white arms", "My Sea horses ;", "Your Bark shall plough through all ,", "I 'll save thee ,", "Down ye proud Waves , ye storms cease ;", "For I am Neptune .", "And what love is , unless it lie in learning", "I never yet was master of a faith", "Once shew his head , or terror bring ;", "Do ye fear the billows ?", "Ye loud whistling whirlewinds fall ;", "No , truely Sir :", "Be not shaken ,"], "true_target": ["And let the vapours of the earth turn mutinous ,", "I am bound unto ye ,", "None Sir , I thank Heaven ,", "Nor bruise the Keel of Bark that flotes :", "Sometimes , as all have", "I 'll charge the Northern Wind , and break his Bladder .", "That go to bed with raw and windy stomachs ;", "Strike my Lute , I'le sing Charms .", "Triton , why Triton .", "Do 's the Sea stagger ye ?", "And thou shalt fall into the Sea , soft , softly .", "So poor , and weak , to doubt my friend or kindred ,", "I'le see her safe , my power shall sail before her .", "Nor let the singing of the storm shoot through ye ,", "Do you fear ?", "As sound , and sweet , as any man .", "I think I am ignorant .", "Nor Monster in my Empery ,", "I command ye , be at peace .", "Dead ye dog , dead , do ye quarrel in my Kingdom ? Give me my trident .", "Fright not with your churlish Notes ,", "But let the weary Saylor sing :"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Either depart , and presently ; I'le force ye else .", "Who waits within ?", "Alas poor man ."], "true_target": ["I told ye Sir ,", "What ye would do : for shame do not afflict him ;", "You have drawn his fit upon him fearfully :", "Farewel Stephano ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["That habit to betray me ? Ye holy Saints , can ye see this ?", "O now most miserable ."], "true_target": ["Ha ? now , now , now ,", "Is not that Pedro ? \u2018 Tis he , \u2018 tis he : O !"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["We have \u2018 scaped to day well ; certain if the Out-laws"], "true_target": ["Had known we had been stirring , we had paid for't ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Beside they made my Daughter one of us too", "But we are far enough off on \u2018 em , that 's the best o n't ,", "And me five times :"], "true_target": ["The Captain such a damn 'd piece of iniquitie :", "They cannot hear .", "An arrant Drum : O , they are the lewdest Rascals ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["They'l steal into the world .", "And eat up all I have : drink up my wine too ,", "Let me come to him ,", "Ev'n one blow at his pate , if e 're he wake more .", "And if there be a Servant that contents \u2018 em ,", "We have no Children now , but Thieves , and Outlaws ."], "true_target": ["Do 's she keep sheep with a sword ?", "Where are his Emblemes ?", "The very Brats in their Mothers bellies have their qualities .", "Now we may fit him .", "They'le come to me familiarly", "Has he no Guns about him ?", "Let her keel hold , they'l give her Stowage enough :"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Loaden with Mackrel ; O brave meat .", "Bounce , \u2018 twixt wind and water ,", "And like a wisp of Hay , I 'll whirl , and whirl thee ,", "Sue me , I 'll drink up all , bounce I say once more .", "Drink , drink , \u2018 tis day light ;", "Do , and I 'll catch thee ,", "A Pigs tail in thy teeth , and I defie thee ."], "true_target": ["And puff thee up , and puff thee up .", "Triton 's drunk with Metheglin .", "Drink , didle , didle , didle , drink , Parson , proud Parson ;", "I 'll hiss it down again with a Bottle of Ale .", "Blow till thou rive , and make the Sea run roaring .", "Clap her o'th \u2019 star-board ; bounce , top the Can .", "Bounce ,", "O have I split your Mizen ? blow , blow thou West-wind ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Thou English Heretick , give me the tenth Pot ."], "true_target": ["I 'll curse ye all , I 'll excommunicate ye ;", "I 'll sell my Bells before I be out-brav 'd thus ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I will borrow thy Urships Whore to seal a Letter .", "I will leave no more sheet in thine eyes .", "Whaw , Mr. Keeper .", "I will beat thy face as black as a blue Clout ,", "I 'll get upon a mountain , and call my Countrymen ."], "true_target": ["Give me a great deal of Guns ; thou art the Devils ,", "Do any thing .", "I know thee by thy tails ; poor Owen 's hungry ,", "I will sing and dance ,", "Basilus manus , is for an old Codpiss , mark ye ,", "I will peg thy bums full of Bullets ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I have \u2014\u2014 in my bellies , give me abundance ,", "And then they sing .", "And the Organs at Rixum were made by Revelations ,"], "true_target": ["Give me some Ceeze , and Onions ; give me some wash-brew ,", "There is a spirit blows , and blows the Bellows ,", "Pendragon was a Shentleman , marg you , Sir ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Will ye go out , Sir ?"], "true_target": ["I thought he was mad ; I 'll have one long lash at ye ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To my house now , and suite you to your worths ;", "Unless he come himself .", "To see what house these knaves keep : of good Souldiers ,", "I'le try the power I have , to the pinch I'le put it ;", "A day we ought to honour , all .", "Are they so fierce upon so little sufferance ?", "Well : if he be alive , Captain ,", "We'l have all peace and love .", "But not in drunken Bacchanals : free to all strangers ,", "A well-bred Gentleman , and a good Souldier ,", "Restore him every way , he has much lamented him .", "Would all the court be now , might they behold thee ?", "Yes certainly and grace him , ever honour him ,", "What wonder stand these strangers in ?", "\u2018 Tis pity of their Captain Roderigo ,", "Are they grown so heady ?", "Would he had but the patience to discern it ,", "True Verdugo ,", "Use all your sports ,", "\u2018 Tis a main part of my service .", "The King 's incens 'd much , much Sir , I can assure you .", "Verdugo , after this solemnity is over ,", "Be sumptuous , but not riotous ; be bounteous ,", "And this be stil 'd Loves new and happy year .", "I know the Kings mind", "I am sorry for't ,", "Might they but see you thus , and thus embrace you ?", "As sturdy as themselves : that dare dispute with \u2018 em ,", "This to the Kings prosperity ,", "That long neglect : bred this , I am sorry for him .", "And have Commission from the King to ease it :", "This to the Queen , and Chastity .", "But with a better faith belabour \u2018 em ;"], "true_target": ["Dare walk the woods as well as they , as fearless ,", "Lady this leave I'le crave , pray be not angry ,", "Call on me for a charge of men , of good men ,", "And policy to wipe their lips .", "Off with these weeds , and appear glorious :", "The King himself laments him .", "Your people too , shall have their general pardons ,", "Pedro , Noble Pedro ,", "Most joyfull , Pedro .", "All your solemnities ; \u2018 tis the Kings day to morrow ,", "But since he is your friend , and now appears ,", "And one his Majesty has some little reason", "For \u2018 tis a Royal day admits no rudeness .", "In honour of this day and love to you Sir :", "Do not you know your friend ?", "You shall not be long vext .", "I'le give \u2018 em such a purge , and suddenly .", "I'le know what claim they have to their possession .", "To thank , for sundry services , and fair ones ;", "So inwardly and full , he will be happy .", "I will not long divide you : how happy , Pedro ,", "His birth-day , and his marriage , a glad day ,", "There 's no remedy ,", "Know him , and much lament him :", "The King will be a joyfull man believe it ,", "This to devotion sacred be ,", "The Out-laws expedition is begun .", "Here 's my hand Roderigo , I'le set you fair again .", "Easie , and sweet in all your entertainments ,", "I cannot by no means : I think he 's dead sure ;", "Come , to this preparation ; when that 's done ,", "Then to the Priest , that shall attend us here ,", "The court bewails much his untimely loss :"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And make Segovia ring with our rejoycings ."], "true_target": ["We will Sir ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Your Lordship will do us the honour to be here your self ,"], "true_target": ["And grace the day ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Had we not walls , Sir ,", "And send \u2018 em loaden home too , we are lost else .", "And those continually man 'd too with our watches ,"], "true_target": ["We should not have a bit of meat to feed us .", "And yet they are our friends , and we must think so ,", "And entertain \u2018 em so sometimes , and feast \u2018 em ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["At this good time now , if your Lordship were not here ,", "They would play such gombals .", "Nay , have at all : four-score and ten 's a Goddess ,", "Whilst we , like fools , stand shaking in our cellars ."], "true_target": ["They would drink up all our Wine , piss out our Bonfires ;", "To awe their violence with your authority ,", "When all their zeal is but to steal the Chalices ;", "Then , like the drunken Centaures , have at the fairest ,", "They'l come to Church amongst us , as we hope Christians ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To love , and beautie these : now sing .", "To purge our selves : These to the King .", "That will be doubtfull . Did you never hear yet of the noble Pedro ?"], "true_target": ["These Oblations first we bring", "And long to lick themselves full .", "There 's divers wasps , that buz about that hony-box ,", "The hope of his estate keeps back his pardon ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["To fetch him in Sir ,", "Nor blench much at a Bullet ; I know his order ,", "He was sunk ;", "And though he have no multitude , h'as manhood ;", "By violence , he being now no infant ,", "Will ask some bloody crowns . I know his people"], "true_target": ["But if he must be forced , Sir ,\u2014", "The elder-twin to that too , staid experience .", "And if he be dead , he died happily ,", "Are of his own choice , men that will not totter ,", "And lost himself .", "He buried all he had in the Kings service ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["These for our selves : For the Kings sake", "And honour these : These sacred lye"], "true_target": ["Holy Altar , daign to take", "Our wishes to Eternity .", "To Vertue , Love , and Modesty ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And rich and wholsome , let her be of what", "That make their eyes their choosers , not their needs ."], "true_target": ["The truth is , Piso , so she be a woman", "She shall please me I am sure ; Those men are fools", "Condition and Complexion it please ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Confess it Boy , or as I live I'le beat", "No . I believe now like a good Christian .", "There is no harm done yet .", "His body goes with straps , he is so churlish .", "Have you put a whore upon me ?", "And cry St. George , and give him but a rasher ,", "In such a pitch , as if sh'ad studied", "To make you understand your Sisters danger .", "Do you hear my friend : Sir , are you not a setter ,", "Can suck more liquor ; you shall have their children", "Here 's a shilling", "Faith I do call to minde such a matter .", "I would marry any one ; an arrant Whore .", "You shall have", "But thou would'st be", "His Hide", "Mens idle tongues ; I warrant they have said", "When she has married him .", "Sent hither : who ever thou bid'st welcom shall find it .", "If you would please to be less angry ,", "Then he shall have mercy , that merciful is ,", "As high as I could ring him .", "Well , go thy ways , old Lad , thou hast the trick o n't .", "My patience", "Now do I wonder what she means to do", "I 'll go shift me streight ;", "For by this light , I have heard her praise yond \u2019 fellow", "No Sir .", "If it were so ,", "I think she was bewitcht , or mad or blind ,", "Or all the Painters are Apocrypha .", "Bring in some wine , some of the wine Lodowick the fool", "What then ?", "Come Lodowick ,", "Give me patience , heav'n , to bear this blessing I beseech thee ;", "as good as yours ,", "Me thinks I would have her honest too , and handsom .", "Of her desires and youth .", "is ranker", "I would tell you how .", "And if they find it any other thing", "Never fear it ,", "There was never poor gentleman had such a sudden fortune ,", "He 's monstrous drunk now , there 's no talking with him .", "To start at such a blessing .", "Between a stubborn pair of Winter-boots ;", "Then live , and draw more small Beer presently .", "I will not be my own Judge , lest I seem", "Of a more rusty swarth Complexion", "Unmercifully jealous .", "Am I at length reputed ? for the Ring ,", "What thinkest thou , thy way , of the widow Lelia ?", "So I may have the means ,", "So far untemperate ; Let it be so Sir", "To knock a Dane down : Take an English-man", "I am but man , I prithee break my head", "You much mistake this Gentleman .", "Stay till I draw .", "To crowd the worths of all men into him ,", "Not me , Sir ;", "Art t \u2019 sure", "I 'll be thy guard I warrant thee ; O , O ,", "As much by our two Mothers .", "And by all likelihoods he was begotten", "I could thrust my head betwixt two pales , and strip me out of", "I 'll fetch it back with a light vengeance from him ;", "Christened in mull 'd sack , and at five years old , able", "That 's a lye too .", "In your opinion .", "That Lodowick hath provided too , good Asse .", "H'ad better keep tame Devils than that Ring ;", "\u2018 Tis indeed , Sir ,", "Nor I ; this \u2018 tis to credit"], "true_target": ["Your will for this time : since we see y'are grown", "And thou shalt see how suddenly I 'll kill thee .", "No by no means ; you are a fighting Captain ,", "Why , you are wide , Sir .", "Than the Muscovy-Leather , and grain 'd like it :", "No I think .", "Thy kisses sweet , and thy means plentifull ,", "Can give him drink enough .", "Are not those the stars , thou scurvy Boy ?", "There is a Souldier , I would have thee better", "To make me understand I am sensible .", "Home boy , and like a work-man : at what weapon ?", "I conceive ye :", "This may do well .", "\u2018 Tis certain , if there be a way of truth", "My old skin like a Snake : will the guests come thou saidst", "And kill up such poor people as we are , by th \u2019 dozens .", "For I protest what I have said , was only", "He has amazed me .", "For his Body ,", "No , mine is Piso .", "Art thou not Steward ?", "Thou sentest for to solemnize the Nuptials ?", "Not by sight .", "\u2018 Tis no matter ,", "So should not I by'our Lady , and I think", "Defy a hogshead ; such a one would do it", "A Railer , but let others look upo n't ,", "Who ? Seignior Piso ?", "And I imagine these are seldom us 'd", "Peace ,", "Come my sweet heart , as long as I shall find", "I do not much care what the woman is :", "Seignior Frederick ,", "Mid-night into thy brains .", "Without their special ends , and by a maid", "Than a Trunk-sellar , to send wines down in ,", "To strike good luck withal .", "\u2018 Tis sufficient .", "Let people talk their tongues out .", "You had best say we are drunk .", "Above the rest , because he thinks there 's no man", "Meet me within this half hour at St. Marg'rets .", "I'le make you fart fire Captain , by this hand ,", "For the Drunkard , Lodovick ,", "What is the end then ?", "She would never have taken such a scar-Crow else", "Report would stir me mainly , I am sure o n't .", "Or a long walking bottle , I 'll be hang 'd for't ;", "Why , Captain Jacomo .", "\u2018 Tis somewhat low , Sir , to a Gentleman .", "Get us a Torch .", "And ye provoke , do not provoke I'de wish you .", "I do not doubt we shall .", "Than an old arming Doublet .", "was to Piso ?", "My Father in law ?", "Having these Antidotes against opinion", "I do not doubt upon the least suspicion", "In blushes , smiles , and commendations ;", "I hope your conscience would not be so nice", "I know not .", "Into protection ; of my life he looks", "For the fair widow here of famous memory ?", "And his is Lodowick .", "I 'll mount thee if I live for't ,", "Would he were hang 'd", "And you shall have him upon even terms", "How widow Lelia ?", "Let me alone .", "Gentlemen , I pray you take no notice , I 'm here . The coxcomb Lodowick is coming in .", "Not a leak at Sea", "Thou hast set her in a pretty Litany ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["She must be excellent indeed .", "Fair Lady health to you ; some words I have , that", "From hearing Treason and concealing it ,", "And in the worse sense : and that desperate Husband ,", "You have no husband , I am the very man", "Me send in provision too .", "Would he would mend , Sir .", "We were to blame indeed to go so far ,", "If it were possible : at worst past portage .", "This is a strange Course , Frederick ;", "Unless it be with her ; we are thy friends , man .", "If he be drunk dead , there 's a fair end of him .", "Think you o'th \u2019 other , and let me a while", "Yet let me feel ; you are in health ?", "For I believe those mad that seek vexations .", "Within a month , where you , or any good man ,", "These eyes should see another in my Saddle", "That is the Gentleman .", "Beat us ?", "How she will utterly overthrow her credit ,", "To be a very mercifull young man .", "Which I prescribe not to beget diseases ,", "They are sharper than his sword , and dare do more", "I am glad she is none of mine ; but Frederick", "Of any benefit ; for his manners cannot", "Dost thou not perceive it ?", "Stay , you have confirm 'd me ,", "No Boy .", "I am sure I hear this .", "No Captain .", "Belike you love him then ?", "Trail his Pike under him , and be a Gentlewoman", "Yes , pray give her this . And with it all I have ; I am made for ever .", "I'th \u2019 street I'le satisfie i'th \u2019 chamber fully .", "For men may be mistaken : if he had swinged us", "If not , this is my end , or by enticing ,", "Neither .", "Yes , of his teeth ; for of my faith I think", "Dream of this fellow .", "\u2018 Tis very well .", "Pox I am mad .", "Robin , sufficient single Beer , as cold as crystal ,", "That drew so many Cuckolds to her cause ,", "I 'd tie a surer knot , and hang my self ;", "I would have shorter , and my reason is ,", "I tell thee there was never woman yet ,", "Why Cuckoldom , for we should lose", "Come , let 's about it then .", "And of a nature far uncapable", "Sure I am inchanted .", "Sirrah , did you not bring me this ring from your Lady ?", "Worthy a Brother , to perswade your Sister", "Are the English-men such stubborn drinkers ?", "I am sure would be no more call 'd Christendom .", "And retail 'd Bottle-Ale ; I grieve to think ,", "As they kill flyes with Fox-tails , Captain .", "For if there were a truth in what men talk ,", "Bestowing ?", "For hang me if I know her", "Would stagger my best patience : From that woman", "Thou art not such a fool sure to be angry", "Loves me ?", "Quench Robin , quench .", "In my particular .", "But where they are , to stop them .", "As I would bless my self from plagues and surfeits ,", "Ye lye .", "What 's to me ?", "His face will be ill mounted else .", "Go sleep , you are drunk .", "Good Madam stay , do not you know this Ring ?", "Good Madam no , but I perceive your jest ,", "But sure you do not , or you would not know us ;", "I do , Sir .", "It moves again , let 's meet it .", "Thou dost not feel the nature of this Physick", "Then", "From daring of a Madman , or a Drunkard ,", "I understand you not , you hurt not me ,", "Well , if this be true , I 'll believe a Woman", "Like enough .", "I 'll go and fit my self .", "Had I a Wife as fair as Hellen was", "His face to the Cutlers then , and have it sanguin 'd ,", "Require an utterance more private ,", "If talk could make me sweat , before I would marry", "But I will have one of that old Rogues teeth set in this Ring .", "From Men of war at Sea , from storms , and quicksands ,", "Yes faith , when Cupid first did prick your heart .", "Report ? You are unwise ; report is nothing ;", "Yes , \u2018 faith , and do but tell thee"], "true_target": ["But she has been a subject to mens tongues ,", "Is that the Lady ?", "If this may be suffer 'd ,", "To be delivered of all these in one ,", "When he is hot with wine ? come let 's about it ,", "We have done the Gentlewoman as much wrong too ,", "That dares give up his peace , and follow humours", "The woman thou hast named .", "I would send", "Sherry sack : I would have him drink stark dead", "If this be done but handsomely , I'le pawn", "He might , if it pleas 'd him , conceive it so .", "Will set her into .", "Let me have that that may be .", "I do not think I should .", "If the Buff meet him fairly .", "Than this place can afford .", "I know it .", "My head she hath done with Souldiers .", "About this time again ?", "Is not Charles-wain there , tell me that , there ?", "Have mist the woman .", "Because I lov 'd her , what a march this Captain", "Married ? to whom ?", "If we could get a fellow that would do it .", "Me thinks now as I stand , the Captain shews", "Why what a Rogue art thou then ! thou hast made", "If it be so , she has bestow 'd her self", "So would I pray each morning , and each night", "So think I too ,", "You love plain dealing .", "Well , I'le meet it ,", "O , Captain Jack-boy ,", "And will be angry for him .", "What Vision 's this ?", "S'death to Piso ?", "From her undoing ; if she prove so foolish", "From Heresie , ill Wine , and stumbling post Horse ;", "I do not speak to you .", "Sure the world is mad ,", "For I am like a Boy that had found money ,", "Or by deceiving , to conduct him where", "All may be excellent ; pray pardon me ,", "I am not cruel , but the love begun", "Your anger flies so wide .", "He 's so uncivil ; you may do a part", "That walk 'd the streets so comely .", "It may be we would use it .", "A pox of Sack .", "Yes if I could have both , but since they are", "Are you not parcel Bawd ? confess your Function ,", "No believe me ,", "Afraid I dream still .", "No I should not ,", "Of the brave Captains Company .", "This is pretty .", "But pray , Sir , by your leave \u2014 Methinks your years should promise no ill meaning .", "Our old faiths clean , and hold their new opinions :", "Well we are Rascals ,", "I mean of this kind , this part of the world", "As I live she 's a fair one ; what make all these here ?", "though a Saint ,", "I 'll deal no more with Souldiers ; well remembred ,", "This roguey Captain has made fine work with us .", "He 's poor and beggarly besides all this ,", "Ere I believe my beast would carry double .", "If she continue gracing of this pot-gun .", "Why , well enough ;", "Wishes so near impossibilities ,", "Faith thou hast found out one I must confess", "He dyes in chains , eating himself with anger .", "\u2018 Twill look a great deal sweeter ; then his Nose", "He beat me once indeed .", "When I have nothing else to do .", "Yes marry do I , and I am so alter 'd \u2014", "To marry this cast Captain , look to find her", "Shew him a way to thank a man that does one ,", "His nature be so rugged , what will't be", "Would blush to know her ; selling cheese and prunes ,", "Upon a trim youth , Piso , what do you call him ?", "How ?", "Then", "With all my heart .", "Ha , ha , ha , let my provision go , I am glad I", "Yes Piso , we are Rascals .", "Did not the Vision promise to appear", "A Wife , though she be honest , is a trouble ,", "H'had serv 'd us right : Beshrew my heart , I think ,", "The fool is , that admires him ; and if sober ,", "Besides the forcing of himself an Ass", "What of her , Sir ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You shall not drink \u2018 em here , \u2018 tis supper time ,", "Yes , twenty thousand : but not such a one", "Nothing", "Her looks are nothing like her ; would her faults", "And I desire your patience ; let me in ,", "With such a resolution , that would venture", "Julio .", "\u2018 Tis I , I would speak with your Mistriss .", "For if she get from under this dark Cloud ,", "But for \u2018 tis truth .", "I have so much discretion left me yet", "I see there 's nothing in them , but that folly", "I would not have thee marry her by no means ,", "quamish .", "These are the baits they bob with .", "Let 's go then quickly ,", "Had , I 'm no Christian ,", "As she appears , though I could fight for her ,", "Keep your self warm then , and go home , & sleep ,", "There 's a new Tyre , wench ; peace , thou art well enough .", "Have the main pox , and safer .", "Of what age is she ?", "go , when I see thee", "These three dayes , mirth shall flow as well as wine .", "As I was a Knave ,", "Till she be truly , justly sorrowful ,", "Upon a savage Island , than this woman .", "So laid out o'th \u2019 way , that if I could find any prayers I", "Of that too-wicked woman yet to dye .", "Or I doubt mainly , I shall be i'th \u2019 mash too .", "Cum Privilegio , to use \u2018 em still ,", "Alas , for pity go ,", "But death and damning , which she hath deserv 'd ,", "Commend me to \u2018 em , go , Julio ,", "Enjoy still where they like .", "Not as I lov 'd thee .", "They will serve for witnesses .", "Where none but you , and such as you appoint ,", "There \u2018 tis .", "Would I had gone to th \u2019 Devil of an arrant ,", "When I was made a fool to see her ; Leave me ,", "Who is as fast as she .", "Even in repeating her ?", "And let us dye", "For ever let me rest now from thy smarts ,", "Of loving one man only ; give me henceforth ,", "That that is something more than ours , our honours .", "Hold , Reverend Sir , for honour of your Age .", "I swear I do not harbour such a thought ,", "Yet she had been dangerous ,", "Why , we will take \u2018 em both into the Kitchen ,", "Desire of these outward things , and still her face runs in", "Amen .", "Away .", "But I believe \u2018 twas better broke than kept ,", "This house holds none but I , only a maid", "Who 's that , Frederick ?", "Pray take my counsel .", "Stand from me , and leave talking , or , by Heaven ,", "And when I well consider , Julio ,", "Might have corrupted States , and ruin 'd Kingdoms ,", "Though she be all that I know excellent ,", "As you have made her : I'le not lye for th \u2019 matter :", "With thee , men cannot mock us in the day .", "This makes her leave her jesting yet , but take it", "Better what \u2018 tis .", "And I protest I will not hinder you", "I will .", "No , I 'll kill thee first ,", "I have read Epictetus twice over against the", "I contemn too .", "How that word waken 'd me ! come hither , friend ,", "Is he come over ?", "I am sure I am so .", "We shall both sweat I fear , for't .", "You have always plots Sir , and see how they fall out .", "Mercy upon me ! what a face she has ! Would it were vail 'd again .", "For to some wealthy Rock of precious stone ,", "Before this Woman , friend .", "And call for small beer ; and consume my wit", "Use violence , I 'll throw my Sword down to you ;", "Let me in , I'le satisfie her .", "Street you please . But all this helps not me ;\u2014 I", "Am made to be thus catch 'd , past any redress , with a thing", "In making Anagrams , and faithful posies ;", "Why how now Gentlemen ?", "Now will I pray devoutly , for there 's need o n't .", "Here is ten pound for you , let me speak with her .", "Farewel , and pray for me .", "Now , Julio , play the man ,", "I am a man so strangely hither come ,", "And from my house no creature here shall stir", "Whom I will lock fast in as I come down .", "As you will still do .", "I see a beating now and then does more", "Curse you continually , and fearfully .", "If this be one , a Whore ; that 's all I aim at .", "Would take it to be but ridiculous .", "You must , and shall .", "This Lelia , whom I know too , yet am caught ,", "For I will dye ;", "\u2018 Pray be content , that you have made me thus ,", "I am not fit for conversation .", "In our affections ; when all Creatures else", "Were all in Paris print upon her face ,", "And when I see good meat , sit still and sigh ,", "Is , I must see her again .\u2014", "I 'll trample thy last damning word out of thee .", "Believe me I have business .", "My sleep ta'ne from me , and go pulingly", "To take your leave of folly , and now melt", "Yes Sir I can assure you she 's married to him , I saw't", "\u2018 Pray do not follow me , you 'll make me angry .", "And let me see her , bring me to a place", "I heartily despise all honest Women ;", "Before you knew him certain : h'as not hurt ye ?", "This little Varlet hath her Lesson perfect ,", "I know I am frail , and may be cozen 'd too", "Never to be recover 'd , though I would", "This is the door , and the short", "Or such another O me will undo thee :", "\u2018 Tis a way dangerous , and will deceive thee ,", "Pray Heaven I have enough to save my self ,", "Like a poor wench had lost her market-mony ;"], "true_target": ["Feed my desiring eyes but half an hour .", "I do not like that Itch , I am sure I had rather", "Where undiscerned of her self I may", "The SONG .", "Save you Sir , how does my Mistris ?", "What fine things they were !", "There bind \u2018 em , and then gag \u2018 em , and then throw \u2018 em", "Especially to me ; thou knowst when I was here , I said I lik 'd thee of All thy Mistriss Servants .", "How now ? the news ?", "I would not have thee tempt lust ,", "Bring \u2018 em to supper all , to grace this matter ;", "A happy pair .", "In any act you wish , more than by word ,", "If a marriage should be thus stubber 'd up in a play , e 're almost", "And hurry \u2018 em away .", "And run through fire ; though I am stark mad too", "Shall shew my self so .", "Your Father in law , as sure as this is widow Leila .", "If you would hang me , from her ; O brave Eye !", "Thou art a fool , look stedfastly upon her ,", "By Heaven she is a wonder ,", "How 's this ?", "I love thee so well , that the worms shall have thee", "I cannot keep from this ungodly woman ,", "Faith but I will not ; no I know how far Sir", "Might have been turn 'd , which once found out by labour ,", "Her nose to the gentle Reader ; and they should be to be sold", "May visit her ; where , let her hear of nought", "I might not hear her ; think but what she is ,", "Away delights , go seek some other dwelling ,", "Go you , I dare not go , I tell you truly", "Pox on her , I must go the down-right way : look you", "Farewel for ever .", "Into your old disease ! are you that man", "And brought to use , having her Spells within it ,", "I care not if the World took knowledg o n't ,", "If so I can perswade you , that I will not", "For safety of your Soul , and of the Soul", "Yet I should do so ; is she not a Whore ?", "Than a sharp Sermon , here probatum est .", "With a blow ?", "Steal me away ,", "And dedicate it to the whore of Babylon , with a preface upon", "By such a Syren .", "I am worse than thou art .", "\u2018 Tis true , she 's excellent ,", "I would write an Epistle before it , on the inside of her masque", "That have been hard to thee , mine was not so .", "Hold , Sir ,", "Even to my naked soul , I am so far gone ,", "The Devil thou wilt , Julio ,", "Shall be as I :", "Why look , how far you have thrust your self again", "thou mayst continue so ;", "Any body had taken notice you were in love , the Spectators", "By'r Lady \u2018 twas a sound one ; are ye good", "But if I prove a fool too , look to have me", "Clora 's the woman , she 's Frank 's Bedfellow ,", "Lye after Lye .", "I cannot tell what \u2018 tis , but I am", "For as I have a soul , I had rather venture", "And if you follow me with questions ,", "Oh , that all women were thus silent ever ,", "Give all I had i'th \u2019 World to lye with her", "What will become of me ? I cannot go now", "At taking knocks ? I shall know you hereafter :", "Hadst thou the constancy of all men in thee .", "And if I can , will keep my self so .", "For ever will I sleep , while poor Maids cry ,", "Above my depth : I do not long to have", "I thought you Julio would not thus have stollen a marriage", "I am able to hold out , and will not venture", "\u2018 Tis large , and private , I will lend it you .", "At the sign of the whores head i'th \u2019 pottage pot , in what", "By company or counsel , I am mad ,", "And all those griefs that think to over-grow me ,", "With these gray eyes .", "Farewel false Love , thy tongue is ever telling", "Or mine of Gold , as tempting , her fair Body", "The nature of my sickness is not eas 'd", "Fly her as I do , Julio , she 's a Witch .", "That were the way to have me grow there with thee ,", "For I must dye :", "Without acquainting your friends .", "That I have broke an Oath in speaking this ,", "Into a Coach I 'll bring to the back-door ,", "But she may mend ?", "Nor were it wise I should .", "Well I will go , since you will have it so ,", "Therefore leave me ,", "Would I had any thing to keep me busie ,", "I am well ,", "That needs your fear , that is sufficient ;", "Never again deluding Love shall know me ,", "From this hour ,", "You must not do so though , now I consider", "And then lay mercy to her , who does know", "Why ? none can hear her here but her own maid ,", "Which had been fearful ,", "Move and stir up a mans contrition", "Next , I will be as thou art , or no more .", "Thou art a handsom one , and this crosseness do 's not become thee .", "You were to blame to tempt a man so far", "This is the strangest thing , good pretty soul , why dost thou use me so ? I pray thee let me in sweet-heart .", "No , what then ? I would see her , prethee by thy leave .", "I cannot .", "I speak it not , for that you have two Swords ,", "If she were good , convey her from this place ,", "Oh , be advis 'd , why you were better kill her", "I cry you mercy , Sir , I know your meaning ,", "And do not wonder at me .", "Yet , methinks still , we should not dote away", "Nay then no more , friend ; farewel , Julio ,", "God give you joy , and make you live together", "\u2018 Tis easily said , of what complexion is she ?", "And fire their hearts", "To know , and tell thee , thou art miserable .", "Whither man ?", "And pray", "My mind , I went to say my prayers , and they were", "Alas , for pity stay ,", "I see no reason we should be confin 'd", "Why , as I am a Gentleman , I will not .", "To my house ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Compar 'd with whom thy Mother was a sinner . Farewel .", "That keepst me from their knowledge : Sir , believe me", "The nature of my want is such a searcher ,", "Well Sir , I am Catechiz 'd ; what more belongs to't ?", "It may be the Vintner has cozen 'd you .", "Will punish disobedience .", "Nature should dye so utterly within thee ,", "And make you understand , y'have wrong 'd a Woman", "I gave up all my state to make yours thus .", "Than common people , as fore-telling thee ,", "And for your special good ; nay , you may hear too .", "To strike a Knave withal , thou lyest , and basely ,", "O good Heaven !", "Umh , umh .\u2014 Makes signs of his white head &eard .", "To what an impudence thou wretched woman ,", "I think she will deserve , you shall enjoy it", "And what I would say to you , and before", "Nor seem to make your self a greater business", "Must not escape thus unrequited .", "I will not curse thee .", "O a Gentleman should not have such foul words in 's mouth .", "A Fathers hope , you'l quickly find my business ,", "Or say she could lye , yet Religion", "How much I am bound to all , but most to you ,", "To your worships friend Piso .", "I am the root that gave thee nourishment ,", "Is this a childs love ? or a recompence", "Sweet peace be with her , in a happy time .", "What , all wide open ? \u2018 Tis the way to sin Doubtless ; but I must on ; the gates of Hell Are not more passable than these ; how they Will be to get out , God knows , I must try . \u2018 Tis very strange , if there be any life Within this house , would it would shew it self . What 's here ? a Banquet ? and no mouth to eat , Or bid me do it ? this is something like The entertainment of adventurous Knights Entring enchanted Castles : For the manner Though there be nothing dismal to be seen Amazes me a little ; what is meant By this strange invitation ? I will sound My Daughters meaning e 're I speak to her , If it be possible , for by my voyce \u2014 The SONG . Come hither you that love , and hear me sing of joyes still growing Green , fresh , and lusty , as the pride of Spring , and ever blowing . Come hither youths that blush , and dare not know what is desire , And old men worse than you , that cannot blow one spark of fire . And with the power of my enchanting Song , Boyes shall be able men , and old men young . Enter Angelo , above . Come hither you that hope , and you that cry , leave off complaining , Youth , strength , and beauty , that shall never dye , are here remaining . Come hither fools , and blush , you stay so long from being blest , And mad men worse than you , that suffer wrong , Yet seek no rest . And in an hour , with my enchanting Song , You shall be ever pleas 'd , and young maids long .", "Will it please you to tast any of your own wine ?", "And keep that love about ye that makes good", "I understand ye not .", "Remain unperish 'd , like another nature ,", "Yet if you use her kindly , as I swear", "Fit for a Fathers care ? O Lelia ,", "I can compel you , her estate is great ,", "Would lead thee right again : Look well upon me ,"], "true_target": ["It shall have all .", "Were she worse ,", "Or like me miserable : But \u2018 tis impossible", "But your Worships provision could not have come in at a fitter time ;", "It makes all new again ; pray do not scorn me ,", "Than my relieving .", "This dead forgetfulness , it works so strongly ,", "That if the least heat of a childs affection", "To mine own child too ? misery , I thank thee", "And if God bless you with a child by her ,", "I have a message , Sir , that much concerns you ,", "I will reserve for my own maintenance ,", "She set her stamp more excellently on ,", "Hast thou begot thy self again ! well , justice", "Had I been thus unkind , thou hadst not been ;", "Content , within I'le tell you more at large", "Be what thou wilt .", "Whose undeserved liberality", "You are many : I shall meet you , Sir , again ,", "I would not hear this tamely .", "If you but look upon me like a Daughter", "I ask , will be a giver : say that sleep ,", "But all made o 're to me , before this match ,", "Here 's a Sword , Sir ,", "During your life , all save some slender piece", "I mean that love , or be but num 'd within ye ,", "Thy Mother dyed ,", "Ha ? am I taken for a Bawd ? Oh Heaven !", "Now I am old and sapless .", "A general example of her goodness ;", "Is this your comfort ?", "There is no starting now , Son , if you offer't", "Pray you give me leave to weep .", "As I fear strangely she is ill enough ,", "And lose her promises ; thou art one of those", "And made thee spring fair , do not let me perish", "And of so mighty power , that where he finds"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Out of whose violence they are possest", "I am of that opinion , and will dye i n't ,", "They are nothing i'th \u2019 world but Buff and Scarlet ,", "Yes marry would I ,", "Than such observers , that do ground their faith", "Tough unhewn pieces , to hack swords upon ;", "You shall love Frank .", "Say ye so ? I'le pull ye on a little further .", "I see ye are hard to please ; yet I will please ye .", "Like a great School-boy that had been blown up", "Now could I kiss him .", "I had as lieve be courted by a Cannon ,", "They are , and I have all I sought for , \u2018 tis a souldier", "I had rather be a Coward , I am sure with less sin .", "Faith some pretty fellow ,", "Well , I will not .", "And dances at a Wake , and plays at Nine-holes .", "Earnest ? I in earnest : she 's a fool to break so many sleeps ,", "Be liberal to your friend , and let her know it ,", "\u2018 Twill prove without a true companion .", "I do believe you love no Courtier ,", "Either your will , or my imagination .", "Yes , it shews very sweetly .", "That were companions to you ; I mean mirth", "Come , come , this is not wise , nor provident", "To keep care from our hearts , and it should be \u2014", "What worth can be in those men , whose profession", "I would ever bless my self from such a fellow .", "This mumps , this Lachrymae , this love in sippets ;", "If to be valiant , be to be a Souldier ; I'le tell ye true ,", "And are as empty of those excellencies", "And what I said , was but to pull it from ye .", "Upon an iron , or beat him soft like Stock-fish .", "In a soust Souldier .", "That would have been sound ones , & venture such a fane , and", "Come , I have found your way of commendations ,"], "true_target": ["So much life , for e 're an humorous asse i'th \u2019 world .", "I'le burn before ; come pre'thee leave this sadness ;", "And by my troth to ghess you into love", "There is no understanding , nor can be", "To halt before a Cripple : if you love ,", "Last night at dust-point .", "Can no man fit you ? I will find him out .", "And there begin a health of lusty Claret", "Than one ; and him", "Out upon \u2018 em fire-locks ,", "With a clean strength , that cracks a cudgel well", "I should not please ye else .", "So is your Friend .", "Yes , if they taw him as they do whit-leather", "And free disposure of your blood and Spirit ,", "May not I go along ?", "As you were born a mourner .", "Then let him be more manly , for he looks", "I see the way you run , and know how tedious", "Unless it be a Souldier , and I am sure ,", "Ere I forsake ye .", "Even to the handsomest fellow now alive .", "As one of those .", "You love , hide it no longer ; you have betray 'd your self ;", "Upon one smile or tear ; y'are much alter 'd ,", "There 's none left now worthy the thinking of ,", "I will have the man", "And yet I am sure y'are caught : and I will know him .", "This walking by thy self to see the Devil ,", "With any I can think of , is beyond", "It fits thee like a French-hood .", "Sweet Brother I dare swear , you 're welcom hither ,", "For any thing I know , we would in to supper ,", "Is nothing i'th \u2019 world but drink and damn me ,", "Do not dissemble Frank , mine eyes are quicker", "With legions of unwholsome whores and quarrels ;", "Here 's Raw-head come again ; Lord how he looks ! Pray we \u2018 scape with broken pates ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twas pretty , are you grown so cunning , Clora ?", "What woman may deserve as she is worthy :", "Keep some land , and fewer whores , believe me", "At home under the mercy of his fore-man ? no ,", "He 'll neither love me drunk nor sober now .", "While you continue cold and frosty to him", "As you 're a Gentleman", "I'le fetch a sigh shall make \u2018 em start , and leap ,", "Yes .", "Now \u2018 tis ignorance", "Wouldst thou imagine him ?", "As every one delivers this to be ,", "So do not I , till I can know \u2018 em wiser :", "Faith if I were in love as I thank Heaven", "What young thing of my years would endure", "\u2018 Faith , I would marry him ; my friends I hope", "Alas !", "Well , if thy Father were a Souldier", "In some decai 'd Ware , or Carack of his own : he shall not", "Upon my faith me thinks they 're worthy men .", "People will take thee shortly for a Witch :", "I'le keep no love for him , I do not long", "Such vertues should not sleep thus .", "Does he go on ?", "I do not see that I am bound to love \u2018 em .", "But prethee tell me Clora , if I were", "Why prethee ?", "To go a foot yet , and solicite causes .", "And not the love of truth ; I'le lay my life", "Well , I am no tell tale :", "Since I am put in mind o n't , good wench bear with me .", "Than you do your content , if you refuse", "And prethee Clora , since thou'lt have it so", "Faith so ill ,", "Let not this boldness make me be believ 'd", "And for my single self , I 'd sooner venture", "Should have no more respect , and worth flung on him", "And if they do not flow abundantly ,", "But is it not great pity , tell me Clora ,", "A worse than that", "Rig me out , that 's the short o n't ; out upo n't :", "Out of my melancholy .", "What 's the tother ?", "And who for Heavens sake ?", "Some Gentleman ? no Clora , till some Gentleman", "Prethee let us entertain some other talk ,", "Move me no more with these fond questions ,", "This Summer fruit , that you call Courtier ,", "Will be a new task to ye ? But all this", "Though they be wealthy , and indifferent wise", "Before my love would make me burn the Legend .", "Heigh ho ! I'le love no more .", "Upon his root , and make him ripe too soon ,", "This is as sickly to me as faint weather .", "To have her Husband in another Country", "And were not I a happy woman then ?", "To pity me , I'le never cease to weep ,", "Faith not so hard neither , if considered", "Chopping for rotten Raisins , and lye pining", "Well if I be not even with thee Clora", "His oaths and affections are all one", "So mad as thou wouldst make me , what kind of man", "\u2018 Twould shew as if I wanted charity ,", "By able men ? Were I one of these great ones ,", "You will never leave", "Till you be told how rude you are , fye Clora .", "Within a month after she is married", "With his apparel , things to set him off ,", "As if the fire were under .", "And faith a little honest ."], "true_target": ["Too full a heat of your affections", "Thus thou wouldst use him .", "By my troth thou art grown", "Alas , I am .", "Good Clora , no .", "Sure thou wouldst have me love .", "But I shall lose you then .", "Yet I have an excellent stomach , and must do it ;", "\u2018 Tis better than your Julio 's .", "God knows , that I would choose , but as it is", "He that lyes along there .", "Worthy Fabricio .", "Is only in a private Surgion ,", "Let him be held a pretty handsome fellow ,", "I must to my Chamber .", "Alas , my fortune , Clora .", "How I prethee ? For I perceive no such change in my self .", "I would I might be so .", "Sir will it please you sit ?", "Yes , but good wench", "Would make him drink .", "Has never scar 'd you Clora to my knowledge .", "Take it in plainness : I do love you more", "Hangs fast , and may be found : but when you fling", "You 'll find him rotten i'th \u2019 handling ;", "And young , and if he be a little valiant", "You have hit her , Sir .", "How fast the tears I shed for you do fall ,", "To be immodest ; if there were a way", "By heaven they are for you .", "Prethee good wench let me not rail upon \u2018 em ,", "I thank you ,", "And all Apocrypha ; his true belief", "I heard it .", "More silently to be acquainted with you ,", "Shut the window .", "By my faith , and neat ones .", "A strange lewd wench : I must e'ne leave thy company ,", "Than to make Courtiers able men , or honest .", "That I must love , and do I know not what :", "No , no , they shall not know we have seen \u2018 em ;", "I do imagine was but laid to draw me", "Do , I will not .", "That such a brave deserving Gentleman", "He has as many Mistrisses as Faiths ,", "For I assure my self , I know not yet :", "Fabricio , you have undone a Maid", "Clora , come hither ; who are these below there ?", "A new conversion of the Indies ,", "Which would break out else .", "They work like Rhubarb with me .", "There .", "I grant I love a souldier ; But what souldier", "And when mine eyes be out I will be told", "I easily perceive that thus provokes thee ,", "Only to anger me , and purge thy wit", "Let him venture", "That if I should be full , and speak but truth ,", "If thou'dst been made a man , thou hadst been a coward .", "Thou art too malicious ,", "\u2018 Twill be the better ; and a little wise ,", "Away ye fool .", "If so ,", "Thou wilt spoil me else .", "But why do we bestow our time so idlely ?", "I do not think I am ; this short Epistle", "Which him ? thou art so wise", "O what pretty commendations thou hast given him !", "Why , this will make him mad , Fabricio ,", "Let me be hang 'd for this : I know thou dost it", "I have no mercy of these Infidels"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Nay , thou art spoil 'd to my hand ;", "Hang him squib ,", "Though it be darkish ; there are both our Brothers ,", "Let him come here no more for Heavens sake", "Will be sure to love you the greatest part on 's life .", "Where ?", "Another of Gods creatures ; out upon him ,", "Now Frank , see what a kind of man you love ,", "\u2018 Tis well consider 'd , Frank , he has such pretty humours then ,", "You when he 's drunk , than when he 's sober , for then he", "Take heed you had best , h'as sworn to pay you else .", "What should they make thus late here ?", "That loves you when he 's drunk .", "If I have any knowledge in proportion", "Is he not dead already , and they two taking order", "And he should be a Souldier .", "Good Captain .", "Which from the cocks mouth thus should be delivered ,", "To have him in her Belly , he 's so boysterous .", "In which I would have some learned Cutler", "& c. Hold , hold , hold .", "Hadst thou been free , as a good wench ought to be ,", "Nor while I say my prayers heartily ,", "But laziness and long strides .", "The Captain Jacomo , those are his legs", "Well I will sound ye yet for all your craft .", "I would go a mile", "I wonder how his mother could endure", "Ev'ry day such a murder else , there is nothing", "We 'll anger him I warrant ye ,", "Help , help for loves sake .", "See what a Gentlewoman you have saluted ;", "This is your drunkenness .", "Away with him for Heavens sake", "What think you then of an adventurer ? I mean some wealthy Merchant .", "Unless he be in chains .", "And roundly said , that is the man must do it ,", "Peace and let 's hear his wisdom .", "Ha ? I should know their shapes", "For ,", "I should as soon have thought him", "Were he greater", "Now could I grind him into priming powder .", "Yes faith , my Brother will be here straightway , and \u2014", "For Heavens sake hang him quickly , he will do", "I have discharg 'd the office of a Souldier .", "That may express him sturdy .", "He would sleep more I think : I'le waken him .", "When he comes next , I'le have the cough or tooth-ach ,", "That ever was born , Frank , i \u2019 faith \u2014", "No , good Frank ,", "Art thou there , wench ? Wench . I .", "Even as he lyes , cross legg 'd , like one o'th \u2019 Templers", "Thou art so high flown for him : Look , who 's there ?", "Appears a strange thing .", "Or something that shall make me keep my chamber ,", "Lusty Laurence ,", "That e 're I anger 'd ye .", "A musquet , with this word upon a Label", "But Brother , is your friend thus sad still ? methinks", "There lyes the question ?", "About his Blacks ? me thinks they are very busie ,", "If I have any knowledge in proportion .\u2014", "When I went first a birding for thy Love ,", "Pray God she prove not quick .", "Farewel old Don Diego ."], "true_target": ["No faith , thou art a good wench , and \u2018 tis pity", "Yes , and shall tickle you too ,", "\u2018 Tis an unseemly nature in a Souldier .", "Fye upon him .", "But a strong Gallows that can make him quiet ,", "Not I , he will bite me .", "The other party : ha , ha , ha .", "You are too wild , I mean some Gentleman .", "Besides , being a Souldier , \u2018 tis better he should love", "Compile an Epitaph , and at his feet", "Water ready distill 'd .", "For falling out at Wakes and Bear-baitings ,", "Sir , we must intreat you", "No faith .", "And yet not you sweet Captain .", "This fellow in mine eye ,", "Now I believe I shall content you Frank ,", "Some go for a Surgeon .", "You'l never leave till you be worried with him .", "No more Sir .", "\u2018 Tis pity a fair man of your proportion", "He smells just like a Cellar ,", "Yes it 's worth forty shillings to pawn , being lin 'd almost quite Through with velvet .", "Or say it be a piss-pot , and pour't on 's head .", "What think you of a Courtier ?", "in slippers", "This drunken trowgh has kill 'd him .", "What tother ?", "Thou shouldst not be well quarried at thy entring ,", "I finde it in his nature too late .", "To make a Parson .", "\u2018 Twould scare you in the dark .", "A short and pithy saying of a Souldier .", "\u2018 Tis true , for I never have seen a worse ;", "He 's dismal drunk , would he were muzled .", "That should be ,", "You understand me ?", "I had done laughing many an hour agoe .", "Yes .", "For loves sake kiss him .", "Go you and do it .", "O God , my sides .", "A fine clean coarse he is : I would have him buried", "Good Captain do not hurt me , I am sorry", "Upon my conscience .", "Call in some Officers , and stay the Captain .", "Faith but I have not Frank : Prethee be handsom ,", "Let one of the maids take a good Bowl of water ,", "His body , that can promise nothing", "Let him alone , I see his vein lyes only", "The Captain comes along too , wench .", "And I'le speak freely to thee .", "You mean the boots , I think they are neat by nature .", "He 's too desperate for our enduring .", "I love him so well .", "As if he had a branch of some great Petigree", "Grew out on 's belly .", "To think your self more welcom , and be merry ,", "And on his brest , a buckler with a pike i n't ,", "Prethee be not angry", "He would look so like a whey cheese .", "O , I see him", "Should have a soul of sorrow .", "Ha , ha , ha , pray let me laugh extreamly .", "Then as I hope to have a handsom husband ,", "I hope I shall not .", "Away I say , & do it , never fear , we have enough of that"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Alas poor heart .", "Thou art so cross and peevish .", "Pray will you leave your fooling ?", "Upon a sort of men , that let me tell thee", "Fabritio , o \u2019 my conscience if I ever", "And his slic't Spanish Jerkin , like Don John ?", "Would you would keep your tongue .", "How he will be ; chide him , and bring him back .", "As thou art knavish , would I saw his face !", "Away , away , you must not", "That ere I left , I would write thee out of credit", "And good Sir when you see him , if we have", "With me Sir ?", "Nay do not blush Sir , o \u2019 my troth it does ,", "Would we might see him once more .", "He 's gone in such a rage ; but sure this holds him", "a right good woman :", "O me , unhappy Brother , Frederick ,", "I will not say directly with that face ,", "Set him a little higher , he is dead .", "With the old foot-man , for singing of Queen Dido ?", "Beshrew my heart I tremble like an aspin .", "Thou should'st not want thy wish , he has been drinking ,", "With all the world , and make thee not believ 'd", "By all good things , thou hast flung aspersions", "After he has slept , Fabritio , but to try", "This is but some odd way you have , and faith", "I do believe you ,", "But it becomes him rarely ; Clora , look", "May breed men something plain I know ,", "Go to him fool .", "I would so hamper thee for thy opinion ,", "And nothing to the purpose , take up quickly ;", "Without much travel .", "I live", "What ?", "To get this Fever off me .", "That tickles ye ?", "Has he not Frederick ?", "Does it so ?", "Sweet Captain .", "Thy wit will founder of all four else wench ,", "Trye pre'thee .", "\u2018 Twill grow too Pestilent ; were I a Scholar", "Would I were able , Sir ,", "O Sir my Brother ! O my dearest Brother !", "Till I am something wiser , it must be ,", "If you will promise me to kiss in ease ,", "I would you would Sir .", "Do you Sir ?", "What party ? Wench thou art not drunk ?", "Why , how strange for Gods sake ?", "It do 's become you well to make us merry ;", "Thy mothers mother would have been a Saint", "This do 's not shew , as if it were yours , the wars", "Nay , laugh on still .", "I would fain see him", "Why not he ?", "\u2018 Twould be better .", "I am sure it fits thee to be ever talking ,", "I shall be proud to be acquainted with ."], "true_target": ["Who 's within there ?", "From either of your worths to merit thanks .", "Make peace again .", "Man as he was , valiant and vertuous .", "Had she conceiv 'd a Souldier ; they are people", "If thou hold'st this pace ; take up when I bid thee .", "Beshrew my heart you are unmannerly", "Shews in his face .", "To offer this unto a Gentleman", "Faith thou hast been among the bottles Clora .", "And sure I am not blind .", "Where were they Clora , when you fell in love", "Why ? prethee why ? hast thou such cause ?", "So is this worthy Gentleman whose vertues", "But not thus rude ; give me your hand good Sir", "Not every day .", "O is that it", "A reprobate out of the state of honour .", "And thus dispose my chance to hamper me .", "A", "These are your eyes ;", "Good Sir believe your Sister ; you are most welcom ,", "I would be loth to lose those thanks ; I know", "But certainly , such another as that is ,", "Even in indifferent things ; that I would leave thee", "angry ,", "Of all the old world , only left to keep", "He 's to be made more tractable I doubt not .", "O what a wretched woman has he made me ! Let me alone good Sir .", "Thou art a strange mad wench .", "All night you write and weep too much I fear ,", "He is a man , and one that may content", "He may be ghest at ,", "I would be ever angry to be thus .", "You had a parlous judgment then , my Clora .", "They are the model of those men , whose honours", "And swore he look 'd in his old velvet trunks", "I am sorry ,", "I care not if I venture .", "Now o \u2019 my faith this Gentleman do 's nothing", "This Heresie must be look 'd to in time : for if it spread", "Look but upon me , do not part so from me ,", "Thou art enough to make an age of men so ,", "Why Clora ? I have known you cry as much", "Do fall in love , as I will not forswear it", "We heave our hands at when we hear recited .", "To part thus roughly from us ; yet to me", "Distasted his opinion any way ,", "To be thus laught at ?", "Ev'n when you will Sir .", "So like a fool", "For Julio , that has not half his worth ,", "Were I he ,", "I have heard often of your pleasant vein .", "I know \u2018 tis white , and \u2014", "And what dost thou see in him , now thou knowst him", "I do but what I should .", "I thought you did Sir , and for that I thank you ,", "To visit me , I cannot take it well .", "Of his deserts , that comes so worthily", "How well this little anger , if it be one ,", "Come Brother , we'l walk in , and laugh a little"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And if thou beest not timber , yet I 'll warm thee ;", "I 'll make you smart for't as I am a woman ,", "Is he so ?", "And if I lose him , women have no charms .", "And is he gone ?", "You understand I am honest , else I tell ye ,", "All business I hear with his ears now .", "To be my Father , never let me live", "Am I so overtaken by a fool", "Help , help , ah ! ah ! Murther , I shall be murthered , I shall be murthered .", "Able to abuse him , I shall ne'r come clear else of him .", "Art t \u2019 sure \u2018 tis he ?", "Back me with this intemperance ; I thought", "How ?", "Curse me to earth , for what should I do here", "If my lust do abate ,", "And this he brought me for it ; did you change it ?", "As that would strive to be ; I do forgive ye", "We should not mix , she will discover to us", "Nor never heard the sweetness of that tongue ,", "I do deserve it for my confidence ,", "How ever , he that got me had the pleasure ,", "Are daily offer 'd me , though you perform", "Away , away , deceiver .", "Only to live to make their Children scourge-sticks ,", "By heaven you do me wrong , I have a heart", "Of all weak Women , as it hath done mine ,", "Or serve , you are grave enough to be a Porter", "How now ? who was that you staid to speak withal .", "She is a kind of bawdy Confessor ,", "Are your 's to be dispos 'd of .", "And I beseech thee if thou hast a goodness", "A greater tenderness of love and bounty :", "The sin will be your own .", "Matters of more moment to call me from ye .", "Of what you have been to me , or you are ,", "Your absence is .", "After I have suffer 'd thus much evil by you ,", "That durst appear but half thus violent .", "ught I know yet , is my resolution .", "Nor shall , no more of me than modesty", "Still a forsaken Woman may be found ,", "And leave to trouble me with these relations ,", "She did , Sir , as she ought to do , would you", "As their unruly Youth directed \u2018 em ;", "For your Vows and Oaths ,", "All that I feel yet .", "be so stood upon ,", "There 's none come with you ?", "From these two eyes , continually raining ,", "Your carriage in calamity , and you", "A founder of old fellows ? make him drink , wench ,", "Will , without fear , deliver to a stranger ;", "Why speak you not sweet sir ?", "Both gone ? a plague upon \u2018 em both ,", "Though I know him now", "He that comes next , by Heav'n shall feel their curse .", "Would I were", "Some most apparent crossness , as our organs", "As carefully as thou wouldst keep thine own ?", "If you do I care not .", "How easily we Women may be cozen 'd !", "Walk in the streets again , and there perhaps", "Give him some broken bread , and that , and rid him .", "I may learn something in the way of lust", "But not this rough way , Servant ; we are tender ,", "Then let thine honour ever", "Than feel their pities : my desires and ends", "\u2018 Till when I 'd have you be as merry , Sir ,", "Which though they bite me not , I would have wisht", "To curse me did you say , Sir ? let it be", "That we should deal with others .", "Wilt thou never learn more manners ,", "Seek pleasures warranted , not pull 'd by violence ,", "She durst not answer openly ; O me !", "The coolest , quietest , and best Companion ;", "I could have beaten him with this weak Body ,", "For you your self , if you have good within ye ,", "Only have talkt a little wildly of me ;", "For the most modest , temper 'd Gentleman ,", "And mock me with your service , \u2018 tis not well ,", "To change and so he did , it has a blemish ,", "Thou hast brought me poyson in a shape of Heaven ,", "I seize upon shall pay their follies", "Give him his slippers : be not so amaz 'd ,", "I'le take upon me", "I ! are you there ? are all these tears lost then ?", "I should be sorry then ; Fortune , I prithee", "Will they carry me away ?", "The fear of sudden death struck me all over", "And if you weep \u2018 twill be a great deal better ,", "At any price ; these young soft melting gristles", "And dare be Master of it , know how dearly", "Is he departed ?", "I should be with another man , I am sure ,", "If I had had the spirit of a man .", "Look and believe .", "He was my Father , and I think believ 'd it ;", "Am I deceiv 'd again ? Oh , I would rail", "I shall be very angry , this is rudeness .", "To ask a Madman whether he be mad", "That dares reward me thus with fears and curses ;", "No , I will sooner trust a Crocodile", "My appetite : from your experience", "Well , let him in then if there be no remedy ; I thank Heaven I am", "That had made you the Master of a kindness ,", "The worthy fruit of your affections ,", "Yes believe me is it ,", "That thou and I may kiss together ; wilt thou ?", "Fye , Servant ,", "Where both my treasure , body , and my soul", "Than a cold fit o'th \u2019 Palsey .", "In this world with Diseases , and desire", "If idleness have not bereft you of it :", "The greater novelty , all our fresh youth", "Have you dispatched him ?", "So dry and stony , that a thousand showers", "Would take the pains to follow ; what should you ,", "Till I have emptied all my gall ; the next", "Oh me , my heart !", "For as I hear them , so I lose them ; this", "And charg 'd it to be delivered where I shew 'd you ?", "Learn this and thrive ,", "Will not be fit ; which , if we do perceive ,", "Answer me .", "No , no , those fond imaginations ,", "Ballast of both sides like tall Gentlemen", "You had best take fresh air some where else , \u2018 twill bring ye", "Clear of this business , yet I cannot pray .", "Go , make some other weep , as I have done ,", "Sir you are welcom hither , as this kiss", "I will avoid thee , and for thy sake all", "For", "To call to Heaven for vengeance .", "Though he be old , whate'r he be , shews toughness ,", "And told them they were as they were", "You are not in love with him , are ye ?", "How thou di'st daily for her ; pour it out", "I hate truly ,", "This heart hath held you ever ; Oh good Heaven !", "Then mouth to mouth will we walk up to bed ,", "That she might write it ;", "I would not stick for ten Groats , or a Noble .", "Not of his tribe I hope ; bring me no more", "Given with a larger freedom than the use", "And ends our cares at once ; or any thing", "Charge thee to keep me from his eyes again ,", "Whose violence will break the hearts of all ,", "You had lov 'd as worthy men , whose fair affections", "\u2018 Tis want of means , not vertue makes thee fall ;", "And shall I be so childish once again ,", "A spirit fit to meet with mine .", "Think I am somewhat too good to make sport of .", "Lord how tender stomach 'd you are grown of late !", "How they descend in bloud , nor let their tongues ,", "That one encounter cloy him not ; nor promise", "Or power yet in thee to confirm thy wishes ,", "Sententious answers to the comers in .", "Not else .", "To live , and be a trouble , when children", "How came he there ? I am betray 'd to shame ,", "Fare ye well , Sir ;", "Under his bitter words , whose kindly heat", "The more the merrier ; did you give that money", "An Arrow of the same Tree with your Bow ,", "Be gone then , since he needs will have it so ,", "That were a likely one , and shew 'd some profit ,", "No more ;", "I pray you , Sir , help her , for Heavens sake , Sir .", "Lyes quieter upon an old mans head", "In some good man of worships house , and give", "A pretty place ; or be of some good Consort ,", "Desire it should be so ?", "This flattering man in to me ? did not I", "And hoard up mill-mony ? me thinks a Marble", "Will you dissemble still ? I am a fool ,", "I do not speak to you , but if you be not", "That is a stranger to thy cruelty ,", "No , no , let him go ,", "Some ill woman for her use would give", "As pure as any womans , and I mean", "Nor no avoiding \u2018 em , if we give way ;", "Thou art as welcome as these pliant arms", "There is no new way left , by which your cunning", "For I am open ey 'd again , and know thee ;", "He is not worth your anger ; I must chide you", "Knew you , and so unmov'dly have you born", "O'rhYpppHeNreach you yet .", "Enter Woman .", "To be so childish to imagine me", "If I had been your Horse , or Whore , you might", "Peace there , that musique , now Sir speak", "Into the hot affection of a Lover .", "Of all your forc 'd affections ; yet because", "He 's not so lightly struck ,", "If I might see you offer at a course", "I took this Julio , as I have a faith ,", "Though they strike suddainly , and sweet as musick", "A million for this Wench , she is so subtle .", "And follow \u2018 em , but I fear the spight of people ,", "And that me thinks , is a reward sufficient .", "within . Nell , Sirrah .", "A paire of \u2018 em , Julio , and Angelo ,", "Than in another ? \u2018 Tis our general nature", "And Cullices , and have enough spare gold", "Thou canst not do me such a benefit", "Is that your meaning ? why , you are to me", "At last to let \u2018 em in ; thou knowst these things ,", "All the sad crosses that I laid upon you ,", "Why would you be so , Servant ?", "you may find", "As you think little , yet you satisfie", "And you may easily rule me , if you flatter ,"], "true_target": ["Like a decaying flower , still withering", "Why did you let", "That will , when this is known , yet cozen women ;", "And ne'r a Sword , and he has two good Swords ,", "As children do for babies back again .", "For some that have been here", "Are you a Goldsmith ?", "To have known him all this while .", "And it will trouble you to find a stick", "They look like men of worth , and state , and carry", "But why should I speak to a man that hates me ,", "Why ? would you have her gone ? you need not keep", "My Angelo , by all the joys of love ,", "And knows not yet what man is , and his lyings ,", "I will sit here ,", "Yes , is not that the best end ,", "But that he had a Sword , and threatned me \u2014", "To me .", "Curse me , good Julio , curse me bitterly ,", "Look not upon the youths of men , and making ,", "Two sins that ever do outgrow compassion ;", "His love hath made thee more his , than his monies ;", "And if there be any cold meat in the Buttery ,", "That 's evil to our Natures , than a man ;", "And such a one I long for , and must have", "If I were married to you .", "For all your wrongs to me ; my charity", "In thy best lamentations ; put on sorrow ,", "Here 's to your health , and you shall feel this wine", "And ne'r an arm to use \u2018 em ; rush upon him ,", "To be recovered with a base repentance ,", "I purposely cast on you , to discern", "Than to draw in such needy Rascals to disquiet me ?", "Are you so ?", "And , as all hold , the noblest way of love ?", "And such deceiving tears as you shed now ,", "And will but laugh at any thing I suffer ?", "He 's fast enough I hope now , if I hold him .", "Have undergone \u2018 em with that brave contempt ,", "With such a noble temper , which indeed", "Why do you look so strange , Sir ? do not you", "Good Sir , be gone , you know not what an ease", "This bitterness of yours has struck my heart .", "Upon my troth I have been longing for ye .", "To keep it so for ever .", "Raw fools and whelps .", "What do you mean ? unhand me , or , by Heav'n ,", "A Nurse at these years for you , and attend", "Now Sir , what is your business ? pray be short ; for I have other", "The fire will turn from ; If't be Natures will", "Shall once more hope to catch me ; no , thou false man ,", "I may dote on you , here I not endure you .", "Twin 'd round , and fast about thee , can perswade thee .", "I would wish you such as he is ; if thou seest", "Nay , nothing ,", "And vow thy self into her heart , that when", "Nor can there on the earth be found but yours", "And draw on more compassion , which includes", "\u2018 Twill punish Beggars , fye for shame go work ,", "\u2018 Tis fit , and lookt for , that they should do so .", "That song above , I gave him ; the sad song ;", "I will , as you do , study to forget \u2018 em .", "Think she is a stone .", "Yet loves you so far ,", "To credit you ? you do not know how deep", "And how far if it be believ 'd , it kills ; no more , Sir .", "Such tears as those might make another Woman", "This is enough at once , digest it well :", "You are deceiv 'd , Sir , \u2018 tis not against nature", "Are able to inherit , let them dye ,", "For being such a stranger to your Mistriss ,", "I may be better for . But I can teach", "While you sup up my state in penny pots", "Gilded to hide the bitterness it brings ,", "You had a pleasant touch o'th \u2019 Cittern once ,", "To speak yet ; but I have it in my head ,", "Why pray take leave ,", "And till I know , I will not thank you for't ;", "Give him some wine ; fall to your banquet Sir ,", "As to imagine you are young enough", "Relented , and have been undone : such Children", "That brave fellow ,", "Stir lively in me , in the dead of night ,", "I once lov 'd such a sorrow too too dearly ,", "O you are welcome my fair Servant ,", "If ye be , strike up the match ; you shall have", "And I confess a fit one for my folly ,", "Three l. and a pair of blankets ! will ye go answer him ?", "Yes it was mine , I sent it by my Man ,", "And ought in all to be respected so ;", "E 're you depart , and I would have you hear me ;", "Were but an idle question , if you be ,", "As that , and well done , that the Heav'ns may hear it .", "Even heartily , as I would be forgiven ,", "With poverty ; wench you must learn a wise rule ,", "That understand me ? Sir , ye understand ,", "Go , answer him I will not be at leasure .", "That I have turn 'd the reverence of a child", "Now would some poor tender hearted fool have wept ,", "Are all the Kindred that I have , and friends .", "No , I 'll see thee starv 'd first .", "\u2018 Twas as ye ought to do , and now ye cry for't", "Give me my Vail , and bid the Boy go sing", "You may ,", "Nay , I know not :", "Corrupt thy fancy : see , and say them fair too ,", "Go let him in wench , if he promise profit ,", "Shoot up and down to find a passage out ,", "Could never ripen .", "To be my heir , or I so old to make", "I should laugh at ye ; what a vengeance ails ye", "All company of men , yet make a venture", "Where is my Woman ?", "Is't more unnatural to shoot it there", "We 'll leave , and think it is her pleasure", "Give me this man but once more in my arms ,", "Your freedom in for her ; she knows my life", "may perhaps", "But this day I did refuse", "Do \u2018 em to th \u2019 life .", "For us to lye together ; if you have", "I shall leave off to curse thee for thy falshood ,", "That dare believe thee ; go , and swear to her", "Which , like a fool , I sow 'd in such a heart ,", "As you can make your self with that you have ,", "Now if I miss him , I am curst , go , wench ,", "Kill me withal , and I shall be a Martyr ,", "I knew ye Sir before .", "I was in such a fright before thou cam'st ,", "If it be for your ease .", "Bless me goodness !", "You are old ,", "To procreate , as fire is to consume ,", "So violently , that I scarce have breath", "Of your love every way ; yet I would have you", "That know their ends , for I confess they stir me .", "So poor to think I have not reach 'd the end", "You have found a new way to reward my doting ,", "To the last penny ; This will work me worse ,", "That I had never seen that false mans eyes ,", "You could not .", "When he sheds tears , for he kills suddenly ,", "Nor know no reason Fathers should desire", "To boil away , you shall be welcome to me ;", "And tell \u2018 em I have utterly forsworn", "In my best days and tricks ? my wise fellow ,", "For by my troth I had rather see their tears", "Are only for my safer ends .", "You mistake , Sir ;", "True love again , not my unhappy Harvest ,", "Are dead and buried in me , let \u2018 em rest .", "\u2018 Tis all one .", "And wish when that time comes , you will love truly ,", "You do the wiser ,", "\u2018 Twas more I think , than you have warrant for .", "And will not utter secrets .", "Had light upon some other that deserv 'd \u2018 em .", "Two Swords , my Angelo ?", "As thou canst , to deceive an Angel , Julio ,", "Put the gown on him , in this chair sit down ;", "Now thus far off you , yet four glasses hence", "Of what is past , but all that is to come", "For too much loving you then , such a curse", "I was requesting you to come no more", "Of strangers will admit , shall witness to you .", "Enter Father .", "For such an one I could have wish 'd a Woman .", "I should say something", "has talkt so wildly here \u2014", "Good Sir , no more ; make not my understanding ,", "That men may fairly see", "These young ones ;", "That bear thy stamp , as counterfeit in love ,", "If you were not old", "Yond \u2019 old mad fellow", "Of Malmsey : when I am excellent at Cawdles ,", "I \u2019 faith he was good sport , good , thrust him out ,", "Admit \u2018 em , but no snakes to poyson us", "Or any old man do wearing away", "Think this , that thou hast two young brawny arms", "Sirrah , he rush 'd in at my doors , and swore", "There is no trusting of that tongue , I know't ,", "Enter Julio .", "Then fall on without fear , wench , yet so wisely", "And try , till both our bloods", "They may talk", "For though , I must confess , I am unworthy", "And let us grow in mirth ; though I am set", "Some few ill offices .", "Believe thee honest , Julio , almost me ,", "I would not have ye ,", "After my late experience of your spight", "But ever keep thy self without their distance ,", "You , and your understanding are two fools ,", "For yet I cannot think you are so foolish ,", "Should give my poor heart life ? No , curse me , Julio ,", "Be any thing but old and Beggarly ,", "And out it shall , that", "I find there is no end of his deceivings ,", "I'le call my husband ,", "Shall be without occasions .", "That are such fools to love , and look upon him .", "But were we Saints , thus we are still rewarded :", "Unless the love thou swallow be a pill", "Thus you would do I warrant ,", "Out of your trance the sooner .", "Do so no more .", "Nor honest , to abuse us so far ; you may love too ;", "By Heaven \u2018 tis my Father .\u2014", "And undress one another as we go ;", "Basely murthered , basely .", "Out of their malice , more than truth , have done me", "I see that Woman had a pretty catch o n't ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The old man forsooth .", "Pray let him speak with you , he will not away else .", "They are here .", "He will needs speak with you ; and good old man he weeps so ,", "The poor old man that uses to come hither , he that you call Father .", "Yes , and what else you bad me .", "And", "I shall be chidden cruelly for this ;", "She has griev 'd her self out of all Company ,", "Here .", "almost out of life too .", "And yet your name is more familiar with her", "That by my troth I have not the heart to deny him ,", "Yes , but here 's another ."], "true_target": ["Yes , for Heavens sake stay ,", "Pray let him speak with you .", "This , by her rule , should be a liberal man ,", "I warrant you I am perfect .", "\u2018 Tis all she feeds upon .", "I see the best on 's may learn every day .", "No ; he would fain speak with you .", "Yes , and another with him .", "Good Sir , desire it not , I dare not do it ,", "For since your last being here , Sir , believe me ,", "Yes .", "But you are such a Gentleman \u2014", "You will offend , Sir ,", "Than any thing but sorrow , good Sir , go ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Any such mad compassion yet within me .", "Still in relieving you ? I do not feel", "I grant you are my Father ; am I therefore"], "true_target": ["I like ye far worse now ye grow thus holy ,", "As I live", "Bound to consume my self , and be a Beggar"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Good Sir , make hast ; I dare not go without ye", "Who 's that ?", "Got in to rescue her from me ?", "Something I 'll do in honour of your goodness ,", "Is not his name Piso ?", "Within this half hour in the street .", "Of broken-winded women ; if you fear me ,", "Umh .\u2014", "Mail 'd up in Steel , when my tough sinew shrunk ,", "Do you know a woman in this town they call", "They are strangers both", "Fair , young , and rich , both in possessions ,", "At turning of a Street ,", "I 'll tell you presently her very Picture ,", "I know my errour ;", "But in the street ?", "Scarce worth my money ; when an itch possess 'd me", "Me and my shame together known by any ,", "I hope so ,", "Umh .\u2014", "From whom Sir , comes this bounty ? for I think", "What art thou ? and how cam'st thou to that place ?", "Would make ye weep like Children ; but", "Both the extreams of Fortune , and have found", "At price of all I had ; The miseries", "I knew you err 'd ,", "Sir , yonder 's your friend Lodowick , hide your self", "To rail upon a woman they never saw ;", "Well , passing well , I have \u2018 em ,", "For I was sent at first to Piso ; what a Rascal", "Enter Lodovico , and Piso .", "As you mean , Lelia ?", "I know not where I am , nor what I am .", "And I will rid her quickly .", "No .", "She will expect it .", "Since I have so mistaken .", "Yes , all is as I would but thou .", "And dost so still ; but better be advis 'd ,", "Thou art", "And with a strong affection , but a fair one ,", "Than mocking of thy Father ; let thine eyes", "I am sure I find it so , for I am master 'd ,", "How loathed black it is ; and whereas now", "\u2018 Tis not Heavens will thou shouldst ; when this is done", "I should belabour \u2018 em , but I have found", "With this poor weakness have I man 'd a breach ,", "O , they be here together ,", "How I am able to deserve this blessing ;", "How curst thou art , so far from Heaven ,", "Why do you hinder me then ? stand away ,", "That your friend , Seignior Piso , will be constant", "Well , God be with thee , for I fear thy end", "I 'll take my leave , and let my Lady use", "That I will let thee in ; throw down thy Sword .", "That that stay 'd Anchor , men lay hold upon", "Since I have won belief , and am not known ,", "Your happiness will alter any man :", "Want has been to me as another Nature ,", "I am no Bawd , nor Cheater , nor a Courser", "Is all this", "For she will scratch and kick , and scream so loud", "That thou believ'st it not enough to damn alone ,", "I had to bring me off alive was anger ;", "But whither should I bear her ?", "I am so strangely strucken with amazement ,", "And Piso , since I understand him abler ,", "Yes surely Sir , did I , but your worship must ev'n bear with me ;", "Both in a leash , and made right for my purpose .", "Here are my praters ; now if I did well", "Reflect upon thy soul , and there behold", "Is sent him from a woman I have thought of ;", "Indeed she is ,", "Should be rewarded on the head of us ,", "How wouldst thou have me live ?", "When he grows weary of his envious course ,", "Sir I have a tongue else .", "Both dangerous ; my younger years provok 'd me ,", "Which after she had seen you at a window ,", "If ye be wise and thankful ye are made ; there 's the whole matter .", "That promises compassion , at worst pity ,", "In all their needs , is to me Lead that bows ,", "But e 're I leave it , I 'll have one of his", "Come to this town ,", "She 's penitent , and by my troth I stagger", "I think are either patient fools , or liers ,", "I have", "But a thought sweeter is my Lady .", "Now \u2018 tis too late ,", "Against his Enemies , at Buda Siege", "I am sure she cannot .", "And all the graces that make up a Woman ,", "Hope never leaves a wretched man that seeks her ,", "What shall I do ? my Lady utterly", "Leila ?", "And this parch 'd Body ready to consume", "either of these", "That shall shew thankfulness , if not desert .", "My water 's well enough , and my pulse .", "And compassing the World ; but I believe thee", "I got thee .", "Something created to succeed the Devil", "I do guess ye so ,", "Only mine own , for grieving other men ,", "To me , as I to them I hope ; I would not have", "Gentlemen , I know not", "Just of the same Complexion , making , speech ,", "So they would use their Kindred .", "By such a mess of sugar-sops as this is :", "They 're here Sir .", "A way to quiet \u2018 em , worth a thousand o n't .", "And flow all o'r thy Body foul 'd with sin ,", "Do , and be sure", "Here soon , and you'l be made a man .", "There is a Lady ,", "Reveal 'd to us of all these miseries .", "Of which times , if I had a heart to tell ,", "As soon to ashes , as the Pike I bore ;", "In pawn worth two o n't ; for I will not lose", "And many a day , when both the Sun and Cannon", "Which to all stirring spirits is a sickness ,", "He needs no broth upo n't .", "O Lord Sir she is so pester 'd \u2014", "I reapt , was rudeness of behaviour ;", "But with a meer relation of what may be ?", "I wore the Christian Cause upon my Sword", "Such another ,", "That people will be drawn to rescue her .", "The vertuous widow Sir ? I know none such :", "Are you her Champion ? and with these fair words", "What didst thou do ?", "And if it should be earnest , understand", "Umh .\u2014", "I am glad I have met you , Sir , so happily ,", "This helps thee not .", "Brave and deserving men ; how they are stir 'd"], "true_target": ["Like a blown Rose .", "I see they are Souldiers ;", "That is my Lady .", "Leave these unheard of lusts which worse become thee ,", "When all was frozen in me but mine Honour ;", "And if a Souldier may without vain glory", "A woman ? thou art not sure .", "She bad me haste , and give it , when she blush 'd", "Ye could not find the way to know my wants .", "A Widow , and a vertuous one ; it works ,", "I am a Gentleman , however thus", "Where Don Valasco lay , the Spanish Seignior", "Tell what h'as done , believe me , Gentlemen ,", "And made it firm with so much bloud , that all", "I could turn over annals of my dangers ;", "O , too sure , Sir .", "Till I have found a Well of living tears", "That safelier will admit a dalliance ;", "Do not delay the time , Sir ; at a house", "lost my memory ;", "Then I am undone , Sir ,", "Those heavy sins others provoke \u2018 em with", "Convey her ?", "I am a stranger to her .", "Within it , that shall spring out of thine eyes ,", "Shall be the man ; the other bear the charges ,", "Carry it to those she feeds fat with such favours ,", "Yes ,", "In their opinion men of War that thrive ,", "Which makes me with this patience still profess it ;", "Saying to your worship , my Lady is now married .", "Stand you in stead , you shall command , not pray .", "Let it be still , for I will have it search 'd", "Sir , though I could be pleas 'd to make my ills", "\u2018 ll spare ye .", "I cannot stand to tell you more now , meet me", "Indeed I talkt with two", "With such a misery and grief together", "That hold the least alliance to their vices ;", "I 'll rather lie my self unto another .", "I will relate a little of my story .", "Her youth is prone to fall again , ungovern 'd ,", "Poor and unhappy ; which believe me , Sir ,", "Unto my Lady ? you should know him well .", "Pray what 's her name ?", "Full many a cold Night have I lodg 'd in armour ,", "You send provision in , in full abundance ,", "Yet to so fair and courteous a demander", "Yes , the Gentleman .", "They that say", "Go but into thy Closet , and there cry", "I do not know thee , but thy tongue doth seem", "Of making Arms my active end of travel .", "To do a benefit , I dare not cross it ,", "And what my service or endeavours may", "And I do beseech thee", "For you were then upon the right hand of him ,", "You are mistaken .", "But if I live to see fair days again ,", "And if we may judge by affections ,", "How ?", "I thank you , Sir , and happily it fits", "Will be a strange example .", "Till it have wash 'd it quite without a stain .", "These are precious Rogues", "You chang 'd your places suddenly ; where I", "Whether", "Did I beget this woman ?", "Or with a stranger , but wouldst heap all sins", "Lord , how he takes it !", "Fit for the Marriage ; for this night I know", "Was I , so ignorantly to mistake you ?", "Too often told my griefs that way , when all", "A fellow of more form ; an honester", "And willingly , as I will handle it .", "Lend me your Dagger , and I will , Sir .", "I have a Ring here , which he shall believe", "Till thou hast spoil 'd that face , and thou shalt find", "Of worth to send her back again ? you must ,", "Must thank \u2018 em when they rail , and wait to live .", "But this would be too curious ; for I see", "They will , I lookt for \u2018 em e 're this .", "Thou didst but mean to try my patience ,", "Now if I be not out , we shall have fine sport ,", "Feeling in what an ease I slept at home ,", "Here is a Ring , Sir , of no little value ;", "And you will find it so ; you do believe me ?", "Our sufferings , not disputing , is the end ,", "she is .", "\u2018 Tis not to me I warrant ye ; there Sir ,", "And marriage now may stay her , one of \u2018 em ;", "Was not born with me ; for I well have try 'd", "Nor you , Sir ?", "To see far Countrys , and observe their Customs :", "I owe you much for this , and I may pay you ,", "You are fortunate ,", "I am too old .", "For there was a mistaking in it , and so , as I was", "She will be yours , Sir , have you never a token", "Thrice was I made a Slave , and thrice redeem 'd", "And \u2018 twill be the best sport \u2014", "Will put me from her favour .", "And knew , unless ye were a Souldier ,", "Why does thy stubborn heart beat at thy breast ?", "why those faults ,", "I 'll kill my self , that never man may tell me", "For inward beauty .", "Unnatural upon this aged head ,", "Two fools be worthy of her ; yet because", "I warrant you .", "Look , dost thou know me ?", "And make thy tryal with some other things ,", "This way with me , thou disobedient Child ,", "Thy face is heavenly fair , but thy mind foul ,", "Forgive me , Honour , I 'll make use of thee .", "I could now question Heaven", "Who 's your Mistris ,", "Strove who should most destroy us ; have I stood", "No more but this ; she loves you .", "How excellent a change thou wilt have made", "With some design I have : but how shall we", "It shall be so ,", "Or breaks with every strong sea of my sorrows .", "That I may give her thanks ?", "The doors are fast , thou shalt not say a Prayer ,", "I did , and twenty Winters", "And draw thy Father to thy Bed , and Hell .", "Do you think , Sir ,", "I did so , and I travell 'd till that course", "There is your Sword , lay hold upon her quickly ,", "Come , Sir , what is't you say ?", "Stor 'd me with language , and some few slight manners ,", "I will .", "You do remember me I am sure .", "I thank you , Gentlemen ; since you are pleas 'd", "To be acquainted with the truth so well ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And makes the idle drunken Rogues get Spinsters :", "For I can neither write , nor read , nor speak", "But while I know thou art a Souldier ,", "Hang \u2018 em they dare not be Enemies , or if they be ,", "Do not you love me ? I love you two dearly .", "Lictors .", "Be sure you shall account to me .", "You filthy women farewel , and be sober ,", "I would to Heaven I could , but \u2018 tis sufficient ,", "Through a faint Peace into affliction ,", "Persons Represented in the Play .", "So tall a Souldier should want teeth to his Stomach ;", "Pray Gentlewoman what would you have me say ?", "What would become of you two prating houswives ?", "The Devil", "But otherwise , in faith it is not Frank \u2014", "You will prate still ;", "And a deserver , and no other Harvest", "Now I have heard this worthy , was no more", "And hiss \u2018 em on like ban-dogs .", "Well Sir ,", "But down-right buffetting , what can my face ,", "Well , something troubled with waterish humours .", "That makes the toughness , and the strength of Nations", "I love ye .", "what I am , a Souldier ;", "My self , as I am now , into your hands ,", "Go stitch and serve ,", "It is so ,", "Twenty such holy Hermits in a Camp", "No , but take my word ,", "One tast more o \u2019 your office : go thy wayes", "The weakest town against half Christendom .", "And keep your chambers .", "Green sicknesses and serving-men light on ye", "John Shanke .", "WOMEN .", "But what thy Sword reaps for thee to come in ,", "a mystery", "Why do you hold me ? I am basely wrong 'd ,", "That can mend Noses , and complain ,", "These are to us as bitter as purgations ,", "What shall your wife have then ?", "All we have seen , compar 'd to his experience", "You shall not need .", "That every wind would borrow from the Staff :", "I would speak louder than a Lawyer ;", "Why dost thou laugh at me , thou wretched fellow ?", "The greatest danger I have brought my life through ,", "Ye are a fool ,", "Dispatch then , I am angry .", "To lead me up and down to visit women ,", "And made me woman , to sit still and sing ,", "What a sweet youth I am , as you have made me ,", "Or have a nature liable to learn ,", "Like empty Pictures , only the faint shadows", "this Play utterly ,", "Well , I will be your fool now , speak your mind , Sir .", "Give me some wine , I'le drink to that .", "\u2018 Twas spoil 'd for want of a Bongrace when I was young ,", "For making me a stone to whet your tongues on .", "Good morrow ,", "With all my heart Boy .", "So you shall us , I 'll to the Taylors with you bodily .", "Suffering jests .", "Would I could tell you how .", "S'pur him a question .", "Oft , will it please you , shall I be so bold Sir ,", "I do , and let them know those silks they wear ,", "Ha ?", "Sweet Lady now to you .", "Epilogue .", "Prethee go single , what should I do there ?", "But am I grown so contemptible , by being once drunk", "I come to visit you , you foolish woman ?", "Extreamly , monstrously ; I am so loving ,", "That put them all together , they will scarce", "Yes a little more sweet wit ,", "By Heaven , it is the surfeit of all youth ,", "Thieves , and Bastards only .", "I love you with my heart .", "appear", "When you are grip't , as now you are with need ?", "Would I had been a Whore , \u2018 t had been a course", "Joseph Taylor .", "Nor History , nor any thing that may", "If I do not break thy head , I am no Christian ,", "We sow , and reap again to feed their hunger ;", "This is my vertue , and if this will do ,", "do not take", "That love our trade , I cry , Amen .", "\u2018 S heart ! then I am grown ridiculous .", "I can as soon be hang 'd : prithee bestow me ,", "We are glad to run up and down any whither , to see where", "I'le talk no more .", "But you must pardon me .", "As often as an Ape does for an Aple ;", "\u2018 Faith , this is somewhat", "After she 's crackt i'th \u2019 Ring .", "\u2018 Tis happiness to me , I did so well :", "Cassana , Sister to Cosroe , a Captive , waiting on Aurelia .", "More Beer boy ,", "I'le tew you for't", "Come ye shall love me , I am an honest fellow :", "That is no better than a ragged Map now", "And if need be , compile a pretty matter ,", "But catch as catch may .", "\u2018 Tis true , I may want money , and no little ,", "You are an asse , I'le tell you more anon ,", "Be of your counsels : farewel Plaisterers \u2014", "I hate next an ill Sword : I will do", "But no more Musick , it has made me dull .", "I was never so asham 'd of service", "The War weaves for \u2018 em ; and the bread they eat", "By all the faith I have in Arms , I reverence", "You 're pleasant , but Fabritio know I am not in the mood of", "That when they come to light , I am sure will shame me ,", "Must follow necessary .", "Methinks your goodness rather should invent", "May stumble on a foolish toy , or two", "And only feeds the wants of Whores and Pipers ;", "Well I will hear , or sleep , I care not whether . THE SONG .", "And thou wantst horsing : I'le leave ye Ladies .", "And often rail at these forgetful great men", "As one that 's bound in Conscience , and all", "The danger is not great , welcom Frederick .", "You had better have been hang 'd than brought me hither .", "Are , and shall be a constant way of life ,", "For which I'le spare ye somewhat , half a beating .", "We love that general freedom we are bred to ;", "Hang these faint fooleries , they smell of peace ,", "That is too idle for a man to think of ;", "How now ?", "Good Frederick let me go , I would fain try", "A Carrier or a Cobler , when I knew", "Melt into Women . \u2018 Tis an ease that broods", "Prologue .", "Prithee restore my Sword .", "Boy where 's mine Host ?", "A scurvy Frederick to laugh at me .", "e", "And we will mend : Chide us , but let it be", "Have a quick eye upon me , for I fear", "Well ; I shall live to see your husbands beat you ,", "You may thrive , Sir ,", "Hark , are the Waits abroad ?", "Your end of this , Sir ?", "\u2018 Tis well they can be near \u2018 em any way .", "But when I am drunk , and then \u2018 tis but to cast", "Volutius Aper , Murtherer of Numerianus , the late Emperour .", "Of where I have march 'd and travell 'd , profit me ?", "Come Boyes , let 's hug together , and be loving ,", "In full abundance ; yet against all peace ,", "Do not provoke me so .", "Souldiers .", "That suffer us to sue for what we ought", "And speak some little good , though I deserve not .", "Lye playing in their arms , whilst we , like Lares", "Guard .", "Shall we be going ?", "Yes any whither ,", "It fills the Kingdom full of holydays ,", "I take it are the next .", "Thou art the best , that e 're man laid his leg o'er .", "Boy see your Master safe delivered ,", "this I'le say for all ,", "I love thee too , as far as I can love a fat man .", "And out of fear done .", "Otherwise , if she be in earnest , the short is I am .", "To rub the time away with .", "Let me remember your good bed-fellow ,", "And I did not think it possible any woman", "A cheap way how they may be all destroy 'd", "They cry like School-boys .", "For surely it was piss , huh , huh .", "Bring me four glasses then .", "And I will follow it .", "Puh , a pox upon you all ; you will not hold me", "And sing , and do brave things cheerly my hearts ,", "He looks indeed like an old tatter 'd Colours ,", "How a bastinadoing may any wayes raise your fortunes", "Delphia , a Prophetess .", "Is to give worth reward , vice , punishment .", "I wonder how thou durst thus question me ;", "Maximinian , Nephew to Diocles , and Emperour by his donation .", "He could not stay to make my Legs too ; but was driven", "Torture , and hell be with you ; let me go .", "And I am sorry ; but we'l talk of that", "But ev'n so , so .", "I love a Souldier , and can lead him on ,", "By this light I'le brain thee .", "These foolish love-tales , and indite a little ,", "Thou shalt not dye though :", "I am glad I have found ye , you have not now your Ladies ,", "The very story 's worth a hundred pound .", "Have you none else to make your puppies of , but me ?", "O God , for any thing that had an edge !", "Yet those that love to laugh , and those that think", "And get thee handsom Cloaths .", "Woman be quiet , and be rul 'd I would wish you .", "A friend Sir .", "For ever here , and till you let me go ,", "Yes unless", "Charinus , Emperour of Rome .", "I would my breath were poyson .", "What hath she to do with me , or my behaviour ?", "A way to make my follies less , than breed \u2018 em ;", "Hang care and fortune , we are friends .", "That whilst the wars were , serv 'd like walls and ribs", "Sir , I suspect now , by your idle talk", "That Art bestows upon me , they are such ,", "And now faln", "Thou knowest I can sing nothing", "be made a perfect Play :", "As no man can find fault with ; I shall have", "And Frederick shall be beaten ; \u2018 Sfut ye Rogue", "If I know what to say , unless I ask \u2018 em", "Suitors .", "She has found me out already , and has paid me ;", "That he that made my Body was so busied", "If I get off once .", "Diocles , of a private Souldier elected Co-Emperour .", "It 's true I had forgot it \u2014", "A greater Oath than Semsters utter Socks with ,", "To have a Lubber shew his teeth !", "I 'll scramble yet amongst \u2018 em .", "Of what man must be ? Tell me of a fellow", "Stay coward , stay .", "Away woman ;", "I feel it , with a little labour , now to talk", "What \u2018 twas to wear a Sword first ; for their trades", "Flamen .", "Believe him ? I have no faith within me , if I do not .", "Nothing but what we fight for ; their fair women", "And almost Cloaths too ; of which if I had both", "I despise thee woman ,", "In the State , you shall be sure o n't .", "Very well ;", "Whores , Bawds , your windows , your windows .", "Certain , and", "Persian Lords .", "I will kiss according to mine own inventions", "To beat ye , and disgrace ye too .", "To make ye Clark o'th \u2019 Kitchen , and at length ,", "Thou thinkest so ,", "With all my imperfections ? let me dye ,", "To bring a worse in question .", "Serve to beg single Beer in ; the plain truth is ,"], "true_target": ["To please a Widow ; thou canst sing , and tell", "And if he fight well , I dare make him drunk ;", "A distaste before you feel it : for ye may", "Fabricio , we two have been Souldiers", "For by my troth , though I am plain and dudgion ,", "For any action , now could I fight bravely ,", "Yet I thank fate I have turn 'd your points on you ,", "George Birch .", "Thou art young and handsom yet , and well enough", "I would you were not women , I would take", "Just at this instant , that I might be brought", "Teeth ?", "Thus to disgrace me .", "Countrymen .", "These are the hopes we have for all our hurts ;", "I am somewhat bold , but that 's all one .", "Alone , I would wish you , lest I take occasion", "\u2018 Tis he : Frederick ?", "Or indeed any creature that loves Sack", "I am indebted to two School-Boys ; this", "Who were those with you ?", "To please you with this Play , we fear will be", "This is scurvy ,", "You may pretend what patience ye please ,", "A forlorn Tapster , or some frothy fellow ,", "You have been tampring any time these three days ,", "I should have been more moderate to you ,", "You shall know presently .", "\u2018 Faith , I could wish I had been any thing", "Do they not friend ?", "Yes ;", "O ! are you there , Sir ?", "I do not think he has the spleen to swear", "Let me dye but this is very strange ; good Fabritio", "Any man living now , or any woman ,", "And leave your mirth out ? or I shall take occasion", "Ambassadors .", "Somewhat above our Art ; For all mens eyes ,", "Aurelia , Sister to Charinus .", "Go there 's your way , go and sleep :", "Or be sick when I list , or any thing", "Not wine , nor beating ?", "As I am man , I will not hurt a creature", "This cold dull rusty peace makes u", "Let him alone then : now am I high proof", "They would let me eat my meat without long graces", "Do 's she counterfeit crying too ?", "Not a whit wench ; I'le teach thee presently to be a Souldier .", "Do you not tell men sometimes of the dulness", "And how it was great pity , that it was ,", "Let 's give him all we have , and leave off prating .", "If I were not patient ,", "But Plumpton park .", "To shew your wit before .", "The principal Actors were ,", "That brings up mischiefs thicker than a shower ,", "This is nor Comedy , nor Tragedy ,", "This Peace will make me something that I love not ;", "Geta , a Jester , Servant to Diocles , a merry Knave .", "Will make \u2018 em shew their teeth : pray , for my sake", "To which Prayer ,", "Fighting at single Billet with a Barge-man .", "Then Frederick is an Asse ,", "y'are welcom Gentlemen .", "Not so well as you", "How 's this ? soft you , soft you my Masters : is't possible think you , She should be in earnest ?", "I tell them boldly , they are masters of", "And you shall feel it too ; will you dispatch , Sir ?", "Farewel Boy .", "I have pity on you , you shall have the rest", "You shall be pleas 'd to give me leave to tell ye ,", "And for my Languages , they are so many ,", "Where art thou treacher ,", "How ? Teeth ?", "Give him more money .", "A breach : if I miscarry , by this hand", "Than two commands , as I would handle it :", "Of what we should be ;", "\u2018 Pox o \u2019 peace ,", "I am blunt", "For if I love you , it shall be such love , as I will not be", "You'r best come kiss me , do not though , I'de wish ye ,", "That 's all one .", "Have you paid the Fidlers ?", "Nay , and you play bo-peep ; I'le ha \u2019 no mercy", "Thou hast not long to live ; adieu dear Damsels ,", "I am so ; when I am sober , I'le do more", "What is the matter Sirs ?", "Which may awaken his compassion ,", "We can get meat to our wedding .", "Thou knowst I hate these visitations ,", "In all my life before , now I consider", "Too much , Fabricio , to your friend that loves you ;", "Our meaning was to please you still , and shall .", "Unless it be for Ladies to abuse , and say", "The very poverty of this brave fellow ;", "By this hand wit , unless you kiss discreetly .", "Why very well , I thank you Sir .", "Y'are rascals , drunken rascals .", "That any man shall hope to profit by me ;", "With thy small kettle Drums ; upon my conscience", "If you mislike", "And lye and kiss my hand unto my Mistris", "Or drink without a preface to the pledger ;", "Than stealing of a May-pole , or at worst ,", "Ears , faiths , and judgements , are not of one size .", "If he know what a Whore is , or a health ,", "One Steeple height , I would fall and break thy Neck .", "More of me yet ?", "What their shooes cost ?", "Ye are .", "A pox o \u2019 being sad ; now could I fly", "Ye drunken Rogues , can nothing make you valiant ?", "I never think of any I thank Heaven", "To girdle in the Kingdom ?", "Well Sir .", "And be abus 'd and laugh 'd at ; let me sta", "With a Justice of peace , that to my nature", "Amongst \u2018 em , that they begin to throw piss on my head ?", "If that thing do not counterfeit .", "I'le begin with you .", "Go , go spin , go hang .", "A new course with ye .", "I'le send my Foot-man to thee , he shall leap thee ,", "Which were enough it self , and his to strengthen", "But methinks all this while y'are too temperate ;", "You make a right fool of me", "When this is hist to ashes , have a Play .", "If you long for kicking ,", "To have flung on us , e 're we ask .", "Upon a March ?", "Speak but their miseries ? come , come , Fabritio ,", "You had a plot upon me , how do you like this ?", "Shepherd .", "Or have your full consent .", "Had given but half her will to my begetting ,", "While men send Cheeses up , or wear out Buskins .", "Would to Heaven my Mother", "Then for my Morals , and those hidden pieces ,", "Defend their pleasures ; I am angry too ,", "Has been but cudgel-play , or Cock-fighting .", "John Lowin .", "Yes .", "I was a valiant fellow ; I do find", "These are meer Schisms in Souldiers ; where 's my friend ?", "Fye , what a shame it is ,", "Or Damsels , if they mark the matter through ,", "Content .", "Drusilla , Niece to Delphia , in love with Diocles .", "By break of day ; if you love me , I pray you kiss me ,", "Pray be not coy sweet woman , for I'le kiss ye ,", "Men look like men again ,", "Rather tha", "Why ha , ha , ha ? why laugh ? Why all this noise sweet Ladyes ?", "You", "Twelve pence goes farther this way than in drink ,", "Hereafter , if it please Heaven .", "O all the Devils ! stand Slave .", "Thou darst not draw , ye cold , tame , mangy Cowards ,", "I had rather hear a Jews trump than these Lutes ,", "Asham 'd of , if this be a mock \u2014", "But call you those true spirits ill affected ,", "I had rather enter", "They have not cast his tongue too .", "Or so much honest nurture to be drunk .", "For your own Nobleness yet do not hiss ,", "I have paid \u2018 em truly : do not vex him Sirrah .", "But I see ye despise me .", "What vertues ? by this light , I have no vertue ,", "Ladyes I mean to kiss ye .", "Niger , a noble Souldier , Servant to the Emperour .", "And seem to yoak your wants like passions ;", "Drink till the Cow come home , \u2018 tis all pay 'd boyes .", "Faith Madam , our weddings were as hasty as yours ,", "I would not be an Ass ; and to sell parcels ,", "Never in cold blood : O \u2019 my honesty", "You wish a Devil of this musty peace ;", "But as you go by , say it was amiss ;", "Yes indeed do I ,", "To clap a pair of Cat-sticks to my Knees , for which", "Would make \u2018 em all Carthusians , I 'll be hang 'd", "Senators .", "THE PROPHETESS . A TRAGICAL HISTORY .", "Some strange brave thing now , and I have it here :", "Why ?", "Camurius , a Captain , and Creature of Aper 's .", "Well , I shall think of this .", "Under this roof , before I have deliver 'd", "S'death stand away ;", "And turn the world about upon my finger ,", "Could have lik 'd this face , it 's good for nothing , is't ?", "Above these fourteen years , yet o \u2019 my Conscience ,", "Good Fabricio ,", "Richard Sharpe .", "If I think I shall ever reach above", "Here , Souldier , there 's even five months pay , be merry ,", "As I shall see cause ; sweetly I would wish you ,", "Of every noble action , the intent", "Nicholas Toolie .", "Hoe Boy .", "of more gain", "And now I'le tell you why , before I beat ye ,", "Attendants .", "Your hand was i n't , which if I once believe ,", "Robert Benfield .", "No , I think they will not .", "Shall we never live to see", "And dedicate it to the honourable ,", "Thomas Holcombe .", "In order as you lye before me ; first", "God 's precious , that I were but over thee", "\u2018 Tis wondrous good Sir .", "And charge into a wild fire ; or I could love", "He 's ready to lye in .", "I apprehend you Sir , and if I can study out a course", "Fine mocking , fine mocking .", "How do you like this ?", "Pray Heaven the air keep out ; I feel it buzzing .", "I have a sword still , and I am a villain .", "For to say truth , and not to flatter ye ,", "What I have done ; and yet the Rogues would swear", "Cosroe , King of Persia .", "To morrow when we meet .", "And here , to out-hiss this ; be patient then ,", "I will have you by th \u2019 ears for't .", "But what dost thou think shall become of me ,", "The Scene Rome .", "Seignior , what think you of this sound of Wars ?", "That stinks of stale Beer .", "As I hate peace or perry .", "\u2018 Slight I'le have my head curl 'd , and powder 'd tomorrow", "Just such a reason \u2014", "Let my face", "Like vermine ; let 's away , I am very sleepy .", "Who art \u2018 a , art \u2018 a mortal ?", "Another Sword , I shall , ye flearing Puppy .", "I am glad you have your wits yet , will ye go ?", "What a dyn it makes !", "With greasy Codpieces , and woollen stockings ,", "And now \u2018 twill make a true prognostication", "I ever knew no woman could abide me ,", "\u2018 Sfut but there shall be , Scab .", "When wit ? when ?", "Pray thou scurvy fellow", "Speak with a Pox ; and look ye render me", "Very sufficient single Beer .", "\u2018 Twere good she had a little foolish mony ,", "That talk continually .", "Come to be married to my Ladies Woman ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Arithmetick can make , e 're he believe me ;", "Thou't be bold enough ,", "We'l come and dine to morrow with your Sister ,", "As only of a sound ; they that intend", "Go to the Gentlewoman , and give her thanks ,", "My end is only mirth to laugh at thee ,", "Farewel till soon .", "But dispatch your Matrimony , with all convenient speed .", "Why , who can help it ?", "Under the window .", "I warrant you , I have been often threatned .", "\u2018 Faith , you may as well \u2018 tice a Dog up with a Whip and Bell", "Captain Jacomo ,", "They 'll break up School to bear thee Company ,", "Faith to whom ? Mark but this Jacomo .", "Put up your Sword ,", "Doubt and suspect in Princes , than rewards .", "This is the reason I laugh at thee ,", "Be softer prethee ,", "And do our services .", "Art thou not breeding teeth ?", "\u2018 Tis most impossible , no , if we could", "I believe \u2018 twould work ,", "A little rheumatick , but that 's all one ,", "Why , so I did ; and may do all the oaths ,", "Redeem your self well to the Gentlewoman ,", "They would abuse him ; if we could perswade him", "Breed but their own disgraces ; and are nearer", "No , Sir , out of judgment ,", "What does he now ?", "Will you get up Sir ?", "Women , and men , whilst she delivers to him the truth", "Let me come to him .", "Come , we 'll consider more ; stay , this", "Come , Sir , I see your wants need more relieving ,", "Does not this testiness shew finely in thee ?", "O , ye are a sweet youth , so uncivilly", "I'le pledge .", "Ha , ha .", "As things indifferent , yet I use \u2018 em not ,", "I 'll be thy Nurse , and get a Coral for thee ,", "Or if I did , they would not prick my conscience .", "\u2018 Tis your way", "And hold your head up ; what ?", "Gives every thing a tongue to question it .", "For Gods sake make her cooler : I dare not venture", "And while thou art thus , will do ; tell me one thing .", "Me thinks these humours become thee better than thy dry", "Or if you would , he 'll run away from her ,", "Cholerick humours , or thy wine-wet humours ; ha ?", "I , thou art ever so , or angry , come .", "You are too sharp sweet Sister , for unless", "I mean this sowrness , he 's as brave a fellow ,", "There 's another item .", "Should be another wind-fall of the Wars .", "The next turn I see is mine .", "But Frederick , tell me truly ; do you think", "There , take your Sword : continue so ; I dare not", "This rumour is too common , and too loud", "And a fring 'd Muckender hang at thy Girdle ,", "Ha , ha , ha .", "O , wash that hand I prithee .", "But suddenly , for I will bring him hither", "As any he that lives .", "Till they were down and all the doors broke open :", "If you be not i \u2019 th \u2019 mood I hope you will not be moody ,", "Must have more wits , or more lives than another ,", "Peace ;", "I hear you speak this tongue , \u2018 pray what more are you ?", "Let 's see your Sword , I am sure you scorn all odds ,", "I think so too .", "Nor utter one word for thee , unless it be", "Yes , but they will ; and Nurses still their Children", "Which now I 'll do in safety ; ha , ha , ha .", "There 's no such matter .", "I will fight with you \u2014", "Understanding , I pray you dally not with the Gentlewoman", "I shall dye with laughing .", "We met two came from hence .", "What a log", "I make no doubt to bring him .", "If not dishonourable , I am not so malicious ,", "For we are Souldiers , though not near the worth", "Than the not having Wars ; I am a Souldier ,", "To do , are like deep waters that run quietly ,", "Come , you shall sleep , come strive not", "Let 's waken him , and away , we shall hear worse else .", "That should be Frederick .", "It is too late ,", "The touch is excellent , let 's be attentive .", "To eat with us , or wear such honest Garments", "You had that good respect unto his temper ,", "Anger him hither , as there is no way", "All that 's in 's way ; and though my life be ventur 'd", "Art thou not asham 'd ?", "I warrant you ; what , is the wench come up ?", "Well , since there is no other way to deal with you ,", "To carry truth .", "As him , by telling him of Love and Women , he swears", "And will with a wisp , and come aloft , and crack rope ,", "Your goodness Lady", "Nay , stand out ,", "\u2018 Tis private musick .", "Do you live Sir ?", "And as you love your honours , and your state ,", "Hast thou reserv 'd thy life !", "We'l ev'n to bed .", "I have done simply for you , but now you are beaten to some", "When thou art enter 'd once .", "She lov 'd , he would embrace it .", "Under their window , and would not come up .", "I need not ask you , Sir , your Country ,", "If they appear thus violent and fiery ,", "But truly I cannot blame the Gentlewomen , you stood evesdropping", "To urge ye so far , misery in your years", "And wilt be shortly sport for little Children ,", "My friend , this Gentleman , out of acquaintance .", "Where 's the place ?", "How now what 's the matter ?", "If he hear this , not all", "And a fine Ring of Bells .", "We 'll have a Bib , for spoiling of thy Doublet ;", "And twenty such names .", "For trust me I boxt thee for thy advancement ,", "I will chide him ,", "Now indeed"], "true_target": ["Content , hang me if I like not the cast of it rarely , for no question It is an approv 'd Receipt to fetch such a fellow ; Take all the women-kind in this house , betwixt the Age of one , And one hundred , and let them take unto them a pot or a Bowl containing seven quarts or upwards , and let them Never leave , till the above named Pot or Bowl become full , then let one of them stretch out Her Arm , and pour it on his head , and probatum est , it Will fetch him , for in his anger he will run up , and then let Us alone .", "\u2018 Tis very well , Sir .", "Is this , to sleep such musique out !", "Foh , how thou stink'st ! pre'thee stand further off me ,", "With that unstopt speed , that he shall run over", "It be this sin , which is enough to drown him ,", "Follow me if thou dar'st .", "Or always be in Armour , or inchanted ,", "And it may be I will ; Nay Sir , keep out .", "Yet Sirrah , or no ?", "Once more take heed of Children , if they find thee ,", "Never entreat me , for I will not know thee ,", "I will not thank you single , lest I leave", "If thou continuest this rude stubborness .", "To be thus pleasant still , but fear not , man ,", "Stay now to try your patience , soon I 'll meet ye ,", "Hist Jacomo ; How do'st thou Boy ? ha ?", "As our poor means can reach to , you shall be", "Or have you been ? if it be not offensive", "Which is my whole inheritance , yet I", "And if he be not graceless , make him cry for't .", "Provoke you ? you 're grown the strangest fellow ; there 's no", "Believe me , Captain , such distemper 'd spirits", "Or by this light I'le have wenches bait thee ;", "Prithee no more , we shall live well enough ,", "The Gentlewomen and the Maids have counted to you already ,", "Make a right man ?", "But thou want'st money , and the first supply", "Only with thee , and here take him , Jacomo .", "That no worse follow 'd .", "Come , all friends .", "Do you know such a one ?", "Faith any thing but drinking disturbs thee Jacomo ,", "And call thee Bloody-Bones , and Spade , and Spit-fire ,", "This is more ,", "Now will the sport be , it runs right as Julio told us .", "Why should you think so hardly of your vertues ?", "Within five words with her , if she holds this spirit ;", "What wouldst thou ask more ?", "What mean you , Jacomo ?", "That are not logs , and lye still for the hands", "See him laid before you part .", "Once out of motion , though they be proof valiant ,", "\u2018 Tis no great matter , I will do't .", "Will ever be afore us , for my self", "Will bury these thoughts in thee .", "\u2018 Faith every other day", "But that to bring him , and then hold him fast ,", "Into some course of life yet .", "Come , blush not , but salute \u2018 em .", "They see us .", "Jacomo , how do'st thou ?", "As a pleas 'd Child ; he walks below for me", "Thou art a little too impatient ,", "Save ye Ladies .", "Canst thou not sing ?", "There 's ways enough besides the wars to men", "The power of man could keep him from the windows", "They mock him .", "Yes , teeth , thou wouldst not be so froward else .", "A welcome man ; to say more , were to feed ye", "Only with words ; we honour what y'have been ,", "And Gaffer Mad-man ; and go by Jeronimo ,", "I do believe him , Jacomo .", "Or by this light , I 'll make ye .", "I'le have it so , here take him to his lodging , and", "\u2018 Twas well Sir ,", "Hast thou forsworn manners ?", "Leaving no face of what they were , behind \u2018 em .", "Or he is miserable .", "You are grown a sullen fool ; either be handsom ,", "To have thee hang 'd ; for Heaven sake be more temperate .", "I have seen it often , \u2018 tis a Fox .", "And mak'st thy anger a far more vexation", "Faith Sir to me they are", "As forward , and as understanding else", "Thou wilt dream of wenches .", "Because you dare not .", "And since he was last drunk , he is more jealous", "Pray be quiet ,", "No more of that , thou'lt anger him at heart .", "How shall we get him hither ?", "Venture a second tryal of his temper", "Than looking what they are ; pray go with us .", "If you please , Sir , till we procure ye place ,", "Sir , would I were a man , or great , or able", "He do 's but shew so , prethee to him Sister .", "She can affect my friend ?", "Though I could wish a breach with all the world ,", "Come , \u2018 Twill make thee", "A foolish desire I had to joggle thee into preferment .", "If you dare", "If he come near a woman .", "Kill 'd him ?", "Oh Sir keep your way , God send you much joy .", "than we ought to lay open ,", "Do'st thou perceive the reason of matters , and passages", "And old Saint Dennis with the dudgeon Codpiss !", "You are not left to do it : Fie upon thee ,", "Wilt thou never", "For he that deals with thee , thou'rt grown so boysterous ,", "You spake of lately .", "For though the Wars fail , we shall screw our selves", "To rail , and run away !", "Thou art ,", "Of others to remove \u2018 em .", "But would you have her do't i'th \u2019 open street ?", "Look out then if thou canst see him .", "Fye upon thee , coward ,", "To bring him else : I know he will go to buffets", "To look with liberal eyes upon your vertue .", "I will : I'le leave ye Ladies .", "Now I love ye ,", "Tell me but one thing ,", "To what a fortune ,", "Thou wou'lt not , wou'lt \u2018 ou ?", "Seal 'd with her tears , he would be plain", "But did you so ?", "Keeping company with you , phish ; take you that .", "And savours only of an indiscretion .", "Thou wilt be such a pastime , and whoot at thee ,", "And I you , prethee do not take it unkindly ,", "Where are they ?", "This vexes me , I pray you be more patient ,", "To curse the fair peace of my Mother Country ;", "Dost thou hear this , and stand still ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["He can be but a mirth to all their Sex ,", "Whence is this musique ?", "Women especially : for which he shuns", "Of all that take occasion to commend him \u2014"], "true_target": ["Even to a quarrel : he 's so much distrustfull", "Let not him have this light by any means ;", "He will but think he 's mockt , and so grow angry ,", "All conversation with \u2018 em , and believes", "Prethee Jacomo ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Been a great lover in his youth of pottage ,", "I have done , Sir Captain .", "Ha , ha , ha .", "If I do write ,", "I'le be no more cross , bid \u2018 em good night .", "I would indeed .", "She loves him too much , that 's the plain truth Frederick ,", "Without all doubt .", "O villain , villain .", "Brother , where was your friend brought up ? h'as sure", "The Souldier is a Mars , no more , we are all", "Or twenty more \u2014\u2014", "I am answer 'd Frank .", "Subject to slide away .", "We shall have it .", "Prethee sweet Captain .", "Such a Souldier ,"], "true_target": ["O God I hear his voyce , now he is true ,", "They lye so dull upon his understanding .", "Come , be friends ,", "Meaning mine ?", "I have found ye ,", "For which if I might be believ 'd , I think her", "Have at a marriage Frank , as soon as you \u2014", "Fair fall his sweet face for't .", "Before your Brother , fy ?", "Why couragious ?", "A strange forgetter of her self ; there 's Julio ,", "How he wipes his mouth like a young Preacher ;", "And I'le sit by you .", "Who told you that ?", "This fellow will be mad at Mid-summer", "And me my Julio .", "I thank him , so he has ,", "Do not you know , Sir ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And will assist your Father in law .", "What villany is now in hand ?", "Come forth Piso \u2014 remember you it ?", "It is to you , stay : yes it is to you .", "I'le choak this train : God save ye Gentlemen ."], "true_target": ["Here 's a new way to murther men alive ,", "And if I cannot still do't , you are young", "Do'st not thou know that I can beat thee ? Dost thou know it now ?", "I \u2019 faith \u2018 tis she , Son .", "And if you have forgot it , I can call a witness ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Unless we light upon an English-man", "Well , thou hast fools luck ; should I live as long", "Upon my conscience I am full as handsome ,", "I should not be the better of a penny ;", "That wears his forehead in a velvet scabbard .", "Or else I have a morise in my brains .", "She is very fair and goodly .", "That I am sure of ; certainly my Body", "This must be mine , Host .", "With seven-score surfeits in him .", "Thou shalt be shortly .", "As if his Belly were ta'n up with straw", "Yes , here he comes ;", "\u2018 Twill be hard to be done in my opinion", "We have heard though", "And that thou mayst not miss him , he is one", "I think the Devil be my ghostly father ;"], "true_target": ["This is a short praeludium to a challenge .", "To hunt a match .", "Nothing i'th \u2019 World , but a dry 'd Tongue or two \u2014", "As an old Oak , and say my prayers hourly ,", "He 's just on 's word .", "\u2018 Faith , but a little , yet enough to note him ,", "Which is a pretty matter .", "Of a left-handed making , a lank thing ;", "What should this fellow mean ?", "Home to his Garrison again ; I ake all over ,", "Is a valiant wine ,", "I am sure I have more wit , and more performance ,", "I would the Devil in a storm would carry him", "Which grows in parcels , here and there a remnant ;", "Sir , what kind of woman ? Of what proportion is your Lady ? Lod . I .", "Is of a wild-fire , for my head rings backward ,", "That thou mayst know him perfectly , he 's one", "Yes , \u2018 Till soon , farewel , and bear up ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis day Sir .", "He 's on his bed asleep Sir .", "Here Sir . How is it Gentlemen ?"], "true_target": ["Anon , anon .", "I do confess it .", "Score a gallon of Sack , and a pint of Olives to the Unicorn . Above , within . Why drawer ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Afore the wind still , with his lights up bravely ,", "All he takes in I think he turns to Juleps ,", "Except the Captain , are in Limbo patrum ,", "And fumbles with the pots too .", "All the rest ,", "Where they lye sod in sack .", "Is now the loving'st man , I think , above ground ."], "true_target": ["The rest look all like fire-drakes , and lye scatter 'd", "Or h'as a world of Stowage in his belly ,", "And a pound of Sausages into the Flower-pot .", "Then he 's right .", "Score a quart of Claret to the Bar ,", "Anon , anon Sir .", "Faith he lyes drawing on a pace .", "Like rushes round about the room . My Master"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And swears the Captain must lye this night with her", "Then there 's no way but one with him .", "And the tenth got a drawer , here they come .", "And tells him feelingly how sweet she is ,", "Enter Jacomo , Host , Lod . Piso .", "And was nine nights bereaving her her maidenhead ,", "And how he stole her from her friends i'th \u2019 Country ;", "And swears I shall be free to morrow , and so weeps", "Able to entertain a Dutch Ambassador ,"], "true_target": ["Does he bear up still ?", "And calls upon my Mistris .", "And brought her up disguiz 'd with the Carriers ,", "And bad me break it to her with discretion ,", "Within cry drawer . Anon , anon , speak to the Tyger , Peter .", "I am gone Sir .", "Would he were always drunk then .", "That he may leave an issue after him ,", "That 's an ill sign ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Pray God he speak not .", "I come forsooth .", "So did I you , though it be not my fortune to express", "Indeed I cannot sweet-heart .", "Are gentle , not to stir , or speak , where you shall", "Will not speak with you , especially at this time , she has affairs .", "I cannot do , she", "Why faith I think I can , and I will stretch my wits", "Did she send for you ?"], "true_target": ["Enough , quick , follow me .", "Not by my leave ; for she will not see you , but doth hate you , and Your friend , and doth wish you both hang 'd , which being so proper Men , is great pity , that you are not .", "Alas I cannot help it .", "Let you in .", "See or hear , now , or hereafter : give me your gold , I'le plant you .", "It at this present : for truly if you would cry , I cannot", "I like your gold well , but it is a thing by heaven", "For your sweet self in particular , who she resolves perswaded your Friend to neglect her , she deemeth whip-cord the most Convenient unction for your back and shoulders .", "And body too for gold : if you will swear as you", "Who 's there ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Hold were he my Father , his hat 's off too , and he 's scratching", "Gravely , looking on each side , there 's not one more dare laugh .", "Yes .", "Yes , I see him , and by my troth he stands so fair I could not", "His head .", "He gathers stones , God 's light , he breaks all the"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Send thee good luck , this the second time I have thrown thee", "Street windows .", "Truly the man takes it patiently ; now he goes down the street", "Now he is breaking all the low windows with His Sword ,", "Excellent sport , now he 's beating a fellow that laugh 'd at him ,", "Out to day , ha , ha , ha , just on 's head ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["You are stai 'd for Sir .", "Forraign I take it Sir .", "I know not in particular ; but this"], "true_target": ["Sir I would speak with you .", "The Duke commands your present attendance at Court .", "Many are sent for more , about affairs", "I will Sir ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["An une", "Sir , you are welcom all ,"], "true_target": ["pected honour you have done", "To our too hasty wedding .", "Are they not Sir ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Under thy Tyranny , but he will forsake", "Courtesie shall not fool me ; he shall know", "If pride make him usurp upon my Right ,", "His private life , and once again resume", "His laid-by Majestie : or at least , make choice", "You buz into my head strange likelihoods ,", "Assure me by some circumstance .", "And speedily ; or by the Roman \u2014\u2014", "Due only to your husband Dioclesian ;", "Thou hast in a few dayes of thy short Reign ,", "Nor doubt I , when it shall arrive unto", "Prodigious !", "In over-weening pride , riot and lusts ,", "Again , I speak it : Think you me so tame ,", "Thou ar", "And when we have plac 'd his ashes in his Urn ,", "Fie , Sister ,", "Upon his creatures ?", "So leaden and unactive , to sit down", "Marriage and Obsequies do not suit one day .", "If you esteem your honour more than tribute", "Paid to your loathsome appetite , as a Furie", "Call forth a Flamen", "Thou tripst thine own heels up , and hast no part", "And fill me full of doubts ; but what proofs , Niger ,", "Cannot sustain the weight it carries with it ,", "For shame refrain this impudence .", "Too heavie for thy shoulders . To effect this ,", "\u2018 Tis true : and wonder", "E 're long you shall hear more .", "And she , my Sister , not to be compell 'd ,", "What a light presence ? these are words and offers", "Shall strike him to the Center . You are well met , Sir .", "cozen 'd ."], "true_target": ["In Rome , or in the Empire .", "You are not mad .", "Those honours", "Of such an Atlas as may bear this burthen ,", "This knot shall now be ti 'd .", "This free behaviour only his .", "Proceed discreetly . Let 's take up the body ,", "Came to his end by murther ? Tell me that ,", "Lend your assistance , Gentlemen , and then doubt not", "And I repent the haste : we first should pay", "Flie from his loose embraces : so farewel ;", "You durst attempt it .", "\u2018 Tis but a Trial , not a present Act .", "No , good Niger ,", "I lent a hand to raise him , and defend him ,", "Shall as soon wither . And for you , Aurelia ,", "Durst :", "When the receiver of a courtesie", "My Provinces at his pleasure ? and confer", "Nor have her own snatch 'd from her .", "While he continues good : but the same strength", "What a forgetful weakness is this in ye ?", "His certain knowledge , how the Empire groans", "He dispose of", "But that this mushroom", "We 'll try the gods again , for wise men say ,", "Be right again , for honours sake .", "And in her power to render her , or keep her ;", "What certainties , that my most noble Brother", "Our latest duty to the dead , and then", "Sham 'd noble Dioclesian , and his gift :", "She is her woman ; never sue to me ;", "With such dishonour ? But , recal your grant ,", "We are too violent ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I have often nam 'd this Aper .", "Out of your wonted goodness , to give credit ,", "This Aper then , this too much honour 'd Villain ,", "He , with his beauteous Sister , fair Aurelia ,", "From great Charinus , who with joy hath heard", "Above the memory of mankind , mischievous ,", "Of your proceedings , and confirms your honours :", "I will , Sir ,", "With his own bloody hands ."], "true_target": ["And as I tell you truth , so the gods prosper me ,", "From Charinus ,", "Great Sir , give ear ; this most ungrateful , spightful ,", "Are come in person , like themselves attended", "I shall unfold the wonder .", "Fear of your unbelief , and the times giddiness", "True , Sir ;", "Made me I durst not then go farther . So your Grace please ,", "To gratulate your fortune ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["\u2018 Pray ye , friend , be pacified ,", "He made him Husband .", "To will , in us to serve it .", "Is there no shame , no modesty in women ?", "What honours can be done to you beyond these ,", "A fellow , and Co-partner in the Empire ,", "That all the world may say , Although two Bodies ,", "But ye shall know , my love shall go along too ;", "We have one Mind .", "And in mysterious senses I have heard ye", "But imagine", "\u2018 Tis but the fondness of her fit .", "And sure this Aper is not right nor honest ,", "Niger , how stands the Souldier to him ?", "True , ye have done ;", "Let her ;", "She is mad , and you must pardon her .", "I do embrace you : may we live so far", "Take heed .", "On that I build too .", "The Flower of all the Empire , and the strength ,", "My Brother honour 'd him ,", "I am sorry for't ;", "When we are nothing ; and her power 's the same", "See a Proscription drawn ; and for his recompence ,", "Sister , be rul 'd , I am not yet so powerful"], "true_target": ["Transcending all example ; \u2018 tis in you", "\u2018 Tis vertue , and not birth that makes us noble :", "Be not you passionate .", "Her fit is strong now ,", "Great actions speak great minds , and such should govern ;", "Break out o'th \u2019 sudden , and abruptly .", "Made him first Captain of his Guard , his next friend ;", "You 'll find it but a woman-fit to try ye .", "To meet him in the field ; he has under him", "Which you once quak 'd at .", "Rome will be Rome", "Most willingly .", "My Sister , and half Partner in the Empire ;", "He will not", "It shows a truth now ;", "The Britain , and the German Cohorts ; pray ye be patient ,", "Then to my Mother", "come near me .", "You shall not , Sister ;", "I am asham 'd , and what I think I blush at .", "And you are grac't with both . Thus , as a Brother ,", "This will be off anon ; she goes in .", "And I will keep my word .", "Away then for the business .", "From difference , or emulous Competition ,", "Be prosperous ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Is she too good", "And as you were ordain 'd my prisoner ,", "Your Mother brought you", "I see a truth would break out ; be not fearful .", "But may be highly blest to be my servant ?", "What Princess of that sweetness , or that excellence ,", "This thing , I say ,", "This man , ye see , give him what name or title ,", "How ill this dulness doth comport with greatness !", "But what I would have counsell 'd : Nearness of blood ,", "But you are full of goodness , to forgive , Sir ,", "If ye believe , Brother ,", "No more my fair Companion : tell your King so :", "Can one poor Thunder ,", "And flie into your arms .", "Rome know you for her Master , I my self", "Look there , and wonder ; now behold that fellow ,", "Thorow all the fires of angry heaven , thorow tempests", "No , not your Kings own head , his crown upon it ,", "You fashion to your self : Is not my Brother", "To what you purpose ; he to Me 's a stranger ,", "Most bloody , and most base ! Alas , dear Brother ,", "Sprung from the proudest , and the mightiest Monarchs ,", "Your simple Uncle ; think he was the Master", "And then you are an Emperour .", "My slave , and one I may dispose of any way ,", "Respect of pietie , and thankfulness ,", "As to a power that gave him second life ,", "So far I 'll honour him that kills the Villain ;", "This most unequall 'd man , this spring of beauty", "Forward ;", "Look lovely on me , break into full brightness ;", "No more my Brother , if he be a stop", "of a Jewel ,", "Thou fair star that I live by ,", "your fortune court you ?", "Whose worth and use he knew not : For Charinus ,", "How", "Hath not your Uncle Dioclesian taken", "And let the Villain fall .", "Strike terrour to a Souldiers heart , a Monarchs ?", "And will make good my promise . If you find", "And all the low subjections of his people .", "Vow 'd and confirm 'd your friend ? the Souldier constant ?", "And that in being your wife , I shall not bring", "Of dear Numerianus , I should wash", "Not worth the name of Roman ; stand off farther .", "Sure I was not my self , some strange illusion ,", "Are you struck dumb ,", "Does not", "Who is this fellow ?", "Thou lyest , thou art not he : thou a brave fellow ?", "I will not be deny 'd .", "Be speedie in your work ,", "Now ye do bravely .", "And aiming dreadfully , I would seek you ,", "O my Stars ,", "And there 's a brow arch 'd like the State of Heaven ;", "Or liberty , or revenge .", "Thou art a poor Dalmatian Slave , a low thing ,", "If you contemn not these , and think them curses ,", "Husband to me ?", "Let him be what he will , base , old , or crooked ,", "Whose causes are as common as his noises ,", "Let him be what he will , or bear what fortune ,", "Loaden with shames and lies ? Those pious tears", "Has my fair usage", "Generous and noble ? Fie , thou liest most basely .", "Your knees to me are nothing ; should he bow too ,", "Can quit the name of Slave ; she that scorns life ,", "To wait upon the mighty Emperours Sister ?", "That only empty names compel affections :", "This rare and sweet young man , see how he looks , Sir .", "That ye grow weary of my entertainments ?", "Now you have seal 'd forgiveness ,", "That admirable thing , cut with an Axe out .", "We must not suffer this .", "As I of grief to beg , and shame to take it ;", "Art thou accus 'd , and after death thy memory"], "true_target": ["Oh , it shakes still .", "What man is this ? Away . What sawcy fellow ? Dare any such base groom press to salute me ?", "And so to be remov 'd .", "Do it boldly ;", "Made you so much despise me and your fortune ,", "He shall have me ; nay , which is more , I 'll love him .", "That you make no reply ?", "His wounds with tears , and pay a Sisters sorrow", "By that love once ye bare to me , by that Sir ,", "Even underneath the bolt of Jove , then ready ,", "Or what you please to pardon .", "Make ye defer your lawful and free pleasures ?", "Must vanish into nothing , when Ambition", "Thy face , and all aspects upon thee , tell me", "For so far runs my love to my dead Brother ,", "Henceforward , as ye are , I will command ye ,", "That sing of nothing but destruction ,", "In your most brave Revenge , I bow to you ,", "O fair , sweet man !", "How wandred from the truth of my affections !", "Thou daily shower'st upon my Fathers monument ,", "May mock Captivity .", "For his reward , it shall be so , dear Brother ,", "Into the world an Emperour : you perswade", "I know no blessings that ambitious flesh", "My self at your devotion .", "Disquiet and dishonour to your Bed ,", "Why droops my Lord , my Love , my life , my Caesar ?", "to thy abuses ?", "To his sad fate : but since he lives again", "His last farewel o'th \u2019 world ? What then can shake ye ?", "Here 's Charinus ,", "It were his dutie , and my power to slight him .", "We shall enjoy the riches of your goodness .", "Both to be su 'd and sought to , here I yield", "Eyes fit for Phoebus self to gild the World with ;", "You shall have both our hearty loves , and hearings .", "Look how it bends , and with what radiance ,", "Nor name the greatness of your King ; I scorn him :", "Come hither , my Endymion ;", "A Mistriss ? can I live and owe that name", "Puts in for Empire . On then , and forget", "\u2018 Tis strange", "Those holy drops of Love , turn 'd by depravers", "When I look on the Trunk", "I take my leave , and the gods keep your goodness .", "That blessed maid enjoys \u2014", "The fair examples of a noble nature ,", "That there is worth in me that may deserve you ,", "This lovely man .\u2014", "O my dear Lord , how have I wrong 'd your patience !", "Aper a bloody Knave", "Let it be ne 're so poor , ne 're so despis 'd , Brother ,", "shun 'd that I lov 'd most !", "As if the Synod of the gods sate under ;", "O most pernicious ,", "Let 's leave disputing , and do something noble .", "His brow furrow 'd with anger .", "These are Pannick terrours", "Could wish to feel beyond \u2018 em .", "Another mold ; here 's a divine proportion ,", "\u2018 Tis enough , Sir ;", "Look , here 's a face now , of another making ,", "Come , shew thy self , and all eyes be blessed in thee .", "Confess you for my husband ? love , and serve you ?", "Never dispute with me ; you cannot have her :", "Made thy defame and sins ? those wept out eyes ,", "Thou one of high and full mark ?", "To flesh and blood ? I was born to command ,", "Where have you fled , my loves and my embraces ?", "And use \u2018 em as I please . You have your answer .", "A Roman Trumpet !", "Deserves the bed of Juno .", "No ransom ,", "Train 'd up in Soveraignty ; and I , in death", "O my fair friend , where have you been ?", "And all the holy dreams of vertuous fools", "Although my youth and fortune should require", "And if he had more Sisters , I would have \u2018 em ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Wing 'd Victory shall take stand on thy Tent ,", "That all the World may know ye lov 'd your Brother ?", "Follow , and flatter him , we shall find one ,", "To tug for Empire , dares thee to the field ,", "I say this Aper , and his damn 'd Ambition ,", "worth his conquest ,", "For in his Litter , as he bore him company ,", "And he , like these , thy Prisoner .", "We know our glory ;", "And that howe'r their practices reach others ,", "And to encourage thy laborious powers", "Sworn to make good the place . And if he fail", "So ye shall find it mentioned from the Emperour ;", "But one that fools to the Emperour , and in that ,", "And poor it seems , I 'll try their appetites .", "Your safety does confirm you are their care ,", "And not to pride or malice .", "Guarded , into thy Tent , with thy best strengths ,", "And bloodily cut off by treachery", "For , by the gods , ye will find it so , he is murthered ,", "Now we hear", "He has scorn 'd his Master ,", "Thou wouldst entreat thy Prisoners like their Births ,", "Make up for honour ,", "To arise from wantonness , and love of women ,", "That he dare not venture to appear in open ,", "To step into the State .", "Lye with her ? what else , man ?", "But all the Provinces , and Kingdoms held", "Stands firm , and yet unrouted ; Break thorow that ,", "Thy ablest men of War , and thou thy self", "Did you see him ?", "Shews it not gloriously ?", "Cut off your Brothers hopes , his life , and fortunes ;", "Makes forfeit of his head .", "In his own person to compel his way ,", "By the Roman Garrisons in this Eastern World ,", "No common Summ ; then ye shall see I fear not ,", "Against the Enemies Swords , still leads the way .", "His strong arm govern 'd by the fierce Bellona ,", "And not their present Fortune ; and to bring \u2018 em ,", "Against Volutius Aper .", "No , he dare not ;", "Defies thee , Cosroe .", "I am gone , Sir ;", "He has an inmate here , that 's call 'd a conscience ,", "Hoping that thou wilt prove a noble Enemy ,", "And fetch them safely off , the day is thine ,", "Acknowledge thee his Sovereign . In return", "Of this large offer , he asks only this ,", "To his assurance of your love and favour ,", "I'th \u2019 Market place , \u2018 tis up , there ye may read it ,", "And", "How do you like your entrance to the War ?", "Than love or honour ; he has lost their fair affections ,", "Great Dioclesian speak .", "And if I make not good my story .", "Of all the Persian Forces , one strong Squadron ,", "For when he trod so nigh , his false feet itch 'd , Sir ,", "The noble Brother to him .", "He shall have half the Empire .", "The honour 'd Numerianus fell by him ,", "Are ye desirous to do something on him ,", "The day , and all is ours ."], "true_target": ["Is as firm as faith , Sir ;", "Come , march on ,", "We will have", "That till the doubtful Die of War determine", "These are old Souldiers ,", "You shall want nothing .", "Performs more than a man ; his shield struck full", "Then send out a Proscription ,", "Send suddenly ; And to that man that executes it", "You , if you dare .", "You stand above their malice .", "And if he miss , one hundred that will venture it .", "add a fair payment ,", "But to forsake their ground , that not alone", "Great Dioclesian , like a second Mars ,", "By his most covetous and greedy griping :", "\u2018 Tis true , there is one set up from the Emperour", "A wise man , and a Souldier .", "When the whole Body of the Army moves ,", "The manner how , read in the large Proscription .", "Yet still he fills the faithful Souldiers ears", "Of Persian Darts , which now are his defence", "Come , fear not ;", "And honest faithful Souldiers , but believe it ;", "Bring him alive or dead .", "The Persians shrink . The passage is laid open ,", "With stories of his weakness , of his life ,", "Her to his wife .", "No , I am gone ; I thank ye .", "And the Emperours Sister , bright Aurelia ,", "Fell basely , most untimely , and most treacherously :", "Fear nothing , Madam .", "And he that bows not to it as a god ,", "And withal ambitious ;", "Bids him keep off .", "The Lord of Rome ,", "And do it safely too without an Army ?", "The Proscription 's up", "Who has most power , and should command the other ,", "With this assurance , if thy Sword can win him ,", "Even from his own Camp , from those men that follow him ,", "In which Cosroe in his own person fights ,", "\u2018 Save ye , brave Souldiers .", "Being not able to endure the Sun yet .", "I am in , Sir ;", "The dignity of Rome , and what 's above", "And though it cost my life , I 'll see it publish 'd .", "Great Caesar ,", "His Statue of pure gold set in the Capitol ,", "The tenderness and weakness of his eyes", "Shall be deliver 'd up , and he himself", "You shall have all dispatch 'd to night .", "Slave that he is , he gives out this infirmity", "In fear more , Sir ,", "All can be urg 'd , the quiet of your mind", "Most privately and cunningly he kill 'd him ;", "And thus he juggles still .", "Mighty Sir , ascribe it", "And shew his warlike face among the Souldiers ;", "And humour him for our mirth .", "He is murthered ;", "Or force his Legions with thy barbed horse ,", "Depends upon our haste .", "My great Master ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["where I may", "You know all my affection ,", "That 's come to welcome ye .", "And", "This sweet retiredness .", "The deeds of elder times may be remembred ,", "To her that in his hopes of greatness lives ,", "Both credit him , and help him ; and on assurance", "Mars did appear to Jove .", "In his main hopes , could yield content to me ,", "And of a pleasant nature , sweet and temperate ;", "You have blown his swoln Pride to that vastness ,", "To me but nobly ; he made tryal how", "Being yours , I am an Empress .", "Were treason to true love , that knows no pleasure ,", "My virgin-fondness , were to hide my sickness", "I raise him thus , and with this willing kiss", "Be not afraid , \u2018 tis some good Angel", "I still lov 'd", "Yes , and dare say to ye ,", "You may believe him ; nor did he e'r purpose", "O , you give it", "Beyond a Virgins care ; how still he slights me ,", "We are no Spinsters ; nor , if you look upon us ,", "When they lay dead on the Phlegrean plain ,", "Yes ,", "I will do", "As he believes the Earth is in his fathom ,", "The Giants that attempted to scale Heaven ,", "You new create me . To conceal from you", "His Cousin Maximinian proud and bloudy .", "See how he weeps ; I cannot hold .", "That what I plead for , you cannot deny ,", "With the imagin 'd food of future Empire ,", "I seal his pardon .", "O bear me then", "Alas , what hope of that ?", "As ye are noble , as I have deserv 'd ye ;", "And the performance of your late prediction ,", "O now you honour me .", "That I may meet him , in the height and pride", "to adore you ?", "Leave us , and not vouchsafe a parting kiss", "And all my heart-desires are set on Diocles ;", "Thus , Sir , I grant it . Enter Aurelia . He 's mine own now , Aunt .", "in more fetters ,", "Seizes on all my faculties . Would you bind me", "The cool shades of the Grove invite ye .", "Too mild a name ; \u2018 twas more than barbarous ,", "\u2018 Tis true , that Diocles is courteous ,", "How dull and heavily he looks upon me !", "He ne'er thinks of me ,", "Good Aunt , speak mildly ;", "Challenge him as mine own .", "But , Aunt , how coldly he requites this courtesie !", "will ever", "And can I hope that he , that only fed"], "true_target": ["So wretched as you take us .", "I am glad ye make this right use of this sweetness ,", "Descend to look on me !", "Let these new-dropping tears ; for I still love ye ,", "How god-like he appears ! with such a grace", "That when he is Emperour , then he will marry me ;", "I could endure unkindness ; I see Truth", "I should repent your grant , though you had sign 'd it ,", "Upon my life , I pity his misfortune :", "The gods give good , Aunt .", "Of all his glories , and there", "But to believe that any check to him", "The object that it dotes on ill affected .", "But without Diocles , it is to me", "Your Art could force him to return that ardour", "And in what heaps his honours flow upon him ,", "O Aunt , I am bless 'd .", "To nourish such desires , when he 's possess 'd", "Shall I not see him ?", "See how he looks and suffers .", "Sir ,", "Of his ambitious ends", "As much belief from Dioclesian .", "Yet all this cures not me ; but as much credit ,", "Do , good Aunt ;", "Triumphant in his sorrow . Dearest Aunt ,", "Although I woo him sometimes beyond modesty ,", "For yet ye are free : if neither faith nor promise ,", "Nor of your favour .", "That keeps my blood in a perpetual Spring ;", "Like any wilderness we have pass 'd o 're :", "I think ye now most happie .", "See how my Diocles breaks thorow his dangers ,", "But in his absence , cold benumming Winter", "For want of Diocles 's sight ; he is the Sun", "Let me fall headlong on him : O my stars ! This I foresaw and fear 'd .", "I pray ye walk on , Sir ;", "To moderate my passions ; yet I know not ,", "My self to be the judge .", "What e 're you shall command .", "O Aunt , I fear this Princess doth eclipse", "From my Physician . O dear Aunt , I languish", "And puts me still off with your Prophecy ,", "Your Person , not your fortunes : in a cottage ,", "And goes along with him in all his dangers ?", "Yet consider ,", "Th \u2019 opinion of my beauty , though I were", "These hands held up to heaven .", "Disdains even those that gave him means and life", "For yet I am ignorant .", "I had rather", "This makes him quite forget his humble Being ;", "I will do .", "And you a Partner i n't .", "Good Aunt , where are we ?", "Upon my soul ,", "To me , I bear to him ; or give me power"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Yes , and mistrustful too , my Girl , take heed ,", "Although he seem to love thee , and affect"], "true_target": ["Yet have a care .", "Like the more Courtier , curious complement ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["be confident ,", "I'le raise ye higher , or my art shall fail me .", "If he prove true , and as his Angel guard him .", "He must weep bloody tears before thou hast him .", "Pretty simplicity ; I love thee for't ,", "Yes , and will pursue it .", "I'le lend thee two . And Bag-pipes that shall blow alone .", "Lucifera .", "Not yet , Girl , thou art cozen 'd .", "Has yet proclaim 'd me to the people , vitious .", "With me thou canst not ,", "And spell the will of heaven . Nay , lovely Lady ,", "Bred low and poor , no eye of favour shining ;", "Of no rank , nor no badge of honour on him ,", "Are ye not weary of your game to day ?", "And make this little Grange seem a large Empire ,", "Take heed ; here stands thy destinie ;", "And such as wait their pleasures with full hopes ;", "Mean time I'le haunt thee . Cry not", "For by this time I guess he comes from hunting ;", "The lots of glorious men are wrapt in mysteries ,", "Be free again , and have more pure thoughts in ye .", "Believe , what I have done , concerns ye highly .", "But I will loose it ,", "Sith that thou art dishonest , false of faith ,", "Are ye humble ? Now speak ; my part 's ended .", "The Bolt for vengeance on ungrateful wretches ;", "To marry her , and see then what new fortunes ,", "And are ye well ?", "Some pleasurable sports for your great Landlord :", "Enter Diocles , Maximinian , Guard , Aper ,", "What I have told you by my inspiration ,", "Ha ? pray ye come hither .", "I , that have wrought \u2018 em , come to scorn thy wailings ;", "Take heed , proud man .", "I am no whore , Sir , nor no common fame", "Though it was I. Nay , look not pale and frighted ;", "And I'le make", "That is a great destroyer of your Memorie ,", "I , presently inspir 'd with holy fire ,", "Now ;", "Cum Aprum interfeceris .", "The change most happy .", "Aurelia in regard , the Marriage ready ,", "shall fall upon thee .", "Look down , Drusilla , on these lofty Towers ,", "Let out with home-contents : I'le work his favour ,", "Strike Musick from the Spheres .", "What think you now , Girl ?", "Faithful , and diligent , and a wise Devil too ;", "Do something to add to it . See , he comes .", "Find a quick Grave in his Ingratitude ,", "You must take part too , as spur to ambition ,", "He shall be prettie ,", "Do you know us , Sir ?", "The site , the wealth , the beauty of the place ,", "I 'll tell thee the occasion .", "Stand up , Son ,", "er what ye have vow 'd .", "I am thine again ; thus I confirm our league ;", "Do ; and be ready an hour hence , and bring \u2018 em ;", "No more of that .", "If Art or Hell have any strength .", "A superstitious flock of sensless people", "New joys and pleasures ; far beyond this Lady ,", "For to thy Fleet I 'll give a fore-right wind", "Pray ye , Sir , be pacified ,", "And made him throw himself , with love and duty ,", "Must of necessity descend . Think o n't ,", "Thou shalt be Emperour , O Diocles ,", "Aper 's a Villain false .", "From Ceres I will force her winged Dragons ,", "Cover 'd with night , or some disguise , the practice", "Find your own faith too ,", "The same Aurelia shall shew him ; no further ;", "Hath found some rubs and stops , yet hear me , Neece ,", "Be not amaz 'd , but let him shew his dreadfullest .", "Go near and hear , Son .", "That e 're I look 'd on yet : I'le make as good an image of an Asse .", "Equal even to the gods , and Natures wonders ,", "We must remove Aurelia ; Come , farewel , fool ,", "I have forc 'd into him , for thy cause , Drusilla .", "And smote ye all with terrour .", "And wonder not at thy ungratefull Uncle :", "Peace , Niece ,", "Hideous and fierce , with his own hands he has kill 'd too ,", "E 're long , thou shalt more pity him", "Fall on , Souldiers :", "And be a merry man again .", "Son , you are wise .", "How fare ye now , brave Dioclesian ?", "There , as his good Star , thou shalt shine upon him ,", "You are an image indeed ,", "The sharpest sighted , were he Eagle-ey 'd ,", "My care is now on you .", "Relief or Comfort ?", "Should raise him to the Empire ; Be not sad , Neece ,", "Of poor and needy Spies : No , my Drusilla ,", "My powerful Art , that guides him to this height", "I find a present ill .", "And remem", "Our Suits are , Sir , to see the Emperour ,", "Remember then your Vow , my Niece Drusilla ,", "If he dares prove false ,", "That have their ends as open as their actions ,", "These glories shall be to him as a dream ,", "When I am Caesar , then I will be liberal .", "I rais 'd the thunder , to rebuke thy falshood :", "That may molest thy Souldiers in their March", "I grant \u2018 twas most inhumane .", "Or all things were return 'd to the first Chaos ,", "I know thy thoughts , and I appear to ease \u2018 em .", "Fell , to his full content : he has forgot me ,", "The Bolt of innocent blood : read those hot characters ,", "Do , shoot boldly ,", "For though he be now a man most miserable ,", "Fear nothing .", "Shall make him curse the hour he e'r was rais 'd ,", "Too griping , and too greedy ; he made answer ,", "Thy vow and faith ; that once forgot and slighted", "Remembrance of the debts he stands engag 'd for ,", "Fill him with joy , and win him a friend to ye ,", "False and perfidious villain .\u2014", "Look to thy terrour , what over-hangs thee :", "Be not dejected ; I have warn 'd ye often :", "Senators , Geta , Officers , with Litter .", "And though my sure Prediction of his Rising", "Be provident ,", "I told thee once , this is thy fate , this woman ,", "It is most true , Son ; and he cozens ye ,", "And hear me with a faith , it shall come to him ;", "Chiding him one day", "Fix here , and rest a while your Sail-stretch 'd wings", "Of both which I will quit ye : For your Uncle", "I tell ye once again , must , and shall find ye .", "What 's thy Will ?", "Your care must scorn it . Let him still contemn thee ,", "Chearful and grateful takers , the gods love ,", "When thou art rais 'd up to the highest point", "Which daily shall be on ye .", "You shall not want delights to bless your presence . Now ye are honest , all the Stars shall honour ye . Enter Shepherds and dancers . Stay , here are Country-shepherds ; here is some sport too , And you must grace it , Sir ; \u2018 twas meant to welcom ye ; A King shall never feel your joy . Sit down Son . A dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses ; Pan leading the men , Ceres the maids . Hold , hold , my Messenger appears : leave off , friends , Leave off a while , and breathe .", "That 's possible in Nature , or in Art ,", "Durst not behold your speed , but hid it self", "So have you , Lady . One of you come do it .", "Be not affrighted , but sit still ; I am with thee .", "I know thy wishes , and how much thou suffer'st", "Were his intents", "Does your Mightiness", "For being too near , and sparing for a Souldier ,", "Does all your glory shake ?", "That shall be my care . Sound your pipes now merrily ,", "Beyond her Greatness too .", "To allay this sadness , must be sought . What 's here ?", "And now dance out your dance . Do you know that person ?", "Rest then assur 'd ,", "In honour for thy friends ; thou shalt repair all ;", "I do , and I do laugh at all thy sufferings :", "I mean to marry her , and then ye prosper .", "\u2018 Tis well said ,", "Nor stop the torrent of those miseries", "\u2018 Tis a fit place indeed . \u2018 Save your Mastership ;", "And he that hopes , must give his hopes their Currents .", "Or I will want my will , since ye are so high , Sir :", "These spacious streets , where every private house", "It shall be done , as fits my skill and glory :", "Nor shall the wealth of all his Empire free this .", "But Fortune is your servant : go .", "And not to wait on you . We have told you all , Sir .", "This is an easie Boon , which at thy years ,"], "true_target": ["What ! lazy in your loves ? has too much pleasure", "Not the Boar they point ye ;", "Believe , and prosper .", "They are thy friends , Charinus and the old Souldiers", "Imperator eris Romae , cum Aprum grandem interfeceris :", "Away , fool ;", "Yes , and in full glory ,", "And so deliver 'd ; common and slight Creatures ,", "What have I done ?", "Think for what end .", "Let her sit on your knee .", "If thou prove not victorious ; Yet remember ,", "It is not in thy power to turn this destiny ,", "I'le fright thee more . With me thou canst not quarrel ;", "Thou shalt not , fool .", "Of that inimitable Art , which makes us", "False , and unthankful ,", "Be not fearful .", "Of humane happiness , such as move beyond it", "Dull 'd your most mighty faculties ?", "And tempt not the gods dooms ; stop not the glory", "Some great design 's o \u2019 foot .", "That power the gods shake at ? Look yonder , Son .", "My art and I are yet companions . Come , Girl .", "Stand close , he comes .", "The Emperour Dioclesian , to speak to him ,", "Poor doubtful people ,", "And by my Art I find this very instant", "He ever shews to thee , be it sweet or bitter ,", "For Thieves , and Pick-locks : to pass thorow an Army", "I am the Mistris of my Art , and fear not .", "And cast off jealous fears ,", "Lucifera .", "His prosperous success : Contain thy self ;", "Till I please : mark him well , this discontentment", "Do you stand amaz 'd ? Look o 're thy head , Maximinian ,", "Yes , and embrace her too ; she is your servant . Fear not ; her lips are cool enough .", "Stand still , and let me work . So now , Maximinian ,", "She is the Stair of honour . I'le say no more ,", "Or wish , in vain , he were not . I will punish", "Now mark and understand .", "Cannot discover us : nor will we hang", "Peace , and flatter not ;", "Appears a Palace to receive a King :", "Peace , and be patient ,", "Compos 'd of falshood ; yet the benefit ,", "If that be all : and if ye want a servant ,", "But when occasion shall present it self ,", "Stand in her view , make your addresses to her :", "And of the coursest stuff , and the worst making", "Nor must I reveal further , till you clear it .", "Hung in the air unseen : \u2018 twas I that honour 'd thee", "\u2018 Twas I inspir 'd the Souldiers heart with wonder ,", "The Priest and all the Ceremonies present ,", "Such is the power of Art .", "And glut thy greedy eyes with looking on", "Meet \u2018 em , my honest Son ,", "Now we 'll be open .", "and but fancy ought", "O \u2018 tis the fool and knave grown a grave Officer :", "That come to rescue thee from thy hot Cousin .", "Pluckt in her silver horns , trembling for fear", "Thy Fate here follows .", "But why did I all this ? To keep thy honestie ,", "Enter Maximinian , Aurelia , Souldiers .", "The proudest thoughts he has , I'le humble . Who 's this ?", "When thou shalt see me next , thou shalt bow to me .", "Perfect in all the hidden mysteries", "And I him : let him now stand fast . Come hither ;", "\u2018 Twas I that thundred loud ; \u2018 twas I that threatned ;", "Low at thy feet : \u2018 twas I that fix 'd him to thee ,", "I pity your weak faiths .", "And as thou usest her , so thou shall prosper .", "Nay , it will nail thee dead ; look how it threatens thee :", "E 're long he shall ; Come , let 's go entertain him ,", "And in the air hung over the Tribunal ;", "For all my care ; forgot me , and his vow too :", "Comfort Drusilla , for he shall be thine ,", "Think but one , he is ready .", "Look here , to her thy falshood . Now be angry ,", "You must have patience , Rome was not built in one day :", "That my strong Spells should force her from her Sphere ;", "They are ready to fix on ye . Ye are a fool then ;", "Necessitie and anger draws this from ye ;", "Much of his life in hunting ; many Boars", "So , \u2018 tis deferr 'd yet , in despite of falshood :", "Proud , and dost think no Power can cross thy pleasures ;", "Yet understand our faces ?", "To tell thy Soul \u2018 tis thine ; therefore speak freely .", "And all your handsom sports . Sing \u2018 em full welcoms .", "Is it not strange these wild and foolish men", "No , I am careful of thy safety , Son ,", "Idle Spectators to behold his triumph :", "Easie and open fortunes follow .", "Behind the grossest clouds ; and the pale Moon", "To break thorow bolts , and locks , a Scholars prize", "And see it cozen 'd ; dry thy innocent eyes ,", "Gave answer from the gods , and this it was ,", "Must make him firm , and thankful ; But if all", "She would whisper in your ear , and tell ye wonders .", "And my prophetick Spirit burning in me ,", "Thou hast full need of blessing .", "Now have you found the Boar ?", "And still I 'll work ; the same affection", "The greatness of the good he has from you ,", "Although this softness may become your love ,", "Will soon inform thee \u2018 tis imperious Rome ,", "Yes , and laugh at it , Diocles .", "That pass by land , and destiny is false ,", "Or an inchanted banquet .", "You will not repent it .", "Should dare to oppose the power of Destiny ?", "Two Emperours you must entertain now .", "You that sell innocent blood , fall on full bravely .", "I am a poor weak woman , to me no worship .", "To pass the Persian Gulf ; remove all lets", "Behold him now , and tell me how thou lik'st him .", "That may advance thy comfort , and be bold", "Enjoy thy wishes ;", "As if the eternal Night had seiz 'd the Sun ,", "Thou art most miserable .", "How ? not wise ?", "Rome , the great Mistris of the conquer 'd world .", "You have your libertie ,", "But I scorn it .", "When thou hast kill 'd a mighty Boar . From that time", "darst thou hope from me", "Perfidious as the Seas or Winds , his heart", "Rely on me .", "And will not sit an idle looker on ,", "Go , and appear in Court , and eye Aurelia :", "And use those Blessings that the gods pour on you", "But all is well , and turn all into welcoms :", "I spoke this honour , and it fell upon him ;", "That have out-stript the winds : the eye of Heaven", "But if he dare be false , I , in a moment", "I , Drusilla ?", "For in the Grove you'l find him .", "And then appear like Furies .", "You shall have one of mine shall serve for nothing ,", "As if a dream had vanish 'd , so h'as lost me ,", "he has employ 'd", "And pity him in truth , than now thou seek'st him :", "You shall not mourn still : times of recreation ,", "Hit me , and spare not , if thou canst .", "Forbear .", "Instruct \u2018 em Geta ,", "\u2018 Twas I that cast a dark face over heaven ,", "Worshipping a sign in Office ?", "Now , my Son Diocles ,", "But yet not lighted on the fatal one ,", "Will put that glorious light out , with such horrour ,", "The doubtful and distrustful man Heaven frowns at .", "You have kill 'd a mighty Boar .", "\u2018 Twas I , that at thy great Inauguration ,", "With moderation .", "And be as great in evil as in Empire .", "I contemn thy threatnings ,", "Prosper .", "You see how kindness prospers ; be but so kind", "\u2018 Tis well said , honest friends ; I know ye are hatching", "Stand still ; he cannot see us ,", "Or sink him to the Centre .", "Thou wilt find a Fate above thee .", "I could have given to any ; but now grown", "With various Musicks , and sweet sounding airs :", "Here 's hot and high preferment .", "And thou shalt know I hold a power above thee .", "For though all things beneath us are transparent ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["My first poor Bondman , Geta , I am glad", "Can they now say , take heed ?", "I shall forget my life else .", "But what shall we do the whilst ?", "Hear me , fellow Souldiers ;", "I do not seek for yours , nor enquire ambitiously", "Ever converse with any greedy Souldier ,", "To make thy love the means to lose it self ,", "And let it be your care", "So great a reverence , and so stai 'd a knowledge \u2014", "And if I suffer this .", "My Glories to the urn ; where be it ashes ,", "It akes and troubles thee , and that makes thee angry .", "How dare thy lips , thy base lips ?", "Wish rest to me , I honour unto you .", "And Tyrants seek no farther . He", "Thou sayst true , Geta , there 's a stop indeed ;", "When they consider man : The brass leav 'd Book", "Pray , Maximinian , pray .", "Nay , weep not ; let your loves speak in your anger ;", "Turn all our Blessings into horrid Curses ,", "Perfection in a woman . I shall live", "Would speak me base , my names and glories nothing .", "And follow her directions .", "How greedily men seek thee , and once purchased ,", "She is a holy Druid ,", "I grant I made a vow ; what was I then ?", "I could rise higher still , I am a man ,", "Methinks your fortunes both ways should appear to ye ,", "of those jewels", "My faith untainted , farewel Pride and Pomp ,", "To look so low as this cheap common sweetness ,", "I have liv 'd a servant to ambitious thoughts ,", "Of Fate lies open to thee , where thou read'st ,", "Thou doating Sorceress ,", "And make your Spits and Pots bow with my Bounties ;", "Our thoughts as gentle as our lips ; our children", "Come Drusilla ,", "Have pity on me .", "Who but Aper ?", "No , I will not be pluck 'd out by the ears", "And with that little they live , Kings commanding ,", "This Wreath triumphant . Nor be thou forgot", "Be not both young and cruel ,", "And taste this grosser air , thy heavenly Spirit", "Oppose my self to hazards of all sorts ,", "Vertue and Courage are admir 'd and lov 'd", "This is an act of Justice , and no Murther ,", "I ne 're saw beauty , or believ 'd there could be", "Stay there , and have some pity , fair Drusilla", "To have access to him , or come near his Litter ,", "Look on this ,", "Guide and direct me .", "And fashionest the destinies of men", "A woman noted for that faith , that piety ,", "Come , leave your fooling , Sirrah ,", "As when I was a private man ; my passions", "Thou being the Son of a Tiler , canst thou hope to be a Senator ?", "Or ever in my common talk name Emperour ,", "With whom I have serv 'd , and", "And sunk into the sweetness of himself ;", "I do think it .", "Did not I chuse this povertie , to raise you ?", "Ye lead me blindly to no end , no honour :", "I am arm 'd", "I am rewarded in the Act ; your freedome", "When man has cast off his ambitious greatness ,", "To hope or plead for mercy .", "Your Grace must pardon us , our house is little ;", "Thou more than Woman , and though thou vouchsafest", "A Princess is my Love , and doats upon me :", "Built his foundation upon honest thoughts ,", "To kneel unto my Saint ? to kiss her shadow ?", "Th \u2019 incensed Powers , and Sacrifice takes off", "receive the honour", "Enter Delphia .", "To spare me one short minute . Thus adorn 'd", "This day I am doubly married ; to the Empire ,", "And dare believe ye ; hark ye , Sir , the recompence ?", "Thou knowst she is a Prophetess .", "The rising Sun , this morning , saw this man", "To grace the Earth with thy celestial Steps ,", "You , and your Royal Emperess !", "Their heavy angers ; thus I tender both ;", "The cheerfulness of my Souldiers gives assurance", "In my full fortune ?", "Could ever fancie : till this happy minute ,", "The sense of wrong or injury .", "If you have any good for me in store ,", "Have ye forgot me , Fair , or do you jest with me ? I'le tell ye what I am : come , \u2018 pray ye look lovely . Nothing but frowns and scorns ?", "While I was lov 'd , and in great Delphia 's Grace ,", "That serve the Emperour only with oil 'd tongues ,", "Thou art like thy name ,", "Of what they purpose ? O the Furies that", "And every hour , and every minute , Mother ,", "Great Princes are her slaves ; selected beauties", "Rise up , dear Cousin ,", "I am fool 'd ,", "Of glorious Honour , and if I fall off", "That I am miserable .", "To Delphia and Drusilla , is the ground", "Make him your leader .", "Gave ye the worlds command ?", "And all those influences you receive into you ,", "Even for the greatest , and the happiest Monarch ,", "Do me then the honour ,", "That how I should think otherwise .", "We 'll force him from his Guards . And now , my Stars ,", "Or raise the building of my happiness", "His valour , Gentlemen , will deserve your favours ,", "That as I am the most , I am most miserable . But didst thou work this ?", "Must needs confess they have seen Diocles", "And cannot this remov 'd poor State obscure me ?", "In your own destiny , methinks , most perfect ,", "Nor surfeited upon this sweet Ambition ,", "Only ye make me hunt for empty shadows .", "And his minde troubled : no , my friends , you are cozen 'd ;", "That if I offer to exceed my limits ,", "In these triumphant Robes , my body yields not", "Now my Fate", "Come down , ye Dunce , is it not dead ?", "I feel within me ! whipt on , by their angers ,", "Talk not of comfort ; I have broke my faith ,", "Out of this glorious Castle ; uncompell 'd", "I am he the Souldier courts , the Empire honours ,", "Go , take it up , and carry it in , \u2018 tis a huge one ,", "The Persian Monarch , and those Subjects proud", "Bless 'd ye with her bright beautie ? gave the Souldiers ,", "And every circumstance about it , shews it .", "Of all the Sun gives heat and being to ,", "Boldly runs on . But I lose time . You are here", "Knowing my fortune so precisely , punctually ,", "She is mine own , and sure , that yet was never", "But as I shall deserve \u2018 em . I will keep", "O you gods ,", "Be thou in France Pro-consul : let us meet", "And blessed Mother \u2014", "What 's he that is", "Being a credulous and obsequious Coxcomb ,", "Now I believe your words most constantly ,", "That there is worth in Diocles to deserve it ,", "if thou canst", "She was as my good Angel , and bound Fortune", "Will , like two furious Tides \u2014", "To me 's ten thousand Triumphs ; You Sir , share ,", "Lay down the Boar .", "My Royal Cousin , how I joy to see ye ,", "As their Oracle", "And get some of him ready for our Dinner .", "Now my embraces are for Queens and Princesses ,", "Once more I give ye all ; learn to deserve it ,", "O that I e'r lookt", "What Drums are those ?", "That durst oppose thy self against a truth", "False and forgetful of thy faith ; I 'll kill him .", "A saving Antidote to keep me from", "Hear but this last , and wisely yet consider :", "Place round about my Grange a Garison ,", "Y'ave been abus 'd , will run you mad with fury ?", "In all my glories . And unkind Aurelia ,", "Think , Cousin , who I am . Do ye slight my misery ?", "I am to my self a trouble now .", "\u2018 Tis sweet indeed , love ,", "Whilst I mine own content make mine own Empire .", "And be called Dioclesianus .", "Waits her commands , and grows proud in her pleasures .", "And I will make it good .", "And ransomless return .", "I have the meaning ;", "I like thee well ,", "When all my hopes were up , and Fortune dealt me", "To Diocles but two short syllables ,", "Come , take him up I say , and see him drest ,", "The partner of my best contents : I hope now", "Not great , but good desires his daily servants ;", "I love him dearly well .", "And leaves us living Monsters .", "Content was never Courtier .", "Beyond this abstract of all womans goodness .", "How many griefs and sorrows , that like sheers ,", "Thou art turn 'd a fighter .", "Let me perswade thy mercy , thou hast lov 'd me ,", "The fruitfull Vineyard of the common-wealth :", "You I afford my pity ; baser minds", "Should have contain 'd him", "I dedicate to Vertue ; and to keep", "For by my \u2014\u2014, I find now by experience ,", "But now I am ; to keep this vow , were monstrous ,", "How ?", "From being a Captive , still command the Victor .", "A little smoother fac 'd ; O false , false woman ,", "The Provost Aper ?", "To see my low submission .", "That had the honour but to kiss his feet ;", "Ha ! in the Air !", "Odious to the subject and himself ,", "And all things else that made me worth your envy ,", "Before the raging whirl-wind of their justice .", "When Hymen stood with all his flames about him", "a Souldier ,", "O my Dearest !", "Cannot defend me from a shaking Feaver ,", "But Kings , and their Contents !", "My most wish 'd happiness , my lovely Mistris ,", "If I live .", "Nay , start not ; it is only the poor Grange ,", "\u2018 Tis Niger , now I know him ; honest Niger ,", "Five days shall bring me to you .", "I , do , do , Geta ,", "What news ? ye are pale , Mother .", "The Patrimony which my father left me ,", "All , my Delight ; and with more pleasure take thee ,", "Because she courts him ; Shall I kill an innocent ?", "I must beg back again .", "To see my vow perform 'd . You but attend", "Others from being false .", "How many sad Eclipses do we shine thorow !", "O dear Mother ,", "Thou hast a good mind , as I have , to this Honour .", "Great as ye are , enjoy that greatness ever ,", "I'le see her honour 'd : some Match I shall think of ,", "Part with it at pleasure : when we would uncase ,", "The damned Plot , lend me your helping hands", "I find and feel , woman ,", "But you are cunning , Mother ;", "But when ? or how ?", "Sirrah .", "Aper ?", "To hasten the remove ; And , fellow Souldiers ,", "Draw up our Legions ,", "Your family at ease , they know no market ,", "Seek you in Rome for honour : I will labour", "That will break out , though mountains cover it .", "Although I know my suit will sound unjustly", "Only with some small difference ; I will add", "To pour it self upon your life , deliver ye ?", "Hereafter from my faith to this sweet Virgin ,", "Constant to any ? Should my reason fail me", "Took stand , and call 'd all eyes ? It was your honour ;", "Curse of my blood ; because a little younger ,", "I have kill 'd many .", "Thou art ever dull and melancholy , Cousin ,", "It brings along with it both flesh and sinews ,", "All , my Dearest ;", "To strengthen this ; the Souldiers love I doubt not ;", "No instruments of craft : engines of murther ,", "Unfriended , and unarmed too , could have rob 'd me", "\u2018 Tis not wise in me .", "Train 'd up one from my youth : and there are some", "Hunt daily , and sweat hourly , to find out", "We love here without rivals , kiss with innocence ;", "Smell to this flower , here nature has her excellence :", "ly he sleeps ! how joyfully", "Or does retain the memory of the Oath", "And circumstance of glorious Majestie ,", "That thou hast none to fool , and blow like bubbles ,", "Only to win the barbarous name of Butcher ?", "But I am no Emperour :", "My honest neighbours . Geta , see all handsom .", "Thou art in the Toyl , it is in vain to hope", "I am he , Lady ,", "I believe it certain .", "Under pretence", "Methinks you should be studied in your own ,", "Art thou there ! More to torment me ? dost thou come to mock me ?", "I see it in your eyes , and thus I meet it .", "I 'll dye a dog first .", "The joyful virgins and the young men ready ?", "Belov 'd of Heaven .", "He lives here , Sir ,", "Some sad malignant Angel to mine honour ?", "And your best-self .", "Let your own eyes inform you .", "And live to love your Good more than your Greatness .", "Your mercy , Mother ,", "To all his appetites ; and when you have wrought", "Nor worthy is of death , because she follows him ,", "Though they know wants and hungers , know not these ,", "Yet this shall ease me . Can ye be so base , Cousin ,", "Enters my flesh as far ; dreams break my sleep", "To find content elswhere . Disswade me not ,", "The name I had , being a private man ,", "A fair and lovely Princess is my Mistris .", "Commanded by this Aper to attend", "I thank ye , Mother ,", "Against the man that", "And with that Cunning , and the faith I give you ,", "Howe'r", "In spight of all thy spirits , and thy witchcrafts .", "Cut me in pieces ; I'le disperse the cloud", "Now I am reconcil 'd , I will enjoy her", "O Diocles ! would thou hadst never known this ,", "It may be so , I hope so .", "Stay , Sir .", "I will , old doting Devil ;", "To prosper my designs ; I must appease her ;", "Or was there some dire Star ? some Devil that did it ?", "I am an Emperour : consider , Prophetess ,", "If an hard fortune hung , and were now ready", "Thou art the strangest man ; how does thy hurt ? The Boar came near you , Sir ."], "true_target": ["How ?", "My Sword should tell thee .", "And that it must fall without contradiction ,", "Shew it , when I have slain this fatal Boar .", "Of peace and quiet here , I never met", "Thus sues for mercy ; Be but as thou wert ,", "His desperate Poniard printed on his breast", "Again I beg it thus .", "Perswade thy self", "\u2018 Tis pity this young man should be so stubborn .", "And yet e 're his diurnal progress ends ,", "That hath so long obscur 'd a bloody act", "It was no more .", "his eyes are sore ,", "What is it to be great ? ador 'd on Earth ?", "And that those bounties", "And from his willing labours feeds with pleasure ?", "Yes , Mother , well and lusty ,", "He wakes again , and looks on his possessions ,", "Labour and sweat to arrive at a base memory ?", "Ungratefulness and blood mingled together ,", "My wife , if thy love since hath felt no change ,", "And his true love can make you and your Empress .", "My Empire , and this gem I priz 'd above it ,", "You find ye are daily fed , you take no labour ;", "More majorum , whipt with rods to death ,", "Shoot , Cousin .", "A true sound man , and I believe him constantly ;", "Thou hast a perfect malice .", "My flourishing Fortune ; you shall have possession", "We never kill 'd so large a Swine , so fierce too ,", "Yet I still poorer , further still \u2014", "Look gently on my sorrows ; you that grieve too ,", "My studie to appear another Atlas ,", "This deadly wound : hate to vow 'd enemies", "Remove to night ;", "Sickly and weak .", "And can no further help your wicked ends ,", "O Mother .", "I hear you , and obey you , and will follow", "And here in Povertie dwells noble nature .", "That Royal woman gave into your arms too ?", "Freely unto you . Gentle Sir , your suffrage ,", "A painted imitation of this glory .", "his Funeral-Rites .", "Valiant he is , and to his valour temperate ,", "I know that glory", "I will surrender rather ; Let it suffice", "That must make good my hopes , and link my greatness ,", "Die thou ,", "I have toucht the height of humane happiness ,", "A greater shadow , than it did when I", "Owner of any vertue worth a Roman ,", "And now I have found the Boar .", "To shake our sweet contents : nor here , Drusilla ,", "Can there be a stop", "Forget my Trade , my Arms ? forsake mine honour ,", "It could not fright me from a fierce pursuit", "I thank ye , Souldiers , I forgive your rashness .", "You rid him out of the way .", "As ye related .", "Being as poor as when I vow 'd to make thee", "So far upon his weakness , that he 's grown", "Bless me , ye Powers .", "\u2018 Tis truth ,", "And if I make it not apparent to you", "I must not pity ye ;", "Like to my self , a Souldier .", "To serve and honour you : upon my knees", "As she is now , of no sort ,", "Nephew , remember by whose gift you are free ;", "They are gilded and adulterate vanities .", "Now shew your loves to entertain this Emperour", "No , keep the Court ;", "The free gift from my special grace ?", "Your business may be done , make no great hurry", "I never met with yet .", "ll great Delphia 's Prophecie ,", "Go thy ways ,", "Then to be cozen 'd , to be cheated basely ?", "She hangs upon him ; see .", "So great a care should Heaven have of her Ministers ;", "And let \u2018 em know , our true love breeds more stories", "But such an ample welcom as a poor man", "In Nature , that a few fugitive Persians ,", "Look thou appear no more to cross my pleasures .", "Of good success abroad ; if first I make", "In Enemies ; but more of that hereafter .", "To reprehend my falshood , now vouchsafe", "A Traytors poyson . Shall I praise my fortune ,", "With you I dare not rage .", "ousin ,", "To wreak the Parricide : and if you find", "When the immortal Powers that are above us", "The object of their hate , though Jove stood ready", "And how far must I suffer ? Poor and low States ,", "Go take your stand .", "Be gone , Villain .", "Teach me how to be thankful : you have pour 'd", "You hear the Prophecie ?", "I priz 'd above my life , and I want power", "Wouldst have me love this thing , that is not worthy", "Which a full Senate of the gods determine", "Know not these killing Fates ; little contents them ,", "And Royal Sir , long may they love and honour ye .", "How liberal is the spring in every place here ?", "And bear it boldly . I desire no Titles ,", "Is like Alcides 's Shirt , if it stay on us", "Alive , my Cousin ?", "Nay , then I charge thee ; nay , I meet thy crueltie .", "So far from Nobleness , so far from nature ,", "Liv 'd both poor and obscure ; a Swords sharp point", "Yes , in my conscience .", "Reveng 'd your Brothers death ; slew cruel Aper ;", "I long have hunted for thee , and since now", "Or secret inspirations ye make shew of ,", "I have will enough , but I want room and glory .", "And be your words your judges : I forgive ye :", "As to forget all this ? to tread this Tie out ?", "The good Numerianus now is past", "Your love to me will teach you to endure", "He made to Caesar , that dares lift his Sword", "To leap into her breast ? the Priest was ready ?", "The Souldier that hung to me , fix 'd him on ye ?", "To free them , if those gods I have provok 'd", "Which let my prayers further . All is yours ;", "By mine own Kinsman cross 'd ? O villain Kinsman !", "The good Numerianus ever grac't", "Enter Delphia , Drusilla , vail 'd .", "In the late Britain wars , both dare and do", "His throat is cut , and his bowels out .", "A cruel Boar , whose snout hath rooted up", "What pains we take to cool our wines , to allay us ,", "Aper", "He talks like a full Senator :", "Raise to your self so foul a monument", "Bow at her beck : the mighty Persian 's Daughter", "Like fatal Sheers , are sheering off our lives still !", "Of my misfortunes ; And I must remember ,", "But can I kill her hate too ? No , he woos not ,", "Both long and tedious Marches .", "Gods ! what ails she ?", "Good Brother , leave me ,", "I embrace your loves ,", "Beyond a common man .", "I 'll to the Market-place , and read the offer ,", "The Hangmans hook , or to be punished", "The carefull'st Ladies cheek shew such a colour ,", "He is fat , and will be lusty meat : away with him ,", "I'le tell ye who I am : I am your husband .", "Rise early , and sleep late ? to feed your appetites ,", "What misery hath my fortune bred me ?", "However magnified , is but as dust", "And once more steer my actions to the Port", "I am ready to perform it .", "Ended not so ; but does deny his Prince", "She kisses .", "Suppose this done , or were it possible", "And think of what thou shalt be when I am Emperour .", "Hath free access to all the secret Counsels", "That every common foot shall kick asunder ?", "How am I cross 'd and tortur 'd !", "Fair Mistris \u2014", "Forward , I fear not ;", "Till pride hath mixt it with our blood ; nor can we", "Nor ever were : Souldiers , and honest men .", "To make me an example to deter", "Being a stranger , of no tye unto ye ,", "To clear your mystery ; kill Boar on Boar ,", "He is the scorn of Fortune : but you 'll say ,", "You say true , Sweet ,", "How quie", "Your grave directions .", "And from this hour a Deity I crown ye .", "Certain you much mistake her .", "Is this in truth ?", "Will make you Empress of the World .", "And the gods fight against me ; and proud man ,", "Of my revenge ; I will redeem my friends ,", "And , to confirm you gave no suffrage to", "But yet the bold and vertuous \u2014", "O Mother , thank ye , thank ye , this was your will .", "The double heirs both of our forms and faiths .", "As when you hear't , and understand how long", "And thus I do invoke her . Knowing Delphia ,", "Cosroe , Cassana and the rest , be free ,", "But I have been too liberal , and giv'n that", "I am no stranger , but", "The Emperour with all honour , and embrace him .", "All blessings on me , that ambitious man", "To speak how far her smiles are to be trusted ;", "But never leaves the bold . Now by my hopes", "To weak imagin 'd Powers ; She is my All ,", "And when I have that power ye have promis 'd to me .", "Thanks to your valour ; to your Swords I owe", "Yet , since my future fate depends upon thee ,", "What may this mean ?", "The gods reward your goodness ; and believe ,", "Comes to discover such a horrid Treason ,", "Why do you fool me thus , and make me follow", "Yet sever 'd from mine arms ! Tell me , high heaven ,", "Against all danger .", "And as thou twice hast pleased to appear", "For if I once be Emperour \u2014", "Nor honourable .", "For my tormentors . Could it else have been", "That now lies bitter at thy heart ; O Fortune ,", "The artificial Court shews but a shadow ,", "And ordering both their ends and loves . O Honour !", "Welcom my mean estate : and as a due ,", "How many Enemies to mans peace bringst thou !", "Prithee be wise ; Dost thou think , Maximinian ,", "So full a truth hangs ever on her Prophecies ,", "For your own safety .", "For if she knows not this , sure she knows nothing ;", "And when with horrour thou hast view 'd thy deed ,", "be thine own judge ,", "Ne'r equall 'd yet : you all knew with what favours", "At thy wish 'd pleasures ; Look upon thy creature ,", "Bless me .", "Madam , we have no dainties .", "Finds a full satisfaction in death ;", "I am so confident \u2014", "Sooth and applaud his vices , play the Bauds", "I am mark't out", "Farewel for ever . Nephew , I have noted ,", "The Emperours person ; to admit no stranger", "For thy news ,", "To you . I am Dioclesian .", "Of my felicity ; I deliver up", "The barbarous and most ingrateful Aper ,", "For Ladies of high mark , for divine beauties :", "To stand firm underneath this heaven of Empire ,", "The Pilot to the Bark of my good fortunes ,", "Your Brother loves ; am he", "Thou art a learned Scholar , against credit ,", "Or look for adoration , nay , for courtesie", "By \u2014\u2014, I am resolv 'd . And now Drusilla ,", "Looks backward on desert , but with blind haste", "Only distrustful of delays in Fortune ;", "Or any way , that were more terrible .", "Shall be with strength supported . It shall be", "Had not given spirit to the undertakers ,", "here 's an example ,", "Than if there had been no such dream : for certain ,", "A braver Enemy ; and to make it good ,", "In faith , Cousin ,", "Confirm 'd by constant friends , and faithful Guards ,", "And perfect joys , than Kings do , and their glories .", "As darkly still ye nourish it , whilst I ,", "Ha ? what is this ?", "On her uncertain favour ? or presume", "The Master of great Rome , and in that , Lord", "And laugh at our resistance , or prevention", "And fading glories ; what remains of life ,", "How have I sinn 'd , that you should speak in thunder ,", "That she forsook him for his want of courage ,", "And all these glories , Empires heap 'd upon me ,", "What thou , nor any of thy faction are ,", "Thus , to ful", "A madness , and a low inglorious fondness .", "And e 're you give it full , do you destroy it ?", "Let all the perfumes of the Empire pass this ,", "And in their deed protected \u2018 em ?", "And hope the honours that you heap upon me ,", "Your flattering expectation hour by hour ?", "And wert thou any thing but air and spirit ,", "Joyn with those Powers that punish perjury ,", "Are stronger tyrants on me ; nor is Greatness", "I thus receive you ; and , so you vouchsafe it ,", "Distrustful of my hopes .", "She comes here ;", "Here hang no Comets in the shapes of Crowns ,", "Let others pay their Knees , their Vows , their Prayers", "And here I fix nil ultra . Hitherto", "That shall advance ye both ; mean time I 'll favour ye .", "And see", "Thou ever shalt break out : thou dost deserve", "You dare believe me .", "I would be Tenant to .", "And therefore to maintain this , you speak darkly ,", "Did not I make ye Emperour , dear", "Above the days salute .\u2014 Think who has fed ye ,", "My peace at home here . There is something chides me ,", "Cares , like Eclipses , darken our endeavours :", "When I presum 'd I was blessed in this fair woman .", "Both to avoid and take . Can the Stars now ,", "And sharply tells me , that my breach of faith", "To dart his three-fold thunder on this head ,", "And expectation , like the Roman Eagle ,", "Must my blood glue ye to your peace ?", "Penitence does appease", "Blessing the bed ? the house with full joy sweating ?", "Or bribe the uncorrupted Dart of Death", "I must speak fair . Lovely young Maid , forgive me ,", "And with my friends mine honour ; at least fall", "Insult on the afflicted , you shall know ,", "In horrid thunder , when my heart was ready", "After your growing fortunes . Take heed , my kinsman ,", "That you have long with sore eyes look 'd upon", "In loyal duty : But ambition never"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["She 'll slip thorow your fingers like an Eel else ;", "I still will be a Justice in the War ,", "Lord , how ye throng ! that knave has eaten Garlick ;", "I laugh at your simplicitie , poor women :", "Thanks , my good people :", "And hold her fast ,", "And though I hate all Seats of Judicature ,", "And lose my longing , as I am true Edile ,", "See him enter 'd . How does your Daughter ?", "I being his key and image .", "I do forget ; but I'le hang their natures :", "And when I come to execute my office ,", "And look upon me seriously , as ye knew me :", "No men to hang or whip ? are you good officers ,", "A good smart wine .", "Although I have been familiar with thee heretofore ,", "I'le take no more Petitions ; I am pester 'd ;", "For their own services and recreations ;", "Of a maim 'd man ?", "may be dispenc 'd with .", "Come , follow , follow ; I'le go sit and see ye .", "It is sufficient that I find no Criminals ,", "I mean in the City , for conveniency ,", "Scoring a man o'r the Coxcomb", "Besides , thou art a woman of a lewd life .", "Is but a scratch with you ! \u2014\u2014 o \u2019 your occupation ,", "And what a show will that make ! how we shall bounce it !", "To nick a knave ; \u2018 tis as useful as our gravitie .", "Give me your Suits , and wait me a month hence .", "Remove me those Piles to Port Esquiline ,", "A Devil for intelligence ? No , no ,", "I'le hang a hundred of ye : I'le not stay longer ,", "And hold \u2018 em fit for licence . Ye look upon me ,", "I know thou art a keeper of tame Devils :", "We carried Fish to the City , dare stay no where ,", "If my master and I do this , there 's two Emperours ,", "But now I am content with't .", "Under this man of honour : know ye for my vassals ,", "Yes , and bear it too ,", "By these hands I 'll clap you by th \u2019 heels the first hour of it .", "Then will I", "Stand off , and know your duties : as I take it", "And there we step before you thick-skin 'd Tanners ,", "Fitter the place , my friend : you shall be paid .", "You are the labouring people of this village ,", "I should commit to my consideration", "She is marvellous well mounted ; what 's her name ?", "Or make \u2018 em evil ; \u2018 tis all one , do but say so ,", "Thou wert lousing thy self ; but yet I will make danger ,", "Like bloody Bone , and raw head , to fright Children ;", "To think these springs of Pork will shoot up Caesars ?", "Or likely to be lewd ; twigs must be cropt too :", "This qualifies a little . What are these ?", "Thou art to me a damnable lewd woman ,", "It is thy trade , that art a common Souldier ;", "When I sit down , must savour of Severitie :", "we walk on , and feed", "And some small Rents , to set ye a spinning .", "But Time , that purifies all things of merit ,", "Who shall do this ?", "Of too soft a nature to be an Officer ;", "Thou talkst as if", "I bear too much remorse .", "Bring out the offenders .", "But I'le know your devils of a cooler complexion first .", "And do no hurt I warrant you .", "And mercy , I forget thee .", "May I lye with the Gentlewoman ?", "I am too merciful , I find it , friends ,", "I am sure his teeth are in ; and for any thing I know ,", "It is not fit I should know every creature .", "Come hither , Lucifera . and kiss me .", "Or feel but the least pain in my great Toe ,", "And a neat carving Devil .", "Nor enquire no further into your offences :", "That may assure me , I am gone .", "No indeed am I not ; and \u2018 tis for mine honour too ;", "I would have a handsom , pleasant and a fine she-devil ,", "Sir , I do love my ease ,", "But since I grew rich , let but my finger ake ,", "And then he shines not on such weeds as you are .", "Would it would come with thinking , for then o \u2019 my conscience ,", "And you shall find and feel .\u2014", "Like hungry Boys that haste to School ; or as", "And take ye notorious to your selves . Mark me , my Lictors ,", "Come , Lucie , come , speak thy mind . I am certain burnt to ashes .", "And whereas great and grave men of my place", "I being then the Edile Getianus ,", "That I may have fit matter for a Magistrate ;", "Thou , like a traiterous quean , keepst twenty devils ;", "That call 'd him plain down Diocles ?", "Or allied to a seemly family of sowse-wives .", "I will \u2018 scape this way ;", "That provide no fuel for a Judges fury ?", "I have known a man married that never lay with his Wife :", "In seemly sort , and keep your hat off , decently .", "Pleasant i'faith , and a fine facetious Devil .", "Has born good office , and perform 'd it reverendly .", "Can by the Laws be allow 'd but one apiece ,", "When I am rotten ?", "I am for no use else .", "I will ascend my place , which is of Justice ;", "A travell 'd Devil too , that speaks the tongues ,", "Nay , I will be angry ,", "And you that keep the sheep . Stand farther off yet ,", "He falls so easie .", "\u2018 Prethee keep off , woman ;", "But fear me , and have favour . Come , go along with me ,", "Ha ? no offenders , knaves ?", "And , the best is , I need not shew my reason .", "Shall he be roasted whole ,", "He will lye beyond all travellers . A State-Devil ?", "There be houses providing for such wretched women ,", "Thou hast done enough to undo thee ;", "He may have Pigs of his own nature in 's Belly .", "For execution ? he will hang me too .", "Among my friends ? no mercy ? Et tu Brute ?", "I am too mighty for your companie .", "Thank me another way , ye are an Asse else .", "The Emperour my Master Dioclesian", "And never sweat for't .", "Emperor ?", "I shall turn Jew if I carry many such burthens :", "You are these Rascals of the State I treat of ,", "And serv 'd up in a souce-tub ? a portly service ,", "Has set another stamp . Come nearer now ,", "And you , the rest of my Officials ;", "And shall he have as you say , that kills this Aper ?", "As good a mind , Sir , of a simple plaisterer \u2014", "Then you shall see .", "We Officers , by our place , may share the spoil ,", "You are those scabs I will scratch off from the Commonwealth ,"], "true_target": ["And as I hope to rectifie my Countrie ,", "For your Sports , Sir ,", "A rare Counsellor ;", "We Tilers may deserve to be Senators ;", "What 's your Bill ? For Gravel for the Appian way , and Pills ? Is the way rheumatick ?", "For we are born three stories high ; no base ones ,", "A bit will serve : give me some rest : gods help me . How shall I labour when I am a Senator ?", "From the tooth of a mad Beast , and the tongue of a Slanderer", "And at my pleasure I can dispeople ye ,", "In this place something must be done ; this Chair , I tell ye ,", "Or hang her first , and then I'le tell her wherefore .", "Suffer my self ; for so runs my Commission .", "When out of my discretion , I shall view \u2018 em ,", "And know me for the great and mighty Steward", "That 's all one ,", "I 'll about it . What an inundation of Brewiss shall I swim in !", "And bear it swimmingly . I am not the first Ass , Sir ,", "We must be sometimes wittie ,", "Instruct me further . Is it fit , my friends ,", "Lay hold on her ,", "Yes , man ,", "These women are still troublesom .", "I cannot hold my Sword ; what would you have", "See the Emperour ? why you are deceiv 'd : now", "I know my office : you are for the streets , Sir .", "I took a Tree , \u2018 tis true , gave way to the Monster ;", "Your scurvy scuffling trade ; I was told before", "Thank me when ye have it ;", "Who shall scour you ? you are to be paid , I take it ,", "Whip him , and bring him back .", "That with unreverend mouths call 'd me Slave Geta ?", "Let her alone , \u2018 tis useful ;", "\u2018 Tis a fine May-game ;", "Neither ; he will undo me at mine own weapon .", "Let me have evil persons in abundance ,", "Kill Swine , and sowse \u2018 em ,", "\u2018 Twas against my will ;", "An Officer in fury ;", "Let \u2018 em be people ,", "A pretty farm i \u2019 faith .", "Those dancing days are done .", "I 'll run i'th \u2019 wheel my self .", "Which is as much as all the people swore it ;", "Sirrah , I drank a cup of wine at your house yesterday ;", "My face was bad enough ; but now I look", "A man of place , and Judge , is it held requisite", "And be not fearfull ; I take off my austeritie :", "It stinks like thee : away . Yet let him tarry ,", "We men of business must use speedie servants :", "Can blow you and your cattel out o'th \u2019 Country :", "I grant ye ,", "I 'll fall by the Enemy first .", "Did ye scour all , my friend ? ye had some business :", "He loves that veng'ancely ; But when I have done this ,", "Preserve thine honour .", "And am I ready , and mine anger too ?", "Unless I have a Doctor , mine own Doctor ,", "Should now remember or the times or manners", "I dye , I am gone . Oh my sweet physiognomy .", "I think so ;", "If I prove one of the Worthies , so ; However ,", "Not bate ye a single ace of a sound Senator .", "And look to your places , or I'le make ye smoke else .", "Come ; what 's her name ?", "And therefore I must make some : if I cannot ,", "I know her tricks : hold her , I say , and bind her ,", "We the discreet and bold ; and yet , now I remember it ,", "Hark what discretion says , let fury pass ;", "The melancholy of a Magistrate upon me ,", "None of your groundlings , master .", "And eat \u2018 em when we have bread .", "Not too much of fighting , friend ;", "Therefore I warn ye all , bring me lewd people ,", "And I will hear your Songs , and perhaps like \u2018 em .", "And ride upon my foot-cloth . I hope a Captain", "And let me work . If I sit empty once more ,", "Right as a Gun ; For we the vertuous ,", "You shall not have the honour of my death ,", "With all my heart ; I am weary o n't ;", "Run for a Surgeon , or I faint .", "Thou hast pressed to the Emperours presence without my warrant ,", "And want fit matter to dispose my Authoritie ,", "Can you be such an Ass , my Reverend Master ,", "I think I shall be .\u2014", "I could endure like others , cold and hunger ;", "A fine periphrasis of a kennel-raker .", "\u2018 Tis true , I have been a Rascal , as you are ,", "Is a Senator", "The Chair turns : hey-boys :", "worth no more reverence ?", "With killing Swine ? you may be an honest Butcher ,", "If I be angry , as my place will ask it ,", "A prettie brown devil i'faith ; may I not kiss her ?", "Just such another piece of durt , so fashion 'd :", "His Bill shall quit his Breath . Give your Petitions", "An Officer as he ought to be ; do you laugh at it ?", "For fear our ware should stink .", "I know not .", "I thank ye :", "To entertain the Ladies that come to me ;", "A fellow of no mention , nor no mark ,", "An Emperours Cabinet ?", "Yet I could poyson him in a Pot of Perry ,", "And mingle not with my authoritie ,", "I 'll have the fear of the gods before my eyes ,", "And ate the best wild Boar at that same Farmers .", "And no offenders to execute my fury ?", "Let me see your family .", "Twenty in ordinary .", "I should be at least a Senator .", "Fough , I have known a Charnel-house smell sweeter .", "They may be seen , when I shall think convenient ,", "Thou being the Son of a Tanner , canst thou hope to be an", "The Emperour appears but once in seven years ,", "Do you think , Master , to be Emperour", "Though we be Kennel-rakers , Scabs , and Scoundrels ,", "I fear this is a sucking Pig ; no Boar ,", "I tell you , and do not mock me , when I was poor ,", "I 'll swear the Peace against \u2018 em , I am hurt ,", "If Emperours flesh have this savour , what will mine do ,", "When Surgeons swear you have perform 'd your office .", "Yet , because I daign a glimpse of your remembrances ,", "Those Rascals of removed and ragged hours ,", "But eating and drinking I think are forbad i n't ,", "For scowring the water-courses thorow the Cities ?", "Ye are right , Master ,", "This is with the least . But let me see your Daughter . \u2018 Tis a good forward maid ; I'le joyn her with ye . I do beseech ye , leave me .", "Give me some rest .", "Shall I , like Caesar , fall", "Ye say well , Friend , but hark ye ,", "Forward , and keep your State , and keep beggers from me .", "I must not know thee now : my place neglects thee ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Now I see too , mine Uncle may be cozen 'd :", "Or danger met me in the head o'th \u2019 Army ,", "Our base and foul intentions . Stand between us ;", "What ?", "So I would have", "Of Pietie or Pitie . Steel my heart ,", "Thou wear'st one without edge . When cruel Aper", "Though I be hang 'd , I'le forward :", "To kick the Princess from me ; \u2018 twas no manners ;", "To feed her old Chaps ; to provide her daily ,", "Mine Uncle comes : now , if she stand , I am happie .", "If I fear to follow ,", "And what a chearful colour shews in 's face ,", "I shall be mighty ,", "\u2018 Tis not that thus embracing you , I think", "And dreadfully it threatens . We acknowledge", "To all posteritie like another Phebe ,", "I cannot ; mine arm 's dead , I have no feeling ;", "Charinus sues , the Emperour intreats him ,", "How soon the day 's orecast !", "Which is , to kill a Cow , or blast a Harvest ,", "But do not juggle with me .", "With reverence ;\u2014", "And to vail over these villainies , they would prophesie ;", "That I shall make her Devils sides hum .", "Her eyes like bright Eoan flames shoot thorow me .", "I say , Alive . I am no Emperour ;", "In that , without your good leave , I bestow 'd", "This cannot help ye .", "These sad retirements ; but the fear to lose", "Of thee , and of thy piety .\u2014 Now she eyes me .", "We are sorry for our sins . Take from us , Sir ,", "What say you , Sir ?", "Mistake her ? hang her ; to be made her Purveyors ,", "We are weary both , and hungry .", "To my turn to put it on : I 'd run the hazard .", "I am nothing but mine own disquiet .", "Sweet , I will do ,", "Old Woman , though I cannot give thee recompence ,", "Because her cunning Devil shall not prevent me ;", "For faults confess 'd , they say , are half forgiven .", "And", "Thee , and thy foolish threats : the gods appoint him", "In the pursuit now of so rare a venture ;", "That mass of Majestie I laboured under ,", "And after talk : I will prevent their plots ,", "What am I faln from !", "And whilst he was a gleaning , have been praying ,", "And chase a dairy-wench into a feaver", "For that 's a place more fitted to thy nature ,", "To be thrown headlong down , almost as soon", "You then believe", "Antiquitie is proud of , thou but nam 'd ,", "I look upon ye like my Winding-sheet ,", "You gone once , and their love retir 'd , I am rooted .", "We suffer here , with interest , be return 'd", "\u2018 Tis ; comes it not like", "A small one ,", "Why didst thou run away", "I 'll be of your faith too .", "And the Earth can bear his Souldiers march , I fear not .", "The fool says true .", "Would it were come", "Thou more than woman ,", "Heaven knows , I do not believe it :", "I know she has the name of a rare Sooth-sayer ;", "More of this sport , and I am made , old Mother :", "For whilst you are remembred , I am buried .", "I never yet compell 'd her ; of her courtesie ,", "As I hope , Heaven , it will ; Uncle , I'le nick ye ,", "The thought I may be shaken : and assurance", "And tyes her to old wives tails \u2014", "His Heir , in his revenge , with one consent", "I have no patience to dispute this Question ,", "The Master of his Fortune , and his Honour ;", "On him , that never flung one grain of incense", "Express that they are pleas 'd with this election .", "have run as many hazards ,", "And not won nobly , we shall be redeem 'd ,", "Upon their Altars ? never bow 'd his knee yet ;", "By your old love , the blood that runs between us .", "I cannot stay . The Souldiers doat upon ye .", "My Uncle ? good : I must not know the names", "Shall be no more remembred : but persevere ,", "Desire of Empire , and instruct me , that", "Sir , I am yours ;", "Contemning his base covetous \u2014", "And know no equal : when your Brother borrows", "Things of that wonder that thy tongue delivers ,", "What any thing but eating is good in her ?", "Now holly , or you howl for't .", "They are as jump , and squar 'd out to his nature \u2014", "The butcherly , base custom of our lives now ;", "And as a brighter flame , takes his beams from him .", "As we have reach 'd it .", "Effect but this thou hast begun .", "I am your Kinsman , Sir , and no such base one ;", "Dare you but be so wise to let me try it ,", "Enter Charinus , Niger , Guard .", "And made the prey of Magick and of Theft ,", "Or else he has had much wrong ; upon my knowledge ,", "Well said , old Mother , hold up this miracle .", "I am beyond my wits .", "What she bestows , Sir , I am thankful for .", "To touch the stars seems but an easie flight ;", "Old women are malicious ; so is he ;", "I'le nick ye , by this life . Some would fear killing", "Still the same poor and wretched thing , his servant .", "They are proud and covetous , revengeful , lecherous ;", "No .", "I shall try", "abuse \u2018 em , Uncle ;", "I am covetous to die for such a beauty .", "Or if I could shoot , so strong is her arm 'd Vertue ,", "Compels me to forget you are my Uncle ,", "And so ador 'd as she is .", "Yes , and I laugh at it ;", "The absolute disposer of the Earth ,", "A Cowards name pursue me .", "My Uncles gift ? and may he not resume it", "You took a fit time ,", "Indeed I must confess they are excellent Juglers ;", "And greater than great Fortune , I 'll adore thee .", "The Prince that over others would bear sway ,", "Make young Pigs pipe themselves to death , choak poultry ,", "There is fire in this .", "And yet these honours , which conferr 'd on me ,", "Thou shadow of an Emperour , I scorn thee ,", "Thou hast none ,", "A scratch , a scratch .", "And whether your brave spirit have a buckler", "Sirrah , leave your prating ,", "Salute him Emperour .", "To keep this arrow off , I 'll make you smoke else .", "Upon the least distaste ? Does not Charinus", "thy base fear", "From her words , be a Caesar ?", "And , as the god of Love , burns incense to him .", "I would fain spare ye ; but mine own securitie", "How confident he sits amongst his pleasures ,", "\u2018 Twould make a fool prophesie to be fed continually ;", "I must sail thorow \u2018 em :", "And you shall hear me thunder .", "For I stand doubtful .", "I will about it .", "But borrows his foundation . I'le make plain", "And with their humming flatteries sing him Caesar ?", "That you repine , and hold your self much griev 'd ,", "That has the sharpest sword . I am sure , Charinus ,", "What throngs of people press and buz about him ,", "How would I serve , how would I fall before ye !", "There 's one stop yet .", "Sing him aloud , and grow hoarse with saluting him ?", "We may live safe ; but till then , we but walk", "Can the gods see this ;", "O Mother , did I stand the tenth part to ye", "I stand too loose else , and my foot too feeble :", "Punish 'd the treason : This bold daring act", "And as small profit to be hop 'd for by her .", "Of hilly Empire , than to die with fear", "To have blush 'd thus in my blood , had been mine honour .", "How sweet , how fair , and lovely her aspects are !", "If I to you am more than all the world ,", "And stand as close as ye can , I shall be with ye .", "All which are excellent attributes of the Devil ;", "Their age upon some fools too flings a confidence :", "The bless 'd and bright Aurelia , she doats on him ,", "Inspir 'd with such prophetick Fire ?", "How nimbly the Rogue runs up ! he climbs like a Squirrel .", "And me his slave ."], "true_target": ["In these poor Clownish pleasures ; but to tell ye", "All eyes live on him . Yet I am still Maximinian ,", "And my mind pure , may purge me of these curses ;", "The General being out o \u2019 th \u2019 Town ; for though we love him not ,", "What it is hell to part with : better to have liv 'd", "And though by devilish arts we were surpriz 'd ,", "And yet he sees me too , the Souldiers with me .", "Conceal from you , that are to be familiar", "Here like a tree , I dwell else ; free me , Mother ,", "What do you get ? your labour and your danger ;", "Against the Traitor , and among his Guards", "The poorer powers we worship .", "And Monuments to all succeeding Ages ,", "Cross me in my designs ? And what is Majestie", "As noble , and as high ; nay , in his destinie", "Checks at no Let that stops him in his way .", "When he disposes Fortune as his Servant ,", "O blessed Mother !", "And bless 'd his homely Cradle with full glory ?", "I come not to eat with ye , and to surfeit", "And get some piece of him ready presently ,", "What powerful Star shin 'd at this mans Nativity ?", "And I that have march 'd foot by foot , struck equally ,", "But who believes ?", "Than power that stands not on his proper Basis ,", "O how I glory in thee ! those great women", "And our own weight will sink us .", "How the fierce-minded Souldier steals in to him ,", "To woo this purblind honour , and have pass 'd", "Still the gods", "As many dangerous Expeditions ,", "Very well , Sir ;", "Good and great Sir , be pitiful unto us :", "Have ye spy 'd me ? then have at ye .", "I sought no kisses , nor I had no reason", "On the insulting doer .", "Or", "And that you must upon necessity ,", "And howsoever his too gentle nature", "And turn them on their own accursed heads .", "An Emperour may suffer like another .", "As you make the Encounter : Sir , I hear ,", "I 'll pray , and work too .", "I burst with envy ;", "And done as much ; sweat thorow as many perils ;", "Close , close , and hear ; If she can turn this destiny ,", "Would make me pace on air , seem not to move him .", "See it with justice , and confer their blessings", "But do you in your Conscience believe her holy ?", "I am goodly ;", "For nothing 's more uncertain", "You are too kinde , Sir .", "She would catch the arrow flying .", "Old women will lie monstrously ; so will the Devil ,", "I hope she be ; I am sure I am little better .", "Of dead Numerianus , as he stands", "She knows her own Fate ?", "Had kill 'd Numerianus , thy Brother ,", "Allow 'd thee the name only , as his gift ,", "That glorious weight that made us swell , that poison 'd us ;", "Still excellent ;", "The Gallian Proconsulship upon", "But what grounds have they ? what elements to work on :", "Whilst she sits bathing in her larded fury ,", "Can such a Rascal as thou art , hope for honour ?", "Compels me to forget you made me Caesar :", "To be secure , we must be absolute ,", "Got him the Souldiers suffrages to be Caesar .", "Thou masculine Greatness , to whose soaring spirit", "Poor and obscure , and never scal 'd the top", "But to live base , like Swine-herds , and believe too ,", "And magnifie my fate .", "Do you think she knows your fortune ?", "A follower of mine .", "Canst raise me too : I shall be bound to speak thee :", "If there could be such an expectation ;", "How am I rais 'd and honour 'd ? I have gone as far", "He gives them leave now and then to use their cunnings ,", "I will , and I will go off with that glory ,", "With pumping for her butter .", "Enter Diocles .", "I'le justle hard , dear Uncle .", "\u2018 Tis so ridiculous ; I think the Devil does help \u2018 em ,", "The Coffin of my Greatness , nay , my Grave :", "Yet certainly , I 'll make thy name as glorious .", "What o \u2019 Devil means he next ?", "Best Aurelia ,", "Below your feet we lay our lives : be merciful :", "Why , can you blame me ? Do men give credit to a Jugler ?", "For certain , a most handsom man .", "Come nearer to me ,", "What have I got by this ? where lies my glory ?", "Inspir 'd with full deep Cups , who cannot prophesie ?", "Take heed , it stirs again ;", "A Tinker , out of Ale , will give Predictions ;", "Think Diocles worthy to supply the place", "Let \u2018 em be Tides of death , Sir , I must stem up .", "With heavie burthens on a sea of glass ,", "I challenge the succession .", "All this as holy truths .", "My cause of doubts and fears ; for what should I", "With my most private thoughts ? Is not the Empire", "It must , Uncle ;", "And all the treasure that I have .", "When \u2018 tis divided ? Does not the insolent Souldier", "This cannot serve ; prepare : now fall on , souldiers ,", "Hear it and tremble ; Lives", "Their lives , their vertues , and their fortunes laying ?", "Would I had her alone , that I might seal this blessing :", "They would at least seem holy ; so would he ;", "Now work great power of art : she moves unto me :", "Against these purblind Prophets ; for look ye , Sir ,", "has made him Emperour ,", "For , certain , I am excellent , and knew not .", "That is not blind , as you are blind and ignorant :", "Only the Hang-man of Volutius Aper", "And bring in Feasts while she sits farting at us ,", "For they are as fit to deal with him ; these old women ,", "I will attend you there .", "But has depending on anothers favour :", "That my poor innocent days may turn again ,", "Now if thou beest a Prophetess , and canst do", "Do ye so ? do ye so ?", "The parent and the nurse to all my Glories ,", "The Person , and the Act : then if the Senate", "But when he makes these Agents to raise Emperours ,", "More from our honour ? No", "Sir , ye talkt of Proscriptions ?", "What am I ? What does she take me for ? work still , work strongly .", "Had a brave enemies Sword drawn so much from me ,", "This shews the gods approve", "Hear us , great Uncle ,", "Show me but that ; the Sieve , and Sheers ? a learned one ,", "And blowing out her Prophecies at both ends .", "Let him storm ,", "How deep your inspiration lies hid in ye ,", "And we are serv 'd for fear , not at entreaty ,", "Begin you , heaven will follow .", "Dioclesian lives ;", "Durst , Charinus ?", "Made thee wink at it : then rose up my Uncle", "But by permission : Alas , poor Charinus ,", "To be fool 'd out with tales , and old wives dreams ,", "There is a Heaven beyond it , that begets", "For whilst you are alive \u2014", "A pardon to a man condemn 'd ?", "When the Boar made toward thee ? art thou not valiant ?", "And by a Roman War ; and every wrong", "Sur-reverence , you would say ; what truth ? what knowledg ?", "And thou shalt shine among those lesser lights ,", "That what we do possess is not our own ,", "A Sowter ;", "Or say , the Devil could perform this wonder ;", "Such a log-carrying Lowt ?", "The little splendor that he has from us ,", "O \u2019 my Conscience , the fellow believes .", "If the Sun keep his course ,", "Dreams , when they are drunk .", "O let my Prayers prevail too ,", "I half believe , confirm the other to me ,", "I would know that ; I fear your Devil will cozen ye ,", "Adores and courts his honour ? at his devotion", "Not at the pain , but at the practice , Uncle ,", "Bless me , and with all reverence .", "\u2018 Faith , so am I too ,", "Engag 'd and fetter 'd , as mine Uncle does ,", "Call my command his donative ? And what can take", "As sure you are to me ; as we desire", "Yet had he known this first , you had paid for't dearly .", "Sure , sure she should not beg : if this continue ,", "And so will any man can tell but twenty ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Firm on my part , I dare profess my self ,", "Has a main end i n't . The Pannonian Cohorts", "The German Legions waver , and Charinus", "Yet feed these ignorant fools with hopes he lives ,", "Be the Physitian to his wounded eyes ,", "This passion to the life ?", "For an hour or two", "To your most ready Souldier , to obey them ;", "All keep at distance .", "Is marching up against me . \u2018 Tis not safe ,", "Of mighty Caesar", "Till I have power , to justifie the Act ,", "When , but even now , I feign 'd obedience to it ,", "To shew my self the authour : be therefore careful", "Is jealous of the murther ; and , I hear ,", "And though I know you long to see and hear him ,", "Of good Numerianus : Let your patience", "Your care of your sick Emperour , fellow-souldiers ,", "I confess", "So take your rest in peace . It is the pleasure", "Speak without flattery ; Hath thy Aper acted", "And zealous duty : O continue in it ."], "true_target": ["The scent had almost choak 'd me : be therefore curious :", "And then live Aper 's equal .", "Which time and your strong Patience will recover ,", "I 'll impart", "His sacred person , and admit no stranger", "My life 's a burden to me .", "That exacts my haste :", "That none come near the Litter . If I find them", "Impute it not to pride , or Melancholy ,", "Strangers to all the actions of the life", "s stand affected )", "You being most trusted by him . I receive", "Your answer in your silence . Now , Camurius ,", "As I had some great business to impart ,", "are", "In colours to the life , doth shew your love ,", "That I have kill 'd him ,", "Provided it prove constant .", "All your commands", "are not come up ,", "That you continue a strict Guard upon", "That keeps you from your wishes : such State-vices", "Of any other Legion , to come near him ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["If he counterfeit ,", "As you were mad .", "\u2018 Tis but a scratch .", "Which waited bravely on you , when you appear 'd", "Bear up , man ,", "The minion of Conquest ; married rather", "O brave , brave Geta ,", "Of our speedy March .", "That thinks of rest or sleep , before he sets", "An enemy in the field , than stand thus nodding", "When he weeps at his Fathers Funeral .", "You look so terrible now ; but see your face", "True morality .", "And how soon", "Like to a rug-gown 'd Watch-man .", "I will hereafter trust a prodigal heir ,"], "true_target": ["Do but lead us on", "the proud Persian ,", "\u2018 Tis a fine peak-Goose .", "Out of his strongest hold .", "To glorious Victory , and we will drag", "I had rather meet", "With that invincible and undaunted Courage", "His foot on Persian-Earth .", "Dye he accurs 'd", "Diocles ?", "Nay , then I have a goad", "We will make you fight ,", "To prick you forward , Oxe .", "He is instructed .", "Most unheard of villany .", "That 's the necessity", "In the Pummel of my Sword ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Thou shalt fright men .", "Be but your self ,", "Now fight , or dye indeed .", "Fight like a Man ,", "They come ,", "You shall kill for practice", "Or a young widow following a bed-rid husband ,"], "true_target": ["And with all cruelty to be reveng 'd .", "to the Fire .", "The bravest Souldier of the Empire .", "Or dye like a Dog .", "And do not talk but do .", "How he bows again too .", "But your dozen or two a day .", "I know him ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["He does enquire his pleasures .", "Punish it in his family .", "Limbs to make up a well proportion 'd Army ,"], "true_target": ["That only want in you an Head to lead us .", "Who is the murtherer ? name him , that we may", "You have hands and swords ,", "Note his humility , and with what soft murmurs"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["At my instalment .", "A Senators Itch upon me : would I could hire", "\u2018 May bring your wives too , \u2018 twill be all one charge to ye ;", "That we may dance a while ?", "Lord Getianus .", "My Master is an Emperour , and I feel", "I do not like the sport .", "And if I like your women .", "I am out at that ;", "These fine invisible Fidlers to play to me"], "true_target": ["Enter Delphia .", "For I must know your families .", "I'le follow the fashion ; and when I am a Senator ,", "I will be no more plain Geta , but be call 'd", "The handsomer , the better .", "The Watch at noon ? This is a new device .", "Nay , you shall find he 's good at the sharp too .", "That is fine :", "\u2018 Tis not a thing impossible ,", "Perhaps I'le sing my self , the more to grace ye ,", "Will ye lend me a devil ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["True .", "How , dead ?", "A Diocles , a Diocles ."], "true_target": ["We confirm it ,", "Against the world : raise him to the Tribunal .", "And will defend his honour with our Swords"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Augustus , Pater Patriae , and all Titles ,", "We gladly throw upon him ."], "true_target": ["Long live Diocles :", "That are peculiar only to the Caesars ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["We give him absolute power of life and death ,", "Rome in us", "Fetch the Imperial Robes : and as a sign"], "true_target": ["Offers", "Bind this Sword to his side .", "The lives of her best Citizens ,", "And all they stand possess 'd of ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["That may be for his honour . SONG ."], "true_target": ["Omit no Ceremony"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The Signs are fatal :"], "true_target": ["Juno smiles not upon this Match , and shews too", "She has her thunder ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["I thank your worship ."], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis Piles , and't please you ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Here 's an old reckoning for the dung and dirt , Sir ."], "true_target": ["I beseech your Worship ;"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Better your worship thinks of her .", "About the Place ye promised ."], "true_target": ["I have brought the gold", "Your Worship 's merry ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Send him the piece , he likes it ."], "true_target": ["Ye see the Edile 's busie ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But I with Truth .", "Here is a prettie youth ."], "true_target": ["Princes may love with Titles ,", "See , Sir , those flowers", "From out the Well , spring to your entertainment ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But we hope shortly to have \u2018 em for your worship .", "There are none yet , Sir , but no doubt there will be . But if you please touch some things of those natures .", "That would behold the wonderful works of Justice", "It stands not with his Royaltie .", "Should lay about him blindfold , like true Justice ,", "I cannot hold : if there be any people ,", "At the most wise and gracious Getianus .", "\u2018 Tis your own fault , Sir ;"], "true_target": ["Hit where it will : the more ye whip and hang , Sir ,", "In a new Officer , a man conceal 'd yet ,", "The more ye are admired .", "For look you , one so newly warm in Office", "There are knaves indeed , Sir ,", "He must not ,", "Let him repair , and see , and hear , and wonder", "Of what degree soever , or what qualitie ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And prone to anger .", "Many notorious people .", "Your worship is a man of a spare body ,", "Make up in rule and rigour ."], "true_target": ["You shall have many ,", "You must forget their names ; your honour bids ye .", "You need not , Sir , your place is without reason ;", "And what you want in growth and full proportion ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["An admirable , zealous and true Justice ."], "true_target": ["A rare Magistrate ! Another Solon sure ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["But for what ransom she shall please to think of ;", "Fair Princes should have tender thoughts ."], "true_target": ["Jewels , or Towns , or Provinces .", "We must take some other way : force must compel it .", "We desire not ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And for that boasted bug bear , Dioclesian ,", "Is more to me than Empire ; and to be", "And love the sender . Tell him , I will bring", "I entertain you . Lend your helping hands", "Why , you rebellious Wretches , dare you still", "Now by the Persian gods , most truly welcome ,", "A Princely Ransome , shall , if she repine ,", "Be forc 'd by various Tortures , to adore", "Ravish 'd from us , and Greece gave up to Rome .", "But as a Roman Brave , I do embrace it ,", "To do her honour ; O my best Cassana ,", "To free you with his Sword , all slavery", "And by this Sword , the instrument of death ,", "But of the spirit , to meet me in the field ,", "Or else with equal numbers . Courage , noble Princes ,", "We 'll teach thee to forget with present pleasures", "Admit him . Enter Niger . The purpose of thy coming ?", "They then shall break .", "That us 'd thee as a Slave , and did disdain", "The prey of Wolves or Vulturs ? the vain name", "Falls heavy on you .", "Contend when the last breath , or nod of mine", "As an high towring Falcon on her stretches ,", "He soon should find that our immortal Squadrons ,", "The Moon , the Winds , the nourishers of life ,"], "true_target": ["What she of late contemn 'd .", "This memorable day restor 'd to Persia ,", "To see this vertue", "O'rcome by you , a glorious victory .", "Encompass 'd thus with tributary Kings ,", "My Prisoners to the field , and without odds ,", "That with full numbers ever are supply 'd ,", "And let Posterity record , that we", "Since that you fly not humbly to our mercy", "Dare front his boldest Troops , and scatter him ,", "That cruelty can find out to make you wretched ,", "But yet dare hope your liberty by force ;", "Sister , and Partner of my Life and Empire ,", "Against his single force , alone defend \u2018 em ;", "This our strong comfort , that we cannot fall", "Though I receive this", "Of Roman Legions , I slight thus , and scorn ;", "Marks you out for the fire ? or to be made", "Thy late Captivity ; and this proud Roman ,", "To seat her by me ; and thus rais 'd , bow all", "If Dioclesian dare not attempt", "Severs the fearful fowl . And by the Sun ,", "Ingloriously , since we contend for all .", "That Empire of the World , great Philip 's Son ,", "would he were the master"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Sure these Romans"], "true_target": ["Are more than men ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Their great hearts will not yield ,"], "true_target": ["They cannot bend to any adverse Fate ,", "Such is their Confidence ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["With Rural Sports to give him entertainment :", "The certain pleasures of a private life .", "Doubts , and preventions to decline all dangers ,", "Into ingratitude , makes no stop in mischief ,", "Yet being ill , long great he cannot stand .", "That drowns a smaller Bark : and he once faln", "With which delighted , he with ease forgets", "But violently runs on . Allow Maximinian all ,", "The War with glory ended ; and Cosroe", "Honour , and Empire , absolute command ;", "A large sail fill 'd full with a fore-right wind ,", "y was like", "To whom , his confer 'd Sovera"], "true_target": ["In Lombardie ; where the glad Countrey strives", "But oh Ambition , that eats into", "By the grace and intercession of his Uncle ,", "Saluted Caesar : but good Dioclesian ,", "And to support her greatness , fashions fears ,", "Dismiss 'd in peace , returns to Persia :", "The rest , arriving safely unto Rome ,", "Which in the place of safetie , prove her ruine :", "With a small Train , to a most private Grange", "Are entertained with triumphs : Maximinian ,", "All which be pleas 'd to see in Maximinian ,", "All specious trifles , and securely tastes", "Weary of Pomp and State , retires himself", "With venom 'd teeth , true thankfulness , and honour ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["And I shall find some toyes that have been favors ,", "And my green slops I was married in ; my bonnet", "You know where I won it ."], "true_target": ["Do you think this great man will continue here ?", "And nose-gayes , and such knacks : for there be wenches .", "With my carnation point with Silver tags , boyes :"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Shall make the wanton Lasses skip again ,", "Continue here ? what else ? he has bought the great Farm ;", "And stock 'd it like an Emperour . Now , all our sports again", "Our Sheep-sheerings , and all our knacks ."], "true_target": ["Our Holiday good cheer , our Bag-pipes now Boyes ,", "Our evening-daunces on the Green , our Songs ,", "And all the ground about it , all the woods too ;", "And all our merry Gambols , our may-Ladies ,", "A great man , with a great Inheritance ,"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["He comes abroad anon to view his grounds ,", "I hope you will , Sir .", "But hark ye ,", "To reckon us amongst your humble servants ,", "We'l have the best , Sir ,", "And make him bless the hour he liv 'd here happy .", "And strike him such new springs , and such free welcoms ,", "Handsom young Girls .", "Give room , neighbours ,", "And that our Country Sports , Sir ,\u2014", "And with the help of Thirsis , and old Egon ,", "My mantle goes on too I plaid young Paris in ,", "Honest and cheerful toyes from honest meanings ,", "Enough : I'le tell ye"], "true_target": ["A great man in our State : gods bless your worship .", "And some few more o'th \u2019 wenches , we will meet him ,", "Then we'l sing daily ,", "Shall make him scorn an Empire , forget Majestie ,", "and Amaryllis ,", "And Ladies to delight him with their voyces ;", "And make him the best Sports .", "He cannot expect now", "And the best hearts they have . We must be neat all :", "We know it Sir ; and we desire your worship", "And the new garters Amaryllis sent me .", "His Courtly entertainments , and his rare Musicks ,", "We must not call him Emperour .", "On goes my russet jerkin with blue buttons ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["That 's all one ;", "He is the King of good fellows , that 's no treason ;", "Thou wilt ne 're be old , Alexis .", "He cannot give his humour : he is a brave fellow ,"], "true_target": ["I grant ye , he has given his honour to another man ,", "And will love us , and we'l love him . Come hither Ladon ,", "And so I'le call him still , though I be hang 'd for't .", "What new Songs , and what geers ?"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Our Teams to two pence , will give him some content ,", "We lads o'th \u2019 lash , with some blunt entertainment ,", "I'le to th \u2019 Barbers ,"], "true_target": ["It shall cost me I know what . Who 's this ?", "And we will second ye , we honest Carters ,", "Or we 'll bawl fearfully .", "Encrease your Mastership ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Yes , yes : we'l all be handsom , and wash our faces .", "That 's hatch 'd into your chaps : I pray ye be carefull ,"], "true_target": ["Enter Geta .", "And mundifie your muzzel .", "Neighbour , I see a remnant of March dust"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["Long live the good and gracious Dioclesian .", "We cannot stir ."], "true_target": ["We totter up and down ; we cannot stand , Sir ;", "The Earth shakes ;", "Me thinks the mountains tremble too ."], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["How thick and hot they come ? we shall be burn 'd all ."], "true_target": ["The flashes"], "play_index": 1, "act_index": 1}, {"query": ["The very thing I was going to propose !", "Margate .", "No : I dare say that does make some difference .", "And I was n't tall enough !", "And I was about to marry the interesting creature you so cruelly deceived .", "That 's not a bad throw of yours , sir .", "Mine !", "I spoke first , sir \u2014", "I 've just stepped out !", "My intended ? How can that be , sir ? You proposed to her first !", "What a disgusting position !", "No , sir \u2014 not more than any other harmless recreation .", "At a favorite watering-place . How curious you are !", "No , sir \u2014 not you , nor any other man alive !", "Do n't think of me , Box \u2014 I shall be sufficiently rewarded by the knowledge of my Box 's happiness .", "\u201c Returned here this morning \u201d \u2014", "Very well , sir !", "Goodness gracious !", "I think it 's a barbarous practice , sir .", "You need n't disturb yourself , sir . She wo n't come here .", "Heads !", "Very well , sir !", "Go ? Pooh \u2014 pooh !", "Very well , sir .", "My dear sir \u2014 my very dear sir \u2014 if there does exist any ingenious contrivance whereby a man on the eve of committing matrimony can leave this world , and yet stop in it , I should n't be sorry to know it .", "A lady 's got out \u2014", "No , sir \u2014 my wife would n't let me .", "Entirely , sir .", "I do n't say I do , Mrs. B .; only I wish you distinctly to understand , that I do n't believe it 's the cat .", "Stop ! You do n't mean to say , thoughtless and imprudent woman , that you keep loaded fire-arms in the house ?", "Holloa ! Postman again !", "Well , wonders will never cease ! Conscious of being eleven minutes and a half behind time , I was sneaking into the shop , in a state of considerable excitement , when my venerable employer , with a smile of extreme benevolence on his aged countenance , said to me \u2014 \u201c Cox , I sha n't want you to-day \u2014 you can have a holiday . \u201d \u2014 Thoughts of \u201c Gravesend and back \u2014 fare , One Shilling , \u201d instantly suggested themselves , intermingled with visions of \u201c Greenwich for Fourpence ! \u201d Then came the Twopenny Omnibuses , and the Halfpenny boats \u2014 in short , I 'm quite bewildered ! However , I must have my breakfast first \u2014 that 'll give me time to reflect . I 've bought a mutton chop , so I sha n't want any dinner .Good gracious ! I 've forgot the bread . Holloa ! what 's this ? A roll , I declare ! Come , that 's lucky ! Now , then , to light the fire . Holloa \u2014\u2014 who presumes to touch my box of lucifers ? Why , it 's empty ! I left one in it \u2014 I 'll take my oath I did . Heydey ! why , the fire is lighted ! Where 's the gridiron ? On the fire , I declare ! And what 's that on it ? Bacon ? Bacon it is ! Well , now , \u2018 pon my life , there is a quiet coolness about Mrs. Bouncer 's proceedings that 's almost amusing . She takes my last lucifer \u2014 my coals , and my gridiron , to cook her breakfast by ! No , no \u2014 I can n't stand this ! Come out of that !Now , then , for my breakfast things .", "Sixes !", "No , sir .", "Will you be quiet , sir ?", "And your shilling has got two heads , sir !", "Put it under !Goodness Gracious !", "Well , good-morning , Mrs. Bouncer !", "What shall part us ?", "Then , I suppose , the gentleman you are speaking of , is the same individual that I invariably meet coming up stairs when I 'm going down , and going down stairs when I 'm coming up !", "And you 've kept it carefully in your pocket ever since ?", "Margate .", "Very well \u2014 go on !", "I 've no objection at all to dice . I lost one pound , seventeen and sixpence , at last Barnet Races , to a very gentlemanly looking man , who had a most peculiar knack of throwing sixes ; I suspected they were loaded , so I gave him another half-crown , and he gave me the dice .", "It 's the printer !", "You 'll excuse me , sir \u2014 but at present I do n't exactly understand how you can help being one of the three .", "Wheugh !", "The mantel piece ! That strikes me as being a considerable stretch , either of your imagination , Mrs. B ., or the gentleman 's legs . I presume you mean the fender or the hob .", "Your intended !", "Will you be quiet , sir ?", "Then read it , sir .", "The boat , sir !\u201c As her man of business , I immediately proceeded to examine her papers , amongst which I soon discovered her will ; the following extract from which will , I have no doubt , be satisfactory to you . \u2018 I hereby bequeath my entire property to my intended husband . \u2019 \u201d Excellent , but unhappy creature !", "Thank you . Then , perhaps , you 'll be good enough to hold this glass , while I finish my toilet .", "Of course . You do n't suppose I 'm going to read a letter from your intended ?", "And Cox \u2014", "No such thing , sir \u2014 I repeat , sir \u2014 no such thing , sir , but my wife \u2014 I mean , my intended wife \u2014 happens to be the proprietor of a considerable number of bathing-machines \u2014\u2014", "Proprietor of bathing machines ?", "Only you ? Then where 's the lady ?", "I wo n't have her !", "So was I .", "Of course we stop where we are ?", "Very well , sir !", "The very observation I was going to make to you !", "Penelope Ann !Penelope Ann ?", "Upon your honour ?", "Pooh !", "Nor partial to a pipe ?", "Another trifle from", "I shall not do anything of the sort , sir .", "There !", "Grumble ! Mrs. Bouncer , do you possess such a thing as a dictionary ?", "I do n't want it !", "I sometimes join in a chorus .", "Explain !", "That is \u2014 my intended wife .", "Mrs. B. I hope , Mrs. Bouncer , you 're not guilty of cheroots or", "\u201c Poor Mrs. Wiggins went out for a short excursion in a sailing boat \u2014 a sudden and violent squall soon after took place , which , it is supposed , upset her , as she was found , two days afterwards , keel upwards . \u201d", "Thank ye , sir .", "I forgive you again !", "Where 's my lucky sixpence ? I 've got it !", "There ! You hear , sir \u2014 it belongs to me !", "Swindler !", "It must be she ! And you , sir \u2014 you are Box \u2014 the lamented , long lost Box !", "Cubas ?", "So will I !", "Sit down , sir \u2014 or I 'll instantly vociferate \u201c Police ! \u201d", "\u201c Dear Mr. Cox , pardon my candor \u201d \u2014", "Very well , sir ! However , do n't let me prevent you from going out .", "Then put your pipe out , sir !", "Equally ?", "No you do n't !", "So she is \u2014 and I vote , Box , that we stick by her .", "I shall go on till my luck changes , sir !", "Huzza !", "If she 'd been my own intended ? She was my own intended !"], "true_target": ["Then I 'll lend you one \u2014 and if you turn to the letter G , you 'll find \u201c Grumble , verb neuter \u2014 to complain without a cause . \u201d Now that 's not my case , Mrs. B ., and now that we are upon the subject , I wish to know how it is that I frequently find my apartment full of smoke ?", "Box !", "How can that be ? You proposed to her first !", "Stop !", "Sixes !", "Heads !", "I 'll not lose sight of you till", "Thieves !", "Your apartment ? Ha ! ha !\u2014 come , I like that ! Look here , sir \u2014Mrs. Bouncer 's receipt for the last week 's rent , sir \u2014", "Heads !", "\u201c I hasten to apprise you of my immediate union \u201d \u2014", "Well , sir ?", "It 's obviously for me to retire .\u2014 Not for worlds would I disturb the rapturous meeting between you and your intended . Good morning !", "Sixes !", "Holloa ! What are you about , sir ?", "Shut the door !", "So will I !", "You are much more worthy of her than I am , sir . Permit me , then , to follow the generous impulse of my nature \u2014 I give her up to you .", "I 'm ready , sir !Will you lead off , sir ?", "Just my case !", "The chimney does n't smoke tobacco . I 'm speaking of tobacco smoke ,", "I say you have !", "\u201c Happy to inform you \u2014 false alarm \u201d \u2014", "With all my heart ! Dice , by all means \u2014", "Do you think that 's a C .? It looks to me like a B .", "No , sir \u2014 yours !", "Well , sir ?", "Give it to me !", "So did I. Singular coincidence !", "Of course , sir .", "Then produce the murderous weapons instantly !", "Come in \u2014 come in !Oh , goodness ! my chop !Holloa \u2014 what 's that ? The bacon again ! Oh , pooh ! Zounds \u2014 confound it \u2014 dash it \u2014 damn it \u2014 I can n't stand this !Who are you , sir ?", "Goodness gracious !", "I will ! What was it ?", "And to think that I tossed up for such a woman !", "That 's fair enough , Mr . Box .", "From the appearance of his outward man , I should unhesitatingly set him down as a gentleman connected with the printing interest .", "You 'll excuse me , sir \u2014 but I do n't like joking upon such subjects .", "I 'm sure , Mr . Box , I can n't sufficiently thank you for your sympathy .", "No !", "I can n't say I did , Mrs. B. I should feel obliged to you , if you could accommodate me with a more protuberant bolster , Mrs. B . The one I 've got now seems to me to have about a handful and a half of feathers at each end , and nothing whatever in the middle .", "Yours !", "To which you very sensibly replied , that you 'd come to an untimely end .", "Why , not exactly ; and yet , at present , I 'm only aware of one obstacle to my doating upon her , and that is , that I can n't abide her !", "Everything so clean and comfortable \u2014", "So did I . How very odd !", "I 'll take it !", "I 've restored you to the arms of your intended .", "You 're no such thing , sir ! and I prefer presenting you to", "No , yours !", "Box , I give you joy !", "Go to your attic , sir \u2014", "Then , how is it that \u2014", "\u201c Picked up by a steamboat \u201d \u2014", "\u201c And be with you at ten o'clock , exact . \u201d", "Originally widow of William Wiggins ?", "Yes , woman \u2014 whose room is this ?", "Agreed ! There 's my hand upon it \u2014\u2014", "Immediately turn out that printer !", "Penelope Ann .", "Printer , I shall do you a frightful injury , if you do n't instantly leave my apartment .", "Oh ! a \u2014 widower ?", "At Margate ?", "Cut ? It strikes me I 've had it mowed ! It 's very kind of you to mention it , but I 'm sufficiently conscious of the absurdity of my personal appearance already .Now for my hat .That 's the effect of having one 's hair cut . This hat fitted me quite tight before . Luckily I 've got two or three more .This is pleasant ! Never mind . This one appears to me to wabble about rather less than the others \u2014\u2014 and now I 'm off ! By the bye , Mrs. Bouncer , I wish to call your attention to a fact that has been evident to me for some time past \u2014 and that is , that my coals go remarkably fast \u2014", "\u201c Margate \u2014 May the 4th . Sir ,\u2014 I hasten to convey to you the intelligence of a melancholy accident , which has bereft you of your intended wife . \u201d He means your intended !", "Then do n't you be ridiculous , sir !", "Did you ? Then I do forgive you .", "Nor have I any rooted antipathy to you , sir .", "Very well , sir . Heads , I win ,\u2014 tails , you lose .", "Could n't you vary the monotony of our proceedings by an occasional tail , sir ?", "Not at all . It 's an operation that I should decidedly object to .", "It is not the case only with the coals , Mrs. Bouncer , but I 've lately observed a gradual and steady increase of evaporation among my candles , wood , sugar , and lucifer matches .", "At present I am entirely of your opinion \u2014 because I have n't the most distant particle of an idea what you mean .", "Your 's seem pretty good ones , sir .", "Consequently , in the bathing season \u2014 which luckily is rather a long one \u2014 we see but little of each other ; but as that is now over , I am daily indulging in the expectation of being blessed with the sight of my beloved .Are you married ?", "Dear me ! I think I begin to have some slight perception of your meaning . Ingenious creature ! You disappeared \u2014 the suit of clothes were found \u2014", "Singular enough ! Just my case three months ago at", "Sixes !", "Because , as I 've observed already , I can n't abide her . You 'll be very happy with her .", "For , between you and me , I 'm rather partial to this house .", "With all my heart , sir !", "I consented at once !", "I 've half a mind to register an oath that I 'll never have my hair cut again !I look as if I had just been cropped for the militia ! And I was particularly emphatic in my instructions to the hair-dresser , only to cut the ends off . He must have thought I meant the other ends ! Never mind \u2014 I sha n't meet anybody to care about so early . Eight o'clock , I declare ! I have n't a moment to lose . Fate has placed me with the most punctual , particular , and peremptory of hatters , and I must fulfil my destiny .Open locks , whoever knocks !", "What do you want here , sir ?", "Or tails lose \u2014 whichever you prefer .", "Thank ye .", "Well , sir ?", "That 's fair enough \u2014 and I 'll take three-fourths .", "Sixes !", "Yes \u2014 nine o'clock . You need n't light my fire in future , Mrs . B .\u2014 I 'll do it myself . Do n't forget the bolster !A halfpenny worth of milk , Mrs. Bouncer \u2014 and be good enough to let it stand \u2014 I wish the cream to accumulate .", "Sixes !", "Ah , then you mean to say that this gentleman 's smoke , instead of emulating the example of all other sorts of smoke , and going up the chimney , thinks proper to affect a singularity by taking the contrary direction ?", "Ah \u2014 a happy bachelor !", "I beg your pardon , sir \u2014 I cannot allow any one to rumple my bed .", "I am !"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["Yes , sir . I hope you 'll forgive me , sir .By the bye , I paid twopence for it .", "Sometimes one , sometimes t'other . Well , there he sits for hours , and puffs away into the fire-place .", "What is it , gentlemen ?", "Why , to-morrow \u2014", "Good-morning , Mr. Cox . I hope you slept comfortably , Mr. Cox ?", "Why \u2014 I suppose the chimney \u2014", "Then open the door !", "Dear , dear , Mr . Box ! what a temper you are in , to be sure ! I declare you 're quite pale in the face !", "Why \u2014", "Well , Mr . Box \u2014 do you want anything more of me ?", "What is the matter ?", "No \u2014 it belongs to both of you !", "Not I , indeed , Mr. Cox .", "But , then , you 've all the day to yourself .", "Lor , Mr. Cox !", "Why \u2014 yes \u2014 I \u2014", "No , sir .", "Another letter , Mr. Cox \u2014 twopence more !", "Why , I do declare , you 've had your hair cut .", "The little second floor back room is quite ready !", "Oh , Mr . Box ! You surely would n't deprive me of a lodger ?", "Yes , sir \u2014 and a very respectable young gentleman he is .", "Excuse me \u2014 but if you both take it , you may just as well stop where you are .", "He 's gone at last ! I declare I was all in a tremble for fear Mr . Box would come in before Mr. Cox went out . Luckily , they 've never met yet \u2014 and what 's more , they 're not very likely to do so ; for Mr . Box is hard at work at a newspaper office all night , and does n't come home till the morning , and Mr. Cox is busy making hats all day long , and does n't come home till night ; so that I 'm getting double rent for my room , and neither of my lodgers are any the wiser for it . It was a capital idea of mine \u2014 that it was ! But I have n't an instant to lose . First of all , let me put Mr. Cox 's things out of Mr . Box 's way .Now , then , to put the key where Mr. Cox always finds it .I really must beg Mr . Box not to smoke so much . I was so dreadfully puzzled to know what to say when Mr. Cox spoke about it . Now , then , to make the bed \u2014 and do n't let me forget that what 's the head of the bed for Mr. Cox , becomes the foot of the bed for Mr . Box \u2014 people 's tastes do differ so .The idea of Mr. Cox presuming to complain of such a bolster as this !"], "true_target": ["Oh , Mr . Box !", "Gone !", "Why \u2014 I suppose \u2014 yes \u2014 that must be it \u2014", "Oh \u2014 yes \u2014 the gentleman in the attic , sir .", "Well , if ever ! What next , I wonder ?", "Is there anything else you 've got to grumble about , sir ?", "Oh , dear gentlemen , do n't be angry \u2014 but , you see , this gentleman \u2014\u2014 only being at home in the daytime , and that gentleman \u2014\u2014 at night , I thought I might venture , until my little back second floor room was ready \u2014", "Well \u2014 but , gentlemen \u2014", "Mr. Cox ! Mr. Cox !", "Lor , Mr. Cox ! you surely do n't suspect me ?", "Why the gentleman who has got the attics , is hardly ever without a pipe in his mouth \u2014 and there he sits , with his feet upon the mantel-piece \u2014", "Yes , sir", "Oh no \u2014 they 're not loaded .", "No !", "Yes , sir . And , by the bye , Mr . Box , he begged me to request of you , as a particular favor , that you would not smoke quite so much .", "Certainly .", "Mr. Cox !Open the door ! It 's only me \u2014 Mrs. Bouncer !", "Not quite , gentlemen . I can n't find the pistols , but I have brought you a letter \u2014 it came by the General Post yesterday . I 'm sure I do n't know how I forgot it , for I put it carefully in my pocket .", "Yes , and she 's left a note for Mr. Cox .", "Now do n't quarrel , gentlemen . You see , there used to be a partition here \u2014", "Lor , Mr . Box ! what is the matter ?", "No , sir .", "Nay , I 'll see if I can n't get the other room ready this very day . Now do keep your tempers .", "Anything to accommodate you , Mr. Cox .", "You 'll be back at your usual time , I suppose , sir ?"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["Yes \u2014\u2014 no . Heads win , sir .", "Cheat !", "And I 'm sure the mistress of it , from what I have seen of her , is very anxious to please .", "I say , sir !", "Nonsense ! Fracture the seal !", "With all my heart , sir . The little back second floor room is yours , sir \u2014 now , go \u2014", "\u201c With Mr. Knox . \u201d", "Very well , sir .", "There !", "No , yours ! However , it 's perfectly immaterial \u2014 but she unquestionably was yours .", "Poor woman !", "Three cheers for Knox ! Ha , ha , ha !", "So have I !", "Yes , but then you \u2014 now do n't let us begin again \u2014 Go on .", "Ann ?", "So I was obliged to content myself with a marching regiment \u2014 I enlisted !", "It would come to precisely the same thing , Bouncer , because if I detect the slightest attempt to put my pipe out , I at once give you warning that I shall give you warning at once .", "What colour would you have a man be , who has been setting up long leaders for a daily paper all night ?", "Well , sir , to escape her importunities , I came to the determination of enlisting into the Blues , or Life Guards .", "Widow of William Wiggins !", "Good morning , sir !", "I 've no wish to be introduced to your intended .", "Unhand me , hatter ! or I shall cast off the lamb and assume the lion !", "On the contrary \u2014 I 've had quite enough of you !", "Agreed ! There 's my hand upon it \u2014 join but your 's \u2014 agree that the house is big enough to hold us both , then Box \u2014", "Do n't be absurd , sir !", "Sixes !", "Well , that 's the same thing ! I congratulate you !", "Not help it ?", "What am I about ? I 'm about to smoke .", "Ha ! What 's that ? A cab 's drawn up at the door !No \u2014 it 's a twopenny omnibus !", "I 'm perfectly serious , sir . I 've been defunct for the last three years !", "That 's a pretty good one of your 's , sir .Sixes !", "Heads !", "Will you allow me to observe , if you have not had any exercise to-day , you 'd better go out and take it .", "Oh ! then I presume I 'm not to set you down as being frantically attached to your intended ?", "Heads !", "Exactly \u2014 and in one of the pockets of the coat , or the waistcoat , or the pantaloons \u2014 I forget which \u2014 there was also found a piece of paper , with these affecting farewell words : \u201c This is thy work , oh , Penelope Ann ! \u201d", "It 's the hatter !", "Sixes !", "If you come to that \u2014 who are you ?", "Sixes !", "It 's quite extraordinary , the trouble I always have to get rid of that venerable female ! She knows I 'm up all night , and yet she seems to set her face against my indulging in a horizontal position by day . Now , let me see \u2014 shall I take my nap before I swallow my breakfast , or shall I take my breakfast before I swallow my nap \u2014 I mean , shall I swallow my nap before \u2014 no \u2014 never mind ! I 've got a rasher of bacon somewhere \u2014\u2014 I 've the most distinct and vivid recollection of having purchased a rasher of bacon \u2014 Oh , here it is \u2014\u2014 and a penny roll . The next thing is to light the fire . Where are my lucifers ?Now , \u2018 pon my life , this is too bad of Bouncer \u2014 this is , by several degrees , too bad ! I had a whole box full , three days ago , and now there 's only one ! I 'm perfectly aware that she purloins my coals and my candles , and my sugar \u2014 but I did think \u2014 oh , yes , I did think that my lucifers would be sacred !Now I should like to ask any unprejudiced person or persons their opinion touching this candle . In the first place , a candle is an article that I do n't require , because I 'm only at home in the day time \u2014 and I bought this candle on the first of May \u2014 Chimney-sweepers \u2019 Day \u2014 calculating that it would last me three months , and here 's one week not half over , and the candle three parts gone !Mrs. Bouncer has been using my gridiron ! The last article of consumption that I cooked upon it was a pork chop , and now it is powerfully impregnated with the odour of red herrings !How sleepy I am , to be sure ! I 'd indulge myself with a nap , if there was anybody here to superintend the turning of my bacon .Perhaps it will turn itself . I must lie down \u2014 so , here goes .", "I 'll go to law !", "Oh , doubtless a tender epistle from Penelope Ann .", "Yours !", "Gracious goodness !", "Oh ! There 's nothing particularly remarkable about him , except his hats . I meet him in all sorts of hats \u2014 white hats and black hats \u2014 hats with broad brims , and hats with narrow brims \u2014 hats with naps , and hats without naps \u2014 in short , I have come to the conclusion , that he must be individually and professionally associated with the hatting interest .", "I heard of it . I congratulate you \u2014 I give you joy ! And now , I think I 'll go and take a stroll .", "Ai n't you rather tired of turning up heads , sir ?", "Heads !", "Those are not bad dice of yours , sir .", "So do I , sir . To be sure , I do n't so much object to it when the pistols are not loaded .", "Generous , ill-fated being !", "Oh ! I understand . You 've got a snug little establishment of your own here \u2014 on the sly \u2014 cunning dog \u2014", "When I remember that I staked such a treasure on the hazard of a die !", "Cox , I congratulate you \u2014", "Ditto , sir !", "Take a bit of roll , sir ?", "So am I \u2014 I begin to feel quite at home in it .", "Yours !", "Ah , that may be \u2014 but I 'm not alive !", "You know the consequences , sir \u2014 instant satisfaction , sir !", "Penelope Ann !", "Of course !", "I shall retire to my pillow .", "Let 's try something else . I have it ! Suppose we toss for Penelope", "I deny it !", "Me ? Why \u2014 not exactly !", "As a gentleman ?", "Ah \u2014 tell me \u2014 in mercy tell me \u2014 have you such a thing as a strawberry mark on your left arm ?", "How can she be my intended , now that I 'm drowned ?", "Stop \u2014 a thought strikes me . Instead of going to law about the property , suppose we divide it .", "That wo n't do . Half and half !", "It 's the same to me , sir .", "Why \u2014 not \u2014 precisely !", "Ann ?", "I wo n't have her !", "Now then , sir !", "Come in ! if it 's you , Mrs. Bouncer \u2014 you need n't be afraid . I wonder how long I 've been asleep ?Goodness gracious \u2014 my bacon !Holloa ! what 's this ? A chop ! Whose chop ? Mrs. Bouncer 's , I 'll be bound .\u2014 She thought to cook her breakfast while I was asleep \u2014 with my coals , too \u2014 and my gridiron ! Ha , ha ! But where 's my bacon ?Here it is . Well , \u2018 pon my life , Bouncer 's going it ! And shall I curb my indignation ? Shall I falter in my vengeance ? No !So much for Bouncer 's breakfast , and now for my own !I may as well lay my breakfast things .\u2014", "Now then , sir ,\u2014 heads win ?", "Well , sir \u2014 the day fixed for the happy ceremony at length drew near \u2014 in fact , too near to be pleasant \u2014 so I suddenly discovered that I was n't worthy to possess her , and I told her so \u2014 when , instead of being flattered by the compliment , she flew upon me like a tiger of the female gender \u2014 I rejoined \u2014 when suddenly something whizzed past me , within an inch of my ear , and shivered into a thousand fragments against the mantel-piece \u2014 it was the slop-basin . I retaliated with a tea-cup \u2014 we parted , and the next morning I was served with a notice of action for breach of promise .", "And mine .", "But they would n't have me \u2014 they actually had the effrontery to say that I was too short \u2014"], "true_target": ["And Ramsgate !", "\u201c Carried into Boulogne \u201d \u2014", "Mind your own business , Bouncer !", "Where 's my tossing shilling ? Here it is !", "Heads ? Stop , sir ! Will you permit me \u2014", "Sixes !", "My attic , sir ? Your attic , sir !", "Pooh \u2014 pooh ! Why do n't you keep your own side of the staircase , sir ?It was as much your fault as mine , sir ! I say , sir \u2014 it was as much your fault as mine , sir !", "And yet , sir \u2014 on the other hand \u2014 does n't it strike you as rather a waste of time , for two people to keep firing pistols at one another , with nothing in \u2018 em ?", "Explain !Whose room is this ?", "My infatuated widow offered to purchase my discharge , on condition that I 'd lead her to the altar .", "Holloa !Put down that window , sir !", "Ha ! Where ?", "I 'd no sooner done so , than I was sorry for it .", "Pistols for two !", "Postman yesterday \u2014 postman to-day .\u2014", "Cox !You 'll excuse the apparent insanity of the remark , but the more I gaze on your features , the more I 'm convinced that you 're my long lost brother .", "Does n't it belong to me ?", "Holloa ! your sixpence has got no tail , sir !", "Instantly remove that hatter !", "I 'm sorry that most important business of the Colonial Office will prevent my witnessing the truly happy meeting between you and your intended . Good-morning !", "Besides , it was all Mrs. Bouncer 's fault , sir .", "Gracious Goodness !", "Drown yourself !", "Very well , sir !", "I am !", "Listen to me . Three years ago it was my misfortune to captivate the affections of a still blooming , though somewhat middle-aged widow , at Ramsgate .", "Then there 's nothing more easy . Do as I did .", "What 's your opinion of duelling , sir ?", "Not at all . Well ?", "Proprietor of bathing machines !", "Your apartment ? You mean my apartment , you contemptible hatter , you !", "\u201c Will start by early train , to-morrow \u201d \u2014", "You 'll excuse me , sir \u2014 but our last arrangement was , that she was your intended .", "Me , sir ?", "Sixes !", "Your bed ? Hark ye , sir \u2014 can you fight ?", "Ha ! then you are Cox ?", "Very well , sir !", "I hesitated \u2014 at last I consented .", "\u201c Sudden squall \u2014 boat upset \u2014 Mrs. Wiggins , your intended \u201d \u2014", "Pooh ! It 's perfectly absurd , your going on throwing sixes in this sort of way , sir .", "My intended ? You mean your intended .", "Your wife !", "Then it is he !", "Happy ! Me ! With the consciousness that I have deprived you of such a treasure ? No , no , Cox !", "I have it ! Suppose we draw lots for the lady \u2014 eh , Mr. Cox ?", "I say , sir \u2014\u2014", "If you come to that \u2014 what do you want ?", "Equally . I 'll take two thirds .", "There 's no mistaking that majestic person \u2014 it 's Penelope Ann !", "My intended ! Pooh ! It 's addressed to you \u2014 C. O. X .!", "So will I !", "And , after all , I 've no violent animosity to you , sir .", "Stop ! Can you inform me who the individual is that I invariably encounter going down stairs when I 'm coming up , and coming up stairs when I 'm going down ?", "No ? Then come on \u2014", "Hark \u2014 she 's coming up stairs !", "No \u2014 not absolutely !", "What shall tear us asunder ?", "An insult ! to my very face \u2014 under my very nose !", "And I 'm sure , Mr. Cox , you could n't feel more , if she had been your own intended !", "Murder !", "I 'll have it !", "Your intended ? Come , I like that ! Did n't you very properly observe just now , sir , that I proposed to her first ?", "Do n't flatter yourself , sir .Holloa ! that 's my roll , sir \u2014", "Do you sing , sir ?", "If you wo n't believe me , I 'll refer you to a very large , numerous , and respectable circle of disconsolate friends .", "Very well , sir !", "Benevolent being ! I would n't rob you for the world !", "Well , sir \u2014 ruin stared me in the face \u2014 the action proceeded against me with gigantic strides \u2014 I took a desperate resolution \u2014 I left my home early one morning , with one suit of clothes on my back , and another tied up in a bundle , under my arm \u2014 I arrived on the cliffs \u2014 opened my bundle \u2014 deposited the suit of clothes on the very verge of the precipice \u2014 took one look down into the yawning gulph beneath me , and walked off in the opposite direction .", "\u201c But being convinced that our feelings , like our ages , do not reciprocate \u201d \u2014", "So it seems ! Far be it from me , Bouncer , to hurry your movements , but I think it right to acquaint you with my immediate intention of divesting myself of my garments , and going to bed .", "Although we are doomed to occupy the same room for a few hours longer , I do n't see any necessity for our cutting each other 's throats , sir .", "That 's lucky ! Mrs. Bouncer 's nephew left a pair here yesterday . He sometimes persuades me to have a throw for a trifle , and as he always throws sixes , I suspect they are good ones .", "Hark ye ! Why do you object to marry Penelope Ann ?", "What of that , sir ? I came to an untimely end , and you popped the question afterwards .", "Suppose we change ?", "Gracious goodness !", "Then give us a chorus .Have you seen the Bosjemans , sir ?", "The fortune 's mine !", "As you please , sir . The lowest throw , of course , wins Penelope", "No more do I !", "Did he ? Then you may tell the gentle hatter , with my compliments , that if he objects to the effluvia of tobacco , he had better domesticate himself in some adjoining parish .", "Or , what say you to dice ?"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["Are satisfied !"], "true_target": ["Mrs. Bouncer !", "Mrs. Bouncer ! Mrs. Bouncer !"], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["BOUNCER runs in , L. C ."], "true_target": ["BOUNCER runs in at door , L. C ."], "play_index": 2, "act_index": 2}, {"query": ["\u201c Well , they would be bretty dtear . You could n't make any show at all for less than fifteen tollars . \u201d The Lady , with a slight sigh : \u201c No , orchids would n't do . They are fantastic things , anyway , and they are not very effective , as you say . Pinks , anemones , marguerites , narcissus \u2014 there does n't seem to be any great variety , does there ? \u201d The Florist , patiently : \u201c There will be more , lader on . \u201d", "\u201c Yes , we haf dtea-rhoces , all kindts ; Marshal Niel ; Matame Watterville and Matame Cousine \u2014 these pink ones ; they are sister rhoces ; Matame Hoste , this plack one ; the Midio , here ; Chacks \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady : \u201c No , no ! They wo n't any of them do . There ought to be a flower invented that would say something \u2014 pity , sympathy \u2014 that would n't hurt more than it helped . Is n't there anything ? Some flowering vine ? \u201d", "\u201c Well , we have cot noding in , at present . I coult get you some of that other chasmin \u2014 kindt of push , that gifs its berfume after dtark \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady : \u201c At night ? Yes , I know . That might do . But those pale green flowers , that are not like flowers \u2014 no , they would n't do ! I shall have to come back to your Pride roses ! Why do they call it Pride ? \u201d", "\u201c Your flowers ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes ; or cypress wine . \u201d", "\u201c Oh , well ; that is all I want to know . \u201d", "\u201c Chacks ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , it is a kind of sbordt . That rhoce should be berfectly whidte . \u201d The Young Man : \u201c On the whole , I do n't think it will do . I will take some of those pure white ones . Bride , did you call them ? \u201d", "\u201c As many as you lige . \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c Well , I do n't want any of these hard little buds . I want very long stems , and slender , with the flowers fully open , and fragile-looking \u2014 something like her . \u201d The first lady starts . \u201c Yes : like this \u2014 and this \u2014 and this . Be sure you get them all like these . And send them \u2014 I will give you the address . \u201d She writes on a piece of the paper before her . \u201c There , that is it . Here is my card . I want it to go with them . \u201d She turns from the florist with a sigh , and presses her handkerchief to her eyes .", "\u201c You are very goodt , matam . \u201d", "\u201c All rhighdt . I loog oudt . \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c I am so glad you happened to ask me . It has all been so dreadfully sudden , and I am quite bewildered . Let me think if there is anything more ! \u201d As she stands with her finger to her lip , the first lady makes a movement as if about to speak , but does not say anything . \u201c No , there is nothing more , I believe . \u201d The Florist , to the First Lady : \u201c Was there somet'ing ? \u201d The First Lady : \u201c No . There is no hurry . \u201d The Second Lady , turning towards her : \u201c Oh , I beg your pardon ! I have been keeping you \u201d \u2014 The First Lady : \u201c Not at all . I merely returned to \u2014 But it is n't of the least consequence . Do n't let me hurry you ! \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c Oh , I have quite finished , I believe . But I can hardly realize anything , and I was afraid of going away and forgetting something , for I am on my way to the station . My husband is very ill , and I am going South with him ; and this has been so sudden , so terribly unexpected . The only daughter of a friend \u201d \u2014 The First Lady : \u201c The only \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady : \u201c Yes , it is too much ! But perhaps you have come \u2014 I ought to have thought of it ; you may have come on the same kind of sad errand yourself ; you will know how to excuse \u201d \u2014 The First Lady , with a certain resentment : \u201c Not at all ! I was just ordering some flowers for a reception . \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c Oh ! Then I beg your pardon ! But there seems nothing else in the world but \u2014 death . I am very sorry . I beg your pardon ! \u201d She hastens out of the shop , and the first lady remains , looking a moment at the door after she has vanished . Then she goes slowly to the counter . The Lady , severely : \u201c Mr. Eichenlaub , I have changed my mind about the roses and the smilax . I will not have either . I want you to send me all of that jasmine vine that you can get . I will have my whole decorations of that . I wonder I did n't think of that before . Mr. Eichenlaub ! \u201d She hesitates . \u201c Who was that lady ? \u201d The Florist , looking about among the loose papers before him : \u201c Why , I dto n't know . I cot her cart here , somewhere . \u201d The Lady , very nervously : \u201c Never mind about the card ! I do n't wish to know who she was . I have no right to ask . No ! I wo n't look at it . \u201d She refuses the card , which he has found , and which he offers to her . \u201c I do n't care for her name , but \u2014 Where was she sending the flowers ? \u201d The Florist , tossing about the sheets of paper on the counter : \u201c She dtid n't say , but she wrhote it down here , somewhere \u201d \u2014 The Lady , shrinking back : \u201c No , no ! I do n't want to see it ! But what right had she to ask me such a thing as that ? It was very bad taste ; very obtuse ,\u2014 whoever she was . Have you \u2014 ah \u2014 found it ? \u201d The Florist , offering her a paper across the counter : \u201c Yes ; here it iss . \u201d The Lady , catching it from him , and then , after a glance at it , starting back with a shriek : \u201c Ah-h-h ! How terrible ! But it can n't be ! Oh , I do n't know what to think \u2014 It is the most dreadful thing that ever \u2014 It 's impossible ! \u201d She glances at the paper again , and breaks into a hysterical laugh : \u201c Ah , ha , ha , ha , ha ! Why , this is the address that I wrote out for that young gentleman 's flowers ! You have made a terrible mistake , Mr. Eichenlaub \u2014 you have almost killed me . I thought \u2014 I thought that woman was sending her funeral flowers to \u2014 to \u201d \u2014 She holds her hand over her heart , and sinks into the chair beside the counter , where she lets fall the paper . \u201c You have almost killed me . \u201d", "\u201c No , he rhon away and dtid n't leaf the attress . \u201d", "\u201c You want the smilax with them , then , I subbose ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , rhoces nearly always . Whidte ones . \u201d", "\u201c No , there is noding lige that which gomes in a crheenhouse rhoce . We got a whidte rhoce here \u201d \u2014 he goes to his refrigerator , and brings back a long box of roses \u2014 \u201c that I did n't think of before . \u201d He gives the lady an apologetic glance . \u201c You see there is chost the least sdain of rhet on the etch of the leafs . \u201d The Young Man , examining the petals of the roses : \u201c Ah , that is very curious . It is a caprice , though . \u201d", "\u201c The Pridte . \u201d The Young Man , uncertainly : \u201c Oh ! \u201d The lady moves a little way up the counter toward the window , but keeps looking at the young man from time to time . She cannot help hearing all that he says . \u201c Have n't you any white rose with a little color in it ? Just the faintest tinge , the merest touch . \u201d", "The Second Lady : \u201c What do they use this rose for ? For \u2014 for \u201d \u2014", "\u201c I am very sorry . I dtid n't subbose \u2014 But the oder attress must be here . I will fint it \u201d \u2014 He begins tossing the papers about again . The Lady , springing to her feet : \u201c No , no ! I would n't look at it now for the world ! I have had one escape . Send me all jasmine , remember . \u201d", "\u201c Yes , we got a rhevricherator to keep the rhoces from sunstroke . \u201d He crimps the paper at the top , and twists it at the bottom of the bundle in his hand . \u201c Hier ! \u201d he calls to a young man warming his hands at the stove . \u201c Chon , but on your hat , and dtake this to \u2014 Holt on ! I forgot to but in the cart . \u201d He undoes the paper , and puts in a card lying on the counter before him ; the lady watches him vaguely . \u201c There ! \u201d He restores the wrapping and hands the package to the young man , who goes out with it . \u201c Well , matam ? \u201d The Lady , laying her muff with her hand in it on the counter , and leaning forward over it : \u201c Well , Mr. Eichenlaub . I am going to be very difficult . \u201d", "\u201c I get all you want of them . \u201d", "\u201c No ; a good many people lige them . We do n't sell them much for funerals ; they are too cloomy . They uce whidte ones for that : Marshal Niel , dtea-rhoces , this Pridte here , and other whidte ones . \u201d The Young Man , with an accent of repulsion : \u201c Oh ! \u201d He goes toward the window , and looks at a mass of Easter lilies in a vase there . He speaks as if thinking aloud : \u201c If they had a little color \u2014 But they would be dreadful with color ! Why , you ought to have something ! \u201d He continues musingly , as he returns to the florist : \u201c Have n't you got something very delicate , and slender , about the color of pale apple blossoms ? If you had them light enough , some kind of azaleas \u201d \u2014 The Lady , involuntarily : \u201c Ah ! \u201d The Florist , after a moment , in which he and the young man both glance at the lady , and she makes a sound in her throat to show that she is not thinking of them , and had not spoken in reference to what they were saying : \u201c The only azaleas I haf are these pink ones , and those whidte ones . \u201d The Young Man : \u201c And they are too pink and too white . Is n't there anything tall , and very delicate ? Something , well \u2014 something like the old-fashioned blush-rose ? But with very long stems ! \u201d", "\u201c How many shall I sendt you , matam ? \u201d", "\u201c I get you any kindt you lige ! \u201d", "\u201c It gomes out about rhighdt , nearly always . When I get left , sometimes , I can chenerally work dem off on funerals . Now , that bic orter hat I just fill , that wass a funeral . It usedt up all the flowers I hat ofer from yesterday . \u201d", "\u201c The Midio . \u201d", "\u201c You want them to go rhighdt away ? \u201d He takes up the card , and looks at it absently , and then puts it down , and examines the roses one after another . \u201c I do n't know whether I cot enough of these oben ones on handt , already \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady : \u201c Oh , you must n't send them to-day ! I forgot . It is n't to be till to-morrow . You must send them in the morning . But I am going out of town to-day , and so I came in to order them now . Be very careful not to send them to-day ! \u201d", "\u201c Yes ; and for weddtings , too ; for everything . \u201d The lady leans back a little and surveys the flowers critically . A young man enters , and approaches the florist , but waits with respectful impatience for the lady to transact her affairs . The florist turns to him inquiringly , and upon this hint he speaks . The Young Man : \u201c I want you to send a few roses \u2014 white ones , or nearly white \u201d \u2014 He looks at the lady . \u201c Perhaps \u201d \u2014", "\u201c Yes ; but what sdyle \u2014 fair or tark ? \u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Here is the chasmin . That is a very peautiful wine , with that sdtar-shaped flower ; and the berfume \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady , looking at a length of the jasmine vine which he trails on the counter before her : \u201c Yes , that is very beautiful ; and it is girlish , and like \u2014 But no , it would n't do ! That perfume is heartbreaking ! Do n't send that ! \u201d The Florist , patiently : \u201c Cypress wine ? Smilax ? \u201d The Second Lady , shaking her head vaguely : \u201c Some other flowering vine . \u201d", "\u201c Easder lilies ? Lily-off-the-valley ? Chonquils ? Azaleas ? Hyacinths ? Marcuerites ? \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c No , no ; they wo n't do , any of them ! Have n't you any other kind of roses , that wo n't be so terribly \u2014 terribly \u201d \u2014 She looks round over the shelves and the windows banked with flowers .", "\u201c Yes , Pridte . How many ? \u201d The Young Man : \u201c Oh , a dozen \u2014 two dozen ; I do n't know ! I want very long , slender stems , and the flowers with loose open petals ; none of those stout , tough-looking little buds . Here ! This , and this , and all these ; no , I do n't want any of those at all . \u201d He selects the different stems of roses , and while the florist gets a box , and prepares it with a lining of cotton and tissue-paper , he leans over and writes on a card . He pauses and puts up his pencil ; then he takes it out again and covers the card with writing . He gives it to the florist . \u201c I wish that to go into the box where it will be found the first thing . \u201d He turns away , and encounters the lady 's eyes as she chances to look toward him . \u201c I beg your pardon ! But \u201d \u2014 The Lady , smiling , and extending her hand : \u201c I felt almost sure it was you ! But I could n't believe my senses . All the other authorities report you in Rome . \u201d The Young Man : \u201c I returned rather suddenly . I just got in this morning . Our steamer was due yesterday , but there was so much ice in the harbor that we did n't work up till a few hours ago . \u201d", "\u201c That is what I lige . Then I do n't feel so rhesbonsible . \u201d", "The Lady , vaguely : \u201c Yes , palms . \u201d", "\u201c Goodt \u2014 morning , matam . I will sendt rhoundt this afternoon . \u201d", "\u201c I did n't say Bridte ; I said Pridte . \u201d", "\u201c That is the Midio . \u201d", "\u201c I got plenty this kindt ; all you want . I can always get them . \u201d The Young Man , dreamily regarding the roses : \u201c They look rather chilly . \u201d He goes to the stove , and drawing off his gloves , warms his hands , and then comes back . \u201c What do you call this rose ? \u201d", "\u201c That is what I lige to know ! Do you know what hotel he stobs at ? \u201d", "\u201c All rhighdt . And the chasmin ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , matam . \u201d", "\u201c Dropic ? With icepergs on the wintows ? \u201d He nods his head toward the frosty panes , and wraps a sheet of tissue-paper around the cotton and the flowers .", "\u201c No ; I am qvite at your service . We haf just had to egsegute a larche gommission very soddenly , and we are still in a little dtisorter yet ; but \u201d \u2014", "\u201c That is a new rhoce : the Pridte . It is jost oudt . It is coing to be a very bopular rhoce . \u201d The Second Lady : \u201c How very white it is ! It seems not to have the least touch of color in it ! Like snow ! No ; it is too cold ! \u201d", "\u201c Perhaps I better sendt somebody to see ? \u201d", ": \u201c It iss gold-looging . \u201d", "\u201c I wondter if he but the attress on the cart ? No ; there is noding ! \u201d He turns the card helplessly over . \u201c What am I coing to do about these flowers ? \u201d", "\u201c Balmss would to . But there would not be very much golor . \u201d", "\u201c All rhighdt . I do n't forget . No chasmin ; no smilax ; no kindt of wine . Only Pridte rhoces . \u201d", "\u201c For everything ! Weddtings , theatre barties , afternoon dteas , dtinners , funerals \u201d \u2014 The Second Lady : \u201c Ah , that is shocking ! I can n't have it , then . I want to send some flowers to a friend who has lost her only child \u2014 a young girl \u2014 and I wish it to be something expressive \u2014 characteristic \u2014 something that wo n't wound them with other associations . Have you nothing \u2014 nothing of that kind ? I want something that shall be significant ; something that shall be like a young girl , and yet \u2014 Have n't you some very tall , slender , delicate flowers ? Not this deathly white , but with , a little color in it ? Is n't there some kind of lily ? \u201d", "\u201c No , no ; they are whidte , or they are yellow ; dtea-rhoces ; Marshal Niel \u201d \u2014 The Young Man : \u201c Ah , I do n't want anything of that kind . What is the palest pink rose you have ? \u201d The Florist , indicating the different kinds in the vases , where the lady has been looking at them : \u201c Well , there is nothing lighder than the Matame Cousine , or the Matame Watterville , here ; they are sister rhoces \u201d \u2014 The Young Man : \u201c Yes , yes ; very beautiful ; but too dark . \u201d He stops before the Madame Hoste : \u201c What a strange flower ! It is almost black ! What is it for ? Funerals ? \u201d", "\u201c Well , it is a good teal cheaper , for one thing \u201d \u2014", ": \u201c Balmss ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , all chasmin . \u201d The lady goes slowly and absently toward the door , where she stops , and then she turns and goes back slowly , and as if forcing herself .", "\u201c All rhighdt . How many you think you want ? \u201d", "\u201c I nefer heardt off it . \u201d", "\u201c Some kind off yellow rhoce ? Dtea-rhoces ? \u201d The Lady , shaking her head : \u201c Tea-roses are ghastly . I hate yellow roses . I would rather have black , and black is simply impossible . I shall have to tell you just what I want to do . I do n't want to work up to my rooms with the flowers ; I want to work up to the young lady who is going to pour tea for me . I do n't care if there is n't a flower anywhere but on the table before her . I want a color scheme that shall not have a false note in it , from her face to the tiniest bud . I want them to all come together . Do you understand ? \u201d The Florist , doubtfully : \u201c Yes . \u201d After a moment : \u201c What kindt looking yo'ng laty iss she ? \u201d", "\u201c It is Pridte , not Bridte , matam . \u201d The Second Lady , with mystification : \u201c Oh ! Well , let me have a great many of them . Have you plenty ? \u201d"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["\u201c Open , fragile-looking ones , with long , slender stems ? \u201d", "\u201c No ; I do n't want it now . \u201d", "\u201c No ; he did n't say . I have no idea where he is going . But wait a moment ! I think I know where he meant to send the flowers . \u201d", "\u201c Send all you like ! Masses of them ! Heaps ! \u201d", "\u201c Well , that is exactly what I want . It ought to be something very tall and ethereal ; something very , very pale , and yet with a sort of suffusion of color . \u201d She walks up and down the shop , looking at all the plants and flowers . The Florist , waiting patiently : \u201c Somet'ing beside rhoces , then ? \u201d The Lady , coming back to him : \u201c No ; it must be roses , after all . I see that nothing else will do . What do you call those ? \u201d She nods at a vase of roses on a shelf behind him . The Florist , turning and taking them down for her : \u201c Ah , those whidte ones ! That is the Pridte . You sait you woult n't haf whidte ones . \u201d", "\u201c Very well . \u201d She is at the door , and she is about to open it , when it is opened from the outside , and another lady , deeply veiled , presses hurriedly in , and passes down the shop to the counter , where the florist stands sorting the long-stemmed Bride roses in the box before him . The first lady does not go out ; she lingers at the door , looking after the lady who has just come in ; then , with a little hesitation , she slowly returns , as if she had forgotten something , and waits by the stove until the florist shall have attended to the new-comer . The Second Lady , throwing back her veil , and bending over to look at the box of roses : \u201c What beautiful roses ! What do you call these ? \u201d", "\u201c That is true ; there would be no color at all , and my rooms certainly need all the color I can get into them . Yes , I shall have to have roses , after all . But not white ones ! \u201d", "\u201c Well , it is too dreadful . I am not going to have roses , whatever I have . \u201d After a thoughtful pause , and a more careful look around the shop : \u201c Mr. Eichenlaub , why would n't orchids do ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , that would be the best . Good-morning . \u201d", "\u201c Do n't speak of it ! And the flowers , are they just the same for funerals ? \u201d", "\u201c Mr. Eichenlaub . \u201d", "\u201c But you are not near the windows . Back here it is midsummer ! \u201d", "\u201c Send me Bride roses , then . I do n't care ! I will not be frightened out of them ! It is too foolish . \u201d", "\u201c Oh , Bride ! And do they use Bride roses for \u201d \u2014", "\u201c You will think I am very stupid this morning . Wo n't you please write it down for me ? \u201d The florist writes on a sheet of wrapping-paper , and she leans over and reads : \u201c Oh ! Meteor ! Well , it is very striking \u2014 a little too striking . I do n't like such a vivid pink , and I do n't like the name . Horrid to give such a name to a flower . \u201d She puts both hands into her muff , and drifts a little way off , as if to get him in a better perspective . \u201c Ca n't you suggest something , Mr. Eichenlaub ? \u201d", "\u201c Yes , or everybody was on Monday when I saw them . Everybody is looking very beautiful this winter , lovelier than ever , if possible . But so spiritual ! Too spiritual ! But that spirit of hers will carry her \u2014 I mean everybody , of course !\u2014 through everything . I feel almost wicked to have asked her to pour tea for me , when I think of how much else she is doing ! Do you know , I was just ordering the flowers for my Saturday , and I had decided to take her for my key-note in the decorations . But that made it so difficult ! There does n't seem anything delicate and pure and sweet enough for her . There ought to be some flower created just to express her ! But as yet there is n't . \u201d The Young Man : \u201c No , no ; there is n't . But now I must run away . I have n't been to my hotel yet ; I was just driving up from the ship , and I saw the flowers in the window , and \u2014 stopped . Good-by ! \u201d", "\u201c They are both exquisite , and they are such a tender almond-bloom pink ! I think the Madame Cousine is quite as nice ; but of course the larger ones are more effective . \u201d She examines them , turning her head from side to side , and then withdrawing a step , with a decisive sigh . \u201c No ; they are too pale . Have you nothing of a brighter pink ? What is that over there ? \u201d She points to a vase of roses quite at the front of the window , and the florist climbs over the mass of plants and gets it for her .", "\u201c Not at all ! That is n't the reason , at all . Some of your things are dearer . It 's because you take so much more interest , and you talk over what I want , and you do n't urge me , when I have n't made up my mind . You let me consult you , and you are not cross when I do n't take your advice . \u201d", "\u201c Have you \u2014 plenty \u2014 of those white \u2014 Bride roses ? \u201d", "\u201c Oh , not at all ! I had n't decided to take them . \u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Yes , there will be more sun , later on . But now , Mr. Eichenlaub , what do you think of plants in pots , set around ? \u201d", "\u201c No , I do n't want any smilax with them , either . Nothing but those white Bride roses ! \u201d She turns and goes to the door ; she calls back , \u201c Nothing but the roses , remember ! \u201d", "\u201c Yes , I see . \u201d She glances at the rear of the shop , where the floor is littered with the leaves and petals of flowers , and sprays of fern and evergreen . A woman , followed by a belated smell of breakfast , which gradually mingles with the odor of the plants , comes out of a door there , and begins to gather the larger fragments into her apron . The lady turns again , and looks at the jars and vases of cut flowers in the window , and on the counter . \u201c What I can n't understand is how you know just the quantity of flowers to buy every day . You must often lose a good deal . \u201d", "\u201c The what ? \u201d", "\u201c Only roses . \u201d The Florist , alone , thoughtfully turning over the papers on his counter : \u201c That is sdrainche that I mage that mistake about the attress ! I can n't find the oder one anwhere ; and if I lost it , what am I coing to do with the rhoces the other lady ortert ? \u201d He steps back and looks at his feet , and then stoops and picks up a paper , which he examines . \u201c Ach ! here it iss ! Zlipped down behindt . Now I do n't want to get it mixed with that oder any more . \u201d He puts it down at the left , and takes up the address for the young man 's roses on the right ; he stares at the two addresses in a stupefaction . \u201c That is very sdrainche too . Well ! \u201d He drops the papers with a shrug , and goes on arranging the flowers . THE RIVERSIDE PRESS PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON & CO . CAMBRIDGE , MASS . U. S. A . Plays and Poems BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A Counterfeit Presentment . 18mo , $ 1. 25 . Out of the Question . 18mo , $ 1. 25 . The Sleeping-Car , and other Farces . 12mo , $ 1. 00 . The Elevator ; The Sleeping-Car ; The Parlor Car ; The Register . Each 50 cents . Room Forty-Five ; Bride Roses ; An Indian Giver ; The Smoking-Car .Each , 18mo , 50 cents . A Sea Change . $ 1. 00 .", "\u201c But to-day , I wish you to feel responsible . I want you to take the whole responsibility . Do you know why I always come to you , instead of those places on Fifth Avenue ? \u201d", "\u201c Oh , yes , my flowers . I nearly went away without deciding . Let me see . Where are those white roses with the pink tinge on the edge of the petals ? \u201d The florist pushes the box towards her , and she looks down at the roses . \u201c No , they wo n't do . They look somehow \u2014 cruel ! I do n't wonder he would n't have them . They are totally out of character . I will take those white Bride roses , too . It seems a fatality , but there really is n't anything else , and I can laugh with her about them , if it all turns out well . \u201d She talks to herself rather than the florist , who stands patient behind the counter , and repeats , dreamily , \u201c Laugh with her ! \u201d", "\u201c You will take all your friends by surprise . \u201d The Young Man : \u201c I 'm a good deal taken by surprise myself . Two weeks ago I did n't dream of being here . But I made up my mind to come , and \u2014 I came . \u201d The Lady , laughing : \u201c Evidently ! Well , now you must come to my Saturdays ; you are just in time for the first one . Some one you know is going to pour tea for me . That ought to be some consolation to you for not having stayed away long enough to escape my hospitalities . \u201d The Young Man , blushing and smiling : \u201c Oh , it 's a very charming welcome home . I shall be sure to come . She is \u2014 everybody is \u2014 well , I hope ? \u201d", "\u201c That was my fault ! I confused him , poor fellow , by talking to him . What are you going to do ? \u201d", "\u201c I may have to come to them . Why do they call it the Pride ? \u201d", "\u201c Good-by ! What devotion to somebody \u2014 everybody ! Do n't forget my Saturday ! \u201d The Young Man : \u201c No , no ; I wo n't . Good-by ! \u201d He hurries out of the door , and his carriage is heard driving away .", "\u201c The most ethereal creature in the world . \u201d", "\u201c No ; Jacks are too old-fashioned . But have n't you got any other very dark rose ? I should like something almost black , I believe . \u201d The Florist , setting a vase of roses on the counter before her : \u201c There is the Matame Hoste . \u201d The Lady , bending over the roses , and touching one of them with the tip of her gloved finger : \u201c Why , they are black , almost ! They are nearly as black as black pansies . They are really wonderful ! \u201d She stoops over and inhales their fragrance . \u201c Delicious ! They are beautiful , but \u201d \u2014 abruptly \u2014 \u201c they are hideous . Their color makes me creep . It is so unnatural for a rose . A rose \u2014 a rose ought to be \u2014 rose-colored ! Have you no rose-colored roses ? What are those light pink ones there in the window ? \u201d The Florist , going to the window and getting two vases of cut roses , with long stems , both pink , but one kind a little larger than the other : \u201c That is the Matame Watterville , and this is the Matame Cousine . They are sister rhoces ; both the same , but the Matame Watterville is a little bigger , and it is a little dtearer . \u201d", "\u201c Oh , fair ! Very , very fair , and very , very fragile-looking ; a sort of moonlight blonde , with those remote , starry-looking eyes , do n't you know , and that pale saffron hair ; not the least ashen ; and just the faintest , faintest tinge of color in her face . I suppose you have nothing like the old-fashioned blush-rose ? That would be the very thing . \u201d The Florist , shaking his head : \u201c Oh , no ; there noding like that in a chreen-house rhoce . \u201d", "\u201c No , but that would have been just the thing . It suggests the color of her hair ; it would go with her . Well , I will have the smilax too , though I do n't like it . I do n't see why all the flowers should take to being so inexpressive . Send all the smilax you judge best . It 's quite a long table , nine or ten feet , and I want the vine going pretty much all about it . \u201d", "\u201c Not at all . I am simply just . And now I want you to provide the flowers for my first Saturday : Saturday of this week , in fact , and I want to talk the order all over with you . Are you very busy ? \u201d", "\u201c No ; that is too crapy and creepy . Smilax , or nothing ; and yet I do n't like that hard , shiny , varnishy look of smilax either . You would n't possibly have anything like that wild vine , it 's scarcely more than a golden thread , that trails over the wayside bushes in New England ? Dodder , they call it . \u201d", "\u201c Oh , loads . As many as you think I ought to have . I shall not have any other flowers , and I mean to toss them on the table in loose heaps . Perhaps I shall have some smilax to go with them . \u201d", "\u201c Yes , but I am not certain . \u201d After a moment 's thought . \u201c I know he wants them to go at once ; a great deal may depend upon it \u2014 everything . \u201d Suddenly : \u201c Could you let me see that card ? \u201d The Florist , throwing it on the counter before her : \u201c Why , soddonly ; if he is a frhiendt of yours \u201d \u2014 The Lady , shrinking back : \u201c Ah , it is n't so simple ! That makes it all the worse . It would be a kind of sacrilege ! I have no right \u2014 or , wait ! I will just glance at the first word . It may be a clew . And I want you to bear me witness , Mr. Eichenlaub , that I did n't read a word more . \u201d She catches up a piece of paper , and covers all the card except the first two words . \u201c Yes ! It is she ! Oh , how perfectly delightful ! It 's charming , charming ! It 's one of the prettiest things that ever happened ! And I shall be the means \u2014 no , not the means , quite , but the accident \u2014 of bringing them together ! Put the card into the box , Mr. Eichenlaub , and do n't let me see it an instant longer , or I shall read every word of it , in spite of myself ! \u201d She gives him the card , and turns , swiftly , and makes some paces toward the door . The Florist , calling after her : \u201c But the attress , matam . You forgot . \u201d The Lady , returning : \u201c Oh , yes ! Give me your pencil . \u201d She writes on a piece of the white wrapping-paper . \u201c There ! That is it . \u201d She stands irresolute , with the pencil at her lip . \u201c There was something else that I seem to have forgotten . \u201d", "\u201c Why , did n't he say where to send them ? \u201d"], "play_index": 3, "act_index": 3}, {"query": ["This : ache and restlessness are on you . HAEMONNo .", ": No , no . You cannot brave your action with", "I knew not , but have waited oft such words .", ": Do you hear !", "Two eyes of loveliness to drown his heart ,", "Breathless with eager speech of mutiny \u2014\u2014?", ": Our plans grow to fulfilment \u2014 are", ": Whose days ,", "Was powerless as flowers along its path !", ": With doom", ": She is all morn", "Stranger than is Antonio his son ,", "And sympathy .", "Him as I may .", "Fearing for her \u2014\u2014", "Escape its dread pursuit .", "One innocent .", ": These", ": Be calm :", "To prison on stale bread , my lord : I half", "Fear ?", "Beyond all drought and withering of ill !", ": Why were", "Yet must I not until your will is wasted . CHARLESAh !", ": Your trust is causelessly withdrawn . Yet for", "FULVIA and pauses .", ": And at the dawn have looked and sighed , then slow", "But this shall never be ! No , though your looks Heave out with hate upon me . CHARLESYou are dead , And speak to me . Once you were Fulvia \u2014 No more ! And once my friend , now but a ghost Whom I must gaze upon forgetlessly . Obey , at once ! and at to-morrow 's sunset !HELENAYou cannot , will not \u2014 O , he is your son And loves you much !", "Do not so now .", "Who has but come .", "Antonio , from those curtains come \u2014\u2014", ": We , thou and I , after the battle 's foam", "He scorns to spill a drop of confidence", "My fear \u2014 that , and no more .", "But flings you stony and unfilial speech ,", ": And doubt begins in you that as a wolf", ": Your danger was", "And could not see ? But heard their names ? The Greek is still without ?", "CHARLES", "I will not then .", "Has barred the way of soothing to his breast !", "And hasting here !", "Not cold defiance .", "With quiet clasp of fingers turned apart .", "CHARLES", ": May it be ! He 's quick ,", ": As if", "Changed sudden as the sea when cometh storm .", "The shadow of some doom and the dismay .", "Yet there is time .", "These stones have tongue and passion .", "That shall sound of forgiveness and of rest !", "Beyond ?\u2014 Ah ! CHARLESFulvia ?", ": Put the rogue", "O I have started on the mountain 's brow", "FULVIA", ": Unto such love", "Who but for some expectancy is vacant .", "You start , sir ?\u2014 Fulvia , we must look to", ": To save you the mad blot", "A girl 's ungiven heart ?", ": Charles ! Charles ! my lord ! return !\u2014 A numbness", "Perhaps \u2014\u2014", "A comely name , my lord .", "Such friends \u2014 till yesterday you \u2014\u2014", "\u2018 Twere some sweet thing \u2014 he laughs \u2014 is strange \u2014 you say ?", ": Lord Cardinal , one of your servants has", "But find it is a sieve to all but grief ?", ": Such friends have we not been as grow up from", "Although he will not render up his heart ,", "And mist of grief ? What means it ?", "Antonio have left us to our tears .", ": Convulsed ,", "Believe he 's full of treasons .", ": It stains too as a shroud", "And that above the wilds of self-deceit .", "That seem always in dismal memory", ": My lord ! Your limbs are frozen ,", ": Your rashness cloaks itself in that excuse ,", "Hours come not of any good , but are", "At least not Helena , whoe'er she be .", "The Captain of the guard . The duke comes hither .", "Whose every moment else had borne a torture .", "One that is sure .", "HELENA", "Because \u2014\u2014", "You with him walked to-day . What said he ? ANTONIO : I ? With him to-day ? Ah , true . What may be done ?", "I come to plead .", "All things but love .", "Beauty is better so .", ": My lord , flowers and vines upon these walls", "And power of this peril you must lean .", "Lives !", ": Sir ,", ": And Helena ?", ": My lord !", "Have you held over me .", "If there were ?", "This dread !\u2014\u2014", "Why do", "Infected with resolved adversity .", "I must believe .", ": Yes , and \u2014", "Yet shrink from it !", ": They ever dread who have but quit", "Briefly \u2014 and then no more ?", "Though quicker in forgetting . I will move", ": Then from", "A woman 's voice !", "I would this were undone .", "You will \u2014\u2014?", "Be calm . CHARLESI 'll stay it ! Cecco , our fleetest foot ! A rain of ducats if he shall outspeed This doom on us . More ! more ! a flood of them , If he \u2014\u2014 FULVIABe patient \u2014 calm .", "HAEMON : I \u2014\u2014?", ": Or there ! But one refuge", "The morrow 's face ?", "And melancholy dusk no shadow is", "The guests enter , among them HAEMON and BARDAS , following the CARDINAL", "As it were some sweet thing he loved .", "He was with Haemon ?", "Have we not fast been friends ?", "Perchance \u2018 twill keep them near us : speak to them ,", "Seeing the Cross , but softly and almost", ": Ten years of shelter", "Whose sinking may be rapid down to horror .", "In you avows it , no true voice .", "This is most sad \u2014 most sad , and pitiful .", "Will scent the wounded quarry of your conscience .", "Magic ever dwells in flowers", "Because you are the son and scout our foes"], "true_target": ["You not asleep ?", "Of doubt .", "Answer me , answer ! No , go quickly ! If", ": Then shall I cease ,", ": No matter : \u2018 gainst the swell", "Well \u2014 come .", "Escort to Rome .", "Within your guard ?", "Poor pluckt buds", "Wake her not , ah , not suddenly on terror !", "A tremor that has loosed the avalanche ;", "Eternity ?", "And they may answer while we wait , may float", "No , with another !", "Justice is not impossible upon you !", "Yet passionless ?", "Build kingdoms on the wind , and empires on", "But hear me \u2014\u2014!", ": Unless it is", "ANTONIO", "The duke has entered now and sleeps ! Or if \u2014\u2014!", ": It is", "( HAEMON goes through the curtains .", ": From the Cardinal ,", "Ashamed of its too naked idleness .", ": Did not a soldier lately come , my lord ,", "In quarrel been struck , and mortally \u2018 tis feared .", "And she \u2014 this girl ! It has been long since you", "Your strength , in tears depart .", "Your ruth , and your suspicion that has doomed", "Or niche but may remember prayer for thee .", "Turn then , and see .", ": Listen . No word", "I 'd think on oath \u2018 twere done .", "There 's much to do . We will think of the dead .", "When first this threshold poured its welcome to me .", ": Sorrow too would strain your lips ,", ": She and our", "No , no , my lord .", ": Yet should he ,", ": Do not pause here to learn", "\u2018 Tis hard to think !", "Under the ruin of her dreams a sister ?", "The likeness of some dream ?", "To waft me back to childhood .", "No child .", ": Ah , that it were ,", ": Reason , Antonio .", ": Helena \u2014", ": Will you not turn", "It draw yourself !", "And beauty ?", "Not with her as might charm of equal years", "But if there were ?", ": \u2018 Tis the Greek", "With the dear minutes of a dying man .", "Of serpent bitterness \u2014\u2014", "I think you are . But quench your jests .", "My lord \u2014\u2014", "Yes .", ": And if your coronet and heat avail", ": Your voice is guilty . How came Haemon in ?", "Quickly to him : then I may plead of you", ": He was a child in mimic mail clad out", "Antonio , girl ? Antonio ?\u2014 Is it true ? Re-enter CHARLES .", "( CARDINAL goes .", "CHARLES", "You are the guest of Charles di Tocca .", "GIULIA : I \u2014\u2014", "A breath again I beg it \u2014 for a moment !", "Re-enter CECCO , with PAULA weeping .", "This Greek \u2014 I do not understand .", "This callow god our son . Yet , had our court", "The spur of that belief .", "My lord \u2014\u2014", "Out of this rage ?", ": Ah cease , infatuate man ! Will you", "And bloodlessly you stand ! Move , rouse , O breathe !", "Your eyes look upon flesh , lord Cardinal .ANTONIOWhose pain is this ?\u2014 strangely it hurts me \u2014 strangely !", "The passionate deep hours away in rest", "It is not truth but madness that he speaks .", "But shall .", "My lord \u2014\u2014", "The mutiny was roused at my command .", "You 've laughed nobler .", "I , perhaps , must go .", "Have you against its bitter ceaseless tooth ,", "Or chase 's tired return , often have breathed", "No accident appears to threat and thwart them ?", ": He has been strange of late and silent , laughs ,", ": Must go ! Though in this castle 's aged calm", "Of a son 's blood .", "But through those curtains , quick . For more seek out", "Or bloomed as amaranth in those we love ,", ": Not running there will you", "No .", "The moody bolt of Rome broods over us .", "Ah ?", ": To-night", "As mine all things are given .", "JULIAN and his suite , and last HELENA , whom FULVIA leads aside .", "If they could speak like children torn from the breast .", ": The hope you nurse , then , if it prove a pang", "We \u2014\u2014", "CHARLES enters , worn , dishevelled , and followed by CECCO . He sees", ": Did he beat his hands", "Of Helena !", ": I am a woman who in tears came to", "And dream and dew : make her not dark !", ": It is not fear . Or \u2014 no !\u2014 has vanished quite ,", "CHARLES", ": He cannot , will not !\u2014 Yet you feared !", "On my too thirsty questions .", "You 're very fair .", "ANTONIO", ": So", "And say no more ? No , you are on a flood", "Dim words on moonbeams to us . O for one", "Of grief her mistress makes for you : of tears", "She will but whimper , tell what overmuch", "No way misplanted ?", "Child \u2014\u2014", "Well .", "Gave license rein upon your will , and spur .", ": Was it easy to o'erwhelm", "Your fury that distorts us into guilt .", "Yes , night .", "Your sunny coming will dry in her .", "And penitence too late \u2014 too late \u2014 too late \u2014"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["He smiled , you say ?", "Beyond the grave .", "Or torn and tossed to burning martyrdom \u2014", ": From my heart they do but send", "And yet you know me better \u2014\u2014", "Your tenderness into his arms and hear", "HAEMON", "Stay : I 'll call you so no more .", "Go , then , Fulvia . \u2018 Tis one would speak with me .", "Two for so small a gloom ?", "And still you sigh ?", "Occasion oft for loaning of some chance", ": So close he should by this", "In a fierce spell by your effulgent youth .", "Must starve ? Push him who has but learned there 's light", "Can gather to his eye ? Tell me .", "I never knew pass in the portal to", "But , sir \u2014\u2014!", "He is but mad .", "We earnestly beseech of you to hear", "Abysm from us ; but build words to float us", "Sir , most mad", "But you grasped \u2014\u2014? You held her ?", "Why do you gasp ?\u2014 Paula \u2014\u2014", "Then will the winds return unto the night", "There 's room between your tone and courtesy .", ": I have said .", "Fetch her , and quickly . ( CECCO goes .", "And can reflect but sorrow .", "Out on the infinite of love , whose air", "Prometheus stormed and gnawed on Caucasus ,", ": Father \u2014\u2014", "Back into yawning blindness ? Ah , not flight !", "My father ?", "To death flung them .", "Worthily to repay you . If \u2018 tis this ,", "Girl ! girl ! Thy mistress ? PAULAO !\u2014\u2014", "And this that runs in us is worthless dread !", ": Not yet \u2014 not now . Haemon 's suspicious , quick ,", "And saw you not .", ": Snap from his hunger this one hope , so he", "Our knitted names when distant lovers dream .", "HAEMON", ": This is but a whim ,", "I think it would be well for you to listen . My confidence once curbed \u2014\u2014", "On infinite ecstasy .", "I 'd be your friend .", "But take my hand as pledge \u2014\u2014", ": What of her ? Are you horrified to stone !", "And Venus trembles in thy every limb !", ": What thought impels and wrings", "Forth with him !", "What have you chanced upon ?", ": Ah , put the lamb on \u2014 bleat mock sympathy !", "Fear has bewitched you \u2014 shame !", ": Forth with it !", "In a bare world . And now is flame ; would take", "Of shattering . What is it ? Speak .", "Such as shall legend ecstasy about", "And memory shall fall from me !\u2014 all , all ,", "And you \u2014 this breath \u2014\u2014?", "She 's not safe ?", ": Ill monk ! are there no men", ": Cease : though he has stains", ": Helena ! O Helena !", "More ? more ?", ": Love is a bliss too bright", "Be at our gates .", ": Remember then you are", "Last night I dreamed of you : in vain you hovered", "Near him . But yesterday he called for song ,", "Let him not , for he will Beguile you to some ravening belief . AGABUSA lover ! a lover ! and he loves in vain ! Wilt go ? There is a cave \u2014, we 'll curse her \u2014 come !", "In trouble for your peace , more than in feature .", "For Paradises brimming with all Beauty", "And o'er the cliff , as our just law commands ,", "Ever to soar above mortality .", "Only a little slept from your life 's shore", "Should a vain hap so desperately move you ?", "Now ; again ?", "The times are tyrannous and men like beasts", "You have repaid yourself \u2014 cast on me words", "Oh ?\u2014 Well .", "You 're calm ?", "With the pestilence of evil prophecy .", "Seized to him the warm music of your heart .", ": Kindness then shall quench them .", "But , sir \u2014\u2014!", ": Go to her ,", ": You 're strange in this request .", ": Then the night", "A little was moved .", ": And thine , my own ,", "I burn with flaming heart and fearless hand !", "To reach me from the coil of swift Charybdis .", "Is awe and mystery .", "Sir , I 'm returned .", "You 're heated with suspicion and old wrong ,", "CHARLES", "Had place in it .", "And yet there is \u2014\u2014", "That all thy loveliness should fare to this ,", "But not \u2014 not this !", ": Sir , this is good !", "But fierceness for thy peace !", "\u2018 Twill not !", "And you shall be my Sappho \u2014 but through joys", "Her maid ?\u2014 There are than risen dead worse things", "Yes .", "Athene looks again out of thy lids ,", "And did I call you so ?", "Faith or devotion , friendship you 're aloof to ,", ": That you 'll be false ?", "My father 's ear , but it came out his mouth", "Then \u2014 well ?", "CHARLES", "Echoes born of thy beauty mid its strings !", "More than visible and present day", "This cannot be \u2014 now", "( Goes angrily .", "She is Helena ?\u2014 the Greek ?", "Alone ?", "Are mad ! I 'm naked of this thing , and hide", "HELENA", "My father !", "CHARLES", "Perhaps .", "This ecstasy ?", "The moon has looked too long on the sad earth ,", ": You rave , but in me stir", ": Yet , hear . The funeral tread", "Stronger than all betiding", "By day my lark , by night my nightingale ,", ": A witless monk who thinks", "Ah , sorceress ! You need but breathe to put", "Words were they miracles of beauty could", "Why is my anger silent ?", "Lord Cardinal , spare yourself more and go . You shall learn if a change may loose this strain .CHARLESI will \u2014 this frenzy \u2014 off my throat \u2014! I \u2014Ah , Thou , Fulvia ? \u2018 Twas as a fiend swung on me . And shame ! fear oozes out upon my brow , And I \u2014\u2014.Forgive , friends , this so sudden wrench Upon your pleasure . One too quick made saint , Stands feebly : but at once wilt I atone . Where is Diogenes \u2014 where is he ? His Tangled fantastic wisdom shall divert us .Ah , peer of Socrates and perfect Plato , Leave your unseeing silence now and tell us \u2014\u2014 Enter AGABUS gazing anxiously and wildly before him . Who 's this ? AGABUSWhere went he \u2014 the Shadow ?\u2014 whither ?", "Hear me . Will you be so blind ?", "A Shadow ?", "No . She you love \u2014\u2014", "Be more than destiny \u2014 which cannot grasp", ": My perfect Greek !", "Forget it , now .", ": Awake from it !", "About our joy ."], "true_target": ["Whither , quick , whither ?", ": You , you , sir ? father ? I knew it not , so swift", "My father will not bind his heresy ?", "Of the old sea sighs in each strain , and breaks .", "But you must know \u2014\u2014!", "Not a sad bird of boding !", "Helena , whom I 've seen , would little thank", ": Who prophesies ? Who now upon this isle", "That you must wring a woman so with fear ?", ": We 'll weave no shroud ,", ": Nothing : I who must ebb with you and flow", "On her you name !", "God lives but to fulfil his prophecies !", ": Tell me .", "Recalling dreams of dim antiquity 's", "That lend it might . If I pressed other \u2014\u2014", "Find mercy preservation 's enemy .", "And yet ?", "That earth elsewhere abyssless gaped her up ?", ": A waste of waves that beat", "Ah ! still \u2014\u2014?", "Or to my father 's eye ?", ": Well , let us off ,", ": Your spirit is not in you but", "Re-enter CARDINAL .", ": No \u2014 yes \u2014 well \u2014", ": You 're like your mother .", "O , I could be for him \u2014 he is my father \u2014", ": He 's swept by the sweet contagion of you , wrapt", ": But \u2018 tis thy lips", "That butterfly or bud turn asp to bite her ?", ": On you \u2014 my father ? O , he only dreamt ,", "And you are Greek , a name till yesterday", ": And of thee ?", "My name di Tocca , sir , and not myself .", "The lone profundity and space of night !", "This hour has reached and drawn me yearning to thee !", "Again the attraction of these dim portents .", "With nicety , and I 'll be wings and heart ,", ": Why you are mad !", "A sudden gloomy surge of superstition .", "And flute us lover songs of happiness !", "Moaning the dead .", "Say no , and no ?", "Pray , pray , tell out your dread .", "Of your own fear ! and wanders to delusion !", "HELENA", "But now , away . Forget this dread and be you", "More \u2014 drudge to your desire .", "Under my feet !", "Drank ? and she fell ? No ?\u2014 no ?\u2014 Ah but you dashed it from her lips ? She did but taste ?\u2014\u2014", "No guilt behind the wonder of my face .", "Ah , you ? My father 's unforgetting Fulvia ?", "Dancing and wine .", "And melancholy : must be won with service .", "Tantalus ever near the slipping wave ,", ": But , sir , this is not good for laughter ! Sir !", "And leapt ?\u2014 down the wide air ?", ": Are all things thus become", "I would not lay one fancy 's weight of shame", ": Still : and strain to win", ": Perhaps : for some unwonted softness seems", "The Pope 's embassador with yielding .", "So should it .", "The eyes that told her own where they should love .", ": He knew not that such smiles could dawn", "These angers from your eyes ?", "And will you read such terror in a tale ?", "And fierceness without falter !", "For all that will and honor well may render", "To \u2014\u2014?", ": Why ?\u2014 why ? Because", "No . But quick , within this breach !", "And worse to dread !\u2014 her maid ?", "Mere myth !", "Yet ?", "Father \u2014\u2014?", "I say , where is she ?", "Kissed you \u2014\u2014?", "Ask me for service on your foes , for gold ,", ": We seized the murderous robbers in their cove", "I am distrest . I cannot plead your suit .", ": Gaping , ghastly fool !", ": All ! tho \u2019 we two will still", "But know , between her , Helena , and shame", ": Else were", "Good-night . HELENAAntonio \u2014\u2014?", "My Helena , with these numb awes that wind", ": Weary with vigil does it swell and sink ,", ": It is as if the earth were wind", "Ah , sadly , loathly ; but , my Helena \u2014", "Ah ! It must not ! must not !", ": Which gladly I shall hear", ": Fulvia , O , he foots it in the tracks", "Him from this brink .\u2014 If vainly , then birth , pity ,", "PAULA", ": Leave sneering there !", ": Did I not humble me ?", "You must not , Helena !", "I have to-day desired some words of this .", ": Stay , Fulvia , though I am not in poise .", "Sir , well : you cannot doubt it .", "She direness of her mistress brings ? some tale", "Afar and suffering !", "Good monk \u2014\u2014", "My Helena !", "Put it from you , my Helena .", "Yet fear you ? still ?", "Nay , quiver not ! \u2018 tis but a passing mist ,", "And if I can will grant .", "To rest on earth . With it God should give us", "Intolerable more than loss of life .", "Yet must we wait .", ": Come to yon arbour , come .", "Your rage fell on me .", "No hand on him !", "Where , Paula ?", "But wedding robes and wreaths and pageantry !", "Upon a cliff \u2014 and beat ! Yet thou and I", ": And I 've besought", "Omen and dread to you ?", "Surely you are unstrung ,", "Your steps , so late , alone ?", "No more .", "CHARLES", "The cliff ! The \u2014? ( Staggers dizzily , then rushes out .", "As little reveal you as a taper 's ray", "Thy glory go in dark calamity !", "Heroic bloom worked on me .\u2014 But whence are", "God ! God !", "On Fate 's hard brow would shame it of all frown !", "But , child \u2014\u2014?", "And none above the grave ?\u2014 no answer ?", "Helena !", "There are deep reasons for it .", "O , go to her .", ": What now !", "Headlong and dark with curses .", ": My Helena , what is it ? You are wan", "To Helena ! my father ! sealed !", "I am no ghost . Thy mistress ?", "And tremble as a blossom quick with fear", "What comfort there ?", "Do you behold him murderous and lay", "Haemon ?\u2014 \u2018 Twere perhaps not ill .", "You both shall learn this night 's entangling ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Where can Antonio be gone . All day", "And to each lonely tree of the deep wood \u2014", "ANTONIO", "So dyed in crime that secrecy must seem", ": Cold ! cold !\u2014 your lips \u2014 your brow !", "Oh !", "Heard and revealed .", ": With the day", ": It cannot be , and you a god ? I 'll bow", "Oft envious of those who touch gray hairs ,", "Not Venus , ah , not Venus !", "Like Sappho leaped , \u2018 tis said , from yonder cliff", "Ah , guests are bidden , not commanded .\u2014 Where ,", "I would do all lest now it turn to fate", "If sometimes they trip out upon your lips .", ": Sweet ? Ah , yes ,", "Fade to a tomb ! What dirging hast thou heard", "Touch me lest I forget my natural flesh", ": I were patient if the moon", "To-night in all the world . Could God see them", "Yet seem girt by an emptiness that aches ,", ": Far sunders flesh not souls .", ": I know not ! Broodings smoulder from his moods", "Would slip less sadly up . She is so pale \u2014", ": Then , flight ! In it we may", "Unloose this strangling secrecy and be", "But smiled !", "Ah , I fear ! ( They go clinging passionately together .", "To me come nearer than a father may !", "But mad .", "The stars do they not tremble it , the moon", "And mar of love : or the dim knell of death", "Not see us !", "ANTONIO", "Hear nothing everlastingly but them !", "Ah how thy arms", ": Yes ; I am reeling , wrung ,", "All will be well .", "And yet \u2014\u2014", ": You know him not . \u2018 Tis told in youth he loved", "Gently , as one might in forgetting pain .", "Now no betiding fell athwart thy path", "Antonio ? ANTONIONo , no ! It cannot be !", "Not reach my rest !\u2014 But he is near .", ": There 's no twain in love .", "Lose no reverberance , no ring , no waft ,", "But sleep not .", "That tell me love is master of all times ,", "Thine more than immortality is God 's !", "Wounded Adonis dead , and to forget ,", "From Arta ?", "Drive all gloom out of the world !", "Who is all blind to every mouth but mine !", ": And is the world", "With longing for Endymion her lover .", "Awakes and waits ?", "Boding more wild than both . \u201c Sappho ! \u201d he cried ,", "He looked as you , when , moonlight in my hair ,", "And wilder lips he vented on my ear", ": You look at me \u2014 I think", ": To a father yield them ?", "Find haven and new nurture for our bliss .", "Gazed then out into awful vacancy ;", "Yoke-mate of guilt .", "With one glance o'er the precipice of ill !", ": Nor dare upon a duller note while here", "To beat , Paula , or cease with it .", "Say no to me , say no , and no again !", "When falls this pillar tall and proud", "See , see ! \u2018 tis Agabus !", "Unsphere dark spirits from their evil airs", "Murmur it argently into thine eyes ?", "Other !", "Ere to forget she leapt , and wrote ,", "You call me \u2014\u2014", "Thrills thro \u2019 the earth .", ": Ah , you are cold !", "As I were drowned and heard it over me ,", "But ah , the shroud ! the shroud !", ": Why do", "To terror ! for the edge of fate cares not", "He oft has smiled upon me as he passed .", "And thou of all love master !", "Across all lands the hush of death on him", "Brings age on us !\u2014 If not by gentleness ,", "Out of my veins !", "Nay , hearts may hear beyond", "Him and thy father !", "And whispered hotly , following his gaze ,", "My heart is in my lord Antonio 's", "Antonio !", "But dare not take it yet into my own .", ": Ah , no ! There are no dead", "One treacherous , and in avenge made fierce", "Hear , does the nightingale not tell it thee ?", "And you are pale as with a prophecy !", ": Is it then grief ? I have not any tears ,", "I in this place ? You fear for me ?", "Of impotence \u2014 as one who in a tomb", "Sing in me !", "My Antonio , I breathe ,", ": Do you mean \u2014 he \u2014 No !", ": My lord , let us", "In warmth and throb !", "No power that 's more than frenzied fantasy !", "My Antony !", "Say his incanted prophecies spring from", ": Who is it ? soldiers come", "Then tore his rags and moaned , \u201c So young , to cease ! \u201d", ": O , but it is", "Let him not touch me even in thy thought ,", "Then by that love that women bear to men ,", "Are burdened with foreboding ! And it seems \u2014", "I 'll fear no more , then \u2014\u2014", ": Like a farewell", "So small !", "Not true ! O , \u2018 tis not true !", "To mind thee of it ?"], "true_target": ["Your touch falls on them .", "I go , my lord . Think of me oft ! ANTONIOMy Helena !\u2018 Tis Haemon ! My father !", "Not yet , tell me not yet !", "Has pluckt the minutes \u2019 wings and they have crept .", ": Yes , very calm \u2014", "Treaty with Hell that lends him sight of all", "Though every voice and silence spoke it , could", "Ills that arise from it to mated hearts !", ": Then some weariness", "How quick it severs .", "The hark of ears ! Listen ! to me his step", "\u201c Oh \u2014 well ? \u201d \u2014 Then it is well I go !", "Yet look not so , my lord ! I 'll trust thine eyes", "Dimly I see the burden in your eyes ,", "O let me speak with him , sir , let me speak !", "This dread \u2014 and shrinking \u2014 let me have it !\u2014 speak ! You mean \u2014 look on me !\u2014 mean , your father ?\u2014", ": Antonio , love 's wave has cast us high", "Fallen ! Ah , fallen ! See , Antonio !", ": I 'll hold you not too false", "Me child to every wind that had caress", "Would sound to me ; and , did he live , denial ,", "Lie cold and wondrous still , while we are rich", "You should not know that any other lips", ": Then would I lean forever at thy lips ,", "\u2018 Tis he ! Go Paula , go :", "Under our feet and draw us out \u2014\u2014", ": Thy kiss then , for it can", "The speed of peril ?", "Yes ! A dumb dread trembles from you sufferingly .", "Could e'er be pressed ; I 'll have no kiss but his", "Before your eyes no more !\u2014 say that it can !", "There 's gloom in the world again . ANTONIO\u2018 Tis gone ?", "When no more gloom 's in the world !", ": Then tell him ! These are years", "Been to him more than empire 's tyranny \u2014", "Forgive me , then .", "Feverous bitter .", "Upon me for thy sake .", ": Why am", ": The monk \u2014", "Down to the waves \u2019 oblivion below .", "At twelve , said he , at twelve , beside the arbor ?", "\u201c Perhaps ! \u201d", ": Guest ?", "Let us a little look upon the moon ,", ": When waiting shall but goad", "The shroud ! It coldly winds about us \u2014 coldly !", "Or , shapened , see .", "And most have you a softness in him kept ,", "Not all , I think .", "\u2018 Tis sadly put , my lord .", "Has often cleft the future with his ken ,", "See a great shadow reach and wrap at me ,", ": How , how thy kisses", "Not space enough but he must needs come here !", "The vainest glooms", "To-night seem ominous \u2014 as cloud-flakes flung", "Our hearts betrothed exchange and hope be told", "Forgetting .", "And show all things of love or death , seized me", ": I know he is your father , and my days", "I pray you tell the fear your heart so hides !", "These hands \u2014 this hair \u2014", ": And by this road !\u2014 They must", ": But he", "\u201c Sappho ! Sappho ! \u201d and probed my eyes as if", "My love , my lord \u2014", "Let surest lovers weave their shroud .", "We tryst beneath the moon ?", ": Not you , not you ! I 'll change", "Warm the cold moan and misery of fear", "You look at me , as if \u2014\u2014?", "You call me so with struggle on your breast ?", "\u201c The Shadow ! Shadow ! \u201d", ": Yet of late", ": And was so free I thought", "Open in love . My brother , Haemon , let", ": Then have you also dreamt !", ": I would not sink from it , the simple sun \u2014", "Surrounds and whispers , what I dare not think", "No token , quieting !", "A vision sweeps me .", ": Say , say it not ! To him I but smiled up \u2014", ": Child !\u2014 Ah , a moment 's dread", "You 'll call me so no more ?", "And may all hours !", "By happiness too fleeting to tread earth ,", "To stay thee from me !", "Destiny moved dark-visaged in their deeps .", "The world brimmed up with my full happiness .", "Haemon ! FULVIANo , Helena .", "Upward before the heaving of the west .", "Ah , chide me not !\u2014 mad Agabus , who can", "O , do not , he \u2014\u2014", "What said he ?", "Is what ? Antonio ?", ": Yet is thine mightier , for no frown can be", "Yet lend no light ! By gentleness I pray you ,", ": The breath and secret soul of all this night", "My tears to laughter , if but fantasy", "Have been all fatherless , tho \u2019 I have made", "You say so \u2014 is it kind ?", "The pillar grieving Venus leant upon", "But baffled none can measure him nor trust !", "Antonio \u2014\u2014", ": I am thine ,", "Seen through it to some lurking misery", "ANTONIO", "It cometh \u2014 cometh !", "If it were \u2014\u2014?", "Oh \u2014 oh !", ": \u2018 Twas on this temple 's ancient gate she found", ": If he but look", "Or spend desire on filial grief and pang .", ": Why do", "As hither I stole to thee . With wild looks", "May so unmettle you ! Not moved , indeed !", "In this unnatural awe !", "Not moved , Antonio ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["I 'd have him for my brain \u2014 it shakes with fever .", "( Goes searching anxiously .", "Has no one seen him ? none ?\u2014 the Shadow ? none ?", "To Christ and not sin 's Pit ! And he is gone", "My trusty Shadow", "Too many !", "Ha , he has been here !", "Christ save all men but \u2014", "Ah , the"], "true_target": ["( Goes dazed . Guests whisper , awed .", ": Silent and cold . A-times they call him Death :", "O \u2014 lovers ! lovers ! Lord have none of them !", "My king o \u2019 the worms and all corruption !\u2014", "To follow her ! The devil 's nine wits are", "Ha , men ? Christ save all men but lovers ! all !", "O \u2014 yes , yes , yes . You 'd give me gold To pray for your two souls .Not I ! Not I ! Know you not love is brewed of lust and fire ? It gnaws and burns , until the Shadow \u2014 Sir ,Have you not seen a Shadow pass ?", "Shadow !", "Lovers , and lovers ! O she leapt as \u2018 twere"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": [": Sir !", "Perchance he too walks in his sleep . Were it", "And coiled the mystery of her hair , has might", "A moment beyond earth . Do you not hear !", "My wrist , sir !", ": But \u2018 tis not twelve , else would we hear the band", ": \u2018 Tis late , sir , late ,", "Antonio 's to beat or cease with it . \u201d", "Blind all day she moaned and wept .", "One arm dropt whitely . If you prayed for her \u2014", "CHARLES", "My lord Antonio ! my lady !O ! CHARLESCome here .", "He far away ?", "She , O !\u2014 go seek her , O , she is \u2014\u2014", "Would you , my lady ?", "So sweet to love , my lady ? I have heard", ": Mercy !", ": O no ,", "Not yet , my lady .", "If you should pray for her \u2014 Something may chance :", ": Last night she said , \u201c My heart is in my lord", ": Ah !", "Let me go to my lady !", "Mary , Mother !", ": My lady , my sweet lady !", "Let me go in !", "Quite well if they have met \u2014 these two that walk ?", ": Look on me . See !", ": Ah , I do", "My lord \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": [": But died", "Of holy Basil from their convent peace", "I \u2014 I \u2014 I do not know .", "O , sir ! CHARLESWere you not in a haste ?", "Loose me , sir !", "ANTONIO", "Still wonderful may lie upon her couch ,", "Dead lover 's breast . Would you do so ?", "Came quiet , kissed me \u2014 O , go seek her , sir !", ": On my simple hills", ": Has she a lover ? Oh , how strange . Is it", "My lady , some one comes .", "Men die and women for it weep themselves", "This child who hath but dwelt about her , touched", "Into the grave \u2014 yet gladly .", "CHARLES", "I learned her words \u2014 they seemed so pretty .", ": Yet", "Go , for she", "There is so much may chance \u2014 we cannot know !", "Charles", "PAULA", "Dreamily chant .", "Almost too much !", "Not know : but she \u2014\u2014", "I have not been down in the grave , nor ev'n", "They told of one who slew herself on her", "Yes , mistress .", ": And when the sun was gone ,", "Then to me gave these jewels . O ! And darkly cloaked stole out into the night ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["A lie \u2014 Yet fast belief fixes its fangs", "In tears ? And groans ? Where borrow them ? FULVIASo let it be .", "As hawk the cruel rapture of his wings .", "Keys ? To \u2014 this ?", "You left her ?", ": Had I drunk Lethe 's all \u2018 twould not have stilled", "Friended this youth and meant him honor still ?", ": Stood she not as in pleading ? Yes \u2014 and to", "A coldness runs in me .", "His Holiness \u2019 command for death upon them !", "No , no !\u2014 Though she had sudden whispers for him !", "You bring on me a furious desolation . But Fulvia , ah , she \u2014\u2014", "Whose treasures have already been engulfed .", "See to it , yes , Antonio , ere a dawn .", "You not a spirit clamor on the air ?", "My Fulvia . It may \u2014\u2014", "Boy !", "Antonio !", "Now ! is it secrets ?", "My crippled years that fare toward the grave", "Leave these words .", "Sing us of love", "And on the breast of dizzy danger cradled", "Drop fearful to your knees ?", "I followed him \u2014 he sped and there was cold !", ": My guard ? No \u2014 yes \u2014\u2014", "Waving a swift fulfilment to her feet !", "\u2018 Tis night !", "When in its stead the thief has left her own \u2014", "Be venom for thee !", "On silly sighs and kisses , rhymes and trysts !", "Her pity shall leave ready graves unfilled ,", "Of souls departing fearfully shook by ,", "Say it \u2014 say all !", "The froth and fume of folly . You are thick", "And her large eyes , did they not drift to mine", "Again this monk ? this dog of death ?\u2014 and now ?", ": New fret ? and new confusion ? In the blind", ": And yearning has", "And every word must dip its syllables", "Soft now I feel thy baby arms about me ,", "Is mine , this joy ; and still is mine , though I", ": I have a son : are his", "But would ring poor in rarest words of earth .", "Untended groan for me . ( He goes .", "Most suppliantly that I for penance may", "If she \u2014 the cliff !", "But you , boy , draw out of this solitude", "What so divides you ?", "\u201c Helena \u201d must you link \u201c Antonio \u201d to it !", "Where ?", ": I had thought", "Who wrestle and are thrown by misery .", "But for an \u201c if \u201d must pluck it from me ?", ": \u2018 Tis every throat", "A traitor is no son , nor was nor shall be !", "Then , sir , and Cardinal , \u2018 tis not enough !", "Why doth it mated with Antonio 's name", ": O \u2014\u2014?", ": Pluck it from me ! Will you \u2014", ": Child ,", "FULVIA : O \u2014\u2014", "Now \u2014\u2014?", "She is set in the centre of my need", "Smirker !\u2014 Yet , was it so ? That night indeed ?", "And will not judge ? But fear me \u2014 fear , and flee ?\u2014 You shall not go !", "We 've lute and dance that yet shall bring us in .", "Cunning ! again ? Sleek questions of a sleeker consequence ?", "Touch me not ! touch me not !", "Calamity will leave to torture us ,", "All traitors \u2014 \u2018 tis the law , they must be flung", "You mean \u2014\u2014?", "She sometimes walks asleep : and you have come", "Out on the dizzy and supportless wind .", "Enter this postern \u2014 a most honest way ,", "The presages of age and death , shake not ?", "You \u2014?\u2014 Yes ! I am beat off by it .", "A door to let in heaven on my heart .", "So , no farther ? you 'll stop here ?", "The cardinal ?", ": And the moon 's", "Am frenzy \u2014 frenzy \u2014 though the stillness burns", "Bitten by hounds of fury and despair !", "Do they not whirl it lithe ? With limbs like swallow wings upon the blue ?", "He lives ?\u2014 Years yet are mine . Too brief they 'll be", "My hospitality is up , you shall not !", ": You have a mistress who", ": He lives ?\u2014 I have", "Shut him from our gates", "Well .", "An avalanche of raging and despair", "To stir \u2014 to wake \u2014 to learn it is a dream \u2014", "Her anger open earth for all who offend !", "\u201c Must , \u201d say you , \u201c must , \u201d yet stand \u2014\u2014", "Ah , Greek ! Our Fulvia ,", "It was night , then \u2014 night ? You could not see him clearly ?", ": Cease : but a whisper of his name and I", "My thought to it . His aspiration flags \u2014\u2014", "And one of love ? The word , you see , founts easy to my lips .\u2018 Tis recent in my thought \u2014 as you will learn .", ": And more , lord Cardinal ,", "On wings and stealing winds of memory !", "What means he ?", "He is my son . His flesh has memories", "And fate for want of tears will thirst to death !", "Give me that cross you wear ,", ": Myself am but a hulk", "An infinite unrest !", ": Sleep is ever mate", "Such as surrounds Hyperion on his sun ,", "Against me and against !", "And this", "Long have I gleaned amid the years and lone .", "( He goes .", "I cannot bear it ! We must wait . No hap", "Draw out !", ": She \u2014 Still you do not ail ?\u2014 Yes , Helena ,", ": Ecstasy !", "I had forgot \u2014 forgot !\u2014 the sun !\u2014 the sea ! The sea !\u2014 Antonio !\u2014 The cliff \u2014 the surf ! The shroud and funeral fury of the waves !", "Must wait more seasonable festivity .", ": Prove pang ? I then", "And musing moodiness . You should think but", "Than justice from Omnipotence may call .", "So low ?", "This ravishment !\u2014 I will not ask it \u2014 now .", "Be not a torrent , boy , of rush and foam .", "You say it , and I wake .", "Thrice have I said it !", "In the cold clasp of an unloving hand !", "Cecco !", "Your voice or eyes or being ! They are soft", "Still her ! She Forever hath a fluttering , a cry , Undurably . It presses the lone air With sensitive and aching agony . PAULAI know thy song , my lady , I know , I know ! \u2018 Twas pretty and \u2018 twas strange , but now I know .Sappho ! Sappho ! In maiden woeWept \u2014 wept , and leapt \u2014 O love is so !My lady ! O my lady ! my sweet lady !", "About me ! Seize him ! God forgives not Hell .", "Or ready with some potent cruelty", ": Hush ! something \u2014 No , it was", ": Girl !\u2014 Why do you", ": It cries again . I will", ": Antonio !", "And cruel years grew in me , comes again", "Your eyes ! your eyes !", "Alone ?", "To muse with love of this !", "Philosophies . Say that the duke , his brother ,", "You love me , boy ?", "Tightly seal up his spirits ?", "Would muse on ?", "Antonio \u2014\u2014?", ": O , Eve new-burst on Eden ,", "That seeing must unbind .", "I who in empire youth too soon forgot ,", ": My words fell warm as tears \u2014 \u201c A rift has come ,", "True , Fulvia \u2014 as titles go .", "Speak then .", ": I could not : you", "But he \u2014\u2014!", "Or bring in him compassion like a flood .", "A net to snare what never has been free ?", "To keep it must bring on me bitterness", "Must I yet teach your coldness youth ?", ": So is he ! but to-day he bold unsheathed", "Is trust a flower of sudden birth we may", "Humbly desires it ! ( CECCO goes .", "This ravishment !\u2014 Ah , she has stayed the tread", "The sky \u2014 the sky ?", "Perhaps \u2014 we shall \u2014", "Ah \u2014 quite !", "That would cry out and curdle him to madness ,", "But echo back the other ?\u2014 This is froth \u2014", "She was not mine !\u2014 I will not turn .", "But you , my fair one , put", "License ?", "But fate cried out in me , not any voice .", ": Well , \u2018 twas swift . In you there is", "Citron and olive were left hungry , so", "My barren age . Pain , envious decay ,", "PAULA", "Or Pleiads sweeping seven-fold the night .", "The thwarted thunders of my want would rush", "More merriment upon your lips and lids ,", ": Or she has left", "You think \u2014!", "Dead in me !", "With perfidy , and stole me to believe", ": Ah what ! this hope , this leaping in me , this", "Ah !", "Conspiracy ?\u2014 plot of some here ? or of", "To dust ! to dust !", "At your absolving lips release from our", "Not shrink as from an executioner ?", "( He looks after , musingly , as she goes .", ": The sun 's no more ! It hath", ": Must pay with moan", "To fetch her ?", "My hope she set a coldness and a doubt !", ": And to-day", "Answer this deed \u2014 no glow , no eloquence", "Or \u2014 will you ?", "Our most amusing raveller of all", "On me and will not loose me \u2014 for against", "He 'll miss no welcome , and \u2014", "And all the burgeon of thy youth , ere proud", "A lute ! a lute !", ": The ranks of \u2014 pardon , lord .", "He lives ?\u2014 You have done this ? With these soft hands ,", "Of earth and realm unearthly has a cry", ": Not so , lord Cardinal , not so !\u2014 but when", ": Yes \u2014 yes ! About her brow shall curl", ": Should \u2014 should ?", "It does ! Must I \u2014 persuade it from your throat ?", "Write \u201c license , \u201d perilous had been my frown .", "But shall we woo no boon of mirth save dance ?", "Ah , boy ! thou ever wast to me as wafts", "I pray you swift again to Rome and plead", "Have come at midnight \u2014 a most honest hour .", ": Does he so", "Grown impotent \u2014 as \u2018 twere a moment 's folly ,", "Of that !\u2014 of that ?\u2014", ": Who 's this broke from his grave upon us ?", ": I cannot bear her voice upon my heart", ": Will not ? will not ? Look !", "My robes and coronet !", "With lightnings that shall \u2014You ? Antonio ? My eyes had other thought . Open your news \u2014 but mind \u2018 tis not of failure .", "Well ?", ": That sprung up ,", ": Ever ,", "Till sunset fail in me and I am night .", "We would to-day enlarge our worthiness", "Not Helena .", "You cause \u2014 a ground \u2014 some reason ? Men should when", "Leave !", "No mercy !\u2014 But , I will speak as a child ,", "Who fled a father 's searing cruelty ,", ": She ? Ah , my sullen , wild ,", "Us what hath passed \u2014 hath passed .", "And beauty in the innocence of earth .", ": Bravely !\u2014 O , brave !", "Enchanting and vain trickery of earth", "Till they no longer hope of it , or want .", ": Let one go with him \u2014 bring", "And if I do ?", "Smiled , Fulvia , and she \u2014 Why do you cloud ?", "Leave me . I had a thing to tell ; but it", "The tears still from her lids . I 've smiled on her ,", "Not like them ?", ": Her own ;", ": Strangely .\u2014 Yet seem", ": You have my love .\u2014 But as you came met you", "Bid bloom with a command ?", "It is my ears \u2019 inheritance forever .", ": Some lay then you", "Kindled in me !\u2014 To youth alone love 's sudden .", "It shall be three .", "Quench an eternity of flaming joy !", "As he who woke with Ruth fair at his feet ;", ": Fulvia ,", "He slays and smileth not .", "My trust in him is ripe : the fruit of it ,", "Has speech for you . And polities", "On nethermost despair : flown blind across", "Till he repent this fever .", "I must tear from my happiness a friend", "Yes . Fly , fly ! and stay the guard !", "Who on my brow surprise the wafted dew ,", "( CECCO goes to obey .", "You falter ?", "This fever still ?", "Bind him ! Leucadia 's just cliff awaits", "Speak so . I lust for bitterness .", "In the wild arms of battle when the winds", "That builds a Paradise of kisses , thinks", "I had an honor pluckt to laurel it ,", "If you stare so", "A wreath of noble worth , a thing to tell \u2014\u2014", "A passion may unthrone . If we weep not", "What do I see yet cannot in your words ?", "The quiet in me to a maelstrom ! This", "Immeasurable peaks , and I have sunk", "Nor guess ? You have not seen nor spoken to her ?", "The lady Helena . ( Servant goes .", "And led me trembling from reality !", "Yet he has flung me from", "And bursts with it !", "Can they not be , yet be apart ? Will winds", "His touch ! his earthless finger !\u2014 and she rots", "We 'll have her .", "Them to my gems and secrecies ? Shall I", "O , mutiny .", "You pause and ever pause upon my patience . \u2018 Twill heave unbearably !", ": Question no more .", "Of hell roar up at me ?\u2014 It is not strange .", "Whose element is love .", "Cecco , our Circes from the Nile . ( CECCO goes .", "Hither our guests come soon . Be with us then ,"], "true_target": ["Have loosed her with a piercing \u2014 into death ?", "To blight this tenderness new-sprung in me \u2014", "You utter and he seemeth still of life .", "I 'll sit in them and mock at greatness that", "Gone down beyond all mercy and recall .", "As youth and fiercest passion could not set her .", "Palsy and strangle every pregnant wish ,", "Than frenzy can invoke : a vaster pain", "And bleeding and \u2014 I rage !", "I would not farther have you drawn .", "FULVIA", "Ten years \u2014\u2014", "Have mirth ! though it be laughter at damned souls .", "There are no wise men , O lord Cardinal .", "I will not listen !", "And doubt that mystery wounds us with , and wrong ,", "Ah , on her head !", "Well , who \u2014\u2014?", "Will the skies stop ! Have I not arm in arm", "Into the void with lightnings for revenge !", ": A moment were too much \u2014 or not enough .", "Were he a seraph ,", "Yet is the lily lovelier in the wind !", ": Have you so labored to this atom 's birth ?", "And at your beauty 's best . Now ; trembling so ?\u2014", "Enter two Egyptian girls , who dance , then go .", "He shall be lord of Arta \u2014 total lord .", "You gape at it ?", "On terror !", "SOLDIER", "To bud on my life 's withering close ?", "The likeness of some visitant dear dream .", "No quailing nor a flame of execration !", "GUESTS", "Enter HELENA .", "Does she rest well ?", ": A woman 's smile", "Ah ?\u2014", "He shook , ashen and clenched , remembering", ": \u201c Father \u201d moans it . \u201c Father ! \u201d \u2014\u2014", "Ah ! Nature should have pled With her your mother , \u2018 gainst conception .", ": Let him not fawn", "Tell it !", "Who falls so close the grave can rise no more .", ": Why do you say so be it and sigh as", "A left and quickly quenched desire of youth", "Antonio ?", "Her kerchief in some nook : you seek it ?", "Not show their hiding ?\u2014 rubies , and fair gold ?", "Not bear them , and not sound them separate !", "We 'll more of it \u2014 a measure more . Read on .", "Mutiny ? Go . I could call chaos fair ,", "Fulvia ? No !", "CECCO", "I cannot bear thy voice upon my heart !", "Twice \u2014 but I 'm not two lords .", ": Peace \u2014 peace ? Antonio , a dream has come :", "Just to lie down and sleep . A child may do it .", "Some dread colossal doom , frenzied to fall !", ": Have", "( A SOLDIER goes .", "Within our care : yet has a hope that holds", "Now you frown ?", ": But where is he ? Belief , tho \u2019 risen , strains", "Such things can be ? A sister , yet he strikes ?", "Supernally as May she has burst on", "A shy mole too lies pillowed on her cheek \u2014", "Those curtains ?\u2014 those ?\u2014 just those ?\u2014 You shall not go .", "Enter AGABUS gazing into the air .", "And stilled the whispering of death : has called", "Fury on him that groans !", "And so steal an Antony ? We 'll frame a law on thieving of men 's heart 's !", ": Friends , you shall not \u2014 no . This pall will pass ,", "He must not \u2014 Ah !\u2014 down fearful fathoms , down", "Ah !", "Another rapture rules Antonio 's eye ,", "With you and with great Rome .", "And \u2014 lips to lips \u2014\u2014", "These little hands , held off the shears of Fate ?", "A rift , a smile , a breath has come \u2014 blown me", "The coronet ! Her wishes shall be sceptres", "And all the lost have echoes of it : hear", "Still down the vortex of this destiny", "From torture to an ecstasy .", "It hath a tone \u2014 a clutch \u2014 no more , no more !", "To Rome ?\u2014 I say you shall not .", "Had I not laughed to see your dread upon it", "And cast her back in the flames ! And I must bind", "CHARLES", "You would it were \u2014\u2014?", "His arms ! Ah , mole to burrow", "The princess Fulvia .", "\u201c If he should come ? \u201d", "That any still should trust my love . Beseech", "More than your mother 's gentleness .", "The guilty secret in him !", "Bitterly done ?", "In me as if \u2018 twere fast in cerements", ": My lady !", "Well ?", "So with all traitors be it .", "A rift , a smile , a breath \u201d \u2014 men speak so when", ": And do the ranks", "Is a boy 's passion so new under the moon", ": Therefore I smile . Men should not mid the trite", ": And yet it is a little thing to sleep \u2014", ": Again \u201c perhaps \u201d \u2014 this calm \u201c perhaps ! \u201d \u2014\u2014", "Whose sighs seem to it hurricanes of pain ,", "He \u2014\u2014?", "And did from Paradise desire to fold her \u2014", "See to thy mistress , child . Antonio , stay .", "You baffle and bewilder .", "Out of me ! Hope of her once taken , all", "Again our timid cheer ?", "There 's sweetness in a flower , light in air ,", "For that mute tenderness which women 's love", "The hour ? CECCOIt leans to sunset .", "And seem most honest \u2014 Why , I could not , sir !", "I would \u2014 even have listened !", "No ! No !", "His skill and bravery .", "From license ?\u2014 Hear me . I have sudden found", "I think \u2014 you are not well . Shall we go in ?", "And then !\u2014 Antonio !", ": Softly you muse it , and call to your eyes", ": If I but think", ": Ah , I was in a foam \u2014\u2014", "Were it he 's traitor gnawing at my throne ,", "Swear my true son is shame-begot , or lend", ": A mild , a courteous , O a modest Pope !", "The shriving !\u2014 Ah , the sun \u2014 the sun \u2014 where burns it ?", "Of light , of song , of summer on the hills !", "I have sunk down under the world and hit", "Out ! out !", "If it bud not \u2014\u2014!", "Joy come too furious has piercing peril .", "Thus under blind and muddy misbelief !", "Blows us away from mirth , \u2018 tis still in view ,", "Caressing ?\u2014 yet as if in them they found", ": The glow and glory of her seem", "And sinuous as Nile water is their grace .", ": Ah , you would say", "You do not burst out on me ? from me do", "And fawn on infinite ruin \u2014 fawn and praise .", "Has brewed more tears than lies . But , Fulvia ,", ": But something breaks from you ,", "Speak ; on your words I wait unutterably .", "In Pindar 's spring to trip so lightly forth .", "Would start up in your words some Titan woe ,", "Was not so !", "Echoes of youth from me ! and all I feared ....", "Nought could again be well ?", "upon the lustre of your throat .", "Some new lay , Haemon , come !", "Though it shriek desolation utterly", "Smiles should be kept for life 's unbearable .", "Say on . Your voice \u2014 I marvel \u2014\u2014", "Not listen ! He 's not flesh of me \u2014 not flesh !", "All danger of quick blisses \u2014 till , with fury", "Whose tears as seas of molten misery .", "Yet have I killed ;", ": Worm , you began so . Stretch now to the end ,", ": There has been darkness in me \u2014 and it seems", "Speak .", ": Undone ? Undone ?", "Behind him blows a horror !", ": No :", "I must not , will not look on such abyss .", "I am \u2014 quite \u2014 friendless now \u2014?", "\u2018 Tmay be her father found too deep a rest", "For faith 's as air , as ease to life \u2014 and seek", "I quelled them !", "That One whose necromancy wields the world ?", "Flee from the gleam and whisper of her name .", "She shall \u2014\u2014", ": Have peace . A keener cry comes up to me", ": Then go ,", ": You 've touched", "No worth , no gratitude , no gift that may", "What hath your voice ?", ": Girl \u2014 child \u2014", "And gloomy pulse beat with a rightful scorn", ": Leave them , I say , and cease !", "Not this blood only but my soul 's be on him .", "Of spial .", "The lute !", ": Though some grudging wind", "You doubt it ?\u2014 Are my eyes not bloody ? Say !", "Wring thus your troubled hands ?", ": A breathing of the world ,", ": None . But you put not ill", "Stay .", "Of peace and should go with it . I have slept", "Now will you have me mouth and foam and thresh", "Well \u2014 well \u2014\u2014?", "Never !\u2014 Yet , a lurking at my brain !", ": Stand ! stand ! Touch me not with", ": Above the bloody waving of the sea ,", "Suspicions curve their lips .", "Is \u2014 you are pale ! And press your lips from trembling !", "If angels cry one at the stars will they", "Ah , priestly sir .", "Must ?\u2014 Still I grope .", "They creep from madness up into some space", "Go . Say that we wait her here ,", "AGABUS", "Gladness to worm and gloom .\u2014 But \u2018 tis o'erpast .", "Well , to the lay !", "To Rome ? You must ?\u2014 I am under a spell .", "The lash and needed weight of penitence .", "Did you not , Fulvia , pleading for them say", ": Or ask more than a brevity of joy", "Do the skies rage \u2014\u2014? They were else dead to madness .", "We then do disavow our heresies \u2014\u2014", "In falsity , and in disquietude .", "Has been \u2014 no hap , I think \u2014 surely no hap .", "It \u2018 gins to burn !", "Keeps quick temptation in her eyes and hair .", "Is love ! is love that \u2014 How ? You feign ! distress and groaning tear in you !", "And ever bent upon Antonio ?", ": Then \u2014 why then \u2014 why there may slip", "I care not !\u2014 I care not ! We must have mirth !", ": O , when ? Be not surprised !\u2014", "Ah , \u2018 tis ? so low ?", ": New wings it needs and buoyancy .", "Rough disobedience . Nor shall we shun", "They quailed but would not flee and leave me waste ?", "Rise \u2014 go \u2014 and , if thou canst \u2014 To pray .", "Some pestilent prison ! And \u2018 tis impious too", "That is", "HAEMON", "Such night as would put out a heaven of hope ,", "O woman woven through all fibres of me !", ": As to-day you would", "Spoke death with them \u2014 not reasonless \u2014 yet death .", ": So eager ?\u2014 Truth", "And as an air of resurrection stirs .", "You 're full of sighs and pity then ?", "White dawn across my turbulence and night ,", "Antonio !\u2014 boy ! boy !", "Lays on the desolation of the world ,", "Her cheeks came hurried roses from her heart .", "Softly been lulled . Potions should be for them", "And bid our guests . Bring too Diogenes ,", "She 's frighted \u2014 thinks", "My kin to drink clean of its fouling damp", ": Here unto all our guests", "She shall glean softly now beside me \u2014 softly ,", "Antonio , how speaks he ?", "PAULA : O ,", "Let no one groan . I say let no one groan \u2014", "Never was luring , never , but she knew it ,", ": Low \u2014 low \u2014\u2014", "You speak not reasonably . Why do you say", "The Infinite bound up in an embrace .", "Ploughing as storms of pain it passes through me .", "He is obsessed \u2014 vile utterly !", "No matter \u2014 now .", "Not now , girl , no , not now \u2014 lest in his breath", "Eager to dip .", "The crying of my desolation 's want .", "Power and passing of this night is there", "Omnipotence ? And could Omnipotence make such a fool ? There must be two Gods in the world to do it .", "All pure with the prime beauty of God 's breath ,", "Within me tenderness to iron turned ,", "Lead her away \u2014 and quickly , quickly , quickly !", "Its solitude and fierce , bastioned against", ": Now will you fright off", "Have dared ? and have not feared ?", "She ravished it !\u2014 Yet now \u2018 tis still and cold .", "Into the roar !", "Forevermore beneath hope 's horizon .", "\u2018 Scutcheon hung stainless up the purple east ?", "No human catapult could war upon !", "For sleep too coldly calm .", "You said Antonio ?", "Enter CARDINAL .", ": Perchance also you have", "Who is as heart and health about our doors ,", "A greedy multitude upon the fields ,", "Be not , of roar !\u2014 Yet \u2014 look : Antonio ?", ": Subtle ! your nothing harboreth some theft", "You have no tidings .", "Against the hours that sieged it . Stony was", "You go ?\u2014 But , on !\u2014 your tone \u2014 in it I feel \u2014\u2014", "Who \u2014 But you are not well and cannot share", ": My lips then are not pale with murder", "Friend of my unrepaying years , dream you", ": The sun , how hangs it now ?", "To mine is she come here .", ": A son , a friend , a \u2014 No ,", ": I \u2014 I \u2014 remember ,"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["He \u2014 he , my friend ? and you ?\u2014 And I on him", "Should lean , and flatter \u2014\u2014?", "No refuge can be from an hour that 's done .", "Cause ! reason !", ": And I must wake it ? I with laugh and lay ,", "My father murdered whose last moan I hear", "Raised from the dead in me but to fall back", "Begins deceit ?", "Shall we invert the glass or tilt the dial", ": Is it not open ?", "Nobly , my lord ! Bardas , you must atone \u2014\u2014", ": Still must it be this tenderness lives false", ": Than to believe", ": Let it speak", ": O \u2014 if he 's", "Rigid while she in stealth is drugged to shame ?", "Our loveliest in shame !\u2014 Yet me , a Greek ,", "You stab me through another \u2014 you , my friend ?", "Not whispered death about him as a pest ?", "And not this subtle pride ! You would be friend ,", ": You did ill", "To say it ! He 's my son .", "HAEMON", "Annihilation on you and your race !", "I must wait softly while her innocence", "Upon your lips .", ": Do you mean that \u2014\u2014?", "Not entered a strange way ?", "Over a beggar 's pain than prince 's fingers .", ": Sir , if you grant it . I \u2014\u2014", "Will you laugh at me , fiend !", ": Antonio , speak ! Where 's innocence and where", "Cold spaces . And the dead speak not to lie .", ": I seek the duke .", "No rendezvous , my lord .", "CHARLES", "This is a gin , a net , and I am fast !", "An emperor and a god , I would not !", ": Then yield it us at once ,", "The duke is fixed .", "He can be false and wear this mien of truth ?", "Her to his arms ?", "Was he who 's so when most he should be true !", "Should blossom ; only weeds whose withering", "Pluck her white bloom to ease his idle sense", "The bread of honesty , the hope of age !", ": You know it \u2014 yet have led", "And doublet are sublimely worn ! sublimely !", "While she , my sister \u2014!", "Unseemliness run in your thought ?", "How , sir , and when ?", ": Honor upon dishonor sits not well .", "Do not !", "CHARLES", ": Bardas , you bring the truth ?\u2014 And so , my lord ,", "You set to feed upon me \u2014 torturing !", "Ah , you ?", "Hurled by some ruthless hoof . Near him this key", "Can hurt no heart !", "Antonio will not be .", "Bring dread on all to whom are given sons !", ": Then hear me , hear !\u2014", "Is goad and gall ! Why do you burn my cheek", "With him too ! Against a miracle , you are his heir !", "Therefore you 'll cry it maudlin at the streets ?", "Fair graces ? No , my lord \u2014 not so . Your sword", "As stone ere it has breathed ? Have I so frequent", "But , what : my sister seized ?", "CHARLES", "You 're not Antonio , son of Charles di Tocca ?", "We must be swift .", "FULVIA", ": If they are still \u2014\u2014", "( They go in opposite directions .", "Him in the tempest raised of his outrage !", "Mistake me not , my lord .", "To a weak palsy \u2014 who should o'erwhelm", ": Ah sister , child !\u2014 Have I", ": Rather , could I ! Antonio \u2014 yet neither .", "Doting upon dishonor ?", ": This fever ! Must I be", "Look on me as on majesties accursed !\u2014", "And writing \u2014\u2014", "I care not .", "Senseless against a bank I found a boy ,", ": Yes .", "Are drunken , bloody , indolent , and lust", "Yes !\u2014 yes !", ": Fury !\u2014 Ah ! what would you do ?", "ANTONIO", ": After he lured and wooed her under night", ": Bardas ! Do you \u2014 Does such", ": And shall be while I 'm readier to bend", "A friend to me \u2014 a friend !\u2014 Did not your father", "I am in famine till he gives me groan !", ":", "Had I but", "Glooms start around me , glooms that seethe and cling ."], "true_target": ["To loose my sister .", "Better beneath her dreams than under shame .", "Drained you ? Be slow to tempt me \u2014 In me moves", "I \u2014 have excuse .", "Had but betrayal for her !", ": No :", "With strength been father and with tenderness", "His father 's trust !", "And pang that answer mine ?", "CHARLES", ": You wrong me , and have wronged me . I but come", "And would not be a slave ? His cunning has", "Be voiceless and be vain , unstung , and still ?", "Clandestine of purport , Antonio", ": Cruel ! His soldiers waste", "But to see now unchastest cruelty", ": One innocent ! His thought", "To bring it back ?", "You would seek penitence", ": May bite and paw ?", "This maid who called , did she come idly here ? You stir ? you rouse ?", "Yes , a lay .", "ANTONIO", "A mother been to her unfolding years", "Though he were twice Antonio and your son ,", "FULVIA", "Were you less far in folly .", "Yes .", "So would he : and he smiles .", ": Heat me not with denial . Is new bliss", "And secrecy ?", "Because he was a Greek and still a Greek ,", ": Ask it not , or you step", ": And will you sink", "Into a sick and sunless keep cast mine", "And passionless \u2014 as one cold in a trance ?", "I 'd \u2014\u2014!", "I have none \u2014 cannot .", "With penalty !", ": And they shall ! until God wrecks", "Our mood is so .", "On waiting hazard and calamity .", ": No ! all and ever false", "You cloud me with these words . Were they Antonio 's \u2014\u2014", "You have a plan ?", "CHARLES", "To tear all innocence away and robe", "Driven about me in this castle 's gray", "And have not I come strangely on the hour !", "Not here , then \u2014\u2014", ": Ah then , it runs in you , the rush", "As ice while soiling flames leap out at her ?", "No , no !", ": Why do you wind so sinuously about me ?", "Under these shades ?", "I cannot , will not !", "Not there is trust ! She is aware and aids in his deceit . This writing says it of her .", "Peril that has a passion to leap forth !", "A bloody pyramid of enemies ,", "Your curls would tempt an empress \u2019 fingers , and \u2014\u2014", "She shall not \u2014\u2014!", "Who is she ? Ah , young blood and Spring and night !", "Into a plea . Humbly as manhood may \u2014", "Since you , not he , are here , my passion melts", ": Peace", ": Haemon \u2014\u2014", "Is drained as virgin freshness from the morn ?\u2014", "The duke \u2014 I will not bauble .", "CHARLES", "Search every shade \u2014 search , search ! You stand as death .", "Well \u2014 well ?", "Proof ? He could not . No ! he dare not !", "Omnipotence a moment and could dash", "You Tamerlane and mine the skull should cap", "He suddenly befriends !", "I have no lay .", "The sun melts to an end , and with the night", "Then shall he rest \u2014 lie easy down and rest In treachery ?", ": Some rendezvous ?", "Let it ! for fools are threats , and cowards . Were", "I will make treachery bitter to all time .", "Give me again my sister from these walls , Since might is yours , strip from me wealth and life And more , and all \u2014 but let her not , no , no , Meet here the touch and leprosy of shame ! CHARLESSaid I not , said I , friends , we should have mirth ? You shall laugh with me laughter bright as wine .", "Still he 's free .", "ANTONIO", ": That avows , mid lines", "One fragrant hour ?\u2014 If it be so , no flowers", "Down generations shall they peer and tremble ,", "Where is he ?", ": He frauded \u2014 duped", "And Helena , under these shades at twelve \u2014\u2014", ": To your", "With this indignity ?", ": Pardon : if you know ,", ": Then \u2018 tis", ": I will no longer listen to the worm ,", ": Where is", "What want you of me ?", "Ah , God ! You will ?\u2014 you will ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["You let her ! still devising for yourself", "Hasting to warn I found Helena ta'en", "Antonio , sue for me . You have been apt", "Well met then : to your doors my want was bent", "Then may I be the rock on which he breaks ! But hear ; who comes ?We must aside until This mirth is past .Enter revellers dressed as bacchanals and bacchantes , dancing and singing . Bacchus , hey ! was a god , hei-yo ! The vine ! a fig for the rest ! With locks green-crowned and lips red-warm \u2014 The vine ! the vine 's the best ! He loved maids , O-o-ay ! hei-yo ! The vine ! a maiden 's breast ! He pressed the grape , and kissed the maid !\u2014 The cuckoo builds no nest !LYDIADo you think kisses are so cheap ? You must know mine fill my purse ! A pretty gallant from Naples , with laces and silks and jewels gave me this ring last year for but one . And another lover from Venice gave me this\u2014 but he looked so sad when he gave it . Ah , his eyes ! I 'd not have cared if he had given me naught .", "Of taking a new love . She broke my grasp \u2014\u2014", "Came revellers who saw us \u2014 jested her", "For knightly feat like this \u2014 and that he has", ": My haste is blunt \u2014", "He swore it was unswerving all and truth .", "Bound to the wings of wide ambition he", ": I saw her as she leapt and until death", "And sought you here .", "Antonio ! not in the sea ? You live ?", "Do you ask why ?", "A breath too heavenly .", "As is my tongue .", "O , safe \u2014 if she had shrift ! CHARLESThe dead are so !", "Will choose undowered worth ?\u2014 To the ordeal", "Would not lie fruitless did they bid her yield", "Her sorrow and her fairness shall not stand", "God hath forgot . There will we dwell away", "To some unhabited gray ocean vale", "A little since one of your father 's guard", "O", "That I must wander the cold way of death", "Not love : I am idolatrous before", "It grows \u2014 a little low ?", "Are sunk with proofs .", "From destiny and weeping , from despair ! \u201d", "More than her most .", "Relentlessly your crime .\u2014 But no \u2014 but no !", "You down the wave to follow .", "Is it not blood ?", ": O , well feigned .", "All purity !", ": She came unto the cliff amid her tears \u2014", ": I 've sought you , Haemon . Antonio ? We are", "Shall see no more .", ": Out of her breast she drew it swift ,", "Ay , so .", ": Necessity 's not over delicate .", "Be sure none will suspect he is too old", "ANTONIO", "Peace , Haemon .", "Imprisoned in your eye , tho \u2019 \u2018 twere to cry", ": Ah , what !\u2014 \u201c He burns with flaming heart ! \u201d \u2014 have we"], "true_target": ["Yes \u2014\u2014", "And instant of it drank .", "I will go down and clasp him , drift with him", "Your words once sown upon her listening", "Safety and preservation !", ": Haemon , I love your sister .", ": Swifter than all", "ANTONIO", ": You are mortal ?", ": Ah !", "I 'll not believe !", "The fairness of his name ; but doubts in me", "Her foot 's least print , and cannot breathe or pray", ": \u201c Is \u2018 t not enough , \u201d she pled to me , \u201c Enough", ": These tears should seal fierce oaths", "Unto his arms ? Go hence ! There is no rest .", ": You live ! and live ? but let her think your death !", "Unyielding .", "I saved your life , my lord .", "Unto his halls \u2014 which she must henceforth honor .", "HAEMON", "Haemon \u2014\u2014!", ": Until this hour I held", "She had a phial .", "A son !", "You knew it not ?", "Gave his command in seal to Helena", "Against him !", "The race of Charles di Tocca bold , or other", "Peace , Haemon . Antonio , speak .", ": No more . When I had struck him down ,", ": Helena who is", ": Blot it from you ! Her face ,", "Of mere suspicion 's flaming I 'd not trust", "But empty of all lies in deed or speech ,", "Only : and then \u2014\u2014", ": As I held her piteous hand", "Upon the streets , to instantly repair", ": A pretty protest \u2014 but", "With a request .", "In all love 's skill they say . My oath on it", "Prevention .", "But where she 's sometime been and left a heaven !", "Her being all into one want was fused ,", "This utter superstition !", "You cannot or you will not ?", "Yet the rogue Cecco , the duke 's half-seneschal , half-spy , I passed upon the streets o'ermuch in wine , Leaning upon a tipsier jade and spouting With drunken mockery , \u201c \u2018 Sweet Helena ! Fair Helena ! \u2019 Pluck me , wench , but the lord Antonio knows sound nuts ! And sly ! Why hear you now ! he gets the duke to seize on the maid ! The fox ! The rat ! Have I not heard him in his chamber these thirty nights puff her name out his window with as many honeyed drawls of passion as \u2014 as \u2014 as \u2014 June has buds ? \u2018 Sweet Helena ! \u2019 \u2014 la ! \u2018 Fair Helena ! \u2019 \u2014 O ! \u2018 Dear Helena ! my rose ! my queen ! my sun and moon and stars ! Thy kiss is still at my lips , thy breast beats still on mine ! my Helena ! \u2019 \u2014 Um ! Oh , \u2018 tmust be a rare damsel . I 'll make a sluice between her purse and mine , wench ; do you hear ? \u201d", "No flesh to understand this passion then ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Never mind , my girl . But you must n't scorn a man 's blood when it 's afire . Re-enter Revellers singing Bacchus , hey ! was a god , hei-yo ! etc . ( After which all go , except ZOE and BASIL .", "Here , here , then !LYDIAThey say the ladies in Venice ride with their lovers through the streets all night in boats : and the very moon shines more passionately there . Is it true ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , yes . But kiss me , Lydia ! Take this jewel \u2014 my last . Be mine to-night , no other 's ! We 'll prate of Venice another time .", "Not have it ! Now you 're turning nun ! a soft and virgin , silly nun ! With a gray gown to hide these shoulders that \u2014 shall I whisper it ?"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Another time we 'll prate of kisses . I 'll not have the jewel ."], "true_target": ["Devil ! they 're not ! A nice lover called them round and fair last night . And I 've been sick ! And \u2014 I \u2014 cruel ! cruel ! cruel !There , they 're coming ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Basil \u2014 you were my first lover \u2014 except the duke Charles . Ah , did you see how that Helena looked when they gave her the duke 's command ? I was like that once ."], "true_target": ["He told me , Basil , I should live , a great lady , at his castle . And they should kiss my hand and courtesy to me . He meant but jest \u2014 I feared .\u2014 I feared ! But \u2014 I loved him !", "O ! O ! O ! but \u2018 tis brave ! Wine , Basil ! Wine , my knight , my Bacchus ! Ho ! ho ! my god ! you wheeze like a cross-bow . Is it years , my wooer , years ?\u2014 Ah !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Enwove with a woman 's woe .", ":", "Sighs \u2014 sighs ! Now look for showers .", "ZOE", "Two notes would the bent reed blow ,"], "true_target": ["The one was sorrow , the other love", ": Now , my damsel \u2014!", "Fiends , nymphs and saints ! it 's come ! tears in your eyes ! Zoe , stop it . Would you have mine leak and drive me to a monastery for shelter ! ZOEShe lay by the river , dead , A broken reed in her hand A nymph whom an idle god had wed And led from her maidenland .", "The god was the great god Jove ,", "Songs and snakes ! Give me instead a Dominican 's funeral ! I 'd as lief crawl bare-kneed to Rome and mouth the Pope 's heel . O blessed Turks with their remorseless harems !\u2014 Zoe ! ZOEShe lay by the river dead ; And he at feasting forgot . The gods , shall they be disquieted By dread of a mortal 's lot ?Bacchus ! my Bacchus ! with wet eyes ! Up , up , lad ! there 's many a cup for us yet ! ( They go , she leading and singing . He loved maids , O-o-ay ! hei-yo ! The vine ! a maiden 's breast ! etc .", "O , had I been born a heathen !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["But \u2018 twas unknowingly .", "My lord thinks of the gentle Helena ?", "He begged no softer boon ?", "Nothing : but \u2014\u2014", "She is not here , my liege .", ": Half , sir ; even as now .", "He 'll drink , sir , and not know if it be wine !", "Sir , I \u2014 no \u2014 that is \u2014\u2014", "Amorous , mellow sick upon some maid ?", "But if , sir \u2014\u2014", "Sir \u2014 she \u2014 the maid craves audience with the duke .", "Of \u2014 the Greek ?", "On the same night young Haemon 's father went", "A quiet powder .", "Sounds the diapason of perfidy .", "O , then , sir \u2014\u2014", ": Red now", "And breath , a traitor ? A Greek who \u2014 I 'll not say it ,", "CHARLES", "She though is young , and youth \u2014\u2014", ": Since that hour 's close", "A murk moves slowly up . CHARLESThere should be storm \u2014 gloating of wind and grind Of hopeless thunders . Lightnings should laugh out As tongues of fiends . There should be storm .Yet !\u2014 yet !\u2014\u2014", ": Let the bird be , my jaunty . \u2018 Tis no lie", ": On his back in the wood as if the leaves", "Pardon , I but \u2014\u2014", ": Well what would", "Sir , yes .", ": O , will great Christ upon it lay no fear !", "Antonio , forever from the day !", "It was of lord Antonio \u2014\u2014", "You scratch from me ?", "The Cardinal , your grace .", "No signal unto Death \u2014 and plunge , plunge thee ,", "Yet shrews do not scratch serpents .", "I keep your words lest you may need of them \u2014", "Be ready for a strike , my tender shrew .", "You heard then \u2014\u2014", "It rushes forth .", "Since she is Greek I must forget the word", "Has He no miracle will seize it yet !", "Why , sir \u2014\u2014", ": It dips , my lord ."], "true_target": ["This your despair would wound him more than death . Forget the girl .", "To this I have not stood in so much calm .", "\u2018 Tis sunk ! CHARLESYes !\u2014 Yes !The vision of it ! Ah ,\u2014 see you not , see ! They lift him , swing him \u2014 Now ! down , down , down , down ! The rocks ! the lash ! the foam !", "The secret way to death .", "Begin to coil .", "Nor will lend now His thunder to cry hold ,", "Sung fairy balladry ; then riding wild", "When Antonio \u2014\u2014", "Sir , dare I speak ?", "Let it swoon down as if its sinking sent", "There then, but \u2014\u2014 GIULIAOh ? And shrews do not scratch serpents ? You may spy , But others are not witless , I can tell you !, do not lose the writing . But Should you , he must not come till two . For \u2018 tis At twelve the Greek will meet Antonio .", "Withholds .", "There is no thorny hint in it to vex you ,", "The town ? the town ? CHARLESAy \u2014\u2014?", ": Well , I", "And is my lord at peace ?", "A boon of you ?", "Ah , flags .", ": I coil \u2014 I coil ! will soon", "The shrew and nightingale were never friends .", "To prick your humor \u2014 may not he be sick ,", "Have you not marked him sundry of his moods ?", "My lord , the lady Helen 's little maid \u2014\u2014", "And where ?", "Your lady 's voice \u2014 but you are not your lady .", "My lord ?", ": If my lord would , here 's sleep for him wrapped in", "What now ! It is ill-timed !", "My lord ?", "Upon a cloud whence it must spring to night .", "Bidden to hurl thee o'er !", "His lightning to flame off the hands that grasp ,", ": I would say \u2014 would ask \u2014 and hope", ": So were you , sir \u2014", ": And did not crave", "Still was he not in every vein of him ,", ": Again a cloud", "Nowhither and alone ; about the castle", "Sir , surely .", "Yearning , yet absent to soft speech and arms !", "Sir \u2014\u2014", "It was , sir , only of Antonio .", "CHARLES"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Hold him not in this anguish .", "Peace , worthy duke !", "My lips shall learn it .", "No wind should blow that has not sting of it ,", "It may be so .", "Make every wave a tongue against your rest ,", "Murderer !", "O horror ! Horrible when a father slays and smiles !", "Heretic !", "My silence as my speech is not my own .", "Heaven let Antonio 's death under the sea", "Pass the offence . Be it oblivion 's . On , the penalty .", "I do not understand .", ": You have loosed"], "true_target": ["Your robe , lord prelate \u2014 see .", "This is your answer ? CHARLESA mite ! a mite of it ! The rest is I will wed where I will wed Though every hill of earth raise up its pope To bellow at me thunderous damnation ! I will \u2014 I will \u2014FULVIACharles , ah ! Wine for him , wine !", "To Rome ?", "CHARLES", "And \u2018 gainst the rock of this impenitence !", "Infuriate man !", ": Firmly I crave", "No light stream that it stains not !", ": Princess ,", "Beyond all mercy !", "If your decision and desire are still \u2014\u2014", "What have you done ! CHARLESWatched the sun set . Did it not , think you , bleed Unwontedly along the waves ?", "Fool ! fool !", "O stone ! thou stone !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Pledge them consenting seal and you shall be", "Briefly and fully free .", "Di Tocca has offended \u2014\u2014 \u201d", "Our royal Pope 's conditions shall be told ,"], "true_target": [": \u201c Whereas the duke", "SECRETARY", "Who so confesses , plants beneath his foot", "These words , great lord , fall wise and soothing well .", "A step to scale all impotence and wrong ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": [": You told me not of this \u2014 no word , my lord !", ": \u201c And send a hundred men", "Armed \u2018 gainst the foes that threaten Italy . \u201d", "He is enjoined to wed with Beatrice", "Obedience , his sins shall melt to rest", ": \u201c He must also yield up the princess Fulvia", "Of Italy and Christ 's most Holy Church ,"], "true_target": ["FULVIA", "Must pay into our vaults two hundred ducats \u2014 \u201d", "Who 's fled her father 's house and rightful marriage . \u201d", "Of Florence . If his wilful boldness grants", ": \u201c Therefore the duke di Tocca humbling himself", ": \u201c And for the better amity and weal", "Under the calm of full forgiveness . He \u2014\u2014 \u201d"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["I pray , good-night ."], "true_target": [": O duke ,"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Pardon , O duke , we \u2014\u2014", "And \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["And I , my lord .", "And I \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twas witchery !"], "true_target": ["O , dance !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": [": And thus ,", "The Nile ! Ah , Cleopatra 's Nile ?", "Then , vainly ! \u2018 tis a theft men like the most ."], "true_target": ["His senses to an ecstasy ? O , oh ,", "Did Cleopatra thus steal Antony ?", "Wrap him about with motion that would seize", "To dance so !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": [": If there is anything", "On that seat .", "What 's kept so thriftily .", "And were I you not long would be your lord 's . Give me the key .", "My lady , yes .", "I tell him ? ah ?", "His ducats and your own .", ": The duke might learn , too , you 're not clear between", ": That bird ! Always so noisy , always vain", "No more were shrew and serpent .", ": You want the key", "CECCO", "To be got from you , then it must be scratched ."], "true_target": [": And I 'll begin to scotch", "You ere \u2018 tis done .\u2014 Give me the postern key .", "Where they can neither coil nor strike ?", ": He likes well", ": If they 're caught", "His words were low", ": Does the duke know you 've hidden from his ear", "Antonio 's passion ? does he ?\u2014 ah ?\u2014 and shall", "To let in Boro to chuck your baby face", "And moon with you ! He 's been discharged \u2014 take care .", "I was behind \u2014\u2014", "As if nobody else would speak or sleep .", "Of gushing . Sing , and sing , sing , sing , it must !"], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Under the bold de Montreal , and he", "That has he !", "Great lord !", "Of the world !", "O duke ! O duke !", "No , but a few \u2014\u2014", ": As the end", "( Goes .", "Mutiny ! your haste !", "Sir ! sir !", "Sir , yes !", "Hear me , great sir , there 's mutiny !", "Bury me with a pagan , next a Turk !", ": Madonna save her !\u2014 The Judas of a father"], "true_target": ["For stratagems \u2014 well , Italy knows him !", ": That has he ! Ah ,", ": \u2018 Tis she who comes this way .", ": If I do ,", "Pale \u2014 no .", "Great lord , there 's mutiny !", ": That do I \u2014 every link of it ! I 've served", "There is no more ?", "Sir \u2014\u2014 CHARLESNone , fool ! but come to say what silence groans , What earth numb and in deadness raves to me . To tell Antonio hath gone out and o'er A precipice hath stepped for sake of love . This is not tidings \u2014 hath it not on me Been fixed forever ? It is older than Despair , as old as pain !Your sister \u2014\u2014", ": Sir , it is", "Who robs her rest !", "Your guard beyond the gates .", "O sir \u2014\u2014!", "CAPTAIN", "So go , and haste . But fail not ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["The duke himself shall for this deed at last", "Princess \u2014", "You must be quick and secret .", ": Our duty 's with the duke . But then", "Your words shall make must move him , gracious lady .", ": The kind and wise assaults", ": Well , be close . None must escape ,"], "true_target": ["Remember , none be hurt . As for the princess ,", "Not if you understand .", "Have benediction .", "Seasonable for their expected fruit .", "We 'll hear the chink of ducats with her thanks .", ": Lady , all seems now", ": Doubt not a fullest harvest of your hope .", "Antonio has our love ."], "play_index": 4, "act_index": 4}, {"query": ["Do n't touch me .I thought to stay your hand with my stories till Fergus would come to be beside them , the way I 'd save yourself , Con - chubor , and Naisi and Emain Macha ; but I 'll walk up now into your halls , and I 'll sayit 's here nettles will be growing , and beyond thistles and docks . I 'll go into your high chambers , where you 've been figur - ing yourself stretching out your neck for the kisses of a queen of women ; and I 'll say it 's here there 'll be deer stirring and goats scratch - ing , and sheep waking and coughing when there is a great wind from the north .I 'm going , surely . In a short space I 'll be sitting up with many listening to the flames crackling , and the beams breaking , and I looking on the great blaze will be the end of Emain . 73 Deirdre .Let you tell them they 'll lodge here tonight .", "I 'd liefer stay this place . I 've done my best , but if a bad end is coming , 72 surely it would be a good thing maybe I was here to tend her . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > fiercely .</ i > \u2014 Take her to Emain ; it 's too many tricks she 's tried this day already .", "I came in the shower was before dawn .", "I seen him surely . He went spying on Naisi , and now the worms is spying on his own inside . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > exultingly .</ i > \u2014 Naisi killed him ?", "I have , then , though I 've no call now to be wandering that length to a wedding or a burial , or the two together .It 's a poor thing the way me and you is getting old , Conchubor , and I 'm thinking you yourself have no call to be loitering this place getting your death , may - be , in the cold of night .", "A good right is it ? Have n't the blind a good right to be seeing , and the lame to be dancing , and the dummies singing tunes ? It 's that right you have to be looking for gaiety on Deirdre 's lips .Come on to your dun , I 'm saying , and leave her quiet for one night itself . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > with sudden anger .</ i > \u2014 I 'll not go , when it 's long enough I am above in my dun stretching east and west without a comrade , and I more needy , maybe , than the thieves of Meath . . . . You think I 'm old and wise , but I tell you the wise know the old must die , and they 'll leave no chance for a thing slipping from them they 've set their blood to win . 70"], "true_target": ["I 'm old , surely , and the hopes I had my pride in are broken and torn .", "Their like would go any 46 place where they 'd see death standing .I 'm in dread Conchubor wants to have yourself and to kill Naisi , and that that 'll be the ruin of the Sons of Usna . I 'm silly , maybe , to be dreading the like , but those have a great love for yourself have a right to be in dread always . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > more anxiously .</ i > \u2014 Emain should be no safe place for myself and Naisi . And is n't it a hard thing they 'll leave us no peace , Lavarcham , and we so quiet in the woods ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > impressively .</ i > \u2014 It 's a hard thing , surely ; but let you take my word and swear Naisi , by the earth , and the sun over it , and the four quarters of the moon , he 'll not go back to Emain \u2014 for good faith or bad faith \u2014 the time Conchubor 's keeping the high throne of Ireland . . . . It 's that would save you , surely . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > without hope .</ i > \u2014 There 's lit - tle power in oaths to stop what 's coming , and little power in what I 'd do , Lavarcham , to change the story of Conchubor and Naisi and the things old men foretold . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > aggressively .</ i > \u2014 Was there little power in what you did the night you dressed in your finery and ran Naisi off 47 along with you , in spite of Conchubor and the big nobles did dread the blackness of your luck ? It was power enough you had that night to bring distress and anguish ; and now I 'm pointing you a way to save Naisi , you 'll not stir stick or straw to aid me . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > a little haughtily .</ i > \u2014 Let you not raise your voice against me , Lavarcham , if you have will itself to guard Naisi . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > breaking out in anger .</ i > \u2014 Naisi is it ? I did n't care if the crows were stripping his thigh-bones at the dawn of day . It 's to stop your own despair and wailing , and you waking up in a cold bed , without the man you have your heart on , I am raging now .Yet there is more men than Naisi in it ; and maybe I was a big fool thinking his dangers , and this day , would fill you up with dread . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > sharply .</ i > \u2014 Let you end ; such talking is a fool 's only , when it 's well you know if a thing harmed Naisi it is n't I would live after him .It 's well you know it 's this day I 'm dreading seven years , and I fine nights watching the heifers walking to the haggard with long shadows on the grass ;or the time I 've been stretched in the sunshine , when I 've heard 48 Ainnle and Ardan stepping lightly , and they saying : Was there ever the like of Deirdre for a happy and sleepy queen ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > not fully pacified .</ i > \u2014 And yet you 'll go , and welcome is it , if Naisi chooses ?", "It 's Owen 's gone raging mad , and he 's after splitting his gullet beyond at the butt of the stone . There was ill luck this day in his eye . And he knew a power if he 'd said it all .", "It is , surely , crying out over their grave .", "I have a little hut where you can rest , Conchubor ; there is a great dew falling . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > with the voice of an old man .</ i > \u2014 Take me with you . I 'm hard set to see the way before me .", "He did not , then . It was Owen destroyed himself running mad be - cause of Deirdre . Fools and kings and scholars are all one in a story with her like , and Owen thought he 'd be a great man , being the first corpse in the game you 'll play this night in Emain .", "If it 's that ails you , I tell you there 's little hurt getting old , though young girls and poets do be storming at the shapes of age .There 's little hurt getting old , saving when you 're looking back , the way I 'm looking this day , and seeing the young you have a love for breaking up their hearts with folly .Take my word and stop Naisi , and the day 'll come you 'll have more joy having the senses of an old woman and you with your little grandsons shrieking round you , than I 'd have this night putting on the red mouth and the 49 white arms you have , to go walking lonesome byways with a gamey king ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["It 's little joy of a young woman , or an old woman , I 'll have from this day , surely . But what use is in our talking when there 's Naisi on the foreshore , and Fergus with him ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > despairingly .</ i > \u2014 I 'm late so with my warnings , for Fergus 'd talk the moon over to take a new path in the sky .You 'll not stop him this day , and is n't it a strange story you were a plague and torment , since you were that height , to those did hang their lifetimes on your voice .Do n't think bad of my crying . I 'm not the like of many and I 'd see a score of naked corpses and not heed them at all , but I 'm destroyed seeing yourself in your hour of joy when the end is coming surely . 50morning is the like of this . Yet if you are a spy itself I 'll go and give my word that 's wanting surely .", "I will go with you .", "I 'll say so near that grave we seem three lonesome people , and by a new made grave there 's no man will keep brooding on a woman 's lips , or on the man he hates . It 's not long till your own grave will be dug in Emain , and you 'd go down to it more easy if you 'd let call Ainnle and Ardan , the way we 'd have a supper all together , and fill that grave , and you 'll be well pleased from this out , having four new friends the like of us in Emain . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > looking at her for a moment .</ i > \u2014 That 's the first friendly word I 've heard you speaking , Deirdre . A game the like of yours should be the proper thing for soften - ing the heart and putting sweetness in the 79tongue ; and yet this night when I hear you I 've small blame left for Naisi that he stole you off from Ulster . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > to Naisi .</ i > \u2014 Now , Naisi , answer gently , and we 'll be friends to-night . NAISI \u2014 < i > doggedly .</ i > \u2014 I have no call but to be friendly . I 'll answer what you will . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > taking Naisi 's hand .</ i > \u2014 Then you 'll call Conchubor your friend and king , the man who reared me up upon Slieve Fuadh .", "It will be my share from this out to be making lamentation on his stone always , and I crying for a love will be the like of a star shining on a little harbour by the sea . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > coming forward .</ i > \u2014 Let you rise up , Deirdre , and come off while there are none to heed us , the way I 'll find you shelter and some friend to guard you .", "Let you not be saying things are worse than death . NAISI \u2014 < i > a little recklessly .</ i > \u2014 I 've one word left . If a day comes in the west that the larks are cocking their crests on the edge of the clouds , and the cuckoos making a stir , and there 's a man you 'd fancy , let you not be thinking that day I 'd be well pleased you 'd go on keening always . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > turning to look at him .</ i > \u2014 And if it was I that died , Naisi , would you take another woman to fill up my place ? NAISI \u2014 < i > very mournfully .</ i > \u2014 It 's little I know , saving only that it 's a hard and bitter thing leaving the earth , and a worse and harder thing leaving yourself alone and deso - late to be making lamentation on its face always .", "There 's no place to stay al - ways . . . . It 's a long time we 've had , pressing the lips together , going up and down , resting in our arms , Naisi , waking with the smell of June in the tops of the grasses , and listening to the birds in the branches that are highest . . . . It 's a long time we 've had , but the end has come , surely . 59", "I 'll not be here . NAISI \u2014 < i > hard .</ i > \u2014 You 'd best keep him off , maybe , and then , when the time comes , make your way to some place west in Donegal , and it 's there you 'll get used to stretching out lonesome at the fall of night , and waking lone - some for the day .", "I 'll not be here to know if that is true .", "I 've dread going or staying , Lavarcham . It 's lonesome this place , having happiness like ours , till I 'm asking each day will this day match yesterday , and will to - morrow take a good place beside the same day in the year that 's gone , and wondering all times is it a game worth playing , living on until you 're dried and old , and our joy is gone for ever .", "Are there no women like 52 yourself could be your friends in Emain ? OWEN \u2014 < i > vehemently .</ i > \u2014 There are none like you , Deirdre . It 's for that I 'm asking are you going back this night with Fergus ?", "Do not raise a hand to touch me .", "It 's yourself has made a crazy story , and let you go back to your arms , Con - chubor , and to councils where your name is great , for in this place you are an old man and a fool only .", "I 've heard news of Fergus ; what brought you from Ulster ? OWEN \u2014 < i > who has been searching , finds a loaf and sits down eating greedily , and cut - ting it with a large knife .</ i > \u2014 The full moon , I 'm thinking , and it squeezing the crack in my skull . Was there ever a man crossed nine waves after a fool 's wife and he not away in his head ? DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > absently .</ i > \u2014 It should be a long time since you left Emain , where there 's civility in speech with queens .", "Take your spears , Ainnle and Ardan , and go down before me , and take your 66horse-boys to be carrying my cloaks are on the threshold . AINNLE \u2014 < i > obeying .</ i > \u2014 It 's with a poor heart we 'll carry your things this day we have carried merrily so often , and we hungry and cold .", "Who 'll fight the grave , Con - chubor , and it opened on a dark night ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > eagerly .</ i > \u2014 There are steps in the wood . I hear the call of Fergus and his men . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > furiously .</ i > \u2014 Fergus can - not stop me . I am more powerful than he is , though I am defeated and old . FERGUS \u2014 < i > comes in to Deirdre ; a red glow is seen behind the grove .</ i > \u2014 I have de - stroyed Emain , and now I 'll guard you all 90 times , Deirdre , though it was I , without knowledge , brought Naisi to his grave .", "It is n't pleasure I 'd have while Conchubor is king in Emain . FERGUS \u2014 < i > almost annoyed .</ i > \u2014 Would you doubt the seals of Conall Cearneach and the kings of Meath ?It 's easy being fearful and you alone in the woods , yet it would be a poor thing if a timid womancould turn away the Sons of Usna from the life of kings . Let you be thinking on the years to come , Deirdre , and the way you 'd have a right 55 to see Naisi a high and white-haired justice beside some king of Emain . Would n't it be a poor story if a queen the like of you should have no thought but to be scraping up her hours dallying in the sunshine with the sons of kings ? DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > turning away a little haught - ily .</ i > \u2014 I leave the choice to Naisi .Yet you 'd do well , Fergus , to go on your own way , for the sake of your own years , so you 'll not be saying till your hour of death , maybe , it was yourself brought Naisi and his brothers to a grave was scooped by treachery .", "It 's you three will not see age or death coming \u2014 you that were my com - pany when the fires on the hill-tops were put out and the stars were our friends only . I 'll turn my thoughts back from this night , that 's 85pitiful for want of pity , to the time it was your rods and cloaks made a little tent for me where there 'd be a birch tree making shelter and a dry stone ; though from this day my own fingers will be making a tent for me , spreading out my hairs and they knotted with the rain ."], "true_target": ["It is n't to great deeds you 're going but to near troubles , and the shortening of your days the time that they are bright and sunny ; and is n't it a poor thing that I , Deirdre , could not hold you away ?", "There is no one could take me from you . I have chosen to go back with Fergus . Will you quarrel with me , Ainnle , though I have been your queen these seven years in Alban ? AINNLE \u2014 < i > subsiding suddenly .</ i > \u2014 Naisi has no call to take you .", "And who is coming ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > mournfully .</ i > \u2014 Let you not be startled or taking it bad , Deirdre . It 's Fergus bringing messages of peace from Conchubor to take Naisi and his brothers back to Emain .", "We 've had a dream , but this night has waked us surely . In a little while we 've lived too long , Naisi , and is n't it a poor thing we should miss the safety of the grave , and we trampling its edge ? AINNLE \u2014 < i > behind .</ i > \u2014 Naisi , Naisi , we are attacked and ruined !", "It was the voice of Naisi that was strong in summer \u2014 the voice of Naisi that was sweeter than pipes playing , but from this day will be dumb always . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > to Old Woman .</ i > \u2014 She does n't heed us at all . We 'll be hard set to rouse her .", "He 's likely making up a wel - come for us , having curtains shaken out and rich rooms put in order ; and it 's right he 'd have great state to meet us , and you his sister 's son . NAISI \u2014 < i > gloomily .</ i > \u2014 It 's little we want with state or rich rooms or curtains , when we 're used to the ferns only and cold streams and they making a stir . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > roaming round room .</ i > \u2014 We want what is our right in Emain, and though he 's riches in store for us it 's a shabby , ragged place he 's put us wait- 74 ing , with frayed rugs and skins are eaten by the moths . NAISI \u2014 < i > a little impatiently .</ i > \u2014 There are few would worry over skins and moths on this first night that we 've come back to Emain . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > brightly .</ i > \u2014 You should be well pleased it 's for that I 'd worry all times , when it 's I have kept your tent these seven years as tidy as a bee-hive or a linnet 's nest . If Conchubor 'd a queen like me in Emain he 'd not have stretched these rags to meet us .There 's new earth on the ground and a trench dug . . . . It 's a grave , Naisi , that is wide and deep . NAISI \u2014 < i > goes over and pulls back curtain showing grave .</ i > \u2014 And that 'll be our home in Emain . . . . He 's dug it wisely at the butt of a hill , with fallen trees to hide it . He 'll want to have us killed and buried before Fergus comes .", "There 's reason all times for an end that 's come . And I 'm well pleased , Naisi , we 're going forward in the winter the time the sun has a low place , and the moon has her mastery in a dark sky , for it 's you and I are well lodged our last day , where there is a light behind the clear trees , and the berries on the thorns are a red wall .", "To what place would I go away from Naisi ? What are the woods with - out Naisi or the sea shore ? 86", "I have pity , surely . . . . It 's the way pity has me this night , when I think of Naisi , that I could set my teeth into the heart of a king .", "If there is n't , it 's that grave when it 's closed will make us one for ever , and we two lovers have had great space without weariness or growing old or any sadness of the mind . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > coming in on right .</ i > \u2014 I 'd bid you welcome , Naisi . NAISI \u2014 < i > standing up .</ i > \u2014 You 're welcome , Conchubor . I 'm well pleased you 've come . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > blandly .</ i > \u2014 Let you not think bad of this place where I 've put you till other rooms are readied . NAISI \u2014 < i > breaking out .</ i > \u2014 We know the room you 've readied . We know what stirred you to send your seals and Fergus into Alban and stop him in the north ,and dig that grave before us . Now I ask what brought you here ?", "Take me away . . . . Take me to hide in the rocks , for the night is coming quickly . NAISI \u2014 < i > pulling himself together .</ i > \u2014 I will not leave my brothers . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > vehemently .</ i > \u2014 It 's of us two he 's jealous . Come away to the places where we 're used to have our company . . . . 75 Would n't it be a good thing to lie hid in the high ferns together ?I hear strange words in the trees .", "Let you go where they are calling .Have you no shame loitering and 81 talking , and a cruel death facing Ainnle and Ardan in the woods ? NAISI \u2014 < i > frantic .</ i > \u2014 They 'll not get a death that 's cruel , and they with men alone . It 's women that have loved are cruel only ; and if I went on living from this day I 'd be putting a curse on the lot of them I 'd meet walking in the east or west , putting a curse on the sun that gave them beauty , and on the madder and the stone-crop put red upon their cloaks . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > bitterly .</ i > \u2014 I 'm well pleased there 's no one in this place to make a story that Naisi was a laughing-stock the night he died .", "I 'll die when you do , Naisi . 77 I 'd not have come here from Alban but I knew I 'd be along with you in Emain , and you living or dead . . . . Yet this night it 's strange and distant talk you 're making only .", "Do not leave me , Naisi . Do not leave me broken and alone .", "I will go where Naisi chooses . OWEN \u2014 < i > with a burst of rage .</ i > \u2014 It 's Naisi , Naisi , is it ? Then , I tell you , you 'll have great sport one day seeing Naisi getting a harshness in his two sheep 's eyes and he looking on yourself . Would you credit it , my father used to be in the broom and heather kissing Lavarcham , with a little bird chirping out above their heads , and now she 'd scare a raven from a carcase on a hill .Queens get old , Deirdre , with their white and long arms going from them , and their backs hoop - ing . I tell you it 's a poor thing to see a queen 's nose reaching down to scrape her chin . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > looking out , a little uneasy .</ i > \u2014 Naisi and Fergus are coming on the path .", "What has happened ?", "It is not I will go on living after Ainnle and after Ardan . After Naisi I will not have a lifetime in the world . OLD WOMAN \u2014 < i > with excitement .</ i > \u2014 Look , Lavarcham ! There 's a light leaving the Red 87 Branch . Conchubor and his lot will be com - ing quickly with a torch of bog-deal for her marriage , throwing a light on her three com - rades . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > startled .</ i > \u2014 Let us throw down clay on my three comrades . Let us cover up Naisi along with Ainnle and Ardan , they that were the pride of Emain .There is Naisi was the best of three , the choicest of the choice of many . It was a clean death was your share , Naisi ; and it is not I will quit your head , when it 's many a dark night among the snipe and plover that you and I were whispering together . It is not I will quit your head , Naisi , when it 's many a night we saw the stars among the clear trees of Glen da Ruadh , or the moon pausing to rest her on the edges of the hills ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Wise men is it , and they going back to Conchubor ? I could stop them only Naisi put in his sword among my father 's ribs , and when a man 's done that he 'll not credit your oath . Going to Conchubor ! I could tell of plots and tricks , and spies were well paid for their play .Are you paid , Fergus ?"], "true_target": ["I 'll go so , for if I had you seven years I 'd be jealous of the midges and the dust is in the air .I 'll give you a riddle , Deirdre : Why is n't my father as ugly and old as Conchubor ? You 've no answer ? . . . . It 's because Naisi killed him . 53", "It 's a long while , surely . It 's three weeks I am losing my manners beside the Saxon bull-frogs at the head of the bog . Three weeks is a long space , and yet you 're seven years spancelled with Naisi and the pair . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > beginning to fold up her silks and jewels .</ i > \u2014 Three weeks of your days might be long , surely , yet seven years are a short space for the like of Naisi and myself . 51"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["It 's I , surely , will stand against a thief and a traitor . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > stands up and sees the light from Emain .</ i > \u2014 Draw a little back with the squabbling of fools when I am broken up with misery .I see the flames of Emain starting upward in the dark night ; and because of me there will be weasels and wild cats crying on a lonely wall where there were queens and armies and red gold , the way there will be a story told of a ruined city and a raving king and a woman will be young for ever .I see the trees naked and bare , and the moon shining . Little moon , little moon of Alban , 91 it 's lonesome you 'll be this night , and to - morrow night , and long nights after , and you pacing the woods beyond Glen Laoi , looking every place for Deirdre and Naisi , the two lovers who slept so sweetly with each other . FERGUS \u2014 < i > going to Conchubor 's right and whispering .</ i > \u2014 Keep back , or you will have the shame of pushing a bolt on a queen who is out of her wits .", "We will make your curagh ready and it fitted for the voyage of a king .", "Four white bodies are laid down together ; four clear lights are quenched in Ireland .There is my sword that could not shield you \u2014 my four friends that were the dearest always . The flames of Emain have gone out : Deirdre is dead and there is none to keen her . That is the fate of Deirdre and the children of Usna , and for this night , Con - chubor , our war is ended . 93", "That humour 'll leave her . But we 've no call going too far , with one word borrowing another . Will you come this night to Emain Macha ?", "Would you mind a fool and raver ?"], "true_target": ["My sons and I will guard them .", "It 's a sunny nook you 've found in Alban ; yet any man would be well pleased mounting higher rocks to fetch yourself and Naisi back to Emain . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > with keenness .</ i > \u2014 They 've answered ? They would go ? FERGUS \u2014 < i > benignly .</ i > \u2014 They have not , but when I was a young man we 'd have given a lifetime to be in Ireland a score of weeks ; and to this day the old men have nothing so heavy as knowing it 's in a short while they 'll lose the high skies are over Ireland , and the lonesome mornings with birds crying on the bogs . Let you come this day , for there 's no place but Ireland where the Gael can have peace always . 54", "It is a poor thing to see a queen so lonesome and afraid .Listen now to what I 'm saying . You 'd do well to come back to men and women are your match and comrades , and not be lingering until the day that you 'll grow weary , and hurt Deirdre showing her the hardness will grow up within your eyes . . . . You 're here years and plenty to know it 's truth I 'm saying . 56", "You 've made a choice wise men will be glad of in the five ends of Ireland .", "He is raving . . . . Seize him . OWEN \u2014 < i > flying between them .</ i > \u2014 You wo n't . Let the lot of you be off to Emain , but I 'll be off before you . . . . Dead men , dead 63men ! Men who 'll die for Deirdre 's beauty ; I 'll be before you in the grave !"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["< i > very thoughtfully .</ i > \u2014 I 'll not tell you a lie . There have been days a while past when I 've been throwing a line for salmon or watching for the run of hares , that I 've a dread upon me a day 'd come I 'd weary of her voice ,and Deirdre 'd see I 'd wearied . FERGUS \u2014 < i > sympathetic but triumphant .</ i > \u2014 I knew it , Naisi . . . . And take my word , Deirdre 's seen your dread and she 'll have no peace from this out in the woods . NAISI \u2014 < i > with confidence .</ i > \u2014 She 's not seen it . . . . Deirdre 's no thought of getting old or wearied ; it 's that puts wonder in her days , and she with spirits would keep bravery and laughter in a town with plague ."], "true_target": ["< i > gruffly .</ i > \u2014 It 's true , surely . Yet we 're better this place while Conchubor 's in Emain Macha . FERGUS \u2014 < i > giving him parchments .</ i > \u2014 There are your sureties and Conchubor 's seal .I am your surety with Con - chubor . You 'll not be young always , and it 's time you were making yourselves ready for the years will come , building up a homely dun beside the seas of Ireland , and getting in your children from the princes \u2019 wives . It 's little joy wandering till age is on you and your youth is gone away , so you 'd best come this night , for you 'd have great pleasure putting out your foot and saying , \u201c I am in Ireland , surely . \u201d", "< i > wildly .</ i > \u2014 I hear Ardan crying out . Do not hold me from my brothers ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["If our time in this place is ended , come away without Ainnle and Ardan to the woods of the east , for it 's right to be away from all people when two lovers have their love only . Come away and we 'll be safe always . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > broken-hearted .</ i > \u2014 There 's no safe place , Naisi , on the ridge of the world . . . . . And it 's in the quiet woods I 've seen them digging our grave , throwing out the clay on leaves are bright and withered . NAISI \u2014 < i > still more eagerly .</ i > \u2014 Come away , Deirdre , and it 's little we 'll think of safety or the grave beyond it , and we resting in a little corner between the daytime and the long night . 60", "I cannot leave my brothers when it is I who have defied the king .", "There 'd not be many 'd make a story , for that mockery is in your eyes this night will spot the face of Emain with a plague of pitted graves .They 've met their death \u2014 the three that stole you , Deirdre , and from this out you 'll be my queen in Emain .", "I have done what Deirdre wishes and has chosen .", "It 's Ainnle crying out in a battle .", "I must go to them . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > beseechingly .</ i > \u2014 Do not leave me , Naisi . Let us creep up in the darkness behind the grave . If there 's a battle , maybe the strange fighters will be destroyed , when Ainnle and Ardan are against them . 80", "There 's nothing , surely , the like of a new grave of open earth for putting a great space between two friends that love .", "It is my friends will come .", "You cannot come . Do not hold me from the fight .", "It 's a hard thing , surely , we 've lost those days for ever ; and yet it 's a good thing , maybe , that all goes quick , for when I 'm in that grave it 's soon a day 'll come you 'll be too wearied to be crying out , and that day 'll bring you ease .", "You 've heard my words to Fergus ?Leave troubling , and we 'll go this night to Glen da Ruadh , 58 where the salmon will be running with the tide .The dawn and evening are a little while , the winter and the summer pass quickly , and what way would you and I , Naisi , have joy for ever ?"], "true_target": ["I will not . . . . I 've had dread , I tell you , dread winter and summer , and the autumn and the springtime , even when there 's a bird in every bush making his own stir till the fall of night ; but this talk 's brought me ease , and I see we 're as happy as the leaves on the young trees , and we 'll be so ever and always , though we 'd live the age of the eagle and the salmon and the crow of Britain . FERGUS \u2014 < i > with anger .</ i > \u2014 Where are your brothers ? My message is for them also .", "We 'll have the joy is highest till our age is come , for it is n't Fergus 's talk of great deeds could take us back to Emain .", "I and Deirdre have chosen ; we will go back with Fergus .", "There are more of them . . . . We are shut in , and I have not Ainnle and Ardan to stand near me . Is n't it a hard thing that we three who have conquered many may not die together ? DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > sinking down .</ i > \u2014 And is n't it a hard thing that you and I are in this place by our opened grave ; though none have lived had happiness like ours those days in Alban that went by so quick .", "I 've said we 'd stay in Alban always .", "It 's our three selves he 'll kill to - night , and then in two months or three you 'll 76 see him walking down for courtship with yourself .", "Look on her . You 're a knacky 78 fancier , and it 's well you chose the one you 'd lure from Alban . Look on her , I tell you , and when you 've looked I 've got ten fingers will squeeze your mottled goose neck , though you 're king itself . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > coming between them .</ i > \u2014 Hush , Naisi ! Maybe Conchubor 'll make peace . . . . Do not mind him , Conchubor ; he has cause to rage .", "Would you have us go to Emain , though if any ask the reason we do not know it , and we journeying as the thrushes come from the north , or young birds fly out on a dark sea ?", "You 'll see them above chasing otters by the stream . FERGUS \u2014 < i > bitterly .</ i > \u2014 It is n't much I was mistaken , thinking you were hunters only .", "I 'll not go , Fergus . I 've had dreams of getting old and weary , and losing my delight in Deirdre ; but my dreams were dreams only . What are Conchubor 's seals and all your talk of Emain and the fools of Meath beside one evening in Glen Masain ? We 'll stay this place till our lives and time are 57 worn out . It 's that word you may take in your curagh to Conchubor in Emain . FERGUS \u2014 < i > gathering up his parchments .</ i > \u2014 And you wo n't go , surely .", "It should be the strange fighters of Conchubor . I saw them passing as we came . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > pulling him towards the right .</ i > \u2014 Come to this side . Listen , Naisi !"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["< i > wild with sorrow .</ i > \u2014 It is I who am desolate ; I , Deirdre , that will not live till I am old ."], "true_target": ["< i > clearly and gravely .</ i > \u2014 It 's this hour we 're between the daytime and a night where there is sleep for ever , and is n't it a better thing to be following on to a near death , than to be bending the head down , and dragging with the feet , and seeing one day a blight showing upon love where it is sweet and tender . NAISI \u2014 < i > his voice broken with distraction .</ i > \u2014 If a near death is coming what will be my trouble losing the earth and the stars over it , and you , Deirdre , are their flame and bright crown ? Come away into the safety of the woods . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > shaking her head slowly .</ i > \u2014 There are as many ways to wither love as there are stars in a night of Samhain ; but there is no way to keep life , or love with it , a short space only . . . . It 's for that there 's nothing lonesome like a love is watching out the time most lovers do be sleeping . . . . It 's for that we 're setting out for Emain Macha when the tide turns on the sand . NAISI \u2014 < i > giving in .</ i > \u2014 You 're right , maybe . It should be a poor thing to see great lovers and they sleepy and old . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > with a more tender intensity .</ i > \u2014 We 're seven years without roughness or 61 growing weary ; seven years so sweet and shining , the gods would be hard set to give us seven days the like of them . It 's for that we 're going to Emain , where there 'll be a rest for ever , or a place for forgetting , in great crowds and they making a stir . NAISI \u2014 < i > very softly .</ i > \u2014 We 'll go , surely , in place of keeping a watch on a love had no match and it wasting away .There are Fergus and Lavarcham and my two brothers . 62 he is .We are going back when the tide turns , I and Deirdre with your - self ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Your friends will bind your hands , and you out of your wits .", "It 's many times there 's more sense in madmen than the wise . We will not obey Conchubor ."], "true_target": ["We will not take you to Emain .", "We will blow the horn of Usna and our friends will come to aid us .", "And you 'll end your life with Deirdre , though she has no match for keeping spirits in a little company is far away by itself ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Why are you going ? DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > to both of them and the </ i > 65 < i > others .</ i > \u2014 It is my wish . . . . It may be I will not have Naisi growing an old man in Alban with an old woman at his side , and young girls pointing out and saying , \u201c that is Deirdre and Naisi had great beauty in their youth . \u201d It may be we do well putting a sharp end to the day is brave and glorious , as our fathers put a sharp end to the days of the kings of Ire - land ; or that I 'm wishing to set my foot on Slieve Fuadh , where I was running one time and leaping the streams ,and that I 'd be well pleased to see our little apple - trees , Lavarcham , behind our cabin on the hill ; or that I 've learned , Fergus , it 's a lonesome thing to be away from Ireland always . AINNLE \u2014 < i > giving in .</ i > \u2014 There is no place but will be lonesome to us from this out , and we thinking on our seven years in Alban . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > to Naisi .</ i > \u2014 It 's in this place we 'd be lonesome in the end . . . . Take down Fergus to the sea . He has been a guest had a hard welcome and he bringing messages of peace .", "It 's seven years myself and Ainnle have been servants and bachelors for yourself and Deirdre . Why will you take her back to Conchubor ?"], "true_target": ["We will not go back . We will burn your curaghs by the sea . 64", "It is Conchubor has broken our peace . AINNLE \u2014 < i > to Deirdre .</ i > \u2014 Stop Naisi go - ing . What way would we live if Conchubor should take you from us ?"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["I 've seen no one at all , Conchubor . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > watches her working for a moment , then makes sure opening at back is closed .</ i > \u2014 Go up then to Emain , you 're not wanting here .Who is that ? OLD WOMAN \u2014 < i > going left .</ i > \u2014 It 's Lavar - cham coming again . She 's a great wonder for jogging back and forward through the world , and I made certain she 'd be off to meet them ; but she 's coming alone , Conchubor , my dear child Deirdre is n't with her at all .", "Is that Deirdre broken down that was so light and airy ?"], "true_target": ["Conchubor is coming , surely . I see the glare of flames throwing a light upon his cloak . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > eagerly .</ i > \u2014 Rise up , Deirdre , and come to Fergus , or be the High King 's slave for ever ! DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > imperiously .</ i > \u2014 I will not leave Naisi , who has left the whole world scorched and desolate . I will not go away when there is no light in the heavens , and no 88 flower in the earth under them , but is saying to me that it is Naisi who is gone for ever . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > behind .</ i > \u2014 She is here . Stay a little back .Come forward and leave Naisi the way I 've left charred timber and a smell of burning in Emain Macha , and a heap of rub - bish in the storehouse of many crowns . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > more awake to what is round her .</ i > \u2014 What are crowns and Emain Macha , when the head that gave them glory is this place , Conchubor , and it stretched upon the gravel will be my bed to-night ?", "If we do n't the High King will rouse her , coming down beside her with the rage of battle in his blood , for how could Fergus stand against him ? LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > touching Deirdre with her hand .</ i > \u2014 There 's a score of woman 's years in store for you , and you 'd best choose will you start living them beside the man you hate , or being your own mistress in the west or south ?", "This way , Conchubor . CURTAIN< b > APPENDIX </ b >"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Deirdre .", "Make an end of talk of Naisi , for I 've come to bring you to Dundeal - gan since Emain is destroyed . 89 up and come along with me in place of grow - ing crazy with your wailings here .", "She will do herself harm . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > showing Naisi 's knife .</ i > \u2014 I have a little key to unlock the prison of Naisi 92 you 'd shut upon his youth for ever . Keep back , Conchubor ; for the High King who is your master has put his hands between us .It was sorrows were foretold , but great joys were my share always ; yet it is a cold place I must go to be with you , Naisi ; and it 's cold your arms will be this night that were warm about my neck so often . . . . It 's a pitiful thing to be talk - ing out when your ears are shut to me . It 's a pitiful thing , Conchubor , you have done this night in Emain ; yet a thing will be a joy and triumph to the ends of life and time .", "It 's not you will guard her , for my whole armies are gathering . Rise up , Deirdre , for you are mine surely . FERGUS \u2014 < i > coming between them .</ i > \u2014 I am come between you . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > wildly .</ i > \u2014 When I 've killed Naisi and his brothers , is there any man that I will spare ? And is it you will stand against me , Fergus , when it 's seven years you 've seen me getting my death with rage in Emain ?", "It 's little I heed his rag - ing , when a call would bring my fighters from the trees . . . . But what do you say , Deirdre ?", "It 's yourself should be the first corpse , but my other messengers are coming , men from the clans that hated Usna . 71", "There are other hands to touch you . My fighters are set round in among the trees .", "I know well pity 's cruel , when it was my pity for my own self destroyed Naisi . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > more wildly .</ i > \u2014 It was my words without pity gave Naisi a death will have no match until the ends of life and time .But who 'll pity Deirdre has lost the lips of Naisi from her neck and from her cheek for ever ? Who 'll pity Deirdre has lost the twilight in the woods with Naisi , when beech-trees were silver and copper , and ash-trees were fine gold ? CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > bewildered .</ i > \u2014 It 's I 'll know the way to pity and care you , and I with a share of troubles has me thinking this night it would be a good bargain if it was I was in the grave , and Deirdre crying over me , and it was Naisi who was old and desolate . 83", "It 's not long you 'll be desolate , and I seven years saying , \u201c It 's a bright day for Deirdre in the woods of Alban \u201d ; or saying again , \u201c What way will Deirdre be sleeping this night , and wet leaves and branches driving from the north ? \u201d Let you not break the thing I 've set my life on , and you giving yourself up to your sorrow when it 's joy and sorrow do burn out like straw blazing in an east wind . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > turning on him .</ i > \u2014 Was it that way with your sorrow , when I and Naisi went northward from Slieve Fuadh and let raise our sails for Alban ?", "It 's too much talk you have .Where is Owen ? Did you see him no place and you coming the road ?", "What noise is that ? AINNLE \u2014 < i > behind .</ i > \u2014 Naisi . . . . . Naisi . Come to us ; we are betrayed and broken ."], "true_target": ["Make your lamentation a short while if you will , but it is n't long till 82 a day 'll come when you begin pitying a man is old and desolate , and High King also . . . . Let you not fear me , for it 's I 'm well pleased you have a store of pity for the three that were your friends in Alban .", "It is I who am out of my wits , with Emain in flames , and Deirdre raving , and my own heart gone within me . DEIRDRE \u2014 < i > in a high and quiet tone .</ i > \u2014 I have put away sorrow like a shoe that is worn out and muddy , for it is I have had a life that will be envied by great companies . It was not by a low birth I made kings uneasy , and they sitting in the halls of Emain . It was not a low thing to be chosen by Conchubor , who was wise , and Naisi had no match for bravery . It is not a small thing to be rid of grey hairs , and the loosening of the teeth .It was the choice of lives we had in the clear woods , and in the grave , we 're safe , surely . . . .", "You 've come along with them the whole journey ?", "I 've come to look on", "If I 've folly , I 've sense left not to lose the thing I 've bought with sorrow and the deaths of many .", "I was near won this night , but death 's between us now .", "There 's one sorrow has no end surely \u2014 that 's being old and lone - some .But you and I will have a little peace in Emain , with harps playing , and old men telling stories at the fall of night . I 've let build rooms for our two selves , Deirdre , with red gold upon the walls and ceilings that are set with bronze . There was never a queen in the east had a house the like of your house , that 's wait - ing for yourself in Emain . 84", "Let me see them . Open the tent !Where are my fighters ?", "I 'm waiting only to know is Fergus stopped in the north . LAVARCHAM \u2014 < i > more sharply .</ i > \u2014 He 's stopped , surely , and that 's a trick has me thinking you have it in mind to bring trouble this night on Emain and Ireland and the big world 's east beyond them .69 And yet you 'd do well to be going to your dun , and not putting shame on her meeting the High King , and she seamed and sweaty and in great disorder from the dust of many roads .Ah , Conchu - bor , my lad , beauty goes quickly in the woods , and you 'd let a great gasp , I tell you , if you set your eyes this night on Deirdre . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > fiercely .</ i > \u2014 It 's little I care if she 's white and worn , for it 's I did rear her from a child . I should have a good right to meet and see her always .", "And Naisi and Deirdre are coming ?", "Go up so and leave us . OLD WOMAN \u2014 < i > pleadingly .</ i > \u2014 I 'd be well pleased to set my eyes on Deirdre if she 's coming this night , as we 're told . 68"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["< i > nodding her head .</ i > \u2014 If you 're old and wise , it 's I 'm the same , Conchu - bor , and I 'm telling you you 'll not have her though you 're ready to destroy mankind and skin the gods to win her . There 's things a king can n't have , Conchubor , and if you go rampaging this night you 'll be apt to win nothing but death for many , and a sloppy face of trouble on your own self before the day will come ."], "true_target": ["< i > very coaxingly .</ i > \u2014 If it is that way you 'd be , come till I find you a sunny place where you 'll be a great wonder they 'll call the queen of sorrows ; and you 'll begin taking a pride to be sitting up pausing and dreaming when the summer comes .", "< i > drawing back hopeless - ly .</ i > \u2014 Then the gods have pity on us all !"], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Naisi 's coming , surely , and a woman with him is putting out the glory of the moon is rising and the sun is going down . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > looking at Lavarcham .</ i > \u2014 That 's your story that she 's seamed and ugly ?", "They are gone to Emain . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > to Deirdre .</ i > \u2014 There are none to harm you . Stay here until I come again ."], "true_target": ["I have more news .When that woman heard you were bringing Naisi this place , she sent a horse-boy to call Fergus from the north . CONCHUBOR \u2014 < i > to Lavarcham .</ i > \u2014 It 's for that you 've been playing your tricks , but what you 've won is a nearer death for Naisi .Go up and call my fighters , and take that woman up to Emain .", "They are in their grave , but no earth is thrown .", "The Red Branch House is being aired and swept and you 'll be called there when a space is by ; till then you 'd find fruits and drink on this table , and so the gods be with you ."], "play_index": 5, "act_index": 5}, {"query": ["Against the Romans with Cassibelan ,", "Breeds him and makes him of his bed chamber ,", "In him that should compare . I do not think", "Which rare it is to do \u2014 most prais 'd , most lov 'd ,", "Of the King 's look , hath a heart that is not", "I \u2019 the swathing-clothes the other , from their nursery", "Died with their swords in hand ; for which their father", "Gent . His only child .", "I mean , that married her , alack , good man !", "So gain 'd the sur-addition Leonatus ;", "He purpos 'd to his wife 's sole son \u2014 a widow", "Plebeian . As a friend or an enemy ?", "Although they wear their faces to the bent", "Endows a man but he .", "A sample to the youngest , to the more mature", "Her husband banish 'd , she imprison 'd ; all", "Plebeian . Ay , and briefly .", "Gent . His daughter , and the heir of 's kingdom , whom", "Gent . We must forbear ; here comes the gentleman , The Queen and Princess .Here Shakespeare trusts mere exposition to rouse interest . His speakers merely question and answer , showing little characterization and practically no emotion . Is this extract as interesting as the following ?", "What kind of man he is .", "Gent . He that hath miss 'd the Princess is a thing", "Crush him together rather than unfold", "That most desir 'd the match : but not a courtier ,", "And therefore banish 'd \u2014 is a creature such", "Proclaims how she esteem 'd him and his virtue ;", "Barnardo hath my place , Fran . Barnardo hath my give you good night . place ; give you good night .The first of these extracts , without question gives the necessary facts of the changing of the watch . It busies itself only with this absolutely necessary action . The second quarto identifies the speakers , and , by a different phrasing with additional lines , both characterizes them and gives the scene atmosphere . Study the re-phrasings and bracketed additions of the second scene \u2014 \u201c Nay answere me , \u201d \u201c Tis bitter cold , \u201d \u201c Not a mouse stirring \u201d \u2014 and note that this dialogue gains over the first in that it interests by what it adds as much as by the essential action . A second quotation from Hamlet in the two quartos illustrates the same point even better . The text in the left-hand column , merely stating the facts necessary to the movement of the scene , leaves to the actor all characterizing of Montano , and gives the player of Corambis only the barest hints . The second quarto text , in the right-hand column , makes Polonius so garrulous that he cannot keep track of his own ideas ; shows his pride in his would-be shrewdness ; indeed , rounds him out into a real character . It even makes Reynaldo a man who does not yield at once , but a person of honorable instincts who is overborne . Can there be any question which scene holds the attention better ?", "Gent . He that hath lost her too ; so is the Queen ,", "Gent . I cannot delve him to the root . His father", "Is outward sorrow ; though I think the King", "For whom he is now banish 'd ,\u2014 her own price", "As , to seek through the regions of the earth", "To his protection , calls him Posthumus Leonatus ,", "Gent . Howso'er \u2018 tis strange ,", "He had two sons ,\u2014 if this be worth your hearing ,", "But had his titles by Tenantius whom", "Two other sons , who in the wars o \u2019 the time"], "true_target": ["Or that the negligence may well be laughed at ,", "I will : See who goes there .", "Stand : who is that ? Barnardo . Whose there ?", "Still seem as does the King .", "And hath , besides this gentleman in question ,", "Which way they went .", "Yet it is true , sir .", "Could make him the receiver of ; which he took ,", "Plebeian . What is your name ?", "That he quit being , and his gentle lady ,", "By her election may be truly read", "As he was born . The King he takes the babe", "So fair an outward , and such stuff within", "That late he married \u2014 hath referred herself", "Gent . I do extend him , sir , within himself ,", "A glass that feated them , and to the graver", "And in 's spring became a harvest ; liv 'd in court \u2014", "Glad at the thing they scowl at .", "Then old and fond of issue , took such sorrow", "Plebeian . Tear him to pieces ; he 's a conspirator .", "For one his like , there would be something failing", "Was call 'd Sicilius , who did gain his honour", "His measure duly .", "Puts to him all the learnings that his time", "Mark it \u2014 the eldest of them at three years old ,", "Too bad for bad report ; and he that hath her \u2014", "As we do air , fast as \u2018 twas minist'red ,", "A child that guided dotards ; to his mistress ,", "No more obey the heavens than our courtiers", "Big of this gentleman our theme , deceas 'd", "Be touched at very heart .", "Gent . Some twenty years .", "He serv 'd with glory and admir 'd success ,", "Were stolen , and to this hour no guess in knowledge", "Unto a poor but worthy gentleman . She 's wedded ,", "Gent . You do not meet a man but frowns . Our bloods"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Is she sole child to the King ?", "Gent . How long is this ago ?", "Gent . You speak him far .", "Tis I. Francisco .", "Gent . That a King 's children should be so convey 'd ,", "Even out of your report . But , pray you , tell me", "Stand and unfolde your selfe .", "That could not trace them !", "So slackly guarded and the search so slow ,"], "true_target": ["Plebeian . That 's as much as to say , they are fools that marry . You 'll bear me a bang for that , I fear . Proceed ; directly .", "Gent . What 's his name and birth ?", "Gent . I honour him", "Gent . But what 's the matter ?", "Plebeian . Answer every man directly .", "Gent . None but the King ?", "Gent . And why so ?", "Plebeian . Whither are you going ?", "Plebeian . That matter is answered directly .", "Gent . I do well believe you ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Your life ."], "true_target": ["Where is the traitor Becket ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["To bathe this sacred pavement with my blood .", "The people know Becket . The people know their Church a tower of their Church a tower of strength , strength , A bulwark against Throne and A bulwark against Throne and Baronage . Baronage . Too heavy for me , this ; off Too heavy for me , this ; off with it , Herbert ! with it , Herbert !", "Than that of other paramours of thine ?", "Where , my liege ? With Phryne ,", "I do believe thee , then . I am the man . And yet I seem appall 'd \u2014 on such Becket . And yet I seem a sudden appall 'd \u2014 on such a sudden At such an eagle-height I stand At such an eagle-height I stand and see and see The rift that runs between me The rift that runs between me and the King . and the King . I served our Theobald well when I was with him ; I served King Henry well as Chancellor ; I am his no more , and I must serve the Church . This Canterbury is only less than Rome , And all my doubts I fling from me like dust , Winnow and scatter all scruples to the wind , And all the puissance of the warrior , And all the wisdom of the Chancellor , And all the heap 'd experiences of life , I cast upon the side of Canterbury \u2014 Our holy mother Canterbury , who sits With tatter 'd robes . Laics and barons , thro \u2019 The random gifts of careless kings , have graspt Her livings , her advowsons , granges , farms , And goodly acres \u2014 we will make her whole ; Not one rood lost . And for these Royal customs , These ancient Royal customs \u2014 they are Royal , Not of the Church \u2014 and let them be anathema , And all that speak for them anathema .", "God .", "No ; but the Chancellor 's Becket . No ; but the Archbishop 's and the Archbishop 's Chancellor 's and the Together more than mortal man Together more than mortal man can bear . can bear .", "But dost thou think the King Forced mine election ?", "Well \u2014 will you move ?", "Except they make submission to the Church .", "And when I was a child , The Virgin , in a vision of my sleep , Gave me the golden keys of Paradise . Dream , Or prophecy , that ?", "By Holy Church . And wherefore should she seek", "Or Lais , or thy Rosamund , or another ?", "Ay , and the King of kings , Or justice ; for it seem 'd to me but just The Church should pay her scutage like the lords . But hast thou heard this cry of Becket . But hast thou heard Gilbert Foliot this cry of Gilbert Foliot That I am not the man to be That I am not the man to be your Primate , your Primate , For Henry could not work a For Henry could not work a miracle \u2014 miracle \u2014 Make an Archbishop of a soldier ? Make an Archbishop of a soldier ?", "State secrets should be patent to the statesman", "O Herbert , Herbert , in my chancellorship I more than once have gone against the Church .", "You had my answer to that cry before .", "No traitor to the King , but Priest of God ,", "Am I the man ? My mother , ere she bore me , Dream 'd that twelve stars fell glittering out of heaven Into her bosom .", "The life of Rosamund de Clifford more", "Hugh , I know well that thou hast but half a heart", "Oh , Herbert here Becket . O Herbert , here I gash myself asunder from the I gash myself asunder from the King , King , Tho \u2019 leaving each , a wound : mine Tho \u2019 leaving each , a wound ; mine own , a grief own , a grief To show the scar forever \u2014 his , To show the scar forever \u2014 his , a hate a hate Not ever to be heal 'd .Not ever to be heal 'd .Dialogue , then , should avoid all unnecessary detail , and should avoid repetition except for desired dramatic ends \u2014 in other words , must select and again select . Practically every illustration thus far used in treating dialogue fitted for the stage has shown the enormous importance of facial expression , gesture , and voice . What the voice may do with just two words is the substance of a little one-act piece made famous years ago by Miss Genevieve Ward and later often read by the late George Riddle . An actress applying to a manager is tested as to her power to express in the two words \u201c Come here \u201d all the emotions described by her examiner . As will be seen , the little play , when read in the study , lacks effectiveness . Given by an actress who can put into the two words all that is demanded , it becomes varied , exciting , and even amazing .", "Here .", "I am grieved to know as much .", "Who serves and loves his king , and whom the king", "Check \u2014 you move so wildly .", "What would ye have of me ?", "Put her away into a nunnery !"], "true_target": ["Friend , am I so Becket . Friend , am I so much better than thyself much better than thyself That thou shouldst help me ? That thou shouldst help me ? Thou art wearied out Thou art wearied out With this day 's work , get thee With this day 's work , get thee to thine own bed . to thine own bed . Leave me with Herbert , friend . Leave me with Herbert , friend .Help me off , Herbert , with Help me off , Herbert , with this \u2014 and this . this \u2014 and this .", "Primate of England .", "It is your move .", "Never ,\u2014", "How should I know ?", "Put her away , put her away , my liege !", "Have you thought of one ?", "Loves not as statesman , but true lover and friend .", "Rosamund de Clifford !", "Rosamund de Clifford !", "Look to your king .", "I do commend my cause to", "One of my flock !", "Into thy hands , O Lord \u2014 into thy hands \u2014!", "I will not .", "Safe enough there from her to whom thou art bound", "I fell . Why fall ? Why did he smite me ? What ? Shall I fall off \u2014 to please the King once more ? Not fight \u2014 tho \u2019 somehow traitor to the King \u2014 My truest and mine utmost for the Church ?", "I am he ye seek .", "Down !", "My liege , I move my bishop .", "I am readier to be slain than thou to slay .", "God pardon thee and these , but God 's full curse", "Am I the man ? That Becket . Am I the man ? That rang rang Within my head last night , and Within my head last night , and when I slept when I slept Methought I stood in Canterbury Methought I stood in Canterbury Minster , Minster , And spake to the Lord God , and And spake to the Lord God and said , \u201c O Lord , said , I have been a lover of wines and delicate meats , And secular splendours , and a favourer Of players , and a courtier , and a feeder Of dogs and hawks , and apes , and lions , and lynxes . Am I the man ? \u201d And the Lord answer 'd me , \u201c Thou art the man , and all the more the man . \u201d And then I asked again , \u201c O Lord my God Henry the King hath been my \u201c Henry the King hath been friend , my brother my friend , my brother And mine uplifter in this And mine uplifter in this world , world , and chosen me and chosen me For this thy great For this thy great archbishoprick , believing archbishoprick , believing That I should go against the That I should go against the Church with him , Church with him , And I shall go against him with And I shall go against him with the Church , the Church . And I have said no word of this to him : Am I the man ? \u201d And the Am I the man ? \u201d And the Lord answer 'd me , Lord answer 'd me , \u201c Thou art the man , and all the \u201c Thou art the man and all the more the man . \u201d more the man . \u201d And thereupon , methought , He And thereupon , methought , He drew toward me , drew toward me , And smote me down upon the And smote me down upon the Minster floor . Minster floor . I fell . I fell .", "Shatter you all to pieces if ye harm", "Why \u2014 there then , for you see my bishop", "Profligate pander !", "And when I was of Theobald 's household , once \u2014 The good old man would sometimes have his jest \u2014 He took his mitre off , and set it on me , And said , \u201c My young Archbishop \u2014 thou wouldst make A stately Archbishop ! \u201d Jest or prophecy there ?", "Hath brought your king to a standstill . You are beaten ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Your life ."], "true_target": ["There is my answer then .", "This last to rid thee of a world of brawls !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Save that you will absolve the bishops ."], "true_target": ["Why , then you are a dead man ; flee !", "Ay , make him prisoner , do not harm the man ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yea , by the blessed Virgin ! There were more than I buzzing round the blossom \u2014 De Tracy \u2014 even that flint De Brito .", "Ay , but the young filly winced and whinnied and flung up her heels ; and then the King came honeying about her , and this Becket , her father 's friend , like enough staved us from her .", "Do you hear that ? Strike , strike .", "I and all should be glad to wreak our spite on the rose-faced minion of the King , and bring her to the level of the dust , so that the King \u2014", "Strike him , Tracy !", "I told thee that I should remember thee !"], "true_target": ["Last night I followed a woman in the city here . Her face was veiled , but the back methought was Rosamund \u2014 his paramour , thy rival . I can feel for thee .", "Not for my love toward him , but because he hath the love of the King . How should a baron love a beggar on horseback , with the retinue of three kings behind him , outroyaltying royalty ?", "Strike ! I say .", "And this plebeian like to be Archbishop !", "Strike , I say .", "Seize him and carry him ! Come with us \u2014 nay \u2014 thou art our prisoner \u2014 come !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mercy , Mercy ,", "Save me , father , hide me .", "As you would hope for mercy ."], "true_target": ["They follow me \u2014 and I must not be known . There are real values in these seemingly slight changes . With a rush and in confusion , Rosamund enters . As it is her first appearance in the play , it is of the highest importance that she be identified for the audience . If Becket gives her name as she enters , it may be lost in her onward rush . If entering , she speaks the line , \u201c Save me , father , hide me , \u201d she centers attention on him and he may fully emphasize the identification in , \u201c Rosamund de Clifford ! \u201d Note as bearing on what has already been said in regard to unnecessary use of stage direction that Irving cut out \u201c flying from Sir Reginald Fitz Urse . \u201d He knew that Rosamund 's speeches and her action would make the fleeing clear enough , and that the scene immediately following with Fitz Urse would show who was pursuing her . Entrances , when well handled , therefore , must be in character , prepared for , and properly motivated .", "No , no , no , no .", "Save me , father , hide me \u2014 they follow me \u2014 and I must not be known . Sir Henry Irving arranged this for the stage as follows :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Charles . No wife , no father , no nothing . /", "|", "Good girls , good girls ! Charles , in ten minutes from now what happy faces will smile around that board !"], "true_target": ["Ernestine . They wo n't let us marry . > Together", "Dear , dear me . \\", "|"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Aline . No wedding , no wedding ! > Together", "|", "I perceive I must reveal myself .If physical action in and of itself is so often dramatic , is all physical action dramatic ? That is , does it always create emotion in an onlooker ? No . It goes for naught unless it rouses his interest . Of itself , or because of the presentation given it by the dramatist , it must rouse in the onlooker an emotional response . A boy seeing \u201c Crazy Mary \u201d stalking the street in bedizened finery and bowing right and left , may see nothing interesting in her . More probably her actions will move him to jeer and jibe at her . Let some spectator , however , tell the boy of the tragedy in Crazy Mary 's younger life which left her unbalanced , and , if he has any right feeling , the boy 's attitude will begin to change . He may even give over the jeering he has begun . Reveal to him exactly what is passing in the crazed mind of the woman , and his mere interest will probably turn to sympathy . Characterization , preceding and accompanying action , creates sympathy or repulsion for the figure or figures involved . This sympathy or repulsion in turn converts mere interest into emotional response of the keenest kind . Though physical action is undoubtedly fundamental in drama , no higher form than crude melodrama or crude farce can develop till characterization appears to explain and interpret action . The following extracts from Robertson 's Home show physical action , silly it is true , yet developing characterization by illustrative action . The first , even as it amuses , characterizes the timid Bertie , and the second shows the mild mentality and extreme confusion of the two central figures ."], "true_target": ["Well , friends , what cheer ? \\", "|", "Goriot . I told \u2018 ee he can n't , and he can n't ! /"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["and Mrs. Brede go down the side steps and off at R. C . for a stroll . Mr. and Mrs. Jones discuss them , and decide that they are very \u201c nice \u201d people . During their talk it develops that while Mr. Brede had been telling Mr. Jones that Mrs. Brede had been in this country when he climbed the Matterhorn , Mrs. Brede had informed Mrs. Jones that her husband had left her at Geneva and afterwards taken her to Basle , where their first child was born . At this point Mrs. Halkit comes from the house . She censures Mrs. Brede for not knowing how to care for her husband and children and it comes out that Mrs. Brede has told Mrs. Halkit that they have two children who have been left with her aunt , whereas Mr. Brede has told Mr. Jones that they have three children at present under the care of his mother-in-law . Enter Major Halkit from the house . He criticises Mr. Brede , who purports to be looking for a business opening , for his failure to take a fine chance the Major has pointed out to him . The party come to the conclusion that there is something queer about the couple and are about to call Jacobus when he appears , coming from the left . Before any of the boarders have a chance to speak , Jacobus asks some question about the numbering of streets in New York and the fact is brought out that Mr. Brede told Mrs. Jacobus , when he was engaging the room , that he lived at number thirty-four of his street , and that the day before Mrs. Brede had informed Mrs. Jacobus that their number was thirty-five .... A reader struggling through the paragraphs of this scenario finds very little that is dramatic because the dramatic values the writer feels in his sentences cannot be the reader 's till he learns that Mr. and Mrs. Brede are a newly married couple who wish to conceal the fact . Re-read the quotation with that in mind and all confusion disappears . On the other hand , it is not always easy to convey needed preliminary exposition interestingly . When much is needed , there is always danger that the opening of the scenario will be talky and referential rather than definite and full of dramatic action . The following is by no means as bad an example as might be found of a slow opening caused by need for much historical exposition , but it certainly lacks gripping action : SCENARIO OF CONISTON When the curtain is raised , Millicent Skinner is working about ; a second later Chester Perkins comes slinking in , looking back as though pursued by the Evil One , and close on his heels , another local politician , Mr. Dodd , of the Brampton prudential school committee , enters with the same stealthy and harassed air . Millicent twits them with having run away from Bijah Bixby who is at Jonah Winch 's store . They deny that they are afraid of Bije or any one . It is brought out in a sentence or two that Jethro Bass , Cynthia and Ephraim Prescott are away on their Washington trip , and that Bijah , knowing of Jethro 's absence , is not likely to come here , which is why the two men have chosen the yard for a refuge ; as they have been planning petty treason against the political control of the town by Jethro Bass . Millicent laughs at them and goes in the house . Mr. Dodd and Chester recover their swagger and begin to discuss Bijah and his sneaking ways . Bob Worthington enters , goes to the porch and calls Millicent . She responds from a nearby window . He enquires when she expects Cynthia to return . She tells him they will be here today . Bob announces that he will return , a little later , and goes out . Chester and Dodd discuss Bob 's attention to Cynthia and how furious the elder Worthington will be if his son marries the ward of Jethro Bass . Then they drift back to their first topic and are soon absorbed in their wordy revolt against Jethro Bass and Bijah .", "Macready 's Bentevole is very fine in its kind . It is natural , easy , and forcible . Indeed , we suspect some parts of it were too natural , that is , that Mr. Macready thought too much of what his feelings might dictate in such circumstances , rather than of what the circumstances must have dictated to him to do . We allude particularly to the half significant , half hysterical laugh and distorted jocular leer , with his eyes towards the persons accusing him of the murder , when the evidence of his guilt comes out . Either the author did not intend him to behave in this manner , or he must have made the other parties on the stage interrupt him as a self-convicted criminal .Stevenson clearly recognized this truth : I have had a heavy case of conscience of the same kind about my Braxfield story . Braxfield \u2014 only his name is Hermiston \u2014 has a son who is condemned to death ; plainly there is a fine tempting fitness about this ; and I meant he was to hang . But now , on considering my minor characters , I saw there were five people who would \u2014 in a sense who must \u2014 break prison and attempt his rescue . They are capable , hardy folks , too , who might very well succeed . Why should they not , then ? Why should not young Hermiston escape clear out of the country ? and be happy if he could with his \u2014 But soft ! I will betray my secret or my heroine .When a scene clogs , do n't hold the pen waiting for the impulse to write : do n't try to write at all . Study the situation , not for itself , but for the people in it . \u201c The Dramatist who depends his characters to his plot , \u201d says Mr. Galsworthy , worthy , \u201c instead of his plot to his characters , ought himself to be depended . \u201dIf a thorough knowledge of the characters in the particular situation does not bring a solution , study them as the scene relates itself to what must precede in characterization . More than once a dramatist has found that he could not compose some scene satisfactorily till he had written carefully the previous history of the important character or characters . The detailed knowledge thus gained revealed whether or not the characters could enter the desired situation , and if so , how . Pailleron , author of Le Monde ou l'on s'ennuie declared that , in his early drafts , he always had three or four times the material in regard to his dramatis personae ultimately used by him . Intimate knowledge of his characters is the only safe foundation for the ambitious playwright . It is well-nigh useless to ask managers and actors to pass finally on a mere statement of a situation or group of situations , without characterization . All they can say is : \u201c Bring me this again as an amplified scenario , or a play , which shows me to what extent the people you have in mind give freshness of interest to this story , which has been used again and again in the drama of different nations , and I will tell you what I will do for you . \u201d Reduce any dramatic masterpiece to simple statement of its plot and the story will seem so trite as hardly to be worth dramatization . For instance : a man of jealous nature , passionately in love with his young wife , is made by the lies and trickery of a friend to believe that his wife has been intriguing with another of his friends . The fact is that the calumniator slanders because he thinks his abilities have not been properly recognized by the husband and he has been repulsed by the wife . In a fury of jealousy the husband kills his innocent wife and then himself . That might be recognized as the story of any one of fifty French , German , Italian , English , or American plays of the last hundred years . It is , of course , the story of Othello \u2014 a masterpiece because Shakespeare knew Othello , Iago , Desdemona , and Cassio so intimately that by their interplay of character upon character they shape every scene perfectly . In other words , though a striking dramatic situation is undoubtedly dramatic treasure trove , whether it can be developed into anything fresh and contributive depends on a careful study of the people involved . What must they be to give rise to such a situation \u2014 not each by himself , but when brought together under the conditions of the scene ? Even if a writer knows this , he must work backward into the earlier history of his people before he can either move through the particular scene or go forward into other scenes which should properly result from it . Far too often plays are planned in this way . A writer thinks of some setting that will permit him a large amount of local color \u2014 a barroom , a dance hall , the wharf of an incoming ocean liner . Recognizing or not that most of this local color is unessential to the real action of the play , he does see that one or two incidents which are necessary and striking may be set against this background . Knowing broadly , how he wants to treat the scene , instead of studying the main and minor characters in it till he knows them so intimately that he can select from a larger amount of material than he can possibly use , he moves , not where the characters lead him , but whither , vi et armis , he can drive them . Rarely to him will come the delightful dilemma , so commonly experienced by the dramatist who really cares for character , when he must choose between what he was going to do and the scene as developed by the creatures of his imagination who , as they become real , take the scene away from him and shape it to vastly richer results .When the dramatist interested only in situation shapes the acts preceding his most important scene , he searches simply for conditions of character which will permit this important scene to follow . Result : earlier acts , largely of exposition and talk , or of illustrative action slight and unconvincing because characters forced into a crucial situation can hardly reveal how they brought themselves to it . There is no middle way for the dramatist who seeks truth in characterization . Given a situation , either it must grow naturally out of the characters in it , or the people originally in the mind of the author must be remodeled till they fit naturally into the situation . In the latter case , all that precedes and follows the central situation must be re-worked , not as the dramatist may wish , but as the remodeled characters permit . A critic met a well-known dramatist on the Strand . The dramatist looked worried . \u201c What 's the matter , \u201d queried the critic , \u201c anything gone wrong ? \u201d \u201c Yes . You remember the play I told you about , and that splendid situation for my heroine ? \u201d \u201c Yes . Well ? \u201d \u201c Well ! She wo n't go into it , confound her , do the best I can . \u201d \u201c Why make her ? \u201d \u201c Why ? Because if I do n't there 's an end to that splendid situation . \u201d \u201c Well ? \u201d \u201c Oh , that 's just why I 'm bothered . I do n't want to give in , I do n't want to lose that situation ; but she 's right , of course she 's right , and the trouble is I know I 've got to yield . \u201d At first sight the problem may seem different in an historical play , for here a writer is not creating incident but is often baffled by the amount of material from which he must select ,\u2014 happenings that seem equally dramatic , speeches that cry out to be transferred to the stage , and delightful bits of illustrative action . Yet , whether his underlying purpose is to convey an idea , depict a character , or tell a story , how can he decide which bits among his material make the best illustrative action before he has minutely studied the important figures ? Above all others , the dramatist working with history is subject to the principles of characterization already laid down . Lessing stated the whole case succinctly : Only if he chooses other and even opposed characters to the historical , he should refrain from using historical names , and rather credit totally unknown personages with well-known facts than invent characters to well-known personages . The one mode enlarges our knowledge or seems to enlarge it and is thus agreeable . The other contradicts the knowledge that we already possess and is thus unpleasant . We regard the facts as something accidental , as something that may be common to many persons ; the characters we regard as something individual and intrinsic . The poet may take any liberties he likes with the former so long as he does not put the facts into contradiction with the characters ; the characters he may place in full light but he may not change them , the smallest change seems to destroy their individuality and to substitute in their place other persons , false persons , who have usurped strange names and pretend to be what they are not .There is , however , a contrasting danger to insufficient characterization . Any one profoundly interested in character may easily fill a scene with delicate touches which nevertheless swell the play to undue length . When careful examination of a play which is too long makes obvious that no act or scene can be spared in whole or in part , and that the dialogue is nowhere wordy or redundant , watch the best characterized scenes to discover whether something has not been conveyed by two strokes rather than one . If so , choose the better . Watch the scenes also lest delicate and sure touches of characterization may have been included which , delightful though they be , are not absolutely necessary to our understanding of the character . If so , select what most swiftly yet clearly gives the needed information . Over-detail in characterization is the reason why certain modern plays have sagged , or hitched their way to a conclusion , instead of producing the effect desired by the author . For ultimate convincingness no play can rise above the level of its characterization . The playwright who works for only momentary success may doubtless depend upon the onward rush of events , in a play of strong emotion , to blind his audience to lack of motivation in his characters . John Fletcher is the great leader of these opportunists of the theatre . Evadne , in The Maid 's Tragedy ,killing the King , is a very different woman from the Evadne who gladly became his mistress . Nor are the reproaches and exhortations of her brother Melantius powerful enough to change a woman of her character so swiftly and completely . An audience , absorbed in the emotion of the moment , may overlook such faults of characterization in the theatre . As it reviews the play in calmer mood , however , it ranks it , no matter how poetic as a whole or how well characterized in particular scenes , not as a drama which interprets life , but as mere entertainment . Even perfect characterization of some figures , when the chief are mere puppets , cannot make us accept the play as more than pure fiction . In Thomas Heywood 's A Woman Killed with Kindness and English Traveler ,if the erring wives and their lovers were only as well characterized as the fine-spirited husbands , the servants , and youths like Young Geraldine , the plays might hold the stage today . Doubtless the actor 's art in the days of Elizabeth and James gave to villains like Wendoll and women like Mrs. Frankford enough verisimilitude to make the plays far more convincing than they are in the reading . But try as we may , we cannot understand from the text either of these characters . Their motivation is totally inadequate ; that is , their conduct seems not to grow out of their characters . Rather , they are the creatures of any situation into which the dramatist wishes to thrust them . This need of motivation may be fundamental , that is , the characters may seem to an audience unconvincing from the start ; or may be evident in some insufficiently explained change , transition in character ; or may appear only in the last scene of the play , where characters hitherto consistent are made to act in a way which seems to the audience improbable . When Nathaniel Rowe produced his Ambitious Stepmother in 1700 , Charles Gildon bitterly attacked it as unconvincing in its very fundamentals . Mirza is indeed a Person of a peculiar Taste ; for a Cunning Man to own himself a Rogue to the Man he shou 'd keep in ignorance , and whom he was to work to his ends , argues little pretence to that Name ; but he laughs at Honesty , and professes himself a Knave to one he wou 'd have honest to him .... In the second Act , he talks of Memnon 's having recourse to Arms , of which Power we have not the least Word in the first : All that we know is , that he returns from Banishment on a day of Jubilee , when all was Safe and Free ....For similar reasons , Mr. Eaton criticises unfavorably The Fighting Hope : One of the bestexamples of false ethics in such a play is furnished by The Fighting Hope , produced by Mr. Belasco in the Autumn of 1908 , and acted by Miss Blanche Bates . In this play a man , Granger , has been jailed , his wife and the world believe for another man 's crime . The other man , Burton Temple , is president of the bank Granger has been convicted of robbing . A district attorney , hot after men higher up , is about to reopen the case . It begins to look bad for Temple . Mrs. Granger , disguised as a stenographer , goes to his house to secure evidence against him . What she secures is a letter proving that not he , but her husband , was after all the criminal . Of course this letter is a knockout blow for her . She realizes that the \u201c father of her boys \u201d is a thief , that the man she would send to jailis innocent . Still , in her first shock , her instinct to protect the \u201c father of her boys \u201d persists , and she burns the letter . So far , so good , but Mrs. Granger is represented as a woman of fine instincts and character . That she should persist in cooler blood in her false and immoral supposition that her boys \u2019 name will be protected or their happiness preserved \u2014 to say nothing of her own \u2014 by the guilt of two parents instead of one , is hard to believe . Yet that is exactly what the play asks you to believe , and it asks you to assume that here is a true dilemma . A babbling old housekeeper , whose chief use in the house seems to be to help the plot along , after the manner of stage servants , tells Mrs. Granger that she must not atone for her act by giving honest testimony in court , that of course she must let an innocent man go to jail , to \u201c save her boys \u2019 name . \u201d It would be much more sensible should Mrs. Granger here strike the immoral old lady , instead of saving her blows for her cur of a husband , in the last act , who , after all , was the \u201c father of her boys . \u201d But she listens to her . She appears actually in doubt not only as to which course she will pursue , but which she should pursue . She is intended by the dramatist as a pitiable object because on the one hand she feels it right to save an innocent man, and on the other feels it her duty to save her sons \u2019 happiness by building their future on a structure of lies and deceit . And she reaches a solution , not by reasoning the tangle out , not by any real thought for her boys , their general moral welfare , not by any attention to principles , but simply by discovering that her husband has been sexually unfaithful to her . Further , he becomes a cad and charges her with infidelity . Then she springs upon him and beats him with her fists , which is not the most effective way of convincing an audience that she was a woman capable of being torn by moral problems . Of course as the play is written , there is no moral problem . The morality is all of the theatre . It belongs to that strange world behind the proscenium , wherein we gaze , and gazing sometimes utter chatter about \u201c strong situations , \u201d \u201c stirring climaxes , \u201d and the like , as people hypnotized . There might have been a moral problem if Mrs. Granger , before she discovered her husband 's guilt , had been forced to fight a rising tide of passion for Temple in her own heart . There might have been a moral problem after the discovery and her first hasty , but natural , destruction of the letter , if she had felt that her desire to save Temple was prompted by a passion still illicit , rather than by justice . But no such real problems were presented . The lady babbles eternally of \u201c saving her boys \u2019 good name , \u201d while you are supposed to weep for her plight . Unless you have checked your sense of reality in the cloak room , you scorn her perceptions and despise her standards . How much finer had she continued to love her husband ! But he , after all , was only the \u201c father of her boys . \u201dIt is insufficiently motivated characterization which Mr. Eaton censures in The Nigger : Obviously , the emotional interest in this play is \u2014 or should be , rather \u2014 in the tragedy of the proud , ambitious Morrow , who wakes suddenly to find himself a \u201c nigger , \u201d an exile from his home , and hopes , from his sweetheart and his dreams . Yet , as Mr. Sheldon has written it , and as it was played by Mr . Guy Bates Post in the part of Morrow , and by the other actors , the play is most poignant in its moments of sheer theatrical appeal , almost of melodrama , such as the suspense of the cross-examination of the old mammy and her cry of revelation , or the pursuit of the fugitive in act one . Between his interest in the suspense of his story and in the elucidation of the broader aspects of the negro question in the South , Mr. Sheldon neglected too much his chief figure , as a human being . Unless the figures live and suffer for the audience , unless their personal fate is followed , their minds and hearts felt as real , the naturalistic drama of contemporary life can have but little value , after all . That is what makes its technique so difficult and so baffling . From the moment when Morrow learned of his birth , he became a rather nebulous figure , not suffering so much as listening to theories which were only said by the dramatist to have altered his character and point of view .Perhaps it would be more strictly accurate to say that the comment on The Nigger points to inadequate treatment of character changing as the play progresses . The favorite place of many so-called dramatists for a change of character is in their vast silences between the acts . There , the authors expect us to believe that marked and necessary changes take place . They show us in clear-cut dramatic action the good character before he became bad and after he has become bad , but for proof that the changes took place , we must look off stage in the entr'acte . Read Lady Bountiful and note that between the last and the next to the last acts large changes have taken place in the main characters . Iris would be a far greater play than it is could we have seen how its central figure passes from the taking of the check book to the state of mind which makes her accept Maldonado 's apartment . Contrast with these plays the thoroughly motivated change in the Sergeant of The Rising of the Moon or of Nora in A Doll 's House . Where American plays too frequently break down is in what may be called the logic of character . Even when actions have been properly motivated up to the last act or scene , this is handled in such a way as rather to please the audience than to grow inevitably out of what has preceded . Rumor has it that when Secret Service was produced in one of the central cities of New York State , the hero at the end chose his country rather than the girl . The public , with that fine disregard in the theatre for the values it places on action outside , disapproved . Promptly , the ending was so changed that the two lovers could be started on that sure road to happiness ever after which all men know an engagement is \u2014 upon the stage . In a play such as Secret Service , planned primarily to entertain , such a shift may be pardonable , but even in such a case it must be done with skill if it is not to jar . The Two Gentlemen of Verona in some fifty lines at its close shows Proteus madly in love with Silvia , and Valentine longing for her also ; Valentine threatening the life of Proteus when he discovers the latter 's perfidy , but forgiving him instantly when Proteus merely asks pardon ; and Proteus , when he discovers that the page who has been following him is Julia , turning instantly away from Silvia to her . Here is faulty characterization in two respects : each change is not sufficiently motived ; each does not accord with the characterization of Proteus and Valentine in the earlier scenes .", "Jones \\ ordinary , well-educated people . Mrs. Jones / Major Halkit , retired business man , interested in stock companies . Mrs. Halkit , his wife , an old gossip , prim and censorious . Mr. Brede \\ young , handsome , \u201c nice . \u201d Mrs. Brede / Jacobus , Yankee boarding-house keeper . Brede and Jones come from the house and discuss the view from the piazza . Brede is enthusiastic and compares it with that from the Matterhorn . Mrs. Brede and Mrs. Jones come from the house in time to hear \u201c Matterhorn \u201d and Mrs. Brede expresses surprise that her husband has climbed it . Mr. Brede , confused , says it was five years ago , and Mrs. Brede gently chides him for doing such a thing during the first year of their marriage . Mr. Jones and Mrs. Brede talk aside while Mr. Brede explains to Mrs. Jones that he had left his wife in New York some months after their marriage for a hasty trip to Europe and had climbed the Matterhorn then .", "Sealand . O ! make him then the full amends , and be yourself the messenger of joy : Fly this instant !\u2014 Tell him all these wondrous turns of Providence in his favour ! Tell him I have now a daughter to bestow , which he no longer will decline : that this day he still shall be a bridegroom : nor shall a fortune , the merit which his father seeks , be wanting : tell him the reward of all his virtues waits on his acceptance .My dearest Indiana !", "Sealand . O my child , how are our sorrows past o'erpaid by such a meeting ! Though I have lost so many years of soft paternal dalliance with thee , yet , in one day , to find thee thus , and thus bestow thee , in such perfect happiness ! is ample ! ample reparation ! And yet again the merit of thy lover \u2014", "Sealand . And I do hold thee \u2014 These passions are too strong for utterance \u2014 Rise , rise , my child , and give my tears their way \u2014 O my sister !"], "true_target": ["Sealand . O my child ! my child !", "Dorrison . Will you give Mrs. Pinchbeck your arm , Colonel ? Dora , my dear .Lucy , Captain Mountraffe will \u2014Ah , Lucy , you must follow by yourself .End of Act I", "Augustus Thomas , in Act II of As a Man Thinks , wishes his audience to feel instantly the full significance of the opera libretto picked up by Hoover , as he watches Elinor enter the apartment of De Lota . Therefore , earlier in the act he emphasizes as follows :", "William Archer , in his Play-Making , declares that \u201c a crisis \u201d is the central matter in drama , but one immediately wishes to know what constitutes a crisis , and we have defined without defining . When he says elsewhere that that is dramatic which \u201c by representation of imaginary personages is capable of interesting an average audience assembled in a theatre , \u201dhe almost hits the truth . If we rephrase this definition : \u201c That is dramatic which by representation of imaginary personages interests , through its emotions , an average audience assembled in a theatre , \u201d we have a definition which will better stand testing . Is all dramatic material , theatric ? No , for theatric does not necessarily mean sensational , melodramatic , artificial . It should mean , and it will be so used in this book , adapted for the purpose of the theatre . Certainly all dramatic material , that is , material which arouses or may be made to arouse emotion , is not fitted for use in the theatre when first it comes to the hand of the dramatist . Undeniably , the famous revivalists , Moody , J. B. Gough , Billy Sunday , have worked from emotions to emotions ; that is , they have been dramatic . Intentionally , feeling themselves justified by the ends obtained , they have , too , been theatric in the poor and popular sense of the word , namely , exaggerated , melodramatic , sensational . Yet theatric in the best sense of the word these highly emotional speakers , who have swept audiences out of all self-control , have not been . They worked as speakers , not as playwrights . Though they sometimes acted admirably , what they presented was in no sense a play . To accomplish in play form what they accomplished as speakers , that is , to make the material properly theatric , would have required an entire reworking . From all this it follows that even material so emotional in its nature as to be genuinely dramatic may need careful reworking if it is to succeed as a play , that is , if it is to become properly theatric . Drama , then , is presentation of an individual or group of individuals so as to move an audience to responsive emotion of the kind desired by the dramatist and to the amount required . This response must be gained under the conditions which a dramatist finds or develops in a theatre ; that is , dramatic material must be made theatric in the right sense of the word before it can become drama .", "Henry Arthur Jones protests against complete disuse of the aside . \u201c In discarding the \u2018 aside \u2019 in modern drama we have thrown away a most valuable and , at times , a most necessary convention . Let any one glance at the \u2018 asides \u2019 of Sir John Brute in The Provoked Wife , and he will see what a splendid instrument of rich comedy the \u2018 aside \u2019 may become . How are we as spectators to know what one character on the stage thinks of the situation and of the other characters , unless he tells us ; or unless he conveys it by facial play and gestures which are the equivalent of an \u2018 aside \u2019 ? The \u2018 aside \u2019 is therefore as legitimate a convention of drama as the removal of the fourth wall . More and more the English modern drama seems to be sacrificing everything to the mean ambition of presenting an exact photograph of real life . \u201dOf course Mr. Jones is quite right in wishing to keep the aside for cases in which it is perfectly natural . His illustration of Sir John Brute is , however , not wholly fortunate , for his asides are not conventional but are characterizing touches . Surely we must all admit that a certain type of drunkard likes to mumble to himself insulting speeches which he has n't quite the courage to speak directly to other people , but rather hopes they may overhear . Study the asides of Sir John Brute \u2014 they are not very many after all \u2014 and note that practically every one might be said directly to the people on the stage . All of them help to present Sir John as the heavy drinker who talks to himself and selects for his speeches to himself his particularly insulting remarks . Why , too , are \u201c facial play and gestures \u201d more objectionable than the conventional aside ? The fundamental trouble with the aside which should not be overheard by people on the stage is that , if spoken naturally , it would be too low for the audience to hear , and if spoken loud enough to be heard , would so affect the other characters as to change materially the development of the scene . The aside should , therefore , be used with great care . Congreve , writing of ordinary human speech said , \u201c I believe if a poet should steal a dialogue of any length , from the extempore discourse of the two wittiest men upon earth , he would find the scene but coldly received by the town . \u201dIn everyday speech , that is , we do not say our say in the most compact , characteristic , and entertaining fashion . To gain all that , we must use more concentration and selection than we give to ordinary human intercourse . Just that concentration of attention , which produces needed selection , a dramatist must give his dialogue . To this concentration and selection he is forced by the time difficulty already explained . Into the period sometimes consumed by a single bit of gossiping , perhaps shot through with occasional flashes of wit , but more probably dull ,\u2014 into the space of two hours and a quarter ,\u2014 the dramatist must crowd all the happenings , the growth of his characters , and the close reasoning of his play . Dramatic dialogue is human speech so wisely edited for use under the conditions of the stage that far more quickly than under ordinary circumstances the events are presented , in character , and perhaps in a phrasing delightful of itself . Picking just the right words to convey with gesture , voice and the other stage aids of dialogue the emotions of the characters is so exacting a task that many a writer tries to dodge it . He thinks that by prefacing nearly every speech with \u201c Tenderly , \u201d \u201c Sarcastically , \u201d \u201c With much humor , \u201d in other words a statement as to how his lines should be read , commonplace phrasings may be made to pass for the right emotional currency . This is a lazy trick of putting off on the actor what would be the delight of the writer if he really cared for his work and knew what he wished to say . Of course , from time to time one needs such stage directions , but the safest way is to insist , in early drafts , on making the text convey the desired emotion without such statements . Otherwise a writer easily falls into writing unemotionalized speeches , the stage directions of which call upon the actor to provide the emotion . A similar trick is to write incomplete sentences , usually ending with dashes . Though it is true , as Carlyle long ago pointed out , that a thought or a climax which a reader or hearer completes for himself is likely to give him special satisfaction , the device is easily overdone , and too often the uncompleted line means either that the author does not know exactly what he wishes to say , or that , though he knows , the hearer or reader may not complete the thought as he does . The worst of this last trick is that it may confuse the reader and , as was explained earlier in this chapter , clearness in gaining the desired effect is the chief essential in dialogue . An allied difficulty comes from writing dialogue in blocks , the author forgetting , in the first place , that the other people on the stage are likely to interrupt and break up such speech , and secondly , that when several ideas are presented to an audience in the same speech , they are likely to confuse hearers . In these parallel passages from the two quartos of Hamlet , is not the right-hand column , with its mingling of rapidly exchanged speech and description , much more vivid and moving ?", "Sealand . How laudable is love , when born of virtue ! I burn to embrace him \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes .", "I 'm afraid of lightning .The first scene of Act I of Romeo and Juliet is full of interesting physical action \u2014 quarrels , fighting , and the halting of the fight by the angry Prince . The physical action , however , characterizes in every instance , from the servants of the two factions to Tybalt , Benvolio , the Capulets , the Montagues , and the Prince . Moreover , this interesting physical action , which is all the more interesting because it characterizes , is interesting in the third place because in every instance it helps to an understanding of the story . It shows so intense an enmity between the two houses that even the servants cannot meet in the streets without quarreling . By its characterization it prepares for the parts Benvolio and Tybalt are to play in later scenes . It motivates the edict of banishment which is essential if the tragedy of the play is to occur .", "Col. /", "No , I \u2014 I did n't think of what I was doing . What were you talking about ?", "I do n't know how to play .", "Very ."], "true_target": ["No . I must practise it first . I can n't play at sight .", "\\ I beg your pardon .", "Does it ?", "Yes .", "It 's nothing .", "I thought you had the book ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ca n't you really ? Do n't you believe in \u2014 music \u2014 at first sight ?", "About ? You \u2014 me \u2014 no ! About thunder \u2014 music \u2014 I mean lightning .", "Looks like thunder to me .", "Are you fond of thunder \u2014 I mean fond of music ? I should say are you fond of lightning ?Do play something ."], "true_target": ["And I thought you had it , and it appears that neither of us had it . Ha ! ha !Fool that I am !Wo n't you play something ?", "New laid \u2014 I mean , fresh from the country \u2014 fresh from London , or \u2014 yes \u2014 I \u2014Going to play any of it now ?", "Nothing , quite so .", "Oh , well , play the other one .The weather has been very warm today , has it not ?", "As if it could be anything else . How stupid of me .New music ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes , better , sir .", "Let us take the law of our sides ; let them begin .", "A dog of the house of Montague moves me . Draw thy tool ; here comes two of the house of Montague .", "Is the law of our side , if I say ay ?", "No , sir , I do not bite my thumb at you , sir ; but I bite my thumb , sir .", "Nay , as they dare . I will bite my thumb at them ; which is disgrace to them if they bare it .", "I do bite my thumb , sir ."], "true_target": ["Well , sir .", "But if you do , sir , I am for you . I serve as good a man as you .", "My naked weapon is out . Quarrel , I will back thee .", "Draw , if you be men . Gregory , remember thy swashing blow .", "I strike quickly , being mov 'd .", "Fear me not .", "I mean , an we be in choler , we 'll draw ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["But thou art not quickly mov 'd to strike .", "How ! turn thy back and run ?", "I will frown as I pass by , and let them take it as they list .", "Ay , while you live , draw your neck out o \u2019 the collar ."], "true_target": ["Do you quarrel , sir ?", "No .", "Say \u201c better \u201d ; here comes one of my master 's kinsmen .", "No , marry ; I fear thee !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["No better .", "You lie ."], "true_target": ["Do you bite your thumb at us , sir ?", "Quarrel , sir ? No , sir ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I do but keep the peace . Put up thy sword ,"], "true_target": ["Or manage it to part these men with me ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["What , drawn , and talk of peace ! I hate the word"], "true_target": ["As I hate hell , all Montagues , and thee .", "Have at thee , coward !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["And flourishes his blade in spite of me ."], "true_target": ["My sword , I say ! Old Montague is come ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Valentine ? Bertha ? No .\u2014 The Baroness ?", "Do n't call me Princess . That 's wasting time .", "She ? Impossible ! She stayed here , with me , until at least nine o'clock . We dined alone together .", "Tell me , is it true ?", "Who was the woman ?", "No .", "To what a pass we have come ! My most intimate friend ! Did they speak to each other ?This scene wins our attention because it reveals in Severine a mental state which in itself interests and moves us far more than the mere physical action . What has been said of La Princesse Georges is even more true of the ending of Marlowe 's Faustus ."], "true_target": ["Indeed , nothing . And she came to the train at what hour ?", "But he was alone ?", "So , in twenty-five minutes \u2014", "The details , then .", "Not one of those women ?\u2014", "Rosalie ! At last ! What a night I have gone through ! Sixteen hours of waiting !Well ?", "It is some one whom I know ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Madame has not slept ?", "Well , then , last evening I followed the Prince , who went to the Western Railway , as he had told Madame that he would do , to take the train at half past nine ; only , instead of buying a ticket for Versailles , he took one for Rouen .", "It is one of your intimate friends , of the best social position .", "She went home ; she changed her dress; she went to the St. Lazare Station . It is true that only your garden and hers separate her house from yours ; that she has the best horses in Paris ; and that she is accustomed to doing this sort of thing , if I may believe what I have heard .", "Madame , the Princess must be calm .", "Yes ."], "true_target": ["Yes .", "Alas , Madame knows her better than I !", "I suspected as much .", "She was making sure that you did n't suspect anything .", "The Countess Sylvanie .", "At twenty-five minutes past nine .", "Yes . But five minutes after he arrived , she came ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Oh , no ! I wo n't have him talk of that ; if he does , I shall cry .", "And now we five \u2014 if Master Straforel please \u2014 Let us expound the play in which we 've tried to please .Light , easy rhymes ; old dresses , frail and light ; Love in a park , fluting an ancient tune .", "Light , easy rhymes ; old dresses , frail and light ;"], "true_target": ["Sh !", "Light , easy rhymes ; old dresses , frail and light .Curtain .So light the finale , as in London , that the figures fade from sight till only their voices are faintly heard , and theatricality helps to place the play as a mere bit of fantasy . On the other hand , there is something like genuine theatricality at the end of Sudermann 's Fritzschen . Fritz is going to his death in a prospective duel with a man who is an unerring shot . Though the others present suspect or know the truth , his mother thinks he is going to new and finer fortunes . Is n't the following the real climax ?", "O Monsieur Percinet , how beautiful it is !", "Love in a park , fluting an ancient tune ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Lovers and fathers ; old walls , flowery-bright ;", "A brave old plot \u2014 with music \u2014 ending soon .", "No nightingale ; look , love , what envious streaks", "Night 's candles are burnt out and jocund day", "Is n't it ? Hear Romeo 's reply !", "\u201c It was the lark , the herald of the morn ,"], "true_target": ["Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops :", "I must be gone .... \u201d", "Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east :", "A Watteau picture \u2014 not by Watteau , quite ;", "Release from many a dreary Northern rune ;", "Then we 'll shut our book till tomorrow , and , since you wish it , let sweet Romeo live .What an adorable spot ! It seems made for lulling one 's self with the lines of the great William .Here is great activity , but it is mental rather than physical action . To make it rouse us to the desired emotional response , good characterization and wisely chosen words are necessary . Examine also the opening scene of Maeterlinck 's The Blind . A group of sightless people have been deserted in a wood by their guide , and consequently are so bewildered and timorous that they hardly dare move . Yet all their trepidation , doubt , and awe are clearly conveyed to us , with a very small amount of physical action , through skilful characterization , and words specially chosen and ordered to create and intensify emotion in us . An ancient Norland forest , with an eternal look , under a sky of deep stars . In the centre and in the deep of the night , a very old priest is sitting , wrapped in a great black cloak . The chest and the head , gently upturned and deathly motionless , rest against the trunk of a giant hollow oak . The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness , in which the purple lips fall slightly apart . The dumb , fixed eyes no longer look out from the visible side of Eternity and seem to bleed with immemorial sorrows and with tears . The hair , of a solemn whiteness , falls in stringy locks , stiff and few , over a face more illuminated and more weary than all that surrounds it in the watchful stillness of that melancholy wood . The hands , pitifully thin , are clasped rigidly over the thighs . On the right , six old men , all blind , are sitting on stones , stumps , and dead leaves . On the left , separated from them by an uprooted tree and fragments of rock , six women , also blind , are sitting opposite the old men . Three among them pray and mourn without ceasing , in a muffled voice . Another is old in the extreme . The fifth , in an attitude of mute insanity , holds on her knees a little sleeping child . The sixth is strangely young and her whole body is drenched with her beautiful hair . They , as well as the old men , are all clad in the same ample and sombre garments . Most of them are waiting , with their elbows on their knees and their faces in their hands ; and all seem to have lost the habit of ineffectual gesture and no longer turn their heads at the stifled and uneasy noises of the Island . Tall funereal trees ,\u2014 yews , weeping-willows , cypresses ,\u2014 cover them with their faithful shadows . A cluster of long , sickly asphodels is in bloom , not far from the priest , in the night . It is unusually oppressive , despite the moonlight that here and there struggles to pierce for an instant the glooms of the foliage . First Blind Man .He has n't come back yet ? Second Blind Man .You have awakened me . First Blind Man . I was sleeping , too . Third Blind Man .I was sleeping , too . First Blind Man . He has n't come yet ? Second Blind Man . I hear something coming . Third Blind Man . It is time to go back to the Asylum . First Blind Man . We ought to find out where we are . Second Blind Man . It has grown cold since he left . First Blind Man . We ought to find out where we are ! The Very Old Blind Man . Does any one know where we are ? The Very Old Blind Woman . We were walking a very long while ; we must be a long way from the Asylum . First Blind Man . Oh ! the women are opposite us ? The Very Old Blind Woman . We are sitting opposite you . First Blind Man . Wait , I am coming over where you are .Where are you ?\u2014 Speak ! let me hear where you are ! The Very Old Blind Woman . Here ; we are sitting on stones . First Blind Man .There is something between us . Second Blind Man . We had better keep our places . Third Blind Man . Where are you sitting ?\u2014 Will you come over by us ? The Very Old Blind Woman . We dare not rise ! Third Blind Man . Why did he separate us ? First Blind Man . I hear praying on the women 's side . Second Blind Man . Yes ; the three old women are praying . First Blind Man . This is no time for prayer ! Second Blind Man . You will pray soon enough , in the dormitory !Third Blind Man . I should like to know who it is I am sitting by . Second Blind Man . I think I am next to you .Third Blind Man . We can n't reach each other . First Blind Man . Nevertheless , we are not far apart .The one who cannot hear is beside us . Second Blind Man . I do n't hear anybody ; we were six just now . First Blind Man . I am going to count . Let us question the women , too ; we must know what to depend upon . I hear the three old women praying all the time ; are they together ? The Very Old Blind Woman . They are sitting beside me , on a rock . First Blind Man . I am sitting on dead leaves . Third Blind Man . And the beautiful blind girl , where is she ? The Very Old Blind Woman . She is near them that pray . Second Blind Man . Where is the mad woman , and her child ? The Young Blind Girl . He sleeps ; do not awaken him ! First Blind Man . Oh ! How far away you are from us ! I thought you were opposite me ! Third Blind Man . We know \u2014 nearly \u2014 all we need to know . Let us chat a little , while we wait for the priest to come back .Many an inexperienced dramatist fails to see the force of these words of Maeterlinck : \u201c An old man , seated in his armchair , waiting patiently , with his lamp beside him \u2014 submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny \u2014 motionless as he is does yet live in reality a deeper , more human , and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress , the captain who conquers in battle , or the husband who \u2018 avenges his honor . \u2019 \u201d If an audience can be made to feel and understand the strong but contained emotion of this motionless figure , he is rich dramatic material . In the extracts from La Princesse Georges , Faustus , The Romancers , The Blind , in the soliloquy of Hamlet referred to , and the illustration quoted from Maeterlinck , it is not physical outward expression but the vivid picture we get of a state of mind which stirs us . Surely all these cases prove that we must include mental as well as physical activity in any definition of the word dramatic . Provided a writer can convey to his audience the excited mental state of one or more of his characters , then this mental activity is thoroughly dramatic . That is , neither physical nor mental activity is in itself dramatic ; all depends on whether it naturally arouses , or can be made by the author to arouse , emotion in an audience . Just as we had to add to physical action which arouses emotional response of itself , physical action which is made to arouse response because it develops the story or illustrates character , we must now add action which is not physical , but mental . There is even another chance for confusion . A figure sitting motionless not because he is thinking hard but because blank in mind may yet be dramatic . Utter inaction , both physical and mental , of a figure represented on the stage does not mean that it is necessarily undramatic . If the dramatist can make an audience feel the terrible tragedy of the contrast between what might have been and what is for this perfectly quiet unthinking figure , he rouses emotion in his hearers , and in so doing makes his material dramatic . Suppose , too , that the expressionless figure is an aged father or mother very dear to some one in the play who has strongly won the sympathy of the audience . The house takes fire . The flames draw nearer and nearer the unconscious figure . We are made to look at the situation through the eyes of the character \u2014 some child or relative \u2014 to whom the scene , were he present , would mean torture . Instantly the figure , because of the way in which it is represented , becomes dramatic . Here again , however , the emotion of the audience could hardly be aroused except through characterization of the figure as it was or might have been , or of the child or relative who has won our sympathy . Again , too , characterization so successful must depend a good deal on well-chosen words . This somewhat elaborate analysis should have made three points clear . First , we may arouse emotion in an audience by mere physical action ; by physical action which also develops the story , or illustrates character , or does both ; by mental rather than physical action , if clearly and accurately conveyed to the audience ; and even by inaction , if characterization and dialogue by means of other figures are of high order . Secondly , as the various illustrations have been examined , it must have become steadily more clear that while action is popularly held to be central in drama , emotion is really the essential . Because it is the easiest expression of emotion to understand , physical action , which without illuminating characterization and dialogue can express only a part of the world of emotion , has been too often accepted as expressing all the emotion the stage can present . Thirdly , it should be clear that a statement one meets too frequently in books on the drama , that certain stories or characters , above all certain well-known books , are essentially undramatic material is at least dubious . The belief arises from the fact that the story , character , or idea , as usually presented , seems to demand much analysis and description , and almost to preclude illustrative action . In the past few years , however , the drama of mental states and the drama which has revealed emotional significance in seeming or real inaction , has been proving that \u201c nothing human is foreign \u201d to the drama . A dramatist may see in the so-called undramatic material emotional values . If so , he will develop a technique which will create in his public a satisfaction equal to that which the so-called undramatic story , character , or idea could give in story form . Of course he will treat it differently in many respects because he is writing not to be read but to be heard , and to affect the emotions , not of the individual , but of a large group taken as a group . He will prove that till careful analysis has shown in a given story , character , or idea , no possibility of arousing the same or dissimilar emotions in an audience , we cannot say that this or that is dramatic or undramatic , but only : \u201c This material will require totally different presentation if it is to be dramatic on the stage , and only a person of acumen , experience with audiences , and inventive technique can present it effectively . \u201d The misapprehension just analyzed rests not only on the misconception that action rather than emotion is the essential in drama , but also largely on a careless use of the word dramatic . In popular use this word means material for drama , or creative of emotional response , or perfectly fitted for production under the conditions of the theatre . If we examine a little , in the light of this chapter , the nature and purpose of a play , we shall see that dramatic should stand only for the first two definitions , and that theatric must be used for the third . Avoiding the vague definition material for drama , use dramatic only as creative of emotional response and the confusion will disappear . A play exists to create emotional response in an audience . The response may be to the emotions of the people in the play or the emotions of the author as he watches these people . Where would satirical comedy be if , instead of sharing the amusement , disdain , contempt or moral anger of the dramatist caused by his figures , we responded exactly to their follies or evil moods ? All ethical drama gets its force by creating in an audience the feelings toward the people in the play held by the author . Dumas fils , Ibsen , Brieux prove the truth of this statement . The writer of the satirical or the ethical play , obtruding his own personality as in the case of Ben Jonson , or with fine impersonality as in the case of Congreve or Moliere , makes his feelings ours . It is an obvious corollary of this statement that the emotions aroused in an audience need not be the same as those felt by the people on the stage . They may be in the sharpest contrast . Any one experienced in drama knows that the most intensely comic effects often come from people acting very seriously . In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the morning reception of M. Jourdain affords an instance of this in his trying on of costumes , fencing , and lessons in dancing and language . Serious entirely for M. Jourdain they are as presented by Moliere , exquisitely comic for us . In brief , the dramatic may rouse the same , allied , or even contrasting emotions in an onlooker . Nor need the emotion roused in an audience by actor or author be exactly the same in amount . The actress who abandons herself to the emotions of the part she is playing soon exhausts her nervous vitality . It would be the same if audiences listening to the tragic were permitted to feel the scenes as keenly as the figures of the story . On the other hand , in some cases , if the comic figure on the stage felt his comicality as strongly as the audience which is speechless with laughter , he could not go on , and the scene would fail . Evidently , an audience may be made , as the dramatist wills , to feel more or less emotion than the characters of the play . That it is duplication of emotion to the same , a less , or a greater extent or the creation of contrasting emotion which underlies all drama , from melodrama , riotous farce and even burlesque to high-comedy and tragedy , must be firmly grasped if a would-be dramatist is to steer his way clearly through the many existing and confusing definitions of dramatic . For instance , Brunetiere said , \u201c Drama is the representation of the will of man in contrast to the mysterious powers of natural forces which limit and belittle us ; it is one of us thrown living upon the stage , there to struggle against fatality , against social law , against one of his fellow mortals , against himself , if need be , against the emotions , the interests , the prejudices , the folly , the malevolence of those around him . \u201dThat is , by this definition , conflict is central in drama . But we know that in recent drama particularly , the moral drifter has many a time aroused our sympathy . Surely inertness , supineness , stupidity , and even torpor may be made to excite emotion in an audience . Conflict covers a large part of drama but not all of it .", "No one ! So , mademoiselle , do n't have the air of an affrighted birdling on a branch , ready to spread wing at the slightest sound . Hear the immortal lovers talking :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u201c Yon light is not day-light , I know it , I :"], "true_target": ["To be to thee this night a torch bearer . \u201d", "It is some meteor that the sun exhales ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia 's brow ;", "Come , death , and welcome ! Juliet wills it so . \u201d", "I 'll say yon gray is not the morning 's eye ;", "Nor that is not the lark , whose notes do beat"], "true_target": ["\u201c Let me be ta'en , let me be put to death ;", "I am content , so thou wilt have it so .", "I have more care to stay than will to go :", "The vaulty heaven so high above our heads ;"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Let him be buried with the late King ."], "true_target": ["Why do you come here ?", "Who are you ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I am the servant of the King 's dog ."], "true_target": ["The King 's dog is dead . King Argimenes and His Men .Bones !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Oppressed and bewildered by the belief in authority , she loses faith in her moral right and ability to bring up her children . Bitterness . A mother in modern society , like certain insects who go away and die when she has done her duty in the propagation of the race .Love of life , of home , of husband and children and family . Here and there a womanly shaking-off of her thoughts . Sudden return of anxiety and terror . She must bear it all alone . The catastrophe approaches , inexorably , inevitably . Despair , conflict , and destruction .Persons Stenborg , a Government clerk . Nora , his wife . MissLindeAttorney Krogstad . Karen , nurse at the Stenborgs \u2019 . A Parlour-Maid at the Stenborgs \u2019 . A Porter . The Stenborgs \u2019 three little children . Doctor Hank . SCENARIO . FIRST ACT A room comfortably , but not showily , furnished . In the back , on the right , a door leads to the hall ; on the left another door leads to the room or office of the master of the house , which can be seen when the door is opened . A fire in the stove . Winter day . She enters from the back , humming gaily ; she is in outdoor dress and carries several parcels , has been shopping . As she opens the door , a Porter is seen in the hall , carrying a Christmas-tree . She : Put it down there for the present .How much ? Porter : Fifty ore. She : Here is a crown . No , keep the change . The Porter thanks her and goes . She continues humming and smiling with quiet glee as she opens several of the parcels she has brought . Calls off , is he at home ? Yes ! At first , conversation through the closed door ; then he opens it and goes on talking to her while continuing to work most of the time , standing at his desk . There is a ring at the hall-door ; he does not want to be disturbed ; shuts himself in . The maid opens the door to her mistress 's friend , just arrived in town . Happy surprise . Mutual explanation of the position of affairs . He has received the post of manager in the new joint-stock bank and is to enter on his duties at the New Year ; all financial worries are at an end . The friend has come to town to look for some small employment in an office or whatever may present itself . Mrs. Stenborg gives her good hopes , is certain that all will turn out well . The maid opens the front door to the debt-collector . Mrs. Stenborg , terrified ; they exchange a few words ; he is shown into the office . Mrs. Stenborg and her friend ; the circumstances of the debt-collector are touched upon . Stenborg enters in his overcoat ; has sent the collector out the other way . Conversation about the friend 's affairs ; hesitation on his part . He and the friend go out ; his wife follows them into the hall ; the Nurse enters with the children . Mother and children play . The collector enters . Mrs. Stenborg sends the children out to the left . Great scene between her and him . He goes . Stenborg enters ; has met him on the stairs ; displeased ; wants to know what he came back for ? Her support ? No intrigues . His wife cautiously tries to pump him . Strict legal answers . Exit to his room . SheBut that 's impossible . Why , I did it from love ! SCENARIO . SECOND ACT The last day of the year . Midday . Nora and the old Nurse . Nora , impelled by uneasiness , is putting on her things to go out . Anxious random questions of one kind and another give a hint that thoughts of death are in her mind . Tries to banish these thoughts , to turn it off , hopes that something or other may intervene . But what ? The Nurse goes off to the left .\u2014 Stenborg enters from his room . Short dialogue between him and Nora .\u2014 The Nurse re-enters , looking for Nora ; the youngest child is crying . Annoyance and questioning on Stenborg 's part ; exit the Nurse ; Stenborg is going in to the children .\u2014 Doctor Hank enters . Scene between him and Stenborg .\u2014 Nora soon re-enters ; she has turned back ; anxiety has driven her home again . Scene between her , the Doctor and Stenborg . Stenborg goes into his room .\u2014 Scene between Nora and the Doctor . The Doctor goes out .\u2014 Nora alone .\u2014 Mrs . Linde enters . Short scene between her and Nora .\u2014 Krogstad enters . Short scene between him and Mrs. Linde and Nora . Mrs. Linde goes in to the children .\u2014 Scene between Krogstad and Nora .\u2014 She entreats and implores him for the sake of her little children ; in vain . Krogstad goes out . The letter is seen to fall from outside into the letter-box .\u2014 Mrs . Linde re-enters after a short pause . Scene between her and Nora . Half confession . Mrs. Linde goes out .\u2014 Nora alone .\u2014 Stenborg enters . Scene between him and Nora . He wants to empty the letter-box . Entreaties , jests , half playful persuasion . He promises to let business wait till after New Year 's Day ; but at 12 o'clock midnight \u2014! Exit . Nora alone . NoraIt is five o'clock . Five ;\u2014 seven hours till midnight . Twenty-four hours till the next midnight . Twenty-four and seven \u2014 thirty-one . Thirty-one hours to live .\u2014 THIRD ACT A muffled sound of dance music is heard from the floor above . A lighted lamp on the table . Mrs. Linde sits in an armchair and absently turns the pages of a book , tries to read , but seems unable to fix her attention ; once or twice she looks at her watch . Nora comes down from the dance ; uneasiness has driven her ; surprise at finding Mrs. Linde , who pretends that she wanted to see Nora in her costume . Helmer , displeased at her going away , comes to fetch her back . The Doctor also enters , but to say good-bye . Meanwhile Mrs. Linde has gone into the side room on the right . Scene between the Doctor , Helmer , and Nora . He is going to bed , he says , never to get up again ; they are not to come and see him ; there is ugliness about a death-bed . He goes out . Helmer goes upstairs again with Nora , after the latter has exchanged a few words of farewell with Mrs. Linde . Mrs. Linde alone . Then Krogstad . Scene and explanation between them . Both go out . Nora and the children . Then she alone . Then Helmer . He takes the letters out of the letter-box . Short scene ; goodnight ; he goes into his room . Nora in despair prepares for the final step ; is already at the door when Helmer enters with the open letter in his hand . Great scene . A ring . Letter to Nora from Krogstad . Final scene . Divorce . Nora leaves the house .Finally , here is the full scenario of a play which made a great success both in England and the United States and was seen by practically all the Continental countries , namely , Kismet . Notice how well it fulfils the requirements for a good scenario stated in this chapter , not because Mr. Knobloch had these rules in mind as he composed it , but because , as a trained dramatist , he instinctively gave these qualities to his scenario . Carefully studied in relation to the essentials of scenario writing just stated , it should remove all doubt in the mind of a student as to what a good scenario is and why it is an essential preliminary to a good play . KISMET or HAJJI 'S DAY Scenario for a play in three acts , by EDWARD KNOBLOCHCHARACTERSOriginal Names Later Names"], "true_target": ["Oppressed and bewildered by the belief in authority , she loses faith in her moral right and ability to bring up her children . Bitterness . A mother in modern society , like certain insects who go away and die when she has done her duty in the propagation of the race . Love of life , of husband and children and family . Here and there a womanly shaking off of her thoughts . Sudden return of anxiety and terror . She must bear it all alone . The catastrophe approaches , inexorably , inevitably . Despair , conflict , and destruction .It is a truism , first , that Shakespeare wrote story plays , and secondly that he did not endeavor to imagine a new story . Instead , he made over plays grown out of date in his time , or adapted to the stage what today we should call novelettes which came to him in the original or translation from Italy , Spain , or France . Never did he find a story which seemed to him fully shaped and ready for the stage .The tales may be verbose and redundant ; they may be mere bare outlines of the action , little if at all characterized , with unreal dialogue ; or they may provide Shakespeare with only a part of the story he uses , the rest coming from other tales or from his own imagination . Widely different as they are , however , one and all they were points of departure for Shakespeare 's plays . No matter which one of the numerous starting points noted may be that of the dramatist , he must end in story even if he does not begin with it . Suppose that he starts with a character . He cannot merely talk about the figure . This might produce a kind of history ; it cannot produce drama . Inevitably , he will try to illustrate , by means of action , some one dominant characteristic , or group of characteristics , or to the full , the many-sided nature of the man . Very nearly the same thing may be said of any attempt to dramatize an historical epoch . Its chief characteristic or characteristics must be illustrated in action . Some story is inevitable . Suppose , for the moment , that as in Morose of Ben Jonson 's Silent Woman ,the dramatist is stressing one characteristic , in this instance morbid sensitiveness to noise of any kind . It is well known that Jonson cared more for character and less for story than most dramatists of his day . Yet even in this play we find the story of the tricking of Morose by his nephew , Dauphine , resulting in the marriage of Morose to Dauphine 's page . The reason why the three parts of Henry VI of Shakespeare are little read and very rarely acted is not merely that they are somewhat crude early work , but that crowding incident of all kinds lacks the massing needed to give it clearness of total effect to round it out into a well-told story . Illustrative incidents , unrelated except that historically they happen to the same person , and that historically they are given in proper sequence , are likely to be confusing . We need the Baedeker of a biographer or an historian to emphasize the incidents so that the meaning they have for him may be clear to us . The first part of Marlowe 's Tamburlaine ,when quickly read , seems but a succession of conquests , not greatly unlike , leading to his control of the world of his day . He who sees no deeper into the play than this praises certain scenes or passages , but finds the whole repetitious and confusing . Closer examination shows , however , that behind these many incidents of war and slaughter is an interest of Marlowe 's own creation which keeps us waiting for , anticipating the final scene \u2014 the desire of Zenocrate , at first captive of Tamburlaine , and later his devoted wife , to reconcile her father , the Soldan , and her husband . The satisfaction of her desire makes the spectacular ending of Part I . This thread of interest gives a certain unity to the material presented , creates a slight story in the mass of incident ,\u2014 that is , something with a beginning , a middle , and an end . What gives unity to the Second Part of Tamburlaine is the idea that , even as Tamburlaine declares himself all-conquering , he faces unseen forces against which he cannot stand \u2014 the physical cowardice of his son , so incomprehensible to him that he kills the boy ; the illness and death of his beloved Zenocrate , though he spares nothing to save her ; his own growing physical weakness , his breakdown and death even as the generals he has never called on in vain before prove unable to aid him . Again we find an element of story to unify the material . A moment 's thought will show that if , beginning with character we must ultimately reach some story , however slight , this is just as true of a play which begins with an idea , a bit of dialogue , a detached scene , or a mere setting . The setting must be the background of some incident . This , in turn , must be part of a story or we shall have the episodic form already found undesirable . Similarly , a detached scene must become part of a series of scenes . Get rid of the effect of episodic scenes , that is , give them unity , and lo , we have story of some sort . The bit of dialogue must become part of a larger dialogue belonging to characters of the play ; and characterization , as we have seen , results in some story . The artistic or moral idea of the dramatist can be made clear only by human figures , the pawns with which he makes his emotional moves . At once we are on the way to story . The Red Robeof Brieux aims to illustrate the idea that in France the administration of justice has been confused by personal ambition and personal intrigue . Is it without story ? Surely we have the story of Mouzon ,\u2014 his hopes , his consequent intrigues for advancement , and his resulting death . Here is a group of incidents developing something from a beginning to an end , that is , providing story . The play contains , too , the story of Yanetta and Etchepare . May we not say that the Vagret family provides a third story ? A play , then , may begin in almost anything seen or thought . Speaking broadly , there is no reason why one source is better than another . The important point is that something seen or thought should so stir the emotions of the dramatist that the desire to convey his own emotion or the emotions of characters who become connected with what he has seen or thought , forces him to write till he has worked out his purpose . Undoubtedly , however , he who begins with a story is nearer his goal than he who begins with an idea or a character . Disconnected episodes , then , may possibly make a vaudeville sketch or the libretto of a lower order of musical comedy . Unless unified in story , even though it be very slight , they cannot make a play . This point needs emphasis for two reasons : because lately there has been some attempt to maintain that a newer type of play has no story , and because many a beginner in dramatic writing seems to agree with Bayes in The Rehearsal . \u201c What the devil 's a plot except to stuff in fine things ? \u201d In good play-writing it is not a question of bringing together as many incidents or as many illustrations of character as you can crowd together in a given number of acts , but of selecting the illustrative incidents , which , when properly developed will produce in an audience the largest amount of the emotional response desired . Later this error will be considered in detail . Nor will the recent attempt to maintain that there is a new type of play with \u201c absolutely no story in it \u201d stand close analysis . The story may be very slight , but story is present in all such plays . Take two cases . Mr. William Archer , in his excellent book on Play-Making ,sums up Miss Elizabeth Baker 's Chainsas follows : \u201c A city clerk , oppressed by the deadly monotony of his life , thinks of going to Australia \u2014 and does n't go : that is the sum and substance of the action . Also , by way of underplot , a shopgirl , oppressed by the deadly monotony and narrowness of her life , thinks of escaping from it by marrying a middle-aged widower \u2014 and does n't do it . \u201d He then declares that the play has \u201c absolutely no story . \u201d Does any reader believe that this play could have succeeded , as it has , if the audience had been left in any doubt as to why the city clerk and the shopgirl did not do what they had planned ? Yet surely , if this play makes clear , as it does , why these two people changed their minds , it must have story , for it shows us people thinking of escaping from conditions they find irksome , and explains why they give up the idea . If that is n't story , what is it ? The Weavers of Hauptmann ,giving us somewhat loosely connected pictures of social conditions among the weavers of Germany in the forties of the nineteenth century , is said to be another specimen of these plays without story . Now such plays as The Weavers have one of two results : they rouse us to thought on the social conditions represented , or they do not . To succeed they must rouse us ; but if our stirred feelings are to lead anywhere , we must be not only stirred but clear as to the meaning of the play . There have been many who have thought that The Weavers , though it stirs us to sympathy , leaves us nowhere because not clear . Be this as it may , even The Weavers has some story , for it tells us of the rise and development of a revolt of the weavers against their employers . Confusion as to \u201c story \u201d results from two causes . First , story in drama is often taken to imply only complicated story . To say that every play must have complicated story is absurd . To say that every play must have some story , though it may be very slight , is undeniable . Secondly , story is frequently used to mean plot , and plot of the older type , namely a play of skilfully arranged suspense and climax in a story of complicated and extreme emotion . It is the second cause which underlies Mr. Archer 's curious statement about Chains . He says that the play has no \u201c emotional tension worth speaking of , \u201d and assumes that where there is no emotional tension there cannot be story . Tension in the sense of suspense the play has little , but Mr. Archer states that it held \u201c an audience absorbed through four acts \u201d and stirred \u201c them to real enthusiasm . \u201d In these words he grants the emotional response of the audience . Miss Baker substitutes sympathy for the characters and deft dealing with ironic valuesfor complicated plot and dependence on suspense . One kind of play , however , no more precludes story than another . What , then , is the difference between story and plot ? In treating drama , what should be meant by story is what a play boils down to when you try to tell a friend as briefly as possible what it is about \u2014 what Mr. Knobloch calls the vital active part , the \u201c verb \u201d of the play . Here is the story of the play , Barbara Frietchie , as it re-shaped itself in Clyde Fitch 's mind from Whittier 's poem :\u201c A Northern man loves a Southern girl . She defies her father and runs away to marry him . By a sudden battle the ceremony is prevented . The minister 's house is seized by the rebels , and soldiers stationed there . Barbara , who has remained , seeing a Confederate sharpshooter about to fire on her lover passing with his regiment , drops on her knees , slowly levels a gun she has seized , and shoots the Southerner . Her lover is wounded and she struggles to protect him from her father , brother , and rebel suitor , and from every little noise which might cost his life . He dies , and she , now wholly wedded to the Northern cause , waves the flag , as does the old woman in Whittier 's poem , in defiance of the Southern army , and is shot by her crazy rebel lover . \u201dNote that this summary , though it makes the story clear , in no way presents the scenes of the play as to order , suspense , or climax . This is the story , not the plot of Barbara Frietchie . Plot , dramatically speaking , is the story so moulded by the dramatist as to gain for him in the theatre the emotional response he desires . In order to create and maintain interest , he gives his story , as seems to him wise , simple or complex structure ; and discerning elements in it of suspense , surprise , and climax , he reveals them to just the extent necessary for his purposes . Plot is story proportioned and emphasized so as to accomplish , under the conditions of the theatre , the purposes of the dramatist . Compare the plot of Barbara Frietchie with its story ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Never resting .", "Here ?", "The Voice .", "Jean ! Upon my word that young lawyer cannot know the laws . Jean !Just at the end of the same act it is necessary to illustrate the constant presence , the activity and alertness of the German forces and the irritation all this means to the Alsatians . In a story much of this would be described by the author . In the play we feel with each of the speakers the irritating presence of the troops , and so have perfect dramatic illustrative action .", "Ah , look there ! Who can be so imprudent as to sing that air of Alsace ? The Voice . It can overpass the mountains .", "Foolhardy ! They will hear him !", "In memory of those men and women", "Of horses .", "Do n't you understand , my dear Jean ? There they were in their own country , here they are in ours .Early in the first scene of The Changeling , by Thomas Middleton , Beatrice states clearly , and more than once , the physical repulsion De Flores causes her . Knowing full well , however , the dramatic value of illustrative action , Middleton handled the ending of the scene in this way . Beatrice turning to leave the room , starts as she finds De Flores close at hand .", "Chut !"], "true_target": ["Whose souls were like our own .", "A patrol !", "They are keeping watch .", "They are coming up .", "Always !", "Another !", "Again , and louder than ever !", "Be still .", "We can go down for the moment .", "Is like a cross we carry", "Down there \u2014 wait \u2014 lean over ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Perhaps they are trailing some deserter .", "Wait .", "Day and night .", "They are going by .", "If it should be he ! The Voice . And watch what goes on there .", "They are drilling ."], "true_target": ["Listen !", "Ouf !", "They wo n't tell you so in the town .", "They who go out by the Grand \u2019 fontaine pass this way .", "The Hussars !", "Chut !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Near our farm . From our house one can see them passing ."], "true_target": ["But we on the frontiers see them .", "I am sure it is Jean 's voice ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["We are doing nothing wrong .", "A rolling stone in the ravine .", "Ah ! There are deserters ?", "Ah !", "What are they doing ?", "Ah !", "Ah !", "Ah !"], "true_target": ["I see \u2014", "What ?", "They have crossed the road .", "Only to see them gives me a queer feeling at the heart .", "I hear the breathing of their horses .", "It is strange \u2014 twenty times , a hundred times in Germany I have met the patrols of dragoons , or hussars , and admired their fine form . Here \u2014", "Steps !", "Well ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Who bade you stoop ? they touch my hand no more :", "Take \u2018 em , and draw thine own skin off with \u2018 em .", "There ! for the other 's sake I part with this ;"], "true_target": ["Who ?", "Not this serpent gone yet ?", "Mischief on your officious forwardness !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Look , girl , thy glove 's fallen ,"], "true_target": ["Stay , stay ! De Flores , help a little ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Here 's a favour with a mischief now ! I know She had rather wear my pelt tanned in a pair Of dancing pumps , than I should thrust my fingers Into her sockets here .Here the dramatist makes repulsion clear by illustrative action so emotional that it moves us to keenest sympathy or dislike for the woman herself . Dramatically speaking , then , illustrative action is not merely something which illustrates an idea or character , but it must be an illustration mirroring emotion of the persons in the play or creating it in the observer . What is the relation of illustrative action to dramatic situation ? The first is the essence of the second . A dramatic episode presents an individual or group of individuals so moved as to stir an audience to responsive emotion . Illustrative action by each person in the group or by the group as a whole is basal . The glove incident in The Changeling concerns both Beatrice and De Flores . Hers is illustrative action when she shrinks from the glove his hand has touched . He shows it when kissing and amorously fondling the glove she has refused . Their illustrative actions make together the dramatic episode of the glove ,\u2014 which is in turn a part of Scene 1 of the first act of the play . There are the divisions : play , act , scene , episode , and illustrative action . Just as sometimes the development of a single episode may make a scene , or there may be but one scene to an act , there are cases when an illustrative action is a dramatic episode . The ending of Act II of Ostrovsky 's Storm illustrates this . Varvara , who has just gone out , has put into the hands of Catherine the key to a gate in the garden hedge . This Varvara has taken without the knowledge of her mother , who is the mother-in-law of Catherine . Just as Varvara goes , she has said that if she meets Catherine 's lover , Boris , she will tell him to come to the gate . Catherine , terrified , at first tries to refuse the key , but Varvara insists on leaving it with her ."], "true_target": ["Here , lady ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Madam ,", "According as your ladyship desir 'd ,", "Whose glory fills the world with loud report .", "To visit her poor castle where she lies ,"], "true_target": ["That she may boast she hath beheld the man", "With modesty admiring thy renown ,", "The virtuous lady , Countess of Auvergne ,", "By me entreats , great lord , thou wouldst vouchsafe", "By message crav 'd , so is Lord Talbot come ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport ,", "Is it even so ? Nay , then , I see our wars"], "true_target": ["When ladies crave to be encount'red with .", "You may not , my lord , despise her gentle suit ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["What you have done hath not offended me ;", "I am indeed .", "But only with your patience , that we may", "That will I show you presently .Enter Soldiers How say you , madam ? Are you now persuaded That Talbot is but shadow of himself ? These are his substance , sinews , arms , and strength , With which he yoketh your rebellious necks , Razeth your cities and subverts your towns And in a moment makes you desolate .", "For soldiers \u2019 stomachs always serve them well .", "Yet hath a woman 's kindness over-rul 'd ;", "Ne'er trust me then ; for what a world of men", "Madam , I have been bold to trouble you ;", "And therefore tell her I return great thanks ,", "You perceive my mind ?", "Come hither , captain .", "The mind of Talbot , as you did mistake", "Your roof were not sufficient to contai n't .", "Prisoner ! To whom !", "Ha , ha , ha !", "But since your ladyship is not at leisure ,", "Be not dismay 'd , fair lady ; nor misconstrue", "And least proportion of humanity .", "I tell you , madam , were the whole frame here ,"], "true_target": ["It is of such a spacious , lofty pitch ,", "Taste of your wine and see what cates you have ;", "I 'll sort some other time to visit you .", "I go to certify her Talbot 's here .", "No , no , I am but shadow of myself .", "Marry , for that she 's in a wrong belief ,", "I mean to prove this lady 's courtesy .", "Will not your honours bear me company ?", "You are deceiv 'd , my substance is not here .", "Well , then , alone , since there 's no remedy ,", "And in submission will attend on her .", "To think that you have aught but Talbot 's shadow", "The outward composition of his body .", "Whereon to practice your severity .", "Could not prevail with all their oratory ,", "Reenter Porter with keys", "I laugh to see your ladyship so fond", "Nor other satisfaction do I crave ,", "For what you see is but the smallest part"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Are often welcomest when they are gone ."], "true_target": ["And I have heard it said , unbidden guests", "No , truly , \u2018 tis more than manners will ;"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Alas , this is a child , a silly dwarf !", "Victorious Talbot ! pardon my abuse .", "Porter , remember what I gave in charge ;", "I thought I should have seen some Hercules ,", "He will be here , and yet he is not here .", "With all my heart , and think me honoured To feast so great a warrior in my house .Except for a few lines of rhetoric , could the account in Scene 3 be shortened ? The Countess awaits Talbot ; he comes ; she reviles him in a few lines ; he turns to go ; she declares him a prisoner ; he laughs at her ; and as she stands amazed , calls in his forces brought in secret to the castle . When Talbot invites himself and his men to feast at her expense , the Countess immediately agrees . Reading the scene , one recalls the words of Dumas fils : \u201c Any one can relate a dramatic situation : the art lies in preparing it , getting it accepted , making it plausible , especially in untying the knot . \u201dHere Shakespeare does not untie the knot ; the Countess merely yields . What she feels , what happened thereafter ,\u2014 all these are omitted . It is merely the situation which counts . Before Talbot comes in , the scene could easily be made to reveal much more of the character of the Countess . When he does enter , the play of wits between them , even as it disclosed character , might provide interesting dramatic conflict . Surely the moment when the Countess thinks Talbot trapped and he coolly jeers at her , is worth more development . Here it is treated so quickly that the surprise in the entrance of the soldiers hardly gets its full effect . All this is the work of a tyro , even if he be Shakespeare . In Richard II , there is a scene , not as long as that just quoted , in which the central situation might seem to many people less dramatic than that of Talbot and the Countess , yet note to what a clear and convincing conclusion Shakespeare brings it , how plausible he makes the scene , how thoroughly he prepares it for the largest emotional effect by entering thoroughly into the characters involved .", "To give their censure of these rare reports .", "And his achievements of no less account ;", "I shall as famous be by this exploit", "And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs .", "For in my gallery thy picture hangs ;", "That hast by tyranny these many years", "Laughest thou , wretch ? Thy mirth shall turn to moan .", "Is this the scourge of France ?", "For I am sorry that with reverence", "Should strike such terror to his enemies .", "And when you have done so , bring the keys to me .", "And he is welcome . What ! is this the man ?", "Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight ,", "Long time , thy shadow hath been thrall to me ,", "Then have I substance too .", "If thou be he , then art thou prisoner ."], "true_target": ["I did not entertain thee as thou art .", "And sent our sons and husbands captivate .", "I see report is fabulous and false .", "A second Hector , for his grim aspect ,", "But now the substance shall endure the like ,", "How can these contrarieties agree ?", "And I will chain these legs and arms of thine ,", "As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus \u2019 death .", "This is a riddling merchant for the nonce ;", "Wasted our country , slain our citizens ,", "And for that cause I train 'd thee to my house .", "What means he now ? Go ask him whither he goes .", "Why , art not thou the man ?", "I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited", "And more than may be gathered by the shape .", "Is this the Talbot , so much fear 'd abroad", "Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath ;", "That with his name the mothers still their babes ?", "It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp", "To me , blood-thirsty lord ;", "Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears ,", "The plot is laid . If all things fall out right"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Not that way , this way !", "Madam , I will ."], "true_target": ["Put it up there !", "Ask the official ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["To know the cause of your abrupt departure ."], "true_target": ["Stay , my Lord Talbot ; for my lady craves", "Madam , it is ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Here comes my son Aumerle .", "I sent for you ; sit downe :", "Take pen and incke , and write : are you ready ?"], "true_target": ["The praises of her beauty afterward !", "Will you ?", "Say what you did through her , and she through you \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Lest you be cropp 'd before you come to prime .", "Aumerle that was ;", "And interchangeably set down their hands ,", "Give me my boots , I say ; saddle my horse .", "And lasting fealty to the new made king .", "Thou fond mad woman .", "What news from Oxford ? Do these jousts and triumphs hold ?", "I will be satisfied ; let me see it , I say .", "Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy ?", "Bound to himself ! What doth he with a bond", "Saddle my horse .", "I would appeach him .", "Peace , foolish woman .", "A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament ,", "To do that office Viola . If I did love you of thine own good will in my master 's flame , Which tired majesty did make thee With such a suffering , such a offer , deadly life , The resignation of thy state and In your denial I would find no crown sense , To Henry Bolingbroke . I would not understand it .", "Make way , unruly woman !", "But that is lost for being Richard 's friend ,", "Which for some reasons , sir , I mean to see . I fear , I fear ,\u2014"], "true_target": ["Ho ! who is within there ?", "I am in Parliament pledge for his truth", "I will appeach the villain .", "Enter a Servant", "And , madam , you must call him Rutland now .", "You will be there , I know .", "Treason ! foul treason ! Villain ! traitor ! slave !", "God for his mercy , what treachery is here !", "That he is bound to ? Wife , thou art a fool .", "What seal is that , that hangs without thy bosom ? Yea , look'st thou pale ? Let me see the writing .", "No matter , then , who see it . I will be satisfied : let me see the writing .", "Bring me my boots ; I will unto the King . Reenter Servant with boots", "Away , fond woman ! Were he twenty times my son ,", "Give me my boots , I say .", "To kill the King at Oxford .", "Boy , let me see the writing .", "Well , bear you well in this new spring of time ,", "Now , by mine honour , by my life , by my troth ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I have received the Prince 's message :", "They say \u2018 tis very soveraigne ; \u2018 twas my wedding-ring ,", "What did I say ?", "Is not my teeming date drunk up with time ?", "You called my court 's love worthless \u2014 so it turned :", "In a winding sheete ?", "Nay , bids them see it , and they straight do see .", "Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own ?", "Even with you as with the world ? I know", "Is he not like thee ? Is he not thine own ?", "And that he is a bastard , not thy son .", "Why , York , what wilt thou do ?", "Rise , sir ! The Prince 's words were in debate .", "Strike him , Aumerle . Poor boy , thou art amaz 'd . \u2014 Hence villain ! never more come in my sight .", "What 's laid up for tomorrow .", "Yes , to helpe your eye-sight .", "If I had a husband now , this care were quit :", "Sir ,", "I cannot stand upright i n't , nor discourse ,", "What 's layd up for tomorrow , I did meane", "That violent distraction ?", "First \u2014 has she seen you ?", "You may discover what a wealthy mine", "What doe you thinke of marriage ?", "Without I raise it higher : raise yourselfe ,", "I threw away as dross my heap of wealth ,", "To feare , more then to love me . Sir , be confident ,", "In ridles and in dreames , and leave the path", "Say , I prepare my answer !", "Sees the true value and the false , for them \u2014", "Welcome , my son . Who are the violets now", "After this triumph and this large expence ,", "Now she paies it .", ", turne your eyes ,", "I use but halfe a blush i n't .", "Of simple vertue , which was never made", "And yet I love him .", "Now grant me patience ! Here 's a man declares", "We 'll try : you are \u2014 so to speak \u2014 my subject yet ?", "Approach her , and ... no ! first of all", "Make not your heart so dead a peece of flesh ,", "Hadst thou groan 'd for him", "...", "All ?", "Oh , I remember :", "Think you are all of this ,\u2014 and , thinking it ,", "Fye , fie , what 's all this ?", "If you will know where breathes a compleat man", "\u201c Courage , and", "\u2018 Tis not the figure cut in allablaster", "As if the guifts we parted with procur 'd", "And onely doe appeare to you a yong widow", "For when I said I meant to make enquiry", "Get more assurance . \u201c My instructress , \u201d say ,", "Oh , you are an upright treasurer : but you mistooke ,", "This goodly roofe of yours is too low built ;", "I am making my will", "I dream !", "Obey me , then !", "This darkning of your worth is not like that", "How doe you affect it ?", "And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age ,", "Nay , make her proud for once to heart 's content", "Dare not ?", "To seeme the thing it is not . Goe , go brag", "But to my second husband .", "Kneeles at my husbands tombe . Awake , awake , man ,", "I will not peace . What is the matter , Aumerle ?", "Are to rid bad wares off : and I must tell you ,", "\u201c Was great , descended from a line of kings ,", "Remoove him .", "After , Aumerle ! Mount thee upon his horse ; Spur post and get before him to the King , And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee . I 'll not be long behind ; though I be old , I doubt not but to ride as fast as York . And never will I rise up from the ground Till Bolingbroke have pardon 'd thee . Away , be gone !So far as the situation is concerned we might go directly from York 's \u201c fealty to the new made King \u201d to his \u201c What seal is that ? \u201d omitting some ten lines . We should lose , however , the deft touches which make the discovery all the more dramatic ,\u2014 the words of York which show that he has no idea that his son is really involved in any disloyalty ; the affectionate effort of the mother to draw the talk from unpleasant subjects ; and the distrait mood of Aumerle . Again , the discovery of the contents of the seal might be made at once , but the fifteen intervening lines before York cries \u201c Treason ! foul treason ! \u201d increase our suspense by their clear presentation of the emotions of father , mother , and son . Once more the situation is held when York does not declare at once the nature of the treason and the frantic mother demands again and again the contents of the paper before Aumerle says bitterly , and in perfect character with his first speeches of the scene , \u201c it is no more Than my poor life must answer . \u201d Still again we should have the necessary action of the scene perfectly if York , as soon as he has his boots , flung out of the room , to be followed immediately by the Duchess , crying that she will follow him to the King and ask the boy 's pardon . However , had Shakespeare 's treatment here been that he used in the scene of Talbot and the Countess we should have lacked the perfect portrayal of the mother who loses all sense of right and wrong in fear that her loved child may die . Finally , do we not gain greatly by the characterization of the Duchess in the last lines of the scene ? Five times , then , Shakespeare , by entering into his characters , \u201c holds the situation . \u201d The second act of The Magistrate ,by Sir Arthur Pinero , is in central situation broadly this . Cis Farringdon , represented by his mother to his stepfather , Mr. Posket , as fourteen , because she does not like to admit her own age , is really nineteen and precocious at that . He has brought Mr. Posket to one of his haunts , a supper room in the Hotel des Princes , Meek Street , London , where they are to sup together . As Mr. Posket is a police justice , he has been induced to figure for the evening as \u201c Skinner of the stock exchange . \u201d Shortly after the arrival of the two comes word that a frequenter of the restaurant twenty years ago , now returned to London , wants to sup in their chosen room for the sake of old times . Therefore Mr. Posket and Cis are put into an adjoining room . Colonel Lukyn , the returned stranger , and a friend , Captain Vale , enter . Just as they are ordering supper , a note comes to the effect that Mrs. Posket , with a woman friend , is below , begging to speak with her old acquaintance , Colonel Lukyn . As Mrs. Posket asks a private interview , Captain Vale is put out on the balcony . With Mrs. Posket comes her sister Charlotte . We have already learned from Vale that he is deeply depressed because he thinks Charlotte no longer cares for him . Mrs. Posket has come to beg Colonel Lukyn , who knew her before she became a widow , not to reveal the truth about her age . Watch now the permutations and combinations the author develops from this general situation . Cis is hardly in the room before Isadore presents his bill for past meals . Cis sees the chance , by borrowing from his stepfather , to settle a long postponed account . Three figures , moved in turn by shrewdness , trickiness , and gullibility , stir us to amusement , giving us Situation I . Even as the bill is paid , Cis asks Isadore to show Mr. Skinner the trick of \u201c putting the silver to bed . \u201d Three people amused or interested by a trick , amuse us \u2014 Situation II . With the coming of the note from Alexander Lukyn , and the assignment of the room adjoining to Cis and Mr. Skinner-Posket , there is a hint of future complication which amuses us \u2014 Situation III . Lukyn and Vale entering , the former sentimental over his memories of the place , and the latter comically depressed over what he thinks to be the faithlessness of Charlotte Verrinder , give us Situation IV . The note saying Mrs. Posket is below with a friend , asking a private interview , produces Situation V , for it amuses us to think what may happen with Mr. Posket and Cis just on the other side of the door . Placing Vale on the balcony leads to Situation VI , for he goes with amusing regret for the delayed supper . Up to this point the situations may be declared parts of the main situation , which must now itself be developed . Just after Blond , the proprietor , ushers in the ladies , the pattering of rain outside is heard ."], "true_target": ["And here you stickle for a piece or two !", "Oracularly in another 's case \u2014", "Are forc 'd to expresse our violent passions", "And I did vow never to part with it ,", "Which trades-men use i \u2019 th \u2019 city ; their false lightes", "\u2018 Tis nothing but some hand , which he has ent'red into", "But now I know thy mind ; thou dost suspect", "It 's fit", "That claimes you for her husband , and like a widow ,", "He shall be none ;", "You have left me heartlesse ; mine is in your bosom :", "As I have done , thou wouldst be more pitiful .", "So , now the ground 's broake ,", "What is the matter ?", "Whose motive , once it dares avow itself ,", "St. Winifrid , that were a strange will !", "Why , what is it , my lord ?", "The misery of us that are borne great ,", "You were ill to sell your selfe :", "Rank !", "\u201c And even fair \u201d \u2014", "How ?", "I make you lord of .", "I do here put off all vaine ceremony ,", "Or if you please , my hand to help you : so .", "We are forc 'd to woe , because none dare woe us :", "Have we more sons ? Or are we like to have ?", "Were not one better make it smiling , thus ,", "That strew the green lap of the new come spring ?", "You jest .", "Say this !\u2014 nor think I bid you cast aside", "Alas , sir , is it to be ever thus ?", "This morning 's service was no vulgar deed", "She loves you , then .", "And progresse through your selfe .", "we enquire ,", "What is't distracts you ? This is flesh and blood , sir ;", "Pray let 's heare it .", "Sweet York , sweet husband , be not of that mind .", "But I intend to make you over-seer .", "\u201c Why should not one I love , say ? \u201d", "And fearefully equivocates , so we", "May doe it : thus , is it fit ?", "He is as like thee as a man may be ,", "Thy life answer !", "For gay apparel \u2018 gainst the triumph day .", "And as a tyrant doubles with his words ,", "Then , kneel to her !", "So , takes the shelter of a nobler cause .", "Beauteous ? Indeed I thank you : I look yong for your sake . You have tane my cares upon you .", "Then in deepe groanes , and terrible ghastly lookes ,", "One of your eyes is blood-shot ; use my ring to't .", "There needs small conjuration , when your finger", "The rest 's unsaid again . The Duchess bids you ,", "\u2014", "In heaven .", "That all this wealth of heart and soul 's her own !", "Not like to me or any of my kin ,", "And rob me of a happy mother 's name ?", "\u201c The heart they sprung from ,\u2014 none deserved like him", "\u201c She said , of all men , none for eloquence ,", "One touch of all the awe and reverence ;", "\u201c Who saved her at her need : if she said this ,", "Your service names its true source ,\u2014 loyalty !", "I hope \u2018 twill multiply love there . You doe tremble :", "What is the matter , my lord ?", "What should you fear ?", "What good deede shall we first remember ? say .", "We 'll keep him here ; then what is that to him ?", "What 's layd up yonder for me .", ", and I pray sir , tell me", "That I have been disloyal to thy bed ,", "Explains all done and infinitely more ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["God knows I had as lief be none as one .", "Good mother , have content ; it is no more", "Madam , I know not , nor I greatly care not", "My lord , \u2018 tis nothing .", "Than my poor life must answer ."], "true_target": ["I do beseech you , pardon me . I may not show it .", "It is a matter of small consequence ,", "I do beseech your grace to pardon me .", "If God prevent not , I purpose so .", "Which for some reasons I would not have seen .", "For aught I know , my lord , they do ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You 'll dare to lock us up all night ?", "By George , is it ?Poor devil !There is n't any method of getting off that balcony is there ?"], "true_target": ["Come on ? At what court ?", "Good gracious , Blond ! What 's that ?", "What do you mean ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["The rain outside . It is cats and dogs ."], "true_target": ["It is not at all safe . Do n't use it .", "No \u2014 unless by getting on to it ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mr. Posket , Mum .\u2014 Situation XIX . Five situations of nineteen lead up to the sixth . Seven are developed from that sixth by means of four people . The new complication , the search of the restaurant by the police and the bringing into one room of all the figures , gives us six more situations . Certainly Sir Arthur knows how to \u201c hold a situation . \u201d Act III of Mrs. Dane 's Defenceis just equally divided between preparatory material and the great scene which ebbs and flows about the following situation . Mrs. Dane , in love with Lionel , the adopted son of Sir Daniel Carteret , at the opening of the scene has lied so successfully about her past that Sir Daniel , who has been suspicious of her , has been entirely convinced of her innocence . Eager to help her set herself right , he asks in the kindest way for information which may aid him . Trying not to commit herself , Mrs. Dane slips once or twice and all the old suspicions of Sir Daniel are rearoused . He cross-examines her so rigidly that ultimately she breaks down and confesses . Handled by the inexperienced that situation might have been good for four or five pages . As treated by Mr. H. A . Jones , it makes a scene of twenty pages of finest suspense and climax . The situation is well held because every reaction upon it by the two characters has been worked out . One would hardly think two quarrelsome inmates of a poorhouse , visited by a relative of one of them who wishes to take him away to manage her place , likely to produce a masterpiece of comic drama . Yet it does with Lady Gregory in The Workhouse Ward ,for she knows Irish character and speech so intimately that minor situation after minor situation develops , through the characters , from the original situation . Indeed , much of our so-called new drama is but a prolonged holding of a situation stated as the play opens , or clearly before us at the end of Act I . Chainsof Miss Elizabeth Baker in Act I puts this double situation before us . A young married man without children , though happy enough in his marriage , is so weary of the sordidness of his small means and limited opportunities that he longs to break away , go out to Australia , and when he has made a career for himself , send for his wife . His sister-in-law , a shop girl , equally weary of her life , is weakly thinking of marrying a man she does not love , but who really loves her , in order to escape the grayness of her life . At the end of the play these two are accepting the situations in which we found them . Yet the three acts of the play are full of varied interest for an audience , so admirably does the writer discern the situations which her characters will develop from the original situation . Hindle Wakes ,the best play of Stanley Houghton , is really a study of the way in which a situation which took place before the play began affects three families . Surely it must now be evident that if a dramatist should in the first place understand perfectly that illustrative action is the core of drama , and must be carefully selected ; and secondly that he must , among possible illustrative actions , select those which quickest will produce the largest emotional results ; he must also recognize that till he has searched and probed his situations by means of the characters , in the first place he cannot know which are his strongest , and in the second place cannot hope to hold the situations chosen . Another complaint from the inexperienced dramatist when shaping up his story is that though he sees the big moments in his play , he does not see his way from one to another . That is , transitional scenes are lacking . They will not worry him long , however , if he follows the methods just stated for holding a situation . Let him watch the people who have come into his imagination , first simply as people . Who and what are they ? Secondly , what are they feeling and thinking in the situations which have occurred to him ? He can n't long consider this without deciding what people they must have been in order to be in the situations in question . Hard upon this comes the question : \u201c What will people who have been like these and have passed through this experience do immediately , and thereafter ? \u201d In the answer to the question , \u201c What have they been ? \u201d he finds the transitional scenes which take him back into an earlier episode ; in the answer to \u201c What will they become ? \u201d the transitional scenes that carry him forward . In the scene cited from Richard II the main moments are the home-coming , the discovery of the traitorous paper , and the departure of the Duke and Duchess of York . How is the transition from one to the other to be gained ? Through knowledge of the characters , as the analysis showed . What applies here to transition within a scene from dramatic moment to dramatic moment applies equally in transition from scene to scene . Suppose that Sir Arthur Pinero had as the starting-point of the third act of The Magistrate the idea that Mrs. Posket should be arrested under such conditions that she must appear in the court of her husband when he is as guilty as she . Sir Arthur has decided that they must be in some place like the Hotel des Princes when it is raided . He has in mind episodes which will bring them all together at that place . He already sees clearly the scene of the raid and the arrest . But the place cannot be raided till late in the evening , and Agatha Posket is too jealous of her reputation thoughtlessly to stay late in such a place . What are to be the transitional \u201c scenes \u201d which , in the first place , shall make us feel that considerable time has passed since Mrs. Posket came to the hotel , and secondly shall keep us amused ? Sir Arthur finds them through the characters . It is the hunger of self-indulgent Charlotte which motivates the staying and gives us the supper \u201c scene . \u201d It is the character of Vale which gives us his quarrel with Lukyn . The love making of Charlotte and Vale provides another transitional \u201c scene . \u201d In other words , whether one is looking for more episodes or for transitions from one chosen episode to another , one should not go far afield hunting episodes as episodes , but should become acquainted with the characters as closely as possible . They will solve the difficulties . All this lengthy consideration of selection makes for unity of action in the story resulting . Some unity of action , whether the story be slight or complicated , there must be . Of the three great unities over which there has been endless discussion , Action , Place , and Time , the modern dramatists , as we shall see , treat Place with the greatest freedom , and are constantly inventing devices to avoid the Time difficulty . With the dramatists of the present , as with the dramatists of the past , however , what they write must be a whole , a unit . Some central idea , plan , purpose , whatever we choose to call it , must give the play organic structure . Story is the first step to this . Which gives most pleasure ,\u2014 a string of disconnected anecdotes and jests ; or a series of them given some unity because they concern some man of note , for instance , Abraham Lincoln ; or the same series edited till , taken all together , they make Abraham Lincoln , in one or more of his characteristics , clearer than ever before ? Does not a large part of our pleasure in biography come from the way in which it co-ordinates and interprets episodes and incidents hitherto not properly inter-related in our minds ? Unity of action is , then , of first importance in story . There is , however , another kind of unity which has not been enough considered ,\u2014 what may , perhaps , be called artistic unity . Why is it that a play which begins seriously and for most of its course so develops , only to end farcically , or which begins lightly only to become tragic , leaves us dissatisfied ? Because the audience finds it difficult to readjust its mood as swiftly as does the author . The Climbersand The Girl With the Green Eyesof Clyde Fitch are examples in point . The first begins with such dignity and mysteriousness that its lighter moods , after Act I , seem almost trivial . In the second play the very tragic scene of the attempted suicide , after the light comedy touch of the preceding parts , is distinctly jarring . A recent play which for two acts or more seemingly had been dealing with but slightly disguised figures of the political world had a late scene in which one of these politicians , like Manson in The Servant in the House ,or The Stranger in The Passing of the Third Floor Back ,shadowed the figure of Christ himself . The effect was jarring , unpleasant , and confusing , mainly because of its suddenness . It will be noted that in both the plays mentioned , Manson and The Stranger carry their suggestion from the start . Should we know how to take Percinet and Sylvette in The Romancersof Rostand did not that opening scene , when these two , in love with being in love , read Romeo and Juliet together , prepare us for all the later fantasy ? A dramatist will do well , then , to know clearly before he begins to write whether he wishes his story to be melodrama , tragedy , farce , or comedy of character or intrigue . Unless he does and in consequence selects his illustrative material so that he may give it artistic unity , he is likely to produce a play of so mixed a genre as to be confusing . \u201c Just what is tragi-comedy , then ? \u201d a reader may ask . The Elizabethan dramatist frequently offered one serious and one comic plot , running parallel except when brought together in the last scene of the play . Technically , however , tragi-comedy is a form which , although it may contain tragic elements , is throughout given a general emphasis as comedy and ends in comedy . We do not have good tragi-comedy when most of the play is comedy or tragedy , and one scene or act is distinctly the opposite . Therefore not only unity of action but artistic unity , unity of genre , should be sought by the dramatist shaping up his story . How much story does a play require ? This is a difficult point to settle , but first of all let us clearly understand that there are great differences in audiences as far as plotting is concerned . Some periods require more plot than others . Today we do not demand , as did the audience of Shakespeare 's time , plays containing two or more stories , sometimes scarcely at all connected , sometimes neatly interwoven . Middleton 's The Changelingcontains two almost independent stories . This is nearly as true of The Coxcombby Beaumont and Fletcher . On the other hand , in Much Ado About Nothing the Hero-Claudio story , the Beatrice-Benedict story , and the Dogberry-Verges story are so deftly interwoven that they are , to all appearances , a unit . Even as late as thirty years ago one found in many plays a group of characters for the serious interest and another for the comic values . Gradually , however , dramatists have come to get their comic values from people essential to the serious story , or from a comic emphasis they place on certain aspects of the serious figures of the play . Today is the time of the single story rather than the interwoven story . Yet even now , so far as the public of the United States is concerned , a writer may easily go too far in simplicity , or rather scantiness of story , trusting too much to admirable characterization . That is why that delightful play , The Mollusc ,failed in this country . Many people , among them the intelligent , declared the play too thin to give them pleasure . That is , apparently we of the United States care more in our plays for elaborate stories than do our English cousins . Indeed , national taste differs as to the amount of plot desirable . Both Americans and English care more for plot than do most of the Continental nations , which are often satisfied with plays of slight story-value but admirable characterization . Nor is the difference a new one . Writing of Wycherley 's arrangement of Moliere 's Misanthrope in his Plain Dealer , Voltaire said , \u201c The English author has corrected the only fault of Moliere 's piece , lack of plot . \u201dIn the same Letter on Comedy , Voltaire brings out clearly what any student of English drama knows , that all through its greatest period it depended far more on complicated story than did the drama of the Continent . Lessing in his Hamburg Dramaturgy , speaking of Colman 's The English Merchant , says it has not action enough for the English critics . \u201c Curiosity is not sufficiently fostered , the whole complication is visible in the first act . We Germans are well content that the action is not richer and more complex . The English taste on this point distracts and fatigues us , we love a simple plot that can be grasped at once . The English are forced to insert episodes into French plays if they are to please on their stage . In like manner we have to weed episodes out of the English plays if we want to introduce them to our stage . The best comedies of Congreve and Wycherley would seem intolerable to us without this excision . We manage better with their tragedies . In part these are not so complex and many of them have succeeded well amongst us without the least alteration , which is more than I could say for any of their comedies . \u201dAbout all the generalization one may permit one 's self here is : For the public of the United States one can at present feel sure that story increases its interest in characterization , however fine . As we shall see in dealing with character , the latter should never be sacrificed to story , but story often ferries a play from the shore of unsuccess to the shore of success . Even today it is not the great poetry , the subtle characterization nor the fine thinking of Hamlet which give it large audiences : it is the varied story , full of surprises and suspense . In another way , Hamlet is a case in point . It shows the impossibility of laying down any golden rule as to the amount of story a play should have . Only speaking broadly is it true that different kinds of plays seem to call for different amounts of story . Melodrama obviously does depend on story-happenings often unmotivated and forced on the characters by the will of the dramatist . Romance is almost synonymous with action and we associate with it a large amount of story . The word Intrigue in the title \u201c Comedy of Intrigue \u201d at once suggests story . Tragedy and High Comedy , on the other hand , depend for their values on subtle characterization . In these last two forms it would seem that the increasing characterization must , because of the time limit , mean decrease in the amount of story ; then Hamlet , with its complicated story , occurs to us as by no means a single instance of a play of subtle characterization in complicated story . Farce may be either of character or of situation , but there are also farces in which both situation and character have the exaggerations which distinguish this form from comedy . Comedy of Manners must obviously use much characterization , but it does not preclude a complicated story . Melodrama , then , does call above all else for story . With all the other forms it is in the last analysis the common sense of the dramatist which must tell him how much story to use . He will employ the amount the time limits permit him if he is at the same time to do justice to his characters and to the idea , if any , he may wish to convey . That is , story as we have been watching it develop from the point of departure is , for the dramatist , story in the rough . It is only when it has been proportioned and emphasized so that upon the stage it will produce in an audience the exact emotional effects desired by the dramatist that it becomes plot . Just as the point of departure for a play comes to a writer as a kind of unconscious selection from among all possible subjects , so we have seen that story takes shape by a similar process of conscious or unconscious selection till it is something with a beginning , a middle , and an end , and clear . Nor does selection stop here . The very necessary proportioning and emphasizing mean , as we shall see , that the dramatist selects , and again selects . FOOTNOTES :Samuel French , New York .Chas . Scribner 's Sons , New York .Drama League Series , Doubleday , Page & Co ., New York .Brentano , New York .Le Berceau . P. V. Stock , Paris .Preface , Au Public , to La Princesse Georges . A. Dumas fils . Oeuevres , vol . V , p. 79 . Calmann Levy , Paris .De la Poesie Dramatique . Diderot . Oeuvres , vol . VII , pp . 321-322 . Garnier Freres , Paris .Auteurs Dramatiques . F. de Curel . L'Annee Psychologique , 1874 , p. 121 .Letters of Bulwer-Lytton to Macready , p. 35 . Introduction by Brander Matthews . Privately printed . The Carteret Book Club , Newark , N. J ., 1911 .A False Saint . F. de Curel . Translated by B. H. Clark . Drama League Series . Doubleday , Page & Co ., New York .Auteurs Dramatiques . F. de Curel . L'Annee Psychologique , 1894 , pp . 121-123 .Play-Making , pp . 58-59 , note . William Archer . Small , Maynard & Co ., Boston .See chapter X , \u201c The Dramatist and His Public . \u201dSee chapter IX .My Best Play . Edgar Selwyn . The Green Book Magazine , March , 1911 , pp . 536-537 .Idem .Les Oberle . Edmond Haraucourt . L'Illustration Theatrale , Dec. 9 , 1905 , p. 5 .Les Oberle , p. 7 .Plays of Thomas Middleton . Mermaid Series . Chas . Scribner 's Sons , New York .Chefs-d'Oeuvres Dramatiques de A. N. Ostrovsky . E. Durand-Greville . E. Plon Nourrit et Cie , Paris .Becket , Act I , Scene 4 . Alfred Lord Tennyson . The Macmillan Co ., New York .Letters of Bulwer-Lytton , p. 38 . Brander Matthews , ed .Plays of Thomas Dekker . Mermaid Series . Chas . Scribner 's Sons , New York .A. F. Lange , ed . Mayer & Mueller , Berlin .Letters of Bulwer-Lytton , pp . 36-37 . Brander Matthews , ed .Preface , Au Public , to La Princesse Georges . Oeuvres , vol . V. p. 78 . Calmann Levy , Paris .Preface to Le Supplice d'une Femme . Oeuvres , vol . V. Calmann Levy , Paris .Walter H. Baker & Co ., Boston ; W. Heinemann , London .The Macmillan Co ., New York .Seven Short Plays . Maunsel & Co ., Dublin .J. W. Luce & Co ., Boston ; Sidgwick & Jackson , Ltd ., London .J. W. Luce & Co ., Boston ; Sidgwick & Jackson , Ltd ., London .Harper & Bros ., New York .Hurst & Blackett , Ltd ., London .Doubleday & McClure Co ., New York .The Macmillan Co ., New York .The Macmillan Co ., New York .Plays of Thomas Middleton . Mermaid Series . Chas . Scribner 's Sons , New York .Works of Beaumont and Fletcher , vol . IV . Whalley & Colman , eds . 1811 .The Mollusc . H. H. Davies . Walter H. Baker & Co ., Boston ; W. Heinemann , London .Lettres sur les Anglais , Lettre XIX , Sur la Comedie , p. 170 . A. Basle , 1734 .Hamburg Dramaturgy , p. 265 . Bohn ed . CHAPTER V FROM SUBJECT TO PLOT : PROPORTIONING THE MATERIAL : NUMBER AND LENGTH OF ACTS A dramatist , proportioning his rough story for performance in the limited space of time the stage permits , faces at once the question : \u201c How many acts ? \u201d If inexperienced , noting the number of changes of set his story seems to demand he finds himself in a dilemma : to give an act to each change of scene is to break the play into many scrappy acts of a few minutes each ; to crowd all his needed scenes into five acts is to get scenes as scrappy as the eight which make the fifth act of Shakespeare 's Macbeth or the ten in Act IV of Henry VI , Part II . In either case , if he gives his numerous scenes adequate treatment , he is likely to find their combined length forces him beyond the time limit the theatre allows \u2014 about two hours and a half . Let him rid himself immediately of any feeling that custom or dramatic dignity calls for any preference among three , four , or five acts . The Elizabethan drama put such a spell upon the imagination of English-speaking peoples that until recently the idea was accepted : \u201c Five is dignity , with a trailing robe , whereas one , two , or three acts would be short skirts , and degrading . \u201dToday a dramatist may plan for a play of three , four , or five acts , as seems to him best . Why , if no change of scene be required , is not a play of one long act desirable ? At first sight , there would seem to be a gain in the unbroken movement . The power of sustained attention in audiences is , however , distinctly limited . Any one who has seen a performance of The Trojan Womenby Euripides , or von Hofmannsthal 's Electraneeds no further proof that though each makes a short evening 's entertainment it is exhausting because of uninterrupted movement from start to finish . To plays of one long act most audiences become unresponsive from sheer physical fatigue . Consequently , use has confined one-act plays to subjects that may be treated in fifteen minutes to an hour , with an average length of from twenty to forty-five minutes . Strindberg has stated well the problem which the play in one long act involves : \u201c I have tried , \u201d he wrote in his Introduction to Miss Julia , \u201c to abolish the division into acts . And I have done so because I have come to fear that our decreasing capacity for illusion might be unfavorably affected by intermissions during which the spectator would have time to reflect and to get away from the suggestive influence of the author-hypnotist . My play will probably last an hour and a half , and as it is possible to listen that length of time , or longer , to a lecture , a sermon , or a debate , I have imagined that a theatrical performance could not become fatiguing in the same time . As early as 1872 , in one of my first dramatic experiments , The Outlaw , I tried the same concentrated form , but with scant success . The play was written in five acts , and wholly completed , when I became aware of the restless , scattered effect it produced . Then I burned it , and out of the ashes rose a single , well-built act , covering fifty printed pages , and taking an hour for its performance . Thus the form of the present play is not new , but it seems to be my own , and changing aesthetical conventions may possibly make it timely . \u201c My hope is still for a public educated to a point where it can sit through a whole-evening performance in a single act . But that point cannot be reached without a great deal of experimentation . \u201dThe difficulty with a play of only two acts is similar . If the piece is to fill an evening , each act must last an hour or more . The Winter 's Tale is really a two-act play : Act I is the story of Hermione and"], "true_target": ["It 's one o'clock now , Colonel \u2014 you 'll come on first thing in the morning .", "Mulberry Street ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["He 'll come , that 's certain ; young appetites are sharp , and seldom need twice bidding to such a banquet ;\u2014 well , if I prove frail ,\u2014 as I hope I shall not till I have compassed my design ,\u2014 never woman had such a husband to provoke her , such a lover to allure her , or such a confessor to absolve her . Of what am I afraid , then ? not my conscience that 's safe enough ; my ghostly father has given it a dose of church opium to lull it ; well , for soothing sin , I 'll say that for him , he 's a chaplain for any court in Christendom . Enter Lorenzo and Dominic O father Dominic , what news ? How , a companion with you ! What game have you on hand , that you hunt in couples ?"], "true_target": ["My soul !", "O my love !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["My life !"], "true_target": ["I 'll show you that immediately ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Tiburce , then FrancoisWhat this French use of the word \u201c scene \u201d leads to , when logically carried out so that even servants entering or leaving the stage create a scene , the following from Act IV of George Barnwell , will show :"], "true_target": ["Uncle . George Barnwell at a distance", "Thorowgood and Trueman"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Order the groom to saddle the swiftest horse , and prepare himself to set out with speed !\u2014 An affair of life and death demands his diligence .", "For you , whose behavior on this occasion I have no time to commend as it deserves , I must ingage your farther assistance . Return and observe this Millwood till I come . I have your directions , and will follow you as soon as possible ."], "true_target": ["Thou know'st I have no heir , no child but thee ; the fruits of many years successful industry must all be thine . Now , it would give me pleasure great as my love , to see on whom you would bestow it . I am daily solicited by men of the greatest rank and merit for leave to address you ; but I have hitherto declin 'd it , in hopes that by observation I shou 'd learn which way your inclination tends ; for as I know love to be essential to happiness in the marriage state , I had rather my approbation should confirm your choice than direct it .", "Trueman , you I am sure would not be idle on this occasion .SCENE 8 ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Now , dearest niece , my groundless fears , my painful cares no more shall vex thee . If I have wronged thy noble lover with too hard suspicions , my just concern for thee , I hope , will plead my pardon ."], "true_target": ["But here 's a claim more tender yet \u2014 your Indiana , sir , your long lost daughter ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Have I then at last a father 's sanction on my love ? His bounteous hand to give , and make my heart a present worthy of Bevil 's generosity ?"], "true_target": ["O ! had I spirits left to tell you of his actions ! how strongly filial duty has suppressed his love ; and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations ; the pride , the joy of his alliance , sir , would warm your heart , as he has conquered mine .", "All-gracious Heaven ! Is it possible ? Do I embrace my father ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Is gone , and all is changed , since to these shores", "I grow ashamed of such long idleness .", "I should not need to fly , if it were hatred .", "In doubt that racks my soul with mortal anguish ,", "My mind is settled , dear Theramenes ,", "The soul survivor of an impious race .", "And leave a place I dare no longer see .", "Hides him .", "It is not her vain enmity I fear ;", "Behind , and no unworthy obstacle", "In seeking him I shall but do my duty ,"], "true_target": ["Cease , dear Theramenes , respect the name", "Of Theseus . Youthful errors have been left", "Detains him . Phaedra long has fix 'd a heart", "And what may have befallen one so dear", "That happy time", "And I can stay not more in lovely Troezen .", "Another foe alarms Hippolytus .", "I fly , it must be owned , from Aricia ,", "Six months and more my father has been gone ,", "I know not , nor what corner of the earth", "Inconstant once , nor need she fear a rival .", "The gods sent Phaedra ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Of Pallas shared not in their perfidy ;", "His footsteps ? Who knows if the king , your father ,", "Of Corinth , ask 'd if aught were known of Theseus", "Of Icarus ? Inspired with what new hope ,", "And only waits till the deluded fair \u2014", "Where Acheron is lost among the Shades ,", "Your exile soon as she set eyes on you .", "Besides , what danger can a dying woman ,", "One too who longs for death , bring on your head ?", "Rather than meet the tumult and the pomp", "And of herself , form any plots against you ?", "Where I have seen you oft prefer to stay ,", "And where , prince , will you look for him ?", "Of which she will not speak , weary of life", "What ! You become her persecutor too !", "Offends you . With a step-dame 's spite she schemed", "Wishes the secret of his absence known ?", "Of your distress . It is the queen whose sight"], "true_target": ["These peaceful haunts , so dear to happy childhood ,", "It has at least taken a milder aspect .", "Can Phaedra , sick'ning of a dire disease", "Have I not cross 'd the seas on either side", "Why should you hate such charming innocence ?", "But if her hatred is not wholly vanish 'd ,", "And sail 'd into the sea that saw the fall", "Under what favor 'd skies think you to trace", "Of Athens and the court ? What danger shun you ,", "Perchance , while we are trembling for his life ,", "Visited Elis , doubled Toenarus ,", "The hero calmly plots some fresh intrigue ,", "Already , to content your just alarm ,", "Indeed ! When , prince , did you begin to dread", "May I , then , learn the meaning of your flight ?Another device is an intensely inquisitive stranger just returned from foreign parts who listens with patience not always shared by an auditor to any needed preliminary exposition . The Opportunity ,by James Shirley , shows an ingenious adaptation of the device of the inquisitive stranger newly come to some city . Aurelio , a gentleman of Milan , coming to Urbino with his friend Pisauro , is mistaken for Borgia , who has been banished from Urbino . As one person after another , greeting Aurelio as Borgia , naturally talks to him of his past , his family , and what is to be expected of him now that he is returned , they identify and relate clearly to one another the chief people whom Aurelio is to meet in the play . A hearer would take in almost unconsciously the needed exposition , so amused would he be at the increasing bewilderment of Aurelio . Such ways and means as these three \u2014 the servant , the confidant , the stranger \u2014 Buckingham ridiculed in the late seventeenth century in his Rehearsal :", "Or shall I say what grief ?", "The gentle sister of the cruel sons", "I perceive the cause"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Gentleman-Usher of this sumptuous palace .", "Come ."], "true_target": ["Sir , by your habit , I should guess you to be the", "You hit my function right .", "Then let 's embrace ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["And you mine ."], "true_target": ["And by your gait and fashion , I should almost suspect you rule the healths of both our noble Kings , under the notion of Physician .", "Come ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["But , pray , then , how comes it to pass that they know one another no better ?"], "true_target": ["Pray , sir , who are those so very civil persons ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["No faith ; for it alludes to passion , to consuming , to dying , and all that , which , you know , are the natural effects of an amour .Why is it that the citation from Shakespeare in the left-hand column is less satisfactory than that in the right-hand ?", "Phoo ! that 's for the better carrying on of the plot .Another method , talking back to people off stage , as one enters , in such a way as to bring out necessary facts , erence both used and ridiculed centuries ago . This is his use of the device :", "Does not that , now , surprise you , to fall asleep in the nick ? His spirits exhale with the heat of his passion , and all that , and , swop , he falls asleep , as you see . Now , here she must make a simile ."], "true_target": ["Blazing comet ! Mark that ; egad , very fine .", "Because she 's surprised . That 's a general rule ; you must ever make a simile when you 're surprised ; \u2018 tis the new way of writing .", "Why , sir , the Gentleman-Usher and Physician of the two Kings of Brentford ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Instead of prescribing at the bedside what must be done for the mother , out she plumps and shouts it at them from the street .Lately the telephone , the stenographer , and most recently the dictaphone have seemed to puzzled dramatists the swift road to successful initial exposition . To all these human or unhuman aids some overburdened soul has felt free to say anything the audience might need to hear . Probably this use of the telephone has come to stay , for daily there is proof that nothing is too intimate for it . There are , however , more ambitious workers who , weary of servants , confidants , telephones , stenographers , and dictaphones , want to set forth necessary information so naturally that no one may question whether it might have come out in this way . Also , they want the information to be so interestingly conveyed that an auditor thinks of what is happening rather than merely of the facts . In the first act of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray ,the audience must hear a narrative setting forth Aubrey Tanqueray 's position in society , his first marriage , his relations with his daughter , and the nature of his proposed second marriage . What complicates the task is that the narrative must be told to old friends , so that much of it is to them well known . What device will make the narrative , under the circumstances , plausible ? Here is where a modern dramatist sighs for the serviceable heralds , messengers , and chorus of plays of decades long past or for the freer methods in narrative of the novelist . How easy to tell much of this in your own person , as have Thackeray or Meredith , in comparison with stating it through another so placed that he will be glad to hear again much which he already knows ! The necessity creates with Sir Arthur the device of the little supper party in Aubrey Tanqueray 's chambers in the Albany , to which he has invited four of his oldest friends . The moment chosen for the opening of the play is when the old friends , over the coffee , fall quite naturally into reminiscent vein . What helps to freer exposition is their chance to talk of Cayley Drummle , who , even yet , though bidden , has not appeared . Before the chat is over and Cayley enters , much needed information is in the minds of the audience . Cayley brings news of a terrible mesalliance in a family known to all the supper party . In his efforts to advise and comfort the distracted mother he has been kept from the meeting of old friends . The news leads Aubrey Tanqueray to avow his quixotic scheme for a second marriage . Through the contrasting comments of the friends , even through their reservations , the audience becomes perfectly informed as to the view the world will take of this second marriage . Indeed , as the supper party breaks up , all the audience requires in order to listen intelligently to the succeeding acts , is a chance to see Paula herself . Her impulsive visit to Tanqueray , just after the supper party ends , provides the information needed , for in it her character is sketched in broadly as it will be filled out in detail in the succeeding acts . Evidently device , the ingenious discovery of a plausible reason for exposition necessary in a play , is basal in the best stage narrative . Without it , character is sacrificed to mere necessary exposition ; with it , the spectator , absorbed by incident or characterization , learns unconsciously that without which he cannot intelligently and sympathetically follow the story of the play . In other words , successful discovery of devices for such exposition clearly means that disguising which is essential to the best narrative in drama . The first quality of good expository device is clearness . Secondly , it should be an adequate reason for the exposition it contains : i. e ., it must seem natural that the facts should come out in this way . Thirdly , and of the utmost importance , the device must be something so interesting in itself as to hold the attention of an auditor while necessary facts are insinuated into his mind . Lastly , the device should permit this preliminary exposition to be given swiftly . It is hard to conceal exposition as such if the movement is as slow as in the first two scenes of Act I of The Journey of Papa Perrichon . ACT I The Lyons railway station at Paris . At the back , a turn-stile opening on the waiting-rooms . At the back , right , a ticket window . At the back , left , benches , a cake vender ; at the left , a book stall ."], "true_target": ["For example now , would n't any one who knew you think you were at the bottom of this ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Thanks ... clodhopper !Monsieur , at what time does the through train start for Lyons ?"], "true_target": ["Still this Perrichon does n't come ! Already I 've waited an hour .... Certainly it is today that he is to set out for Switzerland with his wife and daughter .Carriage builders who go to Switzerland ! Carriage builders who have forty thousand pounds a year income ! Carriage builders who keep their carriages ! What times these are ! While I ,\u2014 I am earning two thousand four hundred francs ... a clerk , hard-working , intelligent , always bent over his desk .... Today I asked for leave ... I said it was my day for guard duty .... It is absolutely necessary that I see Perrichon before his departure .... I want to ask him to advance me my quarter 's salary .... Six hundred francs ! He is going to put on his patronizing air ... make himself important ... a carriage builder ! It 's a shame ! Still he does n't come ! One would say that he did it on purpose !Monsieur , at what time does the train start for Lyons ?", "Thanks ....The politeness of these corporations ! If ever you come to my office , you ...! Let 's have a look at the poster ...."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["That does n't concern me ! Look at the poster ."], "true_target": ["Not open yet ! In a quarter of an hour !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Here we are ! Let 's keep together ! We could n't find each other again .... Where is our baggage ?Ah , that 's all right ! Who has the umbrellas ?", "My daughter , I had to sell my business .... A merchant does not retire from business as easily as his little daughter leaves boarding school .... Besides , I was waiting for your education to be ended in order to complete it by revealing to you the splendid spectacle of nature !", "To write on one side the expenses , and on the other the impressions .", "And my panama ? It has been left in the cab !Ah ! No ! I have it in my hand !... Phew , but I 'm hot !", "Certainly ! But first , I am going to count them ... because , when one knows the number ... One , two , three , four , five , six , my wife , seven , my daughter , eight , and for myself , nine . We are nine .", "And the carpet bag ? The cloaks ?", "She is like that every time she does n't take her coffee !", "What do you mean ?"], "true_target": ["It is the departure which is tiresome ... once we are settled !... Stay here , I am going to get the tickets ....There , keep my panama for me ....Three , first class , for Lyons !...", "Hurry !", "It is better to be early ! ... one can look about the station !Well , little daughter , are you satisfied ?... Here we are , about to set out !... A few minutes yet , and then , swift as the arrow of William Tell , we rush toward the Alps !You brought the opera glasses ?", "Our impressions of the trip ! You shall write , and I will dictate .", "Ah ! pardon me ! It is the first time", "There 's no question of my becoming an author ... but it seems to me that a man of the world can have some thoughts and record them in a notebook !", "I have traveled ....", "I am not making phrases .... I 'm improving the child 's mind .Here , my daughter , is a notebook I 've bought for you .", "We are early ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I 'm not criticizing , papa , but it is now two years , at least , since you promised us this trip .", "I , papa ."], "true_target": ["For what purpose ?", "What impressions ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["It is your own fault !... You hurried us , you hustled us !... I do n't like to travel like that !", "There ! When I told you we should have time . You would n't let us breakfast !", "Here they are !", "Of course !"], "true_target": ["Phrase-making in a railway station !", "What ! You are now going to become an author ?", "Are you going on in that strain ?", "That will be fine , indeed !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes , that 's how it is . Both my mother and my grandmother have seen it .", "No , he wo n't come just yet ; for", "Oh , I 'm not so sure whether I 've seen anything myself . I do n't generally believe in such things . But this about the white horse \u2014 I do believe in that . And I shall believe in it till the day of my death . Well , now I 'll go and \u2014In the final draft , Ibsen put the \u201c white horses \u201d into his opening page . The beginning of this draft emphasizes particularly a grim , unexplained tragedy . The most mysterious touch in the new arrangement is given by the \u201c white horses , \u201d here treated referentially , not in definite explanation .", "I 've just seen the rector , ma'am . He 's coming here .", "No , indeed it is n't .", "\u2014 on the other side of the millpond . At first , he was going straight across the foot-bridge ; but then he turned back \u2014"], "true_target": ["I saw him from the kitchen \u2014", "Yes , and then he went all the way round . Ah , it 's strange about such places . A place where a thing like that has happened \u2014 there \u2014. It stays there ; it is n't forgotten so soon .", "The tea is ready as soon as you want it .", "Yes , he went across the millpond .", "I suppose I had better begin to lay the tea-table , ma'am ?", "Yes , yes .", "Yes , it 's true as I 'm alive . Then the white horse comes ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Millamant . How so ?", "Saturday week after the mill shut .", "Brown . We have become more Mrs. Brown .That sounds just like Brown . Do any feel disgrace or you , John . We have become more shame ? and more resigned .", "North discovers the Captain going down street and calls him in . Enters right door with his pipe . Both sit in the rockers before the stove and are deep in reminiscences when Mary enters left door . The Captain is requested to put up his pipe , not to talk quite so loud , and not to stay long because of Mrs. North 's delicacy . When Mary offers to make him some beef-tea , too , so her mother can take hers , he leaves precipitately , very much cowed . While Mary is trying to soothe Mrs. North after the undue excitement , Flora announces Cyrus Price who has come in search of his father \u2014 at Gussie 's tearful instigation . Mary and Cyrus hold an anxious aside , while Mrs. North expresses her pleasure at seeing the Captain again . Curtain falls on Mrs. North trying to pick out some of the old tunes on the piano , and Cyrus and Mary bidding each other a stiff \u201c Good-morning . \u201d", "Millamant . Only with those in verse , Mr. Witwoud , I never pin up my hair with prose . I think I try 'd once , Mincing .", "Brown . But our poor Mrs. Brown .Do they treat you well here John ? Brown . Those that have died are at peace in the next world .Brown . Like Joseph , I have Come , come , dry your tears ; sit gained favor in the sight of the down and tell me about those at prison-keeper . He is a most humane home .It weakens a man . Do you sleep any , John ? me to stand . Now tell me about home . Brown . Like a child ,\u2014 all night in peace .", "Katherine , but we mothers ...", "Millamant . Oh , I have denied myself airs today , I have walk 'd as fast through the crowd \u2014", "Millamant . O , ay , letters \u2014 I had letters \u2014 I am persecuted with letters \u2014 I hate letters \u2014 nobody knows how to write letters , and yet one has \u2018 em one does not know why \u2014 they serve one to pin up one 's hair .", "H. Little good taking heed of that .", "Millamant . Infinitely ; I love to give pain .", "Millamant . Mirabell , did you take exceptions last night ? O ay , and went away \u2014 now I think o n't , I 'm angry \u2014 no , now I think o n't I 'm pleas 'd \u2014 for I believe I gave you some pain .", "Rosmer . Yes , please do . He must soon be in now .", "Fainall . You were dress 'd before I came abroad .", "David 's last birthday at home and ....", "Brown . It 's a sad place . Mrs. Brown . I am glad of We could n't believe the first that . I worried about it . Are reports about you and the boys the days long and lonesome ? being taken prisoners . We could n't believe you had Brown . All hours of the day failed . Then a New York paper glorious thoughts come to me . came . We sat by the fire in the I am kept busy reading and living room . There was Watson 's answering letters from my widow \u2014 friends . I have with me my Bible , here .It is of infinite comfort . I never enjoyed Mrs. Brown . And William life more than since coming to Thompson 's widow , our Ruth , prison . I wish all my poor family and Annie , and Oliver 's widow \u2014 were as composed and as happy .", "H. That 's likely , is n't it ?", "St. Roche . Demailly ?", "Brown . Oh ! You to go Mrs. Brown . Oh ! You to go from me forever . from me forever .", "Brown . His ways are Brown . Some day , all the mysterious and wonderful . people of the earth will say that .There are several faults in the original dialogue , but perhaps the chief is not regarding the principle that clearness dramatically consists , not merely in stating needed facts , but in so stating them that interest is not allowed to lapse . The original dialogue was scrappy , lacking sequence , not so much of thought as of emotion . If it be said that at such a moment talk is often fitful , it must be remembered that our time-limits forbid giving every word said in such a scene . We must present merely its essentials . Only in that way may a play , a condensed presentation of life , hope to give a total effect for a scene equal to that of the original . The re-ordered dialogue of the right-hand column seeks merely to bring together ideas really closely related , and to move , in a way in keeping with the characters , from lesser to stronger emotion . With the disappearance of the scrappy effect , is not the result clearer ? Even now , the dialogue might well be condensed and made emotionally more significant . If we let the dialogue of a play merely state necessary facts , what is the result ? At the worst , something like the left-hand column . Two young women , one the married hostess and the other the friend of her girlhood , are opening their morning mail on the piazza . Serena , the hostess , has known nothing of the engagement of Elise to Teddy . ORIGINAL REVISION", "Brice .", "Millamant . By your leave , Witwoud , that were like enquiring after an old fashion , to ask a husband for his wife .", "Brown . We said almost nothing while Salmon read . We Brown . Those that have died felt in our blindness God had are at peace .But we shall boys . meet together in that other world where they do not shoot and Brown . My dear wife , you hang men for loving justice and must keep up your spirits . desiring freedom for all men . Do n't blame God . He has taken Come , come , dry your tears . away my sword of steel , but He Sit down and tell me about those has given me the sword of the at home .It weakens me smile upon hers . ) That sounds to stand . Now , tell me about home , just like you , John . Oh , it 's for that will give me comfort , been so long since I heard your Mary . No man can get into voice . difficulties too big to be surmounted if he has a firm Brown . Tell me more about foothold at home . the family .", "H. Look here . What are you going to say to Fanny when she comes ?", "Millamant . Dear Mr. Witwoud , truce with your similitudes ; for I am as sick of \u2018 em \u2014", "Brown .Mrs. Brown .Oh , my dear husband , it is a Oh , my dear husband , it is a hard hard fate . fate . It 's been so long since I heard your voice .", "St. Roche .", "Clandon . Yes , most of it , I think .", "Rosmer .Forget . Forget , ah !", "H. Then she was in Blackpool till yesterday , that 's certain .", "Gussie Price : A stout , colorless blond , a weeping , vividly gowned lady , who rules her husband , Cyrus , through her tears . Age , about 30 .", "St. Roche . Well , you had better let him know that he must n't attempt to come to this house again .", "H. And did he send it ?", "I ? why was I so long ?", "Massey . Well , I must say \u2014", "Rosmer . And you too ?", "H. Alan Jeffcote 's seldom short of cash . He spends plenty .", "North begins to look about the room while she takes off her calash and leaves it on the piano , her shawl and puts it on the shelf , her gloves and leaves them on a chair . Mary enters , right , with the chair , during this business and remonstrates with her mother for getting out of the chaise without the aid of the chair . As Mrs. North drops her things Mary picks them up . Mrs. North sees the Price house through the window and mentions , cheerily , that the Captain used to be her beau . Mary is shocked . Tries to have her mother put on one of the little shawls and goes to make her some beef-tea . Hangs her things on the hat-tree in hall beyond left door as she goes out .", "Millamant . O fiction ! Fainall , let us leave these men .Is not the dialogue of Congreve the finer because one feels in Wilde the ringmaster showing off his figures , and with Congreve is not conscious of the author at all ? That is , the wit of the first passage is an assisted wit , edged , underscored , selectively phrased by a skilful author . In the second , everything springs seemingly unassisted from the characters . The range of accomplishment from obvious search for beauty in consciously made similes , through such relatively fine accomplishment as Wilde shows , to such perfect work as that of Congreve , should be carefully studied by the would-be dramatist . John Ford 's wonderful lines Parthenophil is like to something I remember , A great while since , a long , long time ago hold the memory not merely because of the loveliness of their haunting melody , but because they are in character and help to portray the wistful bewilderment of the moment . Why go far afield searching for the phrase that shall give charm , grace , beauty ? Look into the souls of your characters and find them there . Either you have n't seen them or , not being there , they cannot properly appear in your text . Mr. W. B. Yeats tells of rehearsing a young actress who stumbled constantly over the line And then I looked up and saw you coming toward me , I know not whether from the north , the south , the east or the west . She gave it with no sense of its contained rhythm , and always came to a full stop after \u201c toward me , \u201d adding the last words almost unwillingly . When asked why she did this , she said that all which followed seemed to her unnecessary : the important fact was contained in what preceded . It took much rehearsing to make the young woman see that the music of the line is characteristic of the dales people , and so has characterizing value , and that she had totally forgotten the situation of the woman speaking . A peddler has come to the only hut in a lonely valley . The woman welcomes him heartily , not that she may buy , but because after days in which she has seen no one except her \u201c man , \u201d she is greedy for talk . Having bargained as long as she can , very regretfully she sees the man departing , and , other topics being exhausted , she tells him of her pleasure in his coming , spinning out her phrase as long as she possibly can in order to hold him . Out of that set of conditions springs a highly characterizing phrase that also has beauty . If Synge had done no more by his plays than to make us recognize in the speech of the peasant the characterizing power and the beauty for him who has \u201c the eye to see and the ear to hear , \u201d his work would deserve permanent fame . He states his ideas in the preface to The Playboy of the Western World . In writing The Playboy of the Western World , as in my other plays , I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland , or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers . A certain number of the phrases I employ I have heard also from herds and fishermen along the coast from Kerry to Mayo , or from beggar-women and ballad-singers near Dublin ; and I am glad to acknowledge how much I owe to the folk-imagination of these fine people . Any one who has lived in real intimacy with the Irish peasantry will know that the wildest sayings and ideas in this play are tame indeed , compared with the fancies one may hear in any little hillside cabin in Geesala , or Carraroe , or Dingle Bay . All art is a collaboration ; and there is little doubt that in the happy ages of literature , striking and beautiful phrases were as ready to the story-teller 's or the playwright 's hand as the rich cloaks and dresses of his time . It is probable that when the Elizabethan dramatist took his ink-horn and sat down to his work he used many phrases that he had just heard as he sat at dinner , from his mother or his children . In Ireland , those of us who know the people have the same privilege . When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen , some years ago , I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying , that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen . This matter , I think , is of importance for in countries where the imagination of the people , and the language they use , is rich and living , it is possible for a writer to be rich and copious in his words , and at the same time to give the reality , which is the root of all poetry , in a comprehensive and natural form . In the modern literature of towns , however , richness is found only in sonnets , or prose poems , or in one or two elaborate books that are far away from the profound and common interests of life . One has , on one side , Mallarme and Huysmans producing this literature ; and on the other Ibsen and Zola dealing with the reality of life in joyless and pallid words . On the stage one must have reality , and one must have joy ; and that is why the intellectual modern drama has failed , and people have grown sick of the false joy of the musical comedy , that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality . In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple , and such speeches cannot be written by any one who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry . In Ireland , for a few years more , we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent , and tender ; so that those of us who wish to write start with a chance that is not given to writers in places where the springtime of the local life has been forgotten , and the harvest is a memory only , and the straw has been turned into bricks .As Ibsen says , \u201c Style must conform to the degree of ideality which pervades the representation . \u201d You are of opinion that the drama ought to have been written in verse , and that it would have gained by this . Here I must differ from you . The play is , as you must have observed , conceived in the most realistic style ; the illusion I wished to produce was that of reality . I wished to produce the impression on the reader that what he was reading was something that had really happened . If I had employed verse I should have counteracted my own intention and prevented the accomplishment of the task I had set myself . The many ordinary , insignificant characters whom I have intentionally introduced into the play would have become indistinct , and indistinguishable from one another , if I had allowed all of them to speak in one and the same rhythmical measure . We are no longer living in the days of Shakespeare . Speaking generally , the style must conform to the degree of ideality which pervades the representation . My new drama is no tragedy in the ancient acceptation ; what I desired to depict were human beings , and therefore I would not let them talk \u201c the language of the Gods . \u201dThe dramatist who would write dialogue of the highest order should have not only an inborn and highly trained feeling for the emotional significance of the material in hand ; a fine feeling for characterization ; ability to write dialogue which states facts in character ; and the power to bring out whatever charm , grace , irony , wit , or other specially attractive qualities his characters permit ; also he should have , or develop , a strong feeling for the nicest use of language . Dumas fils said , \u201c There should be something of the poet , the artist in words , in every dramatist . \u201d FOOTNOTES :", "Massey . You should n't forget such things \u2014 Sybil , my dear \u2014", "I know you will ,", "Millamant . Yet again ! Mincing , stand between me and his wit .", "H. She 's always gone her own road . Suppose she tells us to mind our own business ?", "Rosmer . But wait ; we can n't tell whether he 'll stay .", "H. Then what do you mean telling me he 's not got a motor car ?", "Millamant . Ay , that 's true \u2014 O but then I had \u2014 Mincing , what had", "Rosmer . Are you sure of that ?", "H .Let 's have a look . When was it posted ?", "Mildmay . No , she has found them , papa , as I have done , thanks to dear John . Ask his pardon , papa , as we have , for the cruel injustice we have done him .", "St. Roche .She has blinded him , I suppose , with some story or other ; or he would hardly have committed the outrage , tonight , of presenting her to me .", "North : Sprightly , pretty , white-haired little lady of about 65 . Always in black silk .", "H. Well , it 's a mystery .", "H. Unless they 've got a motor car , like Nat Jeffcote 's lad .", "Brice .You are very happy tonight , are n't you ?", "H .What do you take me for ?"], "true_target": ["H. Ask her where she 's been . Of course we 'll do that . But suppose she wo n't tell us ?", "Millamant . One no more owes one 's beauty to a lover than one 's wit to an echo ; they can but reflect what we look and say ; vain empty things if we are silent or unseen , and want a being .", "H. Do n't you forget it . And do n't let her forget it either . If you do , I promise you I wo n't .", "H. From Llandudno ?", "H. No use putting them sort of ideas into your head .", "Lindon nervously picks up check-book from the writing-table , looks at it but not in it , and puts it down .... She opens the cigar box on the writing-table behind her and then bangs it shut .... She picks up stamp box and bangs it down . Rises and goes to mantel , looking at the fly-leaves of two books on a table which she passes . Does not the action of this extract from Middleton 's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside help most in depicting the greed and dishonesty of Yellowhammer , as well as the humor and ingenuity of the suitor ?", "Seelig . Our coffee wo n't interfere with your cigars .", "Yes , I am . But you see this is probably", "St. Roche .Great heavens ! the fool !", "Millamant . O the vanity of these men ! Fainall , d'ye hear him ? If they did not commend us , we were not handsome ! now you must know they cou 'd not commend one , if one was not handsome . Beauty the lover 's gift \u2014 Lord , what is a lover , that it can give ? Why , one makes lovers as fast as one pleases , and they live as long as one pleases , and they die as soon as one pleases ; and then if one pleases , one makes more .", "Massey . Walter would like to hear something , would n't you , Walter ?", "Millamant . Long ! Lord , have I not made violent haste ? I have ask 'd every living thing I met for you ; I have enquir 'd after you , as after a new fashion .", "Gussie Price : A stout , colorless blond , a weeping , vividly gowned lady , who rules her husband , Cyrus , through her tears . Age , about 30 .", "St. Roche .Please do n't ! I want no details concerning a person of her world .Goodnight .", "Rosmer . What was it you told me once , Madam Helset ? You said that from time immemorial a strange thing happened here whenever one of the family died .", "Rosmer . No , it is not forgotten .", "Brown . I 'm glad of that . Brown . Poor Martha . I worried about it . Are the days When the time came , it was hard for long and lonesome ? her to leave the farm house and Oliver behind . She kind of felt Brown . All hours of the day she would n't see him any more . glorious thoughts come to me . I am kept busy reading and Mrs. Brown . We said almost answering letters from my nothing while Salmon read . We friends . I have with me my felt in our blindness God had Bible , here .It is of infinite comfort . I never enjoyed Brown . My dear wife , you must life more than since coming to keep up your spirits . Do n't blame prison . I wish all my poor family god . He has taken away my sword of were as composed and as happy . steel , but He has given me the sword of the Spirit .", "H. Happen we 've not . Besides , what 's the good of a railway guide ? You know trains run as they like on Bank Holiday .", "Erlynne .How do Mrs. Erlynne .How do you do , again , Lord Windermere ? you do , again , Lord Windermere ? How charming your sweet wife looks ! Quite a picture ! Lord Windermere .It was terribly rash Lord Windermere .It was terribly rash of you to come ! Mrs. Erlynne .The wisest thing I ever did in my Mrs. Erlynne .The life . How charming your sweet wisest thing I ever did in my life . wife looks ! Quite a picture ! And , And , by the way , you must pay by the way , you must pay me a me a good deal of attention this good deal of attention this evening .evening . Often dialogue which is clear sentence by sentence is , as a whole , somewhat confusing to an audience . Frequently a careful re-ordering of the parts of the speech , or of a group of speeches , will dispose of the trouble . Occasionally a playwright allows his ordering of his ideas to obscure the cue , or important idea . Undoubtedly the important word in what follows is \u201c christenings , \u201d but Chasuble runs on into various other matters before Jack speaks . Consequently a hearer is a little startled when Jack takes up the idea of christenings instead of anything following it .", "Clandon . I think that 's right .", "Well , what is he going to do ?", "H. Yes . If she 's coming from Blackpool .", "Hawthorn . It 's passing over . There 'll be no rain .", "Fainall . I see but one poor empty sculler ; and he tows her woman after him .", "Brice . Not quite so well . In fact , I never saw him so despondent .", "North : Sprightly , pretty , white-haired little lady of about 65 . Always in black silk .", "H. Nor me neither .What usually keeps a writer from passing to well characterized dialogue from dialogue merely clear as to essential facts is that he is so bound to his facts that he sees rather than feels the scene . The chief trouble with the dialogue of the John Brown play was an attempt to keep so close to historical accounts of the particular incident that sympathetic imagination was benumbed . One constantly meets this fault in the earlier Miracle Plays before writers had come to understand that audiences care more for the human being in the situation than for the situation itself , and that only by representing a situation not for itself but as felt by the people involved can it be made fully interesting . At the left is a speech of Mary in The Crucifixion of the York Cycle ; at the right is her speech in the Hegge or so-called Coventry Plays .", "St. Roche . We can n't be associated , however remotely , with such a disgraceful connection .", "H. What ? Why I saw him with my own eyes setting out in it last", "Rosmer . And my husband is not at home .", "Rosmer . Yes , but that is just when these white horses appear .", "H. What would she be doing coming round by Manchester ?", "Brown . Not one , John . Brown . Do any feel disgrace You are , in our eyes , a noble or shame ? martyr . The chains on your legs bind our hearts all the closer Mrs. Brown . Not one , John . to you . You are , in our eyes , a noble martyr . The chains on your legs bind our hearts all the Brown . That gives me comfort , closer to you . Mary . No man can get into difficulties too big to be Brown . Tell me more about the surmounted , if he has a firm family . foothold at home . Mrs. Brown . Owen does n't dare Mrs. Brown . You made a mistake come home yet . only in judging how much you could do . Brown . Do you know where he is ?", "Millamant . O I ask your pardon for that \u2014 one 's cruelty is in one 's power ; and when one parts with one 's cruelty , one parts with one 's power ; and when one has parted with that , I fancy one 's old and ugly .", "Rosmer .Good afternoon ; how glad I am to see you , my dear Rector !In this version the \u201c white horses \u201d appear , definitely explained , after some sixteen pages :", "Brown . Do they treat Brown . How did you first get you well here , John ? the news ?", "Millamant . Ay , poor Mincing tift and tift all the morning .", "H. I 'll light the gas .", "H. That 's nowt to go by . Any one can put the wrong date . What 's the postmark ?\u201c August 5th , summat P. M . \u201d I can n't make out the time .", "St. Roche . It 's extremely unlikely .", "Brice .", "H. What 's the good . We 've looked at it twice already . There 's no train from Blackpool till half-past ten , and it 's only just on nine now .", "Rosmer . Did he ?", "Rosmer . Yes , yes \u2014", "Fainall . But , dear Millamant , why were you so long ?", "Erlynne . Charming ball Mrs. Erlynne . Charming ball it has been ! Quite reminds me it has been ! Quite reminds me of old days . of old days .Dialogue may be both clear and characterizing yet fail because it is difficult to speak . Too many writers , as has been said , do not hear their words but see them . Could any one who heard his words have penned the lines , \u201c She says she 's sure she 'll have a shock if she sees him . \u201d That time \u201c apt alliteration \u201d was so artful that , setting her trap , she caught a dramatist . Here is the amusing comment of a critic on an author 's protest that her lines have been misquoted and made to sound difficult to deliver : In the review of the \u2014\u2014 Theatre 's opening bill there occurred a line purporting to come from Miss Blank 's psychic play , The Turtle . Miss Blank writes , \u201c The line , which was either incorrectly spoken or heard , was not , \u2018 How does one know one is one 's self ? \u2019 but \u2018 How is one to know which is one 's real self when one feels so different with different people ? \u2019 \u201d Naturally the reviewer of a play is as open to mistakes in noting down lines as the actor is in speaking them , particularly if the author is much given to the \u201c one-one-one \u201d style of construction . If , however , Miss Blank prefers her own version of the sentence , she is welcome to it . Of course each writer is perfectly sure that his own ear will keep him from errors of this kind , but even the greatest err . Did Shakespeare write the opening lines of Measure For Measure , he the master of exquisitely musical and perfectly chosen dramatic speech ? Some scholars believe he did . If so , in that second speech of the Duke which wearies the jaws and tempts to every kind of slurring , Jove certainly nodded .", "Clandon . Er \u2014 oh , yes : it 's so hot , I think we might have a jug of claret cup .", "H. What for ?", "Massey . Maggie , it 's Sunday !", "Clandon .Sit down , wo n't you ?", "Clandon .I am delighted to hear it , Mr. Bohun . Your father has been an excellent friend to us since we came here .", "H. You 're not afraid of the lightning ?", "Rosmer . In it comes when the night is far gone . Into the courtyard . Through closed gates . Neighs loudly . Launches out with its hind legs , gallops once round and then out again and away at full speed .", "H. Eh ? You do n't think that , eh ?", "Brown . Owen does n't dare Mrs. Brown . It 's a sad place . come home yet . We could n't believe the first reports about you and the boys Brown . Do you know where he is ? being taken prisoners . We would n't believe you had failed . Mrs. Brown . Hiding among friends in Ohio . Poor boy , he is called all kinds of vile names , just for being with you . Brown . I have been a great deal disappointed in myself for Brown . For the cause we have not keeping to my plan . all suffered much in the past ; we shall have to in the future . Mrs. Brown . You made a mistake We should rejoice at his escape . only in judging how much you could do . Mrs. Brown . I do , John , but O , poor Oliver and Watson ! We Brown . I acted against my better shall never see them again . judgment ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["White horses ? What white horses ?"], "true_target": ["Oh , that old family legend \u2014", "My former self is dead . I look upon it as one looks upon a corpse ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Now I would say , Miss , that it 's the dead that clings to Rosmersholm .", "Do you feel the draught , Miss , where you 're sitting ?", "Now you 're making fun of me , Miss .Why , is n't that Mr. Rosmer on the mill path again \u2014?", "Yes , it 's almost as if they could n't tear themselves away from the folk that are left .", "I suppose I 'd better begin to lay the table , Miss ?", "Dear Lord , yes . No wonder the Pastor thinks twice about setting foot on that bridge . A place where a thing like that has happened \u2014", "Oh yes , Miss , I 'll see to it ."], "true_target": ["Will he venture across the foot-bridge ?", "He goes straight over the foot-bridge , he does , and yet she was his sister , his own flesh and blood . Well , I 'll go and lay the table then , Miss West .", "Oh , I do n't like to talk about it . And , besides , you do n't believe in such things .", "Well , if it were n't for that , there would be no white horse , I suppose .", "Why , is n't that the Pastor over there ?", "Yes , so it is .", "Only think , Miss , he 's beginning to take the path by the mill again ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["What makes you fancy that ?", "Oh , Madam Helseth , you might give us some little extra dish for supper . You know what the Rector likes best .", "Helseth ?", "Rosmersholm .", "The dead ?", "Now what is all this about the white horse , Madam", "Where ?Yes , it 's he .Stand aside , do n't let him see us ."], "true_target": ["That man there ?No , it 's the Rector !", "How glad I am ! You 'll see , he 's coming here .", "They cling to their dead here at", "He went that way the day before yesterday , too .But let us see whether \u2014", "At last ! How glad I am to see you , my dear Rector .How a dramatist opens his play is , then , very important . He is writing supposedly for people who , except on a few historical subjects , know nothing of his material . If so , as soon as possible , he must make them understand :who his people are ;where his people are ;the time of the play ; andwhat in the present and past relations of his characters causes the story . Is it any wonder that Ibsen , when writing The Pillars of Society , said : \u201c In a few days I shall have the first act ready ; and that is always the most difficult act of the play \u201d ?What has just been said as to ordering the details in preliminary exposition is equivalent to saying : Decide where , in this exposition , you will place your emphasis . What a dramatist is trying to do will not be clear throughout his play unless he knows how properly to emphasize his material , for it is above all else emphasis which reveals the meaning of a play . Right emphasis depends basally on knowing what exactly is the desired total effect of the piece ,\u2014 a picture , a thesis , a character study , or a story . Remember that Dumas fils said : \u201c You cannot very well know where you should come out , when you do n't know where you are going . \u201d Often , too , a play is either meant to set people thinking of undesirable social conditions , or to state a distinct thesis . With these two kinds particularly in mind , Mr. Galsworthy has said : \u201c A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning . \u201dWhatever we make prominent by repetition , by elaborate treatment , by the position given it in an act or in the play as a whole , or by striking illustration , we emphasize , for it stays in the memory and shapes the meaning of a play for an auditor . In Othello , why does Shakespeare bring forward Iago at the end of an act as chorus to his own villainy ? In order that the audience may not go astray as to the purposes of Iago and the general meaning of the play . Hence the soliloquies : \u201c Thus do I ever make my fool my purse , \u201d as well as \u201c And what 's he , then , that says I play the villain ? \u201d It might almost be said that good drama consists in right selection of necessary illustrative action and in right emphasis . Even though the general exposition of a play be clear , it is sure , without well-handled emphasis , to leave a confused effect . When a play runs away with its author , its emphasis is always bad . The cause of this trouble usually is that the author drifts or rushes on , as the case may be , lured by an idea which he tries to present dramatically ; or by the development of some character who , for the moment , possesses his imagination ; or by the handling of some scene of large dramatic possibilities . In a recent play meant to illustrate amusingly a series of situations arising from the gossip of a small town , Act I so ended that a reader could not tell whether the school principal , a woman dentist , or the atmosphere of gossip was meant to be of prime importance . Nor was this poor emphasis ever corrected anywhere . Result : a confusing play . A story-play in some respects of great merit failed in its total effect because the author never really knew whether it was a study of the deterioration of a young man 's character or of a mother 's self-sacrificing and redeeming love , a mere story-play , or a drama intended to drive home a central idea which , apparently , always eluded the author . Fine realism of detail , good characterization in places , and genuine if scattered interest could not carry this play to success . In another play , Act I ended with the failure of a well-intentioned friend to take a child from her father for her better bringing-up . Apparently , we were entering upon a study of parental affection . In Act II , however , this interest practically disappeared , and we were asked to give all our attention to the way in which a son-in-law was bringing ruin upon this same parent . In Act III , another cause for anxiety on the part of the parent appeared , the other disappearing . At the end of the play , however , we were expected to understand that the fond parent was in sight of calm weather . Proper emphasis which would have brought out the central idea illustrated by each of the acts was missing . In The Trap , a four-act play developed from a vaudeville sketch , lack of good emphasis went far to spoil an interesting play . In the original sketch , a woman , induced by lies of the villain , comes to the apartment of a man who has at one time been in love with her . She is determined to know whether what the villain has told her is true or not . All is a trap which the villain has set for her . From it the astuteness and quick decision of her former admirer rescue her . In the vaudeville sketch , it was the former lover who was the active person ,\u2014 advising , scheming , and controlling the situation . When this was made over , in Act I the heroine was the central figure ; in Act II the villain took this position away from her ; in Act III the hero , as in the original sketch , had the centre of the stage ; in Act IV there was an attempt to bring the heroine back into prominence , but she divided interest with the hero . As a result of this uncertain emphasis , the play seemed intended for the heroine but taken away from her by the greater human appeal of the hero . Just as the lecturer keeps clear from start to finish the main theme of his discourse and the bearing upon it of the various divisions of the work , the dramatist keeps his main purpose clear and also the relations to it of scenes and acts . This he does by well-handled emphasis . Othello , for instance , must have some proof which the audience will believe conclusive for him of Desdemona 's infidelity . This is the handkerchief which Iago tells Othello that Desdemona gave to Cassio . Notice the iteration with which this handkerchief is impressed upon the attention of the public just before it is used as conclusive proof of Desdemona 's guilt .", "Yes , there is a little draught . Perhaps you had better shut the window .", "That 's what I want to see .No , he 's turning . He 's going by the upper road again .A long way round .", "Do you believe in them ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Farewell , my Desdemona ; I 'll come to thee straight .", "Indeed ! ay , indeed . Discern'st thou aught in that ? Is he not honest ?", "Why of thy thought , Iago ?", "What dost thou think ?", "But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not ,", "Chaos is come again .", "Your napkin is too little ;"], "true_target": ["Honest , ay , honest .", "Let it alone . Come , I 'll go in with you .", "Think , my lord ! By heaven , he echoes me , As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown .\u2014 Thou dost mean something . I heard thee say even now , thou lik'st not that , When Cassio left my wife . What didst not like ? And when I told thee he was of my counsel , Of my whole course of wooing , thou criedst , \u201c Indeed ! \u201d And didst contract and purse thy brow together , As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit . If thou dost love me , Show me thy thought . Even passages in a play which look very unpromising should not be finally judged till a flexible , well-trained voice has done its best to bring out any emotion latent in the words . If they were originally chosen by an author writing in full sympathetic understanding of his figures , they will , properly spoken , reveal unexpected emotional values . Here is a passage from Kyd 's Spanish Tragedy at which many a critic has poked fun . At first sight it undoubtedly seems merely \u201c words , words , words . \u201d", "He did , from first to last . Why dost thou ask ?", "What dost thou say , Iago ?", "I have a pain upon my forehead here .", "O , yes ; and went between us very oft .", "Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Emilia , come .\u2014 Be as your fancies teach you ;", "I am very sorry that you are not well .", "Let me but bind it hard , within this hour"], "true_target": ["Whate'er you be , I am obedient .", "It will be well .", "Faith , that 's with watching ; \u2018 twill away again :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Why , that the Moor first gave to Desdemona ;", "That which so often you did bid me steal .", "When she shall lack it .", "Why , that the Moor first gave to Desdemona ; That which so often you did bid me steal . The next time , the action , as Iago snatches the handkerchief and Emilia tries to get it back , holds it before our attention . Finally , Iago , left alone , tells us his malicious scheme in regard to it . Surely , after all this , the audience has been properly prepared for the scenes in which Iago deceives and enrages Othello by means of this very handkerchief . In the first few minutes of the play , Lady Windermere 's Fan , the attention of the audience is drawn to the fan :", "To have me filch it ?", "Woo 'd me to steal it ; but she so loves the token ,", "For that same handkerchief ?", "Do not you chide ; I have a thing for you .", "And , to the advantage , I , being here took't up .", "I nothing but to please his fantasy .", "Heaven knows , not I ;", "Give't me again . Poor lady , she 'll run mad", "If it be not for some purpose of import ,", "No , faith ; she let it drop by negligence ,"], "true_target": ["Oh , is that all ? What will you give me now", "I am glad I have found this napkin ;", "My wayward husband hath a hundred times", "I am glad I have found this napkin ; This was her first remembrance from the Moor . My wayward husband hath a hundred times Woo 'd me to steal it ; but she so loves the token , For he conjur 'd her she should ever keep it , That she reserves it evermore about her To kiss and talk to . I 'll have the work ta'en out , And give \u2018 t Iago . What he will do with it Heaven knows , not I ; I nothing but to please his fantasy .Echegaray 's The Great Galeoto, though a part of the newer movement in the drama , shows soliloquy .", "What handkerchief !", "Ha !", "What will you do with't , that you have been so earnest", "For he conjur 'd her she should ever keep it ,", "To kiss and talk to . I 'll have the work ta'en out ,", "And give it to Iago . What he will do with it", "Look , here it is .", "What handkerchief ! and emphasis on the ideas already stated :", "That she reserves it evermore about her", "This was her first remembrance from the Moor ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Till I am even 'd with him , wife for wife ;", "Be not acknown o n't ; I have use for it , Go , leave me .I will in Cassio 's lodging lose this napkin , And let him find it . Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ ; this may do something . The Moor already changes with my poison , Dangerous conceits are , in their natures , poisons , Which at the first are scarce found to distaste , But with a little act upon the blood , Burn like the mines of sulphur .Five times the handkerchief is mentioned . The first time the action is such that Othello specially notices the handkerchief . The second time we find another reason why the Moor should specially remember the handkerchief , and learn that Iago wants it for some reason of his own . The third time appears the iteration , that same handkerchief ?", "Hath leap 'd into my seat ; the thought whereof", "Is of a constant , loving , noble nature ,", "Or failing so , yet that I put the Moor", "Hast stolen it from her ?", "Know of your love ?", "For that I do suspect the lusty Moor", "My lord , for aught I know .", "Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb \u2014", "At least into a jealousy so strong", "That judgement cannot cure . Which thing to do ,", "Indeed !", "A good wench ; give it me .", "What handkerchief ?", "Did Michael Cassio , when you woo 'd my lady ,", "To have a foolish wife .", "Knavery 's plain face is never seen till us 'd .", "How now ! what do you here alone ?", "My noble lord ,\u2014", "That she loves him , \u2018 tis apt and of great credit ;", "Honest , my lord ?", "And I dare think he 'll prove to Desdemona"], "true_target": ["The Moor , howbeit that I endure him not ,", "Even to madness . \u2018 Tis here , but yet confus 'd ;", "That Cassio loves her I do well believe't ;", "Think , my lord ?", "I 'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip ,", "No further harm .", "Doth , like a poisonous mineral , gnaw my inwards ;", "A thing for me ? It is a common thing \u2014", "For making him egregiously an ass", "And practising upon his peace and quiet", "If this poor trash of Venice , whom I trash", "A most dear husband . Now , I do love her too ;", "I stand accountant for as great a sin ,", "And nothing can or shall content my soul", "Make the Moor thank me , love me , and reward me ,", "What handkerchief ?", "But for a satisfaction of my thought ;", "For his quick hunting , stand the putting on ,", "For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too \u2014", "But partly led to diet my revenge ,", "Not out of absolute lust , though peradventure", "Why , what is that to you ?", "I did not think he had been acquainted with her ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["No . Lady Jedburgh . What a fascinating woman Mrs. Erlynne Lady Plymdale . Really ? is ! She is coming to lunch Good night , dear . on Thursday , wo n't you come too ?Lady Merton .", "My hands are all wet with these roses . Are n't they lovely ? They came up from Selby this morning .", "Do . Pretty , is n't it ! It 's got my name on it , and everything .I have only just seen it myself . It 's my husband 's birthday present to me . You know today is my birthday ?", "Will you hold my fan for me , Lord Darlington ? Thanks ."], "true_target": ["Lord Darlington , will you give me back my fan , please ? Thanks .... A useful thing , a fan , is n't it ?", "Why does n't at fireplace , L ., crosses he come ? This waiting is horrible . to chair , L. of C ., takes He should be here . Why is he not cloak from chair , puts here , to wake by passionate words cloak on crossing to door some fire within me ? I am cold \u2014 U. L ., stops , decides to cold as a loveless thing . Arthur stay , crosses to R. of D. C. must have read my letter by this Enter Mrs . Erlynne . ) time . If he cared for me , he would have come after me , and have taken me back by force . But he does n't care . He 's entrammeled by this woman \u2014 fascinated by her \u2014 dominated by her . If a woman wants to hold a man , she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him . We make gods of men and they leave us . Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful . How hideous life is ! ... Oh ! it was mad of me to come here , horribly mad . And yet which is the worst , I wonder , to be at the mercy of a man who loves one , or the wife of a man who in one 's own house dishonors one ? What woman knows ? What woman in the whole world ? But will he love me always , this man to whom I am giving my life ? What do I bring him ? Lips that have lost the note of joy , eyes that are blighted by tears , chill hands and icy heart . I bring him nothing . I must go back \u2014 no ; I can n't go back , my letter has put me in their power \u2014 Arthur would not take me back ! That fatal letter ! No ! Lord Darlington leaves England tomorrow . I will go with him \u2014 I have no choice .No , no ! I will go back , let Arthur do with me what he pleases . I can n't wait here . It has been madness my coming . I must go at once . As for Lord Darlington \u2014 Oh ! here he is ! What shall I do ? What can I say to him ? Will he let me go away at all ? I have heard that men are brutal , horrible . ... Oh !Enter Mrs. Erlynne , L .Soliloquy when a character is left alone on the stage is a perfect illustration of the difference between permanent and ephemeral technique . As a device for easy exposition , it has been popular from the beginning of drama till recently . Now , though one may use it in a rough draft , a technique which is likely to become permanent in this respect forces us to go over this draft , cutting soliloquy to mere action and the few exclamations which the character might utter under the circumstances . Soliloquy has no such permanent place in technique as have preliminary exposition , suspense , and climax . Soliloquy , when other people are on the stage and known by the speaker to be listening is also absurd . It is because of this fact that the dramatic or psychologic monologue , the form taken by a very large portion of Browning 's voluminous poetry , breaks down if we attempt to stage it . \u201c Some speaker is made to reveal his character , and , sometimes , by reflection , or directly , the character of some one else \u2014 to set forth some subtle and complex soul-mood , some supreme , all-determining movement or experience of a life , or , it may be , to ratiocinate subtly on some curious question of theology , morals , philosophy , or art . Now it is in strictly preserving the monologue character that obscurity often results . A monologue often begins with a startling abruptness , and the reader must read along some distance before he gathers what the beginning means . Take the monologue of Fra Lippo Lippi for example . The situation is necessarily left more or less unexplained . The poet says nothing in propria persona , and no reply is made to the speaker by the person or persons addressed . Sometimes a look , a gesture or a remark must be supposed on the part of the one addressed , which occasions a responsive remark . Sometimes a speaker imputes a question , and the reader is sometimes obliged to stop and consider whether a question is imputed by the speaker to the one he is addressing , or is a direct question of his own . This is often the case throughout The Ring and the Book . \u201d", "Yes , you gave me this fan today ; it was your birthday present . If that woman crosses my threshold I shall strike her across the face with it . That Lady Windermere owns a fan ; that it bears her name ; that , as a gift chosen by her husband and recently given her , he must recognize it on sight : all these important facts have been planted by neat emphasis when Act I ends . Even in Act II , the fan is kept before the public . Just before Mrs. Erlynne enters , we have :", "How horrible !desk . I might find out by that . I will find out .Lady Windermere . Mrs. Erlynne \u2014 No , it is some hideous mistake . L600 \u2014 Mrs. Erlynne \u2014 L700 \u2014 Mrs .Some silly Erlynne \u2014 L400 . Oh ! it is true ! scandal ! He loves me ! He loves it is true ! me ! But why should I not look ? I am his wife , I have a right to look !I knew it , there is not a word of truth in this stupid story .A second book \u2014 private \u2014 locked !Mrs. Erlynne \u2014 L600 \u2014 Mrs. Erlynne \u2014 L700 \u2014 Mrs. Erlynne \u2014 L400 . Oh ! it is true ! it is true ! How horrible !ACT III ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You have dropped your fan , Lady Windermere .Such careful emphasizing makes sure that Lord Windermere 's instant recognition of the significance of finding the fan in Lord Darlington 's rooms , in the critical scene of the third act , will be immediately shared by any audience .", "No ? Is it really ?"], "true_target": ["Windermere points her threat against Mrs. Erlynne :", "They are quite perfect .And what a wonderful fan ! May I look at it ?", "Just before the close of the first act , it is with this fan that Lady"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Take this for me .Later in the act , when Judge Hoover is telling Clayton that he saw some woman with De Lota as he was entering the apartment , the dialogue runs :", "This room is dedicated to nicotine ."], "true_target": ["Are n't we ?", "Besides , we 're going to take Dr. De Lota to the piano .", "Here 's a libretto of Aida . Find that passage of which you spoke ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Here 's one place .Ah !"], "true_target": ["There were several .", "Just mark that passage \u2014 \u201c My native land , \u201d etc .Now follow that when Aida sings Italian and note how the English stumbles .Two pages later , as Elinor goes out to the automobile , in order that the audience may see the libretto of which we have heard so much pass into the hands of De Lota , we have this :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Do you mind ?"], "true_target": ["Are you ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Get me a cab \u2014 never mind \u2014 I 'll take Seelig 's machine .", "What libretto ?", "Sutton enters from the dining-room", "Aida \u2014 let me see it .", "Not his mother \u2014 no !", "I 'd like to see it . Think I could have some fun with De Lota .", "Where is it ?", "Marked . I did that myself , not an hour ago , and gave it to her .", "You threw it away ?", "Here ."], "true_target": ["What was it ?", "Caution \u2014 naturally .", "You spoke to him ?", "The dog ! Damn him \u2014 damn both of them !", "How do you know it was n't ?", "Here ! Doctor Seelig says to take me to \u2014", "Sutton ! Sutton !", "Called ?", "Had your nerve with you .", "Well ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["My idea too \u2014 fun and word of caution .", "Called to him .", "No \u2014 kept it .", "\u2018 Twas n't \u2014 but that 's why I called De Lota .", "Here it is .Aida .", "The girl dropped something \u2014 I thought it was a fan .", "Overcoat pocket .", "Yes \u2014 I was forty feet away ."], "true_target": ["To Elinor ?", "Hold on , Frank \u2014 there 's some mistake .", "What 's the matter ?", "With whom ?", "A libretto .", "Do n't know \u2014 but grand opera \u2014 I remember that and libretto \u2014", "What is it ? See here \u2014 Who 's with Dick ?", "I do n't know , Sutton . Where 's his mother ?", "I picked it up ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mr. De Lota . Because of the emphasis given the libretto in the first quotation , the audience 's suspicions are roused at the same time as Clayton 's and his emotions are theirs . Yet , even in this last scene , note the care of Mr. Thomas to make all absolutely clear . He does not stop when Hoover says \u201c A libretto , \u201d and \u201c Of grand opera , \u201d but he lets the audience see the same libretto which passed from Elinor to De Lota pass from Hoover to Clayton , the latter identifying it in his cry , \u201c Aida . \u201d That there may be absolutely no doubt in the evidence piling up against Elinor , he has Clayton point to the marked place with the words : \u201c I did that myself . \u201d Emphasis , as in these three instances , may come on some detail \u2014 handkerchief , fan , libretto \u2014 which is to be made important later in the development of the plot . It may come within a scene or act , or at the end of either to emphasize a part or the whole of the scene or act . The soliloquies of Iago referred to on page 183 are of this sort . Emphasis may stress little by little or with one blow what the play means . The significance of the whole play Strife \u2014 the utter uselessness of the conflict chronicled \u2014 is thus emphasized in the last lines of the play :"], "true_target": ["Is Master Dick in danger , sir ?", "Opera , sir ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["A woman dead ; and the two best men both broken !"], "true_target": ["That 's where the fun comes in !The curtain fallsThe Second Mrs. Tanquerayillustrates the play in which emphasis little by little brings out the meaning of the whole piece . Examine even the first act . It is full of the feeling : \u201c It cannot nor it will not come to good . \u201d Tanqueray himself says frankly , \u201c My marriage is not even the conventional sort of marriage likely to satisfy society . \u201d Drummle coming in declares that George Orreyed is \u201c a thing of the past , \u201d because he has married Mabel Hervey . The group of old friends show anxiety , and it is clear that to the mind of Cayley Drummle Tanqueray is but repeating the rash step of Orreyed . The whole act prepares for the finale of the play . Hervieu 's The Trail of the Torch shows the emphasis which strikes one hard blow and leaves to the rest of the play illustration of what has been clearly stressed . About one third of the way through Act I , Maravon explains to Sabine the thesis which the entire play illustrates :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Have n't you noticed that she is beginning to look like a governess ? I suppose it 's because she has been doing a governess \u2019 work for so long that she has ceased to have any personal existence . She no longer cares to possess anything of her own , everything belongs to her daughter , and her husband works his fingers to the bone to pay for Beatrice 's dresses , while Beatrice lords it over both of them in a way that is beginning to be just a trifle odious .", "Oh ! Please do .", "Maravon , what an absurd friend I have there !"], "true_target": ["They absolve it by filial piety which has been the inspiration of many deeds of heroism as you seem to forget .A recent editor of Hauptmann 's Gabriel Schilling 's Flight writes of it : \u201c His analysis is projected creatively in the characters of the two women \u2014 Evelyn Schilling and Hanna Elias . What is it , in these women , that \u2014 different as they are \u2014 menaces the man and the artist Schilling ? It is a passion for possession , for absorption , a hunger of the nerves rather than of the heart . These modern women have abandoned the simple and sane preoccupations of their grandmothers ; the enormous garnered nervous energy that is no longer expended in household tasks and in childbearing strikes itself , beak and clawlike , into man . But man has not changed . His occupations are not gone . He cannot endure the double burden . That is why Gabriel Schilling , rather than be destroyed spiritually by these tyrannies and exactions , seeks a last refuge in the great and cleansing purity of the sea . \u2018 The modern malady of love is nerves . \u2019 \u201dIt is possible that all this may be derived from the play , but the Berlin audience which watched its first night left the theatre bewildered in more than one respect . There were a half-dozen opinions as to what this ugly story of a very weak man was meant to signify . Was it simply the tale of a weak man ? Was it meant to show , as Professor Lewisohn thinks , that creation in an artist not naturally weak at first may be killed if he is pursued by women selfish in their love ? Does the ending , however , show that Hanna is entirely selfish ? Does the play signify that the man who chooses to follow women rather than his art is lost ? Why is there so much emphasis on the awesomeness of Nature on the island ? Have these conditions of Nature anything to do with Schilling 's death ? If so , do they not mitigate the effect upon him of the women ? Lack of well-placed emphasis made Gabriel Schilling 's Flight a failure , interesting as were the questions it raised and masterly as is much of its characterization . Too often young dramatists forget that the beginning and the ending of acts and plays emphasize even when the author does not so intend . As in real life , it is first and final impressions , rather than intermediate , which count most . An able young dramatist complained that though he wished one of his characters to dominate Act I she certainly failed to do this . The trouble was that an attractive old gardener , the character who took the act away from the young woman , opened the play attractively characterized and closed Act I with effective speech and pantomime , when the woman was busy only with unimportant pantomime . The prominence unintentionally given to the old gardener emphasized him at the expense of the young woman . For the value of openings in emphasizing the meaning of the whole play , see Tennyson 's Becket as originally written , and as rearranged by Sir Henry Irving .Tennyson 's Becket begins with Henry and the future Archbishop at chess , talking of matters in state and church . PROLOGUE A Castle in Normandy . Interior of the hall . Roofs of a city seen through windows . Henry and Becket at chess .", "That is not at all my idea of family relations . From my point of view , receiving life entails as great an obligation as giving it . There is a certain sort of link which makes the obligations counter balance . Since Nature has not made it possible for children to bring themselves into the world , of their own accord , I say that it was her intention to impose upon them a debt to those who give them life .", "Ah , my dear"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["They absolve that debt by giving life in turn to their children .", "You have probably never heard of the \u201c Lampadophories , \u201d have you ? Well , on certain solemn occasions the citizens of Athens placed themselves at regular intervals , forming a sort of chain through the city . The first one lighted a torch at an altar , ran to the second and passed to him the light , and he to a third who ran to the fourth and so on , from hand to hand . Each one of the chain ran onward without ever looking back and without any idea except to keep the flame alight and pass it on to the next man . Then , breathlessly stopping , each saw nothing but the progress of the flaming light , as each followed it with his eyes , his then useless anxiety , and superfluous vows . In that Trail of the Torch has been seen a symbol of all the generations of the earth , though it is not I , but my very ancient friend Plato , and the good poet Lucretius , who made the analogy ."], "true_target": ["I 'm afraid I do n't agree with you , Madame . With naively natural beings , like these , I enjoy watching the family wheels function with such simplicity . People of this kind conform to the law which begins by demanding of the mother the flesh of her flesh , often her beauty , her health , and , if need be , her life , for the formation of the child . And then , for the profit of the newer generation , Nature exerts herself to despoil the old . She exacts without stint from the parents in the shape of labors , anxieties , expenses , gifts , and sacrifices , all of their vital forces to equip , arm , and decorate their sons and daughters who are descending into the plain of the future . Take my own case , for instance . There was the question of my son 's position in life . Didier was able to persuade me very quickly that my property would be better placed , for the future , in his hands . To show you that Mme . Gribert and her daughter are merely following out a tradition of the remotest antiquity , if you can endure the pedantry of an old college professor , I will give you an example from the classics .", "Mme . Gribert , you mean ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["How dost thou know I am not wedded to her ?", "The Church should hold her baronies of me ,", "Like other lords amenable to law .", "They but degraded him . I hope they whipt him .", "But we must have a mightier man than he", "The Church in the pell-mell of Stephen 's time", "There .", "I 'll have them written down and made the law .", "My tenants or my household .", "There then !", "Well \u2014 there .", "But that I fear the Queen would have her life .", "Come , come , thou art but deacon , not yet bishop , No , nor archbishop , nor my confessor yet . I would to God thou wert , for I should find An easy father confessor in thee . Irving , transposing , takes us at once into the plotting of the Queen against Becket because of her hatred for Rosamund and Becket 's supposed protection of the King 's mistress . A secondary interest in Tennyson 's presentation becomes by this shifting first interest with Irving . PROLOGUE", "No man without my leave shall excommunicate"], "true_target": ["And yet she plagues me too \u2014 no fault in her \u2014", "I would have hang 'd him .", "So then our good Archbishop Theobald", "Lies dying .", "But by the royal customs of our realm", "That is my secret , Thomas .", "A cleric lately poison 'd his own mother ,", "To set the Pope against me \u2014 I pray your pardon .", "Hath climb 'd the throne and almost clutched the crown ;", "And if I live ,", "Why , there then \u2014 down go bishop and king together . I loathe being beaten ; had I fixt my fancy Upon the game I should have beaten thee , But that was vagabond .", "No man without my leave shall cross the seas", "For his successor .", "And being brought before the courts of the Church ,", "My Rosamund is no Lais , Thomas Becket ;"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["True , and I have an inherited loathing of these black sheep of the Papacy . Archbishop ? I can see farther into man than our hot-headed Henry , and if there ever come feud between Church and Crown , and I do not charm this secret out of our loyal Thomas , I am not Eleanor .", "Us !", "Pride of the plebeian !"], "true_target": ["Thou feel for me !\u2014 paramour \u2014 rival ! No paramour but his own wedded wife ! King Louis had no paramours , and I loved him none the more . Henry had many and I loved him none the less . I would she were but his paramour , for men tire of their fancies ; but I fear this one fancy hath taken root , and borne blossom too , and she , whom the King loves indeed , is a power in the State . Follow me this Rosamund day and night , whithersoever she goes ; track her , if thou can'st , even into the King 's lodging , that I may\u2014 may at least have my cry against him and her ,\u2014 and thou in thy way shouldst be jealous of the King , for thou in thy way didst once , what shall I call it , affect her thine own self .", "If thou light upon her \u2014 free me from her !\u2014 let her eat it like the serpent and be driven out of her paradise ! The story of Nathan Hale might be made into a play with patriotism as its dominant idea , a close character study of Hale himself , or little more than a love story . Notice the way in which with Clyde Fitch the close of the acts steadily emphasizes the love story as the central interest . The first scene is in the school room where Hale is the teacher of Alice Adams .", "Dost thou love this Becket , this son of a London merchant , that thou hast sworn a voluntary allegiance to him ?", "Carry her off among you ; run in upon her and devour her , one and all of you ; make her as hateful to herself and to the King as she is to me ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Blackguard !", "I must .", "The Tory meeting !", "Quick \u2014 we 'll go by the window !And if tomorrow another drum makes me a soldier \u2014?"], "true_target": ["\u201c Love ! \u201d", "And I love you and always will so long as a heart beats in my body .", "Returning with Alice Adams on private business .", "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country !Watch , then , the beginning and the ending of scenes and acts , lest an unconscious and undesired emphasis result . An important means of emphasis is contrast \u2014 in character , situation , and even dialogue . Melodrama has always rested , in large part , for its definite emotional appeals on sharply contrasted characters \u2014 the spotless hero , the double-dyed villain , the adventuress , and the heroine so innocent of the world as to provide unlimited dramatic situations . Recall the impetuous Julia and the gentle Sylvia of The Two Gentlemen of Verona . If it be said that such direct contrasting of dissimilar figures belongs more to the earlier plays of dramatists , this is not true . In The Gay Lord Quex ,contrast of the old and the young roues , Quex and Bastling , helps to make clear and to emphasize the point of the play . The Princess and the Butterflylargely depends upon contrast ,\u2014 among the restless women of Act I , the restless men of Act II , between the Princess and Sir George , between the love of Fay Zuliani for Sir George and that of Edward for the Princess . Contrast in situation was a great reliance with the Elizabethans and , even when very crudely used , remains popular with the American public today . So much pleasure did the Elizabethan derive from contrasted situation that he was willing to have it worked up as a separate sub-plot , at times very slightly connected with the main plot . Take The Changeling of Middleton : the titular part , written for comic value , deals with scenes in a madhouse ; the other intensely tragic plot of De Flores and Beatrice-Joanna is but slightly connected with it . Think of the grave-diggers in Hamlet , just before the burial of Ophelia , and , above all , consider in Macbeth the consummate use of a contrasting scene , in the porter at the gate just after the murder of Duncan . It is a sense of the value of contrasting situation which produces the best dramatic irony . When in Scene 2 , Act I , of Hindle Wakes , we listen to Alan Jeffcote 's father and mother planning for his marriage , the fine dramatic irony comes from the contrast we feel with the facts of his conduct , known to us from the preceding scene , which may make his marriage impossible . Dramatic irony depends on a preceding planting in the minds of the auditors of information which makes what is true contrast sharply with what the characters of the particular scene suppose to be true . Contrast , then , underlies dramatic irony . An audience , feeling the dramatic irony of a scene , is put into a state of suspense as to how and when the blow they anticipate will fall . Evidently , then , emphasis by means of contrast , when it results in dramatic irony , makes for dramatic suspense . Contrast may be used effectively in dialogue . The modern dramatist sometimes overdoes this use . Because he has observed that the greatest suffering of the strongest natures rarely finds expression in rich or varied speech , he tries to discover words which in their feebleness , their inappositeness , or their unexpected commonplaceness , contrast sharply with what a hearer feels is the intensity of the emotion behind them . This has given us in recent drama some dialogue unnatural in its tameness . This kind of contrast , however , when handled with real understanding , is extremely effective . In the parting of Laurie and the heroine in Iris ,the very commonplaceness of the details of which they talk shows that they do not dare to speak of what is really in their minds , and makes the best preparation for the sudden loosing of emotion by Iris in what would be ordinarily a simple request : \u201c Close the jalousies ! \u201d Except in our recent revival of Moralities for the delectation of moral Broadway , we are growing away dramatically from mere contrasting of types of character and from plays in which a serious and a comic plot are but loosely connected . Yet dramatists will always find contrast highly useful in emphasizing points of characterization and important values in the story . Moreover , any trained dramatist knows that when his audience has been somewhat exhausted by laughter or tears , a scene of contrasting emotional value is of the highest importance . By changing the focus of interest , it renews the power of response exhausted in the just preceding scene . As has been pointed out again and again , though it may be true that the drunken porter in Macbeth was funnier for an Elizabethan public than he is today , nevertheless his coming breaks the tension of the terrible murder scene and makes it possible even now to turn to fresh horrors with surer responsiveness . There is no space here to go into any satisfactory analysis of the basal relations between the serious and the comic , but every competent actor knows that frequently , if the full desired comic values are to appear , it is necessary to play a part , or all the parts , with great seriousness , even in a piece meant to be broadly comic for the audience . This is true not merely in some of Shaw 's plays ,\u2014 Man and Superman , You Never Can Tell , etc ., but in many old farces and even in burlesque . In the contrast the audience makes between the seriousness of the characters in what they do and say and the attitude the dramatist creates toward them lie the real comic values . Often it is only on the flint of the serious that one may strike the most brilliant spark of the comic . Emphasis is needed not only to keep clear the development of the story and its thesis , if there be any , but also to determine and maintain the dramatic form in which it is cast \u2014 farce , comedy , melodrama , and tragedy . If an audience is kept long in the dark as to whether the dramatist is thinking of his material seriously or with amusement , or if they feel at the end that the story has been told with no coordinating emphasis to determine whether it is farce or comedy or tragedy , they are confused and likely to hold back part of their proper responsiveness . As has been pointed out , it is more than doubtful whether the scene of the attempted suicide in what is otherwise a genuine comedy of character , The Girl with the Green Eyes ,did not seriously hurt the effectiveness of the play for a great many people . Here , again , beginnings and endings are of the utmost consequence . Notice the extreme care of Maeterlinck , at the outset of Pelleas and Melisandeto create a mood for his play . One is prepared for the tragic and the mysterious by the opening scene of the handmaidens washing the mysterious stain from the palace steps . An auditor has not heard ten speeches of Synge 's Riders to the Seabefore he knows that the dramatist is dealing seriously with grim matters , that , in all probability , the play is a tragedy . Look at Rostand 's The Romancers .It is to be a graceful telling of a jest played upon two sentimental children by two fond fathers . The author must make clear early in the play that what may be tragic enough for the young people is to be fantastic comedy for any hearers . Could anything be better than the opening : these two children , on the wall between their homes , so reading Romeo and Juliet together that it is obvious that they are in love with being in love , nothing more ? There is the perfect emphasis which establishes early the attitude of the dramatist toward his material , in this case making the play poetic comedy . Can any one feel much doubt what form of drama is The Importance of Being Earnest ?The first few pages show that dialogue is to count heavily as such . Evidently the mood is comic . As evidently , there is exaggeration . Thus we move from initial farce to the more broadly farcical mourning for the death of the supposititious Earnest and to the fateful black handbag . If the ending of The Romancers be played as it was in London , with the speakers of the last lines gradually fading from sight in the dimming lights , surely that emphasis must mean to the audience that it has been seeing a fantasy .However , as has been said , danger lurks in these places of easy emphasis , the beginning and the ending , for at times something effective in itself swings the emphasis the wrong way . In Masks and Faces ,two generations have shed tears over the woes of Triplet as meant for \u201c real life , \u201d only to be somewhat rebuffed when , just before the final curtain , all the characters step out of the play for the \u201c Epilogue , \u201d and so stamp it as \u201c only a story after all . \u201d In brief , unless some special purpose is subserved thereby , an audience should not long be left in the dark as to the form in which the dramatist thinks he has cast his play . He who treats his material in many different moods runs the chance of confusing his hearers . Only by sure and well-placed emphasis can he keep his chosen form clear . Particularly is this true in the mixed forms , tragi-comedy and farce-comedy . Only well-placed emphasis will carry an audience through these with just the result desired by the dramatist . How decide what to emphasize ? Tom Taylor , despising the intelligence of audiences of his day , used to say , \u201c When you have something to say to an audience , tell them you are going to say it . Tell them you \u2018 re saying it . Tell them you 've said it . Then , perhaps , they 'll understand it . \u201d Truth probably lies between this and the statement of a dramatist of today , \u201c I am re-writing a play originally composed some ten years ago . Do you know what I am doing ? I am cutting and condensing , because the intervening years have taught me that I may suggest where I thought I must explain in full , and state but once what I thought I must repeat . Audiences are far quicker than ten years ago I supposed them to be . \u201d Till the training of the dramatist gives him a kind of sixth sense which tells him what in his plot needs emphasis for his public , he must depend on the comments of really intelligent hearers to whom he reads the manuscript and , above all , on retouching his play after the first performances . It is not enough , however , by clearness and right emphasis to maintain interest : as the play develops , the interest should if possible be increased . Either to maintain or to increase interest means that a hearer must be led on from scene to scene , act to act , absorbed while the curtain is up and , between the acts , eager for it to rise again . Such attention given a play means that it has a third essential quality , movement . The plays of tyro dramatists today are often sadly lacking in good movement . Good movement rests , first of all , on clearness ; secondly , on right emphasis ; and thirdly , on something already mentioned in connection with both clearness and right emphasis ,\u2014 suspense . This means a straining forward of interest , a compelling desire to know what will happen next . Whether a hearer is totally at a loss to know what will happen , but eager to ascertain ; partly guesses what will take place , but deeply desires to make sure ; or almost holds back so greatly does he dread an anticipated situation , he is in a state of suspense , for be it willingly or unwillingly on his part , on sweeps his interest . There should be good movement within the scene , the act , and even the play as a whole . It is , however , easily checked . If scenes or characters not essential are allowed place within a play , it has been shown on pages 87-89 that this may interfere with either clearness or good emphasis . They will hurt the movement of the play . Closely related as a possible danger are necessary scenes not well placed . Often shifting part of a scene or act makes all the difference between sustained and interrupted suspense . For example , a young man , after some quarrelsome words , threatens to shoot his sister . As they stand facing each other , steps are heard outside . A group which enters brings about an amusing scene . Good as it is , it may kill the suspense created by those two tense figures , if it switches interest wholly or in large part from them . If it does , any effective picking up the scene between the angry brother and sister , when the visitors go out , may be impossible . On the other hand , so write the scene that the audience , never diverted in its attention to those two figures , feels that the moment the visitors leave the quarrel will be resumed with greater intensity just because of the interruption : then there will be no loss of tension . Just here lies the important point : suspense once created must never be allowed to lapse so long as to be lost . A scene for contrast or to renew the power of desired emotional response in the audience or to develop part of a correlated story may be introduced , but always what is put between something which makes the audience strain forward and its goal should leave it as eager , and preferably more eager for the solution . A shift in order may do much to increase suspense . When Ibsen transferred Rosmer 's confession , which is very necessary to the play , from Act II to the end of Act I , he greatly added to the suspense created by the first act . To put it differently , he greatly accelerated the movement of the play . An audience , knowing that Rosmer is \u201c an apostate from the faith of his fathers , \u201d eagerly desires to see what will happen to him in such surroundings as those made clear in Act I . In the earlier version , a reader learns that there are mysteries which the play will probably solve , but has nothing on which to focus his attention as a compelling element of suspense . Any one knows that when an actor fails to come on at the right moment , unless quick-witted actors invent dialogue or action , the stage \u201c waits \u201d for the actor . There is something which exactly corresponds to this in the text of plays . Henry Le Barren comes to call on Madge Ellsworth . The maid , after showing him into the library , goes to find her mistress . \u201c Meanwhile Henry looks idly at the books on the table till Madge enters . \u201d Unless Madge , perfectly sure that Henry would call at this hour , is waiting just outside the door , some action is needed on the stage to cover the time space until she can enter naturally . It is true that looking at the books fills the time for Henry , but it does not sustain for the audience interest already created in him or the story . When nothing is taking place on the stage , something is taking place in the audience which greatly concerns the dramatist : it is slipping away from him because it is losing interest . For contrast , suppose that Henry sits restlessly only a moment , then with a sigh picks up a book , tries to read , falls to dreaming , and holds the book so that we may see he is reading it upside down . He tries another book in vain . He starts three or four times , thinking that the door is about to open . He absent-mindedly examines a piece of bric-a-brac . He starts forward eagerly the moment Madge enters . Now we are interested , because he is either exhibiting emotions the cause of which we understand , emotions which lead us to expect an interesting scene between him and Madge , or his conduct sets us guessing as to what can lie ahead between the two . In the first illustration , the play lacks movement ; in the second , commonplace as it is , the movement does not cease . At times it helps suspense not only to shift the order of details but to separate two elements of suspense , treating them separately in well correlated groups . In Hamlet , Q1 , the soliloquy , \u201c To be , or not to be \u201d precedes the meeting of Ophelia and Hamlet , part of Hamlet 's tricking of Polonius , and the coming of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern . The greater part of the befuddling of Polonius then follows . The players enter and plan with Hamlet the performance of The Mousetrap . Hamlet , left alone , bursts into the soliloquy , \u201c Why what a dunghill idiot slave am I ! \u201d Q2 rearranges thus : Polonius and Hamlet ; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ; Polonius returning to announce the players ; the planning for The Mousetrap ; Hamlet left alone crying , \u201c Oh what a rogue and peasant 's slave am I ! \u201d Here all the details bearing on the play are gathered together . Next come the King and Queen with their plot to try out Hamlet by means of Ophelia . The soliloquy , \u201c To be , or not to be \u201d follows this . Then Hamlet and Ophelia have the scene \u201c To a nunnery go ! \u201d Instead of jumbling two elements of suspense ,\u2014 probable results of the play planned by Hamlet and of the Ophelia-Hamlet interest ,\u2014 each is given added suspense by separate treatment . In Q1 , as we shift from one to the other , each weakens the other or is momentarily blocked by it . Rearranged , the very order of the details in each part makes not only for clearer but stronger suspense .Today a plot made up of two or three but slightly related stories is far less popular than in the days of Queen Elizabeth . Our public demands that such stories shall be so correlated within the play as to be mutually helpful . This desire results not from innate niceness of feeling for unity of design but from dislike of a distribution of interests which interferes with the suspense each story creates . Though it is , of course , possible perfectly to maintain suspense in plays of interwoven plots \u2014 the plays of Shakespeare and many writers since prove this \u2014 it is far more difficult than maintaining suspense in a play of single plot . Quite possibly this is the chief reason for the great popularity today of plays of single plot : they are both easier to follow and easier to write . A related fault which interferes with suspense is the \u201c stage wait \u201d treated on page 209 . As has also been pointed out , there is danger in transitional scenes meant to cover a time space or to shift the interest of an audience . If they accomplish either purpose and do not advance the plot , they really fail . Bulwer-Lytton met this difficulty in writing Money : I think in the first 3 acts you will find little to alter . But in Act 4 \u2014 the 2 scene with Lady B . & Clara \u2014& Joke & the Tradesman do n't help on the Plot much \u2014 they were wanted , however , especially the last to give time for change of dress & smooth the lapse of the theme from money to dinner ; you will see if this part requires any amendment .Also exposition , undoubtedly necessary but delayed too long , may so clog an act as to weaken or kill it . In a play set in what was once a fashionable dining-room , but is now the fitting-room of a dressmaker , the scene is not placed for some time . Finally , a figure entering makes clear the supposed setting , but for this the action on stage has to be broken off . The increasing popularity of a play of three or four acts as compared with five has almost wholly done away with another destroyer of suspense \u2014 the explanatory and adjusting last act . In it , intelligent auditors who knew from the close of the fourth act how the story must end were expected to watch with interest final disposition of the characters . Dramatists of the eighties and nineties turned from this use slowly . For proof examine the last act of The Hypocrites , by H. A. Jones , in other respects a play well away from the older methods of technique . Now , both the older and the younger generation of dramatists expect to carry suspense as near the end of the play as they possibly can . Letting an audience anticipate something of the end of a play is all very well , but when it foresees just what is going to happen and has no farther interest , except to learn whether it happens exactly as anticipated , suspense and even attention cease . In that case an audience begins to gather its belongings for departure . Something held back which cannot surely be anticipated is the very basis of suspense . It follows from what has just been said that there can never be perfect suspense when the plot ends an act or more before the final curtain . It is vain to try to start new interests in order to create fresh suspense . Unless the latter part of a play grows out of the first , at least as much as the Perdita-Florizel story grows out of that of Leontes and Hermione , there can be no good suspense . When it seems necessary to tack on new material because all suspense is ended , do not add : rewrite . It has often been said that surprise \u2014 springing something unexpectedly upon an audience \u2014 is better than suspense . Lessing said of the comparative value of surprise and suspense : For one instance where it is useful to conceal from the spectator an important event until it has taken place there are ten and more where interest demands the very contrary . By means of secrecy a poet effects a short surprise , but in what enduring disquietude could he have maintained us if he had made no secret about it ! Whoever is struck down in a moment , I can only pity for a moment . But how if I expect the blow , how if I see the storm brewing and threatening for some time about my head or his ? For my part none of the personages need know each other if only the spectator knows them all . Nay I would even maintain that the subject which requires such secrecy is a thankless subject , that the plot in which we have to make recourse to it is not as good as that in which we could have done without it . It will never give occasion for anything great . We shall be obliged to occupy ourselves with preparations that are either too dark or too clear , the whole poem becomes a collection of little artistic tricks by means of which we effect nothing more than a short surprise . If on the contrary everything that concerns the personages is known , I see in this knowledge the source of the most violent emotions . Why have certain monologues such a great effect ? Because they acquaint me with the secret intentions of the speaker and this confidence at once fills me with hope or fear . If the condition of the personages is unknown , the spectator cannot interest himself more vividly in the action than the personages . But the interest would be doubled for the spectator if light is thrown on the matter , and he feels that action and speech would be quite otherwise if the personages knew one another . Only then I shall scarcely be able to await what is to become of them when I am able to compare that which they really are with that which they do or would do .Look at the quotation from the First Part of Henry VI on Pp . 97-100 . Talbot whispers to the Captain , and leaves us guessing what he means to do at his meeting with the Countess of Auvergne . In like manner the Countess merely refers to the plot she has laid with her Porter . We never know just what was the plan of the Countess . We get only a momentary sensation , surprise , when Talbot 's soldiers force their way in . Suppose we had been allowed to know the plans of the Countess , and they had seemed very dangerous for Talbot . Then , as she played with him , sure of her position , there would have been more suspense than in Shakespeare 's text , because an audience would have been wondering , not merely \u201c What is the blow Talbot will strike ? \u201d but \u201c Can any blow he will strike overcome the seemingly effective plans of the Countess ? \u201d Suppose we had been allowed to know the plans of both . Then , as we watched the Countess playing her scheme off against the plan of Talbot , of which she would be unaware , might there not easily be even more suspense ? At every turn of their dialogue we should be wondering : \u201c Why does not Talbot strike now ? Can he save the situation , if he delays ? With all this against him , can he save it in any case ? \u201d In the use of surprise , the dramatist depends almost entirely on his situation . Suspense permits him to elaborate his situation by means of the characters in it . In other words , surprise is situation , suspense is characterization . On this matter recent words of William Archer seem final : Curiosityis the accidental relish of a single night ; whereas the essential and abiding pleasure of the theatre lies in foreknowledge . In relation to the characters of the drama , the audience are as gods looking before and after . Sitting in the theatre , we taste , for a moment , the glory of omniscience . With vision unsealed , we watch the gropings of purblind mortals after happiness and smile at their stumblings , their blunders , their futile quests , their misplaced exultations , their groundless panics . To keep a secret from us is to reduce us to their level , and deprive us of our clairvoyant aloofness . There may be a pleasure in that too ; we may join with zest in the game of blind-man'shYpppHeNbuff ; but the theatre is in its essence a place where we are privileged to take off the bandage we wear in daily life , and to contemplate , with laughter or with tears , the blindfold gambols of our neighbors .What is basal in suspense is , of course , that an audience shall feel for some person or persons of the play just the degree of sympathy the dramatist desires . Unless their sympathy is as keen as his , the scene must fall short emotionally . For instance , in a play produced some years ago author and actors expected the audience to sympathize throughout with a mother . At the climax of one of the acts she was left on-stage in an agonized state of mind because her husband , who hates her illegitimate child , has left the stage with threats to kill it . The actress wrote of the first night : \u201c In that scene I might as well have recited the alphabet for all the audience cared for my emotion . Their sympathy made them live , not with me , but with the defenceless child who at any moment might be murdered off-stage by the cruel father . \u201d Suspense for the audience there certainly was , but not of the kind intended . It was necessary to rewrite the scene . Evidently , what happens off-stage may , by its greater interest for the audience , kill the effect of what is passing on-stage . What the dramatist dares not try to represent on-stage because of its mechanical difficulty or horror , he tries to carry off by vivid and even terrifying description . By making the audience see the off-stage action through the eyes of the person most affected , or by portraying vividly his emotions when another describes the action to him , dramatists endeavor to lose none of their desired suspense . The point to remember is that the moment the off-stage action becomes of more importance than the emotions caused by that action for persons on-stage , the real centre of interest has been shifted , the desired suspense is gone , and the scene must be rewritten . Suspense in a play is rightly handled , then , when it is promptly created to the extent desired by the dramatist ; carries on with increasing intensity from act to act ; and reaches its climax at or just before the final curtain . Climax is , therefore , an integral part of suspense . The point of greatest intensity reached in an incident , scene , act , or play is the moment of climax . Climax is not the result of theory but comes from long observation of audiences . A scene or act which breaks off or declines in interest towards its close never delights an audience as does a scene or act which closes with its strongest emotional effect . Look at the ending of The Troublesome Raigne of King John , Part I . Though King John declares himself \u201c the joyfulst man alive , \u201d the audience does not so sympathize with him that his delight is a fitting climax to the play . Rather do they so keenly sympathize with Prince Arthur and even the lords who have been outraged by Arthur 's proposed death that they want to know more of him and them .", "Come .The second act at Colonel Knowlton 's house closes on Hale 's decision to serve his country as a spy :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Then I hate you !", "You will go ?"], "true_target": ["No !This is the close of Act III .", "It will make me a soldier 's sweetheart !", "Fitzroy will be back . I do n't want to see him !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ah , the picket ! They 're caught ! They 're caught !", "Damnation ! Of course he heard !Fire on them ! Fire ! For God 's sake , fire !Act IV has a double ending : the closing of the love story and the execution . The chief interest thus far created for the audience could end with the parting of the lovers .The second ending merely connects the play more closely with history . Colonel Rutger 's Orchard , the next morning . The scene is an orchard whose trees are heavy with red and yellow fruit . The centre tree has a heavy dark branch jutting out , which is the gallows ; from this branch all the leaves and the little branches have been chopped off ; a heavy coil of rope with a noose hangs from it , and against the trunk of the tree leans a ladder . It is the moment before dawn , and slowly at the back through the trees is seen a purple streak , which changes to crimson as the sun creeps up . A dim gray haze next fills the stage , and through this gradually breaks the rising sun . The birds begin to wake , and suddenly there is heard the loud , deep-toned , single toll of a bell , followed by a roll of muffled drums in the distance . Slowly the orchard fills with murmuring , whispering people ; men and women coming up through the trees make a semicircle amongst them , about the gallows tree , but at a good distance . The bell tolls at intervals , and muffled drums are heard between the twittering and happy songs of birds . There is the sound of musketry , of drums beating a funeral march , which gets nearer , and finally a company of British soldiers marches in , led by Fitzroy , Nathan Hale in their midst , walking alone , his hands tied behind his back . As he comes forward the people are absolutely silent , and a girl in the front row of the spectators falls forward in a dead faint . She is quickly carried out by two bystanders . Hale is led to the foot of the tree before the ladder . The soldiers are in double lines on either side .", "Who goes there ?"], "true_target": ["Nathan Hale , have you anything to say ? We are ready to hear your last dying speech and confession !", "Look !", "Third Picket 's Voice .", "Get up ! Get up ! You fool !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Bandie the newes for rumors of vnthruth :", "In health , with eyesight , not a hair amisse .", "That instigates your Highnes to despaire .", "He liues my Lord , the sweetest youth aliue ,"], "true_target": ["This hart tooke vigor from this froward hand ,", "My lord , attend the happie tale I tell ,", "Making it weake to execute your charge .", "If Arthurs death be dismall to be heard ,", "For heauens health send Sathan packing hence"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I 'll have to drink out the tin cup now .Curtain .Note the wholly unexpected turn after the final speech of the Northerner . Yet this surprise merely rounds out the characterization of Mary . This kind of climax by surprise recalls one of the principles in acting which Joseph Jefferson laid down for himself : \u201c Never anticipate a strong effect ; in fact , lead your audience by your manner , so that they shall scarcely suspect the character capable of such emotion ; then when some sudden blow has fallen , the terrible shock prepares the audience for a new and striking phase in the character ; they feel that under these new conditions you would naturally exhibit the passion which till then was not suspected . \u201dBefore the present insistence on reality held sway , it was possible to close a play of pretended truth to life with a tag . Here is the quiet ending of Still Waters Run Deep", "I ai n't a hag . I 'm a woman , but ye 're killin \u2019 me ."], "true_target": ["One more imperious than empires or coalitions \u2014\u2014 one that mothers know \u2014\u2014 and fathers , too . It is the commonest thing in the world , and the one most completely overlooked . Woman 's love and faith and charity are the motives of that great , imperious impulse by which nature is trying to rule this world and perpetuate the human soul . Individual self-control and the governance of the world are themselves in embryo .... Creation is from God and it is divine . It is the thing and the only thing that kills wantonness and makes love pure . The higher modesty is the peculiar inheritance of our race . It is our duty to understand it , respect it , make it sacred , and have it raised out of the darkness of ignorance and mystery in its true dignity as patriotic impulse and made the true basis of society , its government , and its provision for the general welfare . Does this sound like an individual woman or like the author using one of his characters for the sounding phrases of his own thinking ? In the next illustration , from George Barnwell , the colorlessness comes from the lack of quickening sympathy with character which marks most of Lillo 's work .", "Call my coffee poison , will ye ? Call me a hag ? I 'll learn ye ! I 'm a woman , and ye 're drivin \u2019 me crazy .", "Alas ! for my sweet Mary , O my son , my son ! my darling son , I say , dear ! That dolefully to deed thus is What have I defendedthee ? dight , Thou hast spoke to all of those that Alas ! for full lovely thou lay be here , In my womb , this worthely wight And not a word thou speakest to me . Alas ! that I should see this To the Jews thou art full kind , sight Thou hast forgiven all here Of my son so seemly to see , misdeed ; Alas ! that this blossom so And the thief thou hast in mind , bright For once asking mercy heaven is his Untruly is tugged to this tree , meed . Alas ! Ah ! my sovereign lord , why wilt thou My lord , my life , not speak With full great grief , To me that am thy mother in pain for Hanges as a thief , thy wrong ? Alas ! he did never trespass .Ah , heart , heart why wilt thou not break ? That I were out of this sorrow so strong !The writer of the Hegge speech had discovered long before Ralph Waldo Emerson that the secret of good dialogue is \u201c truth carried alive into the heart by passion . \u201d The second requisite , then , of good dialogue is that it must be kindled by feeling , made alive by the emotion of the speaker . For the would-be dramatist the secret is so to know his characters that facts are not mere facts , but conditions moving him because they move the characters he perfectly understands . As he interprets between character and audience , he must be like Planchette or the clairvoyant , the creature of another 's will , whose ideas and emotions rather than his own he tries with all the power that is in him to convey . In brief , then , though it is absolutely necessary that dialogue give the facts as to what happens , who the people are , their relations to one another , etc ., it is better dialogue if , while doing all this , it seems to be busied only with characterization . Unassigned dialogue usually makes a reader or hearer promptly recognize his preference for characterized rather than uncharacterized speech . When a group , as in many stage mobs , speaks in chorus , or at best in sections , the result is unreality for many hearers and absurdity for the more critical . Every hearer knows that people do not really , when part of a mob , say absolutely the same thing , and rarely speak in perfect unison . Common sense cries out for individualization among the possible speakers . When we read the following extract from Andreiev 's Life of Man , we may agree with what is apparently the author 's idea , that it makes no difference which one of the speakers delivers a particular line or sentence ; but the moment the scene is staged everything changes . A profound darkness within which nothing moves . Then there can be dimly perceived the outlines of a large , high room and the grey silhouettes of Old Women in strange garments who resemble a troop of grey , hiding mice . In low voices and with laughter to and fro the Old Women converse . When they sent him to the drug store for some medicine he rode up and down past the store for two hours and could not remember what he wanted . So he came back .What has happened to her ? Perhaps she is already dead . No , in that case we should hear weeping . The doctor would run out and begin to talk nonsense , and they would bring out her husband unconscious , and we should have our hands full . No , she is not dead . Then why are we sitting here ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I 'm ashamed of what I said . The whole country will hear of this , and you ."], "true_target": ["Go get my horse , quick !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["My dear boy , you astonish me ! But , however , there 's an old proverb that says that \u201c All is not gold that glitters . \u201d"], "true_target": ["Oh , certainly , if you desire it . John Mildmay , I ask your pardon \u2014 Jane and Emily say I ought ; though what I have done , or what there is to ask pardon for \u2014", "John Mildmay the master of this house ? Emily , my dear , has your aunt been \u2014 I mean has your aunt lost her wits ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Perhaps you 'll learn in time . But we 're forgetting dinner \u2014 Langford , will you take my wife ?Markham , you 'll take Mrs. Sternhold ?Add to this , \u201c They all go out to dinner , \u201d and you have one of the \u201c quiet endings \u201d dear to the hearts of some recent dramatists . These writers , after an act has swept to a strong emotional height , add some very quiet ending such as going out to dinner or the conventional farewells of the group assembled , as if for some reason either were more artistic than to close on the moment of strong emotion . This is bad . On the other hand , if the quiet ending carries characterization , or irony , to point the scene , act , or play , or really illustrates the meaning , this and not the absence of strong emotion or physical action is what gives both real value and genuine climax . For instance , at the end of Act I of Monsieur Poirier 's Son-in-Law , by Augier , this is the dialogue :"], "true_target": ["Yes , and there is another old proverb and one much more to the purpose that says , \u201c Still waters run deep . \u201d The convention which made that sort of ending desirable has passed . However , today another convention ,\u2014 the quiet ending ,\u2014 might make it possible to end this same play with the speech just preceding the two quoted ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Shall I not help Servant . Shall I not help your lordship to your rest ? your lordship to your rest ?"], "true_target": ["Dinner is served .", "O sir , the queen is dead !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Bring up a bottle of 1811 Pomard \u2014The year of the comet , Monsieur le duc \u2014 fifteen francs a bottle ! The king drinks no better .You must n't drink any \u2014 neither will I !"], "true_target": ["In matters of this sort , you must take your time .Curtain .Here it is not the quietude but the particularly apt , humorous illustration of Poirier 's character which gives climax . In The Amazons , too , what could better illustrate acceptance of the usual by all the group who have been fighting against it than the sedate and utterly commonplace exeunt ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Lord Litterly \u2014 Lady Noeline . Monsieur de Grival \u2014 Lady Wilhelmina . Mr. Minchin \u2014 Lady Thomasin .When quiet speech sums up the whole meaning of a scene or play , it too gives climax . Ann 's words at the end of Man and Superman , \u201c John you are still talking , \u201d make a fine ironic climax . Irony , whether quiet or decidedly dramatic , is a very effective means to climax . At the end of Act II , Herod , in the play of that name by Stephen Phillips , has ordered Mariamne killed . Completely infatuated by her , he has done this only when her enemies have forced him to believe that she is utterly false . Almost instantly his love overwhelms his mistrust . He tries to revoke his word , crying , Yet will I not be bound , I will break free , She shall not die \u2014 she shall not die \u2014 she shall not \u2014 News of the triumph he has longed for interrupts :"], "true_target": ["Lord Tweenwayes \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["And high-walled Joppa , and Anthedon 's shore ,", "Herein is added to thy boundaries", "Here is the scroll , with Caesar 's own hand signed .", "But , though we posted fast , you still outran us .", "O king , great Caesar sent us after you ,"], "true_target": ["Thus then by word of mouth great Caesar greets", "And hear I bear a proof of Caesar 's faith .", "Herod his friend . But he would not confine", "And Gaza unto these , and Straton 's towers .", "That friendship to the easy spoken word ,", "Hippo , Samaria and Gadara ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mariamne , hear you this ? Mariamne , see you ?Hippo , Samaria and Gadara , And high-walled Joppa , and Anthedon 's shore , And Gaza unto these , and Straton 's towers ."], "true_target": ["Mariamne , hear you this ? Mariamne , see you ?Hippo , Samaria and Gadara , And high-walled Joppa , and Anthedon ,And Gaza unto these , and Straton 's towers !The perfect climax lies in the irony of the fact that all Herod most desires as ruler comes to him at just the moment when he has killed the thing that most he loved . At the end of Act III of Chains , by Elizabeth Baker , everybody \u2014 the father-in-law and mother-in-law , Percy , the brother-in-law , and Sybil , a pretty but useless bit of femininity \u2014 has been making Charlie entirely miserable because no one can understand that his expressed desire to try his fortunes in Australia and then send for his wife , Lily , is not a pretext for abandoning her . Percy , with next to nothing a year , is just engaged to Sybil . Foster wants to marry Margaret , Charlie 's sister-in-law , who is dissatisfied with her lot ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Charley is a rotter ! What d'ye think he was telling me the other day ?", "O , let 's drop it , mother . Play something , Maggie ."], "true_target": ["Told me to be sure I got the right girl .", "What do you think I said ? Darling !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["She does n't feel like it ."], "true_target": ["I forgot !", "I do n't want to ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Rubbish ! Come on !"], "true_target": ["Be as pleasant as you can , my girl \u2014 Charley 's enough for one evening .", "Take a bigger sheet .Count your many blessings , count them one by one , Count your blessings , see what God has done . Count your blessings , count them one by one , And it will surprise you what the Lord has done .Is not the irony of this group of unsatisfied or dissatisfied people singing \u201c Count your many blessings , \u201d fully climactic ? Not quietness of speech or action , then , but appropriateness makes any of these approved endings climactic and artistic . There can hardly be any question that the original ending of Still Waters Run Deep is theatrical in the sense that it is climactic only by the dramatic convention of its time . Except when theatricality is intentionally part of the artistic design , it is , of course , undesirable . Rostand , letting the figures in The Romancers comment on their own play as a kind of epilogue , has a really artistic though theatrical climax ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I do n't know ."], "true_target": ["Brute !", "I do n't play ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Very well , mamma , we will do it !Au Revoir !Au revoir !Because the history of the theatre shows that the contained appeal always moves an audience , Sudermann adds one more touch of misery as the mother dwells on her dream of the night before :Frau von Drosse . Thank you , my darling !\u2014 Already , I am quite well again !... God , the boy ! How handsome he looked ! And so brown and so healthy .... You see , I saw him exactly like that last night .... No , that is no illusion ! And I told you how the Emperor led him in among all the generals ! And the Emperor said \u2014And the Emperor said \u2014 Curtain .Though a new twist is given our emotions , is not something lost to the artistry of the play ? If the means to climax be various , the ways in which it may elude a writer are several . If an audience foresees it , much of the value of climax , perhaps all , disappears . Bulwer-Lytton , in writing Money , recognized this : And principally with regard to Act 5 I do n't feel easy . The first idea suggested by you & worked on by me was of course to carry on Evelyn 's trick to the last \u2014& bring in the creditors & c when it is discovered that he is as rich as ever . I so made Act 5 at first . But ... the trick was so palpable to the audience that having been carried thro \u2019", "I love you ."], "true_target": ["Away , then , Hallerpfort ! Au revoir , papa ! Au revoir ! Revoir !Frau von Drosse . Go by the park , boys \u2014 there I have you longer in sight .", "Dear Ag \u2014Farewell , then ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I shall always love you , Fritz !"], "true_target": ["Farewell , Fritz !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["And now princely King . But now my Cosin Hamlet , Sonne Hamlet , and my sonne . What meanes these sad and melancholy moodes ? Ham . A little more than kin , For your intent going to and lesse then kind . Wittenberg , Wee hold it most unmeet and King . How is it that the unconvenient , clowdes still hang on you . Being the Joy and halfe heart Ham . Not so much my Lord , I am of your mother . too much in the sonne . Therefore let mee intreat you stay in Court , Queene . Good Hamlet cast thy All Denmarkes hope our coosin nighted colour off and dearest Soone And let thine eye looke like a friend on Denmarke , Doe not forever with thy vailed lids Seeke for thy noble Father in the dust , Thou know'st \u2018 tis common all that lives must die , Passing through nature to eternitie ."], "true_target": ["This shewes a loving King . Tis sweete and care in you , Sonne Hamlet , commendable in your nature But you must thinke your father Hamlet , lost a father , To give these mourning duties That father dead , lost his , and to your father , so shalbe untill the But you must knowe your Generall ending . Therefore father lost a father , cease laments , That father lost , lost his , and It is a fault gainst heaven , the surviver bound fault gainst the dead , In fillial obligation for some A fault gainst nature , and tearme in reasons To do obsequious sorrowe , but Common course most certaine , to persever None lives on earth , but hee In obstinate condolement , is a is borne to die . course Of impious stubbornes ... etc ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Seemes Maddam , nay it is , I know not seemes , Ham . My lord , \u2018 tis not Tis not alone my incky cloake the sable sute I weare : coold mother No nor the teares that still Nor customary suites of solembe stand in my eyes , blacke Nor the distracted haviour in Nor windie suspiration of forst the visage , breath Nor all together mixt with No , nor the fruitfull river in outward semblance , the eye , Is equall to the sorrow of my Nor the dejected havior of the heart , visage Him have I lost I must of force Together with all formes moodes , forgoe , chapes of griefe These but the ornaments and That can denote me truely , these sutes of woe . indeede seeme , For they are actions that a man might play But I have that within which passes showe These but the trappings and the suites of woe ."], "true_target": ["I shall in all my best Ham . I shall in all my best obay you madam . obay you madam .Inexperienced dramatists too often forget that a character who is simply one of several in a scene may not act as he would alone .", "I Maddam , it is common ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Nay , if the gentle spirit of moving words", "I 'll woo you like a soldier , at arms \u2019 end ,"], "true_target": ["And love you \u2018 gainst the nature of love ,\u2014 force ye .", "Can no way change you to a milder form ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Than men their minds ! \u2018 tis true . O heaven ! were man", "What is Silvia 's face , but I may spy", "Where is that ring , boy ?", "But constant , he were perfect . That one error", "How ! Julia !", "More fresh in Julia 's with a constant eye ?", "I gave this unto Julia .", "I tender't here ; I do as truly suffer", "My shame and guilt confounds me .", "Forgive me , Valentine ; if hearty sorrow"], "true_target": ["Be a sufficient ransom for offence ,", "Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all the sins .", "Valentine !", "Inconstancy falls off ere it begins .", "But how cam'st thou by this ring ? At my depart", "How ? let me see ! Why this is the ring I gave to Julia .", "Look to the boy .", "Bear witness , Heaven , I have my wish for ever .", "As e'er I did commit .", "I 'll force thee yield to my desire ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I like the cucumber ."], "true_target": ["Ruffian , let go that rude uncivil touch ,", "Thou friend of an ill fashion !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Suspects not such a love in me .", "Yes .", "As ever \u2014 to the death .", "Heaven \u2014 this hope \u2014", "Then I am paid ;", "Have ... there 's no language helps here ... singled me ,\u2014", "I cannot choose .", "A treasure speed , a laurel-wreath enhance ?", "Were nothing to you \u2014 but such nothingness ,", "I was proud once : I saw you , and then sank ,", "And , that my love may appear plain and free ,", "But all the world calls rank divides us .", "In generosity its attribute !", "Body and soul ,\u2014 this Valence and his gifts !", "What all will shout one day \u2014 you , vindicate", "She I love", "Yet here , where all hearts speak , shall I be mute ?", "You , solve it for the world 's sake \u2014 you , speak first", "And the great heart combine to press me low \u2014", "What is my own desert ? But should your love", "Who should be trusted now , when one 's right hand", "For trial of the question kept so long :", "All that was mine in Silvia I give thee .", "I have obeyed . Despise , and let me die !", "Oh , lady , for your sake look on me !", "Thou common friend , that 's without faith or love ,", "Not only the brave form , and the bright mind ,", "Why , boy ! why , wag ! how now ! What 's the matter ? Look up ; speak .", "The private wound is deepest . O time most accurst ,", "And no tongue daring trust as much to air :", "And all 's at darkest now . Impossible !", "\u2018 Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst !"], "true_target": ["I have one friend alive ; thou wouldst disprove me .", "For Man \u2014 yet tremble now , who stood firm then .", "By penitence the Eternal 's wrath 's appeas 'd ;", "Who by repentance is not satisfied", "Then \u2014 oh , that wild word \u201c then ! \u201d \u2014 be just to love ,", "One flash of hope burst ; then succeeded night :", "Lady , I offer nothing \u2014 I am yours :", "Judge you \u2014 Is love or vanity the best ?", "I laughed \u2014 for \u2018 twas past tears \u2014 that Cleves should starve", "For such is a friend now ! Treacherous man ,", "Love , since you pleased to love ! All 's cleared \u2014 a stage", "Have mercy ! yours , unto the death ,\u2014", "On all I am , and have , and do \u2014 heart , brain ,", "I must .", "So that each , magnified a thousand times ,", "Thou hast beguil 'd my hopes ! Nought but mine eye", "Our earth and be its angel ! All is said .", "Rise ? Truth , as ever , lady , comes from you !", "But count the world a stranger for thy sake .", "And speak !", "Is nor of heaven nor earth , for these are pleas 'd .", "With all hearts beating loud the infamy ,", "And once again I do receive thee honest .", "Could have persuaded me . Now I dare not say", "I should rise \u2014 I who spoke for Cleves , can speak", "But , for the cause \u2019 sake , look on me and him ,", "The lady is above me and away .", "Take me , Cleves !The formula for the would-be dramatist so far as his people are concerned is this : A play which aims to be real in depicting life must illustrate character by characterization which is in character . FOOTNOTES :", "Oh , lady , you are filling me with fire !", "Would a crown gild it , or a sceptre prop ,", "Is perjured to the bosom ? Proteus ,", "I am sorry I must never trust thee more ,"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Here \u2018 tis ; this is it .", "Such an immodest raiment , if shame live", "And entertain 'd \u2018 em deeply in her heart .", "Madame Silvia , which , out of my neglect , was never done .", "How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root !", "Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths ,", "O Proteus let this habit make thee blush !", "Be thou asham 'd that I have took upon me"], "true_target": ["In a disguise of love .", "And Julia herself did give it me ;", "And Julia herself hath brought it hither .", "And I mine . Similar inconsistencies are in many modern plays . A dramatist has a particularly striking scene which he wishes to make the climax of his play . Into it he forces his figures regardless . Lessing made fun of this fault .", "Women to change their shapes than men their minds .", "It is the lesser blot , modesty finds ,", "O good sir , my master charg 'd me to deliver a ring to", "O , cry you mercy , sir , I have mistook ;"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twere pity two such friends should be long foes ."], "true_target": ["Let me be blest to make this happy close ;", "Come , come , a hand from either ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I do n't understand you . You \u2014 will \u2014 not \u2014 relent ? You cannot forget what I am !", "You ! You !", "Wife ! Ah , God bless you ! God bless you , and forgive me !"], "true_target": ["Fool ! Fool ! Why could n't you have died in Florence ? Why did you drag yourself here all these miles \u2014 to end it here ? I should have known better \u2014 I should have known better .When I 've proved that I could not live away from her , perhaps she 'll pity me . I shall never know it , but perhaps she 'll pity me then .Supposing I am blind ! Supposing there is some chance of my regaining her . Regaining her ! How dull sleeplessness makes me ! How much could I regain of what I 've lost ! Why , she knows me \u2014 nothing can ever undo that \u2014 she knows me . Every day would be a dreary , hideous masquerade ; every night a wakeful , torturing retrospect . If she smiled , I should whisper to myself \u2014 \u201c yes , yes , that 's a very pretty pretence , but \u2014 she knows you ! \u201d The slamming of a door would shout it , the creaking of a stair would murmur it \u201c she knows you ! \u201d And when she thought herself alone , or while she lay in her sleep , I should be always stealthily spying for that dreadful look upon her face , and I should find it again and again as I see it now \u2014 the look which cries out so plainly \u201c Profligate ! you taught one good woman to believe in you , but now she knows you ! \u201d No , no \u2014 no , no !The end \u2014 the end .The hour at which we used to walk together in the garden at Florence \u2014 husband and wife \u2014 lovers .The sky \u2014 the last time \u2014 the sky .Tired \u2014 tired .A line to Murray .A line to Murray \u2014 telling him \u2014 poison \u2014 morphine \u2014 message \u2014The light is going out . I can n't see . Light \u2014 I 'll finish this when I wake \u2014 I 'll rest .I shall sleep tonight . The voice has gone . Leslie \u2014 wife \u2014 reconciled \u2014", "Ah ! stop , stop ! This is the deepest sin of all my life \u2014 blacker than that sin for which I suffer ! No , I 'll not ! I 'll not !God , take my wretched life when You will , but till You lay Your hand upon me , I will live on ! Help me ! Give me strength to live on ! Help me ! Oh , help me !", "Not \u2014 part \u2014 from me ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I have remembered . When we stood together at our prayerless marriage , my heart made promises my lips were not allowed to utter . I will not part from you , Dunstan .", "No . But the burden of the sin you have committed I will bear upon my shoulders , and the little good that is in me shall enter into your heart . We will start life anew , always seeking for the best that we can do , always trying to repair the worst that we have done .Dunstan !Do n't fear me ! I will be your wife , not your judge . Let us from this moment begin the new life you spoke of .", "Dunstan ! Dunstan !"], "true_target": ["Oh , my husband ! THE ENDING AS PRINTED", "Dunstan , I am here .Dunstan , I have returned to you . We are one and we will make atonement for the past together . I will be your Wife , not your Judge \u2014 let us from this moment begin the new life you spoke of . Dunstan !Dunstan ! Dunstan ! No , no ! Look at me ! Ah !Husband ! Husband ! Husband !It is of course true , as M. Brieux maintains in regard to the two endings of his early play , Blanchette ,that sometimes more than one ending may be made plausible . Consequently he changed a tragic close to something more pleasing to his audience . Belief grows , however , that when a play has been begun and developed with a tragic ending in mind , this cannot with entire convincingness be changed to something else unless the play is rewritten from the start . There is inevitableness in the conduct on the stage of the creatures of our brains even as with people of real life . So strongly does Sir Arthur Pinero feel this as the result of his long experience that , though he changed the ending of The Big Drum in 1915 in accordance with public demand , he restored the original version when printing the play . He says in his Preface : The Big Drum is published exactly as it was written , and as it was originally performed . At its first representation , however , the audience was reported to have been saddened by its \u201c unhappy ending . \u201d Pressure was forthwith put upon me to reconcile Philip and Ottoline at the finish , and at the third performance of the play the curtain fell upon the picture , violently and crudely brought about , of Ottoline in Philip 's arms . I made the alteration against my principles and against my conscience , and yet not altogether unwillingly . For we live in depressing times ; and perhaps in such times it is the first duty of a writer for the stage to make concessions to his audience and , above everything , to try to afford them a complete , if brief , distraction from the gloom which awaits them outside the theatre . My excuse for having at the start provided an \u201c unhappy \u201d ending is that I was blind enough not to regard the ultimate break between Philip and Ottoline as really unhappy for either party . On the contrary , I looked upon the separation of these two people as a fortunate occurrence for them both ; and I conceive it as a piece of ironic comedy which might not prove unentertaining that the falling away of Philip from his high resolves was checked by the woman he had once despised and who had at last grown to know and to despise herself . But comedy of this order has a knack of cutting rather deeply , of ceasing , in some minds , to be comedy at all ; and it may be said that this is what has happened in the present instance . Luckily it is equally true that certain matters are less painful , because less actual , in print than upon the stage . The \u201c wicked publisher \u201d therefore , even when bombs are dropping round him , can afford to be more independent than the theatrical manager ; and for this reason I have not hesitated to ask my friend Mr. Heinemann to publish The Big Drum in its original form .What Ibsen thought of the ultimate effect of changing an ending to accord with public sentiment , these words about A Doll 's House show : At the time when A Doll 's House was quite new , I was obliged to give my consent to an alteration of the last scene for Frau Hedwig Niemann-Raabe , who was to play the part of Nora in Berlin . At that time I had no choice . I was entirely unprotected by copyright law in Germany , and could , consequently , prevent nothing . Besides , the play in its original , uncorrupted form was accessible to the German public in a German edition which was already printed and published . With its altered ending it had only a short run . In its unchanged form it is still being played .Dumas fils was even more severe in his strictures : If at the second performance you are ready to modify your central idea , your development or your conclusion to please the public whom the night before you were pretending to teach something fresh , you may be , perhaps , an ingenious worker in the theatre , an adroit impresario , a facile inventor ; you will never be a dramatist . You can make mistakes in details of execution ; you have no right to make a mistake in the logic of your play , its correlations of emotions and acts , and least of all , in their outcome .Characterization , then , should be watched carefully in its fundamentals , all changes , and especially for its logical outcome . Long ago , Diderot summed up the subject thus : One can form an infinitude of plans on the same subject and developed around the same characters . But the characters being once settled , they can have but one manner of speaking . Your figures will have this or that to say according to the situation in which you may have placed them , but being the same human beings in all the situations , they will not , fundamentally , contradict themselves .How may we know whether our motivation is good or not ? First of all , it must be clear . If an audience cannot make out why one of our characters does what he is doing , from that moment the play weakens . It is on this ground that William Archer objected to the Becket of Tennyson : \u201c Some gents , \u201d says the keeper , in Punch , to the unsuccessful sportsman , \u201c goes a-wingin \u2019 and a-worritin \u2019 the poor birds ; but you , sir \u2014 you misses \u2018 em clane and nate ! \u201d With the like delicate tact criticism can only compliment the poet on the \u201c clane and nate \u201d way in which he has missed the historical interest , the psychological problem , of his theme . What was it that converted the Becket of Toulouse into the Becket of Clarendon \u2014 the splendid warrior-diplomatist into the austere prelate ? The cowl , we are told , does not make the monk ; but in Lord Tennyson 's psychology it seems that it does . Of the process of thought , the development of feeling , which leads Becket , on assuming the tonsure , to break with the traditions of his career , with the friend of his heart and with his own worldly interest \u2014 of all this we have no hint . The social and political issues involved are left equally in the vague . Of the two contending forces , the Church and the Crown , which makes for good , and which for evil ? With which ought we to sympathize ? It might be argued that we have no right to ask this question , and that it is precisely a proof of the poet 's art that he holds the balance evenly , and does not write as a partisan . But as a matter of fact this is not so . The poet is not impartial ; he is only indefinite . We are evidently intended to sympathize , and we do sympathize , with Becket , simply because we feel that he is staking his life on a principle ; but what that principle precisely is , and what its bearings on history and civilization , we are left to find out for ourselves . Thus the intellectual opportunity , if I may call it so , is missed \u201c clane and nate . \u201dContrast the third , fourth , and fifth acts of Michael and His Lost Angelwith the first and second . So admirable is the characterization of Acts I and II that a reader understands exactly what Audrie and Michael are doing and why . In the other acts , though what they are doing is clear , why the Audrie and Michael of the first two acts behaved thus is by no means clear and plausible . Indeed , plausibility and clearness go hand in hand as tests of motivation . Accounting for the deeds of any particular character is easy if the conduct rests on motives which any audience will immediately recognize as both widespread and likely to produce the situation . It is just here , however , that national taste and literary convention complicate the work of the dramatist . An American , watching a performance of Simoneby M. Brieux , hardly understood the loud protests which burst from the audience when the heroine , at the end of the play , sternly denounced her father 's conduct . To him , it seemed quite natural that an American girl should assume this right of individual judgment . The French audience felt that a French girl , because of her training , would not , under the circumstances , thus attack her father . M. Brieux admitted himself wrong and changed the ending . It is this fact , that conduct plausible for one nation is not always equally plausible for another , which makes it hard for an American public to understand a goodly number of the masterpieces of recent Continental dramatic literature . What literary convention may do in twisting conduct from the normal , the pseudo-classic French drama of Corneille and Racine , and its foster child , the Heroic Drama of England , illustrate . Dryden himself points out clearly the extent to which momentary convention among the French deflected the characters in their tragedies from the normal : The French poets ... would not , for example , have suffer 'd Cleopatra and Octavia to have met ; or , if they had met , there must only have passed betwixt them some cold civilities , but no eagerness of repartee , for fear of offending against the greatness of their characters , and the modesty of their sex . This objection I foresaw , and at the same time contemn 'd ; for I judg 'd it both natural and probable that Octavia , proud of her new-gain 'd conquest , would search out Cleopatra to triumph over her ; and that Cleopatra , thus attack 'd , was not of a spirit to shun the encounter : and \u2018 tis not unlikely that two exasperated rivals should use such satire as I have put into their mouths ; for , after all , tho \u2019 the one were a Roman , and the other a queen , they were both women . Thus , their Hippolytus is so scrupulous in point of decency that he will rather expose himself to death than accuse his stepmother to his father ; and my critics I am sure will commend him for it : but we of grosser apprehensions are apt to think that this excess of generosity is not practicable , but with fools and madmen . This was good manners with a vengeance ; and the audience is like to be much concern 'd at the misfortunes of this admirable hero ; but take Hippolytus out of his poetic fit , and I suppose he would think it a wiser part to set the saddle on the right horse , and choose rather to live with the reputation of a plain-spoken , honest man , than to die with the infamy of an incestuous villain . In the meantime we may take notice that where the poet ought to have preserv 'd the character as it was deliver 'd to us by antiquity , when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man , of the Amazonian strain , a jolly huntsman , and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love , he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry , sent him to travel from Athens to Paris , taught him to make love , and transformed the Hippolytus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolyte .One of the chief elements in the genius of Shakespeare is his power to transcend momentary conventions , fads , and theories , and to discern in his material , whether history or fiction , eternal principles of conduct . Thus he wrote for all men and for all time . In Love 's Labor 's Lost he wrote for a special audience , appealing to its ideas of style and humor . In Twelfth Night he let his characters have full sway . Which is the more alive today ? Nor is it only the literary conventions of an audience which affect the problem of plausibility set an author . The French public of 1841 which came to the five-act play of Eugene Scribe , Une Chaine ,asked , not a convincing picture of life , but mere entertainment . Therefore they accepted insufficient motivation and artificiality in handling the scenes . Louise , the wife , discovering from words of her husband as she enters the room that her former lover , Emmeric , now prefers Aline to her , sits down and dashes off a signed letter releasing him . Just why is not clear . In order that she may do this writing unobserved of her husband , two characters must , for some time , be so managed as to stand between him and her . In order that the husband may never know she has been in love with Emmeric , the letter must be kept out of his hands , and read only by the guardian of Aline , Clerambeau . All this requires constant artifice . Sidney Grundy made a one-act adaptation of Une Chaine called In Honor Bound .In this , Lady Carlyon , waking from sleep on the divan in her husband 's study , hears , unobserved by Philip and Sir George , the young man 's admission that he no longer cares for her . When her cry reveals her , Sir George , her husband , thinking her unwell , goes to bring her niece , Rose , to her aid . Lady Carlyon learns promptly from Philip that the guardian of the girl he is engaged to demands a letter releasing him from any former entanglement . Lady Carlyon , to cover her chagrin , with seeming willingness writes and signs a letter . Thus the writing takes place when the husband is off stage , and the evident chagrin of Lady Carlyon motivates it better . The relation of the husband to the letter is also handled better than in the original . He , unlike St. Geran , strongly suspects that his wife has cared for the younger man . Lady Carlyon is unaware that Sir George is the guardian in question and that the girl is her niece , Rose . Consequently she lets slip that Philip possesses the desired letter . Sir George demands it as his right , noting her disturbance when she learns that her husband is involved in the situation . When Philip refuses to surrender the letter , Sir George courteously permits him to read it aloud . Just before the signature is reached , he stops Philip , asking him if the letter is signed . When Philip admits that it is , Sir George insists on having the letter , then , without looking at it , burns it at the lamp with words of sympathy for the writer . All this turns the husband in this scene from a mere lay figure into a character , and greatly lessens the artificiality of the original . By means of better characterization a motivation fundamentally more plausible is provided . Why ? Because an English audience of 1880-90 expected much more probability in a play than did a French or English audience of 1841 . Of course , conduct initially unconvincing may be so treated as to become entirely satisfactory . One of the delights in characterization is so preparing for an exhibition of character likely to seem unreal of itself that when it is presented it is accepted either at once or before the scene closes . Any motive which a dramatist can make acceptable to his audience is ultimately just as good as one accepted unquestioningly . Shylock 's demand for the pound of flesh is in itself unplausible enough \u2014 the act of one demented or insane . But Shakespeare 's emphasis on his racial hate lends it possibility . His presentation of the other people in the play as accepting the bond with the minimum of question makes it seem probable . If a would-be dramatist were to rule out as material not to be treated whatever at the outset seems improbable or impossible , think what our drama would lose : such plays as Faust , Midsummer Night 's Dream , The Blue Bird , and even Hamlet . Repeatedly in treating plausibility it has been implied or stated that what is said or done must be \u201c in character . \u201d This suggests another test of good motivation . What happens must be plausible , not only in that it accords with known human experience , but with what has been done by the character in preceding portions of the play . In The Masqueraders , when Sir Brice and David stake Dulcie and her child against the fortune of the latter , and let all turn upon a game of cards , a reader is skeptical , for even if it be admitted that Sir Brice might do this , it does not accord with what we know of David from the earlier scenes of the play .", "No ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Very well .What game ?", "My wife and child ?All right .I value my wife and child very highly .", "You refuse ?", "You 've come to settle your little account , I suppose ?", "Once for all , will you give me a chance of paying back the six thousand pounds that Lady Skene has borrowed from you ? Yes or no ?", "This is the first time I 've played this game . We 'd better arrange conditions .", "No . It 's too much to risk on one throw .", "All right . What do we cut for ?"], "true_target": ["Simple cutting ?", "And I say you shall .", "But I owe you six thousand pounds . I have n't a penny in the world . I 'll cut you for it , double or quits .", "You 'd better begin .", "You seem in a hurry .", "No ?", "Good . I 'm your man . Any game you like , and any stakes .", "It 's too big . I can n't .I like high play , but that 's too high for me .No , by Jove ! I 'll tell you what I 'll do . Three cuts out of five . Damn it all ! I 'm game ! Two out of three . By Jove , two out of three ! Will that do ?", "My wife and child ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["One cut . Begin .", "No .Yes .I do play cards with you . You want my money . Very well . I 'll give you a chance of winning all I have in the world .", "So be it ! Shuffle . Sit down !An almost similar situation in a play set in a remote part of the West , Believe Me , Xantippe , is more convincing . A loutish beast agrees to gamble for a woman he is kidnapping with a young adventurer who sees at the moment no other way to save her from the other man 's clutches . The scene is not at all improbable for either man . In The Princess and the Butterfly , all the preceding acts are but a preparation for what the world will call the unreason , in the last act , of the marriages of Sir George and the Princess Pannonia ,\u2014 of middle age with youth . Their final conduct would seem unplausible were it not entirely in keeping with their characters as carefully developed in the earlier parts of the play . The Rising of the Moon of Lady Gregory shows a final situation for the Police Sergeant which , at the opening of the play , would seem impossible for him . In a few pages , however , the dramatist so develops the character that we are perfectly ready to accept his sacrifice of the \u201c hundred pounds reward \u201d which he so coveted at the outset . Motivation should not , however , be allowed to obtrude itself , but should be subordinated to the emotional purpose of the scene . The modern auditor prefers to gather it almost unconsciously as the action of the play proceeds rather than to have it emphasized for him , as does Iago , at the end of several acts of Othello . Another instance of this frank motivation among the Elizabethans may be found in the soliloquy from The Duchess of Malfi :", "There 's only one condition . We play till I 'm beggared of every farthing I have , or till you 're beggared of them . Sit down !", "He must not look at it that way . We all have our little troubles .Do n't we ? ( They go toward piano . Exit Mrs. Brice , L ., taking Ditto with her . In a short scene at the piano , during which Katherine plays diminuendo , the fact is revealed that her father opposes the match between her and David ; not because he does not like David but for reasons which he has not divulged to his daughter . This cloud passes by quickly , however . ) THE CONSULTATION The persons of the play Marian . Katherine . Dr. Thomas Wells . Dr. Benjamin Crawford . The scene represents a sitting room in Marian 's home . It is very cheaply furnished . There is a door at back centre , and also one at R. At upper left is a curtained window , not practicable . In the centre is a table , on which is a lighted lamp . Near the window is a couch . There are chairs about the room , and a few cheap pictures on the walls . It is evening , and the room is dimly lighted .When the curtain rises , there is no one in the room , but in a moment the door at rear opens , and Katherine enters noiselessly . She is a pleasant looking woman of 30 . She is followed by Dr. Wells , who closes the door behind him very softly . He is a young man , with a Van Dyke beard . The two go to right of table , and Katherine looks at the doctor inquiringly . He speaks with some hesitation .", "I owe you nothing .", "I do n't play cards .", "The shortest .", "Your wife and child . Come \u2014 begin !", "The stakes on my side are some two hundred thousand pounds . The stakes on your side are \u2014 your wife and child .", "I am doing my best to show it !Hang that up and I will show you .", "Look at me . Do n't trifle with me ! I want to have done with you . I want them to have done with you . I want to get them away from you . Quick ! I want to know now \u2014 now \u2014 this very moment \u2014 whether they are yours or mine . Begin ."], "true_target": ["Now , mother and child , look ye ! ( He shows them the architectural plans of the new cottage he is going to build as a wedding present to Katherine . They like them very much . More joy . Ditto , reentering , is also enthusiastic over plans . David next announces that he has been invited to become a member of his employer 's law firm , one of the most successful in the State . More joy , manifested by another round of kisses . But he has not only been asked to join the firm ; the firm has promised him a straight loan , without interest , with which to build his house . Otherwise he would have had to borrow from a building and loan association . Therefore , bids are now being advertised for and work will begin very soon . Great joy . Ditto seizes mother 's hand and Katherine 's and dances a ring around David . As the jollification subsides , David inquires for his uncle , Reene . He must approve the plans , for he was a great architect in his day . His mother informs him that the uncle went for a ride with Doctor Wangren . )", "No .", "I refuse .", "I believe I have n't six months to live . I want to make the most of those six months . If I have more I want to make the most of all the years . Begin !", "I do n't play cards with you .", "Hello everybody !...Merry Christmas , Happy New Yearand a quiet Fourth of July .", "What you please . Begin !", "Let one cut settle it .", "Well , how are all the little details ?", "How is he feeling today ?", "I value them at all I have in the world .Begin !", "I do n't play cards with you ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["About this houre I appointed Bosola", "Julias body , to her owne lodging . O , my conscience !", "To fetch the body : when he hath serv 'd my turne ,", "About my brother is because at midnight", "I would pray now : but the divell takes away my heart"], "true_target": ["For having any confidence in praier .", "The reason why I would not suffer these About my brother is because at midnight I may with better privacy convay Julias body , to her owne lodging . O , my conscience ! I would pray now : but the divell takes away my heart For having any confidence in praier . About this hour I appointed Bosola To fetch the body : when he hath serv 'd my turne , He dies .Good motivation , then , must be clear ; either plausible naturally or made so by the art of the dramatist ; should in each particular instance comport with the preceding actions and speech of the character ; and should not be so stressed as to draw attention away from the emotional significance of the scene . It is by well-motived characterization that drama passes from melodrama to story-play and so to tragedy ; or , from the broadest farce or extravaganza through low comedy to high . As long as we care little what the people in our play are , and greatly for comic or serious happenings , we may string situations together almost at will . The moment that our figures come alive , as has been pointed out , selection in our possible material has begun . Some of the incidents in our melodrama or broad farce will drop out as wholly impossible for these figures which have come to life . Others must be modified if the figures are to take part in them . Give a melodrama sustaining , convincing characterization and it must at least turn into a story-play , something which after a mingling of the serious and the comic does not end tragically . So characterize in a story with a serious ending that the tragic result develops inevitably from the sequence of preceding scenes , and tragedy is born . Watch the way in which Shakespeare lifts the Hubert and Arthur scene of the old play of King John by the infused characterization . In the old play the author presents us with puppets depending for their effect on the contained horror of the scene . Shakespeare creates a winsome , brave young prince , and a very human Hubert . The scene moves us , not , simply from our dread of physical torture , but because of our growing intense sympathy for the lad who is fighting for his life .", "The reason why I would not suffer these", "I may with better privacy convay", "He dies ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I will not chaunt such Arth . And will you ? dolour with my tongue , Yet must I act the outrage with Hub . And I will . my hand . My heart , my head , and all my Arth . Have you the heart ? When powers beside , your head did but ache , To aide the office have at once I knit my handkerchief about your denide . brows , Peruse this Letter , lines ofReade ore my charge , and pardon And I did never ask it you again : when you know . And with my hand at midnight held your head , Hubert , these are to commaund And , like the watchful minutes to thee , as thou tendrest our quiet the hour , in minde , and the estate of our Still and anon cheer 'd up the heavy person , that presently upon the time , receipt of our commaund , thou Saying , What lack you ? and , Where put out the eies of Arthur lies your grief ? Plantaginet . Or , What good love may I perform for you ? Arth . Ah , monstrous damned Many a poor man 's son would have man ! his very breath infects the lain still , elements . And ne'er have spoken a loving word Contagious venyme dwelleth in to you ; his heart ; But you at your sick service had a Effecting meanes to poyson all prince . the world . Nay you may think my love was Unreverent may I be to blame crafty love , the heavens And call it cunning : do , an if you Of great injustice , that the will . miscreant If heaven be pleas 'd that you will Lives to oppresse the innocents use me ill , with wrong . Why , then you must .\u2014 Will you put Ah , Hubert ! makes he thee his out mine eyes ? instrument , These eyes that never did , nor To sound the tromp that causeth never shall hell triumph ? So much as frown on you ? Heaven weepes , the Saints do shed celestiall teares , Hub . I have sworn to do it , They feare thy fall , and cyte And with hot irons must I burn them thee with remorse , out . To knock thy conscience , moving pitie there , Arth . Ah ! none but in this iron Willing to fence thee from the age would do it . range of hell , The iron of itself , though heat Hell , Hubert , trust me all the red-hot , plagues of hell Approaching near these eyes would Hangs on performance of this drink my tears , damned deede . And quench this fiery indignation , This seale , the warrant of the Even in the matter of mine bodies blisse , innocence : Ensureth Satan chieftaine of Nay , after that , consume away in thy soule : rust , Subscribe not Hubert , give not But for containing fire to harm Gods part away , mine eye . I speake not only for eyes Are you more stubborn hard than priviledge , hammered iron ? The chiefe exterior that I would An if an angel should have come enjoy : to me , But for they perill , farre And told me Hubert should put out beyond my paine , mine eyes , Thy sweetes soules losse , more I would not have believ 'd him ; no than my eyes vaine lack : tongue but Hubert 's . A cause internall , and eternall too , Hub . Come forth .Advise thee Hubert , for the case is hard , Re-enter Attendants , with Cord , To loose salvation for a Kings Irons , & c. reward . Do as I bid you do . Hub . My Lord , a subject dwelling in the land Arth . Oh ! save me , Hubert , save Is tyed to execute the Kings me ! my eyes are out , commaund . Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men . Arth . Yet God commaunds whose power reacheth further , Hub . Give me the iron , I say , and That no commaund should stand in bind him here . force to murther . Arth . Alas ! what need you be so boisterous-rough ? I will not struggle ; I will stand stone-still . For heaven 's sake , Hubert , let me not be bound . Nay , hear me Hubert : drive these men away , And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; Hub . But that same Essence hath I will not stir nor wince , nor ordained a law , speak a word , A death for guilt , to keepe the Nor look upon the iron angerly . world in awe . Thrust but these men away , and I 'll forgive you , Arth . I pleade , not guiltie , Whatever torment you do put me to . treasonlesse and free . Hub . Go , stand within : let me Hub . But that appeale , my alone with him . Lord , concernes not me . 1 . Attend . I am best pleas 'd to Arth . Why thou art he that be from such a deed . maist omit the perill .Hub . I , if my Soveraigne would remit his quarrell . Arth . Alas ! I then have chid away my friend : Arth . His quarrell is He hath a stern look , but a gentle unhallowed false and wrong . heart .\u2014 Let him come back that his Hub . Then be the blame to whom compassion may it doth belong . Give life to yours ."], "true_target": ["Good morrow , little prince ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Why thats to thee if Hub . Come , boy , prepare yourself . thou as they proceede , Conclude their judgement with so Arth . Is there no remedy ? vile a deede . Hub . None but to lose your eyes . Hub . Why then no execution can be lawfull , Arth . O heaven !\u2014 that there were If Judges doomes must be reputed but a mote in yours , doubtfull . A grain , a dust , a gnat , a wandering hair , Arth . Yes where in forme of Any annoyance in that precious Lawe in place and time , sense ! The offended is convicted of the Then , feeling what small things are crime . boisterous there , Your vile intent must needs seem Hub . My Lord , my Lord , this horrible . long expostulation , Heapes up more griefe , than Hub . Is this your promise ? go to ; promise of redresse ; hold your tongue . For this I know , and so resolude I end , Arth . Hubert , the utterance of a That subjects lives on Kings brace of tongues commaunds depend . Must needs want pleading for a pair I must not reason why he is your of eyes : foe , Let me not hold my tongue ; let me But doo his charge since he not , Hubert : commaunds it so . Or Hubert , if you will , cut out my tongue . Arth . Then doo thy charge , and So I may keep mine eyes . O ! spare charged be thy soule mine eyes ; With wrongfull persecution don Though to no use , but still to look this day . on you . You rowling eyes , whose Lo ! by my troth , the instrument is superficies yet cold , I doo behold with eyes that And would not harm me . Nature lent : Send foorth the terror of your Hub . I can heat it , boy . Moovers frowne , To wreake my wrong upon the Arth . No , in good sooth ; the fire murtherers is dead with grief , That rob me of your faire Being create for comfort , to be reflecting view : us 'd Let hell to themyourself ; Be darke and direfull guerdon There is no malice in this burning for their guylt , coal ; And let the black tormentors of The breath of heaven hath blown his deepe Tartary spirit out , Upbraide them with this damned And strew 'd repentant ashes on his enterprise , head . Inflicting change of tortures on their soules . Hub . But with my breath I can Delay not Hubert , my orisons are revive it , boy . ended , Begin I pray thee , reave me of Arth . And if you do , you will but my sight : make it blush , But to performe a tragedie And glow with shame of your indeede , proceedings , Hubert : Conclude the period with a Nay , it , perchance , will sparkle in mortal stab . your eyes ; Constance farewell , tormenter And like a dog that is compell 'd to come away , fight , Make my dispatch the Tyrants Snatch at his master that doth tarre feasting day . him on . All things that you should use to do Hub . I faint , I feare , my me wrong , conscience bids desist : Deny their office : only you do lack Faint did I say ? fear was it That mercy , which fierce fire , and that I named : iron , extends , My King commaunds , that warrant Creatures of note for mercy-lacking sets me free : uses . But God forbids , and he commandeth Kings , Hub . Well , see to live ; I will not That great Commaunder touch thine eyes counterchecks my charge , For all the treasures that thine He stayes my hand , he maketh uncle owes : soft my heart . Yet I am sworn , and I did purpose , Goe cursed tooles , your office boy , is exempt , With this same very iron to burn Cheere thee young Lord , thou them out . shalt not loose an eye , Though I should purchase it with Arth . O ! now you look like Hubert ; losse of life . all this while Ile to the King and say his will You were disguised . is done , And of the langor tell him thou Hubert . Peace ! no more . Adieu . art dead , Your uncle must not know but you Goe in with me , for Hubert was are dead : not borne I 'll fill these dogged spies with To blinde those lampes that false reports ; nature pollisht so . And pretty child , sleep doubtless , and secure , Arth . Hubert , if ever Arthur That Hubert for the wealth of all be in state , the world Looke for amends of this Will not offend thee . received gift , I tooke my eyesight by thy Arth . O heaven !\u2014 curtesie , I thank you , Hubert . Thou lentst them me , I will not be ingrate . Hub . Silence ! no more . Go closely But now procrastination may in with me ; offend Much danger do I undergo for thee . The issue that thy kindnessundertakes : Depart we Hubert , to prevent the worst .For further illustration of Shakespeare 's clear understanding that the emotions of well-characterized figures are better means of controlling an audience than a merely horrific situation , study his handling of the ghost scene in Richard III or Julius Caesar in contrast with similar places in Hamlet . What most transmuted the Ur-Hamlet of Thomas Kyd into one of the greatest tragedies of all time was the characterization Shakespeare put into it . Certainly , characterization makes for dramatists the stepping-stones on which they may rise from dead selves to higher things . How may all this needed characterization best be done ? A dramatist should not permit himself to describe his characters , for in his own personality he has no proper place in the text . There the characters must speak and act for themselves . There has been , however , an increasing tendency lately to describe the dramatis personae of the play in programs , either in the list of characters or in a summary of the plot . Some writers apparently assume that every auditor reads his program carefully before the curtain goes up . Such an assumption is false : more than that it is lazy , incompetent , and thoroughly vicious , putting a play on the level with the motion pictures , which cannot depend wholly on themselves but would often be wholly vague without explanatory words thrown upon the canvas . Nor can the practice of the older dramatists like Wycherley and Shadwell , who often prefixed to their printed plays elaborate summaries describing the dramatis personae , be cited as a final defense . Sir William Belfond , a Gentleman of above 3 , 000 per annum , who in his youth had been a spark of the town , but married and retired into the country , where he turned to the other extreme , rigid and morose , most sordidly covetous , clownish , obstinate , positive , and froward . Sir Edward Belfond , his Brother , a merchant , who by lucky hits had gotten a great estate , lives single , with ease and pleasure , reasonably and virtuously . A man of great humanity and gentleness and compassion towards mankind ; well read in good books possessed with all gentleman-like qualities . Belfond , Senior , eldest son to Sir William ; bred after his father 's rustic , swinish manner , with great rigour and severity ; upon whom his father 's estate is entailed ; the confidence of which makes him break out into open rebellion to his father , and become lewd , abominably vicious , stubborn , and obstinate . Belfond , Junior , second Son to Sir William ; adopted by Sir Edward , and bred from his childhood by him , with all tenderness , and familiarity , and bounty , and liberty that can be , instructed in all the liberal sciences , and in all gentlemanlike education . Somewhat given to women , and now and then to good fellowship , but an ingenious , well-accomplished gentleman : a man of honour , and of excellent disposition and temper . Truman , his friend , a man of honour and fortune . Cheatly , a rascal , who by reason of debts dares not stir out of Whitefriars , but there inveigles young heirs in tail , and helps them to goods and money upon great disadvantages ; is bound for them , and shares with them , till he undoes them . A lewd , impudent , debauched fellow , very expert in the cant about town . Shamwell , cousin to the Belfonds , an heir , who being ruined by Cheatly , is made a decoy-duck for others ; not daring to stir out of Alsatia , where he lives . Is bound with Cheatly for heirs , and lives upon them a dissolute , debauched life . Captain Hackum , a blockheaded bully of Alsatia ; a cowardly , impudent , blustering fellow ; formerly a sergeant in Flanders , run from his colours , retreated into Whitefriars for a very small debt , where , by the Alsatians , he is dubbed a captain ; marries one that lets lodgings , sells cherry brandy , and is a bawd . Scrapeall , a hypocritical , repeating , praying , psalm-singing , precise fellow , pretending to great piety , a godly knave , who joins with Cheatly , and supplies young heirs with goods and money . Attorney to Sir William Belfond , who solicits his business and receives all his packets . Lolpoop , a North-country fellow , servant to Belfond , Senior , much displeased at his master 's proceedings .It is more than doubtful if anything so elaborate could be found in the manuscripts of Wycherley and Shadwell . Their purpose was doubtless the same as that of certain modern dramatists who , with a view to making plays less difficult for those unaccustomed to reading them , greatly amplify the stage directions before their plays go to print . Mr. Granville Barker in the manuscripts of his plays is particularly frugal of stage directions , but in the printed form of The Madras House ,practically the whole history of Julia is given in the opening stage direction : Julia started life \u2014 that is to say , left school \u2014 as a genius . The head mistress had had two or three years of such dull girls that really she could not resist this excitement . Watercolour sketches were the medium . So Julia was dressed in brown velveteen , and sent to an art school , where they would n't let her do watercolour drawing at all . And in two years she learnt enough about the trade of an artist not ever to want to do those watercolour drawings again . Julia is now over thirty , and very unhappy . Three of her watercolourshang on the drawing-room wall . They shame her , but her mother wo n't have them taken down . On a holiday she 'll be off now and then for a solid day 's sketching ; and as she tears up the vain attempt to put on paper the things she has learnt to see , she sometimes cries . It was Julia , Emma , and Jane who , some years ago , conspired to present their mother with that intensely conspicuous cosy corner . A cosy corner is apparently a device for making a corner just what the very nature of a corner should forbid it to be . They beggared themselves ; but one wishes that Mr. Huxtable were more lavish with his dress allowances , then they might at least have afforded something not quite so hideous . Such characterizing is an implied censure on the ability of most readers to see the full significance of deft touches in the dialogue . If not , then it is necessary because some part of it is not given in the text as it should be , or it is wholly unnecessary and undesirable , for the text , repeating all this detail , will be wearisome to an intelligent reader . The safest principle is , in preparing a manuscript for acting , to keep stage directions to matters of setting , lighting , essential movements , and the intonations which cannot , by the utmost efforts of the author , be conveyed by dialogue .In this last group belong certain every-day phrases susceptible of so many shadings that the actor needs guidance . In the last line of this extract from the opening of Act III of Mrs. Dane 's Defence , the \u201c tenderly \u201d is necessary ."], "true_target": ["Alas , thou wrongst my Hub . Young boy , I must . youth with words of feare , Tis hell , tis horror , not for one to heare : What is it man if needes be don , Act it , and end it , that the paine were gon ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You 're busy ?"], "true_target": ["That 's not necessary . I like you well enough as you are ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes , trying to persuade myself I am forty \u2014 solely on your account ."], "true_target": ["Give me the best proof of that . Notice that the statement just formulated as to stage directions reads , \u201c cannot be conveyed , \u201d not \u201c may not . \u201d Cross the line , and differences between the novel and the play are blurred , for the author runs a fair chance of omitting exposition needed in the text and of writing colorless dialogue . A recently published play prefaces not only every speech , but even parts of the speeches with careful statements as to how they should be given , even when the text is perfectly clear . Nothing is left to the imagination , and the text is often emotionally colorless . Let it be remembered , then , that the stage direction is not a pocket into which a dramatist may stuff whatever explanation , description , or analysis a novelist might allow himself , but is more a last resort to which he turns when he cannot make his text convey all that is necessary . The passing of the soliloquy and the asidemakes the dramatist of today much more limited than were his predecessors in letting a character describe itself . Today everything depends on the naturalness of the self-exposition . The vainglorious , the self-centered , the garrulous will always talk of themselves freely . The reserved , the timid , and persons under suspicion will be sparing of words . When the ingenuity of the dramatist cannot make self-exposition plausible , the scene promptly becomes unreal . The point to be remembered is , as George Meredith once said , that \u201c The verdict is with the observer . \u201d Not what seems plausible to the author but what , as he tries it on auditors , proves acceptable , may stand . Description of one character by another is usually more plausible than the method just treated . Even here , however , the test remains plausibility . It requires persuasive acting to make the following description of Tartuffe perfectly natural . There is danger that it will appear more the detailed picture the dramatist wishes to place in our minds than the description the speaker would naturally give his listeners :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["With deep-drawn sighs and great ejaculations .", "So much so , that the other day I heard him", "He calls himself a sinner just for trifles ;", "Before my eyes , and give it to the poor .", "And drew the eyes of all the congregation ,", "He lets me know who ogles her , and seems", "And gave him gifts ; but in his modesty", "And when I left the church , he ran before me", "The scene in which Melantius draws from his friend Amintor ( The Maid 's", "He always wanted to return a part .", "By questioning his servant , who is like him ,", "I am not worthy of your pity . \u201d Then ,", "He even takes great interest in my wife ;", "I learned his poverty , and who he was ,", "You would have loved him just as much as I ."], "true_target": ["Kneeled , on both knees , right opposite my place ,", "When I refused to take it back , he 'd go ,", "He came to church each day , with contrite mien ,", "In too much anger caught and killed a flea .", "At length Heaven bade me take him to my home ,", "You 'd not believe how far his zeal can go :", "Ah ! If you 'd seen him , as I saw him first ,", "The merest nothing is enough to shock him ;", "\u201c It is too much , \u201d he 'd say , \u201c too much by half ;", "He humbly kissed the earth at every moment ;", "Six times as jealous as I am myself .", "Accuse himself for having , while at prayer ,", "And since that day , all seems to prosper here .", "He censures nothing , and for my sake", "To give me holy water at the door .", "To watch the fervor of his prayers to heaven ;"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Causes to cozen the whole world withall ,", "Or told my friend a lie , ere soothed him so .", "And there plant friendship ; all is withered here .", "Come with a complement ! I would have fought ,", "You may shape , Amintor ,", "And you yourselfe too ; but tis not like a friend", "Call thrice aloud , and then start , faining joy"], "true_target": ["So coldly !\u2014 World , what doe I here ? a friend", "As you were blasted midst of all your mirth ;", "To be thus idle : I have seene you stand", "My secret sinnes ! Ile search an unknowne land ,", "To hide your soule from me . Tis not your nature", "Is nothing ! Heaven , I would ha told that man", "Out of my bosome !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["See ; how you plaid with friendship ! be advis 'd", "Worse and worse ! farewell . From this time have acquaintance , but no friend .", "Thou seest my love , that will keepe company", "Hath turn 'd my friend thus !", "With thee in teares ; hide nothing , then , from me ;", "You ha lost a friend .", "What is it ?", "Doe not weepe ."], "true_target": ["Punish me strangely , Heaven , if he escape Of life or fame , that brought this youth to this .The cry with which Electra turns to her peasant husband in the play of Euripides is perhaps as fine an instance as there is of natural description by one person of her relations to another .", "For when I know the cause of thy distemper ,", "Unto thy quiet , till I place thy heart", "But what ?", "What ist ? May I once but know the man", "As peaceable as spotless innocence .", "My resolution , and cut through my foes ,", "With mine old armour Ile adorn myselfe ,", "How you give cause unto yourselfe to say"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["For I am so oregone with injuries", "Of what I ought to doe .\u2014 Oh !\u2014 Oh !", "I had spoke at first ,", "I held it most unfit", "Forgive what I ha done ;"], "true_target": ["Unheard of , that I lose consideration", "For you to know . Faith , doe not know it yet .", "Why , tis this \u2014 it is too bigge", "To get out \u2014 let my teares make way awhile .", "Melantius , stay ; you shall know what that is .", "But that \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["If so it please thee , go thy way .Unquestionably , however , the best method of characterization is by action . In the first draft of Ibsen 's A Doll 's House , Krogstad uses with his employer Helmar , because he is an old school fellow , the familiar \u201c tu . \u201d This under the circumstance illustrates his tactlessness better than any amount of description . When Helmar is irritated by this familiarity , his petty vanity is perfectly illustrated . Any one who recalls the last scene of Louis XI as played by the late Sir Henry Irving remembers vividly the restless , greedily moving fingers of the praying King . They told far more than words . The way in which Mrs. Lindon , throughout the opening scene of Clyde Fitch 's The Truth ,touches any small article she finds in her way perfectly indicates her fluttering nervousness .", "Thy nurture was ! Have I not chid thee oft ,", "With toil to lighten my toil ? And so soft", "And thou wilt cease not , serving without end ?"], "true_target": ["Two Wives . / Sultan 's . \\ final draft .", "Dancers , Soldiers , Courtiers , Women , the People .", "\\ Trial scene at / Cut out in", "What wouldst thou now , my sad one , ever fraught"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Thou hast enough with fields and kine to keep ;", "My strength out in thy toiling fellowship ?", "Somewhere one healing touch , as my sick mind", "O friend , my friend , as God might be my friend ,", "To find home waiting , full of happy things .", "Finds thee .... And should I wait thy word , to endure"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis joy to him that toils , when toil is o'er ,", "Thou only hast not trampled on my tears .", "Be silent and dance . Come hither all of you ! Join with me all ! I bear the burden of joy , And I dance before you here . One thing alone Remains for all who are as happy as we ; To be silent and dance .", "A little for thine easing , yea , or pour", "\u2018 Tis mine to make all bright within the door .", "Life scarce can be so hard , \u2018 mid many fears", "And many shames , when mortal heart can find"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["We cannot be too wary in our children .\u2014", "But that she 's taken with some other love ,"], "true_target": ["The girl is wondrous peevish . I fear nothing", "Then all 's quite dashed : that must be narrowly looked to ;", "What is't you lack ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["jun .Thy doom take hold of thee !", "jun . Yes , faith , I will .", "jun . That fits her to a hair , sir .", "jun . Mass , that 's true : posy ? i'faith , e'en thus , sir : \u201c Love that 's wise Blinds parents \u2019 eyes . \u201d", "jun . What , sir ?", "jun . Shall I make bold With your finger , gentlewoman ?", "jun . Ay , and I 'll bide all loss , sir ."], "true_target": ["jun . Yes , sure , I think I have her measure about me : Good faith , \u2018 tis down , I cannot show it to you ; I must pull too many things out to be certain . Let me see \u2014 long and slender , and neatly jointed ; Just such another gentlewoman \u2014 that 's your daughter , sir ?", "jun . So is the mistress .", "jun . I protest . I ne'er saw two maids handed more alike ; I 'll ne'er seek farther , if you 'll give me leave , sir .", "jun . Of some half ounce , stand fair And comely with the spark of a diamond ; Sir , \u2018 twere pity to lose the least grace .", "jun . O , nothing now ; all that I wish is present : I 'd have a wedding-ring made for a gentlewoman With all speed that may be .", "jun . Pardon you ? ay , sir .", "jun . Being so , \u2018 tis soon .\u2014 Thanks , and your leave , sweet gentlewoman ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Tomorrow noon", "Say you so , sir ? Let us see .\u2014 Hither , girl .", "Will you , i \u2019 faith ?", "Of what weight , sir ?", "I wonder things can be so warily carried ,", "If you dare venture by her finger , sir .", "Pray , let 's see it .", "Indeed , sir \u2018 tis a pure one .", "And therefore , sir , no gentlewoman ."], "true_target": ["Do you turn aside ? you gentlemen are mad wags !", "That have two eyes and were so dull a \u2019 sight .", "You 'll steal away some man 's daughter : am I near you ?", "And parents blinded so : but they 're served right ,", "Have you the wideness of her finger , sir ?", "What 's your posy , now , sir ?", "How , how ? if I may speak without offence , sir , I hold my life \u2014", "Go to ,\u2014 you 'll pardon me ?", "Shall show your ring well done ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Your pleasure , sir ."], "true_target": ["Sir , you 're welcome .\u2014O were I made of wishes , I went with thee !Could any description or analysis by the author or another character paint as perfectly as does the action of the following lines the wistful grief of the child pining for his mother ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["In coloures of your garments : my sweete mother", "Yes , unckle , I was taught to imitate you"], "true_target": ["In vertue , and you must imitate mee", "Is \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I think I heare them , stand ho , who is there ?", "Thou didst love her .", "Barnardo .", "Give you good night . O farewell honest souldier , who Mar . O , farewell honest souldiers , hath relieved you ? who hath relieved you ?", "O , all of my poore sister that remaines ! Take him away , for Gods sake !In brief , then , understand your characters thoroughly , but do not , in your own personality , describe them anywhere . Let them describe themselves , or let other people on the stage describe or analyze them , when this is naturally convincing or may be made plausible by your skill . Trust , however , above all , to letting your characters live before your audience the emotions which interest you , thus making them convey their characters by the best means of communication between actor and audience \u2014 namely , action . In the chapterdealing with clearness in exposition the extreme importance of identifying the characters for the audience has been carefully treated .Closely connected with this identifying is the matter of entrances and exits . The characterizing value of exits and entrances is usually little understood by the inexperienced dramatist . Yet in real life , men and women cannot enter or leave a room without characterization . Watch the people in a railroad car as it nears the terminus . The people who rise and stand in the aisles are clearly of different natures from those who remain quietly seated till the train reaches its destination . The twenty or thirty standing wait differently and leave the car with different degrees of haste , nervousness or anticipation . Those who remain seated differ also . Some are absorbed in conversation , oblivious of the approaching station ; others , somewhat ostentatiously , watch the waiters in the aisles with amused contempt . Study , therefore , exits and entrances . Very few will be found negative in the sense that they add nothing to the knowledge of the characters . How did Claude enter in the following extract from a recent play ? Claude , it should be said , has been mentioned just in passing , as a suitor of Marna . Other matters , however , have been occupying attention ."], "true_target": ["No , cose ; they sleepe .", "How ? where ?", "Dead !", "Is dead .", "For this relief much thanks ,And I am sick at heart .", "When God shall please ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Lord , Lord , that I were dead ! I have not slept these sixe nights . When doe they wake ?", "Do not blame me now ,", "And it would seeme by that shee deerely lov 'd mee", "Is there ; no , yonder ; indeed , sir , Ile not tell you ,", "What do the deade do , uncle ? do they eate ,", "Ile tell you how they have used her now shees dead :", "I have often heard her say she gave mee sucke ,", "When all the pillow , where she laid her head ,", "For I shall make you weepe ."], "true_target": ["Good God let her sleepe ever !", "As wee that live ?", "I did not tell you so .", "Was brine-wet with her teares . I am to complaine to you , sir .", "Heare musicke , goe a hunting , and bee merrie ,", "They wrapt her in a cruell fould of lead ,", "Since princes seldome doe it .", "For I have knowne her wake an hundredth nights ,", "And would not let me kisse her ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Like enough : prithee , let 's have him up ."], "true_target": ["Excellent ! he was a fine youth last night ; but now he is much finer ! what is his Christian name ? I have forgot . Re-enter Page", "Do you know him ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u2018 Heart , he 's come to invite me to dinner , I hold my life .", "Ay , and he will know you too , if e'er he saw you but once , though you should meet him at church in the midst of prayers . He is one of the braveries , though he be none of the wits . He will salute a judge upon the bench , and a bishop in the pulpit , a lawyer when he is pleading at the bar , and a lady when she is dancing in a masque , and put her out . He does give plays and suppers , and invite his guests to them , aloud , out of his window , as they ride by in coaches . He has a lodging in the Strand for the purpose : or to watch when ladies are gone to the china-houses , or the Exchange , that he may meet them by chance , and give them presents , some two or three hundred pounds \u2019 worth of toys , to be laughed at . He is never without a spare banquet , or sweetmeats in his chamber for their women to alight at , and come up to for bait ."], "true_target": ["Boy , marshall him .", "Sir Amorous La-Foole ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I shall be there at ten . Do n't be later ."], "true_target": ["You cycle at", "Battersea tomorrow morning ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Roche .I 'll switch off the lights here .", "Roche . Poor chap !", "Roche . Yes . Shockin \u2019 , ai n't it ?", "Roche .What d'ye think \u2014 what d'ye think that silly , infatuated feller 's goin \u2019 to do ?"], "true_target": ["Roche .That 's it \u2014 blinded him . And yet it 's almost incomprehensible how a feller can be as blind as all that . Why , the very man-in-the-street \u2014", "Roche . Of course , of course .I could tell you things I 've heard about this Mrs. Ware \u2014", "Roche .Goodnight .The passages quotedfrom The Troublesome Reign of King John and Shakespeare 's play show crude and perfect handling of exits and entrances . In the old play the murderers merely enter and go out again as ordered . In Shakespeare they enter at the moment which makes them the climactic touch in the terror of Arthur and the audience . When Hubert orders them to go , it is the first sign that he may relent . The inexperienced dramatist is almost always wasteful in the number of characters used . An adaptation of a Spanish story called for a cast of about a dozen important figures and some sixty supernumeraries as soldiers and peasants \u2014 all this in a one-act play . It meant very little labor to cut the soldiery to a few officers and some privates , and the peasantry to some six or eight people . Ultimately , the total cast did not contain a quarter as many people as the original , yet nothing important had been lost . Rewriting a play often is , and should be , a \u201c slaughter of the innocents . \u201d Do n't use unneeded people . You must provide them with dialogue , and as the play goes on , some justification for existence . The manager must pay them salaries . First of all , get rid of entirely unnecessary people . They usually hold over from the story as originally heard or read . For instance , a recent adaptation used from the original story a blinking dwarf sitting silent , forever watchful , at a table in the restaurant where the story was placed . His smile simply emphasized the cynicism of the story enacted in his sight . He was in no way necessary to the telling of the story ,\u2014 and so he disappeared in the final form of the play . One is constantly tempted to bring in some figure for purposes of easy exposition only to find that one must either bind him in with the story as it develops , or drop him out of sight the moment his expository work is done . The trouble with such figures is that they are likely to give false clues , stirring a hearer to interest in them or their apparent relation to the story , when nothing is to come of one or the other . Usually a little patience and ingenuity will give this needed exposition to some character or characters essential to the plot . In a recent play of Breton life during the Chouan War , an attractive peasant boy was introduced in order to plant in the minds of the audience certain ideas as to immediate conditions of the war , and the relation of the woman to whom he is talking with the Prince , his leader . Wishing to show the devotion of the Prince 's followers , the author had the boy talk much of his own loyalty to his leader . Just there was the false clue . Every auditor expected his loyalty to lead to something later in the play ; but the youth , having told his tale , disappeared for good . It took very little time to discover that all the young man told could perfectly well be made clear in one preceding scene between the woman and her son , and two of the other scenes immediately following , between the woman and the young Prince . It is these unnecessary figures who are largely responsible for the scenes already spoken of in chapter IV which clog the movement of a play . Sometimes , too , similar figures at different places in a play do exactly or nearly the same work ,\u2014 servants for instance . When it does not interfere with verisimilitude , give the tasks to one person rather than two , or two rather than three . That is , use only people absolutely needed . Sometimes these carelessly introduced figures stray through a play like an unquiet spirit . In The Road to Happiness one character , Porter , was of so little importance that most of the time , when on the stage , he had nothing to do . When really acting , it was largely in pantomime , or with speech that , not effectively , reiterated what some one else was saying . He existed really for two scenes . In the first act he might just as well have been talked about as shown , and in the second act what he did could well have been done by one of the other important characters . When any character in a play shows a tendency not to get into the action readily ; when for long periods he is easily overlooked by the author ; it is time to consider whether he should not be given the coup de grace . Today we are fortunately departing from an idea somewhat prevalent in the middle of the nineteenth century , that a figure once introduced into a play should be kept there until the final curtain . That is exalting technique , and the so-called \u201c well-made \u201d play , above truth to life . When a character is doing needed work , use him when and as long as he would appear in real life , and no longer . Use each character for a purpose , and when it is fulfilled , drop him . Naturalness and theatrical economy are the two tests : the greater of these is naturalness . All that has been said comes to this . Know your characters so intimately that you can move , think , and feel with them , supplied by them with far more material than you can use in any one play . See that they are properly introduced to the audience ; that they are clearly and convincingly presented . Do not forget the importance of entrances and exits . Cut out all unnecessary figures . There follow three bits of characterization from very different types of play : Sir John Vanbrugh 's The Provoked Wife , a comedy of manners ; G. B. Shaw 's farce-comedy , You Never Can Tell ; and Eugene Brieux 's thesis play , The Cradle . The first scene aims merely to present vividly the riotous and drunken squire . The second , while characterizing William , aims to illustrate that contentment lies in doing that to which one is accustomed , under accustomed conditions . The third not only characterizes ; it shows that no law of man can wholly give a woman to a second husband when common anxiety with the first husband for the child of their marriage draws them together . Note in all three the use of action as compared with description or analysis ; the connotative value of the phrasings ; the succint sureness . THE PROVOKED WIFE", "Roche . Marry that low woman .", "Roche .Sssh !Um !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Let me see what 's in that Bundle .", "This will do to a Miracle ; he looks like a Bishop going to the Holy War . But to your Arms , Gentlemen , the Enemy appears .", "The Doctor 's Gown !\u2014 Hark you , Knight , you wo n't stick at abusing the Clergy , will you ?", "That we 'll see presently : Here ; let the General examine him ."], "true_target": ["Appear , Knight , then ; come you have a good Cause to fight for , there 's a Man murder 'd .", "How the Witch his Wife howl 'd !", "Is the Dog dead ?", "Then you shall wear this Gown , whilst you charge the Watch : That tho the Blows fall upon you , the Scandal may light upon the Church ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["No , damn him , I heard him wheeze ."], "true_target": ["How now ; what have we here ? a Thief .", "Ay , she 'll alarm the Watch presently ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["So , how d'ye like my Shapes now ?", "A Pox o \u2019 your Petticoat ; here 's such a Prating , a Man can n't digest his own Thoughts for you .", "No words , Sirrah , but attend your Fate .", "Ay , ay , let me examine him , and I 'll lay a Hundred Pound I find him guilty in spite of his Teeth \u2014 for he looks \u2014 like a \u2014 sneaking Rascal . Come , Sirrah , without Equivocation or mental Reservation , tell me of what opinion you are , and what Calling ; for by them \u2014 I shall guess at your Morals .", "Retire , Sirrah ; and since you carry off your Skin \u2014 go home , and be happy .", "Talent lies towards Drunkenness and Simony .", "You lye \u2014 I 'm not disguis 'd ; for I am drunk bare-fac 'd .", "Sirrah , I 'll make you know \u2014 there are Men of my Coat can set as bad Examples \u2014 as you can , you Dog you .", "No . I 'm drunk , and I 'll abuse anything \u2014 but my wife ; and her I name \u2014 with Reverence ."], "true_target": ["Is there ? Then let his Ghost be satisfy 'd , for I 'll sacrifice a Constable to it presently , and burn his body upon his wooden Chair .", "You may put me where you will , Sirrah , now you have overcome me \u2014 But if I can n't do Mischief , I 'll think of Mischief \u2014 in spite of your Teeth , you Dog you .YOU NEVER CAN TELL ACT IV", "Will it so , Mrs. Pert ? Now I believe it will so increase it ,I shall take my own House for a Papermill .", "A generous Design \u2014 by all the Gods \u2014 give it me .", "Then , Sirrah , you love Lying by your Religion , and Theft by your Trade : And so , that your Punishment may be suitable to your Crimes \u2014 I 'll have you first gagg 'd \u2014 and then hang 'd .", "A Woman 's Tongue a Cure for the Spleen \u2014 Oons \u2014 If a Man had got the Head-ach , they 'd be for applying the same Remedy .", "The Constable 's a Rascal \u2014 and you are the Son of a Whore .", "Sirrah , there 's nothing got by Murder but a Halter : My", "Blood , and Blood \u2014 and Blood ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I think I had e'en as good follow the Gentleman 's friendly Advice ; for if I dispute any longer , who knows but the Whim may take him to case me ? These Courtiers are fuller of Tricks than they are of Money ; they 'll sooner cut a Man 's Throat , than pay his Bill .", "Gown .", "No , a n't please you , I 'm no Thief ."], "true_target": ["A n't please you , it is the Doctor of the Parish 's Gown .", "A n't please you , I 'm a Dissenting Journyman Taylor .", "O dear Gentlemen , I shall be quite undone , if you take the", "Pray , good worthy Gentlemen , do n't abuse me ; indeed I 'm an honest Man , and a good Workman , tho I say it , that shou 'd not say it ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Look you here again \u2014 This is a mad Parson , Mr. Constable ;", "Stand ! Who goes there ? Come before the Constable .", "Why that now was spoke like a Man of Parts , Neighbours ; it 's pity he should be so disguis 'd ."], "true_target": ["Lord have mercy upon us ! How the wicked Wretch raves of", "I 'll lay a Pot of Ale upon 's Head , he 's a good Preacher .", "A good civil answer for a Parson , truly !", "Blood . I 'll warrant he has been murdering some body tonight ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Example .", "So , we have secur 'd the Parson however ."], "true_target": ["Come , Sir , out of Respect to your Calling , I sha n't put you into the Round house ; but we must secure you in our Drawing-Room till Morning , that you may do no Mischief . So , come along .", "Methinks , Sir , a Man of your Coat might set a better"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Coffee , miss ?Certainly , miss . Thank you , miss : very timely , miss , very thoughtful and considerate indeed .Anything for you , ma'am ?", "Right , sir .Irish for you , sir , I think sir ?", "I hope it may not be necessary , sir . Busy evening for me , sir , with that ball : very busy evening indeed , sir .", "Yes , sir .You in a false nose , Walter !I beg your pardon , ma'am , I 'm sure . A little giddiness \u2014", "Anything special for you , sir ? You do n't like cucumber , sir .", "Right , sir .Claret cup , syphon , one Scotch , and one Irish ?"], "true_target": ["Beg pardon , ma'am ; but can you tell me what became of that \u2014Beg pardon , sir , I 'm sure , sir . Was \u2014 was it you , sir ?", "Claret cup , ma'am ! Certainly ma'am .", "Cucumber , miss ! yes , miss .", "Oh , no , no , Walter . A waiter for your father on the top of a false nose ! What will they think of you ?", "Oh , if you please , ma'am , I really must draw the line at sitting down . I could n't let myself be seen doing such a thing , ma'am : thank you , I am sure , all the same .", "Oh , no , ma'am . It 's very kind of you \u2014 very ladylike and affable indeed , ma'am ; but I should feel at a great disadvantage off my own proper footing . Never mind my being the gentleman 's father , ma'am : it is only the accident of birth , after all , ma'am .You 'll excuse me , I 'm sure , having interrupted your business .", "Right ma'am . Directly , ma'am . Thank you .THE CRADLE"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["It was I .", "If Mrs. Clandon will allow me \u2014 syphon , Scotch ."], "true_target": ["In that case we shall want him .", "We shall want you .", "You will excuse him , Mrs. Clandon , when I inform you that he is my father ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Oh , well , I 'll have claret cup instead of coffee . Put some cucumber in it ."], "true_target": ["Do n't let us waste time . William only wants to go on taking care of us . I should like a cup of coffee ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u201c Wrap the limbs in cotton wool , and cover that with oiled silk . \u201d I am going to do that myself as soon as he wakes . Tell them to warn me .", "Mallow .", "His face is flushed ?", "How much ?", "\u201c Keep an even temperature in the sick room . \u201d"], "true_target": ["The cough ?", "Yes , yes . You remember when he had the measles .", "Has the temperature been taken ?", "The fever ?", "The doctor gave you a prescription ?", "He drank it willingly . You remember perfectly ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes .", "Incessant . He breathes with difficulty .", "Thirty-nine .", "I 'm sure he does n't like it .", "I came to show it to you . I do n't thoroughly understand this ."], "true_target": ["Yes .", "Yes .", "Constant .", "Yes , of course I remember . Some mallow then . Let us read the prescription again . I have n't forgotten anything ? Mustard plasters . The cotton wool , you will attend to that . And I will go have the drink made . \u201c In addition \u2014 every hour \u2014 a coffee-spoonful of the following medicine . \u201dFinally , contrast the treatment by John Webster and Robert Browning of the same dramatic situation . Which is the clearer , which depends more on illustrative action ?", "What ought he to have to drink ? I forgot to ask that , and he is thirsty .", "Yes , yes . How anxious we were then , too !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ambition , madam , is a great man 's madnes ,", "There is a sawcy and ambitious divell", "That is not kept in chaines and close-pentoomes ,", "Would often reason thus \u2014", "Of being a father , or the weake delight", "Like a taught starling .", "Where ?", "Which makes it lunatique , beyond all cure .", "I'le fetch your grace", "With the wild noyce of pratling visitants ,", "Begin with that first good deede began i \u2019 th \u2019 world ,", "What takes that from him ? onely the bare name", "Say a man never marry , nor have children ,", "Of your good name .", "I'ld have you first provide for a good husband :", "You have parted with it now .", "To see the little wanton ride a cock-horse", "To warme them .", "And nev'r tane wages of her .", "I should be honest : I have long serv 'd vertue ,", "How ?", "Conceive not I am so stupid but I ayme", "Truth speake for me ,", "After man 's creation , the sacrament of marriage ."], "true_target": ["My banishment , feeding my mellancholly ,", "Oh my unworthiness !", "Upon a painted sticke , or heare him chatter", "That", "That I should write some-what .", "The particulars of your revinew and expence .", "This is Browning 's version :", "I take't , as those that deny purgatory ,", "would thrust his hands i \u2019 th \u2019 fire", "What sayd you ?", "Is dauncing in this circle .", "But in fair lightsome lodgings , and is girt", "There 's no third place i n't .", "It locally containes or heaven or hell ;", "To marry againe .", "Yes , your excellent selfe .", "Oh , much better .", "You have made me starke blind .", "So please your beauteous excellence .", "Whereto your favours tend : but he 's a foole", "Give him all .", "In a cople .", "Were there nor heaven , nor hell ,", "I will remaine the constant sanctuary", "\u2018 Twere strange if there were no will in you"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I have been a great deal disappointed in myself for Mrs. Brown . Hiding among not keeping to my plan . I acted friends in Ohio . Poor boy , he is against my better judgment . called all kinds of vile names , just for being with you . Mrs. Brown . But after taking the arsenal , why did n't you flee Brown . For the cause we have to the mountains , as we thought all suffered much in the past ; you would ? we shall have to in the future . We should rejoice at his escape . Brown . The delay was my mistake . But in God 's greater and broader Mrs. Brown . I do , John . And plan , maybe it was infinitely Oliver and Watson did die for better . It was fore-ordained to a great and good cause ! work out that way , determined before the world was made .", "Some day all the Mrs. Brown . His ways are people of the earth will say mysterious and wonderful . that .", "Poor Martha . When the time came it was hard for her to leave the farm house and Mrs. Brown . But our poor Oliver behind . She kind of felt children , John . Poor Oliver and that she would n't see him any Watson . We shall never see more . them again .", "It must be ,\u2014 and all Brown . It must be ,\u2014 and all is for the best . There , there . is for the best . There , there ."], "true_target": ["Not in this world , Mrs. Brown . But after taking the but arsenal , why did n't you flee to the we shall meet together in that mountains , as we thought you would ? other world where they do not shoot and hang men for loving justice and desiring freedom for Brown . The delay was my mistake . all men . But in God 's greater and broader plan maybe it was infinitely Mrs. Brown . Yes , and they did better . It was fore-ordained to die for a great and good cause ! work out that way , determinedbefore the world was made .", "Like Joseph , I have Mrs. Brown . A New York paper gained favor in the sight of the came . We sat by the fire in the prison-keeper . He is a most living room . There was Watson 's humane gentleman \u2014 never mistreats widow \u2014 or tries to humiliate me . Brown . Poor Isabel , with her Mrs. Brown . May God bless little Freddie . such a man . Do you sleep any , John ? Mrs. Brown . And William Thompson 's widow , our Ruth , and Brown . Like a child ,\u2014 all Annie , and Oliver 's widow \u2014 night in peace .", "Well , well , Mary , compposture . ) Well , well , Mary , let us be cheerful . We must all let us be cheerful . We must all bear it the best we can . bear it the best we can .", "Mary ! I 'm glad to Brown . Mary ! I 'm glad to see you , Mary . see you , Mary ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes ? What does she Serena . Aunt Deborah had a want ? terrible quarrel with Teddy just before he went ! Serena . Did you know she had a terrible quarrel with Elise . Oh , that must be all made Teddy just before he went to up now . South Africa ? Serena . Listen !\u201c If I see that man I 'll of it . It must all be made up have a shock , \u201d andshe very to meet here . gladly accepts our invitation !"], "true_target": ["Is he coming ? Serena . I do n't know yet , but I Serena . I do n't know yet , but I wish he were still in South Africa . wish he were still in South Look at this :A Africa . If he does come , I do n't letter from Aunt Deborah . know what will happen . There 's a letter from Aunt Deborah . Elise . Yes ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["But someone said the master told the girl that he would save her life if she would only desert the young man for him .", "And I have heard that the girl fainted when her mistress died .", "Ha ! Ha ! Ha !", "He is the kind of a man a woman admires .", "But a woman is much braver in love affairs than a man .", "Perhaps it is his plan to save one of them .", "She was clever and pretty and had a strong character .", "Probably she did not like him .", "It was certain that they would be killed when found out ."], "true_target": ["He did not care very much for his wife . Anyway , she was too inferior to be his companion .", "We can never tell . What seems good luck may mean unexpected misfortune .", "The master must have been very fond of this young girl .", "Although the stewards have assured him that it is the established law of the land , the present master has never given permission for the punishment of criminals by crucifixion and fire . But now he has announced that he will kill them in this manner , and we are commissioned to carry out the disagreeable duty .", "That fellow has behaved foolishly !", "It may not be right to say so , but his decision seems to have been taken because of his jealousy .", "Our master is extremely indignant .", "That may be so .", "Hush ! The lord is here ! We are now obliged to remain silent and witness a living drama ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Why did the girl fall in love with that fellow , I wonder ?", "She would have been happier if she had obeyed the master 's will instead of rejecting him .", "And nothing could prevent the discovery .", "Even though we refused to obey the command at first and requested him to excuse us he would not listen to our petition .", "Yes , and the girl also .", "There has not been one person crucified since the present lord succeeded .", "You speak as though you had had experience !", "And because the girl loved him he now receives such severe punishment .", "It was said that he did not grieve over her death ."], "true_target": ["And we have a dreadful task to perform .Though this omits nothing in the way of necessary information , how colorless it is ! When we note how perfectly either A or B could speak the lines of the other , we see where the difficulty lies . The lines lack all characterization . The history of the drama shows that while the facts of a play may be interesting in themselves , they are much more interesting to an audience which hears them as they present themselves to well-defined characters of the story . It is axiomatic that sympathy quickens interest . Take a much better known illustration of the same point . The left-hand column gives the opening lines of the first quarto , Hamlet . The right-hand column shows the opening of the second quarto .", "It is said that the young man has already repented of his love for the girl . But she was not at all frightened when the punishment was announced and she was informed that she was to be crucified . The man , on the contrary , at once turned white and almost fainted when he heard the judgment passed upon him .", "But he seemed to care a great deal for her .", "That may be so . Perhaps he intends to crucify the young man first in the presence of the girl so as to break her obstinate spirit and thus gain her love .", "Yes , that is true . I wonder why he has commanded us to prepare only one cross .", "Perhaps the master wishes to kill the young man in as cruel a manner as possible .", "She must have been a favourite among the other attendants who accompanied the lady when she became the wife of the lord .", "Yes . Rumour has it that he became attached to her while the late mistress was still living .", "I do n't think that could be done very well ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Have you had quiet guard ?", "Tis now strooke twelfe , get thee to bed Francisco ."], "true_target": ["Well , good night : 2 . And if you meete Marcellus If you doe meete Horatio and and Horatio , Marcellus , The partners of my watch , bid The rivals of my watch , bid them them make haste . make hast .", "Hee . 1 . O you come most carefully upon your watch . Fran . You come most carefully upon your houre .", "Long live the King ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mary that can I , at Horatio . That can I. least the whisper goes so , At least the whisper goes so ; Our late King , who as you know our last King . was by Forten - WhoWas as you knowe by Fortin - Brasse of Norway , Thereto prickt on by a most Thereto prickt on by a most emulous cause , dared to emulate pride The combate , in which our Dar 'd to the combat ; in which valiant Hamlet , our valient Hamlet , For so this side of our knowneDid slay this Fortenbrasse , Did slay this Fortinbrasse , who Who by a scale compact well by a seald compact ratified , by law Well ratified by lawe and heraldy And heraldrie , did forfeit with Did forfeitall his life all those these his lands His lands which he stoode Which he stood seaz 'd of , to seazed of by the conqueror , the conquerour . Against the which a moity Against the which a moitie competent , competent , Was gaged by our King : Was gaged by our King ,now Sir Now sir , young Fortenbrasse , young Fortinbrasse Of unimprooved mettle , hot and Of unimprooved mettle , hot and full , full , Hath in the skirts of Norway Hath in the skirts of Norway heere and there heere and there Sharkt up a sight of lawelesse Sharkt up a list of lawelesse Resolutes resolutes For food and diet to some For foode and diet to some enterprise , enterprise , That hath a stomacke i n't : and That hath a stomacke i n't thisis theand this I take it Isthe chiefe head Of this post hast and Romadge in the land ."], "true_target": ["Friends to this Horatio . Friends to this ground . ground ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ofelia , what 's the news with you ? Ophelia , what 's the matter ?"], "true_target": ["Farewel , how now Polonius . Farewell . How now", "Montano ; here , Polonius . Give him this money and these letters to my sonne , these notes Reynaldo . And this same money with my blessing to him , Reynaldo . I will my Lord . And bid him ply his learning good Montano . Pol . You shall doe marviles wisely good Reynaldo Before you visite him to make inquire Of his behaviour ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["But my good Lord .", "I my Lord , I would know that ."], "true_target": ["As gaming my Lord . At game , or drincking , Pol . I , or drinking , fencing , swearing , or drabbing , swearing . You may go so farre . Quarrelling , drabbing , you may go so far . Mon . My Lord , that will impeach his reputation . Rey . My Lord , that would dishonour him . Cor . I faith not a whit , no not a whit , Pol . Fayth as you may season it in the charge . You must not put another scandell on him , That he is open to incontinencie . That 's not my meaning , but breath his faults so quently That they may seeme the taints of libertie , The flash and out-breake of a fierie mind , A savagenes in unreclamed blood Of generall assault .", "Very good my Lord ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["And then sir , doos a this , What was I about to say , a doos , what was I about to say ? By the masse I was about to say something , Where did I leave ?"], "true_target": ["Wherefore should you do this ?", "Marry , sir , heer 's my drift , And I believe it is a fetch of wit , You laying these slight sallies on my sonne As t'were a thing a little soyld with working , Marke you , your partie in converse , him you would sound Having ever seene in the prenominat crimes The youth you breath of guiltie , be assur 'd Now happely hee closeth with He closes with you in this you in the consequence , consequence , As you may bridle it not Good sir ,or friend , or disparage him a iote . gentleman , According to the phrase , or the addition Of man and country ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ay , or that does not ask it . I have been now for some time a concealed spectator of his follies , and find them as boundless as his dissipation .", "What signifies his affection to me , or how can I be proud of a place in a heart where every sharper and coxcomb find an easy entrance ?"], "true_target": ["Say , rather , that he loves all the world ; that is his fault .", "Do n't let us ascribe his faults to his philosophy , I entreat you . No , Jarvis , his good nature rises rather from his fears of offending the importunate , than his desire of making the deserving happy .", "Not mine , sure ? My letters to him during my employment in Italy taught him only that philosophy which might prevent , not defend his errors ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I grant you that he 's rather too good natur 'd ; that he 's too much every man 's man ; that he laughs this minute with one , and cries the next with another ; but whose instructions may he thank for all this ?", "Faith , begging your honour 's pardon , I 'm sorry they taught him any philosophy at all ; it has only served to spoil him . This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable , but an arrant jade on a journey . For my own part , whenever I hear him mention the name o n't , I 'm always sure he 's going to play the fool ."], "true_target": ["And yet , faith , he has some fine name or other for them all . He calls his extravagance generosity ; and his trusting everybody , universal benevolence . It was but last week he went security for a fellow whose face he scarce knew , and that he call 'd an act of exalted mu-mu-munificence ; ay , that was the name he gave it .", "What it arises from , I do n't know . But to be sure , everybody has it that asks it .", "I 'm sure there is no part of it more dear to him than you are , tho \u2019 he has not seen you since he was a child ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Have you thought she may not come at all ?", "You can get that road from Blackpool .", "Bank Holiday .", "Or summat worse .", "August 5th . That was yesterday all right . There 'd only be one post on Sunday .", "She 'll be home before late on Monday . Lovely weather .North Pier , Blackpool . Very like , too .", "It 's more cozy-like with the gas .", "Queerer things have happened . You do n't know Nat like I do . He 's a bad one to get across with .", "It 's dated Sunday .", "Pull down the blind and light the gas .", "You never hinted .", "Ay !", "I do n't know what to think .", "Nay , he 's not got one ."], "true_target": ["When I met Nat this morning he told me that Alan had telegraphed from Llandudno on Saturday asking for twenty pounds .", "She 's always been a good girl .", "Of course he sent it . Nat does n't stint the lad .Eh , but he can get through it , though !", "All right . Where 's that post-card ?", "I said he had n't got one of his own . It 's his father 's . You do n't catch Nat Jeffcote parting with owt before his time . That 's how he holds his lad in check , as you might say .", "I reckon it is my business to know what she 's been up to .", "Happen we 've made a mistake .", "Ay ! He 's gone off these Wakes with his pal George Ramsbottom . A couple of thick beggars , those two !", "Ay ! Reckon he 's been stopping there . Run short of brass .", "Ay ! Nat gives him what he asks for , and does n't want to know how he spends it either . But he 's got to ask for it first . Nat can stop supplies any time if he 's a mind .", "Ask her where she 's been ?", "Ay ! Perhaps you 're right . You do n't think she 'll come round by Manchester !", "I want to look at that railway guide .", "Well , well , those are lucky who have n't to travel at all on"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Briefly , I dwell by the Capitol .", "I have no will to wander forth of doors .", "I am Cinna the poet , I am Cinna the poet .", "Directly , I am going to Caesar 's funeral .", "I am not Cinna the conspirator ."], "true_target": ["Yet something leads me forth .", "I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar ,", "What is my name ? Whither am I going ? Where do I dwell ? Am I a married man or a bachelor ? Then , to answer every man directly and briefly , wisely and truly : wisely I say , I am a bachelor .", "And things unluckily charge my fantasy .", "As a friend .", "Truly , my name is Cinna ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Plebeian . Where do you dwell ?", "Plebeian . Ay , and truly , you were best ."], "true_target": ["Plebeian . Tear him , tear him ! Come , brands , ho ! fire-brands ! To Brutus \u2019 , to Cassius \u2019 ; burn all ! Some to Decius \u2019 house , and some to Casca 's ; some to Lingarius \u2019 . Away , go !It may almost be stated as a general principle that assigning a speech is the first step in focusing the attention of an audience on that speech . The value of such focusing has been discussed earlier under \u201c Characterization . \u201d In exceptional cases , as the citation from The Treasure shows , there may be some justification for unassigned speeches , but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred , when any lines of the play seem not to need assigning to any particular person , they lack the characterization which belongs to them . The thesis play or the problem play , which have been so current in the last few years , have brought into special prominence a common fault in so-called dramatic dialogue . The speeches narrate , describe , expound or argue , and well , but not in the character of the supposed speaker . Rather the author himself is speaking . Such dialogue , whether it be as clever as some in Mr. Shaw 's plays , as beautiful as certain passages by George Chapman , or as commonplace as in many modern instances , should be rewritten till the author can state the desired idea or facts as the imagined speaker would have stated them . This was the fault with the extract from the John Brown play , and whether it has its source in an intense desire of the author to present his own ideas , or to phrase his sense of beauty , in lack of characterizing power or in mere carelessness , it is reprehensible . In the following instance , the writer is so absorbed in his own ideas that he forgets characterization .", "Plebeian . Your name , sir , truly ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Plebeian . Tear him for his bad verses , tear him for his bad verses .", "Plebeian . Are you a married man or a bachelor ?"], "true_target": ["Plebeian . For your dwelling ,\u2014 briefly .", "Plebeian . Ay , and wisely .", "Plebeian . It is no matter , his name 's Cinna . Pluck but his name out of his heart and turn him going ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I 'll see you to your chamber .Too often even somewhat skilled dramatists are led astray by the belief that to write in a style approved at the moment , or which they themselves hold beautiful , is better than to let the characters speak their own language . Examining the early plays of John Lyly \u2014 Alexander and Campaspe , Sapho and Phao , Endymion\u2014 we find in the more serious portions both action and characterization subordinated to standards of expression supposed at the time to be best . Contrasting the lovers \u2019 dialogue of Love 's Labor 's Lost with the scenes of Orsino and Viola in Twelfth Night , we see perfect illustration of the greater effectiveness of dialogue growing out of the characters as compared with dialogue which puts style first . The Heroic Drama of the second half of the seventeenth century rested upon theory rather than reality . Here is the way in which Almahide and Almanzor state strong feeling ."], "true_target": ["I wou 'd not that they shou 'd , unless his merit recommends him more . A noble birth and fortune , tho \u2019 they make not a bad man good , yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one , and place his virtues in the fairest light .", "From your perfect obedience in every other instance , I fear 'd as much ; and therefore wou 'd leave you without a byass in an affair wherein your happiness is so immediately concern 'd ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Whether from a want of that just ambition that wou 'd become your daughter , or from some other cause , I know not ; but I find high birth and titles do n't recommend the man who owns them to my affections ."], "true_target": ["I cannot answer for my inclinations , but they shall ever be submitted to your wisdom and authority ; and , as you will not compel me to marry where I cannot love , so love shall never make me act contrary to my duty . Sir , I have your permission to retire ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["But , like frank gamesters , must foreswear the play .", "I love you ; and so well , that you must go .", "I dare not trust myself , or you , to stay ,"], "true_target": ["A heart so boundless and so prodigal", "I love you ; and so well that I dare not trust myself or you to stay .", "Then , since you needs will all my weakness know ,", "I am so much oblig 'd , and have withall"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yet \u2014 can you tell me you have pow'r and will", "To save my life , and at that instant , kill !", "All that these two worthy people are trying to say is"], "true_target": ["Can you tell me you have power and will to save my life and at that instant kill ! Dryden makes Almahide describe her own emotional condition and , as is proper at any critical moment in Heroic Drama , drop into simile . Almanzor , too , confidently diagnoses his own condition and apostrophizes fate . All this was quite correct in its own day , not for real life , but for the people of the myth land conjured up by the dramatic theories of the litterati . Did people under such circumstances speak in this way ? Surely not . This scene from George Barnwell , 1731 , illustrates the same substitution of an author 's idea of what is effective because \u201c literary \u201d for a phrasing that springs from the real emotion of perfectly individualized figures .", "Fate , thou art kind to strike so hard a blow ;", "I am quite stunn 'd , and past all feeling now ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["A man so near me , arm 'd and masqu 'd !"], "true_target": ["O Death , thou strange mysterious power ,\u2014 seen every day , yet never understood but by the incommunicative dead \u2014 what art thou ? The extensive mind of man , that with a thought circles the earth 's vast globe , sinks to the centre , or ascends above the stars ; that worlds exotick finds , or thinks it finds \u2014 thy thick clouds attempts to pass in vain , lost and bewilder 'd in the horrid gloom ; defeated , she returns more doubtful than before ; of nothing certain but of labour lost .", "Oh ! I am slain ! All-gracious heaven regard the prayer of thy dying servant ! Bless , with thy choicest blessings , my dearest nephew ; forgive my murderer , and take my fleeting soul to endless mercy !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Expiring saint ! Oh , murder 'd , martyr 'd uncle ! Lift up your dying eyes , and view your nephew in your murderer ! O , do not look so tenderly upon me ! Let indignation lighten from your eyes , and blast me e 're you die !\u2014 By Heaven , he weeps in pity of my woes . Tears ,\u2014 tears for blood ! The murder 'd , in the agonies of death , weeps for his murderer .\u2014 Oh , speak your pious purpose , pronounce my pardon then \u2014 and take me with you !\u2014 He wou 'd , but cannot . O why with such fond affection do you press my murdering hand !\u2014 What ! will you kiss me !He 's gone forever \u2014 and oh ! I follow .Do I still live to press the suffering bosom of the earth ? Do I still breathe and taint with my infectious breath the wholesome air ! Let Heaven from its high throne , in justice or in mercy , now look down on that dear murder 'd saint , and me the murderer . And , if his vengeance spares , let pity strike and end my wretched being !\u2014 Murder the worst of crimes , and parricide the worst of murders , and this the worst of parricides ! Cain , who stands on record from the birth of time , and must to its last final period , as accurs 'd , slew a brother , favour 'd above him . Detested Nero by another 's hand dispatched a mother that he fear 'd and hated . But I , with my own hand , have murder 'd a brother , mother , father , and a friend , most loving and belov 'd . This execrable act of mine 's without a parallel . O may it ever stand alone \u2014 the last of murders , as it is the worst ! The rich man thus , in torment and despair , Prefer 'd his vain , but charitable prayer . The fool , his own soul lost , wou 'd fain be wise For others good ; but Heaven his suit denies . By laws and means well known we stand or fall , And one eternal rule remains for all . The End of the Third Act .Have you noticed that people under stress of strong emotion stop to depict their emotional condition , to analyze it , or neatly to apostrophize fate or Providence ? The more real the emotion the more compact and connotative , usually , is its expression . People under high emotional strain who can tell you just what they ought to feel , or who describe elaborately what they are feeling are usually \u201c indeed exceeding calm . \u201d Dryden 's Lyndaraxa builded better than she knew when she said : By my own experience I can tell Those who love truly do not argue well . Bulwer-Lytton was thinking of the weakness of self-descriptive woe when he wrote Macready , while composing Richelieu , \u201c In Act 4 \u2014 in my last alteration , when Richelieu , pitying Julie , says , \u2018 I could weep to see her thus \u2014 But \u2019 \u2014 the effect would I think be better if he felt the tears with indignation at his own weakness \u2014 thus : \u2018 Are these tears ? O , shame , shame , Dotage \u2019 \u2014 \u201d Emotion , if given free way , finds the right words by which to express itself . When a character stands outside itself , describing what it feels , the speaker is really the author in disguise , describing what he is incompetent , from lack of sympathetic power , to phrase with simple , moving accuracy . M. de Curel has described perfectly the right relation of author to character and dialogue . During the first days of work I have a very distinct feeling of creation . Later I move on instinctively and that is much better . When the sentiments of my characters are in question I am absolutely in their skins , for my own part indifferent as to their griefs or joys . I can be moved only later in re-reading , and then this emotion seems to arise from the fact that I have to do with characters absolutely strange to me . I experience sometimes , and then personally , a feeling of irony , of flippancy , in regard to my characters who tangle themselves up and get themselves into difficulties . That transpires sometimes in the language of some other character who , at the moment , ceases to speak correctly because he speaks as I should . As a result , corrections later . At the end of a year , my play , when I re-read it , seems something completely apart from me , written by another .Allowing a character to express itself exactly raises inevitably the question of dialect . On the one hand it must be admitted that nothing more quickly characterizes a figure , as far as type is concerned , than to let him speak like a Yankee , a Scotchman , a Negro , etc . If the character utters phrases which an audience recognizes instantly as characteristic of his supposed type , there is special satisfaction to the audience in such recognition . On the other hand , very few audiences know any dialect thoroughly enough to permit a writer to use it with absolute accuracy . The moment dialect begins to show the need of a glossary , it is defeating its own ends . As a result a compromise has arisen , dating from the very early days of the drama \u2014 stage dialects . A character made up to represent Scotchman , Welshman , Frenchman , Negro , or Indian , speaks in a way that has become time-honored on the stage as representing this or that figure among these types . Till recently most dialect on the stage has been at best a mere popular approximation to real usage . Until within a few years the peasant dialogue of Gammer Gurton 's Needle , the famous sixteenth-century Interlude , was supposed to represent dialect of its time in the neighborhood of Cambridge , England . Recently philologists have shown that the speech of these peasants is unlike any dialect of the period of the play , and was obviously a stage convention of the time . Study the Welshmen and other dialect parts in Shakespeare , and you will reach approximately the same conclusion . With our developing sense of historical truth and of realism , we have , in recent years , been trying to make our characters speak exactly as they would in real life . The plays of the Abbey Theatre are in large part a revolt from the Irish dialogue which the plays of Dion Boucicault had practically established as true to life . Today we try not only phonetically to represent the ways in which words are spoken by the people of a particular locality , but by the use of words and phrases heard among such people to make the characterization vivid and convincing . Here , in Mr. Sheldon 's play , The Nigger , is care to reproduce phonetically the speech of negroes :"], "true_target": ["Nay , then there 's no retreat ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I speck yo \u2019 right . Hev yo \u2019 got suthin \u2019 fo \u2019 me t'night ? Seems lak I might take it down wif me t \u2019 de cabin ."], "true_target": ["Yallah gal \u2014! Sho \u2019 ! I was livin \u2019 heah fo \u2019 yo \u2019 was bawn ! Don \u2019 fo'get dat , yo \u2019 imperent , low-down li'tle niggah yo \u2019 !", "Yo \u2019 sho \u2019 will \u2014 er Marse Phil 'd \u2014"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Fo \u2019 dat young good-fo \u2019 - nuffin hawg-grubbah t \u2019 swallow w'en he done come home ? Laws me , w'y Marse Phil \u2018 lows his fried chicken en \u2019 co'nhYpppHeNbraid t \u2019 feed dat wo'thles raphYpppHeNscallion , I jes \u2019 cai n't see ! Clar out o \u2019 heah , yo \u2019 ern'ry yallah gal !"], "true_target": ["Hol \u2019 on , Jinny ! I ai n't said nuffin \u2019 . Dat I ai n't ! Yo \u2019 g \u2019 long now en \u2019 I 'll sen \u2019 down a gal t \u2019 yo \u2019 cabin wif a basket .", "En \u2019 keep yo \u2019 gran'chillun out dat saloom , Jinny , ef yo \u2019 don \u2019 want t \u2019 see \u2018 em cross de Jo'dan ahead o \u2019 yo \u2019 ! Dat Joe ! Lawd-a-massy ! De white in him ai n't done nobody no good 's fah 's dis \u2014 \u2018 Scuse me , sah !Here is equal care to represent the speech of Southerners ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["My fathah ? Yes , he gave way t \u2019 his Comme'cial ambition by sellin \u2019 powda an \u2019 bullets t \u2019 the Union \u2014 way back in \u2018 62 . That got him into a bunch o \u2019 trouble , but it was n't what sta'ted the \u2014 slight fam'ly coolness !", "Some ai n't killed \u2018 emselves tryin \u2019 . Howevah , on lookin \u2019 ahead I saw Phil an \u2019 I might be in a position t \u2019 help each othah , so we agreed t \u2019 sink it . I \u2014 I wish yo \u2019 mothah would follow Phil , Miss Byrd . I ce'tainly do wish that !", "No \u2014 niggah woman ."], "true_target": ["Phil 's gran'fathah \u2014 he won out . An \u2019 that 's the kick that sta'ted the Noyes fam'ly ahYpppHeNrollin \u2019 t \u2019 pe'dition .", "Such as \u2014 trade ?", "I reckon the Morrows are tryin \u2019 now t \u2019 keep it da'k . But Lawd !\u2014 I do n't mind tellin \u2019 . It 's the old thing \u2014 both losin \u2019 theah heads ovah the same woman .", "No , it came befo \u2019 that . My gran'fathah an \u2019 Phil 's \u2014 they were brothahs-in-law , you know \u2014 they began it in the fo'ties ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["That 's one of them .Lady Gregory , after writing a rough draft of one of her plays , goes among the people of her community and sets them talking of the subject she is treating . Noting their racy , apt , and highly individualized phrases , she gives them to her characters in the play as she re-writes . Such intimate , loving study of dialect as Lady Gregory , Mr. Yeats , and Synge have shown has given us an accurate representation of the Irish peasant , and may ultimately drive from the English stage the conventional absurdities of the past . Dialect , then , if carefully studied , is highly desirable if two or three facts are borne in mind . First of all , it should be accurate ; but secondly it must be clear or must be made clear for any audience . Unquestionably , Mr. Stanley Houghton 's memorable play Hindle Wakes had a bad title away from its birthplace ,\u2014 Manchester , England . In the United States , this title is perfectly meaningless . How many in any audience in this country could be expected to know that the title means certain \u201c autumn week-end holidays in the town of Hindle . \u201d There could be no harm in using a different title away from the birthplace of the play . Recently , in a manuscript play , appeared a figure speaking a strange mixture of Negro and Irish dialects . He seemed to all readers a clumsy attempt by the author at a dialect part . Really , the figure was a portrait of a small political boss who , from boyhood on , had acquired in the saloons and purlieus of his district words and phrases of both the Negroes and the Irish . A little preliminary exposition at the right place cleared up this difficulty and turned what seemed inept characterization into a particularly individual figure of richly characterizing phrase . Obviously , then , dialect should , first , be written accurately . Then it should be gone over to see what in it may not be clear to most auditors . These words or phrases should be made clear because they are translated by other people on the stage or by the speaker , who himself sees or is told that some stage listener does not understand him . Only a little ingenuity is needed to do away with such vaguenesses . To substitute for such words and phrases others which , though incorrect , would be instantly understood by the audience is to botch the dialect and produce what is , after all , not different from the conventional stage dialect of the past . This raises a third point in regard to dialect , and one very frequently disregarded . Over and over again in plays using dialect certain speeches are passed over by the author in his final revision which neither phonetically nor in the words and phrases chosen comport with the context . Instantly the mood and the color of the scene are lost unless the actor supplies what the author failed to give . That is , dialect , if used , should be used steadily and consistently . The desiderata are , then , accuracy , persistent use , and clearness for the general public . Thus used , dialect is one of the chief aids to characterization . If , in writing dialogue , a dramatist must not speak as himself but in character , must not be consciously or unconsciously literary if not in character , how may one surely choose the right words ? Perhaps one or two illustrations will help here . The citation in the left-hand column from the first quarto Hamlet states the facts clearly enough , but wholly uncolored by the emotion of the speaker . In the right-hand column the passionate sympathy of Shakespeare has given him perfect understanding of Hamlet 's feeling .", "But mos \u2019 people are willin \u2019 to fo'get \u2014 at least they ought to be .", "Why ?"], "true_target": ["Was n't it ? Why , I always hea 'd \u2014 -", "Oh \u2014 I did n't \u2014 realize \u2014", "How romantic ! Phil 's gran'mothah ?", "She 's old-fashioned \u2014 oh , hopelessly so !\u2014 in things the world now considers \u2014 trivial ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["He 's gone . The Young For . That Heaven knows . law is past . Your life is He guard my body that my clear 'd ; spirit owes ! For none of all our kindred laiddescent Should die a felon 's death . Good . My cousin 's fall'n \u2014 See , sir , thus far pursue the murderer . We have demeaned fairly , like ourselves . Foster . But not too near . But , think you , though we wink I pray ; you see he 's armed , at base revenge , And in this deep amazement A brother 's death can be so soon may commit forgot ? Some desperate outrage . Our gentry baffled , and our name disgraced ? No : \u2018 tmust not be ; I am a Young For . Had I but known gentleman the terror of this deed , Well known ; and my demeanor I would have left it done hihterto imperfectly , Hath promis 'd somewhat . Rather than in this guilt of Should I swallow this , conscience The scandal would outlive me . Labour 'd so far . But I forget Briefly then , my safety . I 'll fight with you . The gentleman is dead . My desperate life Rains . I am loath . Will be o'erswayed by his allies and friends , Young For . Answer directly , And I have now no safety but Whether you dare to meet me my flight . on even terms ; And see where my pursuers Or mark how I 'll proceed . come . Away ! Certain destruction hovers o'er Rains . Say , I deny it . my stay ."], "true_target": ["Do you not know me ? From resolution ; but when , with advice Rains . Keep off , upon the And with foresight we purpose , peril of thy life . our intents Come not within my sword 's Are not without considerate length , lest this arm reasons alter 'd . Prove fatal to thee and bereave thy life , Rains . Thou art resolv 'd , and As it hath done thy brother 's . I prepar 'd for thee . Yet thus much know , thy state Young For . Why now thou is desperate , know'st me truly , by that And thou art now in danger 's token , throat already That thou hast slain my brother . Ev'n half devoured . If I subdue Put up , put up ! thee , know So great a quarrel as a brother 's Thou art a dead man ; for this life fatal steel , Must not be made a street-brawl ; That search 'd thy brother 's \u2018 tis not fit entrails is prepar 'd That every prentice should , with To do as much to thee . If thou his shop club , survivest , Betwixt us play the sticklers . And I be slain , th'art dead too , Sheathe thy sword . my alliance And greatness in the world will Rains . Swear thou wilt act not endure no sudden violence , My slaughter unavenged . Come , Or this sharp sword shall still I am for thee . be interposed \u2018 Twixt me and thy own hatred . Young For . I would my brother liv 'd , that this our Young For . Sheathe thy diff'rence sword . Might end in an embrace of By my religion and that interest folded love ; I have in gentry I will not be But \u2018 twas Heaven 's will that guilty for some guilt of his Of any base revenge . He should be scourged by thee ; and for the guilt Rains . Say on . In scourging him , thou by my vengeance punish 'd . Young For . Let 's walk . Come ; I am both ways arm 'd , Trust me . Let not thy guilty against thy steel soul If I be pierc 'd by it , or \u2018 gainst Be jealous of my fury . This thy greatness my hand If mine pierce thee . Is curbed and govern 'd by an honest heart , Rains . Have at thee . Not by just anger . I 'll not touchthee foully For all the world . Let 's walk . Young For . I will not bid thee hold ; but if thy breath Rains . Proceed . Be as much short as mine , look to thy weakness . Young For . Sir , you did kill my brother . Had it been Rains . The breath thou draw'st In fair and even encounter , but weakly , tho \u2019 a child , Thou now shalt draw no more . His death I had not question 'd .Rains . Is this all ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Give it here .Yes , door . ) Yes , from him . Look from him . You shall not have it . here . I shall read it .", "Nora !\u2014 Oh , I must read Helmer . Nora ! Oh , I must read it again . Yes , yes , it is so . You it again . Yes , yes , it is so . are saved , Nora , you are saved . I are saved , Nora , I am saved .", "Nora ! Helmer . Nora !"], "true_target": ["Oh , Nora , Nora ! Helmer . I would gladly work for you day and night , Nora \u2014 bear sorrow and want for your sake \u2014 but no man sacrifices his honour , even for one he loves .", "Well ? I should give Helmer . Well ? When I had you up to punishment and disgrace . given my own wife 's name up to disgrace and shame \u2014?", "Look here . He sends Helmer . You too , of course ; you back your promissory note . we are both saved , both of us . He writes that he regrets and Look here , he sends you back your apologises , that a happy turn promissory note . He writes that in his life \u2014 Oh , what matter he regrets and appologises ; that what he writes . We are saved , a happy turn in his life \u2014 Oh , Nora ! There is nothing to matter what he writes . We are witness against you . Oh , Nora , saved , Nora ! No one can harm you . Nora .Oh , Nora , Nora .The text of the right-hand column brings out more clearly than the original the complete but unconscious selfishness of Helmer . Ibsen , understanding that character more fully than in his first draft , makes not only the change from \u201c You are saved , Nora \u201d to the self-revelatory \u201c I am saved ! \u201d but also the change to that infinitely more dramatic \u201c And I ? \u201d which replaces Nora 's \u201c How , saved ? \u201d In a second set of extracts from the same scene , a firmer grasp of the characters has permitted Ibsen to replace the general and conventional in the last two speeches of the left-hand column with the more specific and characterizing lines of Helmer and the lines of Nora that are an inspiration .", "I have hardly the Helmer .I courage . I fear the worst . We have hardly the courage to . We may both be lost , both you and I. may both be lost , both you and Ah ! I must know .few lines , looks at an enclosure ; Nora ! a cry of joy . ) Nora !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["No ; then I firmly believed Nora . Then I firmly believed that you would come forward , take that you would come forward , everything upon yourself , and say , take everything upon yourself , \u201c I am the guilty one \u201d \u2014 and say , \u201c I am the guilty one . \u201d", "And how did it turn Nora . Millions of women have out ? No thanks , no outburst of done so .affection , not a shred of a thought of saving me .Perfect phrasing rests , then , on character thoroughly understood and complete emotional accord with the character . Short of that in dialogue , one stops at the commonplace and colorless , the personal , or the literary . Even , however , when dialogue expounds properly and is thoroughly in character , it will fail if not fitted for the stage . John Oliver Hobbes stated a truth , if somewhat exaggeratedly , in these lines of her preface to The Ambassador : Once I found a speech in prose \u2014 prose so subtly balanced , harmonious , and interesting that it seemed , on paper , a song : But no actor or actress , though they spoke with the voice of angels , could make it , on the stage , even tolerable .... Yet the speech is nevertheless fine stuff : it is nevertheless interesting in substance : it has imagination : it has charm . What , then , was lacking ? Emotion in the tone and , on the part of the writer , consideration for the speaking voice . Stage dialogue may have or may not have many qualities , but it must be emotional . It rests primarily on feeling . Wit , philosophy , moral truths , poetic language \u2014 all these count as nothing unless there is feeling of an obvious , ordinary kind .When reading a play aloud , do we give all the stage directions , or , cutting out those which state how certain speeches should be read , try to give these as directed ? Even when reading some story aloud , do we not often find troublesome full directions as to just how the speakers delivered their lines ? If given by us , they provide an awkward standard by which to judge our reading . If we wish to suppress them , they are not , in rapid reading , always seen in time . As was pointed out very early in this book , gesture , facial expression , movement about the stage , and above all , the voice , aid the dramatist as they cannot aid the novelist . These aids and the time limits of a play have , as we shall see , very great effect on dialogue . Note in the opening of The Case of Rebellious Susan , by Henry Arthur Jones , the effects demanded from the aids just named .", "It never for a moment Nora .... When Krogstad 's letter occurred to me that you lay in the box , it never occurred would think of submitting to to me that you would think of that man 's conditions , that you submitting to that man 's would agree to direct your conditions . I was convinced that actions by the will of another . I you would say to him , \u201c Make it was convinced that you would known to all the world \u201d ; and that say to him , \u201c Make it known to then \u2014 the whole world \u201d ; and that then \u2014"], "true_target": ["How , saved ? Nora . And I ?", "Read it . Nora . Read it .", "You mean I would Nora . You mean I would never have accepted such a never have accepted such a sacrifice ? No , of course not . But sacrifice ? No , certainly not . But what would my word have been what would my assertions have in opposition to yours ? I so been worth in opposition to yours ? firmly believed that you would That was the miracle that I hoped sacrifice yourself for me \u2014 \u201c do n't for and dreaded . And it was to listen to her , \u201d you would hinder that that I wanted to die . say \u2014 \u201c she is not responsible ; she is out of her senses \u201d \u2014 you would say that it was love of you \u2014 you would move heaven and earth . I thought you would get Dr. Rank to witness that I was mad , unhinged , distracted . I so firmly believed that you would ruin yourself to save me . That is what I dreaded , and therefore I wanted to die ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Upstairs in her sitting-room , my lady ."], "true_target": ["Downstairs in the library , my lady ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["My dear Mrs. Quesnel , you know ?", "Where is Mr. Harabin ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , that 's what she wrote me . Now , my dear , you 're her oldest friend . You 'll help me to persuade her to \u2014 to look over it and hush it up .", "I do n't know . But with a man like Harabin \u2014 a gentleman in every sense of the word \u2014 it can n't be a very bad case . Enter Lady Susan .If the voice does not deftly stress \u201c now \u201d in Lady Darby 's first speech , and the \u201c upstairs \u201d and the \u201c downstairs \u201d of the footman , this opening will fail of its desired effect . Everything in this well-written beginning of an interesting play depends on bringing to the delivery of the lines right use of the dramatist 's greatest aids : gesture , facial expression , pantomime , and above all the exquisite intonations of which the human voice is capable . Write this scene as a novelist would handle it , and see to what different proportions it will swell . Note in the final result how much less connotative , how much more commonplace the dialogue probably is . Contrasting two passages \u2014 one from a novel , the other in a play drawn from it \u2014 will perhaps best illustrate that the dialogue of the novel and of the play treating the same story usually differ greatly . And when it became clear that somebody , good or bad , was without , Patty , having regard to the lateness of the hour and the probability of supernatural visitations , was much disposed to make as though the knocking were unheard , and to creep quietly off to bed . But Mistress Beatrice prevailed upon her to depart from this prudent course ; and the two peered from an upper window to see who stood before the door . At first they could see no one ; but presently a little figure stepped back from the shadow , looking up to the window above , and Beatrice Cope , although she discerned not the face , felt more than ever certain that this summons was for her . \u201c \u2018 Tis but a child there without , Patty , \u201d she said . \u201c Maybe \u2018 tis some poor little creature that has lost its way , and come here for help and shelter . Heaven forbid that we should leave it to wander about , all the dreary night through ! \u201d Patty 's fears were not much calmed by the sight of this lonely child . \u201c \u2018 Twas the Phantom Child , \u201d she murmured , \u201c who comes wailing piteously to honest folks \u2019 doors o \u2019 nights ; and if they take it in and cherish it , it works them grievous woe . \u201d Mistress Beatrice , however , tried to hear as little as she might of what Patty was saying ; and she went downstairs and undid the heavy bar very cautiously . Then she opened the door a little space ; and Patty Joyce stood by her staunchly , although disapproving of what she did . And when the door was opened , this persevering applicant proved to be only the boy Bill Lampeter , who was known at White-oaks as at Crowe Hall , and a score of country Granges beside . He did but crave a drink of milk and a bit to eat , he said . He had been a-foot all day , and had had nought to eat ; and seeing a light burning in the houseplace , he made bold to knock and ask for what he needed . The boy 's breath was short and hurried , and his grimy face was pale and damp with toil of hard running . He did not seek to enter , but kept glancing over his shoulder into the darkness behind him . Beatrice sent Patty for food and drink , standing still herself in the doorway ; and the maid was no sooner gone than the boy drew nearer and spoke . \u201c Oh , mistress , \u201d he said , hoarsely , \u201c I have been beat to-night \u2014 but I told \u2018 em nought . The corporal he raddled my bones terrible \u2014 but I set my teeth , and I told \u2018 un nought . I bit him when he took they shining white things o \u2019 yourn , wi \u2019 the writing ; them as I could not give to Mr . Cope , the day I warned the porter at Goodrest that the red-coats was upon \u2018 em . I had the white things safe , mistress , hid in my smock \u201d \u2014\u2014 \u201c And I would ha \u2019 giv \u2019 them to Mr . Cope , the first chance I got \u2014 I would , honest and true . But the scouting party caught me ; and they says , \u2018 Thee be allays running from one Grange to another , thee little ne'erhYpppHeNdohYpppHeNweel ; thee can tell us what we wants to know about Goodrest in the hills \u2019 \u2014 And I was telling of \u2018 em just what tales comed into my head , for fear of unpleasantness , mistress , when the corporal , a great rough chap , seizes hold of me , and says , says he , \u2018'Tis all a pack o \u2019 lies , this here . Search him , \u2019 he says , \u2018 and see if he carries messages or tokens . \u2019 And then I fought and bit , for I know 'd they 'd find your bright things in my smock ; and I bit his hand nigh upon through , that I did , \u201d said Bill , with grim satisfaction , and an oath at which poor Beatrice shuddered . \u201c Oh , hush ! \u201d she said . \u201c There is no help in swearing , boy . \u201d \u201c He swore , \u201d Bill replied . \u201c But when he got the tablets , he were fine and pleased . And he said , \u2018 This is a stag of ten , my boys ; and should he snuff the breeze too soon we have means to keep him where he is till morning . Hold that little viper fast , \u2019 says he ,' and for your lives do n't let him give us the slip . \u2019 \u2014 So one of the troopers took me behind him on his horse , with a rope round my body , drawn cruel tight at first . And I panted and groaned , and made as though he were killing of me ; and after a bit he slacked the rope a little , so as I could put my head down and gnaw it through in the dark . And at the dip of a valley , where the shadow was deep under the trees , I slipped off quiet-like into the long grass . He knew the rope was loose in a minute , and he snapped his pistol ; but the covert was good , and I crope into the heart of a holler tree covered o'er wi \u2019 ivy . I bided there , till they was tired o \u2019 hunting round .\u2014 But oh , mistress , the poor gentleman at Goodrest is undone !\u2014 They talked together while the trooper was making me fast upon his horse ; and I heard a word now and again , for I listened with all my might . There were but four of \u2018 em ; and they said they were n't strong enough to surprise Goodrest , but must ride back to quarters for help . And as we went past Grantford Farm , the corporal called a halt ; and one held his horse while he went in and spoke with the farmer . And , mistress , Hugh Stone of Grantford is known for a bitter Whig . ... And presently Hugh of Grantford comes out , and his little brother with him ; and the boy had that as you wrote upon \u2014 that as they took from me \u2014 in his hand . And the corporal says , looking over his shoulder quick and short , \u2018 Does he understand ? \u2019 says he . \u2018 Oh , aye , \u2019 says Hugh of Grantford , \u2018 he understands fine . \u2019 And I could see wee Jock did not like the job he were put upon ; and I made a face at him from ahint the trooper 's back , and he liked it less nor ever then . \u201d \u201c What job , Bill ? \u201d Bill Lampeter looked in amazement at this beautiful , terrified lady , who did not understand . \u201c Do n't \u2018 ee see ? \u201d he said . \u201c Jock o \u2019 Grantford were to take your writing to Goodrest , and play upon the gentleman there , to keep him biding till the red-coats come . What were it as you wrote down that day , mistress ? \u201d As in a flash of painful memory Beatrice saw the dainty tablets once more , with words traced upon them in a hand rendered somewhat unsteady by the slow pace of the sorrel horse \u2014 a hand unmistakable , however , to the eyes of Charlie Cope . I pray you , do not stir far from home . There is risk abroad . B. C . She understood then ; and she turned quickly to Patty Joyce , who had come back bringing bread and milk ere Bill 's tale was half done . Bill , even in the eagerness of his disclosure , had clutched the bread and cheese ; and now he drained the mug of milk , while the good-natured maid stood open-mouthed , her eyes fixed upon Mistress Beatrice . \u201c Patty , \u201d the young lady whispered , \u201c I think you are faithful and true .... I must trust you with a perilous secret . This gentleman whom they seek at Goodrest is my only brother ; he has papers of importance in his keeping , and a warrant is out for his arrest . They will lure him to his destruction by means of me , his sister ; he knows my handwriting and will trust to my warning . He will lie close at Goodrest , as a hare upon her form ; and they will take him \u2014 oh ! they will take him prisoner !\u2014 ere morning dawns . I must to Goodrest now , in the dark night .\u2014 Boy ! is there time ? is there time ? \u201d Bill Lampeter nodded , munching his bread . \u201c They 'll not be back afore the dawning , them troopers , \u201d he said . \u201c They 've limed the twig , ye see ; the bird is made fast . If Mr . Cope do hear the country 's up , he 'll bide where he be there at Goodrest , reckoning \u2018 tis safest to keep still . Between now and the first streak as shows over the Black Scaur , mistress , you can do as you will . \u201d \u201c Eh , Mistress Beatrice , you can n't never go , \u201d said Patty , trembling . \u201c You could n't dare to do it . And this here boy , \u201d she whispered , standing close to Mistress Beatrice , \u201c is a very proverb for wicked story-telling . \u2018 Tis a naughty little varlet ; who knows that he has not been set on to bring this tale ? \u201d \u201c \u2018 Tis true enough , though I be a story-teller , \u201d said Bill , whose ears were sharp . \u201c Yon gentleman at Goodrest has need of thee the night , mistress . And now let me lie down on the straw in the big barn , for my bones do ache , and I be dizzy wi \u2019 running . \u201d He caught at the doorpost as he spoke ; and Patty Joyce 's suspicion vanished in pity for the worn-out creature . She kindled a flame to light the lanthorn which hung in the houseplace ; and herself crossed the wide courtyard to make Bill a comfortable resting-place in the soft hay and clean straw which filled the great barn .This is the same scene in the play :", "Tell Lady Susan I wish to see her at once ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mr. Harabin had \u2014 and that she had made up her mind to leave him .", "Sue wrote me a short note saying that she had discovered that"], "true_target": ["And will you say that I am here too ?", "Oh , certainly . It 's the advice everybody gives in such cases , so I suppose it must be right . What are the particulars ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Open quick . Me and Bill .", "She 's gone !"], "true_target": ["Grizel 's ready 'm .", "In the paddock 'm . But \u2014", "Miss Beatrice , Miss Beatrice ! Quick !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Where 's Grizel ?", "You have the tablets ?", "Then they have n't reached", "Knowing you are loose , they will start at once .", "They have them ?"], "true_target": ["You can trust her . What has happened ?", "How did you get free ?", "Close up here . Look after Bill . Be ready to let me in when the first cock crows . My stirrup !She 's up !", "James !", "Saddle her at once . I must to Goodrest .", "Bill !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["If they ai n't fools . But most folks be . Risk somethin \u2019 on that .Do n't go through Whitecross Village . There the soldiers be . Take the footpath by Guiting ; the bridge be shaky but \u2018 twill hold .", "I fought and bit , fearin \u2019 they 'd find your message hid in my smock .", "I 've had a bit of a scrap .Get rid o \u2019 \u2018 er .", "Gnawed the ropes ; slipped off in the long grass . Trooper 's pistol missed me . Stayed in a holler oak I knows till they was tired \u2018 untin \u2019 .", "She said \u2014 To once ."], "true_target": ["The damned brave lady ! Curtain . First of all , the novelist permits himself an amount of detail which the dramatist must forego because of his more limited space . Interesting details which do not forward the purpose of the scene or act the wise dramatist denies himself \u2014 note in Ibsen 's revision of certain lines in A Doll 's Housethe cutting , between the first and final versions , of what concerns Dr. Rank . It was in part unnecessary detail which made the dialogue of the play on John Brownso ineffective . In what follows immediately , a skilful hand seems in column one to have cut details of column two which , though interesting in themselves , delay the essential movement of the scene and help to swell the whole play to undue proportions .", "The gentleman ? Oh , ay . When we come to Grantford Farm \u2014 I were trussed up be'ind a trooper \u2014 Corporal called out little Jock o \u2019 Grantford \u2014 his fayther 's a bitter Whig \u2014 and bade \u2018 im take your message to Goodrest , to keep the gentleman waitin \u2019 till the red coats be come .", "No .", "They near tore it off , damn \u2018 em .", "Ay , but that ai n't \u2018 id yet .", "Scoutin \u2019 party got me . Corporal raddled my bones terrible when"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Of course , but where did it come from ?", "Hello \u2014 what 's this Alec ?"], "true_target": ["But they do n't play it , do they ?", "She \u2014 gave it to \u2014 them \u2014?", "What time do you expect her back ? Time forbids any form of fiction to be encyclopaedic . The drama is , as we have seen , the most selective of the forms of fiction . Failure to remember this has hurt the chances of many a promising dramatist . Few have such skilled and loyal advisers as Lord Tennyson found in Sir Henry Irving when his over-long Becket must be cut for stage production . How much of the following scene in the original do we think at first sight we can spare ? Much which Sir Henry removed we should like to keep , but time-limits forbade and he cut with exceeding skill to the best dramatic phrasing offered of the essentials of the scene ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Miss Helen , she gave it to \u2018 em at Christmas .", "No , she plays it \u2014. An \u2019 you oughter hear her play , sir . At evenin 's after supper when the wind 'd howl around the house she 'd make it sound like Heaven in here . If I ever get up there I do n't want white angels and gold harps in mine ,\u2014 I jes \u2019 want Miss Helen an \u2019 a grand pianner .An \u2019 she can sing , too . You oughter hear her ,\u2014 little soft things ,\u2014 none o \u2019 this screechy stuff . An \u2019 all the old dames sit around \u2014 an \u2019 then when my work was done out in the barn I 'd come in an \u2019 sit over there in the corner out o \u2019 the way like , an \u2019 listen like a old lady myself \u2014 with my Adam 's apple getting tight every once in a while thinkin \u2019 o \u2019 things . I tell you she 's \u2014 she 's a regular \u2014 humdinger . ]"], "true_target": ["A grand pianner , sir .", "Yes ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Not heavier than Herbert . Not heavier than thine armour at Thoulouse ? thine armour at Thoulouse ?", "To please the King ?", "Ay , the fire , the light , The spirit of the twelve Apostles enter 'd Into thy making .", "God make not thee but Herbert . God make not thee thy foes , fall . but thy foes , fall .", "Thou canst not fall that way . Let traitor be ; For how have fought thine utmost for the Church , Save from the throne of thine archbishoprick ? And how been made archbishop hadst thou told him , \u201c I mean to fight mine utmost for the Church , Against the King ? \u201d", "Was not the people 's Herbert . Was not the people 's blessing as we past blessing as we past Heart-comfort and a balsam to Heart-comfort and a balsam to thy blood ? thy blood ?"], "true_target": ["Both , Thomas , both .", "I do think the King Was potent in the election , and why not ? Why should not Heaven have so inspired the King ? Be comforted . Thou art the man \u2014 be thou A mightier Anselm .", "Well , dream and prophecy both .", "Ay , Herbert . Ay , For Gilbert Foliot held himself For Gilbert Foliot held himself the man . the man .", "Thomas , thou art Herbert . Thomas , thou art moved too much . moved too much .", "Is it so much heavier Herbert . Is it so much heavier than thy Chancellor 's robe ? than thy Chancellor 's robe ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Come here ?", "Well , then , I am ready .", "Come here !", "Come here !", "Come here !"], "true_target": ["Come here !", "Your selection may not be in my repertoire .", "Come here !", "Come here !", "Come here !", "Come here !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["While in his arms , she now observes his servant , and as with every one she would divide her joy she calls to him \u2014", "A carriage is dashing by , the child is in the street , the mother 's heart is filled with terror , she calls her darling and cries out \u2014", "The husband has returned , and full of joy she calls her children as she observes him coming home .", "Yes , and with the words , the meaning , emphasis , and expressions , that situation , character , and the surroundings would command .", "Before a mother stand a loving couple , who pray for her consent ; the lover is poor ; she battles with her pride , it is a great struggle for her ; at last with open arms she cries \u2014"], "true_target": ["The feelings of a mother in all her joys and tribulation , you have most perfectly sustained . Now show me , how in despair a widow , who has lost all she possessed through fire , confronts the creditors , who clamor for their dues , and whose cruelty has killed her husband . She stands by his body and points to all that now is left her , the remains of her dead husband , and calls on them to look at their work .", "Oh ! yes , it is . I only require two words : \u201c Come here . \u201d", "In tears and sorrow a wife has bid adieu to her departing husband , whom the State has called to defend his country on the battlefield ; her only consolation is in her children , these she calls , and presses to her heart .", "And now it is her step-child .", "A mother calls her little daughter , who has done something to vex her .", "I must confess you depict pain as if you felt it .Mark , when running through the scene in which Iago tempts Othello to his final undoing, the variety of intonation required in the repetitions of \u201c Honest \u201d and \u201c Think . \u201d In a novel containing this scene the absence of the actors \u2019 trained intonations would cost the author much labor in describing how the words should be uttered ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Let me see what I can see in this fine large looking-glass . Here 's a hole through it , I see . I see , and I see !"], "true_target": ["Marry , e'en a fool ,\u2014 just like thee !", "Well , what dost thou call this very pretty thing ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["It is only your own face in the glass .A \u201c looking-glass \u201d with \u201c a hole through it \u201d seems nearly a contradiction in terms , but the word \u201c glass \u201d is synonymous with \u201c nut , \u201d a name given to the swords of English Folk Dances when so interwoven as to make a kind of frame about a central space . This space is often large enough for a man 's head . The Fool has seen the dancers make such a nut . Holding it up , he asks Pickle Herring what it is . Pickle Herring , seeing the Fool 's face through the opening and seizing his chance for a jest , calls the nut a \u201c looking-glass . \u201d The Fool carries on the conceit . Looking through the hole he and Pickle Herring jibe at each other . The whole Revesby Sword Play provides illustration after illustration of the inseparability of words and business in good dramatic dialogue . By \u201c business \u201d is meant ordinarily either illustrative action called for by a stage direction or clearly implied in the text . By \u201c latent business \u201d is meant the illustrative action which a sympathetic and imaginative producer finds in lines either ordinarily left without business or treated with some conventional action . Mr. William Poel 's historic revival of Everyman was crowded with such imaginative and richly interpretive business . When Death cried , Everyman , thou art mad ! Thou hast thy wits five , And here on earth will not amend thy life ! For suddenly I do come \u2014 on that last line he stretched out one arm and with the index finger of his hand barely touched the heart of Everyman . In the gesture there was a suggestion of what might be going to happen , even a suggestion that already Death thus claimed Everyman for his own . It pointed finely the immediate cry of Everyman , O wretched caitiff , whither shall I flee , That I might scape this endless sorrow ?The text did not call for this gesture : it belongs to the best type of interpretive business . Few untrained persons hear what they write : they merely see it . The skilled dramatist never forgets that he has to help him in his dialogue all that intonation , facial expression , gesture , and the general action of his characters may do for him . Which , after all , is the more touching , the cry of pleasure with which some child of the streets , at a charity Christmas tree , gazes at a rag doll some one holds out to her , or the silent mothering gesture with which she draws it close to her , her face alight ? It is just because , at times , facial expression , gesture , and movement may so completely express all that is needed that pantomime is coming to play a larger and larger part in our drama . Older readers of this book may recall the late Agnes Booth and her long silent scene in Jim , The Penman . By comparison of a letter and a cheque , Kate Ralston becomes aware that her husband is a famous forger , Jim , the Penman . Through all this great scene of an otherwise cheap play , the physical movement was very slight . The actress , three-quarters turned toward the audience , sat near a table . It was her facial expression and , rarely , a slight movement of the arms or body which conveyed her succession of increasingly intense emotions . The significant pantomime began with \u201c She puts cheque with others . \u201d The acting of the next seven lines of stage direction held an audience with increasing intensity of feeling for some five minutes . Ninahas just told her husband that she discovered Captain Redwood asleep in the conservatory at the end of Act I . Though she does not know it , this shows her husband that all his incriminating interview with Dr. Hartfeld may have been overheard . He falls into disturbed reverie and is so absorbed in thinking out the situation that he is oblivious to what she does ."], "true_target": ["Why , I call it a fine large looking-glass .", "You see and you see , and what do you see ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["What is this cheque ? I do n't remember it . A cheque for five guineas in favor of Mrs. Chapstone . I never gave her a cheque . Oh , I recollect , that same evening she bothered you to take some tickets and you took them in my name . I never had the tickets , by-the-bye . I suppose she sold them over again . Yes , to be sure , you wrote the cheque . You asked permission to sign my name . How wonderfully like my writing ! Why , it quite deceives me , it 's so marvelous !The greatest recent instance of pantomime is undoubtedly the third scene of Act III of Mr. Galsworthy 's Justice . Set in Falder 's cell , it is meant to illustrate the loneliness , the excitability , and even the brutishness of a prisoner 's life . Many people , while admitting the effectiveness of this wordless scene , have declared it emotionally so overwhelming that they could not endure seeing it a second time . Falder 's cell , a whitewashed space thirteen feet broad by seven deep , and nine feet high , with a rounded ceiling . The floor is of shiny blackened bricks . The barred window of opaque glass with a ventilator , is high up in the middle of the end wall . In the middle of the opposite end wall is a narrow door . In a corner are the mattress and bedding rolled upAbove them is a quarter-circular wooden shelf , on which is a Bible and several little devotional books , piled in a symmetrical pyramid ; there are also a black hair-brush , tooth-brush , and a bit of soap . In another corner is the wooden frame of a bed , standing on end . There is a dark ventilator over the window , and another over the door . Falder 's workis hung to a nail on the wall over a small wooden table , on which the novel , \u201c Lorna Doone , \u201dlies open . Low down in the corner by the door is a thick glass screen , about a foot square , covering the gas-jet let into the wall . There is also a wooden stool , and a pair of shoes beneath it . Three bright round tins are set under the window . In the fast failing daylight , Falder , in his stockings , is seen standing motionless , with his head inclined towards the door , listening . He moves a little closer to the door , his stockinged feet making no noise . He stops at the door . He is trying harder and harder to hear something , any little thing that is going on outside . He springs suddenly upright \u2014 as if at a sound , and remains perfectly motionless . Then , with a heavy sigh , he moves to his work , and stands looking at it , with his head down ; he does a stitch or two , having the air of a man so lost in sadness that each stitch is , as it were , a coming to life . Then turning abruptly , he begins pacing the cell , moving his head , like an animal pacing its cage . He stops again at the door , listens , and , placing the palms of his hands against it with his fingers spread out , leans his forehead against the iron . Turning from it , presently , he moves slowly back towards the window , tracing his way with his finger along the top line of the distemper that runs round the wall . He stops under the window , and , picking up the lid of one of the tins , peers into it . It has grown very nearly dark . Suddenly the lid falls out of his hands with a clatter , the only sound that has broken the silence \u2014 and he stands staring intently at the wall where the stuff of the shirt is hanging rather white in the darkness \u2014 he seems to be seeing somebody or something there . There is a sharp tap and click ; the cell light behind the glass screen has been turned up . The cell is brightly lighted . Falder is seen gasping for breath . A sound from far away , as of distant , dull beating on thick metal , is suddenly audible . Falder shrinks back , not able to bear this sudden clamour . But the sound grows , as though some great tumbril were rolling towards the cell . And gradually it seems to hypnotise him . He begins creeping inch by inch nearer to the door . The banging sound , travelling from cell to cell , draws closer and closer ; Falder 's hands are seen moving as if his spirit had already joined in this beating , and the sound swells till it seems to have entered the very cell . He suddenly raises his clenched fists . Panting violently , he flings himself at his door , and beats on it . The curtain falls .Perhaps an even more interesting illustration of pantomime , because it gives us , instead of the heightening emotion of one person , the action of two characters upon each other , is found in Hugo von Hofmannsthal 's Die Frau im Fenster . She remains leaning over the parapet thus for a long time . Suddenly she thinks she hears something as the curtain behind her , separating her balcony from the room , is thrown open . Turning her head she sees her husband standing in the doorway . She springs up ; her features become distorted with the utmost anguish . Messer Braccio stands silent in the doorway . He wears a simple dark green dressing-gown , without weapons ; low shoes . He is very tall and strong . His face has the quality that often shows itself in the old pictures of great lords and condottieri . He has an exceedingly large forehead , and little , dark eyes , thick black hair , short and curly , and a small beard round his face . Dianora wishes to speak , but can bring no sound from her throat . Messer . Braccio motions for her to draw in the ladder . Dianora does so automatically , rolls it together , and as though unconscious , lets the bundle fall at her feet . Braccio regards her calmly . Then he grasps his left hip with his right hand , also with his left hand , and looking down , notes that he has no dagger . Making an impatient movement of the lips he glances down into the garden and behind him . He lifts his right hand for an instant and looks at its palm . He goes back into the room with firm , unhurried steps . Dianora looks after him continually ; she cannot take her eyes from him . When the curtain falls behind him , she passes her fingers over her cheeks and through her hair . Then she folds her hands and with wildly twitching lips silently prays . Then she throws her arms backward and grasps the stone coping with her fingers , a movement revealing firm resolution and a hint of triumph . Braccio steps out through the door again , carrying in his left hand a stool which he places in the doorway , and then sits down opposite his wife . His expression has not changed . From time to time he lifts his right hand mechanically and regards the small wound in its palm ."], "true_target": ["Now then , for my pass-book ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Palla degli Albizzi .Such elaborate pantomime as the cases just cited is naturally rare , but a dramatist is always watching for an opportunity to shorten by pantomime a speech or the dialogue of a scene , or to intensify by it the effect of his words .Is anything in Shore Acres , by James A. Herne , more memorable than the last scene ? In it Uncle Nat , who has established the happiness of the household , lights his candle deliberately and goes slowly up the long staircase to his bedroom , humming softly . He is the very picture of spiritual content . Words would have spoiled that scene as they have spoiled many and many a scene of an inexperienced dramatist . Iris , at the end of Act III of Pinero 's play of that name , is on the point of leaving Bellagio . Maldonado has left lying on her table a checkbook on a bank in which he has placed a few hundred pounds in her name . Because of the defalcation of her lawyer , she is in financial straits . Maldonado wishes to help her but also to gain power over her . Unwilling to take the checkbook , she has urged him to remove it . Lacking firmness of character , however , she lets him leave it , saying she will destroy it . With a troubled , half-guilty look , Iris attires herself in her hat and cape ; after which , carrying her gloves , she returns to her dressing-bag . Glancing round the room to assure herself that she has collected all her small personal belongings , her eyes rest on the checque-book which lies open on the writing-table . She contemplates it for a time , a gradually increasing fear showing itself in her face . Ultimately she walks slowly to the table and picks up a book . She is fingering it in an uncertain , frightened way when the servant returns . Man-servant .Is there anything more , ma'am \u2014?This passage from Act I of The Great Divide shows pantomime supplementing speech as the dramatist of experience frequently employs it . A writer of less sure feeling would have permitted his characters some unnecessary or involved speech ."], "true_target": ["I know .", "Who is it ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Orestes ! Orestes !Curtain .Without question , then , speech in the drama may often give way in part or wholly to pantomime . The inexperienced dramatist should be constantly alert to see to what extent he can substitute it for dialogue .In all that has been said of pantomime , of course technical pantomime is not meant . The Commedia dell \u2019 arte , pantomime artists like the Ravel Brothers or Mme . Pilar-Morin , have a code of gesture to symbolize fixed meanings . What is meant here is the natural human pantomime of people whose faces and bodies portray or betray their feelings . Another word of warning in regard to pantomime . When a writer of plays once becomes well aware of the great value of pantomime , he is likely to overwork it . Assuming that the actor or actors may convey almost anything by physical movement , he trusts it too much . Let him who is for the moment under the spell of pantomime study the moving picture show . Pantomime may ordinarily convey physical action perfectly . Emotion naturally and easily expressed by action pantomime may convey , but when action for its clearness depends on knowledge of what is going on in the mind of the actor , pantomime begins to fail . Great artists like Mme . Pilar-Morin may carry us far even under these conditions , but most actors cannot . In a motion picture play like Cabiria , contrast the scenes in which the Roman and his slave flee before the crowd from part to part of the temple, or the scene of the terror of the wine merchantwith the scene in which the nurse meets the Roman and his slave on the wall of the city and begs their aid in saving the child , or the scenes in which Sophonisba struggles with her anxieties and mad desires . The second group of pictures without the explanations thrown on the screen would have little meaning . Pantomime is safe , not when it pleases us to use pantomime rather than to write dialogue , but when our characters naturally act rather than speak , or when we can devise for them natural action as clear as speech or clearer than speech . Use pantomime , but use it cautiously . Speech is the greatest emotional weapon of the dramatist . It best reveals emotion , and best of all creates responsive emotion . However , as most inexperienced dramatists use far too many words rather than too few , the value rather than the danger of pantomime should probably be stressed here . What seems natural , what makes for illusion , is the final test . It is this test of naturalness which has gradually excluded , except in special instances , the soliloquy and the aside . The general movement of drama in the past ten years has been toward better and better characterization in plays of all kinds . The newer melodrama and farce show us , not the mere comic puppets of the past , but people as real as the form represented \u2014 be it comedy , farce , tragedy , or melodrama \u2014 will permit . This new tendency has largely driven out the soliloquy and the aside . We should not , however , go to extremes , for occasionally we do swear under our breath or comment in asides , and as long as people do either , such people should be so represented . Moreover , we must admit that the insane , the demented , the invalid left much to himself , the hermit , whether of the woods or the hall bedroom in a city boarding house , do talk to themselves and often at great length . Neither the aside nor the soliloquy is , then , objectionable in itself . It is the use of either by persons who would probably use nothing of the sort , or their use in order to avoid exposition otherwise difficult which is to be decried . It is particularly this latter fault to which Sir Arthur Pinero calls attention when treating the faulty technique of R. L . Stevenson as a playwright : \u201c I will read you one of the many soliloquies \u2014 the faulty method of conducting action and revealing character by soliloquy was one from which Stevenson could never emancipate himself . It is a speech delivered by Deacon Brodie while he is making preparations for a midnight gambling excursion ."], "true_target": ["Electra !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I 'm a made man , Anne . Give me joy \u2014 joy !In this once popular drama we have five asides close together , for of course \u201c to himself \u201d is the equivalent of an aside . All are bad , for in each case the other person on the stage must be supposed not to hear , and the aside is merely a device for telling us what the speaker is thinking . They vary in badness , however , for while Musgrave might well explain \u201c grilse \u201d to Anne as \u201c ammunition , \u201d he says , \u201c I have learned the key to their cipher , which I have copied from the priest 's letter , \u201d not as something which he is necessarily thinking at the time , but as something which the audience needs to know at this point . An aside is objectionable when a man speaks what he would be careful only to think , either because of the very nature of his thought or because somebody is near at hand who should not overhear . Asides should be kept for confidential remarks which may be made to some person standing near the speaker , but could not be heard by persons standing at a greater distance ; and to what naturally breaks from us in a moment of irritation , terror , or other strong emotion . Asides of the first group , confidential remarks , gain much in naturalness if spoken in half tones . Nothing could be more preposterous than the old stage custom of coming down to the footlights to tell an audience in clear-cut tones confidences which must not be overheard by people close at hand on the stage . Asides which are only brief soliloquies are little better . Asides in which the speaker merely says to the audience what he might perfectly well say to the people on the stage are foolish unless the author wishes to make the point that the character has the habit of talking to himself . The following from Vanbrugh 's The Provoked Wife shows two entirely natural uses of the aside by Lady Brute , and one debatable use by Sir John .", "Of course not . Now then !", "Ah ! Bardsea Hole \u2014 all the Jacobite gentlemen \u2014 good .", "Here , girl !", "From Townley . It is as I suspected ."], "true_target": ["Grilse ? ammunition . Go on .", "A stale trick . \u2018 Tis done with lemon juice or milk , when folks would keep what they write from those who are in their secret . Politicians correspond so , Anne , and rebels .", "The proclamation !", "A blank ! Then it is as I thought !", "Read !I have learned the key to their cypher , which I have copied from the priest 's letter ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u201c For your friends assembled . John Trusty . \u201d", "But William Hyde is neither , father .", "Lancaster Fair . All the smart fellows \u2014 \u201d", "Father !", "See ! Letters become visible !"], "true_target": ["Thank Heaven ! \u2018 tis all about his calling !", "\u201c Which shall be as you fix , on Tuesday the 16th , at ten of the clock , P. M . There is a bill against you and the old clothier , payable at Ulverstone today , drawn by the butcher . Look out and see that he does not nab either of you \u2014 \u201d", "\u201c By the time the grilse come ashore \u2014 \u201d", "How ?", "\u201c Dear Will , we have thine advices , and shall be at"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["O , \u2018 tis the prettiest Fringe in the World . Well , Cousin , you have the happiest fancy . Prithee advise me about altering my Crimson Petticoat .", "Do n't let 's mind him ; let him say what he will ."], "true_target": ["Do n't answer him .\u2014 Well , what do you advise me ?", "You have done a great deal , Belinda , since yesterday ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Yes , I have work 'd very hard ; how do you like it ?"], "true_target": ["Why really I would not alter it at all . Methinks \u2018 tis very pretty as it is .Sir John 's aside , if addressed to the audience , is bad ; if meant to illustrate his habit of grumbling to himself , it is permissible ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["O my Lord , my Lord , Ofelia . O my deare father , I have been so affrighted . such a change in nature , So great an alteration in a Polonius . With what i'th Prince , name of God ? So pitifull to him , fearefull to mee , Ophelia . My Lord , as I was A maiden 's eye ne 're looked on . sowing in my closset , Lord Hamlet with his doublet Corambis . Why , what 's the all unbrac 'd , matter my Ofelia ? No hat upon his head , his stockins fouled , Ofelia . O yong Prince Hamlet , Ungartred , and downe gyved to the only floure of Denmark , his ancle , Hee is bereft of all the wealth Pale as his shirt , his knees he had , knocking each other , The Jewell that adorn 'd his And with a look so pittious in feature most purport Is filcht and stolne away , his As if he had been loosed out wit 's bereft him . of hell To speake of horrors , he comes before me ."], "true_target": ["He took me by the wrist , and held me hard , Then goes he to the length of all his arme , And with his other hand thus ore his brow , He falls to such perusall of my face As a would draw it .Is it probable that in the following extract from A Soul 's Tragedy of Browning the deeply interested and excited audience would permit the first bystander to complete uninterrupted his third and very long speech ? Are the phrasing and thought really his , or Robert Browning 's ?", "My lord I doe not know , But truly I doe feare it ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Mad for thy love ?"], "true_target": ["What said he ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ah , I suspected you of imposing upon me with your pleasantry ! I know Chiappino better . 1st Bystander .Pray , how much may you know of what has taken place in Faenza since that memorable night ?", "It is most to the purpose , that I know Chiappino to have been by profession a hater of that very office of Provost , you now charge him with proposing to accept . 1st Bystander . Sir , I 'll tell you . That night was indeed memorable . Up we rose , a mass of us , men , women , children ; out fled the guards with the body of the tyrant ; we were to defy the world ; but , next gray morning , \u201c What will Rome say ? \u201d began everybody . You know we are governed by Ravenna , which is governed by Rome . And quietly into the town , by the Ravenna road , comes on muleback a portly personage , Ogniben by name , with the quality of Pontifical Legate ; trots briskly through the streets humming a \u201c Cur fremuere gentes , \u201d and makes directly for the Provost 's Palace \u2014 there it faces you . \u201c One Messer Chiappino is your leader ? I have known three-and-twenty leaders of revolts ! \u201d\u2014 \u201c Give me the help of your arm from my mule to yonder steps under the pillar \u2014 So ! And now , my revolters and good friend what do you want ? The guards burst into Ravenna last night bearing your wounded Provost ; and , having had a little talk with him , I take on myself to come and try appease the disorderliness , before Rome , hearing of it , resort to another method : \u2018 tis I come , and not another , from a certain love I confess to , of composing differences . So , do you understand , you are about to experience this unheard-of tyranny from me , that there shall be no heading nor hanging , no confiscation nor exile : I insist on your simply pleasing yourselves . And , now , pray , what does please you ? To live without any government at all ? Or having decided for one , to see its minister murdered by the first of your body that chooses to find himself wronged , or disposed for reverting to first principles and a justice anterior to all institutions ,\u2014 and so will you carry matters , that the rest of the world must at length unite and put down such a den of wild beasts ? As for vengeance on what had just taken place ,\u2014 once for all , the wounded man assures me that he cannot conjecture who struck him ; and this so earnestly , that one may be sure he knows perfectly well what intimate acquaintance could find admission to speak with him late last evening . I come not for vengeance therefore , but from pure curiosity to hear what you will do next . \u201d And thus he ran on , easily and volubly , till he seemed to arrive quite naturally at the praise of law , order , and paternal government by somebody from rather a distance . All our citizens were in the snare and about to be friends with so congenial an adviser ; but that Chiappino suddenly stood forth , spoke out indignantly and set things right again ."], "true_target": ["Luitolfo is dead then , one may conclude ? 3rd Bystander . Why , he had a house here , and a woman to whom he was affianced ; and as they both pass naturally to the new Provost , his friend and heir ...", "Do you see ? I recognize him there !People who think ramblingly and not clearly must undoubtedly on the stage speak in similar fashion , but it is wise when possible to avoid stating two or three ideas in the same sentence , or developing two or three ideas in one long speech . An idea to a sentence , with the development of one thought in a speech , is a fairly safe principle , though not unalterable . For instance , the daughter of a widowed mother is facing the fact that if they are to stay in their meagre quarters she may have to ask this as a favor from her employer , Mr. Hollings . The mother , not knowing that he has pressed his attentions objectionably , does not understand the unwillingness of the girl to ask his help . In answer to her pleadings the girl cries , \u201c Oh , I would do anything for you ! Poor dear father ! Mother , go to Mr. Hollings . \u201d Here are three different trains of thought in one speech . The first exclamation is a direct answer to the mother 's preceding speech . For the audience there is no clearness of transition to the second exclamation , nor from it to the third . Cut the girl 's answer to the first sentence . Then the mother , seizing on the idea that her daughter is willing to do anything , urges her for this and that reason to see her employer , emphasizing the idea that , had the father lived , all their present sorrow would not exist . In this case the second exclamation falls into its proper place , as a natural reply of the girl to her mother . If , too , as the mother urges reason after reason for going to the employer for aid , the girl at last pleads , \u201c Mother , you go to Mr. Hollings , \u201d this sentence also falls into its proper place . It becomes the first sign of her yielding , for she is at last willing that some one should intercede with the man . When a writer finds himself skipping from idea to idea within a speech or a sentence , with transitions likely to be unclear for the audience , he should break what he has written into its component parts and let the other people on the stage , by their interruptions , queries , and comments , provide the connectives of speech and thought which will bind these ideas together properly . The following rearrangement by Miss Anglin of the original text of Lady Windermere 's Fan shows her correct feeling that ideas originally treated together should be separated . Lord Windermere 's reply is to the first sentence of Mrs. Erlynne 's speech . It is therefore much clearer to shift her two succeeding exclamations to her next speech . ORIGINAL REVISION"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Oh , she goes about very little . She is a lady considerably advanced in years .", "I 'm afraid I really do n't know . The fact is , Lady Bracknell , I said I had lost my parents . It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents seem to have lost me \u2014 I do n't actually know who I am by birth . I was \u2014 well , I was found .", "May I ask you then what you would advise me to do ? I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to ensure Gwendolen 's happiness .", "Well , yes , I must admit I smoke .", "Thank you , Lady Bracknell , I prefer standing .", "I have a country house with some land , of course , attached to it , about fifteen hundred acres , I believe ; but I do n't depend on that for my income . In fact , as far as I can make out , the poachers are the only people who are making anything out of it .", "In the cloak-room at the Victoria Station . It was given to him in mistake for his own .", "Well , I own a house in Belgrave Square , but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham . Of course , I can get it back whenever I like , at six months \u2019 notice .", "Do you mean the fashion or the side ?", "Twenty-nine ."], "true_target": ["Between seven and eight thousand a year .", "Yes , the Brighton line .", "I have lost both my parents .", "The late Mr. Thomas Cardew , an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition , found me and gave me the name of Worthing , because he happened to have a first-class ticket for Worthing at the time . Worthing is a place in Sussex . It is a seaside resort .", "Ah ! That reminds me , you mentioned christenings I think , Dr. Chasuble ? I suppose you know how to christen all right ?I mean , of course , you are continually christening , are n't you ?It is true that the last part of Chasuble 's speech illustrates his volubility , and that the way in which Jack picks up the idea , \u201c christening , \u201d shows that he is so absorbed in his purpose as to pay no attention to anything Chasuble says after \u201c christenings . \u201d Here , therefore , the method is probably justified , but ordinarily the end of one speech leads into the next , and when something which breaks the sequence stands between , it must prove its right to be there , or be postponed for later treatment , or be cut out altogether . What re-ordering will do for a dialogue which is uninteresting and somewhat confused was shown in the revising of the extract from the John Brown playThere is a brilliant instance , in Miss Anglin 's version of Lady Windermere 's Fan , of re-ordering such that a climax of interest develops from groups of somewhat independent sentences . ORIGINAL REVISION", "In a hand-bag .", "In investments , chiefly .", "Well , I do n't see how I could possibly manage to do that . I can produce the hand-bag at any moment . It is in my dressing-room at home . I really think that should satisfy you , Lady Bracknell .", "Yes , Lady Bracknell . I was in a hand-bag \u2014 a somewhat large , black leather hand-bag , with handles to it \u2014 an ordinary hand-bag in fact .", "Well , I 'm afraid I really have none . I am a Liberal Unionist .", "I know nothing , Lady Bracknell ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Hopper has ! am engaged , Lady Jedburgh ."], "true_target": ["Awful manners young Lady Windermere . I am afraid I"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Of government the properties to unfold , Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse , Since I am put to know that your own science Exceeds , in that , the lists of all advice My strength can give you : then no more remains , But that , to your sufficiency ... ... as your worth is able , And let them work . Are the following straight translations from the old French farce , Pierre Patelin ,as easy to speak as the revisions ? TRANSLATION REVISION"], "true_target": ["Escalus !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["I do n't care : give me Patelin . I do n't care : give me my money 's worth .I know of in the Draper 's ear . ) I know of another coin or two nobody ever some chink \u2014 got a smell of ."], "true_target": ["In a word , I am hot Patelin .This ! I must . The first revision certainly gives lines easier to speak . The writer of the second revision hears it and knows the gesture , facial expression , and intonation which must go with \u201c This ! \u201d Dialogue which is perfectly clear and characterizing should not be allowed to pass in the final revision if at any point it is unnecessarily difficult to deliver . From the preceding discussion it must be clear that the three essentials of dialogue are clearness , helping the onward movement of the story , and doing all this in character . Dialogue is , naturally , still better if it possesses charm , grace , wit , irony , or beauty of its own . Dialogue which merely states the facts is , as we have seen , likely to be dull or commonplace . Well characterized dialogue still falls short of all dialogue may be if it has none of the attributes just mentioned . Feeling this strongly , the dramatists throughout the ages have striven to give their dialogue attractiveness because of its style , forgetting that above all for the dramatist it is true that \u201c style is the man , \u201d and that \u201c style is a thinking out into language . \u201d Lyly , Shakespeare , in some of the scenes of his early plays , Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy , John Dryden in his Heroic Drama , Cibber and Lillo in their rhythmic prose which often might be perfectly well printed as blank verse , strove to decorate their dialogue from without \u2014 something sure to fail , either with the immediate audience or with posterity . If the charm , the grace , the wit , the irony of the dialogue does not come from the characters speaking , that dialogue fails in what has been shown to be one of its chief essentials , right characterization . Congreve emphasized this in that classic of dramatic criticism , his letter Concerning Humour in Comedy .\u201c A character of a splenetic and peevish humour should have a satirical wit . A jolly and sanguine humour should have a facetious wit . The former should speak positively ; the latter , carelessly : for the former observes and shows things as they are ; the latter rather overlooks nature , and speaks things as he would have them ; and his wit and humour have both of them a less alloy of judgment than the others . \u201d Undoubtedly , however , the dramatist may do much in helping a character to reveal these qualities , particularly beauty of thought or phrasing . It is a conventional use supposed to make for beauty which The Rehearsal ridicules in the following scene , for at nearly all crises the Heroic Drama rested on a simile for its strongest effect ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Shall I accuse my love or blame my fate ?", "Sure \u2018 tis some blazing comet ! is it not ?", "But here she comes .", "And against fate what mortal dares repine ?"], "true_target": ["But I am so surpris 'd with sleep , I cannot speak the rest .", "How strange a captive am I grown of late !", "My love I cannot ; that is too divine :", "Enter Chloris"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["T \u2019 have stood the rage of many a boist'rous wind ,", "Which would consume his root and sap away ;", "He spreads his worsted arms unto the skies :", "As some tall pine which we on Aetna find"], "true_target": ["So , shrouded up , your bright eye disappears .", "Break forth , bright scorching sun , and dry my tears .", "Feeling without that flames within do play ,", "Silently grieves , all pale , repines , and dies :"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Give me the Olivia . Why , what would you ? crown .\u2014 Here cousin , seize the crown ; Viola . Make me a willow Here , cousin , cabin at your gate , On this side my hand , and on And call upon my soul within the that side thine . house ; Now is this golden crown like a Write loyal cantons of contemned deep well love That owes two buckets , filling And sing them loud even in the one another , dead of night ; The emptier ever dancing in the Halloo your name to the air , reverberate hills The other down , unseen , and And make the babbling gossip of full of water . the air That bucket down and full of Cry out \u201c Olivia ! \u201d O , you should tears am I , not rest Drinking my griefs , whilst you Between the elements of air and mount up on high , earth , But should pity me ! Bolingbroke . I thought you had been willing to resign . Olivia . You might do much"], "true_target": ["My crown I am ; but still my griefs are mine . You may my glories and my state depose , But not my griefs ; still I am king of those .The second extract is the more effective because the onward sweep of the emotion of the scene reveals beauty as it moves , but the first shows King Richard checking the course of his natural emotion in order suavely and perfectly to develop his comparison . Of course there is beauty in the first extract , but it is not genuine dramatic beauty . Why does one find the following passage from The Importance of Being Earnest, delightful as it is , less fine than the passage from The Way of the"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You can take a seat , Mr. Worthing .", "Both , if necessary , I presume . What are your politics ?", "I am glad to hear it . A man should always have an occupation of some kind . There are far too many idle men in London as it is . How old are you ?", "A hand-bag !", "A very good age to be married at . I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing . Which do you know ?", "A country house ! How many bedrooms ? Well , that point can be cleared up afterwards . You have a town house , I hope ? A girl with a simple unspoiled nature , like Gwendolen , could hardly be expected to reside in the country .", "I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men , although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has . We work together , in fact . However , I am quite ready to enter your name , should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires . Do you smoke ?", "The cloak-room at Victoria Station ?", "In what locality did this Mr. James , or Thomas ,", "In land or investments ?", "I would strongly advise you , Mr. Worthing , to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible , and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent , of either sex , before the season is quite over ."], "true_target": ["The unfashionable side . I thought there was something . However , that could easily be altered .", "Both ?\u2014 That seems like carelessness . Who was your father ? He was evidently a man of some wealth . Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce , or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy ?", "Me , sir ! What has it to do with me ? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter \u2014 a girl brought up with the utmost care \u2014 to marry into a cloak-room , and form an alliance with a parcel ? Good morning , Mr. Worthing !THE WAY OF THE WORLD", "Lady Bloxham ? I do n't know her .", "Where did the gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you ?", "The line is immaterial . Mr. Worthing , I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me . To be born , or at any rate , bred in a hand-bag , whether it had handles or not , seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that remind one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution . And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to ? As for the particular locality in which the hand-bag was found , a cloak-room at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion \u2014 has probably , indeed , been used for that purpose before now \u2014 but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognized position in good society .", "Oh , they count as Tories . They dine with us . Or come in the evening , at any rate . Now to minor matters . Are your parents living ?", "That is satisfactory . What between the duties expected of one during one 's lifetime , and the duties exacted from one after one 's death , land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure . It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up . That 's all that can be said about land .", "Ah , nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character . What number in Belgrave Square ? Jack . 149 .", "Cardew come across this ordinary hand-bag ?", "Found !", "I am pleased to hear it . I do not approve of anything that tempers with natural ignorance . Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit ; touch it and the bloom is gone . The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound . Fortunately in England , at any rate , education produces no effect whatsoever . If it did , it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes , and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square . What is your income ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You wou 'd affect a cruelty which is not in your nature ; your true vanity is in the power of pleasing .", "Does that please you ?", "To your lover you owe the pleasure of hearing yourselves prais 'd ; and to an echo the pleasure of hearing yourselves talk ."], "true_target": ["Here she comes , i'faith , full sail , with her fan spread and streamers out , and a shoal of fools for tenders ; ha , no , I cry her mercy .", "You seem to be unattended , Madam \u2014 you us 'd to have the beau monde throng after you ; and a flock of gay fine perukes hovering round you .", "Yet to those two vain empty things you owe the two greatest pleasures of your life .", "Ay , ay , suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power , to destroy your lover \u2014 and then how vain , how lost a thing you 'll be ! nay , \u2018 tis true : you are no longer handsome when you 've lost your lover ; your beauty dies upon the instant ; for beauty is the lover 's gift ; \u2018 tis he bestows your charms \u2014 your glass is all a cheat . The ugly and the old , whom the looking-glass mortifies , yet after commendation can be flatter 'd by it , and discover beauties in it ; for that reflects our praises rather than our face ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["As a physician of good air \u2014 I cannot help it , Madam , though \u2018 tis against myself .", "But I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly , she wo n't give an echo fair play ; she has that everlasting rotation of the tongue , that an echo must wait \u2018 till she dies before it can catch her last words .", "Like moths about a candle ,\u2014 I had like to have lost my comparison for want of breath .", "As a favourite just disgraced ; and with as few followers .", "Is that the way ? Pray , Madam , do you pin up your hair with all your letters ? I find I must keep copies ."], "true_target": ["Very pretty . Why , you make no more of making of lovers ,", "Madam , truce with your similitudes \u2014 no , you met her husband , and did not ask him for her .", "Do , Mrs. Mincing , like a screen before a great fire . I confess I do blaze today , I am too bright .", "Madam , than of making so many card-matches .", "Hum , a hit , a hit , a palpable hit , I confess it .", "Indeed , so crips ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["O mem , your La'ship staid to peruse a pacquet of letters .", "O mem , I shall never forget it ."], "true_target": ["You 're such a critic , Mr. Witwoud .", "\u2018 Till I had the cramp in my fingers , I 'll vow , mem . And all to no purpose . But when your Laship pins it up with poetry , it fits so pleasant the next day as anything , and is so pure and so crips ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Wells . I fear so .", "Wells and Katherine stop talking when she comes near and watch her . She turns to the Doctor and asks for his verdict . He does n't reply , but looks inquiringly at Katherine . After a moment , she says he 'd better tell her . Very gently he breaks the news , and informs her that her husband will probably die . The disease is vicious and can n't be checked . )", "Wells . You want the truth ?"], "true_target": ["Wells .You mean Dr. William Crawford , the famous specialist ?", "Wells .Wonderful ? I should say so . He 's one of the most remarkable men in the profession . If there 's any one in the world who can save your husband 's life , he is the man .But can you pay his fee ? SCENARIO THE WINNING OF GENERAL JANECast Jane , about twenty . Aunt Sophy , her maiden aunt , about 45 . Bobby Holloway , a lodger , about 23 . Place , Jane 's bedroom . Time about 11 at night", "Lucius O'Grady . Constable Moriarity , R. I. C . Timothy Doyle . Tom Kerrigan , bandmaster . Major Ken . Rev . Father McCormack . Thaddeus Golligher . Lord Alfred Blakeney . Horace P. Billing . Mrs. de Courvy . C. Gregg , district inspector . Mrs. Gregg . Sergeant Colgan , R. I. C . Mary Ellen . Into Ballymoy , a sleepy little town in the west of Ireland , comes Horace P. Billing , one gentle summer day , and spins in the market place a tale of a certain General John Regan , who , he said , these many years agone had been born and had sailed from Ballymoy to free the oppressed people of Bolivia , and who was the great national hero of that Republic from that time to the present day . Comes there to listen to his tale one Doctor Lucius O'Grady , whose nose can no more keep out of other people 's business than can his busy brain refrain from all manner of schemings or his tongue from uttering the grandest , gloriousest , whooping lies that the mouth of man e'er uttered . To the American tourist he unreels anecdote and episode dealing with the romantic life of the great General while he had been yet a boy in Ballymoy . He sends Golligher , the editor of the Connaught Eagle , to show the American gentleman the birthplace of the General , a broken down cow-shed , in a nearby field . The American leaves Ballymoy wildly excited and fermenting under the constant nagging of the doctor 's busy self and never resting tongue , and promises that he will be back in a few days , and that in the meantime , should the citizens of Ballymoy have enough patriotism in them to erect a statue of their great townie in the market place , he would contribute a hundred pounds towards it . This sets the Doctor at work with even morevim . He gets Doyle to promise to contribute ten pounds , the parish priestten also , Major Kent , the local landlord , another ten , and keeps the list himself \u2014 explaining that it is not necessary for him to put himself down for anything for that reason . It develops that Doyle has a nephew in Dublin who is a mortuary sculptor , and has a statue of some deceased citizen on hand which was never paid for . This statue Doyle 's nephew agrees to sell to Ballymoy for some eighty-odd pounds . The Doctor arranges to buy it , thus figuring that there will be a balance of twenty pounds out of the American 's contribution to divide among themselves . This pleases Doyle , Father McCormack , and Gollighervery much ; but unfortunately , it develops also that Doyle has neglected to get the money from the American for the statue before he left . This does not stump the Doctor in the least , however . Among his plans for the unveiling of the statue is the appearance of Mary Ellen , the servant in Doyle 's hotel , as a green fairy , and the appearance of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to make a speech . He suggests that when the Lord Lieutenant appears , they ask him for five hundred pounds for a pier \u2014 as the town already has but five or six piers \u2014 and that the money for the statue be taken out of that . The Major objects to this , but the Doctor 's ability to explain does not desert him , and the Major is satisfied . The great day of the unveiling finally arrives . The statue from the mortuary sculptor in Dublin is standing in the market place , with a veil over it . A letter comes from the Lord Lieutenant to the effect that he has never heard of General John Regan , can find no record of him in any history of any country on the globe , and , in the person of his aide de camp , Lord Al Blakeney , protests and accuses Ballymoy of having put a hoax over on him and all that sort of bally rot , by Jove . The Doctor rises to the occasion beautifully . The aide de camp is made to make a speech as a representative of the Lord Lieutenant , and Mary Ellen unveils the statue , disclosing a hideous caricature of a grinning dead man in an ill-fitting business suit . At that moment the American appears , explains grandly that there is no such man as General John Regan , and says that if the Doctor can prove to him that the General is not a fiction he himself will give the five hundred pounds for the pier \u2014 as , he says , \u201c the show is worth it ! \u201d The Doctor merely asks the American to prove to the satisfaction of the assembled townsfolk that the General does not exist . Billing gives it up and writes out a check to the Doctor 's order for five hundred pounds , while the Doctor poses grandly before the cheers of the assembled and admiring populace of Ballymoy .Here , too , is an outline which led to a very dramatic sermon . Obviously it is a satisfactory summary of the story underlying the sermon , but just what it would give a reader , if it were a perfect scenario , is lacking \u2014 namely , suggestion of the emotional treatment of the scenes which is to make them worth the manager 's or actor 's producing : AT THE TOP OF THE TENEMENT The arrangement of the platform will suggest the bare condition of the home in the first part of the sermon , and in the second part will show the improved condition a year later . PART I Dan Howard comes home discouraged . He cannot get work . Christmas is approaching . His wife keeps his courage up and that of the family . The Minister calls and is not received kindly by Dan Howard , who does not believe in the church . He promises to get Dan work and thus proves himself a true friend in need . Misfortune has come to the home . The oldest boy is drinking and the next son has been arrested for theft . Things looks very black . It is Christmas eve and the father compels the children to go to bed . He tells them Santa Claus will not come to-night . But they hang up their stockings by the fireplace . PART II A year later . Things have changed . The home is better . All are happy tonight . The father has had steady work and so they are to have a good Christmas this year . The boys are doing well . The family all go to church now and it has made a difference in them all . The children have gone to bed with joy tonight . Dan Howard tells his wife what a help she has been to him through thick and thin . While they stand talking they hear the carol singers from the church , singing outside their home . The Minister comes in and is made very welcome . While they exchange greetings the Christmas Carol is sung and the beautiful illuminated star shines out in the night . The following may be full of dramatic suggestion for its writer , but if we mean by scenario a document which , when handed to a manager or actor , is to arouse his enthusiasm because it tells him interestingly just what a proposed play will do , this is not a scenario at all . THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE : A NIGHTMAREDramatis Personae Sylvia Macshane , the actress . Norman Pritchard , the manager . Laddie Benton , the poet . The Imp , sentinel at Ventilator X-10 , Hell .", "Wells . I think he 's dying . This is the crisis , and the chances are a thousand to one against him ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Call . John Christison . Faith Ives . David Ives . Drusilla Ives ."], "true_target": ["Curtain rises on crimson sunset in room of apartment . Actress and Manager in jealous love scene . Enter the bone of contention \u2014 the Poet . Quarrel scene \u2014 Poet crushed . By accident Actress drinks Poet 's suicide potion . Poet strangles Manager , Actress smashes chair on Poet . The lamp is knocked over . Black darkness accompanied by shrieks ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["As the curtain rises Nat is seated at the right of centre table , planning an attack upon a fort of blocks with an army of wooden soldiers . A drum lies on the floor beside him . Enter Benny , a bag over his shoulder . They salute each other and throughout use frequent military terms in their talk . Benny has just returned from the village and he gives an account of his trip and his purchases . Mention is made of the probable war with Spain . Benny then surprises Nat with a letter from Harold , which proves to contain an announcement that war has been declared and that Harold has enlisted . The two are proud and delighted at the thought of their hero . They recall his former discontent on the farm , the day of his departure to seek his fortune in the city , his statement that he was \u201c no soldier \u201d \u2014 now so gloriously disproved . Harold enters in the midst of their preparations for dinner . He is gaunt and shabby and has a nervous hunted air . He receives their plaudits sullenly . He explains that he is away on a week 's furlough and answers their questions concerning the regiment and his plans with nervous impatience .... In this next so-called scenario who is Professor Ward ? What is his relation to Phronie ? What is her age ? What is the age of Keith Sanford and what are the relations of each of these to Professor Ward himself ? A good list of dramatis personae would clear all this at once . THE EYES OF THE BLIND ACT I Professor Ward , roused at daybreak after a night at his desk , shows intense disappointment and nervous fatigue . In brief scene with Phronie , he shows the essential part she plays in his life as one on whom he can absolutely depend ; but when he expresses his disapproval of her admirer , Keith Sanford , she shows clear signs of rebellious spirit . In rapid scene with Phronie and Keith , their spirit of youthful romance is made clear ; and Keith indicates his college ambition , his predicament regarding his \u201c cribbed \u201d thesis , and his new attitude therein , ending with his evident resolve to make a clean breast of the matter .... There follows a scenario which is somewhat clearer than the others because it identifies the figures , but it certainly leaves their relations rather confused . An old white-haired man , the Sire de Maletroit , is seated in the chair to right of fireplace , in a listening attitude . The sound of a heavy door banging is heard and a minute later a young man , sword in hand , parts the curtains on left and stands blinking in the opening . He enters and explains that he has accidentally gained entrance to the house and is unable to re-open the door . His name is Denis de Beaulieu . He seems amazed to have the old man say that he has been waiting for him . Denis suggests that he must be going , at which the old man bursts into a fit of laughter . Denis is insulted and offers to hew the Maletroit 's door to pieces . He is convinced that this is folly ; the place is full of armed men . The old man rises , goes to door on right and calls upon his niece to leave her prayers and receive her lover . She comes in attended by a priest and protests that this is not the man . The uncle is incredulous and withdraws with a leer . Again a good list of dramatis personae would be helpful . Prefix to this the following : THE SIRE DE MALETROIT 'S DOOR"], "true_target": ["Curtain rises discovering Madame knitting in chair , upper right , Helene embroidering in window-seat , Suzanne on sofa , trying to sew . Suzanne gets into trouble and Helene helps her . Then grandmother offers to tell her a story . Suzanne says that her stories are so sad , always about her dead parents . Helene represses her . Enter grandfather , the Colonel , rear . Suzanne starts to show him her sewing and is repulsed . Colonel denounces the Dreyfus situation ; Madame trying to interfere when he begins on the American attitude , finally gets Helene and Suzanne from room . Then Colonel learns that George Williams , an American , loves Helene . He is overcome . Enter George rear . Embarrassing situation ; finally George gets up courage and asks for Helene 's hand , is refused , but goes away undaunted . Enter Helene , side . Colonel says , \u201c I will have no friend of traitors place his foot in my house . \u201d Scene . Exit Helene sobbing angrily . Colonel disturbed , but when wife starts after her , forbids her going . Exit the Colonel . Madame again starts toward door . Suzanne and Marie enter . Madame has Suzanne play with fishing rod ; dismisses Marie from room . Suzanne hears Helene 's sobs . Asks if she is sick . Says she will comfort her . Madame feels guilty and leaves . Suzanne persuades Helene to come out and watch her fish . Catches some imaginary ones . Discovers George . He sends up notes like fish . Later Helene furnishes bait . Then she fishes him up . Suzanne is dismissed with candy , and he persuades Helene to elope . Suzanne comes and says the cab is there . Steps heard . George goes down rope . Marie tells of the cab . Helene rushes into packing . Leaves note for mother with Suzanne , who wins a promise for a speedy return from her . Exit Helene rear . Marie and Suzanne wave from window . Talk . Soon Colonel and Madame enter . See disorderly room . Suzanne gives them the note . Madame reads it and breaks news to her husband . Defends Helene ; reminds Colonel of their parents \u2019 political differences . Suzanne tells how Helene thought they did not care for her in her sorrow . Both in tears . Colonel in desperation starts to send for them by Marie . Enter George and Helene ; Helene unable to leave without seeing them . Colonel says he may have been too hasty . Then Suzanne discovers George 's Legion of Honor badge . He and Colonel shake on the old friendship of the Republics . Curtain AN ENCORE Adapted from a Story by Margaret Deland"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Time : Fourteenth Century . Dramatis Personae Blanche , orphan niece of Sire de Maletroit . A Priest , chaplain to Sire de Maletroit . Sire de Maletroit . Denis de Beaulieu , a stranger . As the curtain rises Blanche is seen in the chapel kneeling as the priest is finishing the chanting of the vesper service . At the close she rises and walks toward the window , glancing hastily about to see that no one is in the room . As soon as the priest has left she draws from her breast a letter which she starts to read . She is soon interrupted by the entrance of her uncle the Sire de Maletroit , whose keen glance detects her hasty crumpling of the note which she has not had time to conceal . He greets her jovially and starts to walk hand in hand with her . Forcing open her hand , he finds the note , which he reads in a bitterly sarcastic tone , while Blanche stands transfixed with horror . It is a note asking her to leave the house door open at midnight so that the writer may enter and exchange words with her on the stairs . With cold sarcasm , ill concealing his rage , the Sire forces from her the story that a young captain has met her in church and given her the note . She denies that she knows his name , and the most violent threats will not induce her to tell it . She is then sent to her room to dress in sackcloth of repentance and told to prepare to spend the night in the chapel . THE SIRE DE MALETROIT 'S DOOR Persons represented The Sire de Maletroit . Blanche de Maletroit , his niece . Denis de Beaulieu , a young soldier . A Priest ."], "true_target": ["Time : Fourteenth century . Dramatis Personae Blanche , orphan niece of Sire de Maletroit . A Priest , chaplain to Sire de Maletroit . The Sire de Maletroit . Denis de Beaulieu , a stranger . With this prefixed we can read the scenario just quoted far more comprehendingly . Note how clearly the following two lists of dramatis personae take us to the scenario proper : THE LEGACY The Persons David Brice , a young attorney . Reene Brice , his uncle . Benjamin Doyle , his fiancee 's father . Dr. Wangren , family physician . Mrs. Brice , the mother . \u201c Ditto \u201d Brice , the sister . Katherine Doyle , fiancee . THE CAPTAIN : A MELODRAMA Dramatis Personae Captain La Rue , a little sea captain . Bromley Barnes , former special investigator for the U. S. customs service . Patrick Clancy , his friend . A burly Butler . John Felspar , junior partner of the firm of Felspar & Felspar , wine merchants . Two Dinner Guests , members of the firm . Carl Cozzens , the firm 's Canadian representative . It is easy , however , to let this list of characters go too far descriptively . For instance , this next list tells much which might better appear first in the body of the scenario . The danger here is one already mentioned in this book , namely , that such careful characterizing in the dramatis personae or program is likely to make the characterization of the scenario or play inadequate .AN ENCORE Adapted from the story by Margaret Deland IN TWO ACTS"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Dramatis Personae"], "true_target": ["Between the first and second acts three weeks elapse .", "Place : Little town of Old Chester ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Age , about 68 ."], "true_target": ["Age , about 68 ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Age , about 35 ."], "true_target": ["Age , about 35 ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["A baronial apartment in heavy polished stone . At the back a large doorway hung with rich tapestry leads to a small chapel . At the right are two doors also with tapestry . In the left back corner is a huge fireplace carved with the arms of the Maletroits . At the left is a large open window looking over the parapets of the castle . A heavy table and a chair or two are all the furnishings .", "Large apartment of stone . On each of the three sides of the room , three doors curtained with tapestry . On left , beside the door a window . Stone chimney-piece , carved with arms of the Maletroits . Furniture , mainly consisting of table , and heavy chair beside chimney .", "The piazza of a mountain boarding-house . R , practicable door . L , practicable window . C , practicable step . On the piazza are a number of chairs . The bit of lawn in front is not too well kept . Characters"], "true_target": ["The Island of Saint Endellion , off the Cornish Coast . At the back is a line of low rocks , and beyond , the sea . A pathway leads through the rocks down to the sea . On the right side of the stage is the Quakers \u2019 meeting-house , a plain square granite building , showing a door and two windows . The meeting-house is built on a low insular rock that rises some three or four feet above the stage ; it is approached by pathways , leading up from the stage . On the left side of the stage , down towards the audience , is David Ives 's house ; another plain granite building , with a door down stage , and above the door , a window . The house is built into a cliff that rises above it . Beyond the house is a pathway that leads up the cliff and disappears amongst the rocks on the left side towards the centre of the stage ; a little to the right is a piece of rock rising about two feet from the stage . Time , An Autumn evening .As the chief purpose of the writer of a scenario is immediately to grip the interest of the reader , this dramatic outline must obviously provide any historical background necessary to sympathetic understanding of the story . In other words , a scenario must very briefly summarize the preliminary exposition about which so much has already been said in the body of this book .The opening of the scenario , already quoted in part on p. 428 , may be interesting , but it is also puzzling , for a reader is not told enough in regard to the past of the figures involved to know how to receive what information is given . Much depends on whether Denis de Beaulieu is lying or not . Make the reader somehow understand that Denis and Blanche have never met before and that although the uncle believes Denis is her lover , he is completely in the wrong . Then comedy immediately emerges , interest increases . Here is a scenario which remained vague and confusing , till just before the final curtain , because the writer thought surprise more valuable than suspense . Consequently he held back the one bit of information which gives significance and comic value to the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Brede .", "The Brice living-room comfortably furnished in walnut . A piano centre L ., a round table rear R. Four entrances : upper L ., rear centre , upper right , right centre . Curtained windows rear R. & L . Joy seems to radiate through the household . Ditto and Katherine are discovered ; Katherine , a pretty enthusiast of 22 playing diminuendo a joy-melody at piano ; Ditto , pretty , 20 and nervous , crossing R. with an armload of tagged packages of various sizes and prettily tied \u2014 birthday presents for her brother David . Arrived at table , rear R ., she deposits them .", "The Juvenile Court , 10 A. M .\u2014 Two days later . Two entrances , R. U. door leading to Judge 's chamber . L. 2 door leading to corridor . Right \u2014 Judge 's bench . It extends up and down stage . Below it Clerk 's bench upon which are two card catalogue filing cases for court records for children . At L. of Judge 's bench small docket for prisoner . At L. of docket , witness stand . It is an 18-inch platform with chair on it . The docket and witness stand face front . Left \u2014 three benches for spectators and witnesses . They face front and are enclosed within a picket railing . Gate with spring lock , near left end of front railing .How the setting for an outdoor scene may be indicated the diagram for Act I of The Dancing Girl shows . THE DANCING GIRL . ACT I", "The dining-room of Felspar 's Summer Cottage"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Between the first and second act three weeks elapse ."], "true_target": ["Place : Little town of Old Chester .", "Dramatis Personae"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Do you realize this is your birthday ?"], "true_target": ["And what is yours ....", "Do n't you wish you were getting these birthday presents , Katherine ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Belongs to father .", "Why should n't I be , Mrs. Brice ? It is", "I am , Ditto , dear . David is mine ; therefore , what is David 's belongs to me .", "David 's birthday ."], "true_target": ["By no means ! I shall bring him home every birthday .And once in a while between .", "Of course .", "But you are n't .", "I 'm afraid my sister can n't bear the shock . She loves her husband more than I can tell you , Doctor ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["You 've been good , Doctor , and God will bless you . But you wo n't blame me for saying that perhaps some one else might look at the case differently . You do n't feel hurt ? Do n't blame me , but I 've sent for Dr. Crawford , so you can have \u2014 what do you call it ?\u2014 a consultation . I know he can save my husband 's life .", "Yes . Oh , Doctor , he 's so wonderful !"], "true_target": ["Do n't say that , Doctor . It will kill me . You do n't know what John means to me . ( The Doctor assures her that he has done his best , and the patient is now in the hands of God . He 's sorry but in all honesty he believes the man will die . Marian refuses to believe , and maintains that her husband will not die . No doubt he 's a very sick man , but he will live . She declares she has sent for a man who can save him . )", "You mean my husband will die ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Ill ? Oh , oh ! I do n't know !", "Break it down ?", "Heavens ! You must put something on it ! Some antiseptic ! Bobby come here !", "N-n-not through Aunt Sophy 's room !"], "true_target": ["Come here this instant !", "W-w-where are you going ?", "Oh , oh ! Do n't do that ! It 's not locked ! ... It may be interesting to compare the scenario of A Doll 's House from which Ibsen wrote his first draft with his original notes . Here is perfect illustration of the difference between sketchy notes which mean much to the writer and a scenario which at least broadly will convey to a reader the artistic and ethical purposes in the play the dramatist means to write . NOTES FOR THE MODERN TRAGEDY Rome , 19 . 10 , 78 . There are two kinds of spiritual law , two kinds of conscience , one in man and another , altogether different , in woman . They do not understand each other ; but in practical life the woman is judged by man 's law , as though she were not a woman but a man . The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong ; natural feeling on the one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her . A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day , which is an exclusively masculine society , with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view . She has committed forgery , and she is proud of it ; for she did it out of love for her husband , to save his life . But this husband , with his commonplace principles of honour is on the side of the law and regards the question with masculine eyes .", "Gracious ! Bobby , did he bite you ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Hump !\u2014 to heaven \u2014 eventually !", "Did he ?"], "true_target": ["I wo n't do it !", "As if I had not already been chewed up so that I can scarcely sit \u2014\u2014 I mean walk .", "Oh , no , no ! No , it 's not serious !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Open the door this minute or I 'll break it down !"], "true_target": ["Jane , Jane , are you ill ?", "Yes , this instant !"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Sultan . The Caliph Abdallah .", "Door of Hareem opens . Old Woman Old Woman No II . No . II appears with a note , gives it to Hajji .Hajji\u201c After all I cannot be so utterly without charm , if this can happen to me . \u201d He twirls his moustaches up and looks at himself in the blade of his sword . Old Woman No . II reenters with veiled womanOld Woman stands guard .", "Greetings . Zira . Zira admires her father . Old Woman . Old Woman sent off to get meal ready .", "Executioner 's Wife . Kut-Al-Kulub .", "Old Woman I. Narjis .", "Young Beggar . Kasim .", "Gaoler . Kutayt .", "Sheikh of the Desert . Jawan .", "Hajji bemoans his fate . Sheikh . Why should he have to suffer , and Sheikh be pardoned , when Sheikh is the cause of all of Hajji 's woe ? Here is Sheikh , an old robber chief , forgiven . Here is Hajji , a simple , honest beggar , to be tortured and burnt . Who is dependent on the Sheikh ? He has lost his son \u2014 has never found him again \u2014 he may be dead . No one dependent on Sheikh . But Hajji has a daughter dependent on him . A daughter ! And the sun is setting . And at this hour she is being taken to the Executioner ! The Executioner who has so cruelly forsaken Hajji . His daughter going to him , with Hajji powerless \u2014 and the Sheikh to live . It is unjust , cruel , not to be borne . \u201c It sha n't be borne \u2014 it \u2014 \u201dHe gives the Sheikh an awful look . written , the breaking The Sheikh realizes his thoughts and draws his of the chains was knife . introduced here . ] Hajji springs at him , overpowers him , and cuts his throat . The Sheikh 's last words : \u201c My son ! My son ! \u201d A moment 's thought \u2014 then Hajji wipes the knife on his own turbanQuickly he exchanges clothes with the dead man . Puts on his turban Then rifles pockets . Finds round the dead man 's throat a chain with the broken half of a coin . Slips it over his own neck . He puts the dead body into the corner where helay when the Gaoler left the dungeon . He hears the tread on the steps . He assumes the old man 's attitude . The sunlight has died out : the scene grows quite dark . The Gaoler reenters with the Soldier and a chair borne by two porters . They lift Hajji into the chair . Then take up the chair and carry it up the broad stone stairs .", "Hajji recognizes him Sheikh . What is he doing there ? Sheikh says he is condemned to prison by Sultan . Hajji delighted . Says this is his only consolation in his trouble . Never a sorrow without a grain of joy . Joy to see his enemy suffer . He could almost feel friendly towards Sheikh , when he thinks how they will be executed together .Allusions to wife were She is dead now . cut as unnecessary to Better so . She would have been old and ugly the story . ] now . Sheikh says : \u201c She developed a bad temper . \u201d Hajji furiously : \u201c That was your fault . She was the sweetest tempered creature when she was mine . You ruined her , body and soul . You fiend you \u2014 but no matter . You will be tortured tomorrow . \u201d He shrieks with delight . Gaoler reenters with a decree and a soldier carrying some instruments of torture .", "A Priest . Imam Mahmud .", "His Vizier . Abu Bakr .", "Executioner . Mansur , Chief of Police .", "Hajji curses young Beggar . Explains young Beggar must be stranger . Who is he that he does not know of Hajji ? He has sat on this seat for thirty years . His father has sat there before him . His grandfather before him . Great pride in his ancestry of beggardom .", "Hajji throws himself in front of litter . Crying out : \u201c Listen to me . I can see why you have come . You are looking for some one ,\u2014 your son . You shall find him . Give me money . \u201d Sheikh amazed at Hajji 's knowledge . Hajji says his wits have been sharpened through grief and suffering . \u201c I had a wife and a son . They were stolen by my enemy . My son was murdered , My wife carried off . The swine of a beggar who sat round the corner did it . He is my enemy . The curse of my life . \u201d Sheikh holds out purse , chinking it . Hajji blesses Sheikh . Sheikh bursts out laughing . Reveals himself to Hajji . Heis his enemy . He ran away with Hajji 's wife .", "Shopkeeper accuses Hajji of stealing Shopkeeper . garments he has on . Officer . Hajji denies it . Shopkeeper will have him taken before the ExecutionerHajji protests . He is taken off in spite of his assurances that the Shopkeeper is a madman .", "Executioner and Scribe seated on a platform Executioner . drinking coffee and smoking . Scribe . Hajji seated below them entertaining themExecutioner says it reminds him of his principal wife .", "Officer of Guard . Captain of the Watch ."], "true_target": ["Hajj", "Hajji has come to break news to Zira . Zira . Great news ! Old Woman . He is going to give her to Executioner as wife . Zira dumb with horror . Violent scene of cursing and cajoling . Finally she rebels . The Old Woman agrees with Hajji whenever he appeals to her . He finally calls in the Guard , and makes them guard door .", "/ Turned into two characters :", "Guide . Nasir .", "Hajji accused by Shopkeeper I. Executioner . Shopkeeper II bearing No . I witness . Scribe . Hajji protests . Guide . Meant to pay \u2014 Excitement of new clothes made Shopkeeper I. him forget . Shopkeeper II . Produces money . Crowd . Where did he get his money ? Sheikh of desert . They all laugh . Sheikh of desert does not give money . Sheikhs are outlaws , robbers . Not allowed in town . Hajji says he is in town . Notices Guidein crowd . Appeals to Guide \u2014 Guide says it is true that Sheikh is in town . Then , says Executioner , Sheikh must be taken before Sultan . All Curds banished by old Sultan . Sultan has an audience this afternoon . Sheikh an exileExecutioner cannot allow the word of the deceased monarch to be disregarded . Sends Guide off to show the Guard the caravansary at which Sheikh is stopping . Hajji interrupts . One word . He asks Guide did he , the Sheikh , not throw Hajji a purse . Guide repeating Hajji 's words\u201c I saw no purse . \u201d All laugh . Guide off with the Guard .", "\\ Afife , the Hunchback .", "Zira . Marsinah .", "Hajji decides in a witty , whimsical way . Sultan . The Sultan amused by him . Who is he ? Others Hajji says he is a Fakir . He plays some tricks . / While doing one , addresses the Executioner | as a slave , asking him to bring a table .< Pretends not to know who Executioner is , | and begs his pardon when he is told of his \\ rank . He then gets near the Sultan . Does a trick with a sword . Tries suddenly to stab the Sultan . The Sultan wears a coat of mail . The assassination has failed . Hajji is surrounded at once . He is to be cut to pieces . The Sultan says \u201c Stay ! This man shall be made an example of . I have heard there are rumours of sedition , and conspiracies against my person . Therefore I wear this coat of mail . I shall have this man burnt in my pleasure gardens tomorrow and the public shall be admitted to the spectacle . This shall show conspirators I am in earnest ; mean to uphold my uncle 's policy . Take this man away . \u201d Hajji appeals , he turns to the Executioner . The Executioner says he does not know him . Hajji says he does . He can prove it . He was in the house of the Executioner . In his pay . Executioner : \u201c The man is mad . \u201d The Sultan fixes Executioner with his eye . Sultan says he will sift matter to bottom . Hajji shall be tortured . The truth shall be wrung from him .\u201c At once ? \u201d asks the Gaoler . Sultan : \u201c No \u2014 let him starve the night first . \u201d TonightSultan has other affairs of import to tend to . Tomorrowhe expects the Executioner to carry out the tortures himself . The Executioner bows .\u201c Take the man away ! \u201d Hajji is dragged off , screaming . The Sultan to his Vizier : \u201c Oh Mesrur ! Mesrur !When does the sun set ? \u201d \u201c Another half an hour , sire . \u201d \u201c Half an hour ! Oh , would it were that now ? Why can I not make the sun set \u2014 I \u2014 the Sultan ? Bring forward the next case . \u201d", "Guide comes to claim half of his money . Guide . Hajji does not know anything of the bargain ; Young Beggar . \u201c I saw no purse . \u201d Guide furious . Hajji laughs at him . He appeals to young Beggar . Was there a purse there ? The young Beggar sides with Hajji . Guide off , furious , vowing vengeance . Hajji says , \u201c Go thy way in peace . \u201d Hajji . Young Beggar . Young Beggar : \u201c What do I get for siding with you ? \u201d \u201c What ? \u201d \u201c I saw you pick up the purse . I heard the agreement : you promised him half . \u201d Hajji says the money was given him , not by the Sheikh , but by fate . We all have a day in life . This is Hajji 's day . There is a future before him . The Sheikh rose from the mud to power and riches . Why not Hajji ? Fortune is smiling on him at last . He will forsake the seat he has sat on these thirty years . Go forth into the world . What shall he give the Young Beggar ? His throne and his beggar 's cloak .", "Hajji and Guide get into conversation .", "Hajji throws back the shawl . He reveals himself , asks for food and his daughter . Old Woman I . \u201c Hajji ! \u201d Hajji explains that he must escape : Leave the city at once . Too long to explain . He can never come to Bagdad again . Old Woman to bring his daughter at once , Old Woman says she has just taken daughter to Executioner 's house . Hajji : \u201c I said not before sundown \u201d \u201c It is sundown . \u201d Hajji curses Old Woman . Says that it is her fault that he took his daughter to Executioner . \u201c My fault ? \u201d says she . \u201c Yes ! You urged me on . You agreed with me . If I have lost her , you are to blame . But I can n't lose her . I must risk everything . I must get her out of his clutches . \u201d Where did Old Woman leave her ? With principal wife . An idea ! He had appointment with wife in bath at moon rise \u2014 He will go . If it costs him his life , he must try to get his daughter . He goes to door ; as he does so , there is knocking at door from without . They have found him . What shall he do ? Old Woman opens lattice in Courtyard . \u201c Escape that way ! When I was young many a time my lover came through that window . \u201d Hajji off through window . More knocking at door . Old Woman opens .", "Shopkeeper II . Fayd .", "Executioner sees Hajji and dismisses the Executioner . slaves . Amazed at Hajji 's presence . / Hajji says he has done everything to get back | to Executioner . Bribed the Sultan 's Gaoler , | faced untold dangers .| Has he lost his power ? | What has Sultan done to Executioner ? | Executioner in a boundless rage . \\ How dare Hajji come and ask him questions ? How dare he break into the women 's quarters and then ask for mercy ? How dare he appeal to the Executioner , after betraying him to the Sultan ? Who was Hajji before the Executioner looked with favor on him ? A swine , an abomination picked out of the gutter . A cur , a dog ,\u2014 a \u2014 He approaches Hajji . Hajji hurries up the steps . The Executioner is too quick , gets up after him and takes Hajji by the throat . Doing so , he catches hold of the chain with the coin that Hajji stole from", "His Scribe . < Kafur , the Sworder .", "The Wife has seen him from her window . Wife . As he crossed the courtyard at noon , she lost her heart to him . Her husband neglects her . She comes to Hajji for sympathy . Hajji makes love to her . She refuses to unveil ,\u2014 at least , at once . She makes appointment with him . To meet him in the Executioner 's Bath at moonrise . All the women bathe then . She will leave a little screen unlatched that leads to the furnaces under the baths . These furnaces reached also from men 's quarters through the door in the Court .He can come and see her there in Bath , when the other women are back in the Hareem . The Executioner never returns from the Sultan till after supper . They hear a noise . She withdraws . Hajji struts about in great glee . He hears Executioner coming He throws himself on his knees and prays .", "Hajji has great plans for his daughter . Zira . His affection for her profound . He plans for her future . She is very charming to him , As she naturally wishes to hide her love affair , and get into his good graces . She takes out her guitar . Begins to sing to him . He sways before her admiringly on his knees . Says she is beautiful .Not like his wife that he loved Not like his son now dead . But she is more beautiful than all , The light of his eyes . She laughs and sings . He claps his hands in ecstasy He has great ambitions for her . A knock on the door . Zira is sent by her father into the inner house . The Old Woman comes out of house and says it will be some pedlar at door . She opens . The Officer of the Guard and Guard enter with the Shopkeeper I", "Old Woman II .", "He is torn in two by the hatred for his enemy . Young Beggar , in And the love of the money . corner . What he could do with the money . / He could do so much for Zira, | The pride of his heart , the consolation of his | old age , | The one balm to his fatherly heart . | But his enemy 's money ? | Never . | But Zira ? Trinkets for her . Her laughter .| him of his wife . | Who was Zira 's mother ? No one . A dancing girl , | a passing whim . The fancy of a late spring . | But his wife \u2014 the one that the Sheikh took \u2014 | she was everything . His joy , his pride , the | first finding of his manhood . | To the purse : \u201c I 'll not touch thee . \u201dHe sees some one coming . He quickly pockets the purse . The Guide reenters", "Shopkeeper I. Amru ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Old woman is spinning . Zira , the daughter Zira is lazily hanging her hand into fountain . of Hajji .Locks door carefully , going out . Zira springs up and goes to the casement in Courtyard and then , plucking a rose , throws it out . She then unlocks casement and goes back to the fountain . Young Sultan appears in simple clothes , climbing in ."], "true_target": ["Old Woman says Zira 's father is coming . Zira . Thing he has never done during daytime . Luckily she saw him as she returned from bazaar . He was coming out of Public Bath , Beautifully dressed . They pretend to be busy working . Noise of key . Hajji arrives , dressed in good clothes , curls trimmed and beard combed ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Love scene . Young Sultan . His madness to come at daytime . Since he saw her first three nights ago from neighboring roof-tops cannot rest . She asks who he is . He is so different from her father . His hands so beautiful . He has love scene , In which they exchange rhymed couplets In Arabian Nights fashion . He puts a questionShe caps itThe girl is witty but natural . This charms the Sultan beyond measure . All the women he has had presented to him are so stupid . She says : \u2018 \" All the women \u2019 ! \u201d Who is he ? He says a simple scribe \u2014 brought up in a monastery . His uncle wishes him to marry . He has never loved before , Till meeting Zira . They embrace . Noise of key in gate . They hear noise . They separate \u2014 He will come back after sundown to see her . She gives him a rose . Then he will tell her something which will surprise her . He escapes through the window . Zira back to fountain ,Old Woman reenters breathless ."], "true_target": ["/ Zira tries to get the Old Woman to go out Old Woman . | that night .| Zira calms her fears \\ Coaxes her , pets her Hajji arrives ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Wife : \u201c This is an unexpected delight ! Wife . So early ? Did the Sultan not keep you to supper ? \u201d Executioner : \u201c What are you doing in the bath at this time of night ? \u201d W. \u201c I was but waiting for you to ask what you wish done with the new slave . \u201d E. \u201c What new slave ? \u201d W. \u201c The woman who has just arrived , guarded by two of your men . \u201d The Doorkeeper . \u201c The men you dispatched with Hajji , sir , this afternoon . \u201d E. \u201c Oh , that woman ! I shall have her strangled . \u201d Wife agrees . Says girl a slut . Executioner finds his wife agrees with him to such an extent that he thinks the girl must be beautiful . Rings a bell . Old Woman II comes from Colonnade .Executioner angry . Wife wonders why he is in such an angry mood . Because he may lose his head any moment . \u201c Lose his head ? \u201d she asks . \u201c Yes . This new Sultan \u2014 \u201d Zira is brought in from R. on steps by Old Woman . Zira is veiled ."], "true_target": ["Executioner orders her to unveil . Zira . She hesitates . Wife . He tears the veil from her face . Old Woman . He sees she is beautiful . Says to his wife that she has lied . \u201c Go , get the girl ready . I will come to her as soon as I have had my bath . Until tomorrow , at least , I shall enjoy life . After that \u2014 who knows ? \u201d He goes off up the Colonnade to left . Wife orders Old Woman to take the girl away with her again . Zira goes off by small door right with Old Woman . There is a tapping sound on a screen on the right side .", "Executioner returns armed . Hajji . What has Hajji decided ? Scribe . Hajji says he has been wrestling in prayer . He cannot make up his mind to kill Sultan , a descendant of the Prophet . Executioner says he also is a descendant of Prophet . Hajji is accused of cowardice . He denies it . He says he has ties that bind him . The risk is too great because of his daughter , his daughter , Zira . He tells about her . Finally he consents to kill Sultan on one condition . No matter what happens to him the Executioner must marry the daughter . The Executioner consents . Hajji is overjoyed . He quite forgets his own danger when he thinks his daughter will be the Sultana . He will hurry off to his daughter 's house , And have her conveyed to Executioner 's house after sun-down . Too beautiful to pass through the streets at day time . Begs for a guard to convey her . Once he has arranged with her he will come on to young Sultan 's palace ,\u2014 \u201c The Sultan who will be dead . Who is dead ! \u201d He hurries off in great exultation ."], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Sultan enters , splendidly attired . Vizier Has come to claim his bride . and a Guard . Old Woman amazed . Old Woman . Is he not the Sultan ? She has seen him the day of his entry into the town . Sultan : \u201c You have guessed . Bring forth Zira ! \u201d Alas ! Zira not here . At Executioner 's house . Her father has destined her for Executioner . Sultan furious . When was she taken there ? Not an hour ago . Sultan will go to Executioner 's house . The Old Woman I is to lead the way and show the entrance she took the girl to .", "Sultan turns and sees Hajji on the steps by Hajji . the bath . \u201c You ? \u201d H. \u201c Yes . \u201d Allah allowed him to escape in order to serve the Sultan . S. \u201c Cut him down ! \u201d H. \u201c Stop ! Look first whether I am not a good servant . Look in the bath ! \u201d The Sultan looks . S. \u201c The Executioner ! \u201d H. \u201c It was all his fault . He drove me to attempt your life . \u201d Soldiers reenter , bringing in Wife . Other women of the Hareem follow ."], "true_target": ["This should be some comic trial with a A Peasant with Two difficult question to solve , Such as : \u201c Should Wives . a man honour his first wife more \u2014 who is oldThe Sultan is puzzled He has no answer . Who can solve the riddle ? Hajji , pushing through the crowd ,\u2014 \u201c Let me , oh Sire ! \u201d \u2014 throws himself before Sultan .", "Sultan asks him how he , an exile , dare enter Sheikh . the city , defying the decree of his late Executioner . uncle . Crowd , etc . Sheikh says he came on peaceful mission , not to rob . He is old ; one of many robbers . No longer of consequence . Came to pray at shrine and give alms , the shrine where he had prayed in his youth . Invokes protection of High Priest . Sultan says Sheikh must be imprisoned . If High Priest proves that Sheikh came to give alms and to repent , he shall be released forthwith . Meanwhile , for his many sins , a short repentance in prison will not be harmful to his soul . The Goaler comes forward and with two guards drags the lame man off . The Sheikh goes , blessing the Sultan for his wisdom and justice . The Sultan says : \u201c Send to the High Priest at once to see if this old man spoke true . \u201d"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Gaoler says that it has been found that Sheikh . Sheikh did come on a pilgrimage . Hajji . The High Priest has testified in his favor . Soldier . Therefore the Sultan forgives him . He is free , but must leave the city at once and never return . Sheikh asks Gaoler to thank Sultan . Would go \u2014 but his limbs are too weak . Could Gaoler send for his litter ? Gaoler says he fears Sheikh 's litter gone , but could procure him a chair out of Sultan 's palace used to convey the lesser women of theGaoler now turns to Hajji . Says he is to come to him . Makes him kneel down . Hajji : \u201c I am free too , am I ? \u201d Gaoler : \u201c Free ? Here !Sometimes these head ugly . Altered during screws and thumb screws do n't fit . There rehearsal . ] must be no hitch in the performance tomorrow . \u201d \u201c Head screw ? \u201d says Hajji , trembling . Gaoler tears off Hajji 's turban and tries on the torture helmet . Gaoler : \u201c Does it feel comfortable ? \u201djoins politely . ) Gaoler\u201c I 'll see to your Excellency 's chair . \u201d Gaoler and Soldier off with instruments . Hajji is on the floor , more dead than alive ."], "true_target": ["\u201c Why not laugh tonight , Hajji ? Tomorrow morning will be time enough to weep , when you are tortured in the Pleasure Gardens of the Prophet 's descendant . \u201d"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["\u201c Hajji ! \u201d", "The Executioner enters in a bad humour .", "Wife goes and opens screen in the wall right . Hajji enters .", "\u201c I 'll soon break your spirit ! \u201d"], "true_target": ["The door left opens .", "Soldier says Zira not there . Sultan . Wife confesses she has sent her to Sanctuary . Hajji . Hajji begged her to do so . Old Woman No . I. S. \u201c Hajji ! Ever Hajji ! Why should he have any say in regard to Zira ? \u201d H. \u201c She is my daughter . \u201d S. \u201c Yours ! \u201d H. \u201c Now say I am not a good servant when I serve you with such a daughter . Will you still kill me ? \u201d Old Woman No . I testifies he is speaking the truth , is Zira 's father . S. \u201c You have attempted my life . What would my piety be if I pardoned the dagger that tried to kill the descendant of the Prophet ? Taking the law into your own handsdoes not wipe out your crime . But you are the father of Zira , The woman whom I mean to make my Sultana . Her father 's blood must not be shed by me . Go , then , be banished , forgotten ! Your life is spared \u2014 but only under one condition . Henceforth you shall be as dead to me \u2014 to your daughter . \u201d H. \u201c To my daughter ? Never to speak to her again , to feel her cheek against mine ? Never ? \u201d S. \u201c I have spoken . \u201d Hajji tears his clothes , strews ashes on his head from the brazier by his side and goes out , staggering , by door left . The Sultan will go the Mosque to beg the High Priest to release Zira from the Sanctuary . Curtain LAST SCENE The same as the first scene , Act I . Before the Mosque , moonlight . Young Beggar of Act I is seated on the seat on which Hajji installed him . Hajji enters staggering down the street . He stands at the Mosque a moment .procession . The Sultan dismounts and knocks at the Mosque . The Mosque is opened by the Priest . The Priest , when he learns it is the Sultan , brings out Zira to him . The Sultan reveals himself in a verse to Zira . Zira replies in a rhyme . The Sultan conducts Zira to a litter . He re-mounts his donkey . The procession moves past Hajji . Hajji stretches out his hand for alms , veiling his face . The procession disappears . The street grows dark again . The Mosque is shut . Hajji is left alone in the moonlight . He draws out the old gourd from behind the stone seat . A line of philosophy summing up his day . Something , perhaps , on \u201c life and water . \u201d He drinks his fill , puts the gourd away , leans back , and goes to sleep , breathing regularly . CurtainDoes not this careful scenario make very clear what are the steps in good scenario writing ? First comes structure ,\u2014 ordering for clearness and correct emphasis in the story-telling . Then , with the scenario kept flexible and subject to change till the last possible moment , come many changes big and little , for better characterization and more atmosphere \u2014 see pp . 461-463 . Finally , more than anything else , as the author puts last touches to his scenario , or revises the play he has written from it , he scans its details in relation to the probable attitude toward them of his public . In the relation of that public to his subject and his treatment of it lie the most difficult problems of the dramatist . Solving them means the difference between the will to conquer and victory . FOOTNOTES :Letters of Henrik Ibsen , p. 325 . For a similar outline see that on Faste , p. 151 .The Green Book Magazine , February , 1914 .See pp . 276-278 .See Kismet Scenario , pp . 474-507 .Samuel French , publisher . New York .Samuel French , publisher , New York .Samuel French , publisher , New York .Samuel French , publisher , New York .See pp . 154-182 .See p. 287 .European Dramatists . Henrik Ibsen . A. Henderson . Pp . 175-176 . Stewart & Kidd Co ., Cincinnati .The sentence is elliptical in the original .Ibsen 's Workshop , pp . 91-92 . Copyright , 1911 , by Chas . Scribner 's Sons , New York .Ibsen 's Workshop , pp . 92-95 .Printed by permission of Mr. Knobloch from his own manuscript .For the play see Kismet , Methuen & Co ., Ltd ., London . CHAPTER X THE DRAMATIST AND HIS PUBLIC Probably most dramatists have found that any play , either as a scenario or a completed manuscript , is not a matter of writing but of frequent re-writing . Study From Ibsen 's Workshop or most of the cases cited by Binet and Passy ,and it becomes evident that the first draft of a scenario or play is usually made mainly for clearness . That will be gained by good construction and correct emphasis . There follows a re-writing in which characterization improves greatly and dialogue becomes characterizing and attractive in itself . Either in this or possible later re-writings , the dramatist shapes his material more and more in relation to the public he wishes to address , for a dramatist is , after all , a sort of public speaker . Unlike the platform orator , however , he speaks indirectly to his audience \u2014 through people and under conditions he cannot wholly control . None the less , much if not all that concerns the persuasion of public argumentation concerns the dramatist . This does not in any sense mean that an author must truckle to his audience . Far from it . Yet no dramatist can work care free in regard to his audience . He must consider their natural likes and dislikes , interests and indifferences , their probable knowledge of his subject as well as their probable approach to it . As Mr. Archer has pointed out : \u201c The moment a playwright confines his work within the two or three hours \u2019 limit prescribed by Western custom for a theatrical performance , he is currying favour with an audience . That limit is imposed simply by the physical endurance and power of sustained attention that can be demanded of Western human beings assembled in a theatre . Doubtless an author could express himself more fully and more subtly if he ignored these limitations ; the moment he submits to them , he renounces the pretence that mere self-expression is his aim . \u201dOnce for all , what is \u201c truckling to an audience \u201d ? When an author , believing that the end of his play should be tragic , so plans his work that until the last act or even the middle of that act , a tragic ending is the logical conclusion , and then because he is told or believes that an audience will quit the theatre much more contented if the ending be happy , he forces a pleasant ending on his play , he is untrue to himself , dishonest with his art , and truckles to his public . A very large part of American audiences and many producers believe that any play is only mere entertainment and consequently may and should be so manipulated as to please the public even in its most unthinking mood . No man who does that is a dramatist . He is merely a hack playwright , bribed by the hope of immediate gain into slavish obedience to the most unthinking part of the public . On the other hand , an author is very foolish if he does not remember certain fundamental principles about audiences in a theatre . First , no matter what in his material attracts him , people rather than ideas arouse the interest of the general public . Secondly , even yet action far more than characterization wins and holds the attention of the great majority . These facts do not mean , however , that a dramatist must busy himself only with plays of action or characterization , foregoing all problems or thesis material . They do mean that if he is to write a play of ideas he must recognize that his task is the more difficult because of his public and that he must so handle it through the characterization and the action as to make his ideas widely interesting . In brief , insisting on saying what he wishes to say , he must learn to speak in terms his audience will readily understand . More than once a play good in itself has gone astray because written too much unto the author 's self , in the sense that certain figures have interested him more than others and he has forgotten that they are not likely to be interesting to the public at large and must be made so . For instance , a would-be adapter believed that the hero of the tale he was dramatizing would remain on the stage the hero still , but in action another character , with his songs and rough humor , and his constant action , in sharp contrast with the quiet speech and restrained movement of the central figure of the story , ran off with the interest . Consequently this adaptation , though unusually well done in all other respects , went awry . Another aspect of the same difficulty is that an author forgets to consider carefully whether something he finds comic or tragic will naturally be the same for his audiences . In a prize play produced some years ago in Germany , Belinda , the author found much comedy in the following situation . A rather addle-pated man has for some years been paying large sums to a correspondent , a woman as he believes , who has been painting his portrait again and again from photographs he has sent her . Little by little he has fallen in love with this correspondent . The day comes when he is awaiting a visit from her with the utmost delight . A servant , who knows that the woman is expected , enters looking utterly bewildered , and announces her arrival . There walks into the room a wizened Jewish picture dealer , who has all these years been playing on the vanity of the younger man for his own gain . Unfortunately the author forgot that an off-stage figure must be made very attractive if sympathy is to go with it rather than with a figure seen and known , or that the on-stage figure must be very unattractive if sympathy is not to go with it in contrast to a figure unseen . Consequently , when the Jew walked on he was greeted , not as the author expected with shouts of laughter , but with an aghast silence and obvious sympathy for the deceived man . Just at that point the play began to go to pieces because the author had misjudged , or not at all considered , the relation of the public to his material . Where , perhaps , authors fail with their public more than anywhere else is in motivation of the conduct of their characters .Too frequently a play slips because conduct as explained in it , though wholly convincing to the dramatist , does not similarly affect his public . It is useless for him to say stoutly that he knows the incident happened just in this way , or that the audience ought to know better than to think it could happen differently . As it is hopeless in life merely to protest that you are telling the truth when everybody is convinced that you are lying , it is wasted time for a dramatist to stand his ground in a matter of motivation if he has not succeeded in making that motivation convincing . For instance , there suddenly appears in the office of the hero of a play a former acquaintance of his , an actress . She has come to see him , if you please , even as her act in the theatre is playing . That is , simply because she so wished she has left the theatre during the performance . Now the dramatist may have known of such a case and people unacquainted with life behind the curtain may accept the situation , but people of the slightest experience in the theatre will know that no actor or actress playing an important role is allowed to leave during the performance . Instantly the scene becomes improbable for those people \u2014 and they are many . It must be so motivated as to be a probable exception in conduct , or the whole situation must be changed . If it be clear that , though a dramatist should never truckle to his audience , he cannot hope to write successfully unless at some time in his composition he revises his material with a view to the general intelligence , natural interests , and prejudices of his audience so far as his special subject is concerned , it is equally true that publics change greatly in their tastes . A young dramatist may learn much as to such shiftings in public taste by watching the revivals of plays once very successful . In Shakespeare 's day , for instance , the public would accept a mingling of the real and unreal with equanimity . Today it takes all the genius of Shakespeare to make the scenes of the ghost of Hamlet 's father convincing . In reading Chapman 's Bussy d'Ambois , with its strange commingling of real figures and ghosts , we today draw back disappointed because we feel that what has seemed real becomes with the entrance of the ghost only melodrama sublimated by some excellent characterization and fine poetry . As has already been pointed out , in Elizabethan days the public found cause for mirth in much which today is painful . Watch in performance the scene of Twelfth Night in which Toby , the Fool , and Maria deride Malvolio until they almost make him believe himself mad , and you have an admirable instance of changed taste . When first produced , it probably went with shouts of laughter . Because of sympathy for Malvolio it never goes well today . The public no longer finds madness unquestionably comic ; it has its hesitations on practical jokes ; it has lost a very little its sure enjoyment of drunkenness , especially in women . The day may conceivably come of which no one could say , as of the stage of our time : \u201c The single expletive \u2018 Damn \u2019 has saved many a would-be comic situation . \u201d The attitude of a playwright should not be , \u201c If my public ordinarily does not feel about this as I do , I will cut it out or make it conform to their usual tastes , \u201d but \u201c Knowing perfectly what the attitude of the public is toward my material , I will not cut it out until I have proved that it is not in my power to make the audience feel it as I do . \u201d Just here lies the worst temptation of the playwright . He who keeps his eye more on the money box than artistic self-respect will little by little limit his choice of subjects and conventionalize his treatment of them because he is told or believes that the public will not stand for this or that . Is it not , however , a little strange that almost everything which leading play-placers , managers , and actors have in the past twenty-five years declared the public would unwillingly accept or would not accept at all has since become not only acceptable but often popular . Some years ago it was a truism among readers of manuscript plays that college life was too limited in interest to appeal to the general theatre public . Then Mr. Ade 's The College Widow proved these prophets wrong . After this play trailed Brown of Harvard and a half-dozen other college plays which , whether good , bad , or indifferent artistically , were all warmly received by the public . Another statement once accepted in the theatrical world of New York was that American audiences no longer cared for farce , but Seven Days , followed by a crowding group of successes , changed all that . All this was not the result of any sudden revulsion on the part of the public , but came because some intelligent and clever workman , determining to make his interests and his sense of values the public 's , labored until he accomplished the task . Forthwith a delighted public begged for more and what was declared impossible became the vogue . Just at present there is a troublesome convention that the American public will not accept anything but farce or comedy . This means only that at the moment our writers of serious plays are not adept enough to win away large audiences from farce and comedy or to build up special audiences for their plays . Nevertheless , sooner or later , they or their successors will conquer such a public . In curious contradiction to the existing attitude that audiences will like only what they at present like , much advice is given as to novelty . \u201c Find something new in substance or form and your fortune is made \u201d is the implication . Wherein lies novelty of plot has already been explained .Certainly the large amount of experimentation which has been going on in recent years in one-act plays , two-act plays , or groups of one-act pieces bound together by a prologue and an epilogue , has all been well worth while , making as it does for greater flexibility of dramatic form . Yet it is unfortunately true at the present moment that most audiences prefer a three-or four-act play to something in two acts because the uninterrupted attention demanded by the last form asks too much from them . They prefer the three-act or four-act division to a group of one-act plays tied together by a prologue and an epilogue , because mere difference of form has no particular attraction for them and they do not willingly shift their interest as frequently as a group of one-act plays requires . Nevertheless there is nothing completely deterrent for a dramatist in any of these circumstances ; merely cause why , in every case , after thinking of the subject in relation to himself , he should ultimately consider it with equal care in relation to the audience for which he intends it . When , too , he is selecting his form he should observe whether though attractive to him , it may not be so difficult or repellent for the general public that another more conventional form is desirable . If he becomes sure that he cannot get his desired effects except in the form first chosen he must work until he makes it acceptable to the public or put aside his subject . The final test is not : \u201c What ordinarily do the public like in a subject like mine and in what form are they accustomed to see my subject treated , \u201d but : \u201c Can I so present the form I prefer as to make the public like equally with me what I find interesting in my subject ? \u201d That is , though presentation of a chosen subject should be flexible , the central purposes , human and artistic , of the play , should be maintained inflexibly . Bearing the audience in mind as one writes may affect the whole play , but more often it affects details \u2014 particularly order . The scenario of Kismethas been printed in full chiefly that the many changes it underwent in shaping it for final presentation might be clear . Among the many instances note , in Act II , that in the original form the love passage of Hajji followed plotting for the murder . When the play was in rehearsal , both actor and author felt at once that the sympathy it was necessary to maintain in the audience for Hajji would be lost if he turned immediately from such bloody plotting to the love scene . For this reason the order was changed . Surely there is no harm in such a shifting , for the story develops just as well and the characterization is as humanly true . This is a perfect illustration of persuasive arrangement . Take now the case of the torturing of Hajji , of which much was made in the original scenario . It is changed to the blow with the key because the horror of the scene when acted was too great and everything necessary is accomplished with the key . Here is a change made not to please the author but to make the material as treated produce in the audience the desired results , yet the change in no way interferes with any of the purposes of the dramatist . An illustration of the way in which a dramatist standing his ground because he is sure of the rightness of his psychology may win over his public is found in La Princesse Georges of Dumas fils . So great was the sympathy of the audience with Severine in her mortified wifehood that at the original performance , when she forgave her husband at the end , there were many dissenting cries . Dumas fils had foreseen this , but believing the ending truer to life than any other could be , he insisted on it . Ultimately the ending was accepted by the public as made necessary by the rest of the play . In all this discussion of the difference between truckling to an audience and necessary regard for its interests and prejudices , of changing public taste , the important point is that until a dramatist has considered his material in relation to the public , his play is by no means ready for production . Just because the persuasive side of dramatic art is so often neglected , play after play goes on the boards in such condition that it must be greatly changed before it can succeed . Often before these ample changes can be made , the public has lost interest in the piece . If a general principle might be laid down here it would be something like this . \u201c If you wish , first write your play so that to you it is something clear and convincing as well as something that moves to laughter or to tears . Before , however , it is tried on the stage , make sure that you have considered it in all details in so detached a way that you have a right to believe that , as a result of your careful revising , it will produce with the public the same interest , and the same emotions to the same degree as the original version did with you . \u201d Just here arises the ever present query , \u201c Why struggle to write what the public does not readily and quickly accept ? Why not study their unthinking likes and dislikes and give them what they want ? \u201d Certainly write in that way if it brings contentment , as it surely will bring monetary success if the play thus written really hits popular approval . However , aiming to hit popular taste is like shooting at a shifting target and a play so made may be staged just as the public makes one of its swift changes in theatrical mood . Of course , too , he who writes in this way is in no sense a leader but merely the slave of his public . In any case , his play is but an imitation , not an expression of the author 's individuality . Even would-be dramatists who do not hold the opportunist ideas just considered may draw back after reading what has been stated in this book , saying : \u201c How difficult and painstaking is this art of the drama which I have thought so fascinating and spontaneous . \u201d Of course , it is a difficult art . A good many years ago Sir Arthur Pinero said of it : \u201c When you sit in your stall at the theatre and see a play moving across the stage , it all seems so easy and so natural , you feel as though the author had improvised it . The characters , being , let us hope , ordinary human beings , say nothing very remarkable , nothing , you thinkthat might not quite well have occurred to you . When you take up a play-bookit strikes you as being a very trifling thing \u2014 a mere insubstantial pamphlet beside the imposing bulk of the latest six-shilling novel . Little do you guess that every page of the play has cost more care , severer mental tension , if not more actual manual labor , than any chapter of a novel , though it be fifty pages long . It is the height of the author 's art , according to the old maxim , that the ordinary spectator should never be clearly conscious of the skill and travail that have gone to the making of the finished product . But the artist who would achieve a like feat must realize that no ingots are to be got out of this mine , save after sleepless nights , days of gloom and discouragement , and other days , again , of feverish toil the result of which proves in the end to be misapplied and has to be thrown to the winds . \u201d Nevertheless , this difficult art remains fascinating ; and in practice , if rightly understood , it rapidly grows easier . In the understanding of any art there must be two stages . First comes the spontaneous doing of work very encouraging to the author and sufficiently good to warrant a person more experienced in encouraging him to proceed . Then begins the second stage , when he learns what can be taught him of technique in his chosen field . It is bound to be a time when consciousness of rules first learned and limitations first perceived make writing far less attractive and often so irksome that the worker is tempted to throw his task aside for good . He who does not really love his art will cast away his work . He who really cares cannot do this . He may from the hampering of these newly recognized rules become irritable , have his moments of self-doubt and despair , but he cannot stop practicing his art . With each new effort , the rules which have been so troublesome will become more and more a matter of habit . Little by little the writer will gain a curious subconscious power of using almost unthinkingly the principles he needs , giving no thought to those not needed . Then , and then only , will he write with the art that conceals art ; and it is only when he has attained to delight in the difficulties of the art he practices that he is in any true sense an artist . What ultimately happens is probably this . The critical attitude is strong in the scenario period , perhaps predominant as the dramatist works out construction , emphasis , proportion , etc ., but when , with the scenario before him , he takes his pen in hand , he lets the creative impulse swamp completely the critical sense and loses himself in his task . Or he reverses the process . He writes in pure creative abandon , until at least an act of a play lies completed before him . Then , with his critical training brought to the front , he goes over and over the manuscript until what was a pure creative effort has been chastened and sublimated by his trained critical sense . The main point is : Do n't stultify your creative instincts by trying to use critical training at the same time . As far as possible , let one precede the other . Write creatively . Then correct . Or write with the critical instinct strongly to the front until all plans are made . Then forget everything except the spirit of creation . Where dramatists in training waste their nervous energy and often stultify their best desires is in keeping critical tab upon themselves as they create . Writing something with pure delight , they are suddenly blocked by the critical spirit saying : \u201c This or that is bad . You cannot keep this or that as you have written it , \u201d and presto ! no more creative work that day . Unless the critical and creative faculties interwork sympathetically and cooperatively , keep them separate . Whoever aims to write plays chiefly or wholly because he would like fame or money or because he wishes to show that he is as strong in one fictional art as another ,\u2014 the story , the essay , the poem , whatever it may be ,\u2014 in fact he who writes plays for any other reason than that he cannot be happy except in writing plays , better give over such writing . Play-making is an exceedingly difficult art , and in so far as it is in any sense a transcript from life or a beautified presentation of life past , present , or imagined , it grows more difficult as the years pass because of the accumulating mass of dramatic masterpieces . Yet for him who cares for dramatic writing more than any form of self-expression , no time has been more promising than the present . There has been more good drama in the past twenty-five years the world over than at any time in the history of the stage . It has been more varied in subject and form , more individual in treatment . The drama is today more flexible , more daring and experimental , than ever before . It is in closer relation to all the subtlest and most advanced of man 's thinking . It has been breaking new ways for itself , and it has new ways yet to break . All that has been said in this book concerns merely the historic foundations of this very great art . Accept these principles as stated or quarrel with most of them ; but realize that any principles , whether accepted from others or self-taught , should be but the beginning of a life-long training by which the individual will pass from what he shares of general dramatic experience to what is peculiarly his own expression . FOOTNOTES :", "Wife tells him to be quiet . Hajji . Executioner near at hand . Expects an amorous embrace . Hajji says there is no time for love making . He has come about his daughter . W. \u201c Your daughter ? \u201d H. \u201c Yes . Zira \u2014 She came here for the Executioner . Has he seen her ? Has he gone in to her ? \u201d W. \u201c So she 's your daughter ? I have you to thank for this creature , Another rival . \u201d Hajji wants to know where the girl is . Ca n't Wife bring her out here and let the girl escape with him . W. \u201c Escape ? \u201d H. \u201c In that way you can get rid of a rival . \u201d W. \u201c And be strangled myself ? \u201d He urges her . If she wo n't let the girl escape , at least wo n't she take the girl to a sanctuary ? Sanctuary ? What for ? To get her out of the way \u2014 away from Executioner . Why not take her to the Mosque ? The Mosque of the Carpenters , where the venerable priest is ? He entreats Wife by the love she has for him . Points out the dangerous charm of his daughter . She will prove a great rival . Wife is torn between jealousy and fear for her own life . H. \u201c You can say you took her to the Sanctuary for purification \u2014 Take her there ! \u201d They are interrupted . The Executioner appears in a thin robe in the colonnade with two slaves . Wife escapes rapidly into inner room to right . Hajji 's escape is cut off . He grovels on the floor .", "Wife : \u201c What have we here ? \u201d Zira . She abuses girl . Old Woman II . Ill treats her .does with the Old Woman . not leave the stage , but veils . See play . ]"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Some of the Soldiers cross into door right ."], "true_target": ["Search the Hareem ! \u201d", "\u201c Where is the woman ? Where is Zira ?"], "play_index": 6, "act_index": 6}, {"query": ["Is that any reason why you should be dependent on him ? Dont do it , Juggins : pay your own way like an honest lad ; and dont eat your brother 's bread while youre able to earn your own .", "So long as you dont flounce out and leave me alone with her .Juggins goes out .", "Good lord ! I never thought of that . Juggins returns with the cakes . They regard him with suspicion .", "Oh , very well : have the letter framed and hang it up over the mantelpiece as a testimonial .", "No , he hasnt been found . The boy may be at the bottom of the river for all you care .", "I know Mr Joseph Grenfell , the brother of Monsignor Grenfell , if it is of him you are speaking .", "Radical ! What do you mean ? Dont you begin to take liberties , Juggins , now that you know we 're loth to part with you . Your brother isnt a duke , you know .", "Whats her address ?", "Thats true . I must send the boy himself away .", "So it 's come to that with him , has it ?", "Oh yes : I know . Here ! I must buy the lad 's salvation , I suppose . How much will you take to clear out and let him go ?", "Ive a good mind not to tell you .", "Well , this sort of talk is above me . Can you make anything out of it , Knox ?", "How do I know what for ?", "I never denied that youve a great intellect , Mrs Knox \u2014", "No , I 'm not going to ask . Juggins said this morning he wanted to speak to me . If he likes to tell me , let him ; but I 'm not going to ask ; and dont you either .You said you wanted to say something to me .", "| What ! And you so pious !", "Well , of all the scandalous \u2014", "Well , I dont like to be spoken to for my good . Would anybody like it ?", "This is what he says . \u201c My dear Mr Gilbey : The news about Bobby had to follow me across the Atlantic : it did not reach me until to-day . I am afraid he is incorrigible . My brother , as you may imagine , feels that this last escapade has gone beyond the bounds ; and I think , myself , that Bobby ought to be made to feel that such scrapes involve a certain degree of reprobation . \u201d \u201c As you may imagine \u201d ! And we know no more about it than the babe unborn .", "We done what we could for the boy . Short of letting him go into temptations of all sorts , he can do what he likes . What more does he want ?", "Whats up now ?", "Well , it 's not what I call respectable to have your children in and out of gaol .", "Dont be a fool , Maria . Look here , Knox : we cant let this go on . People cant be allowed to behave like this .", "You mind your own concerns . My solicitor will do what is right . I 'll not have you paying my son 's fine as if you were anything to him .", "Thats enough : I dont want any excuses . I dont blame you . You can go downstairs now , if youve nothing else to trouble me about .", "Miss Knox ! Are you sure ? Is there anyone else ?", "Whos setting himself up against religion ?", "I want none of your gaiety here . This is a respectable household . Youve gone and got my poor innocent boy into trouble . It 's the like of you thats the ruin of the like of him .", "I say nothing against religion . I suppose were all sinners , in a manner of speaking ; but I dont like to have it thrown at me as if I 'd really done anything .", "Now you listen to me , Juggins . I 'm an older man than you . Dont you throw out dirty water til you get in fresh . Dont get too big for your boots . Youre like all servants nowadays : you think youve only to hold up your finger to get the pick of half a dozen jobs . But you wont be treated everywhere as youre treated here . In bed every night before eleven ; hardly a ring at the door except on Mrs Gilbey 's day once a month ; and no other manservant to interfere with you . It may be a bit quiet perhaps ; but youre past the age of adventure . Take my advice : think over it . You suit me ; and I 'm prepared to make it suit you if youre dissatisfied \u2014 in reason , you know .", "Very properly .", "Maria : if you keep interrupting with silly questions , I shall go out of my senses . Heres the boy in gaol and me disgraced for ever ; and all you care to know is what a squiffer is .", "Well , this is a nice state of things !", "I 'm sure I 'm obliged to you for your good opinion , Mrs Knox .", "Hold your tongue . Mind your own business .", "I will fuss . Youve no feeling . You dont care what becomes of the lad .", "Oh , come , Mrs Knox ! Girls are not so innocent as all that .", "Listen here , you .", "Yes : he never could keep his mouth quiet : he told me your aunt was a kleptomaniac .", "And now my footman tells me his brother 's a duke !", "Oh , put em in . We may as well go it a bit now .", "How do you know hes not in prison ? It 's got on my nerves so , that I 'd believe even that .", "What ! Why ? Aint you satisfied ?", "The disgrace of it will kill me . And it will leave a mark on him to the end of his life .", "Why shouldnt I know ? Are we children not to be let do what we like , and our own sons and daughters kicking their heels all over the place ?I was never one to interfere between man and wife , Knox ; but if Maria started ordering me about like that \u2014", "Anywhere , so long as hes out of the reach of you and your like .", "\u201c I think my brother must have been just a little to blame himself ; so , between ourselves , I shall , with due and impressive formality , forgive Bobby later on ; but for the present I think it had better be understood that he is in disgrace , and that we are no longer on visiting terms . As ever , yours sincerely . \u201dThats a nice slap in the face to get from a man in his position ! This is what your son has brought on me .", "Knox 's daughter shewn into my pantry !", "Well , what do you want to leave for , then ? Do you want to worse yourself ?", "She dont want to hear about that , Maria .Whats your business ?", "Well , but look here you know \u2014", "Oh , I know . Very well : go . The sooner the better ."], "true_target": ["You ask him .", "My boy is to marry this woman and be a social outcast !", "Itll be long enough before youll marry the sister of a duke , you young good-for-nothing .", "Go and tell them to stop laughing . What right have they to make a noise like that ?", "Just before he let you in . A duke ! Here has everything been respectable from the beginning of the world , as you may say , to the present day ; and all of a sudden everything is turned upside down .", "Come , Mrs Knox , dont tell me Knox is a sinner . I know better . I 'm sure youd be the first to be sorry if anything was to happen to him .", "No , I didnt . And I dont want to smell it . Dont you go looking for trouble , Maria .", "Oh , get on . Get on .", "Police court !", "Ive a letter from the Monsignor Grenfell . From New York . Dropping us . Cutting us .Thats a nice thing , isnt it ?", "And is he to keep you all that time ? or are you to spend your savings in comforting him ? Have some sense , man : how can you afford such things ?", "And have my own servant above me ! Not me . Whats the world coming to ? Heres Bobby and \u2014", "We all know what French jokes are .", "My Bobby in Wormwood Scrubbs !", "I never knew we could live without being respectable .", "Messina !", "Never you mind how hes been brought up : thats my business . Tell me how hes been brought down : thats yours .", "He knows that .What is it ?", "Dont talk foolishness , girl . How could you and he be a pair , you being what you are , and he brought up as he has been , with the example of a religious woman like Mrs Knox before his eyes ? I cant understand how he could bring himself to be seen in the street with you .I havnt deserved this . Ive done my duty as a father . Ive kept him sheltered .Creatures like you that take advantage of a child 's innocence ought to be whipped through the streets .", "Wheres the police ? Wheres the Government ? Wheres the Church ? Wheres respectability and right reason ? Whats the good of them if I have to stand here and see you put my son in your pocket as if he was a chattel slave , and you hardly out of gaol as a common drunk and disorderly ? Whats the world coming to ?", "Maria : did you understand him to say his brother was a duke ?", "Wheres my son ? Whats happened to my son ? Will you tell me that , and stop cackling about your squiffer ?", "Then the sooner that tradition is broken , the better , my man .", "| What ! | | | together | | MRS GILBEY . | Juggins ! |", "If she wants money , she shant have it . Not a farthing . A nice thing , everybody seeing her on our doorstep ! If it wasnt that she may tell us something about the lad , I 'd have Juggins put the hussy into the street .", "San Francisco !", "No you dont . Not if I know it .", "Who 's with him ?", "It 's no use , Knox : look it in the face . Did I ever tell you my father drank ?", "What right have you to treat a man like that ? an honest respectable husband ? as if he were dirt under your feet ?", "Theres Mr Bobby 's parent . I disown him .", "Damme if I will ! There !", "Well , what is it ?", "Well , if thats your religion , Amelia Knox , I want no more of it . Would you invite them to your house if he married her ?", "Yes , put me in the wrong as usual . Take your boy 's part against me .", "Oh , indeed ! And who told you I was a sinner ?", "My Uncle Phil was a teetotaller . My father used to say to me : Rob , he says , dont you ever have a weakness . If you find one getting a hold on you , make a merit of it , he says . Your Uncle Phil doesnt like spirits ; and he makes a merit of it , and is chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee . I do like spirits ; and I make a merit of it , and I 'm the King Cockatoo of the Convivial Cockatoos . Never put yourself in the wrong , he says . I used to boast about what a good boy Bobby was . Now I swank about what a dog he is ; and it pleases people just as well . What a world it is !", "And what happened to the boy ?", "\u2014 and not a word have we heard of him since .", "It 's too late . I rang before I thought of it .", "My son in gaol !", "It 's likely I 'd leave my boy in prison , isnt it ?", "I was just saying , Knox , What is the world coming to ?", "What was all your fault ? I 'm half distracted . I dont know what has happened to the boy : hes been lost these fourteen days \u2014", "This is a nice thing . This is a b \u2014\u2014", "Would he have gone if you hadnt been there for him to go to ? Tell me that . You know why he went to you , I suppose ?", "Oh my \u2014Do you mean that when he was in the police court he was in the dock ? Oh , Maria ! Oh , great Lord ! What has he done ? What has he got for it ?Will you tell me or will you see me go mad on my own carpet ?", "Do you want to lose him his character , Maria ? Do you think I dont see what it is ? We 're prison folk now . Weve been in the police court .Well , I suppose you know your own business best . I take your notice : you can go when your month is up , or sooner , if you like .", "Nearly a week ! A fortnight , you mean . Wheres your feelings , woman ? It was fourteen days yesterday .", "I didnt mean to ask you to do this , Mr Juggins . I wasnt thinking when I rang .", "Lord , Knox , it was lucky you and me got let in together . I tell you straight , if it hadnt been for Bobby 's disgrace , I 'd have broke up the firm .", "Not a bit of it . It was that woman .", "You would , would you ? Youre going to meet him at the prison door ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["The plague in China !", "Well , I think it 's rather a nice letter . He as good as tells you hes only letting on to be offended for Bobby 's good .", "A squiffer , of course . How funny !", "Oh , Juggins , we 're expecting Mr and Mrs Knox to tea .", "I must go off now and order lunch .What was it you called the concertina ?", "Step down and apologize , Rob .", "Where did you buy that white lace ? I want some to match a collaret of my own ; and I cant get it at Perry and John 's .", "Oh , dont be rude to the lady , Rob .", "What old cowshed ?", "Tch \u2014! Juggins : a chair .", "I never did . The things people do ! I cant understand them . Bobby never told me he was keeping company with you . His own mother !", "We 're not Catholics . But when the Samuelses got an Archdeacon 's son to form their boy 's mind , Mr Gilbey thought Bobby ought to have a chance too . And the Monsignor is a customer . Mr Gilbey consulted him about Bobby ; and he recommended a brother of his that was more sinned against than sinning .", "| Well I never ! | KNOX . | D'ye mean it ? | MRS KNOX . | Marry Margaret !", "Dont talk nonsense , Rob . You ought to be thankful to know that the boy is alive after his disappearing like that for nearly a week .", "Jamaica !", "Fancy his condescending ! Perhaps if youd offer to raise his wages and treat him as one of the family , he 'd stay .", "Why does he call you Darling ?", "It 's a much nicer name than Juggins . I think I 'll call you by it , if you dont mind .", "What are servants coming to ?", "The West Circular Road . Is that a respectable address ,", "Juggins ?", "Enjoy themselves ! Did ever anybody hear of such a thing ?", "Aye ! He found out , didnt he ?", "When he does anything right , hes your son . When he does anything wrong hes mine . Have you any news of him ?", "Whats that noise ? Is Master Bobby at home ? I heard his laugh .", "Well !", "It doesnt seem justice , does it , Juggins ?", "Let me , Juggins .", "Dont talk silly , Rob . Bobby might get into a scrape like any other lad ; but he 'd never do anything low . Juggins , the footman , comes in with a card on a salver . He is a rather low-spirited man of thirty-five or more , of good appearance and address , and iron self-command .", "A fortnight , Rob .", "Youve been going it quite far enough , Rob .He wont get up in the mornings now : he that was always out of bed at seven to the tick !", "What for ?", "Does he call his tutor Holy Joe to his face", "What else does he say ?", "I wonder what she wants , Rob ?", "Did you smell scent in the hall , Rob ?", "Shes been here .What are you ringing for ? Are you going to ask ?"], "true_target": ["Leave it at that , please . Whatever it is , bad language wont make it better .", "What does he say ?", "Oh , not until we 're suited . He must stay his month .", "Dont jump to conclusions , Rob . How do you know ?", "His name isnt Charlie .", "And do you blame him for that ?", "Oh , that ! Why do they give a woman a fortnight for wearing a man 's hat , and a man a month for wearing hers ?", "A what ?", "Mrs Gilbey .", "Have you ever been in a police court , Juggins ?", "Whats a squiffer ?", "| Oh , Maria ! What are you saying ? |", "You mustnt mind what your master says , Juggins : he doesnt mean it .Well , I never !", "Dont fuss , Rob .", "Indeed Bobby is not a mollycoddle . They wanted him to go in for singlestick at the Young Men 's Christian Association ; but , of course , I couldnt allow that : he might have had his eye knocked out .", "But youre not entertaining Master Bobby ?", "Now dont be naughty , Rob . You know you mustnt set yourself up against religion ?", "Mrs Knox is speaking for your good , Rob .", "Dont dare to speak disrespectfully to Mr Rudolph , Bobby . For shame !", "I 'd better try what I can get out of her .Shew her up . You dont mind , do you , Rob ?", "Oh , dont call it fourteen days , Rob , as if the boy was in prison .", "Ring , Rob .Stop . Juggins will think we 're ringing for him .", "Now , Rob , you know we are all sinners . What else is religion ?", "Is she a lady , Juggins ? You know what I mean .", "| What a thing to say ! |", "Well , I never !", "Did a what ?", "How are you , dear ?", "Oh , Rob , what a thing to say ! Who says we 're not respectable ?", "Then dont . I suppose hes been found . Thats a comfort , at all events .", "Does Mr Grenfell take Bobby to music halls ?", "\u201c Miss D. Delaney . Darling Dora . \u201d Just like that \u2014 in brackets . What sort of person , Juggins ?", "Oh no . I 'm at home on first Thursdays . And we have the Knoxes to dinner every Friday . Margaret Knox and Bobby are as good as engaged . Mr Knox is my husband 's partner . Mrs Knox is very religious ; but shes quite cheerful . We dine with them on Tuesdays . So thats two evenings pleasure every week .", "Then what have you got in your hand ?", "I never give more than one and tuppence . But I suppose youre extravagant by nature . My sister Martha was just like that . Pay anything she was asked .", "Perhaps she does . Does she , Mr Juggins ?", "Thats the squiffer . Hes bought it for her .", "Bobby must have looked funny in your hat . Why did you change hats with him ?"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["No , sir . You cant get out of an engagement without behaving like a cad if the lady wishes to hold you to it .", "Women dont always marry for happiness , sir . They often marry because they wish to be married women and not old maids .", "Please sit down , madam . Allow me to discharge my duties just as usual , sir . I assure you that is the correct thing .", "A Radical sentiment , sir . But an excellent one .", "Yes , madam .", "Yes , sir .You understand , sir , that Miss Knox is a lady absolutely comme il faut ?", "It 's quite simple , madam . I 'm a footman , and should be treated as a footman .Shrieks of laughter from below stairs reach the ears of the company .", "Yes , sir .", "It is not gentlemanly to regard the service of your country as disgraceful . It is gentlemanly to marry the lady you make love to .", "I have noticed , sir , that Denmark Hill thinks that the higher you go in the social scale , the less sincerity is allowed ; and that only tramps and riff-raff are quite sincere . Thats a mistake . Tramps are often shameless ; but theyre never sincere . Swells \u2014 if I may use that convenient name for the upper classes \u2014 play much more with their cards on the table . If you tell the young lady that you want to jilt her , and she calls you a pig , the tone of the transaction may leave much to be desired ; but itll be less Camberwellian than if you say youre not worthy .", "Mr Gilbey has gone to Wormwood Scrubbs , madam .", "Would it inconvenience you , sir , if I was to give you a month 's notice ?", "Believe me , sir \u2014", "There is sound sense in that , sir . But unfortunately it is a tradition in my family that the younger brothers should spunge to a considerable extent on the eldest .", "When it would be convenient to you , sir .", "I didnt know that they did , madam .", "As an idle younger son , unable to support myself , or even to remain in the Guards in competition with the grandsons of American millionaires , I could not have aspired to Miss Knox 's hand . But as a sober , honest , and industrious domestic servant , who has , I trust , given satisfaction to his employerI feel I am a man with a character . It is for Miss Knox to decide .", "I can explain , sir . I must ask you to excuse the liberty ; but", "In the sense in which you are using the word , no , madam .", "That is not a gentlemanly turn , sir . Quite the contrary .", "Long Lost Heir .", "Yes , sir .", "That doesnt matter , sir . Your father pays me to call you sir ; and as I take the money , I keep my part of the bargain .", "I asked them not to laugh so loudly , sir . But the French gentleman always sets them off again .", "I was about to propose that solution of your problem , Mr Knox .", "The family can rely on my absolute discretion .", "Only a French marine officer , sir , and \u2014 er \u2014 Miss Delaney .The lady that called about Master Bobby , sir .", "My orders are , Miss Delaney , that you are not to be here when", "Road , madam ; but the address is not a guarantee of respectability .", "The other , sir , may be both charitably and accurately described in your native idiom as a daughter of joy .", "Miss Delaney .Miss Delaney comes in . She is a young lady of hilarious disposition , very tolerable good looks , and killing clothes . She is so affable and confidential that it is very difficult to keep her at a distance by any process short of flinging her out of the house .", "That is not a disgrace , sir .", "No , sir . Ive been well treated in your most comfortable establishment ; and I should be greatly distressed if you or Mrs Gilbey were to interpret my notice as an expression of dissatisfaction .", "I really cant leave it at that , sir . I assure you Ive no objection to young Mr Gilbey 's going to prison . You may do six months yourself , sir , and welcome , without a word of remonstrance from me . I 'm leaving solely because my brother , who has suffered a bereavement , and feels lonely , begs me to spend a few months with him until he gets over it .", "Yes , sir . Quite correct , sir , I assure you .", "Mr and Mrs Knox . The Knoxes come in . Juggins takes two chairs from the wall and places them at the table , between the host and hostess . Then he withdraws .", "They stare at him in pitiable embarrassment .", "I will explain ; but only Mrs Knox will understand . I once insulted a servant \u2014 rashly ; for he was a sincere Christian . He rebuked me for trifling with a girl of his own class . I told him to remember what he was , and to whom he was speaking . He said God would remember . I discharged him on the spot .", "Very dangerous , sir . No woman will deny herself the romantic luxury of self-sacrifice and forgiveness when they take the form of doing something agreeable . Shes almost sure to say that your misfortune will draw her closer to you .", "It stuck like a poisoned arrow . It rankled for months . Then I gave in . I apprenticed myself to an old butler of ours who kept a hotel . He taught me my present business , and got me a place as footman with Mr Gilbey . If ever I meet that man again I shall be able to look him in the face .", "Certainly , sir .", "I believe so , sir . I cant say from personal knowledge . It was before my time .", "Anything else , sir ?", "Miss Delaney , Sir .", "My brother can afford to keep me , sir . The truth is , he objects to my being in service ."], "true_target": ["Not at all , sir .", "I 'm entertaining a small party to tea in my pantry .", "Excuse me , sir : the bell .", "Marry her , sir , or behave like a cad .", "Believe me : you do not , sir . The noise this afternoon has all been because the Frenchman said that the cat had whooping cough .", "Miss Knox . Margaret comes in . Juggins withdraws .", "Perfectly , sir . It is not that I want to better myself , I assure you .", "The other lady suspects me , madam . They call me Rudolph , or the", "I should have got into an equally frightful row myself , Miss , had I betrayed my admiration for you . I looked forward to those weekly dinners .", "To enjoy themselves , sir , I should think .", "Mr Gilbey returns from Wormwood Scrubbs .", "A mistake , sir , believe me , if you are not a born artist in that line .\u2014 Beg pardon , sir , I think I heard the bell .Bobby , much perplexed , shoves his hands into his pockets , and comes off the table , staring disconsolately straight before him ; then goes reluctantly to his books , and sits down to write . Juggins returns .", "Yes , madam , I had . I exceeded the legal limit .", "Lady wishes to see Mr Bobby 's parents , sir .", "That is the milk , madam .", "I should tell the young lady that I found I couldnt fulfil my engagement .", "It is what I am paid for .", "Your daughter , sir , will probably marry whoever she makes up her mind to marry . She is a lady of very determined character .", "No , sir .", "If you wish to leave without being seen , you had better step into my pantry and leave afterwards .", "Miss Knox , sir .", "You mustnt .", "I daresay not , sir . No doubt youd prefer to make it look like an act of self-sacrifice for her sake on your part , or provoke her to break the engagement herself . Both plans have been tried repeatedly , but never with success , as far as my knowledge goes .", "They would be , sir .", "Old dear is not correct , Miss Delaney .", "No , madam . MRS GILBEYWell , good-bye .So pleased to have made your acquaintance .", "Beg pardon , sir . Mr and Mrs Gilbey are coming up the street .", "Not at all , madam . Roars of merriment from below .", "Probably she never supposed you were , sir .", "Unfortunately , he is , sir .", "I realize my advantages , sir ; but Ive private reasons \u2014", "Yes , sir . I have to do a good deal of entertaining in the pantry for Master Bobby , sir .", "Yes , sir ?", "Sir ?", "Not at all , sir .", "Your boy and Miss Delaney will be inexorably condemned by respectable society to spend the rest of their days in precisely the sort of company they seem to like best and be most at home in .", "Monsieur Duvallet .", "I assure you , sir , theres no correct way of jilting . It 's not correct in itself .", "No , sir .", "Yes , madam . MRS GILBEYI hope you had not been exceeding , Juggins .", "I propose , with your permission , to begin keeping company this afternoon , if Mrs Gilbey can spare me .", "If you wish to spare her feelings , sir , you can marry her . If you hurt her feelings by refusing , you had better not try to get credit for considerateness at the same time by pretending to spare them . She wont like it . And it will start an argument , of which you will get the worse .", "A great many most respectable people live in the West Circular", "This is the water .", "Indeed , sir ?"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["How d'ye do , both . I 'm a friend of Bobby 's . He told me all about you once , in a moment of confidence . Of course he never let on who he was at the police court .", "Excuse me : I cant help smiling . Juggins enters .", "Where to ?", "Well , whatever I may be , I 'm too much the lady to lose my temper ; and I dont think Bobby would like me to tell you what I think of you ; for when I start giving people a bit of my mind I sometimes use language thats beneath me . But I tell you once for all I must have the money to get Bobby out ; and if you wont fork out , I 'll hunt up Holy Joe . He might get it off his brother , the Monsignor .", "A sprinter . He said he was the fastest hundred yards runner in", "Dont mention it . I 'm sure it 's most kind of you to receive me at all .", "Dont fret , old dear . Rudolph will teach me high-class manners . I call it quite a happy ending : dont you , lieutenant ?", "Now , loveys , be good . Bobby , lost to all sense of adult dignity , puts out his tongue at Margaret . Margaret , equally furious , catches his protended countenance a box on the cheek . He hurls himself her . They wrestle .", "Well , remember it has gold keys . The man wouldnt take a penny less than 15 pounds for it . It was a presentation one .", "Oh , everybody calls me Darling : it 's a sort of name Ive got . Darling Dora , you know . Well , he says , \u201c Darling , if you can get Holy Joe to sprint a hundred yards , I 'll stand you that squiffer with the gold keys . \u201d", "Yes , old dear \u2014", "Of course it isnt , old man .I 'll just trot off and come back in half an hour . You two can make it up together . I 'm really not fit company for you , dearie : I couldnt live up to you .", "Oh , aint we impatient ! Well , it does you credit , old dear . And you neednt fuss : theres no disgrace . Bobby behaved like a perfect gentleman . Besides , it was all my fault . I 'll own it : I took too much champagne . I was not what you might call drunk ; but I was bright , and a little beyond myself ; and \u2014 I 'll confess it \u2014 I wanted to shew off before Bobby , because he was a bit taken by a woman on the stage ; and she was pretending to be game for anything . You see youve brought Bobby up too strict ; and when he gets loose theres no holding him . He does enjoy life more than any lad I ever met .", "So you always say , you old dears . But you know better . Bobby came to me : I didnt come to him .", "Excuse me . I call everybody Charlie .", "Oh , aint we cross !", "Let me absquatulate", "No !!! You dont tell me that old geezer has a brother a Monsignor ! And youre Catholics ! And I never knew it , though Ive known Bobby ever so long ! But of course the last thing you find out about a person is their religion , isnt it ?", "Of course , Mrs Gilbey . I am silly .", "Oh , of course you wouldnt know . How silly of me ! It 's a rather go-ahead sort of music hall in Stepney . We call it the old cowshed .", "| Well , thats straight , aint it ?", "What good would that do , old dear ? There are others , you know .", "I dont know . One does , you know .", "Well , I should never have known you out of the uniform . How did you get out ? You were doing a month , wernt you ?", "It was dull for him at home , poor lad , wasnt it ?", "He stooped to conquer .", "Charlie ?", "Well , old dear , he wants me ; and thats about the long and short of it . And I must say youre not very nice to me about it . Ive talked to him like a mother , and tried my best to keep him straight ; but I dont deny I like a bit of fun myself ; and we both get a bit giddy when we 're lighthearted . Him and me is a pair , I 'm afraid .", "No . Bobby takes him . But Holy Joe likes it : fairly laps it up like a kitten , poor old dear . Well , Bobby says to me , \u201c Darling \u2014 \u201d", "I 'll tell you : but dont you worry : hes all right . I came out myself this morning : there was such a crowd ! and a band ! they thought I was a suffragette : only fancy ! You see it was like this . Holy Joe got talking about how he 'd been a champion sprinter at college .", "Now , Bobby : introduce me : theres a dear .", "Oh get out ! I must call a man something . He doesnt mind : do you ,", "Only fancy ! he stopped to laugh at the copper ! He thought the copper would see the joke , poor lamb . He was arguing about it when the two that took me came along to find out what the whistle was for , and brought me with them . Of course I swore I 'd never seen him before in my life ; but there he was in my hat and I in his . The cops were very spiteful and laid it on for all they were worth : drunk and disorderly and assaulting the police and all that . I got fourteen days without the option , because you see \u2014 well , the fact is , I 'd done it before , and been warned . Bobby was a first offender and had the option ; but the dear boy had no money left and wouldnt give you away by telling his name ; and anyhow he couldnt have brought himself to buy himself off and leave me there ; so hes doing his time . Well , it was two forty shillingses ; and Ive only twenty-eight shillings in the world . If I pawn my clothes I shant be able to earn any more . So I cant pay the fine and get him out ; but if youll stand 3 pounds I 'll stand one ; and thatll do it . If youd like to be very kind and nice you could pay the lot ; but I cant deny that it was my fault ; so I wont press you .", "Trop merci , as they say in Boulogne . No call to be stiff with one another , have we ? Juggins comes in .", "Look at him . He cant take it in ."], "true_target": ["Right oh !Hide me in the meat safe til the cop goes by . Hum the dear old music as his step draws nigh .", "Well , dearie , men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability . But you cant blame them for that , can you ? Ive met Bobby walking with his mother ; and of course he cut me dead . I wont pretend I liked it ; but what could he do , poor dear ?", "Well , what would he call him ? After all , Holy Joe is Holy Joe ; and boys will be boys .", "I 'm ready to marry Bobby , if that will be any satisfaction .", "Well , I 'll never say anything to stand between a girl and a respectable marriage , or to stop a decent lad from settling himself . I have a conscience ; though I maynt be as particular as some .", "Youve been anxious about him . Of course . How thoughtless of me not to begin by telling you hes quite safe . Indeed hes in the safest place in the world , as one may say : safe under lock and key .", "I 'd like to know when theyll let him out .", "Why , it 's never No . 406 !", "England . We were all in the old cowshed that night .", "Then I 'm afraid youll have to send him out of the world , old dear . I 'm sorry for you : I really am , though you mightnt believe it ; and I think your feelings do you real credit . But I cant give him up just to let him fall into the hands of people I couldnt trust , can I ?", "Not a bit of it . Dont you be afraid : Ive educated Bobby a bit : hes not the mollycoddle he was when you had him in hand .", "Well , dont you think any woman would that had the feelings of a lady ?", "Oh , of course : excuse my vulgarity : a concertina . Theres one in a shop in Green Street , ivory inlaid , with gold keys and Russia leather bellows ; and Bobby knew I hankered after it ; but he couldnt afford it , poor lad , though I knew he just longed to give it to me .", "Oh , Ive let it out , have I !But hes the right sort : I can see that .You wont let on downstairs , old man , will you ?", "I dont know what youll say to me : you know I really have no right to come here ; but then what was I to do ? You know Holy Joe , Bobby 's tutor , dont you ? But of course you do .", "That means telling me to mind my own business , doesnt it ? Well , I 'm off . Tootle Loo , Charlie Darling .", "It is a lottery , isnt it , old dear ? Mr Gilbey rushes from the room , distracted .", "Whats tuppence to you , Mrs Bobby , after all ?", "Delaney , dear .Darling Dora , to real friends .", "A squiffer , dear .", "I 'm coming to it , old dear : dont you be so headstrong . Well , it was a beautiful moonlight night ; and we couldnt get a cab on the nod ; so we started to walk , very jolly , you know : arm in arm , and dancing along , singing and all that . When we came into Jamaica Square , there was a young copper on point duty at the corner . I says to Bob : \u201c Dearie boy : is it a bargain about the squiffer if I make Joe sprint for you ? \u201d \u201c Anything you like , darling , \u201d says he : \u201c I love you . \u201d I put on my best company manners and stepped up to the copper . \u201c If you please , sir , \u201d says I , \u201c can you direct me to Carrickmines Square ? \u201d I was so genteel , and talked so sweet , that he fell to it like a bird . \u201c I never heard of any such Square in these parts , \u201d he says . \u201c Then , \u201d says I , \u201c what a very silly little officer you must be ! \u201d ; and I gave his helmet a chuck behind that knocked it over his eyes , and did a bunk .", "Oh my ! isnt she an old love ? How do you keep your face straight ?", "Oh , cheer up , old dear : it wont hurt him : look at me after fourteen days of it ; I 'm all the better for being kept a bit quiet . You mustnt let it prey on your mind .", "A bunk . Holy Joe did one too all right : he sprinted faster than he ever did in college , I bet , the old dear . He got clean off , too . Just as he was overtaking me half-way down the square , we heard the whistle ; and at the sound of it he drew away like a streak of lightning ; and that was the last I saw of him . I was copped in the Dock Road myself : rotten luck , was n't it ? I tried the innocent and genteel and all the rest ; but Bobby 's hat done me in .", "Juggins , Juggins . Theyll murder one another .", "I 'm afraid it was all my fault .", "He thinks you oughtnt to be so free with me , dearie . It does him credit : he always was a gentleman , you know .", "Now , dearies !", "Thats right . Youll get him out today , wont you ?", "Oh , if I were to mind you , I should have to hold my tongue altogether ; and then how sorry youd be ! Lord , how I do run on ! Dont mind me , Mrs Gilbey .", "Pleased to meet you .Thank you .Bobby 's given me the squiffer .Do you know what theyve been doing downstairs ?Youd never guess . Theyve been trying to teach me table manners . The Lieutenant and Rudolph say I 'm a regular pig . I 'm sure I never knew there was anything wrong with me . But live and learneh , old dear ?", "Well , you are a Juggins to shew me up when theres company .It 's all right , dear : all right , old man : I 'll wait in Juggins 's pantry til youre disengaged .", "A real gentleman !", "Knagg and Pantle 's : one and fourpence . It 's machine hand-made .", "Listen here , dear boy . Your name isnt Juggins . Nobody 's name is Juggins ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["Five shillings !", "Margaret !", "Dont ring , Jo . See the gentleman out yourself . Knox hastily sees Duvallet out . Mother and daughter sit looking forlornly at one another without saying a word . Mrs Knox slowly sits down . Margaret follows her example . They look at one another again . Mr Knox returns .", "You hear that , Jo ?Hes taken to whisky and soda . A pint a week ! And the beer the same as before !", "He ought to , Mr Gilbey .", "A theatre !", "Well , I will say for you , Mr Gilbey , that youre better than my man here . Hes a bitter hard heathen , is my Jo , God help me !", "Boat-race night ! But what had you to do with the boat race ? You went to the great Salvation Festival at the Albert Hall with your aunt . She put you into the bus that passes the door . What made you get out of the bus ?", "If it 's not proper for her to say , it 's not proper for a man to say , either . Mr Doovalley : youre a married man with daughters . Would you let them go about with a stranger , as you are to us , without wanting to know whether he intended to behave honorably ?", "Shes beyond my control , Jo , and beyond yours . I cant even pray for her now ; for I dont know rightly what to pray for .", "It 's all over between us and everybody . When a girl runs away from home like that , people know what to think of her and her parents .", "Jo , look !", "It only ends in our not knowing what to believe . Mrs Gilbey told me Bobby was in Brighton for the sea air . Theres something queer about that . Gilbey would never let the boy loose by himself among the temptations of a gay place like Brighton without his tutor ; and I saw the tutor in Kensington High Street the very day she told me .", "I wonder ! Bobby hasnt been near us either : thats what I cant make out .", "Oh get along with you , Gilbey , if you begin talking about my intellect . Give us some tea , Maria . Ive said my say ; and Im sure I beg the company 's pardon for being so long about it , and so disagreeable .", "I 'm sure I heard Margaret 's .", "She went where the spirit guided her . And what harm there was in it she knew nothing about .", "But how could you bring yourself to do it , Margaret ? I 'm not blaming you : I only want to know . How could you bring yourself to do it ?", "Well , you gave me all you could , Jo ; and if it wasnt what I wanted , that wasnt your fault . But I 'd rather have you as you were than since you took to whisky and soda .", "Oh , dont say such a thing as that . I know that prayer can set us free ; though you could never understand me when I told you so ; but it sets us free for good , not for evil .", "No : you shall have your beer because you like it . The whisky was only brag . And if you and me are to remain friends , Mr Gilbey , youll get up to-morrow morning at seven .", "It doesnt matter whether you set yourself up against it or not , Mr. Gilbey . If it sets itself up against you , youll have to go the appointed way : it 's no use quarrelling about it with me that am as great a sinner as yourself .", "Thats a new name hes got for me .I tell you , Jo , this doesnt sit well on you . You may call it preaching if you like ; but it 's the truth for all that . I say that if youve happiness within yourself , you dont need to seek it outside , spending money on drink and theatres and bad company , and being miserable after all . You can sit at home and be happy ; and you can work and be happy . If you have that in you , the spirit will set you free to do what you want and guide you to do right . But if you havent got it , then youd best be respectable and stick to the ways that are marked out for you ; for youve nothing else to keep you straight .", "Margaret : it 's not on account of the duke : dukes are vanities . But take my advice and take him .", "Oh , well , say no more , Jo . I wont plague you about it .You never did understand ; and you never will . Hardly anybody understands : even Margaret didnt til she went to prison . She does now ; and I shall have a companion in the house after all these lonely years .", "It 's like in the book of Revelations . But I do say that unless people have happiness within themselves , all the earthquakes , all the floods , and all the prisons in the world cant make them really happy .", "Well , miss ?", "What did I tell you ? Heres something out of the common happening with a servant ; and we none of us know how to behave .", "Jo !", "How do you know , Mr Gilbey , what youll do to-morrow morning ?", "But how did it all begin ?", "Margaret : dont talk like that . I cant bear to hear you talking wickedly . I can bear to hear the children of this world talking vainly and foolishly in the language of this world . But when I hear you justifying your wickedness in the words of grace , it 's too horrible : it sounds like the devil making fun of religion . Ive tried to bring you up to learn the happiness of religion . Ive waited for you to find out that happiness is within ourselves and doesnt come from outward pleasures . Ive prayed oftener than you think that you might be enlightened . But if all my hopes and all my prayers are to come to this , that you mix up my very words and thoughts with the promptings of the devil , then I dont know what I shall do : I dont indeed : itll kill me ."], "true_target": ["No , Jo : you know I 'm not . What better were my people than yours , for all their pride ? But Ive noticed it all my life : we 're ignorant . We dont really know whats right and whats wrong . We 're all right as long as things go on the way they always did . We bring our children up just as we were brought up ; and we go to church or chapel just as our parents did ; and we say what everybody says ; and it goes on all right until something out of the way happens : theres a family quarrel , or one of the children goes wrong , or a father takes to drink , or an aunt goes mad , or one of us finds ourselves doing something we never thought we 'd want to do . And then you know what happens : complaints and quarrels and huff and offence and bad language and bad temper and regular bewilderment as if Satan possessed us all . We find out then that with all our respectability and piety , weve no real religion and no way of telling right from wrong . Weve nothing but our habits ; and when theyre upset , where are we ? Just like Peter in the storm trying to walk on the water and finding he couldnt .", "But why did a gentleman like you stoop to be a footman ?", "Margaret ! Such a word !", "Margaret ! Who accused you of such a thing ?", "I dont say she was ignorant . But I do say that she didnt know what we know : I mean the way certain temptations get a sudden hold that no goodness nor self-control is any use against . She was saved from that , and had a rough lesson too ; and I say it was no earthly protection that did that . But dont think , you two men , that youll be protected if you make what she did an excuse to go and do as youd like to do if it wasnt for fear of losing your characters . The spirit wont guide you , because it isnt in you ; and it never had been : not in either of you .", "I never thought she sang right after all those lessons we paid for .", "Nicely , thank you . Good evening , Mr Gilbey .", "Do as I tell you . Catch the man before hes out of sight . Knox rushes from the room . Mrs Knox looks anxiously and excitedly from the window . Then she throws up the sash and leans out . Margaret Knox comes in , flustered and annoyed . She is a strong , springy girl of eighteen , with large nostrils , an audacious chin , and a gaily resolute manner , even peremptory on occasions like the present , when she is annoyed .", "What makes you think that ?", "There , Jo , there ! I 'm sure I 'd have you here always if I could . But it cant be . God 's work must go on from day to day , no matter what comes . We must face our trouble and bear it .", "Margaret : if youre going to be hardened about it , theres no use my saying anything .", "He ought to marry her whether or no .", "This is a strange time . I was never one to talk about the end of the world ; but look at the things that have happened !", "If they knew , Jo , thered be a crowd round the house looking up at us . You shouldnt keep thinking about it .", "Run down , Jo , quick . Catch her : save her .", "How do you know youd have starved ? All the other things might have been added unto you .", "You wouldnt have the courage . I dont blame the girl .", "The floods in France !", "No . Whats the matter ?", "They are redeemed already if they choose to believe it .", "Theres no use going over it all again , Jo . If a girl hasnt happiness in herself , she wont be happy anywhere . Youd better go back to the shop and try to keep your mind off it .", "Did it come true , what he said ?", "I blame nobody . But let him not think he can walk by his own light . I tell him that if he gives up being respectable he 'll go right down to the bottom of the hill . He has no powers inside himself to keep him steady ; so let him cling to the powers outside him .", "Dont take offence where none is meant , Mr Gilbey . Talk about something else . No good ever comes of arguing about such things among the like of us .", "I dont like this spirit in you , Margaret . I dont like your talking to me in that tone .", "What brings you home at this hour ? Have you heard anything ?", "You mustnt turn her out , Jo ! I 'll go with her if she goes .", "You ought to pay the gentleman the fine , Jo .", "Margaret !", "I hope you dont think yourself a heroine of romance .", "A preacher utters them in a reverent tone of voice .", "It wasnt true , Mr Gilbey . She used to pick up handkerchiefs if she saw them lying about ; but you might trust her with untold silver .", "I wanted a man who had that happiness within himself . You made me think you had it ; but it was nothing but being in love with me ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["Hold your tongue , you young hussy ; or go out of my house this instant .", "And my daughter ? Whos to marry my daughter ?", "Yes : if he 'd have her with her character gone . But who would ? Youre the brother of a duke . Would \u2014", "Margaret , I say !", "| No ! | MRS KNOX . | Whats that ?", "And is a man never to have a bit of fun ? See whats come of it with your daughter ! She was to be content with your happiness that youre always talking about ; and how did the spirit guide her ? To a month 's hard for being drunk and assaulting the police . Did I ever assault the police ?", "I shouldnt have blamed you : I 'd have done the same only for Margaret . Too much straightlacedness narrows a man 's mind . Talking of that , what about those hygienic corset advertisements that Vines & Jackson want us to put in the window ? I told Vines they werent decent and we couldnt shew them in our shop . I was pretty high with him . But what am I to say to him now if he comes and throws this business in our teeth ?", "Now , dont take on like that , Amelia . You know I always give in to you that you were right about religion . But one of us had to think of other things , or we 'd have starved , we and the child .", "You mean to say that you did it !", "I cant . I keep fancying everybody knows it and is sniggering about it . I 'm at peace nowhere but here . It 's a comfort to be with you . It 's a torment to be with other people .", "I know I shouldnt . You have your religion , Amelia ; and I 'm sure I 'm glad it comforts you . But it doesnt come to me that way . Ive worked hard to get a position and be respectable . Ive turned many a girl out of the shop for being half an hour late at night ; and heres my own daughter gone for a fortnight without word or sign , except a telegram to say shes not dead and that we 're not to worry about her .", "Who wants to turn her out ? But is she going to ruin us ? To let everybody know of her disgrace and shame ? To tear me down from the position Ive made for myself and you by forty years hard struggling ?", "I dont want any whisky and soda . I 'll take the pledge if you like .", "Margaret , and all over between us and them .", "The like of us ! Are you throwing it in our teeth that your people were in the wholesale and thought Knox and Gilbey wasnt good enough for you ?", "Come up and be ashamed of yourselves , behaving like wild Indians . DORA 'S VOICEOh ! oh ! oh ! Dont Bobby . Now \u2014 oh !I beg your pardon , Mrs Gilbey , for coming in like that ; but whenever I go upstairs in front of Bobby , he pretends it 's a cat biting my ankles ; and I just must scream . Bobby and Margaret enter rather more shyly , but evidently in high spirits . Bobby places himself near his father , on the hearthrug , and presently slips down into the arm-chair .", "It isnt alone the curious things that are happening , but the unnatural way people are taking them . Why , theres Margaret been in prison , and she hasnt time to go to all the invitations shes had from people that never asked her before .", "If Ive made any mistake I 'm ready to apologize . But I want to know where my daughter has been for the last fortnight .", "And you sit there coolly and tell me this !", "What was I saying myself only this morning ?", "Do you mean to tell me that my daughter laughs at a Frenchman 's jokes ?", "Oh , thats nothing . I told him Margaret was down in Cornwall with her aunt .", "Margaret !", "Margaret mixing with a Frenchman and a footman \u2014She doesnt know about \u2014 about His Grace , you know .", "Martinique !", "Just what I say . A concertina adds its music to the revelry .", "Dont talk nonsense , woman : is this a time for praying ? Does anybody know ? Thats what we have to consider now . If only we can keep it dark , I do n't care for anything else .", "Hold your tongue , you shameless young hussy . Dont you dare say what it means .", "How long more are you going to keep me waiting , Amelia ? Do you think I 'm made of iron ? Whats the girl done ? What are we going to do ?", "I believe Gilbey has found out .", "No . But I knew it . Simmons told me .", "If the Gilbeys have found out , it 's all over between Bobby and", "Dont be vulgar , girl . Remember your new position .I suppose youre serious about this , Mr \u2014 Mr Rudolph ?", "Just a word with you , my man . Was your mother married to your father ?", "No . Have you ?", "Amelia : this is your job .I leave you to your mother . I shall have my own say in the matter when I hear what you have to say to her .", "Well , I got to tell lies , aint I ? You wont . Somebody 's got to tell em .", "I did all I could to make you happy . I never said a harsh word to you ."], "true_target": ["The long and short of it seems to be that he cant lawfully marry my daughter , as he ought after going to prison with her .", "Well , I dont know : I didnt like to tell you : you have enough to worry you without that ; but Gilbey 's been very queer ever since it happened . I cant keep my mind on business as I ought ; and I was depending on him . But hes worse than me . Hes not looking after anything ; and he keeps out of my way . His manner 's not natural . He hasnt asked us to dinner ; and hes never said a word about our not asking him to dinner , after all these years when weve dined every week as regular as clockwork . It looks to me as if Gilbey 's trying to drop me socially . Well , why should he do that if he hasnt heard ?", "You sit there after carrying on with my daughter , and tell me coolly youre married .", "I 'll put a stop to this .", "Whats the meaning of it ? What do they do it for ?", "Shes shaking bands with him : shes coming across to the door .", "| Silence , miss . |", "Oh come , Gilbey ! we 're not tramps because weve had , as it were , an accident .", "What I want to know is , whats to be the end of this ? It 's not for me to interfere between you and your son , Gilbey : he knows his own intentions best , no doubt , and perhaps has told them to you . But Ive my daughter to look after ; and it 's my duty as a parent to have a clear understanding about her . No good is ever done by beating about the bush . I ask Lieutenant \u2014 well , I dont speak French ; and I cant pronounce the name \u2014", "I ask Mr Doovalley what his intentions are .", "What right had he to mention such a thing to you ?", "Was your mother the duchess ?", "But they shouldnt have happened to you . Dont you know that ?", "Oh , certainly .", "Is it him that you said was brother to a \u2014", "I know whatll clinch it , Gilbey . You leave it to me .", "Oh , dont preach , old girl .", "Margaret in Holloway !", "Earthquakes !", "My daughter in Holloway Gaol !", "Youve joined the Suffragets !", "Do you mean to say theyre having a party all to themselves downstairs , and we having a party up here and knowing nothing about it ?", "A Frenchman ! It only needed this .", "Juggins comes in with the tea-tray . All rise . He takes the tray to Mrs .", "Who wants to give up being respectable ? All this for a pint of whisky that lasted a week ! How long would it have lasted Simmons , I wonder ?", "Is this all right , Gilbey ? Anybody may be the son of a duke , you know . Is he legitimate ?", "Oh , youve put her up to that , have you ? And where did you come in , may I ask ?", "Just look at the people in the street , going up and down as if nothing had happened . It seems unnatural , as if they all knew and didnt care .", "Will you tell me what place ? I can judge for myself how safe it was .", "Here ! where are you going ?", "She had a happy , respectable home \u2014 everything \u2014", "Margaret ! With a man !", "It turned my blood cold at first to hear Margaret telling people about Holloway ; but it goes down better than her singing used to .", "Gilbey .", "Let her alone , Gilbey .", "Magsy , my child : dont bring down your father 's hairs with sorrow to the grave . Theres only one thing I care about in the world : to keep this dark . I 'm your father . I ask you here on my knees \u2014 in the dust , so to speak \u2014 not to let it out .", "Youve always had some grudge against me ; and nobody but yourself can understand what it is .", "Yes : the brother of a duke : thats what he is .Well , would you marry her ?"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["I 'm quite ready .", "Oh \u2014 let me introduce . My friend Lieutenant Duvallet . Mrs", "I dont know . The meeting got on my nerves , somehow . It was the singing , I suppose : you know I love singing a good swinging hymn ; and I felt it was ridiculous to go home in the bus after we had been singing so wonderfully about climbing up the golden stairs to heaven . I wanted more music \u2014 more happiness \u2014 more life . I wanted some comrade who felt as I did . I felt exalted : it seemed mean to be afraid of anything : after all , what could anyone do to me against my will ? I suppose I was a little mad : at all events , I got out of the bus at Piccadilly Circus , because there was a lot of light and excitement there . I walked to Leicester Square ; and went into a great theatre .", "Yes : I 'm going to tear it all down . It stands between us and everything . I 'll tell everybody .", "Stop . Do you believe he could live up to me ?", "It means \u2014", "I know nothing about the Frenchman except that hes a very nice fellow and can swing his leg round like the hand of a clock and knock a policeman down with it . He was in Wormwood Scrubbs with you . I was in Holloway .", "Well , where do you want me to sit ? Whats the use of saying things like that ?", "Drunk and assaulting the police ! Forty shillings or a month !", "I cant tell you . I dont understand it myself . The prayer meeting set me free , somehow . I should never have done it if it were not for the prayer meeting .", "Papa : you really must not tell people that they sit there .", "Then I suppose what I did was not evil ; or else I was set free for evil as well as good . As father says , you cant have anything both ways at once . When I was at home and at school I was what you call good ; but I wasnt free . And when I got free I was what most people would call not good . But I see no harm in what I did ; though I see plenty in what other people did to me .", "I 'm not . You mustnt pretend to think that I 'm a clergyman 's daughter , Bobby .", "You seem to me to be a very decent sort ; and Bobby 's behaving like a skunk .", "I 'll tell everybody . Knox collapses in despair . Mrs Knox tries to pray and cannot . Margaret stands inflexible .", "Ive lived a lot since I saw you last . I wasnt at my aunt 's . All that time that you were in Brighton , I mean .", "Just so . How did you find out the difference ?", "What do you think , Bobby ?", "Does him credit ! To insult you like that ! Bobby : say that that wasnt what you meant .", "Dont hope for that , father . Mind : I 'll tell everybody . It ought to be told . It must be told .", "I 'm not ; and I never will be .I didnt do it for a lark , Bob : I did it out of the very depths of my nature . I did it because I 'm that sort of person . I did it in one of my religious fits . I 'm hardened at eighteen , as they say . So what about the match , now ?", "He wants to know will you marry me .", "If you dont take care , the policeman 's tooth will only be the beginning of a collection .", "Father : do please be commonly civil to a gentleman who has been of the greatest service to me . What will he think of us ?", "Do you feel you couldnt marry a woman whos been in prison ?", "Well , deny that it was .", "I wont stay here if she has to hide . I 'll keep her company in the pantry .", "Whats the use of that if they dont choose to believe it ? You dont believe it yourself , or you wouldnt pay policemen to twist their arms . Whats the good of pretending ? Thats all our respectability is , pretending , pretending , pretending . Thank heaven Ive had it knocked out of me once for all !", "Just what the Suffraget said to me in Holloway . He throws the job on you .", "Ive beaten you hollow . I knocked out two of his teeth . Ive got one of them . He sold it to me for ten shillings .", "Dora has spent the last fortnight in prison .", "Ring the bell , Bobby ; and tell Juggins to shew me out .", "Oh , it 'd be no fun . If I wanted what you call fun , I should ask the Frenchman to kiss me \u2014 or Juggins .", "Do you mean to say that you \u2014 oh ! this is a let-down for me .", "You should have heard all the words that were flying round that night . You should mix a little with people who dont know any other words . But when I said that about a descent into hell I was not swearing . I was in earnest , like a preacher .", "Holloway Gaol . Was that safe enough ?", "Gilbey . Mr Gilbey .", "It was a lot . It was very stuffy ; and I didnt like the people much , because they didnt seem to be enjoying themselves ; but the stage was splendid and the music lovely . I saw that Frenchman , Monsieur Duvallet , standing against a barrier , smoking a cigarette . He seemed quite happy ; and he was nice and sailorlike . I went and stood beside him , hoping he would speak to me .", "You know very well what I mean . Bobby : did you ever care one little scrap for me in that sort of way ? Dont funk answering : I dont care a bit for you \u2014 that way .", "What did you do to the copper ?", "My aunt ! I suppose so . I havent seen her for a month .", "I 'm not hardened , mother . But I cant talk nonsense about it . You see , it 's all real to me . Ive suffered it . Ive been shoved and bullied . Ive had my arms twisted . Ive been made scream with pain in other ways . Ive been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were a sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . And the only difference between me and the others was that I hit back . Yes I did . And I did worse . I wasnt ladylike . I cursed . I called names . I heard words that I didnt even know that I knew , coming out of my mouth just as if somebody else had spoken them . The policeman repeated them in court . The magistrate said he could hardly believe it . The policeman held out his hand with his two teeth in it that I knocked out . I said it was all right ; that I had heard myself using those words quite distinctly ; and that I had taken the good conduct prize for three years running at school . The poor old gentleman put me back for the missionary to find out who I was , and to ascertain the state of my mind . I wouldnt tell , of course , for your sakes at home here ; and I wouldnt say I was sorry , or apologize to the policeman , or compensate him or anything of that sort . I wasnt sorry . The one thing that gave me any satisfaction was getting in that smack on his mouth ; and I said so . So the missionary reported that I seemed hardened and that no doubt I would tell who I was after a day in prison . Then I was sentenced . So now you see I 'm not a bit the sort of girl you thought me . I 'm not a bit the sort of girl I thought myself . And I dont know what sort of person you really are , or what sort of person father really is . I wonder what he would say or do if he had an angry brute of a policeman twisting his arm with one hand and rushing him along by the nape of his neck with the other . He couldnt whirl his leg like a windmill and knock a policeman down by a glorious kick on the helmet . Oh , if theyd all fought as we two fought we 'd have beaten them .", "Oh , Bobby ! That sort of woman !", "Yes it is .", "Still grinding away for that Society of Arts examination ,", "All the women in Holloway are somebody 's daughters . Really , father , you must make up your mind to it . If you had sat in that cell for fourteen days making up your mind to it , you would understand that I 'm not in the humor to be gaped at while youre trying to persuade yourself that it cant be real . These things really do happen to real people every day ; and you read about them in the papers and think it 's all right . Well , theyve happened to me : thats all .", "I did no harm . I went to see a lovely dance . I picked up a nice man and went to have a dance myself . I cant imagine anything more innocent and more happy . All the bad part was done by other people : they did it out of pure devilment if you like . Anyhow , here we are , two gaolbirds , Bobby , disgraced forever . Isnt it a relief ?", "Yes . Lots of other women were going in alone . I had to pay five shillings .", "Mr Duvallet , father .", "I did . I had that satisfaction at all events . I knocked two of his teeth out .", "You know it 's true .", "Now , I 'll make you kiss me , just to punish you ."], "true_target": ["Dont you know me ?", "Bobby : youre no good . No good to me , anyhow .", "No : I mean to say I dont believe her .", "Not at all . Bobby : you really are a beast : Monsieur Duvallet will think I 'm always fighting .", "Oh ! was that what they told you ?", "Oh , I dont know . It was boat-race night , they said .", "Then do something nice to prevent us feeling mean about this afterwards . Youd better kiss me . You neednt ever do it again .", "I have loved Juggins since the first day I beheld him . I felt instinctively he had been in the Guards . May he walk out with me , Mr Gilbey ?", "In quod .", "Mother . Mother . Mrs Knox draws in her head and confronts her daughter .", "What sort of thing , Bobby ?", "Bobby and Dora are \u2014 are \u2014 well , not brother and sister .", "Bobby and Miss \u2014 Miss \u2014\u2014", "It 's no use , mother . I dont care for you and Papa any the less ; but I shall never get back to the old way of talking again . Ive made a sort of descent into hell \u2014", "Yes .", "You .", "Bobby has spent the last fortnight in prison . You dont mind , do you ?", "Oh father : how can you ?", "The policeman I assaulted .", "Pig ! Beast !Now where are you ?", "Thats what I was in for .", "Oh , has everybody been in prison for being drunk and assaulting the police ? How long were you in ?", "You !", "I think you had better leave us to fight it out , if you dont mind .", "My bloke paid the fine the day he got out himself .", "I 'm ever so much obliged to you , Monsieur Duvallet .", "Oh no .I 'm a heroine of reality , if you can call me a heroine at all . And reality is pretty brutal , pretty filthy , when you come to grips with it . Yet it 's glorious all the same . It 's so real and satisfactory .", "I 'm so sorry , Bobby : I asked Monsieur Duvallet to call for me here ; and I forgot to tell you .Monsieur Duvallet : Miss Four hundred and seven . Mr Bobby Gilbey .I really dont know how to explain our relationships . Bobby and I are like brother and sister .", "Goodbye , Mr Gilbey .I suppose you wont introduce me to the clergyman 's daughter .", "You shouldnt have prayed for me to be enlightened if you didnt want me to be enlightened . If the truth were known , I suspect we all want our prayers to be answered only by halves : the agreeable halves . Your prayer didnt get answered by halves , mother . Youve got more than you bargained for in the way of enlightenment . I shall never be the same again . I shall never speak in the old way again . Ive been set free from this silly little hole of a house and all its pretences . I know now that I am stronger than you and Papa . I havnt found that happiness of yours that is within yourself ; but Ive found strength . For good or evil I am set free ; and none of the things that used to hold me can hold me now . Knox comes back , unable to bear his suspense .", "Bobby ? Youll never pass .", "Oh , mother , do go out and stop father making a scene in the street . He rushed at him and said \u201c Youre the man who took away my daughter \u201d loud enough for all the people to hear . Everybody stopped . We shall have a crowd round the house . Do do something to stop him . Knox returns with a good-looking young marine officer .", "You neednt do that if you dont like , Bobby . Suppose we get off duty for the day , just to see what it 's like .", "Oh , Monsieur Duvallet , I 'm so sorry \u2014 so ashamed . Mother : this is Monsieur Duvallet , who has been extremely kind to me . Monsieur Duvallet : my mother .", "Shut up , Dora : I want to hear .", "You dont believe shes really a clergyman 's daughter , do you , you silly boy ? It 's a stock joke .", "I found out from a Frenchman .", "Are you scandalized , Bobby ?", "And I tell you I 'm not either . Look ! Heres a report of it . The daily papers are no good ; but the Sunday papers are splendid .See !\u201c Hardened at Eighteen . A quietly dressed , respectable-looking girl who refuses her name \u201d \u2014 thats me .", "And now he wants me to cut you dead to keep him in countenance . Well , I shant : not if my whole family were there . But I 'll cut him dead if he doesnt treat you properly .I 'll educate you , you young beast .", "No . Ive something to tell you . Sit down and lets be comfortable . She sits on the edge of the table . He sits beside her , and puts his arm wearily round her waist .", "Well , did you ? Come ! Dont be mean . Ive owned up . You can put it all on me if you like ; but I dont believe you care any more than I do .", "He did , just as if he had known me for years . We got on together like old friends . He asked me would I have some champagne ; and I said it would cost too much , but that I would give anything for a dance . I longed to join the people on the stage and dance with them : one of them was the most beautiful dancer I ever saw . He told me he had come there to see her , and that when it was over we could go somewhere where there was dancing . So we went to a place where there was a band in a gallery and the floor cleared for dancing . Very few people danced : the women only wanted to shew off their dresses ; but we danced and danced until a lot of them joined in . We got quite reckless ; and we had champagne after all . I never enjoyed anything so much . But at last it got spoilt by the Oxford and Cambridge students up for the boat race . They got drunk ; and they began to smash things ; and the police came in . Then it was quite horrible . The students fought with the police ; and the police suddenly got quite brutal , and began to throw everybody downstairs . They attacked the women , who were not doing anything , and treated them just as roughly as they had treated the students . Duvallet got indignant and remonstrated with a policeman , who was shoving a woman though she was going quietly as fast as she could . The policeman flung the woman through the door and then turned on Duvallet . It was then that Duvallet swung his leg like a windmill and knocked the policeman down . And then three policemen rushed at him and carried him out by the arms and legs face downwards . Two more attacked me and gave me a shove to the door . That quite maddened me . I just got in one good bang on the mouth of one of them . All the rest was dreadful . I was rushed through the streets to the police station . They kicked me with their knees ; they twisted my arms ; they taunted and insulted me ; they called me vile names ; and I told them what I thought of them , and provoked them to do their worst . Theres one good thing about being hard hurt : it makes you sleep . I slept in that filthy cell with all the other drunks sounder than I should have slept at home . I cant describe how I felt next morning : it was hideous ; but the police were quite jolly ; and everybody said it was a bit of English fun , and talked about last year 's boat-race night when it had been a great deal worse . I was black and blue and sick and wretched . But the strange thing was that I wasnt sorry ; and I 'm not sorry . And I dont feel that I did anything wrong , really .Now that it 's all over I 'm rather proud of it ; though I know now that I 'm not a lady ; but whether thats because we 're only shopkeepers , or because nobody 's really a lady except when theyre treated like ladies , I dont know .", "They shouldnt happen to anybody , I suppose . But they do .And really I 'd rather go out and assault another policeman and go back to Holloway than keep talking round and round it like this . If youre going to turn me out of the house , turn me out : the sooner I go the better .", "Quite well , thank you . How did you enjoy Brighton ?", "How do you do , Mrs. Gilbey ?Duvallet comes in behaving himself perfectly . Knox follows .", "I know : the tone that shews they dont mean anything real to him . They usent to mean anything real to me . Now hell is as real to me as a turnip ; and I suppose I shall always speak of it like that . Anyhow , Ive been there ; and it seems to me now that nothing is worth doing but redeeming people from it .", "Did you learn it from a Frenchwoman ? You know you must have learnt it from somebody .", "What about ?", "Oh , Ive learnt the language ; and I like it . It 's another barrier broken down .", "No . I wish I had . I could have had the same experience in better company . Please sit down , Monsieur Duvallet .", "Three cheers for old England !", "I got into a frightful row once for admiring you , Rudolph ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["Practising jujitsu or the new Iceland wrestling . Admirable ,", "No , naturally . I have spent the last fortnight in prison . The conversation drops . Margaret renews it with an effort .", "Can I be of any further assistance , mademoiselle ?", "Oh please ! it does not matter .If you insist \u2014Thank you .", "Ah , madam , my daughters are French girls . That is very different . It would not be correct for a French girl to go about alone and speak to men as English and American girls do . That is why I so immensely admire the English people . You are so free \u2014 so unprejudiced \u2014 your women are so brave and frank \u2014 their minds are so \u2014 how do you say ?\u2014 wholesome . I intend to have my daughters educated in England . Nowhere else in the world but in England could I have met at a Variety Theatre a charming young lady of perfect respectability , and enjoyed a dance with her at a public dancing saloon . And where else are women trained to box and knock out the teeth of policemen as a protest against injustice and violence ?Your daughter , madam , is superb . Your country is a model to the rest of Europe . If you were a Frenchman , stifled with prudery , hypocrisy and the tyranny of the family and the home , you would understand how an enlightened Frenchman admires and envies your freedom , your broadmindedness , and the fact that home life can hardly be said to exist in England . You have made an end of the despotism of the parent ; the family council is unknown to you ; everywhere in these islands one can enjoy the exhilarating , the soul-liberating spectacle of men quarrelling with their brothers , defying their fathers , refusing to speak to their mothers . In France we are not men : we are only sons \u2014 grown-up children . Here one is a human being \u2014 an end in himself . Oh , Mrs Knox , if only your military genius were equal to your moral genius \u2014 if that conquest of Europe by France which inaugurated the new age after the Revolution had only been an English conquest , how much more enlightened the world would have been now ! We , alas , can only fight . France is unconquerable . We impose our narrow ideas , our prejudices , our obsolete institutions , our insufferable pedantry on the world by brute force \u2014 by that stupid quality of military heroism which shews how little we have evolved from the savage : nay , from the beast . We can charge like bulls ; we can spring on our foes like gamecocks ; when we are overpowered by reason , we can die fighting like rats . And we are foolish enough to be proud of it ! Why should we be ? Does the bull progress ? Can you civilize the gamecock ? Is there any future for the rat ? We cant even fight intelligently : when we lose battles , it is because we have not sense enough to know when we are beaten . At Waterloo , had we known when we were beaten , we should have retreated ; tried another plan ; and won the battle . But no : we were too pigheaded to admit that there is anything impossible to a Frenchman : we were quite satisfied when our Marshals had six horses shot under them , and our stupid old grognards died fighting rather than surrender like reasonable beings . Think of your great Wellington : think of his inspiring words , when the lady asked him whether British soldiers ever ran away . \u201c All soldiers run away , madam , \u201d he said ; \u201c but if there are supports for them to fall back on it does not matter . \u201d Think of your illustrious Nelson , always beaten on land , always victorious at sea , where his men could not run away . You are not dazzled and misled by false ideals of patriotic enthusiasm : your honest and sensible statesmen demand for England a two-power standard , even a three-power standard , frankly admitting that it is wise to fight three to one : whilst we , fools and braggarts as we are , declare that every Frenchman is a host in himself , and that when one Frenchman attacks three Englishmen he is guilty of an act of cowardice comparable to that of the man who strikes a woman . It is folly : it is nonsense : a Frenchman is not really stronger than a German , than an Italian , even than an Englishman . Sir : if all Frenchwomen were like your daughter \u2014 if all Frenchmen had the good sense , the power of seeing things as they really are , the calm judgment , the open mind , the philosophic grasp , the foresight and true courage , which are so natural to you as an Englishman that you are hardly conscious of possessing them , France would become the greatest nation in the world .", "Quite so . I felicitate Mademoiselle on her enlargement .", "Perfectly .", "It is what I thought . These English domestic interiors are very interesting .Presently Mr and Mrs Gilbey come in . They take their accustomed places : he on the hearthrug , she at the colder end of the table .", "It was nothing . An adventure . Nothing .", "Pardon . Carrying on ? What does that mean ?", "Miss Knox . The athletic young Englishwoman is an example to all Europe .", "Your instructor , no doubt . Monsieur \u2014"], "true_target": ["I fear I derange you .", "What does it mean , Rudolph ?", "That is impossible , mademoiselle . Your father has his position to consider . To turn his daughter out of doors would ruin him socially .", "Perfectly . But the other ?", "She has been , I assure you , in a particularly safe place .", "I 'm afraid my knowledge of English is not enough to understand . Intentions ? How ?", "I came in at your invitation \u2014 at your amiable insistence , in fact , not at my own . But you need have no anxiety on my account . I was concerned in the regrettable incident which led to your daughter 's incarceration . I got a fortnight without the option of a fine on the ridiculous ground that I ought to have struck the policeman with my fist . I should have done so with pleasure had I known ; but , as it was , I struck him on the ear with my boot \u2014 a magnificent moulinet , I must say \u2014 and was informed that I had been guilty of an act of cowardice , but that for the sake of the entente cordiale I should be dealt with leniently . Yet Miss Knox , who used her fist , got a month , but with the option of a fine . I did not know this until I was released , when my first act was to pay the fine . And here we are .", "I shall be charmed .", "But I am married already . I have two daughters .", "But it 's very natural . I understand Mr Knox 's feelings perfectly .", "Perfectly . Madame\u2014 Mademoiselle\u2014 Monsieur\u2014", "Perfectly . I noticed it .", "In France it would be impossible . But here \u2014 ah !la belle Angleterre !"], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["Not a Frenchwoman . Shes quite a nice woman . But shes been rather unfortunate . The daughter of a clergyman .", "Hurra-a-ay ! And so say all of us . Duvallet , having responded to Margaret 's handshake with enthusiasm , kisses Juggins on both cheeks , and sinks into his chair , wiping his perspiring brow .", "Now please do stop fooling , Meg . I tell you I 'm not rotting .", "MARGARET . | Juggins a duke ?", "|", "Would you call me sir if you wernt paid to do it ?", "No . Stop . Leave go , will you . Juggins appears at the door .", "Well , you cant expect me to approve of it , can you , Meg ? I never thought you were that sort of girl .", "Cat ! I 'll teach you .", "Not for you , perhaps . But youre only a footman . I 'm a gentleman .", "I 'm not a cad , Meg .", "Well , can you tell me the proper way to get out of an engagement to a girl without getting into a row for breach of promise or behaving like a regular cad ?", "Yes . Dora says your name cant be Juggins , and that you have the manners of a gentleman . I always thought you hadnt any manners . Anyhow , your manners are different from the manners of a gentleman in my set .", "No : I was just writing to you .", "But I 'm serious : I 'm not rotting . Really and truly \u2014", "Do you mean to say you dont believe me ?", "Sir be blowed !", "Oh , I say !", "You dont feel disposed to be communicative on the subject of", "I can say that no other girl can ever be to me what shes been . That would be quite true , because our circumstances have been rather exceptional ; and she 'll imagine I mean I 'm fonder of her than I can ever be of anyone else . You see , Juggins , a gentleman has to think of a girl 's feelings .", "What sort of woman ?", "What a nuisance ! I dont know what to do . You know , Juggins , your cool simple-minded way of doing it wouldnt go down in Denmark Hill .", "DORA . | What did I tell you ?", "| Whats that ?", "Miss Delaney : Mr and Mrs Knox .", "I beg your pardon , I 'm sure . I thought you did .", "Oh , dont be disgusting , Meg . Dont be low .", "A fortnight .", "Do you mean to say that you went on the loose out of pure devilment ?", "Juggins : you can give us tea in the pantry , cant you ?", "But it wouldnt be for her happiness to marry me when I dont really care for her .", "I suppose you made her acquaintance in prison , Meg . But when it comes to talking about blokes and all that \u2014 well !", "You have a devilish cool way of laying down the law . You know , in my class you have to wrap up things a bit . Denmark Hill is n't Camberwell , you know .", "How d'y \u2019 do ?", "It 's all very well to make light of it , Meg ; but this is a bit thick , you know .", "If you dont take care , youll get your fat head jolly well clouted .", "Well , it 's not that I dont care for you : in fact , no girl can ever be to me exactly what you are ; but weve been brought up so much together that it feels more like brother and sister than \u2014 well , than the other thing , doesnt it ?", "Off duty ? What do you mean ?", "You havnt been much use .You generally put me up to the correct way of doing things .", "If I 'm no good , I dont see what fun it would be for you .", "|", "Well , I dont think you can fairly hold me to it , Meg . Of course it would be ridiculous for me to set up to be shocked , or anything of that sort . I cant afford to throw stones at anybody ; and I dont pretend to . I can understand a lark ; I can forgive a slip ; as long as it is understood that it is only a lark or a slip . But to go on the loose on principle ; to talk about religion in connection with it ; to \u2014 to \u2014 well , Meg , I do find that a bit thick , I must say . I hope youre not in earnest when you talk that way ."], "true_target": ["Juggins .", "But youd have to make some excuse , you know . I want to give it a gentlemanly turn : to say I 'm not worthy of her , or something like that .", "I dont see that at all . Do you mean that it 's not exactly true ?", "Well , about life .", "Who are you calling a young beast ?", "I wasnt at Brighton , Meg . I 'd better tell you : youre bound to find out sooner or later .Meg : it 's rather awful : youll think me no end of a beast . Ive been in prison .", "Well , I wont marry her : thats flat . What would you do if you were in my place ?", "It was part of your bargain that you were to valet me a bit , wasnt it ?", "DUVALLET . | Comment !", "I 'll tell you what . I 'll say I cant hold her to an engagement with a man whos been in quod . Thatll do it .", "But you know , it 's not the same for a girl . A man may do things a woman maynt .", "Right . Say nothing to my mother . You dont mind , Mr. Doovalley , do you ?", "Lets all go . We cant have any fun with the Mar here . I say ,", "Ive been talking to Dora about you .", "|", "I 'm a gaol-bird : youre a respectable man .", "No . I never said that . It might even give a woman a greater claim on a man . Any girl , if she were thoughtless and a bit on , perhaps , might get into a scrape . Anyone who really understood her character could see there was no harm in it . But youre not the larky sort . At least you usent to be .", "It 's not so much the language , Meg . But I think", "Dora 's notion , I suppose .", "I 'm sorry , Miss Knox .", "Nothing , absolutely nothing . He exaggerated grossly . I only laughed at him .", "I feel I ought to , Mrs Knox .", "Oh , I say , Juggins , you are a pessimist .", "I dont think she 'd like it . There are limits , after all .", "Yes , me . For being drunk and assaulting the police .", "Brighton ! I wasnt at \u2014 Oh yes , of course . Oh , pretty well . Is your aunt all right ?", "No . I wouldnt have said it in front of Dora ; but I do think it 's not quite the same thing my knowing her and you knowing her .", "You mean weve been shoved into it rather by the pars and mars .", "Oh , nothing . At least \u2014 How are you ?", "Yes . Why ? Werent you really ?", "Then what am I to do ?", "Nice language that !", "I didnt say it was .", "Oh , I say !", "I wish you wouldnt chaff about that . Dont forget the row you got into for letting out that you admired Juggins\u2014 a footman ! And what about the Frenchman ?", "I thought you were down staying with her .", "Of course I couldnt hold you to our engagement after that . I was writing to you to break it off .You must think me an utter rotter .", "What are you talking about ? In where ?", "What do you know about her ? What do you know about all this sort of thing ?", "If I 'm not let marry her , I 'll do something downright disgraceful . I 'll enlist as a soldier .", "Right you are . Come along .Oh , by the way , Juggins , fetch down that concertina from my room , will you ?", "But , you know , I 'm not really worthy of her .", "Oh , I cant make you understand , Juggins . The girl isnt a scullery-maid . I want to do it delicately ."], "play_index": 7, "act_index": 7}, {"query": ["I do n't know what I am ...", "What do you mean ?", "Oh , why should we \u2014", "Yes \u2014 I mean \u2014", "Do n't be so silly \u2014 come , come , he 'll be back in a minute .... And , believe me , I 'm not worth making a fuss about !", "Betty , Betty , what sort of cad do you take me for ? What sort of cad , or bounder ? Have n't I told you I 'd never forget \u2014 never ? And you think you 'll pass out of my life \u2014 that I want you to ? Why , good Heaven , I 'll be your best friend as long as I live . Friend \u2014 yes \u2014 what I always should have been \u2014 meant to be ! And Hector . Why , Betty , I tell you , merely talking to-night , as I 've done , has made me feel \u2014 different \u2014 sort of \u2014 lifted \u2014 a load . Because I 've always had it \u2014 somewhere deep down in me \u2014 when I 've thought of \u2014 him .", "Yes \u2014 I dare . And look here \u2014 since you force me to it \u2014 that 's all rot \u2014 yes , it is \u2014 just rot . Just as you like it now , hearing Hector ask me to stop with you , and kissing me the moment his back is turned \u2014 so you met me halfway , and more than halfway .", "Love \u2014", "I think I \u2014", "I tell her \u2014 I tell her \u2014 what does it matter what I tell her ? And one girl or another \u2014 she or someone else \u2014", "Betty !", "Richard .", "Yes , it is , worse luck ! I deserve all you 've said to me . And you 'll be ... much better ... without me .", "Mary Gillingham .", "Damn it ! DAMN it !", "I scarcely saw you the first two or three years !", "I do n't think she knew . I only proposed to-day .", "Betty \u2014", "I wo n't \u2014", "Yes .", "So-So .", "To say nothing of Jezebel ! Though , between ourselves , I think he meant Messalina !", "Gillingham ?", "It 's not that . But you see \u2014", "Oh really , you should n't . You 've given it away too soon !", "Better than being a stockbroker 's clerk \u2014 you believe me !", "You want me to write to him ?", "Well , it does . Yes .", "I 've no money .", "A friend of Betty 's \u2014 I fancy you 've met her \u2014", "I 'd change places with you , sonny .", "That does n't matter .", "Betty !", "Never mind about who it was .", "Betty .", "Has it ever occurred to you \u2014", "Yes ...", "Betty !", "I 've known him since I was seven .", "You fiend !", "Why ? You ask that ? Why ? Oh yes , it 's all right for you \u2014 you 've your home and your husband \u2014 I 'm there as an \u2014 annexe . To be telephoned to , when I 'm wanted , at your beck and call , throw over everything , come when you whistle . And it 's not only that \u2014 I tell you it makes me feel \u2014 horrid . After all , he 's my \u2014 friend ."], "true_target": ["Whose ?", "She 's twenty-three .", "So I am . Where are the cards ?", "Betty !", "To-night \u2014 ridiculous ! At this hour !", "Well , you 've the change , at any rate .", "I knew you 'd chaff me about it .", "Yes .", "What has that to do with it ? And besides ...But I say , really , you 're taking it awfully well \u2014 pluckily . I knew you would \u2014 I knew I was an ass to be so \u2014 afraid .... And look here , we 'll always be pals \u2014 the very best of pals . I 'll ... never forget \u2014 never . You may be quite sure ... of that . I want to get married \u2014 I do \u2014 have a home of my own , and so forth \u2014 but you 'll still be \u2014 just the one woman I really have loved \u2014 the one woman in my life \u2014 to whom I owe \u2014 everything .", "I ?", "Yes .", "Do n't , Betty \u2014 I do n't like it . I mean , he has such confidence in us .", "With his hand at my throat ! Sit there , villain , and write !", "It 's not for her money that I \u2014", "Yes , I , I ! Now it 's out , at least \u2014 it 's spoken ! I mean to get married , like other men \u2014 fooled , too , I dare say , like the others \u2014 at least I deserve it ! But I 'm tired , I tell you \u2014 tired \u2014", "That 's what a woman always says , when a man speaks the truth . Because it is the truth \u2014 and you know it . \u201c The way I squeezed your hand ! \u201d D'you think I meant to squeeze it \u2014 in a way ! Why , as there 's a Heaven above me , you were as sacred to me \u2014 as my own sister !", "\u201c Into the street ! \u201d At least , they do usually say \u201c into the night ! \u201d", "Yes .", "Why are you doing this ?", "Betty , Betty , you 've been so brave ... Betty , dear , the horrid things I 've said were only to make you angry , to make you feel what a brute I was , how well you 're rid of me . Oh , I 'm not proud of myself ! But look here , we must be sensible \u2014 we must , really .... You know , if you were divorced \u2014 if I were the co-respondent in a divorce case \u2014 I 'd lose my berth , get the sack \u2014", "You ?", "I think the playwrights come out on top , I do indeed .Hector , old chap , here 's the letter !", "I hate hearing you talk like this .", "I 'm going to get married .", "You 're splendid \u2014 you are \u2014 splendid !", "You 're wonderful , you women \u2014 you really are . Always contrive to make us seem brutes , or cowards ! I 've wanted to tell you this a dozen times \u2014 I 've not had the pluck . Well , to-day I must . Must , do you hear that ?... Oh , for Heaven 's sake , say something .", "Hector !", "Not for him .", "Become of you ! Do n't talk such nonsense . Because it is \u2014 really it is . You 'll be as you were . And Hector 's a splendid chap \u2014 and after all we 've been frightfully wrong \u2014 treating him infernally badly \u2014 despicably . Oh yes , we have \u2014 and you know it . Lord , there 've been nights when I have \u2014 but never mind that \u2014 that 's all over ! In future we can look him in the face without feeling guilty \u2014 we can \u2014", "We need n't \u2014", "Betty \u2014 I want to say a \u2014 serious word ...", "And you imagine I 'll come back to you \u2014 that we 'll go on , you and", "I have n't \u2014", "Yes , that 's the truth \u2014 I do . Oh , Betty I 'm so frightfully sorry \u2014", "I 'm thirty-eight .", "Yes , better , better \u2014 any way you choose to put it ! I 'm a \u2014 but never mind that !\u2014 Look here \u2014 you 'd like me to stop ?", "He did n't give the lover much chance to stand up to him , did he ?", "You did n't think this would last for ever ?", "Going to get married , yes . Married , married !", "Do I \u2014 do n't be so absurd .", "Tired of the life I lead \u2014 the beastly , empty rooms \u2014 the meals at the Club . And I 'm thirty-eight \u2014 it 's now or never .", "Do n't you think that I \u2014"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Who ?", "Never ! Walter ! Engaged ? You ?", "Oh , they be blowed ! Well , you have had a game with me !Brrrrr ! Oh , my Lord ! What I went through !", "Then there 's lots of tin ! Fine ! Oh you artful old dodger ! Is she pretty ?", "Sit down , laddie \u2014 just one rubber . It 's quite early . Do . There 's a good chap .As we are \u2014 you and Betty \u2014 I 've got the dummy .That 's how I like it \u2014 one on each side of me . Also I like having dummy . Now , Betty , play up . Oh , Lord , how good it is , how good ! A nightmare , I tell you \u2014 terrible ! And really you must forgive me for being such an ass . But the way you played up , both of you ! My little Betty \u2014 a Duse , that 's what she is \u2014 a real Duse !And the gods are kind to me \u2014 I 've got a hand , I tell you ! I call NO TRUMPS !", "Now you write . You hear ? You write what I dictate . Word for word . What 's the old brute 's name ?", "Oh , you pair of blackguards ! Too bad \u2014 no , really too bad ! It was ! I fell in , I did ! Oh , Lord , oh , Lord , what a nightmare ! But it was n't right , really it was n't \u2014 no really ! My Lord , how I floundered \u2014 head and shoulders \u2014 swallowed it all ! Comes of reading that muck every day \u2014 never stopped to think ! I did n't ! Walter , old chap !Betty ! My poor Betty !The things I said to you !", "Oh he has had luck enough \u2014 tons of it ! I 'll get into a jacket \u2014 then we 'll have some bridge . See what progress you 've made , Betty !", "What ?", "Do n't be disagreeable , Betty ! Why ?", "You !", "To him . Who else ? A confession ? I 've had that . His name ?", "Change ? By Jove , give me a Punch and Judy show on the sands \u2014 or performing dogs ! Plays \u2014 I 'm sick of \u2018 em ! And look here \u2014 the one I 'm off to to-night . It 's adapted from the French \u2014 well , we know what that means . Husband , wife and mistress . Or wife , husband , lover . That 's what a French play means . And you make it English , and pass the Censor , by putting the lady in a mackintosh , and dumping in a curate !", "Very well , Richard . So write that down . To Richard Gillingham . I have to-day proposed to your daughter , and she has accepted me . Got that ? She has accepted me . But I can n't marry her \u2014 can n't marry her \u2014 because I have seduced the wife of my friend Hector Allen \u2014", "The wife of my friend Hector Allen \u2014 write it \u2014 and plainly , you hound , plainly \u2014 so \u2014 and because I am taking the woman away with me to-night .", "Silence , Jezebel !Your name ! Wait a bit , I 'll tell you !You shall hear what your name is ! Just now I 'm dealing with him .You there , you skunk and thief ! You , you lying hound ! I was your best friend . So you 've taken my wife , have you ? And now mean to go off and marry this girl . That 's it ? Oh , it 's so simple ! Here \u2014 come here \u2014 sit down . Sit down , I tell you . Here , in this chair . Shall I have to drag you to it ? I want to keep my hands off you . Here .And you \u2014 fetch pen and ink and paper \u2014", "To Walter , the Bachelor !And now \u2014 for a game .", "You old scoundrel ! You rascal and villain ! Engaged \u2014 and you do n't come and tell me first ! Well I \u2014 am \u2014 damned !", "Poor old Walter ! And , d'you know , I was quite pleased at the thought of his getting married ! I was !But it 's better , old chap , for us \u2014 we 'd have missed you \u2014 terribly !Must n't leave that lying about !Well , by Jove , if any one had told me .... And drinking to him , and all !", "You would , eh ? That 's what they all say ! Four new plays this week , my lad \u2014 one yesterday , one to-day \u2014 another to-morrow , and the night after ! All day long I 'm reading plays \u2014 and I spend my nights seeing \u2018 em ! D'you know I read about two thousand a year ? Divide two thousand by three hundred and sixty five . A dog 's life \u2014 that 's what it is !", "Walter ?", "Gillingham . Yes . What is it ?", "My wife . And you the man I 've done more for than for any one else in the world . The man I cared for , you low dog . Used my house \u2014 came here because it was dull at the Club \u2014 and took my wife ? I do n't know why I do n't kill you . I 've the right . But I wo n't . You shall pay for it , my fine fellow \u2014 you are going to pay \u2014 now .", "Now for a game !", "Chaff you ! Silly old coon ! why I 'm glad ! Of course we shall miss you \u2014 but marriage \u2014 it 's the only thing , my boy \u2014 the only thing ! Who is she ? Do I know her ?"], "true_target": ["That 's good . I 'm glad . And I congratulate you \u2014 heartily , my boy .We must drink to it !Charge your glass , Walter !Ladies and gentlemen . I give you the bride and bridegroom !Betty , you must join us .", "Here you are , my girl \u2014 and now , where 's my whiskey ?Here , Wallie \u2014 yours must be the one that 's begun \u2014 I did n't have time to touch mine ! Here .And forgive me , old man , for thinking , even one minute \u2014Here 's to you , old friend . And Betty , to you ! Oh , Lord , I just want this drink !", "Why ?", "All right , my lass , I 'm off . By-bye , Walter \u2014 keep the old woman company for a bit . Good-bye , sweetheart .Do n't wait up . Now for the drama . Oh , the dog 's life !", "And she has caught old Wallie . The cynical old", "So we will ! Good . I 'll get it .", "You ! It 's true what this woman says ?", "Gillingham , Gillingham .... Oh yes , I 've seen her , just seen her , but I do n't remember .... I say , not the daughter of the sealing-wax man ?", "Is it ? I wish you could have a turn at it , my bonny boy ! Your hair 'd go grey , like mine ! And look here \u2014 what are the plays to-day ? They 're either so chock-full of intellect that they send you to sleep \u2014 or they reek of sentiment till you yearn for the smell of a cabbage !", "Not that stylograph \u2014 that 's mine \u2014 his dirty hands sha n't touch it \u2014 I could never use it again . Fetch your pen \u2014 yours \u2014 you belong to him , do n't you ? Go in and fetch it . D'you hear ?", "Silence , over there , you ! Hold your tongue ! Go into your room and put on your things \u2014 we 've done with you here ! Take what you want \u2014 I do n't care \u2014 you do n't show your face here again . And you \u2014write . What are you stopping for ? How far have you got ?Because \u2014 I \u2014 am \u2014 taking \u2014 the \u2014 woman \u2014 away \u2014 with \u2014 me \u2014 to-night .", "To tell me ? What is it ?", "If you speak to me I 'll brain you too . Just you go in there and fetch the things . D'you hear ? Go .As for you , you 're a scoundrel . A rogue , a thief , a liar , a traitor . Of the very worst kind , the blackest . Not an ordinary case of a husband and wife \u2014 I trusted you \u2014 you were my best friend . You spawn , you thing of the gutter , you foul-hearted , damnable slug !", "You can n't toast him in water , of course . Has she cleared away yet ? I 'll get you some Hock .", "He has been \u2014", "You still there ? Wait a bit . I 'll come to you , when I 've finished with him . If you have n't gone and put on your things , you shall go off without them . Into the street . You 'll find other women there like you .Here , you , have you written ?Go on \u2014 I 'm getting impatient . Go on , I tell you . I \u2014 am \u2014 taking \u2014 the \u2014", "By Jove , and I felt it ! For two pins I 'd have \u2014", "Good practice for you . Come on .", "Whose ! Her father , the sealing-wax man , old Gillingham ?", "Wallie who sniffed at women ! Though perhaps it 's the money \u2014", "You \u2014", "Play postponed , my child \u2014 bit of luck ! When I got to the theatre I found that the actor-manager 's car had collided with a cab outside the stage-door \u2014 he was thrown through the window \u2014 there 's a magnificent exit for you ! and has been cut about a bit . Nothing serious . But the play 's postponed for a week . Bit of luck !", "And I tell you , of the two , I prefer the home-made stodge . I 'm sick of the eternal triangle . They always do the same thing . Husband strikes attitudes \u2014 sometimes he strikes the lover . The lover never stands up to him \u2014 why should n't he ? He would \u2014 in real life .He 'd say , look here , you go to Hell . That 's what he 'd say \u2014 well , there you 'd have a situation . But not one of the playwriting chaps dares do it . Why not , I ask you ? There you 'd have truth , something big . But no \u2014 they 're afraid \u2014 think the public wo n't like it . The husband 's got to down the lover \u2014 like a big tom-cat with a mouse \u2014 or the author 'd have to sell one of his motor-cars ! That 's just the fact of it !", "You wo n't , you dog ! You dare say that \u2014 to me ! By Heaven , you will ! You 'll lick the dust off this floor , if I tell you ! You 'll go on your hands and knees , and crawl ! Sit down , you ! Sit down and take up your filthy pen . So .And now \u2014 his name . Do n't make me ask you again , I tell you , do n't . What is it ?", "What ? You ?", "Not to old Walter ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["That he 's engaged .", "We could go to Australia \u2014 anywhere \u2014", "Degrade , and throw mud on , the love she has had for him ?", "I did . You had a way of squeezing my hand .... And then when we came back here . You know it did n't take me long to discover \u2014", "I liked you \u2014 I 've said that \u2014 I liked you from the first . But I was straight enough . Liked you , of course \u2014 but I had no idea , not the slightest .... Thought it fun to play the fool , flirt just a bit . But it was you , you , you who \u2014", "Then you do n't love me any more ...", "Sh .", "Yes , it does . Who ?", "When she happens to be the one girl in this world he can n't stand !", "Besides , he has something to tell you .", "Where was it , this beautiful feeling , when you got me to go to your rooms ?", "I 'll go and see her to-morrow \u2014 see her constantly \u2014", "Better ?", "Do n't be so silly . I wo n't drink at all .", "It was a lark ! you should have seen yourself ! Your eyes starting out of your head ! You looked like a murderer !", "You ...", "No .", "Yes , I like it . I do n't know why . I suppose I 'm frightfully wicked . Or the danger perhaps \u2014 I do n't know .", "You 've ruined my life and his . At least , you sha n't be happy .", "And I was to go into the street . But he did let me fill my bag !", "You tell her she is the only girl you have loved .", "Yes . I 'm only thirty . But I 'm not complaining .", "The first man he introduced me to \u2014 his best man at the wedding \u2014 do you remember coming to see us during the honeymoon ? I liked you then .", "He wants to play bridge .", "Yes . All very nice and comfortable for you \u2014 is n't it ?", "Mary Gillingham !", "Silly boy !Women only talk \u201c like this , \u201d as you call it , to their lovers . They talk \u201c like that \u201d to their husbands \u2014 and that 's why the husbands never know . That 's why the husbands are always sitting in the stalls , looking on .Looking and not seeing .", "The letter ! Old", "No \u2014 do n't be afraid ! You 've shown yourself to me to-day . That 's all done with \u2014 finished . His friend now \u2014 with the load off you \u2014 but never her husband . Never !", "What ?", "You cur !", "What 's the matter ?", "Stop there , and do n't move . How smooth your chin is \u2014 his scrapes . Why do n't husbands shave better ? Or is it that the forbidden chin is always smoother ? Poor old Hector ! If he could see us ! He has n't a suspicion . I think it 's lovely \u2014 really , I do . He leaves us here together , night after night , and imagines you 're teaching me bridge .", "You can , because of this girl . Oh , I know , of course ! You 'll come here three or four times \u2014 then you 'll drop off \u2014 you 'll feel I 'm not quite the woman you want your wife to know .", "And how about \u2014 me ?", "Yes , yes . How often must I tell you ? My lover \u2014 do n't you know what that means ? Why do you stare at me with those fat goggle-eyes of yours ? He has been my lover \u2014 and now he has fallen in love with this girl and means to marry her . That 's all .", "I want to know \u2014 I 'm entitled to know .", "And Mary Gillingham ! That 's the funniest part ! That you could have thought he was engaged \u2014 to her !", "And please , Mr . Husband , was it to be a big bag , or a small bag , and might I have taken the silver teapot ?", "Love , love , yes , you \u2014 cruel man ! Love , what else ? I adore you , do n't you know that ? Live for you ! would give up everything in the world \u2014 everything , everything ! And Walter , Walter ! If it 's only that \u2014 that you want a home \u2014 well , let 's go off together . He 'll divorce us \u2014 we can get married . Do n't go away , and leave me here , alone with him ! I could n't stand it \u2014 Walter , I could n't , I could n't !", "Does n't it make you feel dreadful when he talks like that ?Does n't it ?", "You ...", "But you have n't answered my question \u2014 what 's to become of me ?", "Well , is n't what I 'm saying serious ?", "That 's true .", "Yes .", "She 's a deceitful little cat . I saw her last week \u2014 she never told me \u2014", "Hector ! Quick , quick \u2014 the cards !", "Hector !", "He has been that always . You did n't feel \u2014 horrid \u2014 before .... Who is she ?", "Of course he has . And quite rightly . Are n't you his oldest friend ?", "That child , that chit of a girl !"], "true_target": ["No . He 's in love with her .", "Whom I introduced you to \u2014 my own friend ?", "Hector , Hector \u2014", "Well , now 's your time . One thing or the other .", "You ought to be going , Hector .", "To-morrow you 'll go to her \u2014 or to-night perhaps \u2014", "\u201c I 'll deal with you presently ! Wait till I 've finished with him ! \u201d", "Mary Gillingham has lots ?", "What I 'm wondering is \u2014 you see , you 're the only lover I 've had \u2014 what I wonder is , when a man breaks off , tells a woman he 's tired of her , wants to get married \u2014 does he always abuse the woman \u2014", "Hector \u2014", "You \u2014 proposed \u2014 to-day !", "Hector , Hector ! Conventional situations ! The usual stodge ! The lover and husband ! You goose , you wonderful old goose !", "Bachelor !", "This woman ! Do n't be so melodramatic ! Have you forgotten my name ?", "We were only just in time .", "And was n't he original ! Dog , hound , villain , traitor !", "Twenty-five past ,", "Yes . Me . Me !", "Liar \u2014 yes . Why these stupid , silly lies ? \u201c Always , deep down in me ! \u201d", "I did \u2014 yes \u2014 I did . Why should n't it ?", "At least admit that you 're rather hard on the playwriting people !", "Hector ! You 're not ill ?", "Hector .", "You \u2014 proposed \u2014 to-day ! And waited till she had accepted you \u2014 to tell me \u2014", "Gillingham ! \u201c His name , scoundrel , his name ! \u201d", "You do n't , you do n't !", "No \u2014 you were afraid . Oh I thought you so silly !Why , what 's the matter ?", "No fun , being three .", "Silly , have you forgotten that this is Tuesday \u2014 Maggie 's night out ? She 's gone \u2014 I told her she need n't wait to clear away . We 've arranged master 's supper . Master ! You 're my master , are n't you ?", "She 's excessively pretty . She has yellow hair and blue eyes .", "My lover ... these last two years .", "No .", "Oh , you old donkey ! How we have pulled your leg !", "Liar .", "Poor Hector !", "You do , you do ?", "To Walter , the", "Mary Gillingham . We 're the first to know \u2014 he only proposed to-day .", "Hector . To Walter , the Bachelor !", "Never mind ! You dare !", "Too soon ! He 'd have strangled us . Did you ever see such a tiger ?", "I \u2014 like it .", "Gillingham ?", "Not sure that I want to play .", "No harm in my telling Hector \u2014 he scarcely knows her !Why , Walter simply loathes the poor girl ! That 's what made it so funny !And I tell you \u2014 if you ever hear he 's engaged to her \u2014 why , you can believe the rest of the story too !", "You love her ?", "You can .", "Oh yes you do \u2014 you 're my boy . Whom I love . There .That was a nice one , was n't it ? Poor old Hector , sitting in his stall \u2014 thinks he 's so wonderful , knows such a lot ! Yes , Maggie 's out \u2014 with her young man , I suppose . The world 's full of women , with their young men \u2014 and husbands sitting in the stalls .... And I suppose that 's how it always has been , and always will be .", "Of me ?", "Do you tell all that \u2014 to Mary", "If you 'll fetch me that glass of Hock now , I will drink to him ,", "And", "Because \u2014 old Walter \u2014 has been my lover ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["In the midst of her wealth I should wish her to be sorry for those who are poor .", "The rest I leave to you , with absolute confidence . You will help me ?", "Your father \u2014", "If you are not betraying a confidence \u2014", "Listen \u2014 they 're playing \u201c God Save the King . \u201d Will you be my wife , Aline ?", "I presume that it is \u2014 arranged ?", "I will put him in a position to marry you .", "You . I beg it on my knees . I give you carte blanche . I undertake to propose , with my eyes shut , to the woman you shall select .", "Lady Aline , they are dancing a cotillon in there , so we have half an hour before us . We shall not be disturbed , for the Duchess , your aunt , has considerately stationed her aged companion in the corridor , with instructions to ward off intruders .", "At least that is emphatic .", "It is quite possible that my remarks may not apply after all .", "I have a vague desire to do something with my money : my wife might help me . I should like her to have pity .", "Tell me more of your friend .", "Do you remember your \u201c Arabian Nights , \u201d Lady Aline ?", "Ah !", "The old story .", "The possession of millions , you see , Lady Aline , puts you into eternal quarantine . It is a kind of yellow fever , with the difference that people are perpetually anxious to catch your complaint . But we digress . To return to the question of our marriage \u2014", "I fancy that 's what we 're here for , is n't it ?", "That is true . I will pass , then , to more intimate matters . In a little township in Australia \u2014 a horrible place where there was gold \u2014 I met a woman whom I loved . She was what is technically known as a bad woman . She ran away with another man . I tracked them to Texas , and in a mining camp there I shot the man . I wanted to take the woman back , but she refused . That has been my solitary love affair ; and I shall never love any woman again as I loved her . I think that is all that I have to tell you . And now \u2014 will you marry me , Lady Aline ?", "For preference . She will be better versed in spending money than a governess , or country parson 's daughter .", "Your father is a gentleman . The breed is rare , and very fine when you get it . But he is exceedingly poor . People marry for money nowadays ; and your mother will be very unhappy if this marriage of ours falls through .", "We millionaires are the Caliphs to-day ; and we command more faithful than ever bowed to them . And , like that old scoundrel Haroun , we may at times permit ourselves a respectable impulse . What is your cousin 's address ?", "Call it caprice \u2014 call it a mere vulgar desire to let my magnificence dazzle you \u2014 call it the less vulgar desire to know that my money has made you happy with the man you love .", "Because I have not yet proposed , you mean ? Of course I intend to , Lady Aline . Only as I know that you will accept me \u2014", "Only three at present , but we must be patient . Before throwing myself at your feet , metaphorically , I am anxious that you should know something of the man whom you are about to marry .", "That 's a pity . But we can n't have everything .", "I will marry her , I can trust you to find me a loyal and intelligent woman .", "You will acquaint those noble ladies with the fact of your having refused me .", "It has been in the family for generations , you know ; but it is a strange thing that I am always called Harrison , and that no one ever adopts the diminutive .", "I am aware , for instance , that this is your ninth season \u2014", "I appreciate your sincerity .", "Did n't you know ?That 's right \u2014 of course you did . Do n't you know why I have brought you here ? That 's right ; of course you do . The Duchess , your aunt , and the Marchioness , your mother \u2014 observe how fondly my tongue trips out the titles \u2014 smiled sweetly on us as we left the ball-room . There will be a notice in the Morning Post to-morrow : \u201c A Marriage Has Been Arranged Between \u2014 \u201d", "I have the advantage of you , you see , inasmuch as you have many dear friends , who have told me all about you .", "I have been told that again to-night , three times , by charming young women who vowed that they loved you . Now , as I have no dearest friends , it is unlikely that you will have heard anything equally definite concerning myself . I propose to enlighten you .", "Well , no . But you see I must marry some one , in mere self-defence ; and honestly , I think you will do at least as well as any one else .That strikes you as funny ?", "Lady Aline , I am hunted , pestered , worried , persecuted . I have settled two breach of promise actions already , though Heaven knows I did no more than remark it was a fine day , or enquire after the lady 's health . If you do not help me , some energetic woman will capture me \u2014 I feel it \u2014 and bully me for the rest of my days . I raise a despairing cry to you \u2014 Find me a wife !", "By no means . I am merely trying to do the right thing , though perhaps not the conventional one . Before making you the formal offer of my hand and fortune , which amounts to a little over three millions \u2014", "I trust you may find it so .Lady Aline , I am a self-made man , as the foolish phrase has it \u2014 a man whose early years were spent in savage and desolate places , where the devil had much to say ; a man in whom whatever there once had been of natural kindness was very soon kicked out . I was poor , and lonely , for thirty-two years : I have been rich , and lonely , for ten . My millions have been made honestly enough ; but poverty and wretchedness had left their mark on me , and you will find very few men with a good word to say for Harrison Crockstead . I have no polish , or culture , or tastes . Art wearies me , literature sends me to sleep \u2014", "So you see that at one period of your life you thought differently .\u2014 You were very fond of him ?"], "true_target": ["Do not let this action of mine cause you too suddenly to alter your opinion . The verdict you pronounced before was , on the whole , just .", "Thank you . I will finish it my own way . I will say that when a woman deliberately tries to wring an offer of marriage from a man whom she does not love , she deserves to be spoken to as I have spoken to you , Lady Aline .", "You limit the area of conversation . But then , in this particular instance , I take it , we have not come here to talk ?", "Ah \u2014 this is the place \u2014 very quiet , retired , romantic \u2014 et cetera . Music in the distance \u2014 all very appropriate and sentimental .", "Oh , please ! That wo n't help us , you know . Do sit down . I assure you I have never proposed before , so that naturally I am a trifle nervous . Of course I know that we are only supers really , without much of a speaking part ; but the spirit moves me to gag , in the absence of the stage-manager , who is , let us say , the Duchess \u2014", "And I will tell you what you shall do for me in return . Find me a wife ! ALINE . I ?", "Oh , do n't be alarmed , I 'll manage it pleasantly . I 'll give him tips , shares , speculate for him , make him a director of one or two of my companies . He shall have an income of four thousand a year . You can live on that .", "The most repulsive \u2014", "Tell me about her .", "Because she has not yet \u2014", "That remark rings hollow . You have been good enough to tell me of your cousin , whom you did love \u2014", "Next to being king , it is good to be maker of kings . Where is this cousin now ?", "I am fond of it . It is the true and native language of insincerity .", "Ils respectent un meunier ,", "Absolutely .", "I was the most unpleasant person you ever had met .", "No . I said those things to you because I liked you .", "I will take Saturday 's boat \u2014 you will give me a line to your cousin . I had better state the case plainly to him , perhaps ?", "I am permitting myself that luxury to-night . I am uncorking , let us say , the one bottle of \u2018 47 port left in my cellar .", "Yes ?", "Logic , my dear Lady Aline , is evidently not one of your more special possessions . For , had it not been for my \u2014 somewhat eccentric preliminaries \u2014 you would have accepted me , would you not ?", "I remember an old poem I learnt at school \u2014 which told how Frederick the Great coveted a mill that adjoined a favourite estate of his ; but the miller refused to sell . Frederick could have turned him out , of course \u2014 there was not very much public opinion in those days \u2014 but he respected the miller 's firmness , and left him in solid possession . And mark that , at that very same time , he annexed \u2014 in other words stole \u2014 the province of Silesia .", "No \u2014 the home-grown article will do . One thing , though \u2014 I should like her to be \u2014 merciful .", "Would she marry a man she did not love ?", "Thank you very much .", "I do n't say that . She will be your choice ; and therefore deserving of confidence . Is she handsome ?", "And who prided himself on his repulsiveness . Very true , in the main , and yet consider ! My wealth dates back ten years ; till then I had known hunger , and every kind of sorrow and despair . I had stretched out longing arms to the world , but not a heart opened to me . And suddenly , when the taste of men 's cruelty was bitter in my mouth , capricious fortune snatched me from abject poverty and gave me delirious wealth . I was ploughing a barren field , and flung up a nugget . From that moment gold dogged my footsteps . I enriched the few friends I had \u2014 they turned howlingly from me because I did not give them more . I showered money on whoever sought it of me \u2014 they cursed me because it was mine to give . In my poverty there had been the bond of common sorrow between me and my fellows : in my wealth I stand alone , a modern Ishmael , with every man 's hand against me .", "You have five sisters , I believe , Lady Aline ?All younger than yourself , all marriageable , and all unmarried ?", "If I had been he , mother or no mother , money or no money , I would have carried you off . I fancy it must be pleasant to be loved by you , Lady Aline .", "India ?", "Why not ?", "And with whom you would have eloped , had your mother not prevented you .", "\u201c Ce sont l\u00e0 jeux de Princes :", "Because I am no longer asking you to marry me . Because you are the first person in all these years who has been truthful and frank with me . And because , perhaps , in the happiness that will , I trust , be yours , I want you to think kindly of me .And now , shall we return to the ball-room ? The music has stopped ; they must be going to supper .", "Al-Raschid ?", "Oh yes ; and though men may not like me , they always trust my word . You may .", "If I had said to you , timidly : \u201c Lady Aline , I love you : I am a simple , unsophisticated person ; will you marry me ? \u201d You would have answered , \u201c Yes , Harrison , I will . \u201d", "I have an idea that I shall like your friend .", "You have at least not forgotten that sublime Caliph , Haroun", "Ils volent une province . \u201d"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Let us go back to the ball-room .", "I leave you to finish the sentence .", "Yes . And , as regards the rest \u2014", "In America . But might I suggest that we have exhausted the subject ?", "Pity ?", "I \u2014 I \u2014", "Conservatories are not unusual appendages to a ball-room , Mr. Crockstead ; nor is this conservatory unlike other conservatories . CROCKSTEADI wonder why women are always so evasive ?", "And you do n't intend to like the other one ?", "Vaguely .", "If you had the least grain of chivalrous feeling , you would realise that the man who could speak to a woman as you have spoken to me \u2014", "Not if you were the last man in this world , Mr. Crockstead .", "I did not say that .", "If she did you would not respect her ?", "When you come to the chapter of your personal deficiencies , Mr. Crockstead , please remember that they are sufficiently evident for me to have already observed them .", "Well ?", "You do me too much honour .", "This is an outrage . Am I a horse , do you think , or a ballet-dancer ? Do you imagine I will sell myself to you for your three millions ?", "Again I ask \u2014 why ?", "I beg your pardon !", "Oh , no \u2014 but why ?", "But I believe myself from what I know of you both that \u2014 if she marries you \u2014 it will not be \u2014 altogether \u2014 for your money .", "I heard .", "You speak French ?", "And yet you seem sincere .", "That does not surprise me : we have no pet name for the East wind .", "To a fat and wealthy widow \u2014", "The story of your life \u2014 how thrilling !", "You are remarkably well-informed .", "It is a mercy to have escaped marrying a man with such a Christian name as Harrison .", "I have , of course , been debarred from the disreputable amours on which you linger so fondly ; but I loved a soldier cousin of mine , and would have run away with him had my mother not packed me off in time . He went to India , and I stayed here ; but he is the only man I have loved or ever shall love . Further , let me tell you I am twenty-eight ; I have always been poor \u2014 I hate poverty , and it has soured me no less than you . Dress is the thing in life I care for most , vulgarity my chief abomination . And to be frank , I consider you the most vulgar person I have ever met . Will you still marry me , Mr. Crockstead ?", "Indeed ?", "I shall be careful to tell her all that you said to me \u2014 at the beginning \u2014", "Well \u2014 no .", "What !", "No . There is one episode in her life that I feel she would like you to know \u2014", "That was an exaggeration .", "I have an intimate friend \u2014 I wonder whether she would do ?", "I do n't understand ."], "true_target": ["I have told you .", "Love ! What has love to do with marriage ?", "That is really most considerate !", "Is it to oblige my mother , then , that you desire to marry me ?", "What verdict ?", "You are not serious ?", "That is generous .", "And why will you do this thing ?", "Married \u2014 yes . Oh , if men knew how hard the lot is of the portionless girl , who has to sit , and smile , and wait , with a very desolate heart \u2014 they would think less unkindly of her , perhaps \u2014But I am digressing , too .", "Perhaps the knowledge that other women were doing the same lent a little zest to the pursuit , which otherwise would have been very dreary ; for I confess that your personality did not \u2014 especially appeal to me .", "No . She loved a man , years ago , very dearly . They were too poor to marry , but they vowed to wait . Within six months she learned that he was engaged .", "Who was touring through India , and had been made love to by every unmarried officer in the regiment . She chose him .", "Yes \u2014 Harry .", "Mr. Crockstead ! This \u2014 this is \u2014", "That demands consideration .", "With your permission we will not discuss the sex . You and I are too old to be cynical , and too young to be appreciative . And besides , it is a rule of mine , whenever I sit out a dance , that my partner shall avoid the subjects of women \u2014 and golf .", "I will try . My choice is to be final ?", "How people exaggerate ! Between six and seven ,", "Why do you tell me this ?", "Ah \u2014", "Mr. Crockstead !", "Yes .", "She is outwardly hard , and a trifle bitter , but I fancy sunshine would thaw her . There has not been much happiness in her life .", "She and I made our debut the same season . Like myself she has hitherto been her mother 's despair .", "I have heard of the New Humour , Mr. Crockstead , though I confess I have never understood it . This may be an exquisite example \u2014", "But why this voracity for marriage ?", "In Society ?", "I beg your pardon .", "Not a word of my father !", "What shall I say to the Marchioness , my mother , and the Duchess , my aunt ?", "You are not quite fair to yourself , perhaps .", "And will you treat her to the \u2014 little preliminaries \u2014 with which you have favoured me ?", "I shall be a nine days \u2019 wonder . And how do you propose to carry out your little scheme ?", "Mr. Crockstead , let me remind you that frankness has its limits : exceeding these , it is apt to degenerate into impertinence . Be good enough to conduct me to the ball-room .", "I most certainly should .", "See , I will give you confidence for confidence . This is , as you suggest , my ninth season . Living in an absurd milieu where marriage with a wealthy man is regarded as the one aim in life , I have , during the past few weeks , done all that lay in my power to wring a proposal from you .", "Not at all . Indeed , this room being the Palace of Truth , I will admit that it was only by thinking hard of your three millions that I have been able to conceal the weariness I have felt in your society . And now will you marry me , Mr. Crockstead ?", "Do you desire the lady to have any \u2014 special qualifications ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Joe \u2014", "You 've thought of it too ?", "Yes , yes !", "You 've seen them standing at the window , staring at the world ? And they 'd take you away from me .", "It 's too late for that now . And I 'm glad you did n't \u2014 yes , I am \u2014 I 'm glad . We 'll go before God clean-handed . And we 'll say to Him we did n't steal , or do anything He did n't want us too . And we 'll tell Him we 've died because people would n't allow us to live .", "Joe !", "I wo n't do it , Joe . I 've been a good wife to you \u2014 I 've been a good mother : and I love you , though I 'm ragged and have pawned all my clothes ; and I 'll strangle myself rather than go to the workhouse and be shut away from you .", "They 'd separate us . And I love you , Joe . My poor , poor Joe ! I love you .", "She 'll be hungry .", "I just thought I 'd wait \u2014 I 'd an idea something might have happened ; that some one might have stopped you in the street , some one with a heart \u2014 and that he 'd have come in with you to-night \u2014 and seen us \u2014 seen Minnie \u2014 and said \u2014 \u201c Well , here 's money \u2014 I 'll put you on your legs again \u201d \u2014 And then we 'd have given the purse back , Joe .", "It 's this , Joe .", "It came on to rain , Joe \u2014 and I went into a Tube Station \u2014 and was standing by a bookstall , showing Minnie the illustrated papers \u2014 and an old lady bought one \u2014 and she took out her purse \u2014 this purse \u2014 and paid for it \u2014 and laid the purse on the board while she fumbled to pick up her skirts \u2014 and then some one spoke to her \u2014 a friend , I suppose \u2014 and \u2014 there were lots of people standing about \u2014 I do n't know how it was \u2014 I was out in the street , with Minnie \u2014", "You fool ! You fool !", "Why not now ,", "The workhouse ?", "Let 's give it up , Joe . Go away together , you 'd sleep without coughing . Sleep , that 's all . And God will be kinder than men .", "And they 'd send you to prison . Besides , then God would be angry . Now we can go to Him and need not be ashamed . Let us , dear Joe \u2014 oh , do let us ! I 'm so tired !", "Ca n't go on like this , can we ? You 'll cough all night again , as you did yesterday \u2014 and the stuff they gave you at the Dispensary 's no good . If you had clothes , you might get some sort of a job perhaps \u2014 you know you had to give up trying because you were so shabby .", "Do n't , Joe \u2014 what 's the use ? And who knows \u2014 it may prove a blessing to us . You told the policeman where we lived ?", "Well , she 'd like to have it , of course \u2014 they 're so dreadfully poor themselves \u2014 but she says she wo n't turn us out . And I 'm going to-morrow to her daughter 's upstairs \u2014 she makes matchboxes , you know \u2014 and I do n't see why I should n't try \u2014 I could earn nearly a shilling a day .", "In a way I did \u2014 yes .", "Only a lecture , Joe , for bringing the child out on so bitter a day .", "Yes \u2014", "Never mind that \u2014", "It 's not your fault , dear \u2014 you 've done what you could . Not your fault they wo n't let you work \u2014 you 've tried hard enough . And no woman ever had a better husband than you 've been to me . I love you , dear Joe . And let 's do it \u2014 let 's make an end . And take Minnie with us .", "Took her into the pastrycook 's , Joe \u2014", "You gave it to the policeman ?", "You wo n't ?", "Minnie managed to hide a great big bun for me .", "Joe !", "There 's no room for us in this world \u2014", "With what , Joe ?", "Where ?", "Ok Joe , be careful \u2014 we 've only two left !", "What ? We have n't a friend in the world .", "A lady gave Minnie some food \u2014", "That illness of mine ate up all our savings . O Joe , I wish I had died !"], "true_target": ["I 'll be taken to the graveyard soon , in a pauper 's coffin !", "Hush , dear , hush \u2014 no it 's not morning yet , not time for breakfast . Go to sleep again , dear . Yes , daddy 's come back , and things are going to be all right now \u2014 No , dear , you can n't be hungry , really \u2014 remember those beautiful cakes . Go to sleep , Minnie , dear . You 're cold ?There , dear , you wo n't be cold now . Go to sleep , Minnie \u2014", "We can get the poor little thing some warm clothes , some good food \u2014", "With your stupid ideas of honesty ! What have they done for you , or me ?", "No one . I could n't run , as I had to carry Minnie .", "I do n't know \u2014 something in me did it \u2014 She put the purse down just by the side of my hand \u2014 my fingers clutched it before I knew \u2014 and I was out in the street .", "Nothing , Joe ?", "You 've met them before \u2014 they always refuse \u2014", "It 's not quite a shilling , Joe \u2014 you have to find your own paste and odds and ends . And of course it takes a few weeks to learn , before you begin to make any money .", "What did you tell him ?", "I have n't looked , Joe .", "Why did you do that ?", "Poor boy , poor boy !", "You 've seen them in there , have n't you ?", "That was at three o'clock . And little things are n't like us \u2014 they want their regular meals . Night after night she has been hungry , and I 've had nothing to give her . That 's why I took the purse .", "You 'd rather she went hungry ?", "Joe \u2014", "They 'd separate us .", "Is that worse than being the daughter of a pair of miserable beggars ?", "Joe , I can n't stand it any longer \u2014 I can n't . Not only myself \u2014 but Minnie \u2014 Joe , it 's too much for me ! I can n't stand Minnie crying , and asking me for her breakfast , as she will in the morning . Joe , dear Joe , let there be no morning !", "Here , Joe .", "We 've got to do something . Before we can earn any money at making matchboxes we 'll have to spend some weeks learning . And you 've not had a decent meal for a month \u2014 nor have I . If there 's money inside this purse you can get some clothes \u2014 and for me too \u2014 I need them ! It 's not as though the old lady would miss it \u2014 she 's rich enough \u2014 her cloak was real sable \u2014 and no one can find us out \u2014 they can n't tell one piece of money from the other . It 's heavy , Joe \u2014 I think there 's a lot inside .", "Hush , Joe \u2014 you 'll wake Minnie .", "You were afraid ?", "Oh , Joe , you 're wet !", "Be careful you do n't wake her , Joe !", "Yes .", "Found it .", "Joe , Joe , we 've tried very hard , have n't we ?", "I expect he 'll keep it himself !", "Joe !", "We 've done nothing to deserve it , Joe \u2014", "Forgive you ! You were right . It was the cold and the hunger maddened me . You were right !", "Open it , Joe .", "Joe ?", "And I 'm really ashamed to walk through the streets \u2014", "No ; I did n't dare ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["Found ?", "Yes .", "At least you and the kiddie 'd have food .", "Nothing . Not a farthing . Nothing .", "Mary !", "Well ?", "Ho , ho ! Always so ready with their lectures , are n't they ? \u201c Should n't beg , my man ! Never give to beggars in the street ! \u201d \u2014 Look at me , I said to one of them . Feel my arm . Tap my chest . I tell you I 'm starving , and they 're starving at home .\u2014 \u201c Never give to beggars in the street . \u201d", "I do n't know how it was \u2014 hearing his tramp up there \u2014", "No . Not that \u2014 we 'll wait , Mary . Do n't speak of that .", "It 's the kiddie , you know \u2014 her being a thief 's daughter \u2014", "You have n't looked ?", "That you had found it .", "I suppose it is , somehow \u2014", "I could have got clothes \u2014 a job , perhaps \u2014 we might have left this cellar . We could have gone out to-morrow and bought things \u2014 gone into shops \u2014 we might have had food , coal \u2014", "You \u2014", "No one followed you ?", "They laugh at me .", "Mary , I 'll steal something to-morrow .", "Suppose we did that ?", "The lady did n't give you anything ?", "I was n't right \u2014 I was a coward , a criminal \u2014 a vile and wicked fool .", "How ?", "That will help to build up a fire .The Daily Something or other \u2014 that tells the world what a happy people we are \u2014 how proud of belonging to an Empire on which the sun never sets . And I 'd sell Gibraltar to-night for a sausage with mashed potatoes ; and let Russia take India if some one would give me a clerkship at a pound a week .\u2014 There , in you go ! A match , Mary ?", "You had the purse ?", "Why did n't you ?", "I do n't know \u2014", "The end ?", "Yes \u2014 what is it ?Well ? Out with it , Mary !", "No ! I 'll make them give me something ; and if I have to kill , it sha n't be my wife and child ! To-morrow I 'll come home with food and money \u2014 to-morrow \u2014", "Tried ! Is there a job in this world we 'd refuse ? Is there anything we 'd turn up our nose at ? Is there any chance we 've neglected ?", "Bless her for that !", "No . We 'll go to the workhouse .", "A thief 's daughter .", "A purse !", "Do n't , Mary \u2014 do n't !", "And left me alone ? That 's not kind of you , Mary . How about Mrs. Willis ? Is she worrying about the rent ?"], "true_target": ["That 's the policeman passing .", "Perhaps .", "I know \u2014 though I 'm getting used to it . Besides , there 's the kiddie . Let 's have a look at her .", "I did n't think we 'd come to this , Mary .", "A shilling a day ! Princely !I reckon I 'll try making \u2018 em too . I went to the Vestry again , this morning , to see whether they 'd take me as sweeper \u2014 but they 've thirty names down , ahead of me . I 've tried chopping wood , but I can n't \u2014 I begin to cough the third stroke \u2014 there 's something wrong with me inside , somewhere . I 've tried every Institution on God 's earth \u2014 and there are others before me , and there is no vacancy , and I must n't beg , and I must n't worry the gentlemen . A shilling a day \u2014 can one earn as much as that ! Why , Mary , that will be fourteen shillings a week \u2014 an income ! We 'll do it !", "With this ! Wonderful fine furniture they give you on the Hire System \u2014 so solid and substantial \u2014 as advertised .And to think we paid for this muck , in the days we were human beings \u2014 paid about three times its value ! And to think of the poor devils , poor devils like us , who sweated their life-blood out to make it \u2014 and of the blood-sucking devils who sold it and got fat on it \u2014 and now back it goes to the devil it came from , and we can at least get warm for a minute .Got any paper , Mary ?", "Thought of it ! Do n't , Mary , do n't ! It 's bad enough , in the night , when I lie there and think of to-morrow ! Something will happen \u2014 it must .", "It 's been raining hard the last three hours \u2014 pouring . My stars , it 's cold . Could n't we raise a bit of fire , Mary ?", "A blessing ! I 'll get up to-morrow , after having coughed out my lungs all night \u2014 and I 'll go into the streets and walk there from left to right and from right to left , standing at this corner and at that , peering into men 's faces , watching people go to their shops and their offices , people who are warm and comfortable \u2014 and so it will go on , till the end comes .", "Deserve it ! What have I ever done wrong ! Was n't my fault the firm went bankrupt and I could n't get another job . I 've a first-rate character \u2014 I 'm respectable \u2014 what 's the use ? I want to work \u2014 they wo n't let me !", "I stood for an hour in Leicester Square when the theatres emptied , thinking I might earn a copper , calling a cab , or something . There they were , all streaming out , happy and clean and warm \u2014 broughams and motor-cars \u2014 supper at the Savoy and the Carlton \u2014 and a hundred or two of us others in the gutter , hungry \u2014 looking at them . They went off to their supper \u2014 it was pouring , and I got soaked \u2014 and there I stood , dodging the policemen , dodging the horses \u2019 heads and the motors \u2014 and it was always \u2014 get away , you loafer , get away \u2014 get away \u2014 get away \u2014", "Yes .", "You forgive me for returning the purse ?", "Yes \u2014 it 's heavy \u2014", "Not nice , is it ? Ca n't be helped , of course . And who cares ? For three months this game has gone on \u2014 we getting shabbier , wretcheder , hungrier \u2014 no one bothers \u2014 all they say is \u201c keep off the pavement . \u201d Let 's see what 's in the purse .", "I 'll be careful . Wait , though \u2014 I 'll see whether there 's a bit of tobacco still in my pipe .A policeman who warned me away from the kerb gave me some tobacco . \u201c Must n't beg , \u201d he said . \u201c Got a pipe ? Well , here 's some tobacco . \u201d I believe he 'd have given me money . But it was the first kind word I had heard all day , and it choked me .\u2014 There 's just a bit left at the bottom .Now , first the fire .And then my pipe .Boo-o-oh , I 'm sizzling .... I got so wet that I felt the water running into my lungs \u2014 my feet did n't seem to belong to me \u2014 and as for my head and nose !Well , smoke 's good \u2014 by the powers , I 'm getting warm \u2014 come closer to it , Mary . It 's a little after midnight now \u2014 and I left home , this fine , luxurious British home , just as soon as it was light . And I 've tramped the streets all day . Net result , a policeman gave me a pipeful of tobacco , I lunched off a bit of bread that I saw floating down the gutter \u2014 and I dined off the kitchen smell of the Caf\u00e9 Royal . That 's my day .", "Why not , after all ? That 's what it will come to , sooner or later .", "God , O God , give us bread ! THE CURTAIN SLOWLY FALLS", "Does it though ? And what are we going to do , those few weeks ? I thought there was a catch in it , somewhere .Well , here 's a free-born Englishman , able to conduct correspondence in three languages , bookkeeping by double entry , twelve years \u2019 experience \u2014 and all he 's allowed to do is to starve .But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations \u2014", "First time in my life I 've been afraid when I heard the policeman .", "There 's a fire .", "Nothing at all . Same as yesterday \u2014 worse than yesterday \u2014 I did bring home a few coppers \u2014 And you ?", "I may meet some one I used to know .", "Oh , Mary , Mary !", "What made you do it ?", "I had money there \u2014 money in my hand \u2014 money that you need so badly , you , the woman I love with all my ragged soul \u2014 money that would have put food into the body of my little girl \u2014 money that was mine , that belonged to me \u2014 and I 've given it back , because of my rotten honesty ! What right have I to be honest ? They 've made a dog of me \u2014 what business had I to remember I was a man ?", "Yes . And , after all , why not ?", "If I 'd taken that money \u2014", "I do n't want you taken to prison .", "No .", "And the kiddie had a tuck-out ? Thank God ! And you ?", "That 's better than \u2014", "How much is there in it ?", "I 've done nothing wrong \u2014 I have n't drunk or gambled \u2014 I can n't help being only a clerk , and unable to do heavy work ! I can n't help my lungs being weak ! I 've a wife and a child , like other people \u2014 and all we ask is to be allowed to live !", "In a Tube Station . Picked it up because we were starving . That we had n't opened it . And that we lived here , in this cellar .", "Yes .", "You said that she had some food ?"], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["My dear friend , you did n't !", "Jack know \u2014 never .", "Why no \u2014 of course not . I knew you were going to-morrow .", "So you 're not alive now ?", "Yes .", "I am certain that men do n't realise what marriage means to a woman ! Dear funeral , am I not a good wife \u2014 shall I not remain a good wife , till the end of the chapter ? Because there is n't only Jack \u2014 there are Jack 's children .", "Why were you sitting in the dark ?", "Oh , never mind how ! I knew . And I suspected you would be sitting up here to-night . So I came down , hoping to find you . I wanted this talk with you . And I extracted your confession \u2014 as though it had been a tooth .", "Geoffrey , Jack bores me .", "How you resent my having told you !", "That 's because he shot your tiger , and you rubbed his nose . Besides , you talk about horses , and so on . And yet I heard him , for a solid hour , telling you about a rubber he lost at bridge through his partner making diamonds trumps when he should have made spades .", "This is very sudden . Why ?", "Yes , I 'm afraid of the stars .", "We shall hear from you ?", "I do n't know \u2014 it 's too hot , or something . I 've come for a book .", "A tiger !", "I do n't know \u2014", "Horrible ! What ?", "Jack 's friend \u2014 and mine \u2014 do n't forget that ! And could I say these things about Jack to any one else , and can n't you conceive what a joy it is to say them ? Besides , are n't we just now on the rim of the world \u2014 are n't we a little more than ourselves \u2014 are n't we almost on the other side of things ? If we ever meet again , we shall look curiously at each other , and wonder , was it all true ? As it is , I am scarcely sure that you are real . Everything is so still , so strange . Jack ! He is up there , of course , the dear boy , his big red face pressed on the pillow . Oh , Geoffrey , when Jack brought you to me , and I was engaged \u2014 if you only had n't been so loyal !", "You do , and you know it . In your heart you are saying , \u201c All was going so well \u2014 she has spoiled it ! If she does love me she should n't have said it \u2014 Jack 's wife ! \u201d", "If we women had had a hand in the making of the language , how many words there would be to express our feelings towards the men we are fond of ! Of course I love Jack . I 'm cruel to him sometimes ; and there comes a look into his eyes \u2014 he has dog 's eyes , you know \u2014 a faithful Newfoundland \u2014", "Yes .", "The sun is still shining in the antipodes , my dear Geoffrey , and you are still Jack 's old friend , talking to Jack 's wife . Sit down , and do n't be foolish . You 'll be away for years ; it 's possible we may never meet again . It 's possible , too , that next time we do meet you may be married .", "You remember the Persian poet ? \u201c I too have said to the stars and the wind , I will . But the wind and the stars have mocked me \u2014 they have laughed in my face .... \u201d", "And I have loved you \u2014 ah , yes , I have loved you !... And , having said this to each other , we will not meet again \u2014 till you bring me your wife .", "There ! I 've said it ! Oh , it 's such a relief ! I never have before , and I do n't suppose I ever shall again \u2014 for whom can I say it to but you ? Listen \u2014 I tell you \u2014 quite entre nous \u2014 he bores me shockingly !", "I might have .", "Sir Geoffrey , there 's very little cigarette left \u2014", "You will be less lonely in future ... and I no longer afraid of the stars .... Brave heart \u2014 oh , brave little heart that I for a moment have held in my hands !", "Remark that I 've not offered to be a sister to you .", "I think I 'll go to bed .", "No \u2014 stay where you are .... Those are the first rays of dawn \u2014 I must go .... Good-bye . We have no need to shake hands , you and I .... Ah , Geoffrey \u2014 good-bye !", "I wish you 'd be serious .", "A wire from town ?", "Two years in China \u2014", "Oh !", "Sir Geoffrey , I want you to tell me what this means .", "Exactly \u2014 who knows ? So there 's no reason why we should n't look each other squarely in the face for once , and speak out what 's in us .", "Why ? Because it will be something to think of , in the dull days ahead . Because I knew that you loved me , and wanted to be told . Because your life lies before you , and mine is ended . Because I love you , and insisted that you should know . You leave me now , and I have no illusions . Paolo and Francesca are merely a poet 's dream . You will marry \u2014 of course you will marry \u2014 but this moment , at least , has been mine .", "What a start you gave me Why have n't you gone to bed ?", "Geoffrey , is Jack a bore ?", "I 'm sorry you are so lonely .", "I 'll go .", "When do you go to China ?", "You are in your whimsical mood .", "You are making me giddy . Would you mind putting on your body ? I 've not been introduced to your soul ."], "true_target": ["So that is why you are going ?", "And is n't it wonderful , when you think of it \u2014 here are we two , Jack 's friend and his wife , alone on a desert island \u2014 and we have confessed our love for each other , and we are able to discuss it as calmly as though it were rheumatism !", "How will China help you ?", "And you really had better go to bed .", "Why not ?", "I have loved you , and I love you , for the fine , upright , loyal creature that you are . I love you for loving Jack ; and it is Jack 's great quality in my eyes that he has been able to inspire such love . And , my dear friend , let us not be ashamed , we two , but only very proud , and very happy . We shall go our ways , and do our duty ; but we shall never forget this talk we have had to-night .", "The stars frighten me . But I 'll try it . Good-night .", "I dare say \u2014 in fact , I am sure . But you should see us when we are alone , sitting there night after night , with never a word to say to each other ! You tell me you 're tired of polo , and golf , and bridge . Well , how about me ? And need you be scowling so fiercely , and begrudge me my one little wail , you who are going away ?", "Then I tell you the best thing to do . Do n't take your trunks ; just go up with a bag . Leave a note that you 'll come back on Tuesday . Then write from town and say you 're prevented .", "You should get married .", "Of course I loved him \u2014 and I love him now .", "My cigarette has gone out .", "China has waited a long time \u2014 a month more or less will make no difference . They are a patient race .", "I am saying the things a woman says once in a lifetime , and feels all her life . Oh , it was all so simple ! You loved me \u2014 you ... were blind because of Jack ... And I married Jack ... I must n't complain ... I am one of the hundreds of women who marry \u2014 Jacks .", "They 'll keep till to-morrow .", "Sir Geoffrey ! What nonsense ! You 've promised to stay a month !", "Yes .", "That is a great misfortune .", "I want to know what you mean by this nonsense about your going .", "My dear Geoffrey , please send for your soul ; it has wandered off somewhere , and I do n't like talking to copybooks .", "Tell me why you mean to leave us . And remember \u2014 I sha n't let this one go out .", "As many as that !", "At this time of night !", "Well , just one . And when I 've finished it ,", "I suppose it 's difficult for human beings to invent new situations .", "You are absurd .", "And in this attire !", "And , if you find that you really cannot come back \u2014", "And you will be gone ?", "And you will come back \u2014?", "You will be away so long ?", "The best fellow in all the world , and he bores me . A heart of gold , a model husband , a perfect father \u2014 and a bore , bore , bore ! There ! I assure you I feel better .", "I said only one .", "Yes , I knew . Although \u2014", "I ask you again \u2014 is that truly why you are going ?", "Is there a virtue in the colour of the binding ?", "Do n't say that again \u2014 do n't \u2014 I can n't bear it !", "Perhaps he has read Bernard Shaw . But you must never let", "Why not ?", "Ah , the future ! Strange little syllables that hide so much ! I can see you , introducing your wife to me , a little shyly \u2014 I can see myself , shaking hands with her \u2014 and with you .... My boy is seven already \u2014 time travels fast .... But it 's good to know that you really have loved me , all these years ....", "What things !", "You find it impossible to stay out your time here ?", "Have n't I told you he 's the very best fellow in all the world ? And do you think I 'm posing , pretending that I 'm misunderstood , and the rest ? You know me better . I am indulging , for once , in the luxury of absolute candour .", "Why ?", "Yes .", "These things happen ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["I should n't have told you , of course ; but I 'm glad that I have . It clears the air . Now what excuse shall I make ?", "Lady Torminster !", "He and I almost are one , you see . It 's not British to show any feeling , but really I \u2014 love him . And the devil comes along , and , of all women in the world , singles out Jack 's wife , and fills my heart with her . That 's the devil 's sense of humour .", "Yes , I am going away , and I shall marry a", "Exactly ; you 'll forward my goods and chattels . And old Jack will ascribe it all to my wayward mood ; he 'll think I have found it too dull down here . I 'm immensely obliged .", "I am beginning to understand ....", "And you in your wrapper \u2014 peignoir \u2014 tea gown \u2014 it do n't matter what you call it . You look \u2014 jolly . Ridiculous word \u2014 I do n't mean that at all . You look \u2014 you . More you than I 've seen you for years . Sh \u2014 do n't interrupt . Shades never do that . By the way , do you know that the old lumber-room , my owner \u2014 my corporeal sheath \u2014 means to go away in the morning , before you are up ?", "Gertrude !! !", "Oh , Lady Torminster , what is there to say ?", "Who knows ?", "This is not the hour for inflexibility . The Medes and", "How very remiss of me ! Permit me . Gertrude this is Geoffrey . You have often heard me speak of him .", "A better , finer man never lived .", "Gertrude !", "Well , I suppose we had better turn in \u2014", "We 'll hope so . Of course , it did n't matter about my telling you , because you knew already .", "You say that \u2014 you !", "They colour it green on the map \u2014 and there is such a lot of it !", "Why not ? It 's day in the Antipodes .", "That 's just it \u2014 what things ? What have I to say , after all ? I am going to-morrow because I am a fantastic , capricious ass . Also because I 'm lonely .", "Jack knows all about my affairs ; in fact , that 's why I take the early train , to avoid his questions .", "Sir Geoffrey Transom ceased to be when he said good-night to Lady Torminster . Sir Geoffrey is upstairs asleep . So is her ladyship . We are their souls . Let us talk .", "Ah \u2014 then !", "Now that is preposterous . Jack , my dear old friend \u2014 the best and only friend I have in the world \u2014 is slumbering peacefully upstairs , and Jack 's wife is reluctant to talk to Jack 's old pal because the sun happens to be hidden on the other side of the globe . Lady Torminster , sit down . If you 're good you shall have a cigarette .", "I do n't think women quite realise what friendship means to a man .", "My explanation will be handed to you with your cup of tea in the morning .", "Persians have all gone to bed .", "I assure you I have been charged to invent fitting and appropriate lies to account for the ridiculous creature 's abrupt departure . The man Transom is a poor liar .", "There are lots more in the box \u2014 and dawn is a long way off . Hang it , Lady Torminster , do n't be in a hurry ! Do you hear the sea out there ? It 's breathing as regularly as old Jack . And do n't you think this is fine ? Here we are , we two , meeting just as we shall meet on the other side of the Never-Never Land . It 's a chance for a man to speak to a woman , and tell her things .", "That 's a fearful delusion . Nothing keeps . There is one law in the universe : NOW .", "Give your decision , said the judge to the arbitrator , but never your reasons . I go , because I go . Besides , has one reasons ? Why do people die , or get married , or buy umbrellas ? Because of typhoid , love , or the rain ? Not at all . Is n't that so ?", "In a year \u2014 or two \u2014 or three \u2014", "And , while smoking it , remember Penelope 's web . For I 've heaps of things to tell you .", "That 's my fault , too \u2014 the fault of the ridiculous class to which we belong . I do n't do anything .", "Good-night .", "Do you know what you are saying ?", "Certainly . And I will send you chests of tea \u2014 best family Souchong \u2014 and jars of ginger . Also little boxes that fit into each other . I am afraid that is all I know at present of Chinese manufactures .", "The household have all retired ; and we will make this concession to Mrs. Grundy \u2014 we will leave the door open . There !The Open Door ! Centuries ago , when I was alive , I remember paragraphs with that heading .", "Agreed .", "Take another . Never re-light a cigarette \u2014 it 's like dragging up the past . Here .", "I resented his having eaten something that smelt like onions .", "Yes .", "You loved him \u2014", "What would you have me do ? Go into the House ? Thank you , I 've been there . You spend your time on the Terrace or in the smoke-room till a muffin-bell rings ; then you gravely walk into the lobby , where an energetic gentleman counts you as Polyphemus counted his sheep . Philanthropy ! Well , I 've tried that , but it 's not in my line . I 'm quite a respectable landlord , but a fellow can n't live all by himself in a great Elizabethan barrack . Town \u2014 the Season ? Christian mothers invite you to inspect their daughters \u2019 shoulders , with a view to purchase . I 'm tired of golf and polo ; I 'm tired of bridge . So I 'll try the good sea and the open plains ; sleep in a tent and watch the stars twinkle \u2014 the stars that make you afraid .", "He 's not clever , of course \u2014 and you are . But still ! Is cleverness everything ?", "Now , that really is fine of you ! Every other woman in the world would have seized that chance for a melodramatic exit . \u201c Good-night , Sir Geoffrey ; I must go to my husband . \u201d \u201c Good-night , Lady Torminster . \u201d A clasp of the hand \u2014 a hot tear \u2014 mine \u2014 on your wrist . But you sit there . Splendid !"], "true_target": ["Pooh ! You are more dressed than you were at dinner . That 's awfully rude , is n't it ? But then , you see , you 're not my hostess now \u2014 you 're a spirit , walking in the night . One can n't be polite to spirits . Sit down , oh shade , and let us converse .", "Chinese . I shall marry the first Chinese woman I meet .", "You are talking to Jack 's friend .", "By day and by night \u2014 you , and only you !", "You see !", "I shall take the first boat .", "Because , at least , not knowing the language , she wo n't be able to say unkind things about me to my friends .", "You 've known it , of course , all the time ; you 've known it ever since Jack brought me to you , the day after you were engaged . And that 's nine years ago . It 's the usual kind of fatality .", "It 's so infernally stupid . You 're a beautiful woman , of course ; but there are heaps of beautiful women . You 've qualities \u2014 well , so have other women , too . I 'm only forty-one \u2014 and , as you say , why do n't I marry ? Simply because of you . Because you 've an uncomfortable knack of intruding between me and the other lady .", "Hullo ! Do n't be afraid \u2014 it 's only I !", "You told me to do something . I shall learn Chinese . I believe there are five hundred letters in the alphabet .", "Would you have married him without a nose ?", "I suppose there are moments when every woman says that of every man .", "Well , one must breakfast somewhere . It 's a convention .", "Calm , serene , untroubled , with the conscience of a babe \u2014 one , two , three , he sleeps . He and I have had some rare times together . I 've been roped to him on the Andes \u2014 he shot a tiger that was about to scrunch me \u2014 I rubbed his nose when it was frost-bitten . He saved my life \u2014 I saved his nose . I always maintain that the balance of gratitude is on his side \u2014 for where would he have been without his nose ?", "Resent ! I !", "Oh , you 've done what you could ! I 've felt , in a hundred subtle ways , how you almost implored me \u2014 not to . Well , there it is . I 'll write that note at once .", "Persian poets , like all poets , have a funny way of pretending that the stars take an interest in us . To me , it 's their chief charm that they 're so unconcerned . They are lonely , too .", "Well , yes , that 's the fact . I apologise humbly \u2014 it 's so conventional . Is n't it ?", "I 'm tired of going to bed . One always has to get up again , and it becomes monotonous . Why have n't you gone to sleep ?", "Quite . There are moments when I am unpleasantly volcanic .", "If only I had n't induced you to stay !", "Now you know you would n't . You 'd have been afraid of what people would say . And what would he have done when he became short-sighted , and had to wear glasses ?", "Well \u2014 Jack 's wife . Yes !", "That 's a good idea \u2014 yes , that 's much better .", "Lady Torminster ! I beg of you !", "Why not ? They 're all the same inside . There are three hundred ways , they say , of cooking a potato \u2014 there are as many of dressing up a lie , and calling it a novel . But it 's always the same old lie . Here take this .Popular Astronomy . That will send you to sleep .", "It is possible that I exaggerate . Well , Lady Torminster , I think I 'll say good-night .", "I suppose not . He 's so direct , so single-minded , that the shock would be terrible . But I 'm not to blame . How could I help it ? Oh , all that cackle about being master of one 's fate !", "Yes . Well , I thought I was cured . I 've been here five days , and I find I am not . So I go . That 's best , is n't it ?", "Because the light annoyed me . What sort of book will you have ? A red one or a green one ?", "I shall be gone . There is a train at 7. 45 \u2014 which will be packed with husbands . I shall breakfast in town .", "There is gipsy blood in my veins \u2014 I must wander \u2014 I 'm restless .... Not like Jack \u2014 he 's untroubled \u2014 he can sleep . Jack 's a fine sleeper , is n't he ?", "Onions may have been his undoing . That 's the beggar 's skin on the floor . But you should have seen me rub Jack 's nose !", "This moment , and every moment , in past and future !", "And why ?", "How ?", "You 've been superb . Oh , the good talk we 've had ! Do you know , I could almost wish old Jack to have heard what I said . I 'm so fond of him , that grand old fellow , that I 've been on the point of telling him , myself , more than once . For you know he will have me take you about , and it 's painful . Besides , I 've felt it almost disloyal to \u2014 keep this thing from him . You understand , do n't you ?", "Why ?", "I 'm fearfully serious . When Jack shot that tiger he had to go so near the brute that he held his life in his hands . Do you know what was my chief impression as I lay there , with the ugly cat 's paw upon my chest , beginning to rip me ?", "Let me choose one for you .", "It 's most annoying . So I shall try China . I shall come back in two years \u2014 I shall be forty-three then \u2014 I shall come back , sound as a bell ; and I shall marry some healthy , pink-cheeked young woman , take a house next to yours , and in the fulness of time your eldest son shall fall in love with my daughter .", "Yes \u2014 I 'm off in the morning . It has occurred to me that I have n't been to China . Now that is a serious omission . How can I face my forefathers , and confess to them that I have n't seen the land where the Yellow Labour comes from ?", "I did n't ?", "He never bores me .", "I move as an amendment that you sit down and talk ."], "play_index": 8, "act_index": 8}, {"query": ["God knows we have no orders to harm you , Little Mother . Our duty is done . You are well and strong ; but I shall never be the same man again . He is a mighty and terrible fighter , as stout as a bear . He has broken my sweetbread with his strong knees . God knows poor folk should not be set upon such dangerous adversaries !", "Little Father , tell us what to do . Our lives are yours ; but God knows you are not fit to die .", "You shall , dear Little Mother . You shall give the poor old Sergeant a rouble ; and the blessed Nicholas will make your salvation his charge .", "Sainted Nicholas !", "Little darling honey , is his Highness the prince very busy ?", "Little Father , this is the English captain , so well recommended to her sacred Majesty the Empress . God knows , he needs your countenance and protec \u2014Well ?", "Pardon him , pardon him , lest the mighty man bring his whip to you . God knows we all need pardon !", "He will feel only the first twenty and he will be mercifully dead long before the end , little darling .", "God be praised , Little Father : you are still spared to us .", "Be merciful , Little Father . God knows it is your duty to see him !Intercede for him and for me , beautiful little darling . He has given me a rouble .", "Receive her in the name of the holy Nicholas .", "The blessed Nicholas will multiply your fruits , Little", "Little Father , you kicked his Highness downstairs .", "Everybody goes in and out of the palace , little love ."], "true_target": ["Lay hold of him there . Pin his arms . I have his pistols .", "Father .", "I praise Heaven for you , Little Mother . Come .It was the temptation of the devil that led your young man to bruise my vitals and deprive me of breath . We must be merciful to one another 's faults .", "Little Father \u2014", "He fought with the strength of lions and bears . God knows I shall carry a broken sweetbread to my grave .", "Have mercy on me , Little Father . Your head is bad this morning . You drink too much French brandy and too little good Russian kvass .", "Little Father , life is hard for the poor . If you say it is a lie , it is a lie . He FELL downstairs . I picked him up ; and he kicked me . They all kick me when you kick them . God knows that is not just , Little Father !", "Be merciful , Little angel Mother .", "Do so in the name of the Holy Nicholas , little beauty .", "Little Father , the English captain , so highly recommended to you by old Fritz of Prussia , by the English ambassador , and by Monsieur Voltairemay God in his infinite mercy damn eternally ! ) , is in the antechamber and desires audience .", "Sainted Nicholas : bless your lambs !", "Take them , Little Father ; and do not forget us poor soldiers who have brought them to you ; for God knows we get but little to drink .", "Do you think the Prince will see the captain , little darling ?", "Owgh ! Murder ! Holy Nicholas ! Owwwgh !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Savage ! Boot ! It is a disgrace . No wonder the French sneer at us as barbarians .", "A foreign captain : I cannot pronounce his name . I think he is mad . He came to the Prince and said he must see your Majesty . He can talk of nothing else . We could not prevent him .", "She will ; but you must come .", "Yes ?", "Come , little love : you can n't refuse me .", "Pig . Ugh !", "What else did you presume to admire her Majesty for , pray ?", "And you think you will impress an Englishman by receiving him as you are now , half drunk ?", "You look perfect .", "Have you no shame ? You refuse to see the most exalted persons . You kick princes and generals downstairs . And then you see an English captain merely because he has given a rouble to that common soldier . It is scandalous .", "Fi donc ! I do not look through keyholes .", "Only one kiss ! and on the forehead ! Fish . See how I kiss , though it is only my horribly ugly old uncle", "It is true . He drinks like a pig .", "Help ! Call the guard ! The Englishman is murdering my uncle ! Help ! Help ! The guard and the Sergeant rush in . Edstaston draws a pair of small pistols from his boots , and points one at the Sergeant and the other at Patiomkin , who is sitting on the floor , somewhat sobered . The soldiers stand irresolute .", "You must come . If you kick you will blacken my eyes .", "Happy Little Father ! Remember : I did this for you .Edstaston , somewhat dazed , crosses the room to the courtiers , and is received with marked deference , each courtier making him a profound bow or curtsey before withdrawing through the central doors . He returns each obeisance with a nervous jerk , and turns away from it , only to find another courtier bowing at the other side . The process finally reduced him to distraction , as he bumps into one in the act of bowing to another and then has to bow his apologies . But at last they are all gone except Naryshkin .", "Oh , sweet little angel lamb , he loves you : it shines in his darling eyes . Pardon him , pardon him .", "Of course ."], "true_target": ["His real name ? Popof , of course . Why do you laugh , Little Father ?", "Yes , yes , yes . Little English Father : God knows it is your duty to be brave and wait on the Empress . Come .", "Aha ! I knew it . Your Majesty wore the hussar uniform . He saw how radiant ! how splendid ! your Majesty looked . Oh ! he has dared to admire your Majesty . Such insolence is not to be endured .", "His Highness the prince is very busy . He is singing out of tune ; he is biting his nails ; he is scratching his head ; he is hitching up his untidy stockings ; he is making himself disgusting and odious to everybody ; and he is pretending to read state papers that he does not understand because he is too lazy and selfish to talk and be companionable .", "I 'll not be shouted for . You have the voice of a bear , and the manners of a tinker .", "Sot ! The Sergeant returns ushering a handsome strongly built young English officer in the uniform of a Light Dragoon . He is evidently on fairly good terms with himself , and very sure of his social position . He crosses the room to the end of the table opposite Patiomkin 's , and awaits the civilities of that statesman with confidence . The Sergeant remains prudently at the door .", "! !", "Respect ! How can you respect the niece of a savage ?", "Pardon him , pardon him , little delight , little sleeper in a rosy cradle .", "Heaven is my witness , Little English Father , we need someone who is not afraid of him . He is so strong ! I hope you will throw him down on the floor many , many , many times .", "Carry him , uncle .", "Yes , you protested . But , all the same , you were very very very anxious to see her Imperial Majesty . You blushed when the Prince spoke of her . You threatened to strike him across the face with your sword because you thought he did not speak enthusiastically enough of her .Trust me : he has seen your Imperial Majesty before .", "Come , come , come .", "March him , baby , etc ., etc .", "She begs you for a thousand dear little kisses all over her body .", "My uncle is receiving you with unusual civility , Captain . He has just kicked a general downstairs .", "You do n't admire her , then ?", "Monsieur le Capitaine !", "Hoo hoo !"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Get out .Darling , have some diamonds . Have a fistful .", "Oh , send him in , send him in ; and stop pestering me . Am I never to have a moment 's peace ? The Sergeant salutes joyfully and hurries out , divining that Patiomkin has intended to see the English captain all along , and has played this comedy of fury and exhausted impatience to conceal his interest in the visitor .", "Yes : I 'll carry you .", "Madman : take care !", "Pardon him , pardon him , little cherub ! little wild duck ! little star ! little glory ! little jewel in the crown of heaven !", "Tell them to bring some diamonds . Plenty of diamonds . And rubies . Get out .Put up your pistols , darling . I 'll give you a pair with gold handgrips . I am your friend .", "Why not ? She wo n't eat you .", "Tut tut ! I 'm going to take you to the Empress now , this very instant .", "Useless to struggle . Come along , beautiful baby darling . Come to Little Mother .March him baby , Baby , baby , Lit-tle ba-by bumpkins .", "!! !", "You are the first Englishman I ever saw refuse anything he could get .Listen , darling . You are a wrestler : a splendid wrestler . You threw me on my back like magic , though I could lift you with one hand . Darling , you are a giant , a paladin .", "Darling , you appreciate my epigram .", "Heart ! Heart !", "Call me darling .", "I do n't want to know who you are . What do you want ?", "Tsh-sh-sh . Little angel Mother : you must behave yourself before the English captain .", "You have done it , darling . Superbly ! Beautifully !", "Darling , your lips are the gates of truth . Now listen to me .You are Captain Whatshisname ; and your uncle is the Earl of Whatdyecallum ; and your father is Bishop of Thingummybob ; and you are a young man of the highest spr \u2014 promise, educated at Cambridge , and got your step as captain in the field at the GLORIOUS battle of Bunker 's Hill . Invalided home from America at the request of Aunt Fanny , Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen . All right , eh ?", "Why not , darling ? I was an adventurer . I was a beggar .", "Thas true . Drungn ruffian . Took dvantage of my being drunk . Said : take me to Lil angel Mother . Take me to beaufl Empress . Take me to the grea'st woman on earth . Thas whas he he said . I took him . I was wrong . I am not sober .", "Darling , I am a man ; and you are a man ; and Catherine is a woman . Woman reduces us all to the common denominator .Again an epigram !You understand it , I hope . Have you had a college education , darling ? I have .", "Embrace her , victor of Bunker 's Hill . Kiss her till she swoons .", "Come .", "Darling , you shall see the Empress . A glorious woman , the greatest woman in the world . But lemme give you piece \u2018 vice \u2014 pah ! still drunk . They water my vinegar .If Catherine takes a fancy to you , you may ask for roubles , diamonds , palaces , titles , orders , anything ! and you may aspire to everything : field-marshal , admiral , minister , what you please \u2014 except Tsar .", "By the way , what was the piece of advice I was going to give you ?", "Darling , there is no pleasing you . Do n't you like me ?", "In Russia a gentleman has no scruples . In Russia we face facts .", "Nonsense ! You shall come just as you are . You shall show her your calves later on .", "If you ask my pi-pinion of Dashkoff , my pipinion is that Dashkoff is drunk . Scanlous . Poor Patiomkin go bye bye .Some of the courtiers move to carry him away .", "In real life , darling , all facts are unpleasant .Another epigram ! Where is my accursed chancellor ? these gems should be written down and recorded for posterity .But I have not asked you to sit down .I am a savage : a barbarian .Be seated , Captain .", "Only one eye , darling . Cross eye . Sees everything . Read lerrer inceince \u2014 istastaneously . Kindly give me vinegar borle . Green borle . On'y to sober me . Too drunk to speak porply . If you would be so kind , darling . Green borle .Reach it myself .Young man , it is not better to be drunk than sober ; but it is happier . Goodness is not happiness . That is an epigram . But I have overdone this . I am too sober to be good company . Let me redress the balance .Aha ! That 's better . And now listen , darling . You must not come to Court with pistols in your boots .", "Darling beloved , I am drunk ; but I know what I am doing . I wish to stand well with the English .", "In er lerrer , darling , darling , darling , darling . Lerrer you showed me .", "What shall I do to him for you ? Skin him alive ? Cut off his eyelids and stand him in the sun ? Tear his tongue out ? What shall it be ?", "To hell with the English captain ; and to hell with old Fritz of Prussia ; and to hell with the English ambassador ; and to hell with Monsieur Voltaire ; and to hell with you too !", "You have conscientious scruples ?", "You think she murdered him ?", "Psha ! I know . You think if she once sets eyes on your face and your uniform your fortune is made . You think that if she could stand a man like me , with only one eye , and a cross eye at that , she must fall down at your feet at first sight , eh ?", "Varinka !", "It is enough that you are a bachelor , darling : Catherine will supply the arts . Aha ! Another epigram ! I am in the vein today .", "Are you really an Englishman ?"], "true_target": ["The day you hint at such a thing will be the day of your downfall . Besides , it is not lucky to be Catherine 's husband . You know what happened to Peter ?", "Do n't scold , Lil Mother .", "Serve em right ! Sgusting habit . Ask Varinka . Catherine turns her face from him to the Court . The courtiers see that she is trying not to laugh , and know by experience that she will not succeed . They rise , relieved and grinning .", "I do n't know . I am drunk . What is this , Varinka ?", "It is a lie : Orloff murdered him .He also knocked my eye out ; butI succeeded him for all that . AndI 'm sorry to say , darling , that if you become Tsar , I shall murder you .", "Nonsense . I 'm your friend . You mistook my intention because I was drunk . Now that I am sober \u2014 in moderation \u2014 I will prove that I am your friend . Have some diamonds .Hullo there ! Dogs , pigs : hullo ! The Sergeant comes in .", "Darling , a true Russian has a heart on both sides . The Sergeant enters carrying a goblet filled with precious stones .", "Ho !", "Why are visitors of consequence announced by a sergeant ?What do you mean by this , you hound ? Do you want five thousand blows of the stick ? Where is General Volkonsky ?", "Yes : go . Go bye bye . Very sleepy . Berr go bye bye than go Siberia . Go bye bye in Lil Mother 's bed", "Go and look through the keyhole of the Imperial bed-chamber ; and bring me word whether the Empress is awake yet .", "You lie , you dog . You lie .", "Very well , then : I shall stay where I am , because I 'm drunk and you 're afraid of me .", "Yah !", "Come along , darling .", "You have been badly brought up , little darling . Would any lady or gentleman walk unannounced into a room without first looking through the keyhole ?The great thing in life is to be simple ; and the perfectly simple thing is to look through keyholes . Another epigram : the fifth this morning ! Where is my fool of a chancellor ? Where is Popof ?", "Not now ; but you will have : take my words for it . It will strike you as a splendid idea to have conscientious scruples \u2014 to desire the blessing of the Church on your union with Catherine .", "I give it to you unasked , delightful Englishman . I remember it now . It was this . Do n't try to become Tsar of Russia .", "!! !", "Get out . Get out , all of you .Here ! help me up , will you ? Do n't you see that I 'm drunk and can n't get up ?", "No : only English . He will amuse Catherine .Come , you shall tell the joke to the Empress : she is by way of being a humorist", "Get out .", "You refuse !", "Is it ? You are learned ! You are a doctor ! You English are wonderful ! We are barbarians , drunken pigs . Catherine does not know it ; but we are . Catherine 's a German . But I have given her a Russian heart", "Come , baby , come . By this time they have made their way through the door and are out of hearing .", "What matter ? She is in England , is n't she ?", "Well : what 's wrong with me ?", "What do you want ?", "You have no hearts , you English !", "You want me to kick you upstairs , eh ? You want an audience of the Empress .", "! !", "He will not see any captain . Go to the devil !", "Not dead drunk , darling . Only diplomatically drunk . As a drunken hog , I have done for you in five minutes what I could not have done in five months as a sober man . Your fortune is made . She likes you .", "No : not like pig . Like prince . Lil Mother made poor Patiomkin prince . Whas use being prince if I may n't drink ?", "Persuade him , Little angel Mother .", "I have a Turk who is a wrestler : a prisoner of war . You shall wrestle with him for me . I 'll stake a million roubles on you .", "In half an hour it will be too late for the petit lever . Come along . Damn it , man , I must oblige the British ambassador , and the French ambassador , and old Fritz , and Monsieur Voltaire and the rest of them .Varinka !Varinka shall persuade you : nobody can refuse Varinka anything . My niece . A treasure , I assure you . Beautiful ! devoted ! fascinating !Varinka , where the devil are you ?", "It is true : the English despise men who cannot drink . I must make myself wholly drunk", "You must not call her madam . You must call her Little Mother , and beautiful darling .", "P-P-P-P-P-P-W-W-W-W-W-rrrrrr!I must kick somebody .", "Why ? Are n't you delighted ?", "For your lover ?"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Oh ! Madam : I am perfectly sane : I am actually an Englishman . I should never have dreamt of approaching your Majesty without the fullest credentials . I have letters from the English ambassador , from the Prussian ambassador .But everybody assured me that Prince Patiomkm is all-powerful with your Majesty ; so I naturally applied to him .", "Yes : we must all grow old , even the handsomest of us .", "Madam !", "Goodbye , goodbye , goodbye , goodbye , goodbye , goodbye . He goes out backwards , bowing , with Claire curtseying , having been listened to in utter dumbfoundedness by Patiomkin and Naryshkin , in childlike awe by Yarinka , and with quite inexpressible feelings by Catherine . When he is out of sight she rises with clinched fists and raises her arms and her closed eyes to Heaven . Patiomkin : rousing himself from his stupor of amazement , springs to her like a tiger , and throws himself at her feet .", "You want to get hold of me .", "But it will take me only half an hour to \u2014", "Your Highness understands that if I am missing , or if anything happens to me , there will be trouble .", "Oh , madam !", "Believe me , this Russian extravagance will not do . I appreciate as much as any man the warmth of heart that prompts it ; but it is overdone : it is hardly in the best taste : it is really I must say it \u2014 it is not proper .", "I feel your Majesty 's kindness so much that I really cannot leave you without a word of plain wholesome English advice .", "I 'm not afraid of you , damn you !", "I must allow myself to say , madam , that your uncle had better not attempt to kick an English officer downstairs .", "How did you know ?", "!", "No use . I daresay you look very majestic and very handsome ; but I can n't see you ; and I am not intimidated . I am an Englishman ; and you can kidnap me ; but you can n't bully me .", "By everybody . By the most unutterable swine . And if we do not leave this abominable city now : do you hear ? now ; I shall be called darling by the Empress .", "Certainly . I am a Bachelor of Arts .", "No . She has just arrived in St. Petersburg .", "Claire , loosen these straps , in Heaven 's name . Quick .", "It is not the English custom .", "Thank you , I do n't take presents .", "I must ask your Highness to change the subject . As a visitor in Russia , I am the guest of the Empress ; and I must tell you plainly that I have neither the right nor the disposition to speak lightly of her Majesty .", "How do you know all this ?", "Damn you ! do you take me for a prize-fighter ? How dare you make me such a proposal ?", "Not at all . Your Majesty is very good . I have been very awkward ; but I did not intend it . I am rather stupid , I am afraid .", "I tell you I do n't want to ask for anything . Do you suppose I am an adventurer and a beggar ?", "After all , though your Majesty is of course a great queen , yet when all is said , I am a man ; and your Majesty is only a woman .", "My union with Catherine ! You 're mad .", "Yes , Madam ; but I did not enter your presence : I was carried .", "Agh ! Cat !", "His Majesty King George the Third will send for six of them when the news of this reaches London ; so look out , damn your eyes !", "Because I did n't particularly want to have you knouted , and to be hanged or sent to Siberia myself .", "Do , dearest . He kisses her and lets her go , expecting her to run into the house .", "Certainly not . I say that his books ought to be burnt by the common hangmanYagh ! Oh do n't . I shall faint . I can n't bear it .", "I have the scruples of a gentleman .", "But how can I ?", "Come ! I am sure he really loved you ; and you truly loved him .", "No , really . I am not fit \u2014", "I must apologize for the disturbance I made , madam .", "Ow ! Agh ! Ahowyow !", "Ahowyou !!!! Agh ! oh ! Stop ! Oh Lord ! Ya-a-a-ah !", "Stand off .Order them off , if you do n't want a bullet through your silly head .", "In England , sir , a gentleman never faces any facts if they are unpleasant facts .", "Well , goodbyegoo-oo-oodbye , Prince : come and see us if ever you visit England . Spire View , Deepdene , Little Mugford , Devon , will always find me .Goodbye , Mademoiselle : goodbye , Little Mother , if I may call you that just once .Eh ? No , no , no , no : you do n't mean that , you know . Naughty !Goodbye , my friend . You will drink our healths with this", "Not a patch on you , dearest .", "The devil she does !", "I assure you \u2014 it is quite out of the question \u2014 my clothes \u2014", "Say I was gone before you arrived with the message .", "Ah , Madam , abolish the stove : believe me , there is nothing like the good old open grate . Home ! duty ! happiness ! they all mean the same thing ; and they all flourish best on the drawing-room hearthrug .And now , my love , we must not detain the Queen : she is anxious to inspect the model of her museum , to which I am sure we wish every success .", "Well , that your Majesty was \u2014 was \u2014Well , let me put it this way : that it was rather natural for a man to admire your Majesty without being a philosopher .", "Surely there is no harm in noticing that er \u2014 that er \u2014", "All Europe is a party to that insolence , Madam .", "How can anyone with a sense of humor help laughing ? Pop off !", "As you did not give it , I do n't know . Allow me to add that I have not asked for your advice .", "An audience of the Empress .Also some civility , if you please .", "No . I had rather \u2014", "I think nothing of the sort ; and I 'll trouble you not to repeat it . If I were a Russian subject and you made such a boast about my queen , I 'd strike you across the face with my sword .Hands off , you swine !", "Well , I \u2014 naturally \u2014 of course , I can n't deny that the uniform was very becoming \u2014 perhaps a little unfeminine \u2014 still \u2014 Dead silence . Catherine and the Court watch him stonily . He is wretchedly embarrassed .", "Certainly not , Madam . I protested against it with all my might . I appeal to this lady to confirm me .", "Ouf !", "!!! !", "I do n't know a word of German ; but that sounded kind .Little Mother , beautiful little darling angel mother : do n't be cruel : untie me . Oh , I beg and implore you . Do n't be unkind . I shall go mad .", "I know that people have said so .", "You will thank me more when you see your little ones round your knee , and your man there by the fireside in the winter evenings \u2014 by the way , I forgot that you have no fireside here in spite of the coldness of the climate ; so shall I say by the stove ?", "For Heaven 's sake , Madam , do you intend to leave me tied up like this while you discuss the blasphemies of that abominable infidel ? Agh ! !Oh ! Oo !", "Ow ! You 've nearly pulled my teeth out : you 're worse than the Star of the North .Darling Little Mother : you have a kind heart , the kindest in Europe . Have pity . Have mercy . I love you .Release me .", "As I said before : Damn your eyes !", "Yagh ! Ah !If your Majesty does that again I will write to the London Gazette .", "I am nothing of the kind . I have been mentioned in dispatches as a highly intelligent officer . And let me warn your Majesty that I am not so helpless as you think . The English Ambassador is in that ballroom . A shout from me will bring him to my side ; and then where will your Majesty be ?"], "true_target": ["Madam , this drunken ruffian \u2014", "Why ! Why ! Why , because they 're hurting me .", "I have no objection .", "The other side , your Highness .", "Dash it all , this is ridiculous !", "No , no . This is carrying a joke too far . I must insist . Let me down ! Hang it , will you let me down ! Confound it ! No , no . Stop playing the fool , will you ? We do n't understand this sort of thing in England . I shall be disgraced . Let me down .", "I have said nothing about kicking , sir . If it comes to that , my boots shall speak for me . Her Majesty has signified a desire to have news of the rebellion in America . I have served against the rebels ; and I am instructed to place myself at the disposal of her Majesty , and to describe the events of the war to her as an eye-witness , in a discreet and agreeable manner .", "Oh , never mind that vile scoffer . Set an example to Europe , Madam , by doing what I am going to do . Marry again . Marry some good man who will be a strength and support to your old age .", "But I never said I admired your Majesty . The lady has twisted my words .", "I have n't the slightest intention \u2014", "A Russian general , madam ?", "You shall hear more of this . Damn you , will you untie me ? I will complain to the ambassador . I will write to the Gazette . England will blow your trumpery little fleet out of the water and sweep your tinpot army into Siberia for this . Will you let me go ? Damn you ! Curse you ! What the devil do you mean by it ? I 'll \u2014 I 'll \u2014 I 'll \u2014", "Steady , dearest : it is the Empress . Call her your Imperial Majesty . Call her Star of the North , Little Mother , Little Darling : that 's what she likes ; but get the straps off .", "Well , the long and short of it is \u2014 do n't think me a coxcomb , Claire : it is too serious to mince matters \u2014 I have seen the Empress ; and \u2014", "I know nothing about her Majesty 's eminence in policy or philosophy : I do n't pretend to understand such things . I speak as a practical man . And I never knew that foreigners had any policy : I always thought that policy was Mr. Pitt 's business .", "Ahem ! Silence . Catherine reads on .", "Madam , I cannot talk tied up like this .", "Not that I cannot make allowances . Your Majesty has , I know , been unfortunate in your experience as a married woman \u2014", "Oh , do n't make me feel like a fool . But , though it does sound conceited to say it , I flatter myself I 'm better looking than Patiomkin and the other hogs she is accustomed to . Anyhow , I dare n't risk staying .", "Do n't go . Do n't leave me in this horrible state . Loosen me .", "You are a Russian . That 's different .", "But you did n't read it .", "Oh , you !", "I have n't come either time . I 've been carried . I call it infernal impudence .", "You can n't mean to throw me over , Claire .Claire . Claire .", "To oblige me . Catherine laughs good-humoredly and goes to the curtains and opens them . The band strikes up a Redowa .", "My respect for the lady will not permit it .", "In these boots ? Impossible ! I must change .", "Impossible \u2014", "It 's agreeable enough ; onlyfor heaven 's sake do n't touch me in the ribs .", "No : angel , angel !", "No . Believe me \u2014 I do n't wish \u2014 I \u2014", "Have you any back teeth ?", "Yes ; but the Empress has seen me .", "This is n't severity : it 's tomfoolery . And if you think it 's reforming my character or teaching me anything , you 're mistaken . It may be a satisfaction to you ; but if it is , all I can say is that it 's not an amiable satisfaction .", "I thank your Highness ; but it is not the custom for English gentlemen to take presents of that kind .", "Excuse me . Pop off ! Ha ! ha ! I can n't help laughing : What 's his real name , by the way , in case I meet him ?", "The letter will explain to your Highness who I am .", "Ahem ! ahem ! Silence .", "Agh !!! I must really ask your Majesty not to put the point of your Imperial toe between my ribs . I am ticklesome .", "Dignity ! Ow ! I can n't . I 'm stiff all over . I shall never be able to stand up again . Oh Lord ! how it hurts !Yah ! Agh ! Wow ! Oh ! Mmmmmm ! Oh , Little Angel Mother , do n't ever do this to a man again . Knout him ; kill him ; roast him ; baste him ; head , hang , and quarter him ; but do n't tie him up like that and tickle him .", "But I can n't take these valuable things . By Jiminy , though , they 're beautiful ! Look at them , Claire . As he is taking the pistols the kneeling Sergeant suddenly drops them ; flings himself forward ; and embraces Edstaston 's hips to prevent him from drawing his own pistols from his boots .", "Precisely .You observe , my love : \u201c little darling . \u201d Well , if her Majesty calls him a darling , is it my fault that she calls me one too ?", "Delighted ! Gracious heavens , man , I am engaged to be married .", "Do n't be angry , dearest : in this country everybody 's a darling . I 'll prove it to you .Will your Majesty be good enough to call Prince Patiomkin ?", "I have been called darling all the morning .", "Thank you . The occasion will not arise .I have the honor to wish your Highness good morning .", "Well , in a sort of way I do ; though I do n't know why I should . But my instructions are that I am to see the Empress ; and \u2014", "They tied me up , dear . I could n't help it . I fought for all I was worth .", "I have found them useful .", "Do you mean to say you are not drunk ?", "At the review , Madam .", "Pardon , your Highness : your heart is on the other side .", "Do n't call me darling .", "My name is Edstaston : Captain Edstaston of the Light Dragoons . I have the honor to present to your Highness this letter from the British ambassador , which will give you all necessary particulars .", "Sense of humor ! Ho ! Ha , ha ! I like that . Would anybody with a sense of humor make a guy of a man like this , and then expect him to take it seriously ? I say : do tell them to loosen these straps .", "Quack ! quack ! quack !", "Fairly close .", "Not if you will loosen these straps . Quick : loosen me . I 'm fainting .", "Of course not .", "I can n't help that . We have n't a moment to lose .", "How is a man to remember anything when he is trussed up in this ridiculous fashion ? I can hardly breathe .Here : do n't be unkind , your Majesty : tell these fellows to unstrap me . You know you really owe me an apology .", "Do n't say that . Do n't think of him in that way . After all , he was your husband ; and whatever his faults may have been , it is not for you to think unkindly of him .", "I do not wish to discuss it .", "Ah , would you , damn you !", "How can I possibly tell when I can n't see you ? Let me get up and look . I can n't see anything now except my toes and yours .", "But you can n't expect me as a member of the Church of England\u2014 agh ! Ow ! Oh Lord ! he is anything you like . He is a philanthropist , a philosopher , a beauty : he ought to have a statue , damn him !No ! bless him ! save him victorious , happy and glorious ! Oh , let eternal honors crown his name : Voltaire thrice worthy on the rolls of fame !Now will you let me up ? And look here ! I can see your ankles when you tickle me : it 's not ladylike .", "Oh , well , of course , if you 're an ill-natured woman , hurting me on purpose , I have nothing more to say .", "We wrestle rather well in my part of England .", "Well , I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 that is , I \u2014"], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Agh !She has bitten me , the little vixen .", "Little Mother , a stranger . Catherine plunges into bed again and covers herself up . Patiomkin , followed by Varinka , carries Edstaston in : dumps him down on the foot of the bed : and staggers past it to the cabinet door . Varinka joins the courtiers at the opposite side of the room . Catherine , blazing with wrath , pushes Edstaston off her bed on to the floor : gets out of bed : and turns on Patiomkin with so terrible an expression that all kneel down hastily except Edstaston , who is sprawling on the carpet in angry confusion .", "Little Mother : they have brought some instruments of torture . Will they be needed ?", "Tie him neck and crop . Ten thousand blows of the stick if you let him go .Yow \u2014 ow ! Have mercy , Little Mother .", "Why ?", "Captain Edstaston : his Highness Prince Patiomkin sends you the pistols he promised you .", "She will have him knouted . He is a dead man .", "Halt . Get that pole clear of the prisoner .Well ! are you ready to be tortured ? This is the Empress 's private torture chamber . Can I do anything to make you quite comfortable ? You have only to mention it .", "Advise the Empress ! !", "Oh , I assure you I am only obeying my orders . Personally I abhor torture , and would save you if I could . But the Empress is proud ; and what woman would forgive the slight you put upon her ?", "Exactly . Also because if they did n't you might have them flogged , dear Little Mother .", "You are in high spirits this morning , Little Mother ."], "true_target": ["Well , it is n't my fault .You know your orders ? You remember what you have to do when the Empress gives you the word ?Naryshkin passes through the curtains , admitting a blare of music and a strip of the brilliant white candlelight from the chandeliers in the ballroom as he does so . The white light vanishes and the music is muffled as the curtains fall together behind him . Presently the band stops abruptly : and Naryshkin comes back through the curtains . He makes a warning gesture to the soldiers , who stand at attention . Then he moves the curtain to allow Catherine to enter . She is in full Imperial regalia , and stops sternly just where she has entered . The soldiers fall on their knees .", "Half-past ten , Little Mother .", "Remember to whom you are speaking .", "God knows it is not for your sake , Little Mother . But you see if you were not a great queen they would all be nobodies .", "To the Empress , little beauty . He has insulted the Empress . He will receive a hundred and one blows of the knout .", "Her Imperial Majesty is awake .", "The new museum , Little Mother . But the model will not be ready until tonight .", "Majesty : the model for the new museum has arrived .", "Be merciful , Little Mother . My heart is in my mouth .", "Ssh ! The courtiers hastily cease whispering : dress up their lines : and stiffen . Dead silence . A bell tinkles within the curtains . Naryshkin and the Princess solemnly draw them and reveal the Empress . Catherine turns over on her back , and stretches herself .", "We are the police in St Petersburg , little spitfire .", "No , no . Please ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Also, you have put me to the trouble of sending for you twice . You had better have come the first time .", "Let us go . I can think of nothing but my museum .Captain , I wish you every happiness that your little angel can bring you .I could have brought you more ; but you did not think so . Farewell .", "Why should I , pray ?", "Noticing that er \u2014?That er \u2014?", "Let him lie . Let him sleep it off . If he goes out it will be to a tavern and low company for the rest of the day .There !Varinka , who is this gentleman ?", "Why ?", "What", "Alle Wetter !! !", "Men have grown sober in Siberia for less , Prince .", "The English captain wants you , little darling . Catherine resumes her seat as Patiomkin intimates by a grotesque bow that he is at Edstaston 's service . Yarinka passes behind Edstaston and Claire , and posts herself on Claire 's right .", "So !", "No , no ! Patiomkin ! What are you thinking of ?", "Go . I am offended .", "Yes , the museum . An enlightened capital should have a museum .It shall be one of the wonders of the world . I must have specimens : specimens , specimens , specimens .", "Potztausend !Oh , get up , get up .Your etiquette bores me . I am hardly awake in the morning before it begins .Why do they do it , Naryshkin ?", "Advice !! !", "They make me do it to keep up their own little dignities ? So ?", "I would not deprive you of him for worlds ; though really I think he 's rather a darling", "Nothing . But oh , if I could only have had him for my \u2014 for my \u2014 for my \u2014", "Do you still intend to write to the London Gazette about me ?", "We are waiting for your answer .", "You have seen us before ?", "There is no help for it , Captain . This is Russia , not England .", "No : for my museum .", "Empress .", "Do I understand you to say that Monsieur Voltaire is a great philanthropist and a great philosopher as well as the wittiest man in Europe ?", "How dare you name such abominations to a Liberal Empress ? You will always be a savage and a fool , Naryshkin . These relics of barbarism are buried , thank God , in the grave of Peter the Great . My methods are more civilized .", "What a horrible noise ! Naryshkin , see what it is . Naryshkin goes to the door .", "You are expected to go mad with love when an Empress deigns to interest herself in you . When an Empress allows you to see her foot you should kiss it . Captain Edstaston , you are a booby .", "The soldiers seize Edstaston , and throw him roughly at the feet of the", "So ?", "Only a wo \u2014", "Certainly , if you wish . The stove by all means .", "Take care what you say .", "My old \u2014", "I should like to see the English Ambassador or anyone else pass through that curtain against my orders . It might be a stone wall ten feet thick . Shout your loudest . Sob . Curse . Scream . Yell", "Patiomkin !Here ! To me ! Go on with your music there , you fools .The sergeant rushes from the ballroom to relieve the Empress of the curtain . Patiomkin comes in dancing with Yarinka .", "No , Catherine . What would Voltaire say ?", "Well , just to show you how much kinder a Russian savage can be than an English onehere goes !"], "true_target": ["People sometimes learn through suffering . Manners , for instance .", "Dashkoff : you have no sense of humor .Hog .Oh ! You have broken my toe . Brute . Beast . Dashkoff is quite right . Do you hear ?", "Remember that dogs should be dumb .And do you , Captain , remember that famous as I am for my clemency , there are limits to the patience even of an Empress .", "Ausgezeiehnet !", "Your young lady still seems to think that you enjoyed it .", "Flogged ! I ! A Liberal Empress ! A philosopher ! You are a barbarian , Naryshkin .And then , as if I cared !You should know by this time that I am frank and original in character , like an Englishman .No : what maddens me about all this ceremony is that I am the only person in Russia who gets no fun out of my being Empress . You all glory in me : you bask in my smiles : you get titles and honors and favors from me : you are dazzled by my crown and my robes : you feel splendid when you have been admitted to my presence ; and when I say a gracious word to you , you talk about it to everyone you meet for a week afterwards . But what do I get out of it ? Nothing .Nothing !! I wear a crown until my neck aches : I stand looking majestic until I am ready to drop : I have to smile at ugly old ambassadors and frown and turn my back on young and handsome ones . Nobody gives me anything . When I was only an Archduchess , the English ambassador used to give me money whenever I wanted it \u2014 or rather whenever he wanted to get anything out of my sacred predecessor Elizabeth; but now that I am Empress he never gives me a kopek . When I have headaches and colics I envy the scullerymaids . And you are not a bit grateful to me for all my care of you , my work , my thought , my fatigue , my sufferings .", "Wie komisch !", "What a wonderful author is Monsieur Voltaire ! How lucidly he exposes the folly of this crazy plan for raising the entire revenue of the country from a single tax on land ! how he withers it with his irony ! how he makes you laugh whilst he is convincing you ! how sure one feels that the proposal is killed by his wit and economic penetration : killed never to be mentioned again among educated people !", "Keep quite still , Captain", "But you say you asked the Prince to carry you .", "Your heart and your mouth will be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand . Go . And take your men with you .Stop . Roll thatnearer .Not so close . Did I ask you for a footstool ?", "Patiomkin , how dare you ?What is this ?", "I shall forget myself .", "Thank you .", "Obey your orders .", "Leave us . Quick ! do you hear ? Five thousand blows of the stick for the soldier who is in the room when I speak next .Naryshkin : are you waiting to be knouted ?Catherine and Edstaston are now alone . Catherine has in her hand a sceptre or baton of gold . Wrapped round it is a new pamphlet , in French , entitled L'Homme aux Quarante Ecus . She calmly unrolls this and begins to read it at her ease as if she were quite alone . Several seconds elapse in dead silence . She becomes more and more absorbed in the pamphlet , and more and more amused by it .", "Do you wonder now that I love Russia as I love no other place on earth ?", "Courtier !", "Go .", "I am always in high spirits , even when people do not bring me my slippers .The two ladies rush to her feet , each carrying a slipper . Catherine , about to put her feet into them , is checked by a disturbance in the antechamber .", "Heigho \u2014 ah \u2014 yah \u2014 ah \u2014 ow \u2014 what o'clock is it ?", "You think you can escape by appealing , like Prince Patiomkin , to my sense of humor ?", "Dashkoff , what a liar you are !And you think you are flattering me ! Let me tell you I would not give a rouble to have the brains of all the philosophers in France . What is our business for today ?", "Schweig , du Hund .Have you never been taught , sir , how a gentleman should enter the presence of a sovereign ?", "Donnerwetter !", "How dare you ?", "A monarch , sir , has sometimes to employ a necessary , and salutary severity \u2014", "Indeed ? All the more reason for you to treat me with respect , Captain .Begone . How many times must I give an order before it is obeyed ?", "Now self-control . Self-control , Catherine . Philosophy . Europe is looking on .", "I do n't think you are", "What are you grinning at ?", "Have you changed your opinion of Monsieur Voltaire ?", "Geliebter !", "Captain Edstaston , why did you refuse to come when I sent for you ?", "That is Prince Patiomkin .", "That is the favorite torture of Catherine the Second , Mademoiselle . I think the Captain enjoys it very much .", "Well , sir : is that all you have to say ?", "Is the spectacle so disagreeable ?", "Do you still admire me as much as you did this morning ?", "Stupid ! By no means . Courage , Captain : we are pleased .We are greatly pleased .The petit lever is over .Ach !We thank you , Captain . He bows gallantly and is rewarded by a very gracious smile . Then Catherine goes into her cabinet , followed by the princess Dashkoff , who turns at the door to make a deep courtsey to Edstaston ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["All Europe is content to do so at a respectful distance . It is possible to admire her Majesty 's policy and her eminence in literature and philosophy without performing acrobatic feats in the Imperial bed .", "But what am I to do ? I cannot take such an answer to the Empress .", "Captain Edstaston , the Empress is robed , and commands your presence ."], "true_target": ["Scandalous ! An insult to your Imperial Majesty !", "Kick me . Disable me . It will be an excuse for not going back to her . Kick me hard .", "God knows , Little Mother , we all implore you to give your wonderful brain a rest . That is why you get headaches . Monsieur Voltaire also has headaches . His brain is just like yours ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["Then you did see her close ?", "I do not .Oh !", "What a nuisance ! Mamma will be furious at having to pack , and at missing the Court ball this evening .", "I 'll do anything if you 'll only let me alone .", "Dearest : as if anyone could help it .", "Majesty can keep him , as far as I am concerned .", "Oh , how dare they tie you up like that !You wicked wretch ! You Russian savage !", "Was THAT what I thought was your being tortured ?", "You wretch ! Help ! Help ! Police ! We are being murdered . Help ! The Sergeant , who has risen , comes to Naryshkin 's rescue , and grasps Claire 's hands , enabling Naryshkin to gag her again . By this time Edstaston and his captors are all rolling on the ground together . They get Edstaston on his back and fasten his wrists together behind his knees . Next they put a broad strap round his ribs . Finally they pass a pole through this breast strap and through the waist strap and lift him by it , helplessly trussed up , to carry him of . Meanwhile he is by no means suffering in silence .", "Let go . You are undignified and ridiculous enough yourself without making me ridiculous .", "This is perfectly ridiculous .", "Keep quiet , dear : I cannot get them off if you move .", "I do n't care : I do n't think you ought to have done it . I am very angry and offended .", "Do not presume to call me your little angel mother . Where are the police ?", "They dare not touch an English officer . I will go to the Empress myself : she cannot know who Captain Edstaston is \u2014 who we are .", "But I must get into the Empress 's presence . I must speak to her .", "Do n't be impertinent . How can I get admission to the palace ?", "Help ! help ! They are killing Charles . Help !", "I pardon him ! I pardon him !"], "true_target": ["Darling !", "May I tell her she will be knouted if we stay ?", "I will give you\u2014 Well : I do n't mind giving you two roubles if I can speak to the Empress .", "You need n't trouble , thank you .Now get up , please ; and conduct yourself with some dignity if you are not utterly demoralized .", "She has fallen in love with you !", "What on earth do you mean ?", "Well , you wanted to see her .", "Indeed ! How close ? No : that 's silly of me : I will tell mamma .What do you want here ? The Sergeant goes to Edstaston : plumps down on his knees : and takes out a magnificent pair of pistols with gold grips . He proffers them to Edstaston , holding them by the barrels .", "How dare you put your dirty paws on my mouth ? Ugh ! Psha !", "Oh , dare your grandmother ! Where is my Charles ? What are they doing to him ?", "So I see , indeed .", "Is she \u2014 is she good-looking when you see her close ?", "Why ?", "By whom ?", "Then he can have as much more of it as he wants . I am sorry I intruded .", "Why ?", "Serve you right ! Where have they taken Captain Edstaston to ?", "I know what I think . I will never speak to him again . Your", "She would not dare . Did you tell her you were engaged to me ?", "I am not detaining her ."], "play_index": 9, "act_index": 9}, {"query": ["And downe goes all before them . Still be kind ,", "Thus with imagin 'd wing our swift Scene flyes ,", "With one appearing Hayre , that will not follow", "For so appeares this Fleet Maiesticall ,", "Suppose , that you haue seene", "Borne with th \u2019 inuisible and creeping Wind ,", "Heare the shrill Whistle , which doth order giue", "For who is he , whose Chin is but enricht", "Eyther past , or not arriu 'd to pyth and puissance :", "Embarke his Royaltie : and his braue Fleet ,", "Enter Chorus .", "With Lynstock now the diuellish Cannon touches ,", "With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew .", "Worke , worke your Thoughts , and therein see a Siege :", "Suppose th \u2019 Embassador from the French comes back :", "Some petty and vnprofitable Dukedomes .", "The offer likes not : and the nimble Gunner", "Draw the huge Bottomes through the furrowed Sea ,"], "true_target": ["These cull 'd and choyse-drawne Caualiers to France ?", "Play with your Fancies : and in them behold ,", "Behold the Ordenance on their Carriages ,", "Tells Harry , That the King doth offer him", "Grapple your minds to sternage of this Nauie ,", "Alarum , and Chambers goe off .", "Holding due course to Harflew . Follow , follow :", "Guarded with Grandsires , Babyes , and old Women ,", "The well-appointed King at Douer Peer ,", "With silken Streamers , the young Phebus fayning ;", "A Citie on th \u2019 inconstant Billowes dauncing :", "In motion of no lesse celeritie then that of Thought .", "To sounds confus 'd : behold the threaden Sayles ,", "And leaue your England as dead Mid-night , still ,", "Bresting the loftie Surge . O , doe but thinke", "You stand vpon the Riuage , and behold", "Katherine his Daughter , and with her to Dowrie ,", "And eech out our performance with your mind .", "Vpon the Hempen Tackle , Ship-boyes climbing ;"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour 'd Rage :", "Kings companie", "Loys , Lestrale , Bouciquall , and Charaloyes ,", "It is not a fashion for the Maids in Fraunce to kisse before they are marryed , would she say ?", "There", "O God , thy Arme was heere :", "The Alpes doth spit , and void his rhewme vpon .", "What men haue you lost , Fluellen ?", "Pluck their hearts from them . Not to day , O Lord ,", "With raynie Marching in the painefull field .", "Fiue hundred were but yesterday dubb 'd Knights .", "Sir Richard Ketly , Dauy Gam Esquire ;", "And his Kinsman too", "And say , to morrow is Saint Crispian .", "Flourish .", "Yes Captaine : but with this acknowledgement ,", "Great Master of France , the braue Sir Guichard Dolphin ,", "I said so , deare Katherine , and I must not blush to affirme it", "And sheath 'd their Swords , for lack of argument .", "And rowse him at the Name of Crispian .", "To our most faire and Princely Cosine Katherine :", "And Gentlemen in England , now a bed ,", "And the flesh 'd Souldier , rough and hard of heart ,", "Prepare we for our Marriage : on which day ,", "Let there be sung Non nobis , and Te Deum ,", "To doe our Countrey losse : and if to liue ,", "And fortifie it strongly \u2018 gainst the French :", "Nor care I who doth feed vpon my cost :", "Vntill this instant . Take a Trumpet Herald ,", "Yet they doe winke and yeeld , as Loue is blind and enforces", "Our Tongue is rough , Coze , and my Condition is not smooth : so that hauing neyther the Voyce nor the Heart of Flatterie about me , I cannot so coniure vp the Spirit of Loue in her , that hee will appeare in his true likenesse", "And my poore Souldiers tell me , yet ere Night ,", "Good old Knight , collect them all together", "It may bee , his enemy is a Gentleman of great sort quite from the answer of his degree", "A friend", "And I haue built two Chauntries ,", "And Edward Duke of Barr : of lustie Earles ,", "Health and faire time of day : Ioy and good wishes", "Then call we this the field of Agincourt ,", "And be it death proclaymed through our Hoast ,", "What is thy name ? I know thy qualitie", "Bring him our Prisoner", "Yes", "Iohn Duke of Alanson , Anthonie Duke of Brabant ,", "I my selfe heard the King say he would not be ransom 'd", "No , my good Knight :", "For it is none but thine", "No : \u2018 tis hereafter to know , but now to promise : doe but now promise Kate , you will endeauour for your French part of such a Boy ; and for my English moytie , take the Word of a King , and a Batcheler . How answer you . La plus belle Katherine du monde mon trescher & deuin deesse", "Whiles yet my Souldiers are in my Command ,", "By his blunt bearing , he will keepe his word ;", "The Princesse is the better English-woman : yfaith Kate , my wooing is fit for thy vnderstanding , I am glad thou canst speake no better English , for if thou could'st , thou would'st finde me such a plaine King , that thou wouldst thinke , I had sold my Farme to buy my", "No \u2018 faith , my Couze , wish not a man from England :", "Liues he good Vnckle : thrice within this houre", "A many of our bodyes shall no doubt", "I am a Gentleman of a Company", "Dishonour not your Mothers : now attest ,", "My Cousin Westmerland . No , my faire Cousin :", "They shall be fam 'd : for there the Sun shall greet them ,", "My Lord of Burgundy wee'le take your Oath", "For our bad Neighbour makes vs early stirrers ,", "For the best hope I haue . O , doe not wish one more :", "And Captaine , you must needs be friends with him", "At my Tent : Ile be before thee", "Good keepe me so .", "Such as will enter at a Ladyes eare ,", "Besides , they are our outward Consciences ,", "Where is the number of our English dead ?", "I feare thou wilt once more come againe for a", "Charles Delabreth , High Constable of France ,", "And Crownes for Conuoy put into his Purse :", "Since that my Penitence comes after all ,", "Of Knights , Esquires , and gallant Gentlemen ,", "The dead with charitie enclos 'd in Clay :", "Like the Brasse Cannon : let the Brow o'rewhelme it ,", "If they'l do neither , we will come to them ,", "What sayes she , faire one ? that the tongues of men are full of deceits ?", "The man that once did sell the Lyons skin", "Take pitty of your Towne and of your People ,", "Who twice a day their wither 'd hands hold vp", "Marke then abounding valour in our English :", "Let him depart , his Pasport shall be made ,", "I would haue her learne , my faire Cousin , how perfectly I loue her , and that is good English", "Gods will , I pray thee wish not one man more .", "And not to vs , but to thy Arme alone ,", "Here Vnckle Exeter , fill this Gloue with Crownes ,", "Fiue hundred poore I haue in yeerely pay ,", "Though all that I can doe , is nothing worth ;", "I dare say , you loue him not so ill , to wish him here alone : howsoeuer you speake this to feele other mens minds , me thinks I could not dye any where so contented , as in the Kings company ; his Cause being iust , and his Quarrell honorable", "And not a man of them that we shall take ,", "Which is his onely", "Defie vs to our worst : for as I am a Souldier ,", "Doe not you weare your Dagger in your Cappe that day , least he knock that about yours", "Here was a Royall fellowship of death .", "A Name that in my thoughts becomes me best ;", "This Morall tyes me ouer to Time , and a hot Summer ; and so I shall catch the Flye , your Cousin , in the latter end , and she must be blinde to", "They shall haue none , I sweare , but these my ioynts :", "We do salute you Duke of Burgogne ,", "None else of name : and of all other men ,", "Nay , it will please him well , Kate ; it shall please him , Kate", "Goe you and enter Harflew ; there remaine ,", "It sorts well with your fiercenesse . Manet King .", "The rest are Princes , Barons , Lords , Knights , Squires ,", "Now forth Lord Constable , and Princes all ,", "Haue in these parts from Morne till Euen fought ,", "Come , goe we in procession to the Village :", "There is some soule of goodnesse in things euill ,", "It yernes me not , if men my Garments weare ;", "Thou doo'st thy Office fairely . Turne thee backe ,", "Now welcome Kate : and beare me witnesse all ,", "But if it be a sinne to couet Honor ,", "Beyond the Riuer wee'le encampe our selues ,", "More sharper then your Swords , high to the field :", "Now Herauld , are the dead numbred ?", "For hearing this , I must perforce compound", "Of heady Murther , Spoyle , and Villany .", "It is so : and you may , some of you , thanke Loue for my blindnesse , who cannot see many a faire French Citie for one faire French Maid that stands in my way", "Gloster , \u2018 tis true that we are in great danger ,", "The Names of those their Nobles that lye dead :", "Peace to this meeting , wherefore we are met ;", "For he to day that sheds his blood with me ,", "And Gentlemen of bloud and qualitie .", "Charles Delabreth , High Constable of France ,", "Therefore to our best mercy giue your selues ,", "Or voyde the field : they do offend our sight .", "Alanson , Brabant , Bar , and Burgonie ,", "With Penons painted in the blood of Harflew :", "What 's he that wishes so ?", "Follow your Spirit ; and vpon this Charge ,", "Now fye vpon my false French : by mine Honor in true English , I loue thee Kate ; by which Honor , I dare not sweare thou louest me , yet my blood begins to flatter me , that thou doo'st ; notwithstanding the poore and vntempering effect of my Visage . Now beshrew my Fathers Ambition , hee was thinking of Ciuill Warres when hee got me , therefore was I created with a stubborne out-side , with an aspect of Iron , that when I come to wooe Ladyes , I fright them : but in faith Kate , the elder I wax , the better I shall appeare . My comfort is , that Old Age , that ill layer vp of Beautie , can doe no more spoyle vpon my Face . Thou hast me , if thou hast me , at the worst ; and thou shalt weare me , if thou weare me , better and better : and therefore tell me , most faire Katherine , will you haue me ? Put off your Maiden Blushes , auouch the Thoughts of your Heart with the Lookes of an Empresse , take me by the Hand , and say , Harry of England , I am thine : which Word thou shalt no sooner blesse mine Eare withall , but I will tell thee alowd , England is thine , Ireland is thine , France is thine , and Henry Plantaginet is thine ; who , though I speake it before his Face , if he be not Fellow with the best King , thou shalt finde the best King of Good-fellowes . Come your Answer in broken Musick ; for thy Voyce is Musick , and thy English broken : Therefore Queene of all , Katherine , breake thy minde to me in broken English ; wilt thou haue me ?", "Dying like men , though buryed in your Dunghills ,", "Barre Harry England , that sweepes through our Land", "Hold hard the Breath , and bend vp euery Spirit", "On both our parts . Call yonder fellow hither", "And turne them out of seruice . If they doe this ,", "That here I kisse her as my Soueraigne Queene .", "While the beast liu 'd , was kill 'd with hunting him .", "And those that leaue their valiant bones in France ,", "Our Gaynesse and our Gilt are all besmyrcht", "But hearke , what new alarum is this same ?", "If I liue to see it , I will neuer trust his word after", "Besides , wee'l cut the throats of those we haue ,", "Who hath sent thee now ?", "Lend me thy Cloake Sir Thomas : Brothers both ,", "One hundred twentie six : added to these ,", "The Winter comming on , and Sicknesse growing", "There 's not a piece of feather in our Hoast :", "The Organs , though defunct and dead before ,", "And quickly will returne an iniurie .", "Then from it issued forced drops of blood .", "Or like to men prowd of destruction ,", "Arrayed in flames like to the Prince of Fiends ,", "From Helmet to the spurre , all blood he was", "I embrace it", "Know'st thou Gower ?", "That those whom you call 'd Fathers , did beget you .", "It was our selfe thou didst abuse", "Shall thinke themselues accurst they were not here ;", "God a mercy old Heart , thou speak'st chearefully .", "But we in it shall be remembred ;", "Let me speake prowdly : Tell the Constable ,", "I pray thee beare my former Answer back :", "Grandpree and Roussie , Fauconbridge and Foyes ,", "And all the Peeres , for suretie of our Leagues .", "Madame , my Interpreter , what sayes shee ?", "This Note doth tell me of ten thousand French", "Here Fluellen , weare thou this fauour for me , and sticke it in thy Cappe : when Alanson and my selfe were downe together , I pluckt this Gloue from his Helme : If any man challenge this , hee is a friend to Alanson , and an enemy to our Person ; if thou encounter any such , apprehend him , and thou do'st me loue", "And on to morrow bid them march away .", "The mettell of your Pasture : let vs sweare ,", "Goe with my Brothers to my Lords of England :", "Breake out into a second course of mischiefe ,", "Breake vp their drowsie Graue , and newly moue", "And Princes French and Peeres health to you all", "Vpon the Valleyes , whose low Vassall Seat ,", "George .", "And as a branch and member of this Royalty ,", "Of hot and forcing Violation ?", "We would not dye in that mans companie ,", "Rush on his Hoast , as doth the melted Snow", "I blame you not ,", "And giue it to this fellow . Keepe it fellow ,", "Where ne 're from France arriu 'd more happy men .", "Alarum , and Chambers goe off .", "Why now thou hast vnwisht fiue thousand men :", "We may as bootlesse spend our vaine Command", "Enter Williams .", "Vnder Sir Iohn Erpingham", "And weare it for an Honor in thy Cappe ,", "Euen so : what are you ?", "If I begin the batt'rie once againe ,", "Thou do'st not wish more helpe from England ,", "With mixtfull eyes , or they will issue to .", "Can any of your Neighbours tell , Kate ? Ile aske them . Come , I know thou louest me : and at night , when you come into your Closet , you'le question this Gentlewoman about me ; and I know , Kate , you will to her disprayse those parts in me , that you loue with your heart : but good Kate , mocke me mercifully , the rather gentle Princesse , because I loue thee cruelly . If euer thou beest mine , Kate , as I haue a sauing Faith within me tells me thou shalt ; I get thee with skambling , and thou must therefore needes proue a good Souldier-breeder : Shall not thou and I , betweene Saint Dennis and Saint George , compound a Boy , halfe French halfe English , that shall goe to Constantinople , and take the Turke by the Beard . Shall wee not ? what say'st thou , my faire Flower-de-Luce", "Couze ?", "To morrow for the March are we addrest .", "Giue me any Gage of thine , and I will weare it in my Bonnet : Then if euer thou dar'st acknowledge it , I will make it my Quarrell", "What Reyne can hold licentious Wickednesse ,", "It is the Souldiers : I by bargaine should", "O'rehYpppHeNblowes the filthy and contagious Clouds", "Marry , if you would put me to Verses , or to Dance for your sake , Kate , why you vndid me : for the one I haue neither words nor measure ; and for the other , I haue no strength in measure , yet a reasonable measure in strength . If I could winne a Lady at Leape-frogge , or by vawting into my Saddle , with my Armour on my backe ; vnder the correction of bragging be it spoken . I should quickly leape into a Wife : Or if I might buffet for my Loue , or bound my Horse for her fauours , I could lay on like a Butcher , and sit like a Iack an Apes , neuer off . But before God Kate , I cannot looke greenely , nor gaspe out my eloquence , nor I haue no cunning in protestation ; onely downe-right Oathes , which I neuer vse till vrg 'd , nor neuer breake for vrging . If thou canst loue a fellow of this temper , Kate , whose face is not worth Sunne-burning ? that neuer lookes in his Glasse , for loue of any thing he sees there ? let thine Eye be thy Cooke . I speake to thee plaine Souldier : If thou canst loue me for this , take me ? if not ? to say to thee that I shall dye , is true ; but for thy loue , by the LNo : yet I loue thee too . And while thou liu'st , deare Kate , take a fellow of plaine and vncoyned Constancie , for he perforce must do thee right , because he hath not the gift to wooe in other places : for these fellowes of infinit tongue , that can ryme themselues into Ladyes fauours , they doe alwayes reason themselues out againe . What ? a speaker is but a prater , a Ryme is but a Ballad ; a good Legge will fall , a strait Backe will stoope , a blacke Beard will turne white , a curl 'd Pate will grow bald , a faire Face will wither , a full Eye will wax hollow : but a good Heart , Kate , is the Sunne and the Moone , or rather the Sunne , and not the Moone ; for it shines bright , and neuer changes , but keepes his course truly . If thou would haue such a one , take me ? and take me ; take a Souldier : take a Souldier ; take a King . And what say'st thou then to my Loue ? speake my faire , and fairely , I pray thee", "The sence of reckning of th \u2019 opposed numbers :", "When downe the Hill he holds his fierce Carriere ?", "Then euery souldiour kill his Prisoners ,", "Harry the King , Bedford and Exeter ,", "Giue me thy Gloue Souldier ;", "A good soft Pillow for that good white Head ,", "Whose blood is fet from Fathers of Warre-proofe :", "Come thou no more for Ransome , gentle Herauld ,", "If your pure Maydens fall into the hand", "No , it is not possible you should loue the Enemie of France , Kate ; but in louing me , you should loue the Friend of France : for I loue France so well , that I will not part with a Village of it ; I will haue it all mine : and Kate , when France is mine , and I am yours ; then yours is France , and you are mine", "They'le be in fresher Robes , or they will pluck", "Was euer knowne so great and little losse ?", "\u2018 Twas I indeed thou promised'st to strike ,", "Take it , braue Yorke .", "Commend me to the Princes in our Campe ;", "As if God please , they shall ; my Ransome then", "For there is none of you so meane and base ,", "And let him say to England , that we send ,", "Shall witnesse liue in Brasse of this dayes worke .", "Shall be my brother : be he ne 're so vile ,", "Would men obseruingly distill it out .", "Good morrow old Sir Thomas Erpingham :", "Giue the word through .", "Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot :", "O Kate , nice Customes cursie to great Kings . Deare Kate , you and I cannot bee confin 'd within the weake Lyst of a Countreyes fashion : wee are the makers of Manners , Kate ; and the libertie that followes our Places , stoppes the mouth of all finde-faults , as I will doe yours , for vpholding the nice fashion of your Countrey , in denying me a Kisse : therefore patiently , and yeelding . You haue Witch-craft in your Lippes ,", "That God fought for vs", "Ride thou vnto the Horsemen on yond hill :", "O faire Katherine , if you will loue me soundly with your French heart , I will be glad to heare you confesse it brokenly with your English Tongue . Doe you like me , Kate ?", "And Crispine Crispian shall ne 're goe by ,", "We are in Gods hand , Brother , not in theirs :", "By whom this great assembly is contriu 'd ,", "Then shall I sweare to Kate , and you to me ,", "Indeede the French may lay twentie French Crownes to one , they will beat vs , for they beare them on their shoulders : but it is no English Treason to cut French Crownes , and to morrow the King himselfe will be a Clipper . Vpon the King , let vs our Liues , our Soules , Our Debts , our carefull Wiues , Our Children , and our Sinnes , lay on the King : We must beare all . O hard Condition , Twin-borne with Greatnesse , Subiect to the breath of euery foole , whose sence No more can feele , but his owne wringing . What infinite hearts-ease must Kings neglect , That priuate men enioy ? And what haue Kings , that Priuates haue not too , Saue Ceremonie , saue generall Ceremonie ? And what art thou , thou Idoll Ceremonie ? What kind of God art thou ? that suffer'st more Of mortall griefes , then doe thy worshippers . What are thy Rents ? what are thy Commings in ? O Ceremonie , shew me but thy worth . What ? is thy Soule of Odoration ? Art thou ought else but Place , Degree , and Forme , Creating awe and feare in other men ? Wherein thou art lesse happy , being fear 'd , Then they in fearing . What drink'st thou oft , in stead of Homage sweet , But poyson 'd flatterie ? O , be sick , great Greatnesse , And bid thy Ceremonie giue thee cure . Thinks thou the fierie Feuer will goe out With Titles blowne from Adulation ? Will it giue place to flexure and low bending ? Canst thou , when thou command'st the beggers knee , Command the health of it ? No , thou prowd Dreame , That play'st so subtilly with a Kings Repose . I am a King that find thee : and I know , \u2018 Tis not the Balme , the Scepter , and the Ball , The Sword , the Mase , the Crowne Imperiall , The enter-tissued Robe of Gold and Pearle , The farsed Title running \u2018 fore the King , The Throne he sits on : nor the Tyde of Pompe , That beates vpon the high shore of this World : No , not all these , thrice-gorgeous Ceremonie ; Not all these , lay 'd in Bed Maiesticall , Can sleepe so soundly , as the wretched Slaue : Who with a body fill 'd , and vacant mind , Gets him to rest , cram 'd with distressefull bread , Neuer sees horride Night , the Child of Hell : But like a Lacquey , from the Rise to Set , Sweates in the eye of Phebus ; and all Night Sleepes in Elizium : next day after dawne , Doth rise and helpe Hiperioto his Horse , And followes so the euer-running yeere With profitable labour to his Graue : And but for Ceremonie , such a Wretch , Winding vp Dayes with toyle , and Nights with sleepe , Had the fore-hand and vantage of a King . The Slaue , a Member of the Countreyes peace , Enioyes it ; but in grosse braine little wots , What watch the King keepes , to maintaine the peace ; Whose howres , the Pesant best aduantages .", "Now Souldiers march away ,"], "true_target": ["Goe you with me , Vnckle of Exeter .", "And on it haue bestowed more contrite teares ,", "Will you vouchsafe to teach a Souldier tearmes ,", "Then will he strip his sleeue , and shew his skarres :", "I and my Bosome must debate a while ,", "And pleade his Loue-suit to her gentle heart", "Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus", "And time hath worne vs into slouenrie .", "Which is both healthfull , and good husbandry .", "The fewer men , the greater share of honour .", "Vnfold it", "Cry , God for Harry , England , and S", "The day , my friend , and all things stay for me .", "\u2018 Tis certaine he hath past the Riuer Some", "That in the field lye slaine : of Princes in this number ,", "If euer I liue to see it , I will challenge it", "Eight thousand and foure hundred : of the which ,", "And make them sker away , as swift as stones", "The Gloue which I haue giuen him for a fauour ,", "That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not :", "And how thou pleasest God , dispose the day .", "Follow Fluellen closely at the heeles .", "And then to Callice , and to England then ,", "That hath not Noble luster in your eyes .", "Vpon example , so the Spirit is eased :", "How now , what meanes this Herald ? Knowst thou not , That I haue fin 'd these bones of mine for ransome ? Com'st thou againe for ransome ?", "Therefore , you men of Harflew ,", "Vp Princes , and with spirit of Honor edged ,", "Vpon our Souldiers , we will retyre to Calis .", "Good God , why should they mock poore fellowes thus ?", "I will not leaue the halfe-atchieued Harflew ,", "Euen as men wrackt vpon a Sand , that looke to be washt off the next Tyde", "Fathers , that like so many Alexanders ,", "I weare it for a memorable honor :", "Then I will kisse your Lippes , Kate", "And then I would no other company", "Imploring pardon .", "Which if they haue , as I will leaue vm them ,", "Possesse them not with feare : Take from them now", "From this day to the ending of the World ,", "And make a Morall of the Diuell himselfe .", "And when the Mind is quickned , out of doubt", "Well then , I know thee : what shall I know of thee ?", "Now set the Teeth , and stretch the Nosthrill wide ,", "Ransome .", "Till in her ashes she lye buryed .", "Thus may we gather Honey from the Weed ,", "With Conscience wide as Hell , mowing like Grasse", "By my troth , I will speake my conscience of the", "Were better then a churlish turfe of France", "Your reproofe is something too round , I should be angry with you , if the time were conuenient", "Let him greet England with our sharpe defiance .", "Alarum", "Your fresh faire Virgins , and your flowring Infants .", "Be in their flowing Cups freshly remembred .", "By Ioue , I am not couetous for Gold ,", "Prince Dolphin , you shall stay with vs in Roan", "O God of Battailes , steele my Souldiers hearts ,", "An Angell is like you Kate , and you are like an", "This day is call 'd the Feast of Crispian :", "through my Hoast ,", "To night in Harflew will we be your Guest ,", "God morrow Brother Bedford : God Almightie ,", "How now , what 's the matter ?", "And quickly bring vs word of Englands fall .", "Enforced from the old Assyrian slings :", "So , if a Sonne that is by his Father sent about Merchandize , doe sinfully miscarry vpon the Sea ; the imputation of his wickednesse , by your rule , should be imposed vpon his Father that sent him : or if a Seruant , vnder his Masters command , transporting a summe of Money , be assayled by Robbers , and dye in many irreconcil 'd Iniquities ; you may call the businesse of the Master the author of the Seruants damnation : but this is not so : The King is not bound to answer the particular endings of his Souldiers , the Father of his Sonne , nor the Master of his Seruant ; for they purpose not their death , when they purpose their seruices . Besides , there is no King , be his Cause neuer so spotlesse , if it come to the arbitrement of Swords , can trye it out with all vnspotted Souldiers : somehaue on them the guilt of premeditated and contriued Murther ; some , of beguiling Virgins with the broken Seales of Periurie ; some , making the Warres their Bulwarke , that haue before gored the gentle Bosome of Peace with Pillage and Robberie . Now , if these men haue defeated the Law , and outrunne Natiue punishment ; though they can out-strip men , they haue no wings to flye from God . Warre is his Beadle , Warre is his Vengeance : so that here men are punisht , for before breach of the Kings Lawes , in now the Kings Quarrell : where they feared the death , they haue borne life away ; and where they would bee safe , they perish . Then if they dye vnprouided , no more is the King guiltie of their damnation , then hee was before guiltie of those Impieties , for the which they are now visited . Euery Subiects Dutie is the Kings , but euery Subiects Soule is his owne . Therefore should euery Souldier in the Warres doe as euery sicke man in his Bed , wash euery Moth out of his Conscience : and dying so , Death is to him aduantage ; or not dying , the time was blessedly lost , wherein such preparation was gayned : and in him that escapes , it were not sinne to thinke , that making God so free an offer , he let him outliue that day , to see his Greatnesse , and to teach others how they should prepare", "Harry le Roy", "All things are ready , if our minds be so", "A Friend", "That fought with vs vpon Saint Crispines day .", "That we should dresse vs fairely for our end .", "To kisse", "The Gates of Mercy shall be all shut vp ,", "Doe with his smyrcht complexion all fell feats ,", "For I doe know Fluellen valiant ,", "But by the Masse , our hearts are in the trim :", "But could be willing to march on to Callice ,", "There is much care and valour in this Welchman .", "Then you are a better then the King", "Tent", "How canst thou make me satisfaction ?", "But all 's not done , yet keepe the French the field", "Warwick and Talbot , Salisbury and Gloucester ,", "On one part and on th \u2019 other , take it God ,", "The Master of the Crosse-bowes , Lord Rambures ,", "Be patient , for you shall remaine with vs .", "You Dukes of Orleance , Burbon , and of Berry ,", "My Brother Gloucesters voyce ? I :", "Faire Katherine , and most faire ,", "My Lord of Warwick , and my Brother Gloster ,", "Or close the Wall vp with our English dead :", "Familiar in his mouth as household words ,", "As fearefully , as doth a galled Rocke", "And in a Captiue Chariot , into Roan", "Such outward things dwell not in my desires .", "As modest stillnesse , and humilitie :", "If they will fight with vs , bid them come downe ,", "Vnckle ?", "For Richards Soule . More will I doe :", "You know your places : God be with you all .", "In libertie of bloody hand , shall raunge", "Find Natiue Graues : vpon the which , I trust", "Let it pry through the portage of the Head ,", "This is the latest Parle we will admit :", "Which likes me better , then to wish vs one .", "Our Heralds go with him ,", "So that in these ten thousand they haue lost ,", "And thou hast giuen me most bitter termes", "Where the sad and solemne Priests sing still", "What Prisoners of good sort are taken ,", "Edward the Duke of Yorke , the Earle of Suffolke ,", "How yet resolues the Gouernour of the Towne ?", "Then keepe thy vow sirrah , when thou meet'st the fellow", "The greater therefore should our Courage be .", "High Dukes , great Princes , Barons , Lords , and Kings ;", "What feats he did that day . Then shall our Names ,", "Flourish , and enter the Towne .", "For I am Welch you know good Countriman", "Good argument", "As send Precepts to the Leuiathan , to come ashore .", "This story shall the good man teach his sonne :", "Then imitate the action of the Tyger :", "Open your Gates : Come Vnckle Exeter ,", "What is't to me , when you your selues are cause ,", "I Richards body haue interred new ,", "Will soone be leuyed .", "Be Coppy now to men of grosser blood ,", "That being dead , like to the bullets crasing ,", "The Brother to the Duke of Burgundie ,", "Straying vpon the Start . The Game 's afoot :", "There are but sixteene hundred Mercenaries :", "Rather proclaime it", "No faith is't not , Kate : but thy speaking of my Tongue , and I thine , most truely falsely , must needes be graunted to be much at one . But Kate , doo'st thou vnderstand thus much English ? Canst thou loue mee ?", "March to the Bridge , it now drawes toward night ,", "How now Fluellen , cam'st thou from the Bridge ?", "Desire them all to my Pauillion", "With casted slough , and fresh legeritie .", "If that the Souldier strike him , as I iudge", "The smell whereof shall breed a Plague in France .", "Angell", "Though it appeare a little out of fashion ,", "May haply purchase him a box a'th \u2019 eare .", "Vpon that I kisse your Hand , and I call you my", "Vnto our brother France , and to our Sister", "I saw him downe ; thrice vp againe , and fighting ,", "Iaques Chattillion , Rambures , Vandemont ,", "Vse mercy to them all for vs , deare Vnckle .", "And toucht with Choler , hot as Gunpowder ,", "Bring me iust notice of the numbers dead", "Shall taste our mercy . Go and tell them so .", "Vpon th \u2019 enraged Souldiers in their spoyle ,", "No , I am a Welchman", "To know what willing Ransome he will giue .", "Bid them atchieue me , and then sell my bones .", "we will not flye :", "Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named ,", "O not to day , thinke not vpon the fault", "Beaumont and Marle , Vandemont and Lestrale .", "Who seru'st thou vnder ?", "Beumont , Grand Pree , Roussi , and Faulconbridge ,", "But hee'le remember , with aduantages ,", "\u2018 Tis good for men to loue their present paines ,", "For your great Seats , now quit you of great shames :", "Swill 'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean .", "And may our Oathes well kept and prosp'rous be .", "Whose Lyms were made in England ; shew vs here", "No : nor it is not meet he should : for though I speake it to you , I thinke the King is but a man , as I am : the Violet smells to him , as it doth to me ; the Element shewes to him , as it doth to me ; all his Sences haue but humane Conditions : his Ceremonies layd by , in his Nakednesse he appeares but a man ; and though his affections are higher mounted then ours , yet when they stoupe , they stoupe with the like wing : therefore , when he sees reason of feares , as we doe ; his feares , out of doubt , be of the same rellish as ours are : yet in reason , no man should possesse him with any appearance of feare ; least hee , by shewing it , should dis-hearten his Army", "Then good my Lord , teach your Cousin to consent winking", "No , Kate ? I will tell thee in French , which I am sure will hang vpon my tongue , like a new-married Wife about her Husbands Necke , hardly to be shooke off ; Ie quand sur le possession de Fraunce , & quand vous aues le possession de moy .Donc vostre est Fraunce , & vous estes mienne . It is as easie for me , Kate , to conquer the Kingdome , as to speake so much more French : I shall neuer moue thee in French , vnlesse it be to laugh at me", "Once more vnto the Breach ,", "Enlynckt to wast and desolation ?", "And Preachers to vs all ; admonishing ,", "But in plaine shock , and euen play of Battaile ,", "Then lend the Eye a terrible aspect :", "Toward Heauen , to pardon blood :", "Doe we all holy Rights :", "I know thy errand , I will goe with thee :", "He that out-liues this day , and comes safe home ,", "He that shall see this day , and liue old age ,", "Queene", "And teach them how to Warre . And you good Yeomen ,", "But when the blast of Warre blowes in our eares ,", "And Nobles bearing Banners , there lye dead", "Ascribe we all : when , without stratagem ,", "The French haue re-enforc 'd their scatter 'd men :", "Doe my good morrow to them , and anon", "Iaques of Chatilion , Admirall of France ,", "O'rehYpppHeNhang and iutty his confounded Base ,", "To his full height . On , on , you Noblish English ,", "The gay new Coats o 're the French Souldiers heads ,", "And hold their Manhoods cheape , whiles any speakes ,", "Weare it my selfe . Follow good Cousin Warwick :", "Well haue we done , thrice-valiant Countrimen ,", "My Father made , in compassing the Crowne .", "Herauld , saue thou thy labour :", "Whiles yet the coole and temperate Wind of Grace", "Some sodaine mischiefe may arise of it :", "We few , we happy few , we band of brothers :", "Pray thee goe seeke him , and bring him to my", "I was not angry since I came to France ,", "Gods peace , I would not loose so great an Honor ,", "But fiue and twentie .", "This day shall gentle his Condition .", "Therefore Lord Constable , hast on Montioy ,", "Enter Erpingham .", "I thanke you : God be with you", "Deare friends , once more ;", "Well , I will doe it , though I take thee in the", "That feares his fellowship , to dye with vs .", "To boast of this , or take that prayse from God ,", "And tell thy King , I doe not seeke him now ,", "Shall yeeld them little , tell the Constable", "Will yeerely on the Vigil feast his neighbours ,", "And draw their honors reeking vp to Heauen ,", "What is it then to me , if impious Warre ,", "Follow , and see there be no harme betweene them .", "If we are markt to dye , we are enow", "Call him hither to me , Souldier", "That he which hath no stomack to this fight ,", "I see you stand like Grey-hounds in the slips ,", "Stiffen the sinewes , commune vp the blood ,", "In Peace , there 's nothing so becomes a man ,", "As one man more me thinkes would share from me ,", "Killing in relapse of Mortalitie .", "Looke , heere is the fellow of it :", "We are but Warriors for the working day :", "Till I doe challenge it . Giue him the Crownes :", "I am the most offending Soule aliue .", "Goe downe vpon him , you haue Power enough ,", "Wee would haue all such offendors so cut off : and we giue expresse charge , that in our Marches through the Countrey , there be nothing compell 'd from the Villages ; nothing taken , but pay 'd for : none of the French vpbrayded or abused in disdainefull Language ; for when Leuitie and Crueltie play for a Kingdome , the gentler Gamester is the soonest winner .", "Where is Montioy the Herald ? speed him hence ,", "Leauing their earthly parts to choake your Clyme ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["\u2018 Pray thee Corporall stay , the Knocks are too hot : and for mine owne part , I haue not a Case of Liues : the humor of it is too hot , that is the very plaine-Song of it"], "true_target": ["These be good humors : your Honor wins bad humors ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Duke of Exeter doth loue thee well", "My name is Pistol call 'd .", "Must I bite", "Base Troian , thou shalt dye", "S", "Me a groat ?", "Expound vnto me boy", "The King 's a Bawcock , and a Heart of Gold , a Lad of Life , an Impe of Fame , of Parents good , of Fist most valiant : I kisse his durtie shooe , and from heartstring I loue the louely Bully . What is thy Name ?", "Tell him Ile knock his Leeke about his Pate vpon", "I take thy groat in earnest of reuenge", "Dauies day", "The Figo for thee then", "As I sucke blood , I will some mercy shew . Follow mee", "Bardolph , a Souldier firme and sound of heart , and of buxome valour , hath by cruell Fate , and giddie Fortunes furious fickle Wheele , that Goddesse blind , that stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone", "Qualtitie calmie custure me . Art thou a Gentleman ? What is thy Name ? discusse", "Goat , offer'st me Brasse ?", "And I : If wishes would preuayle with me , my purpose should not fayle with me ; but thither would I high", "Owy , cuppele gorge permafoy pesant , vnlesse thou giue me Crownes , braue Crownes ; or mangled shalt thou be by this my Sword", "Trayl'st thou the puissant Pyke ?", "Bid him prepare , for I will cut his throat", "Crimson blood", "Tell him my fury shall abate , and I the Crownes will take", "Dye , and be dam 'd , and Figo for thy friendship", "What are his words ?", "Quiet thy Cudgell , thou dost see I eate", "Discusse vnto me , art thou Officer , or art thou base , common , and popular ?", "Captaine , I thee beseech to doe me fauours : the"], "true_target": ["I am qualmish at the smell of Leeke", "Good", "M. Fer : Ile fer him , and firke him , and ferret him : discusse the same in French vnto him", "All hell shall stirre for this", "Yeeld Curre", "Ha , art thou bedlam ? doest thou thirst , base", "Not for Cadwallader and all his Goats", "The Figge of Spaine .", "Why then reioyce therefore", "O Signieur Dewe should be a Gentleman : perpend my words O Signieur Dewe , and marke : O Signieur Dewe , thou dyest on point of Fox , except O Signieur thou doe giue to me egregious Ransome", "Art thou his friend ?", "Le Roy ? a Cornish Name : art thou of Cornish Crew ?", "Say'st thou me so ? is that a Tonne of Moyes ?", "By this Leeke , I will most horribly reuenge I eate and eate I sweare", "Name", "As good a Gentleman as the Emperor", "Be mercifull great Duke to men of Mould : abate thy Rage , abate thy manly Rage ; abate thy Rage , great Duke . Good Bawcock bate thy Rage : vse lenitie sweet Chuck", "Brasse , Curre ? thou damned and luxurious Mountaine", "Troian , to haue me fold vp Parcas fatall Web ? Hence ;", "Che vous la ?", "Come hither boy , aske me this slaue in French what is his", "Know'st thou Fluellen ?", "Moy shall not serue , I will haue fortie Moyes : for", "I will fetch thy rymme out at thy Throat , in droppes of", "Doeth fortune play the huswife with me now ? Newes haue I that my Doll is dead i'th Spittle of a malady of France , and there my rendeuous is quite cut off : Old I do waxe , and from my wearie limbes honour is", "The plaine-Song is most iust : for humors doe abound : Knocks goe and come : Gods Vassals drop and dye : and Sword and Shield , in bloody Field , doth winne immortall fame", "Fortune is Bardolphs foe , and frownes on him : for he hath stolne a Pax , and hanged must a be : a damned death : let Gallowes gape for Dogge , let Man goe free , and let not Hempe his Wind-pipe suffocate : but Exeter hath giuen the doome of death , for Pax of little price . Therefore goe speake , the Duke will heare thy voyce ; and let not Bardolphs vitall thred bee cut with edge of Penny-Cord , and vile reproach . Speake Captaine for his Life , and I will thee requite"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["As young as I am , I haue obseru 'd these three", "Escoute comment estes vous appelle ?", "He giues you vpon his knees a thousand thanks , and he esteemes himselfe happy , that he hath falne into the hands of onethe most braue , valorous and thrice-worthy signeur of England", "He sayes his Name is M. Fer", "As duly , but not as truly , as Bird doth sing on bough ."], "true_target": ["I doe not know the French for fer , and ferret , and firke", "He prayes you to saue his life , he is a Gentleman of a good house , and for his ransom he will giue you two hundred Crownes", "Would I were in a Ale-house in London , I would giue all my fame for a Pot of Ale , and safetie", "Il me commande a vous dire que vous faite vous prest , car ce soldat icy est disposee tout asture de couppes vostre gorge", "Saaue vous le grand Capitaine ? I did neuer know so full a voyce issue from so emptie a heart : but the saying is true , The empty vessel makes the greatest sound , Bardolfe and Nym had tenne times more valour , then this roaring diuell i'th olde play , that euerie one may payre his nayles with a woodden dagger , and they are both hang 'd , and so would this be , if hee durst steale any thing aduenturously . I must stay with the Lackies with the luggage of our camp , the French might haue a good pray of vs , if he knew of it , for there is none to guard it but boyes .", "Encore qu'il et contra son Iurement , de pardonner aucune prisonner : neantmons pour les escues que vous layt a promets , il est content a vous donnes le liberte le franchisement"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Ile assure you , a vtt'red as praue words at the Pridge , as you shall see in a Summers day : but it is very well : what he ha 's spoke to me , that is well I warrant you , when time is serue", "I tell you what , Captaine Gower : I doe perceiue hee is not the man that hee would gladly make shew to the World hee is : if I finde a hole in his Coat , I will tell him my minde : hearke you , the King is comming , and I must speake with him from the Pridge . Drum and Colours . Enter the King and his poore Souldiers .", "Your Grace doo 's me as great Honors as can be desir 'd in the hearts of his Subiects : I would faine see the man , that ha 's but two legges , that shall find himselfe agreefd at this Gloue ; that is all : but I would faine see it once , and please God of his grace that I might see", "It is with a good will : I can tell you it will serue you to mend your shooes : come , wherefore should you be so pashfull , your shooes is not so good : \u2018 tis a good silling I warrant you , or I will change it .", "Here is the man", "The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon , and a man that I loue and honour with my soule , and my heart , and my dutie , and my liue , and my liuing , and my vttermost power . He is not , God be praysed and blessed , any hurt in the World , but keepes the Bridge most valiantly , with excellent discipline . There is an aunchient Lieutenant there at the Pridge , I thinke in my very conscience hee is as valiant a man as Marke Anthony , and hee is a man of no estimation in the World , but I did see him doe as gallant seruice", "God plesse you aunchient Pistoll : you scuruie lowsie", "All the water in Wye , cannot wash your Maiesties", "Maiesties Name apprehend him , he 's a friend of the Duke", "My Lord of Warwick , heere is , praysed be God for it , a most contagious Treason come to light , looke you , as you shall desire in a Summers day . Heere is his Maiestie .", "If I owe you any thing , I will pay you in Cudgels , you shall be a Woodmonger , and buy nothing of me but cudgels : God bu'y you , and keepe you , & heale your pate .", "Why I pray you , is not pig , great ? The pig , or the great , or the mighty , or the huge , or the magnanimous , are all one reckonings , saue the phrase is a litle variations", "I peseech you heartily , scuruie lowsie Knaue , at my desires , and my requests , and my petitions , to eate , looke you , this Leeke ; because , looke you , you doe not loue it , nor your affections , and your appetites and your disgestions doo 's not agree with it , I would desire you to eate it", "Is it not lawfull and please your Maiestie , to tell how many is kill 'd ?", "If the Enemie is an Asse and a Foole , and a prating Coxcombe ; is it meet , thinke you , that wee should also , looke you , be an Asse and a Foole , and a prating Coxcombe , in your owne conscience now ?", "By this Day and this Light , the fellow ha 's mettell enough in his belly : Hold , there is twelue-pence for you , and I pray you to serue God , and keepe you out of prawles and prabbles , and quarrels and dissentions , and I warrant you it is the better for you", "Your Grandfather of famous memoryand your great Vncle Edward the Placke Prince of Wales , as I haue read in the Chronicles , fought a most praue pattle here in France", "Welsh plood out of your pody , I can tell you that :", "He is my deare friend , and please you", "By your patience , aunchient Pistoll : Fortune is painted blinde , with a Muffler afore his eyes , to signifie to you , that Fortune is blinde ; and shee is painted also with a Wheele , to signifie to you , which is the Morall of it , that shee is turning and inconstant , and mutabilitie , and variation : and her foot , looke you , is fixed vpon a Sphericall Stone , which rowles , and rowles , and rowles : in good truth , the Poet makes a most excellent description of it : Fortune is an excellent Morall", "It is well", "Though he be as good a Ientleman as the diuel is , as Lucifer and Belzebub himselfe , it is necessarythat he keepe his vow and his oath : If hee bee periur 'dhis reputation is as arrant a villaine and a Iacke sawce , as euer his blacke shoo trodd vpon Gods ground , and his earth , in my conscience law", "Know the Gloue ? I know the Gloue is a Gloue", "Gods will , and his pleasure , Captaine , I beseech you now , come apace to the King : there is more good toward you peraduenture , then is in your knowledge to dreame of", "World , or in France , or in England", "Very good", "Certainly Aunchient , it is not a thing to reioyce at : for if , looke you , he were my Brother , I would desire the Duke to vse his good pleasure , and put him to execution ; for discipline ought to be vsed", "I , I prayse God , and I haue merited some loue at his hands", "I , so please your Maiestie : The Duke of Exeter ha 's very gallantly maintain 'd the Pridge ; the French is gone off , looke you , and there is gallant and most praue passages : marry , th \u2019 athuersarie was haue possession of the Pridge , but he is enforced to retyre , and the Duke of Exeter is Master of the Pridge : I can tell your Maiestie , the Duke is a praue man", "God plesse it , and preserue it , as long as it pleases his", "Gower is a good Captaine , and is good knowledge and literatured in the Warres", "The perdition of th \u2019 athuersarie hath beene very great , reasonnable great : marry for my part , I thinke the Duke hath lost neuer a man , but one that is like to be executed for robbing a Church , one Bardolph , if your Maiestie know the man : his face is all bubukles and whelkes , and knobs , and flames a fire , and his lippes blowes at his nose , and it is like a coale of fire , sometimes plew , and sometimes red , but his nose is executed , and his fire 's out", "Your Maiestie heare now , sauing your Maiesties Manhood , what an arrant rascally , beggerly , lowsie Knaue it is : I hope your Maiestie is peare me testimonie and witnesse , and will auouchment , that this is the Gloue of Alanson , that your Maiestie is giue me , in your Conscience now", "Alansons .", "Vp to the breach , you Dogges ; auaunt you"], "true_target": ["I , Leekes is good : hold you , there is a groat to heale your pate", "That is he : Ile tell you , there is good men porne at Monmouth", "There is one Goat for you . Strikes him . Will you be so good , scauld Knaue , as eate it ?", "\u2018 So , in the Name of Iesu Christ , speake fewer : it is the greatest admiration in the vniuersall World , when the true and aunchient Prerogatifes and Lawes of the Warres is not kept : if you would take the paines but to examine the Warres of Pompey the Great , you shall finde , I warrant you , that there is no tiddle tadle nor pibble bable in Pompeyes Campe : I warrant you , you shall finde the Ceremonies of the Warres , and the Cares of it , and the Formes of it , and the Sobrietie of it , and the Modestie of it , to be otherwise", "By Ieshu , I am your Maiesties Countreyman , I care not who know it : I will confesse it to all the Orld , I need not to be ashamed of your Maiesty , praised be God so long as your Maiesty is an honest man", "You say very true , scauld Knaue , when Gods will is : I will desire you to liue in the meane time , and eate your Victuals : come , there is sawce for it . You call 'd me yesterday Mountaine-Squier , but I will make you to day a squire of low degree . I pray you fall too , if you can mocke a Leeke , you can eate a Leeke", "Yes verily , and in truth you shall take it , or I haue another Leeke in my pocket , which you shall eate", "\u2018 Sblud , an arrant Traytor as anyes in the Vniuersall", "It is not well doneto take the tales out of my mouth , ere it is made and finished . I speak but in the figures , and comparisons of it : as Alexander kild his friend Clytus , being in his Ales and his Cuppes ; so also Harry Monmouth being in his right wittes , and his good iudgements , turn 'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet : he was full of iests , and gypes , and knaueries , and mockes , I haue forgot his name", "There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things : I will tell you asse my friend , Captaine Gower ; the rascally , scauld , beggerly , lowsie , pragging Knaue Pistoll , which you and your selfe , and all the World , know to be no petter then a fellow , looke you now , of no merits : hee is come to me , and prings me pread and sault yesterday , looke you , and bid me eate my Leeke : it was in a place where I could not breed no contention with him ; but I will be so bold as to weare it in my Cap till I see him once againe , and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires .", "I , hee was porne at Monmouth Captaine Gower : What call you the Townes name where Alexander the pig was borne ?", "Your Maiesty sayes very true : If your Maiesties is remembred of it , the Welchmen did good seruice in a Garden where Leekes did grow , wearing Leekes in their Monmouth caps , which your Maiesty know to this houre is an honourable badge of the seruice : And I do beleeue your Maiesty takes no scorne to weare the Leeke vppon STauies day", "Hee is call 'd aunchient Pistoll", "Cullions", "That 's a Lye in thy Throat . I charge you in his", "Yes , my conscience , he did vs great good", "And please your Maiestie , let his Neck answere for it , if there is any Marshall Law in the World", "I say , I will make him eate some part of my leeke , or I will peate his pate foure dayes : bite I pray you , it is good for your greene wound , and your ploodie Coxecombe", "Eate I pray you , will you haue some more sauce to your Leeke : there is not enough Leeke to sweare by", "I assure you , there is very excellent Seruices committed at the Bridge", "Much good do you scald knaue , heartily . Nay , pray you throw none away , the skinne is good for your broken Coxcombe ; when you take occasions to see Leekes heereafter , I pray you mocke at \u2018 em , that is all", "My Liege , heere is a Villaine , and a Traytor , that looke your Grace , ha 's strooke the Gloue which your Maiestie is take out of the Helmet of Alanson", "God plesse your Maiestie", "Yes certainly , and out of doubt and out of question too , and ambiguities", "Aunchient Pistoll , I doe partly vnderstand your meaning", "To the Mynes ? Tell you the Duke , it is not so good to come to the Mynes : for looke you , the Mynes is not according to the disciplines of the Warre ; the concauities of it is not sufficient : for looke you , th \u2019 athuersarie , you may discusse vnto the Duke , looke you , is digt himselfe foure yard vnder the Countermines : by Cheshu , I thinke a will plowe vp all , if there is not better directions", "Hee is a Crauen and a Villaine else , and't please your Maiesty in my conscience", "Grace , and his Maiesty too", "Knaue , God plesse you", "I will fetch him .", "I thinke it is in Macedon where Alexander is porne : I tell you Captaine , if you looke in the Maps of the Orld , I warrant you sall finde in the comparisons betweene Macedon & Monmouth , that the situations looke you , is both alike . There is a Riuer in Macedon , & there is also moreouer a Riuer at Monmouth , it is call 'd Wye at", "Kill the poyes and the luggage , \u2018 Tis expressely against the Law of Armes , tis as arrant a peece of knauery marke you now , as can bee offert in your Conscience now , is it not ?", "I pray you , and beseech you , that you will .", "\u2018 Tis no matter for his swellings , nor his Turkycocks .", "Stand away Captaine Gower , I will giue Treason his payment into plowes , I warrant you"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Why heere hee comes , swelling like a Turkycock", "How now Sir ? you Villaine", "I thinke Alexander the Great was borne in Macedon , his Father was called Phillip of Macedon , as I take it", "Captaine Fluellen , you must come presently to the Mynes ; the Duke of Gloucester would speake with you", "Here a comes , and the Scots Captaine , Captaine", "Iamy , with him", "What doe you call him ?", "How now Captaine Mackmorrice , haue you quit the Mynes ? haue the Pioners giuen o 're ?", "Captaine Fluellen", "The Duke of Gloucester , to whom the Order of the Siege is giuen , is altogether directed by an Irish man , a very valiant Gentleman yfaith", "Night"], "true_target": ["Dauies day is past", "Why , this is an arrant counterfeit Rascall , I remember him now : a Bawd , a Cut-purse", "The Towne sounds a Parley", "Gentlemen both , you will mistake each other", "Why the Enemie is lowd , you heare him all", "How now Captaine Fluellen , come you from the Bridge ?", "Nay , that 's right : but why weare you your", "Why \u2018 tis a Gull , a Foole , a Rogue , that now and then goes to the Warres , to grace himselfe at his returne into London , vnder the forme of a Souldier : and such fellowes are perfit in the Great Commanders Names , and they will learne you by rote where Seruices were done ; at such and such a Sconce , at such a Breach , at such a Conuoy : who came off brauely , who was shot , who disgrac 'd , what termes the Enemy stood on : and this they conne perfitly in the phrase of Warre ; which they tricke vp with new-tuned Oathes : and what a Beard of the Generalls Cut , and a horride Sute of the Campe , will doe among foming Bottles , and Ale-washt Wits , is wonderfull to be thought on : but you must learne to know such slanders of the age , or else you may be maruellously mistooke", "I know him not .", "I thinke it be", "Leeke to day ? S", "Is the Duke of Exeter safe ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Captaine Mackmorrice , when there is more better oportunitie to be required , looke you , I will be so bold as to tell you , I know the disciplines of Warre : and there is an end .", "Captaine Mackmorrice , I thinke , looke you , vnder your correction , there is not many of your Nation", "Captaine Iamy is a maruellous falorous Gentleman , that is certain , and of great expedition and knowledge in th \u2019 aunchiant Warres , vpon my particular knowledge of his directions : by Cheshu he will maintaine his Argument as well as any Militarie man in the World , in the disciplines of the Pristine Warres of the Romans", "By Cheshu he is an Asse , as in the World , I will verifie as much in his Beard : he ha 's no more directions in the true disciplines of the Warres , looke you , of the Roman disciplines , then is a Puppy-dog ."], "true_target": ["Captaine Mackmorrice , I beseech you now , will you voutsafe me , looke you , a few disputations with you , as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of the Warre , the Roman Warres , in the way of Argument , looke you , and friendly communication : partly to satisfie my Opinion , and partly for the satisfaction , looke you , of my Mind : as touching the direction of the Militarie discipline , that is the Point", "Looke you , if you take the matter otherwise then is meant , Captaine Mackmorrice , peraduenture I shall thinke you doe not vse me with that affabilitie , as in discretion you ought to vse me , looke you , being as good a man as your selfe , both in the disciplines of Warre , and in the deriuation of my Birth , and in other particularities", "Iames", "Godden to your Worship , good Captaine", "It is Captaine Makmorrice , is it not ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I say gudday , Captaine Fluellen", "It sall be vary gud , gud feith , gud Captens bath , and I sall quit you with gud leue , as I may pick occasion : that sall I mary"], "true_target": ["A , that 's a foule fault . A Parley .", "By the Mes , ere theise eyes of mine take themselues to slomber , ayle de gud seruice , or Ile ligge i'th \u2019 grund for it ; ay , or goe to death : and Ile pay't as valorously as I may , that sal I suerly do , that is the breff and the long : mary , I wad full faine heard some question tween you tway"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Of my Nation ? What ish my Nation ? Ish a Villaine , and a Basterd , and a Knaue , and a Rascall . What ish my Nation ? Who talkes of my Nation ?", "I doe not know you so good a man as my selfe : so Chrish saue me , I will cut off your Head"], "true_target": ["It is no time to discourse , so Chrish saue me : the day is hot , and the Weather , and the Warres , and the King , and the Dukes : it is no time to discourse , the Town is beseech 'd : and the Trumpet call vs to the breech , and we talke , and be Chrish do nothing , tis shame for vs all : so God sa'me tis shame to stand still , it is shame by my hand : and there is Throats to be cut , and Workes to be done , and there ish nothing done , so Christ sa'me law", "By Chrish Law tish ill done : the Worke ish giue ouer , the Trompet sound the Retreat . By my Hand I sweare , and my fathers Soule , the Worke ish ill done : it ish giue ouer : I would haue blowed vp the Towne , so Chrish saue me law , in an houre . O tish ill done , tish ill done : by my Hand tish ill done"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Our expectation hath this day an end :", "We yeeld our Towne and Liues to thy soft Mercy :"], "true_target": ["To rayse so great a Siege : Therefore great King ,", "The Dolphin , whom of Succours we entreated ,", "Returnes vs , that his Powers are yet not ready ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Le main de Hand , le doyts le Fingres , ie pense que ie suis le bon escholier", "E le doyts", "Excellent , Madame", "Le ongles , les appellons de Nayles", "Le main il & appelle de Hand", "N \u2019 aue vos y desia oublie ce que ie vous a ensignie", "De Chin", "Ouy . Sauf vostre honneur en verite vous pronouncies les mots ausi droict , que le Natifs d \u2019 Angleterre", "Sans vostre honeus d \u2019 Elbow"], "true_target": ["D \u2019 Elbow", "En peu Madame", "Le Foot Madame , & le Count", "De Nayles , Madame", "Il & trop difficile Madame , comme Ie pense", "De Arme , Madame", "D \u2019 Elbow , Madame", "C'est bien dict Madame , il & fort bon Anglois", "De Nick , Madame"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Is it possible dat I sould loue de ennemie of", "Les Dames & Damoisels pour estre baisee deuant leur nopcese il net pas le costume de Fraunce", "Laisse mon Seigneur , laisse , laisse , may foy : Ie ne veus point que vous abbaisse vostre grandeus , en baisant le main d \u2019 une nostre Seigneur indignie seruiteur excuse moy . Ie vous supplie mon tres-puissant Seigneur", "I cannot tell wat is dat", "C'est asses pour vne foyes , alons nous a diner .", "Pardonne moy , I cannot tell wat is like me", "De Nayles , de Arme , de Ilbow", "E de coudee", "Hand , de Fingres , e de Nayles", "Nome ie recitera a vous promptement , d \u2019 Hand , de", "De Sin : le col de Nick , le menton de Sin", "I cannot tell", "Nayles , d \u2019 Arma , de Bilbow", "Fingre , de Maylees", "Le Foot , & le Count : O Seignieur Dieu , il sont le mots de son mauvais corruptible grosse & impudique , & non pour le Dames de Honeur d \u2019 vser : Ie ne voudray pronouncer ce mots deuant le Seigneurs de France , pour toute le monde , fo le Foot & le Count , neant moys , Ie recitera vn autrefoys ma lecon ensembe , d \u2019 Hand , de Fingre , de Nayles , d \u2019 Arme , d \u2019 Elbow , de Nick , de Sin , de Foot , le Count", "Den it sall also content me", "Ie ne doute point d \u2019 apprendre par de grace de Dieu , & en peu de temps", "Excuse moy Alice escoute , d \u2019 Hand , de Fingre , de"], "true_target": ["Sauf vostre honeur , me vnderstand well", "Ie te prie m \u2019 ensigniez , il faut que ie apprend a parlen :", "Your Maiestee aue fause Frenche enough to deceiue de most sage Damoiseil dat is en Fraunce", "O bon Dieu , les langues des hommes sont plein de tromperies", "Fraunce ?", "Comient appelle vous le main en Anglois ?", "Que dit il que Ie suis semblable a les Anges ?", "Dat is as it shall please de Roy mon pere", "Dites moy l \u2019 Anglois pour le bras", "Your Maiestie shall mock at me , I cannot speake your England", "De Nick , e le menton", "Sauf vostre honeur , le Francois ques vous parleis , il & melieus que l \u2019 Anglois le quel Ie parle", "I'ay gaynie diux mots d \u2019 Anglois vistement , coment appelle vous le ongles ?", "De Nayles escoute : dites moy , si ie parle bien : de", "O Seigneur Dieu , ie men oublie d \u2019 Elbow , coment appelle vous le col", "Ainsi de ie d \u2019 Elbow , de Nick , & de Sin : coment appelle vous les pied & de roba", "D \u2019 Elbow : Ie men fay le repiticio de touts les mots que vous maves , apprins des a present", "De Hand"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["To giue each naked Curtleax a stayne ,", "Indeed my Lord , it is a most absolute and excellent", "And if he be not fought withall , my Lord ,", "Poore we call them , in their Natiue Lords", "Tut , I haue the best Armour of the World : would it were day", "Hee'le drop his heart into the sinck of feare ,", "I could make as true a boast as that , if I had a", "Let vs not liue in France : let vs quit all ,", "It is the best Horse of Europe", "Nay , for me thought yesterday your Mistresse shrewdly shooke your back", "A very little little let vs doe ,", "Is not their Clymate foggy , raw , and dull ?", "That England shall couch downe in feare , and yeeld .", "There is not worke enough for all our hands ,", "Starres my Lord", "Sow to my Mistresse", "Let vs not hang like roping Isyckles", "Scarce blood enough in all their sickly Veines ,", "I stay but for my Guard : on", "You must first goe your selfe to hazard , ere you haue them", "Though we vpon this Mountaines Basis by ,", "For our approach shall so much dare the field ,", "And they stay for death", "To the field , I will the Banner from a Trumpet take ,", "Mine was not bridled", "A valiant and most expert Gentleman . Would it were day ? Alas poore Harry of England : hee longs not for the Dawning , as wee doe", "Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat ?", "That our French Gallants shall to day draw out ,", "Who in vnnecessarie action swarme", "Eu'n as your Horse beares your prayses , who would trot as well , were some of your bragges dismounted", "I thinke he will eate all he kills", "For I am sure , when he shall see our Army ,", "And yet my Sky shall not want", "They haue said their prayers ,", "And shall our quick blood , spirited with Wine ,", "I had as liue haue my Mistresse a Iade", "To purge this field of such a hilding Foe ;", "You haue good iudgement in Horsemanship", "On whom , as in despight , the Sunne lookes pale ,", "Then shall we finde to morrow , they haue only stomackes to eate , and none to fight . Now is it time to arme : come , shall we about it ?", "Who hath measur 'd the ground ?"], "true_target": ["The Tucket Sonuance , and the Note to mount :", "Sweare by her Foot , that she may tread out the", "To Horse you gallant Princes , straight to Horse .", "Doing is actiuitie , and he will still be doing", "Well plac't : there stands your friend for the", "Horse", "His Souldiers sick , and famisht in their March :", "Seeme frostie ? O , for honor of our Land ,", "This becomes the Great .", "Leauing them but the shales and huskes of men .", "By my faith Sir , but it is : neuer any body saw it , but his Lacquey : \u2018 tis a hooded valour , and when it appeares , it will bate", "Hearke how our Steedes , for present Seruice neigh", "And vse it for my haste . Come , come away ,", "If the English had any apprehension , they would runne away", "Vpon our Houses Thatch , whiles a more frostie People", "I will cap that Prouerbe with , There is flatterie in friendship", "A Drench for sur-reyn 'd Iades , their Barly broth ,", "And giue our Vineyards to a barbarous People", "The Sunne is high , and we out-weare the day .", "That our superfluous Lacquies , and our Pesants ,", "Sweat drops of gallant Youth in our rich fields :", "Tooke stand for idle speculation :", "Iust , iust : and the men doe sympathize with the Mastiffes , in robustious and rough comming on , leauing their Wits with their Wiues : and then giue them great Meales of Beefe , and Iron and Steele ; they will eate like Wolues , and fight like Deuils", "About our Squares of Battaile , were enow", "Marry hee told me so himselfe , and hee sayd hee car 'd not who knew it", "Yet doe I not vse my Horse for my Mistresse , or any such Prouerbe , so little kin to the purpose", "And all is done : then let the Trumpets sound", "You haue shot ouer", "Sorry am I his numbers are so few ,", "I will not say so , for feare I should be fac't out of my way : but I would it were morning , for I would faine be about the eares of the English", "Nor will doe none to morrow : hee will keepe that good name still", "And for atchieuement , offer vs his Ransome", "Doe but behold yond poore and starued Band ,", "\u2018 Tis positiue against all exceptions , Lords ,", "And sheath for lack of sport . Let vs but blow on them ,", "Dieu de Battailes , where haue they this mettell ?", "And your faire shew shall suck away their Soules ,", "But that our Honours must not . What 's to say ?", "Oath", "Killing their Fruit with frownes . Can sodden Water ,", "The vapour of our Valour will o'rehYpppHeNturne them .", "I was told that , by one that knowes him better then you"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["My Lord of Orleance , and my Lord High Constable , you talke of Horse and Armour ?", "Some of them will fall to morrow , I hope", "That may be , for you beare a many superfluously , and \u2018 twere more honor some were away", "Be warn 'd by me then : they that ride so , and ride not warily , fall into foule Boggs : I had rather haue my Horse to my Mistresse", "Shall we goe send them Dinners , and fresh Sutes ,", "And after fight with them ?", "And doubt them with superfluous courage : ha", "Our Syens , put in wilde and sauage Stock ,", "Me well , which is the prescript prayse and perfection of a good and particular Mistresse", "What a long Night is this ? I will not change my Horse with any that treades but on foure postures : ch \u2019 ha : he bounds from the Earth , as if his entrayles were hayres : le Cheual volante , the Pegasus , ches les narines de feu . When I bestryde him , I soare , I am a Hawke : he trots the ayre : the Earth sings , when he touches it : the basest horne of his hoofe , is more Musicall then the Pipe of Hermes", "Monte Cheual : My Horse , Verlot Lacquay :", "That their hot blood may spin in English eyes ,", "\u2018 Tis Mid-night , Ile goe arme my selfe .", "Cein , Cousin Orleance . Enter Constable . Now my Lord Constable ?", "And of the heat of the Ginger . It is a Beast for Perseus : hee is pure Ayre and Fire ; and the dull Elements of Earth and Water neuer appeare in him , but only in patient stillnesse while his Rider mounts him : hee is indeede a Horse , and all other Iades you may call Beasts", "Spirt vp so suddenly into the Clouds ,"], "true_target": ["Le chien est retourne a son propre vemissement est la leuye lauee au bourbier : thou mak'st vse of any thing", "O Dieu viuant : Shall a few Sprayes of vs ,", "The emptying of our Fathers Luxurie ,", "I tell thee Constable , my Mistresse weares his owne hayre", "Then did they imitate that which I compos 'd to my Courser , for my Horse is my Mistresse", "Ha", "And ouer-looke their Grafters ?", "Mount them , and make incision in their Hides ,", "Via les ewes & terre", "Not so , I doe beseech your Maiestie", "It is the Prince of Palfrayes , his Neigh is like the bidding of a Monarch , and his countenance enforces Homage", "Nay , the man hath no wit , that cannot from the rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe , varie deserued prayse on my Palfray : it is a Theame as fluent as the Sea : Turne the Sands into eloquent tongues , and my Horse is argument for them all : \u2018 tis a subiect for a Soueraigne to reason on , and for a Soueraignes Soueraigne to ride on : And for the World , familiar to vs , and vnknowne , to lay apart their particular Functions , and wonder at him , I once writ a Sonnet in his prayse , and began thus , Wonder of Nature", "O then belike she was old and gentle , and you rode like a Kerne of Ireland , your French Hose off , and in your strait Strossers", "Would I were able to loade him with his desert . Will it neuer be day ? I will trot to morrow a mile , and my way shall be paued with English Faces", "So perhaps did yours", "And giue their fasting Horses Prouender ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Saying , our Grace is onely in our Heeles ,", "Mort du ma vie , if they march along", "Normans , but bastard Normans , Norman bastards :", "They bid vs to the English Dancing-Schooles ,"], "true_target": ["Vnfought withall , but I will sell my Dukedome ,", "In that nooke-shotten Ile of Albion", "And that we are most loftie Run-awayes", "And teach Lauolta 's high , and swift Carranto 's ,", "To buy a slobbry and a durtie Farme"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Our Madames mock at vs , and plainely say ,", "To new-store France with Bastard Warriors"], "true_target": ["Their bodyes to the Lust of English Youth ,", "By Faith and Honor ,", "Our Mettell is bred out , and they will giue"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Enter Mountioy ."], "true_target": ["Enter Montioy ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Thus sayes my King : Say thou to Harry of England , Though we seem 'd dead , we did but sleepe : Aduantage is a better Souldier then rashnesse . Tell him , wee could haue rebuk 'd him at Harflewe , but that wee thought not good to bruise an iniurie , till it were full ripe . Now wee speake vpon our Q. and our voyce is imperiall : England shall repent his folly , see his weakenesse , and admire our sufferance . Bid him therefore consider of his ransome , which must proportion the losses we haue borne , the subiects we haue lost , the disgrace we haue digested ; which in weight to re-answer , his pettinesse would bow vnder . For our losses , his Exchequer is too poore ; for th \u2019 effusion of our bloud , the Muster of his Kingdome too faint a number ; and for our disgrace , his owne person kneeling at our feet , but a weake and worthlesse satisfaction . To this adde defiance : and tell him for conclusion , he hath betrayed his followers , whose condemnation is pronounc't : So farre my King and Master ; so much my Office"], "true_target": ["My Masters mind", "You know me by my habit"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I shall deliuer so : Thankes to your Highnesse"], "true_target": ["Mountioy"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Though France himselfe , and such another Neighbor", "Stand in our way . There 's for thy labour Mountioy .", "Goe bid thy Master well aduise himselfe .", "We shall your tawnie ground with your red blood", "Yet forgiue me God ,", "Yet God before , tell him we will come on ,"], "true_target": ["Goe therefore tell thy Master , heere I am ;", "Hath blowne that vice in me . I must repent :", "My Ransome , is this frayle and worthlesse Trunke ;", "That I doe bragge thus ; this your ayre of France", "My Army , but a weake and sickly Guard :", "If we may passe , we will : if we be hindred ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Nor as we are , we say we will not shun it :", "We would not seeke a Battaile as we are ,"], "true_target": ["So tell your Master", "The summe of all our Answer is but this :"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["My Liege"], "true_target": ["I hope they will not come vpon vs now", "Where is the King ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["And I will take vp that with , Giue the Deuill his due", "Will it neuer be Morning ?", "I , but these English are shrowdly out of", "Horse haue his due", "Prince", "I know him to be valiant", "Lords", "Rien puis le air & feu", "I haue heard a Sonnet begin so to ones Mistresse", "You are the better at Prouerbs , by how much a Fooles Bolt is soone shot", "By the white Hand of my Lady , hee 's a gallant", "You are as well prouided of both , as any", "Your Mistresse beares well", "Armour , they could neuer weare such heauie", "That they lack : for if their heads had any intellectuall", "Hee needes not , it is no hidden vertue in him", "Oh braue Spirit"], "true_target": ["Head-pieces", "Beefe", "What a wretched and peeuish fellow is this King of England , to mope with his fat-brain 'd followers so farre out of his knowledge", "\u2018 Tis not the first time you were ouer-shot .", "What 's hee ?", "He is simply the most actiue Gentleman of", "France", "He neuer did harme , that I heard of", "You haue an excellent Armour : but let my", "Prince in the World", "The Dolphin longs for morning", "No more Cousin", "It is now two a Clock : but let me see , by ten", "Foolish Curres , that runne winking into the mouth of a Russian Beare , and haue their heads crusht like rotten Apples : you may as well say , that 's a valiant Flea , that dare eate his breakefast on the Lippe of a Lyon", "Wee shall haue each a hundred English men .", "Ill will neuer sayd well", "The Sunne doth gild our Armour vp , my", "Hee 's of the colour of the Nutmeg"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["He longs to eate the English", "Who will goe to Hazard with me for twentie", "Creatures ; their Mastiffes are of vnmatchable courage"], "true_target": ["That Iland of England breedes very valiant", "My Lord Constable , the Armour that I saw in your Tent to night , are those Starres or Sunnes vpon it ?", "Prisoners ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["The Lord Grandpree"], "true_target": ["My Lord high Constable , the English lye within fifteene hundred paces of your Tents"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Not so my Liege , this Lodging likes me better ,", "The Lord in Heauen blesse thee , Noble"], "true_target": ["Since I may say , now lye I like a King", "Shall I attend your Grace ?", "Harry ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Our King is not like him in that , he neuer kill 'd any of his friends", "I will speake lower", "Alexander the Great"], "true_target": ["Heere comes his Maiesty .", "Sir Iohn Falstaffe", "Go , go , you are a counterfeit cowardly Knaue , will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an honourable respect , and worne as a memorable Trophee of predeceased valor , and dare not auouch in your deeds any of your words . I haue seene you gleeking & galling at this Gentleman twice or thrice . You thought , because he could not speake English in the natiue garb , he could not therefore handle an English Cudgell : you finde it otherwise , and henceforth let a Welsh correction , teach you a good English condition , fare ye well .", "Tis certaine , there 's not a boy left aliue , and the Cowardly Rascalls that ranne from the battaile ha \u2019 done this slaughter : besides they haue burned and carried away all that was in the Kings Tent , wherefore the King most worthily hath caus 'd euery soldiour to cut his prisoners throat . O \u2018 tis a gallant King"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["He may shew what outward courage he will : but I beleeue , as cold a Night as \u2018 tis , hee could wish himselfe in Thames vp to the Neck ; and so I would he were , and I by him , at all aduentures , so we were quit here", "Be friends you English fooles , be friends , wee haue French Quarrels enow , if you could tell how to reckon .", "I thinke it be : but wee haue no great cause to desire the approach of day"], "true_target": ["He hath not told his thought to the King ?", "I doe not desire hee should answer for me , and yet I determine to fight lustily for him", "Then I would he were here alone ; so should he be sure to be ransomed , and a many poore mens liues saued", "I , or more then wee should seeke after ; for wee know enough , if wee know wee are the Kings Subiects : if his Cause be wrong , our obedience to the King wipes the Cryme of it out of vs"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["That 's more then we know", "But if the Cause be not good , the King himselfe hath a heauie Reckoning to make , when all those Legges , and Armes , and Heads , chopt off in a Battaile , shall ioyne together at the latter day , and cry all , Wee dyed at such a place , some swearing , some crying for a Surgean ; some vpon their Wiues , left poore behind them ; some vpon the Debts they owe , some vpon their Children rawly left : I am afear 'd , there are few dye well , that dye in a Battaile : for how can they charitably dispose of any thing , when Blood is their argument ? Now , if these men doe not dye well , it will be a black matter for the King , that led them to it ; who to disobey , were against all proportion of subiection"], "true_target": ["Vnder what Captaine serue you ?", "Wee see yonder the beginning of the day , but I thinke wee shall neuer see the end of it . Who goes there ?", "A good old Commander , and a most kinde"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I am no Traytor", "My Liege , this was my Gloue , here is the fellow of it : and he that I gaue it to in change , promis 'd to weare it in his Cappe : I promis 'd to strike him , if he did : I met this man with my Gloue in his Cappe , and I haue been as good as my word", "Your Maiestie came not like your selfe : you appear 'd to me but as a common man ; witnesse the Night , your Garments , your Lowlinesse : and what your Highnesse suffer 'd vnder that shape , I beseech you take it for your owne fault , and not mine : for had you beene as I tooke you for , I made no offence ; therefore I beseech your Highnesse pardon me", "And't please your Maiesty , tis the gage of one that I should fight withall , if he be aliue", "Vnder Captaine Gower , my Liege", "\u2018 Tis certaine , euery man that dyes ill , the ill vpon his owne head , the King is not to answer it", "I know this , and thus I challenge it . Strikes him .", "Let it bee a Quarrell betweene vs , if you liue", "Thou dar'st as well be hang 'd", "I warrant it is to Knight you , Captaine ."], "true_target": ["Heere 's my Gloue : Giue mee another of thine", "Keepe thy word : fare thee well", "I will my Liege .", "This will I also weare in my Cap : if euer thou come to me , and say , after to morrow , This is my Gloue , by this Hand I will take thee a box on the eare", "I will none of your Money", "You pay him then : that 's a perillous shot out of an Elder Gunne , that a poore and a priuate displeasure can doe against a Monarch : you may as well goe about to turne the Sunne to yce , with fanning in his face with a", "Doe you thinke Ile be forsworne ?", "I , hee said so , to make vs fight chearefully : but when our throats are cut , hee may be ransom 'd , and wee ne 're the wiser", "All offences , my Lord , come from the heart : neuer came any from mine , that might offend your Maiestie", "Sir , know you this Gloue ?", "How shall I know thee againe ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I shall doo't , my Lord ."], "true_target": ["Seeke through your Campe to find you", "My Lord , your Nobles iealous of your absence ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Peeres"], "true_target": ["The English are embattail 'd , you French"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Flye o 're them all , impatient for their howre .", "Ill-fauoredly become the Morning field :", "The Horsemen sit like fixed Candlesticks ,", "In life so liuelesse , as it shewes it selfe", "Description cannot sute it selfe in words ,", "To demonstrate the Life of such a Battaile ,", "And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt", "With Torch-staues in their hand : and their poore Iades", "Why do you stay so long , my Lords of France ?"], "true_target": ["Lyes foule with chaw'dhYpppHeNgrasse , still and motionlesse .", "Their ragged Curtaines poorely are let loose ,", "The gumme downe roping from their pale-dead eyes ,", "And their executors , the knauish Crowes ,", "Yond Iland Carrions , desperate of their bones ,", "Bigge Mars seemes banqu'rout in their begger 'd Hoast ,", "Lob downe their heads , dropping the hides and hips :", "And faintly through a rustie Beuer peepes .", "And our Ayre shakes them passing scornefully ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["He is as full of Valour as of Kindnesse ,", "Farwell good Salisbury , & good luck go with thee :", "The King himselfe is rode to view their Battaile"], "true_target": ["For thou art fram 'd of the firme truth of valour", "Princely in both .", "And yet I doe thee wrong , to mind thee of it ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["O that we now had here", "Gods will , my Liege , would you and I alone ,", "Without more helpe , could fight this Royall battaile", "His Daughter first ; and in sequele , all ,", "Of fighting men they haue full threescore thousand"], "true_target": ["The King hath graunted euery Article :", "Perish the man , whose mind is backward now", "That doe no worke to day", "According to their firme proposed natures", "But one ten thousand of those men in England ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["for mine , then flye a-brest :", "Farwell kind Lord : fight valiantly to day", "Vpon these words I came , and cheer 'd him vp ,", "A Testament of Noble-ending-loue :", "Of other Lords and Barons , Knights and Squires ,", "Charles Duke of Orleance , Nephew to the King ,", "He cryes aloud ; Tarry my Cosin Suffolke ,", "He smil 'd me in the face , raught me his hand ,", "He threw his wounded arme , and kist his lippes ,", "Souldier , you must come to the King", "Suffolke first dyed , and Yorke all hagled ouer", "Comes to him , where in gore he lay insteeped ,", "And so espous 'd to death , with blood he seal 'd", "And all my mother came into mine eyes ,", "Commend my seruice to my Soueraigne ,", "And with a feeble gripe , sayes : Deere my Lord ,", "The Noble Earle of Suffolke also lyes .", "So did he turne , and ouer Suffolkes necke"], "true_target": ["Full fifteene hundred , besides common men", "There 's fiue to one , besides they all are fresh", "Larding the plaine : and by his bloody side ,", "We kept together in our Chiualrie .", "Here comes the Herald of the French , my Liege", "doth he lye ,", "The Dof York commends him to your Maiesty", "Iohn Duke of Burbon , and Lord Bouchiquald :", "Those waters from me , which I would haue stop 'd ,", "As in this glorious and well-foughten field", "Tarry", "And gaue me vp to teares", "My soule shall thine keepe company to heauen :", "In which array", "But I had not so much of man in mee ,", "The prettie and sweet manner of it forc 'd", "That bloodily did yawne vpon his face .", "And takes him by the Beard , kisses the gashes"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Gods Arme strike with vs , \u2018 tis a fearefull oddes .", "If we no more meet , till we meet in Heauen ;", "My deare Lord Gloucester , and my good Lord Exeter ,"], "true_target": ["And my kind Kinsman , Warriors all , adieu", "Then ioyfully , my Noble Lord of Bedford ,", "God buy \u2019 you Princes all ; Ile to my Charge :"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["My Soueraign Lord , bestow your selfe with speed :"], "true_target": ["The French are brauely in their battailes set ,", "And will with all expedience charge on vs"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Once more I come to know of thee King Harry ,", "If for thy Ransome thou wilt now compound ,", "Thou needs must be englutted . Besides , in mercy", "May make a peacefull and a sweet retyre", "I shall , King Harry . And so fare thee well :", "their poore bodies", "Before thy most assured Ouerthrow :"], "true_target": ["From off these fields : where", "The Constable of France", "Must lye and fester", "For certainly , thou art so neere the Gulfe ,", "Thy followers of Repentance ; that their Soules", "Thou neuer shalt heare Herauld any more .", "The Constable desires thee , thou wilt mind"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["My Lord , most humbly on my knee I begge"], "true_target": ["The leading of the Vaward"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Enter King Harry and Burbon with prisoners . Flourish ."], "true_target": ["Excursions . Enter Pistoll , French Souldier , Boy .", "Enter the King and his trayne , with Prisoners ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Que dit il Mounsieur ?", "O Ie vous supplie pour l \u2019 amour de Dieu : ma pardonner , Ie suis le Gentilhome de bon maison , garde ma vie , & Ie vous donneray deux cent escus", "O Seigneur Dieu", "Mounsieur le Fer"], "true_target": ["O prennes miserecordie aye pitez de moy", "O perdonne moy", "Est il impossible d \u2019 eschapper le force de ton bras", "Ie pense que vous estes le Gentilhome de bon qualitee"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Why all our rankes are broke", "Disorder that hath spoyl 'd vs , friend vs now ,"], "true_target": ["Let vs on heapes go offer vp our liues", "O Diable"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["O signeur le iour et perdia , toute et perdie", "We are enow yet liuing in the Field ,"], "true_target": ["Is this the King we sent too , for his ransome ?", "To smother vp the English in our throngs ,", "If any order might be thought vpon"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Mor Dieu ma vie , all is confounded all ,", "O meschante Fortune , do not runne away", "O perdurable shame , let 's stab our selues :"], "true_target": ["Reproach , and euerlasting shame", "Sits mocking in our Plumes .", "Be these the wretches that we plaid at dice for ?", "A short Alarum ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Let vs dye in once more backe againe ,", "Let life be short , else shame will be too long .", "Let him go hence , and with his cap in hand", "His fairest daughter is contaminated"], "true_target": ["Like a base Pander hold the Chamber doore ,", "Whilst a base slaue , no gentler then my dogge ,", "And he that will not follow Burbon now ,", "Shame , and eternall shame , nothing but shame ,", "The diuell take Order now , Ile to the throng ;"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["They call it Agincourt", "Killing them twice . O giue vs leaue great King ,", "That we may wander ore this bloody field ,", "Of their dead bodies", "In blood of Princes , and with wounded steeds", "So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbes", "Lye drown 'd and soak 'd in mercenary blood :", "I come to thee for charitable License ,"], "true_target": ["Yerke out their armed heeles at their dead masters ,", "To sort our Nobles from our common men .", "No great King :", "Fret fet-locke deepe in gore , and with wilde rage", "The day is yours", "For many of our Princes", "To booke our dead , and then to bury them ,", "To view the field in safety , and dispose"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I tell thee truly Herald ,", "What thinke you Captaine Fluellen , is it fit this souldier keepe his oath", "Praised be God , and not our strength for it :", "Souldier , why wear'st thou that Gloue in thy", "They did Fluellen", "Thankes good my Countrymen"], "true_target": ["Cappe ?", "What is this Castle call 'd that stands hard by", "For yet a many of your horsemen peere ,", "And gallop ore the field", "I know not if the day be ours or no ,", "An Englishman ?"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["And't please your Maiesty , a Rascall that swagger 'd with me last night : who if aliue , and euer dare to challenge this Gloue , I haue sworne to take him a boxe a'th ere : or if I can see my Gloue in his cappe , which he swore as he was a Souldier he would weareI wil strike it out soundly"], "true_target": ["So , I wil my Liege , as I liue"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Heere is the number of the slaught'red"], "true_target": ["French"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Onely he hath not yet subscribed this : Where your Maiestie demands , That the King of France hauing any occasion to write for matter of Graunt , shall name your Highnesse in this forme , and with this addition , in French : Nostre trescher filz Henry Roy d \u2019 Angleterre Heretere de Fraunce : and thus in Latine ; Praeclarissimus Filius noster Henricus Rex Angli\u00e6 & Heres Franciae"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis wonderfull"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["So swift a pace hath Thought , that euen now", "How many would the peacefull Citie quit ,", "Bringing Rebellion broached on his Sword ;", "As in good time he may , from Ireland comming ,", "As yet the lamentation of the French", "Goe forth and fetch their Conqu'ring C\u00e6sar in :", "Before him , through the Citie : he forbids it ,", "Did they this Harry . Now in London place him .", "The Maior and all his Brethren in best sort ,", "To welcome him ? much more , and much more cause ,", "Where , that his Lords desire him , to haue borne", "After your thoughts , straight backe againe to France .", "You may imagine him vpon Black-Heath :", "The Emperour 's comming in behalfe of France ,", "There must we bring him ; and my selfe haue play 'd"], "true_target": ["All the occurrences , what euer chanc't ,", "The interim , by remembring you \u2018 tis past .", "Till Harryes backe returne againe to France :", "Like to the Senatours of th \u2019 antique Rome ,", "Were now the Generall of our gracious Empresse ,", "Inuites the King of Englands stay at home :", "Then brooke abridgement , and your eyes aduance ,", "Giuing full Trophee , Signall , and Ostent ,", "As by a lower , but by louing likelyhood ,", "To order peace betweene them : and omit", "In the quick Forge and working-house of Thought ,", "Quite from himselfe , to God . But now behold ,", "How London doth powre out her Citizens ,", "With the Plebeians swarming at their heeles ,", "His bruised Helmet , and his bended Sword", "Being free from vainnesse , and selfe-glorious pride ;"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["At another , Queene Isabel , the King , the Duke of Bourgougne , and other French ."], "true_target": ["Amen"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["euery one", "Right ioyous are we to behold your face ,"], "true_target": ["So are you Princes", "Most worthy brother England , fairely met ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["When Articles too nicely vrg 'd , be stood on", "As we are now glad to behold your eyes ,", "That neuer may ill Office , or fell Iealousie ,", "You English Princes all , I doe salute you", "Combine your hearts in one , your Realmes in one :", "The fatall Balls of murthering Basiliskes :", "That English may as French , French Englishmen ,", "Your eyes which hitherto haue borne", "So be there \u2018 twixt your Kingdomes such a Spousall ,", "Thrust in betweene the Paction of these Kingdomes ,", "Receiue each other . God speake this Amen", "In them against the French that met them in their bent ,"], "true_target": ["The venome of such Lookes we fairely hope", "Our gracious Brother , I will goe with them :", "To make diuorce of their incorporate League :", "She hath good leaue . Exeunt . omnes . Manet King and Katherine", "Of this good day , and of this gracious meeting ,", "God , the best maker of all Marriages ,", "Haue lost their qualitie , and that this day", "As Man and Wife being two , are one in loue ,", "Shall change all griefes and quarrels into loue", "So happy be the Issue brother Ireland", "Happily a Womans Voyce may doe some good ,", "Which troubles oft the Bed of blessed Marriage ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["If Duke of Burgonie , you would the Peace ,", "Well then : the Peace which you before so vrg 'd ,", "With full accord to all our iust demands ,", "Whose Tenures and particular effects"], "true_target": ["Which you haue cited ; you must buy that Peace", "Whose want giues growth to th \u2019 imperfections", "Lyes in his Answer", "To cry Amen to that , thus we appeare", "You haue enschedul 'd briefely in your hands"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["To bring your most Imperiall Maiesties", "But grow like Sauages , as Souldiers will ,", "Pardon the franknesse of my mirth , if I answer you for that . If you would coniure in her , you must make a Circle : if coniure vp Loue in her in his true likenesse , hee must appeare naked , and blinde . Can you blame her then , being a Maid , yet ros 'd ouer with the Virgin Crimson of Modestie , if shee deny the apparance of a naked blinde Boy in her naked seeing selfe ? It werea hard Condition for a Maid to consigne to", "Great Kings of France and England : that I haue labour 'd", "Your Mightinesse on both parts best can witnesse .", "God saue your Maiestie , my Royall Cousin , teach you our Princesse English ?", "Why that the naked , poore , and mangled Peace ,", "Since then my Office hath so farre preuayl 'd ,", "And euery thing that seemes vnnaturall .", "The euen Meade , that erst brought sweetly forth", "To Swearing , and sterne Lookes , defus 'd Attyre ,", "You are assembled : and my speech entreats ,", "And blesse vs with her former qualities", "That I may know the Let , why gentle Peace", "Put forth disorder 'd Twigs : her fallow Leas ,", "Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre ,", "Vnto this Barre , and Royall enterview ;", "That nothing doe , but meditate on Blood ,", "Vnpruned , dyes : her Hedges euen pleach 'd ,", "If I demand before this Royall view ,", "Doth root vpon ; while that the Culter rusts ,", "Defectiue in their natures , grow to wildnesse .", "But hatefull Docks , rough Thistles , Keksyes , Burres ,", "And all our Vineyards , Fallowes , Meades , and Hedges ,", "Which to reduce into our former fauour ,", "Should not expell these inconueniences ,"], "true_target": ["There is no Answer made", "The freckled Cowslip , Burnet , and greene Clouer ,", "Is shee not apt ?", "Should not in this best Garden of the World ,", "My dutie to you both , on equall loue .", "That Face to Face , and Royall Eye to Eye ,", "And all her Husbandry doth lye on heapes ,", "You haue congreeted : let it not disgrace me ,", "Her Vine , the merry chearer of the heart ,", "They are then excus 'd , my Lord , when they see not what they doe", "What Rub , or what Impediment there is ,", "I will winke on her to consent , my Lord , if you will teach her to know my meaning : for Maides well Summer 'd , and warme kept , are like Flyes at Bartholomew-tyde , blinde , though they haue their eyes , and then they will endure handling , which before would not abide looking on", "Conceiues by idlenesse , and nothing teemes ,", "Euen so our Houses , and our selues , and Children ,", "Haue lost , or doe not learne , for want of time ,", "With all my wits , my paines , and strong endeuors ,", "Wanting the Sythe , withall vncorrected , ranke ;", "Our fertile France , put vp her louely Visage ?", "As Loue is my Lord , before it loues", "Loosing both beautie and vtilitie ;", "The Sciences that should become our Countrey ;", "The King hath heard them : to the which , as yet", "That should deracinate such Sauagery :", "Deare Nourse of Arts , Plentyes , and ioyfull Births ,", "Corrupting in it owne fertilitie .", "Alas , shee hath from France too long been chas 'd ,", "The Darnell , Hemlock , and ranke Femetary ,"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Passe our accept and peremptorie Answer", "Issue to me , that the contending Kingdomes", "To sit with vs once more , with better heed", "With enuy of each others happinesse ,", "Nor this I haue not Brother so deny 'd ,", "May cease their hatred ; and this deare Coniunction", "Of France and England , whose very shoares looke pale ,", "Take her faire Sonne , and from her blood rayse vp", "To re-suruey them ; we will suddenly"], "true_target": ["His bleeding Sword \u2018 twixt England and faire France", "But your request shall make me let it passe", "Plant Neighbour-hood and Christian-like accord", "In their sweet Bosomes : that neuer Warre aduance", "So please you", "Wee haue consented to all tearmes of reason", "O'rehYpppHeNglanc ' t the Articles : Pleaseth your Grace", "I haue but with a curselarie eye", "To appoint some of your Councell presently"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["I am content , so the Maiden Cities you talke of , may wait on her : so the Maid that stood in the way for my Wish , shall shew me the way to my Will", "Warwick , and Huntington , goe with the King ,", "Goe with the Princes , or stay here with vs ?", "Brother we shall . Goe Vnckle Exeter ,", "Any thing in or out of our Demands ,", "And thereupon giue me your Daughter", "Shall see aduantageable for our Dignitie ,", "And wee'le consigne thereto . Will you , faire Sister ,", "Within the fore-ranke of our Articles"], "true_target": ["Is't so , my Lords of England ?", "Augment , or alter , as your Wisdomes best", "Let that one Article ranke with the rest ,", "Shall Kate be my Wife ?", "And Brother Clarence , and you Brother Gloucester ,", "And take with you free power , to ratifie ,", "I pray you then , in loue and deare allyance ,", "Yet leaue our Cousin Katherine here with vs ,", "She is our capitall Demand , compris 'd"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Your Maiestee entendre bettre que moy", "Ouy veraymentainsi dit il", "Ouy verayment"], "true_target": ["Dat it is not be de fashon pour le Ladies of", "Fraunce ; I cannot tell wat is buisse en Anglish", "Ouy , dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits : dat is de Princesse"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Father ."], "true_target": ["Heere comes your"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Exeunt .", "In little roome confining mightie men ,", "Thus farre with rough , and all-vnable Pen ,"], "true_target": ["Mangling by starts the full course of their glory .", "Our bending Author hath pursu 'd the Story ,", "Enter Chorus ."], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Which oft our Stage hath showne ; and for their sake ,", "By which , the Worlds best Garden he atchieued :", "Whose State so many had the managing ,", "Henry the Sixt , in Infant Bands crown 'd King"], "true_target": ["Of France and England , did this King succeed :", "In your faire minds let this acceptance take .", "And of it left his Sonne Imperiall Lord .", "That they lost France , and made his England bleed :", "Fortune made his Sword ;"], "play_index": 10, "act_index": 10}, {"query": ["Not sure ; but I have a reasonable confidence that I shall be fairly contented . For I , at least , am supple , and I court the influences which you think it a point of gallantry to resist .", "I am tempted to ask myself whether in Olympus we really loved at all .", "I am not easily shocked . My poor worshippers sometimes demand a very considerable indulgence .", "The blight of indifference .", "I certainly do . The analysis of one 's own feelings , and the sense of watching the fluctuating symptoms of one 's individuality , form one of the principal consolations of our mortal state .", "Phoebus offered me the rustic entertainment of gathering wild raspberries . We found some at length , and regaled ourselves . I wished for more , and Phoebus , with his usual gallantry , wandered dreamily away into the forest on the quest . He has evidently lost his way . I sat me down on this tree and waited .", "There was a cannibal altar in Arcadia to Phoebus , so I have heard . He instantly destroyed it , and scattered the ignorant savages who had raised it .", "So it appears . And you will suffer for it . For , stiff and blank as you may determine to be , circumstances will overpower you . Under their influences you will not be able to avoid becoming softer and more redundant . But you will resist the process , I see , and you will make it as painful as you can .", "No doubt , then , this procession was a penitential one , and its object to appease my offended deity . But what a mistake , poor things ! No one ever regained my favour by making a frump of herself .", "Were they walking apart , or wound together by garlands ?", "It is very ingenious of you to think of these things . But I suppose it would not be right to attempt to do it . In the first place it would encourage them to believe in my immortality \u2014\u2014", "There is a great deal in that argument , no doubt . Only , what will be the result when they discover that it is all a mistake , and that I am a mortal like themselves ?", "There are certainly deities of whom we knew nothing in Olympus . Perhaps this is the temple of some Unknown God .", "It must be weariness . Ever these new sensations , these odd , exciting apprehensions ! This must be mortality . I never breathed the faster as I rose from terrace to terrace in Cythera .", "Let us keep to generalities . Looking broadly at our experience , I should say that the misfortune of the gods , as a preparation for their mortality , was that in their deathless state the affections fell at the foot of the tree , like these withered leaves . We should have fastened the branches of life together in long elastic wires of the thin-drawn gold of perdurable sentiment .", "Yet it is like it .How strange ... to be where everything is not azure and gold and white \u2014 white land , gold houses and blue sky and sea . What are these woods , Eros ?", "I do not see that you could have done otherwise than , as you did , to refuse with dignity to anticipate anything so revolutionary .", "But is it dedicated to me ?", "Yes , here for ever . For ever ? We have no \u201c for ever \u201d now , Eros .", "What do you mean by a \u201c concession \u201d ?", "If we must be driven forth again , let us at least cling to such new gifts as we have secured here .", "Shall we recollect this little episode when we walk up the golden street presently to our houses ?", "Well , I hardly know . It is kind of you , Circe , to suggest such a thing . No doubt it would be very pleasant . But I feel , of course , the hollowness of the whole concern . We must be careful not to deceive the barbarians .", "I did not think that I could ever be happy again . I am not happy . But I am not miserable . Now that my heart is quiet again , I am not miserable . Oh ! that sick tossing on the black sea , the nausea , the aching , the dulness ; that I , who sprang from the waves , could come to hate them so . We will never venture on the sea , again ?", "I am very much relieved . But could you not gather from the decoration of the interior to whom of us it is inscribed ?", "I expect that at this distance from the centre of things , all manner of misconception has crept into my ritual . Of course , I cannot now demand any rites , and that the dear good people should pay them at all is very touching ."], "true_target": ["What was the object of these ?", "Unfortunately , even here , immortality was no convenient prelude to our present state . We did not , indeed , neglect the heart \u2014\u2014", "A moment , Eros . Let us sit here . What can this flutter at my girdle be ? I breathe with difficulty . Oh ! Eros , can this be death ?", "With any animation of gesture , Circe ?", "Is all prepared for us , Cydippe ?", "That is rather a fatuous remark , and from you of all people in the world . My most agreeable reminiscences are , without exception , connected with occasions on which I had escaped from my body-guard of nymphs . At the present moment you would do well to face the fact , Ares , that I have but a single maid , and that she has collapsed under the burdens of novelty and exile .", "Here he comes at last , and from the opposite direction .... No ! that cannot be Phoebus .... Ah ! it is you , then !", "Was it fastened to any symbol ? Did you notice anything that explained the horror of it ?", "You do not , I hope , give way to the most foolish of the emotions , and endure the silly torture of self-reproach ?", "Your friends are all aware , Ares , that if the conditions were to return , you would never demean yourself and them by guarding against anything of the kind . But I advise you not to brood upon the past . Your figure will suffer . You must keep up your character for solid and agile exercises .", "Ah , you are oppressed by our misfortunes ?", "No ; but that was precisely what made our immortality such an ill preparation for a brief existence on this island . In Olympus the sentiment of yesterday was forgotten , and we realised the passion of to-day as little as the caprice of to-morrow . Perhaps this fragmentary tenderness was the real chastisement of our implacable prosperity .", "The worst of the old immortality was the carelessness of it . We were utterly unprepared for anything bordering on catastrophe , and behold , without warning , we are swept away in a complete cataclysm of our fortunes . I see , Ares , that it will be long before you can recover serenity , or take advantage of the capabilities of our new existence . They will appeal to you more slowly than to the rest of us , and you will respond more unwillingly , because of your lack \u2014 your voluntary and boasted lack \u2014 of all intellectual suppleness .", "And your discipline ?", "It may be . We shall see , Ares . But one thing I have already perceived . In this mortal sphere , the heart needs solitude , it needs silence . It must have its questionings and its despairs . The triumphant supremacy of the old emotions cannot be repeated here . For we have a new enemy to contend with . Even if love should prosecute its conquests here in all the serenity of success , it will not be able to escape from an infliction worse than any which we dreamed of when we were immortals .", "Cydippe tells me that there is a temple on the hill beyond these woods . I wonder to whom amongst us it is dedicated ?", "On that leaden water , with the little cruel breakers like coriander seeds ? Never . And whither should we go , Eros ? We have lost our golden home , our only home . We have lost the old white world of empire ; any grey corner of the world of stillness is good enough for us . I will eat , and lie down , and rest without that long , awful heave of the intolerable ocean . Which way , Cydippe ?", "There every one must do you justice , Ares . I never heard even the voice of prejudice raised to accuse you .", "You may call it so , if you please , but it is a source of genuine pleasure to us .", "No , Cydippe , I think I shall be happy .", "You have so many friends , Ares . Poor Cydippe , then , broke down this morning in moaning hysterics after having borne up just long enough to do my hair . I really came out on this rather mad adventure after the raspberries to escape the dolours of her countenance , and the last thing I saw was her chlamys flung wildly over her head as she dived down upon the floor in misery . Such consolations as this island has to give me will not proceed from what you call my attendant . You do not look well , Ares .", "Did he give any reason for preventing the combat ?", "Depend upon it , it is not a temple at all . What Hermes was present at was unquestionably some gathering of local politicians . Poor these barbarians may be , but they could not excuse by poverty such a neglect of the decencies as he describes . No flowers , no bright robes , no music of stringed instruments , no sacrifice \u2014 it is quite impossible that the meanest of sentient beings should worship in such a manner . And as for the picture which you saw behind what you took to be the altar , I question not that it is used to keep in memory some ancestor who suffered from the tyranny of his masters . In the belief that he was assisting at a process of rustic worship , our poor Hermes has doubtless attended a revolutionary meeting .", "Alas ! we loved so briefly and with so facile a susceptibility , that", "Are there not deer in these woods , and perhaps wolves and boars ? There must be wild duck on the firth , and buzzards in the rocks . Instead of challenging the barbarians to a foolish trial of strength , why not make them your companions , and learn their accomplishments ?", "Do not speak of it ! I could never have believed that the semblance of the military could be made so excessively distasteful to me .", "These leaves had their moment of vitality , when the sap rushed through their veins , when their tissue was like a ripple of sparkling emerald on the face of the smiling sky . But they could not preserve their glow , and they are the more hopelessly dead now , because they burned in their green fire so fiercely ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["The cruelty of your sea ; it shook and sickened her .", "I propose to stay here for a little while . Are you moving on ?", "No , no ; pray continue ! I am excessively interested . You throw a light on something that has always puzzled me , something that \u2014\u2014", "Whose eyes , father and king ?", "Oh ! far from it . The sentiment of recognition was wholly genuine and almost rapturously pleasurable . It is true that in the confusion of our flight I had not been able to give a thought to our friend , who was , unless I am much mistaken , absent from her palace . Nor will I be so absurd as to pretend that I have , for a long while past , felt at all keenly the desire for her company . She has very little conversation . There are certain peculiarities of manner , which \u2014\u2014", "What a cataract of animal spirits ! I am afraid , Heph\u00e6stus , that you do not escape , even here , from the echoes of the laughter of heaven .", "I have been congratulating our friends on their surpassing cheerfulness . Even Zeus is displaying a marvellous longanimity in his adverse state , and Pallas is positively frivolous . We must have disembarked , however , upon the island of Paradox , for everything goes by contraries ; here I find you , Heracles , commonly so serene and uplifted , sunken in the pit of depression . You should squeeze the breath out of your melancholy , as you did out of Hera 's snakes so long ago .", "I see nothing in it now . I am disappointed .", "Death ? Ah ! no ; you have roses in your cheeks , mother . Your lips are like blood .", "This little milk-white flower , with the drop of wine in it .... It is like the grass that grows on the slopes of Parnassus . It is the only home-like thing here . Can that be grey wool that hangs in the sky , and droops like a curtain over the opposite hills ? How cold the air is ! Ah ! it is raining over in the other island , and the brown fields grow like the yellow fields , melt into a mere white mist behind the slate-coloured sea . Here is one of the barbarians .", "Your dejection passes beyond all bounds . You cannot have been shown the singularly cheerful little jewel which Pallas has brought with her ? It raises every one 's spirits .", "To see it is not , and yet to make it be , perhaps this may be a joy in store for us . For Heph\u00e6stus , certainly ; for you , if you are wise ; but for me , ah ! what will there be ? My arrows break against old hearts , and now we all are old .", "Yet this is like Cythera \u2014 a little like it .It is not the least like it . These round billowy woods , that grey strip of sea far below , the long smooth land with square yellow fields and pointed brown fields , and the wild grey sky above . No ; it would be impossible for anything to be less like Cythera .", "I cannot think so , mother . That refinement of memory of which Phoebus was speaking will seem the most ridiculous of illusions there .", "I hesitate to disturb your illusion , Hera . But you are singularly mistaken . I have a far greater interest in this messenger than you can have ; and if you dream its presence to be a tribute to your pride , I am much more tenderly certain that it is a reproach to my affections . See , those needlessly gaudy wings ,\u2014 a mere disguise to bring it through the multitude of its enemies \u2014 are closed now , and it resumes its pendulous attitude , as a\u00ebrial as an evening cloud , as graceful as sorrow itself , sable as the shadow of a leaf in the moonlight .", "Are you proceeding to set our Father Zeus on fire , or do you intend to repeat on our unwilling Heracles the rites of canonisation ? Have a care with those absurd flambeaux ; you will put all the underwood aflame . What are you doing with torches ?", "How cold it is . But I am not disconsolate . Nor should you be , Poseidon , for you will have the sea to occupy your thoughts . Heph\u00e6stus will help you to break it in . He at least should be consoled , for in our fallen estate his magical ingenuity will employ his brain .", "Poor oracle , it became mad before it became dumb .", "Well ... I am not sure that .... Perhaps I ought to leave him to explain it .", "Would you have me shriek and moan ? Would you have me throw myself in convulsive ecstasy upon that ambiguous insect ? You are not the first , Hera , who has gravely misunderstood my character . I am not , I have never been , a victim of the impulsive passions . The only serious misunderstandings which I have ever had with my illustrious mother have resulted from her lack of comprehension of this fact . She is impulsive , if you will ! Her existence has been a succession of centrifugal adventures , in which her sole idea has been to hurl herself outward from the solitude of her individuality . I , on the other hand , leave very rarely , and with peculiar reluctance , the rock-crystal tower from which I watch the world , myself unavoidable and unattainable . My arrows penetrate every disguise , every species of physical and spiritual armour , but they are not turned against my own heart . I have always been graceful and inconspicuous in my attitudes . The image of Eros , with contorted shoulders and projected elbows , aiming a shaft at himself , is one which the Muse of Sculpture would shudder to contemplate .", "I know not why ; and for my part am perfectly willing to recognise its spots and moons to your satisfaction , if you will permit me to recognise my own favourite in the garb of grief .", "I do not attempt to do so , but I feel a similar and equally surprising serenity . Heracles is insensible to it , it seems , and he gives me a sort of reason ."], "true_target": ["You are a strange mixture , Heracles ; strangely contradictory . You never quailed before any scaly horror , you never spared a truculent robber or a noisome beast , nor avoided a laborious act \u2014\u2014", "As wholly exceptional . And could I be expected to prolong an ardour so foreign to my nature ? The victim of passion cannot be a contemplator at the same moment , and I may frankly admit to you , Hera , that during the period of my infatuation for Psyche , there were complaints from every province of the universe . It was said that unless my attention could be in a measure diverted from that admirable girl , there would be something like a stagnation of general vitality . Phoebus remarked one day , that if the ploughman became the plough the cessation of harvests would be inevitable .", "Pallas has something in a box \u2014\u2014", "Ah ! Pallas ! What , you have brought that ivory box with you ? Why did you burden your hands with that ?", "You only , I remember , ever heeded the foolish screaming oracle that moaned for mortals . You always had something of the mortal temperament , Pallas . It jarred upon my mother that you seem to shudder even at the voluptuous turmoil of the senses . She said you always looked old . You look younger now than she does , Pallas .", "\u201c Represent \u201d is an inadequate word . I know it to be , in some transubstantiation , the exact nature of which I shall have to investigate , my adored and injured Psyche . You never appreciated her , Hera .", "Alas ! we have no great need of jewels here . This shining beech-leaf is the treasure you should wear , Pallas . See , a little bough of it , bent just above the white enamel of your forehead . It will be as green as a beryl to-day , and red like copper to-morrow , and perhaps you will need no third adornment .", "Are they beech-woods ?", "O do not call it \u201c apparent . \u201d It was genuine and it was all-absorbing . But it was absolutely exceptional . Looking back , it seems to me that I must have been gazing at myself in a mirror , and have dismissed an arrow before I realised who was the quarry . It is not necessary to remind you of the circumstances \u2014\u2014", "I have preferred to forget it .", "Yes , but thenyour weakness in the matter of Omphale did seem , to those who knew you not , like want of self-respect . I have the reputation of shrinking , in the pursuit of pleasure , from no fantastic disguise , but I never sat spinning in the garments of a servant-maid . You must have looked a strange daughter of the plough , Heracles . I blush for you to think of it .", "Then must we stay for ever here , since this is an island .", "Our white ship still lies there , mother . Shall we start again ?", "Come , man , brighten up ! You look as sulky as you did when I broke your bow and arrows , and set Aphrodite laughing at you . But I have learned manners , and the goddesses only smile now . Cheer up ! How is your destiny a whit different from ours ?", "It is that crudity of yours , Hera , which has before now made your position in Olympus so untenable . You lack the art of elegant insinuation .", "You took that , no doubt , for an evidence of my intenser infatuation . An error ; it was a proof that the arguments of the family were beginning to produce their effect upon me . I perceived my responsibility , and I recognised that it was not the place of the immortal organiser of languishment to be sighing himself . To deify my lovely Psyche was to recognise her claim , and \u2014 and \u2014\u2014", "I followed the being which is hanging downwards from that spray of blossom . Does it recall some one to you ?", "It is Poseidon ! How old and bluff he looks !My mother is within .She was angry with you , Poseidon , but her anger is fallen .", "Psyche , also , was not unaccustomed to disguises .", "It would not be the first time that she has mistaken my philosophy for petulance .", "Yes , for I was there .", "Draw your lion 's skin about you less negligently , Heracles ; I hear visitants approaching . You are not in the woodways of OEta .", "You must permit me to protest against any comparison between Psyche and your worthy bird . But I was going to say that the moment I saw the brilliant little discrepancy which led us both to this spot \u2014 and to which I hesitate to give a more definite name \u2014 I was instantly and most pleasantly reminded of certain delightful episodes , of a really charming interlude , if I may so call it . I cannot be perfectly certain what connection our ebullient high-flyer has with the goddess whose adorer I was and whose friend I shall ever be . But the symbol \u2014 if it be no more than a symbol \u2014 has been sufficient to awaken in me all that was most enjoyable in our relations . I shall often wander in these woods , among the cloud-like masses of odorous blossom , in this windless harbour of sunlight and the murmur of leaves , in the hope of finding the little visitant here . She will never fail to remind me , but without disturbance , of all that was happiest in a series of relations which grew at last not so wholly felicitous as they once had been . One of the pleasures this condition of mortality offers us , I foresee , is the perpetual recollection of what was delightful in the one serious liaison of my life , and of nothing else ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["We have never needed to be ingenious . It has been enough for us to command , to wield the elements like weapons , to say it shall be and to see it is .", "I went down to the shore very early indeed this morning , before there was an atom of mist in the air . I called upon the glassy , oily sea , and I could not but fancy that , although there was little motion in the wave , it did roll faintly to my foot , and fawn at me in its reply . To me also , father , it seemed as though my element was burdened with a secret which it knew not how to convey to me .", "Adversity brings us all together . It was once I who burned with anger against her . Why was she angry ?"], "true_target": ["See ! Three huge white ships are coming out of the east , and the waves glide away at their wake in widening glassy hues . How they speed ! How they speed , without oar or sail !", "It is some dark bird of the north ; it seeks a prey in the woodlands .", "It once was her sea , too . Now it is not even mine .... Rebellion everywhere , everywhere the servant risen against the master , everywhere our spells and portents broken . I rule the sea still , but it is as a man holds in a wild horse with a hard rein : it obeys with hatred , it would obey not one moment after the master 's hand was withdrawn .", "Ah , you here alone , Eros ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Crumble , and we shall gladden in the toil", "Although it never leads to habitation \u2014", "And yet a sense of limpid happiness", "To that satiety of mental ease", "Nay , here the joy will be to learn and learn ,", "And lacquers all the glassy sky with gold .", "Me , \u00c6sculapius , it has neither alarmed nor startled .", "To learn in error and correct in pain ,", "But ah ! when we have tasted the delight", "And hides , or feigns to hide , the choiring stars ,", "Irksome or squalid , chains that bind us down ,", "But you have never done this . We knew that you could do it , and that has been enough for us .", "I walk once more upon the roof of Heaven ,", "Building our goal , though never a fabric rise .", "The long transparent bar that floats above ,", "Quicken my being . It is much to see", "It is of no moment . It would be an inconspicuous ornament in that blaze of the heart 's beauty to which the white ships are about to carry us .", "Father , we have not left you . We are about you here . One by one the alleys of the beech-wood will open , and one after one we shall all gather here , all your children , all the Olympians .", "And buoyancy and anxious fond desire", "For sovereign thought , all intellectual joy ,", "The anvil of the brain \u2014 I rather choose", "Euterpe will learn to be gratified , \u00c6sculapius , but she had not reflected upon the plunge . If she will take my counsel , she will continue to avoid doing so .I am with you in recommending to her a constant consideration of the momentary episodes of health . And now let us detain you no longer from the marchanteas .", "And in that heart that almost fails to beat ,", "And in that pure concinnity of soul ,", "It would interest me to know whether in our old home you were conscious of this incongruity , of this lack of harmony between your science and your occasions of using it .", "Higher than this dull circle of the sense \u2014", "I think I should give it another name .", "Long schemed , and falling from us , and at the last", "We shall build , although the house before our eyes", "I have left Pandora 's jewel behind me . I must fetch it .", "Building of rough and slippery stones a House ,", "Imperfect . Knowledge not the aim , so much"], "true_target": ["Ah ! wonder of wonders ! These have joined one another , see , and now they shoot forward together in a vibrating ribband of delicious lustre , and now it is arched to our shore , and descends at the lowest of these our woodland stairs .", "I have brought with me the box which Epimetheus made for Pandora .", "With ceaseless fairy blows that ring and wake", "As pleasure in the toil that leads to knowledge ,", "For so the strain that makes this mortal life", "We are fallen , fallen !...", "A map from further detail long absolved .", "Spread out before the gorged intelligence ,", "And feel all knowledge , all capacity", "I was the only one of us all , Eros , who anticipated this change . High up above the glaciers of Olympus , where the warm crystal shone like ice , and the faint cumuli rained jasmine on us , and the blue light was like the cold acid of a fruit , in the midst of our incomparable felicity I pondered on the vicissitude of things .", "I should like to know what you consider them to be . Do you hold introspection as one of them ?", "V", "Where all is known because it merely is ?", "The perfected geography of thought", "To lift mine eyes and pierce", "I snatched it from the burning palace . There is something strange at the bottom of it \u2014 something like an opal , with a violet flame in it .", "There is something in the carven box which the shrieking oracle commended to me . \u201c Take this , \u201d it said , \u201c take this , and it will turn the blackness of exile into living light . \u201d", "We must not detain you , \u00c6sculapius . But tell us how you propose to adapt yourself to our new life . It seems to me that you are determined not to find it irksome .", "Shrewd though its pulsing sharp reminders be ,", "I read a faint beatitude , and dream", "You look enviably animated , \u00c6sculapius . Your countenance is so fresh beneath that long white beard of yours , that the barbarians will suppose you to be some mad boy , masquerading .", "I am neither old nor young . I know not what I am . But this grey colour and those blowing woods are not unpleasing to me . I can be myself , even here , on a beech-wood peak in the cold sea .EROS , POSEIDON , and PALLAS . Hail ! father and king !", "Is it not much to know ?", "And yet a nameless mirth , flooding my veins ,", "To learn through effort and with ease forget ,", "I conceive memory as a pure , unbiased emotion , an image of past life cast upon an unflawed mirror . Why do you say \u201c chastened \u201d ?", "Of toilsome apprehension , how return", "And dulls , or faintly dulls , the fiery sun ,", "Is life , then , to resolve itself for us into a chain of exhilarating pangs ?", "Rust on those chains which soils the reddening skin ,", "Blow on me , like fluttering and like dancing winds .", "Passes ; and in that concentrated calm ,", "I quite see that it has made your position a more academic one than you could wish ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["I know not .", "No , certainly not . Which is he ?What an odd-looking person ! Yes , he may give me a specimen of his art \u2014 a short one .Wild swans winging Through the blue , Spiders springing To a clue , Till the sparkling drops renew All that ever Youth 's endeavour Had determined to undo . White and blue are hoards of treasure , For the panting hands of pleasure To go dropping , dropping , dropping , Without measure Through and through .", "I do not follow you . Her rainbow \u2014\u2014", "I do not \u2014 nothing but the bewildering woolly whiteness , that chills my eyeballs ....Ah ! yes ... it is the sea ! Is Poseidon here ?", "I think it is a vulture . My eagle fled from me when the rebel whistled to it . It perched beside him , and smoothed its crest against his elbow . All have left me , even my eagle .", "The attitude of my family , in these ambiguous circumstances , is everything that could be desired . My original feeling of irritability has passed away . I should have supposed it to be what Pallas calls \u201c fatigue , \u201d a confusion or discord of the nerve-centres , which she tells me is incident to mortality . What Pallas can possibly know about it is more than I can guess , especially , as there were not infrequent occasions on Olympus itself on which my Supreme Godhead was disturbed by flashes of what I should be forced to describe as exasperation , states of mind in which I formed \u2014 and indeed executed \u2014 the sudden project of breaking something . These were , I believe , simply the result of an excessive sense of responsibility . I am not one of those who conceive that the duty of deity is to sit passive beside the cup of nectar . Here on this island , in the permanent absence of that refreshment , I reflectthat I was perhaps only too anxious to preserve the harmony of heaven . My sense of decorum \u2014 may it not have been excessive ? From below , as I imagine , from the stations occupied \u2014 I will not say by the inanimate or half-animate creation , such as insects , or men , or minerals \u2014 but by the demi-gods , I take it that the dignity and orbic beauty of our court appeared sublimely immaculate . In the inner circle , alas ! no one knows better than I do that there were \u2014 well , dissensions . I will go further , in candour to myself , and admit that these occasionally led to excesses . I cannot charge my recollection with my having done anything to excuse or encourage these . The personal conduct of the Sovereign was always , I cannot but believe , above reproach . But the eccentricities \u2014 if I may style them so \u2014 of certain of my children were sometimes regrettable . I wonder that they did not age me ; they would do so immediately in my present condition . But in this island , where we are to swarm like animalcules in a drop of water , I shall be relieved of all responsibility . Where there is no one to notice that errors are committed , no errors are committed . As the person of most experience in the whole world , I do not mind stating my ripe opinion that a fault which has no effect upon political conditions is in no sensible degree a fault at all . Pallas would contend the point , I suppose , but I am at ease . I shall not allow the conduct of my children , except as it shall regard myself , to affect my good-humour in the slightest degree .", "No ! Place my throne here , out of the wind , in the sun , which seems to have very little fire left in it , but some pleasant light still . The sea down there is bright again to-day ; the carrying of our unfortunate person upon its surface was probably the source of immense alarm to it . It quaked and blackened continuously . Now we are removed , it regains something of its normal quiescence . I trust that the land hereabouts is dowered with a less painful susceptibility .", "Phoebus .", "But where is Olympus ? I hardly know you .Are you my children ? Yougaze at me with eyes like those I hated most .", "It was hardly an incident .... I merely happened , while you were reciting your song , to remember an occasion on which \u2014 on which Iris , at the rampart of our golden wall , bending back , was caught by the wind , and \u2014 and the contours were delicious .", "I can push on no farther . Why have I brought you here ?Nay , it is you who have brought me here .I have a demon in my legs , that swells them , breaks them , crushes me down .You are careless ; stiffen your shoulder , it slopes like a woman 's . I have lost my thunderbolt , I have lost everything . Shall I be bound upon this muddy , slippery rock ? What is that horror in the sky ?", "You have no forces to collect , my sons . We cannot take toll of the blood of the barbarians . We cannot resist , we can but submit and withdraw .... The ships fleet closer . They are like monstrous fishes of living silver . I confess this is not what I anticipated . This is not what my faint dream seemed to indicate . What inspires the implacable destroyer to pursue us , and with this imposing and miraculous navy , to the shore of that harmless exile in which we were endeavouring to forget his existence , I know not . But let us at least preserve that dignity which has survived our deity . Whatever may be now in store for us \u2014 if the worst of all things be now hurrying to complete our annihilation \u2014 let us meet it with simplicity . Let us meet it with an even mind .", "But you did not say anything about a rainbow , nor describe one , nor ever mention the elements of such a bow .", "A little event ?\u2014\u2014", "A vast rainbow from the three white vessels to this island !... And behold , a figure steps from it . She is robed to the feet in palest watchet blue , and her face is like a rosy star , and she waves her violet wings in the incommunicable speed of her ascent . My children , it is Iris , our lost daughter , our ineffable messenger . Let us await in silence the tidings which she brings .", "There is nothing in any box , there is nothing in any island , there is nothing in all the empty caskets of this world which can give me any happiness . Is it in this shanty that we must live ? Lead me on , Ganymede , lead me on into it , that I may sink down and sleep . Walk slowly and walk steadily , wretched boy .", "What does it ... exactly mean ? I think it quite pretty , you understand ."], "true_target": ["I will not say . Are you surethat is not a vulture ? I am torn , see , here under my beard , by a thorn . I can feel pain at last , I , who could only inflict it .", "Oh , not now ! Some other time !", "Well , I do n't know that I could precisely parse it . But it is very pretty . Yes , I think I gain a certain impression from it .", "Again I am not sure that I quite follow you .", "My children , since we came here I have not been visited until to-night by even a shadow of those forebodings which , in the form of divine prescience , illuminated my plans and your fortunes in Olympus .But a dream came close to my pillow last night and whispered to me strange , disquieting words .... I have no longer the art of clairvoyance , but I find I am not wholly dark . Still can I faintly divine the forms of the future , as we may all divine the roll of the woods before us , and the cleft which leads down to the shore , although this impalpable vapour shrouds our world .... And , from the dream , or from my faint perceptions , I am made aware that another mighty change is approaching us .", "I can follow that \u2014 but it rather reminds me of the Old Poetry .", "I have always believed that if I had enjoyed leisure from public life , I should have excelled in my judgment of the fine arts .You are a gifted young man . Be sure that you employ your talents with discretion . Such an intellect as yours carries responsibility with it . I shall be quite pleased to permit you to recite \u201c The Rainbow \u201d to me again .", "We shall see ; and I shall have so much time now , that I may even \u2014 what I am sure ought to gratify you , Phoebus ,\u2014 be able to give my attention to the fine arts . A fallen monarch can always defy adversity by forming a collection of curiosities .", "I meant that the sun shows a tendency to return to its forgotten orbit . It is quite warm here out of the wind .But as to myself , I admit a great recovery in my spirits . I have given up fretting for Iris , who was certainly lost on our way here , and Pallas has been showing me a curious little jewel she brought with her , which has created in me a kind of wistful cheeriness . I do not remember to have experienced anything of the kind before .", "The whole bay heaves in one vast wave of unbroken pearl .... And in the east something flashes ... something moves ... approaches .", "Very pretty , I must say . Would you repeat it again ?", "I know but what I tell you ... that I foresee a change .How breathless is the air . Not the outline of a leaf is shaken against the sky .", "I am conscious of the agreeable recollection of an incident \u2014\u2014", "Your planet seems to have recovered something of its tone ,", "When we fled hither from the consuming malignity of the traitor , it was communicated to me that this island on the very uttermost border of the world was left us as a home from which we should never be dislodged . Here we were to dwell in peace , and here ... to grow old , and ... die . Here , in the meantime , new interests , humble wishes , cheerful curiosities have already twined about us , and we have gazed upon Pandora 's jewel , and are no more the same .", "Be not afraid , Rhea and Kronos . But we must not abandon you . For the old sakes \u2019 sake we will hold together to the end .", "Lead the way , Iris . This is no longer a place for us . Lead on and we will follow . Lead on , that we may resume our immortality .", "Ah , no doubt , no doubt . And a kind of nostalgia , or harking-back to happier days , a sense of their rapid passage , and their irrecoverability . Is that right ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Nothing very ugly , I hope ?", "Are you sure that it is a temple at all ?", "Yes , he thought that our miseries were all the fault of Poseidon and \u00c6olus . But mortality will make a great change in Zeus ; I think perhaps a greater change than in any of us . He has eaten a very substantial breakfast . \u00c6sculapius says that as Zeus has hitherto considered the quality of his food so much , it is probable that in these lower conditions it may prove to be quantity which will interest him most . He was greatly pleased with a curious kind of aromatic tube which Hermes invented for him this morning .", "Oh ! Kronos , he does not drive you away ! It is not he . It is our new enemies , not of our own race , that have driven us . And we are all here \u2014 Pallas , Ares , Phoebus \u2014 we are all here . You like Hermes , do you not , Kronos ? Well , Hermes is here , and he will amuse you .", "You never can be a mortal like the barbarians , for you have been a force ruling the sea , and the flowers , and the winds , and twisting the blood of man and woman in your fingers like a living skein of soft red silk . They will always worship you . It may not be in temples any longer , not with a studied liturgy , but wherever the sap rises in a flower , or the joy of life swims up in the morning through the broken film of dreams , or a young man perceives for the first time that the girl he meets is comely , you will be worshipped , Aphrodite , for the essence of your immortality is the cumulative glow of its recurrent mortality .", "Dreadful ! But may its conflicts long keep outside the arcades of this delightful woodland !", "Do n't you think that it would be delightful to introduce here a purer form of liturgy ? It is very sad to see your spirit so little understood .", "What did he say ? Did he explain the religion of his people ?", "How were they different ? Do tell me what happened . I have always longed to know , but it was not considered quite nice , quite respectful to Zeus , for us to ask questions about the Golden Age . But now it cannot matter ; can it , Rhea ?", "Or shall I not rather go to prepare the mind of Demeter for an agreeable surprise ? Shall you be happy by yourselves , Kronos and Rhea ?", "And when I found Persephone she was lying , flung out among the flowers , with bees and butterflies leaping round her in the sunshine , and the beech-leaves singing their faint song of peace . It was beautiful , it was like Enna \u2014 with , ah ! such a difference .", "I am very much disappointed .", "But what is the nature of the sculpture ?", "I think we are all here , or nearly all . I have not seen Iris , but surely all the rest are here .", "After these couples , came , in a very slow but formless moving group , figures of a sombre and spectral kind , draped , both males and females , in dull black , with little ornaments of gold in their hands . It was with the utmost amazement that , on their coming closer , I recognised some of the faces as those of the ruddy , gentle barbarians to whom we owe our existence here . You cannot think how painful it was to see them thus travestied . In their well-fitting daily dress they look very attractive in a rustic mode ; there is one large one that labours in the barn , who reminds me , when his sleeves are turned up , of Ulysses . But , oh ! Aphrodite , you must contrive to let them know that you pardon their shortcomings , and relieve them from the horrors of this remorseful costume . I know not which is more depressing to the heart , the blue of the young or the black of the aged .", "I will find her in a moment .", "Oh ! but to believe is such a salutary discipline to the lower classes . That is the whole principle of religion , surely , Aphrodite ? It is not for people like ourselves . You know how indolent Dionysus is , but he always attended the temple when he was hunting upon Nysa ."], "true_target": ["No ; he puts fire to one end of it , and draws in the vapour . He is delighted . How clever Hermes is , is he not , Rhea ? What shall you do here ?", "These new arrangements \u2014 I was afraid they might disturb you .", "Certainly ... oh ! yes , certainly . But ... I am sure it would be so good for them to have a ritual to follow . We should not absolutely assert to them that you still exist as an immortal , but I do not see why we should insist on tearing every illusion away from them . Suppose I could persuade them that you were no longer displeased with them , and that you were quite willing to let them wear pink and white robes again , and plenty of flowers in their hair ; and suppose I encouraged them to sacrifice turtle-doves on your altar , and arrange garlands of wild roses in the proper way , do n't you think you could bring yourself to make a concession ?", "With absolutely none . The maidens were dressed \u2014 but not all of them \u2014 in robes of that very distressing electric blue that bites into the eye , that blue which never was on sky or sea , and which was absolutely banished from every colour-combination in Olympus . It was employed in Hades as a form of punishment , if you recollect .", "Well , for instance , when they were all assembled in the temple , and had sung a hymn , and the priest had gone up to the altar , could you not suddenly make an appearance , voluminous and splendid , and smile upon them ? Could you not shower a few champak-blossoms over the congregation ?", "I have been anxious about you both . All the rest of us ought to be able to console ourselves , but I am afraid that you will find it very difficult to live in the new way .", "What is that curious distant sound ? Is it a bird ?", "They were wound together by the arm of the boy coiled about the waist of the girl , or resting upon it , a symbol , no doubt , of your cestus .", "Oh no ! Zeus has led us hither . It was he who was attacked , it was against him that the rage of the enemy was directed .", "There ! We are all comfortable now . How did Kronos sleep , Rhea ?", "What did you do , you poor dears ?", "They are arranged in order , and they bend upwards and now outwards .", "I think it must be to you , Aphrodite , for now it is explained that on coming hither I met a throng of men and maidens , sauntering slowly along in twos , exactly as they used to do at Paphos .", "Ah ! you followed the youths and maidens to the little temple of our friend . Is it not beautiful ?", "Were we really happy among these trees ? I can scarcely credit it , they seem so common and so frail .", "She has always been so closely wedded to the study of agriculture , and now ....", "To whom can this temple be possibly dedicated ?", "Oh , see ! what are those filaments of blue and violet and grassy green which flutter in the cordage of the three ships ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Hermes ? Is he prepared to forget his thunderbolt ?", "Quite happy , for we desire to sleep .", "And he walked forward as if he did not see us ....", "The fact is that when I look back , I cannot see very plainly any longer . Do you know , Circe , that after the younger Gods invaded Heaven , although Zeus was very good-natured to us , and let us go on as deities , something of our god-head passed away ?", "He has not complained this morning .Did you sleep , Kronos ?", "Oh ! it is not true . Kronos \u2019 mind now wanders so strangely . He thinks that it is Zeus who has turned him out of Olympus .", "We are tired , Circe . And what does the new life matter to us now ? The old life had run low , and we had long been prepared for mortality by the poverty of our immortality .", "I must look after Kronos , of course . But he gives me no trouble . And I do not need to do much more . I am very tired , Circe . I was tired in my immortality . When Kronos and I were young , things were so very different in Olympus .", "We hear that you have already invented a means of amusing Zeus ,"], "true_target": ["We did nothing .", "Yes ; do not drag us farther in the wearisome train of your misfortunes .", "He notices very little . I do not think he recollects that there has been any change . Already he forgets Olympus .It is very thoughtful of you , Circe , to take so much trouble about us .", "Is Zeus very much disturbed ? On the ship I heard \u00c6olus say that it was impossible to go near him , he was so unreasonably angry .", "Kronos will soon have forgotten that there was an old way ; and as for me , Circe , I have seen so much and wandered in so many places , that one is as another to me .", "Yes ; and we went half-way down the steps of the throne together ....", "I shall watch him , all day long . For I , too , am weary . Do not propose to me , with your restless energy , any fresh interests . Let me sit , with my cold hands folded in my lap , and look at Kronos , nodding , nodding . It is very kind of Circe , but we are too old for love ; and of you , but we are too old for amusement . Let us rest , Hermes , rest and sleep ; perhaps dream a little , dream of the far-away past .", "Does Zeus blow down it ?", "He does not understand , Circe . It is very sweet of you to be so kind to us , but you must go back now to your young companions . Who is here ?", "Oh ! no , no ! He swept straight on , and did not so much as seem to see us , and in a moment he was up in the throne , and all the gods , the new and the old , were bowing to him with acclamation ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["I thought that Zeus had forgiven us . But never mind , never mind !", "No rest , no sleep for us . Leave us here behind you , Zeus . We never have any rest .", "And then we came down , and I", "Zeus gave me an orb and sceptre to console me . I used to play cup and ball with them behind his throne .", "And we bowed to Zeus ....", "Is it Zeus who has driven us forth ?"], "true_target": ["He let me stay where I was . We were not driven forth before , Rhea , were we ? When I saw that it was hopeless , I did not struggle ; I rose and took you by the hand ....", "I cannot quite remember . Did he strike us , Rhea ?", "I said to him , \u201c If I am unwelcome , I can go . \u201d And he answered , \u201c Pray do n't discommode yourself . \u201d Just like that ; very politely , \u201c Do n't discommode yourself . \u201d And now he drives us away after all .", "Yes , oh yes ! I always sleep . Why should I not sleep ?", "Zeus let us stay then . Why has he driven us out now ?", "More journeys , more weary , weary journeys ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["My name for it would be the indulgence of personal vanity .", "Precisely . And it has occurred to me that the way to rouse her will be to send Persephone to her in a little country cart I have discovered . I have two mouse-coloured ponies already caught and harnessed \u2014 such little beauties . The only thing left to do is to search for Persephone .", "Yes ; very ugly , and still more incomprehensible . But nothing that could spring out of any misconception of the ritual of our friend . No ; I hardly like to tell you . Well , a gaunt painted figure , with spines about the bleeding forehead \u2014\u2014", "I cannot stay . I am trying to rouse Demeter from her dreadful state of depression . She sits in the palace heaving deep sighs , and doing absolutely nothing else . It will affect her heart , \u00c6sculapius say .", "And still we know not to which of us the mild barbarians pray !", "I could see no sculpture , except a sort of black tablet , with names upon it , and at the sides two of the youthful attendants of Eros \u2014 those that have wings , indeed , but cannot rest . These were exceedingly ill-carven in a kind of limestone . And I hardly like to tell you what I found behind the altar \u2014\u2014", "I hope it may be successful .", "I absolutely failed to determine . Well , the priest \u2014 if I can so describe a man without apparent dedication , robed without charm , and exalted by no visible act of sacrifice \u2014 ascended a species of open box , and spoke to the audience from the upturned lid of it .", "I believe that it is .", "I confess that I was for a long time uncertain , but on the whole", "I have found at the back of the palace a small rural waggon , and I have caught two ponies , with coats like grey velvet , and great antelopes \u2019 eyes \u2014 dear little creatures . I have harnessed them , and now I want you to sit in this cart , while I am dressed like some herdsman of these barbarians , and lead the ponies , and we will go together to coax Demeter out into the fields ."], "true_target": ["That is the disappointment .... It is best to tell you at once that I see no evidence whatever that it is .", "No . I did not observe it very closely . As I was glancing at it , the celebration or ritual , or whatever we are to call it , began , and I withdrew to the door , not knowing what frenzy might seize upon the worshippers .", "I admit that I thought , with this picture , and with their sinister garments of black and of blue , and with the bareness and harshness of the temple , that something might be combined which it would give me no satisfaction to witness . I placed myself near the door , where , in a moment , I could have regained the exquisite forest , and the odour of this carpet of woodruff , and your enchanting society . But nothing occurred to disconcert me . After genuflexions and liftings of the voice \u2014\u2014", "Let me confess that I took it from you . One of the barbarians was weeping , and I wished , I cannot tell why , to see her smile . I gave your jewel to her .", "He has mentioned it only twice this morning , and I have set Heph\u00e6stus to work to make him another , of yew-tree wood . It will be less incommodious , more fitted to this place , and in a very short time Zeus will forget the original .", "Come , then , Pallas , and let us linger here no more .", "To tell you the truth , Circe , although I listened with what attention I could , and although the actual language was perfectly clear to me \u2014 you know I am rather an accomplished linguist \u2014 I formed no idea of what he said . I could not find the starting-point of his experience .", "It is not decorated at all : whitewashed walls , wooden benches , naked floors .", "There was a touch of desolate majesty about this figure . I fear that it portrays some blighting Power of suffering or of grief .", "You will be disappointed \u2014\u2014", "Do not distress him , Rhea , by contradiction and explanation . I will find modes of amusing him a little every day , and , for the rest , let him doze in the sunshine . His mind is worn so smooth that it fails any longer to catch in ideas as they flit against it . They pass off , glide away . It is useless , Rhea , to torment Kronos .", "It is hideous ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Tell me what it is .", "Oh ! Hermes , how splendid of you . Let us fly to carry out your plan . Circe , will you not come with us ?", "It is very absurd of me , but really I do not seem to recollect anything about them .", "Ah ! sage master of simples , this is a problem beyond thy solution , a case beyond thy cure . \u00c6SCULAPIUSYou think that Cydippe is dead ?", "My mother requires so much activity of mind and body . You must not believe that I was neglecting her . But I went forth in despair this morning to see what I could invent , adapt , discover , as a means of rousing her . I am stupid , I could think of nothing . I wandered through the woods , down the glen , along the sea-shore , up the side of the tarn and of the marsh , but I could think of nothing .", "It can receive no more such messages .", "Well , we had our own interests . I believe I did my duty . It seemed to me that I must be there if Pluto wished it , and I was pleased to be with him . But \u2014 if you can understand me \u2014 there was a sort of a dimness over everything , and I never entered into the political life of the place . As to the social life , you can imagine that they were not people that one cared to know . At the same time , of course , I feel now how ridiculous it was of me to hold that position and not take more interest .", "One would say your joy had disappointed you .", "One of our priests in Hades , I do remember , sang that silence was a voice , and declared that even in the deserts of immensity the soul was stunned and deafened by the chorus and anti-chorus of nature .", "For the dead walk here in the grass at night . ]"], "true_target": ["And yet she was quite nice to my husband when once Zeus had decided that I had better go .", "And to have the opening door shut in our faces ? Perhaps ... next time ... they may not be able to find \u00c6sculapius .", "What has happened ? Cydippe is livid , her limbs are stark , her eyes are wide open , and motionless , and unnaturally brilliant .", "Well , I spent six months there every year , to please my husband . But a great deal of my time was taken up in corresponding with my mother . She was always nervous if she did not hear regularly from me . I really feel quite ashamed of my inattention .", "I recollect that they seemed dreadfully wanting in vitality . They came in troops when I held a reception ; they swept by .... I cannot remember what they were like \u2014\u2014", "Oh , no ! that was just it . She always said : \u201c Pray do n't let me hear the least thing about the horrid place . \u201d You remember that she very strongly disapproved of my going there at all \u2014\u2014", "What are those pure white needles you drop into the water ? How quickly they dissolve . Ah ! he lays the mixture to Cydippe 's wound . She sighs ; her eyelids close ; her heart is beating . What is this magic , \u00c6sculapius ?", "I can fancy that such conjectures as these may prove to be one of the chief sources of satisfaction in this new mortality of ours : the variegated play of light and shadow thrown upon it . Well , the less we know and see , the more exciting it ought to be to guess and to peer .", "Circe does not tell you that I was so foolish as to be in tears . But now it seems that you have invented an occupation for Ceres ? You are so divinely ingenious .", "Are we to be driven hence still farther towards the confines of immensity , father ?", "Hark ! the song begins again ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Ignorance is doubtless another of these consolations \u2014 ignorance chemically modified by a few drops of the desire for knowledge ....And all the chastened forms of recollection , how delightful they are , and how they add to our satisfaction here !", "A vision purified in woe .", "Sister , behold the throne that once was thine .", "Fling back thy veil , and staunch thy tears , and gaze .", "Of thy imperial maidenhood are foul", "Thy withering face away , and press thine eyes", "In coy virginity of pulse , thy hands", "Fraternal , with no thoughts but humorous ones ;", "But the mist grows thinner , and high up in it I see a faint blueness .", "Speak on , my good Pan .", "Yes ; to cultivate illusion , to live in the past , to resuscitate experience , may be the amusements of mortality , but they mean nothing now to us . When Selene re-enters her orb , she will not disquiet herself about the disorders of its interregnum .", "With tear-fed eyes visit thine ancient realm ,", "Thy whilom sphere and palace ? Nun of the skies ,", "What an amiable vivacity ! Yes ; the lower order of divinities will be happy , for they will forget . We , on the contrary , have the privilege of remembering . It is only the mediocre spirits , that cannot quite forget nor clearly remember , which will have neither the support of instinct nor the solace of a vivid recollection .", "With sulphur and the craterous ash of hell .", "Since that loose globe of orange pallor totters ,", "Thou and thy moon were one . What is it now ,", "O gaze not , sister , on the loathsome wreck", "At my advance thy crystal home would fade ,", "Ah ! but how changed , Selene ! If thy form", "If , father , you regard \u2014 as you have every right to do \u2014 your venerable person as the centre of my interests , I rejoice to allow that this seems to be the case .", "Recalls thee still to mind \u2014 dost thou regard ,", "Nay , then , turn once and see thy very moon .", "Philosophically .... Well , if you think of it sensibly , you will see that there was a certain dreariness in this uniformity of satisfaction . Rather amusing , surely , to find the cluster occasionally spring up out of reach , to find the polished waist of the reed slip from your hands ? Occasionally , of course ; just enough to give a zest to pursuit .", "I thought I was alone .", "Of wind-bewhitened foliage ? Still it floats ,", "That memory which is nothing but a plain reproduction on the mirror of the mind is a tame concern , Pallas . It transfers , without modification , all that is dull , and squalid , and unessential . The only memory which is worthy of those who have tasted immortality is that which has in some degree been fortified . To recollect with enjoyment is to select certain salient facts from an experience and to be oblivious of the rest ; or else it is to heighten the exciting elements of an event out of all proportion with historic fact ; or it even is to place what should be in the seat of what precisely was .... But this must be done firmly , logically , with no timidity in reminiscence , so that the mind shall rest in a perfectly artistic conviction that what it recollects is all the truth and nothing but the truth . This is chastened , or , if you prefer it , civilised memory . But Zeus is about to speak .", "A magian sweeps its filthy ash away .", "Racked with the fires of anarchy , and sheds", "Nay , did'st thou hear this twittering peal of song ?", "Repelled me when I sought to win thy lair ,", "Hides all save what is in this tarn reflected \u2014", "Let me urge you to do no such thing . The action of this little bird upon your unfortunate luminary is sympathetic , but surely very obscure . It would be a pity to inquire into it so closely as to comprehend it .", "A ghost , a shadow , a film , a papery dream ."], "true_target": ["And I was never a consistent collector . There are reeds everywhere , you fortunate goat-foot , but even in Olympus I was the creature of a fastidious selection .", "They will help , perhaps , to reconcile you to mortality . You can add them to your collection .", "Crouches among these harsher herbs , O turn", "Beat slow harmonious progress , light on light ,", "Cold , pallid , swimming in the lustrous pool ,", "You must study them , too , Pan . That will supply you with another object .", "Gaze then at me . What seest thou in mine eyes ?", "To darkness in the strings of dusty heather ,", "To comprehend it might even be to discover that it does not exist . Whereas to come here night after night , in the fragrant darkness , to see the unhallowed lump of fire creep out of the lake , to listen for the first clucks and shakes of the sweet little purifying song , and to watch the orb growing steadily more hyaline and lucent under its sway , how delicious ! The absolute harmony and concord of nature would be then patent and recurrent before us . My poor sister ! However , it is consoling to reflect that she is almost certain not to be able to find that bird .", "Of what was once thy moon . Yet , if thou must", "I declare I believe that you will adapt yourself as well as the rest of us to this anomalous existence .", "Not the Daulian nightingale , of course , but quite a personable substitute : less prolongation of the triumph , less insistence upon the agony . How curiously the note breaks off ! Some pleasant little northern bird , no doubt . I experience a strange and quite unprecedented appetite for moderation . The absence of the thrill , the shaft , the torrent is not disagreeable . The actual Phocian frenzy would be disturbing here , out of place , out of time . I must congratulate this little , doubtless brown , bird on a very considerable skill in warbling . But the moon \u2014 what is happening to it ? It is not merely climbing higher , but it is manifestly clarifying its light . When I came , it was copper-coloured , now it is honey-coloured , the horn of it is almost white like milk . This little bird 's incantation has , without question , produced this fortunate effect . This little bird , halfway on the road between the nightingale and the cicada , is doubtless an enchanter , and one whose art possesses a more than respectable property . My sister 's attention should be drawn to this highly interesting circumstance . Selene ! Selene !", "Thy phantom paradise of gorgeous pearl ,", "I will not disguise from you , Selene , my apprehension that the hideous colour may return . Your moon is divorced from yourself , and can but be desecrated and forlorn . But at least it should be a matter of interest to you \u2014 yes , even of gratification , my sister \u2014 that this little bird , if it be a bird , has an enchanting power of temporarily relieving it and raising it .I have observed that this species of mysterious agency has a very salutary effect upon the more melancholy of our female divinities . They are satisfied if they have the felicity of waiting for something which they cannot be certain of realising , and which they attribute to a cause impossible to investigate .Whither do you go , my sister ?", "Across our stainless canopy of heaven .", "It must now be part of your pleasure to husband your enjoyments . You have always rolled in the twinkle of the vine-leaves , hot enough and not too hot , with grapes \u2014 immense musky clusters \u2014 just within your reach . If you think of it philosophically \u2014\u2014", "If you make the gem of which Pallas is so proud the nucleus of your cabinet , I feel convinced that it will give you lasting satisfaction . And we are so poor now that it can never be complete , and therefore never become tiresome . But what was it that the oracle of Nemea amused and puzzled us by saying , \u201c To form a collection is well , yet to take a walk is better \u201d ? I will attend your Majesty to your apartments , and then wander in these extensive woods .X", "The wizard bird has sung the fumes away .", "They leap forward , though no wind is blowing .", "As when thy congregated harps and viols", "Stained by thy tears and hollowed by thy sighs ,", "With sibilant streams and palmy tier on tier", "Nay , but thou gazest not . Look up , look at me !", "A botanist ? Ah , scarcely ! A little arboriculture , the laurel ; a little horticulture , the sun-flower . Those varieties seem entirely absent here , and I have no thought of replacing them .", "The embers of thy glory ; and the cradles", "His familiarity was not distasteful to me . It reminded me of days out hunting , when I have come suddenly upon him at the edge of the watercourse , and have shared his melons and his conversation . I anticipate for him some not unagreeable experiences . The lower order of divinities will probably adapt themselves with ease to our new conditions . They despaired the most suddenly , with wringing of hands as we raced to the sea , with interminable babblings and low moans and screams , as they clustered on the deck of that extraordinary vessel . But the science of our new life must be to forget or to remember . We must live in the past or forego the past . For Pan and his likes I conceive that it will largely resolve itself into a question of temperature \u2014 of temperature and of appetite . That orb is of a sinister appearance , but to do it justice it looks heated . My sister had a passion for coldness ; she would never permit me to lend her any of my warmth . I cannot say that it is chilly here to-night . I am agreeably surprised .", "Bend down until the fringe of thy faint lids", "Am I to congratulate you on your distractions ?", "And in thy chill revulsion , through thy skies ,", "There only worthy of thy clear regard ,", "This is a ghastly night , Pan .", "I congratulate you , Pan , upon your temperament , and I recommend to you a further pursuit of the attainable .", "Selene ! sister !\u2014 since that tawny shell ,", "From some tumultuous covert of this woodland ,"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["The last thing I should dream of suggesting would be a hortus siccus ....", "And so did we , sire .", "But the marsh water has a property unknown to the Olympian springs . I suspect it of being poisoned . After standing long in it , I found myself troubled with aching in the shank , from knee to hoof . If this is repeated , my studies of reed-life will be made dolorously difficult .", "I have a natural inclination to marshy places .", "Ah ! there was pursuit in Ladon , but it was pursuit which always closed easily in capture . What I am afraid of is that here capture may prove the exception . Your Highness ... but a slight family connection and our adversities are making me strangely familiar ...."], "true_target": ["How , sire ?", "That , sire , is my hope . The stems are particularly full and smooth , and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage , remarkably agreeable to the touch . I broke one as your Highness approached . But the wind , or some goblin , bore it from me . This curious place seems full of earth-spirits .", "Your Highness was once something of a botanist ?", "The current of the thick and punctual blood never left me liable to the distractions of choice .", "I had not observed it , sire . Yes , doubtless a ghastly night . But I was occupied , and I am no naturalist . This glen curiously reminded me of rushy Ladon . I am a great student of reeds , and I was agreeably surprised to find some very striking specimens here \u2014 worthy of the Arcadian watercourses , as I am a deity . I should say , was a deity ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Empty it seems , and vain ; but foul no more .", "I am searching for this little bird . I propose to discuss with it the nature of its extraordinary , and I am ready to admit its gratifying , control over the moon . I think it possible that I may concoct with it some scheme for our return . You shall , in that case , Phoebus , be no longer excluded from my domain .", "Ah ! wonder ! the volcanic glare is gone .", "There is no magic in the bankrupt world ."], "true_target": ["And now , a rocking cinder , fouls the skies .", "Some noise I heard ; this glen is full of sounds .", "At thee , my brother , not at my darkened orb .", "Foul ruddy gleams from what was lately pure .", "But on thy sacred eyeballs fume turns fire ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["It was always rather a poor palm-tree . What Nike misses most are her wings . She was excessively dejected when we first arrived , but Pallas very kindly allowed her to take care of the jewel for half an hour . Nike \u2014 if still hardly recognisable \u2014 is no longer to be taken for Niobe .", "Does it not occur to you , Pallas , that \u2014 although I should never have had the courage to adopt it \u2014 thus forced upon us it offers me the most dazzling anticipations ? Hitherto my existence has been all theory . What there is to know about the principles of health as applied to the fluctuations of mortality , I may suppose is known to me . You might be troubled , Pallas , with every conceivable malady , from elephantiasis to earache , and I should be in a position to analyse and to deal with each in turn . You might be obscured by ophthalmia , crippled by gout or consumed to a spectre by phthisis , and I should be able , without haste , without anxiety , to unravel the coil , to reduce the nodosities , to make the fleshy instrument respond in melody to all your needs .", "You are sententious , Dionysus .", "Yes ; but it is more to do . The most perfect theory carries a monotony and an emptiness about with it , if it is never renovated by practice . In Olympus the unbroken health of all the inmates , which we have accepted as a matter of course , has been more advantageous to them than it has been to me .", "I mean that while we were beyond the dread of any attack , the pleasure of rebutting such attack was unknown to us . I have divined , since our misfortunes , that disease itself may bring an excitement with it not all unallied to pleasure .... You smile , Euterpe , but I mean even for the sufferer . There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment . There is the sense of alleviation , the cessation of the throb , the resuming glitter in the eye , the restoration of cheerfulness and appetite . These , Pallas , are qualities which are indissolubly identified with pain and decay , and which therefore \u2014 if we rightly consider \u2014 were wholly excluded from our experience . In Olympus we never brightened , for we never flagged ; we never waited for a pang to subside , nor felt it throbbing less and less poignantly , nor , as if we were watching an enemy from a distance , hugged ourselves in a breathless ecstasy as it faded altogether ; this exquisite experience was unknown to us , for we never endured the pang .", "It has never been enough for me . The impenetrable immortality of all our bodies has been a constant source of exasperation to me .", "Then prepare to behold what should seem a greater miracle to you than to me . But , first , Silvanus , bind a strip of clothing very tightly round the upper part of her arm , for no more than we can help of those treasonable messengers must fly posting from the wound to Cydippe 's heart .", "To tell you the plain truth , I am waiting for Nike . She has given me an appointment here .", "You speak of Cadmus and Harmonia ; but is not your case the opposite of theirs ? They were saved from defeat ; is it not your unspoken hope to be saved from victory , saved from what was your essential self ?", "I think you are mistaken . And now , Fauna , a few drops of water in this cup from the trickling spring yonder . That is well . Stand farther away from Cydippe , all of you .", "These are my simples . As we shot through the Iberian narrows on our frantic voyage hither , my entire store was blown out of my hands and away to sea . The rarest sorts were flung about on rocks where nothing more valetudinarian than a baboon could possibly taste them . My earliest care on arriving here was to search these woods for fresh specimens , and my success has been beyond all hope . See , this comes from the wet lands on the hither side of the tarn \u2014\u2014", "You are on the high road to happiness ; you see its towers over the dust , for you dare to know yourself .", "What song has the missel-thrush ?", "Is it not because a like strange metamorphosis has invaded your own nature that you have come to meet me here ?", "By no means . I should prefer your staying . Nike will prefer it , too . In the old days she always liked you to be her harbinger .", "To recognise the way is one thing , it is much ; but to recognise yourself is infinitely more , and includes the way ."], "true_target": ["May consist , really , of the effort , the desire , the act of gathering up the will to make the plunge . This will be victory now , it will be the drawing of the bow-string and not the mere cessation of the arrow-flight .", "Do not tell your husband , Persephone , or he will complain to Zeus that I am depriving him of his population . But if there is magic in this , there is no miracle .Take her softly into the house and lay her down . She will take a long sleep , and will wake at the end of it with no trace of the poison or recollection of her suffering .", "This from the beck where it rushes down between the stems of mountain-ash , this from beneath the vast ancestral elm below the palace , this from the sea-shore . Marvellous ! And I am eager to descend again ; I have not explored the cliff which breaks the descent of the torrent , nor the thicket in the gully . There must be marchantia under the spray of the one , and possibly dittany in the peat of the other .", "Where the marchantias grow ? Yes ?", "Yes ; you have that signal , that culminating courage .", "It has made it purely academic , and indeed , Pallas , if you will reflect upon it , the very existence of a physician in a social system which is eternally protected against every species of bodily disturbance borders upon the ridiculous .", "Ah ! how white they grow ! How the serpents drop out of their tresses .", "You have seen her , but you have not recognised her . She goes about in a perpetual incognito . Poor thing , in our flight from Olympus she lost all her attributes \u2014 her wings dropped off , her laurel was burned , she flung her armour away , and her palm-tree obstinately refused to up-root itself .", "Why should it be tedious ? There was tedium , rather , in the possession of bodies as durable as metal , as renewable as wax , as insensitive as water . In the fiercest onset of the passions , prolonged to satiety , there was always an element of the unreal . What is pleasure , if the strain of it is followed by no fatigue ; what the delicacy of taste , if we can eat like caverns and drink like conduits without being vexed by the slightest inconvenience ? You will discover that one of the acutest enjoyments of the mortal state will be found to consist in guarding against suffering . If you are provided with balloons attached to all your members , you float upon the sea with indifference . It is the certainty that you will drown if you do not swim which gives zest to the exercise . I climb along yonder jutting cornice of the cliff with eagerness , and pluck my simples with a hand that trembles more from joy than fear , precisely because the strain of balancing the nerves , and the certainty of suffering as the result of carelessness , knit my sensations together into an exaltation which is not exactly pleasure , perhaps , but which is not to be distinguished from it in its exciting properties .", "No ; it was but the poison-swoon , which precedes death , if it be not arrested .", "I have unfolded before you a scheme of philosophical activity . Are you not gratified ?", "Perhaps three of the Oceanides , bright as the pure foam of the wave ?", "Yew \u2014 an excellent styptic . Tansy , rosemary . Spurge and marsh mallow . The best pellitory I ever plucked out of a wall . The herbs of this glen are admirable . They surpass those of the gorges of Cyllene . Is this lavender ? The scent seems more acrid .", "No ; I think not . I was satisfied in the possession of exact knowledge , and not directly aware of the charm of application . It is the result , no doubt , of this resignation of immortality which has startled and alarmed us all so much \u2014\u2014", "Life will now be for you , for all of us , a perpetual combat with a brine that half supports , half drags us under ; a continual creeping and balancing on a chamois path around the forehead of a precipice . A headache will be the breaking of a twig , a fever a stone that gives way beneath your foot , to lose the use of an organ will be to let the alpenstock slip out of your starting fingers . And the excitement , and be sure the happiness , of existence will be to protract the struggle as long as possible , to push as far as you can along the dwindling path , to keep the supports and the alleviations of your labour about you as skilfully as you can , and in the fuss and business of the little momentary episodes of climbing to forget as long and as fully as may be the final and absolutely unavoidable plunge .", "Ah ! no , Euterpe . Your mind still runs in the channel of your lost impermeability . Till now , you might fling yourself from the crags of Tartarus , or float , like a trail of water-plants , on the long , blown flood of the altar-flame , and yet take no hurt , being imperishable . But now , part of your hourly occupation , part of your faith , your hope , your duty , must be to preserve your body against the inroads of decay ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["You make me eager for an illness . What shall it be ? Prescribe one for me . I am ignorant even of the names of the principal maladies . Let it be a not unbecoming one .", "But pray recollect that they grow where the rocks are both slippery and shelving ."], "true_target": ["What will you do with these plants ?", "You present us with a tedious conception of our new existence , surely .", "Where Selene is now searching for the wizard who draws the smoke away from the moon 's face at night ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["I am always well . I am still incensed .", "It is possible that I shall do so . But for the present , anger gushes like an intermittent spring of bitter water in my bosom . I forget for a moment , and the fountain falls ; and then , with a rush , memory leaps up in me , a column of poison . I say to myself , It cannot be , it shall not be ; but I grow calm again and find that it is .", "You will continue , I suppose , to make your main business the stimulating and the guiding of the affections ? Here I admit that suppleness , as you call it , is in place .", "And what is that , Aphrodite ?", "It will not be easy for me to occupy myself here . I am accustomed , as you know , to hunting and slaying . I thought I might have enjoyed some sport with the barbarian islanders , and I selected one for the purpose . But Zeus intervened , with that authority which even here , in our shattered estate , we know not how to resist .", "Can we not resume in this our exile , and with more prospect of continuity , the emotions which were so agreeable in our former state ? So agreeable \u2014 although , as you justly say , too ephemeralCan you not teach us to moderate and to prolong the rapture ?", "Can I imagine myself admitting the necessity of guarding against such an ungentlemanlike form of attack ?", "I can think of nothing else .", "No ; I do not think any one could have the effrontery to charge me with encouraging that mental effort which is so disastrous to the work of a soldier . The same old practices which led our forefathers to glory \u2014 the courage of tigers ; the firm belief that if any one tried to be crafty it must be because he is a coward ; a bull-front set straight at every obstacle , whatever its nature ; a proper contempt for any plan or discovery made since the days of Father Uranus \u2014 these are the principles in which I disciplined our troops , and I will not admit that I can have anything to reproach myself with . The circumstances which we were unexpectedly called upon to face were such as could never have been anticipated .", "You discuss my case with a cheerful candour , Aphrodite . Are you sure of being happier yourself ?", "There are certain things which one seems to condone by merely acknowledging their existence . That employment of mobile mechanisms , for instance \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["There , at least , memory supplies me with no sort of doubt \u2014\u2014", "Is that my poor friend Cydippe ?", "Shall we not collect our forces in unison , mortal as they are , and die together in resisting this invasion ?", "Is it possible ? Your Majesty \u2014 and alone !", "Surely it is the first time that you were ever abroad unattended . I am amazed at the carelessness of Phoebus . Aphrodite \u2014 without an attendant !", "If I forget all else , there must be events \u2014\u2014", "Yes ; and his reasonscarried some weight with them . He said , first , that it was wrong to kill those who had received us with so generous a hospitality ; and secondly , that , as I am no longer immortal , this brawny savage , with hair so curiously coiled and matted over his brain-pan , might kill me ; and thirdly , that the whole affair might indirectly lead to his , Zeus \u2019 , personal inconvenience . Here then is enjoyment by one door quite shut out from me .", "We felt no shadow of coming disability strike across our pleasures .", "I have nothing to reproach myself with . Our forces had never been in smarter trim , public spirit in Olympus never more patriotic and national ; and as to the personal bravery of our forces , it was simply a portent of moral splendour .", "It is not the business of a soldier to be supple .", "It was perfect . I had led the troops up to the point of cheerfully marching and counter-marching until they were ready to drop with exhaustion , on the eve of each engagement ; and at the ends of all our practising-grounds brick walls had been set up , at which every officer made it a point of honour to tilt head-foremost once a day . There was no refinement preserved from the good old wars of chivalry which was not familiar to our gallant fellows , and I had expressly forbidden every species of cerebral exercise . Nothing , I have always said , is so hurtful to the temper of an army as for the rank and file to suspect that they are led by men of brains .", "The rapture , the violence , the hammering pulse , the bursting heart ,\u2014 I see no resemblance between these and the leaves that flutter at our feet ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Whom do you suppose it to represent , Eros ?", "But those great coloured eyes , waxing and waning ! Those moons of pearl ! The copper that turns to crimson , the turquoise that turns to violet , the greenish , pointed head that swings and rolls its yoke of slender plumage ! Ah ! Eros , is it possible that you do not perceive that it is a symbol of my peacock , my bird translated into the language of this narrow and suppressed existence of ours ? What a strange and exquisite messenger ! My poor peacock , with a strident shriek of terror , fled from me on that awful morning , the flames singeing its dishevelled train , its wings helplessly flapping in the torrents of conflagration . It bade me no adieu , its clangour of despair rang forth , an additional note of discord , from the inner courts of my palace . And out of its agony , of its horror , it has contrived to send me this adorable renovation of itself , all its grace and all its splendour reincarnated in this tiny creature . But alas ! how am I to capture , how to communicate with it ?", "It was at that moment , I suppose , that you besought Zeus so passionately to confer upon Psyche the rank of a goddess ?", "Not in its present position . But I will not pretend , Eros , that it is not the source of my agitation . Look at it now , as it flings itself round the stalk , and opens and waves its fans . Do you still not comprehend ?", "Could I be mistaken ? What is this overpowering perfume ? Is it conceivable that in this new world odours take corporeal shape ? Anything is conceivable , except that I was mistaken in thinking that I saw it fly across this meadow . It can only have been beckoning me .", "Am I then to believe that you were playing a part when you seemed a little while ago so anxious to recognise Psyche in the drooping butterfly ?", "My bird was ever a masquerader \u2014 it may be so .", "You are occupied , Eros . I will not detain you .", "I know exactly what you mean . My peacock has a very peculiar voice , and \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["To give you a convenient excuse for neglecting her ?", "The colours of them are those which adorn my bird .", "It was necessary in such a society as ours to preserve the hierarchical distinctions . She was a charming little creature , and I never allowed myself to indulge in the violent prejudice of your mother . When you presented her at last , I do not think that you had any reason to reproach me with want of civility .HERA and EROS together . It is gone .", "Then what was the meaning of your apparent infatuation for Psyche ?", "You would , I suppose , describe them as exceptional ?", "We are in a curious dilemma . Unless we are to conceive that two of the lesser Olympians have been able to combine in adopting a symbolic disguise , either you or I have been deceived . That tantalising visitant can scarcely have been at the same time Psyche and my peacock .", "You take the recollection coolly , Eros .", "I must beg you to leave me , or to remain perfectly motionless . I am excessively agitated .", "Aphrodite would charge you with cynicism , Eros ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["What did he mean ? What is the soul ?", "It must have been dreary for you there , Persephone .", "No ; surely we shall put off more or less leisurely , with dignity or without it , the garments of our sensuous existence , and discover something underneath all these textures of the body ?", "Is this our first experience of the mystery ? FAUNA and ALCYONE . She is dead ! She is dead !", "In that case , to slough the sheaths of the body , one by one , ought to be to come nearer to the final freedom , and the last coronation and consecration of existence may prove to be this very \u201c death \u201d we dread so much .", "Surely , Persephone , you must be able to give us some idea of the dead . Were they not the sole occupants of your pale dominions ?"], "true_target": ["Not sad , precisely ; but anxious , feverish , a little excited .", "Yes ; I remember that Arethusa , when she brought me back my daffodils , told me how angry Demeter was \u2014\u2014", "Rude words set to rude music ; but they seem to penetrate to the very core of the heart .", "Why not ? These barbarians appear to avoid them with an invincible terror , but why should we do so ?", "We thought of it as of something happening in that world of Hades which could never become of the slightest importance to us . Who could have imagined that we should have to take it into practical account ?", "We do not know of what we speak , for it may very well be that the barbarians have some experience of these beings . Their influence may be not merely malign , but disgusting .", "Perhaps this famous \u201c death \u201d may prove after all to be only another kind of life .Do n't you think this is indicated even by the song of these barbarians ? Besides , our stay here must be the ante-chamber to something wholly different ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["I do not feel that it would be possible for the dead to \u201c catch \u201d me , since I should be instantly and keenly watching for them , and much more eager to secure their presence than they could be to secure mine .", "You do n't even recall what the inhabitants of the country were like ?", "Well , now we shall have to accept it , to be prepared for its tremendous approach .", "Demeter , of course , never encouraged you to make any observation of the manners and customs of Hades .", "Are you sad to-night , Chloris ?", "Unquestionably . The savage viper has slain her .", "Then \u2014 she was not dead ?", "We can hardly suppose that it can lead to nothing .", "He cannot bring back the dead ."], "true_target": ["I suppose you disliked living in Hades very much ?", "How rejoiced I am !", "The dead ! Shall we see them ?", "And some of us , depend upon it , will be able to persuade ourselves that we alone can use our eyesight in the pitch profundity of darkness , and these will find a peculiar pleasure in tormenting the others who have less confidence in their imagination .", "I , too , might have observed something as I went sailing over the purpureal ocean . But I was always talking to my sisters . The fact is we all of us neglected to learn anything about death .", "How ignorant we are !", "I must confess that in this our humility , our corporeal degradation , instead of feeling crushed , I am curiously conscious of a wider range of sensibility . Perhaps that is the soul ? Perhaps , in the suppression of our immortality , something metallic , something hermetical , has been broken down , and already we stand more easily exposed to the influences of the spirit ?", "The first of the immortals to succumb to the burden of mortality !", "No , indeed , for I am attached to Cydippe , but oh ! Persephone , it is strange to be at the very threshold of the mystery \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["The viper fixed his fangs here , in the blue division of the vein , here in her translucent wrist . See , it swells , it darkens !", "But here comes \u00c6sculapius ."], "true_target": ["Where is \u00c6sculapius ? Call him , call him !", "She was gathering a little posy of your wild flowers \u2014 eyebright , and crane 's bills and small blue pansies , when \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["And with a scream she fell , and swooned away , and died , turning backwards , so that her hair caught in the springy herbage , and her head rolled a little in her pain , so that her hair was loosened and tightened , and look , there are still little tufts of blue-berry leaves in her hair ."], "true_target": ["There glided out of the intertwisted fibres of the blue-berries a serpent \u2014\u2014", "And Cydippe never saw it , and stretched out her hand again , and \u2014 see \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Oh ! the word , the word !", "Ah ! yes , sire , the rainbow , the rainbow ! O what an art of incontestable divination !", "Ah !\u2014\u2014", "It was intended to do so . What promptitude of mind ! What divine penetration !", "Do you not feel , sire , a peculiar sense of flush , of spring-tide \u2014 a direct juvenile ebullience ?"], "true_target": ["To your Majesty , at least , the New Poetry opens its casket as widely as the rose-bud does to the zephyr .", "You make my heart beat so high , sire , that I can hardly speak . Deign , sire , to recall that incident .", "It is a positive divination !", "Ah ! no , sire . That is the art of the New Poetry . It names nothing , it describes nothing . All that it designs to do is to place the mind of the listener \u2014 of the august and perspicacious listener \u2014 in such an attitude as that the unnamed , the undescribed object rises full in vision . The poet flings forth his melody , and to the gross ear it seems a mere tinkle of inanity . That is simply because the crowd who worship at the shrine of the Sminthean Apollo have been accustomed by an old-fashioned and ridiculously incompetent priesthood to look for an instant and mechanical relation between sound and sense . I would not exaggerate , sire ; but the kind of poetry lately cultivated , not only at Delphi , but in Delos also , is simply obsolete .", "Does your Majesty receive any impression from it ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["You would not be able to comprehend me . I am not sure that I myself \u2014\u2014", "It was odd , certainly . Yet if you cannot comprehend it , Eros , I despair of explaining it to anybody . I should never do it again . You must admit I showed no want of firmness afterwards in dealing with Hebe , but then , she never interested me . Is she here ? But do not reply , I am not anxious to learn .", "Only an immortal can afford wilfully to forget , and I \u2014 well , you know as well as I do that I am only a mortal canonised . I never understood the incident , I confess . I lay down among the ferns to sleep , after an unusually heavy day 's bag of monsters . It was sultry weather ; I woke to an oppressive sense of singeing , I found myself enveloped in a blaze of leaves and brushwood .... But I bore you , and what does it matter now ? What does anything matter ?", "Follow them , and strike them down . Take my club , Heph\u00e6stus , if you have lost your hammer .", "What change , indeed , has come over you , you sulky artificer ? Time was when your pincers would have met in the flesh of maid or man who disturbed you in your work . Have you left your forge to cool for the mere pleasure of clambering after these ridiculous children ! Go back to it , Heph\u00e6stus , go back and be ashamed .", "That was a foolish tale . Do you not recollect that I am not as the rest of you ?"], "true_target": ["Can you indicate to us the nature of this change ?If it is permitted to us to do so we would repudiate it .", "It will not raise mine ; for all of you , Eros , have been immortals from the beginning , and your mortality is a new and pungent flavour on the moral palate . But the taste of it was known of old to me , and I am not its dupe . It simply carries me back to the ancient weary round of ceaseless struggle , unending battle , incessant renascence of the sprouting heads of Hydra ; to all that from which the windless Olympus was a refuge . Hope is presented \u2014 to one who has tasted it and who knows that it is futile \u2014 without reawakening , under such new conditions as we have here , any zest of adventure . The jewel of Pandora may be exhilarating to fallen immortality ; it has no lustre whatever for a backsliding mortal .", "These might be quoted , I should have thought , as instances of my consistency .", "That rude old story about Alcmena , Eros \u2014 it is impossible that you can be the dupe of that ? When I hunted lions on Cithaeron \u2014 that really was a gentlemanlike sport , my friend \u2014 when I hunted lions I was not a god . Gods do n't hunt lions , Eros ; I have not gone a-hunting since that curious affair on Mount OEta . You remember it ?", "All of you were there . And Zeus came down and took me by the wrist . Olympus rang with shouts and the clapping of hands . I was hailed with unanimity as an immortal ; the ambrosia melted between my charred lips ; I rose up amongst you all , immaculate and fresh . But when , or how , or wherefore I have never known . And now I shall never care to know .", "A dense black smoke blinded and numbed me . The next moment , as it seemed \u2014 perhaps it was the next day \u2014 I was hustled up through the \u00e6ther to Olympus , and dumped down at the foot of Zeus \u2019 throne . Perhaps you remember ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["It was Heph\u00e6stus who gave them to us to hold . He is in a cave down there by the sea , making the most ingenious things in the darkness . He called us in to hold these lights \u2014\u2014", "We are not playing now . We have a message from Zeus , Heph\u00e6stus . He says that he is waiting impatiently for the sceptre you are making for him ."], "true_target": ["I never enjoyed myself anywhere so much .", "And threatened to nail us to the cliff \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["And oh , Eros , we had such fun , teasing him \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["He is coming after us . I never felt so frightened .", "Yes , you must hurry back to your cave . And we are longing to see what ornament you are putting on the sceptre . Let us come with you . We will hold the torches for you as steadily as if we were made of marble ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["And off we ran , and left him in the dark ."], "true_target": ["Come away , come away ! If he is going to pursue , let us give him a long chase , and leave him panting at last !", "He was quite angry at last \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["You do not seem deeply engaged yourself . You look sourer and idler than the lion 's head that dangles at your shoulder . The days are long here , though not too long . My handicraft will spare me for half an hour to sport with these exquisite and affable fragilities . I rather enjoy being laughed at . On Olympus I was rarely troubled by such teasing attentions . The little ones seem to enjoy themselves in their exile , and , to say true , so do I . My work was carried on , I admit , much more smoothly and surely than it can be here , and my hand , I am afraid , in crossing the sea , has lost much of its infallible cunning . But I enjoy the exercise , and I look onward to the art as I never did before , and I seem to have more leisure . Can you explain it , Eros ?", "Yes , let us fight and die .", "Strike them ! Strike the darling rogues ? I would as soon wrap your too-celebrated tunic about a little playful marmozet . What is the matter with you , Heracles ?"], "true_target": ["The rogues , the rogues !", "Come , then , come . Let us descend together . I hope that my science has not quitted me . We will see whether even on this rugged shore and with these uncouth instruments , I cannot prove to Zeus that I am still an artist . Come , I am in a hurry to begin . Give me your hands , Amphitrite and Doris .", "What is it ?"], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["I have not seen her since we arrived on this island .", "The kind barbarians are with us . They will fight at our side .", "Hush ! hush !... I felt a nibble . \u00c6SCULAPIUSIt was in such a secluded spot as this that Apollo heard the trout at Aroanius sing like thrushes .", "How these poets exaggerate ! The trout sang , I suppose , like the missel-thrush .", "No doubt at this moment it is obsequiously rustling over the odious usurper ."], "true_target": ["Not always ; sometimes my panthers turned and bit her . But my panthers and my vines are gone to keep her laurels and her palm-tree company . I think I will not stay , \u00c6sculapius . But what does Nike want with you ?", "It does not sing at all . Nor do trout .", "No , but closely occupied . I am intent on the subtle movements of my rod , round which my thoughts and fancies wind and blossom till they have made a thyrsus of it . Now , however , I shall certainly catch no more fish , and so I may rest and talk to you . Are you searching for simples in this glen ?", "I shall do well , however , to go before she comes .", "I was excusing myself , Nike , to our learned friend here for not having paid my addresses to you earlier . You must have thought me negligent ?", "No , not at all . Hardly at all .But farewell to both of you , for I am going down to the sea-board to watch for dolphins . That long melancholy plunge of the black snout thrills me with pleasure . It always did , and the coast-line here curiously reminds me of Naxos . Be kind to \u00c6sculapius , Nike ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Ah ! I see . I think I partly see . The element of real victory was absent where no defeat could be . \u00c6SCULAPIUSDismal , sooty , raven-coloured robes of the Eumenides !", "I am feeling forward with my finger-tips , like a blind woman searching .... And the real splendour of victory may consist in the helpless mortal state ; may blossom there , while it only budded in our immortality ?", "Can it be so ? I find , it is true , that I look back upon my rush and blaze of battle with no real regret . What a vain thing it was , the perpetual clash and resonance of a victory that no one could withstand ; the mockery that conquest must be to an immortal whom no one can ever really oppose ;\u2014 no veritable difficulty to overcome , no genuine resistance to meet , nothing positively tussled with and thrown , nothing but ghostly armies shrinking and melting a little way in front of my advancing eagles ! That can never happen again , and even through the pang of losing my laurel and my wings , I did not genuinely deplore it . Nothing but the sheer intoxication of my immortality had kept me at the pitch . And now that it is gone , oh wisest of the gods , it is for you to tell me how , in this mortal state , I can remain happy and yet be me .", "But it is because I do not know my way that I come to you .", "Ha , my palm and my laurel and my wings . How can I have breathed without them for an hour ?", "Myself , \u00c6sculapius ?", "I come to you that you may tell . I know no better than the snake knows when his skin withers and bloats . I feel distress , apprehension , no pain , a little fear ."], "true_target": ["And it may be present even where no final conquest can ensue ?", "And three girls in white dresses , with wreaths of flowers on their shoulders , were laughing and chatting there in the shade of the great yew-tree . Who do you suppose they were , these laughing girls in white ?", "\u00c6sculapius , they were not girls . They were the terrible and ancient Eumenides , black with the curdled blood of Uranus . They were the inexorable Furies , who were wont to fawn about my feet , with the adders quivering in their tresses , tormenting me for the spoils of victory . What does it mean ? Why are they in white ? As we came hither in the dreadful vessel , they were huddled together at the prow , and their long black raiment hung overboard and touched the brine . They were mumbling and crooning hate-songs , and pointing with skinny fingers to the portents in the sky . What is it that has changed their mood ? What is it that can have turned the robes of the Eumenides white , and enamelled their wrinkled flesh with youth ?", "I am bewildered , but I am not unhappy . I come because the secrets of life are known to you . I come because it was you whom Zeus sent to watch over Cadmus and Harmonia when their dread and comfortable change came over them . They were weary with grief and defeat , tired of being for ever overwhelmed by the ever-mounting wave of mortal fate . I am weary \u2014\u2014 \u00c6SCULAPIUSOf what , Nike ? Be true to yourself . Of what are you weary ?", "Oh ! Dionysus , I assure you it is not so . Your temperament is one of violent extremes \u2014 you are either sparkling with miraculous rapidity of apprehension , or you are sunken in a heavy doze . These have doubtless been some of your sleepy days . And I ... oh ! I am very deeply changed .", "It is for you , O brother of Hermes , to be kind to me . How altered we all are ! Dionysus is not himself .... As I came here , I passed below the little grey precipice of limestone \u2014\u2014", "It would be interesting to me to understand what you mean by chastened forms of recollection . I do n't think that is my experience ."], "play_index": 11, "act_index": 11}, {"query": ["Once , when I was a small kid , I dreamt I was in heaven .It was a sort of pale blue satin place , with all the pious old ladies in our congregation sitting as if they were at a service ; and there was some awful person in the study at the other side of the hall . I did n't enjoy it , you know . What is it like in your dreams ?", "May I say how deeply I feel the kindness with which I have been overwhelmed since my accident ? I can truthfully declare that I am glad it happened , because it has brought out the kindness and sympathy of the Irish character to an extent I had no conception of .", "Rubbish ! I tell you it will be all right .", "He 'll want tea . Let us have some .", "Oh \u2014 er \u2014 excellent , excellent . By the way , had n't I better see about a room at the hotel ?", "Not even Home Rule . We owe Home Rule not to the Irish , but to our English Gladstone . No , Larry : I can n't help thinking that there 's something behind all this .", "Oh , I 'm afraid it 's too late for tea", "Good afternoon , Mr Haffigan .", "Just a moment , Mr Doyle : I want to look at this stone . It must be Finian 's die-cast .", "Thank you , old chap . Thank you .", "Do you mean to say that you are going to refuse me ? that you do n't care for me ?", "Have you been to the village ?", "Yes I have . There is something very touching about the history of this beautiful girl .", "You know , the roar of a motor boat is quite pretty .", "That 's what you call a fortune in Rosscullen , is it ?", "Oh , it does n't matter : I was not hurt \u2014 at least \u2014 er \u2014", "England to Ireland !", "I do n't understand that . I do n't admit that . I am sincere ; and my intentions are perfectly honorable . I think you will accept the fact that I 'm an Englishman as a guarantee that I am not a man to act hastily or romantically , though I confess that your voice had such an extraordinary effect on me just now when you asked me so quaintly whether I was making love to you \u2014", "\u2014 and also its habit of using strong language when there 's nothing the matter .", "Well , Tim , will you come with me and help to break the ice between me and your warmhearted , impulsive countrymen ?", "Oh come , Larry ! Do n't be unfeeling . It 's hard on Haffigan . It 's always hard on the inefficient .", "Hodson ?", "Well , a moment ago I caught a name which is new to me : a Miss Nora Reilly , I think .I do n't wish to be impertinent , as you know , Larry ; but are you sure she has nothing to do with your reluctance to come to Ireland with me ?", "You know , all this sounds rather interesting . There 's the Irish charm about it . That 's the worst of you : the Irish charm does n't exist for you .", "Pooh ! nonsense ! He 's only an Irishman . Besides , you do n't seriously suppose that Haffigan can humbug me , do you ?", "Oh , confound the language ! Nora darling \u2014 my Nora \u2014 the", "Do you think so ? No no : Haffigan 's too old . It really does n't pay now to take on men over forty even for unskilled labor , which I suppose is all Haffigan would be good for . No : Haffigan had better go to America , or into the Union , poor old chap ! He 's worked out , you know : you can see it .", "But , my dear , Doolan 's a publican : a most influential man . By the way , I asked him if his wife would be at home tomorrow . He said she would ; so you must take the motor car round and call on her .", "Where else can I go ? I am an Englishman and a Liberal ; and now that South Africa has been enslaved and destroyed , there is no country left to me to take an interest in but Ireland . Mind : I do n't say that an Englishman has not other duties . He has a duty to Finland and a duty to Macedonia . But what sane man can deny that an Englishman 's first duty is his duty to Ireland ? Unfortunately , we have politicians here more unscrupulous than Bobrikoff , more bloodthirsty than Abdul the Damned ; and it is under their heel that Ireland is now writhing .", "Well , it was a pretty obvious move , I should think . You know , these fellows have plenty of shrewdness in spite of their Irish oddity .Oh , by the way , Hodson \u2014", "DON'T be paradoxical , Larry . It really gives me a pain in my stomach .", "Right . Show him in .", "True . All the capable people in Ireland are of English extraction . It has often struck me as a most remarkable circumstance that the only party in parliament which shows the genuine old English character and spirit is the Irish party . Look at its independence , its determination , its defiance of bad Governments , its sympathy with oppressed nationalities all the world over ! How English !", "Oh , that 's very tiresome . Did he leave any message ?", "Of course it will . So that 's all right .Now , Larry , I 've listened carefully to all you 've said about Ireland ; and I can see nothing whatever to prevent your coming with me . What does it all come to ? Simply that you were only a young fellow when you were in Ireland . You 'll find all that chaffing and drinking and not knowing what to be at in Peckham just the same as in Donnybrook . You looked at Ireland with a boy 's eyes and saw only boyish things . Come back with me and look at it with a man 's , and get a better opinion of your country .", "Two .", "But I should like to explain \u2014", "Well \u2014 er \u2014 er \u2014 well , to put it plainly , was I drunk ?", "You 're all really too kind ; but the shock has quite passed off .", "Ah , that 's right , that 's right : That 's magnificent . I knew you would see what a first-rate thing this will be for both of us .", "Not at all . I was about to offer you an advance for travelling expenses .", "I 'm going to develop an estate there for the Land Development Syndicate , in which I am interested . I am convinced that all it needs to make it pay is to handle it properly , as estates are handled in England . You know the English plan , Mr Haffigan , do n't you ?", "A Saxon . An Englishman .", "Try phosphorus pills . I always take them when my brain is overworked . I 'll give you the address in Oxford Street .", "I do n't want to interrupt you , Larry ; but you know this is all gammon . These differences exist in all families ; but the members rub on together all right .Of course there are some questions which touch the very foundations of morals ; and on these I grant you even the closest relationships cannot excuse any compromise or laxity . For instance \u2014", "Hodson .", "I do n't .", "What 's wrong with you today , Larry ? Why are you so bitter ? Doyle looks at him perplexedly ; comes slowly to the writing table ; and sits down at the end next the fireplace before replying .", "Do you think it will bear two , Larry ?", "One should not . One OUGHT not , my dear girl . But the honest truth is , if a chap is at all a pleasant sort of chap , his chest becomes a fortification that has to stand many assaults : at least it is so in England .", "It did him no harm . He never turned a hair .", "I hope so . I think so .You really think so ? You are sure you are not allowing your enthusiasm for our principles to get the better of your judgment ?", "Larry ! Oh , that would n't have done at all , not at all . You do n't know Larry as I do , my dear . He has absolutely no capacity for enjoyment : he could n't make any woman happy . He 's as clever as be-blowed ; but life 's too earthly for him : he does n't really care for anything or anybody .", "On my word I believe I am , Miss Reilly . If you say that to me again I sha n't answer for myself : all the harps of Ireland are in your voice .Stop laughing : do you hear ? I am in earnest \u2014 in English earnest . When I say a thing like that to a woman , I mean it .I beg your pardon .", "By the way , pack your own traps too . I shall take you with me this time .", "Surely , Mr Haffigan , you can see the simple explanation of all this . My friend Larry Doyle is a most brilliant speaker ; but he 's a Tory : an ingrained oldfashioned Tory .", "Ah yes , I suppose so .Larry : you 've treated that poor girl disgracefully .", "It 's settled , then , that you come with me .", "Was he industrious ? That 's remarkable , you know , in an", "Quite so \u2014 er \u2014 oh yes . All I can say is that as an Englishman I blush for the Union . It is the blackest stain on our national history . I look forward to the time-and it cannot be far distant , gentlemen , because Humanity is looking forward to it too , and insisting on it with no uncertain voice \u2014 I look forward to the time when an Irish legislature shall arise once more on the emerald pasture of College Green , and the Union Jack \u2014 that detestable symbol of a decadent Imperialism \u2014 be replaced by a flag as green as the island over which it waves \u2014 a flag on which we shall ask for England only a modest quartering in memory of our great party and of the immortal name of our grand old leader .", "Never fear . You 're all descended from the ancient kings : I know that .I 'm not so tactless as you think , my boy .I expect to find Miss Reilly a perfect lady ; and I strongly advise you to come and have another look at her before you make up your mind about her . By the way , have you a photograph of her ?", "An ass !", "No , please , Miss Reilly . One moment . Listen to me . I 'm serious : I 'm desperately serious . Tell me that I 'm interfering with Larry ; and I 'll go straight from this spot back to London and never see you again . That 's on my honor : I will . Am I interfering with him ?", "You shall never regret it , Mr Keegan : I give you my word for that . I shall bring money here : I shall raise wages : I shall found public institutions , a library , a Polytechnic, a gymnasium , a cricket club , perhaps an art school . I shall make a Garden city of Rosscullen : the round tower shall be thoroughly repaired and restored .", "You have some distance to go , Mr Haffigan : will you allow me to drive you home ?", "Not at all , not at all . Only a whimsical Irishman , eh ?", "No , no : the Englishwoman is too prosaic for my taste , too material , too much of the animated beefsteak about her . The ideal is what I like . Now Larry 's taste is just the opposite : he likes em solid and bouncing and rather keen about him . It 's a very convenient difference ; for we 've never been in love with the same woman .", "The usual thing in the country , Larry . Just the same here .", "Yes , of course : call on all their wives . We must get a copy of the register and a supply of canvassing cards . No use calling on people who have n't votes . You 'll be a great success as a canvasser , Nora : they call you the heiress ; and they 'll be flattered no end by your calling , especially as you 've never cheapened yourself by speaking to them before \u2014 have you ?", "What I say is , why not start a Garden City in Ireland ?", "That was magnificent , you know . Only a great race is capable of producing such men .", "What on earth \u2014", "Yes , Mr Keegan : you 're quite right . There 's poetry in everything , evenin the most modern prosaic things , if you know how to extract itIf I was to be shot for it I could n't extract it myself ; but that 's where you come in , you seeAnd then I shall wake you up a bit . That 's where I come in : eh ? d'ye see ? Eh ? eh ?Just so , just so .By the way , I believe I can do better than a light railway here . There seems to be no question now that the motor boat has come to stay . Well , look at your magnificent river there , going to waste .", "Oh , I have no claim whatever to the seat . Besides , I 'm a Saxon .", "I do n't agree with that , Larry . I think these things cannot be said too often : they keep up the moral tone of the community . As you know , I claim the right to think for myself in religious matters : in fact , I am ready to avow myself a bit of a \u2014 of a \u2014 well , I do n't care who knows it \u2014 a bit of a Unitarian ; but if the Church of England contained a few men like Mr Keegan , I should certainly join it .", "Where is Mr Haffigan ? Has he gone for the pig ?", "Thank you from the bottom of my heart , friends .", "Thank you , Miss Reilly : thank you .", "Oh , I 'm not afraid of that . I have faith in Ireland , great faith , Mr Keegan .", "Oh , he 's all right . He 's an Irishman , and not very particular about his appearance .", "I want you to be rather particular as to how you treat the people here .", "That is a remarkable tribute to the liberty of conscience enjoyed by the subjects of our Indian Empire .", "Well , you know , Mr Doyle , there 's a strong dash of Toryism in the Irish character . Larry himself says that the great Duke of Wellington was the most typical Irishman that ever lived . Of course that 's an absurd paradox ; but still there 's a great deal of truth in it . Now I am a Liberal . You know the great principles of the Liberal party . Peace \u2014", "It 's not Larry 's fault : he was to have been here before me . He started in our motor an hour before Mr Doyle arrived , to meet us at Athenmullet , intending to get here long before me .", "Then you are not the first martyr of your family , Mr Haffigan ?", "How do you feel when you see her handwriting ?", "Oh , come , Larry ! do yourself justice . You 're very amusing and agreeable to strangers .", "Your idea is a very clever one , Mr Keegan : really most brilliant : I should never have thought of it . But it seems to me \u2014 if I may say so \u2014 that you are overlooking the fact that , of the evils you describe , some are absolutely necessary for the preservation of society , and others are encouraged only when the Tories are in office .", "Since this morning , Miss Doyle . I have had a lessonthat I shall not forget . It may be that total abstinence has already saved my life ; for I was astonished at the steadiness of my nerves when death stared me in the face today . So I will ask you to excuse me .Gentlemen : I hope the gravity of the peril through which we have all passed \u2014 for I know that the danger to the bystanders was as great as to the occupants of the car \u2014 will prove an earnest of closer and more serious relations between us in the future . We have had a somewhat agitating day : a valuable and innocent animal has lost its life : a public building has been wrecked : an aged and infirm lady has suffered an impact for which I feel personally responsible , though my old friend Mr Laurence Doyle unfortunately incurred the first effects of her very natural resentment . I greatly regret the damage to Mr Patrick Farrell 's fingers ; and I have of course taken care that he shall not suffer pecuniarily by his mishap .I am glad to say that Patsy took it like an Irishman , and , far from expressing any vindictive feeling , declared his willingness to break all his fingers and toes for me on the same termsGentlemen : I felt at home in Ireland from the firstIn every Irish breast I have found that spirit of liberty, that instinctive mistrust of the Government, that love of independence, that indignant sympathy with the cause of oppressed nationalities abroad, and with the resolute assertion of personal rights at home , which is all but extinct in my own country . If it were legally possible I should become a naturalized Irishman ; and if ever it be my good fortune to represent an Irish constituency in parliament , it shall be my first care to introduce a Bill legalizing such an operation . I believe a large section of the Liberal party would avail themselves of it .I do .Gentlemen : I have said enough .No : I have as yet no right to address you at all on political subjects ; and we must not abuse the warmhearted Irish hospitality of Miss Doyle by turning her sittingroom into a public meeting .", "I divined it , Larry : I saw it in their faces . Ireland has never smiled since her hopes were buried in the grave of Gladstone .", "Well , let us say twelve pounds for the first month . Afterwards , we shall see how we get on .", "A hypocrite !", "I shall never forget that with the chivalry of her nation , though I was utterly at her mercy , she refused me .", "You mean that it 's an act of treachery to Larry ?", "Oh well , do n't be too stand-offish , you know , Hodson . I should like you to be popular . If it costs anything I 'll make it up to you . It does n't matter if you get a bit upset at first : they 'll like you all the better for it .", "I have looked forward to meeting you more than to anything else in Ireland .", "But did you ever say anything that would justify her in waiting for you ?", "Well , bring whatever you think he 'd like .", "But , hang it all , the idlers will bring money from", "Mr Haffigan suffered .", "I 'm really so sorry to have alarmed you , Miss Reilly . My name is Broadbent . Larry 's friend , you know .", "Most happy , Mr Doran . Very pleased indeed . Doran , not quite sure whether he is being courted or patronized , nods independently .", "Has he a vote ?", "Yes . I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014I should have shot the confounded landlord , and wrung the neck of the damned agent , and blown the farm up with dynamite , and Dublin Castle along with it .", "Yes : that 's the truth .You 're glad of that ?", "No : I am a teetotaller .", "I hope I have said or done nothing that calls for any such observation , Mr Doyle . If there is a vice I detest \u2014 or against which my whole public life has been a protest \u2014 it is the vice of hypocrisy . I would almost rather be inconsistent than insincere .", "Of course it 's a common cotton one \u2014 silly little cotton one \u2014 not good enough for the dear eyes of Nora Cryna \u2014", "Well , let us say quoits . I saw two men , I think , last night \u2014 but after all , these are questions of detail . The main thing is that your candidate , whoever he may be , shall be a man of some means , able to help the locality instead of burdening it . And if he were a countryman of my own , the moral effect on the House of Commons would be immense ! tremendous ! Pardon my saying these few words : nobody feels their impertinence more than I do . Good morning , gentlemen . He turns impressively to the gate , and trots away , congratulating himself , with a little twist of his head and cock of his eye , on having done a good stroke of political business .", "Miss Reilly is not a waitress , is she ?", "Of course I am . Our guidance is the important thing . We English must place our capacity for government without stint at the service of nations who are less fortunately endowed in that respect ; so as to allow them to develop in perfect freedom to the English level of self-government , you know . You understand me ?", "You were right this morning , Larry . I must feed up Nora . She 's weak ; and it makes her fanciful . Oh , by the way , did I tell you that we 're engaged ?", "Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion , Mr Keegan .", "But his brogue !", "What I really dread is misunderstanding . I think you could help me to avoid that . When I heard you speak the other evening in Bermondsey at the meeting of the National League , I saw at once that you were \u2014 You wo n't mind my speaking frankly ?", "But he spoke \u2014 he behaved just like an Irishman .", "Miss Reilly . Miss Reilly . What 's the matter ? Do n't cry : I can n't stand it : you must n't cry .No : do n't try to speak : it 's all right now . Have your cry out : never mind me : trust me .Cry on my chest : the only really comfortable place for a woman to cry is a man 's chest : a real man , a real friend . A good broad chest , eh ? not less than forty-two inches \u2014 no : do n't fuss : never mind the conventions : we 're two friends , are n't we ? Come now , come , come ! It 's all right and comfortable and happy now , is n't it ?", "I can n't sufficiently apologize , Miss Reilly , or express my sense of your kindness when I am in such a disgusting state . How could I be such a bea \u2014damn the heather ! my foot caught in it .", "Have n't you lunched ?", "How do you know ?", "I assure you I never meant \u2014", "Perhaps it might be as well . I 'm going to Ireland .", "Of course you have . No , my dear : take my word for it , you 're jolly well out of that . There !that 's much more comfortable for you .", "If you really feel like that about him , there may be a chance for another man yet . Eh ?", "Do . Where 's Mr Doyle ?", "I got drunk last night , and proposed to Miss Reilly .", "You do n't feel nervous about it , I suppose ?", "Eats ! what do you mean ?", "All right : I 'll have some tomorrow . Hodson goes to the house . When he opens the door he finds Nora and Aunt Judy on the threshold . He stands aside to let them pass , with the air of a well trained servant oppressed by heavy trials . Then he goes in . Broadbent rises . Aunt Judy goes to the table and collects the plates and cups on the tray . Nora goes to the back of the rustic seat and looks out at the gate with the air of a woman accustomed to have nothing to do . Larry returns from the shrubbery .", "Certainly , Mr Haffigan : it will be quite delightful to drive with a pig in the car : I shall feel quite like an Irishman . Hodson : stay with Mr Haffigan ; and give him a hand with the pig if necessary . Come , Larry ; and help me .", "Here 's a handkerchief . Let meNever mind your own : it 's too small : it 's one of those wretched little cambric handkerchiefs \u2014", "You answer the letters ?", "Never .", "Thank you , Hodson : do . Hodson goes out through the gate .", "Not any \u2014 er \u2014? You may speak frankly .", "Lovely . I must explain why Larry has not come himself .", "Oh , I 'm sorry . Why did n't he wait ? I told him to wait if I was n't in .", "Unfeeling ! Nonsensical !", "No : he 's wired to say he 's had a breakdown and will come on as soon as he can . He expects to be here at about ten .", "If that will satisfy you \u2014", "A caterpillar !! !", "Larry : you \u2014 you \u2014 you disgust me . You are a damned fool .", "And look here !Do you remember where I put my revolver ?", "He did , Miss Doyle . There was a nail , certainly .", "I always made a point of going to see my father regularly until his mind gave way .", "Humor ! I was perfectly serious . What do you mean ? Do you doubt my seriousness about Home Rule ?", "No : never mind . I should n't have alluded to her .", "Yes : I know I have a strong sense of humor which sometimes makes people doubt whether I am quite serious . That is why I have always thought I should like to marry an Irishwoman . She would always understand my jokes . For instance , you would understand them , eh ?", "Thank you , Father Dempsey . Delighted to have met you , sir .", "Not a bit . By George , Nora , it 's a tremendous thing to be able to enjoy oneself . Let 's go off for a walk out of this stuffy little room . I want the open air to expand in . Come along . Co-o-o-me along .Later in the evening , the grasshopper is again enjoying the sunset by the great stone on the hill ; but this time he enjoys neither the stimulus of Keegan 's conversation nor the pleasure of terrifying Patsy Farrell . He is alone until Nora and Broadbent come up the hill arm in arm . Broadbent is still breezy and confident ; but she has her head averted from him and is almost in tears ] .", "Ha ! ha ! you may laugh ; but we shall see . However , do n't let us argue about that . Come now ! you ask my advice about Miss Reilly ?", "I insist : it will give me the greatest pleasure , I assure you . My car is in the stable : I can get it round in five minutes .", "I must , Miss Reilly : it is my duty . I shall not detain you long . May I ask you to sit down .First , Miss Reilly , may I say that I have tasted nothing of an alcoholic nature today .", "Left the pig ! Then it 's all right . The pig 's the thing : the pig will win over every Irish heart to me . We 'll take the pig home to Haffigan 's farm in the motor : it will have a tremendous effect . Hodson !", "I know I 'm not good enough for you , Nora . But no man is , you know , when the woman is a really nice woman .", "Ashamed ! What of ?", "I did n't mean to , on my soul . What is it ? What is it ?", "Take care ! you will be quarrelling presently . Oh , you Irishmen , you Irishmen ! Toujours Ballyhooly , eh ?Stick to the Englishman , Mr Keegan : he has a bad name here ; but at least he can forgive you for being an Irishman .", "Do , Hodson .", "Hm !", "There are difficulties . I shall overcome them ; but there are difficulties . When I first arrive in Ireland I shall be hated as an Englishman . As a Protestant , I shall be denounced from every altar . My life may be in danger . Well , I am prepared to face that .", "Yes , yes , of course , Nora Creena , Nora acushla", "Ah , yes , yes : efficiency is the thing . I do n't in the least mind your chaff , Mr Keegan ; but Larry 's right on the main point . The world belongs to the efficient .", "Aha ! Wait till you find out what an exciting game electioneering is : you 'll be mad to get me in . Besides , you 'd like people to say that Tom Broadbent 's wife had been the making of him \u2014 that she got him into parliament \u2014 into the Cabinet , perhaps , eh ?", "Perhaps not . Perhaps not . I never quite lose myself .", "You think every Englishwoman an angel . You really have coarse tastes in that way , Larry . Miss Reilly is one of the finer types : a type rare in England , except perhaps in the best of the aristocracy .", "But you know , something must be done .", "Not to my head , I think . I have no headache ; and I could speak distinctly . No : potcheen goes to the heart , not to the head . What ought I to do ?", "I am afraid it was hardly a couple of minutes . She was not here when I arrived ; and I saw her for the first time at the tower .", "Your syndicate too , old chap . You have your bit of the stock .", "Well , to tell you the truth , they were mostly married already . But never mind ! there was nothing wrong . Come ! Do n't take a mean advantage of me . After all , you must have had a fancy or two yourself , eh ?", "What a regular old Church and State Tory he is ! He 's a character : he 'll be an attraction here . Really almost equal to Ruskin and Carlyle .", "I was just about to ring for tea when you came . Sit down , Mr Haffigan ."], "true_target": ["I can hardly trust myself to say how much I like it . The magic of this Irish scene , and \u2014 I really do n't want to be personal , Miss Reilly ; but the charm of your Irish voice \u2014", "I 'm afraid it 's all the fault of my motor . Miss Reilly must not be left to wait and walk home alone at night . Shall I go for her ?", "Thank you , Miss Reilly : I am . Now we shall get along .Nora : I was in earnest last night .No : one moment . You must not think I am going to press you for an answer before you have known me for 24 hours . I am a reasonable man , I hope ; and I am prepared to wait as long as you like , provided you will give me some small assurance that the answer will not be unfavorable .", "Perhaps so : what is it ?", "I 'm bound to tell you , Miss Reilly , that Larry has not arrived in Rosscullen yet . He meant to get here before me ; but his car broke down ; and he may not arrive until to-morrow .", "Anybody been looking for me ?", "It means an immense reduction in the burden of the rates and taxes .", "Not an Irishman !", "May I put it in this way ?\u2014 that I saw at once that you were a thorough Irishman , with all the faults and all , the qualities of your race : rash and improvident but brave and goodnatured ; not likely to succeed in business on your own account perhaps , but eloquent , humorous , a lover of freedom , and a true follower of that great Englishman Gladstone .", "Surely the text refers to our right and left hands . I am somewhat surprised to hear a member of your Church quote so essentially Protestant a document as the Bible ; but at least you might quote it accurately .", "Yes I was : nothing can excuse it : perfectly beastly . It must have made a most unfavorable impression on you .", "My plan , sir , will be to take a little money out of England and spend it in Ireland .", "I really cannot tell you what I feel about Home Rule without using the language of hyperbole .", "Oh , nothing . An advance on his salary \u2014 for travelling expenses .", "Wrong for once , Tim . My friend Mr Doyle is a countryman of yours . Tim is noticeably dashed by this announcement . He draws in his horns at once , and scowls suspiciously at Doyle under a vanishing mark of goodfellowship : cringing a little , too , in mere nerveless fear of him .", "No , of course not . I do n't mean it \u2014 at least I do mean it ; but I know it 's premature . I had no right to take advantage of your being a little upset ; but I lost my self-control for a moment .", "Eh ? How much ?", "Certainly .", "Look here , Larry : do n't be an ass .", "What are you laughing at ?", "But do n't you want to see your country again after 18 years absence ? to see your people , to be in the old home again ? To \u2014", "Forty thousand ?", "You can spoil any joke by being cold blooded about it . I saw it all right when he said it . It was something \u2014 something really very amusing \u2014 about the Home Secretary and the Irish Secretary . At all events , he 's evidently the very man to take with me to Ireland to break the ice for me . He can gain the confidence of the people there , and make them friendly to me . Eh ?", "She 's rather full of it , as you may imagine . Poor Nora ! Well , Mr Keegan , as I said , I begin to see my way here . I begin to see my way .", "No , Larry , I was drunk , I am sorry to say . I had two tumblers of punch . She had to lead me home . You must have noticed it .", "No . Eight pound six and eightpence .", "Why ?", "Good morning , Miss Doyle .", "The voice is just as beautiful in the dark , you know . Besides , I 've heard a great deal about you from Larry .", "Yes , yes ; but you know you might say that of any country . The fact is , there are only two qualities in the world : efficiency and inefficiency , and only two sorts of people : the efficient and the inefficient . It do n't matter whether they 're English or Irish . I shall collar this place , not because I 'm an Englishman and Haffigan and Co are Irishmen , but because they 're duffers and I know my way about .", "Well , we must n't be stiff and stand-off , you know . We must be thoroughly democratic , and patronize everybody without distinction of class . I tell you I 'm a jolly lucky man , Nora Cryna . I get engaged to the most delightful woman in Ireland ; and it turns out that I could n't have done a smarter stroke of electioneering .", "Well , I want it packed . There 's a packet of cartridges somewhere , I think . Find it and pack it as well .", "There you go ! Why are you so down on every Irishman you meet , especially if he 's a bit shabby ? poor devil ! Surely a fellow-countryman may pass you the top of the morning without offence , even if his coat is a bit shiny at the seams .", "By the way , you told me I could n't have porridge for breakfast ; but Mr Doyle had some .", "I assure you I like the open air .", "I did really . I wish you had taken half as much interest in me .", "No . I 've come instead . I hope I am not unwelcome .", "Quite sure ?", "You amaze me , Larry . Who would have thought of your coming out like this !But much as I appreciate your really brilliant eloquence , I implore you not to desert the great Liberal principle of Disestablishment .", "Oh , he wo n't like it any the less for that . What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering . Not that I would flatter any man : do n't think that . I 'll just go and meet him .", "He did .", "Common sense , you mean .", "But how soon ? Can you start tonight \u2014 from Paddington ? We go by Milford Haven .", "I 've not forgotten that , Tim . We must put that little matter on a solid English footing , though the rest can be as Irish as you please . You must come as my \u2014 my \u2014 well , I hardly know what to call it . If we call you my agent , they 'll shoot you . If we call you a bailiff , they 'll duck you in the horsepond . I have a secretary already ; and \u2014", "Ah , now you 're chaffing me , Miss Reilly : you know you are . You must n't chaff me . I 'm very much in earnest about Ireland and everything Irish . I 'm very much in earnest about you and about Larry .", "No hotel ! Why , the driver told me there was the finest hotel in Ireland here .", "Yes .", "All I can say is that I wish I could drink the health of everyone of you .", "You see , as a stranger and an Englishman , I thought it would be interesting to see the Round Tower by moonlight .", "Oh tut , tut , Larry ! They improved my mind : they raised my tone enormously . I feel sincerely obliged to Keegan : he has made me feel a better man : distinctly better .I feel now as I never did before that I am right in devoting my life to the cause of Ireland . Come along and help me to choose the site for the hotel .", "Too true , Mr Keegan , only too true . And most eloquently put . It reminds me of poor Ruskin \u2014 a great man , you know . I sympathize . Believe me , I 'm on your side . Do n't sneer , Larry : I used to read a lot of Shelley years ago . Let us be faithful to the dreams of our youth", "I 'm not crying . I \u2014 I \u2014 I leave that sort of thing to your damned sentimental Irishmen . You think I have no feeling because I am a plain unemotional Englishman , with no powers of expression .", "Perhaps there 's a public house .", "Oh , Miss Doyle ! Really , really \u2014 Nora , following Aunt Judy with the rolled-up cloth in her hands , looks at him and strikes him dumb . He watches her until she disappears ; then comes to Larry and addresses him with sudden intensity .", "There are not many things I would not dare for you . That does not sound right perhaps ; but I really \u2014", "I must thank you very particularly , Mr Haffigan , for your support this morning . I value it because I know that the real heart of a nation is the class you represent , the yeomanry .", "I think I 've done the trick this time . I just gave them a bit of straight talk ; and it went home . They were greatly impressed : everyone of those men believes in me and will vote for me when the question of selecting a candidate comes up . After all , whatever you say , Larry , they like an Englishman . They feel they can trust him , I suppose .", "No , really ? You find that contact with English ideas is stimulating , eh ?", "I 'm sorry I could n't get back from Brighton in time to offer you some ; but \u2014", "Nothing pays like a golfing hotel , if you hold the land instead of the shares , and if the furniture people stand in with you , and if you are a good man of business .", "Hodson : this gentleman 's sufferings should make every Englishman think . It is want of thought rather than want of heart that allows such iniquities to disgrace society .", "Now you know , Larry , that would never have occurred to me . You Irish people are amazingly clever . Of course it 's all tommy rot ; but it 's so brilliant , you know ! How the dickens do you think of such things ! You really must write an article about it : they 'll pay you something for it . If Nature wo n't have it , I can get it into Engineering for you : I know the editor .", "Irishman .", "It was not borrowing exactly . He showed a very honorable spirit about money . I believe he would share his last shilling with a friend .", "Oh no : it wo n't do that : not the least danger . You know , a church bell can make a devil of a noise when it likes .", "Have you ever been in Ireland ?", "Go and catch the pig and put it into the car \u2014 we 're going to take it to Mr Haffigan 's .Come on , you old croaker ! I 'll show you how to win an Irish seat .", "Well , everything you tell me about her impresses me favorably . She seems to have the feelings of a lady ; and though we must face the fact that in England her income would hardly maintain her in the lower middle class \u2014", "Now that 's very nice of you , Nora , that 's really most delicately womanly", "To a member 's wife , Nora , nobody is common provided he 's on the register . Come , my dear ! it 's all right : do you think I 'd let you do it if it was n't ? The best people do it . Everybody does it .", "I do . Much better .", "For being my Home Secretary , as he very wittily called it .", "He has joined the Tariff Reform League . He would never have done that if his mind had not been weakened .He has fallen a victim to the arts of a political charlatan who \u2014", "I am a lover of liberty , like every true Englishman , Mr Haffigan . My name is Broadbent . If my name were Breitstein , and I had a hooked nose and a house in Park Lane , I should carry a Union Jack handkerchief and a penny trumpet , and tax the food of the people to support the Navy League , and clamor for the destruction of the last remnants of national liberty \u2014", "Have you any theory as to what the Round Towers were for ?", "Ah ! it was only your delightful Irish humor , Mr Keegan . Of course , of course . How stupid of me ! I 'm so sorry .John Bull 's wits are still slow , you see . Besides , calling me a hypocrite was too big a joke to swallow all at once , you know .", "Of course .Quite so .Er \u2014 yes .I think they will vote for me . Eh ? Yes ?", "Did you notice anything about me last night when I came in with that lady ?", "As a reasonable man , yes . I see no evils in the world \u2014 except , of course , natural evils \u2014 that cannot be remedied by freedom , self-government , and English institutions . I think so , not because I am an Englishman , but as a matter of common sense .", "Eh ?", "Just wait and say something nice to Keegan . They tell me he controls nearly as many votes as Father Dempsey himself .", "Have you ever heard of Garden City ?", "Well , that 's over . I must apologize for making that speech , Miss Doyle ; but they like it , you know . Everything helps in electioneering . Larry takes the chair near the door ; draws it near the table ; and sits astride it , with his elbows folded on the back .", "Well , yes , I 'm afraid I do , you know .", "I hope you have not been anxious about me .", "Of course . Do n't you ?", "You 'll acquire the taste by degrees . You must n't mind me : it 's an absolute necessity of my nature that I should have somebody to hug occasionally . Besides , it 's good for you : it 'll plump out your muscles and make em elastic and set up your figure .", "I shall leave you now , gentlemen , to your deliberations . I should like to have enlarged on the services rendered by the Liberal Party to the religious faith of the great majority of the people of Ireland ; but I shall content myself with saying that in my opinion you should choose no representative who \u2014 no matter what his personal creed may be \u2014 is not an ardent supporter of freedom of conscience , and is not prepared to prove it by contributions , as lavish as his means will allow , to the great and beneficent work which you , Father Dempsey, are doing for the people of Rosscullen . Nor should the lighter , but still most important question of the sports of the people be forgotten . The local cricket club \u2014", "Lord ! yes .", "But this is such a horrible doubt to put into my mind \u2014 to \u2014 to \u2014 For Heaven 's sake , Miss Reilly , am I really drunk ?", "First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity : no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it . No , my dear Nora : I 've done with all that long ago . Love affairs always end in rows . We 're not going to have any rows : we 're going to have a solid four-square home : man and wife : comfort and common sense \u2014 and plenty of affection , eh?", "Murray describes it . One of your great national heroes \u2014 I can n't pronounce the name \u2014 Finian Somebody , I think .", "We shall have to look out for some other arrangement .Still , it 's no end of a joke . How do you like the Irish , Hodson ?", "You do n't suppose I believe it , do you ?", "Why can n't you say a simple thing simply , Larry , without all that Irish exaggeration and talky-talky ? The syndicate is a perfectly respectable body of responsible men of good position . We 'll take Ireland in hand , and by straightforward business habits teach it efficiency and self-help on sound Liberal principles . You agree with me , Mr Keegan , do n't you ?", "Not that I defend assassination : God forbid ! However strongly we may feel that the unfortunate and patriotic young man who avenged the wrongs of Finland on the Russian tyrant was perfectly right from his own point of view , yet every civilized man must regard murder with abhorrence . Not even in defence of Free Trade would I lift my hand against a political opponent , however richly he might deserve it .", "Do n't unpack . Just take out the things I 've worn ; and put in clean things .", "What a nice chap ! What an intelligent , interesting fellow ! By the way , I 'd better have a wash .Nora returns to her chair and shuts up the backgammon board .", "It 's you who have no feeling . You 're as heartless as Larry .", "Thank you . Retrenchment \u2014", "I daresay it is .Murray says that a huge stone , probably of Druidic origin , is still pointed out as the die cast by Fin in his celebrated match with the devil .", "Yes ; but you are an Irishman ; and these things are not serious to you as they are to an Englishman .", "Heaven ! No : it 's near Hitchin . If you can spare half an hour I 'll go into it with you .", "Ah , you are a poet , Mr Keegan , not a man of business .", "She did .", "Oh well , of courseif you take it in that way , I 'm sorry .", "Oh , their faults are on the surface : at heart they are one of the finest races on earth .By the way , Hodson \u2014", "Only when there is a protective tariff \u2014", "Most happy to meet you , Mr Keegan . I have heard of you , though I have not had the pleasure of shaking your hand before . And now may I ask you \u2014 for I value no man 's opinion more \u2014 what you think of my chances here .", "Well , even that would set the poor girl 's mind at rest .", "If I really thought that , Miss Reilly , I should \u2014 well , I should let myself feel that charm of which I spoke just now more deeply than I \u2014 than I \u2014", "But he would n't pay the interest . I had to foreclose on behalf of the Syndicate . So now I 'm off to Rosscullen to look after the property myself .You 're coming with me , of course ?", "Do you think you could collect a crowd to see the motor ?", "If he calls again let him come up .", "I must be drunk \u2014 frightfully drunk ; for your voice drove me out of my sensesNo : on my word , on my most sacred word of honor , Miss Reilly , I tripped over that stone . It was an accident ; it was indeed .", "You Irishmen certainly do know how to drink .Now that 's my poor English idea of a whisky and soda .", "My dear sir : to all intents and purposes the syndicate I represent already owns half Rosscullen . Doolan 's is a tied house ; and the brewers are in the syndicate . As to Haffigan 's farm and Doran 's mill and Mr Doyle 's place and half a dozen others , they will be mortgaged to me before a month is out .", "Serious ! I !! !", "We get on well enough . Of course you have the melancholy of the Celtic race \u2014", "But surely Irish landlordism was accountable for what", "I must introduce myself \u2014", "Very friendly of you , Larry , old man , but all blarney . I like blarney ; but it 's rot , all the same .", "And , of course , Reform .", "Were you at all hard hit ?", "Capital . Your Irish wit has settled the first difficulty . Now about your salary \u2014", "Well , I am . Now do you understand ?", "Oh , what a fool ! what a brute I am ! It 's only your Irish delicacy : of course , of course . You mean Yes . Eh ? What ? Yes , yes , yes ?", "Do n't fly out at me , old chap . I only thought \u2014", "Larry .", "No , no : let 's have no telling : much better not . I sha n't tell you anything : do n't you tell ME anything . Perfect confidence in one another and no tellings : that 's the way to avoid rows .", "Oh , it 's only a knack . One picks it up on the platform . It stokes up their enthusiasm .", "Since when ? I mean how old were you when she came ?", "What ! Here you are , belonging to a nation with the strongest patriotism ! the most inveterate homing instinct in the world ! and you pretend you 'd rather go anywhere than back to Ireland . You do n't suppose I believe you , do you ? In your heart \u2014", "Say when .", "Of course I know that the moral code is different in Ireland . But in England it 's not considered fair to trifle with a woman 's affections .", "There is rather a delicate moral question involved . The point is , was I drunk enough not to be morally responsible for my proposal ? Or was I sober enough to be bound to repeat it now that I am undoubtedly sober ?", "You forget , sir , that we , with our capital , our knowledge , our organization , and may I say our English business habits , can make or lose ten pounds out of land that Haffigan , with all his industry , could not make or lose ten shillings out of . Doran 's mill is a superannuated folly : I shall want it for electric lighting .", "I feel sure you would , Mr Haffigan .", "Ah ! I like this spot . I like this view . This would be a jolly good place for a hotel and a golf links . Friday to Tuesday , railway ticket and hotel all inclusive . I tell you , Nora , I 'm going to develop this place .Hallo ! What 's the matter ? Tired ?", "Why , what lies to our hand .", "Oh yes , I have : you should see me when I am really roused : then I have TREMENDOUS self-control . Remember : we have been alone together only once before ; and then , I regret to say , I was in a disgusting state .", "Well , why not ? They 'll be delighted to see you , now that England has made a man of you .", "It means , Mr Haffigan , maintaining those reforms which have already been conferred on humanity by the Liberal Party , and trusting for future developments to the free activity of a free people on the basis of those reforms .", "No , Larry , no . You are thinking of the modern hybrids that now monopolize England . Hypocrites , humbugs , Germans , Jews , Yankees , foreigners , Park Laners , cosmopolitan riffraff . Do n't call them English . They do n't belong to the dear old island , but to their confounded new empire ; and by George ! they 're worthy of it ; and I wish them joy of it .", "She would n't like it , would she ? Of course not . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves , Larry .You know , I have a sort of presentiment that Miss Really is a very superior woman .", "That is true , Larry : I admit it . Her voice has a most extraordinary effect on me . That Irish voice !", "You 're very kind , Miss Doyle ; but really I 'm ashamed to give you so much trouble unnecessarily . I sha n't mind the hotel in the least .", "I never mentioned your father .", "Nobody asked you to , ma'am . I never asked any woman to marry me before .", "I hope they made you comfortable last night .", "No , no . That would not be right . That would not be fair . I am either under a moral obligation or I am not . I wish I knew how drunk I was .", "Wait : let me break this to you gently , Miss Reilly : hear me out . I daresay you have noticed that in speaking to you I have been putting a very strong constraint on myself , so as to avoid wounding your delicacy by too abrupt an avowal of my feelings . Well , I feel now that the time has come to be open , to be frank , to be explicit . Miss Reilly : you have inspired in me a very strong attachment . Perhaps , with a woman 's intuition , you have already guessed that .", "So am I , of course . I 'm a Local Optionist to the backbone . You have no idea , Mr Haffigan , of the ruin that is wrought in this country by the unholy alliance of the publicans , the bishops , the Tories , and The Times . We must close the public-houses at all costs", "What 's that got to do with our English national character ?", "Yes : their sense of humor is in abeyance : I noticed it the moment we landed . Think of that in a country where every man is a born humorist ! Think of what it means !Larry we are in the presence of a great national grief .", "Yes , Mr Keegan : this place may have an industrial future , or it may have a residential future : I can n't tell yet ; but it 's not going to be a future in the hands of your Dorans and Haffigans , poor devils !", "Why , so much the better ! I shall enjoy the joke myself more than any of them .Hallo , Patsy Farrell , where are you ?", "Oh come ! come !", "Never despair , Larry . There are great possibilities for Ireland . Home Rule will work wonders under English guidance .", "Not at all , not at all . Come in .This gentleman is a friend who lives with me here : my partner , Mr Doyle .This is a new Irish friend of mine , Mr Tim Haffigan .", "You 're quite right : I will .You understand that the map of the city \u2014 the circular construction \u2014 is only a suggestion .", "Nora I love \u2014", "Unmitigated rot , Larry , I assure you .", "Quite , thank you . You must excuse us for not waiting for you . The country air tempted us to get up early .", "Not at all , not at all : I should be only too delighted . But to upset your arrangements in this way \u2014", "Do you mean to say that I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 my God ! that I appear drunk to you , Miss Reilly ?", "Who can blame him , Miss Doyle ? Who can blame him ?", "I do n't want to be petted and blarneyed .I love you . I want you for my wife .I can n't help your refusing . I 'm helpless : I can do nothing . You have no right to ruin my whole life . You \u2014", "That 's true : that 's very true . When I see the windbags , the carpet-baggers , the charlatans , the \u2014 the \u2014 the fools and ignoramuses who corrupt the multitude by their wealth , or seduce them by spouting balderdash to them , I cannot help thinking that an honest man with no humbug about him , who will talk straight common sense and take his stand on the solid ground of principle and public duty , must win his way with men of all classes .", "Try a whisky and soda .", "Do n't despair , Larry , old boy : things may look black ; but there will be a great change after the next election .", "I have heard about it ; and my blood still boils at the thought .Hodson \u2014", "I certainly have no headache . Did you try the pottine ,", "Never , Larry , never . But leaving politics out of the question , I find the world quite good enough for me : rather a jolly place , in fact ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["He was in too great a hurry , sir . Started to run home , sir , and left his pig behind him .", "I was no worse than you were on that sofa , sir . One expects to rough it here , sir .", "Well , sir , they 're all right anywhere but in their own country . I 've known lots of em in England , and generally liked em . But here , sir , I seem simply to hate em . The feeling come over me the moment we landed at Cork , sir . It 's no use my pretendin , sir : I can n't bear em . My mind rises up agin their ways , somehow : they rub me the wrong way all over .", "Wot else ?", "No , sir .", "The valley ? Oh , I follow you : yes : I 'm Mr Broadbent 's valet .", "Did you call , sir ?", "Not at all , sir . I 'll risk it , sir .", "I think I saw him waiting about , sir , when you drove up . Shall I fetch him , sir ?", "Yes sir ?", "Well , I 'll try , sir .", "We can beyave ahrselves withaht sich things .", "Is it a dangerous part you 're going to , sir ? Should I be expected to carry a revolver , sir ?", "Ow , Tom Broadbent 's blood boils pretty easy over ennything that appens out of his own country . Do n't you be taken in by my ole man , Paddy .", "No sir . I understand it 's a very wet climate , sir . I 'd better pack your india-rubber overalls .", "I 'm expecting him at five , sir . He went out after lunch .", "You just keep your hair on and listen to me . You Irish people are too well off : that 's what 's the matter with you .You talk of your rotten little farm because you made it by chuckin a few stownes dahn a hill ! Well , wot price my grenfawther , I should like to know , that fitted up a fuss clawss shop and built up a fuss clawss drapery business in London by sixty years work , and then was chucked aht of it on is ed at the end of is lease withaht a penny for his goodwill . You talk of evictions ! you that caw n't be moved until you 've run up eighteen months rent . I once ran up four weeks in Lambeth when I was aht of a job in winter . They took the door off its inges and the winder aht of its sashes on me , and gave my wife pnoomownia . I 'm a widower now .Gawd ! when I think of the things we Englishmen av to put up with , and hear you Irish hahlin abaht your silly little grievances , and see the way you makes it worse for us by the rotten wages you 'll come over and take and the rotten places you 'll sleep in , I jast feel that I could take the oul bloomin British awland and make you a present of it , jast to let you find out wot real ardship 's like .", "Yes , sir ?", "Well , I should a said rather the opposite , sir . Usually when you 've been enjoying yourself , you 're a bit hearty like . Last night you seemed rather low , if anything .", "Yes I do . It 's because I want a little attention paid to my own country ; and thet 'll never be as long as your chaps are ollerin at Wesminister as if nowbody mettered but your own bloomin selves . Send em back to hell or C'naught , as good oul English Cromwell said . I 'm jast sick of Ireland . Let it gow . Cut the cable . Make it a present to Germany to keep the oul Kyzer busy for a while ; and give poor owld England a chawnce : thets wot I say .", "Right , sir .", "I 'm sure you 're very kind , sir ; but it do n't seem to matter to me whether they like me or not . I 'm not going to stand for parliament here , sir .", "I just took a mouthful , sir . It tasted of peat : oh ! something horrid , sir . The people here call peat turf . Potcheen and strong porter is what they like , sir . I 'm sure I do n't know how they can stand it . Give me beer , I say .", "Yes sir .", "Your pig 'll ave a rare doin in that car , Paddy . Forty miles an ahr dahn that rocky lane will strike it pretty pink , you bet ."], "true_target": ["No use , sir . We 'll have to get everything from London by parcel post .", "Yes sir , I noticed that he was rather Irish ....", "I wish I ad your ealth : you look as hard as nails . I suffer from an excess of uric acid .", "I should n't think he drank tea , sir .", "I did n't notice nothing , sir . What sort of thing ded you mean , sir ?", "Revolver , sir ? Yes sir . Mr Doyle uses it as a paper-weight , sir , when he 's drawing .", "A person giving the name of Haffigan has called twice to-day , sir .", "Yes sir .", "Mr Affigan . Haffigan is a stunted , shortnecked , smallheaded , redhaired man of about 30 , with reddened nose and furtive eyes . He is dressed in seedy black , almost clerically , and might be a tenth-rate schoolmaster ruined by drink . He hastens to shake Broadbent 's hand with a show of reckless geniality and high spirits , helped out by a rollicking stage brogue . This is perhaps a comfort to himself , as he is secretly pursued by the horrors of incipient delirium tremens .", "Yes , sir . Very sorry , sir . They call it stirabout , sir : that 's how it was . They know no better , sir .", "Yes sirHere he is , sir . Saw you arrive , sir .", "Yes , sir .", "Yes sir .", "Yes sir .", "Well Sir , I did n't know you expected him ; so I thought it best to \u2014 to \u2014 not to encourage him , sir .", "No , sir .", "Orse ! Wy , you silly oul rotten it 's not a orse it 's a mowtor . Do you suppose Tom Broadbent would gow off himself to arness a orse ?", "Yes sir .", "Wots wrong with you , old chap ? Has ennybody been doin ennything to you ?", "Yes sir", "Oh , I beg your pardon , sir , I 'm sure . I understand , sir .", "Ow , chuck it , Paddy . Cheese it . You danno wot ardship is over ere : all you know is ah to ahl abaht it . You take the biscuit at that , you do . I 'm a Owm Ruler , I am . Do you know why ?", "I have n't treated any of em yet , sir . If I was to accept all the treats they offer me I should n't be able to stand at this present moment , sir .", "Yes , sir .", "Bolted , sir ! Afraid of the motor , sir ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Good morning , sir ."], "true_target": ["Tim Haffigan , sir , at your service . The top o the mornin to you , Misther Broadbent ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Ish 'll be verra pleased to accompany ye , sir .", "Not another word . Shake hands .", "I 'll make a careful note o that", "There you touch the national wakeness , sir .Not that I share it meself . I 've seen too much of the mischief of it .", "Why should n't it satisfy me ? A hundherd a year is twelve-pound a month , is n't it ?", "I must be going . Ivnmportnt engeegement in the west end .", "An is it the afthernoon it is already ? Begorra , what I call the mornin is all the time a man fasts afther breakfast .", "An a very good idea it is too . Dhrink is the curse o me unhappy counthry . I take it meself because I 've a wake heart and a poor digestion ; but in principle I 'm a teetoatler .", "You 're a gentleman , sir . Whin me mother turns up her toes , you shall take the five pounds off ; for your expinses must be kep down wid a sthrong hand ; an \u2014Mr Laurence Doyle is a man of 36 , with cold grey eyes , strained nose , fine fastidious lips , critical brown , clever head , rather refined and goodlooking on the whole , but with a suggestion of thinskinedness and dissatisfaction that contrasts strongly with Broadbent 's eupeptic jollity . He comes in as a man at home there , but on seeing the stranger shrinks at once , and is about to withdraw when Broadbent reassures him . He then comes forward to the table , between the two others .", "D'ye mane Heavn ?", "Thank you . I 'll be there half an hour before the thrain starts .Whisht : he 's comin back . Goodbye an God bless ye .", "Divil a lunch !", "Then we 'll call him the Home Secretary and me the Irish", "Sure it 's meself that 's proud to meet any friend o Misther Broadbent 's . The top o the mornin to you , sir ! Me heart goes out teeye both . It 's not often I meet two such splendid speciments iv the Anglo-Saxon race .", "Well \u2014 I 'm afreed \u2014 IMisther Broadbent : do n't humiliate me before a fella counthryman . Look here : me cloes is up the spout . Gimme a fypounnote \u2014 I 'll pay ya nex choosda whin me ship comes home \u2014 or you can stop it out o me month 's sallery . I 'll be on the platform at Paddnton punctial an ready . Gimme it quick , before he comes back . You wo n't mind me axin , will ye ?", "Sure I know . It 's awful", "That 's just what was on the tip o me tongue to ask you . Why not ?Tell me why not .", "I see you 're a good"], "true_target": ["Bedad I do , sir . Take all you can out of Ireland and spend it in England : that 's it .", "I tell you hwat . Gimme a prospectus . Lemme take it home and reflect on it .", "Will I come to Madagascar or Cochin China wid you ? Bedad I 'll come to the North Pole wid you if yll pay me fare ; for the divil a shillin I have to buy a third class ticket .", "Tay is a good dhrink if your nerves can stand it . Mine can n't . Haffigan sits down at the writing table , with his back to the filing cabinet . Broadbent sits opposite him . Hodson enters emptyhanded ; takes two glasses , a siphon , and a tantalus from the cupboard ; places them before Broadbent on the writing table ; looks ruthlessly at Haffigan , who cannot meet his eye ; and retires .", "I 'm sure you would n't ; and I honor you for it . You 're goin to Ireland , then , out o sympithy : is it ?", "Faith , they 've reckoned up with poor oul Bobrikoff anyhow .", "Never fear , sir . We know how to respict a brave innimy .", "Damn it ! call me Tim . A man that talks about Ireland as you do may call me anything . Gimme a howlt o that whisky bottle", "Sure I know every word you 're goin to say before yev said it . I know the sort o man yar . An so you 're thinkin o comin to Ireland for a bit ?", "Not too sthrong .Say half-an-half .Just a dhrain more : the lower half o the tumbler does n't hold a fair half . Thankya .", "Not a word , sir , not a word . Sure it 'll do tomorrow . Besides , I 'm Irish , sir : a poor ather , but a powerful dhrinker .", "Spare me blushes . I must n't sit here to be praised to me face . But I confess to the goodnature : it 's an Irish wakeness . I 'd share me last shillin with a friend .", "More power to your elbow ! an may your shadda never be less ! for you 're the broth of a boy intirely . An how can I help you ? Command me to the last dhrop o me blood .", "A salary , is it ? Sure I 'd do it for nothin , only me cloes ud disgrace you ; and I 'd be dhriven to borra money from your friends : a thing that 's agin me nacher . But I wo n't take a penny more than a hundherd a year .", "Secretary . Eh ?", "Tell me all me faults as man to man . I can stand anything but flatthery .", "Oh murdher ! An I 'll have to sind five timme poor oul mother in Ireland . But no matther : I said a hundherd ; and what I said I 'll stick to , if I have to starve for it .", "Liberal like meself , sir ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Tom : why do you select my most tragic moments for your most irresistible strokes of humor ?", "Let 's get back to business . I 'd better tell you about Nora", "And wished you more power to your elbow ?", "For instance , Home Rule , South Africa , Free Trade , and the Education Rate . Well , I should differ from my father on every one of them , probably , just as I differ from you about them .", "There ! You feel better now , do n't you ?", "The top of the morning ! Did he call you the broth of a boy ?", "What ! not even Home Rule !", "I 'll tell you . The world is as full of fools as a tree is full of leaves . Well , the Englishman does what the caterpillar does . He instinctively makes himself look like a fool , and eats up all the real fools at his ease while his enemies let him alone and laugh at him for being a fool like the rest . Oh , nature is cunning , cunning !", "Reilly .", "Ah ! you hit the mark there , Tom , with true British inspiration .", "There he is in Rosscullen , a landagent who 's always been in a small way because he 's a Catholic , and the landlords are mostly Protestants . What with land courts reducing rents and Land Acts turning big estates into little holdings , he 'd be a beggar this day if he had n't bought his own little farm under the Land Purchase Act . I doubt if he 's been further from home than Athenmullet for the last twenty years . And here am I , made a man of , as you say , by England .", "You mean that you keep clear of your father because he differs from you about Free Trade , and you do n't want to quarrel with him . Well , think of me and my father ! He 's a Nationalist and a Separatist . I 'm a metallurgical chemist turned civil engineer . Now whatever else metallurgical chemistry may be , it 's not national . It 's international . And my business and yours as civil engineers is to join countries , not to separate them . The one real political conviction that our business has rubbed into us is that frontiers are hindrances and flags confounded nuisances .", "Like an Irishman !! Is it possible that you do n't know that all this top-o-the-morning and broth-of-a-boy and more-power-to-your-elbow business is as peculiar to England as the Albert Hall concerts of Irish music are ? No Irishman ever talks like that in Ireland , or ever did , or ever will . But when a thoroughly worthless Irishman comes to England , and finds the whole place full of romantic duffers like you , who will let him loaf and drink and sponge and brag as long as he flatters your sense of moral superiority by playing the fool and degrading himself and his country , he soon learns the antics that take you in . He picks them up at the theatre or the music hall . Haffigan learnt the rudiments from his father , who came from my part of Ireland . I knew his uncles , Matt and Andy Haffigan of Rosscullen .", "No I do n't . Damn your advice !Let 's have it , all the same .", "Never mind my heart : an Irishman 's heart is nothing but his imagination . How many of all those millions that have left Ireland have ever come back or wanted to come back ? But what 's the use of talking to you ? Three verses of twaddle about the Irish emigrant \u201c sitting on the stile , Mary , \u201d or three hours of Irish patriotism in Bermondsey or the Scotland Division of Liverpool , go further with you than all the facts that stare you in the face . Why , man alive , look at me ! You know the way I nag , and worry , and carp , and cavil , and disparage , and am never satisfied and never quiet , and try the patience of my best friends .", "It 's quite simple . You know that a caterpillar \u2014", "You 're engaged .", "Not really . I had only two ideas at that time , first , to learn to do something ; and then to get out of Ireland and have a chance of doing it . She did n't count . I was romantic about her , just as I was romantic about Byron 's heroines or the old Round Tower of Rosscullen ; but she did n't count any more than they did . I 've never crossed St George 's Channel since for her sake \u2014 never even landed at Queenstown and come back to London through Ireland .", "A girl with a dowry of five pounds calls it a fortune in Rosscullen . What 's more 40 pounds a year IS a fortune there ; and Nora Reilly enjoys a good deal of social consideration as an heiress on the strength of it . It has helped my father 's household through many a tight place . My father was her father 's agent . She came on a visit to us when he died , and has lived with us ever since .", "What d'ye mean by Hm ! ?", "Her photographs stopped at twenty-five .", "Oh get out , you idiot !", "No , never . But she IS waiting for me .", "By George , if she only knew that two men were talking about her like this \u2014!", "She writes to me \u2014 on her birthday . She used to write on mine , and send me little things as presents ; but I stopped that by pretending that it was no use when I was travelling , as they got lost in the foreign post-offices .", "My dear Tom , you only need a touch of the Irish climate to be as big a fool as I am myself . If all my Irish blood were poured into your veins , you would n't turn a hair of your constitution and character . Go and marry the most English Englishwoman you can find , and then bring up your son in Rosscullen ; and that son 's character will be so like mine and so unlike yours that everybody will accuse me of being his father .Rosscullen ! oh , good Lord , Rosscullen ! The dullness ! the hopelessness ! the ignorance ! the bigotry !", "Now look here , Tom . That reminds me . When you go to Ireland , just drop talking about the middle class and bragging of belonging to it . In Ireland you 're either a gentleman or you 're not . If you want to be particularly offensive to Nora , you can call her a Papist ; but if you call her a middle-class woman , Heaven help you !", "What difference does that make ? What would you say if I proposed a visit to YOUR father ?", "Yes , yes : I know all that as well as you do .", "What is there behind it ? Do you think I 'm humbugging you ?", "Well , at any rate you will admit that all my friends are either Englishmen or men of the big world that belongs to the big Powers . All the serious part of my life has been lived in that atmosphere : all the serious part of my work has been done with men of that sort . Just think of me as I am now going back to Rosscullen ! to that hell of littleness and monotony ! How am I to get on with a little country landagent that ekes out his 5 per cent with a little farming and a scrap of house property in the nearest country town ? What am I to say to him ? What is he to say to me ?", "Oh you have , have you ?", "Where the devil did you pick up that seedy swindler ? What was he doing here ?", "Well : your letter completely upset me , for one thing .", "No doubt he would share his friend 's last shilling if his friend was fool enough to let him . How much did he touch you for ?", "Beau \u2014! Oho ! Here 's a chance for Nora ! and for me !Hodson .", "Uneasy . I 'd give 50 pounds to escape a letter ."], "true_target": ["Good evening .Will you soon be disengaged ?", "No it 's not . I should never have done anything without you ; although I never stop wondering at that blessed old head of yours with all its ideas in watertight compartments , and all the compartments warranted impervious to anything that it does n't suit you to understand .", "Pack for me too . I 'm going to Ireland with Mr Broadbent .", "Yes , to strangers . Perhaps if I was a bit stiffer to strangers , and a bit easier at home , like an Englishman , I 'd be better company for you .", "Yes , a caterpillar . Now give your mind to what I am going to say ; for it 's a new and important scientific theory of the English national character . A caterpillar \u2014", "I was seventeen . So was she : if she 'd been older she 'd have had more sense than to stay with us . We were together for 18 months before I went up to Dublin to study . When I went home for Christmas and Easter , she was there : I suppose it used to be something of an event for her , though of course I never thought of that then .", "What did you think ?", "And he got about half a pint of whisky out of you .", "Now look here , Tom : you want to get in a speech on Free Trade ; and you 're not going to do it : I wo n't stand it . My father wants to make St George 's Channel a frontier and hoist a green flag on College Green ; and I want to bring Galway within 3 hours of Colchester and 24 of New York . I want Ireland to be the brains and imagination of a big Commonwealth , not a Robinson Crusoe island . Then there 's the religious difficulty . My Catholicism is the Catholicism of Charlemagne or Dante , qualified by a great deal of modern science and folklore which Father Dempsey would call the ravings of an Atheist . Well , my father 's Catholicism is the Catholicism of Father Dempsey .", "His brogue ! A fat lot you know about brogues ! I 've heard you call a Dublin accent that you could hang your hat on , a brogue . Heaven help you ! you do n't know the difference between Connemara and Rathmines .Oh , damn Tim Haffigan ! Let 's drop the subject : he 's not worth wrangling about .", "No , forty . Forty pounds .", "Has he gone mad ? You never told me .", "No I do n't : you 've no more common sense than a gander . No Englishman has any common sense , or ever had , or ever will have . You 're going on a sentimental expedition for perfectly ridiculous reasons , with your head full of political nonsense that would not take in any ordinarily intelligent donkey ; but you can hit me in the eye with the simple truth about myself and my father .", "No : he 's too lazy to take the trouble . All he has to do is to sit there and drink your whisky while you humbug yourself . However , we need n't argue about Haffigan , for two reasons . First , with your money in his pocket he will never reach Paddington : there are too many public houses on the way . Second , he 's not an Irishman at all .", "Born in Glasgow . Never was in Ireland in his life . I know all about him .", "Salary ! In Heaven 's name , what for ?", "Nothing the matter ! When people talk about the Celtic race , I feel as if I could burn down London . That sort of rot does more harm than ten Coercion Acts . Do you suppose a man need be a Celt to feel melancholy in Rosscullen ? Why , man , Ireland was peopled just as England was ; and its breed was crossed by just the same invaders .", "Perfectly . And Rosscullen will understand you too .", "No , no : the climate is different . Here , if the life is dull , you can be dull too , and no great harm done .But your wits can n't thicken in that soft moist air , on those white springy roads , in those misty rushes and brown bogs , on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather . You 've no such colors in the sky , no such lure in the distances , no such sadness in the evenings . Oh , the dreaming ! the dreaming ! the torturing , heartscalding , never satisfying dreaming , dreaming , dreaming , dreaming !No debauchery that ever coarsened and brutalized an Englishman can take the worth and usefulness out of him like that dreaming . An Irishman 's imagination never lets him alone , never convinces him , never satisfies him ; but it makes him that he can n't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it : he can only sneer at them that do , andbe \u201c agreeable to strangers , \u201d like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets .It 's all dreaming , all imagination . He can n't be religious . The inspired Churchman that teaches him the sanctity of life and the importance of conduct is sent away empty ; while the poor village priest that gives him a miracle or a sentimental story of a saint , has cathedrals built for him out of the pennies of the poor . He can n't be intelligently political , he dreams of what the Shan Van Vocht said in ninety-eight . If you want to interest him in Ireland you 've got to call the unfortunate island Kathleen ni Hoolihan and pretend she 's a little old woman . It saves thinking . It saves working . It saves everything except imagination , imagination , imagination ; and imagination 's such a torture that you can n't bear it without whisky .At last you get that you can bear nothing real at all : you 'd rather starve than cook a meal ; you 'd rather go shabby and dirty than set your mind to take care of your clothes and wash yourself ; you nag and squabble at home because your wife is n't an angel , and she despises you because you 're not a hero ; and you hate the whole lot round you because they 're only poor slovenly useless devils like yourself .And all the while there goes on a horrible , senseless , mischievous laughter . When you 're young , you exchange drinks with other young men ; and you exchange vile stories with them ; and as you 're too futile to be able to help or cheer them , you chaff and sneer and taunt them for not doing the things you dare n't do yourself . And all the time you laugh , laugh , laugh ! eternal derision , eternal envy , eternal folly , eternal fouling and staining and degrading , until , when you come at last to a country where men take a question seriously and give a serious answer to it , you deride them for having no sense of humor , and plume yourself on your own worthlessness as if it made you better than them .", "Oh , do n't apologize : it 's quite true . I daresay I 've learnt something in America and a few other remote and inferior spots ; but in the main it is by living with you and working in double harness with you that I have learnt to live in a real world and not in an imaginary one . I owe more to you than to any Irishman .", "A nice introduction , by George ! Do you suppose the whole population of Ireland consists of drunken begging letter writers , or that even if it did , they would accept one another as references ?", "I say a caterpillar and I mean a caterpillar . You 'll understand presently . A caterpillarwhen it gets into a tree , instinctively makes itself look exactly like a leaf ; so that both its enemies and its prey may mistake it for one and think it not worth bothering about .", "And that your shadow might never be less ?", "Oh yes it does . But it 's the charm of a dream . Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm : live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality . I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal .", "That 's it . That 's what I dread . That 's what has upset me .", "I 'd rather . Nora has a fortune .", "Not to mention the solemnity with which it talks old-fashioned nonsense which it knows perfectly well to be a century behind the times . That 's English , if you like .", "Not very punctually . But they get acknowledged at one time or another .", "Would it ? I wonder ! One thing I can tell you ; and that is that Nora would wait until she died of old age sooner than ask my intentions or condescend to hint at the possibility of my having any . You do n't know what Irish pride is . England may have knocked a good deal of it out of me ; but she 's never been in England ; and if I had to choose between wounding that delicacy in her and hitting her in the face , I 'd hit her in the face without a moment 's hesitation .", "How much money did he borrow ?", "Thomas Broadbent : I surrender . The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God 's Englishman . The man who could in all seriousness make that recent remark of yours about Home Rule and Gladstone must be simply the champion idiot of all the world . Yet the man who could in the very next sentence sweep away all my special pleading and go straight to the heart of my motives must be a man of genius . But that the idiot and the genius should be the same man ! how is that possible ?By Jove , I see it all now . I 'll write an article about it , and send it to Nature .", "I do n't see the joke .", "I daresay you 're partly right in that : at all events I know very well that if I had been the son of a laborer instead of the son of a country landagent , I should have struck more grit than I did . Unfortunately I 'm not going back to visit the Irish nation , but to visit my father and Aunt Judy and Nora Reilly and Father Dempsey and the rest of them .", "I am sure you are serious , Tom , about the English guidance .", "Forty per annum .", "Good God !! !", "You mean that an Englishman would get engaged to another woman and return Nora her letters and presents with a letter to say he was unworthy of her and wished her every happiness ?", "Never you mind my temper : it 's not meant for you , as you ought to know by this time .I have an instinct against going back to Ireland : an instinct so strong that I 'd rather go with you to the South Pole than to Rosscullen ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["I could n't help it .Tom made me .I had a sort of dread of returning to Ireland . I felt somehow that my luck would turn if I came back . And now here I am , none the worse .", "He 'll lend you more than the land 'll ever be worth to you ; so for Heaven 's sake be prudent .", "Your money will not pay your cook 's wages in London .", "I do n't know . That 's the sort of thing an Irishman laughs at . Has she accepted you ?", "In either case it would be an impertinence , Mr Keegan , as your approval is not of the slightest consequence to us . What use do you suppose all this drivel is to men with serious practical business in hand ?", "Oh ! they 've transferred the honor to you , have they ?", "Only this morning you confessed how surprised you were to find that the people here showed no sense of humor .", "I 'm quite sure he will .", "But that was the very thing I was going to advise you to do .", "I did not .", "The song ! Oh , it does n't mean anything : it 's by a German Jew , like most English patriotic sentiment . Never mind me , my dear : go on with your work ; and do n't let me bore you .", "Nora 's gone home .", "What call have you to look down on Patsy Farrell ? I suppose you think you 're everybody because you own a few fields .", "Steady ! stead-eee !Cornelius Doyle , Father Dempsey , Barney Doran , and Matthew Haffigan come from the house . Doran is a stout bodied , short armed , roundheaded , red-haired man on the verge of middle age , of sanguine temperament , with an enormous capacity for derisive , obscene , blasphemous , or merely cruel and senseless fun , and a violent and impetuous intolerance of other temperaments and other opinions , all this representing energy and capacity wasted and demoralized by want of sufficient training and social pressure to force it into beneficent activity and build a character with it ; for Barney is by no means either stupid or weak . He is recklessly untidy as to his person ; but the worst effects of his neglect are mitigated by a powdering of flour and mill dust ; and his unbrushed clothes , made of a fashionable tailor 's sackcloth , were evidently chosen regardless of expense for the sake of their appearance . Matthew Haffigan , ill at ease , coasts the garden shyly on the shrubbery side until he anchors near the basket , where he feels least in the way . The priest comes to the table and slaps Larry on the shoulder . Larry , turning quickly , and recognizing Father Dempsey , alights from the table and shakes the priest 's hand warmly . Doran comes down the garden between Father Dempsey and Matt ; and Cornelius , on the other side of the table , turns to Broadbent , who rises genially .", "Oh , we 'll employ him in some capacity or other , and probably pay him more than he makes for himself now .", "Yes of course I do : why should I tell you lies about it ? Nora Reilly was a person of very little consequence to me or anyone else outside this miserable little hole . But Mrs Tom Broadbent will be a person of very considerable consequence indeed . Play your new part well , and there will be no more neglect , no more loneliness , no more idle regrettings and vain-hopings in the evenings by the Round Tower , but real life and real work and real cares and real joys among real people : solid English life in London , the very centre of the world . You will find your work cut out for you keeping Tom 's house and entertaining Tom 's friends and getting Tom into parliament ; but it will be worth the effort .", "Here 's a chance for you , Tom . What do you say ?", "We will lend everyone of these men half as much again on their land as it is worth , or ever can be worth , to them .", "He 's not the same to me . He used to be very civil to Master Larry : a deal too civil , I used to think . Now he 's as surly and stand-off as a bear .", "You 'll soon find out the truth of it here . Look at Father Dempsey ! he is disestablished : he has nothing to hope or fear from the State ; and the result is that he 's the most powerful man in Rosscullen . The member for Rosscullen would shake in his shoes if Father Dempsey looked crooked at him .Look at yourself ! you would defy the established Archbishop of Canterbury ten times a day ; but catch you daring to say a word that would shock a Nonconformist ! not you . The Conservative party today is the only one that 's not priestridden \u2014 excuse the expression , Father\u2014 cause it 's the only one that has established its Church and can prevent a clergyman becoming a bishop if he 's not a Statesman as well as a Churchman . He stops . They stare at him dumbfounded , and leave it to the priest to answer him .", "St Peter , the rock on which our Church was built , was crucified head downwards for being a turncoat .", "Eh ? What did n't ?", "Breakfast : tea and bread-and-butter , with an occasional rasher , and an egg on special occasions : say on her birthday . Dinner in the middle of the day , one course and nothing else . In the evening , tea and bread-and-butter again . You compare her with your Englishwomen who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day ; and naturally you find her a sylph . The difference is not a difference of type : it 's the difference between the woman who eats not wisely but too well , and the woman who eats not wisely but too little .", "Me !", "Well , if you drive through Rosscullen in a motor car with", "Were you thinking of your money , Nora ?", "What is the use of giving land to such men ? they are too small , too poor , too ignorant , too simpleminded to hold it against us : you might as well give a dukedom to a crossing sweeper .", "I do n't think Mr Keegan minds .What 's the true version of the story of that black man you confessed on his deathbed ?", "Oh , come ! The waitress was a very nice girl .", "Not at all . Not at all .", "Haffigan does n't matter much . He 'll die presently .", "Certainly I have . I do n't believe in letting anybody or anything alone .", "He wo n't want to . He 'll tell it himself as one of the most providential episodes in the history of England and Ireland .", "Your foreclosing this Rosscullen mortgage and turning poor Nick Lestrange out of house and home has rather taken me aback ; for I liked the old rascal when I was a boy and had the run of his park to play in . I was brought up on the property .", "Oh yes ; and I really intended to answer it . But I have n't had a moment ; and I knew you would n't mind . You see , I am so afraid of boring you by writing about affairs you do n't understand and people you do n't know ! And yet what else have I to write about ? I begin a letter ; and then I tear it up again . The fact is , fond as we are of one another , Nora , we have so little in common \u2014 I mean of course the things one can put in a letter \u2014 that correspondence is apt to become the hardest of hard work .", "I get a touch of it sometimes when I am below par .Yes , yes .Though summer smiles on here for ever , Though not a leaf falls from the tree , Tell England I 'll forget her never ,O wind that blows across the sea .Tell England I 'll forget her ne-e-e-e-ver O wind that blows acro-oss \u2014", "Put the tithes on you again ! Did the tithes ever come off you ? Was your land any dearer when you paid the tithe to the parson than it was when you paid the same money to Nick Lestrange as rent , and he handed it over to the Church Sustentation Fund ? Will you always be duped by Acts of Parliament that change nothing but the necktie of the man that picks your pocket ? I 'll tell you what I 'd do with you , Mat Haffigan : I 'd make you pay tithes to your own Church . I want the Catholic Church established in Ireland : that 's what I want . Do you think that I , brought up to regard myself as the son of a great and holy Church , can bear to see her begging her bread from the ignorance and superstition of men like you ? I would have her as high above worldly want as I would have her above worldly pride or ambition . Aye ; and I would have Ireland compete with Rome itself for the chair of St Peter and the citadel of the Church ; for Rome , in spite of all the blood of the martyrs , is pagan at heart to this day , while in Ireland the people is the Church and the Church the people .", "But what about your present member ? Is he going to retire ?", "No wonder ! Of course they all hated us like the devil . Ugh !I 've seen them in that office , telling my father what a fine boy I was , and plastering him with compliments , with your honor here and your honor there , when all the time their fingers were itching to beat his throat .", "Of course . They have associations .", "What is it ?", "Such fools , you mean ! What good was it to them ? The moment they 'd done it , the landlord put a rent of 5 pounds a year on them , and turned them out because they could n't pay it .", "No : the bold Fenian is now an older and possibly foolisher man .", "Finely , thank you . No need to ask you .", "That was extremely improvident of her .But look here : when were you drunk ? You were sober enough when you came back from the Round Tower with her .", "Oh , what 's the use of talking to such a man ? Now look here , Tom . Be serious for a moment if you can .", "Aristocracy be blowed ! Do you know what Nora eats ?", "Oh no he wo n't : he 's not an Irishman . He 'll never know they 're laughing at him ; and while they 're laughing he 'll win the seat .", "Industrious ! That man 's industry used to make me sick , even as a boy . I tell you , an Irish peasant 's industry is not human : it 's worse than the industry of a coral insect . An Englishman has some sense about working : he never does more than he can help \u2014 and hard enough to get him to do that without scamping it ; but an Irishman will work as if he 'd die the moment he stopped . That man Matthew Haffigan and his brother Andy made a farm out of a patch of stones on the hillside \u2014 cleared it and dug it with their own naked hands and bought their first spade out of their first crop of potatoes . Talk of making two blades of wheat grow where one grew before ! those two men made a whole field of wheat grow where not even a furze bush had ever got its head up between the stones .", "I did n't stand on ceremony with you : you need n't stand on it with me . Fine manners and fine words are cheap in Ireland : you can keep both for my friend here , who is still imposed on by them . I know their value .", "You HWAT ?? ?", "Fairly well .", "Nothing . What need you do ?", "Nora : a man can n't sit down and write his life day by day when he 's tired enough with having lived it .", "I talk as I think . You 've made a very good match , let me tell you .", "Well , there was precious little else to think about here , my dear Nora , except sometimes at sunset , when one got maudlin and called Ireland Erin , and imagined one was remembering the days of old , and so forth .", "You seem rather out of spirits .You have n't got neuralgia , have you ?", "You know very well that Billy Byrne never paid it . He only offered it to get possession . He never paid it .", "Oh , that ! No : it seems hardly more than a week . I 've been so busy \u2014 had so little time to think .", "I have strong opinions which would n't suit you .", "Eighteen years is a devilish long time , Nora . Now if it had been eighteen minutes , or even eighteen months , we should be able to pick up the interrupted thread , and chatter like two magpies . But as it is , I have simply nothing to say ; and you seem to have less .", "On the contrary , ther 'll soon be nothing else ; and the", "That 's right .", "Then let them make room for those who can . Is Ireland never to have a chance ? First she was given to the rich ; and now that they have gorged on her flesh , her bones are to be flung to the poor , that can do nothing but suck the marrow out of her . If we can n't have men of honor own the land , lets have men of ability . If we can n't have men with ability , let us at least have men with capital . Anybody 's better than Mat , who has neither honor , nor ability , nor capital , nor anything but mere brute labor and greed in him , Heaven help him !", "In a week or so we shall be quite old friends again . Meanwhile , as I feel that I am not making myself particularly entertaining , I 'll take myself off . Tell Tom I 've gone for a stroll over the hill ."], "true_target": ["Lord help Ireland then !", "Are you sure he 's such a fool after all , Aunt Judy ? Suppose you had a vote ! which would you rather give it to ? the man that told the story of Haffigan 's pig Barney Doran 's way or Broadbent 's way ?", "Is that yourself , Mat Haffigan ? Do you remember me ?", "Look here , Tom ! here , I say ! confound it !", "I seem to recollect that one of the legs of the sofa in the parlor had a way of coming out unexpectedly eighteen years ago . Was that it , Tom ?", "Yes , you . You say the Irish sense of humor is in abeyance .", "Well ? then ?", "I 'm afraid my ideas would not be popular enough .", "No doubt ; but may we venture to ask what is the mystery of this world ?", "M'yes . I can remember particular spots where I had long fits of thinking about the countries I meant to get to when I escaped from Ireland . America and London , and sometimes Rome and the east .", "I know quite well that my departure will be a relief . Rather a failure , this first meeting after eighteen years , eh ? Well , never mind : these great sentimental events always are failures ; and now the worst of it 's over anyhow .Nora , left alone , struggles wildly to save herself from breaking down , and then drops her face on the table and gives way to a convulsion of crying . Her sobs shake her so that she can hear nothing ; and she has no suspicion that she is no longer alone until her head and breast are raised by Broadbent , who , returning newly washed and combed through the inner door , has seen her condition , first with surprise and concern , and then with an emotional disturbance that quite upsets him .", "Much good your pity will do it !", "Take care , Tom ! In Rosscullen a yeoman means a sort of Orange Bashi-Bazouk . In England , Mat , they call a freehold farmer a yeoman .", "Oh , rubbish ! What 's the good of the man that 's starved out of a farm murdering the man that 's starved into it ? Would you have done such a thing ?", "Nora , dear , do n't you understand that I 'm an Irishman , and he 's an Englishman . He wants you ; and he grabs you . I want you ; and I quarrel with you and have to go on wanting you .", "Tom : with the best intentions you 're making an ass of yourself . You do n't understand Mr Keegan 's peculiar vein of humor .", "For modern industrial purposes you might just as well be , Barney . You 're all children : the big world that I belong to has gone past you and left you . Anyhow , we Irishmen were never made to be farmers ; and we 'll never do any good at it . We 're like the Jews : the Almighty gave us brains , and bid us farm them , and leave the clay and the worms alone .", "Yes : one does stick frightfully in the same place , unless some external force comes and routs one out .And how have you been all this time ?", "You may put me out of your head , father , once for all .", "How is the man to marry and live a decent life on less ?", "I mean what I say .", "Oh , in heaven , no doubt ! I have never been there . Can you tell me where it is ?", "Yes , I know . When I first went to London I very nearly proposed to walk out with a waitress in an Aerated Bread shop because her Whitechapel accent was so distinguished , so quaintly touching , so pretty \u2014", "Pah ! what does it matter where an old and broken man spends his last days , or whether he has a million at the bank or only the workhouse dole ? It 's the young men , the able men , that matter . The real tragedy of Haffigan is the tragedy of his wasted youth , his stunted mind , his drudging over his clods and pigs until he has become a clod and a pig himself \u2014 until the soul within him has smouldered into nothing but a dull temper that hurts himself and all around him . I say let him die , and let us have no more of his like . And let young Ireland take care that it does n't share his fate , instead of making another empty grievance of it . Let your syndicate come \u2014", "Aunt Judy probably breakfasted about half past six .", "No . I am a Catholic intelligent enough to see that the Protestants are never more dangerous to us than when they are free from all alliances with the State . The so-called Irish Church is stronger today than ever it was .", "Aye , that 's it ! there you are ! dreaming , dreaming , dreaming , dreaming !", "Are you really mad , Mr Keegan ?", "Goodbye . Goodbye . Oh , that 's so Irish ! Irish both of us to the backbone : Irish , Irish , Irish \u2014 Broadbent arrives , conversing energetically with Keegan .", "Well , you are a nice infant to be let loose in this country ! Fancy the potcheen going to your head like that !", "I am not a Liberal : Heaven forbid ! A disestablished Church is the worst tyranny a nation can groan under .", "I am informed that when the devil came for the black heathen , he took off your head and turned it three times round before putting it on again ; and that your head 's been turned ever since .", "Well ? What has happened .", "May I ask how long it took you to come to business ? You can hardly have known her for more than a couple of hours .", "I can lend you 300 pounds on it .", "On this holy ground , as you call it , eh ?", "If you mean that you will be a treasure to him , he thinks so now ; and you can keep him thinking so if you like .", "He will take more than that from me before he 's done here .", "I 'll tell you , Mat . I always thought it was a stupid , lazy , good-for-nothing sort of thing to leave the land in the hands of the old landlords without calling them to a strict account for the use they made of it , and the condition of the people on it . I could see for myself that they thought of nothing but what they could get out of it to spend in England ; and that they mortgaged and mortgaged until hardly one of them owned his own property or could have afforded to keep it up decently if he 'd wanted to . But I tell you plump and plain , Mat , that if anybody thinks things will be any better now that the land is handed over to a lot of little men like you , without calling you to account either , they 're mistaken .", "Nora .When I left you that time , I was just as wretched as you . I did n't rightly know what I wanted to say ; and my tongue kept clacking to cover the loss I was at . Well , I 've been thinking ever since ; and now I know what I ought to have said . I 've come back to say it .", "Because it was by using Patsy 's poverty to undersell England in the markets of the world that we drove England to ruin Ireland . And she 'll ruin us again the moment we lift our heads from the dust if we trade in cheap labor ; and serve us right too ! If I get into parliament , I 'll try to get an Act to prevent any of you from giving Patsy less than a pound a weekor working him harder than you 'd work a horse that cost you fifty guineas .", "That was very bad for you . Why did n't you give it up ? Why did you stay here ?", "Once more , Tom , will you listen to me ?", "Oh yes : you 'd have done great things ; and a fat lot of good you 'd have got out of it , too ! That 's an Englishman all over ! make bad laws and give away all the land , and then , when your economic incompetence produces its natural and inevitable results , get virtuously indignant and kill the people that carry out your laws .", "What 's to grieve them ?", "I 'm sorry to disappoint you , father ; but I told you it would be no use . And now I think the candidate had better retire and leave you to discuss his successor .", "Well , you were evidently in a state of blithering sentimentality , anyhow .", "He will be , if ever he gets into your power as you were in the power of your old landlord . Do you think , because you 're poor and ignorant and half-crazy with toiling and moiling morning noon and night , that you 'll be any less greedy and oppressive to them that have no land at all than old Nick Lestrange , who was an educated travelled gentleman that would not have been tempted as hard by a hundred pounds as you 'd be by five shillings ? Nick was too high above Patsy Farrell to be jealous of him ; but you , that are only one little step above him , would die sooner than let him come up that step ; and well you know it .", "Yes : why not ?", "She told me herself .", "Nora !He 's been talking about me , I see . Well , never mind : we must be friends , you and I. I do n't want his marriage to you to be his divorce from me .", "I should see a little more of her before deciding .", "Yes .", "Haffigan 's pig , it wo n't stay in abeyance . Now I warn you .", "No . It 's such a big place that looking for a man there is like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay . They tell me he 's a great man out there .", "Mr Keegan : if you are going to be sentimental about Ireland , I shall bid you good evening . We have had enough of that , and more than enough of cleverly proving that everybody who is not an Irishman is an ass . It is neither good sense nor good manners . It will not stop the syndicate ; and it will not interest young Ireland so much as my friend 's gospel of efficiency .", "I expect you were a Tory in a former existence ; and that is why you are here .", "Yes ; and much good they did with all their talk !", "Yes I 'm fond of Tom .", "Perhaps not . Do n't move . I 'll stand .They are all now seated , except Larry ; and the session assumes a portentous air , as if something important were coming .", "No : I have n't exhausted the interest of strolling about the old places and remembering and romancing about them .", "Very well : I 'll take it with pleasure if you 'll give it to me .", "Well , what is there to say ? You see , we know each other so well .", "Is anything wrong with old Mat ?", "Yes , mine if you like . Well , our syndicate has no conscience : it has no more regard for your Haffigans and Doolans and Dorans than it has for a gang of Chinese coolies . It will use your patriotic blatherskite and balderdash to get parliamentary powers over you as cynically as it would bait a mousetrap with toasted cheese . It will plan , and organize , and find capital while you slave like bees for it and revenge yourselves by paying politicians and penny newspapers out of your small wages to write articles and report speeches against its wickedness and tyranny , and to crack up your own Irish heroism , just as Haffigan once paid a witch a penny to put a spell on Billy Byrne 's cow . In the end it will grind the nonsense out of you , and grind strength and sense into you ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Hell ! Faith I 'm afraid you 're right . I wondher what you and me did when we were alive to get sent here .", "Well , as you say , it 's a delicate subject ; and I wo n't press it on you . Now off widja .", "Who 's there ? What 's that ?Patsy Farrell ! What are you doing here ?", "An is that yourself , Misther Grasshopper ? I hope I see you well this fine evenin .", "God speed you !"], "true_target": ["Ah , it 's no use , me poor little friend . If you could jump as far as a kangaroo you could n't jump away from your own heart an its punishment . You can only look at Heaven from here : you can n't reach it . There !that 's the gate o glory , is n't it ?", "Sure it 's the wise grasshopper yar to know that ! But tell me this , Misther Unworldly Wiseman : why does the sight of Heaven wring your heart an mine as the sight of holy wather wrings the heart o the divil ? What wickedness have you done to bring that curse on you ? Here ! where are you jumpin to ? Where 's your manners to go skyrocketin like that out o the box in the middle o your confession?", "Three cheers for ould Ireland , is it ? That helps you to face out the misery and the poverty and the torment , does n't it ?", "That 's right . I suppose now you 've come out to make yourself miserable by admyerin the sunset ?", "I accept your apology ; but do n't do it again . And now tell me one thing before I let you go home to bed . Which would you say this counthry was : hell or purgatory ?", "Aye , you 're a thrue Irish grasshopper ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["X. X. X .", "X. X .", "X. X .", "X ."], "true_target": ["X. X .", "X. X .", "X .", "X. X .", "X. X ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Sure you would n't \u2014", "The Lord save us !Nora Reilly comes down the hill . A slight weak woman in a pretty muslin print gown, she is a figure commonplace enough to Irish eyes ; but on the inhabitants of fatter-fed , crowded , hustling and bustling modern countries she makes a very different impression . The absence of any symptoms of coarseness or hardness or appetite in her , her comparative delicacy of manner and sensibility of apprehension , her thin hands and slender figure , her travel accent , with the caressing plaintive Irish melody of her speech , give her a charm which is all the more effective because , being untravelled , she is unconscious of it , and never dreams of deliberately dramatizing and exploiting it , as the Irishwoman in England does . For Tom Broadbent therefore , an attractive woman , whom he would even call ethereal . To Larry Doyle , an everyday woman fit only for the eighteenth century , helpless , useless , almost sexless , an invalid without the excuse of disease , an incarnation of everything in Ireland that drove him out of it . These judgments have little value and no finality ; but they are the judgments on which her fate hangs just at present . Keegan touches his hat to her : he does not take it off .", "Fadher Keegan sez \u2014", "Dempsey that he was jealous of you ?", "Bedad , if dhat pig gets a howlt o the handle o the machine \u2014", "Sure I 'm afraid he might put a spell on me .", "An whose things was I to lave behind ? Hwat would your reverence think if I left your hamper behind in the wet grass ; n hwat would the masther say if I left the sammin and the goose be the side o the road for annywan to pick up ?", "Oh , it was no pretending , Fadher dear . Did n't it give three cheers n say it was a divil out o hell ? Oh say you 'll see me safe home , Fadher ; n put a blessin on me or somethin", "No , Fadher : on me oath an soul I was n't : I was waitn to meet Masther Larry n carry his luggage from the car ; n I fell asleep on the grass ; n you woke me talkin to the grasshopper ; n I hard its wicked little voice . Oh , d'ye think I 'll die before the year 's out , Fadher ?", "O for the love o God do n't lave me here wi dhe grasshopper . I hard it spakin to you . Do n't let it do me any harm , Father darlint .", "Sure I know that , sir .", "Arra , hwat am I to call you ? Fadher Dempsey sez you 're not a priest ; n we all know you 're not a man ; n how do we know what ud happen to us if we showed any disrespect to you ? N sure they say wanse a priest always a priest .", "I was afeerd o forgetn it ; and then maybe he 'd a sent the grasshopper or the little dark looker into me at night to remind me of it .", "Sure it would n't be right , Fadher . I can n't \u2014"], "true_target": ["Sure I \u2014", "Sure , if you wo n't let it harm me , I 'm not afraid , your riverence .", "Sure me fut slpt . Howkn I carry three men 's luggage at wanst ?", "Yis , your reverence .", "But was n't it only because you knew more Latn than Father", "Yis , Fadher .", "Sure it 's your blessin I want , Fadher Keegan . I 'll have no luck widhout it .", "Oh in throth yar , sir .Do n't set it on me , Fadher : I 'll do anythin you bid me .", "Nora was gone to the Roun Tower .", "Well , what was I to do ? Father Keegan bid me tell you Miss", "I can take the goose too , sir . Put it on me back and gimme the neck of it in me mouth .", "Here I am , your honor .", "Deedn I am , Fadher : it 's me bruddher the tinsmith in Dublin you 're thinkin of . Sure he had to be a freethinker when he larnt a thrade and went to live in the town .", "Fadher Keegan \u2014"], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Well , he 'll get to Heaven before you if you 're not careful , Patsy . And now you listen to me , once and for all . You 'll talk to me and pray for me by the name of Pether Keegan , so you will . And when you 're angry and tempted to lift your hand agen the donkey or stamp your foot on the little grasshopper , remember that the donkey 's Pether Keegan 's brother , and the grasshopper Pether Keegan 's friend . And when you 're tempted to throw a stone at a sinner or a curse at a beggar , remember that Pether Keegan is a worse sinner and a worse beggar , and keep the stone and the curse for him the next time you meet him . Now say God bless you , Pether , to me before I go , just to practise you a bit .", "The conquering Englishman , sir . Within 24 hours of your arrival you have carried off our only heiress , and practically secured the parliamentary seat . And you have promised me that when I come here in the evenings to meditate on my madness ; to watch the shadow of the Round Tower lengthening in the sunset ; to break my heart uselessly in the curtained gloaming over the dead heart and blinded soul of the island of the saints , you will comfort me with the bustle of a great hotel , and the sight of the little children carrying the golf clubs of your tourists as a preparation for the life to come .", "We can finish the game some other time , Miss Reilly .", "You could n't do better this fine evening .I 'll tell him where you 've gone .Aye , he 's come to torment you ; and you 're driven already to torment him .By this time the car has arrived , and dropped three of its passengers on the high road at the foot of the hill . It is a monster jaunting car , black and dilapidated , one of the last survivors of the public vehicles known to earlier generations as Beeyankiny cars , the Irish having laid violent tongues on the name of their projector , one Bianconi , an enterprising Italian . The three passengers are the parish priest , Father Dempsey ; Cornelius Doyle , Larry 's father ; and Broadbent , all in overcoats and as stiff as only an Irish car could make them . The priest , stout and fatherly , falls far short of that finest type of countryside pastor which represents the genius of priesthood ; but he is equally far above the base type in which a strongminded and unscrupulous peasant uses the Church to extort money , power , and privilege . He is a priest neither by vocation nor ambition , but because the life suits him . He has boundless authority over his flock , and taxes them stiffly enough to be a rich man . The old Protestant ascendency is now too broken to gall him . On the whole , an easygoing , amiable , even modest man as long as his dues are paid and his authority and dignity fully admitted . Cornelius Doyle is an elder of the small wiry type , with a hardskinned , rather worried face , clean shaven except for sandy whiskers blanching into a lustreless pale yellow and quite white at the roots . His dress is that of a country-town titan of business : that is , an oldish shooting suit , and elastic sided boots quite unconnected with shooting . Feeling shy with Broadbent , he is hasty , which is his way of trying to appear genial . Broadbent , for reasons which will appear later , has no luggage except a field glass and a guide book . The other two have left theirs to the unfortunate Patsy Farrell , who struggles up the hill after them , loaded with a sack of potatoes , a hamper , a fat goose , a colossal salmon , and several paper parcels . Cornelius leads the way up the hill , with Broadbent at his heels . The priest follows ; and Patsy lags laboriously behind .", "You may take it without offence from a madman who calls the ass his brother \u2014 and a very honest , useful and faithful brother too . The ass , sir , is the most efficient of beasts , matter-of-fact , hardy , friendly when you treat him as a fellow-creature , stubborn when you abuse him , ridiculous only in love , which sets him braying , and in politics , which move him to roll about in the public road and raise a dust about nothing . Can you deny these qualities and habits in yourself , sir ?", "How dar you , Patsy Farrell , put your own wicked little spites and foolishnesses into the heart of your priest ? For two pins I 'd tell him what you just said .", "You are satisfied ?", "It 's a priest 's business to notice everything . I wo n't tell you all I noticed about women ; but I 'll tell you this . The more a man knows , and the farther he travels , the more likely he is to marry a country girl afterwards .", "It is hell : it is hell . Nowhere else could such a scene be a burst of happiness for the people . Cornelius comes in hastily from the garden , pushing his way through the little crowd .", "Which is the making of golf links and hotels to bring idlers to a country which workers have left in millions because it is a hungry land , a naked land , an ignorant and oppressed land .", "Good evening , Mr Broadbent . You have set me thinking . Thank you .", "And everybody laughed !", "What were you doin there , Patsy , listnin ? Were you spyin on me ?", "Do not be offended , sir : I know that you are quite sincere . There is a saying in the Scripture which runs \u2014 so far as the memory of an oldish man can carry the words \u2014 Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth . I learnt at Oxford that this is the secret of the Englishman 's strange power of making the best of both worlds .", "You bosthoon , you ! Do n't you see that it only whistled to tell me Miss Reilly 's comin ? There ! Look at her and pull yourself together for shame . Off widja to the road : you 'll be late for the car if you do n't make hasteI can see the dust of it in the gap already .", "It 's not nonsense at all : it 's true \u2014 in a way . But never mind the black man . Now that you know what a travelled man I am , what can I do for you ?Dear Miss Nora : do n't pluck the little flower . If it was a pretty baby you would n't want to pull its head off and stick it in a vawse o water to look at .Be aisy , me son : she wo n't spoil the swing-swong in your little three .You see I 'm quite cracked ; but never mind : I 'm harmless . Now what is it ?", "Yes , perhaps , even on this holy ground which such Irishmen as you have turned into a Land of Derision .", "I have no enthusiasm for your principles , sir . You will get into parliament because you want to get into it badly enough to be prepared to take the necessary steps to induce the people to vote for you . That is how people usually get into that fantastic assembly .", "Shall we go down to the road and meet the car ?Patsy Farrell told me you were expecting young Doyle .", "And our place of torment shall be as clean and orderly as the cleanest and most orderly place I know in Ireland , which is our poetically named Mountjoy prison . Well , perhaps I had better vote for an efficient devil that knows his own mind and his own business than for a foolish patriot who has no mind and no business .", "Sir : there was a time , in my ignorant youth , when I should have called you a hypocrite .", "Could you have told me this morning where hell is ? Yet you know now that it is here . Do not despair of finding heaven : it may be no farther off .", "Well you see I 'm not a Mnooth manWhen I was young I admired the older generation of priests that had been educated in Salamanca . So when I felt sure of my vocation I went to Salamanca . Then I walked from Salamanca to Rome , an sted in a monastery there for a year . My pilgrimage to Rome taught me that walking is a better way of travelling than the train ; so I walked from Rome to the Sorbonne in Paris ; and I wish I could have walked from Paris to Oxford ; for I was very sick on the sea . After a year of Oxford I had to walk to Jerusalem to walk the Oxford feeling off me . From Jerusalem I came back to Patmos , and spent six months at the monastery of Mount Athos . From that I came to Ireland and settled down as a parish priest until I went mad .", "My way of joking is to tell the truth . It 's the funniest joke in the world .", "Come , Mr Doyle ! is this English sentiment so much more efficient than our Irish sentiment , after all ? Mr Broadbent spends his life inefficiently admiring the thoughts of great men , and efficiently serving the cupidity of base money hunters . We spend our lives efficiently sneering at him and doing nothing . Which of us has any right to reproach the other ?", "That is not quite what occurred .I heard that a black man was dying , and that the people were afraid to go near him . When I went to the place I found an elderly Hindoo , who told me one of those tales of unmerited misfortune , of cruel ill luck , of relentless persecution by destiny , which sometimes wither the commonplaces of consolation on the lips of a priest . But this man did not complain of his misfortunes . They were brought upon him , he said , by sins committed in a former existence . Then , without a word of comfort from me , he died with a clear-eyed resignation that my most earnest exhortations have rarely produced in a Christian , and left me sitting there by his bedside with the mystery of this world suddenly revealed to me .", "\u201c Silent , O Moyle , be the roar of thy waters . \u201d", "Mine .", "An hour if you like , Miss Reilly : you 're always welcome . Shall we sit down ?", "You cannot build your golf links and hotels in the air . For that you must own our land . And how will you drag our acres from the ferret 's grip of Matthew Haffigan ? How will you persuade Cornelius Doyle to forego the pride of being a small landowner ? How will Barney Doran 's millrace agree with your motor boats ? Will Doolan help you to get a license for your hotel ?", "The Church let me be its priest as long as it thought me fit for its work . When it took away my papers it meant you to know that I was only a poor madman , unfit and unworthy to take charge of the souls of the people .", "It may have no future at all . Have you thought of that ?", "Your chances , sir , are excellent . You will get into parliament .", "Not from a man who knows that this world is hell . But since the word offends you , let me soften it , and compare you simply to an ass .", "Provided it does not drown the Angelus .", "It 's not for the like of you , Patsy , to go behind the instruction of your parish priest and set yourself up to judge whether your Church is right or wrong .", "Why not ? There is danger , destruction , torment ! What more do we want to make us merry ? Go on , Barney : the last drops of joy are not squeezed from the story yet . Tell us again how our brother was torn asunder .", "Have you considered what is to become of Haffigan ?"], "true_target": ["Why not ? Do n't you know the story ? how I confessed a black man and gave him absolution ; and how he put a spell on me and drove me mad .", "You feel at home in the world , then ?", "When I went to those great cities I saw wonders I had never seen in Ireland . But when I came back to Ireland I found all the wonders there waiting for me . You see they had been there all the time ; but my eyes had never been opened to them . I did not know what my own house was like , because I had never been outside it .", "Get up out o that , man . Do n't kneel to me : I 'm not a saint .", "Patsy : what did I tell you about callin me Father Keegan an your reverence ? What did Father Dempsey tell you about it ?", "Then perhaps you will confess to the ass 's one fault .", "But pardon me , you will not lend them more on their land than the land is worth ; so they will be able to pay you the interest .", "In my dreams it is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people : three in one and one in three . It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life : three in one and one in three . It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped : three in one and one in three . It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine : three in one and one in three . It is , in short , the dream of a madman .", "You see , Mr Broadbent , I only make the hearts of my countrymen harder when I preach to them : the gates of hell still prevail against me . I shall wish you good evening . I am better alone , at the Round Tower , dreaming of heaven .", "Would n't I ? God forgive you ! You 're little better than a heathen .", "Sir : when you speak to me of English and Irish you forget that I am a Catholic . My country is not Ireland nor England , but the whole mighty realm of my Church . For me there are but two countries : heaven and hell ; but two conditions of men : salvation and damnation . Standing here between you the Englishman , so clever in your foolishness , and this Irishman , so foolish in his cleverness , I cannot in my ignorance be sure which of you is the more deeply damned ; but I should be unfaithful to my calling if I opened the gates of my heart less widely to one than to the other .", "Yes you can . Now out with it ; or I 'll put this stick into your hand an make you hit me with it .", "Father !", "Well , not anxious perhaps ; but you will be curious to see how much he has changed in all these years .", "In the accounts kept in heaven , Mr Doyle , a heart purified of hatred may be worth more even than a Land Development Syndicate of Anglicized Irishmen and Gladstonized Englishmen .", "Yes , I assure you . You are an extremely interesting man .", "Sir !", "Every dream is a prophecy : every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time .", "Poor lost soul , so cunningly fenced in with invisible bars !", "Sir : I may even vote for you .", "That he wastes all his virtues \u2014 his efficiency , as you call it \u2014 in doing the will of his greedy masters instead of doing the will of Heaven that is in himself . He is efficient in the service of Mammon , mighty in mischief , skilful in ruin , heroic in destruction . But he comes to browse here without knowing that the soil his hoof touches is holy ground . Ireland , sir , for good or evil , is like no other place under heaven ; and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse . It produces two kinds of men in strange perfection : saints and traitors . It is called the island of the saints ; but indeed in these later years it might be more fitly called the island of the traitors ; for our harvest of these is the fine flower of the world 's crop of infamy . But the day may come when these islands shall live by the quality of their men rather than by the abundance of their minerals ; and then we shall see .", "I stand rebuked , gentlemen . But believe me , I do every justice to the efficiency of you and your syndicate . You are both , I am told , thoroughly efficient civil engineers ; and I have no doubt the golf links will be a triumph of your art . Mr Broadbent will get into parliament most efficiently , which is more than St Patrick could do if he were alive now . You may even build the hotel efficiently if you can find enough efficient masons , carpenters , and plumbers , which I rather doubt .When the hotel becomes insolvent, your English business habits will secure the thorough efficiency of the liquidation . You will reorganize the scheme efficiently ; you will liquidate its second bankruptcy efficiently; you will get rid of its original shareholders efficiently after efficiently ruining them ; and you will finally profit very efficiently by getting that hotel for a few shillings in the pound .Besides those efficient operations , you will foreclose your mortgages most efficiently; you will drive Haffigan to America very efficiently ; you will find a use for Barney Doran 's foul mouth and bullying temper by employing him to slave-drive your laborers very efficiently ; andwhen at last this poor desolate countryside becomes a busy mint in which we shall all slave to make money for you , with our Polytechnic to teach us how to do it efficiently , and our library to fuddle the few imaginations your distilleries will spare , and our repaired Round Tower with admission sixpence , and refreshments and penny-in-the-slot mutoscopes to make it interesting , then no doubt your English and American shareholders will spend all the money we make for them very efficiently in shooting and hunting , in operations for cancer and appendicitis , in gluttony and gambling ; and you will devote what they save to fresh land development schemes . For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency ; and the end is not yet . But the end will come .", "And we have none : only empty enthusiasms and patriotisms , and emptier memories and regrets . Ah yes : you have some excuse for believing that if there be any future , it will be yours ; for our faith seems dead , and our hearts cold and cowed . An island of dreamers who wake up in your jails , of critics and cowards whom you buy and tame for your own service , of bold rogues who help you to plunder us that they may plunder you afterwards . Eh ?", "What story have you heard about that ?", "You must also allow for the fact that I am mad .", "With everybody who has eyes in his soul as well as in his head .", "Yes : when we cease to do , we cease to live . Well , what shall we do ?", "I am never tired of hearing you talk , Mr Broadbent .", "You mean you do n't know their value .", "No .", "Get up , you foolish man , get up . Are you afraid of a poor insect because I pretended it was talking to me ?", "When I look at you , I think that perhaps Ireland is only purgatory , after all .", "Miss Doyle : my wandering fit has come on me : will you excuse me ?", "Just as our idlers have for so many generations taken money from Ireland to England . Has that saved England from poverty and degradation more horrible than we have ever dreamed of ? When I went to England , sir , I hated England . Now I pity it .", "For shame , Patsy ! Is that your religion , to be afraid of a little deeshy grasshopper ? Suppose it was a divil , what call have you to fear it ? If I could ketch it , I 'd make you take it home widja in your hat for a penance .", "You have an answer for everything , sir . But your plans leave one question still unanswered : how to get butter out of a dog 's throat .", "You do me too much honor , sir .Mr Doyle : I am to blame for having unintentionally set your mind somewhat on edge against me . I beg your pardon .", "This world , sir , is very clearly a place of torment and penance , a place where the fool flourishes and the good and wise are hated and persecuted , a place where men and women torture one another in the name of love ; where children are scourged and enslaved in the name of parental duty and education ; where the weak in body are poisoned and mutilated in the name of healing , and the weak in character are put to the horrible torture of imprisonment , not for hours but for years , in the name of justice . It is a place where the hardest toil is a welcome refuge from the horror and tedium of pleasure , and where charity and good works are done only for hire to ransom the souls of the spoiler and the sybarite . Now , sir , there is only one place of horror and torment known to my religion ; and that place is hell . Therefore it is plain to me that this earth of ours must be hell , and that we are all here , as the Indian revealed to me \u2014 perhaps he was sent to reveal it to me to expiate crimes committed by us in a former existence ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Yes : it 's hard for me to know anything about you if you never tell me anything .", "How can you talk such nonsense about yourself ? For shame !", "You 've come too late , then . You thought eighteen years was not long enough , and that you might keep me waiting a day longer . Well , you were mistaken . I 'm engaged to your friend Mr Broadbent ; and I 'm done with you .", "You must n't talk like that to me .", "What do you expect me to do ? Is it to throw meself at your head the minute the word is out o your mouth ?", "I suppose it did n't seem very long to you .", "An would you let me demean meself like that , just to get yourself into parliament ?", "Galong with you !", "Oh you brute ! to tell me that to me face .", "And has Mr Doyle not come with you ?", "It 's well the lad was n't killed .", "I think you 're a very kindhearted man , Mr Broadbent ; but you seem to me to have no self-control at allno more than myself .", "Nora Creena , Nora Creena .", "You care more for him than you ever did for me .", "Oh , well , do n't let me keep you from him .", "I suppose that 's all that brings him back to look at us , just to see how much WE 'VE changed . Well , he can wait and see me be candlelight : I did n't come out to meet him : I 'm going to walk to the Round Tower", "Well , anyhow , you 're all right now .", "Is that all you have to say to me , Larry ?", "Dear me ! did you now ?", "I 'm surprised at you , Mr Doran .", "Galong with you !", "Well , I 'm sure ! if this is English manners ! Are n't you ashamed to talk about such things ?", "Well , praps you know best what they do in England . They must have very little respect for themselves . I think I 'll go in now . I see Larry and Mr Keegan coming up the hill ; and I 'm not fit to talk to them .", "You 're not going to cry , are you ? I never thought a man COULD cry . Do n't .", "Oh dons say that .", "I do n't want any other woman 's leavings .", "I 'm not blaming you .", "Ah no , Mr Broadbent : you were n't disgusting .", "Ah , do n't talk like that , Mr Keegan .", "I did n't say so .", "Oh , how could you drag me all round the place like that , telling everybody that we 're going to be married , and introjoocing me to the lowest of the low , and letting them shake hans with me , and encouraging them to make free with us ? I little thought I should live to be shaken hans with be Doolan in broad daylight in the public street of Rosscullen .", "Did anything wake yup with a thump at three o'clock ? I thought the house was falling . But then I 'm a very light sleeper .", "No . He 's the same as ever . Why ?", "Yes : of course we do .I wonder you came back at all .", "Oh do n't make me laugh : please do n't make me laugh .", "Then you 'd better marry an Englishwoman .", "You little know Peter Keegan . He 'd see through me as if I was a pane o glass .", "Oh , what an English accent you 've got !", "You 'll be able to judge better in the morning . Come on now back with me , an think no more about it .", "Oh , you came to see the tower . I thought \u2014Oh , of course . I was so startled \u2014 It 's a beautiful night , is n't it ?", "Have you now ? Well , that 's a great honor , I 'm sure .", "Deed I do n't . What has Larry to do with it ? It 's an act of disrespect and rudeness to me : it shows what you take me for . You can go your way now ; and I 'll go mine . Goodnight , Mr Broadbent .", "Oh ! You DO remember the places , then ?", "I was n't thinking o meself at all .", "I suppose people are different in England , Mr Broadbent ; so perhaps you do n't mean any harm . In Ireland nobody 'd mind what a man 'd say in fun , nor take advantage of what a woman might say in answer to it . If a woman could n't talk to a man for two minutes at their first meeting without being treated the way you 're treating me , no decent woman would ever talk to a man at all .", "But really and truly now , were n't the people rather disappointing ? I should think the girls must have seemed rather coarse and dowdy after the foreign princesses and people ? But I suppose a priest would n't notice that .", "Not likely , indeed .", "Oh , only idle curiosity . I wanted to know whether you found Ireland \u2014 I mean the country part of Ireland , of course \u2014 very small and backwardlike when you came back to it from Rome and Oxford and all the great cities .", "Then why did n't you if you 're an honorable man ?", "Is that you , Larry ?Who 's that ?", "You 've told us three times , Mr Doran .", "You 're dreadfully strong , an a gradle too free with your strength . An I never thought o whether it 'd be a good thing for us or not . But when you found me here that time , I let you be kind to me , and cried in your arms , because I was too wretched to think of anything but the comfort of it . An how could I let any other man touch me after that ?", "I think you ought to be ashamed . I think if you were a gentleman , and me alone with you in this place at night , you would die rather than do such a thing .", "It does n't seem to make as much difference in you as it would in an Irishman , somehow .", "D'ye think that 's the same with everybody ?", "Indeed ! Well , some people might say he 's not done so badly himself .", "Larry has nothing to do with me , Mr Broadbent .", "It 's not you ! Who are you ? What do you want ?", "He means the pig , Mr Doran . You know his way .", "I 'm not your first love ?", "No .", "Mr Keegan : I want to speak to you a minute if you do n't mind .", "The eighteen years you 've been away .", "I 'm ashamed out o me life ."], "true_target": ["Why should he come ? He 's seen the tower often enough : it 's no attraction to him .An what do you think of Ireland , Mr Broadbent ? Have you ever been here before ?", "You 're joking , Mr Keegan : I 'm sure yar .", "Was that all you used to be thinking about ?", "Do n't go over that again , please , Mr Doran .", "Quite well , thank you .", "I suppose so .", "Oh , I 'm no better than yourself . I may as well tell you about it .", "How dare you touch me ?", "Thank you .They say you did a gradle o travelling at one time .", "Is it me call on Doolan 's wife !", "Ah , you must n't go on like that . I do n't like it .", "I do n't know how you can laugh . Do you , Mr Keegan ?", "I 've had nothin else to do but think .", "Are you wanting to get back to England already ?", "Oh , I 'm not expecting him particularly . It 's a wonder he 's come back at all . After staying away eighteen years he can harly expect us to be very anxious to see him , can he now ?", "And Larry in front of it and all ! It 's nothn to laugh at , Mr Doran .", "An how do you like it ?", "Is that the truth ?", "I do n't think you know the sort of man you are at all . Whatever may be the matter with you , it 's not want of feeling .", "You seem very fond of Tom , as you call him .", "How could I go back from it if I did ? I sometimes think you 're not quite right in your head , Mr Broadbent , you say such funny things .", "An d'ye mean to tell me to me face that you 've ever been in love before ?", "Rosscullen is n't such a lively place that I am likely to be bored by you at our first talk together after eighteen years , though you do n't seem to have much to say to me after all .", "I 'm sorry Mr Doyle should have given you the trouble , I 'm sure .", "Do n't you know that you have said things to me that no man ought to say unless \u2014 unless \u2014Oh , go away from me : I wo n't get married at all : what is it but heartbreak and disappointment ?", "Larry !", "Oh I 'm sure you do n't think anything of the sort , Mr Keegan .", "It was only that I 'd never known anybody else that I could care for ; and I was foolish enough once to think that Larry \u2014", "No : I 'm out with youI was too wicked in a former existence to play backgammon with a good man like you .", "Surely if you let one woman cry on you like that you 'd never let another touch you .", "It 's a shame to make game of him like that . He 's a gradle more good in him than Barney Doran .", "I should think you ought to know better than me whether you 're interfering with him . You 've seen him oftener than I have . You know him better than I do , by this time . You 've come to me quicker than he has , have n't you ?", "It 's made a great change , Larry . You 'd harly know the old tenants now . You 'd think it was a liberty to speak t'dhem \u2014 some o dhem .", "Oh , sure it 's all right . Say no more about that .", "Yes . I suppose I 've no right to be particular .", "You talk as if I were under an obligation to him for marrying me .", "The flavor of the turf prevented you noticing the strength of it . You 'd better come home to bed .", "I never thought \u2014", "Did jever get a letter I wrote you last February ?", "Steady now , steady . Come along : come .", "Mr Broadbent , I could n't .", "That 's a queer song to sing to me if you 're not .", "How many tumblers had you ?", "Do n't think it was anything I need be ashamed of .", "Is it making love to me you are ?", "Oh , I was dying to see you , of course . I daresay you can imagine the sensation an Englishman like you would make among us poor Irish people .", "Oh , do n't take it to heart , Mr Br \u2014", "God knows I do n't grudge you me money ! But to lower meself to the level of common people .", "Yes , of course it was . Just take my arm , Mr Broadbent , while we 're goin down the path to the road . You 'll be all right then .", "I think you might understand that though I might choose to be an old maid , I could never marry anybody but you now .", "Indeed it 's a common cotton one .", "Take them away , Mr Doran", "Praps it 's a little dull for you .", "I 've found that out .", "If that 's true \u2014 and the more shame for you to throw it in my face if it IS true \u2014 at all events it 'll make us independent ; for if the worst comes to the worst , we can always come back here an live on it . An if I have to keep his house for him , at all events I can keep you out of it ; for I 've done with you ; and I wish I 'd never seen you . So goodbye to you , Mister Larry Doyle .", "Why do you talk to me in that unfeeling nonsensical way ?", "I \u2014", "Oh , I 'm sure you remember him , Mr Haffigan .", "Let me go . I want me hankerchief .", "Deed I wo n't . The idea !Arra , come home , Mr Broadbent ; and get your senses back again . I think you 're not accustomed to potcheen punch in the evening after your tea .", "So you may . You 'd better go back to England to the animated beefsteaks you 're so fond of .", "Oh , get along with you , Mr Broadbent ! You 're breaking your heart about me already , I daresay , after seeing me for two minutes in the dark .", "Acushla", "Glad indeed ! Why should I be glad ? As we 've waited eighteen years for him we can afford to wait a day longer , I should think .", "Because nobody sent for me to go anywhere else , I suppose . That 's why ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["It 's a queer world : that 's certain .", "A pound a \u2014 God save us ! the boy 's mad . Matthew , feeling that here is something quite beyond his powers , turns openmouthed to the priest , as if looking for nothing less than the summary excommunication of Larry .", "Give Father Dempsey a chair , Larry . Matthew Haffigan runs to the nearest end of the table and takes the chair from it , placing it near the basket ; but Larry has already taken the chair from the other end and placed it in front of the table . Father Dempsey accepts that more central position .", "Larry ?", "That 's just what I say . I was n't comparin you to your disadvantage .", "All right , all right , me son : I 'll be careful . I 'm goin into the office for a bit .", "Yah , you great gaum , you ! Widjer grasshoppers and dark lookers ! Here : take up them things and let me hear no more o your foolish lip .You can take the sammin under your oxther .", "Patsy 'll drive the pig over this evenin , Mat . Goodbye .", "I do n't know that . Do you , Barney ?", "The hwat !", "Were yever thinkin o goin into parliament at all ,", "This is a bit of a climb , Mr. Broadbent ; but it 's shorter than goin round be the road .", "We 're tired of him . He does n't know hwere to stop . Every man can n't own land ; and some men must own it to employ them . It was all very well when solid men like Doran and me and Mat were kep from ownin land . But hwat man in his senses ever wanted to give land to Patsy Farrll an dhe like o him ?", "That 's all right : it 'll be no trouble at all . Hweres Nora ?", "Well , you see how it is , Larry . Round about here , we 've got the land at last ; and we want no more Goverment meddlin . We want a new class o man in parliament : one dhat knows dhat the farmer 's the real backbone o the country , n does n't care a snap of his fingers for the shoutn o the riff-raff in the towns , or for the foolishness of the laborers .", "Props you 'll explain , Father Dempsey .", "Yes . An there 's lots 'll vote the way he tells them .", "No : I do n't know that he is .", "I 'd set me mind on Larry himself for the seat ; but I suppose it can n't be helped .", "I think we all met las night .", "Hwat does it matter to us hwat your opinions are ? You know that your father 's bought his farm , just the same as Mat here n Barney 's mill . All we ask now is to be let alone . You 've nothin against that , have you ?", "Oh , be the hokey , the sammin 's broke in two ! You schoopid ass , what d'ye mean ?", "The hotel !", "Broadbent ?", "Arra what d'ye mean , you young fool ? Here I 've got you the offer of a good seat in parliament ; n you think yourself mighty smart to stand there and talk foolishness to me . Will you take it or leave it ?", "Hwat about Home Rule ?"], "true_target": ["Hwat d'ye think , Father Dempsey ?", "Hwat ?", "I would n't say but he 's right after all . It 's a contrairy world .Why would you be such a fool as to let him take the seat in parliament from you ?", "We all have to stretch it a bit in politics : hwat 's the use o pretendin we do n't ?", "But he can n't prevent the story getting about .", "I wish he 'd never set foot in my house , bad luck to his fat face ! D'ye think he 'd lend me 300 pounds on the farm , Larry ? When I 'm so hard up , it seems a waste o money not to mortgage it now it 's me own .", "Jeuce a word I ever heard of it !", "Oh , you 've a dale to say for yourself , you , butther-fingered omadhaun . Wait 'll Ant Judy sees the state o that sammin : SHE 'LL talk to you . Here ! gimme that birdn that fish there ; an take Father Dempsey 's hamper to his house for him ; n then come back for the rest .", "Whisht ! heres Ant Judy .Aunt Judy comes down the hill , a woman of 50 , in no way remarkable , lively and busy without energy or grip , placid without tranquillity , kindly without concern for others : indeed without much concern for herself : a contented product of a narrow , strainless life . She wears her hair parted in the middle and quite smooth , with a fattened bun at the back . Her dress is a plain brown frock , with a woollen pelerine of black and aniline mauve over her shoulders , all very trim in honor of the occasion . She looks round for Larry ; is puzzled ; then stares incredulously at Broadbent .", "Whisht your laughin , boys ! Here he is .", "Arra why ?", "Larry ?", "Father Dempsey is the priest of the parish , Mr Broadbent . What would he be doing with a theory ?", "What the jeuce does Nora want to go to the Roun Tower for ?", "} FATHER DEMPSEY }Of course . DORAN }", "Well , why could n't you say so at once ? It 's a good job you 've made up your mind at last .", "N how d'ye make dhat out , if I might ask you , Mr", "But sure Larry 's as good as English : are n't you ,", "He 's the queerest Englishman I ever met . When he opened the paper dhis mornin the first thing he saw was that an English expedition had been bet in a battle in Inja somewhere ; an he was as pleased as Punch ! Larry told him that if he 'd been alive when the news o Waterloo came , he 'd a died o grief over it . Bedad I do n't think he 's quite right in his head .", "Sit down , Barney , will you ; and you , Mat . Doran takes the chair Mat is still offering to the priest ; and poor Matthew , outfaced by the miller , humbly turns the basket upside down and sits on it . Cornelius brings his own breakfast chair from the table and sits down on Father Dempsey 's right . Broadbent resumes his seat on the rustic bench . Larry crosses to the bench and is about to sit down beside him when Broadbent holds him off nervously .", "It 's all up with his candidature . He 'll be laughed out o the town .", "To be sure , Barney : I forgot .Mr Doran . He owns that fine mill you noticed from the car .", "It 's a queer thing of her to run out o the way at such a time .", "No , no : I was n't putn in for that . When I die and leave you the farm I should like to be able to feel that it was all me own , and not half yours to start with . Now I 'll take me oath Barney Doarn 's goin to ask Broadbent to lend him 500 pounds on the mill to put in a new hweel ; for the old one 'll harly hol together . An Haffigan can n't sleep with covetn that corner o land at the foot of his medda that belongs to Doolan . He 'll have to mortgage to buy it . I may as well be first as last . D'ye think Broadbent 'd len me a little ?", "Is he as ready as that ? Would he len me five hunderd , d'ye think ?", "Come in with me , Mat . I think I 'll sell you the pig after all . Come in an wet the bargain .", "Arra how could he be Larry , woman alive ? Larry 's in no hurry home , it seems . I have n't set eyes on him . This is his friend , Mr Broadbent . Mr Broadbent , me sister Judy ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Hwat hotel ?", "Now , now , now , Mat none o dhat . How often have I told you you 're too ready to take offence where none is meant ? You do n't understand : Corny Doyle is saying just what you want to have said .Go on , Mr Doyle ; and never mind him .", "Whisht , man ! You 're worse than mad Pether Keegan himself .", "You might find out from Larry , Corny , what his means are . God forgive us all ! it 's poor work spoiling the Egyptians , though we have good warrant for it ; so I 'd like to know how much spoil there is before I commit meself .", "Roun Tower there ? That 's an antiquity worth lookin at .", "Do n't believe any such nonsense , sir . There never was any such thing . When people talk to you about Fin McCool and the like , take no notice of them . It 's all idle stories and superstition .", "That 's true . You hold your tongue as befits your ignorance , Matthew Haffigan ; and trust your priest to deal with this young man . Now , Larry Doyle , whatever the blessed St Peter was crucified for , it was not for being a Prodestan . Are you one ?", "No , no : go on , you : the Church has no politics .", "Aisy , Barney , aisy .I told you , Matthew Haffigan , that Corny Doyle was sayin nothin against you . I 'm sorry your priest 's word is not good enough for you . I 'll go , sooner than stay to make you commit a sin against the Church . Good morning , gentlemen .", "How often have you heard me bid you call Mister Keegan in his proper name , the same as I do ? Father Keegan indeed ! Ca n't you tell the difference between your priest and any ole madman in a black coat ?", "Oh , I thought you did . D'ye see the top o the", "Hear ! hear !", "He 's a clever lad : there 's the making of a man in him yet .", "I have a KNOWLEDGE of what the Roun Towers were , if that 's what you mean . They are the forefingers of the early Church , pointing us all to God . Patsy , intolerably overburdened , loses his balance , and sits down involuntarily . His burdens are scattered over the hillside . Cornelius and Father Dempsey turn furiously on him , leaving Broadbent beaming at the stone and the tower with fatuous interest .", "Do , Patsy . And mind you do n't fall down again .", "Are you drunk , Patsy Farrell ? Did I tell you to carry that hamper carefully or did I not ?", "That 's a thrue word , Barney Doarn ; only your tongue 's a little too familiar wi dhe devil .If you 'd think a little more o the sufferins of the blessed saints , Mat , an a little less o your own , you 'd find the way shorter from your farm to heaven .Dhere now ! Dhat 's enough ! we know you mean well ; an I 'm not angry with you .", "Very well : I 'll overlook it this time .Sit down , Mat .Go on , Mr Doyle . We can make allowances . Go on ."], "true_target": ["Man alive , hwere have you been living all these years ? and hwat have you been dreaming of ? Why , some o dhese honest men here can n't make that much out o the land for themselves , much less give it to a laborer .", "Yes : that 's a good point , Barney . When too much money goes to politics , it 's the Church that has to starve for it . A member of parliament ought to be a help to the Church instead of a burden on it .", "A theory ? Me !", "Mat !Now , now , now ! come , come ! Hwats all dhis about Patsy Farrll ? Hwy need you fall out about HIM ?", "What 's that you say ?", "Good-night , Miss Doyle .", "You were told to leave behind what you could n't carry , an go back for it .", "You mind what I tell you or I 'll put a spell on you that 'll make you lep . D'ye mind that now ?Patsy goes down the hill to retrieve the fish , the bird , and the sack .", "Well , the boy 's young yet ; an he has a head on him . Goodbye , all .", "Well , he has n't much sense , God help him ; but for the matter o that , neither has our present member .", "Man alive ! There 's no hotel in Rosscullen .", "Young man : you 'll not be the member for Rosscullen ; but there 's more in your head than the comb will take out .", "There 's seventeen .", "I 'll say good-night , Mr Broadbent . If there 's anything I can do for you in this parish , let me know .", "Yes , you . Hwy not ?", "That 's a good lad", "Oh ! is it Jews you want to make of us ? I must catechize you a bit meself , I think . The next thing you 'll be proposing is to repeal the disestablishment of the so-called Irish Church .", "Not to-night , thank you kindly : I have business to do at home .Have you left that hamper for me ?", "Is it Fin McCool you mean ?"], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Sure he would n't make a fool of himself like that .", "Arra hold your noise , Barney . What is there to laugh at ?", "Oh , Larry , how could you ask him such a thing ?", "To be sure : you know you can come in n nout as you like .", "There now ! Fancy him trustn himself in a motor and we all expectn him ! Just like him ! he 'd never do anything like anybody else . Well , what can n't be cured must be injoored . Come on in , all of you . You must be dyin for your tea , Mr Broadbent .", "Ah , have some sense : you 're like a parcel o childher . Nora , hit him a thump on the back : he 'll have a fit .", "Wo n't you stay to tea ?", "Remember your behavior , now . Everybody becomes silent , solemn , concerned , sympathetic . Broadbent enters , roiled and disordered as to his motoring coat : immensely important and serious as to himself . He makes his way to the end of the table nearest the garden door , whilst Larry , who accompanies him , throws his motoring coat on the sofa bed , and sits down , watching the proceedings .", "Ah now do n't be tellin it all over and settin yourself off again , Barney .", "Ah , hwy can n't you hold your tongue , Patsy , before", "Deedn we have , Mr Broadbent . It 's a mercy you were n't killed .", "Sure she 's a queer girl altogether . Come . Come in , come in .", "Lord save us ! do you think he 's had n axidnt ?", "Oh , good morning .Have you done ?", "Musha God help them if they can joke no better than that !", "Whisht , whisht , child ! Do n't set him back on that again .", "Why did n't Mr Broadbent stop the car when the pig was gone ?", "Indeedn you'e not goin to a hotel . You 'll stay with us . I 'd have put you into Larry 's room , only the boy 's pallyass is too short for you ; but we 'll make a comfortable bed for you on the sofa in the parlor .", "An hwy could n't you wait to tell us until Father", "Dempsey was gone ?", "Sure never mind him , Mr Broadbent . It does n't matter , anyhow , because there 's harly any landlords left ; and ther 'll soon be none at all .", "N d'ye call this airly , God help you ?", "Arra hwat ud happen to her ? Hurry in now , Corny . Come , Mr Broadbent . I left the tea on the hob to draw ; and it 'll be black if we do n't go in an drink it . They go up the hill . It is dark by this time . Broadbent does not fare so badly after all at Aunt Judy 's board . He gets not only tea and bread-and-butter , but more mutton chops than he has ever conceived it possible to eat at one sitting . There is also a most filling substance called potato cake . Hardly have his fears of being starved been replaced by his first misgiving that he is eating too much and will be sorry for it tomorrow , when his appetite is revived by the production of a bottle of illicitly distilled whisky , called pocheen , which he has read and dreamed ofand is now at last to taste . His good humor rises almost to excitement before Cornelius shows signs of sleepiness . The contrast between Aunt Judy 's table service and that of the south and east coast hotels at which he spends his Fridays-to-Tuesdays when he is in London , seems to him delightfully Irish . The almost total atrophy of any sense of enjoyment in Cornelius , or even any desire for it or toleration of the possibility of life being something better than a round of sordid worries , relieved by tobacco , punch , fine mornings , and petty successes in buying and selling , passes with his guest as the whimsical affectation of a shrewd Irish humorist and incorrigible spendthrift . Aunt Judy seems to him an incarnate joke . The likelihood that the joke will pall after a month or so , and is probably not apparent at any time to born Rossculleners , or that he himself unconsciously entertains Aunt Judy by his fantastic English personality and English mispronunciations , does not occur to him for a moment . In the end he is so charmed , and so loth to go to bed and perhaps dream of prosaic England , that he insists on going out to smoke a cigar and look for Nora Reilly at the Round Tower . Not that any special insistence is needed ; for the English inhibitive instinct does not seem to exist in Rosscullen . Just as Nora 's liking to miss a meal and stay out at the Round Tower is accepted as a sufficient reason for her doing it , and for the family going to bed and leaving the door open for her , so Broadbent 's whim to go out for a late stroll provokes neither hospitable remonstrance nor surprise . Indeed Aunt Judy wants to get rid of him whilst she makes a bed for him on the sofa . So off he goes , full fed , happy and enthusiastic , to explore the valley by moonlight . The Round Tower stands about half an Irish mile from Rosscullen , some fifty yards south of the road on a knoll with a circle of wild greensward on it . The road once ran over this knoll ; but modern engineering has tempered the level to the Beeyankiny car by carrying the road partly round the knoll and partly through a cutting ; so that the way from the road to the tower is a footpath up the embankment through furze and brambles . On the edge of this slope , at the top of the path , Nora is straining her eyes in the moonlight , watching for Larry . At last she gives it up with a sob of impatience , and retreats to the hoary foot of the tower , where she sits down discouraged and cries a little . Then she settles herself resignedly to wait , and hums a song \u2014 not an Irish melody , but a hackneyed English drawing-room ballad of the season before last \u2014 until some slight noise suggests a footstep , when she springs up eagerly and runs to the edge of the slope again . Some moments of silence and suspense follow , broken by unmistakable footsteps . She gives a little gasp as she sees a man approaching .", "Ah galong ! How can you like what 's not natural ? I hope you slept well .", "Hip hip hurray ! The cheers are given with great heartiness , as it is by this time , for the more humorous spirits present , a question of vociferation or internal rupture .", "Father Dempsey ?", "Oh sure he 's bought his farm in the Land Purchase . He 's independent now .", "He 's inside , in the office , Mr Haffigan , with Barney Doarn n Father Dempsey . Matthew , without wasting further words on the company , goes curtly into the house .", "Who did he mean be that ?"], "true_target": ["Surely to goodness that 's not you , Larry !", "Oh , how do I know ? She slipped out a little while ago :", "Why could n't they pay as well as Billy Byrne that took it after them ?", ", Ah , for shame , Barney ! the poor old woman ! An she was hurt before , too , when she slipped on the stairs .", "Oh , I forgot . You 've not met Mr Keegan . Let me introjooce you .", "Why could n't he throw the pig out into the road ?", "I 'd no notion you were such an orator , Mr Broadbent .", "Whisht , you !\u2014 draggin the parlor chairs out into the gardn n givin Mr Broadbent his death over his meals out here in the cold air .Why d'ye put up with his foolishness , Mr Broadbent ?", "Arra why should n't they ? Look at the people they DO vote for !", "Not a bit : we never have it airlier than this . I hope they gave you a good dinner at Athenmullet .", "Oh now what a shame ! An I told Patsy Farrll to put a nail in it .", "Arra would you mind what the like of him would tell you ? Sure he 'd say hwatever was the least trouble to himself and the pleasantest to you , thinkin you might give him a thruppeny bit for himself or the like .", "Ah , you 're never satisfied , Larry .Come on , alanna , an make the paste for the pie . We can leave them to their talk . They do n't want us", "I wonder what he wants to see Corny for . He has n't been here since he paid the last of his old rent ; and then he as good as threw it in Corny 's face , I thought .", "Ah then , how could you stay at a public house ? They 'd have no place to put you even if it was a right place for you to go . Come ! is it the sofa you 're afraid of ? If it is , you can have me own bed . I can sleep with Nora .", "Heaven save us , what a thing to say !", "Keegan 's very queer to-day . He has his mad fit on him .", "Then do n't think of it , alanna .", "Mr. Broadbent ! Fancy me takin you for Larry ! Sure we have n't seen a sight of him for eighteen years , n he only a lad when he left us .", "Oh , the Lord knows ! Romancin , I suppose . Props she thinks Larry would go there to look for her and see her safe home .", "Arra since when ?", "Dear oh dear ! An oldish peasant farmer , small , leathery , peat faced , with a deep voice and a surliness that is meant to be aggressive , and is in effect pathetic \u2014 the voice of a man of hard life and many sorrows \u2014 comes in at the gate . He is old enough to have perhaps worn a long tailed frieze coat and knee breeches in his time ; but now he is dressed respectably in a black frock coat , tall hat , and pollard colored trousers ; and his face is as clean as washing can make it , though that is not saying much , as the habit is recently acquired and not yet congenial .", "That was because Andy Haffigan hurt him with a brick so that he was never the same again . Andy had to run away to America for it .", "Faith I would n't give it to a man at all . It 's a few women they want in parliament to stop their foolish blather .", "As if he had n't seen enough o borryin when he was an agent without beginnin borryin himself !I 'll bory him , so I will .Larry and Nora are left together for the first time since his arrival . She looks at him with a smile that perishes as she sees him aimlessly rocking his chair , and reflecting , evidently not about her , with his lips pursed as if he were whistling . With a catch in her throat she takes up Aunt Judy 's knitting , and makes a pretence of going on with it .", "Lord have mercy on us !", "Deedn why should they want to hurt poor Corny ? It was he that got Mat the lease of his farm , and stood up for him as an industrious decent man .", "For shame , Patsy ! to offer to take the goose in your mouth that we have to eat after you ! The master 'll bring it in for you .", "I thought she was goin to meet the car ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Musha what sort o disease is zhouragassid ? Didjever suffer from injustice and starvation ? Dhat 's the Irish disease . It 's aisy for you to talk o sufferin , an you livin on the fat o the land wid money wrung from us .", "More power to you , Sir !", "Do n't say dhat , Fadher Dempsey . I never had a thought agen you or the Holy Church . I know I 'm a bit hasty when I think about the lan . I ax your pardn for it .", "D'ye know , yourself ?", "N are you the valley ?", "If I might make so bould , Fadher , I would n't say but an English Prodestn might n't have a more indepindent mind about the lan , an be less afeerd to spake out about it , dhan an Irish Catholic .", "Well , if me lan is to be given to Patsy and his like , I 'm goin oura dhis . I \u2014", "Lemme oura this .I 'm goin , I say .Leggo me coat , Barney Doran .", "Take care we do n't cut the cable ourselves some day , bad scran to you ! An tell me dhis : have yanny Coercion Acs in England ? Have yanny removables ? Have you Dublin Castle to suppress every newspaper dhat takes the part o your own counthry ?", "He 's a turncoat .", "No . Who are you ?", "Oh sure it 'd be throublin your honor .", "Well , I 'll be goin . Good mornin to you kindly , sir .", "Fadher Dempsey : will you tell him dhat me mother 's ant was shot and kilt dead in the sthreet o Rosscullen be a soljer in the tithe war ?He wants to put the tithes on us again . He \u2014", "Hwy can n't you tell a raisonable lie when you 're about it ? What horse can go forty mile an hour ?", "D'ye have the face to set up England agen Ireland for injustices an wrongs an disthress an sufferin ?", "Dhats right . Dhats right , sir .", "I suppose he 'll be young Larry Doyle that was .", "Then hwat did you mane be talkin about givin him lan ?", "Little Rosscullen hill wid me own hans .", "I suppose you saw me brother Andy out dhere .", "I hear you done well in America .", "What call have you to look down on me ? I suppose you think you 're everybody because your father was a land agent ."], "true_target": ["Am I to be towld dhis afther all me sufferins ?", "Anythin timme ! Did n't your English masther say that the blood biled in him to hear the way they put a rint on me for the farm I made wid me own hans , and turned me out of it to give it to Billy Byrne ?", "Bedad you 're right . It 'd only be waste o time to muzzle a sheep . Here ! where 's me pig ? God forgimme for talkin to a poor ignorant craycher like you .", "Holy Moses ! Do n't tell me it 's the ingine he wants to take me on .", "They turned me out o the farm I made out of the stones o", "What might rethrenchment mane now ?", "Well , sir , if you would n't mind , we could bring the pig", "The yeomanry !! !", "We 've had enough of his foolish talk agen lanlords . Hwat call has he to talk about the lan , that never was outside of a city office in his life ?", "Was Patsy Farrll ever ill used as I was ill used ? tell me dhat .", "An who are you , to offer to taitch me manners ?", "Your sowl to Morris Kelly ! why did n't you tell me that before ? The divil an ingine he 'll get me on this day .Oh murdher ! it 's comin afther me : I hear the puff puff of it .", "I do n't need to be insthructed be you , Larry Doyle . Some people think no one knows anythin but dhemselves .Of course I know a gentleman like you would not compare me to the yeomanry . Me own granfather was flogged in the sthreets of Athenmullet be them when they put a gun in the thatch of his house an then went and found it there , bad cess to them !", "Paddy yourself ! How dar you call me Paddy ?", "Hwat does Reform mane , sir ? Does it mane altherin annythin dhats as it is now ?", "Did you mind what he said about rethrenchment ? That was very good , I thought .", "Ye have an aisy time of it : you look purty sleek .Look at me ! Do I look sleek ?", "I 'm afeerd I can n't afford the price , sir .Larry , newspaper still in hand , comes back through the shrubbery . Broadbent returns through the gate .", "It 's not because he 's your son that he 's to get the sate . Fadher Dempsey : would n't you think well to ask him what he manes about the lan ?", "Never mind hwat I suffered . I know what I suffered adhout you tellin me . But did I ever ask for more dhan the farm I made wid me own hans : tell me that , Corny Doyle , and you that knows . Was I fit for the responsibility or was I not ?Am I to be compared to Patsy Farrll , that does n't harly know his right hand from his left ? What did he ever suffer , I 'd like to know ?", "D'ye mane to say dhat yll put him into parliament to bring back Nick Lesthrange on me , and to put tithes on me , and to rob me for the like o Patsy Farrll , because he 's Corny Doyle 's only son ?", "So he is , God be praised . Where 's your father ?", "I 've just bought from Corny ."], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Well , we 're not all foostherin oul doddherers like Mat .Are we , Mat ?", "Sure he could n't stand up to it , because he was spanchelled-like between his seat and dhat thing like a wheel on top of a stick between his knees .", "Whose bruddher ?", "Divil a matther if he has plenty o money . He 'll do for us right enough .", "Frens , he sez to dhem outside Doolan 's : I 'm takin the gintleman that pays the rint for a dhrive .", "Och , I 'm tired o your sufferins . We 've been hearin nothin else ever since we was childher but sufferins . Haven it was n't yours it was somebody else 's ; and haven it was nobody else 's it was ould Irelan 's . How the divil are we to live on wan anodher 's sufferins ?", "Hwat !! !", "I must be goin , too .Look at me bould Englishman shakin hans wid Fadher Dempsey for all the world like a candidate on election day . And look at Fadher Dempsey givin him a squeeze an a wink as much as to say It 's all right , me boy . You watch him shakin hans with me too : he 's waitn for me . I 'll tell him he 's as good as elected .", "Nobody plays bats ball here , if dhat 's what you mean .", "Bedad , ma'am , she 's hurt behind now ; for Larry bouled her over like a skittle .", "Well but whin I think of it \u2014!", "He has the divil 's own luck , that Englishman , annyway ; for when they picked him up he had n't a scratch on him , barrn hwat the pig did to his cloes . Patsy had two fingers out o jynt ; but the smith pulled them sthraight for him . Oh , you never heard such a hullaballoo as there was . There was Molly , cryin Me chaney , me beautyful chaney ! n oul Mat shoutin Me pig , me pig ! n the polus takin the number o the car , n not a man in the town able to speak for laughin \u2014", "Savin Fadher Dempsey 's presence , eh ?", "Stop a bit , stop a bit .", "Never mind . Come along all the same and tell us about it over a frenly glass .", "It got its fut into the little hweel \u2014", "Dhen come an do it .", "Is it still Larry the bould Fenian ?", "Hwat sort of a fella is he at all at all ?", "Thin \u2014", "I had n't that pleasure .", "Arra hould your whisht : who 's goin to send him into parliament ? Maybe you 'd like us to send you dhere to thrate them to a little o your anxiety about dhat dirty little podato patch o yours ."], "true_target": ["Dhat 's the style , begob !", "Savin your presence , Miss Reilly , and Misther Keegan 's . Dhere ! I wo n't say anuddher word .", "Bedad , Miss Reilly , Larry cleared six yards backwards at wan jump if he cleared an inch ; and he 'd a cleared seven if Doolan 's granmother had n't cotch him in her apern widhout intindin to .", "They call a pig that in England . That 's their notion of a joke .", "Aisy , Mat , aisy . You 're like a bear with a sore back .", "Sit down , yowl omadhaun , you .Do n't you want to stay an vote against him ?", "There was Patsy Farrll in the back sate wi dhe pig between his knees , n me bould English boyoh in front at the machinery , n Larry Doyle in the road startin the injine wid a bed winch . At the first puff of it the pig lep out of its skin and bled Patsy 's nose wi dhe ring in its snout .Before Broadbint knew hwere he was , the pig was up his back and over into his lap ; and bedad the poor baste did credit to Corny 's thrainin of it ; for it put in the fourth speed wid its right crubeen as if it was enthered for the Gordn Bennett .", "A hwat ?", "Stop the car ! He might as well ha thried to stop a mad bull . First it went wan way an made fireworks o Molly Ryan 's crockery stall ; an dhen it slewed round an ripped ten fut o wall out o the corner o the pound .Begob , it just tore the town in two and sent the whole dam market to blazes .", "Arra musha he 's good enough for parliament what is there to do there but gas a bit , an chivy the Goverment , an vote wi dh Irish party ?", "There 's too much blatherumskite in Irish politics a dale too much .", "How 's yourself , Larry ?", "There ! Sarve you dam well right , you cantankerous oul noodle .", "Three cheers for Tom Broadbent , the future member for Rosscullen !", "Aye ; an dhat can afford to live in London and pay his own way until Home Rule comes , instead o wantin subscriptions and the like .", "Faith it was n't o Larry we were thinkin jus dhen , wi dhe pig takin the main sthreet o Rosscullen on market day at a mile a minnit . Dh ony thing Broadbint could get at wi dhe pig in front of him was a fut brake ; n the pig 's tail was undher dhat ; so that whin he thought he was putn non the brake he was ony squeezin the life out o the pig 's tail . The more he put the brake on the more the pig squealed n the fasther he dhruv .", "Bedad I 'm sorry for your poor bruddher , Misther Keegan ; but I recommend you to thry him wid a couple o fried eggs for your breakfast tomorrow . It was a case of Excelsior wi dhat ambitious baste ; for not content wid jumpin from the back seat into the front wan , he jumped from the front wan into the road in front of the car . And \u2014", "Kilt ! It 's a mercy dheres two bones of you left houldin together . How dijjescape at all at all ? Well , I never thought I 'd be so glad to see you safe and sound again . Not a man in the town would say lessWo n't you come down to Doolan 's and have a dhrop o brandy to take the shock off ?", "An Englishman . Bedad I never heard it called dhat before .", "Faith be the time the car went over the poor pig dhere was little left for me or anywan else to go over except wid a knife an fork .", "Dhat 's right . No more meddlin . We 're all right now : all we want is to be let alone .", "Well , good evenin , Mr Broadbent ; an may you never regret the day you wint dhrivin wid Halligan 's pig !Good evenin , Miss Doyle . General handshaking , Broadbent shaking hands with everybody effusively . He accompanies them to the garden and can be heard outside saying Goodnight in every inflexion known to parliamentary candidates . Nora , Aunt Judy , Keegan , Larry , and Cornelius are left in the parlor . Larry goes to the threshold and watches the scene in the garden .", "Arra who 's goin to give your lan to Patsy , yowl fool ye ?"], "play_index": 12, "act_index": 12}, {"query": ["Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life ,", "You have a father able to maintain you ,", "Fair lords , take leave and stand not to reply .", "That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's-", "Stay we no longer , dreaming of renown ,", "For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine", "At unawares may beat down Edward 's guard", "O cheerful colours ! See where Oxford comes .", "For Warwick and his friends , God and Saint George ! Exeunt", "Yet in this one thing let me blame your Grace ,", "Fell gently down , as if they struck their friends .", "Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce .", "Do right unto this princely Duke of York ; Or I will fill the house with armed men , And over the chair of state , where now he sits , Write up his title with usurping blood .", "Northampton , and in Leicestershire , shalt find", "Not mutinous in peace , yet bold in war ;", "And with the other fling it at thy face ,", "I had rather chop this hand off at a blow ,", "Thou lov'st me not ; for , brother , if thou didst ,", "To rest mistrustful where a noble heart", "How far off is our brother Montague ? Where is the post that came from Montague ?", "Did I impale him with the regal crown ?", "Mine , full of sorrow and heart 's discontent .", "O passing traitor , perjur 'd and unjust !", "No longer Earl of March , but Duke of York ;", "Did I let pass th \u2019 abuse done to my niece ?", "Alas , I am not coop 'd here for defence !", "To make prescription for a kingdom 's worth .", "But seek revenge on Edward 's mockery . Exit", "As he is fam 'd for mildness , peace , and prayer .", "The scatt'red foe that hopes to rise again ;", "If thou be there , sweet brother , take my hand ,", "Oxford , how haps it in this smooth discourse", "And when the King comes , offer him no violence .", "I come , in kindness and unfeigned love ,", "If thou deny , their blood upon thy head ;", "Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight ;", "After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought ,", "To frustrate both his oath and what beside", "Nor now my scandal , Richard , dost thou hear ;", "Why stand we like soft-hearted women here ,", "Forspent with toil , as runners with a race ,", "Wailing our losses , whiles the foe doth rage ,", "Richard and Hastings . Let them go ; here is the Duke .", "This is the palace of the fearful King ,", "What news , my friend ?", "My lord and sovereign , and thy vowed friend ,", "From off the gates of York fetch down the head ,", "Why , then it sorts ; brave warriors , let 's away .", "And he nor sees nor hears us what we say .", "For strokes receiv 'd and many blows repaid", "My noble Queen , let former grudges pass ,", "Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head .", "For York in justice puts his armour on .", "As may beseem a monarch like himself .", "With aid of soldiers to this needful war .", "Prove it , Henry , and thou shalt be King .", "From worthy Edward , King of Albion ,", "Farewell , sweet lords ; let 's meet at Coventry .", "Injurious Margaret !", "That we could hear no news of his repair ?", "And mine , fair Lady Bona , joins with yours .", "For I intend but only to surprise him .", "Thy brother being carelessly encamp 'd ,", "Or than for strength and safety of our country .", "Did I put Henry from his native right ?", "And as for you yourself , our quondam queen ,", "The bloody parliament shall this be call 'd ,", "With Clifford and the haught Northumberland ,", "Trust me , my lord , all hitherto goes well ;", "That this his love was an eternal plant", "Clifford , devise excuses for thy faults .", "And but attended by a simple guard ,", "Speak suddenly , my lords - are we all friends ?", "Can Oxford that did ever fence the right", "I am commanded , with your leave and favour ,", "And welcome , Somerset . I hold it cowardice", "Come quickly , Montague , or I am dead .", "Bearing the King in my behalf along ;", "How now , fair lords ! What fare ? What news abroad ?", "For by my scouts I was advertised", "Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford ? How far hence is thy lord , mine honest fellow ?", "And , having France thy friend , thou shalt not dread", "Nay , rather , wilt thou draw thy forces hence ,", "Their weapons like to lightning came and went :", "The proudest he that holds up Lancaster ,", "Your brother Richard mark 'd him for the grave ;", "I 'll never pause again , never stand still ,", "Shame on himself ! for my desert is honour ;", "Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour .", "Is not a dukedom , sir , a goodly gift ?", "Making another head to fight again .", "Talk not of France , sith thou hast lost it all .", "Forthwith that Edward be pronounc 'd a traitor ,", "Measure for measure must be answered .", "Then \u2018 twas my turn to fly , and now \u2018 tis thine .", "That glues my lips and will not let me speak .", "Hath plac 'd thy beauty 's image and thy virtue .", "And , weakling , Warwick takes his gift again ;", "Confess who set thee up and pluck 'd thee down ,", "March 'd through the city to the palace gates .", "For King of England shalt thou be proclaim 'd", "I was the chief that rais 'd him to the crown ,", "Why , therefore Warwick came to seek you out ;", "Then , for his mind , be Edward England 's king ;", "And as for Clarence , as my letters tell me ,", "Else might I think that Clarence , Edward 's brother ,", "And slew your fathers , and with colours spread", "Unto my brother , Archbishop of York .", "Like to his island girt in with the ocean", "You that will follow me to this attempt ,", "To effect this marriage , so it please my lord .", "Some six miles off the Duke is with the soldiers ;", "Lord George your brother , Norfolk , and myself ,", "Hath pass 'd in safety through the narrow seas", "And this the regal seat . Possess it , York ;", "Be Duke of Lancaster ; let him be King .", "Your Grace hath still been fam 'd for virtuous ,", "\u2018 Twas not your valour , Clifford , drove me thence .", "Exeter , thou art a traitor to the crown", "When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows ,", "That as Ulysses and stout Diomede", "Farewell , my sovereign .", "The next degree is England 's royal throne ,", "See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey 'd", "Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow .", "And look upon , as if the tragedy", "But Henry now shall wear the English crown", "Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree ?", "By spying and avoiding fortune 's malice ,", "Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee .", "First to do greetings to thy royal person ,", "And see him seated in the regal throne . Exeunt", "And then to Brittany I 'll cross the sea", "Where having nothing , nothing can he lose .", "And lo where George of Clarence sweeps along ,", "He swore consent to your succession ,", "That robb 'd my soldiers of their heated spleen ,", "Applaud the name of Henry with your leader .", "My sovereign , with the loving citizens ,", "And then to crave a league of amity ,", "I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close .", "Where your brave father breath 'd his latest gasp ,", "King Lewis , I here protest in sight of heaven ,", "To Henry 's body , and supply his place ;", "Call Warwick patron , and be penitent ?", "Humbly to kiss your hand , and with my tongue", "Those will I muster up , and thou , son Clarence ,", "We 'll yoke together , like a double shadow", "And to repair my honour lost for him", "And I choose Clarence only for Protector .", "Come , Clarence , come . Thou wilt if Warwick call .", "My brother was too careless of his charge .", "Or more than common fear of Clifford 's rigour ,", "No , \u2018 tis impossible he should escape ;", "And wring the awful sceptre from his fist ,", "What say'st thou , Henry ? Wilt thou yield the crown ?", "And rear it in the place your father 's stands .", "In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends .", "And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York .", "Ah , who is nigh ? Come to me , friend or foe , And tell me who is victor , York or Warwick ? Why ask I that ? My mangled body shows , My blood , my want of strength , my sick heart shows , That I must yield my body to the earth And , by my fall , the conquest to my foe . Thus yields the cedar to the axe 's edge , Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle , Under whose shade the ramping lion slept , Whose top-branch overpeer 'd Jove 's spreading tree And kept low shrubs from winter 's pow'rful wind . These eyes , that now are dimm 'd with death 's black veil , Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun To search the secret treasons of the world ; The wrinkles in my brows , now fill 'd with blood , Were lik'ned oft to kingly sepulchres ; For who liv 'd King , but I could dig his grave ? And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow ? Lo now my glory smear 'd in dust and blood ! My parks , my walks , my manors , that I had , Even now forsake me ; and of all my lands Is nothing left me but my body 's length . what is pomp , rule , reign , but earth and dust ? And live we how we can , yet die we must .", "I come to tell you things sith then befall'n .", "And I 'll keep London with my soldiers .", "Then , gentle Clarence , welcome unto Warwick ;", "Alas , how should you govern any kingdom", "And be you silent and attentive too ,", "And Warwick shall disprove it . You forget", "Who should that be ? Belike unlook 'd for friends .", "Nor how to use your brothers brotherly ,", "Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure ,", "Ay , therein Clarence shall not want his part .", "And now may seem as wise as virtuous", "So we , well cover 'd with the night 's black mantle ,", "For in the marches here we heard you were", "Suppose , my lords , he did it unconstrain 'd ,", "I 'll follow you and tell what answer", "Now for a while farewell , good Duke of York .", "Ten days ago I drown 'd these news in tears ;", "Poor Clifford , how I scorn his worthless threats !", "March 'd toward Saint Albans to intercept the Queen ,", "Attend me , lords . The proud insulting Queen ,", "Or whether \u2018 twas report of her success ,", "And force the tyrant from his seat by war .", "I 'll plant Plantagenet , root him up who dares .", "To dash our late decree in parliament", "And now what rests but , in night 's coverture ,", "In following this usurping Henry .", "And I 'll be chief to bring him down again ;", "Because thy father Henry did usurp ;", "The common people by numbers swarm to us .", "Who look 'd full gently on his warlike queen ,", "To tell the passion of my sovereign 's heart ;", "That if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us", "Turn this way , Henry , and regard them not .", "I came from Edward as ambassador ,", "Our soldiers \u2019 , like the night-owl 's lazy flight", "O unbid spite ! Is sportful Edward come ?", "And seize himself - I say not \u2018 slaughter him , \u2019", "Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry 's head", "But all in vain ; they had no heart to fight ,", "I will away towards Barnet presently", "Hath made us by-words to our enemies .", "And all his lands and goods confiscated ."], "true_target": ["To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands .", "That if our Queen and this young Prince agree ,", "And therefore comes my brother Montague .", "That know not how to use ambassadors ,", "And now , to add more measure to your woes ,", "First will I see the coronation ;", "King Edward , valiant Richard , Montague ,", "Did I forget that by the house of York", "Instead whereof let this supply the room .", "Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood", "And once again bestride our foaming steeds ,", "For this is thine , and not King Henry 's heirs \u2019 .", "I cheer 'd them up with justice of our cause ,", "But for the rest : you tell a pedigree", "Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him .", "And , gracious madam , in our king 's behalf ,", "But I return his sworn and mortal foe .", "That virtuous Lady Bona , thy fair sister ,", "Then Clarence is at hand ; I hear his drum .", "The knights and gentlemen to come with thee .", "Such it seems", "Depos 'd he shall be , in despite of all .", "And come now to create you Duke of York .", "In every borough as we pass along ;", "So shalt thou sinew both these lands together ;", "Our battles join 'd , and both sides fiercely fought ;", "A salve for any sore that may betide .", "And Henry is my King , Warwick his subject .", "All that which Henry the Fifth had gotten ?", "And , Clarence , now then it is more than needful", "Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs ,", "How now ! what news ?", "For shame ! Leave Henry , and call Edward king .", "O , welcome , Oxford ! for we want thy help .", "For Warwick bids you all farewell , to meet in heaven .", "In haste post-haste are come to join with you ;", "Who thunders to his captives blood and death ,", "What good is this to England and himself !", "His soldiers lurking in the towns about ,", "There 's thy reward ; be gone . Exit POST", "I think his understanding is bereft .", "And better \u2018 twere you troubled him than France .", "Unsavoury news ! But how made he escape ?", "Shall rest in London till we come to him .", "And so do I. Victorious Prince of York ,", "Why , Via ! to London will we march amain ,", "More than the nature of a brother 's love .", "Whereof the root was fix 'd in virtue 's ground ,", "Where slept our scouts or how are they seduc 'd", "But dreadful war shall answer his demand .", "From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France ,", "Were brought me of your loss and his depart .", "Were play 'd in jest by counterfeiting actors ?", "Plantagenet shall speak first . Hear him , lords ;", "Tidings , as swiftly as the posts could run ,", "With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders ,", "And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds ,", "And therefore I 'll uncrown him ere't be long .", "Methinks these peers of France should smile at that .", "With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus \u2019 tents ,", "The more that Henry was unfortunate .", "Or fortune given me measure of revenge .", "Neither the King , nor he that loves him best ,", "When you disgrac 'd me in my embassade ,", "But welcome , sweet Clarence ; my daughter shall be thine .", "He 's very likely now to fall from him", "And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss ,", "Ay , but the case is alter 'd .", "Men well inclin 'd to hear what thou command'st .", "Why then , I would not fly . Ah , Montague ,", "We may surprise and take him at our pleasure ?", "My father came untimely to his death ?", "With promise of high pay and great rewards ,", "They mock thee , Clifford ; swear as thou wast wont .", "And lastly to confirm that amity", "While he enjoys the honour and his ease .", "Think you \u2018 twere prejudicial to his crown ?", "And I the house of York .", "Enter CLARENCE and SOMERSET", "I mean , in bearing weight of government ,", "Till either death hath clos 'd these eyes of mine", "There to be crowned England 's royal King ;", "And bid thee battle , Edward , if thou dar'st .", "This shall assure my constant loyalty :", "So much his friend , ay , his unfeigned friend ,", "With whom an upright zeal to right prevails", "Their power , I think , is thirty thousand strong .", "This is his tent ; and see where stand his guard . Courage , my masters ! Honour now or never ! But follow me , and Edward shall be ours .", "Nor how to study for the people 's welfare ,", "Unless Plantagenet , Duke of York , be King ,", "That we are those which chas 'd you from the field ,", "No more my king , for he dishonours me ,", "Your father 's head , which Clifford placed there ;", "So that we fled : the King unto the Queen ;", "But see where Somerset and Clarence comes .", "Short tale to make - we at Saint Albans met ,", "And thou , brave Oxford , wondrous well belov 'd ,", "And now to London all the crew are gone", "Resolve thee , Richard ; claim the English crown .", "That she was coming with a full intent", "Or like an idle thresher with a flail ,", "From your kind aunt , Duchess of Burgundy ,", "And of their feather many moe proud birds ,", "I lay me down a little while to breathe ;", "Where fame , late ent'ring at his heedful ears ,", "Thou , brother Montague , in Buckingham ,", "But sound the trumpets and about our task .", "And replant Henry in his former state .", "Before I see thee seated in that throne", "Away , away ! Once more , sweet lords , farewell .", "I cannot judge ; but , to conclude with truth ,", "Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings .", "I wonder how the King escap 'd our hands .", "Now if the help of Norfolk and myself ,", "And am I guerdon 'd at the last with shame ?", "To free King Henry from imprisonment ,", "I here renounce him and return to Henry .", "And henceforth I am thy true servitor .", "Ay , but he 's dead . Off with the traitor 's head ,", "Were he as famous and as bold in war", "And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile .", "And we in them no hope to win the day ;", "Say , Somerville , what says my loving son ? And by thy guess how nigh is Clarence now ?", "For choosing me when Clarence is in place .", "And , whereso'er he is , he 's surely dead .", "Richard , be Duke of Gloucester . Now to London", "And with thy lips keep in my soul a while !", "Myself have often heard him say and swear", "Here on my knee I vow to God above", "In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends ,", "His oath enrolled in the parliament ;", "Shalt stir up in Suffolk , Norfolk , and in Kent ,", "The leaves and fruit maintain 'd with beauty 's sun ,", "How now , my lord . What hap ? What hope of good ?", "And thou no more art prince than she is queen .", "With nuptial knot , if thou vouchsafe to grant", "Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells .", "To see these honours in possession . Exeunt", "And once again cry \u2018 Charge upon our foes ! \u2019", "And very well appointed , as I thought ,", "But most himself , if he could see his shame .", "Touching King Henry 's oath and your succession .", "I 'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy", "\u2018 Tis not his new-made bride shall succour him ;", "For , though before his face I speak the words ,", "But let us hence , my sovereign , to provide", "Sweet rest his soul ! Fly , lords , and save yourselves :", "True , Clifford ; and that 's Richard Duke of York .", "Speak , Clifford , dost thou know who speaks to thee ?", "For matching more for wanton lust than honour", "Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain .", "Hath pawn 'd an open hand in sign of love ;", "And now to London with triumphant march ,", "Had he none else to make a stale but me ?", "For few men rightly temper with the stars ;", "My Lord of Somerset , at my request ,", "Have wrought the easy-melting King like wax .", "Of force enough to bid his brother battle ;", "Will but amount to five and twenty thousand ,", "Nor how to be contented with one wife ,", "Tut , that 's a foolish observation .", "For he that interrupts him shall not live .", "And with his troops doth march amain to London ;", "Of threescore and two years - a silly time", "I 'll kill my horse , because I will not fly .", "But never once again turn back and fly .", "Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me ,", "Muster 'd my soldiers , gathered flocks of friends ,", "Not that I pity Henry 's misery ,", "Why should you sigh , my lord ?", "With some few bands of chosen soldiers ,", "I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona ,", "Then I degraded you from being King ,", "Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies ?", "And he that throws not up his cap for joy", "What answers Clarence to his sovereign 's will ?", "But whether \u2018 twas the coldness of the King ,", "You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost", "Which now the house of Lancaster usurps ,", "Henry now lives in Scotland at his case ,", "And for your brother , he was lately sent", "Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears .", "And many giddy people flock to him .", "I , then in London , keeper of the King ,", "Why , then , though loath , yet must I be content .", "Then let the earth be drunken with our blood .", "What counsel , lords ? Edward from Belgia ,", "Have robb 'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength ,", "Why then , let 's on our way in silent sort .", "And bashful Henry depos 'd , whose cowardice", "Ay , that 's the first thing that we have to do ;", "For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt ,", "May make against the house of Lancaster .", "Our scouts have found the adventure very easy ;", "\u2018 Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother .", "To England 's King in lawful marriage .", "And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen .", "Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong ,", "With all the friends that thou , brave Earl of March ,", "I 'll undertake to land them on our coast", "Long live King Henry ! Plantagenet , embrace him .", "And be true King indeed ; thou but the shadow .", "Exempt from envy , but not from disdain ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["In them I trust , for they are soldiers ,", "\u2018 Tis virtue that doth make them most admir 'd ;", "What , with five thousand men ?", "Bid'st thou me rage ? Why , now thou hast thy wish ;", "Why should I not now have the like success ? Exeunt", "Edward and Richard , you shall stay with me ;", "With pow'rful policy strengthen themselves", "That face of his the hungry cannibals", "Hard-hearted Clifford , take me from the world ;", "To triumph like an Amazonian trull", "He rose against him , being his sovereign ,", "And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven ,", "Whose tongue more poisons than the adder 's tooth !", "\u2018 Twas my inheritance , as the earldom was .", "Farewell , my gracious lord ; I 'll to my castle .", "Made impudent with use of evil deeds ,", "For raging wind blows up incessant showers ,", "He slily stole away and left his men ;", "Upon their woes whom fortune captivates !", "I mean to take possession of my right .", "Brother , thou shalt to London presently", "Charg 'd our main battle 's front , and , breaking in ,", "Or as the south to the septentrion .", "O Clifford , but bethink thee once again ,", "Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman .", "Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat ,", "But that I seek occasion how to rise ,", "My ashes , as the phoenix , may bring forth", "Thou canst not , son ; it is impossible .", "And in thy need such comfort come to thee", "Whom we have left protectors of the King ,", "Thou , Richard , shalt to the Duke of Norfolk", "Were shame enough to shame thee , wert thou not shameless .", "Now York and Lancaster are reconcil 'd .", "Assist me then , sweet Warwick , and I will ;", "Thou stern , obdurate , flinty , rough , remorseless .", "As the Antipodes are unto us ,", "By words or blows here let us win our right .", "Keep thou the napkin , and go boast of this ;", "The want thereof makes thee abominable .", "So triumph thieves upon their conquer 'd booty ;", "And made him to resign his crown perforce .", "And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv'st .", "Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs ,", "And if thou tell'st the heavy story right ,", "Upon my soul , the hearers will shed tears ;", "I doubt not , uncle , of our victory .", "The army of the Queen hath got the field . My uncles both are slain in rescuing me ; And all my followers to the eager foe Turn back and fly , like ships before the wind , Or lambs pursu 'd by hunger-starved wolves . My sons - God knows what hath bechanced them ; But this I know - they have demean 'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death . Three times did Richard make a lane to me , And thrice cried \u2018 Courage , father ! fight it out . \u2019 And full as oft came Edward to my side With purple falchion , painted to the hilt In blood of those that had encount'red him . And when the hardiest warriors did retire , Richard cried \u2018 Charge , and give no foot of ground ! \u2019 And cried \u2018 A crown , or else a glorious tomb ! A sceptre , or an earthly sepulchre ! \u2019 With this we charg 'd again ; but out alas ! We bodg 'd again ; as I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide And spend her strength with over-matching waves .Ah , hark ! The fatal followers do pursue , And I am faint and cannot fly their fury ; And were I strong , I would not shun their fury . The sands are numb'red that make up my life ; Here must I stay , and here my life must end . Enter QUEEN MARGARET , CLIFFORD , NORTHUMBERLAND , the PRINCE OF WALES , and soldiers Come , bloody Clifford , rough Northumberland , I dare your quenchless fury to more rage ; I am your butt , and I abide your shot .", "And in thy thought o'errun my former time ;", "Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this !", "And yet be seen to bear a woman 's face ?", "Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem ,", "Sir john and Sir Hugh Mortimer , mine uncles !", "What then ?", "She-wolf of France , but worse than wolves of France ,", "Thanks , gentle Norfolk . Stay by me , my lords ;", "Why , how now , sons and brother ! at a strife ? What is your quarrel ? How began it first ?", "Wouldst have me weep ? Why , now thou hast thy will ;", "Then leave me not , my lords ; be resolute :", "My brother Montague shall post to London .", "\u2018 Tis government that makes them seem divine ;", "Henry of Lancaster , resign thy crown . What mutter you , or what conspire you , lords ?", "And when the rage allays , the rain begins .", "A bird that will revenge upon you all ;", "Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult ?", "\u2018 Twas by rebellion against his king .", "Richard , enough ; I will be King , or die .", "Open Thy gate of mercy , gracious God ! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee .", "You are come to Sandal in a happy hour ;", "While we pursu 'd the horsemen of the north ,"], "true_target": ["Ay , with my sword . What ! think'st thou that we fear them ?", "Five men to twenty ! Though the odds be great ,", "And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths .", "I would assay , proud queen , to make thee blush .", "But that thy face is visard-like , unchanging ,", "Thy father bears the type of King of Naples ,", "How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex", "This oath I willingly take , and will perform .", "Women are soft , mild , pitiful , and flexible :", "And yet the King not privy to my drift ,", "And bite thy tongue that slanders him with cowardice", "When as the enemy hath been ten to one ;", "The contrary doth make thee wond'red at .", "Mine , boy ? Not till King Henry be dead .", "I am thine .", "It needs not , nor it boots thee not , proud queen ;", "The army of the Queen mean to besiege us .", "With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise ;", "And tell him privily of our intent .", "About what ?", "Would not have touch 'd , would not have stain 'd with blood ;", "This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy ,", "And , if thou canst for blushing , view this face ,", "See , ruthless queen , a hapless father 's tears .", "Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland ,", "Nor any of the house of Lancaster ?", "Why come you not ? What ! multitudes , and fear ?", "How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child ,", "Will you we show our title to the crown ? If not , our swords shall plead it in the field .", "That beggars mounted run their horse to death .", "And , soldiers , stay and lodge by me this night .", "Thou art as opposite to every good", "But , stay . What news ? Why com'st thou in such post ?", "And say \u2018 Alas , it was a piteous deed ! \u2019", "Witty , courteous , liberal , full of spirit .", "Enter a MESSENGER", "But , God He knows , thy share thereof is small .", "These tears are my sweet Rutland 's obsequies ;", "O , ten times more - than tigers of Hyrcania .", "You , Edward , shall unto my Lord Cobham ,", "I took an oath that he should quietly reign .", "So true men yield , with robbers so o'erhYpppHeNmatch ' d .", "Unless the adage must be verified ,", "Lord Clifford , and Lord Stafford , all abreast ,", "I shall be , if I claim by open war .", "There , take the crown , and with the crown my curse ;", "And I with tears do wash the blood away .", "Sons , peace !", "But little thinks we shall be of her council .", "My soul to heaven , my blood upon your heads !", "For hither we have broken in by force .", "Let noble Warwick , Cobham , and the rest ,", "Richard hath best deserv 'd of all my sons . But is your Grace dead , my Lord of Somerset ?", "But you are more inhuman , more inexorable-", "As now I reap at thy too cruel hand !", "To tell thee whence thou cam'st , of whom deriv 'd ,", "\u2018 Gainst thee , fell Clifford , and thee , false Frenchwoman .", "Yea , even my foes will shed fast-falling tears", "To bid the father wipe his eyes withal ,", "O tiger 's heart wrapp 'd in a woman 's hide !", "Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with .", "And every drop cries vengeance for his death", "Were by the swords of common soldiers slain .", "While you are thus employ 'd , what resteth more", "Why whisper you , my lords , and answer not ?", "Cheer 'd up the drooping army , and himself ,", "And whet on Warwick to this enterprise .", "\u2018 Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud ;", "It must and shall be so ; content thyself .", "Many a battle have I won in France ,", "The Queen this day here holds her parliament ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Some troops pursue the bloody-minded Queen", "Where is the Duke of Norfolk , gentle Warwick ? And when came George from Burgundy to England ?", "Now thou art gone , we have no staff , no stay .", "For in thy shoulder do I build my seat ,", "For what hath broach 'd this tumult but thy pride ?", "Each one already blazing by our meeds ,", "Lord Stafford 's father , Duke of Buckingham ,", "Now , lords , take leave until we meet again ,", "And set thy diadem upon my head ,", "And ere my knee rise from the earth 's cold face", "Not willing any longer conference ,", "His father revell 'd in the heart of France ,", "No quarrel , but a slight contention .", "Now you are heir , therefore enjoy it now .", "O , speak no more ! for I have heard too much .", "Now my soul 's palace is become a prison .", "That this is true , father , behold his blood .", "By that false woman as this king by thee .", "I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year .", "Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death .", "But for a kingdom any oath may be broken :", "That led calm Henry , though he were a king ,", "Since when , his oath is broke ; for , as I hear ,", "Or bide the mortal fortune of the field ?", "And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks .", "But when he took a beggar to his bed", "And heap 'd sedition on his crown at home .", "Might in the ground be closed up in rest !", "I am his king , and he should bow his knee .", "Sound trumpets ; let our bloody colours wave ,", "Where'er it be , in heaven or in earth .", "From Clifford 's and Northumberland 's pursuit .", "And tam 'd the King , and made the Dauphin stoop ;", "He might have kept that glory to this day ;", "Had he been ta'en , we should have heard the news ;", "To make this shameless callet know herself .", "Lord Warwick , on thy shoulder will I lean ;", "Ah , would she break from hence , that this my body", "I throw my hands , mine eyes , my heart to Thee ,", "O Warwick , Warwick ! that Plantagenet", "Thou pitied'st Rutland , I will pity thee .", "O Clifford , boist'rous Clifford , thou hast slain", "Even as thou wilt , sweet Warwick , let it be ;", "And grac 'd thy poor sire with his bridal day ,", "Since thou deniest the gentle King to speak .", "To blot out me and put his own son in .", "And when thou fail'sthYpppHeN as God forbid the hour ! -", "I wonder how our princely father scap 'd ,", "That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown .", "And give sweet passage to my sinful soul .", "Never , O never , shall I see more joy .", "I think it cites us , brother , to the field ,", "Bootless is flight : they follow us with wings ;", "Dazzle mine eyes , or do I see three suns ?", "Then strike up drums . God and Saint George for us !", "And now the battle 's ended ,", "I cleft his beaver with a downright blow .", "And never will I undertake the thing", "It will outrun you , father , in the end .", "Had slipp 'd our claim until another age .", "The flow'r of Europe for his chivalry ;", "And overshine the earth , as this the world .", "For never henceforth shall I joy again ;", "Now death shall stop his dismal threat'ning sound ,"], "true_target": ["Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou ,", "As doth a sail , fill 'd with a fretting gust ,", "By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe ,", "Command an argosy to stern the waves .", "Beseeching Thee , if with Thy will it stands", "No , wrangling woman , we 'll no longer stay ;", "You that are King , though he do wear the crown ,", "Thou setter-up and plucker-down of kings ,", "These words will cost ten thousand lives this day .", "Or had he scap 'd , methinks we should have heard", "If friend or foe , let him be gently used .", "That nothing sung but death to us and ours .", "Have caus 'd him by new act of parliament", "A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns", "Which held thee dearly as his soul 's redemption", "And ne'er was Agamemmon 's brother wrong 'd", "Now breathe we , lords . Good fortune bids us pause", "And treacherously hast thou vanquish 'd him ,", "Must Edward fall , which peril heaven forfend .", "The happy tidings of his good escape .", "Now , perjur 'd Henry , wilt thou kneel for grace", "For hand to hand he would have vanquish 'd thee .", "How fares my brother ? Why is he so sad ?", "His name that valiant duke hath left with thee ;", "Although thy husband may be Menelaus ;", "And issue forth and bid them battle straight .", "Is either slain or wounded dangerous ;", "And George , of Clarence ; Warwick , as ourself ,", "A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day", "Richard , I will create thee Duke of Gloucester ;", "Yet that Thy brazen gates of heaven may ope", "Smile , gentle heaven , or strike , ungentle death ;", "Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house ,", "Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting .", "Say , Henry , shall I have my right , or no ?", "That wash 'd his father 's fortunes forth of France", "His dukedom and his chair with me is left .", "Had he been slain , we should have heard the news ;", "And in this vow do chain my soul to thine !", "Hadst thou been meek , our title still had slept ;", "And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak .", "Or whether he be scap 'd away or no", "That we , the sons of brave Plantagenet ,", "Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best .", "Clifford , repent in bootless penitence .", "I was adopted heir by his consent :", "Whate'er it bodes , henceforward will I bear", "And weak we are , and cannot shun pursuit .", "Should notwithstanding join our lights together", "For this world frowns , and Edward 's sun is clouded .", "No , I can better play the orator .", "But think you , lords , that Clifford fled with them ?", "That to my foes this body must be prey ,", "And had he match 'd according to his state ,", "And in this resolution I defy thee ;", "Sweet Duke of York , our prop to lean upon ,", "Upon my target three fair shining suns .", "And either victory or else a grave !", "I hear their drums . Let 's set our men in order ,", "Even then that sunshine brew 'd a show'r for him", "And we , in pity of the gentle King ,", "O Warwick , I do bend my knee with thine ,", "Sweet father , do so ; set it on your head .", "\u2018 Tis wondrous strange , the like yet never heard of ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["\u2018 Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage .", "Comfort , my lord ; and so I take my leave .", "Let 's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus .", "Montague , Montague , for Lancaster !", "Whom I encount'red as the battles join 'd .", "Yet to have join 'd with France in such alliance", "Good brother , as thou lov'st and honourest arms ,"], "true_target": ["So God help Montague as he proves true !", "And I unto the sea , from whence I came .", "But the safer when \u2018 tis back 'd with France .", "Brother , I go ; I 'll win them , fear it not . And thus most humbly I do take my leave . Exit", "And , brother , here 's the Earl of Wiltshire 's blood ,", "But I have reasons strong and forcible .", "Would more have strength'ned this our commonwealth"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Show thy descent by gazing \u2018 gainst the sun ;", "Thou didst love York , and I am son to York .", "As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds ,", "Brother , give me thy hand ; and , gentle Warwick ,", "Let me be Duke of Clarence , George of Gloucester ;", "I cannot joy until I be resolv 'd", "See , see ! they join , embrace , and seem to kiss ,", "A woman 's general ; what should we fear ?", "This hand should chop it off , and with the issuing blood", "An oath is of no moment , being not took", "Thus do I hope to shake King Henry 's head .", "Because he would avoid such bitter taunts", "But set his murd'ring knife unto the root", "\u2018 Twas you that kill 'd young Rutland , was it not ?", "Whoever got thee , there thy mother stands ;", "For well I wot thou hast thy mother 's tongue .", "Is kindling coals that fires all my breast ,", "Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave ? A deadly groan , like life and death 's departing . See who it is .", "For chair and dukedom , throne and kingdom , say :", "For I myself will hunt this wolf to death . Exeunt", "To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart ?", "Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart ;", "The crown of England , father , which is yours .", "That winter should cut off our spring-time so .", "And burns me up with flames that tears would quench .", "Our baleful news and at each word 's deliverance", "I cannot weep , for all my body 's moisture", "Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry 's heart .", "The noble gentleman gave up the ghost .", "Who having pinch 'd a few and made them cry ,", "Upon that Clifford , that cruel child-killer .", "Methought he bore him in the thickest troop", "But ere sunset I 'll make thee curse the deed .", "Enter a MESSENGER , blowing", "Not separated with the racking clouds ,", "Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit ,", "For Gloucester 's dukedom is too ominous .", "Shall we go throw away our coats of steel", "Nay , Warwick , single out some other chase ;", "In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth ,", "Then , Clifford , were thy heart as hard as steel ,", "Within whose circuit is Elysium", "For God 's sake , lords , give signal to the fight .", "Are you there , butcher ? O , I cannot speak !", "That Clifford 's manhood lies upon his tongue .", "As if they vow 'd some league inviolable .", "Tears then for babes ; blows and revenge for me !", "I 'll prove the contrary , if you 'll hear me speak .", "Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day", "Stab poinards in our flesh till all were told ,", "Iron of Naples hid with English gilt ,", "That stain 'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood ,", "Let me embrace thee in my weary arms .", "And this for Rutland ; both bound to revenge ,", "So , underneath the belly of their steeds ,", "Nay , bear three daughters - by your leave I speak it ,", "Thy brother 's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk ,", "I know by that he 's dead ; and by my soul ,", "What , not an oath ? Nay , then the world goes hard", "I come to pierce it or to give thee mine .", "Like to a dismal clangor heard from far ,", "Clifford , ask mercy and obtain no grace .", "But ne'er till now his scandal of retire .", "I saw him in the battle range about ,", "Nay , if thou be that princely eagle 's bird ,", "I that did never weep now melt with woe", "And takes her farewell of the glorious sun .", "Ah , Warwick , why hast thou withdrawn thyself ?", "Your oath , my lord , is vain and frivolous .", "And all that poets feign of bliss and joy .", "Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst", "O , would he did ! and so , perhaps , he doth .", "Arm 'd as we are , let 's stay within this house .", "How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown ,", "So fled his enemies my warlike father .", "To weep is to make less the depth of grief .", "And in the very pangs of death he cried ,"], "true_target": ["See how the morning opes her golden gates", "As if a channel should be call 'd the sea-", "Henry had none , but did usurp the place ;", "\u2018 Warwick , revenge ! Brother , revenge my death . \u2019", "\u2018 Twas odds , belike , when valiant Warwick fled .", "O valiant lord , the Duke of York is slain !", "Who not contented that he lopp 'd the branch", "Then , executioner , unsheathe thy sword .", "Now are they but one lamp , one light , one sun .", "But in this troublous time what 's to be done ?", "But what art thou , whose heavy looks foretell", "Break off the parley ; for scarce I can refrain", "Either that is thine , or else thou wert not his .", "When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath .", "Broach 'd with the steely point of Clifford 's lance ;", "Ay , now methinks I hear great Warwick speak .", "Until the white rose that I wear be dy 'd", "That hath authority over him that swears .", "\u2018 Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak .", "About that which concerns your Grace and us-", "As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland ;", "Now , Clifford , I have singled thee alone .", "And wrap our bodies in black mourning-gowns ,", "York and young Rutland could not satisfy .", "Before a true and lawful magistrate", "Revoke that doom of mercy , for \u2018 tis Clifford ;", "And watch 'd him how he singled Clifford forth .", "Brother , though I be youngest , give me leave .", "How well resembles it the prime of youth ,", "Ay , with five hundred , father , for a need .", "Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue ?", "Or shall we on the helmets of our foes", "If for the last , say \u2018 Ay , \u2019 and to it , lords .", "For self-same wind that I should speak withal", "But sever 'd in a pale clear-shining sky .", "Tell our devotion with revengeful arms ?", "Speak thou for me , and tell them what I did .", "Or as a bear , encompass 'd round with dogs ,", "You love the breeder better than the male .", "You are old enough now , and yet methinks you lose . Father , tear the crown from the usurper 's head .", "From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring-", "\u2018 Tis but his policy to counterfeit ,", "As doth a lion in a herd of neat ;", "So far 'd our father with his enemies ;", "That I in all despite might rail at him ,", "Sham'st thou not , knowing whence thou art extraught ,", "Trimm 'd like a younker prancing to his love !", "Northumberland , I hold thee reverently .", "No ; God forbid your Grace should be forsworn .", "Whose father bears the title of a king-", "Therefore , to arms . And , father , do but think", "Say how he died , for I will hear it all .", "Sound drums and trumpets , and the King will fly .", "I mean our princely father , Duke of York .", "Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads ?", "Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York ,", "If this right hand would buy two hours \u2019 life ,", "That cries \u2018 Retire ! \u2019 if Warwick bid him stay .", "The rest stand all aloof and bark at him .", "Where our right valiant father is become .", "Ay , like a dastard and a treacherous coward ,", "By Him that made us all , I am resolv 'd", "In this the heaven figures some event .", "The words would add more anguish than the wounds .", "I know it well , Lord Warwick ; blame me not .", "Three glorious suns , each one a perfect sun ;", "Wert thou environ 'd with a brazen wall .", "Then , seeing \u2018 twas he that made you to depose ,", "The execution of my big-swol'n heart", "Or die renowned by attempting it .", "Why do we linger thus ? I cannot rest", "Methinks \u2018 tis prize enough to be his son .", "Richard , I bear thy name ; I 'll venge thy death ,", "Your right depends not on his life or death .", "Great Lord of Warwick , if we should recount", "Nor can my tongue unload my heart 's great burden ,", "Which in the time of death he gave our father ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And I to Norfolk with my followers ."], "true_target": ["Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt !", "We 'll all assist you ; he that flies shall die ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["No , Exeter , these graces challenge grace ;", "My Lord of Somerset , what youth is that ,", "Come , cousin , you shall be the messenger .", "Ay , and their colours , often borne in France ,", "And men may talk of kings , and why not I ?", "And would my father had left me no more !", "A persecutor I am sure thou art .", "To sit upon a hill , as I do now ,", "Ay , such a pleasure as incaged birds", "Therefore , that I may conquer fortune 's spite", "Here sits a king more woeful than you are .", "To seek to put me down and reign thyself .", "Be patient , gentle queen , and I will stay .", "O God ! methinks it were a happy life", "If you contend , a thousand lives must perish .", "Have now the fatal object in my eye", "For wise men say it is the wisest course .", "And you were sworn true subjects unto me ;", "To sin 's rebuke and my Creator 's praise .", "Why , so I am - in mind ; and that 's enough .", "And in devotion spend my latter days ,", "So many years ere I shall shear the fleece :", "Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave .", "And learn this lesson : Draw thy sword in right .", "Nay , be thou sure I 'll well requite thy kindness ,", "For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds .", "For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure ;", "Be sent for to return from France with speed ;", "And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words .", "Hadst thou been kill 'd when first thou didst presume , Thou hadst not liv 'd to kill a son of mine . And thus I prophesy , that many a thousand Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear , And many an old man 's sigh , and many a widow 's , And many an orphan 's water-standing eye - Men for their sons , wives for their husbands , Orphans for their parents \u2019 timeless death - Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born . The owl shriek 'd at thy birth - an evil sign ; The night-crow cried , aboding luckless time ; Dogs howl 'd , and hideous tempest shook down trees ; The raven rook 'd her on the chimney 's top , And chatt'ring pies in dismal discords sung ; Thy mother felt more than a mother 's pain , And yet brought forth less than a mother 's hope , To wit , an indigest deformed lump , Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree . Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born , To signify thou cam'st to bite the world ; And if the rest be true which I have heard , Thou cam'st-", "Not deck 'd with diamonds and Indian stones ,", "To kings that fear their subjects \u2019 treachery ?", "Now join your hands , and with your hands your hearts ,", "And yielding to another when it blows ,", "Thy balm wash 'd off wherewith thou wast anointed .", "Will cost my crown , and like an empty eagle", "And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee ;", "What time the shepherd , blowing of his nails ,", "A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy .", "To cease this civil war , and , whilst I live ,", "For she 's a woman to be pitied much .", "Pass 'd over to the end they were created ,", "No bending knee will call thee Caesar now ,", "To greet mine own land with my wishful sight .", "His looks are full of peaceful majesty ;", "My mercy dried their water-flowing tears ;", "Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life .", "His wonted sleep under a fresh tree 's shade ,", "All will revolt from me , and turn to him .", "Farewell , my Hector and my Troy 's true hope .", "By this account , then , Margaret may win him ;", "To be no better than a homely swain ;", "My fear to hope , my sorrows unto joys ,", "To strengthen and support King Edward 's place .", "And to conclude : the shepherd 's homely curds ,", "Edward Plantagenet , arise a knight ;", "My breast can better brook thy dagger 's point", "Make much of him , my lords ; for this is he", "Nor forward of revenge , though they much err 'd .", "PRINCE OF WALES , and EXETER", "Of whom you seem to have so tender care ?", "For till I see them here , by doubtful fear", "Inferring arguments of mighty force .", "My joy of liberty is half eclips 'd .", "Whiles Warwick tells his title , smooths the wrong ,", "Even in the chair of state ! Belike he means ,", "O Clifford , how thy words revive my heart !", "When this is known , then to divide the times-", "Yet neither conqueror nor conquered .", "Withhold revenge , dear God ; \u2018 tis not my fault ,", "Both tugging to be victors , breast to breast ,", "His viands sparkling in a golden cup ,", "They prosper best of all when I am thence .", "To carve out dials quaintly , point by point ,", "Now sways it this way , like a mighty sea", "What scene of death hath Roscius now to act ?", "With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush ;", "And all at once , once more a happy farewell .", "And tell me , then , have you not broke your oaths ?", "And , when the lion fawns upon the lamb ,", "Let me embrace thee , sour adversity ,", "So many days my ewes have been with young ;", "And seiz 'd upon their towns and provinces .", "Nor much oppress 'd them with great subsidies ,", "Wither one rose , and let the other flourish !", "Would I were dead , if God 's good will were so !", "Shall be the war that Henry means to use .", "Why , that 's my fortune too ; therefore I 'll stay .", "And both preposterous ; therefore , not \u2018 good lord . \u2019", "Is far beyond a prince 's delicates-", "Tire on the flesh of me and of my son !", "Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown .", "Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit .", "Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop ,", "Ah , know you not the city favours them ,", "But do not break your oaths ; for of that sin", "She , on his left side , craving aid for Henry :", "Likely in time to bless a regal throne .", "That Margaret your Queen and my son Edward", "\u2018 Tis sin to flatter ; \u2018 good \u2019 was little better .", "At last by notes of household harmony", "Nor posted off their suits with slow delays ;", "His body couched in a curious bed ,", "When care , mistrust , and treason waits on him .", "And I , with grief and sorrow , to the court .", "So many hours must I sport myself ;", "An if he may , then am I lawful King ;", "Sad-hearted men , much overgone with care ,", "I 'll write unto them , and entreat them fair ;", "If he were seated as King Edward is .", "Art thou against us , Duke of Exeter ?", "And as the air blows it to me again ,", "Let me for this my life-time reign as king .", "I here resign my government to thee ,", "Go where you will , the King shall be commanded ;", "She weeps , and says her Henry is depos 'd :", "Ah , what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely !", "The loss of those three lords torments my heart .", "Inferreth arguments of mighty strength ,", "But wherefore dost thou come ? Is't for my life ?", "Must help you more than you are hurt by me .", "Be blind with tears and break o'ercharg ' d with grief .", "And turn 'd my captive state to liberty ,", "The lamb will never cease to follow him .", "With promise of his sister , and what else ,", "Come hither , England 's hope .", "Be patient , gentle Earl of Westmoreland .", "Thou factious Duke of York , descend my throne", "Art then forsaken , as thou went'st forlorn !", "From Scotland am I stol'n , even of pure love ,", "What title hast thou , traitor , to the crown ?", "I 'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind ;", "Whose haughty spirit , winged with desire ,", "Far be the thought of this from Henry 's heart ,", "And Nero will be tainted with remorse", "To aspire unto the crown and reign as king .", "Than can my ears that tragic history .", "I prithee give no limits to my tongue :", "The bird that hath been limed in a bush", "O yes , it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth .", "Earl of Northumberland , he slew thy father ;", "Reveng 'd may she be on that hateful Duke ,", "Hath made her break out into terms of rage !", "To make a shambles of the parliament house !", "And what God will , that let your King perform ;", "He smiles , and says his Edward is install 'd ;", "I have not stopp 'd mine ears to their demands ,", "For Margaret my queen , and Clifford too ,", "His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle ,", "And thine , Lord Clifford ; and you both have vow 'd revenge", "On him , his sons , his favourites , and his friends .", "Than in possession any jot of pleasure .", "When dying clouds contend with growing light ,", "Then why should they love Edward more than me ?", "Nay , take me with thee , good sweet Exeter .", "Sometime the flood prevails , and then the wind ;", "O piteous spectacle ! O bloody times !", "I am the son of Henry the Fifth ,", "But , with the first of all your chief affairs ,", "To whom God will , there be the victory !", "To see this sight , it irks my very soul .", "So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece ,", "So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf ;", "Now sways it that way , like the selfsame sea", "Woe above woe ! grief more than common grief !", "How many hours brings about the day ,", "That she , poor wretch , for grief can speak no more ;", "Poor queen and son , your labour is but lost ;", "Exeter , so will I .", "Where my poor young was lim 'd , was caught , and kill 'd .", "And in conclusion wins the King from her"], "true_target": ["So many weeks ere the poor fools will can ;", "Weep , wretched man ; I 'll aid thee tear for tear ;", "O pity , pity , gentle heaven , pity !", "I make you both Protectors of this land ,", "Have shaken Edward from the regal seat", "Forc 'd by the tide to combat with the wind ;", "Resign 'd the crown to Henry the Fourth ,", "If murdering innocents be executing ,", "O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds !", "Let 's levy men and beat him back again .", "Now one the better , then another best ;", "My mildness hath allay 'd their swelling griefs ,", "I know not what to say ; my title 's weak. -", "Why , then thou are an executioner .", "My father and my grandfather were kings ;", "Such is the lightness of you common men .", "No ; first shall war unpeople this my realm ;", "And that the people of this blessed land", "For how can I help them and not myself ?", "Thy father was , as thou art , Duke of York ;", "Sweet Oxford , and my loving Montague ,", "My lords , look where the sturdy rebel sits ,", "The other his pale cheeks , methinks , presenteth .", "Ay , as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck-", "The Lord Protector lost it , and not I :", "That no dissension hinder government .", "Cousin of Exeter , frowns , words , and threats ,", "Here at the palace will I rest a while .", "Peace thou ! and give King Henry leave to speak .", "A man at least , for less I should not be ;", "So many hours must I take my rest ;", "Where did you dwell when I was King of England ?", "For Richard , in the view of many lords ,", "So many hours must I tend my flock ;", "How many days will finish up the year ,", "Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade", "Not that I fear to stay , but love to go", "For Warwick is a subtle orator ,", "Thereby to see the minutes how they run-", "So would you be again to Henry ,", "This pretty lad will prove our country 's bliss .", "Should not be able to encounter mine .", "My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty .", "That 's not my fear ; my meed hath got me fame :", "His hand to wield a sceptre ; and himself", "Obeying with my wind when I do blow ,", "How it doth grieve me that thy head is here !", "While I myself will lead a private life", "Well-minded Clarence , be thou fortunate !", "Conceive when , after many moody thoughts ,", "Alarums , excursions . Enter QUEEN MARGARET ,", "When I was crown 'd , I was but nine months old .", "Thy place is fill 'd , thy sceptre wrung from thee ,", "More than I seem , and less than I was born to :", "And , as I hear , the great commanding Warwick", "I here entail", "Whose father for his hoarding went to hell ?", "That things ill got had ever bad success ?", "Look , as I blow this feather from my face ,", "My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds ,", "And neither by treason nor hostility", "He was the author , thou the instrument .", "For all the rest is held at such a rate", "Warwick , although my head still wear the crown ,", "May not be punish 'd with my thwarting stars ,", "And kneel for grace and mercy at my feet ;", "He , on his right , asking a wife for Edward .", "Her sighs will make a batt'ry in his breast ;", "To shepherds looking on their silly sheep ,", "Let me entreat - for I command no more-", "Ah , kill me with thy weapon , not with words !", "My crown is in my heart , not on my head ;", "Is thither gone to crave the French King 's sister", "I was anointed king at nine months old ;", "Tell me , may not a king adopt an heir ?", "How many makes the hour full complete ,", "My Lord of Warwick , hear but one word :", "How many years a mortal man may live .", "Ah , cousin York ! would thy best friends did know", "And what he will , I humbly yield unto . Exeunt", "Than doth a rich embroider 'd canopy", "Ay , but she 's come to beg : Warwick , to give .", "And now in England to our heart 's great sorrow ,", "Conditionally , that here thou take an oath", "Enjoy the kingdom after my decease .", "Not for myself , Lord Warwick , but my son ,", "To honour me as thy king and sovereign ,", "I am thy sovereign .", "Can neither call it perfect day nor night .", "Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne ,", "I have not been desirous of their wealth ,", "My Queen and son are gone to France for aid ;", "Misthink the King , and not be satisfied !", "Have chid me from the battle , swearing both", "Cousin of Exeter , what thinks your lordship ?", "But , Clifford , tell me , didst thou never hear", "O Margaret , thus \u2018 twill be ; and thou , poor soul ,", "How will the country for these woeful chances", "And I , the hapless male to one sweet bird ,", "Whither the Queen intends . Forward ; away ! Exeunt", "Ay , and for much more slaughter after this . O , God forgive my sins and pardon thee !", "By living low where fortune cannot hurt me ,", "For what is in this world but grief and woe ?", "Back 'd by the power of Warwick , that false peer ,", "No , not a man comes for redress of thee ;", "Forc 'd to retire by fury of the wind .", "Poor queen ! How love to me and to her son", "So minutes , hours , days , months , and years ,", "And they have troops of soldiers at their beck ?", "Ay , my good lord - my lord , I should say rather .", "Was ever king so griev 'd for subjects \u2019 woe ? Much is your sorrow ; mine ten times so much .", "Shall be my winding-sheet . Why faint you , lords ?", "And next his throat unto the butcher 's knife .", "Ah , Exeter !", "Methinks the power that Edward hath in field", "Not to be seen . My crown is call 'd content ;", "And long live thou , and these thy forward sons !", "Why , am I dead ? Do I not breathe a man ?", "Master Lieutenant , now that God and friends", "And be you kings : command , and I 'll obey .", "Thy grandfather , Roger Mortimer , Earl of March :", "And let our hearts and eyes , like civil war ,", "Nor wittingly have I infring 'd my vow .", "Commanded always by the greater gust ,", "Warwick and Clarence , give me both your hands .", "At our enlargement what are thy due fees ?", "So is the equal poise of this fell war .", "I am a king , and privileg 'd to speak .", "They quite forget their loss of liberty .", "Wherein my grandsire and my father sat ?", "But did you never swear , and break an oath ?", "Gentle son Edward , thou wilt stay with me ?", "Thy father , Minos , that denied our course ;", "I am content . Richard Plantagenet ,", "And shall I stand , and thou sit in my throne ?", "Full well hath Clifford play 'd the orator ,", "My title 's good , and better far than his .", "His head by nature fram 'd to wear a crown ,", "As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep", "The fatal colours of our striving houses :", "Ah , simple men , you know not what you swear !", "If secret powers", "No humble suitors press to speak for right ,", "The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn ;", "I , Daedalus ; my poor boy , Icarus ;", "The red rose and the white are on his face ,", "\u2018 Good Gloucester \u2019 and \u2018 good devil \u2019 were alike ,", "The one his purple blood right well resembles ;", "Have done with words , my lords , and hear me speak .", "Here on this molehill will I sit me down .", "Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts ,", "Her tears will pierce into a marble heart ;", "To hear and see her plaints , her brinish tears .", "Pardon me , Margaret ; pardon me , sweet son . The Earl of Warwick and the Duke enforc 'd me .", "So many hours must I contemplate ;", "Whose heir my father was , and I am his .", "To wife for Edward . If this news be true ,", "This battle fares like to the morning 's war ,", "Stay , gentle Margaret , and hear me speak .", "But be it as it may .", "The sun that sear 'd the wings of my sweet boy ,", "In God 's name , lead ; your King 's name be obey 'd ;", "The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever ;", "Thy brother Edward ; and thyself , the sea", "For what , Lieutenant ? For well using me ?", "But , Warwick , after God , thou set'st me free ,", "Whiles lions war and battle for their dens ,", "Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity .", "All which secure and sweetly he enjoys ,", "No , Harry , Harry , \u2018 tis no land of thine ;", "And happy always was it for that son"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["To prick thy finger , though to wound his heart .", "To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul .", "If I be not , heavens be reveng 'd on me !", "I should not for my life but weep with him ,", "And ten to one is no impeach of valour .", "And , by his soul , thou and thy house shall rue it .", "For one to thrust his hand between his teeth ,", "Beshrew me , but his passions move me so", "Of Essex , Norfolk , Suffolk , nor of Kent ,", "Thou art deceiv 'd . \u2018 Tis not thy southern power", "So doth the cony struggle in the net .", "When he might spurn him with his foot away ?", "What valour were it , when a cur doth grin ,", "Hold , Clifford ! do not honour him so much", "Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud ,"], "true_target": ["Plantagenet , for all the claim thou lay'st ,", "Be thou a prey unto the house of York", "No , nor your manhood that durst make you stay .", "Nor I .", "Yield to our mercy , proud Plantagenet .", "Think not that Henry shall be so depos 'd .", "And die in bands for this unmanly deed !", "It is war 's prize to take all vantages ;", "That hardly can I check my eyes from tears .", "Be it with resolution , then , to fight .", "What would your Grace have done unto him now ?", "Yes , Warwick , I remember it to my grief ;", "Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin ,", "Well hast thou spoken , cousin ; be it so .", "Can set the Duke up in despite of me ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["How hast thou injur 'd both thyself and or us !", "And harmful pity must be laid aside .", "For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air ?", "Breathe out invectives \u2018 gainst the officers .", "The sight of any of the house of York", "Which sometime they have us 'd with fearful flight-", "Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father !", "Make war with him that climb 'd unto their nest ,", "What wrong is this unto the Prince your son !", "And raise his issue like a loving sire :", "Ay , to such mercy as his ruthless arm", "Which argued thee a most unloving father .", "To hold thine own and leave thine own with him .", "O Phoebus , hadst thou never given consent", "My love and fear glu 'd many friends to thee ;", "The smallest worm will turn , being trodden on ,", "And here 's the heart that triumphs in their death", "And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother", "Urge it no more ; lest that instead of words", "But buckler with thee blows , twice two for one .", "Let us assail the family of York .", "And made an evening at the noontide prick .", "So doves do peck the falcon 's piercing talons ;", "He , but a Duke , would have his son a king ,", "Or as thy father and his father did ,", "In vain thou speak'st , poor boy ; my father 's blood", "Thou , being a king , bless 'd with a goodly son ,", "And though man 's face be fearful to their eyes ,", "That makes him close his eyes ? I 'll open them .", "Now , Richard , I am with thee here alone .", "I slew thy father ; call'st thou him a child ?", "My gracious lord , here in the parliament", "Ay , ay , so strives the woodcock with the gin .", "Patience is for poltroons such as he ;", "Cannot be cur 'd by words ; therefore be still .", "So cowards fight when they can fly no further ;", "And let his manly face , which promiseth", "Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick ?", "It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart .", "Thy father hath .", "And whither fly the gnats but to the sun ?", "The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel .", "I stabb 'd your fathers \u2019 bosoms : split my breast .", "Didst yield consent to disinherit him ,", "Bootless are plaints , and cureless are my wounds .", "To execute the like upon thyself ;", "As for the brat of this accursed duke ,", "Who scapes the lurking serpent 's mortal sting ?", "Thy burning car never had scorch 'd the earth !", "King Henry , be thy title right or wrong ,", "And till I root out their accursed line", "For at their hands I have deserv 'd no pity .", "Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car ,", "And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood .", "The common people swarm like summer flies ;", "So desperate thieves , all hopeless of their lives ,", "Ay , crook-back , here I stand to answer thee ,", "Not he that sets his foot upon her back ,", "Not to the beast that would usurp their den .", "This is the hand that stabbed thy father York ;", "Such pity as my rapier 's point affords .", "Here 's for my oath , here 's for my father 's death .", "My liege , the wound that bred this meeting here", "And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity ?", "Soldiers , away with him !", "Which , whiles it lasted , gave King Henry light .", "Here burns my candle out ; ay , here it dies ,", "And hung their rotten coffins up in chains ,", "The air hath got into my deadly wounds ,", "As shall revenge his death before I stir ."], "true_target": ["In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome ,", "They never then had sprung like summer flies ;", "Yet , in protection of their tender ones ,", "Ay , and old York , and yet not satisfied .", "Ambitious York did level at thy crown ,", "No way to fly , nor strength to hold out flight .", "Is as a fury to torment my soul ;", "And , now I fall , thy tough commixture melts ,", "Chaplain , away ! Thy priesthood saves thy life .", "And much effuse of blood doth make me faint .", "And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland ;", "Whom should he follow but his natural king ?", "Hath stopp 'd the passage where thy words should enter .", "I will not bandy with thee word for word ,", "And this thy son 's blood cleaving to my blade", "O Lancaster , I fear thy overthrow", "No cause ! Thy father slew my father ; therefore , die .", "You said so much before , and yet you fled .", "MONTAGUE , WARWICK , and soldiers", "May that ground gape , and swallow me alive ,", "How now , is he dead already ? Or is it fear", "Who should succeed the father but the son ?", "And reason too :", "Were it not pity that this goodly boy", "Were not revenge sufficient for me ;", "Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows .", "To whom do lions cast their gentle looks ?", "I send thee , Warwick , such a messenger", "I would your Highness would depart the field :", "Shall rust upon my weapon , till thy blood ,", "For shame , my liege , make them your precedent !", "Offering their own lives in their young 's defence", "My careless father fondly gave away \u2019 ?", "Come , York and Richard , Warwick and the rest ;", "And long hereafter say unto his child", "Why , that is spoken like a toward prince .", "Congeal 'd with this , do make me wipe off both . Exit", "Who hath not seen them - even with those wings", "Had left no mourning widows for our death ;", "My gracious liege , this too much lenity", "The Queen hath best success when you are absent .", "Alarum and retreat . Enter EDWARD , GEORGE , RICHARD", "Ah , what a shame were this ! Look on the boy ;", "The foe is merciless and will not pity ;", "Successful fortune , steel thy melting heart", "And who shines now but Henry 's enemies ?", "Not his that spoils her young before her face .", "Or any he , the proudest of thy sort .", "And , Henry , hadst thou sway 'd as kings should do ,", "Or live in peace abandon 'd and despis 'd !", "He durst not sit there had your father liv 'd .", "Giving no ground unto the house of York ,", "Plantagenet , I come , Plantagenet ;", "Should lose his birthright by his father 's fault ,", "That Phaethon should check thy fiery steeds ,", "Had I thy brethren here , their lives and thine", "\u2018 What my great-grandfather and grandsire got", "More than my body 's parting with my soul !", "With downright payment show 'd unto my father .", "Come , cousin , let us tell the Queen these news .", "Whose father slew my father , he shall die .", "I and ten thousand in this luckless realm", "Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence .", "And so , have at thee !", "Impairing Henry , strength'ning misproud York .", "And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace .", "No , if I digg 'd up thy forefathers \u2019 graves", "Unreasonable creatures feed their young ;", "And leave not one alive , I live in hell .", "That is my office , for my father 's sake .", "Therefore-"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["I cannot stay to hear these articles .", "Thy kinsmen , and thy friends , I 'll have more lives", "And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain .", "My heart for anger burns ; I cannot brook it .", "Plantagenet , of thee , and these thy sons ,"], "true_target": ["Base , fearful , and despairing Henry !", "What , shall we suffer this ? Let 's pluck him down ;", "Than drops of blood were in my father 's veins .", "Farewell , faint-hearted and degenerate king ,", "He is both King and Duke of Lancaster ;", "In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And I , I hope , shall reconcile them all . Exeunt", "They seek revenge , and therefore will not yield .", "Thy father was a traitor to the crown .", "My conscience tells me he is lawful King .", "Or else come after . I 'll away before .", "Accurs 'd be he that seeks to make them foes !", "Away ! for vengeance comes along with them .", "For shame , come down ; he made thee Duke of York ."], "true_target": ["But when the Duke is slain they 'll quickly fly .", "No ; for he could not so resign his crown", "Nay , stay not to expostulate ; make speed ;", "His is the right , and therefore pardon me .", "But that the next heir should succeed and reign .", "Here comes the Queen , whose looks bewray her anger . I 'll steal away .", "Hark , hark , my lord ! What shouts are these ?", "The doubt is that he will seduce the rest ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Stamp , rave , and fret , that I may sing and dance .", "Yes , I agree , and thank you for your motion .", "The more we stay , the stronger grows our foe .", "Ay , marry , sir , now looks he like a king !", "And where 's that valiant crook-back prodigy ,", "Mine such as fill my heart with unhop 'd joys .", "Ay , thou wast born to be a plague to men .", "Doth not the object cheer your heart , my lord ?", "I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal .", "Nay , stay ; let 's hear the orisons he makes .", "Why art thou patient , man ? Thou shouldst be mad ;", "Ay , this is he that took King Henry 's chair ,", "I prithee grieve to make me merry , York .", "Peace , impudent and shameless Warwick ,", "But now mischance hath trod my title down", "York cannot speak unless he wear a crown .", "Till our King Henry had shook hands with death .", "That Henry liveth still ; but were he dead ,", "Wrath makes him deaf ; speak thou , Northumberland .", "To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem .", "Butchers and villains ! bloody cannibals !", "Edward and Richard , like a brace of greyhounds", "From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears", "Yonder 's the head of that arch-enemy", "Ay , good my lord , and leave us to our fortune .", "Canst thou not speak ? O traitors ! murderers !", "No , no , my heart will burst , an if I speak-", "And bloody steel grasp 'd in their ireful hands ,", "If that go forward , Henry 's hope is done .", "Lords , knights , and gentlemen , what I should say My tears gainsay ; for every word I speak , Ye see , I drink the water of my eye . Therefore , no more but this : Henry , your sovereign , Is prisoner to the foe ; his state usurp 'd , His realm a slaughter-house , his subjects slain , His statutes cancell 'd , and his treasure spent ; And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil . You fight in justice . Then , in God 's name , lords , Be valiant , and give signal to the fight . Alarum , retreat , excursions . Exeunt", "Unless abroad they purchase great alliance ?", "Ah , wretched man ! Would I had died a maid ,", "Alas , poor York ! but that I hate thee deadly ,", "Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms", "Having the fearful flying hare in sight ,", "Is crown 'd so soon and broke his solemn oath ?", "With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath ,", "Rather than have made that savage duke thine heir ,", "As venom toads or lizards \u2019 dreadful stings .", "And stops my tongue , while heart is drown 'd in cares .", "And will you pale your head in Henry 's glory ,", "You have no children , butchers , if you had ,", "Are at our backs ; and therefore hence amain .", "A crown for York ! - and , lords , bow low to him .", "And made a preachment of your high descent ?", "Or nourish 'd him as I did with my blood ,", "Stay , Edward .", "Where kings command . I was , I must confess ,", "Ay , but thou usest to forswear thyself .", "And I to make thee mad do mock thee thus .", "Thy sly conveyance and thy lord 's false love ;", "Deceitful Warwick , it was thy device", "Nay , never bear me hence ; dispatch me here . Here sheathe thy sword ; I 'll pardon thee my death . What , wilt thou not ? Then , Clarence , do it thou .", "Must strike her sail and learn a while to serve", "And if thine eyes can water for his death ,", "Look therefore , Lewis , that by this league and marriage", "O , kill me too !", "Hold , valiant Clifford ; for a thousand causes", "Or , with the rest , where is your darling Rutland ?", "Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour ;", "And this is he was his adopted heir .", "Yet parted but the shadow with his hand .", "And disinherited thine only son .", "Ay , now begins a second storm to rise ;", "For this is he that moves both wind and tide .", "Look in his youth to have him so cut off", "Welcome , my lord , to this brave town of York .", "Mount you , my lord ; towards Berwick post amain .", "Both full of truth , I make King Lewis behold", "Tell him my mourning weeds are laid aside ,", "But like a foul misshapen stigmatic ,", "Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there", "Come , son , away ; we may not linger thus .", "But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam ;", "Where I must take like seat unto my fortune ,", "Come , make him stand upon this molehill here", "My lord , cheer up your spirits ; our foes are nigh , And this soft courage makes your followers faint . You promis 'd knighthood to our forward son : Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently . Edward , kneel down .", "That raught at mountains with outstretched arms ,", "Defy them then , or else hold close thy lips .", "King Lewis and Lady Bona , hear me speak", "Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back .", "Where are your mess of sons to back you now ?", "Thanks , gentle Somerset ; sweet Oxford , thanks .", "No , mighty King of France . Now Margaret", "What , hath thy fiery heart so parch 'd thine entrails", "But from deceit bred by necessity ;", "And rob his temples of the diadem ,", "That valiant Clifford with his rapier 's point", "And with dishonour laid me on the ground ,"], "true_target": ["And , whilst we breathe , take time to do him dead .", "I told your Majesty as much before . This proveth Edward 's love and Warwick 's honesty .", "For how can tyrants safely govern home", "Unless thou rescue him from foul despair ?", "I will not hence till with my talk and tears ,", "If this foul deed were by to equal it .", "Hadst thou but lov 'd him half so well as I ,", "Brave warriors , Clifford and Northumberland ,", "O , but impatience waiteth on true sorrow . And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow !", "Hath he deserv 'd to lose his birthright thus ?", "That only Warwick 's daughter shall be thine .", "The thought of them would have stirr 'd up remorse .", "Was't you that revell 'd in our parliament", "And I will speak , that so my heart may burst .", "I should lament thy miserable state .", "Good Clarence , do ; sweet Clarence , do thou do it .", "O , \u2018 tis a fault too too", "But if you ever chance to have a child ,", "Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king ?", "Did not offend , nor were not worthy blame ,", "For both of you are birds of self-same feather .", "Off with the crown and with the crown his head ;", "Proud setter up and puller down of kings !", "By this alliance to make void my suit .", "Or felt that pain which I did for him once ,", "Great Albion 's Queen in former golden days ;", "What , was it you that would be England 's king ?", "Look , York : I stain 'd this napkin with the blood", "So part we sadly in this troublous world ,", "How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp 'd !", "Son Edward , she is fair and virtuous ,", "What , weeping-ripe , my Lord Northumberland ?", "Thou hast spoke too much already ; get thee gone .", "As I bethink me , you should not be King", "And I am ready to put armour on .", "Therefore delay not - give thy hand to Warwick ;", "Enforc 'd thee ! Art thou King and wilt be forc 'd ? I shame to hear thee speak . Ah , timorous wretch ! Thou hast undone thyself , thy son , and me ; And giv'n unto the house of York such head As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance . To entail him and his heirs unto the crown , What is it but to make thy sepulchre And creep into it far before thy time ? Warwick is Chancellor and the lord of Calais ; Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas ; The Duke is made Protector of the realm ; And yet shalt thou be safe ? Such safety finds The trembling lamb environed with wolves . Had I been there , which am a silly woman , The soldiers should have toss 'd me on their pikes Before I would have granted to that act . But thou prefer'st thy life before thine honour ; And seeing thou dost , I here divorce myself , Both from thy table , Henry , and thy bed , Until that act of parliament be repeal 'd Whereby my son is disinherited . The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours Will follow mine , if once they see them spread ; And spread they shall be , to thy foul disgrace And utter ruin of the house of York . Thus do I leave thee . Come , son , let 's away ; Our army is ready ; come , we 'll after them .", "That not a tear can fall for Rutland 's death ?", "Who can be patient in such extremes ?", "But how is it that great Plantagenet", "And that will quickly dry thy melting tears .", "As , deathsmen , you have rid this sweet young prince !", "Yet heav'ns are just , and time suppresseth wrongs .", "Seeing thou hast prov 'd so unnatural a father !", "Hard-favour 'd Richard ? Richard , where art thou ?", "Mark 'd by the destinies to be avoided ,", "What ! wilt thou not ? Where is that devil 's butcher ,", "So come to you and yours as to this prince .", "Go rate thy minions , proud insulting boy .", "Renowned Prince , how shall poor Henry live", "\u2018 Twas sin before , but now \u2018 tis charity .", "For though usurpers sway the rule a while", "They that stabb 'd Caesar shed no blood at all ,", "Ay , to be murder 'd by his enemies .", "Thou art not here . Murder is thy alms-deed ;", "And to my humble seat conform myself .", "Before you answer Warwick . His demand", "Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies ?", "Made issue from the bosom of the boy ;", "Before thy coming , Lewis was Henry 's friend .", "And with thy hand thy faith irrevocable", "Our Earl of Warwick , Edward 's greatest friend .", "Springs not from Edward 's well-meant honest love ,", "Warwick , these words have turn 'd my hate to love ; And I forgive and quite forget old faults , And joy that thou becom'st King Henry 's friend .", "Ah , that thy father had been so resolv 'd !", "Thou wouldst be fee 'd , I see , to make me sport ;", "Off with his head , and set it on York gates ;", "Heavens grant that Warwick 's words bewitch him not !", "Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak . Now therefore be it known to noble Lewis That Henry , sole possessor of my love , Is , of a king , become a banish 'd man , And forc 'd to live in Scotland a forlorn ; While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York Usurps the regal title and the seat Of England 's true-anointed lawful King . This is the cause that I , poor Margaret , With this my son , Prince Edward , Henry 's heir , Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid ; And if thou fail us , all our hope is done . Scotland hath will to help , but cannot help ; Our people and our peers are both misled , Our treasure seiz 'd , our soldiers put to flight , And , as thou seest , ourselves in heavy plight .", "Nay , go not from me ; I will follow thee .", "And men ne'er spend their fury on a child .", "And never seen thee , never borne thee son ,", "Let me give humble thanks for all at once .", "Think but upon the wrong he did us all ,", "Now in his life , against your holy oath ?", "And here 's to right our gentle-hearted king .", "To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice ,", "That sought to be encompass 'd with your crown .", "What 's worse than murderer , that I may name it ?", "O Ned , sweet Ned , speak to thy mother , boy !", "I would prolong awhile the traitor 's life .", "The wanton Edward and the lusty George ?", "Great lords , wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss , But cheerly seek how to redress their harms . What though the mast be now blown overboard , The cable broke , the holding-anchor lost , And half our sailors swallow 'd in the flood ; Yet lives our pilot still . Is't meet that he Should leave the helm and , like a fearful lad , With tearful eyes add water to the sea And give more strength to that which hath too much ; Whiles , in his moan , the ship splits on the rock , Which industry and courage might have sav 'd ? Ah , what a shame ! ah , what a fault were this ! Say Warwick was our anchor ; what of that ? And Montague our top-mast ; what of him ? Our slaught'red friends the tackles ; what of these ? Why , is not Oxford here another anchor ? And Somerset another goodly mast ? The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings ? And , though unskilful , why not Ned and I For once allow 'd the skilful pilot 's charge ? We will not from the helm to sit and weep , But keep our course , though the rough wind say no , From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck , As good to chide the waves as speak them fair . And what is Edward but a ruthless sea ? What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit ? And Richard but a ragged fatal rock ? All these the enemies to our poor bark . Say you can swim ; alas , \u2018 tis but a while ! Tread on the sand ; why , there you quickly sink . Bestride the rock ; the tide will wash you off , Or else you famish - that 's a threefold death . This speak I , lords , to let you understand , If case some one of you would fly from us , That there 's no hop'dhYpppHeNfor mercy with the brothers More than with ruthless waves , with sands , and rocks . Why , courage then ! What cannot be avoided \u2018 Twere childish weakness to lament or fear .", "This cheers my heart , to see your forwardness .", "Dicky your boy , that with his grumbling voice", "So York may overlook the town of York .", "Yet here Prince Edward stands , King Henry 's son .", "Why , how now , long-tongu 'd Warwick ! Dare you speak ? When you and I met at Saint Albans last Your legs did better service than your hands .", "He was a man : this , in respect , a child ;", "Hold you his hands whilst I do set it on ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Let him depart before we need his help .", "Nay , mark how Lewis stamps as he were nettled . I hope all 's for the best .", "Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit", "And make him of the like spirit to himself .", "For did I but suspect a fearful man ,", "There is no wrong , but every thing is right .", "My royal father , cheer these noble lords ,", "Infuse his breast with magnanimity", "His currish riddle sorts not with this place .", "My gracious father , by your kingly leave ,", "And why not Queen ?", "Father , you cannot disinherit me . If you be King , why should not I succeed ?", "And thou misshapen Dick , I tell ye all", "Fly , father , fly ; for all your friends are fled , And Warwick rages like a chafed bull . Away ! for death doth hold us in pursuit .", "Should , if a coward hear her speak these words ,", "And hearten those that fight in your defence .", "Let Aesop fable in a winter 's night ;", "And here , to pledge my vow , I give my hand .", "Unsheathe your sword , good father ; cry \u2018 Saint George ! \u2019", "And in that quarrel use it to the death .", "Lascivious Edward , and thou perjur 'd George ,"], "true_target": ["He should have leave to go away betimes ,", "Which , traitor , thou wouldst have me answer to .", "And thou usurp'st my father 's right and mine .", "And make him naked foil a man-at-arms .", "Suppose that I am now my father 's mouth ;", "I 'll see your Grace ; till then I 'll follow her .", "Whilst I propose the self-same words to the", "I speak not this as doubting any here ;", "I am your better , traitors as ye are ;", "I know my duty ; you are all undutiful .", "Lest in our need he might infect another", "Nay , take away this scolding crookback rather .", "If any such be here - as God forbid ! -", "If that be right which Warwick says is right ,", "When I return with victory from the field", "I 'll draw it as apparent to the crown ,", "Speak like a subject , proud ambitious York .", "And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else .", "Yes , I accept her , for she well deserves it ;", "Resign thy chair , and where I stand kneel thou ,", "To Edward , but not to the English king ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks", "Hews down and fells the hardest-timber 'd oak .", "Than all the rest , discharg 'd me with these words :", "Comes Warwick , backing of the Duke of York ,", "To revel it with him and his new bride . \u2019", "They set the same ; and there it doth remain ,", "Ay , gracious sovereign ; they are so link 'd in friendship That young Prince Edward marries Warwick 's daughter .", "\u2018 Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong ;", "And therefore I 'll uncrown him ere't be long . \u2019", "Darraign your battle , for they are at hand .", "The Queen with all the northern earls and lords", "Environed he was with many foes ,", "And many strokes , though with a little axe ,", "\u2018 Tell him , in hope he 'll prove a widower shortly ,", "But only slaught'red by the ireful arm", "Prepare you , lords , for Edward is at hand", "And therefore fortify your hold , my lord .", "\u2018 Go tell false Edward , the supposed king ,", "The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me", "Of unrelenting Clifford and the Queen ,", "And stood against them as the hope of Troy", "For with a band of thirty thousand men", "And craves your company for speedy counsel .", "At my depart , these were his very words :", "Your princely father and my loving lord !", "I 'll wear the willow-garland for his sake . \u2019"], "true_target": ["And after many scorns , many foul taunts ,", "That Lewis of France is sending over masquers", "He , more incens 'd against your Majesty", "Against the Greeks that would have ent'red Troy .", "These were her words , utt'red with mild disdain :", "And in the towns , as they do march along ,", "When as the noble Duke of York was slain ,", "And I am ready to put armour on . \u2019", "By many hands your father was subdu 'd ;", "Ah , one that was a woeful looker-on", "Who crown 'd the gracious Duke in high despite ,", "The Queen is coming with a puissant host ,", "Ready to fight ; therefore be resolute .", "Intend here to besiege you in your castle .", "Proclaims him king , and many fly to him .", "Laugh 'd in his face ; and when with grief he wept ,", "They took his head , and on the gates of York", "Of sweet young Rutland , by rough Clifford slain ;", "The saddest spectacle that e'er I view 'd .", "But such as I , without your special pardon ,", "She is hard by with twenty thousand men ;", "Dare not relate .", "But Hercules himself must yield to odds ;", "My sovereign liege , no letters , and few words ,", "\u2018 Tell him \u2019 quoth she \u2018 my mourning weeds are done ,", "Royal commanders , be in readiness ;", "A napkin steeped in the harmless blood"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["I am too mean a subject for thy wrath ;", "I never did thee harm ; why wilt thou slay me ?", "Be thou reveng 'd on men , and let me live .", "And not with such a cruel threat'ning look !", "So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch", "Ah , gentle Clifford , kill me with thy sword ,", "Then let me die , for now thou hast no cause .", "And so he comes , to rend his limbs asunder .", "He be as miserably slain as I .", "That trembles under his devouring paws ;", "And so he walks , insulting o'er his prey ,"], "true_target": ["Lest in revenge thereof , sith God is just ,", "He is a man , and , Clifford , cope with him .", "Then let my father 's blood open it again :", "Ah , let me live in prison all my days ;", "Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae !", "And when I give occasion of offence", "O , let me pray before I take my death ! To thee I pray : sweet Clifford , pity me .", "But \u2018 twas ere I was born .", "Ah , whither shall I fly to scape their hands ? Ah , tutor , look where bloody Clifford comes !", "Thou hast one son ; for his sake pity me ,", "Sweet Clifford , hear me speak before I die ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Ah , Clifford , murder not this innocent child ,"], "true_target": ["And I , my lord , will bear him company .", "Lest thou be hated both of God and man ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["If so thou think'st , vex him with eager words .", "Or bath 'd thy growing with our heated bloods .", "Forslow no longer ; make we hence amain . Exeunt", "Where 's Captain Margaret , to fence you now ?", "What counsel give you ? Whither shall we fly ?", "And give them leave to fly that will not stay ,", "We 'll never leave till we have hewn thee down ,", "Yet know thou , since we have begun to strike ,", "And that thy summer bred us no increase ,", "And call them pillars that will stand to us ;"], "true_target": ["And though the edge hath something hit ourselves ,", "And if we thrive , promise them such rewards", "Our hap is lost , our hope but sad despair ;", "While we devise fell tortures for thy faults .", "Our ranks are broke , and ruin follows us .", "We set the axe to thy usurping root ;", "But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring ,", "Yet let us all together to our troops ,", "This may plant courage in their quailing breasts ,", "For yet is hope of life and victory .", "As victors wear at the Olympian games ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["My father , being the Earl of Warwick 's man ,", "Have by my hands of life bereaved him .", "Who 's this ? O God ! It is my father 's face ,", "And pardon , father , for I knew not thee .", "May yet ere night yield both my life and them", "I 'll bear thee hence , where I may weep my fill .", "And no more words till they have flow 'd their fill .", "And I , who at his hands receiv 'd my life ,", "Ill blows the wind that profits nobody .", "From London by the King was I press 'd forth ;", "How will my mother for a father 's death"], "true_target": ["To some man else , as this dead man doth me .", "Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill 'd .", "And I , that haply take them from him now ,", "Take on with me , and ne'er be satisfied !", "May be possessed with some store of crowns ;", "Pardon me , God , I knew not what I did .", "O heavy times , begetting such events !", "This man whom hand to hand I slew in fight", "Came on the part of York , press 'd by his master ;", "My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks ;", "Was ever son so rued a father 's death ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["As Priam was for all his valiant sons .", "For I have murdered where I should not kill .", "For I have bought it with an hundred blows .", "I 'll bear thee hence ; and let them fight that will ,", "And hath bereft thee of thy life too late !", "But let me see . Is this our foeman 's face ?", "Ah , no , no , no , no , it is mine only son !", "How will my wife for slaughter of my son", "Throw up thine eye ! See , see what show'rs arise ,", "Erroneous , mutinous , and unnatural ,", "Was ever father so bemoan 'd his son ?", "These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet ;", "O , pity , God , this miserable age !"], "true_target": ["O boy , thy father gave thee life too soon ,", "For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go ;", "Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me ,", "What stratagems , how fell , how butcherly ,", "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart", "Ah , boy , if any life be left in thee ,", "My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell ;", "And so obsequious will thy father be ,", "My heart , sweet boy , shall be thy sepulchre ,", "Upon thy wounds , that kills mine eye and heart !", "This deadly quarrel daily doth beget !", "Shed seas of tears , and ne'er be satisfied !", "Give me thy gold , if thou hast any gold ;", "Even for the loss of thee , having no more ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["To go with us unto the officers .", "I 'll tell thee what befell me on a day", "We charge you , in God 's name and the King 's ,", "We are true subjects to the King , King Edward .", "Forbear awhile ; we 'll hear a little more .", "Ay , here 's a deer whose skin 's a keeper 's fee . This is the quondam King ; let 's seize upon him .", "No ;"], "true_target": ["Here stand we both , and aim we at the best ;", "And , for the time shall not seem tedious ,", "That cannot be ; the noise of thy cross-bow", "Under this thick-grown brake we 'll shroud ourselves , For through this laund anon the deer will come ; And in this covert will we make our stand , Culling the principal of all the deer .", "In this self-place where now we mean to stand .", "For we were subjects but while you were king .", "Will scare the herd , and so my shoot is lost ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Why linger we ? let us lay hands upon him .", "Here in this country , where we now remain .", "And we his subjects , sworn in all allegiance ,", "Say , what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens ?", "Here comes a man ; let 's stay till he be past .", "I 'll stay above the hill , so both may shoot .", "Your crown content and you must be contented"], "true_target": ["But , if thou be a king , where is thy crown ?", "To go along with us ; for as we think ,", "Well , if you be a king crown 'd with content ,", "Will apprehend you as his enemy .", "Ay , but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king .", "No , never such an oath ; nor will not now .", "You are the king King Edward hath depos 'd ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Away with her ; go , bear her hence perforce .", "Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course ,", "No , if thou dost say no to my demand .", "Widow , we will consider of your suit ;", "And when the morning sun shall raise his car", "Our dukedom till God please to send the rest .", "For bearing arms , for stirring up my subjects ,", "Why , and I challenge nothing but my dukedom ,", "And , that once gotten , doubt not of large pay . Exeunt", "And two Northumberlands - two braver men", "Ne'er spurr 'd their coursers at the trumpet 's sound ;", "Away with her , and waft her hence to France .", "By such invention as I can devise ?", "Which if they do , yet will I keep thee safe ,", "What valiant foemen , like to autumn 's corn ,", "Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends ,", "Call Edward King , and at his hands beg mercy ?", "Speak freely what you think .", "Hence with him to the Tower : let him not speak .", "And all the trouble thou hast turn 'd me to ?", "Edward , what satisfaction canst thou make", "They are already , or quickly will be landed .", "Peace , wilful boy , or I will charm your tongue .", "This lady 's husband , Sir Richard Grey , was slain ,", "Yes , Warwick , Edward dares and leads the way . Lords , to the field ; Saint George and victory !", "Brave followers , yonder stands the thorny wood", "Ay , but , I fear me , in another sense . What love , thinkst thou , I sue so much to get ?", "He 's sudden , if a thing comes in his head .", "Answer no more , for thou shalt be my queen .", "And made our footstool of security .", "Her suit is granted for her husband 's lands .", "Above the border of this horizon ,", "Go , trumpet , to the walls , and sound a parle .", "By fair or foul means we must enter in ,", "Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them .", "Yet , Warwick , in despite of all mischance ,", "Than if thou never hadst deserv 'd our hate .", "And their true sovereign whom they must obey ?", "And swell so much the higher by their ebb .", "Should not become my wife and England 's Queen .", "With pay and thanks ; and let 's away to London", "But in the night or in the time of war .", "That thou might'st repossess the crown in peace ;", "You 'd think it strange if I should marry her .", "Her suit is now to repossess those lands ;", "Belike she minds to play the Amazon . But what said Warwick to these injuries ?", "For Edward will defend the town and thee ,", "Because in quarrel of the house of York", "Repurchas 'd with the blood of enemies .", "And would you not do much to do them good ?", "Go , bear them hence ; I will not hear them speak .", "What , Warwick , wilt thou leave die town and fight ?", "Have other some . Why , \u2018 tis a happy thing", "Will issue out again and bid us battle ;", "But stay thee - \u2018 tis the fruits of love I mean .", "And for this once my will shall stand for law .", "Welcome , Sir john ! But why come you in arms ?", "Why , then , thy husband 's lands I freely give thee .", "We 'll quietly rouse the traitors in the same .", "Now , brother of Gloucester , Lord Hastings , and the rest ,", "Tush , man , abodements must not now affright us .", "Then get your husband 's lands , to do them good .", "Now therefore let us hence , and lose no hour", "For well I wot that Henry is no soldier .", "But Warwick 's king is Edward 's prisoner .", "I spy a black , suspicious , threat'ning cloud", "Then be it as you will ; for \u2018 tis my right ,", "That in their chains fetter 'd the kingly lion", "And go we , brothers , to the man that took him", "Ere he attain his easeful western bed-", "And not be tied unto his brother 's will .", "Of thee thyself and all thy complices ,", "You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow .", "Why , Clarence , to myself .", "To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother !", "And come some other time to know our mind .", "If not , the city being but of small defence ,", "Having my country 's peace and brothers \u2019 loves .", "My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel .", "The Duke ! Why , Warwick , when we parted ,", "For hither will our friends repair to us .", "To question of his apprehension .", "What ! fear not , man , but yield me up the keys ;", "We 'll forward towards Warwick and his mates ;", "That will encounter with our glorious sun", "From France ?", "Lords , give us leave ; I 'll try this widow 's wit .", "Thanks , noble Clarence ; worthy brother , thanks .", "Thanks , good Montgomery ; but we now forget", "Well have we pass 'd and now repass 'd the seas ,", "To tell thee plain , I aim to lie with thee .", "What is the body when the head is off ?", "Shall have a high reward , and he his life ?", "What service wilt thou do me if I give them ?", "But in the midst of this bright-shining day", "And he shall pardon thee these outrages .", "Hath rais 'd in Gallia have arriv 'd our coast", "Our title to the crown , and only claim", "That you stand pensive as half malcontent ?", "That thou art malcontent ? I will provide thee .", "But that we enter , as into our dukedom ?", "Brother of Gloucester , at Saint Albans \u2019 field", "Thou call'dst me King ?", "Which , by the heavens \u2019 assistance and your strength ,", "Nay , stay , Sir John , a while , and we 'll debate", "Is proclamation made that who finds Edward", "Pembroke and Stafford , you in our behalf", "And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain .", "For I have heard that she was there in place .", "By this , I hope , she hath a son for me . Exeunt", "By what safe means the crown may be recover 'd .", "The harder match 'd , the greater victory . My mind presageth happy gain and conquest .", "Your King and Warwick 's and must have my will .", "Stanley , I will requite thy forwardness .", "I 'll tell you how these lands are to be got .", "And you too , Somerset and Montague ,", "Now , messenger , what letters or what news", "Hold , Richard , hold ; for we have done to much .", "Now here a period of tumultuous broils .", "And , by God 's Mother , I , being but a bachelor ,", "Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick !", "That Warwick 's bones may keep thine company . Exit", "Go to , we pardon thee ; therefore , in brief ,", "Why then \u2018 tis mine , if but by Warwick 's gift .", "And says that once more I shall interchange", "And once again proclaim us King of England .", "Once more we sit in England 's royal throne ,", "Thanks , brave Montgomery , and thanks unto you all ;", "Leave me or tarry , Edward will be King ,", "To be the father unto many sons .", "Widow , go you along . Lords , use her honourably .", "Two Cliffords , as the father and the son ;"], "true_target": ["Ha ! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words ? Well , I will arm me , being thus forewarn 'd . They shall have wars and pay for their presumption . But say , is Warwick friends with Margaret ?", "Ay , but thou canst do what I mean to ask .", "My waned state for Henry 's regal crown .", "Three Dukes of Somerset , threefold renown 'd", "Yet am I arm 'd against the worst can happen ;", "And haste is needful in this desp'rate case .", "But you will take exceptions to my boon .", "They are but Lewis and Warwick : I am Edward ,", "Thou art a widow , and thou hast some children ;", "His land then seiz 'd on by the conqueror .", "Yet , as we may , we 'll meet both thee and Warwick .", "Give signal to the fight , and to it , lords .", "Bring forth the gallant ; let us hear him speak .", "Such as befits the pleasure of the court ?", "If fortune serve me , I 'll requite this kindness .", "For hardy and undoubted champions ;", "\u2018 Tis even so ; yet you are Warwick still .", "Unless they seek for hatred at my hands ;", "Till then \u2018 tis wisdom to conceal our meaning .", "Yea , brother of Clarence , art thou here too ?", "You cavil , widow ; I did mean my queen .", "Till we meet Warwick with his foreign pow'r . Exeunt", "See that he be convey 'd unto the Tower .", "Ay , if thou wilt say ay to my request ;", "Now for this night let 's harbour here in York ;", "When we grow stronger , then we 'll make our claim ;", "Take that , the likeness of this railer here .", "What fates impose , that men must needs abide ;", "Now am I seated as my soul delights ,", "An easy task ; \u2018 tis but to love a king .", "Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey", "Edward will always bear himself as King .", "Which we in justice cannot well deny ,", "But whither shall we then ?", "Myself in person will straight follow you .", "What , can so young a man begin to prick ?", "For here , I hope , begins our lasting joy . Exeunt", "And we are grac 'd with wreaths of victory .", "Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily .", "are advertis 'd by our loving friends That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury ; We , having now the best at Barnet field , Will thither straight , for willingness rids way ; And as we march our strength will be augmented In every county as we go along . Strike up the drum ; cry \u2018 Courage ! \u2019 and away . Exeunt", "I blame not her : she could say little less ;", "Now welcome more , and ten times more belov 'd ,", "Come on , brave soldiers ; doubt not of the day ,", "Now , Montague , sit fast ; I seek for thee ,", "Nay , whom they shall obey , and love thee too ,", "Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty ; Her words doth show her wit incomparable ; All her perfections challenge sovereignty . One way or other , she is for a king ; And she shall be my love , or else my queen . Say that King Edward take thee for his queen ?", "Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night .", "How many children hast thou , widow , tell me .", "Bishop , farewell . Shield thee from Warwick 's frown , And pray that I may repossess the crown . Exeunt", "What , doth she swoon ? Use means for her recovery .", "And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath .", "Et tu Brute - wilt thou stab Caesar too ? A parley , sirrah , to George of Clarence .", "Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears ?", "Sound drums and trumpets . Farewell , sour annoy !", "Huntsman , what say'st thou ? Wilt thou go along ?", "Now march we hence . Discharge the common sort", "My love , forbear to fawn upon their frowns .", "Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York .", "And that is to enjoy thee for my love .", "And now what rests but that we spend the time", "But now you partly may perceive my mind .", "It were no less ; but yet I 'll make a pause .", "And kiss your princely nephew , brothers both .", "What then remains , we being thus arriv 'd", "With them the two brave bears , Warwick and Montague ,", "Clarence and Gloucester , love my lovely queen ;", "Away , I say ; I charge ye bear her hence .", "But , Master Mayor , if Henry be your King ,", "Now , brother Richard , will you stand by us ?", "Though fortune 's malice overthrow my state ,", "So long as Edward is thy constant friend", "IS Lewis so brave ? Belike he thinks me Henry . But what said Lady Bona to my marriage ?", "So , Master Mayor . These gates must not be shut", "For Somerset , off with his guilty head .", "The worthy gentleman did lose his life .", "I need not add more fuel to your fire ,", "Have in our armours watch 'd the winter 's night ,", "Now tell me , madam , do you love your children ?", "Why , then thou shalt not have thy husband 's lands .", "Nay , this way , man . See where the huntsmen stand .", "Now , Warwick , wilt thou ope the city gates ,", "So other foes may set upon our backs .", "Stand you thus close to steal the Bishop 's deer ?", "Ah , froward Clarence , how evil it beseems the", "Have we mow 'd down in tops of all their pride !", "She had the wrong . But what said Henry 's queen ?", "I speak no more than what my soul intends ;", "Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight ;", "And brought desired help from Burgundy ;", "And all those friends that deign to follow me .", "What danger or what sorrow can befall thee ,", "Now , brother of Clarence , how like you our choice", "From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York ,", "Sweet widow , by my state I swear to thee", "Nay , then I see that Edward needs must down .", "Alas , poor Clarence ! Is it for a wife", "For Warwick was a bug that fear 'd us all .", "And Henry but usurps the diadem .", "\u2018 Twere pity they should lose their father 's lands .", "Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat", "Ay , what of that ? it was my will and grant ;", "No , by my troth , I did not mean such love .", "Brothers , you muse what chat we two have had .", "What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters ?", "Young Ned , for thee thine uncles and myself", "It boots not to resist both wind and tide .", "And , gallant Warwick , do but answer this :", "And made the forest tremble when they roar 'd .", "Speak gentle words , and humbly bend thy knee ,", "No more than when my daughters call thee mother .", "Now stops thy spring ; my sea shall suck them dry ,", "So , lie thou there . Die thou , and die our fear ;", "Sail how thou canst , have wind and tide thy friend , This hand , fast wound about thy coal-black hair , Shall , whiles thy head is warm and new cut off , Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood : \u2018 Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more . \u2019", "Why , so ! then am I sure of victory .", "Stand we in good array , for they no doubt", "With stately triumphs , mirthful comic shows ,", "Now , brother Richard , Lord Hastings , and the rest ,", "What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeas 'd", "Went all afoot in summer 's scalding heat ,", "Where 's Richard gone ?", "And , as we hear , march on to fight with us .", "Go levy men and make prepare for war ;", "I mean , my lords , those powers that the Queen", "For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out .", "Well , jest on , brothers ; I can tell you both", "And see our gentle queen how well she fares .", "Come hither , Bess , and let me kiss my boy .", "As being well content with that alone .", "Setting your scorns and your mislike aside ,", "Yea , brother Richard , are you offended too ?", "Seize on the shame-fac 'd Henry , bear him hence ;", "Suppose they take offence without a cause ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And whiles I live t \u2019 account this world but hell ,", "Thus stands the case : you know our King , my brother ,", "And take the great-grown traitor unawares .", "My eye 's too quick , my heart o'erweens too much ,", "God forbid that , for he 'll take vantages .", "And , like a Sinon , take another Troy .", "The widow likes it not , for she looks very sad .", "The gates are open , let us enter too .", "She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe", "I 'll blast his harvest if your head were laid ; For yet I am not look 'd on in the world . This shoulder was ordain 'd so thick to heave ; And heave it shall some weight or break my back . Work thou the way - and that shall execute .", "To sunder them that yoke so well together .", "But I will sort a pitchy day for thee ;", "Flattering me with impossibilities .", "The king was slily finger 'd from the deck !", "To make an envious mountain on my back ,", "Why , love forswore me in my mother 's womb ;", "Into this chiefest thicket of the park .", "Unless my hand and strength could equal them .", "The ghostly father now hath done his shrift .", "Your Highness shall do well to grant her suit ;", "See how the surly Warwick mans the wall .", "Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns .", "O , may such purple tears be always shed", "I came into the world with my legs forward .", "The widow likes him not ; she knits her brows .", "Nay , then whip me ; he 'll rather give her two .", "That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring", "Ay , widow ? Then I 'll warrant you all your lands , An if what pleases him shall pleasure you . Fight closer or , good faith , you 'll catch a blow .", "And frame my face to all occasions .", "To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales", "And his well-chosen bride .", "Down , down to hell ; and say I sent thee thither-", "Why should she live to fill the world with words ?", "For this , amongst the rest , was I ordain 'd .", "King Henry and the Prince his son are gone .", "Ay , by my faith , for a poor earl to give . I 'll do thee service for so good a gift .", "I hear , yet say not much , but think the more .", "And wet my cheeks with artificial tears ,", "And deck my body in gay ornaments ,", "And this word \u2018 love , \u2019 which greybeards call divine ,", "That would be ten days \u2019 wonder at the least .", "And yet , between my soul 's desire and me-", "Come then , away ; let 's ha \u2019 no more ado .", "Thy son I kill 'd for his presumption .", "Wishing his foot were equal with his eye ;", "And then to purge his fear , I 'll be thy death .", "And ten to one you 'll meet him in the Tower .", "That if about this hour he make this way ,", "Have sold their lives unto the house of York ;", "And shall have your will , because our King . Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well .", "Tut , were it farther off , I 'll pluck it down . Exit", "Then , since the heavens have shap 'd my body so ,", "Not knowing how to find the open air ,", "The Tower ! the Tower ! Exit", "I 'll hear no more . Die , prophet , in thy speech .", "But to command , to check , to o'erbear such", "Be round impaled with a glorious crown .", "Brother , the time and case requireth haste ;", "Ay , in despite of all that shall withstand you .", "I 'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall ;", "I , that have neither pity , love , nor fear .", "Think'st thou I am an executioner ?", "You shall have four if you 'll be rul 'd by him .", "I have advertis 'd him by secret means", "And yet I know not how to get the crown ,", "The gates made fast ! Brother , I like not this ;", "Let hell make crook 'd my mind to answer it .", "From those that wish the downfall of our house !", "Would he were wasted , marrow , bones , and all ,", "I have no brother , I am like no brother ;", "It is ; and lo where youthful Edward comes .", "And chides the sea that sunders him from thence ,", "Exit with the body", "And Somerset , with Oxford , fled to her .", "Like to a chaos , or an unlick 'd bear-whelp", "That you might still have worn the petticoat", "For God 's sake , take away this captive scold .", "And yet , for all his wings , the fool was drown 'd .", "Is prisoner to the Bishop here , at whose hands", "Under the colour of his usual game ,", "Her faction will be full as strong as ours .", "And cry \u2018 Content ! \u2019 to that which grieves my heart ,", "He plies her hard ; and much rain wears the marble .", "For many lives stand between me and home ;", "Brave warriors , march amain towards Coventry . Exeunt", "Hath not our brother made a worthy choice ?", "And not in me ! I am myself alone .", "Two of thy name , both Dukes of Somerset ,", "Why , brother , wherefore stand you on nice points ?", "My thoughts aim at a further matter ; I", "Sirrah , leave us to ourselves ; we must confer .", "He shall here find his friends , with horse and men ,", "For many men that stumble at the threshold", "Alas , that Warwick had no more forecast ,", "That carries no impression like the dam .", "Come , Warwick , take the time ; kneel down , kneel down . Nay , when ? Strike now , or else the iron cools .", "Now tell me , brother Clarence , what think you", "And Warwick , doing what you gave in charge ,", "Yea , is it so ?", "Had I not reason , think ye , to make haste", "And from that torment I will free myself", "And set the murderous Machiavel to school .", "Why , then I do but dream on sovereignty ;", "But in your bride you bury brotherhood .", "I 'll make my heaven in a lady 's lap ,", "Change shapes with Protheus for advantages ,", "That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns ,", "Away betimes , before his forces join ,", "And that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st , Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit .To say the truth , so Judas kiss 'd his master And cried \u2018 All hail ! \u2019 when as he meant all harm .", "And yet methinks your Grace hath not done well", "Marry , and shall .", "And I - like one lost in a thorny wood"], "true_target": ["Well guess 'd , believe me ; for that was my meaning .", "Be resident in men like one another ,", "Not I .", "Or hew my way out with a bloody axe .", "Good day , my lord . What , at your book so hard ?", "And thou shalt be the third , if this sword hold .", "Our trusty friend , unless I be deceiv 'd .", "Well , say there is no kingdom then for Richard ;", "To cross me from the golden time I look for !", "That I should snarl , and bite , and play the dog .", "She better would have fitted me or Clarence ;", "And so I chide the means that keeps me from it ;", "I 'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown ,", "A cold premeditation for my purpose !", "\u2018 O , Jesus bless us , he is born with teeth ! \u2019", "He 'll soon find means to make the body follow .", "By so much is the wonder in extremes .", "And , for I should not deal in her soft laws ,", "Can I do this , and cannot get a crown ?", "But wherefore stay we ? \u2018 Tis no time to talk .", "As are of better person than myself ,", "Deceive more slily than Ulysses could ,", "You left poor Henry at the Bishop 's palace ,", "And all the unlook 'd for issue of their bodies ,", "And so I say I 'll cut the causes off ,", "Clarence , thy turn is next , and then the rest ;", "Your horse stands ready at the park corner .", "Whom God hath join 'd together ; ay , and \u2018 twere pity", "For I will buzz abroad such prophecies", "And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster .", "What , will the aspiring blood of Lancaster", "The match is made ; she seals it with a curtsy .", "Stay not for the love of Edward but the crown .", "To set him free from his captivity .", "And often but attended with weak guard", "Or did he make the jest against his will ?", "See how my sword weeps for the poor King 's death .", "The Queen is valued thirty thousand strong ,", "Sink in the ground ? I thought it would have mounted .", "Seeking a way and straying from the way", "The midwife wonder 'd ; and the women cried", "Ere ye come there , be sure to hear some news .", "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind :", "Why , I can smile , and murder whiles I smile ,", "But toiling desperately to find it out-", "To disproportion me in every part ,", "Before the King will grant her humble suit .", "So do I wish the crown , being so far off ;", "The bruit thereof will bring you many friends .", "And so I was , which plainly signified", "Ay , good leave have you ; for you will have leave Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch .", "Indeed , \u2018 tis true that Henry told me of ;", "I can add colours to the chameleon ,", "By heaven , brat , I 'll plague ye for that word .", "To shape my legs of an unequal size ;", "Comes hunting this way to disport himself .", "SCENE VII .", "That Edward shall be fearful of his life ;", "And triumph , Henry , in thy day of doom .", "Sprawl'st thou ? Take that , to end thy agony .", "Is now dishonoured by this new marriage .", "Until my misshap 'd trunk that bear this head", "Ay , Edward will use women honourably .", "O monstrous fault to harbour such a thought !", "Saying he 'll lade it dry to have his way-", "Is Clarence , Henry , and his son young Edward ,", "Then , since this earth affords no joy to me", "But when the fox hath once got in his nose ,", "Unto the brother of your loving bride .", "That taught his son the office of a fowl !", "And seek their ruin that usurp 'd our right ?", "The thief doth fear each bush an officer .", "Silence !", "Clarence , beware ; thou keep'st me from the light ,", "A wise stout captain , and soon persuaded !", "If she have time to breathe , be well assur 'd", "If any spark of life be yet remaining ,", "Welcome , good Clarence ; this is brother-like .", "I thought , at least , he would have said the King ;", "Now , my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley ,", "The lustful Edward 's title buried-", "Clarence , excuse me to the King my brother .", "Like one that stands upon a promontory", "Brother , this is Sir John Montgomery ,", "I 'll hence to London on a serious matter ;", "Not I .", "Where sits deformity to mock my body ;", "Why , what a peevish fool was that of Crete", "And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks .", "Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither", "And spies a far-off shore where he would tread ,", "He hath good usage and great liberty ;", "I see the lady hath a thing to grant ,", "I 'll slay more gazers than the basilisk ;", "Counting myself but bad till I be best .", "I 'll play the orator as well as Nestor ,", "But , whiles he thought to steal the single ten ,", "Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey ?", "No , God forbid that I should wish them sever 'd", "And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns .", "O miserable thought ! and more unlikely", "Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear .", "Torment myself to catch the English crown ;", "For I have often heard my mother say", "Are well foretold that danger lurks within .", "Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason", "Brother , we will proclaim you out of hand ;", "To shrink mine arm up like a wither 'd shrub", "It were dishonour to deny it her .", "And am I , then , a man to be belov 'd ?", "I 'll throw thy body in another room ,", "To take their rooms ere I can place myself .", "What other pleasure can the world afford ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["When he was made a shriver , \u2018 twas for shrift .", "I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe .", "And to that end I shortly mind to leave you .", "I mind to tell him plainly what I think .", "About the marriage of the Lady Bona .", "Reignier , her father , to the King of France", "And hither have they sent it for her ransom .", "The duty that I owe unto your Majesty", "In sign of truth , I kiss your Highness \u2019 hand .", "Father of Warwick , know you what this means ? Look here , I throw my infamy at thee . I will not ruinate my father 's house , Who gave his blood to lime the stones together , And set up Lancaster . Why , trowest thou , Warwick , That Clarence is so harsh , so blunt , unnatural , To bend the fatal instruments of war Against his brother and his lawful King ? Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath . To keep that oath were more impiety Than Jephtha when he sacrific 'd his daughter . I am so sorry for my trespass made That , to deserve well at my brother 's hands , I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe ; With resolution whereso'er I meet thee - As I will meet thee , if thou stir abroad - To plague thee for thy foul misleading me . And so , proud-hearted Warwick , I defy thee , And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks . Pardon me , Edward , I will make amends ; And , Richard , do not frown upon my faults , For I will henceforth be no more unconstant .", "Now , brother king , farewell , and sit you fast ,", "What will your Grace have done with Margaret ?", "You that love me and Warwick , follow me .", "Belike the elder ; Clarence will have the younger .", "I think he means to beg a child of her .", "No , Warwick , thou art worthy of the sway ,", "To who , my lord ?", "Fear not that , my lord .", "As likely to be blest in peace and war ;", "And there 's for twitting me with perjury .", "Which being shallow , you shall give me leave", "And therefore I yield thee my free consent .", "Untutor 'd lad , thou art too malapert .", "As well as Lewis of France or the Earl of Warwick ,", "Adjudg 'd an olive branch and laurel crown ,", "Which , being suffer 'd , rivers cannot quench .", "To make a bloody supper in the Tower .", "Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it ?", "Hath pawn 'd the Sicils and Jerusalem ,", "To whom the heav'ns in thy nativity", "What else ? And that succession be determin 'd ."], "true_target": ["To play the broker in mine own behalf ;", "It shall be done , my sovereign , with all speed .", "A little gale will soon disperse that cloud", "Alas , you know \u2018 tis far from hence to France ! How could he stay till Warwick made return ?", "What ? what ?", "For on thy fortune I repose myself .", "For every cloud engenders not a storm .", "Clarence , Clarence , for Lancaster !", "For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves", "I may not prove inferior to yourself .", "A little fire is quickly trodden out ,", "And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere .", "As red as fire ! Nay , then her wax must melt .", "Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife 's son ,", "Which are so weak of courage and in judgment", "That he consents , if Warwick yield consent ,", "I fear her not , unless she chance to fall .", "To London , all in post ; and , as I guess ,", "That they 'll take no offence at our abuse .", "Becomes your enemy for mocking him", "Or else you would not have bestow 'd the heir", "In choosing for yourself you show 'd your judgment ,", "Thy very beams will dry those vapours up ,", "He knows the game ; how true he keeps the wind !", "By heaven , I will not do thee so much ease .", "To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford .", "He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom .", "That 's a day longer than a wonder lasts .", "Then this is mine opinion : that King Lewis", "And blow it to the source from whence it came ;", "That , though I want a kingdom , yet in marriage", "For I will hence to Warwick 's other daughter ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["To tell you plain , I had rather lie in prison .", "And that is more than I will yield unto .", "Be pitiful , dread lord , and grant it , then .", "Please you dismiss me , either with ay or no .", "I am a subject fit to jest withal ,", "Your Highness aims at , if I aim aright .", "Why stops my lord ? Shall I not hear my task ?", "I know I am too mean to be your queen ,", "But far unfit to be a sovereign .", "What you command that rests in me to do .", "The fruits of love I mean , my loving liege .", "No , gracious lord , except I cannot do it .", "Why , then mine honesty shall be my dower ;", "That love which virtue begs and virtue grants .", "Herein your Highness wrongs both them and me .", "Accords not with the sadness of my suit .", "Three , my most gracious lord .", "And what your pleasure is shall satisfy me ."], "true_target": ["But , mighty lord , this merry inclination", "May it please your Highness to resolve me now ;", "Then , no , my lord . My suit is at an end .", "So shall you bind me to your Highness \u2019 service .", "For by that loss I will not purchase them .", "My love till death , my humble thanks , my prayers ;", "To do them good I would sustain some harm .", "My mind will never grant what I perceive", "I take my leave with many thousand thanks .", "Why , then I will do what your Grace commands .", "\u2018 Twill grieve your Grace my sons should call you father .", "Therefore I came unto your Majesty .", "Ay , full as dearly as I love myself .", "\u2018 Tis better said than done , my gracious lord .", "And yet too good to be your concubine .", "That 's soon perform 'd , because I am a subject .", "Why , then you mean not as I thought you did .", "Right gracious lord , I cannot brook delay ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["My gracious lord , Henry your foe is taken"], "true_target": ["And brought your prisoner to your palace gate ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And now forthwith shall articles be drawn", "Whate'er it be , be thou still like thyself , And sit thee by our side .Yield not thy neck To fortune 's yoke , but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance . Be plain , Queen Margaret , and tell thy grief ; It shall be eas 'd , if France can yield relief .", "To revel it with him and his new bride .", "And still is friend to him and Margaret .", "Vouchsafe at our request to stand aside", "Touching the jointure that your king must make ,", "Warwick , this is some post to us or thee .", "Why , say , fair Queen , whence springs this deep despair ?", "The more I stay , the more I 'll succour thee .", "What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty ?", "What , has your king married the Lady Grey ?", "Fair Queen of England , worthy Margaret ,", "Tell me for truth the measure of his love", "Which with her dowry shall be counterpois 'd .", "Welcome , brave Warwick ! What brings thee to France ?", "From giving aid which late I promised .", "Sit down with us . It ill befits thy state", "Thou and Oxford , with five thousand men ,", "Then further : all dissembling set aside ,", "Queen Margaret , Prince Edward , and Oxford ,", "Thou seest what 's past ; go fear thy king withal .", "That Bona shall be wife to the English king .", "Is this th \u2019 alliance that he seeks with France ?", "Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand", "Then , Warwick , thus : our sister shall be Edward 's .", "Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner ?", "Sends me a paper to persuade me patience ?", "Now , sister , let us hear your firm resolve ."], "true_target": ["Therefore , at last , I firmly am resolv 'd", "Warwick , what are thy news ? And yours , fair Queen ?", "But is he gracious in the people 's eye ?", "And , as occasion serves , this noble Queen", "But if your title to the crown be weak ,", "Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle :", "To link with him that were not lawful chosen .", "Now , Warwick , tell me , even upon thy conscience ,", "Unto our sister Bona .", "Yet , ere thou go , but answer me one doubt :", "And tell false Edward , thy supposed king ,", "Draw near , Queen Margaret , and be a witness", "While I use further conference with Warwick .", "What 's he approacheth boldly to our presence ?", "But , Warwick ,", "You shall have aid .", "And birth that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit .", "And now , to soothe your forgery and his ,", "Is Edward your true king ? for I were loath", "Then \u2018 tis but reason that I be releas 'd", "While we bethink a means to break it off .", "And mine with hers , and thine , and Margaret 's .", "That Lewis of France is sending over masquers", "And Prince shall follow with a fresh supply .", "Then , England 's messenger , return in post", "That your estate requires and mine can yield .", "stay we now ? These soldiers shall be levied ; And thou , Lord Bourbon , our High Admiral , Shall waft them over with our royal fleet . I long till Edward fall by war 's mischance For mocking marriage with a dame of France .", "Renowned Queen , with patience calm the storm ,", "As may appear by Edward 's good success ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["O brave young Prince ! thy famous grandfather", "Smiles at her news , while Warwick frowns at his .", "I thought no less . It is his policy", "GLOUCESTER , CLARENCE , and soldiers", "Here pitch our battle ; hence we will not budge .", "Who by his prowess conquered all France .", "From these our Henry lineally descends .", "What now remains , my lords , for us to do", "I like it well that our fair Queen and mistress", "Call him my king by whose injurious doom", "And not betray thy treason with a blush ?", "To haste thus fast , to find us unprovided .", "No , Warwick , no ; while life upholds this arm ,", "Doth live again in thee . Long mayst thou Eve", "Even in the downfall of his mellow 'd years ,", "And warriors faint ! Why , \u2018 twere perpetual shame .", "And thus I seal my truth and bid adieu .", "When nature brought him to the door of death ?"], "true_target": ["Oxford , Oxford , for Lancaster !", "And , after that wise prince , Henry the Fifth ,", "Flourish and march . Enter , at a distance , KING EDWARD ,", "\u2018 Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down .", "Away , away , to meet the Queen 's great power !", "But march to London with our soldiers ?", "Ay , for if Edward repossess the crown ,", "Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain ;", "Was done to death ; and more than so , my father ,", "For my part , I 'll not trouble thee with words .", "And , after John of Gaunt , Henry the Fourth ,", "Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years ,", "Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest ;", "To bear his image and renew his glories !", "This arm upholds the house of Lancaster .", "Women and children of so high a courage ,", "Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt ,", "My elder brother , the Lord Aubrey Vere ,", "Why , Warwick , canst thou speak against thy liege ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["My quarrel and this English queen 's are one .", "Tell him , in hope he 'll prove a widower shortly ,", "When I have heard your king 's desert recounted ,", "Your grant or your denial shall be mine ."], "true_target": ["But by thy help to this distressed queen ?", "Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire .", "Dear brother , how shall Bona be reveng 'd", "I 'll wear the willow-garland for his sake .", "Yet I confess that often ere this day ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And , madam , these for you ; from whom I know not .", "For hunting was his daily exercise .", "My lord ambassador , these letters are for you ,", "Sent from your brother , Marquis Montague .", "And fled , as he hears since , to Burgundy ."], "true_target": ["In secret ambush on the forest side", "That Edward is escaped from your brother", "And the Lord Hastings , who attended him", "He was convey 'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester", "These from our King unto your Majesty .", "And from the Bishop 's huntsmen rescu 'd him ;"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["But he 's deceiv 'd ; we are in readiness .", "And said \u2018 Commend me to my valiant brother . \u2019", "My liege , it is young Henry , Earl of Richmond .", "Nor I , but stoop with patience to my fortune .", "Go home to bed and , like the owl by day ,", "Ah , Warwick ! Montague hath breath 'd his last ;", "It shall be so ; he shall to Brittany .", "What may befall him to his harm and ours .", "What are they that fly there ?", "And more he would have said ; and more he spoke ,", "If he arise , be mock 'd and wond'red at .", "That mought not be distinguish 'd ; but at last ,", "Come therefore , let 's about it speedily . Exeunt", "And we shall have more wars befor't be long .", "My lords , forbear this talk ; here comes the King .", "Ah , Warwick , Warwick ! wert thou as we are ,", "My lord , I like not of this flight of Edward 's ;"], "true_target": ["Which sounded like a clamour in a vault ,", "Forthwith we 'll send him hence to Brittany ,", "We might recover all our loss again .", "Before York", "SCENE VII .", "And he that will not fight for such a hope ,", "Somerset , Somerset , for Lancaster !", "And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick ,", "For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help ,", "Even now we heard the news . Ah , couldst thou fly !", "So doth my heart misgive me , in these conflicts ,", "As Henry 's late presaging prophecy", "Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond ,", "I well might hear , delivered with a groan ,", "The Queen from France hath brought a puissant power ;", "Therefore , Lord Oxford , to prevent the worst ,", "Till storms be past of civil enmity .", "\u2018 O farewell , Warwick ! \u2019"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["In them and in ourselves our safety lies .", "Sound trumpet ; Edward shall be here proclaim 'd . Come , fellow soldier , make thou proclamation .", "Why , knows not Montague that of itself", "So \u2018 twere not long of him ; but being ent'red ,", "Let us be back 'd with God , and with the seas", "\u2018 Tis better using France than trusting France .", "To Lynn , my lord ; and shipt from thence to Flanders .", "Away with scrupulous wit ! Now arms must rule ."], "true_target": ["I doubt not , I , but we shall soon persuade", "Which He hath giv'n for fence impregnable ,", "And with their helps only defend ourselves .", "And Hastings as he favours Edward 's cause !", "My liege , I 'll knock once more to summon them .", "The good old man would fain that all were well ,", "England is safe , if true within itself ?", "Both him and all his brothers unto reason .", "Why , Master Mayor , why stand you in a doubt ? Open the gates ; we are King Henry 's friends ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["But to prevent the tyrant 's violence-", "I am inform 'd that he comes towards London", "To raise my state to title of a queen ,", "And I the rather wean me from despair", "I 'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary", "For love of Edward 's offspring in my womb .", "Or by his foe surpris 'd at unawares ;", "And , as I further have to understand ,", "What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward ?", "Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown", "Come , therefore , let us fly while we may fly :", "Fell Warwick 's brother , and by that our foe .", "No , but the loss of his own royal person .", "To save at least the heir of Edward 's right .", "Either betray 'd by falsehood of his guard", "Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow .", "To set the crown once more on Henry 's head .", "There shall I rest secure from force and fraud ."], "true_target": ["And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs ,", "Ay , almost slain , for he is taken prisoner ;", "Till then , fair hope must hinder life 's decay .", "And bear with mildness my misfortune 's cross ;", "King Edward 's fruit , true heir to th \u2019 English crown .", "Do me but right , and you must all confess", "But as this title honours me and mine ,", "Why , brother Rivers , are you yet to learn", "Ay , ay , for this I draw in many a tear", "And meaner than myself have had like fortune .", "My lords , before it pleas 'd his Majesty", "Is new committed to the Bishop of York ,", "If Warwick take us , we are sure to die . Exeunt", "So your dislikes , to whom I would be pleasing ,", "That I was not ignoble of descent :", "Guess thou the rest : King Edward 's friends must down .", "This is it that makes me bridle passion", "For trust not him that hath once broken faith-"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Unless our halberds did shut up his passage .", "Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress 'd .", "The King by this is set him down to sleep .", "Why , no ; for he hath made a solemn vow"], "true_target": ["\u2018 Tis the Lord Hastings , the King 's chiefest friend .", "Come on , my masters , each man take his stand ;", "Who goes there ?", "Never to lie and take his natural rest"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["What , will he not to bed ?", "But to defend his person from night-foes ?", "If Warwick be so near as men report ."], "true_target": ["Stay , or thou diest . WARWICK and the rest cry all \u2018 Warwick ! Warwick ! \u2019 and set upon the guard , who fly , crying \u2018 Arm ! Arm ! \u2019 WARWICK and the rest following them The drum playing and trumpet sounding , re-enter WARWICK and the rest , bringing the KING out in his gown , sitting in a chair . GLOUCESTER and HASTINGS fly over the stage", "Ay , wherefore else guard we his royal tent", "To-morrow then , belike , shall be the day ,", "\u2018 Tis the more honour , because more dangerous ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["If Warwick knew in what estate he stands ,", "I like it better than dangerous honour .", "That his chief followers lodge in towns about him ,", "O , is it So ? But why commands the King"], "true_target": ["While he himself keeps in the cold field ?", "\u2018 Tis to be doubted he would waken him .", "Ay , but give me worship and quietness ;", "That with the King here resteth in his tent ?", "But say , I pray , what nobleman is that"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["These news , I must confess , are full of grief ;", "But , madam , where is Warwick then become ?", "What , loss of some pitch 'd battle against Warwick ?"], "true_target": ["Warwick may lose that now hath won the day .", "Then is my sovereign slain ?", "Yet , gracious madam , bear it as you may :", "Madam , what makes you in this sudden change ?"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["This way , my lord ; for this way lies the game ."], "true_target": ["Better do so than tarry and be hang 'd ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Subjects may challenge nothing of their sov'reigns ;"], "true_target": ["But if an humble prayer may prevail ,", "I then crave pardon of your Majesty ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["Ay , say you so ? The gates shall then be open 'd .", "My lords , we were forewarned of your coming"], "true_target": ["For now we owe allegiance unto Henry .", "True , my good lord ; I know you for no less .", "And shut the gates for safety of ourselves ,"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["And now will I be Edward 's champion .", "To keep them back that come to succour you .", "If you 'll not here proclaim yourself our King ,", "As every loyal subject ought to do .", "To help King Edward in his time of storm ,", "By this I challenge him to single fight ."], "true_target": ["Ay , now my sovereign speaketh like himself ;", "Why shall we fight , if you pretend no title ?", "I 'll leave you to your fortune and be gone", "And whoso'er gainsays King Edward 's right ,", "Then fare you well , for I will hence again . I came to serve a king and not a duke . Drummer , strike up , and let us march away .", "What talk you of debating ? In few words :"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["\u2018 Edward the Fourth , by the grace of God ,"], "true_target": ["King of England and France , and Lord of Ireland , & c . \u2019"], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["At Southam I did leave him with his forces ,", "It is not his , my lord ; here Southam lies ."], "true_target": ["The drum your Honour hears marcheth from Warwick .", "They are at hand , and you shall quickly know .", "And do expect him here some two hours hence ."], "play_index": 13, "act_index": 13}, {"query": ["If you must read , do choose something a little less dismal . Are n't there any love songs ?", "I 'm sure the first must be disposed of by this time . I shall look out for the next so eagerly ! SpurrellTime I \u201c off \" ed it .Afraid I can n't say anything definite \u2014 and , excuse me leaving you , but I think Lady Culverin is looking my way .", "At last , Mr. Spurrell ! We began to think you meant to keep away altogether . Has anybody told you why you 've been waited for so impatiently ? SpurrellNo . Is it family prayers , or what ? Er \u2014 are they over ?", "Indeed , I believe none of them were lost upon me ; but my poor little praise must seem so worthless and ignorant ! SpurrellOh , I would n't say that . I find some ladies very knowing about these things . I 'm having a picture done of her .", "The chairs are being arranged for something much more intellectual . We are going to get Mr. Spurrell to read a poem to us , if you want to know . I told you I should manage it .", "No ? How forbearing of him ! Would you mind not standing quite so much in my light ? I can n't see my work . Captain ThicknesseThat girl 's always fishin \u2019 for compliments . I did n't rise that time , though . It 's precious slow here . I 've a good mind to say I must get back to Aldershot this afternoon .", "Are you really ? How delightful ! As a frontispiece ?", "I feel immensely proud . I was so afraid you must have thought I was rather cross to you last night . I did n't mean to be . I was feeling a little overdone , that was all . But you have chosen a charming way of letting me see that I am forgiven .It 's really too touching . He certainly is a great improvement on the other wretch ! UndershellI \u2014 I had no such intention , I assure you .I hope to goodness Lady Maisie wo n't come in before I can get rid of this girl . I seem fated to be misunderstood here ! PART XXIV THE HAPPY DISPATCH \u201c Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love , but \u2014\u2014 \u201d In the Morning-room . TIME \u2014 About 1 P. M . UndershellI 'm rather sorry that that Miss Spelwane could n't stay . She 's a trifle angular \u2014 but clever . It was distinctly sharp of her to see through that fellow Spurrell from the first , and lay such an ingenious little trap for him . And she has a great feeling for Literature \u2014 knows my verses by heart , I discovered , quite accidentally . All the same , I wish she had n't intercepted those snowdrops . Now I shall have to go out and pick some more .Too late \u2014 they 've got back from church !", "Do n't be so utterly idiotic !If Maisie imagines she 's to be allowed to monopolise the only man in the room worth talking to !\u2014\u2014 Captain ThicknesseShe is lookin \u2019 prettier than ever ! Forgotten me . Used to be friendly enough once , though , till her mother warned me off . Seems to have a good deal to say to that poet fellow ; saw her colour up from here the moment he came near ; he 's begun Petrarchin \u2019 , hang him ! I 'd cross over and speak to her if I could catch her eye . Do n't know , though ; what 's the use ? She would n't thank me for interruptin \u2019 . She likes these clever chaps ; do n't signify to her if they are bounders , I suppose . I 'm not intellectual . Gad , I wish I 'd gone back to Aldershot ! Lady CantireWhy do n't you make that woman of yours send you up decent cakes , my dear ? These are cinders . I 'm afraid you let her have too much of her own way . Now , tell me \u2014 who are your party ? Vivien Spelwane ! Never have that girl to meet me again , I can n't endure her ; and that affected little ape of a Mr. Pilliner \u2014 h 'm ! Do I see Captain Thicknesse ? Now , I do n't object to him . Maisie and he used to be great friends .... Ah , how do you do , Captain Thicknesse ? Quite pleasant finding you here ; such ages since we saw anything of you ! Why have n't you been near us all this time ?... Oh , I may have been out once or twice when you called ; but you might have tried again , might n't you ? There , I forgive you ; you had better go and see if you can make your peace with Maisie ! Captain ThicknesseDoosid odd , Lady Cantire comin \u2019 round like this . Wish she 'd thought of it before . Lady CantireHe 's always been such a favourite of mine . They tell me his uncle , poor dear Lord Dunderhead , is so ill \u2014 felt the loss of his only son so terribly . Of course it will make a great difference \u2014 in many ways . Captain ThicknesseHow do you do ? Afraid you 've forgotten me .", "Poor little fellow ? On my lap !", "Do you know , Bertie , that 's rather a good idea of yours . I 'll ask him to read us something to-night . PillinerTo-night ! With all these people here ? I say , they 'll never stand it , you know .Miss SpelwaneThey ought to feel it an immense privilege . I know I shall . The BishopPort in sight \u2014 at last ! But , oh , what I have had to suffer ! Lady CantireWell , we 've had quite one of our old discussions . I always enjoy talking to you , Bishop . But I have n't yet got at your reasons for voting as you did on the Parish Councils Bill ; we must go into that upstairs . The BishopI shall be \u2014 ah \u2014 all impatience , Lady Cantire .I fervently trust that a repetition of this experience may yet be spared me !Lady RhodaYou will tell me the name of the stuff upstairs , wo n't you ? So very much ta ! ArchieI 'd like to tar him very much , and feather him too , for cuttin \u2019 me out like this !What are you drinkin \u2019 ? Claret ? What do you do your writin \u2019 on , now , as a general thing ? SpurrellOn paper , sir , when I 've any to do . Do you do yours on a slate ?", "Because you deliberately picked out the worst bits , and read them as badly as you could !", "Perhaps I shall find a matted head more entertaining than a smooth one . And , if you 've quite done with that volume , I should like to have a look at it .ArchieI 'm not half sorry this Poet-johnny 's comin \u2019 ; I never caught a Bard in a booby-trap yet . Captain ThicknesseShe 's coming \u2014 this very evenin \u2019 ! And I was nearly sayin \u2019 I must get back to Aldershot !"], "true_target": ["How crushing of you ! But you must go away now , or else you 'll find nothing to say to me at dinner \u2014 you take me in , you know . I hope you feel privileged . I feel \u2014\u2014 But if I told you , I might make you too conceited ! SpurrellOh , it 's not so easily done as all that !", "Her legs ? Oh , of course \u2014 with \u201c her roseal toes cramped . \u201d I thought that such a wonderful touch !", "No , no ; nothing of that sort . Ca n't you guess ? Mr. Spurrell , I 'm going to be very bold , and ask a great , great favour of you . I do n't know why they chose me to represent them ; I told Lady Lullington I was afraid my entreaties would have no weight ; but if you only would \u2014\u2014 SpurrellThey 're at it again ! How many more of \u2018 em want a pup !Sorry to be disobliging , but \u2014\u2014 Miss SpelwaneNot if I implore you ? Oh , Mr. Spurrell , I 've quite set my heart on hearing you read aloud to us . Are you really cruel enough to refuse ?", "Dear Lady Culverin , the verses are quite , quite beautiful ; it was only the way they were read .", "Oh , by all means ?I might as well praise a pillar-post ! And after spending quite half an hour reading him up , too ! I wonder if Bertie Pilliner was right ; but I shall have him all to myself at dinner .", "Maisie , dear , how are you ? You look so tired ! That 's the journey , I suppose .Do tell me \u2014 is that really the author of Andromeda drinking tea close by ? You 're a great friend of his , I know . Do be a dear , and introduce him to me ! I declare the dogs have made friends with him already . Poets have such a wonderful attraction for animals , have n't they ?Miss SpelwaneOh , Mr. Spurrell , I feel as if I must talk to you about Andromeda . I did so admire it ! SpurrellAnother of \u2018 em ! They seem uncommonly sweet on \u201c bulls \u201d in this house !Very glad to hear you say so , I 'm sure . But I 'm bound to say she 's about as near perfection as anything I ever \u2014 I dare say you went over her points \u2014\u2014", "Then \u2014 would you ask him , Lady Cantire ?", "Why , you do n't mean to say you 've torn yourselves away from your beloved billiards already ? Quite wonderful !", "I 'll try , dear Lady Culverin . And if my poor little persuasions have no effect , I shall fall back on Lady Cantire , and then he can n't refuse . I must go and tell dear Lady Lullington \u2014 she 'll be so pleased !I generally do get my own way . But I mean him to do it to please Me ! Lady CantireI must say that girl is very much improved in manner since I last saw anything of her .", "I told Lady Lullington that I was afraid you would think it a bore , Lady Cantire .", "So he was ; but they changed it all at the last moment ; it really was rather provoking . I could have talked to him .", "Bertie Pilliner has been reading aloud to us , dear Lady Culverin \u2014 the most ridiculous poetry \u2014 made us all simply shriek . What 's the name of it ?Oh , Andromeda , and other Poems . By Clarion Blair . Lady CulverinBertie Pilliner can turn everything into ridicule , we all know ; but probably you are not aware that these particular poems are considered quite wonderful by all competent judges . Indeed , my sister-in-law \u2014\u2014 AllLady Cantire ! Is she the author ? Oh , of course , if we 'd had any idea \u2014\u2014", "No , you have n't ; and I thought it so considerate of you .PillinerHave you quite done sitting on that poor unfortunate man ? I heard you ! Miss SpelwaneI 'm afraid I have been rather beastly to him . But , oh , he is such a bore \u2014 he would talk about his horrid \u201c silos , \u201d till I asked him whether they would eat out of his hand . After that , the subject dropped \u2014 somehow ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["It 's too horrid of you to leave us to play all by ourselves ! We 've all got so cross and fractious we 've come in here to be petted !Captain ThicknesseDo hate to see a fellow come down in the mornin \u2019 with evenin \u2019 shoes on ! Archie BearparkYou speak for yourself , Pillener . I did n't come to be petted . Came to see if Lady Rhoda would n't come and toboggan down the big staircase on a tea-tray . Do ! It 's clinkin \u2019 sport ! Captain ThicknesseIf there 's one thing I can n't stand , it 's a rowdy bullyraggin \u2019 ass like Archie ! Lady Rhoda Cokayne . Ta muchly , dear boy , but you do n't catch me travellin \u2019 downstairs on a tea-tray twice \u2014 it 's just a bit too clinkin \u2019 , do n't you know ! Archie BearparkWhy , there 's a mat at the bottom of the stairs ! Well , if you wo n't , let 's get up a cushion fight , then . Bertie and I will choose sides . Pilliner , I 'll toss you for first pick up \u2014 come out of that , do . Bertie PillinerThanks , I 'm much too comfy where I am . And I do n't see any point in romping and rumpling one 's hair just before lunch .", "I beg to oppose . Do let 's show some respect for the privacy of the British hunter . Why should I go and smack them on their fat backs , and feel every one of their horrid legs twice in one morning ? I should n't like a horse coming into my bedroom at all hours to smack me on the back . I should hate it !", "Probably . Poets are always privileged to kiss and tell . I 'll see ... h 'm , ha , yes ; he does mention it ... I think I 'll read something else . Here 's a classical specimen .\u201c Uprears the monster now his slobberous head , Its filamentous chaps her ankles brushing ; Her twice-five roseal toes are cramped in dread , Each maidly instep mauven-pink is flushing . \u201d And so on , do n't you know .... Now I 'll read you a regular rouser called \u201c A Trumpet Blast . \u201d Sit tight , everybody !\u201c Pale Patricians , sunk in self-indulgence ,Blink your bleared eyes .Behold the Sun \u2014 Burst proclaim , in purpurate effulgence , Demos dawning , and the Darkness \u2014 done ! \u201d"], "true_target": ["I 'll look . Yes , any amount \u2014 here 's one .\u201c To My Lady . \u201d \u201c Twine , lanken fingers lily-lithe , Gleam , slanted eyes all beryl-green , Pout , blood-red lips that burst awrithe , Then \u2014 kiss me , Lady Grisoline ! \u201d Miss SpelwaneSo that 's his type . Does he mention whether she did kiss him ?", "He gets cheaper than that in the next poem . This is his idea of \u201c Abasement . \u201d\u201c With matted head a-dabble in the dust , And eyes tear-sealed in a saline crust , I lie all loathly in my rags and rust \u2014 Yet learn that strange delight may lurk in self-disgust . \u201d Now , do you know , I rather like that \u2014 it 's so deliciously decadent !", "Dear Lady Rhoda , how cruel of you ! You 'll have to let me stay . I 'll be so good . Look here , I 'll read aloud to you . I can \u2014 quite prettily . What shall it be ? You do n't care ? No more do I. I 'll take the first that comes .How too delightful ! Poetry \u2014 which I know you all adore .", "Ah , but then you never heard me read it , you know . Now , here is a choice little bit , stuck right up in a corner , as if it had been misbehaving itself . \u201c Disenchantment \u201d it 's called .\u201c My Love has sicklied unto Loath , And foul seems all that fair I fancied \u2014 The lily 's sheen a leprous growth , The very buttercups are rancid ! \u201d"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["I should be inclined to back the toad , myself ."], "true_target": ["Jove ! The Johnny who wrote that must have been feelin \u2019 chippy !", "Well , you are slack . And there 's a good hour still before lunch . Thicknesse , you suggest something , there 's a dear old chap . Captain ThicknesseSuppose we all go and have another look round at the gees \u2014 eh , what ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["ChatterisI do n't fancy I shall have the pleasure of your daughter 's society this morning . I just met her going to get the garden keys ; I think she has promised to show the grounds to \u2014\u2014 Well , I need n't mention whom . Oh dear me , I hope I 'm not being indiscreet again !", "Earwaker . He was the only one of the family who did n't recognize it at once . Then my youngest Caroline \u2014 well , I must say that for a long time I was quite in despair about Caroline . It really looked as if there was no single thing that she had the slightest bent or inclination for . So at last I thought she had better take up religion , and make that her speciality . Lady LullingtonReligion ! How very nice !", "PomfretCome in , sir . I 'm glad to see you 've found your way down at last . Let me see , I have n't the advantage of knowing your \u2014 Mr. Undershell , to be sure ! Well , Mr. Undershell , we 're very pleased to see you . I hope you 'll make yourself quite at home . Her ladyship gave particular directions that we was to look after you \u2014 most particular she was !", "Pomfret . Well , he may drop in later on . I should n't be surprised if you and he had met before . UndershellI should .I hardly think it 's probable .", "ChatterisOh , Captain Thicknesse , what do you think Mr. Spurrell has just told me ? You remember those lines to Lady Grisoline that Mr. Pilliner made such fun of this morning ? Well , they were meant for Lady Maisie ! They 're quite old friends , it seems . So romantic ! Would n't you like to know how they came to meet ?", "Chatteris . Captain Thicknesse ? But he has gone , Lady Cantire ! I saw him start . I did n't mean him .", "ChatterisI 've always heard that clever writers are rather stupid when you meet them \u2014 it 's quite true . Captain ThicknesseI should like her to see that I 've got some imagination in me , though she does think me such an ass .Jolly old hall this is , with the banners , and the gallery , and that \u2014 makes you fancy some of those old mediaeval Johnnies in armour \u2014 knights , you know \u2014 comin \u2019 clankin \u2019 in and turnin \u2019 us all out . Lady MaisieI do trust Mr. Spurrell is n't saying something too dreadful . I 'm sure I heard my name just now .No , did you really ? How amusing it must have been ! Captain ThicknesseIf you 'd done me the honour of payin \u2019 any attention to what I was sayin \u2019 , you 'd have found out it was n't amusin \u2019 . Lady MaisieOh , was n't it ? I 'm so sorry I missed it . I \u2014 I 'm afraid I was thinking of something else . Do tell me again ! Captain Thicknesse ,No , I wo n't inflict it on you \u2014 not worth repeatin \u2019 . And I should only be takin \u2019 off your attention from a fellow that does know how to talk . Lady MaisieI do n't think I understand what you mean .", "Chatteris . That 's a bad beginning . I always find the menu cards such a good subject , when there 's anything at all out of the common about them . If they 're ornamented , you can talk about them \u2014 though not for very long at a time , do n't you think ? SpurrellI can n't say how long I could go on about ornamented ones \u2014 but these are plain .I can hear this waistcoat going already \u2014 and we 're only at the soup !", "Earwaker . Well , I got her a Christian Year and a covered basket , and quantities of tracts , and so on ; but , somehow , she did n't seem to get on with it . So I let her give it up ; and now she 's gone in for poker-etching instead . Lady LullingtonPoker-etching ! How very , very nice !", "ChatterisNow , I shall expect you to be very brilliant and entertaining . I 'll do all the listening for once in a way \u2014 though , generally , I can talk about all manner of silly things with anybody ! SpurrellOh \u2014 er \u2014 I should say you were quite equal to that . But I really can n't think of anything to talk about .", "Chatteris . Really ? I thought they seemed to take a great pleasure in one another 's society . It 's quite romantic . But I must rush up and get my bonnet on if I 'm to go to church .So she was \u201c Lady Grisoline , \u201d after all ! If I was her mother \u2014\u2014 But dear Lady Cantire is so advanced about things . Lady CantireDarling Maisie ! He 'll be Lord Dunderhead before very long . How sensible and sweet of her ! And I was quite uneasy about them last night at dinner ; they scarcely seemed to be talking to each other at all . But there 's a great deal more in dear Maisie than one would imagine . Sir RupertWe 're rather proud of our church , Mr. Undershell \u2014 fine old monuments and brasses , if you care about that sort of thing . Some of us will be walking over to service presently , if you would like to \u2014\u2014 UndershellAnd lose my tete-a-tete with Lady Maisie ! Not exactly !I am afraid , Sir Rupert , that I cannot conscientiously \u2014\u2014 Sir RupertOh , very well , very well ; do exactly as you like about it , of course . I only thought \u2014\u2014Now , that other young chap would have gone !", "Chatteris . It is a pity . Never mind ; tell me about literary and artistic people . Do you know , I 'm rather glad I 'm not literary or artistic myself ; it seems to make people so queer-looking , somehow . Oh , of course I did n't mean you looked queer \u2014 but generally , you know . You 've made quite a success with your Andromeda , have n't you ? I only go by what I 'm told \u2014 I do n't read much myself . We women have so many really serious matters to attend to \u2014 arranging about dinners , and visits , and trying on frocks , and then rushing about from party to party . I so seldom get a quiet moment . Ah , I knew I wanted to ask you something . Did you ever know any one called Lady Grisoline ?", "ChatterisBut , dear Lady Cantire , I had no idea you would disapprove . Indeed you seemed \u2014\u2014 And really , though she certainly seems to find him rather well \u2014 sympathetic \u2014 I 'm sure \u2014 almost sure \u2014 there can be nothing serious \u2014 at present .", "Chatteris . I 'd no idea you would mind anybody knowing , or I would never have dreamed of \u2014\u2014 I 've such a perfect horror of gossip ! It took me so much by surprise , that I simply could n't resist . But I can easily tell Captain Thicknesse it was all a mistake ; he knows how fearfully inaccurate I always am .", "Chatteris . Oh , and she was the original ? Now , that is exciting ! But I should hardly have recognised her \u2014 \u201c lanky , \u201d you know , and \u201c slanting green eyes . \u201d But I suppose you see everybody differently from other people ? It 's having so much imagination . I dare say I look green or something to you now \u2014 though really I 'm not . SpurrellI do n't understand more than about half she 's saying .Oh , I do n't see anything particularly green about you .", "PomfretDepend upon it , my dear , it 's her ignorance ; but I shall most certainly speak about it . Girls must be taught that ranks was made to be respected , and the precedency into that pew has come down from time immemoriable , and is not to be set aside by such as her while I 'm \u2018 ousekeeper here .", "PomfretStay where you are , Harriet ; he 's better left to himself . If he was n't so wropped up in his cookery , he 'd know there 's always a dish as goes the round untasted , without why or wherefore . I 've no patience with the man ! TredwellThat 's the worst of \u2018 aving to do with Frenchmen ; they 're so apt to beyave with a sutting childishness that \u2014\u2014 I really ask your pardon , mamsell , I quite forgot you was of his nationality ; though it ai n't to be wondered at , I 'm sure , for you might pass for an Englishwoman almost anywhere !", "Earwaker . Yes , dear Lady Lullington , I 've always insisted on each of my girls adopting a distinct line of her own , and the result has been most satisfactory . Louisa , my eldest , is literary ; she had a little story accepted not long ago by The Milky Way ; then Maria is musical \u2014 practices regularly three hours every day on her violin . Fanny has become quite an expert in photography \u2014 kodaked her father the other day in the act of trying a difficult stroke at billiards ; a back view \u2014 but so clever and characteristic ! Lady LullingtonA back view ? How nice !", "PomfretLa , Mr. Tredwell , you do seem put out ! Whatever have Thomas been doing now ? UndershellIt 's really very good of him to take it to heart like this !Pray do n't let it distress you ; it 's of no consequence , none at all ! TredwellI 'm the best judge of that , Mr. Undershell , sir \u2014 if you 'll allow me ; I do n't call my porogatives of no consequence , whatever you may ! And that feller Thomas , Mrs. Pomfret , actially \u2018 ad the hordacity , without consulting me previous , to go and \u2018 and a note to one of our gentlemen at the hupstairs table , all about some hassinine mistake he 'd made with his cloes ! What call had he to take it upon himself ? I feel puffecly disgraced that such a thing should have occurred under my authority !", "Brooke-Chatteris . I love them \u2014 dear things ! But still , it 's so wet , and it would mean going up and changing our shoes too \u2014 perhaps Lady Rhoda \u2014\u2014Captain ThicknesseOnly thought it was better than loafin \u2019 about , that 's all .I do bar a woman who 's afraid of a little mud .Poo \u2019 little fellow , then !"], "true_target": ["Chatteris . I 'm taking that in . I know it 's very witty and satirical , and I dare say I shall understand it in time .", "Chatteris . Why , only her old friend and admirer \u2014 that little poet man , Mr. Blair . Lady CantireAnd I actually sent him to her !Albinia , whatever comes of this , remember I shall hold you entirely responsible !PART XXII A DESCENT FROM THE CLOUDS In the Elizabethan Garden . Lady MAISIE and UNDERSHELL are on a seat in the Yew Walk . TIME \u2014 About 11 A. M . Lady MaisieAnd you really meant to go away , and never let one of us know what had happened to you ! UndershellHow easy it is after all to be a hero !That certainly was my intention , only I was \u2014 er \u2014 not permitted to carry it out . I trust you do n't consider I should have been to blame ? Lady MaisieTo blame ? Mr. Blair ! As if I could possibly do that !He does n't even see how splendid it was of him ! UndershellI begin to believe that I can do no wrong in her eyes !It was not altogether easy , believe me , to leave without even having seen your face ; but I felt so strongly that it was better so . Lady MaisieAnd \u2014 do you still feel that ?", "ChatterisI 've been letting my tongue run away with me , as usual . She 's not the original of \u201c Lady Grisoline , \u201d after all . Perhaps he meant Vivien Spelwane \u2014 the description was much more like her ! PillinerWhat are you doing with these chairs ? Why are we all to sit in a circle , like Moore and Burgess people ? You 're not going to set the poor dear Bishop down to play baby-games ? How perfectly barbarous of you !", "I said to Captain Thicknesse \u2014\u2014", "Brooke-ChatterisSuch a nice , plain , simple service \u2014 I 'm positively ravenous !", "Chatteris . You are really going to write ! At a dinner-party , of all places ! Now how delightfully original and unconventional of you ! I promise not to interrupt till the inspiration is over . Only , really , I 'm afraid I do n't carry lead pencils about with me \u2014 so bad for one 's frocks , you know ! ThomasI can lend you a pencil , sir , if you require one .Spurrell\u201c Will be in my roomas soon after ten as possible . \u201c J. SPURRELL . \u201dThere , take him that .ArchieThe calm cheek of these writin \u2019 chaps ! I saw him takin \u2019 notes under the table ! Lady Rhoda ought to know the sort of fellow he is \u2014 and she shall !I should advise you to be jolly careful what you say to your other neighbour ; he 's takin \u2019 it all down . I just caught him writin \u2019 . He 'll be bringing out a satire , or whatever he calls it , on us all by and bye \u2014 you see if he wo n't !", "PomfretIt is never alluded to in my presence except as the \u2018 ousekeeper 's room , which is the right and proper name for it . There may be some other term for it in the servants \u2019 \u2018 all for anything I know to the contrary \u2014 but , if you 'll excuse me for saying so , Mr. Undershell , we 'd prefer for it not to be repeated in our presence . UndershellI \u2014 I beg ten thousand pardons .To be pulled up like this for trying to be genial \u2014 it 's really too humiliating ! SteptoeWell , well , sir ; we must make some allowances for a neophyte . You 'll know better another time , I dare say . Miss Phillipson here has been giving you a very favourable character as a highly agreeable rattle , Mr. Undershell . I hope we may be favoured with a specimen of your social talents later on . We 're always grateful here for anything in that way \u2014 such as a recitation now , or a comic song , or a yumorous imitation \u2014 anything , in short , calculated to promote the general harmony and festivity will be appreciated . Miss SticklerProvided it is free from any helement of coarseness , which we do not encourage \u2014 far from it ! UndershellYou need be under no alarm , madam . I do not propose to attempt a performance of any kind .", "Pomfret . Well , Mr. Undershell , sir , you 're the best judge ; and , if you really can n't stop , this is Mr. Adams , who 'll take you round to the stables himself , and do anything that 's necessary . Wo n't you , Mr. Adams ?", "ChatterisIt 's quite amusing how jealous these poets are of one another !Is it true they get a butt of sherry given them for it ?", "EarwakerNow , I do n't altogether approve of the New Woman myself ; but still , I am glad to see how women are beginning to assert themselves and come to the front ; surely you sympathise with all that ? PillinerNo , really I can n't , you know ! I 'd so much rather they would n't . They 've made us poor men feel positively obsolete ! They 'll snub us out of existence soon \u2014 our sex will be extinct \u2014 and then they 'll be sorry . There 'll be nobody to protect them from one another ! After all , we can n't help being what we are . It is n't my fault that I was born a Man Thing \u2014 now , is it ? Lady CantireWell , if it is a fault , Mr. Pilliner , we must all acknowledge that you 've done everything in your power to correct it ! PillinerHow nice and encouraging of you , dear Lady Cantire , to take up the cudgels for me like that !", "Chatteris . Exactly ! Poets \u2019 heads are so easily turned ; and , as", "Pomfret . Why , he asked to be excused to-night , Mr. Tredwell . You see some of the visitors \u2019 coachmen are putting up their horses here , and he 's helping Mr. Checkley entertain them .Mr. Adams is our stud-groom , and him and Mr. Checkley , the \u2018 ed coachman , are very friendly just now . Adams is very clever with his horses , I believe , and I 'm sure he 'd have liked a talk with you ; it 's a pity he 's engaged elsewhere this evening . UndershellI \u2014 I 'm exceedingly sorry to have missed him , ma'am .Is the stud-groom literary , I wonder ?... Ah , no , I remember now ; I allowed Miss Phillipson to conclude that my tastes were equestrian . Perhaps it 's just as well the stud-groom is n't here !", "Pomfret . Do n't speak of it as trespassing , sir . It 's not often we have a gentleman of your profession as a visitor , but you are none the less welcome . Now I 'd better introduce you all round , and then you wo n't feel yourself a stranger . Miss Phillipson you have met , I know .SteptoeYour fame , sir , has preceded you . And you 'll find us a very friendly and congenial little circle on a better acquaintance \u2014 if this is your first experience of this particular form of society ? UndershellI must n't be stiff , I 'll put them at their ease .Why , I must admit , Mr. Steptoe , that I have never before had the privilege of entering the \u2014the \u201c Pugs \u2019 Parlour , \u201d as I understand you call this very charming room .SteptoePardon me , sir , you have been totally misinformed . Such an expression is not current here .", "ChatterisOh , he took me in to dinner , you know , and it 's quite wonderful how people confide in me , but I suppose they feel I can be trusted . He mentioned a little fact , which gave me the impression that a certain fair lady 's wishes would be supreme with him . Lady MaisieThe wretch ! He has been boasting of my unfortunate letter !Mr. Spurrell had no business to give you any impression of the kind . And the mere fact that I \u2014 that I happened to admire his verses \u2014\u2014", "ChatterisI wonder if you meant that to be complimentary \u2014 no , you need n't explain . Now , tell me , is there any news about the Laureateship ? Who 's going to get it ? Will it be Swinburne or Lewis Morris ? SpurrellNever heard of the stakes or the horses either .Well , to tell you the truth , I have n't been following their form \u2014 too many of these small events nowadays .", "Pomfret . I 've known stranger things than that happen . Why , only the other day , a gentleman came into this very room , as it might be yourself , and it struck me he was looking very hard at me , and by and bye he says , \u201c You do n't recollect me , ma'am , but I know you very well , \u201d says he . So I said to him , \u201c You certainly have the advantage of me at present , sir . \u201d \u201c Well , ma'am , \u201d he says , \u201c many years ago I had the honour and privilege of being steward 's room boy in a house where you was still-room maid ; and I consider I owe the position I have since attained entirely to the good advice you used to give me , as I 've never forgot it , ma'am , \u201d says he . Then it flashed across me who it was \u2014 \u201c Mr. Pocklington ! \u201d says I . Which it were . And him own man to the Duke of Dumbleshire ! Which was what made it so very nice and \u2018 andsome of him to remember me all that time . UndershellIt must have been most gratifying , ma'am .I hope this old lady has n't any more anecdotes of this highly interesting nature . I must n't neglect Miss Phillipson \u2014 especially as I have n't very long to stay here .Miss PhillipsonI 'm sorry you find it so slow here ; it 's not very polite of you to show it quite so openly though , I must say .UndershellI can n't let this poor girl think me a brute ! But I must be careful not to go too far .Do n't misunderstand me like that . If I looked at my watch , it was merely to count the minutes that are left . In one short half-hour I must go \u2014 I must pass out of your life , and you must forget \u2014 oh , it will be easy for you \u2014 but for me , ah ! you cannot think that I shall carry away a heart entirely unscathed ! Believe me , I shall always look back gratefully , regretfully , on \u2014\u2014 PhillipsonI declare you 're beginning all that again . I never did see such a cure as you are . UndershellI wish she could bring herself to take me a little more seriously . I can not consider it a compliment to be called a \u201c cure \u201d \u2014 whatever that is . SteptoeCome , Mr. Undershell , all this whispering reelly is not fair on the company ! You must n't hide your bushel under a napkin like this ; do n't reserve all your sparklers for Miss Phillipson there . UndershellI \u2014 ah \u2014 was not making any remark that could be described as a sparkler , sir . I do n't sparkle . PhillipsonHe was being rather sentimental just then , Mr. Steptoe , as it happens . Not that he can n't sparkle , when he likes . I 'm sure if you 'd heard how he went on in the fly ! SteptoeNot having been privileged to be present , perhaps our friend here could recollect a few of his happiest efforts and repeat them .", "ChatterisHave you heard what a treat is in store for us ? That delightful Mr. Spurrell is going to give us a reading or a recitation , or something , from his own poems ; at least Miss Spelwane is to ask him as soon as the men come in . Only I should have thought that he would be much more likely to consent if you asked him .", "Brooke-ChatterisThis is fearfully puzzling . What made him say that about \u201c Lady Grisoline \u201d ? The BishopA crushing blow for the Countess ; but not unsalutary . I am distinctly conscious of feeling more kindly disposed to that young man . Now why ?Lady LullingtonI thought this young man was going to read us some more of his poetry ; it 's too tiresome of him to stop to tell us about his bull-dog . As if anybody cared what he called it ! Lord LullingtonUncommonly awkward , this ! If I could catch Laura 's eye \u2014 but I suppose it would hardly be decent to go just yet . Lady CulverinCan Rohesia have known this ? What possible object could she have had in \u2014\u2014 And oh , dear , how disgusted Rupert will be ! Sir RupertSeems a decent young chap enough ! Too bad of Rohesia to let him in for this . I do n't care a straw what he is \u2014 he 's none the worse for not being a poet . Lady CantireWhat is he maundering about ? It 's utterly inconceivable that I should have made any mistake . It 's only too clear what the cause is \u2014 Claret ! SpurrellToo bad of you to try and spoof me like this before everybody , Miss Spelwane ! I do n't know whose idea it was to play me such a trick , but \u2014\u2014 Miss SpelwanePlease understand that nobody here had the least intention of playing a trick upon you !", "Pomfret . I really can n't say where he is , my dear . I sent up word to let him know he was welcome here whenever he pleased ; but perhaps he 's feeling a little shy about coming down .", "PomfretYou never mean that , Mossoo ? And a nice dish of quails just put on , too , that they have n't even touched upstairs !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Do n't know what you all saw in what he said that was so amusin \u2019 . Confounded rude I thought it !", "Oh , it \u2014 ah \u2014 did n't occur to me that he was on your lap . He do n't seem to mind that .", "Well , she was sayin \u2019 \u2014 and I must say I do n't understand it , after your tellin \u2019 me you knew nothing about this Mr. Spurrell till this afternoon \u2014\u2014", "No \u2014 only to say good-bye and that . I 'm just off .", "Ran it a bit too fine ; got to Shuntin'bridge just in time to see the tail end of the train disappearin \u2019 ; was n't another for hours \u2014 not much to do there , do n't you know .", "Perfectly . And I thought you were quite right .", "But I say , you know ! Maisie , may I come too ?", "Dare say I 'm very dense ; but , even to my comprehension , it 's plain enough that the reason why you were n't listenin \u2019 to me just now was that the poet had the luck to say somethin \u2019 that you found more interesting .", "So likely any one would send for me , is n't it ?", "Hang it all , Pilliner , do you suppose I do n't know when the game 's up ! If it was any good stayin \u2019 on \u2014\u2014 And besides , I 've said good-bye to Lady C ., and all that . No , it 's too late now . TredwellExcuse me , sir , but if you 're going by the 10. 40 , you have n't any too much time . PillinerPoor old chap , he does seem hard hit ! Pity he 's not Lady Maisie 's sort . Though what she can see in that long-haired beggar \u2014\u2014! Wonder when Vivien Spelwane intends to come down ; never knew her miss breakfast before .... What 's that rustling ?... Women ! I 'll be off , or they 'll nail me for church before I know it .", "Perhaps \u2014 only , you see , I do n't want to .", "You will be gratified to hear I leave for", "Somethin \u2019 very charmin \u2019 , and poetical , and complimentary , I 'm sure , and I 'm makin \u2019 you lose it all . Apologise \u2014 sha n't happen again .", "Not the groom 's fault , sir . I kept him waitin \u2019 a bit , and \u2014 and we had to stop to shift the seat and that , and so \u2014\u2014 UndershellGreat blundering booby ! Ca n't he see nobody wants him here ? As if he had n't bored poor Lady Maisie enough at breakfast ! Ah , well , I must come to her rescue once more , I suppose !", "I \u2014 I remembered I never said good-bye to you .", "They 'll be bringing some round in another minute .", "I do hate a chap that jaws at breakfast .... Where did you say she was ? Lady Maisie 's voiceYes , you really ought to see the orangery and the Elizabethan garden , Mr. Blair . If you will be on the terrace in about five minutes , I could take you round myself . I must go and see if I can get the keys first .", "So I might , did n't occur to me ; and besides ,", "I say , that 's rather good . Had you there , Bearpark ! SpurrellLook here , I see you 're trying to put a spoke in my wheel . You saw me writing at dinner , and went and told that young lady I was going to take everything off there and then , which you must have known I was n't likely to do . Now , sir , it 's no business of yours that I can see ; but , as you seem to be interested , I may tell you that I shall go up and do it in my own room , as soon as I leave this table , and there will be no fuss or publicity about it whatever . I hope you 're satisfied now ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , I went , but I 've come back again . I \u2014 I could n't help it ; \u2018 pon my word I could n't . Lady MaisieYou \u2014 you were n't sent for \u2014 by \u2014 by any one ?", "What an observant young beggar you are , Bearpark ! Nothin \u2019 escapes you . No , I have n't .Fact , is , sir , I \u2014 I somehow just missed the train , and \u2014 and \u2014 thought I might as well come back , instead of waitin \u2019 about , do n't you know . Sir RupertWhy , of course , my dear boy , of course ! Never have forgiven you if you had n't . Great nuisance for you , though . Hope you blew the fool of a man up ; he ought to have been round in plenty of time .", "But what was it you were goin \u2019 to explain to me ? You said there was somethin \u2019 \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieIt 's no use ; I 'd sooner die than tell him about that letter now !I \u2014 I only wished you to understand that , whatever I think about poetry \u2014 I detest poets !", "Well , I could n't help hearin \u2019 what you said to your poet-friend before we went in about having to put up with partners ; and it is n't what you may call flattering to a fellow 's feelin 's , being put up with . Lady MaisieIt \u2014 it was not intended for you . You entirely misunderstood !", "Perhaps you would n't have been over and above glad to see me .", "I 'm hurt , that 's what it is , and I 'm not clever at hiding my feelin 's . Fact is , I 've just been told somethin \u2019 that \u2014 well , it 's no business of mine , only you might have been a little more frank with an old friend , instead of leavin \u2019 it to come through somebody else . These things always come out , you know . Lady MaisieThat wretch has been talking ! I knew he would !I \u2014 I know I 've been very foolish . If I was to tell you some time \u2014\u2014 Captain ThicknesseOh , no reason why you should tell me anything . Assure you , I \u2014 I 'm not curious .", "Nothin \u2019 ! Saw your friend the bard hurryin \u2019 along the terrace with a bunch of snowdrops ; he 'll be here in another \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieGerald , why did n't you tell me before ? There 's only just time !", "Not mine , anyhow . You were somewhere about the grounds with Mr. Blair .", "How are you ? Been hearin \u2019 a lot about you lately . Andromeda , do n't you know ; and that kind of thing .", "Been tryin \u2019 to get you to notice me ever since you came ; but you were so awfully absorbed , you know !", "Well , it looked like it \u2014 with talkin \u2019 to your poetical friend . Lady MaisieHe is not my friend in particular ; I \u2014 I admire his poetry , of course . Captain ThicknesseCa n't even speak of him without a change of colour . Bad sign that !You always were keen about poetry and literature and that in the old days , were n't you ? Used to rag me for not readin \u2019 enough . But I do now . I was readin \u2019 a book only last week . I 'll tell you the name if you give me a minute to think \u2014 book everybody 's readin \u2019 just now \u2014 no end of a clever book .", "Ah ! Well , I suppose I shall only be in the way if I stop here any longer now .", "Did n't want you to tell me anything that perhaps you 'd rather not , do n't you know . Still , I should like to know how this poet chap came to write a poem all about you , and call it \u201c Lady Grisoline , \u201d if he never \u2014\u2014", "Aldershot to-morrow . Meant to have gone to-day . Sorry I did n't now .", "Ca n't say I 'm particularly curious \u2014 no affair of mine , do n't you know .And she told me they 'd never met before ! Sooner I get back the better . Only in the way here . Lady MaisieWell , are you as determined to be as disagreeable as ever ? Oh yes , I see you are !", "It \u2014 it do n't matter . She 's engaged . And , look here , you need n't mention that I was askin \u2019 for her .", "He told Mrs. Chatteris you were the original of his \u201c Lady Grisoline \u201d anyway , and really \u2014\u2014", "Well , I rather thought there might be , perhaps . Lady MaisieHe did hear it . If he 's going to be so stupid as to misunderstand , I 'm sure I sha n't explain .PART X BORROWED PLUMES In UNDERSHELL 'S Bedroom in the East Wing at Wyvern . TIME \u2014 About 9 P. M . The Steward 's Room BoyBrought you up some \u2018 ot water , sir , case you 'd like to clean up afore supper .", "I \u2014 I used to meet Lady Maisie Mull pretty often at one time ; do n't know if she 'll remember it , though ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Rather not . I 'll come , like a shot ! Lady CulverinI suppose it 's very silly of me to be so prejudiced . Nobody else seems to mind him ! Miss SpelwaneOh , Lady Culverin , Lady Lullington has such a delightful idea \u2014 she 's just been saying how very , very nice it would be if Mr. Spurrell could be persuaded to read some of his poetry aloud to us presently . Do you think it could be managed ? Lady CulverinReally , my dear Vivien , I \u2014 I do n't know what to say . I fancy people would so much rather talk \u2014 do n't you think so , Rohesia ?", "So do I . And mind you do n't forget about that liniment , you know . Captain ThicknesseMaisie do n't care a hang ! And I was ass enough to fancy \u2014\u2014 But there , that 's all over now ! In the Verney Chamber . UndershellI wonder how long I 've been locked up here \u2014 it seems hours ! I almost hope they 've forgotten me altogether .... Some one has come in .... If it should be Sir Rupert !! Great heavens , what a situation to be found in by one 's host !... Perhaps it 's only that fellow Spurrell ; if so , there 's a chance .It 's the butler again . Well , I shall soon know the worst !Perhaps you will kindly inform me why I have been subjected to this indignity ? TredwellI think , Mr. Undershell , sir , in common fairness , you 'll admit as you 've mainly yourself to thank for any mistakes that have occurred ; for which I \u2018 asten to express my pussonal regret .", "His conduct ? Do n't see anything splendid in missin \u2019 a train . I could do it myself if I tried .", "If you ask me , I simply loathe it .", "I say , if none of you are goin \u2019 to be more amusin \u2019 than this , you may as well go back to your billiards again .", "You would n't ? I am glad . Such a let-off for me ! I was afraid you 'd want to talk of nothin \u2019 else , and the only things I can really talk about are horses and dogs , and that kind of thing .", "Then they should stay at home . Just see what a hopeless muddle he 's got us all into ! I declare I feel as if anybody might turn into somebody else on the smallest provocation after this . I know poor Vivien Spelwane will be worryin \u2019 her pillows like rats most of the night , and I rather fancy it will be a close time for poets with your dear mother , Maisie , for some time to come . All this silly little man 's fault !", "Nothing particular . Archie apologised to this new man in the billiard-room . For the booby trap . We all told him he 'd got to . And Mr. Carrion Bear , or Blundershell , or whatever he calls himself \u2014 you know \u2014 was so awf'lly gracious and condescendin \u2019 that I really thought poor dear old Archie would have wound up his apology by punchin \u2019 his head for him . Strikes me , Maisie , that mop-headed minstrel boy is a decided change for the worse . Does n't it you ? Lady MaisieHow do you mean , Rhoda ?", "Archie , what 's become of Mr. Spurrell ? I particularly want to ask him something .", "So Lady Cantire 's comin \u2019 ; we shall all have to be on our hind legs now ! But Maisie 's a dear thing . Do you know her , Captain Thicknesse ?", "Struck me some of those chubby choir-boys wanted smackin \u2019 . What a business it seems to get the servants properly into their pew \u2014 as bad as boxin \u2019 a string of hunters ! As for you , Archie , the way you fidgeted durin \u2019 the sermon was downright disgraceful !... So there you are , Mr. Blair ; not been to church ; but I forgot \u2014 p'raps you 're a Dissenter , or somethin \u2019 ? UndershellOnly , Lady Rhoda , in the sense that I have hitherto failed to discover any form of creed that commands my intellectual assent . Lady RhodaI expect you have n't tried . Are you a \u2014 what d'ye call it ?\u2014 a Lacedemoniac ? UndershellI presume you mean a \u201c Laodicean . \u201d No , I should rather describe myself as a Deist . ArchieWhat 's a Deast when he 's at home ? If he 'd said a Beast , now !Hullo , why , here 's Thicknesse ! So you have n't gone , after all , then ?", "I say ! Do you call him as good-lookin \u2019 as all that ?"], "true_target": ["Oh , but indeed , Lady Culverin , I thought he was perfectly charmin ': not a bit booky , you know , but as clever as he can stick ; knows more about terriers than any man I ever met !", "You want to be taken down yourself , I think . And I mean to talk to him if I choose . You can talk to Lady Culverin \u2014 she likes boys !I was goin \u2019 to ask you \u2014 ought a schipperke to have meat ? Mine wo n't touch puppy biscuits .Lady CantireWell , Bishop , I wish I could find you a little more ready to listen to what the other side has to say ! The BishopI am \u2014 ah \u2014 not conscious of any unreadiness to enter into conversation with the very estimable lady on my other side , should an opportunity present itself .", "She 'll love meetin \u2019 this writin \u2019 man \u2014 she 's so fearfully romantic . I heard her say once that she 'd give anythin \u2019 to be idealized by a great poet \u2014 sort of \u2014 what 's their names \u2014 Petrarch and Beatrice business , do n't you know . It will be rather amusin \u2019 to see whether it comes off \u2014 wo n't it ? Captain ThicknesseI \u2014 ah \u2014 no affair of mine , really .I 'm not intellectual enough for her , I know that . Suppose I shall have to stand by and look on at the Petrarchin \u2019 . Well , there 's always Aldershot !PART III THE TWO ANDROMEDAS Opposite a Railway Bookstall at a London Terminus . TIME \u2014 Saturday , 4. 25 P. M . DrysdaleTwenty minutes to spare ; time enough to lay in any quantity of light literature . UndershellI fear the merely ephemeral does not appeal to me . But I should like to make a little experiment .A \u2014 do you happen to have a copy left of Clarion Blair 's Andromeda ?", "As how ?", "Well , I 'd better tell you at once , I 'm no good at poetry \u2014 can n't make head or tail of it , some'ow . It does seem to me such \u2014 well , such footle . Awf'ly rude of me sayin \u2019 things like that !", "What an ill-natured boy you are ! Just because he can write , and you can n't . And I do n't believe he 's doing anythin \u2019 of the sort . I 'll ask him \u2014 I do n't care !I say , I know I 'm awfully inquisitive \u2014 but I do want to know so \u2014 you 've just been writin \u2019 notes or somethin \u2019 , have n't you ? Mr. Bearpark declares you 're goin \u2019 to take them all off here \u2014 you 're not really , are you ? SpurrellThat sulky young chap has spotted it !I \u2014 take everything off ? Here ! I \u2014 I assure you I should never even think of doing anything so indelicate !", "Then you 're just the man . Look here , I 've an Airedale at home , and he 's losin \u2019 all his coat and \u2014\u2014SpurrellI am getting on . I always knew I was made for Society . If only this coat was easier under the arms ! ThomasBeg your pardon , sir , but I was requested to \u2018 and you this note , and wait for an answer . Spurrell\u201c Mr. Galfrid Undershell thinks that the gentleman who is occupying the Verney Chamber has , doubtless by inadvertence , put on Mr. Undershell 's evening clothes . As he requires them immediately , he will be obliged by an early appointment being made , with a view to their return . \u201dOh , Lor ! Then it was n't Sir Rupert , after all ! Just when I was beginning to enjoy my evening , too . What on earth am I to say to this chap ? I can n't take \u2018 em all off here !PART XI TIME AND THE HOUR In the Dining-hall . SpurrellMust write something to this beggar , I suppose ; it 'll keep him quiet .I \u2014 I just want to write a line or two . Could you oblige me with a lead pencil ?", "But I did , Maisie . And they met this mornin \u2019 , and it 's all settled , and they 're as happy as they can be . Except that he 's on the look out for a mysterious stranger , who disappeared last night , after tryin \u2019 to make desperate love to her . He is determined , if he can find him , to give him a piece of his mind .", "P'raps \u2014 but , after all , one can n't expect those sort of people to talk quite like we do ourselves , can one ?", "I should call it utter rot , myself . Bertie PillinerForgive me , Lady Rhoda . \u201c Utterly rotten , \u201d if you like , but not \u201c utter rot . \u201d There 's a difference , really . Now , I 'll read you a quaint little production which has dropped down to the bottom of the page , in low spirits , I suppose . \u201c Stanza written in Depression near Dulwich . \u201d\u201c The lark soars up in the air ; The toad sits tight in his hole ; And I would I were certain which of the pair Were the truer type of my soul ! \u201d", "I was sure that was what you 'd say ! But still, I suppose you have made use of things that happened just to fit your purpose , have n't you ? SpurrellAll I can say is , that \u2014 if I have \u2014 you wo n't catch me doing it again ! And other people 's things do n't fit . I 'd much rather have my own . Lady RhodaOf course ! But I 'm glad you told me .I asked him \u2014 and , as usual , you were utterly wrong . So you 'll please not to be a pig ! ArchieAnd you 're goin \u2019 to go on talkin \u2019 to him all through dinner ? Pleasant for me \u2014 when I took you down !", "I meantersay I call Mr. Spurrell \u2014\u2014 Well , he 's real , anyway \u2014 he 's a man , do n't you know . As for the other , so feeble of him missin \u2019 his train like he did , and turnin \u2019 up too late for everything ! Now , was n't it ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Then of course we must let you do exactly as you please . PillinerLady Maisie 's a little brick ! No notion she had it in her . No occasion to bother myself about the beggar now . \u201c Let him alone and he 'll go home , and carry his tail beneath him ! \u201d", "Oh , lunch , is it , Tredwell ? Very well . By the bye , see that some one packs Mr. Undershell 's things for him , and tell them to send the dog-cart round after lunch in time to catch the 3. 15 from Shuntingbridge . ArchieWe do n't want any more missin \u2019 of trains , eh ? I 'll go round and see the cart properly balanced myself this time . PillinerNo , dear boy , you 're not to be trusted ! I 'll see that done , then the bard and his train will be alike in one respect \u2014 neither of \u2018 em \u2018 ll be missed ! Miss SpelwaneGoing already ! I wish I had never touched his ridiculous snowdrops !", "Rupert , I 'm going up now with Rohesia . You know where we 've put Mr. Spurrell , do n't you ? The Verney Chamber .", "But , my dear Rohesia , you must allow that , whatever his talents may be , he is not \u2014 well , not quite one of Us . Now , is he ? Lady CantireMy dear , I never heard he had any connection with the manufacture of chemical manures , in which your worthy papa so greatly distinguished himself \u2014 if that is what you mean . Lady CulverinThat is not what I meant , Rohesia \u2014 as you know perfectly well . And I do say that this Mr. Spurrell 's manner is most objectionable ; when he 's not obsequious , he 's horribly familiar ! Lady CantireI have not observed it . He strikes me as well enough \u2014 for that class of person . And it is intellect , soul , all that kind of thing that I value . I look below the surface , and I find a great deal that is very original and charming in this young man . And surely , my dear , if I find myself able to associate with him , you need not be so fastidious ! I consider him my protege , and I wo n't have him slighted . He is far too good for Vivien Spelwane ! Lady CulverinPerhaps , Rohesia , you would like him to take you in ?", "He was leaving by the 10. 40 , I know . For Aldershot . I ordered the cart for him , and he said good-bye after breakfast . He seemed so dreadfully down , poor fellow , and I quite concluded from what he said that Maisie must have \u2014\u2014", "I 've no reason to believe that Lady Cantire ever composed any poetry . I was only going to say that she was most interested in the author , and as she and my niece Maisie are coming to us this evening \u2014\u2014", "No , it would n't do at all . And it would be making this young man so much too conspicuous .", "To be sure \u2014 any friend of my sister-in-law 's \u2014\u2014", "Indeed I could n't . But perhaps , Vivien , if you liked to suggest it to him , he might \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["So glad you found him agreeable , my dear . I was half afraid he might strike you as \u2014 well , just a little bit common in his way of talking .", "So glad you all contrive to keep your spirits up , in spite of this dismal weather . What is it that 's amusing you all so much , eh , dear Vivien ?", "I thought she would n't mind putting up with him just for one evening .", "I am glad to hear you say so , my dear , because I 'm also expecting the pleasure of seeing the author here , and you will probably be his neighbour to-night . I hope , Bertie , that you will remember that this young man is a very distinguished genius ; there is no wit that I can discover in making fun of what one does n't happen to understand .BertieMay I trouble somebody to scrape me up ? I 'm pulverised ! But really , you know , a real live poet at Wyvern ! I say , Miss Spelwane , how will you like to have him dabbling his matted head next to you at dinner , eh ?", "Oh , Rupert , I am so glad . How clever of that nice Mr. Spurrell ! I was afraid my poor Deerfoot would have to be shot . UndershellShe may thank me that he was n't . And this other fellow gets all the credit for it . How like Life !", "My dear Mr. Blair , I \u2014 I 'd no notion we were to lose you so soon ; but if you 're really quite sure you must go \u2014\u2014 Lady CantireReally , Albinia , we must give him credit for knowing his own mind . He tells you he is obliged to go !", "My dear Rohesia ! If you remember , it was you yourself who \u2014\u2014! Lady CantireI am in no condition to argue about it , Albinia . The slightest exercise of your own common sense would have shown you \u2014\u2014 But there , no great harm has been done , fortunately , so let us say no more about it . I have something more agreeable to talk about . I 've every reason to hope that Maisie and dear Gerald Thicknesse \u2014\u2014 Lady CulverinMaisie ? But I thought Gerald Thicknesse spoke as if \u2014\u2014!", "I really do n't know whom I can give Mr. Spurrell . There 's Rhoda Cokayne , but she 's not poetical , and she 'll get on much better with Archie Bearpark . Oh , I forgot Mrs. Brooke-Chatteris \u2014 she 's sure to talk , at all events . Lady CantireA lively , agreeable woman \u2014 she 'll amuse him . Now you can give Rupert the list .Lady CantireAh , my dear Bishop , you and I have n't met since we had our great battle about \u2014 now , was it the necessity of throwing open the Public Schools to the lower classes \u2014 for whom of course they were originally intended \u2014 or was it the failure of the Church to reach the working man ? I really forget . The BishopI \u2014 ah \u2014 fear I cannot charge my memory so precisely , my dear Lady Cantire . We \u2014 ah \u2014 differ unfortunately on so many subjects . I trust , however , we may \u2014 ah \u2014 agree to suspend hostilities on this occasion ? Lady CantireDo n't be too sure of that , Bishop . I 've several crows to pluck with you , and we are to go in to dinner together , you know !", "\u201c Mr. Undershell ! \u201d ... Rohesia , that is Clarion Blair ! I knew it was something ending in \u201c ell . \u201dAnd you say Mr. Undershell is here \u2014 in this house ?", "Delightful , my dear Gerald . Then we shall keep you here till Tuesday , of course ! UndershellLady Culverin , I see there 's a very good train which leaves Shuntingbridge at 3. 15 this afternoon , and gets \u2014\u2014Lady CantireUpon my word , Mr. Blair ! If you will kindly leave Captain Thicknesse to make his own arrangements \u2014\u2014! Lady MaisieBut , mamma , you must have misunderstood Mr. Blair ! As if he would dream of \u2014\u2014 He was merely mentioning the train he wishes to go by himself . Were n't you , Mr. Blair ? UndershellI \u2014 eh ? Just so , that \u2014 that was my intention , certainly .Does she at all realise what this will cost her ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Precisely . What do you say to Seven \u2018 Undred Side-splitters for Sixpence ? \u2018 Ighly yumerous , I assure you .", "Not in stock , sir . Never \u2018 eard of the book , but dare say I could get it for you . Here 's a Detective Story we 're sellin \u2019 like \u2018 ot cakes \u2014 The Man with the Missing Toe \u2014 very cleverly written story , sir .", "I quite understand . Well , I can give you Three \u2018 Undred Ways of Dressing the Cold Mutton \u2014 useful little book for a family , redooced to one and ninepence .", "\u2018 Airy Ainoo . How would you like that ?"], "true_target": ["Lady Cantire", "We 've returned the unsold copies , sir . Could give you this week 's ; or there 's The Rabbit and Poultry Breeder 's Journal .", "I should not like it at all .", "Exactly so , ma'am . Let me see . Ah , here 's Alone with the"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Why not , Lady Maisie ? To the Student of Humanity , and still more to the Poet , the humblest love-story may have its interesting \u2014 even its suggestive \u2014 aspect .", "Every luxury indeed ! I am pampered \u2014 pampered !", "Oh , then whenever her ladyship should find leisure to recollect my existence , will you have the goodness to inform her that I have taken the liberty of returning to town by the next train ?", "You are quite mistaken . I do n't .Particularly as I should n't know where to find it . What a bore this fellow is with his horse !", "Of course it was I . Surely the girl herself has been telling you so just now !", "I assure you there is no harm done . The gentleman is wearing my evening clothes \u2014 but he 's going to return them \u2014\u2014TredwellHevenin \u2019 cloes ! Your hevenin \u2019 \u2014\u2014 P'raps you 'll \u2018 ave the goodness to explain yourself , sir !", "Unfeeling ! I allowed him to keep my evening clothes , which is more than a good many \u2014\u2014", "I do not intend to wear any livery whatever .SpurrellWhat , second \u2014 with all my exes . paid ? Not likely ! I 'm going to travel in style this journey . No \u2014 not a smoker ; do n't want to create a bad impression , you know . This will do for me .TanrakeThere \u2014 you 're off now . Pleasant journey to you , old man . Hope you 'll enjoy yourself at this Wyvern Court you 're going to \u2014 and , I say , do n't forget to send me that notice of Andromeda when you get back !PART IV RUSHING TO CONCLUSIONS In a First-class Compartment . SpurrellFormidable old party opposite me in the furs ! Nice-looking girl over in the corner ; not a patch on my Emma , though ! Wonder why I catch \u2018 em sampling me over their papers whenever I look up ! Ca n't be anything wrong with my turn out . Why , of course , they heard Tom talk about my going down to Wyvern Court ; think I 'm a visitor there and no end of a duke ! Well , what snobs some people are , to be sure ! Lady CantireSo this is the young poet I made Albinia ask to meet me . I can n't be mistaken , I distinctly heard his friend mention Andromeda . H 'm , well , it 's a comfort to find he 's clean ! Have I read his poetry or not ? I know I had the book , because I distinctly remember telling Maisie she was n't to read it \u2014 but \u2014 well , that 's of no consequence . He looks clever and quite respectable \u2014 not in the least picturesque \u2014 which is fortunate . I was beginning to doubt whether it was quite prudent to bring Maisie ; but I need n't have worried myself . Lady MaisieHere , actually in the same carriage ! Does he guess who I am ? Somehow \u2014\u2014 Well , he certainly is different from what I expected . I thought he would show more signs of having thought and suffered ; for he must have suffered to write as he does . If mamma knew I had read his poems ; that I had actually written to beg him not to refuse Aunt Albinia 's invitation ! He never wrote back . Of course I did n't put any address ; but still , he could have found out from the Red Book if he 'd cared . I 'm rather glad now he did n't care . SpurrellOld girl seems as if she meant to be sociable ; better give her an opening .Hem ! would you like the window down an inch or two ?", "Why , the fact is , I happened to find out that \u2014\u2014 that his name was Spurrell .I wish this infernal boy would n't be officious \u2014 but perhaps he 's right !", "I have been endeavouring to explain to the best of my ability that if I have undesignedly been the cause of \u2014 er \u2014 a temporary diversion in the state of Miss Phillipson 's affections , no one could regret more deeply than I that the \u2014 er \u2014 ordinary amenities of the supper-table should have been mistaken for \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieOh , stop , Mr. Blair , please stop ! I do n't want to hear any more . I see now . It was you who \u2014\u2014", "I \u2014 I was not so fortunate . It is rather a long and complicated story , but \u2014\u2014", "Because , in the present case , I do not \u2014 I cannot \u2014 feel as if we were strangers . Some mysterious instinct led me , almost from the first , to associate you with a certain Miss Maisie Mull .", "It \u2014 it certainly does stop at most stations .", "With pleasure , Lady Cantire .What a consummate actress that girl is ! And what a coquette ! Lady CantireMaisie , what does all this mean ? No nonsense , now ! What brought Gerald Thicknesse back ?", "Really ? He , at least , may be congratulated . But pray do n't think that I spoke with any personal animus ; I merely happen to entertain a peculiar aversion for a class whose profession is systematic slaughter . In these Democratic times , when Humanity is advancing by leaps and bounds towards International Solidarity , soldiers are such grotesque and unnecessary anachronisms . Lady MaisieOh , why does he \u2014 why does he ?I should have thought that , until war itself is an anachronism , men who are willing to fight and die for their country could never be quite unnecessary . But we wo n't discuss Captain Thicknesse , particularly now that he has left Wyvern . Suppose we go back to Mr. Spurrell . I know , of course , that , in leaving him in ignorance as you did , you acted from the best and highest motives ; but still \u2014\u2014", "I should hardly have thought that would be a recommendation here .", "You never did understand me ! Sometimes I think I was born to be misunderstood ! But you might do me the justice to believe that I am not going from merely snobbish motives . May I not feel that such a recognition as this is a tribute less to my poor self than to Literature , and that , as such , I have scarcely the right to decline it ?", "Then appearances are deceptive indeed . Come , Lady Maisie , surely you can trust me !Lady CantireMaisie , my dear , I appear to have interrupted an interview of a somewhat confidential character . If so , pray let me know it , and I will go elsewhere . Lady MaisieNot in the very least , mamma . Mr. Blair was merely trying to prepare me for the fact that Captain Thicknesse has come back ; which was quite needless , as I happen to have heard it already from his own lips .", "I must confess that I am well content to have failed . It was such unspeakable torture to think that you , Lady Maisie , you of all people , would derive your sole idea of my personality from such an irredeemable vulgarian as that veterinary surgeon \u2014 the man Spurrell ! Lady MaisieI suppose it 's only natural he should feel like that \u2014 but I wish \u2014 I do wish he had put it just a little differently !Poor Mr. Spurrell ! perhaps he was not exactly \u2014\u2014", "You are very good ; I will not .Awful old lady , that ! I quite thought she would know all about that letter , or I should never have \u2014\u2014 However , I said nothing to compromise any one , luckily ! Lady CulverinGood morning , Rohesia . So glad you felt equal to coming down . I was almost afraid \u2014 after last night , you know . Lady CantireI am in my usual health , thank you , Albinia . As to last night , if you must ask a literary Socialist down here , you might at least see that he is received with common courtesy . You may , for anything you can tell , have advanced the Social Revolution ten years in a single evening !", "Exactly my own sensations ! If I could only be sure of finding one kindred spirit , one soul who would help and understand me . But I dare n't let myself hope even for that ! His Fellow Passenger . Well , I would n't judge beforehand . The chances are there 'll be somebody you can take to . UndershellWhat sympathy ! What bright , cheerful common sense !Do you know , you encourage me more than you can possibly imagine ! His Fellow PassengerOh , if you are going to take my remarks like that , I shall be afraid to go on talking to you ! UndershellDo n't \u2014 do n't be afraid to talk to me ! If you only knew the comfort you give ! I have found life very sad , very solitary . And true sympathy is so rare , so refreshing . I \u2014 I fear such an appeal from a stranger may seem a little startling ; it is true that hitherto we have only exchanged a very few sentences ; and yet already I feel that we have something \u2014 much \u2014 in common . You can n't be so cruel as to let all intimacy cease here \u2014 it is quite tantalising enough that it must end so soon . A very few more minutes , and this brief episode will be only a memory ; I shall have left the little green oasis far behind me , and be facing the dreary desert once more \u2014 alone ! His Fellow PassengerWell , of all the uncomplimentary things ! As it happens , though , \u201c the little green oasis \u201d \u2014 as you 're kind enough to call me \u2014 wo n't be left behind ; not if it 's aware of it ! I think I heard your friend mention Wyvern Court ! Well , that 's where I 'm going . UndershellYou \u2014 you are going to Wyvern Court ! Why , then , you must be \u2014\u2014His Fellow Passenger . What were you going to say ; what must I be ? UndershellThere is no doubt about it ; bright , independent girl ; gloves a trifle worn ; travels second-class for economy ; it must be Miss Mull herself ; her letter mentioned Lady Culverin as her aunt . A poor relation , probably . She does n't suspect that I am \u2014\u2014 I wo n't reveal myself just yet ; better let it dawn upon her gradually .Why , I was only about to say , why then you must be going to the same house as I am . How extremely fortunate a coincidence ! His Fellow Passenger . That remains to be seen .What a funny little man ; such a flowery way of talking for a footman . Oh , but I forgot ; he said he was n't going to wear livery . Well , he would look a sight in it ! PART V CROSS PURPOSES In a First-class Compartment . Lady MaisiePoets do n't seem to have much self-possession . He seems perfectly overcome by hearing my name like that . If only he does n't lose his head completely and say something about my wretched letter ! SpurrellI 'd better tell \u2018 em before they find out for themselves .My lady , I \u2014 I feel I ought to explain at once how I come to be going down to Wyvern like this .Lady CantireMy good sir , there 's not the slightest necessity ; I am perfectly aware of who you are , and everything about you ! SpurrellBut really I do n't see how your ladyship \u2014\u2014 Why , I have n't said a word that \u2014\u2014 Lady CantireCelebrities who mean to preserve their incognito should n't allow their friends to see them off . I happened to hear a certain Andromeda mentioned , and that was quite enough for Me ! SpurrellShe knows ; seen the sketch of me in the Dog Fancier , I expect ; goes in for breeding bulls herself , very likely . Well , that 's a load off my mind !You do n't say so , my lady . I 'd no idea your ladyship would have any taste that way ; most agreeable surprise to me , I can assure you !", "I know I must seem unduly expansive , and wanting in reserve ; and yet that is not my true disposition . In general , I feel an almost fastidious shrinking from strangers \u2014\u2014 PhillipsonReally ? I should n't have thought it !", "They know ! Then there 's no time to be lost . I must leave this moment !", "Have you , though ?I hope he wo n't be fidgety with his hind-legs . I shall stay outside .", "One horse will be quite sufficient . Very well , then . I 'll just run up and get my portmanteau , and \u2014 and one or two things of mine , and if you will be round at the back entrance \u2014 do n't trouble to drive up to the front door \u2014 as soon as possible , I wo n't keep you waiting longer than I can help . Good evening , Mr. Adams , and many thanks .I 've got out of that rather well . Now , I 've only to find my way to the Verney Chamber , see this fellow Spurrell , and get my clothes back , and then I can retreat with comfort , and even dignity ! These Culverins shall learn that there is at least one poet who will not put up with their insolent patronage ! CheckleyHe has got a cool cheek , and no mistake ! But if he waits to be druv over to Shuntingbridge till I come round for him , he 'll \u2018 ave to set on that portmanteau of his a goodish time !", "I might \u2014 if I had any desire to make an unnecessary and insulting remark .", "But why ? Not because they appreciate my work \u2014 which they probably only half understand \u2014 but out of mere idle curiosity to see what manner of strange beast a Poet may be ! And I do n't know this Lady Culverin \u2014 never met her in my life ! What the deuce does she mean by sending me an invitation ? Why should these smart women suppose that they are entitled to send for a Man of Genius , as if he was their lackey ? Answer me that !", "To be quite frank , I did n't trouble myself about him : my sole object was to retreat with dignity ; he had got himself somehow or other into a false position he must get out of as best he could . After all , he would be none the worse for having filled my place for a few hours . Lady MaisieI see . It did n't matter to you whether he was suspected of being an impostor , or made to feel uncomfortable , or \u2014 or anything . Was n't that a little unfeeling of you ?", "Candidly , Lady Maisie , I can n't affect a very keen interest in the \u2014 er \u2014 gossip of the housekeeper 's room . Indeed , I am rather surprised that you should condescend to listen to \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieThis is really too much !It never occurred to me that I was \u201c condescending \u201d in taking an interest in a pretty and wayward girl who happens to be my maid . But then , I 'm not a Democrat , Mr. Blair .", "I really do n't know how I can have given you that impression . If you expect me to treat my lyre like a horse-collar , and grin through it , I 'm afraid I am unable to gratify you . SteptoeCapital , sir , the professional allusion very neat . You 'll come out presently , I can see , when supper 's on the table . Ca n't expect you to rattle till you 've something inside of you , can we ?", "Then tell Thomas , with my compliments , that he will trouble himself to pack it again immediately .", "I am leaving immediately , and \u2014 and I do n't wish Sir Rupert or Lady", "You are a cynic , I observe , sir . But possibly the nature of the business which brings you here renders them \u2014\u2014", "It 's not at all necessary that you should make it out .", "I do n't say that I may not have another reason \u2014 a \u2014 a rather romantic one \u2014 but you would only sneer if I told you ! I know you think me a poor creature whose head has been turned by an undeserved success .", "Man alive ! do you imagine anything would induce me to meet them now , after the humiliations I have been compelled to suffer under this roof ?", "You will hear a good deal about it , unless it is forthcoming at once . Just find out what 's become of it \u2014 a new portmanteau , with a white star painted on it .BoyI managed to get a few words with Thomas , our second footman , just as he was coming out o \u2019 the \u2018 all , and he sez the only porkmanteau with a white star was took up to the Verney Chamber , which Thomas unpacked it hisself .", "I thought you were already aware of it . Yes , Lady Maisie , I endured even that . Butyou must not distress yourself about it now . If I can forget it , surely you can do so !", "State ? What state ?", "Prefer it ! If it were only possible ! But they know \u2014 they know ! What 's the use of talking like that ? TredwellI know where I am now !They know nothink up to the present , Mr. Undershell , nor yet I see no occasion why they should \u2014 leastwise from any of Us .", "I \u2014 I 'm afraid you construed my remark as a rebuke ; which it was not at all intended to be .", "N \u2014 not exactly \u2014 not a rough-rider .Never on a horse in my life !\u2014 unless I count my Pegasus .But you are right in supposing I am connected with a muse \u2014 in one sense .", "So long as you realise that you have made a mistake , I am willing to overlook it , on condition that you help me to get away from this place without your master and mistress 's knowledge ."], "true_target": ["Listen to me , Lady Maisie . I came to this house at your bidding . Yes , but for your written appeal , I should have treated the invitation I received from your aunt with silent contempt . Had I obeyed my first impulse and ignored it , I should have been spared humiliations and indignities which ought rather to excite your pity than \u2014 than any other sensation . Think \u2014 try to realise what my feelings must have been when I found myself expected by the butler here to sit down to supper with him and the upper servants in the housekeeper 's room ! Lady MaisieOh , Mr. Blair ! Indeed , I had no \u2014\u2014 You were n't really ! How could they ? What did you say ? UndershellI believe I let him know my opinion of the snobbery of his employers in treating a guest of theirs so cavalierly . Lady MaisieBut surely \u2014 surely you could n't suppose that my uncle and aunt were capable of \u2014\u2014", "I \u2014 I meant \u2014\u2014 You described her as \u201c pretty , \u201d you know . This girl is plain \u2014 distinctly plain !", "I \u2014 I certainly did get separated from my portmanteau , somehow , and I suppose it must have arrived before me .Considering the pace of the fly-horse , I think I am justified in assuming that ! PillinerAss I was not to hold my tongue ! Lady MaisieGerald , you remember what I said some time ago \u2014 about poetry and poets ?", "Why affect not to understand ? I have an infallible instinct in all matters concerning you , and , sweetly tolerant as you are , I instantly divined what an insufferable nuisance you found our military friend , Captain Thicknesse .", "You seem to have been more fortunate in your reception than I . But then I had not the advantage of being here in a business capacity .", "It is usual , sir , for people to come to a place like this provided with evening clothes of their own .", "Mrs. Pomfret does me too much honour . And shall I have the satisfaction of seeing your intelligent countenance at the festive board , my lad ? BoyOn'y to wait , sir . I do n't set down to meals along with the upper servants , sir !", "No , he never mentioned that . What a remarkable coincidence !", "What do I \u2014\u2014 Stay , here 's my card . Send them to that address . Now go and finish your evening ! SpurrellYou are a rattling good chap , and no mistake ! Though I 'm hanged if I can quite make out what you 're doing here , you know !", "I presume evening dress is not indispensable in the housekeeper 's room ; but I can hardly make even the simplest toilet until you are good enough to bring up my portmanteau . Where is it ?", "Not exactly ! I assure you it is simply inconceivable to me that , in a circle of any pretensions to culture and refinement , an ill-bred boor like that could have been accepted for a single moment as \u2014 I wo n't say a Man of Genius , but \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieNo , do n't \u2014 do n't go on , Mr. Blair . We were all excessively stupid , no doubt , but you must make allowances for us \u2014 for me , especially . I have had so few opportunities of meeting people who are really distinguished \u2014 in literature , at least . Most of the people I know best are \u2014 well , not exactly clever , you know . I so often wish I was in a set that cared rather more about intellectual things ! UndershellHow you must have pined for freer air ! How you must have starved on such mental provender as , for example , the vapid and inane commonplaces of that swaggering carpet-soldier , Captain \u2014 Thickset , is n't it ? Lady MaisieYou evidently do n't know that Captain Thicknesse distinguished himself greatly in the Soudan , where he was very severely wounded .", "N \u2014 not particularly long .", "But they know I 'm here ; how am I to account for all the time \u2014\u2014?", "Possibly ; but that is scarcely to the point . I do not question his efficiency as a fighting animal . As to his intelligence , perhaps , the less said the better . Lady MaisieDecidedly . I ought to have mentioned at once that Captain Thicknesse is a very old friend of mine .", "No . I do n't vex my soul by reading criticisms on my work . I am no Keats . They may howl \u2014 but they will not kill me . By the way , the Speaker had a most enthusiastic notice last week .", "You are very good , ma'am . I am obliged to Lady Culverin for hercondescension . But I shall not trespass more than a short time upon your hospitality .", "I should have thought your own would have been more comfortable .", "You recognize the stamp of the Muse upon me , then ?", "Or what if I am going to show these Patricians that \u2014 Poet of the People as I am \u2014 they can neither patronise nor cajole me ?", "Very likely . But I do n't know , really , that it would afford me any particular gratification if I did !", "Yes , I felt from the first that I could trust you \u2014 even with my life . And I cannot regret having told you , if it has enabled you to understand me more thoroughly . It is such a relief that you know all , and that there are no more secrets between us . You do feel that I only acted as was natural and inevitable under the circumstances ?", "I \u2014 I must confess I am rather dreading the prospect . How wonderful that you should have guessed it ! His Fellow Passenger . Oh , I 've been through it myself . I 'm just the same when I go down to a new place ; feel a sort of sinking , you know , as if the people were sure to be disagreeable , and I should never get on with them .", "I was determined not to remove it until somebody came in ; it fell on my head the moment I entered ; it contained something in a soap-dish , which has wetted my face . You may laugh , sir , but if this is a sample of your aristocratic \u2014\u2014", "I have seen enough of this place already . I intend to go back by the next train , I tell you .", "Quite the reverse , I assure you .Considering that it came from his own table ! PillinerI still do n't understand how his clothes \u2014\u2014Did you send your portmanteau on ahead , then , or what ? UndershellSend my port \u2014? I do n't understand .", "If the horse is puffy , it 's his business to get over it \u2014 not mine . AdamsYou may think proper to treat it light , sir ; but if you put your \u2018 and down \u2018 ere , above the coronet , you 'll feel a throbbing as plain as \u2014\u2014", "Thank you , no , not unwell . I was merely thinking . His Fellow Passenger . You do n't seem very cheerful over it , I must say . I 've no wish to be inquisitive , but perhaps you 're feeling a little low-spirited about the place you 're going to ?", "Culverin to hear of this \u2014 you understand ?", "Ah , how you comfort me with your fresh girlish \u2014\u2014 You are not going , Lady Maisie ? Lady MaisieI must . I ought to have gone before . My mother wants me . No , you are not to come too ; you can go on and gather those snowdrops , you know .UndershellShe took it wonderfully well . I 've made it all right , or she would n't have said that about the snowdrops . Yes , she shall not be disappointed ; she shall have her posy ! In the Morning-room . Half an hour later . Lady MaisieThank goodness , that 's over ! It was awful . I do n't think I ever saw mamma a deeper shade of plum colour ! How I have been mistaken in Mr. Blair ! That he could write those lines \u2014 \u201c Aspiring unto that far-off Ideal , I may not stoop to any meaner love , \u201d and yet philander with my poor foolish Phillipson the moment he met her ! And then to tell mamma about my letter like that ! Why , even Mr. Spurrell had more discretion \u2014 to be sure , he knew nothing about it \u2014 but that makes no difference ! Rhoda was right ; I ought to have allowed a margin \u2014 only I should never have allowed margin enough ! The worst of it is that , if mamma was unjust in some things she said , she was right about one . I have disgusted Gerald . He may n't be brilliant , but at least he 's straightforward and loyal and a gentleman , and \u2014 and he did like me once . He does n't any more \u2014 or he would n't have gone away . And it may be ages before I ever get a chance to let him see how dreadfully sorry \u2014\u2014Oh , have n't you gone yet ?", "The Pugs \u2019 Parlour ?", "What else could I suppose , under the circumstances ? It is true I have since learnt that I was mistaken in this particular instance ; but I am not ignorant of the ingrained contempt you aristocrats have for all who live by exercising their intellect \u2014 the bitter scorn of birth for brains !", "She has n't . I 'm positive she has n't . She \u2014 she would n't walk like that if she had .Lady Maisie , shall we turn back ? She \u2014 she has n't seen us yet !", "I 'm not prepared to deny the stuffiness . But cannot you guess what has transformed this vehicle for me \u2014 in spite of its undeniable shortcomings \u2014 or must I speak more plainly still ?", "Indignant ! I was furious . In fact , nothing would have induced me to sit down to supper at all , if it had n't been for \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieThen \u2014 you did sit down ? With the servants ! Oh , Mr. Blair !", "I do n't care who takes it so long as it is taken . Tell Thomas it 's his mistake , and he must do what he can to put it right . Say I shall certainly complain if I do n't get back my clothes and portmanteau . Get that note delivered somehow , and I 'll give you half-a-crown .If Lady Culverin does n't consider me fit to appear at her dinner-table , I do n't see why my evening clothes should be more privileged ! In the Dining-hall . The table is oval ; SPURRELL is placed between Lady RHODA COKAYNE and Mrs. BROOKE-CHATTERIS .", "I think I 'm the person most entitled to \u2014\u2014 But no matter ; it is merely one insult more among so many . I came here , sir , for a purpose , as you are aware . SpurrellYour dress clothes ? All right , you shall have them directly . I would n't have put \u2018 em on if I 'd known they 'd be wanted so soon .", "I implore you not to go without hearing both sides . Sit down again \u2014 if only for a minute . I feel confident that I can explain everything satisfactorily . Lady MaisieI can n't imagine what there is to explain \u2014 and really I ought , if Phillipson \u2014\u2014", "And I \u2014 a mere man of genius \u2014 do ! These distinctions must strike you as most arbitrary ; but restrain any natural envy , my young friend . I assure you I am not puffed up by this promotion !", "For my own poor part , I confess I look forward to a day , not far distant , when the spread of civilisation will have abolished every form of so-called Sport .", "It is refreshing to be so thoroughly understood ! I think I know what your \u201c but still \u201d implies \u2014 why did I not foresee that he would infallibly betray himself before long ? I did . But I gave him credit for being able to sustain his part for another hour or two \u2014 until I had gone , in fact .", "I merely wished to know \u2014 that was all .Just think of it , my dear fellow . At a bookstall like this one feels the pulse , as it were , of Contemporary Culture ; and here my Andromeda , which no less an authority than the Daily Chronicle hailed as the uprising of a new and splendid era in English Song-making , a Poetic Renascence , my poor Andromeda , is trampled underfoot by \u2014\u2014 Men with Missing Toes ! What a satire on our so-called Progress !", "You know what maids are , Lady Maisie . They embroider . Unintentionally , I dare say , but still , they do embroider . Lady MaisieShe is very clever at mending lace , I know , though what that has to do with it \u2014\u2014", "I \u2014 er \u2014 moderately so .There 's a female figure coming down the terrace steps . It 's horribly like \u2014\u2014 But that must be my morbid fancy ; still , if I can get Lady Maisie away , just in case \u2014\u2014D \u2014 do n't you think sitting still becomes a little \u2014 er \u2014 monotonous after a time ? Could n't we \u2014\u2014Lady MaisieCertainly ; we have sat here quite long enough . It is time we went back . UndershellWe shall meet her ! and I 'm almost sure it 's \u2014\u2014 I must prevent any \u2014\u2014Not back , Lady Maisie ! You \u2014 you promised to show me the orchid-house \u2014 you did , indeed !", "Excellent , thank you . Indeed , I was astonished at the variety and even luxury of the table . There was a pyramid of quails \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Exactly , old chap \u2014 what if you are ?", "Perhaps the delusion is encouraged by the fact that Genius occasionally condescends to answer the bell . UndershellDo you imagine I am going down to this place simply to please them ?", "That a purblind public should prefer a Shilling Shocker for railway reading when for a modest half-guinea they might obtain a numbered volume of Coming Poetry on hand-made paper ! It does seem incredible ,\u2014 but they do . Well , if they can n't read Andromeda on the journey , they can at least peruse a stinger on it in this week 's Saturday . Seen it ?", "I should think it a doubtful kindness , in your present frame of mind ; and , as you are hardly going to please yourself , would n't it be more dignified , on the whole , not to go at all ?"], "true_target": ["You 're not going to try to pick a quarrel with an old chum , are you ? Come , you know well enough I do n't think anything of the sort . I 've always said you had the right stuff in you , and would show it some day ; there are even signs of it in Andromeda here and there ; but you 'll do better things than that , if you 'll only let some of the wind out of your head . I take an interest in you , old fellow , and that 's just why it riles me to see you taking yourself so devilish seriously on the strength of a little volume of verse which \u2014 between you and me \u2014 has been \u201c boomed \u201d for all it 's worth , and considerably more . You 've only got your immortality on a short repairing lease at present , old boy ! UndershellI am fortunate in possessing such a candid friend . But I must n't keep you here any longer .", "So you saw that then ? But you 're right not to mind the others . When a fellow 's contrived to hang on to the Chariot of Fame , he can n't wonder if a few rude and envious beggars call out \u201c Whip behind ! \u201d eh ? You do n't want to get in yet ? Suppose we take a turn up to the end of the platform .", "Ah , if you put it in that way , I am silenced , of course .", "Very well . I suppose you 're going first ? Consider the feelings of the Culverin footman at the other end ! UndershellYou have a very low view of human nature !As it happens , I am travelling second .DrysdaleWell , good-bye , old chap . Good luck to you at Wyvern , and remember \u2014 wear your livery with as good a grace as possible ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Mayfair ."], "true_target": ["TANRAKE , of HURDELL AND TANRAKE , Job and Riding Masters ,", "R. C. V. S ., enters with his friend , THOMAS"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Lady \u2014 er \u2014 Grisoline ? No ; can n't say I do . I know Lady", "Oh , there 's a lot of humbug in it , mind you ! Most of \u2018 em know about as much of the points of a bull as the points of a compass , only they let on to know a lot because they think it 's smart . And some of \u2018 em are after a pup from old Drummy 's next litter . I see through all that , you know !", "By Jove , I believe I can put you on the track . I should n't wonder if he 's the party these dress clothes of mine belong to ! I dare say you may have noticed they do n't look as if they were made for me ? Lady CantirePray let us avoid any sartorial questions ! We are waiting to hear about this person .", "If you could only see yourself ! But I 'd nothing to do with it , \u2018 pon my word I had n't ; only just this minute got away from the hall .... I know ! It 's that sulky young beggar , Bearpark . I remember he slipped off on some excuse or other just now . He must have come in here and fixed that affair up for me \u2014 confound him !", "My dear girl , do n't be unreasonable ! I 'm expected back in the drawing-room , and I can n't throw \u2018 em over now all of a sudden without giving offence . There 's the interests of the firm to consider , and it 's not for me to take a lower place than I 'm given . But it 's only for a night or two , and you do n't really suppose I would n't rather be where you are if I was free to choose \u2014 but I 'm not , Emma , that 's the worst of it !", "Ah , I wondered whether you knew . You 'll see what I mean when you 've had a look at yourself in the glass . I dare say it 'll come off right enough . I can n't stop . Ta , ta , old fellow , and thanks awfully !UndershellWhat does he mean ? But I 've no time to waste . Where have they put my portmanteau ? I can n't give up everything .Ah , it 's in there . I 'll get it out , and put my things in .Wh \u2014 who 's that ? Can this \u2014 this piebald horror possibly be \u2014 me ? How \u2014\u2014? Ah , it was ink in that infernal basket \u2014 not water ! And my hair 's full of flour ! I can n't go into a hotel like this , they 'd think I was an escaped lunatic !It 's not nearly off yet ! Will anything get rid of this streakiness ?And the flour 's caked in my hair now ! I must brush it all out before I am fit to be seen .Is the carriage waiting for me all this time ?What 's that ? Some one 's coming !TredwellIt 's my conviction you 've been telling me a pack o \u2019 lies , you young rascal . For what hearthly business that feller Undershell could \u2018 ave in the Verney \u2014\u2014 However , I 'll soon see how it is .Is any one in \u2018 ere ? UndershellHe must n't find me here ! Yet , where \u2014\u2014 Ah , it 's the only place !", "Do go and get some before it 's taken away .", "He said he was leaving at once . If he 'd only told me how it was , I 'd have \u2014\u2014", "Cantire !", "Rather so , sir ! Why , I was born and bred in a sporting county , and as long as my old uncle was alive , I could go down to his farm and get a run with the hounds now and again . Sir RupertCapital ! Well , our next meet is on Tuesday \u2014 best part of the country ; nearly all grass , and nice clean post and rails . You must stay over for it . Got a mare that will carry your weight perfectly , and I think I can promise you a run \u2014 eh , what do you say ? SpurrellHe is a chummy old cock ! I 'll wire old Spavin that I 'm detained on biz ; and I 'll tell \u2018 em to send my riding-breeches and dress-clothes down !It 's uncommonly kind of you , sir , and I think I can manage to stop on a bit . Lady CulverinRupert must be out of his senses ! It 's bad enough to have him here till Monday !We must n't forget , Rupert , how valuable Mr. Spurrell 's time is ; it would be too selfish of us to detain him here a day longer than \u2014\u2014", "Yes , the one you 've all been praising up so . If it is n't meant for her , it 's what you might call a most surprising coincidence , for here 's the old dog 's name as plain as it can be \u2014 Andromeda !PART XVIII THE LAST STRAW After SPURRELL 'S ingenuous comments upon the volume in his hand , a painful silence ensues , which no one has sufficient presence of mind to break for several seconds . Miss SpelwaneNot Clarion Blair ! Not even a poet ! I \u2014 I could slap him ! PillinerPoor dear Vivien ! But if people will insist on patting a strange poet , they must n't be surprised if they get a nasty bite ! Lady MaisieHe did n't write Andromeda ! Then he has n't got my letter after all ! And I 've been such a brute to the poor dear man ! How lucky I said nothing about it to Gerald ! Captain ThicknesseSo he ai n't the bard !... Now I see why Maisie 's been behavin \u2019 so oddly all the evenin \u2019 ; she spotted him , and did n't like to speak out . Tried to give me a hint , though . Well , I shall stay out my leave now ! Lady RhodaI thought all along he seemed too good a sort for a poet ! ArchieIt 's all very well ; but how about that skit he went up to write on us ? He must be a poet of sorts .", "Well , if you say so , of course \u2014\u2014 But it looked rather like it , asking me to read when I 've about as much poetry in me as \u2014 as a pot hat ! Still , if I 'm wanted to read aloud , I shall be happy to \u2014\u2014 Lady CulverinIndeed , indeed , Mr. Spurrell , we could n't think of troubling you any more under the circumstances !Vivien , my dear , wo n't you sing something ?SpurrellWonder what 's put them off being read to all of a sudden ? My elocution may n't be first-class , exactly , but still \u2014\u2014Hullo ! This cover 's pink , with silver things , not unlike cutlets , on it ! Did n't Emma ask me \u2014\u2014? By George , if it 's that ! I may get down to the housekeeper 's room , after all ! As soon as ever this squalling stops I 'll find out ; I can n't go on like this !Better wait till these county nobs have cleared , I suppose \u2014 there goes the last of \u2018 em \u2014 now for it !...Hem , Sir Rupert , and your ladyship , it 's occurred to me that it 's just barely possible you may have got it in your heads that I was something in the poetical way . Sir RupertNot this poor young chap 's fault ; must let him down as easily as possible !Not at all \u2014 not at all ! Ha \u2014 assure you we quite understand ; no necessity to say another word about it . SpurrellJust my luck ! They quite understand ! No housekeeper 's room for me this journey !Of course I knew the Countess , there , and Lady Maisie , were fully aware all along \u2014\u2014You were , were n't you ? Lady MaisieYes , yes , Mr. Spurrell . Of course ! It 's all perfectly right ! SpurrellYou see , I should never have thought of coming in as a visitor if it had n't been for the Countess ; she would have it that it was all right , and that I need n't be afraid I should n't be welcome .", "But indeed , my lady , I \u2014 I think I 'd better wait till she sends for me .", "Well , I do n't say I may n't have got a certain amount of what they call \u201c kudosh , \u201d owing to Andromeda . But what difference does that make ?", "That 's all right , then . All I do n't know about dogs and horses you could put in a homoeopathic globule \u2014 and then it would rattle !", "Well , I was going to call her Sal ; but a chap at the College thought the other would look more stylish if I ever meant to exhibit her . Andromeda was one of them Roman goddesses , you know .", "If your ladyship does n't really know , you had better ask", "Not at this moment . But I 'd soon put my soul above a sherry and bitters if I got a chance ! Captain ThicknesseI say , you know , that 's rather smart , eh ?Aw'fly clever sort of chap , this , but not stuck up \u2014 not half a bad sort , if he is a bit of a bounder .Anythin \u2019 in the evenin \u2019 paper ? Do n't get \u2018 em down here .", "They 're not more cramped than they ought to be ; she never turned them in , you know ! Miss SpelwaneI did n't suppose she did . And now tell me \u2014 if it 's not an indiscreet question \u2014 when do you expect there 'll be another edition ? SpurrellAnother addition ! She 's cadging for a pup now !Oh \u2014 er \u2014 really \u2014 could n't say .", "More comfortable ! I believe you . Why , I assure you I feel like a Bath bun in a baby 's sock ! But how was I to know ? You should n't leave your things about like that !", "Well , if you 'd only tell me what I ought to do !", "I do n't say it is n't gratifying to be treated like a swell , but I 've got my professional reputation to consider , you know ; and if they 're going to take up all my time talking about Andromeda \u2014\u2014 UndershellAndromeda ! They have been talking about Andromeda ? To you ! Then it 's you who \u2014\u2014", "Wait till I strike a light .Well , sir , if you do n't know why you 're ramping about like that under a waste-paper basket , I can hardly be expected to \u2014\u2014", "Do you really mean it , old fellow ? If you could spare \u2018 em a bit longer , I 'd be no end obliged . Because , you see , I promised Lady Rhoda to come and finish a talk we were having , and they 've taken away my own things to brush , so I have n't a rag to go down in except these ; and they 'd all think it so beastly rude if I went to bed now ! UndershellI tell you you may keep them , if you 'll only go away !", "Excuse me , my lady , not Blair \u2014 Spurrell .", "I 'm no wiser than your ladyship there . All I know is he said he would n't take it off till he saw me . And I never saw any one in such a mess with ink and flour as he was !", "Well , you do put some heart into me , Lady Maisie . I feel equal to the lot of \u2018 em now ! PillinerIs that the poet ? Why , but I say \u2014 he 's a fraud ! Where 's his matted head ? He 's not a bit ragged , or rusty either . And why do n't he dabble ? Do n't seem to know what to do with his hands quite , though , does he ? Miss SpelwaneHe knows how to do some very exquisite poetry with one of them , at all events . I 've been reading it , and I think it perfectly marvellous !", "Oh , rabbits be blowed !I wanted you to see that notice they put in of Andromeda and me , with my photo and all ; it said she was the best bull-bitch they 'd seen for many a day , and fully deserved her first prize .", "Well , it 's no business of mine ; you 've behaved devilish well to me , and I 'm not surprised that you 'd rather not be seen in the state you 're in . I should n't like it myself !", "I assure you , I did n't go a step beyond the most ordinary civility . You 're not going to be jealous because I promised I 'd give her a liniment for one of her dogs , are you ?", "I never saw any in Andromeda myself , your \u2014 your Holiness . You 're the first to find a fault in her . I do n't say there may n't be something dicky about the setting and the turn of the tail , but that 's a trifle .", "Oh , the girl I sat next to at dinner ? Nice chatty sort of girl ; seems fond of quadrupeds \u2014\u2014", "That 's the rummest thing about it . I have n't heard a word about that yet . I 'm in the veterinary profession , you know . Well , they sent for me to see some blooming horse , and never even ask me to go near it ! Seems odd , do n't it ? UndershellI had to go near the blooming horse ! Now I begin to understand ; the very servants did not expect to find a professional vet in any company but their own !I \u2014 I trust that the horse will not suffer through any delay .", "I have got on . I am now a qualified M. R. C. V. S .", "Lady Maisie", "You must give me time to get out of this toggery , old chap ; you 'll have to pick me out of it like a lobster ! UndershellThe clothes ? Never mind them now . I can n't wait . Keep them !", "Oh , as for that , there is rather a run on me just now , but I put everything else aside for you , of course ! Lady CulverinHe 's soon reassured .I am sure we must consider ourselves most fortunate .You did say cream , Rohesia ? Sugar , Maisie dearest ? SpurrellI 'm all right up to now ! I suppose I 'd better say nothing about the horse till they do . I feel rather out of it among these nobs , though . I 'll try and chum on to little Lady Maisie again ; she may have got over her temper by this time , and she 's the only one I know .Well , Lady Maisie , here I am , you see . I 'd really no idea your aunt would be so friendly ! I say , you know , you do n't mind speaking to a fellow , do you ? I 've no one else I can go to \u2014 and \u2014 and it 's a bit strange at first , you know ! Lady MaisieIf I can be of any help to you , Mr. Spurrell \u2014\u2014!", "Oh , Mr. Spurrell , you have n't had any tea !", "Well , it was n't that altogether . You see , I 'm a kind of a celebrity in my way .", "Come , I like that ! When I wrote twice to say I was sorry we 'd fallen out ; and never got a word back !"], "true_target": ["Do you mean \u2014 am I to have the honour of sitting down to table with all of you ? Lady CulverinOh , my goodness , what will Rupert say ?Why , of course , Mr. Spurrell ; how can you ask ? SpurrellI \u2014 I did n't know , that was all .Here you are , then .Put out my things ?\u2014 he 'll find nothing to put out except a nightgown , sponge bag , and a couple of brushes ! If I 'd only known I should be let in for this , I 'd have brought dress-clothes . But how could I ? I \u2014 I wonder if it would be any good telling \u2018 em quietly how it is . I should n't like \u2018 em to think I had n't got any .No , perhaps I 'd better let it alone . I \u2014 I can allude to it in a joky sort of way when I come down ! PART VIII SURPRISES \u2014 AGREEABLE AND OTHERWISE In the Amber Boudoir . Sir RUPERT has just entered .", "Well , I found I 'd got on his things by mistake , and I went up as soon as I could after dessert to my room to take \u2018 em off , and there he was , with a waste-paper basket on his head \u2014\u2014", "I 'm lucky enough in most things , Tom ; in everything except love . I told you about that girl , you know \u2014 Emma \u2014 and my being as good as engaged to her , and then , all of a sudden , she went off abroad , and I 've never seen or had a line from her since . Ca n't call that luck , you know . Well , I wo n't say no to a glass of something .The Countess of CANTIRE enters with her daughter , Lady MAISIE MULL . Lady CantireGet a compartment for us , and two foot-warmers , and a second-class as near ours as you can for Phillipson ; then come back here . Stay , I 'd better give you Phillipson 's ticket .Now we must get something to read on the journey .I want a book of some sort \u2014 no rubbish , mind ; something serious and improving , and not a work of fiction .", "Well , I rather think somebody must have fixed up a booby-trap for me , you know , and he happened to go in first and get the benefit of it . And he was riled , very naturally , thinking I 'd done it , but after we 'd had a little talk together , he calmed down and said I might keep his clothes , which I thought uncommonly good-natured of him , you know . By the way , he gave me his card . Here it is , if your ladyship would like to see it .", "Eh ? Oh no \u2014 full length , and sideways \u2014 so as to show her legs , you know .", "But where am I to send the things to when I 've done with \u2018 em ?", "But , Emma , you 're not going to take up with some other fellow just when we 've come together again ?", "Then you did write ; but none of the letters reached me . I never even knew you 'd gone abroad . I wrote to the old place . And so did you , I suppose , not knowing I 'd moved my lodgings too , so naturally \u2014\u2014 But what does it all matter , so long as we 've met and it 's all right between us ? Oh , my dear girl , if you only knew how I worried myself , thinking you were \u2014\u2014 Well , all that 's over now , is n't it ?PhillipsonNot quite so fast , James . Before I say whether we 're to be as we were or not , I want to know a little more about you . You would n't be here like this if you had n't done something to distinguish yourself .", "I do n't say it does , in itself . It was my Andromeda that did the trick , Emma .", "Me ? Write a book \u2014 about cutlets \u2014 or anything else ! Emma , you do n't suppose I 've quite come down to that ! Andromeda 's the name of my bull-dog . I took first prize with her ; there were portraits of both of us in one of the papers . And the people here were very much taken with the dog , and \u2014 and so they asked me to dine with them . That 's how it was .", "I 'm in evening dress , Emma , such as it is; but I 'm in evening dressbecause I 've been included in the dinner party here .", "Do n't fancy there 's much in it . Your money 's safe enough , I expect . Have you any particular fancy for the Grand National ? I know something that 's safe to win , bar accidents \u2014 a dead cert , sir ! Got the tip straight from the stable . You just take my advice , and pile all you can on Jumping Joan . Captain ThicknesseThunderin \u2019 clever chap \u2014 never knew poets were such clever chaps . Might be a \u201c bookie , \u201d by Gad ! No wonder Maisie thinks such a lot of him !Sir RupertNow , Mr. Spurrell , if you 'll come upstairs with me , I 'll show you your quarters . By the way , I 've made inquiries about your luggage , and I think you 'll find it 's all right .Rather awkward for you if you 'd had to come down to dinner just as you are , eh ? SpurrellOh , lor , my beastly bag has come after all ! Now they 'll know I did n't bring a dress suit . What an owl I was to tell him !Oh \u2014 er \u2014 very awkward indeed , Sir Rupert ! Sir RupertVerney Chamber \u2014 here you are . Ah , my wife forgot to have your name put on the door \u2014 better do it now , eh ?There \u2014 well , hope you 'll find it all comfortable \u2014 we dine at eight , you know . You 've plenty of time for all you 've got to do ! SpurrellIf I only knew what to do ! I shall never have the cheek to come down as I am !In an Upper Corridor in the East Wing . Steward 's Room BoyThis is your room , sir \u2014 you 'll find a fire lit and all . UndershellA fire ? For me ! I scarcely expected such an indulgence . You are sure there 's no mistake ?", "Now what 's the good of saying extravagant things of that sort ? Not that old Drummy could n't be trusted to behave anywhere !", "Well , it is chilly ; been raw all day .She do n't answer . I have n't broken the ice .Lady MaisieHe has n't said anything very original yet . So nice of him not to pose ! Oh , he 's got a note-book ; he 's going to compose a poem . How interesting !SpurrellYes , I 'm all right if Heliograph wins the Lincolnshire Handicap ; lucky to get on at the price I did . Wonder what 's the latest about the City and Suburban ? Let 's see whether the Pink Un has anything about it .Lady MaisieThe inspiration 's stopped \u2014 what a pity ! How odd of him to read the Globe ! I thought he was a Democrat !", "It 's wonderful what a hit she seems to have made \u2014 not that", "If your ladyship will excuse me . I 'll just go and see if they 've put out my bag . Lady CantireNever mind about your bag .What have you done with this gentleman 's luggage ?", "But your ladyship must have known ! Why , you as good as asked me on the way here to put you down for a bull-pup !", "Read aloud ! Is that what you want me to do ? But I 'm no particular hand at it . I do n't know that I 've ever read aloud \u2014 except a bit out of the paper now and then \u2014 since I was a boy at school !", "Scribbling ? how do you mean ? My handwriting 's easy enough to read , as you ought to know very well .", "Have n't I been telling you ? I should just jolly well think they have been talking about her ! So you did n't know my bull 's name was Andromeda before , eh ? But you seem to have heard of her , too ! UndershellI \u2014 I have heard of Andromeda \u2014 yes .SpurrellIt 's curious how that bitch 's fame seems to have spread . Why , even the old Bishop \u2014\u2014 But , I say , you 're looking rather queer ; anything the matter with you , old fellow ? UndershellNothing \u2014 nothing . I \u2014 I feel a little giddy , that 's all . I shall be better presently .SpurrellIt was having that basket down on your head like that . Too bad ! Here , I 'll get you some water .I do n't know if you 're aware of it , old chap , but you 're in a regular dooce of a mess ! UndershellDo you suppose I do n't know that ? For Heaven 's sake , do n't speak to me ! let me alone !... I want to think \u2014 I want to think .I see it all now ! I 've made a hideous mistake ! I thought these Culverins were deliberately \u2014\u2014 And all the time \u2014\u2014 Oh , what an unspeakable idiot I 've been !... And I can n't even explain !... The only thing to do is to escape before this fellow suspects the truth . It 's lucky I ordered that carriage !I 'm all right now ; and \u2014 and I can n't stay here any longer . I am leaving directly \u2014 directly !", "Maisie , that 's all .", "Oh \u2014 er \u2014 well , you know , I only meant , bring on blindness and that . Harmless attempt at a joke , that 's all .", "I 've heard of winners getting a bottle or two of champagne in a bucket \u2014 not sherry . But a little stimulant wo n't hurt a crack when he comes in , provided it 's not given him too soon ; wait till he 's got his wind and done blowing , you know .", "Was I ? I do n't exactly see how I could have been , considering I never made a rhyme in my life !", "So do I ; but how do I know that some ignorant duffer may n't be treating him for the wrong thing ? It may be all up with the animal before I get a chance of seeing what I can do ? UndershellIf he knew how near I went to getting the poor beast shot ! But I need n't mention that now .", "I shall take it kindly of your ladyship , whatever it is . Lady MaisieIt 's really such a trifle , but \u2014 but , in speaking to mamma or me , it is n't at all necessary to say \u201c my lady \u201d or \u201c your ladyship . \u201d I \u2014 I mean , it sounds rather , well \u2014 formal , do n't you know ! SpurrellShe 's going to be chummy now !I thought , on a first acquaintance , it was only manners .", "Is it ? I 'm just the same \u2014 would n't give a penny a yard for poetry , myself !", "Do you want to drive me frantic ? As if I could help being where I am ! How could I know you were here ?", "Yes , it 's lucky for me old Spavin being laid up like this \u2014 gives me a regular little outing , do you see ? going down to a swell place like this Wyvern Court , and being put up there for a day or two ! I should n't wonder if they do you very well in the housekeeper 's room .Give me a Pink Un and last week 's Dog Fancier 's Guide .", "Pleasant kind of woman \u2014 but a perfect fool to talk to !", "Sir Rupert , I 've been thinking that , after what 's occurred , it would probably be more satisfactory to all parties if I shifted my quarters , and \u2014 took my meals in the housekeeper 's room .", "Oh dear no , sir , nothing like it !Wo n't take me two minutes as I am now ! I 'd better tell him \u2014 I can say my bag has n't come . I do n't believe it has , and , anyway , it 's a good excuse .The \u2014 the fact is , Sir Rupert , I 'm afraid that my luggage has been unfortunately left behind .", "I 'm surprised at it , either ; I always knew \u2014\u2014", "Oh yes , we have been talking , I can assure you , Lady", "I was surprised myself to find what a lot they thought of it ; but , bless you , they 're all as civil as shopwalkers ; and , as for the ladies , why , the old Countess and Lady Maisie and Lady Rhoda could n't be more complimentary if I 'd won the Victoria Cross , instead of getting a first prize for breeding and exhibiting a bull-bitch at Cruft 's Dog show ! UndershellAnd this is our aristocracy ! They make a bosom friend of a breeder of dogs ; and find a poet only fit to associate with their servants ! What a theme for a satirist !I see nothing to wonder at . You possess precisely the social qualifications most likely to appeal to the leisured class .", "Nothing much . I see there 's an objection to Monkey-tricks . Captain ThicknesseNo , by Jove ! Hope they 'll overrule it \u2014 make a lot of difference to me if they do n't .", "I know that as well as you do . Do n't you suppose I 'm unacquainted with the usages of society ! Why , I 've stayed in boarding-houses at the seaside many a time where it was de rigger to dress \u2014 even for high tea ! But coming down , as I did , on business , it never entered my head that I should want my dress suit . So , when I found them all as chummy and friendly as possible , and expecting me to dine as a matter of course ,\u2014 why , I can tell you I was too jolly glad to get hold of anything in the shape of a swallowtail and white choker to be over particular !", "Sir Rupert ; he 'll tell you it 's all right .", "Not now . He 's gone by this time . The OthersGone !", "I suppose you mean a gorilla ?", "Oh , it does n't matter much if you do n't ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Oh , I knew that right enough . Come and have a drink before you start \u2014 just for luck \u2014 not that you want that ."], "true_target": ["She 's a rare good bitch , and no mistake . But what made you call her such an outlandish name ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Thank you , my dear , I merely wished for an answer to my question . And you see , Albinia , that Gerald Thicknesse can hardly have gone yet , since he is walking about the grounds with Maisie .", "That is no excuse for you \u2014 you ought to exercise some discrimination on your own account , instead of pressing people to buy what can do them no possible good . You can give me a Society Snippets .", "It 's always instructive to know what these creatures are saying about one , my dear , and it 's astonishing how they manage to find out the things they do . Ah , here 's Gravener coming back . He 's got us a carriage , and we 'd better get in .DrysdaleWell , I do n't see now where the insolence comes in . These people have invited you to stay with them \u2014\u2014", "What station is this ? Oh , it is Shuntingbridge .Now , if you 'll kindly take charge of these bags , and go and see whether there 's anything from Wyvern to meet us \u2014 you will find us here when you come back . On the Platform at Shuntingbridge .", "Then perhaps you will be good enough to enlighten us , Rupert ? Sir RupertWhy , \u2018 pon my word , I 'm bound to say that I 'm just as much in the dark as anybody else , if it comes to that ! SpurrellBut you wired me to come , sir ! About a horse of yours ! I 've been wondering all the evening when you 'd tell me I could go round and have a look at him . I 'm here instead of Mr. Spavin \u2014 now do you understand , Sir Rupert ? I 'm the vet .Sir RupertThis is devilish awkward ! Do n't quite know what to do .To \u2014 to be sure you are ! Of course ! That 's it , Rohesia ! Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse , and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by and bye .Lady CantireAlbinia , I think I will go to bed .Sir RupertThere 'll be no harm in letting him stay , now he is here . If Rohesia objects , she 's got nobody but herself to blame for it ! SpurrellThey wo n't want to keep me upstairs much longer after this !I wonder what the dooce is up now !PART XIX UNEARNED INCREMENT Sir RupertWell , what is it ? TredwellWith reference to the party , Sir Rupert , as represents himself to have come down to see the \u2018 orse , I \u2014\u2014 Sir RupertYou mean Mr. Spurrell ? It 's all right . Mr. Spurrell will see the horse to-morrow .By the way , we expected a Mr. \u2014\u2014 What did you say the name was , my dear ?... Undershell ? To be sure , a Mr. Undershell , to have been here in time for dinner . Do you know why he has been unable to come before this ? TredwellDo I know ? Oh , Lor !I \u2014 I believe he have arrived , Sir Rupert .", "Let me tell you this , my dear . It is a great deal more than you deserve after \u2014\u2014 How long has he come back for ?", "I am not in the habit of making mistakes , Rupert . I do n't know what you and Albinia and Maisie may know that I am in ignorance of , but , since you seem to have been aware from the first that Mr. Spurrell was not the poet you had invited here to meet me , will you kindly explain what has become of the real author ?", "Nonsense , my dear , no walk at all ; the church is only just across the park . My brother Rupert always goes , and it pleases him to see the Wyvern pew as full as possible . I seldom feel equal to going myself , because I find the necessity of allowing pulpit inaccuracies to pass without a protest gets too much on my nerves ; but my daughter will accompany you . You 'll have just time to run up and get your things on .", "I do n't believe a single word of all this ! If Mr. Spurrell is not Clarion Blair , let him explain how he came to be coming down to Wyvern this afternoon !", "Ink and flour , indeed ! This rigmarole gets more ridiculous every moment ! You can n't seriously expect any one here to believe it !", "I wonder , Bishop , if you have seen this wonderful volume of poetry that every one is talking about \u2014 Andromeda ? The BishopI chanced only this morning , by way of momentary relaxation , to take up a journal containing a notice of that work , with copious extracts . The impression left on my mind was \u2014 ah \u2014 unfavourable ; a certain talent , no doubt , some felicity of expression , but a noticeable lack of the \u2014 ah \u2014 reticence , the discipline , the \u2014 the scholarly touch which a training at one of our great Public Schools, and at a University , can alone impart . I was also pained to observe a crude discontent with the existing Social System \u2014 a system which , if not absolutely perfect , cannot be upset or even modified without the gravest danger . But I was still more distressed to note in several passages a decided taint of the morbid sensuousness which renders so much of our modern literature sickly and unwholesome .", "Maisie , there 's quite a clever little notice in Society Snippets about the dance at Skympings last week . I 'm sure I wonder how they pick up these things ; it quite bears out what I was told ; says the supper arrangements were \u201c simply disgraceful ; not nearly enough champagne ; and what there was , undrinkable ! \u201d So like poor dear Lady Chesepare ; never does do things like anybody else . I 'm sure I 've given her hints enough ! SpurrellWants to let me see she knows some swells . Now ai n't that paltry ? Lady CantireWould you like to see it , Maisie ? Just this bit here ; where my finger is . Lady MaisieI saw him smile . What must he think of us , with his splendid scorn for rank ?No , thank you , mamma : such a wretched light to read by ! SpurrellChance for me to cut in !Beastly light , is n't it ? \u2018 Pon my word , the company ought to provide us with a dog and string apiece when we get out ! Lady CantireI happen to hold shares in this line . May I ask why you consider a provision of dogs and string at all the stations a necessary or desirable expenditure ?", "Hush , please , everybody ! Mr. Spurrell is going to read . My dear Bishop , if you would n't mind just \u2014\u2014 Lord Lullington , can you hear where you are ? Where are you going to sit , Mr. Spurrell ? In the centre will be best . Will somebody move that lamp a little , so as to give him more light ? SpurrellI wonder what we 're supposed to be playing at !Well , what am I to read , eh ? Miss SpelwaneYou might begin with this \u2014 such a dear little piece ! I 'm dying to hear you read it !SpurrellI 'll do the best I can !Why , look here , it 's poetry ! I did n't bargain for that . Poetry 's altogether out of my line !\u201c THE SICK KNIGHT . Reach me the helmet from yonder rack , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! with its plume of white : Now help me upon my destrier 's back , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! though he swerve in fright . And guide my foot to the stirrup-ledge , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! it eludes me still . Then fill me a cup as a farewell pledge , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! for the night air 's chill ! Haste ! with the buckler and pennon 'd lance , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! or ever I feel My war-horse plunge in impatient prance , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! at the prick of heel . Pay scant heed to my pallid hue , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! for the wan moon 's sheen Doth blazon the gules o \u2019 my cheek with blue , Mistress o \u2019 mine ! or glamour it green . One last long kiss , ere I seek the fray ... Mistress o \u2019 mine ! though I quit my sell , I would meet the foe i \u2019 the mad melee . Mistress o \u2019 mine ! an \u2019 I were but well ! \u201dWell , of course , I do n't set up for a judge of such things myself , but I must say , if I was asked my opinion \u2014 of all the downright tommy-rot I ever \u2014\u2014I say , though , I do call this rather rum ! Who the dickens is Clarion Blair ? Because I never heard of him \u2014 and yet it seems he 's been writing poetry on my bull-dog ! Miss SpelwaneWriting poetry \u2014 about your bull-dog !", "Yes , as you say , Bishop , a truly Augustan mode of recreation . Still , Mr. Spurrell does n't seem to have come in yet , so I shall have time to hear anything you have to say in defence of your opposition to Parish Councils .ArchieInk and flour \u2014 could n't possibly miss him ; the bard 's got a matted head this time , and no mistake .", "All prejudice , my dear Bishop ; why , you have n't even read the book ! However , the author is staying here now , and I feel convinced that if you only knew him , you 'd alter your opinion . Such an unassuming , inoffensive creature ! There , he 's just come in . I 'll call him over here .... Goodness , why does he shuffle along in that way ! SpurrellHope I 've kept nobody waiting for me , Sir Rupert .I 'd rather a job to get these things on ; but they 're really a wonderful fit , considering !", "You are perfectly mistaken , Miss Spelwane . I flatter myself I am quite as capable of appreciating a literary privilege as anybody here . But I cannot answer for its being so acceptable to the majority .", "My dear Albinia , I quite understand him ; \u201c old-fashioned \u201d is exactly the epithet . And I was born and brought up here , so perhaps I should know .", "I 'm quite sorry I missed it .Wyvern at last ! But what a journey it 's been , to be sure ! SpurrellI should just think it had . I 've never been so taken up and put down in all my life ! But it 's over now ; and , thank goodness , I 'm not likely to see any more of \u2018 em !PART VI ROUND PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES In the Entrance Hall at Wyvern . TredwellThis way , if you please , my lady . Her ladyship is in the Hamber Boudwore .", "Albinia , I have refrained from speech as long as possible ; but this is really too much ! You do n't suppose I should have introduced Mr. Spurrell here unless I had had the strongest reasons for knowing , however he may be pleased to mystify us now , that he , and nobody else , is the author of Andromeda ! And I , for one , absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog .", "Then we may consider that settled ; he stays .Here is your aunt . You had better leave us , my dear . Somewhat later ; the Party have assembled for Lunch . Sir RupertWell , my dear , I 've seen that young Spurrell, and you 'll be glad to hear he can n't find anything seriously wrong with Deerfoot . UndershellNo more could I , for that matter !", "Wait ? Fiddlesticks ! What ! A famous young man like you ! Remember Andromeda , and do n't make yourself so ridiculous ! SpurrellWell , Lady Cantire , if her ladyship says anything , I hope you 'll bear me out that it was n't \u2014\u2014", "Very possibly , my dear . I have always refrained from giving him the slightest encouragement , and I would n't put any pressure upon dear Maisie for the world \u2014 still , I have my feelings as a mother , and I can n't deny that , with such prospects as he has now , it is gratifying for me to think that they may be coming to an understanding together at this very moment . She is showing him the grounds ; which I always think are the great charm of Wyvern , so secluded ! Lady CulverinTogether ! At this very moment ! But \u2014 but surely Gerald has gone ?", "Wait .What has become of that young Mr. Androm \u2014\u2014?Ah , there he is ! Now , come along , and be presented to my sister-in-law . She 'll be enchanted to know you !", "Never , never ! A bull-pup is the last creature I should ever dream of coveting . You were obliging enough to ask me to accept a presentation copy of your verses .", "Probably they would , Albinia . It is most unlikely that they would care to hear anything more intellectual and instructive than the sound of their own voices .", "Impossible , my dear , quite impossible ! I tell you he is here . Why , only a few minutes ago , Mrs. Chatteris was telling me \u2014\u2014 Ah , here she is to speak for herself .Mrs. Chatteris , did I , or did I not , understand you to say just now that my daughter Maisie \u2014\u2014?", "Entirely . You are probably thinking of some totally different person , as my daughter has never mentioned having written to you , and is not in the habit of conducting any correspondence without my full knowledge and approval . I think you said you had some appointment ; if so , pray do n't consider yourself under any necessity to remain here .", "Rupert , who is that you are talking to out there ? I do n't recognise his voice , somehow . Sir RupertHa , Rohesia , you 've come down , then ? slept well , I hope . I was talking to a gentleman whose acquaintance I know you will be very happy to make \u2014 at last . This is the genuine celebrity this time .Let me make you known to my sister , Lady Cantire , Mr. Undershell .Mr. Clarion Blair , Rohesia , author of hum \u2014 ha \u2014 Andromache .", "Bear you out ? My good young man , you seem to need somebody to bear you in ! Come , you are under my wing . I answer for your welcome \u2014 so do as you 're told . SpurrellIt 's my belief there 'll be a jolly row when I do go in ; but it 's not my fault ! TredwellLady Cantire and Lady Maisie MullWhat name , if you please , sir ?SpurrellYou can say \u201c James Spurrell \u201d \u2014 you need n't bellow it , you know ! TredwellMr. James Spurrell . SpurrellIf I do n't get the chuck for this , I shall be surprised , that 's all !In a Fly . UndershellAlone with a lovely girl , who has no suspicion , as yet , that I am the poet whose songs have thrilled her with admiration ! Could any situation be more romantic ? I think I must keep up this little mystification as long as possible . PhillipsonI wonder who he is ? Somebody 's Man , I suppose . I do believe he 's struck with me . Well , I 've no objection . I do n't see why I should n't forget Jim now and then \u2014 he 's quite forgotten me !They might have sent a decent carriage for us instead of this ramshackle old summerhouse . We shall be hours getting to the house at this rate ! UndershellFor my part , I care not how long we may be . I feel so unspeakably content to be where I am . PhillipsonIn this mouldy , lumbering old concern ? You must be rather easily contented , then ! UndershellIt travels only too swiftly . To me it is a veritable enchanted car , drawn by a magic steed ."], "true_target": ["What 's that I hear ? Mr. Spurrell professing incapacity to read aloud ? Sheer affectation ! Come , Mr. Spurrell , I am much mistaken if you are wanting in the power to thrill all hearts here . Think of us as instruments ready to respond to your touch . Play upon us as you will ; but do n't be so ungracious as to raise any further obstacles . SpurrellOh , very well , if I 'm required to read , I 'm agreeable .", "That , of course , is quite out of the question . I see you have given me the Bishop \u2014 he 's a poor , dry stick of a man \u2014 never forgets he was the Headmaster of Swisham \u2014 but he 's always glad to meet me . I freshen him up so .", "You are talking nonsense , my dear . When you are fortunate enough to secure a celebrity at Wyvern , you can n't make him too conspicuous . I never knew that Laura Lullington had any taste for literature before , but there 's something to be said for her suggestion \u2014 if it can be carried out ; it would at least provide a welcome relief from the usual after-dinner dullness of this sort of gathering .", "Captain Thicknesse come back !I wish to speak to my daughter . May I ask you to leave us ?", "Dear me . Well , Maisie , I hope the conversation was entertaining ?", "Ah , there you are , Phillipson ! Yes , you can take the jewel-case ; and now you had better go and see after the trunks .Well , Mr .\u2014 I always forget names , so I shall call you \u201c Andromeda \u201d \u2014 have you found out \u2014\u2014 The omnibus , is it ? Very well , take us to it , and we 'll get in .UndershellWhere has Miss Mull disappeared to ? Oh , there she is , pointing out her luggage . What a quantity she travels with ! Ca n't be such a very poor relation . How graceful and collected she is , and how she orders the porters about ! I really believe I shall enjoy this visit .That 's mine \u2014 the brown one with a white star . I want it to go to Wyvern Court \u2014 Sir Rupert Culverin 's . PorterRight , sir . Follow me , if you please .UndershellI must n't leave Miss Mull alone .Can I be of any assistance ?", "Lady Culverin is a very sweet woman ; a little limited , perhaps , not intellectual , or quite what one would call the grande dame ; but perhaps that could scarcely be expected . SpurrellOh , of course not \u2014 no .If she bluffs , so can I !It 's funny your turning out to be an acquaintance of Lady C .' s , though .", "You think so ? But I should hardly call myself an acquaintance . SpurrellOld cat 's trying to back out of it now ; she sha n't , though !Oh , then I suppose you know Sir Rupert best ?", "Would n't mind ! Putting up with him ! And is that how you speak of a celebrity when you are so fortunate as to have one to entertain ? Really , Albinia !", "There you are wrong , Rupert , because it 's obvious that if he is not Mr. Spurrell , the real poet 's absence has to be accounted for in some way .", "Not on my account , thank you . SpurrellBroke the ice , anyway .Oh , I do n't want it down , but some people have such a mania for fresh air . Lady CantireHave they ? With a temperature as glacial as it is in here ! They must be maniacs indeed !", "Indeed ? then I shall be obliged if you will say who it is you did mean .", "I , my dear ? You forget that I am not hostess here . My sister-in-law is the proper person to do that .", "A waste-paper basket on his head ! And pray what should he have that for ?", "I heard they were expecting you . You will find Wyvern a pleasant house \u2014 for a short visit . SpurrellShe heard ! Oh , she wants to kid me she knows the Culverins . Rats !Shall I , though ? I dare say .", "Is that Mr. Spurrell you are finding fault with , Albinia ? It is curious that you should be the one person here who \u2014\u2014 I consider him a very worthy and talented young man , and I shall most certainly ask him to dinner \u2014 or lunch , at all events \u2014 as soon as we return . I dare say Lady Rhoda will not object to come and meet him .", "Yes , I certainly know Sir Rupert better . SpurrellOh , you do , do you ? We 'll see .Nice cheery old chap , Sir Rupert , is n't he ? I must tell him I travelled down in the same carriage with a particular friend of his .That 'll make her sit up !", "I thought we were given to understand last night that Mr. Spurrell \u2014 Mr. Blair \u2014 you must pardon me , but it 's really so very confusing \u2014 that the writer of the \u2014 ah \u2014 volume in question had already left Wyvern .", "Now , that 's one of your quibbles , my dear Bishop , and I detest quibbling ! But at least it shows you have n't a leg to stand upon .", "Gone ! What nonsense , Albinia ! Where in the world should he have gone to ?", "I see . I scarcely expected that you would condescend to such weakness . I \u2014 ah \u2014 think you are going down to stay at Wyvern for a few days , are you not ? SpurrellI was right . What Tom said did fetch the old girl ; no harm in humouring her a bit .Yes \u2014 oh yes , they \u2014 aw \u2014 wanted me to run down when I could .", "I see no reason for surprise in the matter . I have always endeavoured to cultivate my taste in all directions ; to keep in touch with every modern development . I make it a rule to read and see everything . Of course , I have no time to give more than a rapid glance at most things ; but I hope some day to be able to have another look at your Andromeda . I hear the most glowing accounts from all the judges . SpurrellShe knows all the judges ! She must be in the fancy !Any time your ladyship likes to name I shall be proud and happy to bring her round for your inspection . Lady CantireIf you are kind enough to offer me a copy of Andromeda , I shall be most pleased to possess one . SpurrellSharp old customer , this ; trying to rush me for a pup . I never offered her one !Well , as to that , my lady , I 've promised so many already , that really I do n't \u2014 but there \u2014 I 'll see what I can do for you . I 'll make a note of it ; you must n't mind having to wait a bit . Lady CantireI will make an effort to support existence in the meantime . Lady MaisieI could n't have believed that the man who could write such lovely verses should be so \u2014 well , not exactly a gentleman ! How petty of me to have such thoughts . Perhaps geniuses never are . And as if it mattered ! And I 'm sure he 's very natural and simple , and I shall like him when I know him better .", "Are these times to split our sides , with so many serious social problems pressing for solution ? You are presumably not without intelligence ; do you never reflect upon the responsibility you incur in assisting to circulate trivial and frivolous trash of this sort ? ClerkWell , I can n't say as I do , particular , ma'am . I 'm paid to sell the books \u2014 I do n't select \u2018 em .", "I make a point of never interfering with my daughter 's proceedings , and you can easily understand how natural it is that such old friends as they have always been \u2014\u2014", "And where is Rupert ? too busy of course to come and say a word ! Well , some day he may understand what a sister is \u2014 when it 's too late . Ah , here 's our nice unassuming young poet coming up to talk to you . Do n't repel him , my dear ! SpurrellBetter give her the chance of telling me what 's wrong with the horse , I suppose .Er \u2014 nice old-fashioned sort of house this , Lady Culverin .I 'll work round to the stabling by degrees . Lady CulverinI believe it dates from the Tudors \u2014 if that is what you mean .", "My dear , Mr. Spurrell has already said he can manage it ; so we may all enjoy his society with a clear conscience .And now , Albinia , if you 'll excuse me , I think I 'll go to my room and rest a little , as I 'm rather overdone , and you have all these tiresome people coming to dinner to-night .", "Thank you . I think I will wait till I am reduced to one and ninepence .", "That 's right , Mr. Spurrell . Come here , and let me present you to the Bishop of Birchester . The Bishop has just been telling me he considers your Andromeda sickly , or unhealthy , or something . I 'm sure you 'll be able to convince him it 's nothing of the sort .SpurrellOh , Lor ! Wish I knew the right way to talk to a Bishop . Ca n't call him nothing \u2014 so doosid familiar .Andromeda sickly , your \u2014\u2014 your Right Reverence ? Not a bit of it \u2014 sound as a roach !", "Oh , then you and my brother Rupert have met already ? SpurrellYour brother ! Sir Rupert Culverin your \u2014\u2014! Excuse me \u2014 if I 'd only known , I \u2014 I do assure you I never should have dreamt of saying \u2014\u2014! Lady CantireYou 've said nothing whatever to distress yourself about . You could n't possibly be expected to know who I was . Perhaps I had better tell you at once that I am Lady Cantire , and this is my daughter , Lady Maisie Mull .We are going down to Wyvern too , so I hope we shall very soon become better acquainted . SpurrellThe deuce we shall ! I have got myself into a hole this time ; I wish I could see my way well out of it ! Why on earth could n't I hold my confounded tongue ? I shall look an ass when I tell \u2018 em .In a Second-class Compartment . UndershellSingularly attractive face this girl has ; so piquant and so refined ! I can n't help fancying she is studying me under her eyelashes . She has remarkably bright eyes . Can she be interested in me ? Does she expect me to talk to her ? There are only she and I \u2014 but no , just now I would rather be alone with my thoughts . This Maisie Mull whom I shall meet so soon ; what is she like , I wonder ? I presume she is unmarried . If I may judge from her artless little letter , she is young and enthusiastic , and she is a passionate admirer of my verse ; she is longing to meet me . I suppose some men 's vanity would be flattered by a tribute like that . I think I must have none ; for it leaves me strangely cold . I did not even reply ; it struck me that it would be difficult to do so with any dignity , and she did n't tell me where to write to .... After all , how do I know that this will not end \u2014 like everything else \u2014 in disillusion ? Will not such crude girlish adoration pall upon me in time ? If she were exceptionally lovely ; or say , even as charming as this fair fellow-passenger of mine \u2014 why then , to be sure \u2014 but no , something warns me that that is not to be . I shall find her plain , sandy , freckled ; she will render me ridiculous by her undiscriminating gush .... Yes , I feel my heart sink more and more at the prospect of this visit . Ah me !His Fellow PassengerIt 's too silly to be sitting here like a pair of images , considering that \u2014\u2014I hope you are n't feeling unwell ?", "I 'm afraid you must have been misinformed , Mr .\u2014 a \u2014 Blair . There are so many serious publications claiming attention in these days of literary over-production that I have long made it a rule to read no literature of a lighter order that has not been before the world for at least ten years . I may be mistaken , but I infer from your appearance that your own work must be of a considerably more recent date . UndershellIf she imagines she 's going to snub Me \u2014\u2014!Then I was evidently mistaken in gathering from some expressions in your daughter 's letter that \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["In that case I shall certainly not trouble you .He may think just what he pleases , I do n't care . But , oh , if Mr. Spurrell dares to speak to me after this , I shall astonish him ! Lady RhodaI say \u2014 I am in a funk . Only just heard who I 'm next to . I always do feel such a perfect fool when I 've got to talk to a famous person \u2014 and you 're frightfully famous , are n't you ? SpurrellOh , I do n't know \u2014 I suppose I am , in a sort of way , through Andromeda . Seem to think so here , anyhow .", "Please get in \u2014 there 's plenty of room ! SpurrellThey are chummy , and no mistake !I do hope it wo n't be considered any intrusion \u2014 my coming up along with your ladyships , I mean ! Lady CantireIntrusion ! I never heard such nonsense ! Did you expect to be asked to run behind ? You really must n't be so ridiculously modest . As if your Andromeda had n't procured you the entree everywhere !SpurrellGood old Drummy ! No idea I was such a swell . I 'll keep my tail up . Shyness ai n't one of my failings .Er \u2014 hum \u2014 pitch dark night , my lady , do n't get much idea of the country !I was saying , my lady , it 's too dark to \u2014\u2014Her ladyship seems to be taking a snooze on the quiet , my lady .Not that that 's the term for it ! Lady MaisieMy mother gets tired rather easily .It 's really too dreadful ; he makes me hot all over ! If he 's going to do this kind of thing at Wyvern ! And I 'm more or less responsible for him , too ! I must see if I can n't \u2014\u2014 It will be only kind .Mr .\u2014 Mr. Blair !", "Surely that 's very simple ; do nothing ; just take everything quietly as it comes , and you can n't make any mistakes . SpurrellAnd you do n't think anybody 'll see anything out of the way in my being here like this ? Lady MaisieI 'm only too afraid they will !You really must have a little self-confidence . Just remember that no one here could produce anything a millionth part as splendid as your Andromeda ! It 's too distressing to see you so appallingly humble !There 's Captain Thicknesse over there \u2014 he might come and rescue me ; but he does n't seem to care to !", "I do n't agree at all . However , it certainly is Phillipson , and she seems to have come out in search of me ; so I had better see if she has any message .", "It would have been rather superfluous if it had been , would n't it ?I 'm afraid you do n't find this bench quite comfortable ?", "That is her name . How very odd that you \u2014\u2014 But perhaps Mr. Spurrell mentioned it to you last night ? UndershellI am hardly likely to have heard of it from any other quarter .", "Now you mention it , I believe I was . We had \u2014 rather an interesting conversation . Still , you might have come to look for me !", "I was not thinking about his looks , Rhoda \u2014 it 's his conduct that 's so splendid .", "Was I ? So absorbed as all that ! What with ?", "I am afraid the \u2014 the contempt is all on the other side ; but if that is how you feel about it , I do n't wonder that you were indignant .", "Indeed ! And why not ?", "You are not very sympathetic ! I should not have told you at all , only I wanted to show you that if poor Mr. Spurrell did innocently usurp your place , he may have lost \u2014\u2014 But I see all this only bores you .", "Captain Thicknesse ! You have been talking about it \u2014 to him !", "Not just now . I think \u2014\u2014 I 'm not quite sure yet \u2014 but I rather fancy that must be my maid at the other end of the walk . UndershellI assure you , Lady Maisie , you are quite mistaken . Not the least like her ! Lady MaisieWhy , how can you possibly tell that , without having seen her , Mr. Blair ?", "Poets are dreamy and unpractical and unpunctual \u2014 it 's their nature .", "I would rather you said nothing more about it , please ; it is really not worth while contradicting anything so utterly absurd .That Gerald \u2014 Captain Thicknesse \u2014 of all people , should know of my letter ! And goodness only knows what story she may have made out of it !", "That 's satisfactory . And I hear you have met an old admirer of yours here \u2014 Mr. Spurrell , I mean .", "Only a few hours ; but \u2014 but from things he said , I fancy he would stay on longer \u2014 if Aunt Albinia asked him .", "He dared to tell her that ? How disgracefully impertinent of him .So long as he has n't talked about my letter , he may say what he pleases !", "And , Uncle Rupert , how about \u2014 about Phillipson , you know ? Is it all right ?", "Then you did n't wish to spare his feelings as well as ours ?", "Do n't you think you will be rather a foolish girl if you allow a few idle compliments from a stranger to outweigh such an attachment as Mr. Spurrell seems to have for you ?", "M \u2014 most entertaining , mamma !", "Oh \u2014 manners ? yes , I \u2014 I dare say \u2014 but still \u2014 but still \u2014 not at Wyvern , do n't you know . If you like , you can call mamma \u201c Lady Cantire , \u201d and me \u201c Lady Maisie , \u201d now and then , and , of course , my aunt will be \u201c Lady Culverin , \u201d but \u2014 but if there are other people staying in the house , you need n't call them anything , do you see ? SpurrellI 'm not likely to have the chance !Well , if you 're sure they wo n't mind it , because I 'm not used to this sort of thing , so I put myself entirely in your hands ,\u2014 for , of course , you know what brought me down here ? Lady MaisieHe means my foolish letter ! Oh , I must put a stop to that at once !Yes \u2014 yes ; I \u2014 I think I do I mean , I do know \u2014 but \u2014 but please forget it \u2014 indeed , you must ! SpurrellForget I 've come down as a vet ? The Culverins will take care I do n't forget that !But , I say , it 's all very well ; but how can I ? Why , look here ; I was told I was to come down here on purpose to \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieI know \u2014 you need n't tell me ! And do n't speak so loud ! Mamma might hear ! SpurrellWhat if she did ? Why , I thought her la \u2014 your mother knew ! Lady MaisieHe actually thinks I should tell mamma ! Oh , how dense he is !Yes \u2014 yes \u2014 of course she knows \u2014 but \u2014 but you might wake her ! And \u2014 and please do n't allude to it again \u2014 to me or \u2014 or any one .That I should have to beg him to be silent like this ! But what can I do ? Goodness only knows what he might n't say , if I do n't warn him ! SpurrellI do n't mind who knows . I 'm not ashamed of it , Lady Maisie \u2014 whatever you may be ! Lady MaisieHe dares to imply that I 've done something to be ashamed of !I 'm not ashamed \u2014 why should I be ? Only \u2014 oh , can n't you really understand that \u2014 that one may do things which one would n't care to be reminded of publicly ? I do n't wish it \u2014 is n't that enough ? SpurrellI see what she 's at now \u2014 does n't want it to come out that she 's travelled down here with a vet !A lady 's wish is enough for me at any time . If you 're sorry for having gone out of your way to be friendly , why , I 'm not the person to take advantage of it . I hope I know how to behave .Lady MaisieWhy did I say anything at all ! I 've only made things worse \u2014 I 've let him see that he has an advantage . And he 's certain to use it sooner or later \u2014 unless I am civil to him . I 've offended him now \u2014 and I shall have to make it up with him ! SpurrellI thought all along she did n't seem as chummy as her mother \u2014 but to turn round on me like this ! Lady CantireWell , Mr. Andromeda , I should have thought you and my daughter might have found some subject in common ; but I have n't heard a word from either of you since we left the station . Lady MaisieThat 's some comfort !You must have had a nap , mamma . We \u2014 we have been talking .", "Oh no , indeed !You \u2014 you do n't know Mr. Spurrell , I think ?Captain Thicknesse .", "Do n't run away , Rhoda ; my maid has just done . You can go now , Phillipson . Lady RhodaPhillipson ! So that 's the young woman that funny vet man prefers to us ! H 'm , can n't say I feel flattered ! PhillipsonThis must be the Lady Rhoda , who was making up to my Jem ! He would n't have anything to say to her , though ; and , now I see her , I am not surprised at it !Lady RhodaWell , we can n't complain of havin \u2019 had a dull evenin \u2019 , can we ?Lady MaisieNot altogether . Has \u2014 anything fresh happened since I left ?", "There are limits even to my tolerance , Mr. Blair . I admit I find some people insufferable \u2014 but Captain Thicknesse is not one of them .", "Well , I wish I could think there were many men capable of acting so nobly and generously as he did .", "Of course , how stupid of me . I knew it was n't really your name . Mr. Spurrell , then , you \u2014 you wo n't mind if I give you just one little hint , will you ?", "I was quite wrong . I did n't know what I was talking about . I do now . Good night .Good night , Mr. Blair , I 'm so very glad we have met \u2014 at last !UndershellShe 's not freckled ; she 's not even sandy . She 's lovely ! And , by some unhoped-for good fortune , all this has only raised me in her eyes . I am more than compensated ! Captain ThicknesseI may just as well get back to Aldershot to-morrow \u2014 now . I 'll go and prepare Lady C .' s mind , in case . It 's hard luck ; just when everything seemed goin \u2019 right ! I 'd give somethin \u2019 to have the other bard back , I know . It 's no earthly use my tryin \u2019 to stand against this one ! PART XX DIFFERENT PERSONS HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS LADY MAISIE 'S Room at Wyvern . TIME \u2014 Saturday night , about 11. 30 . Lady MaisieYou are sure mamma is n't expecting me ?Perhaps I had better just run in and say good night .", "You are quite wrong \u2014 it 's too absurd ; I never even met Mr. Spurrell in my life till this afternoon . If you really must know , I heard him mention my name , and \u2014 and I wondered , naturally , what he could possibly be saying ."], "true_target": ["There 's no need to be so apologetic about it .Oh , I hope he did n't hear what I said to that wretch !", "Would you ? I 'm sure I do n't know why .", "I think it was a thousand pities you did n't , as you seem to have stayed on purpose to be as stupid and unkind as you possibly can .", "Very well ; we can go in , if you care about orchids . It 's on our way back . UndershellThis is too awful ! It is that girl Phillipson . She is looking for somebody ! Me !On second thoughts , I do n't think I do care to see the orchids . I detest them ; they are such weird , unnatural , extravagant things . Let us turn back and see if there are any snowdrops on the lawn behind that hedge . I love the snowdrop , it is so trustful and innocent , with its pure green-veined \u2014\u2014 Do come and search for snowdrops !", "Did n't you ? And whose fault was that ?", "Really , Mr. Blair ! I do n't quite see why I should run away from my own maid !... What is it , Phillipson ?UndershellIt 's all over ! That confounded girl recognises me . I saw her face change ! She 'll be jealous , I know she 'll be jealous \u2014 and then she 'll tell Lady Maisie everything !... I wish to Heaven I could hear what she is saying . Lady Maisie seems agitated .... I \u2014 I might stroll gently on and leave them ; but it would look too like running away , perhaps . No , I 'll stay here and face it out like a man ! I wo n't give up just yet .After all , I 've been in worse holes than this since I came into this infernal place , and I 've always managed to scramble out \u2014 triumphantly too ! If she will only give me five minutes alone , I know I can clear myself ; it is n't as if I had done anything to be ashamed of .... She 's sent away that girl . She seems to be expecting me to come to her .... I \u2014 I suppose I 'd better .PART XXIII SHRINKAGE In the Yew Walk . Lady MaisieHow badly he walks , and what does he mean by smiling at me like that ?I am sorry , Mr. Blair , but I must leave you to finish your stroll alone ; my maid has just told me \u2014\u2014 UndershellLady Maisie , I ask you , in common fairness , not to judge me until you have heard my version . You will not allow the fact that I travelled down here in the same compartment with your maid , Phillipson \u2014\u2014 Lady MaisieThe same ! But we came by that train . I thought you missed it ?", "Oh yes , I should !\u2014 When it was to say good-bye , you know !", "Good night , Mr. Spurrell , and \u2014 and I 'm so very glad \u2014 about Emma , you know . I hope you will both be very happy .", "But it 's too ridiculous ! How could he ? When he never saw me , so far as I know , in all his life before !", "At all events , he may have had to pay more heavily than you imagine . I wonder whether \u2014\u2014 But I suppose anything so unromantic as the love affairs of a veterinary surgeon would have no interest for you ?", "Please be sensible , and let us talk of something else . Are you staying here long ?", "No , Rhoda . Not his \u2014 ours . Mine and mamma 's . We ought to have felt from the first that there must be some mistake , that poor Mr. Spurrell could n't possibly be a poet ! I do n't know , though \u2014 people generally are unlike what you 'd expect from their books . I believe they do it on purpose ! Not that that applies to Mr. Blair ; he is one 's idea of what a poet should be . If he had n't arrived when he did , I do n't think I could ever have borne to read another line of poetry as long as I lived !", "Then you do n't know ? He told us quite frankly this evening that he had only just discovered you were here , and would much prefer to be where you were . He went down to the housekeeper 's room on purpose . PhillipsonIt 's the first I 've heard of it , my lady . It must have been after I came up . If I 'd only known he 'd behave like that ! Lady MaisieYou see how loyal he is to you . And now , I suppose , he will find he has been supplanted by this new acquaintance \u2014 some smooth-tongued , good-for-nothing valet , I dare say ? PhillipsonOh , my lady , indeed he was n't a man ! But there was nothing serious between us \u2014 at least , on my side \u2014 though he certainly did go on in a very sentimental way himself . However , he 's left the Court by now , that 's one comfort !I wish now I 'd said nothing about him to Jem . If he was to get asking questions downstairs \u2014\u2014 He always was given to jealousy \u2014 reason or none !Lady RhodaMaisie , may I come in ? if you 've done your hair , and sent away your maid .Ah , I see you have n't .", "Surely none who would be as fond of you or make so good a husband , Phillipson !", "Do n't be a goose , Gerald . Of course you can , if you like .Captain ThicknesseCa n't quite make this out , but I 'm no end glad I came back !UndershellI hoped I should find her here .Her mother 's gone \u2014 that 's something ! I dare say Lady Maisie will come in presently .It will be sweet to see her face light up when I offer her these as a symbol of the new and closer link between us !Ah , already !I \u2014 I have ventured to gather these \u2014 for you .Miss Spelwane ! Miss SpelwaneHow very sweet of you , Mr. Blair . Are they really for me ?UndershellOh \u2014 er \u2014 yes . If you will give me the pleasure of accepting them .", "I 'm afraid I really can n't listen to you now , Mr. Blair , after what I have heard from Phillipson \u2014\u2014", "You might have taken a walk \u2014 or gone to church .", "Of course not . And did he tell you that she was here , in this very house ?", "Oh yes , yes . I \u2014 I dare say you could not help it . I mean you did quite , quite right !", "You really thought that possible , too ? She simply came with a message from my mother . UndershellOh ! If I had known it was merely that . However , I am sure I need not ask you to treat my \u2014 my communication in the strictest confidence , Lady Maisie .", "I suppose the dog-cart , mamma . He missed his train , you know . I do n't think he minds \u2014 much .", "Do you ? What makes you suppose that ?", "Can I ? That you should have consented , for any consideration whatever ; how could you \u2014 how could you ? UndershellShe admires me all the more for it . But I knew she would take the right view !I was only compelled by absolute starvation . I had had an unusually light lunch , and I was so hungry ! Lady MaisieThat explains it , of course .... I hope they gave you a good supper !", "I do n't know why I said that ; it was silly , of course . But how \u2014\u2014", "Yes , rather . The worst of it is that the foolish girl seems to have heard that he was a guest here , and have jumped to the conclusion that he had ceased to care for her ; so she revenged herself by a desperate flirtation with some worthless wretch she met in the housekeeper 's room , whose flattery and admiration , I 'm very much afraid , have completely turned her head ! UndershellAh , well , she must learn to forget him , and no doubt , in time \u2014\u2014 How wonderful the pale sunlight is on that yew hedge !", "But I do n't . And I \u2014 I did offer to explain , but you said you were n't curious !", "You really do n't see ! Well , then , you shall . He arrives late , and finds that somebody else is here already in his character . He makes no fuss ; manages to get a private interview with the person who is passing as himself ; when , of course , he soon discovers that poor Mr. Spurrell is as much deceived as anybody else . What is he to do ? Humiliate the unfortunate man by letting him know the truth ? Mortify my uncle and aunt by a public explanation before a whole dinner-party ? That is what a stupid or a selfish man might have done , almost without thinking . But not Mr. Blair . He has too much tact , too much imagination , too much chivalry for that . He saw at once that his only course was to spare his host and hostess , and \u2014 and all of us a scene , by slipping away quietly and unostentatiously , as he had come . Lady RhodaIf he saw all that , why did n't he do it ? Lady MaisieWhy ? How provoking you can be , Rhoda ! Why ? Because that stupid Tredwell would n't let him ! Because Archie delayed him by some idiotic practical joke ! Because Mr. Spurrell went and blurted it all out !... Oh , do n't try to run down a really fine act like that ; because you can n't \u2014 you simply can n't ! Lady RhodaNo idea it had gone so far as that \u2014 already ! Now I begin to see why Gerry Thicknesse has been lookin \u2019 as if he 'd sat on his best hat , and why he told your aunt he might have to be off to-morrow ; which is all stuff , because I happen to know his leave ai n't up for two or three days yet . But he sees this Troubadour has put his poor old nose out of joint for him . Lady MaisieNow , Rhoda , I wo n't have you talking as if \u2014 as if \u2014\u2014 You ought to know , if Gerald Thicknesse does n't , that it 's nothing at all of that sort ! It 's just \u2014\u2014 Oh , I can n't tell you how some of his poems moved me , what new ideas , wider views they seemed to teach ; and then how dreadfully it hurt to think it was only Mr. Spurrell after all !... But now \u2014 oh , the relief of finding they 're not spoilt ; that I can still admire , still look up to the man who wrote them ! Not to have to feel that he is quite commonplace \u2014 not even a gentleman \u2014 in the ordinary sense ! Lady RhodaAh well , I prefer a hero who looks as if he had his hair cut , occasionally \u2014 but then , I 'm not romantic . He may be the paragon you say ; but if I was you , my dear , I would n't expect too much of that young man \u2014 allow a margin for shrinkage , do n't you know . And now I think I 'll turn into my little crib , for I 'm dead tired . Good night ; do n't sit up late readin \u2019 poetry ; it 's my opinion you 've read quite enough as it is !Lady MaisieShe does n't in the least understand ! She actually suspects me of \u2014\u2014 As if I could possibly \u2014 or as if mamma would ever \u2014 even if he \u2014\u2014 Oh , how silly I am !... I do n't care ! I am glad I have n't had to give up my ideal . I should like to know him better . What harm is there in that ? And if Gerald chooses to go to-morrow , he must \u2014 that 's all . He is n't nearly so nice as he used to be ; and he has even less imagination than ever ! I do n't think I could care for anybody so absolutely matter-of-fact . And yet , only an hour ago I almost \u2014\u2014 But that was before ! PART XXI THE FEELINGS OF A MOTHER . In the Morning Room . TIME \u2014 Sunday morning ; just after breakfast . Captain ThicknesseDogcart round , eh ? everything in ? All right \u2014 sha n't be a minute .Hallo , Pilliner , you all alone here ?Do n't happen to have seen Lady Maisie about ?", "Mamma ! A penny paper that says such rude things about the Royal Family !", "I am pleased to hear it . But I thought there was something you were going to explain .", "Indeed , that is perfectly unnecessary , Mr. Blair .", "Well , I may tell you that it seems Mr. Spurrell has long been attached , if not actually engaged , to a maid of mine . UndershellYou \u2014 you do n't mean to Miss Phillipson ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Nobody came down with my ladies ; they must have met him in the bus , I expect . What is his name ?", "Very much so indeed , thank you , my lady . The tone of the room downstairs is most superior .", "I should have thought , if they asked one of you to dine , it ought to have been the bull-dog .", "If you call it \u201c coming together , \u201d when I 'm down in the housekeeper 's room , and you 're up above , carrying on with ladies of title !", "Do n't be so solemn , Mr. Undershell ! I 'm sure you can be as comical as any play-actor when you choose !", "Well , I wonder how you discovered that . Though you should n't have said \u201c Miss \u201d \u2014 Lady Maisie Mull is the proper form . UndershellLady Maisie Mull ! I attach no meaning to titles \u2014 and yet nothing but rank could confer such perfect ease and distinction .I should have said Lady Maisie Mull , undoubtedly \u2014 forgive my ignorance . But at least I have divined you . Does nothing tell you who and what I may be ?", "That 's as maybe , my lady . There was one young man that travelled down in the same compartment , and sat next me at supper in the room . I could see he took a great fancy to me from the first , and his attentions were really quite pointed . I am sure I could n't bring myself to repeat his remarks , they were so flattering !", "What ! Not to all those high-flown compliments ? Do you mean to tell me you are only a gay deceiver , then ? UndershellNot a deceiver , no ; and decidedly not gay . I mean I did mean the compliments , of course .I must n't let her suspect anything , or she 'll get talking about it ; it would be too horrible if this were to get round to Lady Maisie or the Culverins \u2014 so undignified ; and it would ruin all my prestige ! I 've only to go on playing a part for a few minutes , and \u2014 maid or not \u2014 she 's a most engaging girl !At a Back Entrance at Wyvern . The Fly has just set down PHILLIPSON and UNDERSHELL . TredwellLady Maisie 's maid , I presume ? I 'm the butler here \u2014 Mr. Tredwell . Your ladies arrived some time back . I 'll take you to the housekeeper , who 'll show you their rooms , and where yours is , and I hope you 'll find everything comfortable .Do you happen to know who it is with you ? PhillipsonI can n't quite make him out \u2014 he 's so flighty in his talk . But he says he belongs to some Mews or other .", "We did happen to encounter each other in one of the galleries , my lady , just for a minute ; though I should n't have expected him to allude to it !", "Liniment ! You always were a flirt , James ! But I 'm not jealous . I 've met a very nice-spoken young man while I 've been here ; he sat next to me at supper , and paid me the most beautiful compliments , and was most polite and attentive \u2014 though he has n't got as far as liniment , at present .", "At all events , you know now , James . And it 's for you to choose between your smart lady friends and me . If you 're fit company for them , you 're too grand for one of their maids .", "Well , I shall be there ; I do n't know if that 's any inducement .UndershellShe is a singularly bewitching creature ; and I 'm starving . Why should n't I stay \u2014 if only to shame these Culverins ? It will be an experience \u2014 a study in life . I can always go afterwards . I will stay .You little know the sacrifice you ask of me , but enough ; I give way . We shall meet \u2014\u2014 in the housekeeper 's room ! PhillipsonYou are a comical little man . You 'll be the death of me if you go on like that !UndershellI feel disposed to be the death of somebody ! Oh , Lady Maisie Mull , to what a bathos have you lured your poet by your artless flattery \u2014 a banquet presided over by your aunt 's butler ! PART VII IGNOTUM PRO MIRIFICO The Amber Boudoir at Wyvern immediately after Lady CANTIRE and her daughter have entered . Lady CantireTea ? oh yes , my dear ; anything warm ! I 'm positively perished \u2014 that tedious cold journey and the long drive afterwards ! I always tell Rupert he would see me far oftener at Wyvern if he would only get the company to bring the line round close to the park gates , but it has no effect upon him !Mr. James Spurrell ! Who 's Mr .\u2014\u2014? Oh , to be sure ; that 's the name of my interesting young poet \u2014 Andromeda , you know , my dear ! Go and be pleasant to him , Albinia , he wants reassuring . Lady CulverinHow do you do , Mr .\u2014 ah \u2014 Spurrell ?I said he ended in \u201c ell \u201d !So pleased to see you ! We think so much of your Andromeda here , you know . Quite delightful of you to find time to run down ! SpurrellWhy , she 's chummy , too ! Old Drummy pulls me through everything !Do n't name it , my la \u2014 hum \u2014 Lady Culverin . No trouble at all ; only too proud to get your summons ! Lady CulverinHe does n't seem very revolutionary !That 's so sweet of you ; when so many must be absolutely fighting to get you !", "Oh , I think I can give a tolerable guess at what you are .", "Oh , I quite understand . I 'll say nothing . I 'm obliged to be careful myself , being maid to Lady Maisie Mull .", "And does that qualify you to dine with bishops and countesses and baronets and the gentry , like one of themselves ?", "And , after all , you 've never told me who you are . Who are you ? UndershellI must not humiliate this poor girl !I ? Oh \u2014 a very insignificant person , I assure you !This is an occasion in which deception is pardonable \u2014 even justifiable !", "You can n't expect me to remember what your writing 's like ; it 's so long since I 've seen it !", "Mr. James Spurrell appears to have elevated himself to a very different sphere from what he occupied when I used to know him , my lady ; though how and why he comes to be where he is , I do n't rightly understand myself at present . Lady MaisieAnd no wonder ! I feel horribly guilty !You must n't blame poor Mr. Spurrell , Phillipson ; he could n't help it ! PhillipsonI 'm not blaming him , my lady . If he prefers the society of his superiors to mine , he 's very welcome to do so ; there 's others only too willing to take his place !", "Especially two-legged ones ! You see , I 've been told all about it !", "Tell me , James , is it you that 's been writing a pink book all over silver cutlets ?"], "true_target": ["Am I ? Then it 's your turn now . You might say you 'd never have taken me for a lady 's maid !", "It 's all done now . But you might try and find out how we 're to get to the Court .In the Station Yard at Shuntingbridge . Lady CantireWhat are we waiting for now ? Is my maid coming with us \u2014 or how ?", "You must have been getting on since I knew you . Then you were studying to be a horse-doctor .", "There 's no place that I know of \u2014 except the housekeeper 's room ; and of course you could n't descend so low as that .... James , there 's somebody coming ! Let go my hand \u2014 do you want to lose me my character !SpurrellBut , Emma , stop one \u2014\u2014 She 's gone !... Confound it , there 's the butler and a page-boy coming ! It 's no use staying up here any longer .It 's downright torture \u2014 that 's what it is ! To be tied by the leg in the drawing-room , doing the civil to a lot of girls I do n't care a blow about ; and to know that all the time some blarneying beggar downstairs is doing his best to rob me of my Emma ! Flesh and blood can n't stand it ; and yet I 'm blest if I see any way out of it without offending \u2018 em all round .In the Chinese Drawing-room .", "Andromeda ? They were talking of that downstairs . What made you take to scribbling , James ?", "Oh , I do n't think he suffers much from that .Ah , there he is !", "If he 's found new friends , my lady , I consider myself free to act similarly .", "Well , I should n't have taken you for a groom exactly . UndershellYou are really too flattering !", "Mr. Tredwell says you want to go already ! It can n't be true ! Without even waiting for supper ? UndershellWhy should I wait for supper in this house ?", "Insulting ? Why , it 's what I am ! I 'm maid to Lady Maisie . I thought your mysterious instinct told you all about it ? UndershellA lady 's maid ! Gracious Heaven ! What have I been saying \u2014 or rather , what have n't I ?To \u2014 to be sure it did . Of course , I quite understand that .Oh , confound it all , I wish we were at Wyvern !", "Better than her master , I dare say . I heard of your goings on with some Lady Rhoda or other !", "Well , considering the shortness of our acquaintance , I must say you 've spoken quite plainly enough as it is !", "I would n't recommend it , really , my lady ; her ladyship seems a little upset in her nerves this evening . Lady MaisieIl-y-a de quoi !It might only disturb her , certainly .... I hope they are making you comfortable here , Phillipson ?", "Oh , it was nothing of that sort , Mr. Steptoe ! I 've no objection to repeat what he said . He called me a little green something or other . No ; he said that in the train , though . But he would have it that the old cab-horse was a magic steed , and the fly an enchanted chariot ; and I do n't know what all .It sounded awfully funny as he said it , with his face perfectly solemn like it is now , I assure you it did ! SteptoeI can readily believe it . We shall have you contributing to some of our yumerous periodicals , Mr. Undershell , sir , before long . Such facetious talent is too good to be lost , it reelly is . UndershellI gave her credit for more sense . To make me publicly ridiculous like this !Miss SticklerMossoo , you 're not going ! Why , whatever 's the matter ?", "I said so , did n't I ? Do n't you think it was rather clever of me to spot you , when you 're not a bit horsey-looking ? UndershellAccept my compliments on a power of penetration which is simply phenomenal ! PhillipsonOh , go along \u2014 it 's all talk with you \u2014 I do n't believe you mean a word you say ! UndershellShe 's becoming absolutely vulgar .I do n't \u2014 I do n't ; it 's a manner I have ; you must n't attach any importance to it \u2014 none whatever !", "I do n't know whether he 's magic \u2014 but I 'm sure he 's lame . And stuffiness is not my notion of enchantment .", "Oh , I knew that much . But you let out just now you had to do with a Mews . You are n't a rough-rider , are you ?", "Her ladyship is pretty generous with them to most people , Mr. Tredwell . I 'm sure I 'd have left her long ago , if it was n't for Lady Maisie \u2014 who is a lady , if you like !", "Well , go back to the drawing-room , then ; do n't keep Lady Rhoda waiting for her liniment on my account . I ought to be in my ladies \u2019 rooms by this time . Only do n't be surprised if , whenever you are free to choose , you find you 've come back just too late \u2014 that 's all !SpurrellEmma , I wo n't let you go like this ! Not before you 've told me where I can meet you again here .", "At her Grace 's ? I 'm afraid you 're thinking of somebody else .Mrs. Pomfret , what 's become of the gentleman I travelled down with \u2014 the horse doctor ? I do hope he means to come in ; he would amuse you , Mr. Steptoe . I never heard anybody go on like him ; he did make me laugh so !", "If you 'd written to the addresses I gave you abroad \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["There 's a fly ordered to take her , my lady . Lady CantireThen it 's you who are keeping us !"], "true_target": ["Everything for the Court is on top now , my lady .Lady CantireFor goodness \u2019 sake do n't hop about on that step ! Come in , and let us start .", "Will you let me have your keys , if you please , sir ? SpurrellMy keys !Why , what do you want them for ?Lady CantireIs n't he deliciously unsophisticated ? Quite a child of nature !My dear Mr. Spurrell , he wants your keys to unlock your portmanteau and put out your things ; you 'll be able to dress for dinner all the quicker ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["No , sir , excuse me ; but you can n't hardly do that now . I was to say that Sir Rupert and the ladies would be glad to see you in the droring-room himmediate .", "I do n't see Mr. Adams here this evening , Mrs. Pomfret . What 's the reason of that ?", "Spurrell was the name , though .I do n't know how you came to be aware of it , sir !", "Lor ! Mr. Undershell , you are n't so pressed as all that , are you ? I know my lady would n't like you to go without seeing you personally ; no more would n't Sir Rupert . And I understood you was coming down for the Sunday ! UndershellSo did I \u2014 but not to be treated like this ! TredwellWhy , you know what ladies are . And you could n't see Deerfoot \u2014 not properly , to-night , either .", "Quite correct , Mr. Undershell , sir . She do . Leastwise , I should n't say myself she 'd require to see you \u2014 well , not before to-morrow morning \u2014 but you wo n't mind that , I dare say . UndershellNot mind that ! Take me to her at once !", "If", "Could n't take it on myself , sir , really . There 's no particular \u2018 urry . I 'll let her ladyship know you 're \u2018 ere ; and if she wants you , she 'll send for you ; but , with a party staying in the \u2018 ouse , and others dining with us to-night , it ai n't likely as she 'll have time for you till to-morrow .", "She do n't favour her ma , I will say that for her . By the way , who is the party they brought down with them ? a youngish looking chap \u2014 seemed a bit out of his helement , when he first come in , though he 's soon got over that , judging by the way him and your Lady Rhoda , Miss Dolman , was \u2018 obnobbing together at table !", "But there ai n't any next train up to-night \u2014 being a loop line \u2014 not to mention that I 've sent the fly away , and they can n't spare no one at the stables to drive you in . Come , sir , make the best of it . I 've had my horders to see that you 're made comfortable , and Mrs. Pomfret and me will expect the pleasure of your company at supper in the \u2018 ousekeeper 's room , 9. 30 sharp . I 'll send the steward 's room boy to show you to your room .UndershellThe insolence of these cursed aristocrats ! Lady Culverin will see me when she has time , forsooth ! I am to be entertained in the servants \u2019 hall ! This is how our upper classes honour Poetry ! I wo n't stay a single hour under their infernal roof . I 'll walk . But where to ? And how about my luggage ?", "Excuse me , sir . I thought of that , and it occurred to me as it might be more agreeable to your feelings , sir , if I conveyed an impression that you had only just arrived \u2014 \u2018 aving missed your train , sir . UndershellHow am I to thank you ? that was really most discreet of you \u2014 most considerate !", "Why , he give it to me , I know , when I enounced him ; but it 's gone clean out of my head again . He 's got the Verney Chamber , I know that much ; but what was his name again ? I shall forget my own next . UndershellIn the Verney Chamber ? Then the name must be Spurrell ! PhillipsonSpurrell ! Why , I used to \u2014\u2014 But of course it can n't be him !"], "true_target": ["I 'm not precious careful over this job , it may cost me my situation !", "No , \u2018 ang it all , mamsell , I \u2018 ope there 's no danger o \u2019 that !Delighted to see the Countess keeps as fit as ever , Miss Phillipson ! Wonderful woman for her time o \u2019 life ! Law , she did give the Bishop beans at dinner , and no mistake !", "Ho , indeed ! Well , another time , Mr. Hundershell , if you require information about parties staying with us , p'raps you 'll be good enough to apply to me pussonally , instead of picking it up in some \u2018 ole-and-corner fashion .To return to the individual in question , Miss Phillipson , I should have said myself he was something in the artistic or littery way ; he suttingly did n't give me the impression of being a gentleman .PhillipsonThen it is n't my Jem ! I might have known he would n't be visiting here , and carrying on with Lady Rhodas . He 'd never forget himself like that \u2014 if he has forgotten me !", "Oh , then I know who he is . We expect him right enough . He 's a partner in a crack firm of Vets . We 've sent for him special . I 'd better see to him , if you do n't mind finding your own way to the housekeeper 's room , second door to the left , down that corridor .Good evening to you , Mr .\u2014 ah \u2014 Mr .\u2014\u2014? UndershellMr. Undershell . Lady Culverin expects me , I believe .", "Very good , Sir Rupert .", "It 's too late , sir . They know you 're \u2018 ere !", "I reelly do n't perceive it , sir ; except a little white on your coat-collar behind . Allow me \u2014 there it 's off now .If you 'd like to see for yourself . UndershellA slight pallor , that 's all . I am more presentable than I could have hoped .Have the kindness to take me to Lady Culverin at once . In the Chinese Drawing-room . A few minutes later . Sir RupertAnd so you missed the 4. 55 and had to come on by the 7. 30 which stops everywhere , eh ?", "I am truly rejoiced to hear you say so , sir . And I 'll take care nothing leaks out . And if you 'll be kind enough to follow me to the droring-room , the ladies are waiting to see you . UndershellI may actually meet Lady Maisie Mull after all !But I can n't go down like this . I 'm in such a horrible mess !", "I may be mistook , Steptoe . All I can say is , that when me and James was serving cawfy to the ladies in the drawing-room , some of them had got \u2018 old of a little pink book all sprinkled over with silver cutlets , and , rightly or wrongly , I took it to \u2018 ave some connection with \u2018 im . UndershellPink and silver ! Might I ask \u2014 was it a volume of poetry , called \u2014 er \u2014 Andromeda ? TredwellThat I did not take the liberty of inquiring , sir , as you might be aware if you was a little more familiar with the hetiquette of good society .UndershellTo think that they may be discussing my book in the drawing-room at this very moment , while I \u2014 I \u2014\u2014Ah , it wo n't bear thinking of ! I must \u2014 I will get out of this accursed place ! I have stood this too long as it is ! But I wo n't go till I have seen this fellow Spurrell , and made him give me back my things . What 's the time ? ... ten ! I can go at last .Mrs. Pomfret , will you kindly excuse me ? I \u2014 I find I must go at once .", "He is , Sir Rupert . I \u2014 I considered it my dooty not to allow him to leave the house , not feeling \u2014\u2014", "The boy 's right . He is in here ; them candles is smouldering still .You 'd better come out o \u2019 that , Undershell , and give an account of yourself \u2014 do you \u2018 ear me ?... He ai n't under there !Very well , sir , I know you 're there , and I 've no time to trouble with you at present , so you may as well stay where you are till you 're wanted . I 've \u2018 eard o \u2019 your goings-on from Mr. Adams , and I shall \u2018 ave to fetch Sir Rupert up to \u2018 ave a talk with you by and bye .UndershellAnd I came down here to assert the dignity of Literature ! PART XVI AN INTELLECTUAL PRIVILEGE In the Chinese Drawing-room . TIME \u2014 About 9. 45 P. M .", "If you would prefer anything that has taken place in the room , sir , or in the stables to be \u2018 ushed up \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["I see you 've been punishing him for not happening to be a distinguished poet . I thought he was to have been the fortunate man ?", "Of course , old fellow , if you 'd rather not .But I say , my dear old chap , if that 's how it is with you , I do n't quite see the sense of chucking it up already , do n't you know . No earthly affair of mine , I know ; still , if I could manage to stay on , I would , if I were you .", "Lady Rhoda appears to be consoling him . Poor dear old Archie 's face is quite a study . But really I do n't see that his poetry is so very wonderful ; no more did you this morning !", "I see what it is , you 're preparing to turn his matted head for him ? I warn you you 'll only waste your sweetness . That pretty little Lady Maisie 's annexed him . Ca n't you content yourself with one victim at a time ?", "Off ? To-day ! You do n't mean to tell me your chief is such an inconsiderate old ruffian as to expect you to travel back to your Tommies on the Sabbath ! You could wait till to-morrow if you wanted to . Come now !", "Do n't think anyone was amused \u2014 unless it was Lady Maisie . By the way , he might perhaps have selected a happier topic to hold forth to Sir Rupert on than the scandalous indifference of large landowners to the condition of the rural labourer . Poor dear old boy , he stood it wonderfully , considering . Pity Lady Cantire breakfasted upstairs ; she 'd have enjoyed herself . However , he had a very good audience in little Lady Maisie .", "Oh , I only asked , because the other man said he was wearing your things . Sir RupertI see how it was \u2014 perfectly simple \u2014 rush for the train \u2014 porter put your luggage in \u2014 you got left behind , was n't that it ?"], "true_target": ["And the whole of a horsewhip . He invited my opinion of it as an implement of castigation . Kind of thing , you know , that would impart \u201c proficiency in the trois temps , as danced in the most select circles , \u201d in a single lesson to a lame bear .I drew my little bow at a venture , and I 'm hanged if it has n't touched him up ! There 's something fishy about this chap \u2014 I felt it all along . Still , I do n't see what more I can do \u2014 or I 'd do it , for poor old Gerry Thicknesse 's sake . UndershellI do n't stir a step out of this house while I 'm here , that 's all !", "Let me see \u2014 she was here a little while ago , I fancy .... Why ? Do you want her ?", "Well , tastes differ . I should n't call a cross-country journey in a slow train , with unlimited opportunities of studying the company 's bye-laws and traffic arrangements at several admirably ventilated junctions , the ideal method of spending a cheery Sunday , myself , that 's all . Captain ThicknesseDare say it will be about as cheery as stoppin \u2019 on here , if it comes to that .", "Beastly bad form , I call it \u2014 with a fellow you do n't know . You 'll get yourself into trouble some day . And you could n't even bring your own ridiculous booby-trap off , for here the beggar comes , as if nothing had happened . ArchieConfound him ! The best booby trap I ever made !", "There 's only one drawback to that highly desirable arrangement . The songster has unostentatiously retired to roost . So I 'm afraid you 'll have to do without your poetry this evening \u2014 that is , unless you care to avail yourself again of my services ? Miss SpelwaneIt is too mean of you . You must have told him !", "Ah , well , he 's here to read them for himself now . I dare say he 'd be delighted to be asked .", "If you want to say good-bye , old fellow , now 's your chance !", "I admit we were most of us a wee bit chippy at breakfast . The bard conversed \u2014 I will say that for him \u2014 but he seemed to diffuse a gloom somehow . Shut you up once or twice in a manner that might almost be described as damned offensive ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["My dear sir , not on any account \u2014 could n't hear of it ! My wife , I 'm sure , will say the same . Lady CulverinI hope Mr. Spurrell will continue to be our guest precisely as before \u2014 that is , if he will forgive us for putting him into another room . SpurrellIt 's no use ; I can n't get rid of \u2018 em ; they stick to me like a lot of blooming burrs !Your ladyship is very good , but \u2014\u2014 Well , the fact is , I 've only just found out that a young lady I 've long been deeply attached to is in this very house . She 's a Miss Emma Phillipson \u2014 maid , so I understand , to Lady Maisie \u2014 and , without for one moment wishing to draw any comparisons , or to seem ungrateful for all the friendliness I 've received , I really and truly would feel myself more comfortable in a circle where I could enjoy rather more of my Emma 's society than I can here ! Sir RupertPerfectly natural ! and \u2014 hum \u2014 sorry as we are to lose you , Mr. Spurrell , we \u2014 ah \u2014 must n't be inconsiderate enough to keep you here a moment longer . I 've no doubt you will find the young lady in the housekeeper 's room \u2014 any one will tell you where it is .... Good night to you , then ; and , remember , we shall expect to see you in the field on Tuesday .", "There , there , Rohesia , it was your mistake ; but as we are indebted to it for the pleasure of making Mr. Spurrell 's acquaintance \u2014\u2014", "Ha-ha ! Athletic young chap that . Glad to see him in the field next Tuesday . By the way , Albinia , you 've heard how Thicknesse here contrived to miss his train this morning ? Our gain , of course ; but still we must manage to get you back to Aldershot to-night , my boy , or you 'll get called over the coals by your colonel when you do put in an appearance , hey ? Now , let 's see ; what train ought you to catch ?Lady CantireAllow me , Rupert , my eyes are better than yours . I will look out his trains for him .Just as I thought ! Quite impossible for him to reach North Camp to-night now . There is n't a train till six , and that gets to town just too late for him to drive across to Waterloo and catch the last Aldershot train . So there 's no more to be said .Captain ThicknesseOh , well , dessay they wo n't kick up much of a row if I do n't get back till to-morrow ,\u2014 or the day after , if it comes to that . UndershellIt sha n't come to that \u2014 if I can prevent it ! Lady Maisie is quite in despair , I can see .Indeed ? I was \u2014 a \u2014 not aware that discipline was quite so lax as that in the British Army . And surely officers should set an example of \u2014\u2014Captain ThicknesseIt 's like this , Lady Culverin . Somehow I \u2014 I muddled up the dates , do n't you know . Mean to say , got it into my head to-day was the 20th , instead of only the 18th .That 's how it was .", "Spelwane .", "Wish we 'd asked you a month ago , if you 're fond of shooting . Thought you might look down on sport , perhaps . SpurrellSport ? Why , he 's talking of birds \u2014 not the horse !Me , Sir Rupert ? Not much ! I 'm as keen on a day 's gunning as any man , though I do n't often get the chance now . Sir RupertCome , he do n't seem strong against the Game Laws !Thought you did n't look as if you sat over your desk all day ! There 's hunting still , of course . Do n't know whether you ride ?", "Well , my dear , you see he is still here \u2014 er \u2014 fortunately for us . If you 'll excuse me , I 'll leave Mr. Blair to entertain you ; got to speak to Adams about something .UndershellThis must be Lady Maisie 's mamma . Better be civil to her , I suppose ; but I can n't stay here and entertain her long !Lady Cantire , I \u2014 er \u2014 have an appointment for which I am already a little late ; but before I go , I should like to tell you how much pleasure it has given me to know that my poor verse has won your approval ; appreciation from \u2014\u2014", "No luggage , eh ? Well , well , it 's of no consequence . But I 'll ask about it \u2014 I dare say it 's all right .Captain ThicknesseSure to have turned up , you know \u2014 man will have seen that . Should n't altogether object to a glass of sherry and bitters before dinner . Do n't know how you feel \u2014 suppose you 've a soul above sherry and bitters , though ?", "Vivien , my dear , let me introduce Mr. Shorthorn \u2014 Miss", "So I understand from Mr. Spurrell . Is he here still ?", "My dear Rohesia , I do n't know and I do n't care !", "Do you , though ?Allow me to hope that you will continue to enjoy the pleasures of anticipation as long as possible .Well , are you coming ?UndershellIf they think I 'm going to be patronised , or suppress my honest convictions \u2014\u2014! Now I 'll go and pick those \u2014\u2014Ah , Lady Maisie , I have been trying to find you . I had plucked a few snowdrops , which I promised myself the pleasure of presenting to you . Unfortunately they \u2014 er \u2014 failed to reach their destination . Lady MaisieThanks , Mr. Blair ; I am only sorry you should have given yourself such unnecessary trouble . UndershellI have another piece of intelligence which you may hear less \u2014 er \u2014 philosophically , Lady Maisie . Your bete noire has returned . Lady MaisieMy bete noire , Mr. Blair ?", "Fact is , you see , we made a mistake . Very ridiculous , but we 've been taking that young fellow , Mr. Spurrell , for you all this time ; so we never thought of inquiring whether you 'd come or not . It was only just now he told us how he 'd met you in the Verney Chamber , and the very handsome way , if you will allow me to say so , in which you had tried to efface yourself . UndershellI did n't expect him to take that view of it !I \u2014 I felt I had no alternative .", "Half an hour to lunch ! Anybody like to come round to the stables ? I 'm going to see how my wife 's horse Deerfoot is getting on . Fond of horses , eh , Mr .\u2014 a \u2014 Undershell ? Care to come with us ? UndershellI 've seen quite enough of that beast already !You must really excuse me , Sir Rupert . I am at one with Mr. Ruskin \u2014 I detest horses ."], "true_target": ["Got some food at Shuntingbridge , eh ? Afraid they gave you a wretched dinner ?", "Chatteris . Do n't know her ? Come this way , and I 'll find her for you .", "Ah , how d'ye do ?What the deuce am I to say to this fellow ?Glad to see you here , Mr. Spurrell \u2014 heard all about you \u2014 Andromeda , eh ? Hope you 'll manage to amuse yourself while you 're with us ; afraid there 's not much you can do now though . SpurrellHorse in a bad way ; time they let me see it .Well , we must see , sir ; I 'll do all I can .", "Quite right , Tredwell . I should have been most seriously annoyed if I had found that a guest we were all anxiously expecting had left the Court , owing to some fancied \u2014\u2014 Where is he now ? TredwellIn \u2014 in the Verney Chamber . Leastways \u2014\u2014", "And how did you get on to Wyvern \u2014 been here long ?", "Ha , Maisie , my dear , glad to see you ! Well , Rohesia , how are you , eh ? You 're looking uncommonly well ! No idea you were here ! SpurrellSir Rupert ! He 'll hoof me out of this pretty soon , I expect ! Lady CantireWe have been in the house for the best part of an hour , Rupert \u2014 as you might have discovered by inquiring \u2014 but no doubt you preferred your comfort to welcoming so unimportant a guest as your sister ! Sir RupertBeginning already !Very sorry \u2014 got rather wet riding \u2014 had to change everything . And I knew Albinia was here . Lady CantireWell , we wo n't begin to quarrel the moment we meet ; and you are forgetting your other guest .Mr. Spurrell \u2014 the poet \u2014 wrote Andromeda .Mr. Spurrell , come and let me present you to my brother .", "You did an uncommon fine thing , sir , and I 'm afraid you received treatment on your arrival which you had every right to resent . UndershellI hoped he did n't know about the housekeeper 's room !Please say no more about it , Sir Rupert . I know now that you were entirely innocent of any \u2014\u2014 Sir RupertGood Gad ! you did n't suppose I had any hand in fixing up that booby-trap , or whatever it was , did you ? Young fellows will get bear-fighting and playing idiotic tricks on one another , and you seem to have been the victim \u2014 that 's how it was . Have you had anything to eat since you came ? If not \u2014\u2014 UndershellThank you , I \u2014 I have dined .So he does n't know where , after all ! I will spare him that .", "He 's clear it is n't navicular , which Adams was afraid of , and he thinks , with care and rest , you know , the horse will be as fit as a fiddle in a very few days . UndershellJust exactly what I told them ; but the fools would n't believe me !", "Phillipson ? Oh , why , \u2018 pon my word , my dear , did n't think of asking .", "Ah ? Pity . We 're rather fond of \u2018 em here . But we can n't expect a poet to be a sportsman , eh ?", "Let me see \u2014 ha \u2014 yes , you take in Mrs .", "Ah .Then where \u2014\u2014? But that can be arranged . Go up and explain to Mr. Undershell that we have only this moment heard of his arrival ; say we understand that he has been obliged to come by a later train , and that we shall be delighted to see him , just as he is . SpurrellHe was worth looking at just as he was , when I saw him ! PillinerBy a later train ? Then , how the deuce did his clothes \u2014\u2014? Oh , well , however it was , it do n't concern me .", "Take you up now , if you like , Mr. Spurrell \u2014 it 's only just seven , though . Suppose you do n't take an hour to dress , eh ?", "You see , the shooting 's done now . SpurrellThey might have waited till I 'd seen the horse before they shot him ! After calling me in like this !Oh , I 'm sorry to hear that , Sir Rupert . I wish I could have got here earlier , I 'm sure ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["What we call the \u2018 ousekeeper 's room , among ourselves , sir .", "I never \u2018 eard nothink of no porkmanteau , sir !", "What ! me go into the dinin \u2019 -  \u2018 all , with all the swells at table ? I durs n't . I should get the sack from old Treddy ."], "true_target": ["But Thomas has to wait at table , and besides , he says as he laid out the dress things , and the gen'lman as is in the Verney Chamber is a wearin \u2019 of \u2018 em now , sir . UndershellBut they 're mine ! Confound his impudence ! Here , I 'll write him a line at once .There , see that the gentleman of the Verney Chamber gets this at once , and bring me his answer .", "Yes , sir . And I was to say as supper 's at ar-past nine , but Mrs. Pomfret would be \u2018 appy to see you in the Pugs \u2019 Parlour whenever you pleased to come down and set there .", "No , sir .I believe he 's a bit dotty , I do . I do n't understand a word he 's been a-talking of ! UndershellA cockloft , with a painted iron bedstead , a smoky chimney , no bell , and a text over the mantelpiece ! Thank Heaven , that fellow Drysdale can n't see me here ! But I will not sleep in this place , my pride will only just bear the strain of staying to supper \u2014 no more . And I 'm hanged if I go down to the housekeeper 's room till hunger drives me . It 's not eight yet \u2014 how shall I pass the time ? Ha , I see they 've favoured me with pen and ink . I will invoke the Muse . Indignation should make verses , as it did for Juvenal ; and he was never set down to sup with slaves !In the Verney Chamber . SpurrellMy word , what a room ! Carpet hung all over the walls , big fourposter , carved ceiling , great fireplace with blazing logs ,\u2014 if this is how they do a vet here , what price the other fellows \u2019 rooms ? And to think I shall have to do without dinner , just when I was getting on with \u2018 em all so swimmingly ! I must . I can n't , for the credit of the profession \u2014 to say nothing of the firm \u2014 turn up in a monkey jacket and tweed bags , and that 's all I 've got except a nightgown !... It 's all very well for Lady Maisie to say , \u201c Take everything as it comes , \u201d but if she was in my fix !... And it is n't as if I had n't got dress things either . If only I 'd brought \u2018 em down , I 'd have marched in to dinner as cool as a \u2014\u2014Hullo ! What 's that on the bed ?Shirt ! white tie ! socks ! coat , waistcoat , trousers \u2014 they are dress clothes !... And here 's a pair of brushes on the table ! I 'll swear they 're not mine \u2014 there 's a monogram on them \u2014 \u201c U. G . \u201d What does it all mean ? Why , of course ! regular old trump , Sir Rupert , and naturally he wants me to do him credit . He saw how it was , and he 's gone and rigged me out ! In a house like this , they 're ready for emergencies \u2014 keep all sizes in stock , I dare say .... It is n't \u201c U. G . \u201d on the brushes \u2014 it 's \u201c G. U . \u201d \u2014 \u201c Guest 's Use . \u201d Well , this is what I call doing the thing in style ! Cinderella 's nothing to it ! Only hope they 're a decent fit .Come , the shirt 's all right ; trousers a trifle short \u2014 but they 'll let down ; waistcoat \u2014 whew , must undo the buckle \u2014 hang it , it is undone ! I feel like a hooped barrel in it ! Now the coat \u2014 easy does it . Well , it 's on ; but I shall have to be peeled like a walnut to get it off again .... Shoes ? ah , here they are \u2014 pair of pumps . Phew \u2014 must have come from the Torture Exhibition in Leicester Square ; glass slippers nothing to \u2018 em ! But they 'll have to do at a pinch ; and they do pinch like blazes ! Ha , ha , that 's good ! I must tell that to the Captain .Well , I can n't say they 're up to mine for cut and general style ; but they 're passable . And now I 'll go down to the drawing-room and get on terms with all the smarties !PART IX THE MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURE In the Chinese Drawing-room at Wyvern . TIME \u2014 7. 50 . Lady CULVERIN is alone , glancing over a written list . Lady CantireDown already , Albinia ? I thought if I made haste I should get a quiet chat with you before anybody else came in . What is that paper ? Oh , the list of couples for Rupert . May I see ?My dear , you 're not going to inflict that mincing little Pilliner boy on poor Maisie ! That really wo n't do . At least let her have somebody she used to . Why not Captain Thicknesse ? He 's an old friend , and she 's not seen him for months . I must alter that , if you 've no objection .And then you 've given my poor poet to that Spelwane girl ! Now , why ?", "This is the room I was told , sir . You 'll find candles on the mantelpiece , and matches ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Precisely \u2014 nor to \u2014 ah \u2014 run away upon , dear lady . I am wholly at your mercy , you perceive ! Lady CantireThen you admit you 're beaten ? Oh , I do n't despair of you yet , Bishop .", "If I had thought my \u2014 ah \u2014 criticisms were to be repeated \u2014 I might say misrepresented , as the Countess has thought proper to do , Mr. Spurrell , I should not have ventured to make them . At the same time , you must be conscious yourself , I think , of certain blemishes which would justify the terms I employed .", "My dear Lady Cantire , here is our youthful poet , at the eleventh hour .\u201c Sic me servavit Apollo ! \u201dPART XVII A BOMB SHELL In a Gallery near the Verney Chamber . TIME \u2014 Same as that of the preceding Part . SpurrellI must say it 's rather rough luck on that poor devil . I get his dress suit , and all he comes in for is my booby-trap !Emma !! It 's never you ! How do you come to be here ? PhillipsonThen it was my Jem after all !I 'm here in attendance on Lady Maisie Mull , being her maid . If I was at all curious \u2014 which I 'm not \u2014 I might ask you what you 're doing in such a house as this ; and in evening dress , if you please !"], "true_target": ["Indeed ? I had no conception that such a pleasure was in store for me !This must be the penance for breaking my rule of never dining out on Saturday ! Severe \u2014 but not unmerited !", "I did not refer to the setting of the tale , and the portions I object to are scarcely trifles . But pardon me if I prefer to end a discussion that can hardly be other than unprofitable .A most arrogant , self-satisfied , and conceited young man \u2014 a truly lamentable product of this half-educated age ! SpurrellWell , he may be a dab at dogmas \u2014 he do n't know much about dogs . Drummy 's got a constitution worth a dozen of his ! Lady CulverinOh , Mr. Spurrell , Lord Lullington is most anxious to know you . If you will come with me .I do wish Rohesia would n't force me to do this sort of thing !Lord LullingtonI suppose I ought to know all about his novel , or whatever it is he 's done .Very pleased to make your acquaintance , Mr. Spurrell ; you 've \u2014 ah \u2014 delighted the world by your Andromeda . When are we to look for your next production ? Soon , I hope . SpurrellHe 's after a pup now ! Never met such a doggy lot in my life !Er \u2014 well , my lord , I 've promised so many as it is , that I hardly see my way to \u2014\u2014 Lord LullingtonTake my advice , my dear young man , leave yourself as free as possible . Expect you to give us your best , you know .SpurrellGive it ! He wo n't get it under a five-pound note , I can tell him .I say , what do you think the old Bishop 's been up to ? Pitching into Andromeda like the very dooce \u2014 says she 's sickly ! Miss SpelwaneHe brings his literary disappointments to me , not Maisie !How dreadfully unjust ! Oh , I 've dropped my fan \u2014 no , pray do n't trouble ; I can pick it up . My arms are so long , you know \u2014 like a kangaroo 's \u2014 no , what is that animal which has such long arms ? You 're so clever , you ought to know !", "I confess I am less sanguine .Shall I have strength to bear these buffets with any remains of Christian forbearance through three more courses ? Ha , thank Heaven , the salad !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["ShorthornBy the bye , I have n't asked you what you thought about these \u2014 er \u2014 revolting daughters ?"], "true_target": ["ShorthornGood thing getting this rain at last ; a little more of this dry weather and we should have had no grass to speak of ! Miss SpelwaneAnd now you will have some grass to speak of ? How fortunate ! SpurrellI say , Lady Maisie , I 've just been told I 've got to take in a married lady . I do n't know what to talk to her about . I should feel a lot more at home with you . Could n't we work it somehow ? Lady MaisieWhat a fearful suggestion \u2014 but I simply dare n't snub him !I 'm afraid , Mr. Spurrell , we must both put up with the partners we have ; most distressing , is n't it \u2014 but !Captain ThicknesseGad , that 's pleasant ! I knew I 'd better have gone to Aldershot !I 've been told off to take you in , Lady Maisie \u2014 not my fault , do n't you know ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Oh , I 'm satisfied .Left my cigarette-case upstairs \u2014 horrid bore \u2014 must go and get it ."], "true_target": ["Prefer my own .I knew I was right . That bounder is meaning to scribble some rot about us all ! He 's goin \u2019 straight up to his room to do it .... Well , he may find a little surprise when he gets there ! Captain ThicknesseMust n't let this poet fellow think I 'm jealous ; dare say , after all , there 's nothing serious between them . Not that it matters to me ; any way , I may as well talk to him . I wonder if he knows anything about steeplechasin \u2019 .In a Corridor leading to the Housekeeper 's Room . TIME \u2014 9. 30 P. M . UndershellIf I was n't absolutely compelled by sheer hunger , I would not touch a morsel in this house . But I can n't get my things back till after ten . As soon as ever I do , I will insist on a conveyance to the nearest inn . In the meantime I must sup . After all , no one need know of this humiliating adventure . And if I am compelled to consort with these pampered menials , I think I shall know how to preserve my dignity \u2014 even while adapting myself to their level . And that girl will be there \u2014 a distinctly redeeming fact in the situation . I will be easy \u2014 affable , even ; I will lay aside all foolish pride ; it would be unreasonable to visit their employer 's snobbery upon their unoffending heads . I hear conversation inside this room . This must be the door . I \u2014 I suppose I had better go in .PART XII DIGNITY UNDER DIFFICULTIES In the Housekeeper 's Room at Wyvern ; Mrs. POMFRET , the Housekeeper , in a black silk gown and her smartest cap , is seated in a winged armchair by the fire , discussing domestic politics with Lady CULVERIN 'S maid , Miss STICKLER . The Chef , M. RIDEVOS , is resting on the sofa , in languid converse with Mlle . CHIFFON , Miss SPELWANE 'S maid ; PILLINER 'S man , LOUCH , watches STEPTOE , Sir RUPERT 'S valet , with admiring envy , as he makes himself agreeable to Miss PHILLIPSON , who is in demi-toilette , as are all the other ladies \u2019 maids present . Miss SticklerAll I do say , Mrs. Pomfret , ma'am , is this : if that girl Louisa marches into the pew to-morrow , as she did last Sunday , before the second laundry maid \u2014 and her only under-scullery maid \u2014 such presumptiousness should be put a stop to in future !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Chiffon . And me , my poor friend , how I have suffered from the cookery of these others \u2014 I who have the stomach so feeble , so fastidious ! Figure to yourself an existence upon the villainous curry , the abominable \u201c Iahristue , \u201d beloved by these barbarians , but which succeed with me not at all \u2014 oh , but not at all ! Since I am here \u2014 ah , the difference ! I digest as of old \u2014 I am gay . But next week to return with mademoiselle to the curry , my poor friend , what regrets !"], "true_target": ["Chiffon . As you for Frenchman , hein ?", "ChiffonYou have the air fatigued , my poor friend ! Oh , there \u2014 but fatigued !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Ridevos . For me , dear mademoiselle , for me the regrets \u2014 to hear no more the conversation , so spiritual , so sympathetic , of a fellow-countrywoman . For remark that here they are stupid \u2014 they comprehend not . And the old ones they roll at me the eyes to make terror . Behold this Gorgon who approaches . She adores me , my word of honour , this ruin !Miss SticklerSo you 've felt equal to joining us for once , Mossoo ! We feel it a very \u2018 igh compliment , I can assure you . We 've really been feeling quite \u2018 urt at the way you keep to yourself \u2014 you might be a regular \u2018 ermit for all we see of you !", "RidevosFor me it is too moch \u2018 appiness . For anozzer , ah !PhillipsonWhy , I 'd no idea I should meet you here , Sarah ! And how have you been getting on , dear ? Still with \u2014\u2014? Miss DolmanHer grace ? No , we parted some time ago . I 'm with Lady Rhoda Cokayne at present .You need n't say anything here of your having known me at Mrs. Dickenson 's . I could n't afford to have it get about in the circle I 'm in that I 'd ever lived with any but the nobility . I 'm sure you see what I mean . Of course I do n't mind your saying we 've met .", "Ridevos . It is for zat I do not remmain ! Zey \u2018 ave not toch him ; my pyramide , result of a genius stupend , enorme ! to zem he is nossing ; zey retturn him to crash me ! To-morrow I demmand zat miladi accept my demission . Ici je souffre trop !Miss SticklerIt does seem to have upset him ! Shall I go after him and see if I can n't bring him round ?"], "true_target": ["Ridevos . Broken , Mademoiselle , absolutely broken . But what will you ? This night I surpass myself . I achieve a masterpiece \u2014 a sublime pyramid of quails with a sauce that will become classic . I pay now the penalty of a veritable crisis of nerves . It is of my temperament as artist .", "Ridevos . For invent , dear Mees , for create , ze arteeste must live ze solitaire as of rule . To-night \u2014 no ! I emairge , as you see , to res-tore myself viz your smile . Miss SticklerWell , I 've always said , Mossoo , and I always will say , that for polite \u2018 abits and pretty speeches , give me a Frenchman !", "Ridevos . Pairmeet zat I make my depart . I am cot at ze art ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Do , Mr. Undershell , please . I do love a good laugh . UndershellI \u2014 you really must excuse me . I said nothing worth repeating . I do n't remember that I was particularly \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["My dear Emma ! It is nice seeing you again \u2014 such friends as we used to be !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["It strikes me he 's more of a sporting character , Tredwell . I know when I was circulating with the cigarettes and so on , in the hall just now , he was telling the Captain some anecdote about an old steeplechaser that was faked up to win a selling handicap , and it tickled me to that extent I could hardly hold the spirit-lamp steady .", "Phillipson 's blushes by all manner of means ."], "true_target": ["Pardon me . Afraid I was indiscreet . We must spare Miss", "Now you 're too severe , Miss Stickler , you are indeed . An innocent little Judy Mow like that ! TredwellDo n't answer me , sir . Ham I butler \u2018 ere , or ham I not ? I 've a precious good mind to report you for such a hignorant blunder .... I do n't want to hear another word about the gentleman 's cloes \u2014 you 'd no hearthly business for to do such a thing at all !That Thomas is beyond everything \u2014 stoopid hass as he is !", "No , no , Tredwell , my dear fellah , you do n't understand our friend here \u2014 he 's a bit of a wag , do n't you see ? He 's only trying to pull your leg , that 's all ; and , Gad , he did it too ! But you must n't take liberties with this gentleman , Mr. Undershell ; he 's an important personage here , I can tell you ! UndershellBut I never meant \u2014 if you 'll only let me explain \u2014\u2014TredwellI 'm accustomed , Mr. Hundershell , to be treated in this room with respect and deference \u2014 especially by them as come here in the capacity of guests . From such I regard any attempt to pull my leg as in hindifferent taste \u2014 to say the least of it . I wish to \u2018 ave no more words on the subjick , which is a painful one , and had better be dropped , for the sake of all parties . Mrs. Pomfret , I see supper is on the table , so , by your leave , we had better set down to it . PhillipsonNever mind him , pompous old thing ! It was awfully cheeky of you , though . You can sit next me if you like . UndershellI shall only make things worse if I explain now . But , oh , great Heavens , what a position for a poet ! PART XIII WHAT 'S IN A NAME ? At the Supper-table in the Housekeeper 's Room . Mrs. POMFRET and TREDWELL are at the head and foot of the table respectively . UNDERSHELL is between Mrs. POMFRET and Miss PHILLIPSON . The Steward 's Room Boy waits ."], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["It 's dry enough in \u2018 ere , sir , as you may see ; nor yet he ai n't been standing about in no wet . Still , there it is , you see ! UndershellWhat a fool he must be not to drive it out ! Of course it must annoy the horse .I do n't see it ; but I 'm quite willing to take your word for it .", "I do n't know how you can expect to see it , sir , without you look inside of the \u2018 oof for it . UndershellIt 's not alive \u2014 it 's something inside the hoof . I suppose I ought to have known that .Just so ; but I see no necessity for looking inside the hoof .", "Mr. Checkley , our \u2018 ed coachman , Mr. Undershell . He 's coming in along with us to \u2018 ear what you say , if you 've no objections . UndershellI must make a friend of this coachman , or else \u2014\u2014I shall be charmed , Mr. Checkley . I 've only a very few minutes to spare ; but I 'm most curious to see this horse of yours .", "Ah , that 's where me and Mr. Checkley differ . According to me , it ai n't to do with the shoulder at all \u2014 it 's a deal lower down .... I 'll \u2018 ave him out of the box and you 'll soon see what I mean . UndershellPray do n't trouble on my account . I \u2014 I can see him capitally from where I am , thanks .", "Well , if you do n't take my view , I should ha \u2019 thought as you 'd want to feel the \u2018 orse 's pulse .", "You 'd better speak to Mr. Checkley about that , sir ; it ai n't in my department , you see . I 'll fetch him round , if you 'll wait here a minute ; he 'd like to hear what you think about the \u2018 orse .UndershellA very civil fellow this ; he seems quite anxious to show me this animal ! There must be something very remarkable about it .", "Right , sir ; you get your \u2018 at and coat , and come along with me , and you shall see him at once .PART XIV LE VETERINAIRE MALGRE LUI Outside the Stables at Wyvern . TIME \u2014 About 10 P. M . UndershellNow is my time to arrange about getting away from here .By the bye , I suppose you can let me have a conveyance of some sort \u2014 after I 've seen the horse ? I \u2014 I 'm rather in a hurry .", "So you 're off to-night , sir , are you ? Well , I 'd rather ha \u2019 shown you Deerfoot by daylight , myself ; but there , I dessay that wo n't make much difference to you , so long as you do see the \u2018 orse ? UndershellSo Deerfoot 's a horse ! One of the features of Wyvern , I suppose ; they seem very anxious I should n't miss it . I do n't want to see the beast ; but I dare say it wo n't take many minutes ; and , if I do n't humour this man , I sha n't get a conveyance to go away in !No difference whatever \u2014 to me . I shall be delighted to be shown Deerfoot ; only I really can n't wait much longer ; I \u2014 I 've an appointment elsewhere !"], "true_target": ["He does make it out navicular after all ! What did I tell you , Checkley ? Now p'raps you 'll believe me !", "You can n't depend upon it . He \u2018 eard us coming , and he 's quite artful enough to draw his foot back for fear o \u2019 getting a knock .I 've noticed him very fidgety-like on his forelegs this last day or two .", "You know best , sir . Only I thought you 'd be better able to form a judgment after you 'd seen the way he stepped across . But if you was to come in and examine the frog ?\u2014 I do n't like the look of it myself . UndershellI 'm sure I do n't . I 've a horror of reptiles .You 're very good . I \u2014 I think I wo n't come in . The place must be rather damp , must n't it \u2014 for that ?", "I can n't say as I am . I say as no man can examine a \u2018 orse thoroughly at that distance , be he who he may . And whether I 'm right or wrong , it \u2018 ud be more of a satisfaction to me if Mr. Undershell was to step in and see the \u2018 oof for himself .", "He did you pretty brown , I must say . To \u2018 ear you crowing over me when he was on your side . I could \u2018 ardly keep from larfing !", "You think nobody knows anything about \u2018 orses but yourself , you do ; but if you 're meanin \u2019 to make a story out o \u2019 this against me , why , I shall tell it my way , that 's all !", "Wait till Mr. Undershell has seen him move a bit , and see what he says then .", "I cooled him down with a rubub and aloes ball , and kep \u2018 im on low diet ; but he do n't seem no better . UndershellI did n't gather the horse was unwell .Dear me ! no better ? You do n't say so !"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["Well , there 's sense in that , and I dessay Mr. Undershell wo n't object to obliging you that far . UndershellOh , with pleasure , if you make a point of it .AdamsNow , tell me how this \u2018 ere \u2018 oof strikes you . UndershellThat hoof can n't ; but I 'm not so sure about the others .Well \u2014 er \u2014 it seems to me a very nice hoof . AdamsI was not arsking your opinion of it as a work of art , sir . Do you see any narrering coming on , or do you not ? That 's what I should like to get out of you ! UndershellDoes this man suppose I collect hoofs ! However , I 'm not going to commit myself .H 'm \u2014 well , I \u2014 I rather agree with Mr. Checkley .", "In course , sir , you see what 's running in Mr. Adams 's \u2018 ed all this time , what he 's a-driving at , eh ? UndershellI only wish I did ! This will require tact .I \u2014 I could hardly avoid seeing that \u2014 could I ?", "I 'll be shot if that \u2018 orse has navickler , whoever says so \u2014 there ! AdamsIt 's the \u2018 orse \u2018 ll \u2018 ave to be shot ; worse luck ! I 'd ha \u2019 give something if Mr. Undershell could ha \u2019 shown I was wrong ; but there was very little doubt in my mind what it was all along . UndershellI 've been pronouncing this unhappy animal 's doom without knowing it ! I must tone it down .No \u2014 no , I never said he must be shot . There 's no reason to despair . It \u2014 it 's quite a mild form of er \u2014 clavicular \u2014 not at all infectious at present . And the horse has a splendid constitution . I \u2014 I really think he 'll soon be himself again , if we only \u2014 er \u2014 leave Nature to do her work , you know . AdamsWell , if Nature ai n't better up in her work than you seem to be , it 's \u2018 igh time she chucked it , and took to something else . You 've a lot to learn about navicular , you \u2018 ave , if you can talk such rot as that !", "He ai n't one o \u2019 my \u2018 orses , sir . If he \u2018 ad been \u2014\u2014 But there , I 'd better say nothing about it . AdamsThere , sir , that 's Deerfoot over there in the loose box . UndershellHe seems to me much like any other horse ! However , I can n't be wrong in admiring .Ah , indeed ? he is worth seeing ! A magnificent creature ! AdamsHe 's a good \u2018 orse , sir . Her ladyship wo n't trust herself on no other animal , not since she \u2018 ad the influenzy so bad . She 'd take on dreadful if I \u2018 ad to tell her he would n't be fit for no more work , she would ! UndershellI can quite imagine so . Not that he seems in any danger of that ! CheckleyThere , you \u2018 ear that , Adams ? The minute he set eyes on the \u2018 orse !", "I knew he would ! Now you 've got it , Adams ! I can see Mr. Undershell knows what he 's about . AdamsBut look at this \u2018 ere pastern . You can n't deny there 's puffiness there . How do you get over that ?", "I should think not . And it stands to reason as a vet like yourself 'd spot a thing like navickler fust go off . UndershellA vet ! They 've been taking me for a vet all this time ! I can n't have been so ignorant as I thought . I really do n't like to undeceive them \u2014 they might feel annoyed .To be sure , I \u2014 I spotted it at once ."], "true_target": ["I see he war n't no vet long afore you , but I let it go on for the joke of it . It was rich to see you a-wanting him to feel the \u2018 oof , and give it out navickler . Well , you got his opinion for what it was wuth , so you 're all right !", "If it was what you think , he 'd never be standing like he is now , depend upon it .", "Ah , I 've \u2018 ad to do with a vet or two in my time , but I 'm blest if I ever come across the likes o \u2019 you afore ! UndershellI knew they 'd find me out ! I must pacify them .But , look here , I 'm not a vet . I never said I was . It was your mistake entirely . The fact is , my \u2014 my good men , I came down here because \u2014 well , it 's unnecessary to explain now why I came . But I 'm most anxious to get away , and if you , my dear Mr. Checkley , could let me have a trap to take me to Shuntingbridge to-night , I should feel extremely obliged .AdamsCertainly he will , sir . I 'm sure Checkley \u2018 ll feel proud to turn out , late as it is , to oblige a gentleman with your remarkable knowledge of \u2018 orseflesh . Drive you over hisself in the broom and pair , I should n't wonder !", "If you 'd rubbed a little embrocation into the shoulder , you 'd ha \u2019 done more good , in my opinion , and it 's my belief as Mr. Undershell here will tell you I 'm right . UndershellCa n't afford to offend the coachman !Well , I dare say \u2014 er \u2014 embrocation would have been better .", "In course he do n't , or he 'd ha \u2019 looked the very fust thing , with all his experience . I \u2018 ope you 're satisfied now , Adams ?", "It was you he made a fool of , not me \u2014 and I can prove it \u2014 there !AdamsWell , see \u2018 ere , Checkley , I dunno , come to think of it , as either on us \u2018 ll show up partickler smart over this \u2018 ere job ; and it strikes me we 'd better both agree to keep quiet about it , eh ?And I think I 'll take a look in at the \u2018 ousekeeper'shYpppHeNroom presently , and try if I can n't drop a hint to old Tredwell about that smooth-tongued chap , for it 's my belief he ai n't down \u2018 ere for no good ! PART XV TRAPPED ! In a Gallery outside the Verney Chamber . TIME \u2014 About 10. 15 P. M . UndershellI suppose this is the corridor ? The boy said the name of the room was painted up over the door .... Ah , there it is ; and , yes , Mr. Spurrell 's name on a card .... The door is ajar ; he is probably waiting for me inside . I shall meet him quite temperately , treat it simply as a \u2014\u2014What the devil do you mean , sir , by this outrageous \u2014\u2014? All dark ! Nobody here ! Is there a general conspiracy to insult me ? Have I been lured up here for a brutal \u2014\u2014Ah , there you are , sir !Will you kindly explain what this means ?"], "play_index": 14, "act_index": 14}, {"query": ["\u201c Dune ! Losh , man , d \u2019 ye think I could sleep an \u2019 whusky i \u2019 the hoose ? !\u201d]"], "true_target": ["\u201c Sae ye \u2019 ve gotten back , Sanders ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c No !\u2014 I \u2019 m a Macpherson !\u201d]"], "true_target": ["Intending Emigrant", "\u201c Are you a mechanic ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Object to smoking ?\u201d", "\u2019 Deed , ye may say that , Jock ,\u2014 fine saft fa \u2019 in for the fou folk ."], "true_target": ["Little Smithkin", "Richt brawly , mon . An \u2019 forbye , when I \u2019 d clappit a stove pipe on my head and put on a frockit coat , \u2019 deed , Archie , if there was a Southron but didna \u2019 take me for a Cockney born and bred !Scots Lady\u201c What \u2019 s the reason of this ? Have you not all you want ?\u2014 good rooms , and good fresh air and food , and easy work ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Hoot , toot , the stipit bodie ! Could he no bocht it an \u2019 no paid for \u2019 t ?\u201d] SPORTIVE SONGSYon sky is bonny blue , fair lass , But you boast bluer een ; Yon sun is bricht the noo , fair lass , Your locks hae brichter sheen ; The fowl ahint the windy scaur Flees to its hame awa \u2019, But , oh ! my heart is fleeter far Whene \u2019 er I hear you ca \u2019. The cushat seeks the hazel broch Therein his mate to woo , But I hie to the mountain loch To lilt my lays o \u2019 lo \u2019 e . For here it was I speered you first In a \u2019 your pride o \u2019 race , You set my ardent soul athirst When I gazed on your face ! I sat me down beside that cairn , And looked , a feckless loon , On you , the great MacMuckle \u2019 s bairn , Wi \u2019 ne \u2019 er a pair o \u2019 shoon ! Wi \u2019 winsome feet sae white as milk You paddlit i \u2019 the faem , Your snoodless locks , sae soft as silk , Whished roun \u2019 your gouden kaem ! I looked and looked , and marvelled sair If human you might be ; You laughed to see the wonder-stare That came frae oot my ee . And then you broke the eerie spell , And oh ! your voice was douce ! Like water trickling frae a shell , What time the ebb runs loose ! An \u2019 noo I maun my heart declare !I \u2019 ve lands , and siller , too , to spare , An \u2019 sic a hamestead sweet ! I ken you are MacMuckle \u2019 s chiel , His only dearest ane , But tell him that I lo \u2019 e you weel , And canna bide alane !"], "true_target": ["\u201c Aweel \u2014 he wass mine ance , but he \u2019 s aye daein \u2019 for hessel noo ! !\u201d] SCOTLAND YET What \u2019 s a \u2019 the steer ? Why , man , ye see , Kinghorn is on its mettle , The connysoor o \u2019 ilka ee Frae Anster tae Kingskettle . We \u2019 ll show the warl \u2019 a twa-three things An \u2019 let it ken the morn , man , What way we coronate oor kings In loyal auld Kinghorn , man . There \u2019 ll be the Provost , robes an \u2019 a \u2019\u2014 \u2019 Twill be as guid \u2019 s a play , sir : I \u2019 m tell \u2019 t he \u2019 s boucht a dicky braw In honour o \u2019 the day , sir . Then , dressed in a \u2019 their Sabbath coats , Wi \u2019 collars newly stairchit An \u2019 stickin \u2019 up intil their throats , The Bailies will be mairchit . An \u2019 next the Toon Brass Band ye \u2019 ll see , In scarlet coats an \u2019 braid tae , An \u2019 then the hale I. O. G. T ., Forbye the Fire Brigade tae . There \u2019 ll be an awfu \u2019 crood , ye ken , Sae , as we mairch alang , man , We \u2019 ll hae twa extry p\u00f3licemen Tae clear awa \u2019 the thrang , man . An \u2019 then at nicht \u2014 why , ilka ane Has emptied oot his pockets , An \u2019 mony a guid bawbee has gaen In crackers , squibs an \u2019 rockets . Eh , but I \u2019 d tak \u2019 my aith on this \u2014 The King \u2019 ll be gey sweer , man , Tae bide at hame the morn an \u2019 miss Oor collieshangie here , man . Although I \u2019 m tell \u2019 t in Lunnon tae They \u2019 ve got a Coronation , An \u2019 even Cockneys mean tae hae Their wee bit celebration ; But eh ! I doot yon show \u2019 ll be Disjaskit an \u2019 forlorn , man , Beside the bonny sichts ye \u2019 ll see In loyal auld Kinghorn , man .Old Scots Wife . \u201c Losh me ! There \u2019 s a maun drenkin \u2019 oot o \u2019 twa boattles at ance ! !\u201d\u201c Well , Lauchie , how are you ?\u201d \u201c Man , I \u2019 m wonderfu \u2019 weel , considerin \u2019.\u201d \u201c Considerin \u2019\u2014 what ?\u201d \u201c I did last nicht what I \u2019 ve no dune this thirty year . I gaed to bed pairfutly sober , and I \u2019 m thankfu \u2019 to say I got up this mornin \u2019 no a bit the waur .\u201d]English Tourist\u201c My man , what \u2019 s your charge for rowing me across the frith ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Na \u2014 but \u2014 he has on a pair of ma breeks !\u201d] He looked defiantly at Hendry , who was engaged in searching for coppers in his north-east-by-east-trouser pocket . T \u2019 nowhead said nothing , and Hookey was similarly occupied . At last , the stranger spoke . \u201c Gentlemen ,\u201d he began , \u201c may I say a word ? I may lay claim to some experience in the matter . I travel in humour , and generally manage to do a large business .\u201d He looked round interrogatively . Tammas eyed him with one of his keen glances . Then he worked his mouth round and round to clear the course for a sarcasm . \u201c So you \u2019 re the puir crittur ,\u201d said the stone-breaker , \u201c\u2019 at \u2019 s meanin \u2019 to be a humorist .\u201d This was the challenge . We all knew what it meant , and fixed our eyes on the stranger ."], "true_target": ["\u201c E \u2014\u2014 h , man ! Ye maun be in a vera sma \u2019 way o \u2019 beezeness ! !\u201d] SONG OF A LONDON SCOT . Baker , baker , strike awa \u2019; Ye \u2019 ll na gar me greet , mon . Ken that I defy ye a \u2019; Though bread grow dear as meat , mon . Aits are baith bread an \u2019 meat to me , Wha dinna keep my carriage . Mysel , forbye the barley-bree , Can live richt weel on parritch .Visitor\u201c I was admiring your little carriage , Mrs. McLuckie , so \u2014\u2014\u201d", "\u201c Man , that \u2019 s lucky ! Ah deal i \u2019 pents \u2014 an \u2019 ah can sall ye white leed faur cheaper than ye can buy \u2019 t at ony o \u2019 the shoaps .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Oh , but I use very little . A pound or so serves me over a year .\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Oh , perhaps sixty guineas , or so .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["McDougal . \u201c Hoot , man ! Ye jist poor \u2019 t on ma bap ,an \u2019 I \u2019 ll eat it !\u201d]\u201c Bap ,\u201d a roll .\u2014\u201c A regular Scotch mist , I declare !\u201d Maria the Younger . \u201c Yes , dear , and \u201d\u2014\u2014\u201c somebody doesn \u2019 t like missing a Scotsman ! !\u201d", "M \u2018 Finnan\u201c My dear , you \u2019 ve got pigeon-pie there , I think .\u201d", "I find it \u2014\u2014\u201d"], "true_target": ["McLuckie . \u201c Oh , the brougham ! Yes ; you \u2019 ve no idea what a comfort", "Macfarlane . \u201c Na , na , I \u2019 ll no kill it till the morn . I \u2019 m thinkin \u2019 it \u2019 s goin \u2019 to lay an egg this evenin \u2019!\u201d]\u201c My card , mon ? I hanna got one ! But I \u2019 d hae you to ken that I \u2019 m a Mackintosh !\u201d \u201c You may be a Humbereller for all I knows , but my fare \u2019 s heighteenpence !\u201d]Old Gent\u201c Oh !\u2014 I say !\u2014 Is he ?\u2014 Will he ?\u201d\u2014\u2014\u201c Can he ?\u201d\u2014\u2014", "M \u2018 Glasgie . \u201c Oh , varra weel , thank ye , Mr. Brown , varra weel , indeed ! She canna abide her man . But then , ye ken , there \u2019 s aye a something ! !\u201d]\u201c Oh , mamma , mamma , couldn \u2019 t you interfere ? There \u2019 s a horrid man squeezing something under his arm , and he is hurting it so !\u201d]", "MacShoddy . Well ! that \u2019 ll be very nice for you ! You \u2019 re sure to be invited to the Mansion House in London during the season !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["In the clothes Experience has found to suit the climate best .", "Jist bide at home in Lunnon toun and gang tae Seven Dials ,", "Boswell . And yet , sir , during the course of our tour , you have made a large number of puns .", "For a little salmon-stalking in a place they call Glen Tilt ;", "For a \u2019 the year I hevna seen a single kilt but ane \u2014", "Boswell . Another pun , sir ! \u201c It was another pun , sir !\u201d cried the Doctor , very wrathfully , and I said no more . The next day we visited Stirling . We walked up to the Castle , and admired the magnificent view we there obtained of the surrounding country . We next examined the ramparts . \u201c These old walls , sir ,\u201d said I , \u201c must weigh many thousand tons avoirdupois .\u201d \u201c Sir ,\u201d replied the Doctor , \u201c you should have said pounds Stirling !\u201d \u201c Another pun , sir !\u201d I exclaimed . \u201c It was another pun , sir !\u201d roared the Doctor , and I thought it best to hold my peace .Sympathetic Young Mother . \u201c I wunner ye could be sae cruel as to kill that bonnie wee cauf !\u201d", "Though perhaps a little draughty in the region of the knees ,", "But the maddest o \u2019 delusions mad wi \u2019 which some folks are fillt ,", "Boswell . Sir , may I venture to ask you why you have made so many puns ?Scottish Village Practitioner\u201c Eff the Lunnon doacter \u201d\u2014\u2014\u201c\u2019 ll no allow ye whusky , an \u2019 ye can tak \u2019 nowt but reed wine , theer just twa \u2019 ll dae ye ony guid \u2014 an \u2019 ye \u2019 ll mind o \u2019 them , for they \u2019 re baith monoseelawbic !\u2014 po-or-r-t an \u2019 clair-r-t ! !\u201d] \u201c Sir ,\u201d said Dr. Johnson , \u201c the puns you have noticed are symptoms of a painful disease , known to men of letters as \u2018 the Silly Fever .\u2019 I attribute the commencement of this melancholy malady to the depressing effects of a Scottish climate upon a Londoner in September !\u201d", "Oh , mony are the fallacies that Ignorance \u2019 ll breed ,", "An \u2019 there amang the coasters , hurdy-gurdies , dancin \u2019 bears ,", "Boswell . Indeed , sir !", "Boswell . Sir , I trust you do not call in question my loyalty to the House of Brunswick ?", "I am going down to Scotland , to the country of the kilt ,", "The girls are all in raptures as they gaze at me in turns ,", "The kilt is most becoming , and it hangs with grace and ease ,", "McJoseph\u201c I \u2019 m sure , Mrs. Golightly , that any regret you may possibly feel on that score must be amply compensated for by \u2014 er \u2014 the consciousness of your moral worth , you know ,\u2014 and of your various mental accomplishments !\u201d]", "An \u2019 mony the mistakes a man \u2019 ll get intil his heid ,", "The water it was pourin \u2019 owre his knees intil his shoes ,"], "true_target": ["And if there should be midges \u2014 but no doubt the Scotch are drest", "Is that ye suld gang tae Scotland , gin ye want to see the kilt", "Na ! gin it \u2019 s kilts ye \u2019 re wantin \u2019, dinna win sae mony miles !", "M \u2018 Finnan\u201c A \u2014\u2014 ye . Fa-a \u2019 s for doo tair-rt ? I \u2019 m for neen mysel \u2019!\u201d]", "Briggs loquitur :", "Boswell . Indeed , sir ! May I ask why ?", "Boswell . I confess , sir , that I am dull , and yet I cannot perceive why Wick should be called \u201c The Modern Athens \u201d rather than Edinburgh .", "The dirk that dangles from my waist looks very comme il faut ,", "I \u2019 ve purchased the correct costume and it has just come home .", "Sandy loquitur :", "And mother says they \u2019 ll take me for another Robert Burns .", "Ye \u2019 ll fin \u2019 yer bogus Scotsmen pipin \u2019 bogus Scottish airs .", "A wee bit white-legged Coackney wha \u2019 was trudgin \u2019 through the rain ;", "Boswell . A pun , sir ! \u201c It was a pun , sir !\u201d cried the Doctor , very angrily , and I hastened to change the subject . \u201c I am surprised to find , sir ,\u201d said I , \u201c that Her Majesty does not reside at Edinburgh . Do you not think , sir , that she might use her Scottish Palace at Christmas time ?\u201d \u201c No , sir , I do not think so ,\u201d replied the Doctor , \u201c and I can find no reason for your surprise .\u201d \u201c Indeed , sir !\u201d", "And as I always like to be a Roman when at Rome ,", "Boswell . Sir , if I do not trouble you , will you explain to me why Her Majesty should avoid Edinburgh at Christmas time ?", "An \u2019 eh ! but he was wishin \u2019 for a pair o \u2019 honest trews .", "MacAlister . \u201c No that bad . But is \u2019 t no dreadfu \u2019, man , to be sittin \u2019 in thae chairs at ten shullins apiece !\u201d]Village Doctor\u201c Ah , John ! I \u2019 m sorry to see you in this pitiable condition again !\u201d Grave-Digger . \u201c Toots , sir ! can ye no \u2019 let a \u2019 e little fau \u2019 t o \u2019 mine gae by ? It \u2019 s mony a muckle ane o \u2019 yours I ha \u2019 e happit owre , an \u2019 said naething aboot !\u201d]\u201c The rain seems to be clearing off at last , Sandy .\u201d \u201c Ay , I doot it \u2019 s threatenin \u2019 to be dry !\u201d]Guest\u2014\u201c A \u2014\u2014 h !\u201d\u201c E \u2014\u2014 h ! I \u2019 ll be bad the morn ! !\u201d]", "McLuckie . \u201c Oo aye ! It \u2019 s gey handy ! We \u2019 ve jist jobbit the cab for the coorse weather ! !\u201d]", "And the sporran in my stocking gives a finish , don \u2019 t you know ?"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["That no , sir , but the morrow , gin that nae accident happen , I shall hae the luxury o \u2019 lunching wi \u2019 my bluid cousin , the ex-Baillie o \u2019 Whilknacraigie , a strict temperance mon , wha canna stand whusky . And so I \u2019 m joost drinkin \u2019 up to his soda-water beforehand .Member of the \u201c Northern Shakspeare Society .\u201d \u201c Man , yon Wully Shakspeare maun hae been a maist extr \u2019 o \u2019 dinary pairson ! Theer-r thengs cam \u2019 entil his heid \u2019 at wad never hae com \u2019 ento mine !\u2014 NEVER !\u201d]"], "true_target": ["And for why ? Because we grow it for ye Southrons to eat !"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["Johnson . Why , sir , the very branches put up in honour of the festive season would treat her with disrespect !", "Her Most Gracious Majesty exhibits excellent sense in selecting", "Edinburgh at Christmas time , she would be put to great inconvenience .", "Johnson . Sir , you are right . Sir , I have here found the people so kind-hearted , the city so handsome , and the scenery so magnificent , that I confess it would give me infinite satisfaction were I able to call the town in which I was born the placeof my Perth ! \u201c A pun , sir !\u201d exclaimed our excellent host , and I could not help noticing that he seemed greatly surprised . The Doctor made no reply , but I could see by the working of his countenance that he was suffering pain . We came to our journey \u2019 s end at Wick . \u201c What do you think of this place , sir ,\u201d I asked .", "Johnson . Sir , I believe so still .", "M \u2018 Currie, having ascertained from his landlady that coals are sixpence a scuttle , politely insists on providing a scuttle of his own , and begs to return , with many thanks , the charmingly tasteful article she had intended for his use . ]\u201c If I hold on , I \u2019 ll lose my train ; if I let go , I \u2019 ll fa \u2019! Did ever onybody hear tell o \u2019 sic a predicament ?\u201d]Native\u201c Ah , you \u2019 ve donned the kilt ! Quite killing , I declare ! But why do you wear the Macdonald tartan when your name is Thompson ?\u201d", "Johnson . Why , sir ? Sir , you must be very dull . I say , sir , that", "Wick should be called \u201c The Modern Athens .\u201d"], "true_target": ["Johnson . Sir , you have good grounds for what you assert . I admit , sir , with a feeling of sorrow , that I have made many puns during our tour .", "Johnson . Sir , I am sorry that my meaning should require explanation . I say that the name Edinburgh is appropriate , because I find the city primitive and beautiful . Adam and Eve would , doubtless , have held it in high consideration had they had the advantage of its possession . In short , sir , they would have called it the town of their Eden , or Edinburgh .", "Christmas time , would she not find Holly-rood ?", "Johnson . Sir , were Her Most Gracious Majesty to dwell at", "Balmoral for her residence .", "Johnson . Sir , if Her Most Gracious Majesty visited Edinburgh at", "Johnson . Sir , I do not ; I only question your wisdom .First Traveller\u201c Tak a pench ?\u201d", "Johnson . Sir , you indeed must be dull if you do not associate Wick with the centre of Greece ! I was silent for a few minutes , and then I ventured to make a remark . \u201c Sir ,\u201d said I , \u201c you once expressed a very strong opinion about pun-makers . Sir , you asserted your belief that a man who would make a pun would be capable of picking a pocket .\u201d", "Johnson . Sir , I think that the title of \u201c The Modern Athens \u201d should be conferred upon Wick rather than upon Edinburgh ."], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Od , it \u2019 s an ootlandish place yon ! They tell \u2019 t me they couldna unnerstaun ma awccent !\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c\u2019 Deed , aye . I \u2019 ve just gotten back .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Awccent ! I never heard tell that Fife folk had ony awccent !\u201d] \u201c THE HIELAND BEAUTY \u201d Mickle did I love my Jeanie , Syn \u2019 she wa \u2019 a peekle weanie ,Kittlin \u2019owre the flattit greenie , A \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, Dainty skirrockJeanie . How I coodledin her eekit , Dooningwha \u2019 nae booties creekit Till her twa bright een they leekit , A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, Watting sair her cheekit . Says she , \u201c Let lassies fash their streeps Wi \u2019 drummie stick an \u2019 paudy peeps , Gie me my Tam wi \u2019 squeezy-greeps ,\u201dA \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, \u201c Ane whiskey-toddy on fowre leeps .\u201dWull ye be my ain , my lassie ? Pibroch-peeps wi \u2019 jug and glassie ; Pladdie , too , wi \u2019 ribbon sassie ,A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, All I gie , but hae nae brassie . Says she , \u201c Sin ye \u2019 ve nae brassie-jingle , All the rest is sandie-shingle ; Sae wi \u2019 ye I winna mingle ,\u201d A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, \u201c Steppit ,Tam , I \u2019 ll stoppitsingle .\u201d Noo I seep ma whiskey-toddy , Takin \u2019 speerits wi \u2019 nae boddy : Sup for ane \u2019 s nae sup for twoddy ,A \u2019 sae winsom \u2019, A \u2019 sae hinsom \u2019, Carls , gude night , I \u2019 ll niddy-noddy .A little pickle .Sporting like a kitten .The Lowland language has no equivalent for this word , which in itself is so peculiarly expressive .Whispers soft things .Sitting .Arm round my waist .Four lips .Jaunty .Go away .Remain .Hieland proverb signifying that enough for one is not sufficient for two .Sleep .Gentleman from N. B .\u201c Well , Dugald , what did you think of it ?\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Weel , meenister , ah maun admeet he \u2019 s vera soond , but , oh man ! he \u2019 s no deep ! His pronoonciation \u2019 s no vera gweed ; but ah \u2019 ve nae doobt he \u2019 ll impruv \u2019!\u201d] \u201c It juist took a grip o \u2019 me ,\u201d replied Tammas , without moving a muscle ; \u201c it flashed upon me \u2019 at he \u2019 d no stand that auld song . That \u2019 s where the humour o \u2019 it comes in .\u201d \u201c Ou , ay ,\u201d added Hendry , \u201c Thrums is the place for rale humour .\u201d On the whole , I agree with him . SUNG BY A SCOT IN THE CITY AIR \u2014\u201c Ye banks and braes .\u201d Ye banks and mines a \u2019 ganging doon , How sma \u2019 the sum ye fetch per share ! How flat ye \u2019 ve got , ye railway lines , And a \u2019 the Change sae fu \u2019 o \u2019 care ! Thou \u2019 lt break my heart , thou civic crash , That made my paper fit to burn , Thou mind \u2019 st me o \u2019 departed cash , Departed never to return ! Oft hae I purchased shares gane doon , When panic bade a \u2019 stocks decline , And waited for them to improve , When muckle profit aye was mine . Wi \u2019 lightsome heart I stored the gain Fu \u2019 safe in the Per-Centies Three ; Aweel , when Trust resumes his reign , The rise may mak \u2019 amends to me !First Boatman\u201c That \u2019 s only the weeds he \u2019 s caught .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Did ye hear that Sawney McNab was ta \u2019 en up for stealin \u2019 a coo ?\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Aweel , sir , it was mair like heev \u2019 n than airth ; but e \u2014 h , sir , it \u2019 s just an awfu \u2019 way o \u2019 spennin \u2019 the Sawbath , yon ! !\u201d]"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Ah ! on Friday I \u2019 m to dine with the Browns \u2014\u2014\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c To-morrow ? Oh , nothing particular .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Man , that \u2019 s a petty ! Aw was gaun t \u2019 ask ye to tak \u2019 yer denner wi \u2019 us o \u2019 Friday ! !\u201d]Major Portsoken\u201c I say , Buchanan , this isn \u2019 t \u2014\u2014 the same champagne \u2014\u2014!\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c An \u2019 the next nicht ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Thes es Paisley , sir !\u2014 Paisley ! Celebrated toon , sir !\u2014 Berrth-place o \u2019 th \u2019 poat Tannahul , sir ! And \u2014\u2019 hem ?\u2014 ah \u2019 m a Paisley man mysel \u2019, sir ! Ah was born i \u2019 Paisley \u2014 ah was \u2014\u2014\u201dFirst Parishioner\u201c Verra gled to fall in wi \u2019 ye , sir , an \u2019 mak \u2019 yer acqua \u2019 ntance ! I hinna been at the kirk syne ye cam \u2019, as I wis in Ross-shire .\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c What est ?\u201d Tourist\u201c Pictures , you know \u2014 Statues \u2014 and \u2014\u2014\u201d Native\u201c Oo !\u2014 et \u2019 s the Stukky Feggars ye mean !\u201d\u2014\u2014\u201c Yon \u2019 s et !\u201d]"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Wha-a-t ! Dinna tell me , man ; A \u2019 l no get that for them leevin \u2019.\u201d]"], "true_target": ["\u201c Noo , if it \u2019 s a fair question , hoo much wull ye get for thae kye when ye \u2019 ve feenished them ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c No ; but there \u2019 s a danger o \u2019 wark !\u201d]Widow Woman\u201c Man , ye needna \u2019 be sae scrimpy wi \u2019 t \u2014\u2019 tis for a puir fatherless bairn !\u201d] SOBER SCOTSWillie brewed a peck o \u2019 maut , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Tammas cam \u2019 a-findin \u2019 faut , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! \u201c What \u2019 s this poison ye wad pree ? Put awa \u2019 the barley-bree ! Be a Sober Scot like me !\u201d Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Willie gied a fearsome froun , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Looked as he wad knock him doun Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! \u201c Shober ? Dinna gie me sic Inshults ! Gin I \u2019 m speakin \u2019 thick Lemme gang tae Jerich \u2014 hic !\u201d Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Tam turned up a yellow ee , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! \u201c Man , ye \u2019 re fou as fou can be ;\u201d Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! \u201c Weel , an \u2019, laddie , gin I am , Div ye think I care a \u2014\u2014 Tam ! I am nae teetotal lamb !\u201d Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! \u201c Haud yer havers ! Wha \u2019 s T. T .? Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! What ! A Sober Scot like me ? Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! I , my lad , like ither men , Lo \u2019 e a drappie noo and then ; I am free at noon , ye ken .\u201d Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Hoo it cam \u2019 let wise men tell , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! While they cracked the clock struck twal \u2019, Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ! Will filled up a glass an \u2019, faith , Tammas took it , naethin \u2019 laith , Noo they \u2019 re fou an \u2019 canty baith , Ha , ha , the brewin \u2019 o \u2019 t ."], "true_target": ["\u201c I wadna advise ye tae gang up there !\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Eh !\u201d", "Clerk"], "true_target": ["\u201c Ah \u2019 ll gie ye five shillings !\u201d", "\u201c Weel , ah \u2019 ll gie ye five-an \u2019 - thrippence , an \u2019 deil a bawbee mair ! Is \u2019 t a bargain ? !\u201d]The Doctor \u2019 s Daughter . \u201c I declare you \u2019 re a dreadful fanatic , Mrs. McCizzom . I do believe you think nobody will be saved but you and your minister !\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Aweel , my dear , ah whiles hae ma doobts aboot the meenister !\u201d]First Artist\u201c Yes , this is the best thing I \u2019 ve done .\u201d Second Artist\u201c Mon , dinna let that discoorage ye !\u201d]"], "true_target": ["\u201c A veegetarian !\u2014 Na , na ! ah was born an \u2019 brocht up i \u2019 the", "Free Kirk , an \u2019 a \u2019 m no gaun ta change ma releegion i \u2019 m \u2019 auld days !\u201d]"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c\u2019 Say , mun , rax me owre the pourrie .\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c O , I beg ye \u2019 re paurdon \u2014 han \u2019 me the cream-jug .\u201dLondoner\u201c Well , how do you like the opera , MacAlister ?\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["Guard"], "true_target": ["\u201c I maun !\u201d", "\u201c Ye canna .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c K-a-t-l is no the way to spell \u2018 cattle .\u2019\u201d", "\u201c Naebody could spell wi \u2019 this pen ."], "true_target": ["Drover", "There \u2019 s been owre mony drucken bodies usin \u2019 it !\u201d]"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c A \u2014 weel , it \u2019 s on her young dochter he \u2019 s goin \u2019 to get marri \u2019 t .\u201d", "\u201c Ye ken the Queen \u2014 e-ch ?\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c Na , I hear naething ,\u2014 oo , aye ,\u2014 they were sayin \u2019 Mac", "Callum Mohr \u2019 s son \u2019 s goin \u2019 to get marri \u2019 t !\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Ay ! ay ! An \u2019 wha \u2019 s he goin \u2019 to get marri \u2019 t on ?\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c E \u2014 ch ! Dod ! the Queen mun be the prood woman !! !\u201d]M \u2018 Phusky\u201c Any war news this morning , Brown ?\u201d Brown\u201c Well , freights are low , money seems to be tight , and consols have fallen two \u2014\u2014\u201d M \u2018 Phusky . \u201c Na , but war news , I mean .\u201d Brown\u201c Well , you wouldn \u2019 t wish to hear waur news than that , would you ?\u201d]", "\u201c Ay \u2014 I ken the Queen .\u201d"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["\u201c Weel , sir , my gudewife says it \u2019 s looking just fine whaur ye tattoo \u2019 d it .\u201d]The Laird\u201c Hum ! And you say , Saunders , that the fellow was impudent ?\u201d"], "true_target": ["\u201c This is nae Sunday , mun !\u2014 it \u2019 s Wednesday \u2014\u2014\u201d", "\u201c Aweel ! Think o \u2019 that , noo ! We hinna seen a sowl for three months , an \u2019 there \u2019 s nae an almanack i \u2019 the hoose , an \u2019 we \u2019 ve gotten jummelt up a \u2019 th \u2019 gether ! !\u201d]"], "play_index": 15, "act_index": 15}, {"query": ["Well , sir , if you ask me outright \u2014 things is pretty bad .", "If servants wanted as good characters from masters as masters want from servants , I \u2019 ave an idea that many gentlemen would \u2019 ave to clean their own boots .", "I thought your lordship would like to go round to the War Office .", "Not at home , madam .", "I \u2019 ll just go and fetch it , sir . Mr. Halstane lent it to the gentleman upstairs .", "Begging your pardon , sir , I looked you up in the Peerage before I accepted the situation .", "It has , madam .", "I \u2019 ope you \u2019 ll suit your own convenience , sir .I don \u2019 t know what these tradespeople are coming to when they expect gentlemen to pay their bills .", "If it \u2019 s just a matter of wages , sir , I shall be \u2019 appy to wait till it suits your convenience to pay me .", "Mr. Halstane is not at home , madam .", "Yes , sir . But there \u2019 s a person waiting to see him .", "I never gave the subject a thought , madam .", "Mr. Rixon has just been , sir . He \u2019 s gone on to the club .", "To \u2019 ave the first cut in , sir .", "7869 Gerrard , sir .", "You \u2019 ll have to wait till midnight , because I don \u2019 t expect him in .", "Them being frequented in peace and war , and not subject to clandestine removals . In peace men drink to celebrate their \u2019 appiness , and in war to drown their sorrow .", "Twice , madam .", "No , sir .", "There , you can see for yourself that Mr. Halstane is not at home .", "Pot-still , sir . Fifteen years in bottle .", "Yes , sir .", "No , sir . He \u2019 s gone to his club .", "I \u2019 m very comfortable here , sir . Can you give me no reason for this decision ?", "I \u2019 m very sorry , madam . Mr. Halstane went out not five minutes ago . I almost wonder you didn \u2019 t meet him on the stairs ."], "true_target": ["Shall I take your hat , sir ?", "Things is very bad on the Stock Exchange , sir .", "Very good , sir .", "Me , sir ? I \u2019 m sorry if I don \u2019 t give satisfaction .", "Will you have the whiskey and soda , sir ?", "Very good , sir .", "If you \u2019 ll remember , sir , I was all against them at the time you bought .", "I beg your pardon , sir ; I didn \u2019 t hear you come in .", "The governor don \u2019 t take impertinence lying down , Mr. Wright , and he \u2019 ll look upon it as a great liberty your dunning him in this way .", "Yes , my lord .", "Lady and Miss Sellenger .", "Allow me , sir .", "There \u2019 s some one at the door , sir . Are you at home ?", "I beg pardon , sir . As you was the second son of an honourable and very well connected , I didn \u2019 t mind stretching a point . If I may say so , your father was almost a nobleman .", "Well , sir , so far as I \u2019 m acquainted with your circumstances ....", "I beg your pardon , madam ?", "Well , sir , always having lived before with titled gentlemen , I felt I owed it to myself to be careful .", "I made all the \u2019 aste I could , my lord .", "I \u2019 m very sorry , sir . I thought there was no objection .", "I beg your pardon , sir ?", "No , madam .", "Is there anything else you want , sir ?", "Them mining shares of yours is very low , sir .", "Shall I bring your hat and coat , my lord ?", "Make yourself quite at home , won \u2019 t you ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["No , sir . I \u2019 ll get back to the shop .", "I don \u2019 t know about taking impertinence , but he \u2019 ll have to take a summons if my account is not settled at once .", "Very well , I \u2019 ll wait for him .", "Thank you . I will .", "Well , the fact is , we \u2019 ve got a very large account with Halstane , and I \u2019 m told he \u2019 s in queer street . I want to get the money before the crash comes ."], "true_target": ["Mr. Rixon .Don \u2019 t you remember me , sir ? I \u2019 m the junior partner in Andrews and Wright .", "What !", "Last time I came you said he \u2019 d be back in half an hour , and when I returned you said he \u2019 d just gone out . You don \u2019 t catch me napping a second time .", "Of course he doesn \u2019 t know anything about this yet ?", "My gracious , that \u2019 s a piece of luck ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Queer street ? The man \u2019 s just come into seven thousand a year .", "That \u2019 s why I \u2019 m running all over the place to find him . You know he \u2019 s a relation of the Hollingtons . I was at her ladyship \u2019 s not half an hour ago \u2014 the Dowager , you know \u2014 my firm has acted for the whole family for the last hundred years . Well , I \u2019 d hardly arrived before a message came from the War Office to say that her grandson , the present lord , had been killed in India . So as soon as I could , I bolted round here . Mr. Halstane is the next heir , and he comes into seven thousand a year and the title .", "Of course I do . I saw your father on business the other day .", "I don \u2019 t mind telling you now that he \u2019 d pretty well come to the end of his tether . Your money was all right because he \u2019 d have paid everything up , but he wouldn \u2019 t have had much left .", "Well , I \u2019 ll ring him up . I must see him on a matter of the very greatest importance . You \u2019 re on the telephone , aren \u2019 t you ?", "Be as quick as you can ."], "true_target": ["Where \u2019 s the telephone book ?", "Not a word . For all he knows , he \u2019 s a ruined man , and here am I trying to get him on the telephone to tell him he \u2019 s come into a peerage and a very handsome income .", "Is Mr. Halstane in ?", "7869 Gerrard , please , Miss .... What ? Confound it , the line \u2019 s engaged .... I must go round to his club in a cab . I suppose you don \u2019 t want to wait here now , Wright ?", "What are you doing here ?", "Oh , never mind .", "Thanks ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["I regret that my behaviour doesn \u2019 t meet with your satisfaction .", "It \u2019 s charming of you to say so .", "Hang the river !", "Oh , Charles , get a paper at once . Hurry up !", "I \u2019 m sure that \u2019 s very modest .", "Good-bye .", "D \u2019 you think it \u2019 s quite kind to laugh at me now ?", "Obstinacy .", "Have you the least idea what I mean ?", "Look here , Blenkinsop , you \u2019 ve got no right to play your fool-tricks with Mrs . Dot . She \u2019 s a very excitable and thoughtless woman . She \u2019 s ....", "Good Lord , no !", "Well , three years ago we were staying at the same place in the country , and I was a young fool .", "I \u2019 m so sorry , but I have some very important letters to write . I must catch the post .", "I can \u2019 t make you out . You \u2019 re so changed since last we met .", "You \u2019 ve utterly ignored me since I arrived .", "I \u2019 m afraid I can \u2019 t ask you to sit down .", "Yes , it had occurred to me .", "I congratulate you .", "Of course not .", "In that case I shall be only too glad to go on the river .", "I \u2019 m afraid you \u2019 ll get rather bored here .", "I wouldn \u2019 t be so presumptuous as to think Nellie was so much in love with me as all that .", "It fills me with satisfaction , naturally .", "That \u2019 s a confounded impertinent thing to say .", "You \u2019 re a very bold woman , Mrs . Dot .", "Thanks .", "We shall only bore Mrs . Dot if we discuss the matter now .", "Listen to me , Blenkinsop ! Clear out of the house before you make a greater mess of things than you have already . Mrs . Dot would as soon marry her groom as marry you .", "There are people who live on much less , you know .", "It \u2019 s fortunate I \u2019 ve just given him notice , because Charles would certainly never stay in a house where he \u2019 d been so grossly insulted .", "Mrs . Dot is an old friend of mine . I \u2019 m not going to see her made ridiculous by a conceited nincompoop .", "I should very much like to take you by the shoulders and give you a good shaking .", "What did Miss MacGregor say ?", "Ha , ha , ha .", "So much so that I \u2019 ve to-day sublet my rooms . In a week , Charles , I shall cast the dust of London off my feet , a victim to the British custom of primogeniture .", "They came back last week . But I haven \u2019 t had a chance of speaking to", "I \u2019 ve not seen you because I \u2019 ve been uncommonly busy . I said I was not at home because I \u2019 m in the worst possible temper . And I want to get rid of you because I \u2019 m expecting somebody else .", "It \u2019 s very good of you to say so .", "You \u2019 re not romantic , Lady Sellenger .", "I repeat with considerable firmness that these gentlemen will be compelled by a previous engagement to leave me in twenty minutes .", "You scintillate , Charles , but I deplore your tendency to digress .", "We spent the whole afternoon on the river yesterday , and you kindly gave us our tea to take with us .", "By Jove , did you hear that ?", "What are you going to say to me ?", "I \u2019 m afraid you \u2019 ll think me an utter brute . I ought to have told you long ago that I \u2019 m engaged to be married .", "I see .", "Never . I trust he \u2019 ll live to a hundred .", "I can even bear with equanimity that you should read my letters . For the most part they \u2019 re excessively tedious , and they will only show you how deplorable is the education of the upper classes . But I must insist on your not reading my paper till I \u2019 ve done with it .", "Thank God , he \u2019 s coming upstairs at last . I should like to kick him .Good God !Hurry up , man ! What the deuce have you been doing ?", "Yes , it \u2019 s very nice .", "It \u2019 s a mistake ! It \u2019 s all a preposterous mistake .", "Won \u2019 t you say that you bear me no ill-will ?", "I \u2019 ve been engaged to Nellie Sellenger for the last three years .", "Thank you , very much . I suppose I have my usual room ?", "Good-bye .", "If I had married you , I should certainly have beaten you with a big stick .", "This very minute ? With others in the room ?", "I thank you , Charles ; I couldn \u2019 t have expressed my meaning more idiomatically .", "She \u2019 s a very nice woman , but she has rather a keen eye for the main chance .", "Dot !", "We were taking a walk in the garden after dinner , and a perfectly absurd moon was shining . It seemed the obvious thing to do .", "It couldn \u2019 t be much worse .", "The news has come just an hour too soon . It \u2019 s bound me hand and foot .", "I was obliged to . I couldn \u2019 t let him go under without trying to do something .", "I should think about fifteen thousand .", "Well , I feel certain that during some of the many leisure moments you have enjoyed in my service , you have cast an eye upon that page in Burke upon which my name figures \u2014 insignificantly .", "Well , I shall tell you for all that . It \u2019 s a joke to you , and you can afford to laugh at it .", "It \u2019 s a little difficult to discuss the matter quite indifferently .", "Yes , I can see you furtively slipping your purse into my hand so that I should pay for a luncheon , and giving me a shilling over for the cab . No , thank you .", "Yes , I hardly know him .", "Charles , I have no objection to your sitting in my arm-chair and putting your feet on my table . I am willing to ignore the fact that you smoke my cigars and drink my whiskey .", "I \u2019 ll do my best to be very matter of fact .", "Not at all .", "And that thoroughly consoled you , I suppose ?", "Absolutely .", "Yes .", "You \u2019 re a ripping good sort , and we \u2019 ve had some charming times together . I \u2019 m glad that you came to-day , because it \u2019 s given me an opportunity to thank you for all your kindness to me .", "Pardon me , I \u2019 m in the best possible temper .", "Shut up !", "The consequence is , however , that I was brought up without in the least knowing how to earn my living . I belong to that vast army of younger sons whose sole means of livelihood is a connection with a peer of the realm and such mother-wit as Dame Nature has provided them with .", "Oh , don \u2019 t remind me of that already .", "That \u2019 s an early one .", "If it wouldn \u2019 t give you too much trouble .", "But Lady Sellenger refused to hear of it . She thought me most ineligible .", "It \u2019 s very kind of you . I shouldn \u2019 t like you to put yourself out .", "Here comes Nellie .", "I beg your pardon .", "I \u2019 m rather broke .", "I \u2019 m sorry to turn you out . Good-bye . I had something to say to you ,", "Really ?", "No , Charles can go .", "Oh , my dear , I \u2019 m afraid they \u2019 re in a most awful mess . I never had much money to start with , and I got into debt . Then I tried a flutter on the Stock Exchange , and the confounded shares went down steadily from the day I bought .", "I oughtn \u2019 t to yet .", "By the great Harry , the man thinks she \u2019 s in love with him .", "I \u2019 m not sorry to miss him . One \u2019 s solicitor seldom has any good news to bring one .", "Unless I \u2019 m mistaken , Charles strongly recommended me to invest my money in public-houses .", "I don \u2019 t want to seem vain , but although I \u2019 ve done my best to conceal them , I fancy I have two or three other qualifications which will be of more service .", "Nobody \u2019 s to come in .", "Because you \u2019 re revolting to look upon , and your conversation is inexpressibly tedious .", "How ?", "I \u2019 m glad you \u2019 ve got over it so quickly .", "Good heavens ! What can I say ? I was poor enough a year ago , but now I \u2019 m penniless . I \u2019 m bound to ask for my release .", "You \u2019 ve come to the conclusion that the cut of her skirt \u2019 s all right .", "I don \u2019 t want you to suffer .", "It \u2019 s very kind of you to say so .", "Look here , Blenkinsop , the best thing you can do is to receive a telegram that requires your immediate presence in town .", "Why did you ask us all down ?", "No , it \u2019 s not that . You know that Lord Hollington is a relation of mine .", "You know Nellie Sellenger is an old friend of mine .", "What do you mean ?", "It was the merest accident . It came to pieces in my \u2019 ands , so to speak .", "What the dickens d \u2019 you mean ?", "What have you seen , then ?", "Nellie .", "How d \u2019 you do ? I think you know Mr. Blenkinsop ?", "You need not pour out the whiskey with such a generous hand as when you help yourself . Thank you .", "I would give my right hand to bring Hollington back to life again .", "Thanks . I don \u2019 t think I can see myself marrying for money .", "Good lord , he \u2019 s reading the paper .", "Have you ? That \u2019 s more than I have .", "You don \u2019 t mean it !", "It rejoices me to learn that your investigations were satisfactory .", "But I daresay I could have weathered that , only a pal of mine got into a hole , and I backed a bill for him .", "I suppose you \u2019 re not for a moment under the impression that Mrs . Dot cares twopence about you .", "I \u2019 m sorry the manner in which I \u2019 m imparting to you an interesting piece of information , doesn \u2019 t meet with your approval . Would you like me to tear my hair in handfuls ?", "I don \u2019 t find it so .", "I suppose so .", "Oh , damn you !"], "true_target": ["Every one seems to kiss every one else in this house .", "If you want to marry any one , marry Lady Sellenger .", "Come , come , this modesty ill becomes you . Is there a bill in this room , or a solicitor \u2019 s letter , with which you are not intimately acquainted ?", "Look here , Dot , what \u2019 s the meaning of all this ?", "You may go , Charles .", "I \u2019 m not so sure . If she \u2019 d given us her blessing and told us to do as we liked , we should probably have broken it off in three weeks . But she was really rather offensive about it . She refused to let Nellie see me , and the result was that we were always running across one another in Bond Street tea-shops .", "Didn \u2019 t you hear that fool of a servant ? It was the first thing he thought of .", "Not only impossible , but grotesque .", "She must have screamed with laughter .", "Sit down and make yourself comfortable , James .", "Oh , I wish we were back again . I \u2019 ve had such rotten luck .", "I want my hat and coat .", "With me ?", "I suppose you \u2019 ve never looked at yourself in the glass ?", "They seem very much occupied with their own affairs . What is your ultimatum ?", "It \u2019 s a special licence .", "Lady Sellenger asking if they might come to tea .", "I really must go to the War Office .", "I \u2019 m afraid there \u2019 s something else I must tell you .", "What on earth are you talking about ?", "But last winter my cousin George unfortunately broke his neck in the hunting-field , and his poor old father died of the shock . If anything happened to my cousin Charles everything would come to me .", "She has made a fool of you . Ha ! ha ! ha !And did you really think any woman would care for you ? My poor Blenkinsop ! My poor , poor Blenkinsop !", "Nothing that you can help me in , Mrs . Dot .", "Ssh !", "Would you like to come for a row , Nellie ?", "A year ago three lives stood between me and the peerage . It seemed impossible that I could ever come into anything .", "I am endeavouring to give you notice in such a manner as not to outrage your susceptibilities .", "I didn \u2019 t !", "Well , the result is that after I \u2019 ve paid everything up , I shall have about five hundred pounds left . I \u2019 m proposing to go out to America and rough it a bit .", "Would you like to know my private opinion of you ?", "I don \u2019 t think her so .", "I daresay you would ask me to ring for it .", "It would only bore you , and besides you wouldn \u2019 t understand .", "No , I expect two ladies to tea in half an hour , but you must admit no one else . These gentlemen will be forced to deprive me of their society in twenty-five minutes .", "Nothing .", "Nonsense ! You don \u2019 t owe me a penny .", "Well , the fact is , I \u2019 ve been spending a good deal of money lately , and", "He swore he \u2019 d be able to pay the money .", "You are a philosopher , Charles , and it cuts me to the quick that I should be forced to deny myself the charm of your conversation .", "Nellie accepted me when I was poor and of no account . Now that I \u2019 m well off I can \u2019 t go to her and say : I \u2019 ve changed my mind and don \u2019 t want to marry you .", "Dot .", "A newspaper , a suit of clothes , and a bottle of wine are three things at which I prefer ....", "I must be honest , Dot .... I don \u2019 t want to seem a snob , but I \u2019 ve got an ancient name , and it \u2019 s rather honourable . I \u2019 m by way of being the head of the family now . I don \u2019 t want to begin by acting like a cad .", "Do you think I was proposing to marry you for your money ?", "Your mother will tell you that the certainty of marriage is much more satisfactory .", "My dear fellow , if I hadn \u2019 t the best temper in the world , I should kick you .", "Then there \u2019 s no more to be said .", "I \u2019 m afraid I came at an inopportune moment .", "But why didn \u2019 t you tell me about it ?", "I believe I shall have six or seven thousand a year .", "It \u2019 s not a question of driving in buses , but of walking on my flat feet .", "Yes , why ?", "I \u2019 m not aware that I ever made any pretence of being so .", "I \u2019 m not sure that I am , very .", "I am overpowered by your condescension , Charles . It never occurred to me that you were taking my character while I was taking yours .", "He \u2019 s out in India at this moment . He \u2019 s a soldier , you know . It appears there \u2019 s some trouble on the North-West Frontier , and he \u2019 s in command of the expedition .", "You silly old fool .", "Nonsense . It can \u2019 t have anything to do with Hollington .", "Yes , I ought to have done that , oughtn \u2019 t I ? I suppose I thought you \u2019 d take it for granted .", "Are you already asking yourself how you \u2019 ll look in widow \u2019 s weeds ?", "Now , perhaps , you \u2019 d like to know what my feeling is towards you ?", "Won \u2019 t you come with me ?", "I was a fool to think you ever cared at all .", "You gave it yourself , Charles . As you justly observed , them mining shares is very low . You are sufficiently acquainted with my correspondence to be aware that my creditors have passed with singular unanimity from the stage of remonstrance to that of indignation .", "Charles is shocked at your lack of decorum .", "But what about Nellie ? How will she take it ?", "And does Mrs . Dot \u2014 reciprocate your affection ?", "I \u2019 m afraid I have an admirable temper .", "I can \u2019 t draw back now , Dot . You must see that I can \u2019 t .", "You \u2019 re certainly very practical .", "You must see it \u2019 s not my fault . If we must part , let us part friends .", "I think you must be quite heartless .", "I hate you . And I wish I \u2019 d never set eyes on you .", "I \u2019 m sure I hope he will .", "I have no doubt I \u2019 m excessively dull .", "Has he got a newsboy ?", "They are .", "Shall we look at the Sketch together ?", "James Blenkinsop .", "Not in the least . What the dickens is there about you that should annoy me ?", "Pray don \u2019 t let us disturb you . I shall never forgive myself if I think I \u2019 ve interrupted your nap .", "What an extraordinary question !", "If you can spare me two minutes of your valuable time , I should like to make a few observations to you .", "I may as well tell you at once that I \u2019 ve had very bad luck . I wanted to make money , and I \u2019 ve come an absolute cropper .", "No , thanks .", "And the long and short of it is that the emotion which you dignify with the name of love , had entirely disappeared after a week .", "I \u2019 m grateful to you for that , Charles ; but , honestly , do you think half-measures can be of any use to me ?", "I suppose you know I \u2019 m perfectly capable of turning you out by main force .", "Nellie yet . The year is up to-day , and this morning I had a note from", "Yes .", "I never said that .", "You married for love , Lady Sellenger .", "Things have come to such a pass that I must either beg , steal , or work .", "For heaven \u2019 s sake , don \u2019 t talk like that . You \u2019 re tearing my heart to pieces .", "If you don \u2019 t mind , I won \u2019 t answer that question . Unless she asks for her freedom , I propose to marry her .", "You \u2019 d be rather surprised if I threw you out of the window , wouldn \u2019 t you ?", "What the deuce is the meaning of all this tomfoolery ?", "There they are .", "You know , I don \u2019 t want to seem an awful prig , but I don \u2019 t think I should much like doing anything shabby . If Nellie wants me to keep my promise I shan \u2019 t draw back .", "Some time ago Lady Sellenger found out that we were writing to one another and so on , so she came to see me and said she \u2019 d made up her mind to take Nellie abroad for a year . She made me promise to hold no communication with her during that time , and agreed that if we were still of the same mind when they came back , she would withdraw the opposition and let us be properly engaged .", "That \u2019 s a question I can answer . The most confounded and aggravating unreasonableness that I ever saw .", "It \u2019 s cruel of you to laugh at me .", "Enormously . It puts marriage entirely out of the question and leaves only one course open to me . I \u2019 ll take the earliest opportunity to ask Nellie for my release .", "Then what would you like to do ?", "Mr. Perkins , Lady Sellenger \u2014 Miss Sellenger .", "Have you noticed that when we do think of something to talk about , we get perilously near a squabble ?", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "My maternal grandfather survived to plague his descendants to the ripe age of ninety-seven .", "On the contrary , you give every satisfaction . It has never been my good fortune to run across a servant who had an equal talent for blacking boots and for repartee . I am grateful for the care with which you have kept my wardrobe , and the encouragement you have offered to my attempts at humour . I have never seen you perturbed by a rebuke , or discouraged by ill-temper . Your merits , in fact , are overwhelming , but I \u2019 m afraid I must ask you to find another place .", "I beg your pardon !", "No one was supposed to know anything about it . And \u2014 I was afraid of losing you . Oh , Dot , Dot , I love you with all my heart . And I \u2019 m so glad to be forced to tell you at last .", "Good God !", "You funny little thing .", "I \u2019 m afraid Blenkinsop doesn \u2019 t set much store on the gentle sex .", "Don \u2019 t talk such twaddle .", "Would you , by George ? So would I .", "I didn \u2019 t !", "Yes .", "He \u2019 s to be married as soon as he comes back from India .", "I beg your pardon . I forgot my hat .", "Of course not .", "You have no right to ask me that question .", "You \u2019 re a cantankerous cynic and a fatuous donkey .", "I shall be delighted , I \u2019 m sure .", "Would you kindly explain this incident ?", "What else can I do ? The Cape \u2019 s entirely played out .", "No .", "I don \u2019 t see how we can help ourselves .", "Poor chap . And just as he was going to be married ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Oh , I \u2019 m so sorry . Did I hurt you ?", "Where did you find this ?", "I want to ask you something . You won \u2019 t be angry , will you ?", "Look here , there \u2019 s something behind this .", "Oh , rot ! I never met a woman whom I couldn \u2019 t read at a glance .", "Look here , you shut up . I bet I could cut you out with any girl you like to mention .", "There \u2019 s another newsboy running down the street .", "Still , you know , I don \u2019 t think it \u2019 s wise for me to go away . Don \u2019 t you think it would be rather marked ? And they always say that absence makes the heart grow fonder .", "Two thousand a year !It \u2019 s fairly clear that a licence couldn \u2019 t have got there by itself .", "Five hundred pounds . Oh , you are a ripper ! But why on earth do you give me that ?", "What on earth are you staring at ? Isn \u2019 t my tie all right ?", "It seems a long time since we first met , doesn \u2019 t it ?", "It only arrived this morning . Look here , why shouldn \u2019 t we bolt ? You don \u2019 t care a straw for Gerald , and you do care for me .", "I \u2019 ve answered : \u201c Madam , I regret to see that this is the third time you have lost your husband within two years . The mortality among the unhappy gentlemen on whom you bestow your hand is so great that I can only recommend you in future to remain a widow . Yours faithfully , Frederick Perkins .\u201d", "I haven \u2019 t the least idea what you \u2019 re talking about .", "You needn \u2019 t be so surprised . One might do worse , you know .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Look here , you \u2019 re not pulling my leg all the time , are you ?", "Was it my idea ? I always thought it was yours !", "Oh , rot ! I \u2019 m as fit as a fiddle .", "You know , they talk about the incomprehensibility of women , but it \u2019 s all humbug .", "Of course he \u2019 s in the Church . I was most careful in my choice of a parent .", "I say , you look just like another rose in this garden .", "It \u2019 s awfully unkind of you .", "Are you really broke ?", "No , it isn \u2019 t likely .", "I don \u2019 t believe I \u2019 m pale .", "You know , you \u2019 re awfully easy to get on with . Sometimes I feel dreadfully shy and nervous with women , but I can think of all sorts of things I want to say to you .", "When did you first know that you cared for me ?", "I don \u2019 t know how it is , but somehow we never manage to get a minute by ourselves .", "Yes , I think so . I \u2019 ll just go and find out .", "We \u2019 re treating him shamefully .", "Here they are !", "Well , I flatter myself Miss Sellenger will be much more pleased to see me than to see anybody else down here .", "Poor girl !", "I looked her out in my note-book . Six months ago we sent her fifteen pounds because she had nine children . Now she has eleven .", "Well , you know , I was awfully flattered by your caring for me .", "I don \u2019 t believe a word of what you \u2019 ve told me . Why should she care for me ? You \u2019 ve simply been humbugging me right and left .", "You really can \u2019 t encourage a woman who has twins twice a year , when her husband is not only bed-ridden but a hopeless lunatic .", "Oh , no , really , I shouldn \u2019 t like you to do anything of the sort .I feel that I \u2019 m amply paid for all that I do for you . I simply can \u2019 t accept anything more .", "You brick .", "It \u2019 s not fair to ask a fellow a question like that .", "Now , I wonder what your reason is .", "Poor old Gerald , I told you he wasn \u2019 t the sort of chap a girl would be desperately in love with .", "Here \u2019 s Charles . By Jove , he isn \u2019 t hurrying himself much .", "Why ?", "Do you mind if I stay with you ?", "I say , what a pretty hand you have ! It looks so white on mine , doesn \u2019 t it ?", "Yes , rather . I \u2019 ll let her see that I \u2019 m really a deuced dissipated dog .", "Well , it so happens , she did .", "You see , with this we can be married anywhere . Let \u2019 s jump into the motor and go down to my father near Oxford . We shall arrive by dinner-time , and he \u2019 ll marry us to-morrow morning .", "I \u2019 m awfully fond of music . Cake-walks , and things like that , you know .", "I \u2019 ve not congratulated you on your engagement yet .", "I don \u2019 t know what on earth you \u2019 re talking about .", "I \u2019 m simply freezing .", "Poor Gerald .... He is an ass , isn \u2019 t he ?", "Jolly day , isn \u2019 t it ?", "She \u2019 s a jolly nice girl , I can tell you that .", "I don \u2019 t know why you think she \u2019 s unfortunate .", "He isn \u2019 t worthy of you .", "Oh , that \u2019 s rot . Gerald \u2019 s an awfully good sort , but he \u2019 s not the sort of chap a girl \u2019 s desperately fond of .", "I say , don \u2019 t play the ass any more . What the deuce does it all mean ?", "Because I seem to know you so well .", "What do you mean ?"], "true_target": ["I shall be back in one minute .", "I \u2019 ve tried to do my duty .", "I can \u2019 t think what you ever saw in him .", "I see through your little game . Aunt Dot , you want to get rid of me .", "I \u2019 ve told Miss Sellenger that you \u2019 ve got some most awfully good carrots .", "Mr. Halstane \u2019 s lips .", "I thought Miss Sellenger would probably like to go on the river before tea .", "Why , it \u2019 s my aunt .", "I \u2019 ve never said it to any one but you .", "I say , come now . That \u2019 s a bit thick .", "Gerald \u2019 s pitch for worlds .", "Hang it all , I want to drink my coffee .", "May I kiss you ?", "How d \u2019 you do ?", "Certainly .", "My own idea is that the best thing is for me to hang on here as if I knew nothing about it . I \u2019 ll take care to be very distant . I \u2019 ll ignore her as much as I can .", "I \u2019 ve been lunching with Blenkinsop . I answered about fifty begging letters before I came out this morning .", "Nothing will induce me to desert a post of danger . I \u2019 m going to face the music .", "I thought it was the only way to win you .", "You \u2019 d better have a drink .", "I say , I wish you \u2019 d just have a look at these letters .", "Good-bye , old man . I say , what a nice girl Miss Sellenger is !", "Shouldn \u2019 t I ? I wanted to , badly .", "I thought it meant something when she dropped that rose .", "I \u2019 m awfully flattered and all that sort of thing .", "But that \u2019 ll only get rid of me , you know . Blenkinsop will still be here .", "Yes , do .", "Yes . What the deuce is he doing ?", "Yours ! What rot !", "How d \u2019 you do ?Have you quite forgotten me ?", "I shall do nothing of the sort . I shall put it in my button-hole .", "They lie .", "Jolly here , isn \u2019 t it ?", "Then you know all about it , too ?", "By Jove , what a ripping chair ! No wonder that Charles went to sleep .", "Look here , there \u2019 s not a minute to waste . Will you risk it ?", "You are a brick .", "You are a brick .", "But I \u2019 m not thinking of getting married .", "Twenty-two . Why ?", "Well , you can \u2019 t see yourself falling in love with him can you ?", "Oh !", "I don \u2019 t want to do anybody a bad turn . I wouldn \u2019 t do anything to queer", "Isn \u2019 t it jolly here ?", "By Jove , whoever your visitor is , he doesn \u2019 t like being kept waiting .", "Here is my answer to Mrs. MacTavish , who wants help to bury a husband .", "D \u2019 you want me to write to them at once ?", "Hulloa !", "Collect yourself , Charles , to receive the words of wisdom that fall from", "Let \u2019 s go on the river , shall we ?", "It \u2019 s no good , you know . You \u2019 re my aunt , and the prayer book wouldn \u2019 t let you marry me .", "What \u2019 s the matter with my virtuous aunt ?", "I \u2019 m so hard up , I can only afford to make other people \u2019 s jokes .", "Listen , there \u2019 s the last edition coming along .", "A licence ?", "I don \u2019 t see why you should want me to go away on that account .", "Hurry up !", "You \u2019 re all of you jolly supercilious .", "I say , that \u2019 s awfully good of you .", "Oh , hang Gerald !", "Oh , I don \u2019 t know .I should think some one a bit younger than Gerald .", "Darling !", "May I help you ?", "But I can \u2019 t go away when you \u2019 ve got people in the house . Besides , who \u2019 s to look after your correspondence ?", "I regard it as part of my duties as your secretary to look nice ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["The hat \u2019 s hideous . But I suppose it \u2019 s fashionable .", "No , my love . What could have put such an idea in your head ?", "Really you ask me a very delicate question .", "A vague suggestion of bigamy if I understood correctly .", "When you have to take a pill the best thing is to swallow it down without thinking .", "At Eton .", "You \u2019 re sure it \u2019 s not in earnest ?", "Not at all . I rather like sitting in an arctic room without a fire , with a window looking on a blank wall , and the society of your nephew and the Sporting Times of the week before last as my only means of entertainment .", "Pet !", "It \u2019 s too late to say that now . I adore you .", "You have only to envelop Lady Sellenger in your arms , and the picture will be complete .", "How d \u2019 you do ?", "I \u2019 m nothing of the sort . But I occasionally tell the truth .", "We \u2019 ve put marriage out of the question , haven \u2019 t we ?", "You needn \u2019 t be set up about it , because she squeezed mine , too . It \u2019 s evidently a habit .", "You must marry me .", "Oh , I \u2019 ve been a perfect ass . I should never have consented to play this ghastly trick . If you only knew what tortures I \u2019 ve suffered !", "When I was there a couple of hours ago the War Office had no news at all .", "And Frances Annandale Worthley .", "You must let me wash first .", "What on earth is the matter with you now ?", "Bless my stars , the dolt takes it as a matter of course .", "He was in command of it .", "I have a secret that I can no longer keep from you .", "You may ask anything else of me .", "It was a woman who invented that proverb . There \u2019 s no truth in it .", "Half an hour ago you said you couldn \u2019 t stand me at any price .", "It appears to be one of your happy little ways .", "Thank God , it \u2019 s not one that women ask often .", "Of course , it sounds very delightful .", "Dot , don \u2019 t make these horrible suggestions . You make my flesh creep .", "Good God , you don \u2019 t mean to say you \u2019 re in love with me ?", "The delightful age when it \u2019 s still possible to feel desperately wicked . But you are old enough to have learnt that the moods of women are inscrutable .", "No , bless you !", "You look it .", "Not at all , not at all .", "You can \u2019 t realise the wealth of tenderness and affection which I \u2019 ll lavish upon you .", "Good-bye .", "You see , the Archbishop of Canterbury calls me his right well-beloved brother . Friendly , isn \u2019 t it ?", "I will not be outdone in generosity . You have refused me . I accept your refusal as final .", "No sooner had I made it than I began to cultivate my power of small talk . I felt that my only chance was to be ready with appropriate subjects at the shortest notice , and I spent a considerable part of my last year at Oxford in studying the best masters .", "You are evidently under the impression that if a woman can \u2019 t be so fortunate as to marry you , she had far better retire into a nunnery .", "At all events , you see now the necessity for depriving us for a time of your charming society .", "Rubbish !", "Have you never watched the gentle sex fight and push and scramble as it gets into the Hammersmith bus ? I assure you , the unlucky man who finds himself in that seething feminine crowd is fortunate if he escapes without losing an eye or half his teeth . And have you seen the fury of the gentle sex at a sale as they seize some worthless fragment , and the bitterness with which they haggle ? The other day I was in the Army and Navy Stores , and two women were standing on the stairs , discussing their servants , so that no one could pass up and down . I took off my hat and said : Excuse me , would you allow me to pass . They moved barely two inches , and one of them said in a loud voice to the other : What an impertinent man . The gentle sex ! Yesterday I was hanging on a strap in a crowded train coming from the city , and I saw a pale-faced weary clerk give up his seat to a strong and bouncing girl . She took it without saying thank you , because she was a lady and he wasn \u2019 t a gentleman . Then a tired old woman came in and stood , but the bouncing girl never thought of giving up the seat to her . The gentle sex ! They have such tender hearts they couldn \u2019 t bear to hurt a fly . Have you ever seen a woman get out of a bus ten yards before her destination in order to save the wretched horses another start ? Not much . Have you ever known a woman of fashion who sends her maid to bed when she knows she won \u2019 t be in till four in the morning ? Not much . And is there anything like the insolence with which a woman treats her social inferiors of the same sex ? Is it men who put on their backs the sealskins that are torn off the living bodies of helpless brutes ? Is it men who put on their hats the beautiful birds of the forest ? It \u2019 s the gentle sex . Boys are taught manners . They are taught to take off their hats and hold open the door for their sisters . They are taught to fetch and carry for women , and to give up the front seat in life to women . But what are girls taught ? Girls are taught etiquette , and that , I suppose , makes them in due course the gentle sex .", "There \u2019 s nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man , and so save themselves all trouble in future . When I was quite young it occurred to some one that I was a cynic , and since then I \u2019 ve never been able to remark that it was a fine day without being accused of odious cynicism .", "Spare me my blushes , dear boy . It always embarrasses me to be flattered to my face .", "Don \u2019 t argue , sir , but do as I tell you .", "Dot , I have a confession to make to you . I didn \u2019 t mean a word I said .", "You must be mad or blind . Can \u2019 t you feel that I love you ?", "You noticed her unconcealed hilarity when you came in .", "But what on earth do you want me to do ?", "Of course I \u2019 ll do nothing of the kind .", "I like the delicacy with which you express your appreciation of my merits .", "How shouldn \u2019 t there be , when I \u2019 m saying at last what has trembled on the tip of my tongue for ten days ?", "I should not only be surprised , but I should look upon it as an odious familiarity .", "No man is quite safe from the toils of women till he \u2019 s safely in his grave . And even then a feminine worm probably makes a dead set at him .", "Q. E. D .", "Positive .", "She shan \u2019 t make an honest man of me .", "My dear friend , this is very surprising .", "The acumen you have shown does credit to your years .", "I don \u2019 t know about that .", "Yes , perhaps you \u2019 d better . He \u2019 s a very bright boy .", "I suppose you couldn \u2019 t be a little more civil , could you ?", "What the blazes are you laughing at ?", "So much less bother than banns , you know .", "I gained my reputation by remarking once that it was possible for a penniless young man who married a very rich woman old enough to be his mother to be genuinely in love with her .", "Perhaps , then , it would interest you to inspect this document .", "Do me the justice to acknowledge that I \u2019 m the only man who \u2019 s known you ten days without being tempted by your preposterous income to offer you his hand and heart .", "You are a jewel , Charles , if besides administering to your master \u2019 s wants you advise him in his financial transactions .", "And what have I got to do ?", "Haven \u2019 t you seen anything in the paper ?", "Is there nothing I can say to undeceive you ?", "Oh , what it is to have a fool for a servant ! Take a month \u2019 s notice . I dismiss you . Where to , sir ? Anywhere , sir ? Somewhere that \u2019 s a damned long way off . South Africa ! I \u2019 ll go and shoot lions in Uganda . And if there isn \u2019 t a boat sailing at once , I \u2019 ll go to America and shoot grizzlies in the Rocky Mountains .", "All right . You \u2019 ve changed your cook .", "I don \u2019 t understand what all this means .", "If you \u2019 ll allow me to say so , I really can \u2019 t see that it \u2019 s any business of yours .", "When it \u2019 s backed by an adequate income .", "It \u2019 s a little disconcerting to have a pistol put to your head in the form of a proposal of marriage .", "Now that I come to think of it , you are certainly in a passion . Your face is red , your attire is disordered , and you have a slight squint in your eye .", "It would be picturesque , but painful .", "I have , but I have always found it deuced expensive .", "Certainly . I think a change of air is distinctly indicated .", "I \u2019 m rich . I should look upon it as the greatest happiness to spend my last penny to gratify your smallest wish .", "The thing started as a bad joke , but it has ended in something very different . A change has come over me , and I \u2019 m ashamed .", "Really ?", "Sellenger ?", "Dot , Dot , don \u2019 t torture me . Don \u2019 t you see I mean it .", "I wish sometimes that nice women wouldn \u2019 t get themselves up as if they were no better than they should be .", "It \u2019 ll be difficult after that to make our departure seem perfectly natural , won \u2019 t it ?", "I say , I \u2019 m sorry to hear this , old man .", "It \u2019 s evidently a diet that agrees with you . You \u2019 re growing fat on it .", "Don \u2019 t call them gentle . They \u2019 re very much rougher than men .", "Why should you care for Gerald ? Do you think if he loved you , he would let a trifling engagement with somebody else stand in the way ?", "You think it \u2019 s quite impossible that she should ever have dreamt of such a thing ?", "Oh , but surely . There \u2019 s sure to be something about it in the", "You must make allowances for a pardonable agitation .", "Don \u2019 t . You make me feel very uncomfortable .", "Never , thank God .", "Not with me , I trust .", "You owe me something for all the agony you \u2019 ve made me endure . Dot , remember that licence . It was bought in jest , but the Archbishop of Canterbury was in earnest .", "Westminster .", "Dot , this little game of ours has lasted long enough .", "You \u2019 ve only seen her once .", "You really shouldn \u2019 t be so abrupt , Gerald . Look at him staggering under the blow .", "I wouldn \u2019 t if I were you . She \u2019 s very good .", "You fill me with consternation .", "I \u2019 m beginning to think you \u2019 re capable of anything .", "My dear fellow , I never saw any one with less common sense in my life . Surely it \u2019 s not very extraordinary that the same tender passion which inflames the chaste breasts of yourself and Miss Sellenger , should attack the equally chaste breasts of myself and Mrs. Worthley .", "Yes , but it \u2019 s one of my principles not to drink it . I seem to remember that you have some particularly fine hock .", "And Freddie , the dear boy , says he can read a woman at a glance .", "You can \u2019 t expect me to be so uncivil as to say no ."], "true_target": ["What did you expect ? You \u2019 ve played on my heart-strings as though they were an instrument that had no feeling . You \u2019 ve put a caress into every tone of your voice .", "When you touched my hand , every nerve of my body thrilled .", "But don \u2019 t you hear what I say ?", "Good-bye , old man , I \u2019 m sorry your cousin has had such an awful death . But after all , we none of us knew him and we do know you . I can \u2019 t tell you how glad I am that all your difficulties are at an end .", "You can give us a shout when you \u2019 ve had your talk .", "You asked me to play a part , and you didn \u2019 t know that it might be deadly earnest .", "I say , old man , I \u2019 m awfully sorry to hear this bad news of yours . Can \u2019 t", "You \u2019 ll tell us next that a boy who \u2019 s been to Eton and Oxford has a pure and innocent mind .", "So you always say .", "Which means that you \u2019 ve found him a wife , and you \u2019 re going to marry him to some one whether he likes it or not .", "Dot , I love you !", "You show excellent judgment , Charles . The whiskey \u2019 s capital .", "Don \u2019 t be such an ass . It \u2019 s not you we \u2019 re thinking of , it \u2019 s that unfortunate girl .", "I was a fool . I played with fire , and I never dreamed I \u2019 d burn myself .", "Hulloa !", "Not at all . Not at all . But I wish you \u2019 d tell me what your little game is .", "Ours , of course . Three guineas gone bang , my dear .", "You \u2019 re a jackanapes , sir , you \u2019 re an impudent jackanapes . And why not , pray ?", "How old are you , dear boy ?", "I should have screamed ! And the thought of that special licence has cast a chill in my heart . I don \u2019 t know what it \u2019 s all coming to . You are my witness , Miss MacGregor , that I won \u2019 t marry her , however deeply she compromises me .", "Do you want me to make love to you ?", "I do anything to help you ?", "My dear Dot , much as I appreciate the beauty of your sentiments , I must confess that I could never marry a woman who did not love me .", "Remember , there \u2019 s no one but Miss MacGregor present .", "I feel as though some one were walking over my grave .", "Pray don \u2019 t let me detain you .", "Dangerous climate , sir ? I would have you know it \u2019 s not half such a dangerous climate as the valley of the Thames .", "How very immoral !", "But you \u2019 ve told her to get two licences .", "That \u2019 s all very fine . But what about my character ? END OF THE SECOND ACT", "It is very good of you to say so .", "I suppose you \u2019 d be considerably astonished if I told you that I \u2019 d just asked Mrs . Dot to be my wife .", "I observe with interest that your remark is facetious .", "You \u2019 d far better go and lie down . You \u2019 ll only say something which you \u2019 ll regret .", "You \u2019 re too clever , my boy .", "It \u2019 s charming of you to say so .", "Dot , Dot !", "I suppose it \u2019 s never occurred to you that you do a great deal more harm than good by your indiscriminate charity ?", "I will never give way to my sense of humour again .", "What villainy is that old woman up to now ?", "I absolutely refuse .", "Well , if you ask me point blank I don \u2019 t think I should .", "He \u2019 s torn up your precious licence .", "Mrs . Dot .", "You must combine with us in order to save her from herself .", "I dote upon you when I see your eyes flash with anger .", "I thought you knew . I \u2019 d forgotten for the moment that Hollington had anything to do with you . He \u2019 s a very distant relation , isn \u2019 t he ?", "I say , take care . Supposing somebody saw us .", "Give me the chance , and you \u2019 ll see .", "To do that is one of the few principles I \u2019 ve adhered to in the course of an easy and unadventurous life .", "I \u2019 m not jesting now . I wish to heaven I were .", "I say , look here , this is a bit too thick .", "Well ?", "To say nothing of a peerage and a considerable income .", "For how long ?", "I \u2019 m so sorry , I didn \u2019 t see you . I \u2019 d just been to the War Office to inquire if there was any news of those fellows out in India . By the way , Halstane , isn \u2019 t Hollington a relation of yours ?", "Temper , temper .", "And pray , why shouldn \u2019 t she be just as much in love with me as with you ?", "Let \u2019 s look at your tongue .Tut , tut , tut .", "You \u2019 re not hurt ?", "Shut up , you blithering idiot !", "Are you , by Jove ? That alters the matter . In that case the answer is in the negative .", "I can \u2019 t live without you now . I \u2019 ll give up my whole life to make you happy .", "Not so long as I remain in full possession of my senses .", "My angel , nothing now shall tear me from your side .", "But I tell you I \u2019 m not joking .", "I lie awake at night thinking of you , and when I fall asleep I seem to hold you in my arms .", "Nothing .", "Now , look here . I don \u2019 t love you , I \u2019 ve never loved you , and I never shall love you . I can \u2019 t put it any clearer than that .", "Really you embarrass me very much .", "I thank you from the bottom of my heart , but I cannot accept this sacrifice .", "You must take care , Lady Sellenger . You \u2019 re growing sentimental .", "Because I have a considerable gift for repartee . I discovered in my early youth that men propose not because they want to marry , but because on certain occasions they are entirely at a loss for topics of conversation .", "It \u2019 s all very fine to invoke the claims of friendship , but it \u2019 s carrying it rather far when you pay three guineas for a special licence .", "When you see a blank wall , does it ever occur to you that there \u2019 s anything on the other side ?", "Not at all . Not at all .", "Why not ?", "A small force was sent out to punish some local people up in the hills , who \u2019 d been making themselves troublesome , and it hasn \u2019 t been heard of since . The idea is that there may have been some trouble and they \u2019 ve all got cut up .", "Pooh ! I wouldn \u2019 t waste my time on whispering nonsense . I \u2019 d just send my pass-book round by a messenger boy .", "It \u2019 s generally understood that we shall only get our deserts .", "You must take the train and go to Cook \u2019 s at once and get some tickets .", "Don \u2019 t you see that I \u2019 m a different man ? Dot , it \u2019 s you who \u2019 ve changed me .", "You blithering fool , do you suppose I should want my things packed if I were staying ? I \u2019 m going abroad to-night .", "Good lord , man , don \u2019 t be so self-satisfied . Aren \u2019 t you surprised , aren \u2019 t you dumfounded that a pretty girl should fall in love with you ?", "Then I should very much like to know what you are doing .", "Not positively .", "There \u2019 s passion for you .", "I know that you \u2019 re full of faults , but , bless you , I love them all .", "I believe you \u2019 re considerably annoyed .", "You don \u2019 t believe me ?", "Unhand me , woman !", "Passionately .", "The world is so degenerate that it \u2019 s only among domestic servants that you find any respect for landed gentry and any contempt for commerce .", "If I was shy and awkward , it \u2019 s because I wouldn \u2019 t give in to myself . I was overwhelmed . I couldn \u2019 t understand .", "Cold ! Heaven knows what would have happened if I \u2019 d given you any encouragement . I \u2019 ve never been able to take my eyes off the ground without finding yours fixed on me with the languishing expression of a dying duck in a thunderstorm . I \u2019 ve never been able to go near you without your stroking me as if I were a velvet cushion or a Persian cat . I \u2019 ve not eaten a single meal in peace in case you suddenly took it into your head to press my foot under the table .", "I assure you I \u2019 m perfectly serious . You taunted me that I couldn \u2019 t make love , so I just let myself go to show you I could . I daresay it was a silly joke , but it certainly was a joke .", "I \u2019 m beginning to feel very unwell .", "May I ask how that can in the least concern you ?", "I suppose she squeezed your hand when you went away ?", "I perceive you are inclined to think that the serious cannot fail to be improper , Lady Sellenger .", "Not at all . I should think it very natural .", "I never played for brilliancy . I played for safety . I flatter myself that when prattle was needed I have never been found wanting . I have met the ingenuity of sweet seventeen with a few observations on Free Trade , while the haggard efforts of thirty have struggled in vain against a brief exposition of the higher philosophy . The skittish widow of uncertain age has retired in disorder before a complete acquaintance with the restoration dramatists , and I have routed the serious spinster with religious leanings by my remarkable knowledge of the results of missionary endeavour in Central Africa . Once a dowager sought to ask me my intentions , but I flung at her astonished head an entire article from the \u201c Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica .\u201d These are only my serious efforts . I need not tell you how often I have evaded a flash of the eyes by an epigram or ignored a sigh by an apt quotation from the poets .", "By the way , has it slipped your memory that you \u2019 re engaged to Miss", "A special licence !", "But you mustn \u2019 t think of me . It \u2019 s your happiness that we have to consider . Don \u2019 t let a momentary impulse ruin your whole life .", "Don \u2019 t let her think you \u2019 re too great a devil with the ladies , or that \u2019 ll be the last straw . If there \u2019 s one thing a woman likes it \u2019 s a really bad man . She \u2019 ll start reforming you , and then there \u2019 ll be no holding her back .", "But your refusal of my hand will happily prevent you from going to that expense . Thereby considerably forwarding the cause of temperance .", "But it \u2019 s devilish compromising .", "I daresay you wish it had .", "Besides , I shall be here , and I \u2019 ll do all I can to help you .", "Thanks very much , but I \u2019 m extremely comfortable down here .", "Tell my servant I want him .George , pack up my things at once and get the motor . There \u2019 s not a moment to lose .", "Passionately .", "I repeat that I do not reciprocate your passion ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Do you mind if I leave you just for one minute ? After so much agitation I must really go and powder my nose .", "Good heavens ! I quite forgot about those wretched people in there .", "Your heart ? I should like to bang it on the floor and stamp on it . You must expect to suffer a little . You can \u2019 t put it all on me .", "Take my sunshade , darling . You won \u2019 t want a hat .", "Then why don \u2019 t you go on the river ? You can take your tea with you and spend the whole afternoon there .", "Thanks so much .", "Only a fifteenth cousin , isn \u2019 t he ? Far too distant to brag about .", "Even her best friend would hesitate to call her disinterested . But why should anything happen to Lord Hollington ? He \u2019 s quite young , isn \u2019 t he ? I saw his engagement announced in the Morning Post a little while ago .", "Well , a most ridiculous thing has happened , and I want Nellie to help me .", "Do you mean turtle-doves by any chance ?", "And I \u2019 m sure no one could accuse you of being extremely amusing .", "Thanks so much .", "I never realised that your nature was so great and tender . Every word you say makes me more determined to devote my life to your happiness .", "No , I \u2019 m quite indifferent , thanks !", "Why don \u2019 t you get a paper ? Freddie , run and get one , will you ?", "Come on .", "He certainly has every advantage over poor Freddie , who is nobody in particular and hasn \u2019 t a penny to bless himself with .", "Lady Sellenger \u2019 s a sensible woman . She was quite right .", "Perhaps she is a little prolific .", "By the way , how do I look ?", "I don \u2019 t think you \u2019 re in a very good temper to-day .", "I suppose if I were a thoroughly tactful person I should now ring for my carriage ?", "She is a little dull , isn \u2019 t she ?", "Good heavens , throw a little passion into your behaviour . Look at me as though you \u2019 d never seen any one so ravishing in your life . When you take my hand , hold it as if you would never let it go .", "My dear boy , what are you talking about ?", "No , I \u2019 m not . I shall never get Gerald to break his word . My only chance is with Nellie .", "You think that , do you ?", "My dear James , you \u2019 re really piling it on too much .", "Then you may kiss my hand .", "Go and make a mud pie in the garden . There \u2019 s a dear .", "Don \u2019 t be so absurd . You know you \u2019 re only \u2014 you \u2019 re only pulling my leg .", "Gerald succeeds to the peerage !", "Have you read the paper to-day ?", "My dear boy , I \u2019 m not a perfect fool . A man thinks a woman never sees anything unless she looks at it with both eyes at once wide open . Don \u2019 t you know that she can see things through the back of her head with a stone wall in between ?", "Very well , you can go .", "There are people who \u2019 d welcome the proposal with alacrity .", "Freddie , I \u2019 ve been exceedingly pleased with your behaviour during the last week . I \u2019 ve watched you carefully , and I \u2019 m glad to see that you \u2019 ve done all that was possible to destroy poor Nellie \u2019 s affection for you .", "James , do you want to marry me ?", "Eh ?", "Then tell me exactly how matters stand .", "Treat it as an impertinence that you resent .", "You \u2019 re not really in love with me ?", "\u201c I am pleased to hear that the wooden leg for which Mrs. Worthley paid for last year has proved satisfactory , but I cannot recommend her to provide you with another . To lose one leg in a railway accident is a misfortune , but to lose a second in a colliery explosion points to carelessness .\u201d That \u2019 s not original , Freddie .", "But he does want to marry me . He \u2019 s desperately in love with me .", "Nonsense . It \u2019 s obvious that my chief characteristic is a sweet and yielding nature . But as there \u2019 s no likelihood of our agreeing on that , what do you think is the second ?", "No , you must seem rather dull and stupid . Let her think you \u2019 re a bit of a milksop .", "Oh , yes . I want to have a little talk with you , Freddie .\u201c I am directed by Mrs. Worthley to congratulate you on the recent addition to your family , but to express her regret that she cannot accede to your request .\u201d How brutal you are , Freddie ! Surely Mrs. Murphy is an old friend .", "James !", "You wouldn \u2019 t have it otherwise , surely ?", "Yes .", "Yes .", "Ah , James , do not jest .", "Well ?", "Sellenger is desperately in love with you .", "It \u2019 ll be quite easy for you to show my poor Freddie that he \u2019 s only making a prodigious fool of himself .", "I \u2019 ve got a beastly temper .", "Very nice ! I should think it was very nice . There \u2019 s no one in London who \u2019 d venture to wear anything half so outrageous . And as for the hat ....", "You belong to a class whose chief resource when it has squandered its money is a rich marriage . The custom is so well recognised that when a man of good family emigrates rather than have recourse to it , society is outraged and suspicious .", "But my dear James , for heaven \u2019 s sake be reasonable . You know just as well as I do that you \u2019 re not a marrying man .", "Freddie , I \u2019 ve come to the conclusion that you want a holiday . I wish you to pack up your things at once and go to Brighton for a week . You \u2019 re looking pale and tired . I \u2019 m sure you \u2019 ve been working too hard .", "Well ?", "Ah , here \u2019 s Aunt Eliza . The very person I wanted .Aunt Eliza , will you be a perfect brick ? Will you do something for me , that \u2019 s an awful nuisance ?", "It \u2019 s a woman \u2019 s privilege to change her mind . The passion which you threw into your proposal has completely changed me . I am touched by the vehemence with which you flung your heart at my feet . I have struggled , but I cannot resist . Take me in your arms , James , and never let me go .", "But when I saw that my sweetness was likely to be wasted on the desert air , I made up my mind to cure myself . First I cried for two days .", "How stupid of me ! I \u2019 ve always had such lots myself it never occurs to me that any one else may be hard up . And I \u2019 ve let you pay all sorts of things for me , theatres and dinners and heaven knows what . I must owe you a perfect fortune .", "My dear child , he simply raves about you . He \u2019 s been talking of nothing else ever since you met .", "Say again that you love me , Gerald .", "No . No .", "Nellie .", "More ? Don \u2019 t say you \u2019 ve got a horrible past , because I shan \u2019 t turn a hair .", "Not a word .", "You know , you \u2019 ve got to marry me . I insist upon it . After all , you \u2019 ve been trifling with my affections shamefully . Oh , we shall be so happy , Gerald . And we \u2019 ll never grow any older than we are now . You know , I \u2019 m an awfully good sort , really . I talk a lot of nonsense , but I don \u2019 t mean it . I very seldom listen to it myself . I \u2019 m sick of society . I want to settle down and be domesticated . I \u2019 ll sit at home and darn your socks . And I shall hate it , and I shall be so happy . And if you want to be independent you can have a job at the brewery . We want a smart energetic man to keep us up to the times . And we \u2019 ll have a lovely box at the opera , and you can always get away for the shooting .", "Wouldn \u2019 t you like us to leave you alone ? I \u2019 m sure you want to think things out a bit ?", "I don \u2019 t believe a word you say . I believe you never married for the simple reason that nobody would have you .", "I want you to take a motor and bolt up to London and get a special licence .", "It \u2019 s a way shares have when fools buy them .", "That is my opinion , too , Charles .END OF THE FIRST ACT", "Charles , have you ever been married ?", "Gerald .", "I want to compromise myself . Only thus can I make you certain of my love . Oh , think of the many happy years we shall spend in one another \u2019 s arms , James .", "I didn \u2019 t think you were . I want you to promise that you \u2019 ll do nothing that he can in the least take as encouragement . I want you to be very distant and very cold .", "I saw one of my drays outside , so I thought I \u2019 d just look in to see how you liked it .", "Did I leave my scissors here ? Just see if you can find them , Freddie . Perhaps they \u2019 re in the next room .I wonder if I left them on the writing-table .", "Really ?", "Because I \u2019 m of a hospitable turn of mind . Didn \u2019 t you want to come ? I \u2019 m so sorry .", "Now you \u2019 re talking through your hat , my friend . You \u2019 re simply talking through your hat . I flatter myself there are few men who have a better head for business than I have . Why , since my husband died I \u2019 ve almost doubled our profits . The brewery has never been so flourishing . I \u2019 ve told the British People on fifty thousand hoardings to drink Worthley \u2019 s Half-crown Family Ale , and by Jove , the British People do .", "James . Is it so very wonderful ?", "I was so delighted to see the announcement in the morning \u2019 s paper . I offer my very warmest congratulations .", "Now we \u2019 ll have luncheon . You must be starving with hunger .", "When the right moment comes I shall leave it under their noses , and allow them to draw what consequences they choose .... If any woman ever earned a husband , I have . I \u2019 ve taken every opportunity to snub Gerald till he can hardly contain himself with rage . I \u2019 ve thrown him in Nellie \u2019 s company till they \u2019 re both so bored they could almost cry . I \u2019 ve been constantly on the watch to prevent Nellie and Freddie from having two minutes by themselves till they can hardly bear the sight of me . And I \u2019 ve made love to you with a persistence that would have melted the heart of a fish . If I fail , it will be your fault .", "I \u2019 ve just had the motor brought round in case any one would like to go out .", "Of course , I am fascinating . I can \u2019 t deny that .", "Remember I am yours till death .", "Go away and play .", "Besides , she doesn \u2019 t care for you in the least . I could see that at a glance .", "I \u2019 ve thought it over very carefully . I cannot resist your passionate pleading .", "Why on earth have you changed your clothes ?", "I couldn \u2019 t help seeing that you \u2019 d suit Nellie much better than you would have suited me . She has that comfortable stupidity which the average Englishman looks upon as the highest recommendation for a wife .", "Oh ! Three of you . Charles , how can you tell such stories ?", "And Lady Sellenger would doubtless withdraw her opposition to your marriage .", "You only have to look at yourself .", "My dear James , where were you educated ?", "Oh , I see . I beg your pardon .", "Now listen to me quite seriously . I want you to do something for me .", "Of course he isn \u2019 t . He \u2019 s as stupid as an owl . I \u2019 ve told him so till I \u2019 m blue in the face .", "You wouldn \u2019 t leave me \u2014 darling ?", "Gerald !", "You didn \u2019 t mind being shut up in there , did you ?", "You cannot bear to think that I should accept you from pity . But it isn \u2019 t that , James . You are handsome and noble and chivalrous . How shouldn \u2019 t a woman love you ?", "You \u2019 ll ruin my whole life , because you \u2019 re such a perfect fool that you can \u2019 t make love to a woman .", "Now , I declare he wants to sentimentalise . Isn \u2019 t it enough that you \u2019 ve made me frightfully unhappy ? D \u2019 you want me to say it doesn \u2019 t matter at all , as if you \u2019 d spilt a cup of tea on me ? D \u2019 you think I like being utterly wretched ?", "I \u2019 m delighted to hear it .", "I don \u2019 t want to disturb you , but if you \u2019 ve quite finished your conversation perhaps you \u2019 d like to come and have tea .", "Shall we tell him the truth ?", "Fiddlesticks !", "I should like all the world to see us .", "Eleanor Sellenger .", "There \u2019 s no use in her eating her heart out for you , when she must inevitably marry Gerald .", "You were willing enough to marry me when you hadn \u2019 t got sixpence to bless yourself with . How fortunate your cousin didn \u2019 t die a week later !", "You certainly ought to be with the prospect of spending a week in almost uninterrupted t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with the object of your affections .", "I see you simply quivering with restrained emotion . Oh , James , James , you \u2019 ve made me so happy .", "You must show a coming-on disposition , you know , or I can do nothing .", "British public will have to drink for us to buy another .", "Come on !", "I hope you \u2019 ve found everything you wanted .", "I \u2019 ll marry you yet , you beast , I \u2019 ll marry you yet .", "But not exactly surprised ?", "Now sit down . I \u2019 m perfectly ravenous .", "What do you think is my chief characteristic ?", "And very good our half-crown family ale is , although I say it as shouldn \u2019 t .", "If you cared for me , you \u2019 d easily find some way out of the difficulty .", "They \u2019 ve both changed their clothes .", "Stop him , or he \u2019 ll utter a whole string of horrors .", "You \u2019 ll have lots of time when you come in . The post doesn \u2019 t go till after dinner .", "I see that you want to force from me the avowal that is so hard to make . Oh , you men !", "It is no sacrifice when I think that I can make you happy .", "He isn \u2019 t really serious , Aunt Eliza ?", "And what are you going to say to her ?", "Oh , you needn \u2019 t take it as a compliment . I \u2019 d much sooner have to deal with a clever knave than an honest fool .", "You monster !", "Not at all . I find him dull .", "Yes , I know all about that .", "Nothing ! I am yours till death .", "What would you have done if I had ?", "Jimmie , have you never been in love ?", "Make the second one out in the names of James Blenkinsop and Frances", "I suppose a girl might quite easily fall in love with you . It had never occurred to me .", "James , I have been thinking over all you said , and I am willing to marry you .", "How can you be so absurd ?", "Go away ! Don \u2019 t come near me .", "Then say you like my frock .", "I don \u2019 t believe my income has anything to do with it . I put it down entirely to my very considerable personal attractions .", "You stupid creature .", "I think that \u2019 s the least I can do , as it \u2019 s only on account of the beer that I can have a table at all .", "Make it ten days to be on the safe side .", "Well ?", "Yes , it has . I \u2019 m sick to death of the whole thing .", "Really ?", "He \u2019 s not positively plain , is he ?", "Do you love me ?", "But I \u2019 m not laughing at you , my dear . I \u2019 m so pleased , and so flattered and so touched . At first I thought I was only a fool , and that I saw those things only because I wanted to . And when your hand trembled a little as it took mine , I was afraid it was only my hand that was trembling . And at last when I was certain that you were just as much in love with me as I was with you , I was so glad that I cried for two hours . And I had to use a whole box of powder before I could make myself presentable again .", "Is it true , Gerald ?", "Run away , Charles . And don \u2019 t do it again .... I suppose you think this sort of thing isn \u2019 t done in the best families ?", "Never mind , leave everything to me . And make haste to get up to London .", "Oh , but she won \u2019 t . She \u2019 ll be only too glad to get rid of you .", "My own opinion is , that in these matters the sooner the better .", "James , do go and see that Freddie writes his letters nicely . He \u2019 s only just come down from Oxford , and his spelling is rather shaky .", "I daresay he can whisper nonsense in a woman \u2019 s ear as well as any one else .", "And is there the least chance of your falling in love with me ?", "Oh , you dear , you dear , you dear .", "But you must let me . You can \u2019 t leave an old friend in the lurch .", "A girl who loved you wouldn \u2019 t have a skirt cut like that .", "But don \u2019 t you see , you idiot , that I want to marry Gerald Hollington ? And I \u2019 m eating my heart out .", "And has experience taught you that when a woman wants a thing she generally gets it ?", "But I \u2019 m in love with Gerald . I \u2019 m not in love with you . I shall never be in love with you .", "Now have I been pulling your leg ?", "Nonsense . I want to see him very particularly .", "I won \u2019 t marry you . I won \u2019 t marry you . I won \u2019 t !", "Now I \u2019 m going for a turn in the garden .", "And of course she accepted . The girl of eighteen always does .", "Oh , you \u2019 re too stupid . You \u2019 re a stock and a stone . You \u2019 re an owl . You \u2019 re a ridiculous idiot .", "My dear , it \u2019 s so unfortunate , but my nephew has fallen head over ears in love with you .", "No , don \u2019 t sympathise . I have rather a high colour , and when I \u2019 ve had a good cry it always improves my complexion . After that , I ordered some new frocks , and I bought a diamond necklace that I \u2019 d been hankering after for some time .", "You can \u2019 t deceive me so easily as that , James . I know you love me . We women have such quick intuitions .", "Aren \u2019 t you ? I suppose you know that when you do , I \u2019 m proposing to give you two thousand a year .", "Oh , Freddie , I quite forgot . I \u2019 ve got a pile of letters that I found on my way out this afternoon . There are three poor clergymen who can \u2019 t pay their bills , and there are five elderly spinsters who don \u2019 t know which way to turn for their quarter \u2019 s rent , and there are seven deserving ladies with a starving husband each and sixteen children .", "And how did you like Italy ?", "I don \u2019 t know that I think it essential for you to put on seven different suits a day .", "Annandale Worthley .", "You don \u2019 t mean to say you did that ?"], "true_target": ["I \u2019 m not making you a proposal of marriage , idiot .", "Well , I shall neither do the one nor the other . In the first place your answers are all nonsense and in the second I want to know who \u2019 s coming ? If it \u2019 s some one I know , I shall stop and say , How d \u2019 you do , and if it isn \u2019 t I want to see what it \u2019 s like .", "Don \u2019 t hedge .", "It \u2019 s quite charming to see two young things so engrossed in one another \u2019 s society .", "Well , that \u2019 s just what I don \u2019 t want you to think . I shouldn \u2019 t have said anything to you about his \u2014 mad infatuation , only I want you to be very careful .", "My nephew and my secretary .", "Why didn \u2019 t you tell me ?", "Then why on earth have you been trying to make me utterly miserable ?", "Ah , that \u2019 s what I said to you a month ago , Philippine .", "My dear , I suppose very much the same as Gerald .", "But it \u2019 s not in reason .", "You !", "I \u2019 ve seen a thousand things . I \u2019 ve seen your eyes light up when I came into the room , I \u2019 ve seen you watch me when you thought I wasn \u2019 t looking . I \u2019 ve seen you scowl at any young fool who paid me an outrageous compliment . I \u2019 ve seen the pleasure it gave you to do me any trifling service . I \u2019 ve seen you watch for the opportunity of putting my cloak on my shoulders after the play . And \u2014 I \u2019 m sorry \u2014 but I \u2019 ve come to the conclusion that you \u2019 re in love with me . I dare say the fact has escaped your notice , but that \u2019 s only because men are so deplorably stupid .", "And yet they complain that the birth-rate is falling . I think we \u2019 d better send her five pounds .", "Freddie , is Gerald \u2019 s room ready ?", "I offer you also my best congratulations . I think you \u2019 re very lucky .", "I \u2019 m awfully extravagant , and if the Government brings in temperance legislation I shall be ruined .", "My dear boy , I \u2019 m not keeping you from spending an idyllic afternoon with Nellie . You \u2019 ve forced this conversation upon me . I assure you it \u2019 s most distasteful .", "Don \u2019 t be so absurd . The ideal of a woman who takes any pains about her frocks is to look as like an abandoned hussy as she possibly can .", "Certainly .", "No .", "Will you promise to do that ?", "Why does anybody ever want to marry anybody ?", "Entire ?", "Ah , you mustn \u2019 t recall what I said when I was in a temper . You know , I \u2019 m rather touched by her obvious affection for you .", "If you were a young and lovely maiden would you fall in love with Freddie ?", "You mean that there was no other girl there , and so you flirted with her . But you need not have asked her to marry you .", "Do you care for Nellie Sellenger ?", "Do you want to marry me ?", "You know my nephew , don \u2019 t you ?", "You will do what you can , won \u2019 t you ?", "Of course , he \u2019 s all eagerness .", "Which one ?", "Do you think you can take me in so easily ?", "Well , because he \u2019 s clever , and handsome , and amusing .", "I \u2019 m asking you a very simple and ordinary question .", "It \u2019 s so nice to see two people head over ears in love with one another .", "You \u2019 re ridiculous , James Blenkinsop .", "Very well . You shall walk on your flat feet , and I \u2019 ll trip along by your side on my arched instep .", "Is Mr. Halstane at home ?", "What a picture they make , don \u2019 t they ? I can \u2019 t tell you how much I like", "My dear boy , your health is the chief thing . I should never forgive myself if you came to any harm while you were my secretary . I \u2019 ll write my letters myself .", "I never saw any one out of whom it \u2019 s harder to get a straight answer .", "Well , I prefer to call it strength of mind . Now , I \u2019 ll acknowledge that I was in love with you \u2014 a month ago . That \u2019 s a feather in your cap .", "There ! That \u2019 s just the tone I want . Talk with that quiver in your voice when you ask me to pass you the mustard at dinner .", "I \u2019 m sure you can . I put infinite reliance in your tact .", "What !", "You idiot ! Don \u2019 t you see that she \u2019 s discovered the passion that devours our hearts \u2014 your manly bosom and my timid , fluttering heart \u2014 and she wants to leave us alone .", "Because I am . That \u2019 s the most conclusive reason possible . And I \u2019 ve set my heart on marrying him . And the more obstacles there are the more I mean to marry him .", "Oh , but nothing is going to happen to him . He \u2019 ll live till he \u2019 s eighty .", "I \u2019 m infinitely relieved .", "This very minute .", "Well then , in future I insist on paying for everything . I \u2019 m not going to give up our little dinners at the Savoy and our suppers and all the rest of it . Don \u2019 t be so silly . You know I have ten times more money than I know what to do with .", "It would be much more immoral if they had a starving child each and sixteen husbands .", "The fact is that men are never to be trusted .", "If people waited to know one another before they married , the world wouldn \u2019 t be so grossly over-populated as it is now .", "Are you going ? I thought you were tired .", "Nothing will induce me to do anything of the sort .", "If you touch me I shall scream .", "Oh , my dear James , I \u2019 m so unhappy .", "Oh , don \u2019 t trouble . I \u2019 m perfectly capable of doing that of my own accord .... If you think I \u2019 m going before you \u2019 ve answered a hundred and fifty questions you \u2019 re very much mistaken . First , I want to know why you \u2019 ve not been near me for the last week ? Then why you try to keep me out of the place ? And lastly , why you show every desire to get rid of me when I \u2019 m here ?", "But I \u2019 m perfectly serious .", "You donkey , you perfect donkey !", "Anyhow , whatever your sentiments were , it would gratify your self-esteem to think that I was languishing with a hopeless passion .", "My dear boy , I \u2019 ve just had proof of it .", "Frances Annandale Worthley \u2014 James Blenkinsop .", "I was afraid you would object .", "Yes , it was at the Sellengers \u2019 I first met you .", "Of course , he does . I \u2019 ve dinned it into his ears , but it seems to have no effect on him . He \u2019 s the sort of lover that will hear of no obstacles . It \u2019 s really quite pathetic to hear the passionate harangues that he pours into my ears .", "I \u2019 m afraid it \u2019 s asking a great deal of you .", "Do you think any one could possibly fall in love with that ?", "I know you only say these cruel things because you think I should be throwing myself away on you .", "I thought I might hit upon something if they were under my eyes . Gerald had promised to spend Whitsun with me and , so that he shouldn \u2019 t put me off , I asked the Sellengers , too . Lady Sellenger was only too glad to get a week \u2019 s board and lodging for nothing .There \u2019 s Jimmie Blenkinsop . I told you he was going to motor down in time for luncheon , didn \u2019 t I ?Jimmie !", "You did !", "Freddie .", "You know it \u2019 s one of my principles to have it on the table .", "I am . I can \u2019 t help it . But I think your plan of going to the States is simply foolish .", "Give me that flower !", "It may be useful to you . Suppose you had an idea of getting married , for instance , it would be very convenient to have a sum like that in your pocket .", "My dear man , I can \u2019 t drag you to the altar .", "Oh , but it concerns Nellie , and I want her to hear .", "Thank heaven for that . I \u2019 m weary of your bad jokes .", "I \u2019 m in a temper .", "Well , they taught you nothing about clothes .", "No , we \u2019 re all far too hungry . Freddie will go and wash his hands for you .", "Don \u2019 t you agree with me , James ?", "Then we \u2019 ll economise together . It only means going to the pit of a theatre instead of taking a box . Well , I like the pit much better . You see all the women come in and you criticise their back hair . And you suck delicious oranges all the time . It makes my mouth water to think of it . And we \u2019 ll go on a bus instead of taking cabs . They \u2019 re much safer , and I like sitting on the front seat and talking to the driver . Bus-drivers are always such handsome men .", "Get two special licences . They \u2019 re always useful things to have in a house .", "What d \u2019 you mean by being well off ?", "Well ?", "I love shocking Charles . He \u2019 s so genteel . Whenever I come here I see him obviously trying not to show that he \u2019 s perfectly well aware that I have anything to do with trade .", "Really , you couldn \u2019 t wish me to continue eating my heart out for a young man , however charming , who is going to marry somebody else .", "I can \u2019 t understand it . After all , he \u2019 s only seen you once , and you can \u2019 t have exchanged more than a dozen words .", "You can \u2019 t deny that it \u2019 s rather annoying to take up your paper in the morning and discover an official announcement that the man you \u2019 ve made up your mind to marry is taking serious steps to marry somebody else .", "Well , you \u2019 ve got to look as if you liked it .", "I \u2019 m reckoning how many bottles of beer the", "He \u2019 s a sentimentalist , like all his sex . Good heavens , what a mess the world would get into if it weren \u2019 t for the practical common sense of the average women .", "I can flatter myself that they \u2019 ve thoroughly enjoyed their week here .", "I know . And in recognition of this I want you to accept a little present . Where is my cheque-book ?", "Are you quite sure ?", "I never noticed that you were particularly brilliant .", "No , of course not .", "I \u2019 m glad to see that you \u2019 re not ruining your health by working too hard as my secretary .", "That \u2019 s much better . There really is a ring of emotion in your voice .", "Won \u2019 t you leave the Mrs. out ? It makes me feel so five and thirtyish .", "But why should you think it when you took the greatest pains to assure me that you didn \u2019 t care two straws for me ?", "Don \u2019 t be so absurd . I never heard that the course of true love ran any less smoothly because a charming widow had sixty thousand a year .", "But I don \u2019 t understand in the least .", "Hang my cook .", "Here \u2019 s Lady Sellenger . You won \u2019 t accuse her of trying to make a fool of you .I \u2019 ve just been talking to Freddie about \u2014 about your girl .", "I know you have the sweetest nature in the world , but if you could be really brutal to him at once , it would cure him instantly .", "You see , last time I thought I was in love with you . Now I know I \u2019 m not .", "Only for a week .", "James , every word you say increases my admiration for you . I can \u2019 t think now how I was ever blind to your great affection .", "He tells me everything . You see I \u2019 ve always tried to be his friend as well as his aunt . He has no secrets from me .", "It helped . Then I came to the conclusion that there were as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it . I thought you over . After all , you \u2019 re not really very good-looking , are you ?", "Go away , Freddie . I want to talk to Gerald .", "I never knew a man yet , or a woman either for that matter , who \u2019 d stick at a thundering lie when he wanted money . And what \u2019 s the result ?", "Then I beg you to listen to this :A marriage has been arranged between Lord Hollington and Eleanor , only daughter of the late General Sir Robert Sellenger .", "Monstrous ! And so bad for the digestion .", "But , my dear boy , she \u2019 s engaged to Gerald Hollington . Don \u2019 t you see how serious the whole thing is ? The only chance is for you to go away . We must try and make her forget you .", "Well , the fact is , Freddie , a dreadful thing has happened . Poor Nellie", "Oh ! My poor heart went pit-a-pat . I thought you were going to kiss me .", "An announcement in the Morning Post and all that sort of thing ?", "Take it away .", "Now mind , Freddie . I before E except after C .", "And it \u2019 s so unexpected , because he \u2019 s not at all the sort of boy who falls in and out of love with every pretty girl he meets . I think you \u2019 re his first passion , and he \u2019 s inclined to take it very seriously .", "Won \u2019 t you tell an old friend ?", "But what on earth \u2019 s to be done ?", "Well , I \u2019 m head over ears in love with him .", "Then all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds .", "Quite sure .", "It advertises the beer , don \u2019 t you know .", "I know . You asked him to name the day .", "I really believe he \u2019 s waking up .", "The beer , my good man , the beer ! Don \u2019 t you know that I \u2019 m Worthley \u2019 s", "What d \u2019 you mean by that ?", "On the contrary , I think he \u2019 s rather plain .", "Don \u2019 t be spiteful . I \u2019 ve not gained half a pound in the last five years .", "Dearest !", "Look into my eyes like this .", "Well , tell it to the horse-marines .", "And when are they coming back ?", "That \u2019 s splendid . Why couldn \u2019 t you say all this before ?", "Wouldn \u2019 t you be rather flattered if I really were in love with you ?", "Then the long and the short of it is that you \u2019 re ruined .", "And is dear Lady Sellenger going to live with you when you \u2019 re married ?", "Poor thing ! You \u2019 d better send her ten pounds .", "God , how he adores me !", "Don \u2019 t be so silly .", "Of what ?", "By the way , are you by any chance in love with me now ?", "Ah \u2014 she does .", "But how does it concern Lord Hollington ?", "Must they ? How stupid ! Well , have one made out for Frederick Perkins and", "Come and sit down . I have something very serious I want to talk to you about .", "Then you did care for me ?", "You \u2019 ve not said you \u2019 re glad to see me yet .", "Of course you \u2019 ll drink the family ale ?", "Well , I want you to be very good and sweet and help me to cure him . I \u2019 d send him away , only it would have no effect . I thought if he saw you again he might find out that you have at least one or two faults . At present he thinks you too perfect for words .", "What else can you suggest ? The fact remains that Nellie must be cured of this \u2014 of this passion .", "No .", "James , dear , did I hear you give orders for your things to be packed up ?", "I don \u2019 t believe it . Every one \u2019 s in love . I \u2019 m in love .", "Would nothing induce you to marry me ?", "But you can \u2019 t live on that . It \u2019 s absurd .", "Pardon my asking , but do you think a handsome face , a talent for small talk , and a certain charm of manner will enable you to earn your daily bread ?", "I suppose you just want to finish an awkward scene ? I don \u2019 t want to harrow you . Why don \u2019 t you go to the War Office ?", "Now I come to think of it , I daresay you \u2019 re quite grown up to any one who didn \u2019 t know you in Etons .", "My dear , I should never take such a liberty .", "Of course , Jimmie laughs ; he doesn \u2019 t know what love is .", "You certainly are rather good-looking . I \u2019 ve never noticed it before .", "You know , I \u2019 m much nicer than Nellie . I \u2019 m more amusing , and I \u2019 m better dressed , and I \u2019 ve got five motor cars . It \u2019 s true she \u2019 s younger than I am , but I don \u2019 t feel a day more than seventeen .And if you had any sense of decency at all you \u2019 d say I looked it . You said you loved me just now . Say it again , Gerald . It \u2019 s so good to hear .", "Much as I should have liked to devote myself exclusively to your entertainment , I \u2019 ve been really obliged to remember that my other guests had equal claims upon me .", "I want you to let me make love to you .", "Don \u2019 t be such an old frump . If it gives me a certain amount of pleasure to give money away , why on earth shouldn \u2019 t I ? I daresay that nineteen out of every twenty people I help are thoroughly worthless , but it \u2019 s only by doing something for them all that I can be quite certain of not missing the twentieth .", "What \u2019 s the matter , Gerald ?", "Now don \u2019 t argue , but do as I tell you . If two young things are thrown together with a certain amount of skill they always marry .", "I wonder why you never married , James .", "You perfect idiot .", "That \u2019 s not the way , you know .", "You \u2019 d be doing him a real kindness if you could snub him at every opportunity . Then you must avoid him as much as you can . Of course , you \u2019 ll be very much with Gerald while you \u2019 re down here .", "But you mustn \u2019 t be in love with me . I won \u2019 t hear of it .", "I \u2019 ve known Gerald for ages . I \u2019 m delighted to see him on the way to such a happy marriage . I couldn \u2019 t have wished him to get engaged to any one nicer than you .", "Oh , don \u2019 t be so silly .", "I thought you were on the river .", "Doesn \u2019 t time hang rather heavily on your hands now and then ? Isn \u2019 t it difficult to find topics of conversation ?", "That \u2019 s just it . I don \u2019 t in the least know . They \u2019 ll all be here in half an hour , and I haven \u2019 t the shadow of a scheme . I lie awake all night racking my brains , and I can \u2019 t think of anything .", "Well , now tell me all about it , and let \u2019 s see if things can \u2019 t be put straight .", "But you \u2019 ve been so cold , you haven \u2019 t given me a chance .", "I \u2019 m sure you wouldn \u2019 t like me . I \u2019 m horrid really ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Gerald .", "Dear me , that \u2019 s very sad . But , of course , it simplifies matters , doesn \u2019 t it ?", "Have you never been loved for yourself , Mr. Blenkinsop ?", "It \u2019 s very fortunate . Now you \u2019 ll have much pleasanter things to talk about .", "How d \u2019 you do ? Ah , Mrs. Worthley ! Delightful !", "Oh , yes , thanks . I \u2019 m quite delighted with the view from my room .", "You \u2019 re the most cynical man in London , and I \u2019 m frightened to death of you .", "I was never very good at natural history .... Dear Mrs. Worthley , I must really thank you for the tact with which you \u2019 ve thrown Gerald and Nellie in one another \u2019 s society every moment of the day .", "Personally , I must walk . I sacrifice all my inclinations to my fear of growing too stout . I often wonder if we shall get our good dinners in heaven that we \u2019 ve done without on earth .", "I think it was a very cynical observation .", "Things are very different now , Gerald . It just came in time , didn \u2019 t it ?", "You sweet , practical child ! You \u2019 ll be your own mother again at my age .", "But doesn \u2019 t he know that Nellie is going to be married at the end of the season ?", "Cynic ! What do you say to six weeks from to-day ?", "It was dreadfully sad that his uncle and his cousin should die within a year . If anything happened to him you \u2019 d be in very different circumstances . But , of course , it would be wicked to wish it . I hope you never do .", "But if anything has happened to him ....", "How d \u2019 you do ? You cynic .", "Nonsense . An afternoon in the fresh air with Gerald is just the thing to put you right .", "I want to have a little talk with you .Aren \u2019 t I tactful ?", "Thanks , so much .", "My dear boy , I congratulate you with all my heart .", "Where are you going in such a hurry ?", "Because you \u2019 re a cynic , a millionaire , and a bachelor . And no man has the right to be all three .", "You passed us in Pall Mall this afternoon and you cut us dead .", "Come and sit by me , Gerald . I \u2019 ve not had a word with you since we came back from Italy .", "My dear Mr. Blenkinsop , what every one says is always true . That is one of the foundations of society .", "A grossly over-rated place . So many marriageable daughters and so few eligible men .", "Oh yes .My poor boy , you \u2019 re in a very difficult position .", "Why doesn \u2019 t he make haste ?", "I wish I could drink it , Mrs. Worthley , but it \u2019 s so fattening . I understand you always have it on your table .", "What a picture they make !", "Of course . It \u2019 s quite natural .", "Poor boy , I can afford to sympathise with him now that Nellie is safely engaged to Gerald Hollington .", "Every one knows you \u2019 re a horrible cynic , so there can \u2019 t be a word of truth in anything you say .", "If you make excuses like that , poor Nellie will think she bores you already .", "No woman can afford to be sentimental when she has a marriageable daughter .... For heaven \u2019 s sake don \u2019 t make Nellie cry , we \u2019 re dining out to-night .", "My dear child , what are you saying ? Gerald has a charming nature and the very highest principles .", "Of course . The dears , they \u2019 ve not seen one another for a year , and they have an infinity of things to discuss .", "It reminds me of the happy days when I was engaged to your poor father , Nellie . We were just like you and Gerald . We couldn \u2019 t bear to be out of one another \u2019 s sight . Now , run and get your hat , darling .", "Of course . But I don \u2019 t approve of him .", "I \u2019 ve assured you for the last three years that a marriage was absurd , and now I want to tell you that it \u2019 s impossible . Love is all very well in its way , but it doesn \u2019 t make up for a shabby house in the suburbs .", "Really . How very interesting ! Almost romantic .", "Mr. Blenkinsop , I want to quarrel with you !"], "true_target": ["But what is it , Mr. Blenkinsop ?", "Now , you really mustn \u2019 t waste this beautiful afternoon . You must go and have a nice long walk together .", "He wishes to leave it entirely to you .", "I think it \u2019 s delightful , the way they give in to one another .", "Do . But don \u2019 t be away very long .", "Be quiet , you horrible cynic .", "Nellie , my love , I \u2019 ve been discussing a very important matter with", "It \u2019 s all so romantic , isn \u2019 t it ? It ought to be an answer to a cynical creature like you to see the course of true love run so smoothly .", "Oh , don \u2019 t let me disturb you , I shall enjoy wandering about and looking at the flowers by myself .", "And I daresay he \u2019 ll have fifteen children . Those delicate men often do .... Why don \u2019 t you speak to Nellie now and get it over ?", "And now I think we really might take a little turn in the garden before tea .Where are you going , Nellie ?", "How very annoying !", "Where are you going , Nellie ?", "It \u2019 s not love in a cottage . It \u2019 s not love in a palace . It \u2019 s just \u2014 matrimony in Onslow Gardens .", "We \u2019 re all old friends here . I \u2019 m sure Mrs . Dot will help us with her advice .", "My darling , is this wise ? Remember the feelings of this poor young man .", "My dear boy , it \u2019 s the little difficulties of life which prevent it from being dull . We should be no better than the beasts of the field if we had no anxieties about our soul and our position in society .", "I feel that I have no right to restrain any longer the very natural impatience of these young things .", "Just like humming-birds , aren \u2019 t they ?", "I \u2019 m very glad he \u2019 s not . He \u2019 s going to be your husband , and that \u2019 s more satisfactory than any amount of pretty speeches .", "We had a delightful journey . Oh , how beautiful your garden is ! So romantic . I love romance .", "What a pity it is you \u2019 re so poor ! Your principles are really excellent .", "But I \u2019 ve always been as sentimental as a schoolgirl in my heart . Only , so long as Nellie \u2019 s future was unarranged , I was obliged to keep a tight hand on myself .", "I can quite understand you \u2019 re a little upset , but after all he was only a very distant relation of yours .", "What a beautiful and touching thing love is .", "Now do sit down . And look as if you were talking of the weather .", "That \u2019 s just it , I want to give neither of you any opportunity for sentiment .", "Come , Nellie !", "My dear Gerald , I \u2019 m very sorry . Is it as bad as all that ?", "How d \u2019 you do ? I think we met at dear Gerald \u2019 s a week or two ago .", "My dear Gerald , why don \u2019 t you help me ? What I have to say is so very unpleasant . You know I have always had a most sincere affection for you . Under other circumstances I would have wanted no better son-in-law .", "Why , darling ?", "You can guess why I wrote to ask if we might come and see you to-day ?", "Dear Mr. Blenkinsop , do take Nellie for a little stroll in the garden .", "Well , Gerald , I \u2019 m not in the least mercenary . I know that money can \u2019 t give happiness . But I do feel that unless you have at least two thousand a year you can \u2019 t make my daughter even comfortable .", "She \u2019 s so reserved , poor dear ! She never speaks of her feelings . But after three London seasons most girls have learnt to bow to the inevitable . And how is Lord Hollington ?", "Dear Mrs. Worthley , what a charming gown ! You always wear such \u2014 striking things .", "The dear child , she has such a sweet , trusting nature . You must kiss me , too , Gerald !", "I \u2019 m anxious that my daughter shouldn \u2019 t make the same mistake . Now let us be quite frank with one another .... Are you sure they \u2019 re not listening ?", "The suspense is too awful .", "Dear Mr. Blenkinsop , you wicked , wicked cynic .I shall go and lie down . Are you coming upstairs , Miss MacGregor ?", "I really feel for you very much . You \u2019 ll want a great deal of tact and a great deal of courage . But you must do your duty .", "My dear , when you reach my age you \u2019 ll agree with me that it \u2019 s only the matter of fact which really signifies . Love in a cottage is a delusion of youth . It \u2019 s difficult enough after ten years of solid matrimony in Grosvenor Square .", "What a beautiful thing love is !"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Oh , how clever of you to have a father who \u2019 s a clergyman ! You think of everything , Freddie .", "Oh , how stupid of me ! Something has caught .", "I seem to have known you all my life .", "Mr. Perkins has promised to take me for a little drive in the motor . I feel it \u2019 s the only thing to send away my headache .", "I sometimes think it would be better to quarrel outright now and then than be always so desperately polite to one another .", "Do you know that since we became definitely engaged you \u2019 ve never told me that you cared for me ?", "No one could accuse Gerald of being a passionate lover .", "Is your family very long-lived , Gerald ?", "Not quite !", "Take care !", "Oh , mamma , I \u2019 ve got the most dreadful headache that I \u2019 ve ever had in my life , and I must really go and lie down .", "And what did Gerald say ?", "I \u2019 m perfectly distracted . If you only knew how that man bores me !", "I \u2019 m not that , really .", "I \u2019 ll make it quite plain to him at once that he mustn \u2019 t care for me .", "We might go and play the piano in the drawing-room .", "You don \u2019 t mean to say your father \u2019 s in the Church ?", "No , no , no ! Freddie , how can you ask me such a thing .... I \u2019 ll just go and put on my hat .", "Oh , awful .", "Has it occurred to you that we may eat fifteen thousand breakfasts sitting opposite one another , and fifteen thousand luncheons , and fifteen thousand dinners ?", "Why ?", "Have you had it long ?", "I \u2019 ll do that on the first opportunity .", "I rather like your hand . It \u2019 s so strong and brown .", "It \u2019 s really rather flattering , isn \u2019 t it ? But how on earth d \u2019 you know ?", "Mother always says you have all the virtues .", "They tell me you \u2019 re very impressionable .", "What do you want me to do ?", "I like it .", "May I give you some tea ?", "I think he \u2019 s awfully nice .", "Oh , it makes me feel so delightfully wicked . I know I oughtn \u2019 t to let you kiss me . I know it \u2019 s treachery to poor Gerald .", "It \u2019 s not likely I should have proposed a thing like that .", "I suppose you \u2019 re very much in love with me ?", "When did you begin to love me ?", "Every girl likes a suspicion of romance thrown over her love-affairs .", "I \u2019 ve just remembered I must write a letter . I \u2019 ll join you in five minutes .", "What sort of things does he say ?", "He simply worships the ground I tread on . I am a perfect beast .", "You shouldn \u2019 t have asked .", "I told Gerald I was too tired .", "We had a nice long walk this morning .", "Are you coming ?", "How many days are there in forty years ?", "Oh !...I don \u2019 t think I quite understand .", "I \u2019 m sure that \u2019 s very obliging of him .", "Nonsense !", "Good-bye .", "We \u2019 re just going to look at the kitchen garden .", "You ought to have told me . I don \u2019 t think it was nice of you to get a licence without saying a word to me about it . I think it was a great liberty .", "Dear mamma , the settlements ."], "true_target": ["There are some things one should do without asking .", "Oh , I don \u2019 t know .", "I \u2019 m too tired . Won \u2019 t you go with Mrs . Dot ? I \u2019 ll rest here till tea-time .", "You may very well live for forty years , mayn \u2019 t you ?", "I should like to SCREAM .", "It would break his heart . I couldn \u2019 t , I couldn \u2019 t ! Besides , where are we to bolt to ? I daren \u2019 t . Mamma would never forgive me .", "And how do you look upon the prospect ?", "I don \u2019 t think any one but a lunatic would describe you as an ardent lover .", "You would have made an excellent husband \u2014 for mother .", "Good-bye , mamma .", "You must know that I can \u2019 t marry you . Nothing will induce me to break my promise to Gerald . I \u2019 m very angry with you .", "I thought you \u2019 d like an opportunity of talking privately to Gerald .", "Oh , I don \u2019 t know . I think as soon as ever I found out you were in love with me .", "What on earth made you think of sending for it ?", "I feel so sorry for him .", "Thanks , so much .", "How can you tell such stories ?", "I \u2019 m only just going to get a handkerchief .", "I thought your whistle was never coming . They wanted me to go on the river . I had to invent all sorts of excuses .", "I didn \u2019 t expect you would .", "We \u2019 ve not had a chance of speaking to one another .", "I can be horrid when I like .", "Awfully jolly .", "I would much sooner \u2014 let Gerald fix it at his own convenience .", "We were just going to call you all in to tea .", "This is romance , isn \u2019 t it ?", "I shall never forgive myself .", "I could wish that he talked to me of something besides the weather and the Royal Academy .", "No , but it tickled .", "Me ?", "That would suit me beautifully .", "I \u2019 m afraid I \u2019 m giving you a lot of trouble .", "May I go then ?", "We \u2019 ve looked at the Sketch together three times .And the Illustrated , and the Sphere , and the Graphic .", "No , there \u2019 s nothing here at all .", "You \u2019 re very easy to get to know , aren \u2019 t you ?", "I never saw any one who yawned so much as you .", "Awfully jolly .", "Thank you , dear .", "I suppose you say that to every girl who sits here ?", "It \u2019 s perfectly maddening . What a good idea it was of yours to meet in the garden after they \u2019 d all gone to bed .", "Oh , Gerald , let \u2019 s have a good scream together .", "Aren \u2019 t you going with the others ?", "It was lying on the writing-table . I suppose you \u2019 re not going to deny all knowledge of it .Freddie , how bold of you ! But you really couldn \u2019 t imagine for a moment that I \u2019 d consent to run away with you . Oh , Freddie , I \u2019 m so flattered . How you must love me !", "Awfully jolly .", "No .", "Of course , I \u2019 ll be only too glad to do anything I can .", "I think I shall take off my hat .", "I was never really fond of him , you know . I only accepted him because he was so desperately in love with me , and mamma wouldn \u2019 t hear of it .", "Freddie , how could you be so incautious ? It was only by the greatest presence of mind that I was able to hide it .", "No ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["I can \u2019 t imagine why you hadn \u2019 t the sense to fall in love with one of the various eligible persons who want to marry you .", "But how on earth are you going to get Nellie Sellenger and Freddie to use the other licence ?", "You brutes , you can all do it . You positively made my heart beat .", "That \u2019 s the twenty-third time you \u2019 ve read this announcement to me . I assure you that it \u2019 s beginning to lose its novelty .", "I am your witness .", "And what do you propose to do ?", "In one minute .", "There they are !", "That must be obvious to the meanest intelligence .", "I suppose you find him amusing ?", "But they must be made out to certain names .", "But would you tell me why you want to marry him ?", "That is a question to which during the fifty-five years of my life I \u2019 ve been totally unable to discover an answer .", "Then , perhaps , you can find me some other explanation .", "My dear , why on earth are you so excited ? Of course I \u2019 ll do anything in reason for you .", "Upon my soul , it looks very much like it .", "A special licence !", "My dear child , you must be crazy .", "He \u2019 s not really very clever , you know ."], "true_target": ["Thompson is offering you some coffee , my dear .", "Very well , I \u2019 ll go at once .", "And what is the sort of man a girl \u2019 s desperately fond of ?", "You \u2019 re certainly quite crazy .", "It \u2019 s born in them , the brutes .", "Of course not .", "And how on earth are you going to get Freddie and Nellie Sellenger to use this licence ?", "I \u2019 ve tried to , but as you \u2019 ve spent most of the morning in stamping on it , I haven \u2019 t had much success .", "I perceive that the tender passion hasn \u2019 t in the least interfered with your appetite .", "But they hardly know one another .", "Well , I \u2019 ll do it all the same .", "If she does , it \u2019 s more likely to be with Lord Hollington than with you .", "But why , my dear ? Why ?", "Would you like me to show you your rooms ?", "Here is Freddie , at last . What has he been doing ?", "And he \u2019 s not really very good-looking , is he ?", "I should have thought he could find a better way of showing it than by getting engaged to somebody else .", "Why did you ask them to come here ?", "It was a momentous discovery ."], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Are you going away , sir ?", "Very well , sir .", "I must know where to get the tickets for , sir ."], "true_target": ["Very good , sir .", "Very dangerous climate , sir .", "Very well , sir . Where to , sir ?"], "play_index": 16, "act_index": 16}, {"query": ["Well , in my belief , we all have a vice about us somewhere . But if I were you , Miss , I would n't touch bettin \u2019 , not with this other on you . You might get to feel a bit crowded .", "Comin \u2019 events . I saw the shadder yesterday .", "Not yet , my dear .", "Miss , I should say is more \u2014 more pishchological .", "Wot oh !", "Excuse me , sir . It 's pluck that get 's \u2018 em \u2018 ome , sir \u2014 begging your pardon . BUILDER has resumed his attitude and does not answer .", "Rather a specialty of mine , Miss .", "Only my shirt , Miss .", "In that case , I should please myself , Miss . To put \u2018 em in \u2018 ere 's warmer .", "I did n't know you \u2018 ad a taste this way , Miss Maud .", "Do n't you fret , Miss ; he 'll come through . His jaw 's above his brow , as you might say .", "I fair copped those young devils .", "Drop the \u201c sir , \u201d my dear ; I 'm the Builders \u2019 man . Mr Herringhame in ?", "Really , Miss .", "So down on anything soft , Miss . Have n't you noticed whenever one of these \u2018 Umanitarians writes to the papers , there 's always a Scotchman after him next morning . Seems to be a fact of \u2018 uman nature , like introducin \u2019 rabbits into a new country and then weasels to get rid of \u2018 em . And then something to keep down the weasels . But I never can see what could keep down a Scotchman ! You seem to reach the hapex there !", "Stop it , you young limb !", "Ah ! He 's right up against it now . Comes of not knowin \u2019 when to stop bein \u2019 firm . If you meet a wall with your \u2018 ead , it 's any odds on the wall , Camel . Though , if you listened to some , you would n't think it . What 'll he do now , I wonder ? Any news of the mistress ?", "Shall I close in , sir ?", "He wo n't throw up the sponge , Miss ; more likely to squeeze it down the back of their necks .", "\u201c Tried to prevent her father from forcing her mother to return home with him , and he struck her for so doing . She did not press the charge . The arrested gentleman , who said he acted under great provocation , was discharged with a caution . \u201d Well , I 'm blowed ! He has gone and done it !", "And \u201c Athene Builder \u201d on her drawings ?", "It 's on the knees of the gods , Miss , as they say in the headlines .", "Crimes ! Phew ! That accounts for them bein \u2019 away all night . While he is reading , CAMILLE enters from the hall . Here ! Have you seen this , Camel \u2014 in the Stop Press ?", "You 're not the first , Miss .", "Miss .", "Well , this little lot 's bust up ! The favourites will fall down . Johnny", "So they 're married ?", "Have you had any hand in this ? I 've seen you making your lovely black eyes at him . You foreigners \u2014 you 're a loose lot !", "Indeed , Miss . I thought perhaps she was about to be .", "The Mayor , sir . He retires up Left . The MAYOR is overcoated , and carries , of all things , a top hat . He reaches the centre of the room before he speaks .", "I see . Well , it ai n't known to Builder , J. P ., either . That 's why there 's a message . See ?", "Here !", "What 's that you 're sayin \u2019 ? You take care !", "Builder ! Who 'd have thought it ?", "Lunch has been ready some time , Miss Maud ."], "true_target": ["Miss Athene was out . I gave the message to a young party . She looked a bit green , Miss . I hope nothing 'll go wrong with the works . Shall I keep lunch back ?", "Well , I never ! That does sound like \u2018 em ! Are you goin \u2019 to tell the guv'nor , Miss ?", "If the haudience knows you 've got \u2018 em there .", "Fine , Miss . You have got a film face . What are they , if I may ask ?", "I think there 's be a rehaction , Miss .", "Mrs Herringhame ? Oh ! young lady with dark hair and large expressive eyes ?", "You see , then you 've got \u2018 em on you .", "Let 's see .Mrs Herringhame , you said ?", "Excuse me , sir , you must \u2018 ave digested yesterday morning 's breakfast by now \u2014 must live to eat , sir .", "What ! You 're not going , too , Miss Maud ?", "Oh ! Hang it all , Miss , think of what you 'll leave behind . Miss Athene 's leavin \u2019 home has made it pretty steep , but this 'll touch bottom \u2014 this will .", "With an \u201c A . B . \u201d on her linen ?", "Take a message . I can n't wait . From Miss Maud Builder . \u201c Look out ! Father is coming . \u201d Now , whichever of \u2018 em comes in first \u2014 that 's the message , and do n't you forget it .", "If you think I might risk it , Miss , I 'd like to slip round to my dentist .", "I 've seen worse roll up .Dark horse , Miss Maud , at twenty to one .", "Indeed , Miss ?", "Ah ! However did it happen , Miss Maud ?", "Well , of course , I could n't say just what sort of a crime you 'd committed , but I should think pretty \u2018 ot stuff .", "Deuce she did ! They generally leave \u2018 em . Take back yer gifts ! She throws the baubles at \u2018 is \u2018 ead .You 're a deep one , you know ! There is the sound of a cab stopping . Wonder if that 's him !", "Yes , sir . He goes , with a look back from the door . The Mayor is here , sir . I do n't know whether you would wish BUILDER , rising , takes a turn up and down the room .", "Keep your head . I must hop it . From Miss Maud Builder . \u201c Look out ! Father is coming . \u201d He nods , turns and goes , pulling the door to behind him . ANNIE stands \u201c baff \u201d for a moment .", "I 've got \u2018 em on the cab , Miss . I did n't put your ten bob on yesterday , because the animal finished last . You cant depend on horses .", "Well , I should say that depends on your character . Of course I do n't know what your character is .", "Move on ! He retreats from the window , opening the paper .", "Ah ! I should n't be surprised if he feels awful about you ,", "Guilty , Miss .", "Phreenology , Miss . I rather follow that . When the jaw 's big and the brow is small , it 's a sign of character . I always think the master might have been a Scotchman , except for his fishionomy .", "Not yet , Miss .", "From the \u201c Comet , \u201d sir . Proof of your interview , sir ; will you please revise , the messenger says ; he wants to take it back at once .", "Well ! To put \u2018 em in here ,", "Well , I do n't suppose you 've \u2018 eard of it , Miss ; but as a matter of fact it 's the Cesarwitch .", "Well , you see , Miss , it 's like this : Up to now Mr Builder 's always had the respect of everybody \u2014 MAUD moves her head impatiently . outside his own house , of course . Well , now he has n't got it . Pishchologically that 's bound to touch him .", "You 'll excuse me , sir ; the Missis \u2014 has come back , sir \u2014 BUILDER stares at him and TOPPING stops . He hands BUILDER the filled pipe and a box of matches .", "Why ?", "Miss Builder live here ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Oh ! thank you , Miss .", "Oh ! no , Miss ; that 's what I 've been thinking .", "No , Sir .", "Oh ! I did n't think it right to take notice .", "Oh ! I sha n't say I 've been livin \u2019 in a family that was n't a family , Miss . It would n't do no good .", "I \u2014 I could treat him the same , Miss .", "Ah ! She goes across to the bedroom on the Right , and soon returns with a suit of pyjamas , a toothbrush , a pair of slippers and a case of razors , which she puts on the table , and disappears into the kitchen . She reappears with a bread pan , which she deposits in the centre of the room ; then crosses again to the bedroom , and once more reappears with a clothes brush , two hair brushes , and a Norfolk jacket . As she stuffs all these into the bread pan and bears it back into the kitchen , there is the sound of a car driving up and stopping . ANNIE reappears at the kitchen door just as the knocker sounds .", "Yes , Miss ; that 's what I thought .", "Oh ! thank you , Miss . I 'm very sorry . Of course if you was to change your mind \u2014", "Oh ! no , sir . Of course you can n't be a family without , can you ?", "Oh ! no , sir ; Mrs Herringhame .", "Oh ! no , Miss ; from you . You see , I 've got a young man that wants to marry me . And if I do n't let him , I might get into trouble meself .", "Yes , sir .", "Oh ! yes , sir .", "Oh , sir , \u2018 e said there was nothing like Epsom salts .", "I d \u2014 do n't , sir .", "Oh ! Sir , I do n't know , Sir .", "Oh ! yes , sir , I will . Good-bye , sir . Goodbye , Miss . She goes .", "Oh ! ma'am , please , Miss , I want to go home .", "Oh ! I 'm puttin \u2019 you out , Miss .", "Oh ! Sir , no , sir .", "Did you want anything , sir ?", "Oh ! yes , Miss ; that 's why \u2018 e 's horrified .", "\u2018 E was \u2018 orrified , Miss .", "Vexin \u2019 and provokin \u2019 !Oh ! MR and MRS BUILDER enter .", "He was in the Army , sir .", "Oh ! I do n't \u2014 think \u2014 he 'll hammer me , Miss . Of course , I know you can n't tell till you 've found out .", "Oh ! please , ma'am , I was to give you a message \u2014 very important \u2014 from Miss Maud Builder \u201c Lookout ! Father is coming ! \u201d She goes out . The CURTAIN falls . ACT II BUILDER 'S study . At the table , MAUD has just put a sheet of paper into a typewriter . She sits facing the audience , with her hands stretched over the keys ."], "true_target": ["You see , we can n't be married ; sir , till he gets his rise . So it 'll be a continual temptation to me .", "Oh ! yes , Miss . She makes a little curtsey and passes through into the kitchen .", "Somethin \u2019 like you , sir . But very respectable .", "Oh ! yes , Miss .", "I never thought , Miss . And of course I do n't want to begin .", "They have n't time . Father 's an engine driver .", "Oh ! yes , sir . Wo n't Mr Builder be pleased ?", "Oh ! yes , sir ; but not so respectable as that .", "Oh ! no , sir . Only , seein \u2019 Mr and Mrs Builder so upset , brought it \u2018 ome like . And father can be \u2018 andy with a strap .", "I do n't think they do , Miss .", "Oh ! Sir , yes , Sir .", "Yes , sir . \u2018 E said I \u2018 ad no strength of mind .", "Oh ! yes , sir .", "Oh ! yes , Miss .", "Oh ! no , sir \u2014 at mine .", "Oh ! no , Miss .", "Oh ! yes , sir . Is that all , please , sir ?", "Oh ! sir , please , sir \u2014 I 've told my young man .", "Oh ! yes , Sir .", "Yes , sir .", "Oh ! yes , Sir .", "Oh ! I do n't know , sir .", "Oh ! no , Sir .", "Thank you , ma'am . She turns and hurries out into the kitchen , Left . BUILDER gazes after her , and MRS BUILDER gazes at BUILDER with her faint smile .", "Oh ! no , Sir .", "Oh ! good-bye , sir , and thank you . I was goin \u2019 there now with my young man . He 's just round the corner .", "I \u2014 I might catch it , Miss .", "He 's very mild .", "Oh !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Of course I 'm used to her . What else is marrying for ?", "How do you know ?", "What ? No ! Who 'd be happy in a household like mine ?", "That 's right !", "The maudlin sentimentality in these days is absolutely rotting this country . A man can n't be master in his own house , can n't require his wife to fulfil her duties , can n't attempt to control the conduct of his daughters , without coming up against it and incurring odium . A man can n't control his employees ; he can n't put his foot down on rebellion anywhere , without a lot of humanitarians and licence-lovers howling at him .", "A film face ! Good God ! Now , look here ! I will not have a daughter of mine mixed up with the stage . I 've spent goodness knows what on your education \u2014 both of you .", "You disrespectful monkey ! Will you be quiet ?", "No . Then perhaps you 'll tell me what these mean ?", "Why , what 's the matter with you ?", "Then what are you talking about ?", "Hang it all , a family 's a family ! There must be a head .", "There 's some coffee coming ; do your head good . Look here , Julia . I 'm sorry I beat on that door . I apologize . I was in a towering passion . I wish I did n't get into these rages . But \u2014 dash it all \u2014! I could n't walk away and leave you there .", "Go !", "Be quiet , you \u2014\u2014!", "Now , look here , Julia , you can n't mean this seriously . You can n't ! Think of my position ! You 've never set yourself up against me before .", "What on earth do you mean ?", "Excellent ? It 's damnable . Here am I \u2014 a man who 's always tried to do his duty in private life and public \u2014 brought up before the Bench \u2014 my God ! because I was doing that duty ; with a little too much zeal , perhaps \u2014 I 'm not an angel !", "A proper Englishman never is . But there are no proper", "Are you married to this \u2014 this \u2014?", "I can n't even get a glimmer of what you mean . I 've never been anything but firm . Impatient , perhaps . I 'm not an angel ; no ordinary healthy man is . I 've never grudged you girls any comfort , or pleasure .", "Not a damned thing !", "Is it a question of money ? You can always have more . You know that .Oh ! do n't smile like that ; it makes me feel quite sick ! CAMILLE enters with a decanter and little glasses , from the dining-room .", "\u2018 Pon my soul ! This is outrageous !", "Put no obstacle ? What do you mean ? Julia , how can you say a thing like that ? Why , I 've only just \u2014", "No lies ; out with it !", "Tell him to go to \u2014", "Do n't twist my tail , Maud . I had the most painful scene with Athene this morning . Now come ! Give up this silly notion ! It 's really too childish !", "Well , I 'm damned !", "Here ! But he is gone , and BUILDER is left staring at his brother , on whose face is still that look of whimsical commiseration .", "You 're talking the most arrant nonsense I ever heard .I 've a good mind to shake it out of you .", "Did I say that ? Muck ! Muck !Town , 245 .The \u201c Comet \u201d ? John Builder . Give me the Editor .That you , Mr Editor ? John Builder speaking . That interview . I 've got the proof . It wo n't do . Scrap the whole thing , please . I do n't want to say anything .Yes . I know I said it all ; I can n't help that .No ; I 've changed my mind . Scrap it , please .No , I will not say anything .You can say what you dam \u2019 well please .I mean it ; if you put a word into my mouth , I 'll sue you for defamation of character . It 's undignified muck . I 'm tearing it up . Good-night .TOPPING enters . Here , give this to the messenger-sharp , and tell him to run with it .", "Now , do n't go saying you 're going in for Art , too , because I wo n't have it .", "Of course I do .", "Odd if you had n't , in twenty-three years .Art ! Just a pretext . We shall be having Maud wanting to cut loose next . She 's very restive . Still , I ought n't to have had that scene with Athene . I ought to have put quiet pressure . MRS BUILDER Smiles .", "Good Lord ! I suppose you 'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society , and have my blessing to round it off .", "Rubbish !", "I did n't strike a woman \u2014 I struck my daughter .", "What ?", "They why do you say so ?Never mind ; do n't be nervous .", "Why ?", "I 'm damned if I 'll sit down under this injustice . Your mother is \u2014 is pretty irritating , I can tell you . She \u2014 she \u2014 Everything suppressed . And \u2014 and no \u2014 blood in her !", "This is simply blasphemous . What do you mean by harping on your mother ? If you think that \u2014 that \u2014 she does n't \u2014 that she is n't \u2014", "With such views about marriage , what business had you to go near a man ? Come , now !", "Mr and Mrs Builder . My daughter in ?", "Friends ! Good heavens ! With one 's own wife and daughters !Now , look here , Julia , you have n't lived with me all this time without knowing that I 'm a man of strong passions ; I 've been a faithful husband to you \u2014 yes , I have . And that means resisting all sorts of temptations you know nothing of . If you withdraw from my society I wo n't answer for the consequences . In fact , I can n't have you withdrawing . I 'm not going to see myself going to the devil and losing the good opinion of everybody round me . A bargain 's a bargain . And until I 've broken my side of it , and I tell you I have n't \u2014 you 've no business to break yours . That 's flat . So now , put all that out of your head .", "Save your powder , Mayor . I 've slept on it since I wrote you that note . Take my resignations .", "Not now .", "Nothing ! nothing !", "She'shYpppHeNshe ' s actually gone and \u2014", "You 're a temptress !", "Will you be quiet ?", "You 've disgraced us , then ; that 's what it comes to .", "If we mean to stay ! That 's good !", "How d'you account for it ?", "No ; I suppose it 's in your blood . The French \u2014", "Every kind of humiliation . I spent the night in a stinking cell . I have n't eaten since breakfast yesterday . Did they think I was going to eat the muck they shoved in ? And all because in a moment of anger \u2014 which I regret , I regret !\u2014 I happened to strike my daughter , who was interfering between me and my wife . The thing would be funny if it were n't so disgusting . A man 's house used to be sanctuary . What is it now ? With all the world poking their noses in ? He stands before the fire with his head bent , excluding as it were his interviewer and all the world .", "Will she be back soon ?", "Why are n't you married to him ?", "Shut the stable door ? No , my boy , the horse has gone .", "I do wish you would n't turn things upside down in that ironical way . It is n't \u2014 English .", "Does your sister shave ?", "Well , I 'm fond of my girls too ; I suppose I 'm not amiable enough . H 'm ?", "No ! If you thought it a sin \u2014 I \u2014 might . But you do n't ; you 're nothing but a \u2014 a little heathen .", "Come , Athene , do n't be childish ! Promise me !", "What ! How can men stand on their rights left ?", "Who bolted it ?", "If the law thinks it can back up revolt , it 's damned well mistaken . I struck my daughter \u2014 I was in a passion , as you would have been .", "What are you smiling at ? MRS BUILDER shrugs her shoulders . Look at this \u2014 Cigarettes !Strong , very \u2014 and not good !Kitchen !Bedroom !", "Oh ! And you have a key ?", "That girl 's a continual irritation to me ! She 's dangerous ! What a life ! I believe that girl \u2014 The door Left is opened and MRS BUILDER comes in .", "Look here ! I want to get to the bottom of this . Do you tell me I 'm any stricter than nine out of ten men ?", "Look here , you know ! This wo n't do ! It wo n't do ! I \u2014 I 've got my reputation to think of !", "Very irritating sometimes to a plain Englishman \u2014 that 's all .", "When you 've quite done being funny , perhaps you 'll tell me why you 've behaved like a common street flapper .", "News \u2014 what ?", "No ! Yes \u2014 I will . She pours it out , and he drinks it , hands her the glass and sits down suddenly in an armchair . CAMILLE puts the glass on a tray , and looks for a box of matches from the mantelshelf .", "Love leads to marriage \u2014 and to nothing else , but the streets . What an example to your sister !", "You ! You what ?", "You little devil ! She suddenly kisses him , and he returns the kiss . While they are engaged in this entrancing occupation , MRS BUILDER opens the door from the hall , watches unseen for a few seconds , and quietly goes out again .", "The war 's upset everything . Women are utterly out of hand . Why the deuce does n't she come ?", "I 'm not in a joking mood .", "Ask your mistress to come here . He looks up , and catching her eye , looks away .", "Say ! What business had he to touch me , a magistrate ? I gave my daughter two taps with a cane in a private house , for interfering with me for taking my wife home \u2014", "Do n't sneer at Christianity !", "Rot ; only people who can support themselves have a right to independence .", "Life is n't all roses , Ralph .", "I was angry .", "Topping 's got toothache , poor chap !Ca n't you suggest any way of making Athene see reason ? Think of the example ! Maud will be kicking over next . I sha n't be able to hold my head up here .", "Now , out you go before I \u2014! Go on ! He goes over to the door and opens it . His wife is outside in a hat and coat . She comes in .Oh ! Here you are \u2014 I wanted you . CAMILLE , taking up the tray , goes out Left , swinging her hips a very little .", "This is my job .", "All right . I 'll ring .", "I sometimes think I try myself too high . Well , about that", "These rooms are not yours , are they ?", "You can n't \u2014! Why ? You 've every indulgence .", "H 'm !What 's to be done about Athene ?", "Where ?", "Splendid isolation . No wife , no daughters , no Councillorship , no Magistracy , no future \u2014not even a French maid . And why ? Because I tried to exercise a little wholesome family authority . That 's the position you 're facing , Mayor .", "Will you come , and leave that baggage and her cad ? MRS BUILDER steps quickly out and the door is closed . Guy makes an angry movement towards it .", "You do n't let your women folk do just as they like ?", "Do n't \u201c dear \u201d me ! What have you noticed ? D'you mean I 'm not a good husband and father ?", "H 'm ! Well !Give her that . He hands her a five-pound note .", "Quaint and Dutch \u2014 pretty little figure !H 'm ! Extraordinary girls are ! Fancy Athene preferring this to home . What ?", "Julia , will you leave me to manage this ?", "You shall have them in writing tomorrow .", "Yes , and there it 'll stay \u2014 that 's the first sensible word you 've uttered . Now , come ! Take your hat off , and let 's be friends ! MAUD looks at him and slowly takes off her hat .", "Dash it ! You must know !", "You can n't ! Film , indeed ! You 'd be in the gutter in a year . Athene 's got her pittance , but you \u2014 you 've got nothing .", "I 've paid a pretty price for you . But you 'll make up for it ; you and others .", "What happens if one of your girls wants to do an improper thing ?You do n't stop her ?", "My God ! I thought we were a Christian family .", "Then \u2014 then I should know where I was . As it is \u2014", "No ; come again to-morrow !", "That ! You were just kids .", "Light the fire , Topping . I 'm chilly . While TOPPING lights the fire BUILDER puts the pipe in his mouth and applies a match to it . TOPPING , having lighted the fire , turns to go , gets as far as half way , then comes back level with the table and regards the silent brooding figure in the chair .", "Well , we must wait , I suppose . Confound that Nixon legacy ! If Athene had n't had that potty little legacy left her , she could n't have done this . Well , I daresay it 's all spent by now . I made a mistake to lose my temper with her .", "Where is she ?", "I knew you were dangerous . I always knew it .", "You little devil ! If I catch you , I 'll wring your blasted little neck !", "They may go to hell ! If that lousy Mayor thinks I 'm done with \u2014 he 's mistaken !I do n't want any soft sawder . I 'm a fighter .", "Look here , Julia ! That wretched girl said something to me about our life together . What \u2014 what 's the matter with that ?", "I did n't mean to . You go away \u2014 go away !", "My good girl , not \u201c Oh ! Sir , no , sir . \u201d Simply : No , Sir . See ?", "Family life is n't idyllic , so she thinks she and the young man ought n't to have one .", "You keep everything to yourself , so ; I never have any notion what you 're thinking . What did you say to her ?", "Good-night . TOPPING has gone . BUILDER sits drawing at his pipe between the firelight and the light from the standard lamp . He takes the pipe out of his mouth and a quiver passes over his face . With a half angry gesture he rubs the back of his hand across his eyes .", "You 've never tested your theory , I 'll bet .", "When you think of how she 's been brought up . You would have thought that religion alone \u2014", "What do you want with wills of your own till you 're married ?", "Monkey ! At the sound of a bolt shot , BUILDER goes up to the window . There is a fumbling at the door , and CAMILLE appears .", "D'you realise that you 're encouraging me to go wrong ? That 's a pretty thing for a wife to do . You ought to keep your husband straight .", "He crosses the room in his fervour .", "Well , Maud ! You 'd have won your bet !", "who has taken up a pipe to fill , puts it down .", "Well , I 'm damned ! Look here , Maud \u2014 all this has been temper . You got my monkey up . I 'm sorry I shook you ; you 've had your revenge on my toes . Now , come ! Do n't make things worse for me than they are . You 've all the liberty you can reasonably want till you marry ."], "true_target": ["I do n't care a damn .", "Humour ? I 've spent a night in a cell . See this !It disinherits my family .", "No . Fact is , Ralph , something very horrible 's happened .", "Monstrous ! Really monstrous ! CAMILLE enters from the hall . She has a little collecting book in her hand .", "What 's your name ?", "What am I doing ?", "Well , that 's something . She 's crazy . D'you suppose she was telling the truth about that young blackguard wanting to marry her ?", "Toothache \u2014 poor devil ! H 'm ! I 'm expecting my brother , but I do n't know that I can see him .", "My God ! You \u2014 you \u2014!", "What business had you to ? I 'm a family man .", "What 's that ?", "Julia ! Come ! We can n't stay here . MRS BUILDER comes forth , followed by GUY . As for you , sir , if you start by allowing a woman to impose her crazy ideas about marriage on you , all I can say is \u2014 I despise you .I 've done with you ! He goes out . MRS BUILDER , who has so far seemed to accompany him , shuts the door quickly and remains in the studio . She stands there with that faint smile on her face , looking at the two young people .", "I \u2014 I forgot myself . They rise .", "Do n't put your oar in ! I 've had wonderful patience so far .Art ! This is what comes of it ! Are you an artist ?", "May I ask if you know whose they are ?", "Suppose my wife had come in ?", "Now , look here , Athene . It 's always been my way to face accomplished facts . What 's done can n't be undone ; but it can be remedied . You must marry this young \u2014\u2014 at once , before it gets out . He 's behaved like a ruffian : but , by your own confession , you 've behaved worse . You 've been bitten by this modern disease , this \u2014 this , utter lack of common decency . There 's an eternal order in certain things , and marriage is one of them ; in fact , it 's the chief . Come , now . Give me a promise , and I 'll try my utmost to forget the whole thing .", "The devil you do ! Walks out of the room . The JOURNALIST , grabbing his pad , starts up and follows . The BUILDERS rise and huddle , and , with HERRINGHAME , are ushered out by HARRIS .", "What 's that ?", "What explanation have you got ?", "But \u2014 my God ! Julia , this is awful \u2014 it 's absurd ! How can you ? I 'm your husband . Really \u2014 your saying you do n't mind what I do \u2014 it 's not right ; it 's immoral !", "What ? His daughters have never done anything disgraceful , and his wife 's a pattern .", "Come along !All my married life I 've put a curb on myself for the sake of respectability . I 've been a man of principle , my girl , as you saw yesterday . Well , they do n't want that !You can sit on my knee now .", "Well ?", "I wo n't have it . So now you know . But MRS BUILDER has very swiftly gone . Julia , I tell you \u2014Damnation ! I will not have it ! They 're all mad ! Here \u2014 where 's my hat ? He looks distractedly round him , wrenches open the door , and a moment later the street door is heard to shut with a bang . CURTAIN . ACT III", "Very good of you !", "You 've what ?Do n't talk nonsense ! Your sister has just tried me to the limit .", "It 's the face that brings women to ruin , my girl .", "Who put you up to this ?", "Your \u2014 you \u2014!", "Pluck ! Pluck !While he is doing this the door from the hall is opened quietly , and MRS BUILDER enters without his hearing her . She has a work bag in her hand . She moves slowly to the table , and stands looking at him . Then going up to the curtains she mechanically adjusts them , and still keeping her eyes on BUILDER , comes down to the table and pours out his usual glass of whisky toddy . BUILDER , who has become conscious of her presence , turns in his chair as she hands it to him . He sits a moment motionless , then takes it from her , and squeezes her hand . MRS BUILDER goes silently to her usual chair below the fire , and taking out some knitting begins to knit . BUILDER makes an effort to speak , does not succeed , and sits drawing at his pipe . The CURTAIN falls . LOYALTIES From the 5th Series Plays By John Galsworthy PERSONS OF THE PLAY In the Order of Appearance", "They 've chosen to drive me to extremes , now let them take the consequences . I do n't care a kick what anybody thinks .", "Good reasons ? I should think so ! I tell you \u2014 a very little more of this liberty \u2014 licence I call it \u2014 and there is n't a man who 'll be able to call himself head of a family .", "Please .", "D'you mean to say you knew ?", "Are you my daughter or are you not ?", "You 've got my temper up and you 'll take the consequences . I 'll make you toe the line .", "What ! I shall stay and clear this up if I have to wait a week . Men who let their daughters \u2014! This age is the limit .", "I try to .", "My God ! I never heard anything so immoral in all my life from the mother of two grownup girls . No wonder they 've turned out as they have ! What is it you want , for goodness sake ?", "It 's my opinion you 're a temptation of the devil . You know you sat down on purpose .", "If the law thinks it can force me to be one of your weak-kneed sentimentalists who let everybody do what they like \u2014", "Do n't rile me Julia ! I 've had an awful day . First Athene \u2014 then Maud \u2014 then that girl \u2014 and now you ! All at once like this ! Like a swarm of bees about one 's head .Come , now , Julia , do n't be so \u2014 so im practicable ! You 'll make us the laughing-stock of the whole town . A man in my position , and can n't keep his own family ; it 's preposterous !", "What 's the matter with that door ? CAMILLE . It was bolted ,", "So you want to be my mistress , do you ? CAMILLE makes a nervous gesture . Well , you shall . Come here .", "Here ! CAMILLE comes doubtfully up to the writing table . Her forehead is puckered as if she were thinking hard .", "Now , mind \u2014 if you leave my house , I 've done with you .", "Why should I ? CAMILLE comes in from the dining-room with the coffee . Put it there . I want some brandy , please .", "Now , Athene , what 's this ?", "Welsh contract ?", "Will you kindly tell me why your sister signs her drawings by the name of my daughter , Athene Builder \u2014 and has a photograph of my wife hanging there ? The YOUNG MAN looks at MRS BUILDER and winces , but recovers himself .", "I never yet met a man who could n't face another man 's position .", "How do you mean ?", "Me ?", "And how do you propose to live ? I sha n't give you a penny . Come , Julia , do n't be such an idiot ! Fancy letting a kiss which no man could have helped , upset you like this !", "Here 's what I 've said to that fellow : \u201c MR MAYOR ,\u2014 You had the effrontery to-day to discharge me with a caution \u2014 forsooth !\u2014 your fellow \u2014 magistrate . I 've consulted my solicitor as to whether an action will lie for false imprisonment . I 'm informed that it wo n't . I take this opportunity of saying that justice in this town is a travesty . I have no wish to be associated further with you or your fellows ; but you are vastly mistaken if you imagine that I shall resign my position on the Bench or the Town Council .\u2014 Yours , \u201c JOHN BUILDER . \u201d", "All right . Put it down .", "Well ?", "D'you realise that I 've supported you in luxury and comfort ?", "And what about my face ?", "I wanted to talk to you about Maud .", "What ! Because of a little thing like that \u2014 all over in two minutes , and I doing my utmost .", "She 's learnt to know when I 'm in the right .", "If you 'll attend to it . Frankly , I 'm too upset . As they go towards the door into the hall , MAUD comes in from the dining-room , in hat and coat .", "You 're an unnatural girl ! Go your own way to hell !", "I consider myself abominably treated , and I refuse to say another word .", "I 'd rather put you into mine , as it was last night .", "No . Bring the coffee !", "I do n't want any , either . Tell Topping I 'll have some coffee .", "Living ! Living !", "Well , I do n't know that you would ; you look a soft sort ; but any man with any blood in him .", "H 'm !Have some ?", "Behaving like a \u2014", "Sleep ? I had n't a wink last night . If you 'd passed the night", "Give me that paper on the table . No ; the other one \u2014 the Will . TOPPING takes up the Will and gives it to him .", "Well , Camille ?", "What about her ?", "Oh ! This damned Woman 's business ! I knew how it would be when we gave you the vote . You and I are married , and our daughters are our daughters . Come , Julia . Where 's your commonsense ? After twenty-three years ! You know I can n't do without you !", "By George , Ralph , you may thank your stars you have n't got a delightful daughter . Yours are good , decent girls .", "What ! I told this young man I was n't an angel .", "It 's all against my \u2014 I wo n't do it ! It 's \u2014 it 's wrong !", "Julia thinks you might help . You never seem to have any domestic troubles .", "Is that what you came for ?", "Yes \u2014 quite well .", "Eye-wash ! You came to beg me to resign .", "We 're not in Paris .", "Do you live here ? Guy makes no sign .", "A young flying bounder .", "I am .", "This is maddening !", "You little devil !", "A voice says , \u201c Mr Builder ! \u201d BUILDER turns to see the figure of the", "There you are .", "Be explicit .", "Oh ! for heaven 's sake do n't be sarcastic ! You 're my wife , and there 's an end of it ; you 've no legal excuse . Do n't be absurd !", "I had \u2014", "Take this note to the Mayor with my compliments , and do n't bring back an answer . TOPPING . Very good , sir . There 's a gentleman from the \u201c Comet \u201d in the hall , sir . Would you see him for a minute , he says .", "You 've always been so passive . When I want a thing , I 've got to have it .", "Englishmen nowadays .", "Going out ?", "Explain these ! My God ! Where 's that girl ?", "Monsieur .", "No . It 's \u2014 it 's that she 's gone and \u2014 and not got married . RALPH utters a sympathetic whistle . Jolly , is n't it ?", "But you shall . They 've asked for it !", "Do you mean to say you 've gone as far as that ?", "In law ?", "I really think you 're mad .", "The girl fell on my knees . Julia , she did . She 's \u2014 she 's a little devil . I \u2014 I resisted her . I give you my word there 's been nothing beyond a kiss , under great provocation . I \u2014 I apologise .", "I do n't want to hear you speak the truth . I 'll wait for my daughter .", "I can n't be bothered \u2014 What is it ?", "I 've given you no real reason . I 'll send the girl away . You ought to thank me for resisting a temptation that most men would have yielded to . After twenty-three years of married life , to kick up like this \u2014 you ought to be ashamed of yourself .", "I do n't know what on earth you mean .", "See what ?", "Ralph , oblige me ! See them off the premises !", "What 's that ? Say that again !", "Camille ? What 's she got to do with it ?", "Some crazy rubbish about family life , of all things .", "Now , Maud , do n't be foolish . Consider my position here \u2014 a Town Councillor , a Magistrate , and Mayor next year . With one daughter living with a man she is n't married to \u2014", "Doing ? I just had my arm round my wife , trying to induce her to come home with me after a little family tiff , and this girl came at me . I lost my temper , and tapped her with my cane . And \u2014 that policeman brought by my own daughter \u2014 a policeman ! If the law is going to enter private houses and abrogate domestic authority , where the hell shall we be ?", "Nor do I . Yes ! I 'll see him . TOPPING goes out , and BUILDER stands over by the fender , with his head a little down .", "Do n't be impudent ! My patience is at breaking-point , I warn you .", "You 're a good fellow .", "Yes . Now then ?", "Look here \u2014 I can n't stand this ; you 've got to go . Out with you ! I 've always kept a firm hand on myself , and I 'm not going to \u2014", "I would n't trust you a yard .", "You know I did n't mean that . I might just as well have said I 'd done with you ! Apply your wits , Julia ! At any moment this thing may come out . In a little town like this you can keep nothing dark . How can I take this nomination for Mayor ?", "Now then !", "I think you 're the most immodest \u2014 I 'm ashamed that you 're my daughter . If your another had ever carried on as you are now \u2014", "I 've done with those two ladies . As to my wife \u2014 if she does n't come back \u2014! When I suffer , I make others suffer .", "I do n't know what 's bitten you .", "That 's very nice and placid ; sort of thing you women who live sheltered lives can say . I often wonder if you women realise the strain on a business man .", "JOURNALIST in the hall doorway . TOPPING goes out .", "Do n't stand there opposing everything I say ! I 'll go and have another look \u2014Here she is ! MRS BUILDER has approached him , and they have both turned towards the opening door . GUY HERRINGHAME comes in . They are a little out of his line of sight , and he has shut the door before he sees them . When he does , his mouth falls open , and his hand on to the knob of the door . He is a comely young man in Harris tweeds . Moreover , he is smoking . He would speak if he could , but his surprise is too excessive . BUILDER . Well , sir ?", "I \u2014 I can n't express \u2014"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["It does n't work otherwise , Athene . A single loud bang on the door .", "We just want to be away from you , that 's all . I assure you it 's best . When you 've shown some consideration for our feelings and some real sign that we exist apart from you \u2014 we could be friends again \u2014 perhaps \u2014 I do n't know .", "Athene , you 're mistaken . I 've always stood up to him in my own way .", "I 'm going in a moment .You owe it to me , Athene .", "It 's not dignified .", "Yes ?", "My dear John , the fact that you had to do your utmost is quite enough . I feel continually humiliated in your house , and I want to leave it \u2014 quite quietly , without fuss of any kind .", "I can n't help having been born in Jersey .", "I 'm sure of it .", "Now , my dear , you 're going to be sensible , to please me . It 's really best . If I say so , it must be . It 's all comedy , Athene .", "I think I 've earned it .", "John !", "Told her it would never work .", "Yes ; Ralph is n't at all a family man .", "Suppose you leave me here to see her .", "I think you had better go .", "No , Mr Mayor . MRS BUILDER Sits .", "He 's only in a passion , my dear .", "Why not ?", "I do n't know at present .", "Yes . I will put no obstacle in the way of your pleasures .", "We have lived together twenty-three years , John . No talk will change such things .", "They 've never had any religion since .", "I 've noticed that .", "Thank you ! I quite understand . But you must forgive my feeling it impossible to remain a wet blanket any longer .", "My dear , all men are not alike .", "I 'm afraid you do n't see what goes on in those who live with you . So , I 'll just go . Do n't bother !", "I thought perhaps you found her irritating .", "John \u2014 please !", "She would never stand that . Even wives object , nowadays ."], "true_target": ["Do you think you ought , John ? He has disappeared , and she ends with an expressive movement of her hands , a long sigh , and a closing of her eyes . BUILDER 'S peremptory voice is heard : \u201c Julia ! \u201d What now ? She follows into the bedroom . The maid ANNIE puts her head out of the kitchen door ; she comes out a step as if to fly ; then , at BUILDER 'S voice , shrinks back into the kitchen . BUILDER , reappearing with a razor strop in one hand and a shaving-brush in the other , is followed by MRS BUILDER .", "John wants to consult you , Ralph .", "Obviously .", "Shall I get rid of Camille ?", "But I do now .", "Good-bye !", "How beautifully put !", "It is irritating .", "I must tell you that I happened to look in a minute ago .", "Your own family have lives and thoughts and feelings of their own .", "Ask him in , Camille .", "I 'm sure you must think so .", "It seems a shame to add the strain of family life .", "Perhaps Ralph could help .", "Is n't it always a mistake to lose one 's temper ?", "John ! Do n't !", "Are you married to her ?", "No .", "The girls have n't wanted to go to church for years . They 've always said they did n't see why they should go to keep up your position . I do n't know if you remember that you once caned them for running off on a Sunday morning .", "When do you expect my daughter in ?", "I think it 's more mine .", "You said you had done with her .", "The Camille , and the last straw !", "Yes ; you can go .", "You could \u2014 quite easily . You can tell people what you like .", "John , you must n't . Athene has the tiny beginning of a moustache , you know .", "I did n't say anything .", "I 'm afraid I can n't do that for you .", "Do n't ! I saw .", "It must wait ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Well , you see \u2014", "Thanks .", "Do n't you believe her , Annie ; if he 's decent \u2014", "I prefer to say nothing .", "No ; a flying man . The truth is \u2014", "There 's something in atavism , darling ; there really is . I like it", "France \u2014 and has a friend staying here .", "I was about to say the same to you , sir .", "She wants to go home \u2014 she wants to go home !", "The deuce he was ! At our conduct ?", "Good-bye , Annie . Here 's five bob for the movies .", "Nothing out of the ordinary , sir . One or two damns and blasts .", "Strength of mind ! Have a little , Athene wo n't you ?", "Guy Herringhame .", "I suppose one never knows what one 's got under the lid . If he had n't come here to-day \u2014He certainly gives one pause . Used he to whack you ?", "I \u2014 er BUILDER 's eyes go round and rest on him for a moment . It 's in my sister 's studio that Miss Athene Builder is at present working , sir . I just happened to \u2014 to turn up .", "Nor yours , sir ?", "I 'm not going to say another word .", "Er \u2014 the Aerodrome , Sir . MAYOR . Private , I mean ? The moment is one of considerable tension .", "I \u2014 I do n't think so .", "Will you have a cigarette ?", "Brute !", "My sister 's .", "Good for your young man .", "The constable 's arm struck the cane violently and it flew up and landed him in the eye .", "Shall I \u2014?", "He 's a wag , your young man .", "Guy Herringhame .", "If you do , I hope you 'll be so very good as to be gentle . If you get angry I might too , and that would be awfully ugly .", "Yes . That is \u2014 no \u2014 o ; not altogether , I mean .", "H 'm ! That 's not exactly our reason .", "So her father has a firm hand too . But it takes her back to the nest . How 's that , Athene ?", "Yes , sir .", "Do n't try , sir .I think that 's her .Yes . Now , please !Your father and mother , Athene .", "Look here ! Shall I shift him ? MRS BUILDER shakes her head and opens the door . BUILDER stands there , a furious figure ."], "true_target": ["At the moment , sir , I have n't one . I 've just left my diggings , and have n't yet got any others .", "That puts the top hat on . So persuasive !Well ! What 's to be done with these pretty things , now ?", "Athene ?", "No , sir .", "It is . Come in , Annie . What 's wrong now ?", "Well , what do you think I feel ? \u201c Cad ! \u201d They turn to see ANNIE in hat and coat , with a suit-case in her hand , coming from the door Left .", "You said he was respectable .", "A knock on the door .", "As a matter of fact this is my sister 's studio ; she 's in", "Now \u2014 directly .", "Hang it ! We 're not all like that .", "What have you got in that thing ? ANNIE is moving across with the bread pan . She halts at the bedroom door .", "And what 's your young man , Annie ?", "I 've always told her that , ma'am .", "Need we go into this in your presence , ma'am ? It seems rather delicate .", "We beg your pardon .", "But what about catching it ?", "Well ! Let 's see how it looks , anyway .", "Well , he 's a \u2014 magistrate , sir . The MAYOR utters a profound grunt . CHANTREY smiles . There is a silence . Then the MAYOR leans over to CHANTREY for a short colloquy .", "I say , Annie , do n't go away thinking evil of us ; we did n't realise you knew we were n't married .", "Not quite . You can n't imagine I should ever be like that ,", "He 's not safe .", "Well , they do n't stick out .", "I quite understand that , sir . But , as a man of the world , I hope you 'll take a pull before she comes , if you mean to stay .", "\u2014 I do .", "Be very careful of him .", "It wo n't . Come on . Must take chances in this life .", "My sister 's .", "Did he give her the protection ?", "Oh ! I saw that clearly .", "Oh ! Ah ! Those things ?", "Right ! That 's a bargain .ATHENE quivers towards him . They embrace fervently as ANNIE enters with the bread pan . They spring apart .", "It 's all right , Annie . There 's only one more day 's infection before you . We 're to be married to-morrow morning .", "Quite sure , sir .", "Yes \u2014 No , sir . Miss Maud Builder did that ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Oh ! How are you , mother dear ? This is rather a surprise . Father always keeps his word , so I certainly did n't expect him .", "I am not coming back home , father .", "I knew it !", "Well , here are your wages .", "Now , father !", "Well , Annie , get your things off , and lay lunch .", "I do n't ever mean to learn to know when Guy 's in the right . Mother 's forty-one , and twenty-three years of that she 's been your wife . It 's a long time , father . Do n't you ever look at her face ?", "We certainly did not .", "Well , I 've no right to influence you .", "Except wills of our own .", "Yes .", "We 're going to try .", "Shall I call Guy ? He drops his hands . Confess that being a good husband and father has tried you terribly . It has us , you know .", "Guy ! All right , Annie .", "That ; and the production of such as me . And it is n't good enough , father . You should n't have set us such a perfect example .", "I do n't know \u2014 I do n't know ! If \u2014 it turned out \u2014", "It was awful ! Uncle , why did n't you come back with Guy ?", "Annie ! ANNIE stops and turns to her . What are you afraid of ?", "It 's so queer you and he being brothers , Uncle Ralph .", "N \u2014 no , Mr Mayor , not of my father or mother .", "I think it 's really a sense of property so deep that they do n't know they 've got it . Father can talk about freedom like a \u2014 politician .", "So you are now .", "Oh ! if somebody would give him a lesson !", "That sounds like Annie again . Just see .", "Do n't you ever look at your own face , father ? When you shave , for instance .", "Yes .", "Mother dear , will you go into the other room with Guy ?", "She 's very married . Has she a will of her own ?", "That 's because he wants you . You wait till he does n't . ANNIE looks at GUY .", "Truth often is .", "I 'm perfectly serious , Father . I tell you , we meant to marry , but so far I have n't been able to bring myself to it . You never noticed how we children have watched you .", "What 's what ?", "If you 'd watched it ever since you could watch anything , seen it kill out all \u2014 It 's having power that does it . I know Father 's got awfully good points .", "Exactly .", "It is n't satisfied , is it ?", "All right .", "Guy wants to marry me . In fact , we \u2014 But I had such a stunner of marriage from watching you at home , that I \u2014", "What sort of father and mother have you got , Annie ?", "D'you mean you 've never noticed how they treat each other ?", "If he beats on that door again , I shall scream . MRS BUILDER smiles , shakes her head , and turns to the door .", "With the best intentions . You see , he 's a Town Councillor , and a magistrate . I suppose they have to be \u201c firm . \u201d Maud and I sneaked in once to listen to him . There was a woman who came for protection from her husband . If he 'd known we were there , he 'd have had a fit .", "Well , what does he say ?", "And suppose you marry him , and he treats you like a piece of furniture ?", "I do n't ever want to feel sorry for Guy in that way .", "There you are ! Force majeure !", "Yes . You and mother , and other things ; all sorts of things \u2014", "What do you do , Uncle Ralph ?", "You do n't see . What I mean is that when once he 's sure of you , he may change completely .", "Nonsense , Annie . And here 's your fare home .", "When Maud had gone for the cab , I warned him not to use force . I told him it was against the law , but he only said : \u201c The law be damned ! \u201d", "To all intents and purposes ."], "true_target": ["Do n't you believe that , Annie !", "Oh ! mother , I 'm so sorry for you . The handle of the door is rattled , a fist is beaten on it .", "Marriage does wonders .", "Look at mother . I suppose you can n't , now ; you 're too used to her .", "Do n't play with fire , Guy .", "Yes , Sir .", "Oh ! Guy , do n't be horrid . I feel awfully bad .", "Because I fell in love .", "No .", "I 've seen you again \u2014 Poor mother !", "Guy !", "Have you ever tried , mother ?", "When we quarrelled , father , you said you did n't care what became of me .", "I could n't bear to think of Guy as a family man . That 's all \u2014 absolutely . It 's not his fault ; he 's been awfully anxious to be one .", "Well , good-bye , Annie . What are you going to say to your people ?", "I 'm sure you must , dear .", "Do you want a lot of reasons , or the real one ?", "Has mother never turned ?", "Oh ! but , mother \u2014 listen ! The beating and rattling have recommenced , and the voice : \u201c Are you coming ? \u201d", "You can n't help it , but you 'd be ever so much happier if you were a Mohammedan , and two or three , instead of one , had \u2014 had learned to know when you were in the right .", "Of course \u2014 but the point is , Annie , that marriage makes all the difference .", "From your people ?", "Oh ! yes ; go on . Guy follows MRS BUILDER , and after hesitation at the door they go out into the bedroom .", "Well , father , if you want to know the real reason , it 's \u2014 you .", "You forget mother !", "Because I would rather she did n't hear the reason .", "I did n't want my face to get like that .", "We left Guy with mother at the studio . She still thinks she ought to come . She keeps on saying she must , now father 's in a hole .", "I did n't see anything very clearly , but I think my sister 's account is correct , sir .", "Well , all right , Annie . I hope you 'll never regret it .", "MRS BUILDER looks at the YOUNG MAN , who turns away out of hearing .", "It 's wicked .", "You do n't know Maud any more than you knew me . She 's got a will of her own too , I can tell you .", "Father , do n't call names , please .", "You gave him the lead .", "I do n't think \u2014", "So you want to come back ?", "Burn them !", "Oh ! without . BUILDER looks at her .", "Yes ; he gave her back to the husband . Was n't it \u2014 English ?", "Awfully sorry , mother ; but do n't you see what a stunner father 's given me ?", "Would you have been firm with her ?", "BUILDER 's voice : \u201c Julia ! \u201d", "I do n't want to be unkind , but you 've brought it on yourself .", "Tragedy !", "No , Sir .", "Yes .", "But you did your best ; you left us .", "He works fearfully hard ; he 's upright , and plucky . He 's not stingy . But he 's smothered his animal nature-and that 's done it . I do n't want to see you smother anything , Guy .", "Guy , promise me \u2014 solemnly that you 'll never let me stand in your way , or stand in mine !", "No ! We were on the edge of it . But now"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["No ; you 've got to hear things . You do n't really love anybody but yourself , father . What 's good for you has to be good for everybody . I 've often heard you talk about independence , but it 's a limited company and you 've got all the shares .", "I 'm not joking , father .", "This is a frightful business , Topping .", "I think there was a struggle for the cane , and it flew up .", "There ! Then you think I 've got it ?", "I \u2014 I wish to withdraw the charge of striking me , please .", "The microbe of freedom ; it 's in the air .", "Is my father back , Topping ?", "So would you , Uncle Ralph , if you had father about .", "Where 's father , Uncle Ralph ?", "Put me ten bob on , Topping . I want all the money I can get , just now .", "Of course .", "I 'd rather scrub floors now , than stay .", "Oh , yes ! why did n't you , Uncle ?", "Oh ! you are going ?", "The Fanshawe diamonds . There 's just one thing here too , Topping . In real life , which should I naturally do \u2014 put them in hereor in my bag ?", "Oh ! the knob end , sir .", "Art ? Oh ! no ! It 's the \u2014\u2014 the Movies .", "I do n't want to be ungrateful ; but I \u2014 I can n't go on living at home .", "Yes ; I expect you 'll find it rather difficult for a bit when I 'm gone . Miss Baldini , you know . I 've been studying with her . She 's got me this chance with the movie people . I 'm going on trial as the guilty typist in \u201c The Heartache of Miranda . \u201d", "Only , I do n't think my father hit the constable . I think the stick did that .", "That we shall see .", "Topping ?", "I 've got her things on the cab ; she ought to be perfectly free to choose .", "Do n't oppose it , father , please ! I 've always wanted to earn my own living .", "Not even if you 're asked to ?", "Yes . There 's just one point , Topping ; it 's psychological .", "Oh ! So you did catch them out ?", "Yes ; how do you manage him ?", "Oh ! father .", "I can remember occasions when your indulgence hurt , father .We never forgot or forgave that .", "Yes ; but I mean , my father saw red , and the constable saw red , and the stick flew up between them and hit him in the eye .", "Well , then , only put the ten bob on if you 're sure he 's going to win . You can post the money on after me . I 'll send you an address , Topping , because I sha n't be here .", "I 've come for mother 's things .", "Well , just stand there , and give me your opinion of this . TOPPING moves down Left . She crouches over the typewriter , lets her hands play on the keys ; stops ; assumes that listening , furtive look ; listens again , and lets her head go slowly round , preceded by her eyes ; breaks it off , and says : What should you say I was ?", "I say , Topping , do you know anything about the film ?", "Of course ; but which way ? Will he throw up the sponge , or try and stick it out here ?", "Except my face .", "If something 's gone wrong , they wo n't have any appetite , Topping .", "When you went out with Guy , it was n't three minutes before he came . Mother had just told us about \u2014 well , about something beastly . Father wanted us to go , and we agreed to go out for five minutes while he talked to mother . We went , and when we came back he told me to get a cab to take mother home . Poor mother stood there looking like a ghost , and he began hunting and hauling her towards the door . I saw red , and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman . Of course father did black his eye . Guy was splendid .", "And when you can n't ?", "Got anything on ?", "Yes \u2014 father may , and he may not .", "If you knew what a Prussian expression you 've got ! BUILDER passes his hand across his face uneasily , as if to wipe something off . No ! It 's too deep !", "I do n't want any lunch . Did you give it ?", "Oh ! much more angry . RALPH BUILDER stands up .", "I could n't help it , seeing father standing there all dumb .", "Oh ! yes , it 's seen me put them . Look here , I 'll show you that too . She opens an imaginary drawer , takes out some bits of sealing-wax , and with every circumstance of stealth in face and hands , conceals them in her bosom . All right ?", "All right , Topping ; hope you wo n't lose a tooth ."], "true_target": ["I never wanted him for a father , Uncle .", "Must I ?", "I certainly never wanted to be . I 've always disliked you , father , ever since I was so high . I 've seen through you . Do you remember when you used to come into the nursery because Jenny was pretty ? You think we did n't notice that , but we did . And in the schoolroom \u2014 Miss Tipton . And d'you remember knocking our heads together ? No , you do n't ; but we do . And \u2014", "I wo n't stand being shaken .", "Is it a good thing , then ?", "But that 's just the point . Should n't I naturally think : Safer in my bag ; then I can pretend somebody put them there . You see , nobody could put them on me .", "Good-bye , father !", "I believe that 's them . Shivery funky . She runs off up Left .", "No ; that 's the beastly part of it \u2014 the author does n't , either . It 's all left to me .", "Oh ! What race is being run this afternoon , then ,", "Ye-yes . Only \u2014", "Well , when I 'm there I wo n't come to you to rescue me .", "Yes . It 's all settled .", "Oh ! yes , you 're clear-headed enough .", "To seek my fortune .", "You can n't stop me , father , because I sha n't need support . I 've got quite good terms .", "Perhaps you 'd like to begin again ?", "More than a taste , Topping \u2014 a talent .", "It 's all true . He came after my mother to Miss Athene 's , and I \u2014 I could n't stand it . I did what it says here ; and now I 'm sorry . Mother 's dreadfully upset . You know father as well as anyone , Topping ; what do you think he 'll do now ?", "There 's only one thing wrong with Christians \u2014 they are n't ! BUILDER Seizes her by the shoulders and shakes her vigorously . When he drops her shoulders , she gets up , gives him a vicious look , and suddenly stamps her foot on his toe with all her might .", "He can n't see it \u2014 he absolutely can n't !", "Yes ; everybody saw red . They have not seen the door opened from the hall , and BUILDER standing there . He is still unshaven , a little sunken in the face , with a glum , glowering expression . He has a document in his hand . He advances a step or two and they see him . ATHENE and MAUD .Father !", "No \u2014 no . I do n't think he did .", "I \u2014 I never meant to make it . I was in a temper \u2014 I saw red .", "What ?", "He 'll be asked to resign , of course . The NEWSPAPER BOY 'S VOICE is heard again approaching : \u201c First edition ! Great sensation ! Local magistrate before the Bench ! Pay-per ! \u201d Oh , dear ! I wish I had n't ! But I could n't see mother being \u2014", "Horrible ! TOPPING re-enters from the hall .", "It is them . TOPPING goes out into the hall ; ATHENE and RALPH enter Right .", "Topping , get them down , please . TOPPING , after a look at them both , goes out into the hall . Very clever of you to have got them ready .", "I 'm awfully sorry , but I-I 've got a job .", "I must get that expression . Her face assumes a furtive , listening look . Then she gets up , whisks to the mirror over the fireplace , scrutinises the expression in it , and going back to the table , sits down again with hands outstretched above the keys , and an accentuation of the expression . The door up Left is opened , and TOPPING appears . He looks at MAUD , who just turns her eyes .", "Should I naturally put my hand on them ; or would there be a reaction quick enough to stop me ? You see , I 'm alone \u2014 and the point is whether the fear of being seen would stop me although I knew I could n't be seen . It 's rather subtle .", "Yes , I think you 're right . It 's more human .", "Yes ; I 've got them here .", "All right ! We thought you might like to know that Athene 's married , and that I 've given up the movies . Now we 'll go . BUILDER turns his back on them , and , sitting down at his writing-table , writes . After a moment 's whispered conversation with their Uncle , the two girls go out . RALPH BUILDER stands gazing with whimsical commiseration at his brother 's back . As BUILDER finishes writing , he goes up and puts his hand on his brother 's shoulder .", "Miss Athene was married this morning , Topping . We 've just come from the Registrar 's .", "Well , it 's all right . She 's coming on here with my uncle . A cab is heard driving up . That 's them , I expect . We all feel awful about father .", "What is a cosmogony , Uncle ?", "I 've heard you say ever so many times that no man was any good who could n't make his own way , father . Well , women are the same as men , now . It 's the law of the country . I only want to make my own way .", "So do I . To touch themis a bit obvious , is n't it ?", "A Scotsman ?", "You see , I \u2014 I 've got a film face , and \u2014", "That I want to live a life of my own . He edges nearer to her , and she edges to keep her distance .", "Oh ! father , I \u2014 I 've got some news for you .", "Oh !", "That 's why you do n't want me to support myself .", "No one . I 've been meaning to , ever so long . I 'm twenty-one , you know .", "I mean that my father was so angry that he did n't know what he was doing .", "Yes ; but \u2014", "Oh ! what will father be like now ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["But so strong a man \u2014 I wish I was a strong man , not a weak woman .", "I can n't tell , Monsieur . She collects the cups , and halts close to him .Monsieur is not \u2018 appy .", "Look ! If you think I am a designing woman , you are mistook . I know when things are too \u2018 ot . I am not sorry to go .", "You are drunk !", "Oh ! Monsieur , that spoil it .", "Oh ! \u2018 Ow I wish we was !", "Yes , Madame . She goes through the doorway into the hall . MRS BUILDER , following towards the door , meets RALPH BUILDER , a man rather older than BUILDER and of opposite build and manner . He has a pleasant , whimsical face and grizzled hair .", "But I admire you so !", "A cutlet soubise ? No ?", "Madame left her coffee . She comes forward , holds out a cup for BUILDER to pour into , takes it and goes out . BUILDER 'S glass remains suspended . He drinks the brandy off as she shuts the door .", "And Madame nothing too \u2014 Tt ! Tt ! With her hand on the door she looks back , again catches his eyes in an engagement instantly broken off , and goes out .", "So \u2018 ave I ! But there is lots of time to think of it in between .", "What a thing to say of a little woman !", "Yes , I am going . How can I stay when there is no lady in the \u2018 ouse ?", "The brandy , sir . Monsieur Ralph Builder has just come .", "The English \u2018 ave no idea of pleasure . They make it all so coarse and virtuous .", "I bring it , Monsieur . She goes back demurely into the dining-room .", "Oh ! Do n't suppose any such a disagreeable thing ! If you were not so strict , you would feel much \u2018 appier .", "I have pack her tr-runks .", "No , Monsieur ?", "A black eye !", "They are r-ready .", "You f \u2014 frighten me .", "Monsieur !", "Who will ask me ?", "A light , Monsieur ?"], "true_target": ["It was na-ice .", "Oh ! Monsieur \u2014", "No ; I do n't like you to-day ! No !", "Is Monsieur not well ?", "Oh ! La , la !", "No . They read eagerly side by side .", "Yes , Monsieur . As she turns he looks swiftly at her , sweeping her up and down . She turns her head and catches his glance , which is swiftly dropped . Will Monsieur not \u2018 ave anything to eat ?", "I am clevare .", "I lofe pleasure , and I do n't get any . And you \u2018 ave such a duty , you do n't get any sport . Well , I am \u2018 ere ! She stretches herself , and BUILDER utters a deep sound .", "Kissing .", "Well , you will see I have an opinion of my own .", "Well , perhaps .", "Oh !", "Orphan , Monsieur .", "Yes . What a pity ! But does it matter ?", "I am not arguing . Good-morning ! Exits up Left . MAUD regards her stolidly as she goes out into the dining-room , then takes up the paper and reads .", "Topping has gone to the dentist , Monsieur ; \u2018 e \u2018 as the toothache .", "BUILDER flames up and catches her in his arms", "Why should it be better if I thought it a sin ?", "No ; I do n't want to , to-day .", "I am sure she will be veree grateful for the poor little beggars . Madame says she will not be coming to lunch , Monsieur .", "Will Monsieur have another glass of brandy before I take it ?", "They ? What is all that ? I do n't want any trouble . No , no ; I am not taking any . She moves back towards the door . BUILDER utters a sardonic laugh . Oh ! you are a dangerous man ! No , no ! Not for me ! Good-bye , sare ! She turns swiftly and goes out . BUILDER again utters his glum laugh . And then , as he sits alone staring before him , perfect silence reigns in the room . Over the window-sill behind him a BOY 'S face is seen to rise ; it hangs there a moment with a grin spreading on it .", "He is an obstinate man .", "Because she take her jewels yesterday .", "A sistare from the Sacred \u2018 Eart , Monsieur \u2014 her little book for the orphan children ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Well , I wo n't worry you anymore , now .", "When you 've had a sleep . For the sake of the family name , John , do n't be hasty .", "I see . Home experience ?", "Do n't say what you 'll regret , old man ! Athene always took things seriously \u2014 bless her !", "Athene gone and got married ?", "The enemy stands within the gate , old chap .", "Do you ?", "Undermine him when I can .", "No \u2014 o. I do n't think we do .", "As I look at faces \u2014", "With his solicitor .", "Exactly . And she does it . I do n't and she does n't .", "I must ask at home .", "There are a good many who stand on their rights left , John .", "Steady , John !", "John !", "Julia 's very upset , my dear fellow ; we all are . The girls came here to try and \u2014", "My dear , I \u2014 I do n't know . He goes out , followed by BUILDER . MAUD goes quickly to the table , sits down and rests her elbows on it , her chin on her hands , looking at the door .", "To whom ?", "Exactly , Sir .", "Would you allow me to say a word , Mr Mayor ?", "Good ! I do n't even now understand how it happened .", "This is an awful jar , old man !", "They do wonderful things nowadays with inherited trouble . Come , are you going to be nice to him , both of you ?", "I say \u2014 keep your sense of humour , old boy .", "In regard to the state of my brother 's mind \u2014 yes , Mr Mayor . He was undoubtedly under great strain yesterday ; certain circumstances , domestic and otherwise \u2014", "Well , you profess the principles of liberty , but you practise the principles of government ."], "true_target": ["I had n't many myself . TOPPING enters .", "And why ?", "Well , old man , you do get blood to the head . But what 's Athene 's point , exactly ?", "Athene 's a most interesting girl . All these young people are so queer and delightful .", "I 'm his partner , my dear .", "Let 's take it .", "Hallo ! All well in your cosmogony , Maud ?", "No , thank you . BUILDER fills and raises his glass .", "But no tail , old chap .", "Let 's boss our own natures before we boss those of other people . Have a sleep on it , John , before you do anything .", "There are two sides to every coin , my dear . John 's the head-and I 'm the tail . He has the sterling qualities . Now , you girls have got to smooth him down , and make up to him . You 've tried him pretty high .", "Athene 's tremendously good and decent , John . I 'd bet any money she 's doing this on the highest principles .", "I 've never yet given him in charge .", "I think if you did she 'd probably marry him .", "Always .", "Not yet .", "Sorry , old man .", "That 's very gratifying . She passes him and goes out , leaving the two brothers eyeing one another . About the Welsh contract ?", "You 've got freedom on the brain , Maud .", "Take a pull , old man ! Have a hot bath and go to bed .", "I had seen him shortly before this unhappy business . The MAYOR nods and makes a gesture , so that MAUD and RALPH sit down ; then , leaning over , he confers in a low voice with CHANTREY . The rest all sit or stand exactly as if each was the only person in the room , except the JOURNALIST , who is writing busily and rather obviously making a sketch of BUILDER .", "We 're all fond of each other .", "The \u2018 suaviter in modo \u2019 pays , John . The times are not what they were .", "Well , Well ! With a lingering look at his brother , who has sat down sullenly at the writing table , he goes out into the hall . BUILDER remains staring in front of him . The dining-room door opens , and CAMILLE 's head is thrust in . Seeing him , she draws back , but he catches sight of her .", "Only in practice .", "Well , it all sounds pretty undignified .", "Undermine the other fellow . You can n't go to those movie people now , Maud . They 'd star you as the celebrated Maud Builder who gave her father into custody . Come to us instead , and have perfect freedom , till all this blows over ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["There 's one other charge , Mr Mayor \u2014 poaching . I told them to keep that back till after .", "What \u2014Well , it 's infernally awkward , Sergeant . . . . The Mayor 's in a regular stew . . . .New constable ? I should think so ! Young fool ! Look here , Martin , the only thing to do is to hear the charge here at once . I 've sent for Mr Chantrey ; he 's on his way . Bring Mr Builder and the witnesses round sharp . See ? And , I say , for God 's sake keep it dark . Do n't let the Press get on to it . Why you did n't let him go home \u2014! Black eye ? The constable ? Well , serve him right . Blundering young ass ! I mean , it 's undermining all authority . . . . Well , you ought n't \u2014 at least , I . . . Damn it all !\u2014 it 's a nine days \u2019 wonder if it gets out \u2014! All right ! As soon as you can .Here 's a mess ! Johnny Builder , of all men ! What price Mayors ! The telephone rings . Hallo ? . . . Poaching charge ? Well , bring him too ; only , I say , keep him back till the other 's over . By the way , Mr Chantrey 's going shooting . He 'll want to get off by eleven . What ? . . . Righto ! As he hangs up the receiver the MAYOR enters . He looks worried , and is still dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher .", "Assaulting one of his own daughters with a stick ; and resisting the police .", "The constable 's .", "On his way , sir ."], "true_target": ["Most uncomfortable , Sir ; most uncomfortable !", "There 's a black eye .", "I do n't know , sir . The worst of it is he 's been at the police station since four o'clock yesterday . The Superintendent 's away , and Martin never will take responsibility .", "I 've warned Martin , sir , to use the utmost discretion . Here 's Mr Chantrey . By the door Left , a pleasant and comely gentleman has entered , dressed with indefinable rightness in shooting clothes .", "They 'll be over in five minutes , Mr Mayor ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Had you seen your brother ?", "Is it your impression that the cane inflicted the injury ?", "Yes ; never mind what you 're given to understand .", "Very good .Now then , what is it ? HARRIS says something in a low and concerned voice . The MAYOR 'S face lengthens . He leans to his right and consults CHANTREY , who gives a faint and deprecating shrug . A moment 's silence .", "Then who supplied the \u2014 er \u2014 momentum ?", "Well , it 's precious awkward , Builder . We all feel \u2014", "Father 's impassive figure , sits .", "I 've had some awkward things to deal with in my time , \u2018 Arris , but this is just about thelimit .", "I see . A \u2014 a domestic disagreement . Very well , that charge is withdrawn . You do not appear to have been hurt , and that seems to me quite proper . Now , tell me what you know of the assault on the constable . Is his account correct ?", "Come ! Shake \u2018 ands . BUILDER , after a long look , holds out his hand . The two men exchange a grip . The MAYOR , turning abruptly , goes out . BUILDER remains motionless for a minute , then resumes his seat at the side of the writing table , leaning his head on his hands . The Boy 's head is again seen rising above the level of the window-sill , and another and another follows , till the three , as if decapitated , heads are seen in a row .", "But did \u2018 e \u2018 it \u2018 im with the stick ?", "What do you say to that , constable ?", "Well , \u2018 Arris ?", "Oh , the stick ? But \u2014 er \u2014 the stick was in \u2018 is \u2018 and , was n't it ?", "That 's right . We must face your position .", "The MAYOR and CHANTREY now consult each other inaudibly , and the", "Well , let us hear .", "Eh ? We think , considering all the circumstances , and the fact that he has spent a night in a cell , that justice will be met by \u2014 er \u2014 discharging him with a caution .", "That charge is not pressed , and we can n't go into the circumstances . What do you wish to say about your conduct towards the constable ?", "Did you hear any language ?", "Did he summon you to his aid ?", "Whose ?", "Your sister having withdrawn her charge , we need n't go into that .", "You are sure of that ?", "Ah , Chantrey !", "You wo n't swear to it ?", "I understand , then , that you do not wish to offer any explanation ?", "Now , there was a young man .Is this the young man ?", "SERGEANT steps forward to read the charge as", "Any questions to ask the Sergeant ? BUILDER continues to stare at the MAYOR without a word .", "Come ! That caution of mine was quite parliamentary . I \u2018 ad to save face , you know .", "What do you say to this matter ?", "With or without deliberate intent ?", "Hand up the cane . The SERGEANT hands up the cane . The MAYOR and CHANTREY examine it . MAYOR . Which end \u2014 do you suggest \u2014 inflicted this injury ?", "My Aunt !", "Well , but she 's not a child , you know . And you did resist the police , if no worse . Come ! You 'd have been the first to maintain British justice . Shake \u2018 ands !", "Very good . Miss Maud Builder . MAUD stands up .", "I think I \u2018 ear them . H 'm . CHANTREY drops his eyeglass and puts on a pair of \u201c grandfather \u201d spectacles . The MAYOR clears his throat and takes up a pen . They neither of them look up as the door is opened and a little procession files in . First HARRIS ; then RALPH BUILDER , ATHENE , HERRINGHAME , MAUD , MRS BUILDER , SERGEANT MARTIN , carrying a heavy Malacca cane with a silver knob ; JOHN BUILDER and the CONSTABLE MOON , a young man with one black eye . No funeral was ever attended by mutes so solemn and dejected . They stand in a sort of row .", "This is an open Court . The Press have the right to attend if they wish . HARRIS goes to the door and admits a young man in glasses , of a pleasant appearance , and indicates to him a chair at the back . At this untimely happening BUILDER 's eyes have moved from side to side , but now he regains his intent and bull-like stare at his fellow-justices .", "Yes , yes ! I know ; but the Bench has got a name to keep up \u2014 must stand well in the people 's eyes . As it is , I sailed very near the wind . Suppose we had an ordinary person up before us for striking a woman ?"], "true_target": ["Well , Builder ?", "Eh ? That 'll do , constable ; stand back . Now , who else saw the struggle ? Mrs Builder . You 're not obliged to say anything unless you like . That 's your privilege as his wife . While he is speaking the door has been opened , and HARRIS has gone swiftly to it , spoken to someone and returned . He leans forward to the MAYOR . Eh ? Wait a minute . Mrs Builder , do you wish to give evidence ?", "Miss Athene Builder . ATHENE stands up . This young man , Mr Herringhame , I take it , is a friend of the family 's ? A moment of some tension .", "Speaking of your own knowledge , Mr Builder ?", "After all , what is it ?", "I 'm afraid you must .", "The defendant said nothing ?", "Be careful . Will you swear to that ?", "Put a book on the chair , \u2018 Arris ; I like to sit \u2018 igh . HARRIS puts a volume of Eneyclopaedia on the Mayor 's chair behind the bureau .", "You call that ordinary ?", "Very well !", "Harris , go out and bring them in yourself ; do n't let the servants \u2014 HARRIS goes out Left . The MAYOR takes the upper chair behind the bureau , sitting rather higher because of the book than CHANTREY , who takes the lower . Now that they are in the seats of justice , a sort of reticence falls on them , as if they were afraid of giving away their attitudes of mind to some unseen presence .", "Did you appear on the scene , as the constable says , during the struggle ?", "Mr Chantrey ?", "But you were not in a position to see very well ?", "H 'm !", "I \u2014 I did n't catch .", "What 's your name ?", "Miss Maud Builder , will you tell us what you know of this \u2014 er \u2014 occurrence ?", "What do you say to this blow ?", "Very well , That seems to be the evidence . Defendant John Builder \u2014 what do you say to all this ?", "Yes ? Tell us the truth .", "Dear , dear ! You 're devilish bitter , Builder . It 's unfortunate , this publicity . But it 'll all blow over ; and you 'll be back where you were . You 've a good sound practical sense underneath your temper .Come , now !Well , I 'll say good-night , then .", "Sergeant ? MOON steps back two paces , and the SERGEANT steps two paces forward .", "Mayor nods .", "He is . \u2018 Ot temper , and an \u2018 igh sense of duty .", "Charges !", "H 'm ! The Aerodrome . How did you come to be present ?", "You mean that he might have been , as one might say , beside himself ?", "Well , you \u2014 you made it difficult for me . \u2018 Ang it all ! Put yourself into my place !", "Address ?", "Very good !", "He motions her to sit down . ATHENE , turning her eyes on her", "Very good .As the defendant , wrongly , we think , refuses to offer his explanation of this matter , the Bench has to decide on the evidence as given . There seems to be some discrepancy as to the blow which the constable undoubtedly received . In view of this , we incline to take the testimony of Mr \u2014 HARRIS prompts him . Mr \u2018 Erringhame \u2014 as the party least implicated personally in the affair , and most likely to \u2018 ave a cool and impartial view . That evidence is to the effect that the blow was accidental . There is no doubt , however , that the defendant used reprehensible language , and offered some resistance to the constable in the execution of his duty . Evidence \u2018 as been offered that he was in an excited state of mind ; and it is possible \u2014 I do n't say that this is any palliation \u2014 but it is possible that he may have thought his position as magistrate made him \u2014 er \u2014", "The CURTAIN falls .", "When you spoke of the defendant seeing red , what exactly did you mean ?", "Why \u2014 yes ; nobody can be more sorry than I \u2014", "You can sit down , Miss Builder . MAUD resumes her seat . Miss Athene Builder , you were present , I think ?", "Sit down , ladies ; sit down . HARRIS and HERRINGHAME succeed in placing the three women in chairs . RALPH BUILDER also sits . HERRINGHAME stands behind . JOHN BUILDER remains standing between the two POLICEMEN . His face is unshaved and menacing , but he stands erect staring straight at the MAYOR . HARRIS goes to the side of the bureau , Back , to take down the evidence .", "Charges ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Mort aux vaches !", "Did you witness any particular violence other than a resistance to arrest ?", "These new constables , Mayor ! I say , Builder 'll have to go ! Damn the Press , how they nose everything out ! The Great Unpaid !\u2014 We shall get it again !\u201c Come off it , \u201d I says , \u201c to the best of my recollection . \u201d Oh ! Oh ! I sha n't hit a bird all day ! That poor devil Builder ! It 's no joke for him . You did it well , Mayor ; you did it well . British justice is safe in your hands . He blacked the fellow 's eye all right . \u201c Which I herewith produce . \u201d Oh ! my golly ! It beats the band ! His uncontrollable laughter and the MAYOR 'S rueful appreciation are exchanged with lightning rapidity for a preternatural solemnity , as the door opens , admitting SERGEANT MARTIN and the lugubrious object of their next attentions .", "Daughter ! Charity begins at home .", "And then he saw black ?", "Would you say as angry as he \u2014 er \u2014 is now ?", "By George ! he will be mad . John Builder 's a choleric fellow .", "Nothing \u2014 nothing , he said , Mr Mayor ."], "true_target": ["Of course you were bit ; we can see that . But with the cane or with the fist ?", "Oh , well , we 'll make short work of that . I want to get off by eleven , Harris . I shall be late for the first drive anyway . John Builder ! I say , Mayor \u2014 but for the grace of God , there go we !", "Touch of frost . Birds ought to come well to the guns \u2014 no wind . I like these October days .", "How did the police come into it ?", "How de do , Mr Mayor ?This is extraordinarily unpleasant . The MAYOR nods . What on earth 's he been doing ?", "That seems \u2014", "Caesar 's wife .", "An acquaintance of yours ?", "What was his \u2014 er \u2014 conduct in the \u2014 er \u2014 cab ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["At ten minutes to four , Your Worship , yesterday afternoon , Constable Moon brought the defendant to the station in a four-wheeled cab . On his recounting the circumstances of the assault , they were taken down and read over to the defendant with the usual warning . The defendant said nothing . In view of the double assault and the condition of the constable 's eye , and in the absence of the Superintendent , I thought it my duty to retain the defendant for the night ."], "true_target": ["He \u2018 as not opened his lips to my knowledge , Your Worship , from that hour to this .", "John Builder , of The Cornerways , Breconridge , Contractor and Justice of the Peace , charged with assaulting his daughter Maud Builder by striking her with a stick in the presence of Constable Moon and two other persons ; also with resisting Constable Moon in the execution of his duty , and injuring his eye . Constable Moon !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Not \u2014 not so to speak in black and white , Your Worship ; but that was my idea at the time .", "No , sir . The party struck turns to me and says , \u201c Come in . I give this man in charge for assault . \u201d I moves accordingly with the words : \u201c I saw you . Come along with me . \u201d The defendant turns to me sharp and says : \u201c You stupid lout \u2014 I 'm a magistrate . \u201d \u201c Come off it , \u201d I says to the best of my recollection . \u201c You struck this woman in my presence , \u201d I says , \u201c and you come along ! \u201d We were then at close quarters . The defendant gave me a push with the words : \u201c Get out , you idiot ! \u201d \u201c Not at all , \u201d I replies , and took \u2018 old of his arm . A struggle ensues , in the course of which I receives the black eye which I herewith produce .The MAYOR clears his throat ; CHANTREY 'S eyes goggle ; HARRIS bends over and writes rapidly . During the struggle , Your Worship , a young man has appeared on the scene , and at the instigation of the young woman , the same who was assaulted , assists me in securing the prisoner , whose language and resistance was violent in the extreme . We placed him in a cab which we found outside , and I conveyed him to the station .", "In River Road yesterday afternoon , Your Worship , about three-thirty p. m ., I was attracted by a young woman callin \u2019 \u201c Constable \u201d outside a courtyard . On hearing the words \u201c Follow me , quick , \u201d I followed her to a painter 's studio inside the courtyard , where I found three persons in the act of disagreement . No sooner \u2018 ad I appeared than the defendant , who was engaged in draggin \u2019 a woman towards the door , turns to the young woman who accompanied me , with violence . \u201c You dare , father , \u201d she says ; whereupon he hit her twice with the stick the same which is produced , in the presence of myself and the two other persons , which I 'm given to understand is his wife and other daughter .", "I 'll swear he called me an idiot and a lout ; the words made a deep impression on me ."], "true_target": ["He sat quiet .", "Yes , Your Worship .", "I do n't deny there was a struggle , Your Worship , but it 's my impression I was \u2018 it .", "I \u2014 I \u2014 with the fist , sir .", "Seein \u2019 I had his further arm twisted behind him . MAYORAny questions to ask him ? BUILDER makes not the faintest sign , and the MAYOR drops his glance ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Payper ! First edition ! J. P. chawged ! Payper !", "\u2018 Oo blacked the copper 's eye ? BUILDER , in an ungovernable passion , seizes a small flower-pot from the sill and dings it with all his force . The sound of a crash .", "\u2018 Allo ! What 's the matter wiv you ? Why , it 's Johnny Builder 's house !\u2018 Ere , buy anuvver ! \u2018 E 'll want to read about \u2018 isself .Buy anuvver , guv'nor !", "Johnny Builder ! BUILDER stirs uneasily . The Boy 's head vanishes . BUILDER , raising his other hand , makes a sweep before his face , as if to brush away a mosquito . He wakes . Takes in remembrance , and sits a moment staring gloomily before him . The door from the hall is opened and TOPPING comes in with a long envelope in his hand ."], "true_target": ["It 's all \u2018 ere . Johnny Builder \u2014 beatin \u2019 his wife ! Dischawged .", "Ya-a-ah ! Missed ! BUILDER stands leaning out , face injected with blood , shaking his fist . The CURTAIN falls for a few seconds .", "Johnny Builder ! As BUILDER turns sharply , it vanishes . \u2018 Oo beat \u2018 is wife ? BUILDER rushes to the window .", "Right , guv'nor ! Johnny Builder up before the beaks !", "Johnny Builder !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Not at all , sir . We felt that you would almost certainly have good reasons of your own which would put the matter in quite a different light .", "Thank you very much , Mr Builder . I 'm sure I can do you justice . Would you like to see a proof ?", "Yes , Sir ; I quite understand .", "Mr Builder , it 's very good of you to see me . I had the pleasure this morning \u2014 I mean \u2014 I tried to reach you when you left the Mayor 's . I thought you would probably have your own side of this unfortunate matter . We shall be glad to give it every prominence . TOPPING has withdrawn , and RALPH BUILDER , at the window , stands listening .", "Very well , sir ; you shall have a proof , I promise . Good afternoon , and thank you .", "Quite !"], "true_target": ["No ! No ! of course .", "I 'm afraid you had a painful experience , sir .", "No , I 'm sure \u2014 I 'm sure !", "I 'm sure \u2014", "Or will you trust me ?", "Can one ask what she was doing , sir ? We could n't get that point quite clear .", "Excellent , Sir ; excellent !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["AUGUSTUS BOBBING ................ A Clubman", "ROBERT .......................... Winsor 's Footman", "LORD ST ERTH .................... A Peer of the Realm", "CAPTAIN RONALD DANDY , D. S. O ..... Retired", "EDWARD GRAVITER ................. A Solicitor", "TREISURE ........................ Winsor 's Butler", "GILMAN .......................... A Large Grocer", "RICARDOS ........................ An Italian , in Wine", "INSPECTOR DEDE .................. Of the County Constabulary", "A CONSTABLE ..................... Attendant on Dede"], "true_target": ["A YOUNG CLERK ................... Of Twisden & Graviter 's", "MAJOR COLFORD ................... A Brother Officer of Dancy 's", "GENERAL CANYNGE ................. A Racing Oracle", "LADY ADELA ...................... His Wife", "A FOOTMAN ....................... Of the Club", "MARGARET ORME ................... A Society Girl", "JACOB TWISDEN ................... Senior Partner of Twisden & Graviter", "MABEL ........................... His Wife", "FERDINAND DE LEVIS .............. Young , rich , and new", "Owner of Meldon Court , near Newmarket"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["I 'd just looked at the time , and told my wife to send her maid off .", "The door from the bedroom is suddenly opened and LADY ADELA appears .", "H 'm ! You 'll take it up from the other end , then , Inspector ?", "You might take it seriously , Margaret ; it 's pretty beastly for us all . What time did you come up ?", "Is he ?", "Well , De Levis , I 'm afraid that 's all we can do for the present . So very sorry this should have happened in my house .", "How d'you mean ?", "How long has Morison been up with you ?", "Half a second , Margaret . Wait for me . She nods and goes out . Mr Twisden , what do you really think ?", "Very little . Oh ! by the way , the numbers of those two notes were given , and I see they 're published in the evening papers . I suppose the police wanted that . I tell you what I find , Graviter \u2014 a general feeling that there 's something behind it all that does n't come out .", "All right . Get Robert up , but do n't say anything to him . By the way , we 're expecting the police .", "Is it likely ?", "We do n't want a Meldon Court scandal , Inspector .", "He must have been followed here .After rain like that , there ought to be footmarks . The splutter of a motor cycle is heard .", "Suspicious ?", "Phew !", "Who did ?", "Win at Bridge ?", "Then , look here , dear ! Slip into my study and telephone to the police at Newmarket . There 'll be somebody there ; they 're sure to have drunks . I 'll have Treisure up , and speak to him .LADY ADELA goes out into her room and closes the door .", "All right . TREISURE re-opens the door , and says \u201c Come in , please . \u201d The INSPECTOR enters , blue , formal , moustachioed , with a peaked cap in his hand .", "What d'you want me to do ?", "Might have got it somehow .Come in . TREISURE , the Butler , appears , a silent , grave man of almost supernatural conformity . DE LEVIS gives him a quick , hard look , noted and resented by WINSOR .", "Come in .", "Send her for Margaret and the Dancys \u2014 there 's nobody else in this wing .", "He must have been out on his balcony since .", "Is it fair to Dancy not to let him know ?", "No go , General . You can n't go back on pace . No getting a man to walk when he knows he can fly . The young men wo n't look at it .", "The General knows something which on the face of it looks rather queer . Now that he 's going to be called , ought n't Dancy to be told of it , so that he may be ready with his explanation , in case it comes out ?", "He sold that weed you gave him , Dancy , to Kentman , the bookie , and these were the proceeds .", "You must have been marked down and followed here .", "Well ! It rained that evening at Meldon . The General happened to put his hand on Dancy 's shoulder , and it was damp . TWISDEN puts the saucer down and replaces the cup in it . They both look intently at him .", "Who 's beyond them ?", "It 's becoming a sort of Dreyfus case \u2014 people taking sides quite outside the evidence .", "You locked \u2014", "Newmarket at this time of night \u2014 four miles .", "They 're looking for something lurid .", "Really , De Levis , if this is the way you repay hospitality \u2014", "Of course , he 'll bring a case , when he 's thought it over .", "Not a bit . I like Jews . That 's not against him \u2014 rather the contrary these days . But he pushes himself . The General tells me he 's deathly keen to get into the Jockey Club .It 's amusing to see him trying to get round old St Erth .", "What do you say , De Levis ? D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried ?", "No . DE LEVIS turns and goes out on to the balcony .", "Yes , General ?", "When was he up last ?", "What time did you shut up ?", "Robert 's quite all right , is n't he ?", "Look here , Treisure , it 's infernally awkward for everybody .", "What do you suggest ?", "I said Dancy ought to have called him .", "Half an hour . Then she 's all right .", "I \u2014 I do n't follow \u2014", "Twisden not back , Graviter ?", "Look here , Mr Twisden \u2014", "We do .", "If they get that out of him , and recall me , am I to say he told me of it at the time ?", "This is damned awkward , De Levis .", "Well ! You are \u2014! There is a knock on the door , and the INSPECTOR enters .", "I know .", "Quite ! It 's pretty sickening for you . But so it is for anybody else . However , we must do our best to get it back for you . A knock on the door .", "Damn De Levis and his money ! It 's deuced invidious , all this , General .", "Good evening , Inspector . Sorry to have brought you out at this time of night .", "I 'd rather you did it , Margaret .", "Miss Orme was ; Captain Dancy not .", "His father did sell carpets , wholesale , in the City .", "De Levis has got wrong with Treisure .But , I say , what would any of us have done if we 'd been in his shoes ?", "What 's the move now , General ?", "What ? That weed Dancy gave you in the Spring ?", "Having a bath ; with his room locked and the key in his pocket .", "Look here , De Levis , eighty or ninety notes must have been pretty bulky . You did n't have them on you at dinner ?", "Well , can I go and see Canynge ?", "Yes .", "Hallo ! Adela !", "What were they ?", "Well , he can n't exist on backing losers .", "Awfully sorry to disturb you , Mrs Dancy ; but I suppose you and Ronny have n't heard anything . De Levis 's room is just beyond Ronny 's dressing-room , you know .", "You and I , Borring . He sits down in CANYNGE 'S chair , and the GENERAL takes his place by the fire .", "It 's perfectly damnable for him .", "Where did you put them ?", "By Jove ! It will .", "Damn it ! This is monstrous , De Levis . I 've known Ronald Dancy since he was a boy .", "Thank goodness . Good-bye ! WINSOR goes out . TWISDEN , behind his table , motionless , taps his teeth with the eyeglasses in his narrow , well-kept hand . After a long shake of his head and a shrug of his rather high shoulders he snips , goes to the window and opens it . Then crossing to the door , Left Back , he throws it open and says"], "true_target": ["When did he go to bed ?", "Unless you stop this at once , you may find yourself in prison . If you can stop it , that is .", "Well \u2014 if he did ?", "I 've known him all his life .", "If he did do it \u2014", "You 've got a balcony like this . Any sign of a ladder or anything ?", "Yes . Shall we go straight to the room it was taken from ? One of my guests , Mr De Levis . It 's the third room on the left .", "How was your window ?", "Look here , De Levis ! This is n't an hotel . It 's the sort of thing that does n't happen in a decent house . Are you sure you 're not mistaken , and did n't have them stolen on the course ?", "Who valets Mr De Levis ?", "Adela ?", "Phew ! Did you ever see such a dressing-gown ? The door is opened . LADY ADELA and MARGARET ORME come in . The latter is a vivid young lady of about twenty-five in a vivid wrapper ; she is smoking a cigarette .", "The footman ROBERT , a fresh-faced young man , enters , followed by", "Inspector , do you really think it necessary to disturb the whole house and knock up all my guests ? It 's most disagreeable , all this , you know . The loss of the money is not such a great matter . Mr De Levis has a very large income .", "Of course , De Levis !", "Let 's get them . But Dancy was down stairs when I came up . Get Morison , Adela ! No . Look here ! When was this exactly ? Let 's have as many alibis as we can .", "No ; send her to bed . We do n't want gossip . D'you mind going yourself ,", "I 'll come with you , Inspector . He escorts him to the door , and they go out .", "Well , we 'll go together . I do n't want Mrs Dancy to hear .", "I entirely refuse to suspect anybody .", "You make this accusation that Dancy stole your money in my house on no proof \u2014 no proof ; and you expect Dancy 's friends to treat you as if you were a gentleman ! That 's too strong , if you like !", "Right . Could you get him too ? D'you really want the police ,", "Well ! I do n't know that . Can I go and see him before he gives evidence to-morrow ?", "What ?", "Right you are , Inspector . Good night , and many thanks .", "Treisure has been here since he was a boy . I should as soon suspect myself .", "Colford !The General felt his coat sleeve that night , and it was wet .", "Yes . What 'll be his position even if he wins ?", "In bed ?", "It 's the extreme end of the house from this , Inspector . He 's with the other two footmen .", "Very well , Inspector ; only \u2014 my butler has been with us from a boy .", "By George ! You do hold cards , Borring .", "Half-past eleven .Newmarket always makes me sleepy . You 're keeping Morison up . LADY ADELA goes to the door , blowing a kiss . CHARLES goes up to his dressing-table and begins to brush his hair , sprinkling on essence . There is a knock on the corridor door . Come in . DE LEVIS enters , clad in pyjamas and flowered dressing-gown . He is a dark , good-looking , rather Eastern young man . His face is long and disturbed . Hallo ! De Levis ! Anything I can do for you ?", "Ronny Dancy took a tenner off him , anyway , before dinner .", "Not yet . As he speaks , DE LEVIS comes in . He is in a highly-coloured , not to say excited state . COLFORD follows him .", "That young man has too much luck \u2014 the young bounder won two races to-day ; and he 's as rich as Croesus .", "No , thanks . The door is closed .", "Hallo ! TREISURE opens the door , and GENERAL . CANYNGE enters . Oh ! It 's you , General . Come in . Adela 's told you ? GENERAL CANYNGE nods . He is a slim man of about sixty , very well preserved , intensely neat and self-contained , and still in evening dress . His eyelids droop slightly , but his eyes are keen and his expression astute .", "Thrilling ! What 's to be done ? He wants it back .", "TREISURE .", "Standing jump on to a bookcase four feet high . De Levis had to pay up , and sneered at him for making money by parlour tricks . That young Jew gets himself disliked .", "Thank you . That 's all . FOOTMAN goes .", "Between the quarter and half past . He 'd locked his door and had the key with him .", "Gosh ! I thought that chapwas going to \u2014! Look here , General , we must stop his tongue . Imagine it going the rounds . They may never find the real thief , you know . It 's the very devil for Dancy .", "Are you going to retract , and apologise in front of Dancy and the members who heard you ?", "She has on a lace cap over her finished hair , and the wrapper .", "But did he go ?", "He 's got some pretty good horses .Ronny Dancy 's on his bones again , I 'm afraid . He had a bad day . When a chap takes to doing parlour stunts for a bet \u2014 it 's a sure sign . What made him chuck the Army ?", "Half-past eleven .", "Look here , Treisure , Mr De Levis has had a large sum of money taken from his bedroom within the last half hour .", "What !How do you mean stolen ?", "Quite .Come in ! TREISURE enters .", "You see , De Levis ? He did n't even know you 'd got the money .", "Yes . He 's a queer chap . I 've always liked him , but I 've never quite made him out . What do you think of his wife ?", "He 's been leaning on the wet stone , then .", "Yes ; but there 's a way of doing things .", "Good Lord ! How much ?", "Well , General , what 's the first move ?", "It must have been done from the window , unless someone had a skeleton key . Who knew you 'd got that money ? Where did Kentman pay you ?", "Well , they 've got through De Levis 's witnesses . Sir Frederick was at the very top of his form . It 's looking quite well . But I hear they 've just subpoenaed Canynge after all . His evidence is to be taken to-morrow .", "Yes ! What am I to do ? Fetch the servants out of their rooms ? Search the grounds ? It 'll make the devil of a scandal .", "They had Kentman , and Goole , the Inspector , the other bobby , my footman , Dancy 's banker , and his tailor .", "And saw nothing ?", "And you found it locked \u2014 and took them from there to put under your pillow ?", "Quite so , unless they find the real thief . People always believe the worst .", "Did you hear anything ?", "Kentman paid De Levis round the corner in the further paddock , he says . DE LEVIS turns round from the window , so that he and DANCY are staring at each other .", "Have you got the numbers of the notes ?", "Yes . General Canynge .", "Against the wall , perhaps . There may be a dozen explanations .I entirely and absolutely refuse to believe anything of the sort against Ronald Dancy in my house . Dash it , General , we must do as we 'd be done by . It hits us all \u2014 it hits us all . The thing 's intolerable .", "Next to you ? The Dancys on this side , and Miss Orme on the other . What 's that to do with it ?", "He 'd tried her high , he said .", "He only had the numbers of two \u2014 the hundred , and one of the fifties .", "Anybody about ?", "This seems to have happened between 11. 15 and 11. 30 . Is that right ?Any noise-anything outside-anything suspicious anywhere ?", "Worse ; he 's had a lot of money stolen . Nearly a thousand pounds .", "Run your mind over things , Treisure \u2014 has any stranger been about ?", "General , d'you mind touching that bell ? CANYNGE rings a bell by the bed .", "Show him in .", "Good Lord ! We 're not in Town ; there 'll be nobody nearer than", "De Levis ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Hallo !"], "true_target": ["No . She appears in the doorway in under-garment and a wrapper . She , too , is fair , about thirty-five , rather delicious , and suggestive of porcelain ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Quite indecently \u2014 both of them .", "Are n't you rather prejudiced ?", "My dear , my great grandmother was a Jewess . I 'm very proud of her .", "But they 're so fond of each other !", "Charles sent his-love \u2014", "Is n't it just like him to get married now ? He really is the most reckless person .", "Could n't \u2014 what ?", "You got it from Bergson , Meg . Is n't he wonderful ?", "They 're next door .", "If Lord St Erth and General Canynge backed him he 'd get in if he did sell carpets !", "Oh ! Mr De Levis !", "Oh ! I shall remember that . Delightful !", "Consult General Canynge , Charlie .", "De Levis ; and Margaret Orme at the end . Charlie , do you realise that the bathroom out there has to wash those four ?", "Poor young man ; I think we 're rather hard on him .", "That 's very narrow , Meg .", "That 's what I was afraid of ; you 're going to be defiant . Now do n't ! Just be perfectly natural .", "Well \u2014 No .That poor child ! I quite agree . I shall tell every body it 's ridiculous . You do n't really think Ronald Dancy \u2014?", "Oh , no ! It was only to Charles . MABEL returns .", "Your grandfather was crazy when he built this wing ; six rooms in a row with balconies like an hotel , and only one bath \u2014 if we had n't put ours in .", "Oh ! Do tell !", "But how fearfully thrilling !"], "true_target": ["No \u2014 but if we had .", "Do n't be so naughty , Meg .", "Yes ; and after the scene in the Club yesterday he went to see those bookmakers , and Goole \u2014 what a name !\u2014 is sure he told Dancy about the sale .", "Nice child ; awfully gone on him .", "He says it 's too dull , now there 's no fighting .", "Yes ; he 's so comforting .", "Meg , you 're very tantalising !", "Oh ! Why did I ever ask that wretch De Levis ? I used to think him pathetic . Meg did you know \u2014\u2014 Ronald Dancy 's coat was wet ? The General happened to feel it .", "No .", "Never .", "Leste ! Un peu leste ! Oh ! Here are the Dancys . Come in , you two ! MABEL and RONALD DANCY enter . She is a pretty young woman with bobbed hair , fortunately , for she has just got out of bed , and is in her nightgown and a wrapper . DANCY is in his smoking jacket . He has a pale , determined face with high cheekbones , small , deep-set dark eyes , reddish crisp hair , and looks like a horseman .", "No ! How ?", "I 've told the Dancys \u2014 she was in bed . And I got through to Newmarket , Charles , and Inspector Dede is coming like the wind on a motor cycle .", "Gracious ! Where ?", "Really ? And you say I have n't intuition !Morison 's in there .", "Oh ! Charlie , he did look so exactly as if he 'd sold me a carpet when I was paying him .", "Lord St Erth and Ferdy De Levis .", "Nobody 's going to believe this , my dear .", "Of course !Oh ! But Oh ! it 's quite too unpleasant !", "No fear .", "I came up at eleven , and rang for her at once .", "Where is she ?", "What is it ? Are you ill , Mr De Levis ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Just round the corner in the further paddock .", "Can I come in again ?", "Yes .", "No .", "I 'm not a fool , General . I know perfectly well that you can get me outed .", "Do you think your code applies to me ? Do you , General ?", "Accusation .", "I think I just sat on the bed .", "I did n't notice anything .", "Yes . Say five past eleven .", "Oh , yes !", "Damn it ! What do you mean ? I WAS !", "You 're very smart-dead men tell no tales . No ! Bring your action , and we shall see . DANCY takes a step towards him , but CANYNGE and WINSOR interpose .", "In a boot , and the boot in my suitcase , and locked it . TREISURE smiles faintly .", "Since when is a thief a gentleman ? Thick as thieves \u2014 a good motto , is n't it ?", "He came round to my rooms just now , when I was out . He threatened me yesterday . I do n't choose him to suppose I 'm afraid of him .", "Yes , I do .", "Very conclusive .", "No proof ? Bentman told me at Newmarket yesterday that Dancy did know of the sale . He told Goole , and Goole says that he himself spoke of it to Dancy .", "Not so mad as the conclusion Dancy jumped to when he lighted on my balcony .", "Why did you tell General Canynge you did n't know Kentman had paid me in cash ?", "Nearly a thousand-nine hundred and seventy , I think .", "Social blackmail ? H 'm !", "Well , I shall tell people that you and Lord St Erth backed me up for one Club , and asked me to resign from another .", "No .", "No .", "But you did n't steal my money , Lord St Erth .", "Well , I know it was eleven-fifteen when I put my watch under my pillow , before I went to the bath , and I suppose I 'd been about a quarter of an hour undressing . I should say after eleven , if anything .", "Where it is now \u2014 under the dressing-table . He comes forward to the front of the chair , opens the pocket-book , goes through the pretence of counting his shaving papers , closes the pocket-book , takes it to the head of the bed and slips it under the pillow . Makes the motion of taking up his pyjamas , crosses below the INSPECTOR to the washstand , takes up a bath sponge , crosses to the door , takes out the key , opens the door .", "Dancy does .", "Yes , and had the key here .Look here !It 's been stuffed with my shaving papers .", "I say , I 'm awfully sorry , Winsor , but I thought I 'd better tell you at once . I 've just had \u2014 er \u2014 rather a lot of money stolen .", "I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie , and he paid me in notes .", "I ? All I know is \u2014 the money was there , and it 's gone .", "Then Kentman and Goole lied \u2014 for no reason ?", "Tell the whole blooming lot . You think I 've no feelers , but I 've felt the atmosphere here , I can tell you , General . If I were in Dancy 's shoes and he in mine , your tone to me would be very different .", "Not so far as I shall go , General Canynge , if those notes are n't given back . WINSOR comes in .", "I remembered it afterwards .", "No , Mrs Dancy .", "Suppose I had robbed Dancy , would you chase him out for complaining of it ?", "Mrs Dancy , I am not a gentleman , I am only a \u2014 damned Jew . Yesterday I might possibly have withdrawn to spare you . But when my race is insulted I have nothing to say to your husband , but as he wishes to see me , I 've come . Please let him know .", "Yes . I came to say that \u2014 that I overheard \u2014 I am afraid a warrant is to be issued . I wanted you to realise \u2014 it 's not my doing . I 'll give it no support . I 'm content . I do n't want my money . I do n't even want costs . Dancy , do you understand ? DANCY does not answer , but looks at him with nothing alive in his face but his eyes .", "I tell you this is useless . I will sign nothing . The charge is true ; you would n't be playing this game if it were n't . I 'm going . You 'll hardly try violence in the presence of your wife ; and if you try it anywhere else \u2014 look out for yourself .", "No ; you do n't say these things , any of you .", "I have n't the least doubt of it .", "How would they know my room ?", "Do n't trouble yourselves about my membership . I resign it .You called me a damned Jew . My race was old when you were all savages . I am proud to be a Jew . Au revoir , in the Courts . He goes out , and silence follows his departure .", "You can deal with Dancy in your own way . All I want is the money back .", "General , I know who took them .", "In my race , do you mean ?", "About eleven .", "Not much !", "Dancy told you he did n't know of it in General Canynge 's presence , and mine .You can n't deny that , if you want to .", "A wife 's memory is not very good when her husband is in danger .", "One hundred , three fifties , and the rest tens and fives .", "Proof ! Did they find any footmarks in the grounds below that torn creeper ? Not a sign ! You saw how he can jump ; he won ten pounds from me that same evening betting on what he knew was a certainty . That 's your Dancy \u2014 a common sharper !", "My tongue is still mine , General , if my money is n't !"], "true_target": ["I admire your trustfulness , Mrs Dancy .", "Quite right , Mrs Dancy . Black and tan swashbuckling will only make things worse for him .", "Do n't mistake me . I did n't come because I feel Christian ; I am a Jew . I will take no money \u2014 not even that which was stolen . Give it to a charity . I 'm proved right . And now I 'm done with the damned thing . Good-morning ! He makes a little bow to CANYNGE and TWISDEN , and turns to face DANCY , who has never moved . The two stand motionless , looking at each other , then DE LEVIS shrugs his shoulders and walks out . When he is gone there is a silence .", "Your husband , Mrs Dancy ?", "You 've let me down .", "Open .", "Unfortunately .", "Yes . I should like it back .", "Of course , he \u2014 I suppose you \u2014", "That ass !No ! The man who put those there was clever and cool enough to wrench that creeper off the balcony , as a blind . Come and look here , General .See the rail of my balcony , and the rail of the next ?I 've measured it with this . Just over seven feet , that 's all ! If a man can take a standing jump on to a narrow bookcase four feet high and balance there , he 'd make nothing of that . And , look here !Someone 's stood on that \u2014 the stalk 's crushed \u2014 the inner corner too , where he 'd naturally stand when he took his jump back .", "I did n't want the mare ; I took her as a favour .", "Inspector .", "They may have heard something .", "No . I got into bed , felt for my watch to see the time . My hand struck the pocket-book , and somehow it felt thinner . I took it out , looked into it , and found the notes gone , and these shaving papers instead .", "Who 's next to me ?", "Absolutely . I counted them just before putting them under my pillow ; then I locked the door and had the key here . There 's only one door , you know .", "Thief !", "I do n't know . I never thought . I did n't look under the bed , if you mean that .", "How do you know that he did n't ?", "I 'll tell you what seems to me venomous , my lord \u2014 chasing a man like a pack of hounds because he is n't your breed .", "No . Your wish is mother to your thought , that 's all .", "No .", "You came to see me .", "Society ! Do you think I do n't know that I 'm only tolerated for my money ? Society can n't add injury to insult and have my money as well , that 's all . If the notes are restored I 'll keep my mouth shut ; if they 're not , I sha n't . I 'm certain I 'm right . I ask nothing better than to be confronted with Dancy ; but , if you prefer it , deal with him in your own way \u2014 for the sake of your esprit de corps .", "Ah ! But you have n't known me since I was a boy .", "I should like to hear what your wife says about it .", "No . I did n't .", "From under my pillow , Lady Adela \u2014 my door was locked \u2014 I was in the bath-room .", "I 'll say nothing about it , unless I get more proof .", "You seem to think \u2014! What was I to do ? Take it lying down and let whoever it is get clear off ? I suppose it 's natural to want my money back ? CANYNGE looks at his nails ; WINSOR out of the window .", "Yes . But I tried her pretty high the other day ; and she 's in the Cambridgeshire . I was only out of my room a quarter of an hour , and I locked my door .", "Locked the door and left the key in . Put back my sponge , and took off my dressing-gown and put it there .Then I drew the curtains , again .", "How do you know ? TREISURE 's eyes rest on DE LEVIS .", "I have a memory , and a sting too . Yes , my lord \u2014 since you are good enough to call me venomous .I quite understand \u2014 I 'm marked for Coventry now , whatever happens . Well , I 'll take Dancy with me .", "Then I put on my dressing-gown and went straight to Mr WINSOR .", "Confront me with Dancy and give me fair play .", "I will sign nothing .", "No , I do n't .", "I have intuitions , General ; it 's in my blood . I see the whole thing . Dancy came up , watched me into the bathroom , tried my door , slipped back into his dressing-room , saw my window was open , took that jump , sneaked the notes , filled the case up with these , wrenched the creeper therefor a blind , jumped back , and slipped downstairs again . It did n't take him four minutes altogether .", "Hospitality that skins my feelings and costs me a thousand pounds !", "Yes .", "I do n't know why it should need corroboration ,", "If he 'll return the notes and apologise , I 'll do nothing \u2014 except cut him in future . He gave me that filly , you know , as a hopeless weed , and he 's been pretty sick ever since , that he was such a flat as not to see how good she was . Besides , he 's hard up , I know .", "Well , I 'll go to my room . When the police come , perhaps you 'll let me know . He goes out .", "Rats !", "I opened it .", "Unless there 's anybody you think \u2014", "No .", "I put it under my pillow and went to have a bath ; when I came back it was gone .", "Within the last twenty minutes , certainly .", "Certainly ; only , the way he \u2014", "No .", "Well , General Canynge ! It 's a little too strong all this \u2014 a little too strong .", "No fear !", "Do you suggest that I bet in ready money ?", "If you were downstairs all the time , as you say , why was your door first open and then shut ?", "You gave me that filly to save yourself her keep , and you 've been mad about it ever since ; you knew from Goole that I had sold her to Kentman and been paid in cash , yet I heard you myself deny that you knew it . You had the next room to me , and you can jump like a cat , as we saw that evening ; I found some creepers crushed by a weight on my balcony on that side . When I went to the bath your door was open , and when I came back it was shut ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["One in the stables , Sir , very heavy . No others within three hundred yards .", "Robert is in readiness , sir ; but I could swear he knows nothing about it .", "No , Sir .", "But if Mr De Levis feels otherwise , sir ?", "It is , sir .", "I trust they will not find a mare 's nest , sir , if I may say so . He goes .", "Robert , Sir .", "In the ordinary course of things , about ten o'clock , sir .", "I dismissed at eleven .", "I beg your pardon , sir .", "Inspector Dede , Sir .", "He is , sir ."], "true_target": ["No , sir .", "To the best of my knowledge . Is there anything I can do , sir ?", "The ladder has not been moved , General . There is n't a sign .", "I am a pretty good judge of character , sir , if you 'll excuse me .", "Twenty-three feet from the terrace , sir .", "That 's right ; I 've seen them .", "Thank you , sir .", "The proper thing , sir , I suppose , would be a cordon and a complete search \u2014 in our interests .", "I should say about eleven-fifteen , sir . As soon as Major Colford and Captain Dancy had finished billiards . What was Mr De Levis doing out of his room , if I may ask , sir ?", "Very good , General .", "Indeed , Sir !", "Yes , sir ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["How long after you left the billiard-room ?", "Then you can n't suggest any one who could have known ? Nothing else was taken , you see .", "We must be careful with this Inspector fellow . If he pitches hastily on somebody in the house it 'll be very disagreeable .", "And care less . Yes ! We want men racing to whom a horse means something .", "St Erth , I told you there was good reason when I asked you to back young De Levis . WINSOR and I knew of this insinuation ; I wanted to keep his tongue quiet . It 's just wild assertion ; to have it bandied about was unfair to Dancy . The duel used to keep people 's tongues in order .", "That poor young wife of his ! WINSOR gave me a message for you ,", "Twisden . If money 's wanted quickly to save proceedings , draw on him .", "Without any proof . This is very ugly , De Levis . I must tell", "Mr De Levis feels that he is only valued for his money , so that it is essential for him to have it back .", "We 're as anxious to believe Dancy as you , Colford , for the honour of the Army and the Club .", "It 's for De Levis to prove what he asserts . You heard what he said about Goole ?", "Must not . You 're a member of three Clubs , you want to be member of a fourth . No one who makes such an insinuation against a fellow-guest in a country house , except on absolute proof , can do so without complete ostracism . Have we your word to say nothing ?", "Dancy , for the honour of the Army , avoid further scandal if you can . I 've written a letter to a friend of mine in the Spanish War Office . It will get you a job in their war .", "Go and get Dancy , WINSOR ; but do n't say anything to him . WINSOR goes out .", "Colford , you do n't understand professional etiquette .", "What !", "We should n't have wanted the police .", "Any ladders near ?", "You appear to have your breed on the brain , sir . Nobody else does , so far as I know .", "We do n't want to rouse any ridiculous suspicion .", "Did you happen to look out of your window , Mrs Dancy ?", "Steady , Colford !", "It 's mad , sir , to jump to conclusions like this .", "Inspector \u2014 you er \u2014 walked up to the window when you first came into the room .", "St Erth , shall we raise the flag for whist again ?", "Just so ! Then we must wait for the police , WINSOR . Lady Adela has got through to them . What height are these rooms from the ground , Treisure ?", "You talk about adding injury to insult , De Levis . What do you call such treatment of a man who gave you the mare out of which you made this thousand pounds ?", "Just a minute , Charles . He draws dose to WINSOR as the others are departing to their rooms .", "I do n't know that an asylum is n't the place for him . He must be off his head at moments . That jump-crazy ! He 'd have got a verdict on that alone \u2014 if they 'd seen those balconies . I was looking at them when I was down there last Sunday . Daring thing , Twisden . Very few men , on a dark night \u2014 He risked his life twice . That 's a shrewd fellow \u2014 young De Levis . He spotted Dancy 's nature . The YOUNG CLERK enters .", "Good ! We have implicit faith in Dancy . There is a moment 's encounter of eyes ; the GENERAL 'S steady , shrewd , impassive ; WINSOR 'S angry and defiant ; DE LEVIS 's mocking , a little triumphant , malicious . Then CANYNGE and WINSOR go to the door , and pass out .", "That 's enough !Now , look here ! I have some knowledge of the world . Once an accusation like this passes beyond these walls no one can foresee the consequences . Captain Dancy is a gallant fellow , with a fine record as a soldier ; and only just married . If he 's as innocent as \u2014 Christ \u2014 mud will stick to him , unless the real thief is found . In the old days of swords , either you or he would not have gone out of this room alive . It you persist in this absurd accusation , you will both of you go out of this room dead in the eyes of Society : you for bringing it , he for being the object of it .", "Just slip down , and see whether that 's been moved .", "I agree . Intolerable .Mr De Levis ! DE LEVIS returns into view , in the centre of the open window .", "Perhaps you will kindly control yourself , and leave this to me . DE LEVIS turns to the window and lights a cigarette . WINSOR comes back , followed by DANCY .", "Dancy .", "It was coming down hard ; a minute out in it would have been enough \u2014", "Graviter , give me a sheet of paper . I 'll write a letter for him .", "Did n't hear of the sale on the course at all ?", "That 's the first we have heard about the door .", "Do you know that he did ?", "Levis , but not many people with so large a sum in their pocket-books .", "Our duty is to the Club now , WINSOR . We must have this cleared up . COLFORD comes in , followed by BORRING and DANCY .", "WINSOR ! Dancy 's sleeve was damp .", "You had better leave this in our hands , De Levis .", "With the outside of the upper part of the arm ?", "Nobody could have taken this money who did not know you had it .", "Not at all \u2014 simple warning . If you consider it necessary in your interests to start this scandal-no matter how , we shall consider it necessary in ours to dissociate ourselves completely from one who so recklessly disregards the unwritten code .", "Colford 's badly cut up . MARGARET ORME and COLFORD enter .", "You and I had better see the Inspector in De Levis 's room , WINSOR .If you 'll all be handy , in case he wants to put questions for himself .", "You 've searched thoroughly ?", "You heard what he said , Dancy . You have no time to lose . But DANCY does not stir .", "Cut !"], "true_target": ["The deuce you do ! Are you following the Inspector 's theory ?", "One moment . Mr Borring , d'you mind \u2014", "Well ?", "Young Dancy was an officer and is a gentleman ; this insinuation is pure supposition , and you must not make it . Do you understand me ?", "Good-night !", "I 'm not aware of using any tone , as you call it . But this is a private house , Mr De Levis , and something is due to our host and to the esprit de corps that exists among gentlemen .", "Ask De Levis to be good enough to come in here . Borring , you might see that Dancy does n't leave the Club . We shall want him . Do n't say anything to him , and use your tact to keep people off . BORRING goes out , followed by COLFORD . WINSOR . Result of hearing he was black-balled \u2014 pretty slippy .", "Let 's hear what 's won the", "Make up your mind . A pause .", "There are a good many people still rolling , besides Mr De", "What !", "Of course . A knock on the door relieves a certain tension ,", "The horse is a noble animal , sir , as you 'd know if you 'd owed your life to them as often as I have .", "This is a dreadful thing , Twisden . I 've been afraid of it all along . A soldier ! A gallant fellow , too . What on earth got into him ?", "The Inspector 's no earthly . There is a simultaneous re-entry of the INSPECTOR from the balcony and of TREISURE and the CONSTABLE from the corridor .", "There is no decent way out of a thing of this sort .", "Nor did I think it .", "I said nothing of the sort .", "Nothing else , thank you ,", "Cambridgeshire . Ring , wo n't you , WINSOR ?", "The order would have been just the other way . The INSPECTOR goes on hands and knees and examines the carpet between the window and the bed .", "With an eye to possibilities , I venture to think \u2014 the principle guides a good many transactions .", "It 's a matter of indifference to me , sir , what you tell people .", "Then bring Dancy up , will you ? But do n't say anything to him .", "Are those fellows still in there , Colford ?", "It stopped before I came up , half an hour ago .", "Directly .Yes ? TREISURE enters . Well ?", "Yes , it 's just stopped . You saw nothing ?", "Mr De Levis presses the matter ?", "Choose your expressions more nicely , please !", "Of jumping from his balcony to this , taking the notes , and jumping back . I 've done my best to dissuade him from indulging the fancy \u2014 without success . Dancy must be told .", "We 've not been in there yet , Inspector ; in fact , we 've done nothing , except to find out that the stable ladder has not been moved . We have n't even searched the grounds .", "\u2018 Pon my soul , Mr De Levis , you go too far .", "You could get the numbers of the notes from Kentman the bookmaker , Inspector ; he 'll probably have the big ones , anyway .", "What !", "You were n't up for anything in between ?", "When ?", "Is there anything I can do ?", "Did you hear anything that throws light , Dancy ? As it was your filly originally , we thought perhaps you might .", "There 's a development , WINSOR . Mr De Levis accuses one of your guests .", "That 's for the police .", "Quite damp . It 's been raining . The two look at each other .", "Kindly tell him that if he wishes to remain a member of this Club he must account to the Committee for such a charge against a fellow-member . Four of us are here , and form a quorum . COLFORD goes out again .", "For WINSOR 's sake , Dancy , we do n't want any scandal or fuss about this affair . We 've tried to make the police understand that . To my mind the whole thing turns on our finding who knew that De Levis had this money . It 's about that we want to consult you .", "That 's not the question , Dancy . This accusation was overheard by various members , and we represent the Club . If you do n't take action , judgment will naturally go by default .", "It is obvious , Mr De Levis , that you and Captain Dancy can n't both remain members of this Club . We ask you for an explanation before requesting one resignation or the other .", "To anyone who aspires to be a gentleman , Sir .", "That other balcony is young Dancy 's , Mr De Levis ; a soldier and a gentleman . This is an extraordinary insinuation .", "This is outrageous , De Levis . Dancy says he was downstairs all the time . You must either withdraw unreservedly , or I must confront you with him .", "When exactly did you come up , Dance ?", "WINSOR .", "You can n't help us , then ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Wo n't Mr Jacob have a fit ?", "I do n't know , Adela . There are people who simply can n't live without danger . I 'm rather like that myself . They 're all right when they 're getting the D. S. O . or shooting man-eaters ; but if there 's no excitement going , they 'll make it \u2014 out of sheer craving . I 've seen Ronny Dancy do the maddest things for no mortal reason except the risk . He 's had a past , you know .", "Yes ; have you ever read him ?", "Ye-es ; but loyalties cut up against each other sometimes , you know .", "He got my pearls back once \u2014 without loss of life . A frightfully good fireside manner . Do get him here , Mabel , and have a heart-to-heart talk , all three of you !", "No , dear Mr Jacob .", "Well , you can say so in Court any way . Not that it matters . Wives are liars by law .", "Mabel , you 're pure wool , right through ; everybody 's sorry for you .", "Telephoning . Adela , if there 's going to be an action , we shall be witnesses . I shall wear black georgette with an ecru hat . Have you ever given evidence ?", "No , of course ; but , Mr Jacob , they might ask ; they know it rained . And he is such a George Washington .", "Rather not . MABEL goes out by the door Left . Poor kid ! She curls herself into a corner of the sofa , as if trying to get away from life . The bell rings . MARGARET stirs , gets up , and goes out into the corridor , where she opens the door to LADY ADELA WINSOR , whom she precedes into the sitting-room .", "Mr Jacob , how charming !", "It 'll be too \u2014 frightful if he does n't get a verdict , after all this . But I do n't know what we shall do when it 's over . I 've been sitting in that Court all these three days , watching , and it 's made me feel there 's nothing we like better than seeing people skinned . Well , bye-bye , bless you ! TWISDEN rises and pats her hand .", "Just a whiff .", "When I was in the bog , I thought they were looking for me .I suppose I must n't smoke , Mr Graviter ?", "I hope he 'll want me ; it 's just too thrilling .", "I do n't care . He 's my third cousin . Do n't you feel you could n't , Adela ?", "A foreign-looking girl \u2014 most plummy . Oh ! Ronny 's got charm \u2014 this Mabel child does n't know in the least what she 's got hold of !", "You 'll want a solicitor , Mabel , Go to old Mr Jacob Twisden .", "Did you get him ?", "Do you remember St Offert \u2014 cards ? No , you would n't \u2014 you were in high frocks . Well , St Offert got damages , but he also got the hoof , underneath . He lives in Ireland . There is n't the slightest connection , so far as I can see , Mabel , between innocence and reputation . Look at me !", "There are more of the chosen in Court every day . Mr Graviter , have you noticed the two on the jury ?", "A thousand pounds ? I can n't even conceive having it .", "It 's ghastly ! It really is .", "Well , he 's all for esprit de corps and that . But he was awfully silent .", "It must be too frightfully thrilling .", "Stand for De Levis against one of ourselves ?", "Only little Ferdy splashing ."], "true_target": ["So that 's why he was so silent .", "How quaint ! Just like an hotel . Does he put his boots out ?", "If only Ronny were n't known to be so broke .", "Well , you know a dinner-table , Mabel \u2014 Scandal is heaven-sent at this time of year .", "Dear Mr Jacob , I 'm smoking . Is n't it disgusting ? But they do n't allow it in Court , you know . Such a pity ! The Judge might have a hookah . Oh ! would n't he look sweet \u2014 the darling !", "He did splendidly in the war , of course , because it suited him ; but \u2014 just before \u2014 do n't you remember \u2014 a very queer bit of riding ?", "Of course !De Levis might just as well have pitched on me , except that I can n't jump more than six inches in these skirts .", "Inoculated .Prejudices , Adela \u2014 or are they loyalties \u2014 I do n't know \u2014 cris-cross \u2014 we all cut each other 's throats from the best of motives .", "Most dare-devil thing \u2014 but not quite . You must remember \u2014 it was awfully talked about . And then , of course , right up to his marriage \u2014", "Do smoke , old thing . MABEL takes a cigarette this time , but does not light it . It is n't altogether simple . General Canynge was there last night . You do n't mind my being beastly frank , do you ?", "That 's the mistake . The General is n't mentioning the coat , is he ?", "Was the door into Ronny 's dressing-room open ?", "Gracious ! Wives are at a disadvantage , especially early on . You 've never hunted with him , my dear . I have . He takes more sudden decisions than any man I ever knew . He 's taking one now , I 'll bet .", "Do tell me , Mr Jacob ; is he going to win ?", "Not even that , alas !", "No . That 's it . The hotel touch .", "Yes . We 're just going . Oh ! Ronny , this is quite too \u2014", "Here 's the wind !", "I came up with Adela . Am I suspected , Charles ? How thrilling !", "I daresay .", "My dear , he 'll have to bring an action for defamation of character , or whatever they call it .", "Oh ! I know lots of splendid Jews , and I rather liked little Ferdy ; but when it comes to the point \u2014! They all stick together ; why should n't we ? It 's in the blood . Open your jugular , and see if you have n't got it .", "Oh ! but quite distinctly . Do n't you think they ought to have been challenged ?", "Dear Mr Jacob \u2014 pay De Levis . You know my pearls \u2014 put them up the spout again . Do n't let Ronny be \u2014", "Does n't want you bothered .", "Did he say \u201c like the wind , \u201d Adela ? He must have imagination . Is n't this gorgeous ? Poor little Ferdy !", "Dear me , now ! I never thought of that . As she speaks , the door Left Forward is opened and old MR JACOB TWISDEN comes in . He is tallish and narrow , sixty-eight years old , grey , with narrow little whiskers curling round his narrow ears , and a narrow bow-ribbon curling round his collar . He wears a long , narrow-tailed coat , and strapped trousers on his narrow legs . His nose and face are narrow , shrewd , and kindly . He has a way of narrowing his shrewd and kindly eyes . His nose is seen to twitch and snig .", "The mystery of the grey room .", "Have n't you found out , Mabel , that he is n't exactly communicative ? No desperate character is ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Ronny ?", "That wretch ! How dare he ? Darling !It 's hurt you awfully , I know .", "But how can we ? Everybody would say \u2014", "But I might \u2014 just as easily . What would you think of me if I ran away from it ?", "But it 's monstrous !", "Ronny ! Oh , Ronny ! It wo n't be for long \u2014 I 'll be waiting ! I 'll be waiting \u2014 I swear it .", "But you do . I must have seen , I must have heard .", "The woman \u2014 have you \u2014 since \u2014?", "He is in . Why do you want to see him ?", "To a woman ?", "Yes . I stood there quite five minutes .", "No , no !", "But you must \u2014 I was there all the time , with the door open .", "Oh ! How horrible of me \u2014 how horrible !", "Oh ! at once !", "Oh !Who ?", "Yes ; oh , yes ! I think I 've known a long time , really . Only \u2014 why ? What made you ?", "I 'm so tired of \u2014! Thank you so much for all you 're doing . Good night ! Good night , Mr Graviter !", "You must be awfully fed up with us .", "Do n't ! You hurt me !", "The INSPECTOR raises his hand , deprecating .", "No , no ! Kiss me ! A long kiss , till the bell again startles them apart , and there is a loud knock .", "Just about eleven , I should think . It was raining hard then .", "If you \u2014 your wife \u2014", "Oh , Ronny ! Please ! Please ! Think what you 'll want . I 'll pack . Quick ! No ! Do n't wait to take things . Have you got money ?", "Inspector , I beseech you \u2014 just half an hour .", "Who 's that ? The bell rings again . DANCY moves towards the door . No ! Let me ! She passes him and steals out to the outer door of the flat , where she stands listening . The bell rings again . She looks through the slit of the letter-box . While she is gone DANCY stands quite still , till she comes back .", "What do you want , Inspector ?", "Will you wait a minute , please ? Returning . It 's De Levis \u2014 to see you .Let me see him alone first . Just for a minute ! Do !", "A desperate character .", "Whatever happens , I 'll go on loving you . If it 's prison \u2014 I 'll wait . Do you understand ? I do n't care what you did \u2014 I do n't care ! I 'm just the same . I will be just the same when you come back to me .", "What do you mean ?", "Do you know what Margaret called you ?", "To the war there ?", "Let me come !Why not ? I can n't be happy a moment unless I 'm fighting this . DANCY puts out his hand suddenly and grips hers .", "Oh ! Ronny , what bad luck !", "I 'm almost sure .", "I hate half-hearted friends . Loyalty comes before everything .", "It was \u2014 it was to a woman . Ronny , do n't lie any more .", "Ronny ! Do they want me in Court ?", "But \u2014\u2014 Good heavens !\u2014\u2014 Me !", "Mr De Levis , you are robbing my husband of his good name .", "Mr De Levis , I appeal to you as a gentleman to behave to us as you would we should behave to you . Withdraw this wicked charge , and write an apology that Ronald can show .", "I must see Ronny . D'you mind if I go and try to get him on the telephone ?", "Inspector !", "It 's for him they ought \u2014", "And break my heart ?", "How dare you ? How dare you ? Do n't you know that I was in our bedroom all the time with the door open ? Do you accuse me too ?", "Spun ? What do you mean ? What 's spun ?", "In other words , I 'm lying ."], "true_target": ["I could n't bear people to think \u2014", "I am not quite sure \u2014 I do n't think so .", "Major Colford 's taken Ronny off in his car for the night . I thought it would do him good . I said I 'd come round in case there was anything you wanted to say before to-morrow .", "Ronny !", "How can you do it ? What do you want ? What 's your motive ? You can n't possibly believe that my husband is a thief !", "It 's terrible , such a thing \u2014 terrible !", "Oh ! Why did n't I face it ? But I could n't \u2014 I had to believe .", "Are you married ?", "Will you come in while I see ? She comes in , followed by the INSPECTOR .", "Ronny ! If all the world \u2014 I 'd believe in you . You know I would .", "Through the letter-bog \u2014 I can see \u2014\u2014 It 's \u2014 it 's police . Oh ! God ! . . . Ronny ! I can n't bear it .", "But they 'll find the real thief .", "What is it , then ? Why are you back ?", "But \u2014 money ! To keep it !", "Do n't , Ronny ! Oh ! No ! Do n't !DANCY stands looking down at her .", "That he was robbing us .Ronny \u2014 you \u2014 did n't ? I 'd rather know .", "Oh ! Mr Twisden , when will it be over ? My head 's getting awful sitting in that Court .", "I do n't know ; I \u2014 I think it was .", "I do n't know , but he 'll be home before ten o'clock tohYpppHeNmorrow . Is there anything ?", "So easy , is n't it ? I could kill anybody who believes such a thing .", "Were they talking of this last night at the WINSOR 's ?", "We 'll fight it tooth and nail !", "No . I want it .", "Oh ! No ! No , no ! I 'll follow \u2014 I 'll come out to you there .", "How do you think it 's going ?", "He was changing his clothes to go out . I think he has gone .", "Oh ! I could n't \u2014 it looks like running away . We must stay and fight it !", "I can n't realise \u2014 I simply can n't . If there 's a case would it be all right afterwards ?", "Listen ! There 's Ronny ! DANCY comes in .", "What do you mean \u2014 Court ?", "What has happened , exactly ?", "That beast , De Levis ! I was in our room next door all the time .", "Yes ?", "No .", "Why did n't you tell me then ? I would have gone .", "If I can n't believe in you , who can ?", "Nobody who does need come here , or trouble to speak to us again .", "I 've been asleep nearly half an hour , and Ronny 's only just come up .", "No . DANCY goes suddenly on his knees and seizes her hand .", "Ronny , I do n't understand \u2014 suppose I 'd been accused of stealing pearls !", "It is . It 's in Me .", "Ronny ! Why did n't you tell me ?", "Of course I 'll stick to you . DANCY seizes her hand and puts it to his lips . The bell rings .", "I think what you are doing is too horrible for words . DE LEVIS gives her a slight bow , and as he does so DANCY comes quickly in , Left . The two men stand with the length of the sofa between them . MABEL , behind the sofa , turns her eyes on her husband , who has a paper in his right hand .", "To our bedroom .", "A prosecution ? Prison ? Oh , go ! Do n't wait a minute ! Go !", "Really and truly ?", "No ; he 's not at Tattersall 's , nor at the Club . LADY ADELA rises and greets her with an air which suggests bereavement .", "It 's wicked ! Yesterday afternoon at the Club , did you say ? Ronny has n't said a word to me . Why ?", "Come in . DE LEVIS comes in , and stands embarrassed . Yes ?", "Do n't , Ronny . It 's undignified ! He is n't worth it . DANCY suddenly tears the paper in two , and flings it into the fire ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Will staying here help them to do that ?", "You will sign .", "Were you in the war ?", "Yes . I want you to sign this .", "Heads up , Mab ! Do n't show the brutes !", "No .", "It 's impossible for me to prove that I was there all the time .", "I 've crocked up your life .", "It is ! They all turn round in consternation .", "I do n't know yet .", "Will you fight ?", "That 's all right , Mabs ! That 's all right !Well , what shall we do ? Let 's go to that lawyer \u2014 let 's go \u2014", "I do n't know how you bet , and I do n't care .", "Not if she 's wise .", "Not ?", "Very good of you . I do n't know if I can make use of it . CANYNGE stretches out the letter , which TWISDEN hands to DANCY , who takes it . GRAVITER re-opens the door .", "Colford , you saw me in the hall writing letters after our game .", "I hope he wo n't want me ; I 'm dog-tired . Come on , Mabel .", "No ! No ! By God ! No ! He goes out into the bedroom , closing the door behind him . MABEL has now opened the outer door , and disclosed INSPECTOR DEDE and the YOUNG CONSTABLE who were summoned to Meldon Court on the night of the theft , and have been witnesses in the case . Their voices are heard .", "De Levis is known to be rolling , as I am known to be stony .", "That 's very good of you , considering .", "We probably should n't have found it out .", "If he told me , I did n't take it in .", "No .", "You wanted this case . Well , it 's fallen down .", "That I would n't be playing this game unless \u2014", "So you shelter behind a woman , do you , you skulking cur ! DE LEVIS takes a step , with fists clenched and eyes blazing . DANCY , too , stands ready to spring \u2014 the moment is cut short by MABEL going quickly to her husband .", "The deuce ! Are they coming ?", "Because I did n't .", "Let me read it : \u201c I apologise to Captain Dancy for the reckless and monstrous charge I made against him , and I retract every word of it . \u201d", "Blast them !", "Mabel , I want to speak to him alone .", "The case . They 've found out through those notes .", "Oh !", "Pity you would n't come to Africa three months ago .", "He wanted to see me before the Court sat .", "Spun .", "Suppose I did n't get a verdict \u2014 you never can tell .", "Well ! I wanted to save your knowing . I 'd promised a thousand . I had a letter from her father that morning , threatening to tell you . All the same , if that tyke had n't jeered at me for parlour tricks !\u2014 But what 's the good of all this now ?Well \u2014 it may cure you of loving me . Get over that , Mab ; I never was worth it \u2014 and I 'm done for !", "Good old Morocco !", "Yes , but I had a debt to pay .", "I 'm going home , to clear up things with my wife . General Canynge , I do n't quite know why I did the damned thing . But I did , and there 's an end of it .", "To the life .", "Very good of you to have come .", "I do n't care a damn what people think monkeys and cats . I never could stand their rotten menagerie . Besides , what does it matter how I act ; if I bring an action and get damages \u2014 if I pound him to a jelly \u2014 it 's all no good ! I can n't prove it . There 'll be plenty of people unconvinced .", "That 's nothing to do with me .", "No good , Colford .Oh ! clear out \u2014 I can n't stand commiseration ; and let me have some air . TWISDEN motions to COLFORD and MARGARET to go ; and as he turns to DANCY , they go out . GRAVITER also moves towards the door . The GENERAL sits motionless . GRAVITER goes Out .", "No . What now ?", "It 's all damned kind of you .But I must think of my wife . Give me a few minutes .", "That 's not in human nature .", "This 'll be good-bye , then !", "Why ? What is it to you ?", "No .", "I 'm hard up . I must think it over ."], "true_target": ["What have they been saying ?", "Me !", "Go ahead ! He goes out into the bedroom .", "Was it ?", "I can n't .", "I ? No .", "Not at all . The thing looks bad .", "Well ! Do you agree with him ?", "Indeed ! On what grounds is he good enough to say that ?", "You are a little brick !", "Oh !", "No .", "By me it 's just on the half-hour , sir .", "Come to you \u2014 as he did .", "What is it ?", "Steady , Mab !Now ! He opens the bedroom door , Left , and stands waiting for her to go . Summoning up her courage , she goes to open the outer door . A sudden change comes over DANCY 'S face ; from being stony it grows almost maniacal .", "Ha ! I 'm not a tame cat , any more than she . The bell rings . MABEL goes out to the door and her voice is heard saying coldly .", "No . I can n't . Anything else ?", "Ha ! I thought that was coming .", "I wanted to see De Levis again first .", "Yes . You do n't know much of me , Mabel .", "Being downstairs , how should I know ? The wind , probably .", "Let him in ! After a moment 's hesitation TWISDEN nods , and GRAVITER goes out . The three wait in silence with their eyes fixed on the door , the GENERAL sitting at the table , TWISDEN by his chair , DANCY between him and the door Right . DE LEVIS comes in and shuts the door . He is advancing towards TWISDEN when his eyes fall on DANCY , and he stops .", "Will you retract ?", "Sir Frederic chucked up the case . I 've seen Twisden ; they want me to run for it to Morocco .", "And now you can n't . It 's the end , Mabel .", "What did you say to that swine ?", "D'you mean you 'll stick to me ?", "I 'll settle this matter with any weapons , when and where he likes .", "He won two races .", "That is a very expensive business , Lord St Erth , and", "All right . Get your hat on . MABEL passes him , and goes into the bedroom , Left . DANCY , left alone , stands quite still , staring before him . With a sudden shrug of his shoulders he moves quickly to his hat and takes it up just as MABEL returns , ready to go out . He opens the door ; and crossing him , she stops in the doorway , looking up with a clear and trustful gaze as The CURTAIN falls . ACT III", "Ought n't the grounds to be searched for footmarks ?", "But you get no excitement from year 's end to year 's end . It 'd drive me mad .", "WINSOR came to me yesterday about General Canynge 's evidence . Is that what you wanted to speak to me about ?", "It was a crazy thing to do ; but , damn it , I was only looting a looter . The money was as much mine as his . A decent chap would have offered me half . You did n't see the brute look at me that night at dinner as much as to say : \u201c You blasted fool ! \u201d It made me mad . That was n't a bad jump-twice over . Nothing in the war took quite such nerve .I rather enjoyed that evening .", "A debt of honour \u2014 it would n't wait .", "He would .", "There are alternatives .", "What time does he say the money was taken ?", "Get out of here , you swine ! DE LEVIS stands a moment irresolute , then , turning to the door , he opens it , stands again for a moment with a smile on his face , then goes . MABEL crosses swiftly to the door , and shuts it as the outer door closes . Then she stands quite still , looking at her husband \u2014 her face expressing a sort of startled suspense .", "I see .All right ! You shall have a run for your money . I 'll go and see old Twisden .", "They 'll break the door in . It 's no good \u2014 we must open . Hold them in check a little . I want a minute or two .", "Leave my wife alone , you damned Jew !", "No ! You supplanted her . But if you 'd known I was leaving a woman for you , you 'd never have married me .MABEL too gets up . She presses her hands to her forehead , then walks blindly round to behind the sofa and stands looking straight in front of her .", "I might prefer to look on the whole thing as beneath contempt . He turns and goes out . When he is gone there is an even longer silence than after DE LEVIS 's departure .", "Am I to take it that there is a doubt in your minds , gentlemen ?", "If the brute wo n't fight , what am I to do , sir ?", "Yes . There 's to be a warrant out .", "How can you stick this ?", "Look here , Mabel ! Apart from that muck \u2014 this is a ghastly tame-cat sort of life . Let 's cut it and get out to Nairobi . I can scare up the money for that .", "Yes . But you 're my wife .", "Forgive me !", "About ten minutes ago . I 'd only just got into my dressing-room before Lady Adela came . I 've been writing letters in the hall since Colford and I finished billiards ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["This is a very serious business , sir .", "We now have the room as it was when the theft was committed . Reconstruct accordin \u2019 to \u2018 uman nature , gentlemen \u2014 assumin \u2019 the thief to be in the room , what would he try first ?\u2014 the clothes , the dressin \u2019 - table , the suit case , the chest of drawers , and last the bed . He moves accordingly , examining the glass on the dressing-table , the surface of the suit cases , and the handles of the drawers , with a spy-glass , for finger-marks .", "Pretty slippy with your undressin \u2019 as a rule ?", "I understand there 's a lady in the room on this side", "I had not overlooked that , General .", "Ah ! Now , what did you do after you came back from your bath ? Just give us that precisely .", "I , sir ? He shot himself .", "Let me have a look at those , sir .And then ?", "No prayers or anything ?", "Then we 've got it fixed between 11. 15 and 11. 30 .Now , sir , before we go further I 'd like to see your butler and the footman that valets this gentleman .", "He 'll be in there , then .", "Now , madam \u2014 you must know my duty .", "Quite so . This is just clearing the ground , sir .", "At what time did you take his clothes and boots ?", "No , no \u2014 do n't you try to undermine me \u2014 I 'm sorry for you ; but do n't you try it !", "Did you happen to look under his bed ?", "It 's locked .", "Where is your room ?", "Very good . You can go . I 'll see them later on .", "and a gentleman on this", "Now , sir , if this is the room as you left it for your bath , just show us exactly what you did after takin \u2019 the pocket-book from the suit case . Where was that , by the way ?", "Shutting the window ?", "If you 're coming in to the racing to-morrow , sir , you might give us a call . I 'll have seen Kentman by then .", "Call him back . TREISURE calls \u201c Robert , \u201d and the FOOTMAN re-enters .", "A bookie . I do n't suppose he will , sir . It 's come and go with them , all the time .", "Is there another door to that room ?", "Now , be careful . Did you go to bed at all ?", "Good evenin \u2019 , sir . Mr WINSOR ? You 're the owner here , I think ?", "Well , Mr WINSOR , I 've formed my theory . As he speaks , DE LEVIS comes in from the balcony . And I do n't say to try the keys is necessary to it ; but strictly , I ought to exhaust the possibilities .", "Then why did you say you did ? There 's been a theft here , and anything you say may be used against you .", "Very well , sir . Do you want to have a look at him ? COLFORD passes quickly into the bedroom , followed by the INSPECTOR . MARGARET remains kneeling beside MABEL . COLFORD comes quickly back . MARGARET looks up at him . He stands very still .", "What 's that door ?", "Put them back . Hands keys to CONSTABLE , who goes out , followed by TREISURE . I 'll have to try every key in the house , sir .", "Well , madam , it 's no use disguising it . I 'm exceedingly sorry , but I 've a warrant for his arrest .", "Drawin \u2019 the curtains back first ?", "How do you fix that , sir ?", "Very well , gentlemen . In my opinion the thief walked in before the door was locked , probably during dinner ; and was under the bed . He escaped by dropping from the balcony \u2014 the creeper at that cornerhas been violently wrenched . I 'll go down now , and examine the grounds , and I 'll see you again Sir .Goodnight , then , gentlemen !", "Come , now \u2014", "Did you come up again , to bring the clothes back ?", "Exactly .Now , sir , what time did you come up ?", "What did you make of that ?"], "true_target": ["Are you sure there was nobody in the room already ?", "Did you notice anything particular about Mr De Levis 's clothes ?", "Captain Dancy in , madam ?", "I wish to speak to him a minute . Stay here , Grover . Now , madam !", "You 're welcome , sir .", "You valet Mr \u2014 Mr De Levis , I think ?", "What lady and \u2014 Stand by , Grover !", "I mean \u2014 anything peculiar ?", "Mr WINSOR , what time did the gentleman come to you ?", "Were you out of the room again after you went in ?", "I 'm sure I 've every sympathy for you , madam ; but I must carry out my instructions .", "Just undressin \u2019 ? Did n't look over your bettin \u2019 book ?", "Were you there alone ?", "I should think you must be sure , madam . This is not a big place .", "Well , madam , we 're \u2014 we 're not allowed to take that into consideration . The Law 's the Law .", "Very good .", "Well , gentlemen , there are four possibilities . Either the thief was here all the time , waiting under the bed , and slipped out after this gentleman had gone to Mr WINSOR . Or he came in with a key that fits the lock ; and I 'll want to see all the keys in the house . Or he came in with a skeleton key and out by the window , probably droppin \u2019 from the balcony . Or he came in by the window with a rope or ladder and out the same way .There 's a footmark here from a big boot which has been out of doors since it rained .", "Not lockin \u2019 the door ?", "We have , General . I can pick up nothing near the terrace .", "What time did you go to bed ?", "Did not look under bed . Did you look under it after the theft ?", "Well , sir , there 's your story corroborated .", "Good evenin \u2019 , General . I understand , a large sum of money ?", "Well , I 'd just like the keys of their doors for a minute . My man will get them . He goes to the door , opens it , and speaks to a constable in the corridor .You can go with him . TREISURE goes Out . In the meantime I 'll just examine the balcony . He goes out on the balcony , followed by DE LEVIS .", "Beg pardon ?", "Were they in their rooms ?", "In my experience , you can never have too much of that .", "Did you come up again for anything ?", "I 'm just going , gentlemen . The grounds , I 'm sorry to say , have yielded nothing . It 's a bit of a puzzle .", "What were you doing , if you did n't go to bed ?", "Precise , if you can give it me .", "Did you look for it ?", "Well ?", "I 'll want that , sir .", "I am .", "Thinkin \u2019 and cursin \u2019 a bit , I suppose . Ye-es ?", "Do they know of the affair ?", "The bell rings .", "Right , sir ; I 've brought a man with me . They go out .", "Well , we 'll see what we can do with the bookmakers about the numbers , sir . Before I go , gentlemen \u2014 you 've had time to think it over \u2014 there 's no one you suspect in the house , I suppose ? DE LEVIS 's face is alive and uncertain . CANYNGE is staring at him very fixedly .", "Did you open the window , sir , or was it open when you first came in ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Yes , Sir ?", "Yes , Sir .", "Beggin \u2019 your pardon , Sir , we were playin \u2019 Bridge .", "No , sir .", "Yes , Sir .", "No , sir ; they 're still downstairs .", "Yes , Sir . They 'll say the same as me . He goes out , leaving a smile on the face of all except the INSPECTOR and DE LEVIS .", "No , Sir .", "Yes , Sir . I meant , I went to my room .", "Just after eleven , Sir ."], "true_target": ["No , Sir .", "No , Sir ; I meant to draw his attention to it in the morning .", "On the ground floor , at the other end of the right wing , sir .", "No , Sir . Thomas and Frederick was there too .", "A pair of his boots this evenin \u2019 was reduced to one , sir .", "Only that they were very good , Sir .", "Yes , sir .", "I thought he might have thrown the other at a cat or something .", "No , Sir .", "Ten o'clock , sir ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Room on the left , Sir .Room on the right , sir . The INSPECTOR tries the keys in the door , watched with tension by the others . The keys fail ."], "true_target": ["A lady and gentleman , sir ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["But of c-course he was , General . What did you expect ? A FOOTMAN enters .", "Better develop it so that t-two can sit out , General .", "Phew ! Wo n't Dancy be mad ! He gave that filly away to save her keep . He was rather pleased to find somebody who 'd take her . Bentman must have won a p-pot . She was at thirty-threes a fortnight ago .", "I say , is that the yarn that 's going round about his having had a lot of m-money stolen in a country house ? By Jove ! He 'll be pretty s-sick .", "And the r-rub .", "I thought his wanting to f-fight him a bit screeny .", "Dancy ! Great S-Scott !"], "true_target": ["I 'm sorry ; but has he t-taken it in quite the right way ? I should have thought \u2014 hearing it s-suddenly \u2014", "Damages , and a stain on his c-character .", "Hallo , C-Colford .", "They always try to take mine , General . I shall never belong to the noble f-fellowship of the horse .", "Are you going to play any more ?", "The Courts are b-beastly distrustful , do n't you know .", "I thought the horse m-meant the same to everyone , General \u2014 chance to get the b-better of one 's neighbour .", "Rosemary ! And De Levis sold her ! But he got a good p-price , I suppose . The other three look at him ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["WINSOR ?", "You 're deuced positive , sir . So far as I could understand it , there were a dozen ways you could have been robbed . It seems to me you value other men 's reputations very lightly .", "Newmarket , Canynge , in spite of the weather .", "If I were young Dancy , nothing should induce me .", "This concerns the honour of the Club . Are you going to take action ?", "I looked in on my way down . CANYNGE sits very still , and WINSOR utters a disturbed sound .", "No .", "By the way , Canynge , young De Levis was blackballed .", "It leaves a bad taste . I 'm sorry for young Mrs", "I do n't like it .", "H 'm ! It never settled anything , except who could shoot straightest .", "It can n't be settled that way \u2014 you know very well . You must take it to the Courts , unless he retracts .", "We ought to have stuck to the old game . Wish I 'd gone to", "This Club has always had a decent , quiet name .", "We 've told you \u2014 take action , to clear your name .", "Many a slip between price and pocket , young man .", "Captain Dancy !"], "true_target": ["No , sir . Good night to you . Canynge , can I give you a lift ? He goes out , followed by CANYNGE . BORRING .Well , I shall go and take the t-temperature of the Club . He goes out .", "All the money goes to fellows who do n't know a horse from a haystack .", "He can make it a criminal action .", "You seem a venomous young man .", "Evidently . Deal ! As BORRING begins to deal the door is opened and MAJOR COLFORD appears \u2014 a lean and moustached cavalryman .", "Captain Dancy , a serious accusation has been made against you by this gentleman in the presence of several members of the Club .", "That you robbed him of that money at WINSOR 's .", "That 'll do , Mr De Levis ; we wo n't keep you .Kindly consider your membership suspended till this matter has been threshed out .", "What won the Cambridgeshire ?", "Well , Dancy ?", "Not a patch on the old whist \u2014 this game . Do n't know why I play it \u2014 never did .", "What are we to do in the meantime ?", "More damnable if he did it , WINSOR .", "Well , Captain Dancy ?", "And they have n't traced \u2018 em ?", "You must be a very rich man , sir . A jury is likely to take the view that money can hardly compensate for an accusation of that sort . DE LEVIS stands silent . CANYNGE . Courts of law require proof .", "Did Kentman ever give the police the numbers of those notes ,", "Dancy \u2014 poor woman !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Yes , my lord ?"], "true_target": ["Rosemary , my lord . Sherbet second ; Barbizon third . Nine to one the winner ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Hara-kiri .", "By John Galsworthy", "You may think yourself damned lucky if he does n't break your neck . He goes out . The three who are left with DE LEVIS avert their eyes from him .", "Yes , Inspector ; you 've done for my best friend .", "Bosh !", "You shall have it read at the inquest . Till then \u2014 it 's addressed to me , and I stick to it .", "PERSONS OF THE PLAY", "From the 5th Series of Plays", "No , thank God !", "I want your advice . Young De Levis in therehas started a blasphemous story \u2014", "There must be some mistake about this , Mr", "No .", "His word 's good enough for me .", "Certainly I did ; you were there when I went to the smoking-room .", "Neatly \u2014 through the heart . MARGARETKeeps faith ! We 've all done that . It 's not enough .", "The CURTAIN falls .", "About five minutes .", "What ?If it were my own brother , I could n't feel it more . But \u2014 damn it ! What right had that fellow to chuck up the case \u2014 without letting him know , too . I came down with Dancy this morning , and he knew nothing about it .", "Twisden .", "But I serve the Country .", "De Levis says he 's nothing to add to what he said to you before , on the subject .", "Dancy 's in the Club . If he had n't been I 'd have taken it on myself to wring the bounder 's neck . WINSOR and BORRING have risen . ST ERTH alone remains seated ."], "true_target": ["It makes no odds , General . Four of us in there heard him . He 's saying it was Ronald Dancy robbed him down at WINSOR 's . The fellow 's mad over losing the price of that filly now she 's won the Cambridgeshire .", "Leave her ! The longer she 's unconscious , the better .", "Old boy !", "I thought a man was safe with his solicitor .", "Would n't you have wanted a shot at the brute ? A law court ? Pah !", "They do .", "My God ! If you repeat that \u2014", "Well ! What proof 's that ? No , by George ! An old school-fellow , a brother officer , and a pal .", "Yes , by God !", "If Dancy 's asked to resign , you may take my resignation too .", "Yes .", "He did n't . But if he did , I 'd stick to him , and see him through it , if I could . WINSOR walks over to the fire , stares into it , turns round and stares at COLFORD , who is standing motionless .", "You may have my head if he did it , Lord St Erth . He and I have been in too many holes together . By Gad ! My toe itches for that fellow 's butt end .", "Dancy , WINSOR ?", "All right , old boy !", "Damn that effeminate stammering chap ! What can we do for", "WINDOWS", "It 's addressed to me .\u201c DEAR COLFORD ,\u2014 This is the only decent thing I can do . It 's too damned unfair to her . It 's only another jump . A pistol keeps faith . Look after her , Colford \u2014 my love to her , and you . \u201d MARGARET gives a sort of choking sob , then , seeing the smelling bottle , she snatches it up , and turns to revive MABEL .", "I 'm going in to shake hands with him .", "For her sake , and his own .", "Guilty or not , you ought to have stuck to him \u2014 it 's not playing the game , Mr Twisden .", "Poor little Mabel Dancy ! It 's perfect hell for her . They have not seen that DANCY has opened the door behind them .", "General ! Something in the tone of his voice brings them all to a standstill ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Let them ! We sha n't be here ."], "true_target": ["No ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["No , sir . But important , he says .", "Mr Ricardos , sir . He goes out . RICARDOS is a personable , Italian-looking man in a frock coat , with a dark moustachioed face and dark hair a little grizzled . He looks anxious , and bows .", "Captain Dancy 's waiting , sir .", "I do n't know , sir . It 's \u2014 it 's like football \u2014 you want your side to win .You see some rum starts , too , in a lawyer 's office in a quiet way . DANCY enters the waiting-room , and the YOUNG CLERK , shutting the door , meets TWISDEN as he comes in , Left Forward , and takes from him overcoat , top hat , and a small bag .", "Orme .", "On the table , sir .", "My trouble was to stick that , sir ."], "true_target": ["A Mr Gilman , sir , to see Mr Twisden .", "Yes , sir . Mr Twisden will see you in one minute . He had to go out of town last night .", "Mr WINSOR , sir , and Miss", "Yes .", "They enter , and the CLERK withdraws .", "Yes , sir .", "A case like this is pretty exciting . I 'd give a lot to see us win it ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["I should like to hear Mr Jacob on that , WINSOR . He 'll be in directly .", "What 's his address ? What . . . ?", "Very well ; then , perhaps , you 'll go in there .", "De Levis is here .", "Exactly .", "No . He 's at the Courts . They 're just up ; he should be in directly . But he 'll be busy .", "How d'you do , Miss Orme ? How do you do , WINSOR ?", "Bring Mrs Dancy up .MABEL DANDY is shown in , looking very pale . TWISDEN advances from the fire , and takes her hand .", "No ; I can n't say \u2014", "D'you know , I believe she knows .", "By appointment ?", "I do n't believe this alters what I 've been thinking .", "The Bedford .", "You can see queerer things in the papers , any day .", "Oho !", "What are you going to do then , sir ?", "Thank you . All right .", "No ?", "Ask him , sir ; ask him .", "Too respectable . If De Levis got those notes back , and the rest of the money , anonymously ?", "Man called Gilman waiting in there to see you specially .", "As you say .", "I do n't know , sir . The war loosened \u201c form \u201d all over the place . I saw plenty of that myself . And some men have no moral sense . From the first I 've had doubts .", "Do !", "Good night , Mrs Dancy . MABEL goes ."], "true_target": ["The public wants it 's money 's worth \u2014 always does in these", "It 'll let him in for a prosecution . He came to us in confidence .", "Did we shake Kentman or Goole ?", "How much did he give you in all ?", "No . I suppose not .By Jove , I do n't like losing this case . I do n't like the admission we backed such a wrong \u2018 un .", "Yes , but not till you 've gone .", "I 'll see him . The CLERK goes . GRAVITER sits right of table . The CLERK returns , ushering in an oldish MAN , who looks what he is , the proprietor of a large modern grocery store . He wears a dark overcoat and carries a pot hat . His gingery-grey moustache and mutton-chop whiskers give him the expression of a cat .", "By George ! I feel bad about this .", "We considered it . Sir Frederic decided that he could use him better in cross-examination .", "Society cases ; they brew so long beforehand , you see .", "Sir Frederic got up at once and said that since the publication of the numbers of those notes , information had reached him which forced him to withdraw from the case . Great sensation , of course . I left Bromley in charge . There 'll be a formal verdict for the defendant , with costs . Have you told Dancy ?", "Not yet .", "By the way , sir , what is your business ?", "Yes ?", "Excuse me . He goes .", "Not uncommon .", "Phew ! . . .Gosh ! It 's an awful thing for his wife .", "De Levis might have challenged the other ten , Miss Orme .", "His partner . Graviter my name is .", "Has n't that shaken you , sir ? It has me .", "Get me Captain Dancy 's flat . . . . What ? . . .Mrs Dancy is here . That 's a propos with a vengeance . Are you going to see her , sir ?", "Most people have .", "Mr Gilman ? Yes .", "Can Sir Frederic spare Mr Twisden a few minutes now if he comes round ?He 's gone down to Brighton for the night .", "The fifty-pounder . I see .", "What 's to be done about Dancy ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Grocery \u2014 I daresay you know me ; or your wife does . They say old Mr Jacob Twisden refused a knighthood . If it 's not a rude question , why was that ?", "Mr Twisden 's not in , then ?", "It 's this Dancy-De Levis case that 's keepin \u2019 him at the Courts ,", "GRAVITER nods .", "GRAVITER shakes his head . No .", "Well , I prefer my own countrymen , and that 's the truth of it . As he speaks , GRAVITER comes in by the door Left Forward .", "Stores . You have my card .", "Mr Jacob Twisden ?", "Well , I 've come to you from a sense of duty , sir , and also a feelin \u2019 of embarrassment .You see , I 've been followin \u2019 this Dancy case \u2014 it 's a good deal talked of in Putney \u2014 and I read this at half-past two this afternoon . To be precise , at 2. 25 .When I read these numbers , I \u2018 appened to remember givin \u2019 change for a fifty-pound note \u2014 do n't often \u2018 ave one in , you know \u2014 so I went to the cash-box out of curiosity , to see that I \u2018 ad n't got it . Well , I \u2018 ad ; and here it is .It was brought in to change by a customer of mine three days ago , and he got value for it . Now , that 's a stolen note , it seems , and you 'd like to know what I did . Mind you , that customer of mine I 've known \u2018 im \u2014 well \u2014 eight or nine years ; an Italian he is \u2014 wine salesman , and so far 's I know , a respectable man-foreign-lookin \u2019 , but nothin \u2019 more . Now , this was at \u2018 alf-past two , and I was at my head branch at Putney , where I live . I want you to mark the time , so as you 'll see I \u2018 ave n't wasted a minute . I took a cab and I drove straight to my customer 's private residence in Putney , where he lives with his daughter \u2014 Ricardos his name is , Paolio Ricardos . They tell me there that he 's at his business shop in the City . So off I go in the cab again , and there I find him . Well , sir , I showed this paper to him and I produced the note . \u201c Here , \u201d I said , \u201c you brought this to me and you got value for it . \u201d Well , that man was taken aback . If I 'm a judge , Mr Twisden , he was taken aback , not to speak in a guilty way , but he was , as you might say , flummoxed . \u201c Now , \u201d I said to him , \u201c where did you get it \u2014 that 's the point ? \u201d He took his time to answer , and then he said : \u201c Well , Mr Gilman , \u201d he said , \u201c you know me ; I am an honourable man . I can n't tell you offhand , but I am above the board . \u201d He 's foreign , you know , in his expressions . \u201c Yes , \u201d I said , \u201c that 's all very well , \u201d I said , \u201c but here I 've got a stolen note and you 've got the value for it . Now I tell you , \u201d I said , \u201c what I 'm going to do ; I 'm going straight with this note to Mr Jacob Twisden , who 's got this Dancy-De Levis case in \u2018 and . He 's a well-known Society lawyer , \u201d I said , \u201c of great experience . \u201d \u201c Oh ! \u201d he said , \u201c that is what you do ? \u201d \u2014 funny the way he speaks ! \u201c Then I come with you ! \u201d \u2014 And I 've got him in the cab below . I want to tell you everything before he comes up . On the way I tried to get something out of him , but I could n't \u2014 I could not . \u201c This is very awkward , \u201d I said at last . \u201c It is , Mr Gilman , \u201d was his reply ; and he began to talk about his Sicilian claret \u2014 a very good wine , mind you ; but under the circumstances it seemed to me uncalled for . Have I made it clear to you ?", "Old Mr Jacob Twisden \u2014 I 've heard of him .", "This is my card . Gilman 's \u2014 several branches , but this is the \u2018 ead .", "Good afternoon , sir . Good afternoon , gentlemen !I 'm sure I 'm very \u2018 appy to have made your acquaintance , sir . It 's a well-known name .", "Oh ! I should n't dream of it . I 've no wish to be mixed up in anything conspicuous . That 's not my principle at all . Good-day , gentlemen . He goes ."], "true_target": ["Twisden , I believe ? My name 's Gilman , head of Gilman 's Department", "Thank you .You see , I 've never been mixed up with the law \u2014", "I suppose there 's nothing else I ought to do , in the interests of the law ? I 'm a careful man .", "Well , sir , I 'm in your \u2018 ands . I must be guided by you , with your experience . I 'm glad you think I acted rightly .", "Well , my business here \u2014 No , if you 'll excuse me , I 'd rather wait and see old Mr Jacob Twisden . It 's delicate , and I 'd like his experience .", "As I told you , sir , I 've been followin \u2019 this case . It 's what you might call piquant . And I should be very glad if it came about that this helped Captain Dancy . I take an interest , because , to tell you the truth ,I do n't like \u2014 well , not to put too fine a point upon it \u2018 Ebrews . They work harder ; they 're more sober ; they 're honest ; and they 're everywhere . I 've nothing against them , but the fact is \u2014 they get on so .", "I suppose ?", "I said to my wife at the time , \u201c He 's holdin \u2019 out for a baronetcy . \u201d GRAVITER Closes the door with an exasperated smile .", "Astonishin \u2019 the interest taken in it .", "And I do n't want to begin . When you do , you do n't know where you 'll stop , do you ? You see , I 've only come from a sense of duty ; and \u2014 other reasons .", "Mr", "Wo n't be finished for a day or two ?", "The Smart Set , eh ? This Captain Dancy got the D. S. O ., did n't he ? GRAVITER nods . Sad to have a thing like that said about you . I thought he gave his evidence well ; and his wife too . Looks as if this De Levis had got some private spite . Searchy la femme , I said to Mrs Gilman only this morning , before I \u2014"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Perfectly , Mr Gilman . I 'll send down for him .The YOUNG CLERK appears at the door , Left Forward . A gentleman in a taxi-waiting . Ask him to be so good as to step up . Oh ! and send Mr Graviter here again . The YOUNG CLERK goes out .", "You were not aware that it was stolen ?", "Thank you . GILMAN retreats , glances at RICARDOS , and turns again .", "Yes . What can we do for you ?", "Yes , yes ; but I must know .", "Yes , yes ; go in there and think it out . He goes to the door , Right , and opens it . DANCY passes him and goes out . TWISDEN rings a bell and stands waiting .", "Now , go straight from this office . You 've a passport , I suppose ; you wo n't need a visa for France , and from there you can find means to slip over . Have you got money on you ?We will see what we can do to stop or delay proceedings .", "H 'm ! What hotel ?", "Yes ; it 's the very best thing you can do . GRAVITER turns his head , and looks at them unobserved .", "Captain Dancy ?", "But the case , Graviter ; the case .", "Will you go , then , at once , and leave me to break it to your wife ?", "Good afternoon !", "Courts ?", "It does not become everybody as it becomes you , Margaret .", "Impossible to go on . Apart from ourselves , there 's Sir Frederic . We must disclose to him \u2014 can n't let him go on in the dark . Complete confidence between solicitor and counsel is the essence of professional honour .", "I am Dancy 's lawyer , my dear Charles , as well as yours .", "H 'm ! that is very vague . If that is all you can tell us , I 'm afraid \u2014", "I must .", "I do n't pretend to understand , but I imagine you may have done this in a moment of reckless bravado , feeling , perhaps , that as you gave the mare to De Levis , the money was by rights as much yours as his . Stopping DANCY , who is about to speak , with a gesture . To satisfy a debt of honour to this \u2014 lady ; and , no doubt , to save your wife from hearing of it from the man Ricardos . Is that so ?", "That was unfortunately unavoidable .", "Tell them to call a taxi .", "Where have they gone ?", "When in difficulty \u2014 complete frankness , sir .", "Yes . I do n't want you to go to the Court .", "A thorn in the flesh , Mr Gilman .", "These two notes .After the Court rose yesterday we had a man called Ricardos here .Is there any need for me to say more ?", "When you have been as long in your profession as I have been in mine , Major Colford , you will know that duty to your calling outweighs duty to friend or client .", "Can you understand a gentleman \u2014?", "My dear young lady , that 's our business .MABEL 's face suddenly quivers . She draws her hand away , and covers her lips with it . There , there ! You want a day off badly .", "I 've advised him to go straight off to Morocco .", "Ah ! How are you , Charles ? How do you do , my dear ?", "Without knowing , I can n't tell you . WINSOR and MARGARET exchange looks , and TWISDEN drinks from the saucer . MARGARET . Tell him , Charles .", "Gilman .", "DANCY walks across the room , and goes out .", "You did n't feel the coat yourself ? And Dancy was n't present ? Then what Canynge told you is not evidence \u2014 he 'll stop your being asked .", "When did he give you this money ?", "Mr Gilman has brought this , of which he is holder for value . His customer , who changed it three days ago , is coming up .", "Well , I 'd like to see him before the Court sits . Send him on here as soon as he comes .", "I must keep this note .You will not speak of this to anyone . I may recognise that you were a holder for value received \u2014 others might take a different view . Good-day , sir . Graviter , see Mr Ricardos out , and take his address .", "Just look out the trains down and up early to-morrow . GRAVITER takes up an A B C , and TWISDEN takes up the Ricardos card .", "Come , sir , speak out !", "No , no ! I \u2014 I can n't go on with the case . It 's breaking faith . Get Sir Frederic 's chambers .", "Better go ! There 's a war in Morocco .", "Yes . But professional honour comes first . What time is that train ?", "See Dancy at once . Get him on the phone .", "There 's no end to human nature , General .", "My dear Mrs Dancy , there 's no need at all for you to come down to-morrow ; take a rest and nurse your head .", "Our duty was plain ; we could not go on with the case . I have consulted Sir Frederic . He felt \u2014 he felt that he must throw up his brief , and he will do that the moment the Court sits . Now I want to talk to you about what you 're going to do .", "And I serve the Law , sir .", "De Levis ? Ca n't see him ."], "true_target": ["No . It is n't that .", "You received it from \u2014?", "I take it that General Canynge wo n't say anything he 's not compelled to say .", "I think so , Margaret ; I think so .", "You must decide quickly , to catch a boat train . Many a man has made good . You 're a fine soldier .", "Send to this address in Putney , verify the fact that Ricardos has a daughter , and give me a trunk call to Brighton . Better go yourself , Graviter . If you see her , do n't say anything , of course \u2014 invent some excuse .I 'll be up in time to see Dancy .", "If there is , Mr Gilman , we will let you know . We have your address . You may make your mind easy ; but do n't speak of this . It might interfere with Justice .", "You must allow me to judge where my duty lay , in a very hard case .", "Mr Gilman , your conduct has been most prompt . You may safely leave the matter in our hands , now . Kindly let us retain this note ; and ask for my cashier as you go out and give himthis . He will reimburse you . We will take any necessary steps ourselves .", "Wait ! We want him to go straight off to Morocco . Do n't upset him .I think you had better go . If , a little later , Margaret , you could go round to Mrs Dancy \u2014", "It went very well to-day ; very well indeed .", "We can n't go on with the case .", "I have very serious news for you .", "\u201c All corroborates . \u201d H 'm !Now , Captain Dancy . Sorry to have kept you waiting .", "Let me be frank with you .We have your admission that you changed this stopped note for value . It will be our duty to inform the Bank of England that it has been traced to you . You will have to account to them for your possession of it . I suggest to you that it will be far better to account frankly to us .", "Directly . Turn up the light , would you , Graviter ?", "Charles ?", "Now , then ?", "Yes . He 's in there deciding what he 'll do .", "Thought is one thing \u2014 knowledge another . There 's duty to our profession . Ours is a fine calling . On the good faith of solicitors a very great deal hangs .", "Well ?", "Ask if I can come round and see him .", "They did n't ask either of you . Still-no harm in your telling Dancy .", "Young Dancy !GRAVITER returns , carefully shuts the door , and going up to him , hands him RICARDOS \u2019 card .", "My partner means , did you press him for this settlement ?", "Now , sir , will you sit down . But RICARDOS does not sit ; he stands looking uneasily across the table at GRAVITER . You may speak out .", "Yes . GRAVITERChance brought this here , sir . That man wo n't talk \u2014 he 's too scared .", "Sit down ; sit down , my dear . And he himself sits behind the table , as a cup of tea is brought in to him by the YOUNG CLERK , with two Marie biscuits in the saucer . Will you have some , Margaret ?", "Not as against the law .", "Money is n't the point , Margaret .", "Thank you . The CLERK goes .", "At your service , sir . GILMAN comes forth , nursing his pot hat . Be seated . TWISDEN closes the window behind him , and takes his seat .", "Slowly , without turning his head , rather like a man in a dream ,", "Yes . The CLERK goes out , and almost immediately GRAVITER and CANYNGE enter . Good-morning , General .Well ?", "With threats that you would tell his wife ?", "We can n't tell what the result of this collapse will be . The police have the theft in hand . They may issue a warrant . The money could be refunded , and the costs paid \u2014 somehow that can all be managed . But it may not help . In any case , what end is served by your staying in the country ? You can n't save your honour \u2014 that 's gone . You can n't save your wife 's peace of mind . If she sticks to you \u2014 do you think she will ?", "Graviter \u2014 No ; show them in . The YOUNG CLERK goes .", "Did he leave anything for me ?", "No , no ! She believes in him implicitly . A staunch little woman . Poor thing !", "I am afraid we must press you for the name of the gentleman .", "Hssh ! Dancy 's in there . He 's admitted it . Voices are subdued at once .", "Very rightly , Mr Gilman \u2014 very rightly .", "Mr Ricardos , was it Captain Dancy ?", "Mr Ricardos ? My name is Jacob Twisden . My partner .Mr Gilman has told us about this note . You took it to him , he says , three days ago ; that is , on Monday , and received cash for it ?", "Very well . Mr Graviter gone to the", "It was mad , Captain Dancy , mad ! But the question now is : What do you owe to your wife ? She does n't dream \u2014 I suppose ?", "You wanted to see me ?", "Better not .", "We are obliged to you , Sir . It was good of you to come .", "I 'll go down .", "So far as we are able to prevent it \u2014 certainly .", "What is it ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Well , Mr Tweesden and sare , this matter is very serious for me , and very delicate \u2014 it concairns my honour . I am in a great difficulty .", "I did think it my duty to my daughter to ask that he make compensation to her .", "Gentlemen , this is very painful for me . It is my daughter 's good name \u2014", "The notes were a settlement to her from this gentleman , of whom she was a great friend .", "Sare , if I give it to you , and it does \u2018 im \u2018 arm , what will my daughter say ? This is a bad matter for me . He behaved well to her ; and she is attached to him still ; sometimes she is crying yet because she lost him . And now we betray him , perhaps , who knows ? This is very unpleasant for me .Here it gives the number of another note \u2014 a \u2018 undred-pound note . I \u2018 ave that too .", "Gentlemen , I beg you \u2014 remember what I said .My daughter \u2014 I am not happee . Good-day . He turns and goes out slowly , Left Forward , followed by GRAVITER .", "The middle of Octobare last .", "A minute , sare ; I would weesh to explain \u2014in private ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sare .", "Oh ! no , sare .", "I received this note , sare , with others , from a gentleman , sare , in settlement of a debt of honour , and I know nothing of where he got them .", "Gentlemen , I am so fond of my daughter . I have only the one , and no wife .", "Captain Dancy was a man of honour . He said : \u201c Of course I will do this . \u201d I trusted him . And a month later I did remind him , and he gave me this money for her . I do not know where he got it \u2014 I do not know . Gentlemen , I have invested it all on her \u2014 every penny-except this note , for which I had the purpose to buy her a necklace . That is the sweared truth .", "For my daughter 's settlement one thousand pounds . I understand he did not wish to give a cheque because of his marriage . So I did not think anything about it being in notes , you see .", "Sare , if I tell you , will you give me your good word that my daughter shall not hear of it ?", "It is a family matter , sare , I \u2014", "Sare , I trust you .\u2014 It was Captain Dancy . A long pause . GRAVITERWere you blackmailing him ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["The taxi 's here , sir . Will you see Major Colford and Miss Orme ?"], "true_target": ["Yes , sir ?", "Yes , sir . Mr Graviter has come in , air , with General Canynge . Are you disengaged ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["One minute !"], "true_target": ["All right ! You can come in now . There is the noise of a lock being turned . And almost immediately the sound of a pistol shot in the bedroom . MABEL rushes to the door , tears it open , and disappears within , followed by the INSPECTOR , just as MARGARET ORME and COLFORD come in from the passage , pursued by the CONSTABLE . They , too , all hurry to the bedroom door and disappear for a moment ; then COLFORD and MARGARET reappear , supporting MABEL , who faints as they lay her on the sofa . COLFORD takes from her hand an envelope , and tears it open ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["MR BLY ............... Their Window Cleaner", "COOK ................. Their Cook", "MR BARNADAS .......... In Plain Clothes", "MARY MARCH ........... Their Daughter", "JOAN MARCH ........... His Wife"], "true_target": ["BLUNTER .............. A Strange Young Man", "FAITH BLY ............ His Daughter", "JOHNNY MARCH ......... Their Son", "Freelance in Literature", "The action passes in Geofrey March 's House , Highgate-Spring-time ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Then why did you \u2014\u2014 let me think you had n't any friends ? Who is this fellow ?", "You think she 's a designing minx . I tell you she 's got no more design in her than a rabbit . She 's just at the mercy of anything .", "Exactly !", "Stand still , and leave it to me .Now , mother , I 've come down at your request to discuss this ; are you ready to keep her ? Otherwise up we go again .", "If you have n't begun your morning , Dad , you might just tell me what you think of these verses . He puts a sheet of notepaper before his father , who takes it and begins to con over the verses thereon , while JOHNNY looks carefully at his nails .", "Of course you think the worst . Trust anyone who was n't in the war for that !", "Mr Bly is a dodderer . And she 's got no mother . I 'll bet you 've never realised the life girls who get outed lead . I 've seen them \u2014 I saw them in France . It gives one the horrors .", "Oh ! I can trust myself .", "She 's a little creature who went down in the scrum and has been kicked about ever since .", "I know . I hate to think about anything I 've killed , really . At least , I should \u2014 but it 's better not to think .", "And why ? Because all you matter-of-fact people make up your minds to it . What earthly chance has she had ?", "She 's in the hall , poor little devil , waiting for her sentence .", "I missed grass and trees more \u2014 the trees ! All burnt , and splintered . Gah !", "Mother , you 're like the papers \u2014 you put in all the vice and leave out all the virtue , and call that human nature . The kiss was an accident that I bitterly regret .", "Ah ! Tell me all about your beastly time ; it 'll do you good . You and I are different from anybody else in this house . We 've lived they 've just vegetated . Come on ; tell me ! FAITH , who up to now has looked on him as a young male , stares at him for the first time without sex in her eyes .", "Yes ; but why do we keep contracts when we can break them with advantage and impunity ?", "Who are you ?", "Shallow idiots ! Thinking we can do without chivalry !", "Stick to it . Put it in your hair ; it 'll look jolly . How do you like it here ?", "To stay here quietly for the next two years ?", "I \u2014 I do n't know .", "Well , Dad , there was one thing anyway we learned out there \u2014", "If you 'd just missed being killed for three blooming years for no spiritual result whatever , you 'd want something to bite on , Mary .", "Stand still !", "Where ?", "A blue night \u2014 the moon over the Park . And she stops and looks at it .\u2014 What has she wanted \u2014 the beautiful \u2014 something better than she 's got \u2014 something that she 'll never get !", "Promise !", "Of course , she 'll just chuck herself away .", "You feel like a flower that 's been picked . FAITH 's smile is enigmatic .", "Because you 're weak \u2014 little and weak .Damn it ! We went into the war to save the little and weak ; at least we said so ; and look at us now ! The bottom 's out of all that .There is n't a faith or an illusion left . Look here ! I want to help you .", "And if I go , I go for good .", "Well , if you do n't keep her , I shall clear out . At this bombshell MRS MARCH rises .", "No .", "You never meant \u2014 You did n't do it for your own advantage .", "All right ! D'you want any more illustrations , Mary ?", "During this colloquy the MARCHES have been so profoundly uneasy that", "Let her wait ! You 're not fit to go out to-night .", "When a chap was in a hole \u2014 to pull him out , even at a risk .", "I call that revolting . What she wants is the human touch .", "Yes , I know what you mean by stuff \u2014 good hard self-preservative instinct . Why should the wretched girl who has n't got that be turned down ? She wants protection all the more .", "Oh , you 're a looker on , Mary .", "You may go .He can n't .", "It 'd be too strong .", "You 'd think it funnier if you 'd just come out of prison and were going to be chucked out of your job , on to the world again .", "Tolstoi was the most truthful writer that ever lived .", "I 'll modify mine .Come here \u2014 close !Will you give me your word to stay here , if I make them keep you ?", "I do n't think it 's convenient at all . I should like to make", "Beastly things , babies ; and absolutely unnecessary in the present state of the world .", "Not poetry .", "And you know she wo n't take it . She 's got that much stuff in her . This place is her only chance . I appeal to you , Mother \u2014 please tell her not to go .", "I could tell what 's in you now .", "You look a blackguard , and I believe you are .", "Well , I 've had no dinner , but I 'm not going to eat my words , I tell you plainly .", "It 's a chance to make something decent out of her .", "You had a much worse time than I . You were lonely \u2014", "We 'll all help you .", "No , no ! It 's just the opposite of what \u2014 No , no ! He goes to the door , wrenches it open and goes out . FAITH , still with that little half-mocking , half-contented smile , resumes the clearing of the table . She is interrupted by the entrance through the French windows of MR MARCH and MARY , struggling with one small wet umbrella .", "That girl 's been telling me \u2014 I can see the whole thing .", "Come on , then . He goes up to the windows .", "I know you 're a blackguard \u2014 I 've seen your sort .", "Are you his girl ?", "All right ! I 'll come with you .", "Dash it ! You know what I mean . I regret it with my \u2014 my conscience . It sha n't occur again .", "You never believed they were going to hang you , did you ?", "It does n't seem to worry you .", "Did he come the heavy father ? That 's what I can n't stand . When they jaw a chap and hang him afterwards . Or was he one of the joking ones ?", "No-o . . . . Where ?", "The more I see of things the more disgusting they seem . I do n't see what we 're living for . All right . Chuck the girl out , and let 's go rooting along with our noses in the dirt .", "If I am , I 'll have the right to be !", "MRS MARCH has poured out another glass of brandy .", "Ha ! So you do n't mind taking advantage of the fact that you can cheek me with impunity , because you 're weaker . You 've given the whole show away , Mary . Abolish chivalry and I 'll make you sit up .", "I nearly screamed when I saved my first German from living . I never felt the same again . They say the human race has got to go on , but I say they 've first got to prove that the human race wants to . Would you rather be alive or dead ?", "Mother , it 's just an instance . When something comes along that takes a bit of doing \u2014 Give it to the other chap !", "Mother !", "You have n't , I 'll bet .", "I must have something decent to do sometimes . There is n't an ideal left .", "I knew it ."], "true_target": ["Good God ! He takes back the sheet of paper , clutches his brow , and crosses to the door . As he passes FAITH , she looks up at him with eyes full of expression . JOHNNY catches the look , jibs ever so little , and goes out .", "Bankrupt of ideals . That 's it ! MR BLY stares at him , and puts his pail down by the window . MARY has entered with her father 's writing materials which she puts on a stool beside him .", "I 'm not a baby .", "You none of you care a pin 's head what becomes of her . Ca n't you see she 's on the edge ? The whistle is heard again , but fainter .", "Well \u2014 say we do ; otherwise you 'll admit there is n't such a thing as civilisation at all . But why do we keep them ? For instance , why do n't we make Mary and Mother work for us like Kafir women ? We could lick them into it . Why did we give women the vote ? Why free slaves ; why anything decent for the little and weak ?", "Stuck , as we were in the trenches \u2014 like china dogs .", "Where ?", "No !I 'll see that you 're not insulted any more .", "Well , that girl is not to be chucked out ; wo n't have her on my chest .", "Fond of flowers ?", "Oh , I 'll stop her right enough . If I stuck it out in Hell , I can stick it out in Highgate .", "Mother , you make me despair . You 're so matter-of-fact , you never give one credit for a pure ideal .", "Mother has n't an ounce of idealism . You might make her see stars , but never in the singular .", "He must have been rather a swine .", "There is no danger \u2014 I told her I did n't mean it .", "Fellows like you \u2014", "Father has imagination .", "Yes \u2014 that 's just it . I did n't mean to It wo n't do .", "Of course you ought to take her , Mother .", "What price the little and weak , now ? Freedom and self-determination , and all that ?", "Well , I should think so !", "In caves . The water drops like tears , and each drop has some sort of salt , and leaves it behind till there 's just a long salt petrified drip hanging from the roof .", "How beastly women are to each other !", "Of all shallow-pated humbug \u2014 that sneering at chivalry 's the worst . Civilisation \u2014 such as we 've got \u2014 is built on it .", "Never mind ! Cheer up ! You 're only a kid . You 'll have a good time yet . FAITH leans against him , as it were indifferently , clearly expecting him to kiss her , but he does n't .", "Um ! I believe that 's quite common .", "Oh ! Damn ! The lank and shirt-sleeved figure of MR BLY , with a pail of water and cloths , has entered , and stands near the window , Left .", "That 's what I 'm saying : Bankrupt !", "No , thank God !", "A vision , Dad ! Windows of Clubs \u2014 men sitting there ; and that girl going by with rouge on her cheeks \u2014", "There are thousands who feel like me \u2014 that the bottom 's out of everything . It sickens me that anything in the least generous should get sat on by all you people who have n't risked your lives .", "Sneering and smartness ! Pah !", "That 's a foul lie . Come into the garden and I 'll prove it on your carcase .", "Ah ! Did you ever see a stalactite ?", "I mean it .", "Nothing .Look here ! I did n't mean \u2014 I ought n't to have \u2014 Please forget it !", "And you married father !", "What about the other eleven ?", "Russians are charitable , anyway , and see into other people 's souls .", "Why ?", "Do n't condescend to answer !", "You shall !", "What 's this , Mother ? I wo n't have it \u2014 it 's pre-war .", "He would have , if he 'd been me . He says it unconsciously , but FAITH is instantly conscious of the implication .", "Will you ? I 'll play cricket if you do .", "Quit .", "What do you say , Dad ? Is civilisation built on chivalry or on self-interest ?", "You see , even Dad can n't suggest chivalry without talking of payment for it . That shows how we 've sunk .", "Emigrate or go into the Police .", "Were you fond of the chap who \u2014?", "Mary sweat . Why not jungle law , if there 's nothing in chivalry .", "That 's all you know of the pressure of life .", "I expect you 're well out of that .", "I can make them , if you 'll promise .", "Well ?", "As pie .", "Empty !", "Gosh ! If I could write a poem that would show everybody what was in the heart of everybody else \u2014!", "No , she 's not ; and you 'll just clear out .", "She is not . Look at me ! MRS MARCH looks at him from across the dining-table , for he has marched up to it , till they are staring at each other across the now cleared rosewood .", "You 've only to look at his face !", "This poor girl is going to have a fair deal , and you 're not going to give it her . I can see that with half an eye .", "Sorry !", "Mr Bly , get out !", "What ?", "Then we know where we are .", "You bet .", "Stop ! All turn and look at him . He comes down . Will you come to me ? FAITH stares at him . MRS MARCH continues to smile faintly .", "We 'll make you feel alive again . FAITH stares at him ; sex comes back to her eyes . She looks down . I bet you used to enjoy life , before .", "Vicarious !", "I wo n't have her go . She 's a pathetic little creature .", "But would you have in prison ?", "Ha ! I wonder if you 've got the feeling I have . We 've both had hell , you know ; I had three years of it , out there , and you 've had three years of it here . The feeling that you can n't catch up ; can n't live fast enough to get even . FAITH nods . Nothing 's big enough ; nothing 's worth while enough \u2014 is it ?", "Well \u2014 for cynicism \u2014", "Sorry ! Oh , sorry !", "Who ?", "That 's what I 'm doing now , anyway ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Well , do n't we want a maid ?", "Ah ! Neither up \u2014 nor down \u2014 but straight in the face ! Quite a thought , Cook ! Quite a thought !", "Cook 's quite right . The war destroyed all our ideals and probably created the baby .", "Well \u2014 old man , I \u2014 er \u2014 think perhaps it 'd be stronger if they were out .", "Your mother 's not well .", "This sulphurous government .Give me a match , Mary . As soon as the paper is out of his hands he becomes a different \u2014 an affable man .", "Come ! Get your hat on , Mary , or we sha n't make the Tube before the next shower .", "Down .", "Bravo , Johnny !", "Get Johnny . MARY goes out .", "We must tell her , or she 'll think me mad .", "You talk to Mr Bly . He 's a remarkable man .", "Now , take her away ! Cook , go and open the front door for Mr", "What do you think of things , Mr Bly ?", "Where 's your mother ?", "Cause enough in the papers .", "That 's all right ! Only , Mr Bly , I can n't absolutely answer for Mrs March . She may think \u2014", "It is . The trees are growing .", "I 'm sure she had . MR BLY passes out , and MR MARCH busies himself in gathering up his writing things preparatory to seeking his study . While he is so engaged FAITH comes in . Glancing at him , she resumes her placing of the decanters , as JOHNNY enters by the window , and comes down to his father by the hearth .", "We were talking of your daughter \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014", "Coming with me to the British Museum ? I want to have a look at the Assyrian reliefs .", "But , apropos of your daughter , Mr Bly . I suppose none of us ever change our natures .", "I mean faith in human instincts , human nature , Cook .", "Pathetic little figure ! Such infernal inhumanity !", "And the moral of that is \u2014?", "No , no ! But I hope \u2014", "Oh ! Do you read ?", "After what you 've been through , any man with a sense of chivalry \u2014 FAITH gives a little shrug . Yes , I know \u2014 but we do n't all support the Government .", "Well ! This goes further than you think . It involves Johnny 's affection and respect for you . MRS MARCH nervously refills the little brandy glass , and again empties it , with a grimacing shudder .", "Hell ! What a policy ! Um ?", "Soo \u2014?", "I meant , if it does n't spoil the look of the table . We must all be artists in our professions , must n't we ?", "Not at all , not at all !", "Is n't that rather coercive , Joan ?", "Yes ; it 's a weakness we have \u2014 every three minutes .", "Are you going to leave him up there with the girl and that inflammatory literature , all night ? Where 's your common sense , Joan ? MRS MARCH starts up , presses her hand over her brow , and sits down again . She is stumped .", "Good image , Mr Bly . Hope you 're right !", "I say We ought to have faith and jump .", "My God ! yes . They 've all been that .", "Mary , go and see where Johnny is .", "And this fellow has n't the nous to see that if ever there were a moment when it would pay us to take risks , and be generous \u2014 My hat ! He ought to be \u2014 knighted !", "If God does n't open the earth soon \u2014", "We will \u2014 we will ! That 's settled , then . Bring her in and tell her . We 'll go on to the terrace . He goes out through the window , followed by JOHNNY .", "A deuced good one . Shake \u2014 He checks himself , but MR BLY has wiped his hand and extended it . While the shake is in progress MARY returns , and , having seen it to a safe conclusion , speaks .", "Well , let 's see her , Mr Bly ; let 's see her , if you do n't mind .", "He can have her \u2014 he can have her !", "I wonder if Cook could do anything with him ?", "I can satisfy her better if I do n't look .", "Dear me ! I 'd no idea .", "No . I was only saying to Mary \u2014", "Joan , really !", "Good Lord !Let her stay till Johnny 's in his right mind .", "Come here and listen to this ! Here 's a story to get your blood up ! How old was the baby , Mr Bly ?", "Public opinion 's always in advance of the Law . I think your daughter 's a most pathetic little figure .", "Great Scott ! You two have n't the faintest idea of how to conduct a parley . We have \u2014 to \u2014 er \u2014 explore every path to \u2014 find a way to peace .", "We must devise means \u2014", "You 're a philosopher , Mr Bly .", "One can n't always resist a kindly impulse , Joan . What does Mr Bly say to it ?", "Balance ! Not much balance about us . We just run about and jump Jim Crow .", "If we never get another chance because we repent \u2014", "Well , does n't he impress you ?", "We tested her , did n't we , Mary ?", "Excellent ! Let 's see , Mary , what else is there ?", "The question is considerable , Johnny . I should say it was built on contract , and jerry-built at that .", "Not at all . I enjoy it . Anything to put off work .", "He 's been there six hours ; even he can n't live on faith .", "I really can n't have this sort of thing in my house . Johnny , go upstairs ; and you two , please go away .", "Good Lord ! Direct action !", "Yes .Making the country stink in the eyes of the world !", "We 'll , here we are ! The remark attracts FAITH ; she raises her eyes to his softly with a little smile , and drops them again . So you want to be our parlour-maid ?", "How did she turn out ?", "Joan ! But MRS MARCH does not vary her smiling immobility ; FAITH draws a little nearer to the YOUNG MAN . MARY turns to the fire .", "Ha !", "Bly and his daughter .", "Where ? I did n't catch .", "You 've seen a lot , I expect .", "It 's humiliating to think we can n't exist without .", "Mary ! MARY throws open the French windows .", "Exactly .", "I started by being sorry for you .", "What now , Cook ?", "Hang it all , Joan , you might be the Great Public itself !", "Yes , yes .", "Johnny , I know you have the best intentions , but really the proper people to help the young are the old \u2014 like \u2014 FAITH suddenly turns her eyes on him , and he goes on rather hurriedly \u2014 your mother . I 'm sure that she and I will be ready to stand by Faith .", "I Say ! And what did Cook \u2014?", "What does one do with a glad eye that belongs to some one else ?", "My hat ! Johnny 's made a joke . This is serious .", "That 's important , do n't you think , Mary ?Ah ! And cleaning plate ? What about that ?", "Oh ! oh ! I wonder !", "Suppose they 'd hanged your daughter , Mr Bly . What would you have done ?", "If you want your daughter , you can take her .", "Good God ! He stares in suspense at FAITH , whose face is a curious blend of fascination and live feeling .", "\u201c Cosy \u201d ? I do n't seem \u2014 What are its politics ?", "H 'm ! What hypocrites we are !", "Shake hands , Mr Bly . So do I .Loyalty 's loyalty \u2014 especially when we men benefit by it .", "Joan , I revolt . I wo n't be a hypocrite and a Pharisee .", "Let him come and take his daughter away . But MR BLY has entered behind him . He has a fixed expression , and speaks with a too perfect accuracy .", "We have a certain sympathy with you , Mr Bly .", "Er \u2014 I \u2014 I like the last line awfully , Johnny .", "Have n't you begun to see that your policy 's hopeless , Joan ? Come ! Tell the girl she can stay . If we make Johnny feel victorious \u2014 we can deal with him . It 's just personal pride \u2014 the curse of this world . Both you and Johnny are as stubborn as mules .", "Have you actual proof ?", "That 's it . She wants a lift .", "But do we keep them ?", "Joan !", "Here she is ! Stand by ! He runs his arm through MARY 's , and they sit on the fender , at bay . MRS MARCH enters , Left .", "I never in my life knew anything so ridiculous .", "Of course not . We must reason with him .", "Just what your father said . The more I see of Mr Bly , the more wise I think him .", "Strike your balance , Cook . COOK involuntarily draws her joined hands sharply in upon her amplitude . Well ? . . . I did n't catch the little voice within .", "Yes .", "Ah , Cook ! You 're back , then ? What 's to be done ?", "I have .", "Down .", "Hegel , or Haekel ?", "Johnny !", "Of Course . You can always take what flowers you like \u2014 that is \u2014 if \u2014 er \u2014"], "true_target": ["What it is to have an inky present ! Suffer with me , Mary !", "This is absolutely Prussian !", "I 'm afraid I 'm in the dark , Mr Bly .", "Read any of my novels ?", "God knows we do n't want to \u2014", "Ah !Nor I .", "H 'm ! Here comes the sun again !", "Not at all . You 're a believer in conscience , or the little voice within . When my son was very small , his mother asked him once if he did n't hear a little voice within , telling him what was right .And he said \u201c I often hear little voices in here , but they never say anything . \u201dMary , Johnny must have been awfully like the Government .", "Reprieve ?", "Of course , human life \u2014 even an infant 's \u2014\u2014", "We 're in a moral difficulty , Cook , so naturally we come to you . COOK beams .", "Ah I forgot . You saw no newspapers . But you ought to pick up the threads now . What paper does Cook take ? FAITH . \u201c COSY . \u201d", "I 'm a little afraid my wife would feel \u2014", "Swine !", "What does Cook want with corsets ?", "The glad eye , Mary . I got it that first morning .", "D'you find that the general impression ?", "Is this the Millennium , Cook ?", "Mr Bly 's eyes are not glad .", "Well , I can n't bear behaving like everybody else . Do n't you think we might give her a chance , Cook ?", "No , no ! Johnny got it , and I got him getting it .", "Certainly .", "Nonsense , Johnny ! Do n't carry a good thing too far !", "The girl 's past makes it impossible to say anything to her .", "I knew it .", "The first thing is to see into them \u2014 and find out exactly \u2014", "Yes , but \u2014 as a parlour-maid .", "Well , Faith can remove mountains ; but \u2014 er \u2014 I do n't know if she can clear tables .", "From the police ? He goes out , followed by COOK . A moment 's suspense .", "Very well , Mr Bly ! See her home , carefully . Good-night !", "Women 's shoes ! We could have made the Tube but for your shoes .", "If she had n't had it how could she have smothered it ?", "Well , that seems all right ! And you can do hair ?", "Tt ! tt ! This is very awkward . COOK enters through the door which MARY has left open .", "Good ! I 'll go myself .", "Well , you might say it was convenient for people living in communities .", "Chivalry is altruism , Johnny . Of course it 's quite a question whether altruism is n't enlightened self-interest !", "It 's rather a weight on my wife 's , I 'm afraid . But we must hope for the best . The country wants rain , but \u2014 I doubt if we shall get it with this Government .", "By George ! Cook an idealist ! Let 's see !\u2014 er \u2014 I was speaking of chivalry . My son , you know \u2014 er \u2014 my son has got it .", "Of course , if nobody will modify their attitude \u2014 Johnny , you ought to be ashamed of yourself , andso ought you , Joan .", "Gad ! It wants it !", "I 've always found your mother extremely good at seeming not to notice things , Mary .", "Perhaps in giving rein he did n't strike you .", "But that 's what they 're paid for , Mr Bly .", "I came on this \u2014 er \u2014 friend of yours outside ; he 's been waiting for you some time , he says .", "But I can quite see why Johnny \u2014", "I 'm at sea now \u2014 do n't see dry land anywhere , Mr Bly .", "Well , it 's only a month 's wages .", "And so you want her to come here ? H 'm !", "So it 's fixed up , Mr Bly .", "Now then , Mr Bly , take her along !", "Oh !You 've got a disciple , Mr Bly .", "They may have heart trouble . It 's no good being hasty , Joan .", "So you wo n't take what I say in bad part ?", "Very ! As they go out MR BLY pauses in his labours to catch , as it were , a philosophical reflection . He resumes the wiping of a pane , while quietly , behind him , FAITH comes in with a tray . She is dressed now in lilac-coloured linen , without a cap , and looks prettier than ever . She puts the tray down on the sideboard with a clap that attracts her father 's attention , and stands contemplating the debris on the table .", "My goodness ! Now , Faith , consider ! This is the turning-point . I 've told you we 'll stand by you .", "Right you are , Mr Bly . God 's on the side of the big battalions .", "I say !", "Of all Godforsaken time-servers ! MARY is moved so lar as to turn and look over his shoulder a minute .", "Damn these people !", "H 'm ! Too bad ! Mary , go and fetch her . MARY , with a doubting smile , goes out .You might give me the details of that trial , Mr Bly . I 'll see if I can n't write something that 'll make people sit up . That 's the way to send Youth to hell ! How can a child who 's had a rope round her neck \u2014!", "Joan , what 's happened to you ?", "Well , Johnny , has Mary told you ?", "\u201c In the spring a young man 's fancy . \u201d I \u2014 I wanted to say something to you in a friendly way . FAITH regards him as he struggles on . Because I feel very friendly towards you .", "Mr Bly is like all the greater men I know \u2014 he can n't listen .", "I think you 'd better tell her anything you know .", "Life ! Sweet Heaven !", "Nonsense !", "You might n't think it , but I 'm talking to you seriously .", "Not at all . MR BLY crosses to the windows .", "Not a bit .", "Inexpressibly painful !", "We always seem to be eating .", "Ah !", "Joan , if we comfortable people can n't put ourselves a little out of the way to give a helping hand \u2014", "For God 's sake , Johnny , stop this vulgar brawl !", "Oh ! I see . What would your mother say , Mary ?", "The more I think of that \u2014!", "What sort of girl is she ?", "As you say , something \u2014 Ah ! Mr Bly ! MR BLY , in precisely the same case as a fortnight ago , with his pail and cloths , is coming in .", "Good !", "Well ! I got wet ; I must go and change . FAITH follows him with her eyes as he goes out , and resumes the clearing of the table . She has paused and is again smelling at the flower when she hears the door , and quickly resumes her work . It is MRS MARCH , who comes in and goes to the writing table , Left Back , without looking at FAITH . She sits there writing a cheque , while FAITH goes on clearing .", "Well , Mary , have I done it ?", "Well , what luck ?", "Johnny , the terms of the Armistice did n't include this sort of thing . It was to be all open and above-board .", "Yes , but my doubt is whether our instincts at this moment of the world 's history are leading us up or down .", "There you are !", "It 's too pointed .", "Anywhere . He slews the armchair towards the fire .", "Good ! That 's the first step towards seeing reason . He pours brandy into a liqueur glass from the decanter which stands between them . MRS MARCH puts the brandy to her lips and makes a little face , then swallows it down manfully . MARY gets up with the walnuts and goes . Silence . Gloom .", "Oh ! yes ! An inhuman business !", "Well , make up your mind !", "Johnny !", "Your wife might not have thought that you were wholly the cause , Mr Bly .", "MRS MARCH smiles .", "No , no ! Dash it all ! Beauty 's the only thing left worth living for .", "By George ! Just hits the mark .", "Where 's the girl ?", "That 's not the way to go to work , Johnny . You must n't ask people to eat their words raw \u2014 like that .", "I should like you to say that in front of her .", "What ? Have you had dealings with them ?", "Look here , my child ! FAITH looks up at him .We want to do our best for you . Now , do n't spoil it by \u2014 Well , you know !", "Excuse me , Mr Bly , I must away . He goes towards the door , and BLY dips his sponge .", "Cook 's been in the family longer than I have \u2014 have n't you , Cook ?She knows much more about a girl like that than we do .", "\u201c The man that hath not speculation in his soul . \u201d", "I met Johnny using the most poetic language . What 's happened ?", "Er \u2014 in her work , I believe , coming on well . But the question is , Mr Bly , do \u2014 er \u2014 any of us ever really give satisfaction except to ourselves ?", "Well , I daresay we can find some for you . Can you \u2014 er \u2014 be firm on the telephone ?", "That 's better ! You 'll begin to see things presently . MARY re-enters .", "Excuse me , Mr Bly , I think Nature got hold of that before you .", "What sort of bringing up did he give you ? FAITH smiles wryly and shrugs her shoulders .", "The man 's a philosopher .", "Nasty spring weather , Faith .", "Well , we 'll try and give her a good show here .", "Tell her the story , and pitch it strong .", "Steady , Johnny !", "Quite a thought \u2014 quite a thought !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Nobody can get up , and she can n't get down . He says he 'll stay there till all 's blue , and it 's no use either of you coming unless mother caves in .", "\u201c Weep ye no more , sad Fountains ! Why need ye flow so fast ? \u201d", "Well \u2014 if I can . She goes out . A silence , during which the MARCHES look at each other by those turns which characterise exasperated domesticity .", "What are you going to do ?", "I 'll clear them , Mother .", "Cristo , \u201d and his old concertina . He says it 's better than the trenches .", "Coming , Dad ?", "Do n't repeat yourself , Mr Bly .", "Then only Mother has n't .", "Because it 's so usual . Do fix on half-way at once .", "Johnny likes romance . She crosses to the fire .", "He can n't help being intellectual , Mother .", "What are you going to do about it ?", "He 's at the top of the servants \u2019 staircase ; outside her room . He 's sitting in an armchair , with its back to her door .", "How are you going to put it to mother ?", "Only the Old-Un .", "Try !", "Mother !", "She 's tried . He told her to go to hell .", "I 'll tell you what , Johnny , it 's mucking about with chivalry that makes your poetry rotten .Shut up \u2014 that hurts .You brute !", "Oh ! You need n't mind me , Mr Bly .", "We can n't tell till we 've tried , Mother .", "Waiting , and house work .", "D'you mind writing in here this morning ,", "Gone to Mrs Hunt 's . Suppose she 's engaged one , Dad ?", "Mother , I 'd no idea you were so \u2014 French .", "Dad \u2014 Silly !", "Dad , I was going to clear , but I 'll come back later .", "There is Mother ; I heard the door .", "Johnny \u2014 let her !", "Well , I warn you . Johnny 's very queer just now ; he 's in the \u201c lose the world to save your soul \u201d mood . It really is too bad of that girl . After all , we did what most people would n't .", "Cook 's been up again . He would n't let her pass . She 'll have to sleep in the spare room .", "Yes ; but he looked \u2014 could n't you see he looked \u2014?", "But you were shaking \u2014", "Well , what 's the good ?", "I 'll get your things , then . She goes out .", "Chivalry ! Pouf ! Chivalry was \u201c off \u201d even before the war , Johnny . Who wants chivalry ?", "Pig !", "She looks quick , Mother .", "Faith ! She 's got on very fast this fortnight .", "Come in , please . FAITH enters and stands beside COOK , close to the door . MARY goes out .", "Is there anything special , Dad ?", "Dad ! Do be serious ! Johnny 's capable of anything except a sense of humour .", "Here 's Cook ! COOK stands \u2014 sixty , stout , and comfortable with a crumpled smile .", "Johnny !", "She wo n't like it .", "Perhaps I should .", "No . But , seriously , Dad , Johnny 's not like you and me . Why not speak to Mr Bly ?", "Are n't they nice to you ?", "No ; he passed them in to her . He says he 's on hunger strike . But he 's eaten all the chocolate and smoked himself sick . He 's having the time of his life , mother ."], "true_target": ["You have n't \u2014 so far ?", "Who 's that with father ? Johnny , for goodness \u2019 sake do n't make us all ridiculous . MR MARCH 'S voice is heard saying : \u201c Your friend in here . \u201d He enters , followed by a reluctant young man in a dark suit , with dark hair and a pale square face , enlivened by strange , very living , dark , bull 's eyes .", "How truly horrible ! As she speaks MR MARCH comes in .", "Do n't ! It 's horrible !", "You 're not watching , Dad .", "Mother , this is n't a coal strike ; do n't discuss it for three hours and then at the end ask Johnny and the girl to do precisely what you 're asking them to do now .", "Then it 's built on sand .", "Forty to one \u2014 no takers .", "What do you want ?", "Johnny ! Really ! You 're not the girl 's Friendly Society !", "Nostrils , Dad , nostrils . MR MARCH wriggles , half hearing .", "Do n't joke , Johnny ! You 'll do yourself an injury .", "Here you are , Dad ! I 've filled up the ink pot . Do be careful ! Come on , Johnny ! She looks curiously at MR BLY , who has begun operations at the bottom of the left-hand window , and goes , followed by JOHNNY .", "Mother \u2014 logic .", "Well , for goodness sake think of a plan which will make you both look victorious . That 's always done in the end . Why not let her stay , and make Johnny promise only to see her in the presence of a third party ?", "Dad ? Your study has n't been done . There 's nobody but Cook .", "But do they ever ?", "She 'll do that , anyway , dear .", "But how could you ? He \u2014", "Listen ! They all listen . The distant sounds of a concertina being played with fury drift in through the open door .", "Yes : I read that in \u201c The Times \u201d yesterday . Father 's much safer than Johnny . Johnny is n't safe at all ; he might make a sacrifice any day . What were they doing ?", "And he 's got the books out of her room .", "He 's got his pipe , a pound of chocolate , three volumes of \u201c Monte", "You 're right . FAITH has paused a moment and is watching them . As MARY turns , she resumes her operations . MARY joins , and helps her finish clearing , while the two men converse .", "Father must have opinions of his own .", "He 's been digging himself in . He 's put a screen across the head of the stairs , and got Cook 's blankets . He 's going to sleep there .", "Well ?", "Well , do remember that there 'll be no publicity to make either of you look small . You can have Peace with Honour , whatever you decide .There they are ! Now , Mother , do n't be logical ! It 's so feminine . As the door opens , MRS MARCH nervously fortifies herself with the third little glass of brandy . She remains seated . MARY is on her right . MR MARCH leads into the room and stands next his daughter , then FAITH in hat and coat to the left of the table , and JOHNNY , pale but determined , last . Assembled thus , in a half fan , of which MRS MARCH is the apex , so to speak , they are all extremely embarrassed , and no wonder . Suddenly MARY gives a little gurgle .", "Johnny , do n't be a lunatic ! COOK enters , flustered .", "Mother would say : \u201c Has she had experience ? \u201d", "Where are you going ?", "Something must be done .", "If there is n't an ideal left , Johnny , it 's no good pretending one .", "Go and change , Dad .", "With him in that state ?", "You 'd better stay . Mother , she can stay , can n't she ? MRS MARCH nods .", "She 's gone .", "Dad , have you noticed Johnny ?", "I 'm awfully sorry .", "He 's got the best intentions .", "We 've got to satisfy mother .", "Why not ? We 're all sorry . Do ! You 'd better .", "I was thinking of taking them up to Johnny .", "You have , Dad .", "It was your cold feet , not mine , dear .Now ! She goes towards the door , turns to look at FAITH still clearing the table , and goes out .", "Mother 's not impulsive .", "You , Dad ?", "So you 've tumbled , Mother ?", "Do n't . You were n't really fond of him ? FAITH bends her head .", "How many days are you going to let him sit up there , Mother ?", "Do you want him here ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Geof !", "I know where you 'll be before a week 's over .", "Have you thought of anything to do , if you leave here ?", "Well , for goodness sake let me be one .", "Very neat . But I meant for the house . You 've no money , I suppose ?", "Good !Knitting silk . She goes out .", "For Heaven 's sake \u2014 no , Johnny !", "There is no half-way .", "That would have been very wrong of you .", "There are people who \u2014 the moment you pull them out \u2014 jump in again .", "Geof , can you eat preserved peaches ?", "No . My son is very high-minded .", "I 'm doing my best to get a parlourmaid , to-day , Mary , but these breakfast things wo n't clear themselves .", "You will have four pounds , and you can get another place .", "The room 's full of GAS . Open the windows !", "\u201c The Wide Wide World , \u201d and the Bible .", "Can you eat preserved peaches ?", "You know perfectly well people can only save themselves .", "It 's all your father . What can one expect when your father carries on like a lunatic over his paper every morning ?", "I 'm very sorry , but there it is .", "Into the soup . And the purer they are , the hotter the soup .", "You can go now .", "Open ! And let 's walk \u2014 out \u2014 into the air !", "If he would only learn that the value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it !", "If you knew how tired I am of the word , Johnny !", "Bly and get rid of her again .", "Soup , lobster , chicken salad . Go to Mrs Hunt 's .", "She 's a baggage . There are such things , you know , Johnny .", "You 've eaten nothing .", "If she does n't go , Johnny must . Are you going to turn him out ?", "That 's the trap . She 'll play on your feelings , and you 'll be caught .", "Have you seen her , Johnny ?", "I am \u2014 get all the kicks and none of the ha'pence .", "I shall not , Johnny .", "That will do .", "That 's why they 're hopeless .", "Soap .", "Give me a little glass of brandy , Geof .", "I did n't mean anything of that sort . But they do break out so .", "MARY comes in .", "Johnny !", "We must devise means !", "Cook is going to do her best for you . Are you going to do yours for us ?", "See \u2014 people \u2014 as \u2014 they \u2014 are ! Then you wo n't be \u2014 disappointed . Do n't \u2014 have \u2014 ideals ! Have \u2014 vision \u2014 just simple \u2014 vision !", "Obviously . FAITH . I \u2014 I \u2014", "Horrid stuff !", "That 's the danger , with a girl like that .", "\u201c Nonsense ! \u201d You know Johnny 's got chivalry on the brain .", "I see \u2014 it \u2014 all . You \u2014 can n't \u2014 help \u2014 unless \u2014 you \u2014 love ! JOHNNY stops and looks round at her .", "Mary , pass him the walnuts .", "Excuse me , Johnny . I worked three years among factory girls , and I know how they manage to resist things when they 've got stuff in them .", "No , no , Cook ! Where 's Mr Bly ?", "You do n't suit .", "What on earth has the war to do with it ?", "Ridiculous !", "And no business to meddle with practical affairs . You and he always ride in front of the hounds . Do you remember when the war broke out , how angry you were with me because I said we were fighting from a sense of self-preservation ? Well , were n't we ?", "Johnny , how can you ?", "That girl , Faith Bly , wants to come here as parlour-maid . Absurd !", "That 'll be three .Spinach .", "So we see .", "Heavens ! Are you going to have them X-rayed ? They have n't got chest trouble , Geof .", "Yes !", "I have made your cheque out for four pounds . It 's rather more than the fortnight , and a month 's notice . There 'll be a cab for you in an hour 's time . Can you be ready by then ?", "Girls pick up all sorts of things in prison . We can hardly expect her to be honest . You do n't mind that , I suppose ?", "Do n't be ridiculous . Cook saw you kissing him with p \u2014 p \u2014", "What , then ?", "Cook caught them kissing .", "She \u2014 wants \u2014 to \u2014 be \u2014 loved . It 's the way of the world .", "I know where ideals lead .", "None .", "Now go and pack up your things .", "What ?", "He and that girl . Johnny 's talking nonsense about wanting to save her . I 've told her to pack up .", "Nothing of the sort , Cook ; it 's a question of common sense .", "If you were ordinary , Johnny , it would be the girl 's look-out . But you 're not , and I 'm not going to have you in the trap she 'll set for you .", "Human nature is stubborn , Geof . That 's what you easy \u2014 going people never see . MR MARCH gets up , vexed , and goes to the fireplace .", "MRS MARCH follows to call him back , but is met by MARY .", "Mr Bly ? \u201c Follow your instincts \u201d and then complains of his daughter for following them .", "Oh , Geof ! Whenever you 're faced with reality , you say", "Cook , you 're wandering . I 'm surprised at your encouraging the idea ; I really am . Cook plaits her hands .", "Wait till this time to-morrow .", "I 'm afraid it 'll be no good .", "Oh ! You were !", "She 's a minx .", "Cook saw you just now .", "The fact that she suffered does n't alter her nature ; or the danger to you and us .", "Just so , Cook .", "I was going to say \u201c passion . \u201d Now , go quietly .", "Well , get Mr Bly ; and take that tray , there 's a good soul . COOK goes out with the tray ; and while waiting , MRS MARCH finishes clearing the table . She has not quite finished when MR BLY enters ."], "true_target": ["How are you going to stop her ?", "You 'll just send for Mr", "I 'm very sorry , Mr Bly , but circumstances over which I have no control \u2014", "Johnny must come down to earth .", "Then get him ; and take that tray .", "And you do n't know much ?", "It did n't smother it ; or condemn the girl .", "In her room-packing .", "Tolstoi was a Russian \u2014 always proving that what is n't , is .", "Johnny ! He 's the worst of all . His poetry is nothing but one long explosion .", "You thought she wanted \u2014 to be saved . Silly ! She \u2014 just \u2014 wants \u2014 to \u2014 be \u2014 loved . Quite natural !", "If Johnny wants to make a martyr of himself , I can n't help it .", "To girls who smother their babies ?", "Because she 'd see him every day while he was looking for the third party . She 'd help him look for it .", "Before we know where we are , we shall be having Johnny married to that girl .", "What are you two quarrelling about ? Will you bring home cigarettes , Johnny \u2014 not Bogdogunov 's Mamelukes \u2014 something more Anglo-American .", "I want to ask you a question . Since you came out , is this the first young man who 's kissed you ? FAITH has hardly had time to start and manifest what may or may not be indignation when MR MARCH dashes his hands through his hair .", "Well , then , Cook will show you where things are kept , and how to lay the table and that . Your wages will be thirty until we see where we are . Every other Sunday , and Thursday afternoon . What about dresses ?", "Can you begin at once ?", "Of course she 's repented . But did you ever know repentance change anybody , Cook ?", "That 's hardly my affair .", "Reason with young people whose lips were glued together half an hour ago ! Why ever did you force me to take this girl ?", "A what ?", "Well , the fact is , Mary and I have caught one for \u2018 you ; Mr Bly 's daughter \u2014", "I 've offered to help with money till she gets a place .", "JOHNNY and MARY follow her . The moonlight and the air flood in .", "And she smiled ? Did n't she ?", "Now , my dear boy , do n't be hasty and foolish !", "Well , where do you come in ? You 'll make poems about the injustice of the Law . Your father will use her in a novel . She 'll wear Mary 's blouses , and everybody will be happy \u2014 except Cook and me .", "It 's hot in here !", "I should think I have ! Johnny is making an idiot of himself about that girl .", "Has Cook given you your money ?", "That 's why she 's going , Johnny .", "If we do have Faith , we shall jump .", "Exactly .", "Mutton cutlets . Johnny , will you be in to lunch ?Mary ?Geof ?", "It seems to me you none of you have any idea what I am .", "Well , perhaps you 'll get us out of the mess you 've got us into .", "Cook , if Mr Bly 's still here , I want to see him . Oh ! And it 's three now . Have a cab at four o'clock .", "You want to come to us , I hear .", "Do n't be absurd ! If you want more money till you get a place , let me know .", "Saving this girl , to save yourself ?", "The Government , I suppose !", "I risked mine when you were born , Johnny . You were always very difficult .", "You see , Cook , that 's the mood in which I have to engage a parlour-maid . What am I to do with your master ?", "I can n't understand this passion for vicarious heroism ,", "It 's not her work , Cook , it 's her instincts . A girl who smothered a baby that she ought n't to have had \u2014", "Now , Johnny , be sensible . She 's a very pretty girl , and this is my house .", "Well , you 're all against me . Have it your own way , and when you regret it \u2014 remember me !", "There !", "There are plenty of other chances , Johnny . Why on earth should we \u2014?", "No , Cook . Mind \u2014 that 's flat !", "Johnny .", "Very well then ; go up again .", "Are you out of your senses ? Do n't you know that she 's the girl who \u2014", "You 're not to take him up anything to eat , Cook !", "Very well ! I 'm quite willing to meet him . I hate quarrelling with Johnny .", "I thought we 'd met to get at the truth .", "No , no ! Giddiness with my son . It 's impossible ; she really must learn .", "We know ourselves , you see . The girl 's father realises perfectly what she is .", "Did he take the walnuts ?", "I did .", "Yes . I 've just had to say good-bye to her .", "Till next time .", "Johnny ! JOHNNY waves BLY out of the room and doses the door .", "In her arms .", "Let me see , which of us will have to put up with her shortcomings \u2014 Johnny or I ?", "Why should I ?", "I 'm tired of being the only sober person in this house .", "He has only one : Whatever is , is wrong .", "To devise means .", "Do you wish for the reason ?", "I 'll speak to your father , if he is n't gone .", "It 's at least as important , Johnny , to see into ourselves as into other people . I 've been trying to make your father understand that ever since we married . He 'd be such a good writer if he did \u2014 he would n't write at all .", "No , no ; it 's your daughter \u2014", "I 've not a doubt of it . JOHNNY rises in disgust . Johnny , what is the use of wrapping the thing up in catchwords ? Human touch ! A young man like you never saved a girl like her . It 's as fantastic as \u2014 as Tolstoi 's \u201c Resurrection . \u201d", "Johnny , listen . I 've watched this girl ; and I do n't watch what I want to see \u2014 like your father \u2014 I watch what is . She 's not a hard case \u2014 yet ; but she will be .", "We shall have to find you some dresses , then . Cook will take you to-morrow to Needham 's . You need n't wear a cap unless you like . Well , I hope you 'll get on . I 'll leave you with Cook now . After one look at the girl , who is standing motionless , she goes out .", "D'you know what they are ? \u201c The Scarlet Pimpernel , \u201d", "You are \u2014 and she 'll smother you .", "I 'll give her money , if you 'll keep her at arm 's length .", "She turns and walks delicately out through the opened windows ;", "Oh ! For a man that can n't see an inch into human nature , give me a \u2014 psychological novelist !", "I do n't think either the better or the worse . Kisses are kisses !", "No playing with fire , Cook . We were foolish to let her come .", "It was made up long ago .", "What will you live on ?", "Do you approve of Johnny getting entangled with this girl ?", "It has n't helped your daughter .", "I can imagine it . But no girl gets \u201c outed , \u201d as you call it , unless she 's predisposed that way ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["It 's nearer \u2018 ome with me . I 've often thought I 'd like a talk with you , sir . But I 'm keepin \u2019 you .", "Ah ! Religion !", "Very tryin \u2019 for winders .My daughter givin \u2019 satisfaction , I hope ?", "Ah ! that 's one as goes to the roots of \u2018 uman nature . There 's a lot of disposition in all of us . And what I always say is : One man 's disposition is another man 's indisposition .", "Beg pardon , Mr March ; d'you mind me cleanin \u2019 the winders here ?", "Did your two Cooks tell you I 'm here ?", "Nothing to do with property , I hope ?", "What 's the young man like ? He 's a long feller .", "I do n't want that one . I 'll take the other .", "There 's a case in point . Her instincts was starved goin \u2019 on for three years , because , mind you , they kept her hangin \u2019 about in prison months before they tried her . I read your article , and I thought to meself after I 'd finished : Which would I feel smallest \u2014 if I was \u2014 the Judge , the Jury , or the \u2018 Ome Secretary ? It was a treat , that article ! They ought to abolish that in'uman \u201c To be hanged by the neck until she is dead . \u201d It 's my belief they only keep it because it 's poetry ; that and the wigs \u2014 they 're hard up for a bit of beauty in the Courts of Law . Excuse my \u2018 and , sir ; I do thank you for that article . He extends his wiped hand , which MR MARCH shakes with the feeling that he is always shaking Mr. BLY 's hand .", "\u201c There 's compensation for everything , \u201d \u2018 Aigel says . At least , if it was n't \u2018 Aigel it was one o \u2019 the others . I 'll move on to the study now . Ah ! He 's got some winders there lookin \u2019 right over the country . And a wonderful lot o \u2019 books , if you feel inclined for a read one of these days . COOK 'S Voice . Faith ! FAITH sets down the salt cellar in her hand , puts her tongue out a very little , and goes out into the hall . MR BLY is gathering up his pail and cloths when MR MARCH enters at the window .", "Well , I may come to it yet .", "But I go one better than Nature . Follow your instincts is my motto .", "Well , I 'm keepin \u2019 you .", "Your service , ma'am !", "Ah ! But you should n't brood over it . I knew a man in Valpiraso that \u2018 ad spent \u2018 arf \u2018 is life in prison-a jolly feller ; I forget what \u2018 e 'd done , somethin \u2019 bloody . I want to see you like him . Are n't you happy here ?", "Well , I like to see green grass and a blue sky ; but it 's a mistake in a \u2018 uman bein \u2019 . Look at any young chap that 's good-lookin \u2019 \u2014 \u2018 e 's doomed to the screen , or hair-dressin \u2019 . Same with the girls . My girl went into an \u2018 airdresser 's at seventeen and in six months she was in trouble . When I saw \u2018 er with a rope round her neck , as you might say , I said to meself : \u201c Bly , \u201d I said , \u201c you 're responsible for this . If she \u2018 ad n't been good-lookin \u2019 \u2014 it 'd never \u2018 eve \u2018 appened . \u201d During this speech MARY has come in with a tray , to clear the breakfast , and stands unnoticed at the dining-table , arrested by the curious words of MR BLY .", "Question is : How far are you to give rein to your disposition ? When I was in Durban , Natal , I knew a man who had the biggest disposition I ever come across . \u2018 E struck \u2018 is wife , \u2018 e smoked opium , \u2018 e was a liar , \u2018 e gave all the rein \u2018 e could , and yet withal one of the pleasantest men I ever met .", "What 's their tone ?", "That 's right .", "Oh , I do n't mind , sir , and she wo n't neither ; she 's used to bein \u2019 inspected by now . Why ! she \u2018 ad her bumps gone over just before she came out !", "You can n't suppress a thing without it swellin \u2019 you up in another place .", "\u2018 Aigel ?", "All ! The jury recommended \u2018 er to mercy . So they reduced it to", "I 'll have a flower for you . What 'd you like \u2014 daffydils ?", "Over the reprieve that was got up for my daughter . But I 'm keepin \u2019 you . He swabs at the window , but always at the same pane , so that he does not advance at all .", "There 's where you get it . Policemen , priests , prisoners . Cab'net", "Not much , sir .", "Ministers , any one who leads an unnatural life , see how it twists \u2018 em .", "I 'd like to shake your \u2018 and , sir .It 's a great weight off my mind .", "Yes ; with an aitch . There 's a balance abart \u2018 im that I like . There 's no doubt the Christian religion went too far . Turn the other cheek ! What oh ! An \u2019 this Anti-Christ , Neesha , what came in with the war \u2014 he went too far in the other direction . Neither of \u2018 em practical men . You 've got to strike a balance , and foller it .", "Look \u2018 ere , my girl ! Do n't you forget that there ai n't many winders in London out o \u2019 which they look as philosophical as these here . Beggars can n't be choosers .", "That 's right ; we \u2018 ave n't got a faith these days . But what 's the use of tellin \u2019 the Englishman to act like an angel . He ai n't either an angel or a blond beast . He 's between the two , an \u2018 ermumphradite . Take my daughter \u2014\u2014 If I was a blond beast , I 'd turn \u2018 er out to starve ; if I was an angel , I 'd starve meself to learn her the piano . I do n't do either . Why ? Becos my instincts tells me not .", "Well , I do a bit in that line , too . In my opinion Nature made the individual believe he 's goin \u2019 to live after'e ' s dead just to keep \u2018 im livin \u2019 while \u2018 es alive \u2014 otherwise he 'd \u2018 a died out .", "Ah ! We want the good old times-when you could depend on the seasons . The further you look back the more dependable the times get ; \u2018 ave you noticed that , sir ?", "No . People do n't think . You \u2018 ave to \u2018 ave some cause for thought .", "Too many Cooks !", "Prepare yourself . Then you 'll see what you never saw before . He goes out with his apparition , shepherded by MR MARCH . MRS MARCH drinks off her fourth glass of brandy . A peculiar whistle is heard through the open door , and FAITH starts forward .", "Afternoon , sir ! Shall I be disturbing you if I do the winders here ?", "\u2018 Ave some philosophy . I might just as well hate me winders .", "Ah ! But which of \u2018 em was thinkin \u2019 \u201c \u2018 Ere 's a little bit o \u2019 warm life on its own . \u2018 Ere 's a little dancin \u2019 creature . What 's she feelin \u2019 , wot 's \u2018 er complaint ? \u201d \u2014 impersonal-like . I like to see a man do a bit of speculatin \u2019 , with his mind off of \u2018 imself , for once .", "Did you ever read", "You 're the one that died when my girl was \u2018 ung . Will you go \u2014 first or shall \u2014 I ? The apparition does not answer .", "Well ! Do n't follow your instincts too much , that 's all ! I must get on to the drawin \u2019 room now . There 's a shower comin \u2019 .It 's \u2018 ardly worth while to do these winders . You clean \u2018 em , and they 're dirty again in no time . It 's like life . And people talk o \u2019 progress . What a sooperstition ! Of course there ai n't progress ; it 's a world-without-end affair . You 've got to make up your mind to it , and not be discouraged . All this depression comes from \u2018 avin \u2019 \u2018 igh \u2018 opes . \u2018 Ave low \u2018 opes , and you 'll be all right . He takes up his pail and cloths and moves out through the windows . FAITH puts another chocolate into her mouth , and taking up a flower , twirls round with it held to her nose , and looks at herself in the glass over the hearth . She is still looking at herself when she sees in the mirror a reflection of JOHNNY , who has come in . Her face grows just a little scared , as if she had caught the eye of a warder peering through the peep-hole of her cell door , then brazens , and slowly sweetens as she turns round to him .", "Oh ! but \u2018 oo 's to learn \u2018 er ? Could n't you learn your son instead ?", "Well ! There 's two of everybody ; two of my daughter ; an \u2019 two of the \u2018 Ome Secretary ; and two-two of Cook \u2014 an \u2019 I do n't want either .Come along !", "Life .", "One for colour \u2014 likes a bit o \u2019 music \u2014 likes a dance , and a flower .", "That 's it . Character 's born , not made . You can clean yer winders and clean \u2018 em , but that do n't change the colour of the glass . My father would have given her a good hidin \u2019 , but I sha n't . Why not ? Because my glass ai n't as thick as his . I see through it ; I see my girl 's temptations , I see what she is \u2014 likes a bit o \u2019 life , likes a flower , an \u2019 a dance . She 's a natural morganatic .", "Ah ! She was famous at eighteen . The Sunday Mercury was full of her , when she was in prison .", "More body than mind ? Still , you get out , do n't you ?", "You see , in this weavin \u2019 shop \u2014 all the girls \u2018 ave \u2018 ad to be in trouble , otherwise they would n't take \u2018 em .It 's a kind of a disorderly \u2018 ouse without the disorders . Excusin \u2019 the young lady 's presence .", "Here 's her references \u2014 the whole literature of the case . And here 's a letter from the chaplain in one of the prisons sayin \u2019 she took a lot of interest in him ; a nice young man , I believe .I never thought I could \u2018 a felt like I did over her bein \u2019 in prison . Seemed a crool senseless thing \u2014 that pretty girl o \u2019 mine . All over a baby that had n't got used to bein \u2019 alive . Tai n't as if she 'd been follerin \u2019 her instincts ; why , she missed that baby something crool .", "Ah ! My wife . She 's passed on . But Faith \u2014 that 's my girl 's name \u2014 she never was like \u2018 er mother ; there 's no \u2018 eredity in \u2018 er on that side .", "I 'll ask at Mrs Bean 's round the corner . She 'll pick \u2018 em out from what 's over . Never \u2018 ad much nose for a flower meself . I often thought you 'd like a flower when you was in prison .", "It 's not the market price , still , you 're not the market article . Now , put a good heart into it and get to know your job ; you 'll find Cook full o \u2019 philosophy if you treat her right \u2014 she can make a dumplin \u2019 with anybody . But look \u2018 ere ; you confine yourself to the ladies !", "Ah ! I suppose I 've drunk more glasses over your bein \u2019 in there than over anything that ever \u2018 appened to me . Why ! I could n't relish the war for it ! And I suppose you \u2018 ad none to relish . Well , it 's over . So , put an \u2018 eart into it ."], "true_target": ["I 've told you about her experience .", "Sunday papers , though . Make you think !", "That 's what I said ; so they give her two years . I do n't hold with the Sunday Mercury , but it put that over . It 's a misfortune to a girl to be good-lookin \u2019 .", "In the kitchen . Your Cook told me you could n't get hold of an \u2018 ouse parlour-maid . So I thought it was just a chance \u2014 you bein \u2019 broadminded .", "I see . How am I goin \u2019 to get over this ? Shall I tell you what I think , ma'am ?", "Well , there you are !", "Nothin 'll ever make her regular . Mr March 'll understand how I feel . Poor girl ! In the mud again . Well , we must keep smilin \u2019 .The poor \u2018 ave their troubles , there 's no doubt .There 's nothin \u2019 can save her but money , so as she can do as she likes . Then she would n't want to do it .", "I rather thought that , sir , from your writin 's .", "Not to say all through \u2014 I 've read some of your articles in the", "Not been given \u2019 way to'er instincts , I do trust .", "I was at sea , once \u2014 formed the \u2018 abit .", "I quite understand , sir ; I 've been a married man myself . It 's very queer the way women look at things . I 'll take her away now , and come back presently and do these other winders . You can talk it over by yourselves . But if you do see your way , sir , I sha n't forget it in an \u2018 urry . To \u2018 ave the responsibility of her \u2014 really , it 's dreadful . FAITH 's face has grown sullen during this speech , but it clears up in another little soft look at MR MARCH , as she and MR BLY go out .", "I know you 've got to \u2018 ave a close time for it . But when you come to think how they take \u2018 uman life in Injia and Ireland , and all those other places , it seems \u2018 ard to come down like a cartload o \u2019 bricks on a bit of a girl that 's been carried away by a moment 's abiration .", "And I thought she was goin \u2019 to be a success here . Fact is , you can n't see anything till it \u2018 appens . There 's winders all round , but you can n't see . Follow your instincts \u2014 it 's the only way .", "Ah ! but you must n't \u2018 ave instincts here , you know . You 've got a chance , and you must come to stay , and do yourself credit .", "They spoiled your disposition in that place , I 'm afraid .", "Well , to be quite frank , I should \u2018 ave got drunk on it .", "She \u2018 as . He goes out gloomily and is nearly overthrown in the doorway by the violent entry of JOHNNY .", "That 's right , sir . MARY has returned with FAITH BLY , who stands demure and pretty on the far side of the table , her face an embodiment of the pathetic watchful prison faculty of adapting itself to whatever may be best for its owner at the moment . At this moment it is obviously best for her to look at the ground , and yet to take in the faces of MR MARCH and MARY without their taking her face in . A moment , for all , of considerable embarrassment .", "Well , Governments ! They 're all the same \u2014 Butter when they 're out of power , and blood when they 're in . And Lord ! \u2018 ow they do abuse other Governments for doin \u2019 the things they do themselves . Excuse me , I 'll want her dosseer back , sir , when you 've done with it .", "\u201c Joe , \u201d he said , \u201c if I was to hold meself in , I should be a devil . \u201d", "Well , is it up or down to get so \u2018 ard that you can n't take care of others ?", "Winders ! There they are ! Clean , dirty ! All sorts \u2014 All round yer ! Winders !", "As a matter of fact , I 've got my daughter here \u2014 in obeyance .", "Ah ! Depressin \u2019 . And the young lady ? FAITH shrugs her shoulders . Um \u2014 \u2018 ts what I thought . She \u2018 as n't moved much with the times . She thinks she \u2018 as , but she \u2018 as n't . Well , they seem a pleasant family . Leave you to yourself . \u2018 Ow 's Cook ?", "Well , that 's natural . But I want you to do well . I suppose you 'll be comin \u2019 \u2018 ome to fetch your things to-night ?", "Well I remember when she was a little bit of a thing \u2014 no higher than my knee \u2014", "She 's out now ; been out a fortnight . I always say that fame 's ephemereal . But she 'll never settle to that weavin \u2019 . Her head got turned a bit .", "Showery , sir .", "Her looks are against her . I never found a man that did n't .", "So you 've got it ! You never know your luck . Up to-day and down to-morrow . I 'll \u2018 ave a glass over this to-night . What d'you get ?", "Ah ! Food and winders ! That 's life !", "I 've been tellin \u2019 Mr March and the young lady what you 're capable of . Show \u2018 em what you can do with a plate . FAITH takes the tray from the sideboard and begins to clear the table , mainly by the light of nature . After a glance , MR MARCH looks out of the window and drums his fingers on the uncleaned pane . MR BLY goes on with his cleaning . MARY , after watching from the hearth , goes up and touches her father 's arm .", "I 'm greatly obliged ; she 'll appreciate anything you can do for her .Fact is \u2014 her winders wants cleanin \u2019 , she \u2018 ad a dusty time in there .", "Well ! She can do hair .", "I was speakin \u2019 philosophic ! Well , I 'll go \u2018 ome now , and prepare meself for the worst .", "I \u2018 ad a bit o \u2019 trouble , but I kep \u2019 on till I see \u2018 Aigel walkin \u2019 at me in the loo-lookin \u2019 glass . Then I knew I 'd got me balance . They all regard MR BLY in a fascinated manner .", "Ah ! And \u2018 oo can tell \u2018 oo 's the father ? She never give us his name . I think the better of \u2018 er for that .", "I know parents are out of date ; still , I 've put up with a lot on your account , so gimme a bit of me own back .", "And she 's quite handy with a plate .", "Well , that gives a very good idea of him . They say \u2018 es a poet ; does \u2018 e leave \u2018 em about ?", "Two days \u2014 \u2018 ardly worth mentionin \u2019 . They say she \u2018 ad the \u2018 ighstrikes after \u2014 an \u2019 when she comes to she says : \u201c I 've saved my baby 's life . \u201d An \u2019 that 's true enough when you come to think what that sort o \u2019 baby goes through as a rule ; dragged up by somebody else 's hand , or took away by the Law . What can a workin \u2019 girl do with a baby born under the rose , as they call it ? Wonderful the difference money makes when it comes to bein \u2019 outside the Law .", "Why ! Do n't you remember the Bly case ? They sentenced \u2018 er to be \u2018 anged by the neck until she was dead , for smotherin \u2019 her baby . She was only eighteen at the time of speakin \u2019 .", "Follow your instincts . You see \u2014 if I 'm not keepin \u2019 you \u2014 now that we ai n't got no faith , as we were sayin \u2019 the other day , no Ten Commandments in black an \u2019 white \u2014 we 've just got to be \u2018 uman bein 's \u2014 raisin \u2019 Cain , and havin \u2019 feelin \u2019 hearts . What 's the use of all these lofty ideas that you can n't live up to ? Liberty , Fraternity , Equality , Democracy \u2014 see what comes o \u2019 fightin \u2019 for \u2018 em ! \u2018 Ere we are-wipin \u2019 out the lot . We thought they was fixed stars ; they was only comets \u2014 hot air . No ; trust \u2018 uman nature , I say , and follow your instincts .", "What is up and what is down ? Can you answer me that ? Is it up or down to get so soft that you can n't take care of yourself ?", "Ah ! I 've been on the beach in my day .It 's given me a way o \u2019 lookin \u2019 at things that I do n't find in other people . Look at the \u2018 Ome Office . They got no philosophy .", "What do you think .", "Ah ! but \u2018 oo can see what our natures are ? Why , I 've known people that could see nothin \u2019 but theirselves and their own families , unless they was drunk . At my daughter 's trial , I see right into the lawyers , judge and all . There she was , hub of the whole thing , and all they could see of her was \u2018 ow far she affected \u2018 em personally \u2014 one tryin \u2019 to get \u2018 er guilty , the other tryin \u2019 to get \u2018 er off , and the judge summin \u2019 \u2018 er up cold-blooded .", "This Mr March \u2014 he 's like all these novel-writers \u2014 thinks \u2018 e knows \u2018 uman nature , but of course \u2018 e do n't . Still , I can talk to \u2018 im \u2014 got an open mind , and hates the Gover'ment . That 's the two great things . Mrs March , so far as I see , \u2018 as got her head screwed on much tighter .", "Fine weather , sir , for the time of year .", "Nao . They 're strikin \u2019 a balance , unbeknownst , all the time .", "All ! I would n't be surprised to see a change of Government before long . I 've seen \u2018 uge trees in Brazil without any roots \u2014 seen \u2018 em come down with a crash .", "That 's right , sir . When I see a mangy cat or a dog that 's lost , or a fellow-creature down on his luck , I always try to put meself in his place . It 's a weakness I 've got .", "Shake hands ! He extends his other hand ; MR MARCH grasps it and turns him round towards the door .", "I do n't want any fuss with your two cooks .I 've prepared myself for this .", "What 's drink to one is drought to another . I 've seen two men take a drink out of the same can \u2014 one die of it and the other get off with a pain in his stomach .", "Ah ! we all has them . The winders ought to be done once a week now the Spring 's on \u2018 em .", "He said to me once :"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Then our instincts are taking us down ?"], "true_target": ["You know her story , Cook ? I want to give the poor girl a chance . Mrs March thinks it 's taking chances . What do you say ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Oh ! Yes , I can do hair .", "I 'm not a \u201c poor girl \u201d and I wo n't be called one . I do n't want any soft words . Why can n't you let me be ?He talks wild .Thinks he can \u201c rescue \u201d me . I do n't want to be rescued . I \u2014\u2014 I want to be let alone . I 've paid for everything I 've done \u2014 a pound for every shilling 's worth . And all because of one minute when I was half crazy .Wait till you 've had a baby you ought n't to have had , and not a penny in your pocket ! It 's money \u2014 money \u2014 all money !", "Yes .", "Tell them you 're engaged when you 're not ? Oh ! yes .", "No , I wo n't . I 'll go to a place I know of , where they do n't want references .", "Badly ?", "It 'd be too long for the papers , would n't it ?", "I 've sat in my cell and cried all night \u2014 night after night ,", "What for \u2014 ma'am ?", "I 'll get on .", "No . Voices are heard in the hall .", "My friend in the manicure came and told me about hers when I was lying in the hospital . She could n't have it with her , so it got neglected and died .", "Yes . MRS MARCH sits down again , and reaching out her left hand , mechanically draws to her the glass of brandy which her husband had poured out for himself and left undrunk .", "I do n't want charity .", "Yes .", "There 's a friend waiting for me .", "Do n't call him names ! I wo n't have it . I 'll go with whom I choose !And I 'm going with him ! COOK enters .", "Did n't you like it ?", "What was that ?", "Of course , if I had the opportunity \u2014", "No ; he 'll hurt you . He 's been in the war .", "Yes \u2014 you keep off feeling \u2014 then you 'll be happy !Good-bye !", "No ; one with a scent to it .", "Weaving . That 's why I hate it .", "No .", "Are n't you , any more ?", "Chancery .", "Yes ; I was afraid they 'd make it a ward in", "Yes , please .", "I do n't know whether I shall like this . I 've been shut up so long . I want to see some life .", "Food !", "It 's not \u2014!", "I \u2014 I must go .", "I 've forgotten all that .", "Yes .My afternoon to-day . It 's fine in the streets , after-being in there .", "About other people .", "Besides , you do n't know . Her eyelids go up .", "I wo n't trouble you . She goes out . MRS MARCH goes to the window and drums her fingers on the pane . COOK enters .", "And it 's stone cold . It turns your heart .", "Yes .", "Why do you send me away \u2014 just for a kiss ! What 's a kiss ?", "I 'm very quick . I \u2014 I 'd like to come .I do n't care for what I 'm doing now . It makes you feel your position .", "But I do n't want him \u2014 he 's a liar . I do n't like liars .", "I do n't know . You can n't tell anything in there .I wish I had my baby back , though . It was mine ; and I \u2014 I do n't like thinking about it .", "I was , too .", "Well ! She begins to clear .", "My profession was cutting hair . I would like to cut yours . MR MARCH 'S hands instinctively go up to it .", "It has n't any \u2014 only funny bits , and fashions . It 's full of corsets .", "When I was a little girl I had a cake covered with sugar . I ate the sugar all off and then I did n't want the cake \u2014 not much .", "I \u2014 I 'll leave your son alone , if he leaves me .", "You might want a bite .", "I do n't care for your son ; I 've got a young \u2014", "Not below three hundred a year .", "I do n't want your advice , father .", "I did n't want to come down here . If I 'm to go I want to go at once . And if I 'm not , it 's my evening out , please . She moves towards the door . JOHNNY takes her by the shoulders .", "I do n't want to stay .", "I 'd go back there ; only they would n't take me \u2014 I 'm too conspicuous now .", "Yes , I know , I 'm very lucky .", "He \u2014 he said \u2014 he \u2014! On the verge of an emotional outbreak , she saves herself by an effort . A painful silence .", "Try it , and see what they do with yours .", "I was n't .", "I can n't . We did n't talk in there , you know .", "Father ! You 've been drinking .", "I wonder if they think I 've got feelings .", "He wo n't hurt me .", "I did die .", "If you 'd been two years without a word , you 'd believe anyone that said he liked you .", "What do you want with me ?", "Yes .", "I was n't in for theft .", "Oh ! He spoke up for me ?", "You mean very well , Mr March , but you 're no good .", "Yes .Ever so !", "I 'll have what I like now , not what you think 's good for me .", "May I have this flower ?", "Alive .", "All about the condition of the world ; and the moon .", "What 's that ?", "She likes to think she looks like that .", "Oh ! Do n't go on at me !", "It 's raining . Father says windows never stay clean . They stand dose together , unaware that COOK has thrown up the service shutter , to see why the clearing takes so long . Her astounded head and shoulders pass into view just as FAITH suddenly puts up her face . JOHNNY 'S lips hesitate , then move towards her forehead . But her face shifts , and they find themselves upon her lips . Once there , the emphasis cannot help but be considerable . COOK 'S mouth falls open ."], "true_target": ["I have .", "I did n't care if they did \u2014 not then .", "I cried all the softness out of me .", "Why do you go on about me so ?", "Thirty .", "You were very kind to me . But you do n't see ; nobody sees .", "It 's a lie , is n't it ?", "Leave me alone ! I stick to my friends . Leave me alone , and leave him alone ! What is it to you ?", "To my father .", "I could have killed that judge .", "Did you ? Did you really ?", "He 's dead .", "Eight times a day four times for them and four times for us . I hate food ! She puts a chocolate into her mouth .", "I 've only got this \u2014 I had it before , of course , it has n't been worn .", "My baby was little and weak .", "Twenty .", "Have you been in a prison , ever ?", "It 's quiet .", "He wanted to \u2014 to save me .", "I do n't know anything about the Government .", "I 'll try .", "I sha n't say .", "And she told me about another girl \u2014 the Law took her baby from her . And after she was gone , I \u2014 got all worked up \u2014And I looked at mine ; it was asleep just here , quite close . I just put out my arm like that , over its face \u2014 quite soft \u2014 I did n't hurt it . I did n't really .I did n't feel anything under my arm . And \u2014 and a beast of a nurse came on me , and said \u201c You 've smothered your baby , you wretched girl ! \u201d I did n't want to kill it \u2014 I only wanted to save it from living . And when I looked at it , I went off screaming .", "No !", "Yes . Longer chapel .", "She has .", "You 're just in a temper .", "She 's never been in prison !", "Only one pound thirteen , ma'am .", "MRS MARCH rings the bell on the table .", "Yes , I like trees too ; anything beautiful , you know . I think the parks are lovely \u2014 but they might let you pick the flowers . But the lights are best , really \u2014 they make you feel happy . And music \u2014 I love an organ . There was one used to come and play outside the prison \u2014 before I was tried . It sounded so far away and lovely . If I could \u2018 ave met the man that played that organ , I 'd have kissed him . D'you think he did it on purpose ?", "At the corner out of the Regent . That 's where we had our shop . I liked the hair-dressing . We had fun . Perhaps I 've seen you before . Did you ever come in there ?", "There is n't such a thing in a prison .", "Why ?", "Not with pep .", "No \u2014 no ! Not if he does n't . JOHNNY has an evident moment of hesitation , and before it is over MR MARCH comes in again , followed by a man in a neat suit of plain clothes .", "Do n't be silly ! I 've got no call on you . You do n't care for me , and I do n't for you . No ! You go and put your head in ice .Good-bye , Mr March ! I 'm sorry I 've been so much trouble .", "No .", "Not much company .", "I do n't know .", "Only tin things .", "I 'm not in prison now .", "Oh ! yes , I did . And I love getting out now . I 've got a fr \u2014The streets are beautiful , are n't they ? Do you know Orleens Street ?", "It 's awfully clean .", "Then you 'd better keep away , had n't you ?", "Two years .", "Except the Law .", "Yes .", "Where am I to go ?", "Oh ! Yes , I have . There 's nothing to be done with a girl like me . She goes out .", "Yes .", "I \u2014 I could n't see inside him .", "Why not ?", "He 'd rather have had pennies , though . It 's all earning ; working and earning . I wish I were like the flowers .Flowers do n't work , and they do n't get put in prison .", "My baby was n't beastly ; but I \u2014 I got upset .", "They did n't get much chance where I 've been .", "I do n't know . I know I 'd like to bite . She draws her lips back .", "You 'll get no windows to look out of there ; a little bit of a thing with bars to it , and lucky if it 's not thick glass .No sun , no trees , no faces \u2014 people do n't pass in the sky , not even angels .", "Oh ! I did n't mean her to .", "But I did like it . I felt free . We had an hour off in the middle of the day ; you could go where you liked ; and then , after hours \u2014 I love the streets at night \u2014 all lighted . Olga \u2014 that 's one of the other girls \u2014 and I used to walk about for hours . That 's life ! Fancy ! I never saw a street for more than two years . Did n't you miss them in the war ?", "Oh ! Let me go \u2014 let him go !", "Never saw a man \u2014 only a chaplain .", "Father 'll come over for my things tomorrow .", "What ?", "If Mrs March is n't about ?", "Do you want to be a different woman ? COOK is taken flat aback by so sudden a revelation of the pharisaism of which she has not been conscious .", "I 've seen one or two .", "Johnny ?Johnny .", "It 's a lie !", "No . Yes . I suppose I was \u2014 once .", "How ?", "Yes \u2014 ma'am .", "He asked me to be a friend to him . He said he was lonely here .", "It 's right enough , so long as I get out .", "It did n't know it was alive .D'you think I 'm pretty ?", "Why ?", "All right !", "Suppose you 'd been stuffed away in a hole for years !", "Ah !I used to stand behind my door . I 'd stand there sometimes I do n't know how long . I 'd listen and listen \u2014 the noises are all hollow in a prison . You 'd think you 'd get used to being shut up , but I never did . JOHNNY utters a deep grunt . It 's awful the feeling you get here-so tight and chokey . People who are free do n't know what it 's like to be shut up . If I 'd had a proper window even \u2014 When you can see things living , it makes you feel alive .", "Oh ! yes \u2014 kind ; but \u2014it 's against my instincts .", "Yes , Sir .", "I will go out !"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Yes , my dearie , I 'm sure you are .", "The things he tells me , ma'am , is too wonderful for words . He 's \u2018 ad to do with prisoners and generals , every sort of \u2018 orror .", "Perhaps she 's repented , ma'am .", "No , no ! But girls have appetites .", "Oh ! Master Johnny !", "Oh , ma'am , it does remind me so of the tantrums he used to get into , dear little feller ! Smiles with recollection .", "Say ma'am , dearie .", "I do , sir , every fortnight when he does the kitchen windows .", "Well ! You are sharp !Here 's the vinegar ! And here 's the sweets , andyou must n't eat them .", "Tt ! Tt ! Well ! Here 's the pickled onions . Miss Mary loves \u2018 em ! Now then , let me see you lay the cloth . She takes a tablecloth out , hands it to FAITH , and while the girl begins to unfold the cloth she crosses to the service shutter . And here 's where we pass the dishes through into the pantry . The door is opened , and MRS MARCH 'S voice says : \u201c Cook \u2014 a minute ! \u201d", "Of course , in the Bible they \u2018 ad faith , and just look what it did to them !", "Oh ! no , sir , not human nature ; I never let that get the upper hand .", "Tt ! Well \u2014 it 's wonderful what a change there is in girls since my young daysHere 's the napkins . You change the master 's every day at least because of his moustache and the others every two days , but always clean ones Sundays . Did you keep Sundays in there ?", "Oh ! dear \u2014 what things do come into your head ! Why ! No one can take a baby from its mother .", "Ah ! You must tell me all about it . Did you have adventures ?", "Mr Bly , ma'am , come after his daughter .", "Yes , ma'am .", "Yes , sir . But , you see , he 's \u2014 Well , there ! He 's cheerful .", "Tell me about your poor little baby . I 'm sure you meant it for the best .", "And never a day out ? What did you do all the time ? Did they learn you anything ?", "I remember the master kissin \u2019 me , when he was a boy . But then he never meant anything ; so different from Master Johnny . Master Johnny takes things to \u2018 eart .", "And my \u2018 ead says no , sir .", "Oh , ma'am \u2014 anybody but Master Johnny , and I 'd \u2018 ave been a deaf an \u2019 dummy . Poor girl ! She 's not responsive , I daresay . Suppose I was to speak to Master Johnny ?", "Well , my dear , we can n't all of us go everywhere , \u2018 owever \u2018 ard we try ! She is standing back to the dresser , and turns to it , opening the right-hand drawer .", "Think of that \u2014 and such a life ! Now , dearie , I 'm your friend . Let the present bury the past \u2014 as the sayin \u2019 is . Forget all about yourself , and you 'll be a different girl in no time .", "Oh ! She did n't .", "Are n't I to feed Faith , ma'am ?", "Oh ! Master Johnny ! She goes up to JOHNNY and touches his forehead . He comes to himself and hurries to the door , but suddenly MRS MARCH utters a little feathery laugh . She stands up , swaying slightly . There is something unusual and charming in her appearance , as if formality had dropped from her .", "It 'll be a nice change for you , here . They do n't go to Church ; they 're agnosticals .How old are you ?"], "true_target": ["Ah ! When he 's got a drop o \u2019 stout in \u2018 im \u2014 Oh ! dear !JOHNNY has come in .", "Oh ! But Master Johnny does get so hungry . It 'll drive him wild , ma'am . Just a Snack now and then !", "It 's an \u2018 ealthy rage , ma'am .", "Oh ! Master Geoffrey \u2014 there is n't a millehennium . There 's too much human nature . We must look things in the face .", "Now , \u2018 ere 's the wine . The master likes \u2018 is glass . And \u2018 ere 's the spirits in the tantaliser \u2018 tis n't ever kept locked , in case Master Johnny should bring a friend in . Have you noticed Master Johnny ?Ah ! He 's a dear boy ; and wonderful high-principled since he 's been in the war . He 'll come to me sometimes and say : \u201c Cook , we 're all going to the devil ! \u201d They think \u2018 ighly of \u2018 im as a poet . He spoke up for you beautiful .", "Dear , dear ! Where were you educated ?", "Ask Master Johnny , sir ; he 's been in the war .", "There 's not an ounce of vice in \u2018 im . It 's all his goodness , dear little feller .", "Mr Geoffrey .", "Oh ! ma'am , I never touch a drop .", "Oh ! She closes the shutter , vanishing .", "Ah ! I remember how he used to fall down when he was little \u2014 he would go about with his head in the air . But he always picked himself up like a little man .", "Ah ! But I 'd do a lot of wrong things for Master Johnny . There 's always some one you 'll go wrong for !", "My Holy Ma !", "He 's done his windows ; he 's just waiting for his money .", "It 's wonderful the difference good food 'll make , ma'am .", "Well , of course they had to talk you over .", "It 's eatin \u2019 hearty all of a sudden that 's made her poptious . But there , ma'am , try her again . Master Johnny 'll be so cut up !", "My \u2018 eart says yes , ma'am .", "We had a girl like her , I remember , in your dear mother 's time ,", "A Mr Barnabas in the hall , sir . From the police .", "Oh ! dear , he will be angry with me . If you had n't been in the kitchen and heard me , ma'am , I 'd ha \u2019 let it pass .", "I always think of Master Johnny , ma'am , and my jam ; he used to repent so beautiful , dear little feller \u2014 such a conscience ! I never could bear to lock it away .", "Not Master Johnny .", "Did you ring , ma'am ?", "Well , generally it 's a way of gettin \u2019 ready for the next .", "Why ! We all have feelin 's !", "Dear , dear ! They must be quite fresh to you , then ! How long was it ?", "Do n't it sound \u2018 eavenly ! The concertina utters a long wail .", "You do n't say ! Why , in the books they 're escapin \u2019 all the time . But books is books ; I 've always said so . How were the men ?"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["We know the sort of chap you are \u2014 takin \u2019 advantage of workin \u2019 girls .", "When you 've quite done joking , we 'll go for our walk .", "I should think not ! Police spite !You know what the Law is , once they get a down on you .", "I did n't come here to be slanged .", "Sst ! That 'll do !", "Ask another !Are you ready ?", "A blankety lie .", "I 'm off ! Bong Swore la Companee ! He tarns on his heel and walks out unhindered .", "Proof ? It 's his job to get chaps into a mess .", "What have you got to do with her ?", "What 's the matter with whistling ?"], "true_target": ["There ! That 's enough ! You 're gettin \u2019 excited . You come away with me . FAITH 's look at him is like the look of a dog at her master .", "My face is as good as yours . FAITH lifts her eyes to his .", "Ah ! How would you like to be insulted in front of your girl ? If you 're a gentleman you 'll tell him to leave the house . If he 's got a warrant , let him produce it ; if he has n't , let him get out .", "Stop it ! That 's enough of your lip . I wo n't put up with this \u2014 not for any woman in the world . Not I !", "All right !", "I 'll quit with her , and not before . She 's my girl .", "Now , look here , if I get any more of this from you \u2014 I \u2014 I 'll consult a lawyer .", "I do n't know you . What are you after ? Do you dare \u2014?", "Well , I can n't wait any longer . I suppose we can go out the back way ? He draws FAITH towards the windows . But JOHNNY stands there , barring the way . JOHNNY . No , you do n't .", "Yes ; and wants to be where I am . But my girl knows better ; do n't you ? He gives FAITH a look which has a certain magnetism .", "A little more civility , please .", "You 'll see it with no eyes when I 've done with you ."], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["Well , sir \u2014 that 's all . Good evening ! He turns to the door , touching his forehead to MR MARCH , and goes . As the door closes , FAITH sinks into a chair , and burying her face in her hands , sobs silently . MRS MARCH sits motionless with a faint smile . JOHNNY stands at the window biting his nails . MARY crosses to FAITH .", "You 'll understand , sir , that my object in speakin \u2019 to you to-night was for the good of the girl . Strictly , I 've gone a bit out of my way . If my job was to get men into trouble , as he says , I 'd only to wait till he 's got hold of her . These fellows , you know , are as cunning as lynxes and as impudent as the devil .", "Well , there it is ! Sorry I wasted my time and yours , Sir !", "If we could have the Court cleared of ladies , sir , we might speak a little plainer .", "It 's our business to keep an eye on all this sort of thing , sir , with girls who 've just come out .", "I should keep quiet if I was you . As you know , sirthere 's a law nowadays against soo-tenors .", "We cut the darin \u2019 , \u2018 tis n't necessary . We know all about you .", "There , miss , do n't let your feelings \u2014"], "true_target": ["I keep on forgettin \u2019 that women are men nowadays . Well !", "Your service , ma'am . Afraid I 'm intruding here . Fact is , I 've been waiting for a chance to speak to this young woman quietly . It 's rather public here , sir ; but if you wish , of course , I 'll mention it .Well , now , you 're in a good place here , and you ought to keep it . You do n't want fresh trouble , I 'm sure .", "Your son , sir ?", "A bad hat , that ; if ever there was one . We 'll be having him again before long . He looks at FAITH . They all look at FAITH . But her face is so strange , so tremulous , that they all turn their eyes away .", "I 'd rather not be more precise , sir , at this stage .", "I do n't want to frighten you ; but we 've had word passed that you 're associating with the young man there . I observed him to-night again , waiting outside here and whistling .", "Now , look here ! This man George Blunter was had up three years ago \u2014 for livin \u2019 on the earnings of a woman called Johnson . He was dismissed with a caution . We got him again last year over a woman called Lee \u2014 that time he did \u2014", "None of your lip , now ! At the new tone in his voice FAITH turns and visibly quails , like a dog that has been shown a whip .", "I do n't want to use any plain English \u2014 with ladies present \u2014"], "play_index": 17, "act_index": 17}, {"query": ["I really could n't bring myself to shake hands with him .", "I wonder if I might have a cigarette ?", "It 's shocking to think a man of his position and abilities should have come to such a pass .", "I only met him once , and I 'm bound to say I thought him a most charming man .", "Dreadful , dreadful !", "Transpire .", "I do n't think I want to shake the man 's hand . He 's nothing short of a murderer .", "I should n't have thought there was much of the milk of human kindness to overflow in Alexander Mackenzie . By all accounts he dealt with the slave-traders in Africa with a good deal of vigour .", "But had you any idea he was in difficulties ?", "I cannot tell you how sincerely I feel for you in this affliction , Lady", "It 's against all my principles , you know .", "Pride goeth before a fall .", "Fauntleroy to forty charwomen ."], "true_target": ["I 'm afraid I must go away . Every Wednesday at four I read Little Lord", "I think you 're pretty safe now , Lady Kelsey . It 's growing late .", "Kelsey .", "What will he do when it 's over ? The position will be surely a little unpleasant .", "I think this is my dance , Miss Allerton . May I take you in ?", "Ah !", "Why , what do they say ?", "I did n't see you .", "I suppose Miss Allerton and George are at the Old Bailey .", "Wherever I go people are talking about Mr. Mackenzie , and I 'm bound to say I 've found nobody who has a good word for him .", "How d'you do ?", "I saw him this evening in Piccadilly , and I almost ran into his arms . It was quite awkward .", "Is that the great traveller ? I thought I saw in the paper that he 'd already started for Africa ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Not yet . He 's going at the beginning of the month . Oh , he 's been so good to us during this time . All our friends have been good to us .", "No one knows your father as I do , George . I 'm sure he 's never been anything but thoughtless and foolish .", "Oh , you wretched people , why are n't you dancing ? It 's too bad of you to hide yourselves here !", "If you only knew the agonies I 've suffered since Fred was arrested ! At first I could n't believe it , I would n't believe it . If I 'd only known such a thing was possible , I 'd have done anything to help him .", "I 'm so glad you 've come at last . Now we shall get at the truth .", "Oh , I 'm so frightfully anxious .", "I did n't know what to do . It was impossible to put the dance off . It 's too dreadful that these horrible revelations should ....", "It may be all over by now .", "God forbid ! But still , it 's dreadful to think that at this very moment my poor sister 's husband is standing in the felon 's dock .", "It 's charming of you to come to-night . I 'm sure you hate dances !", "No , their father begged them to stay away . They 've been in all day , waiting for the papers .", "My God , my God ! I 'm thankful that his wife is dead .", "My dear Dick , it 's too shocking . I wish I 'd had the courage to write and ask Mr. Mackenzie not to come . But since you both came back from Africa a month ago he 's been here nearly every day . And he 's been so good and kind to us , I could n't treat him as though there was no doubt the story was true .", "Oh , Dick , I 'm so full of my own troubles , I forgot to ask about yours . I 'm so sorry to hear that you 're ill .", "I hardly know what to say .... How long have you been engaged ?", "She does n't know . I took care that she should n't see the paper . I wanted to give her this evening 's enjoyment unalloyed .", "How d'you do ? We 've just been talking of you .", "And the worst of it is that I think Lucy is in love with Mr. Mackenzie .", "How did he look this morning ?", "Dick !", "I 'm afraid Bobby is dreadfully dissipated . He 's not looking at all well .", "Mr. Mackenzie ?", "It 's very strange that he should insist on this silence .", "Why wo n't you wait till to-morrow ?", "Lucy , Lucy !", "I can rest myself for the time . I do n't think any one else will come now .", "From the bar as well ?", "For goodness \u2019 sake be quiet .", "Is he better ?", "But Lucy was heart-broken all the same . And when her life seemed to grow a little more cheerful , came her brother 's tragic death .", "Ah , that 's what ruined him . He was always so entirely delightful . He could never say no to any one . But there 's not an atom of harm in him . I 'm quite certain he 's never done anything criminal ; he may have been foolish , but wicked never .", "Yes , transpire on the very day I 've at last persuaded Lucy to come into the world again . I wish Dick would come .", "Yes , I gave him that message .", "My poor boy .... Where have you been all day ?", "What will he think if he sees you here ?", "Did you see the letter ? I so wanted you not to till to-morrow .", "I do n't know what to believe . It 's so extraordinary . If the man 's innocent , why does n't he speak ?"], "true_target": ["You 're very kind . Every one has been very kind . But I shall never get over it . I shall never hold up my head again .", "Very well .", "Quick ! Go to the stairs , or Miller wo n't let him up .", "I think you should listen to him , Lucy . I 'm growing old , and soon you 'll be quite alone in the world .", "And two days later Lucy came to me with a white face to say that he had been arrested for forging a cheque .", "I 'm afraid to understand .", "No , no , of course not . They must find him not guilty .", "It 's so late , we were afraid you would n't come . I should have been dreadfully disappointed .", "He has the reputation of a hard man , but no one could be more delightful than he has been to me .", "He came to me and said he must have three thousand pounds at once . But I 'd given him money so often since my poor sister died , and every one said I ought n't to give him any more . After all , someone must look after his children , and if I do n't hoard my money a little , George and Lucy will be penniless .", "I think you 're dreadfully foolish , Bobby . You know how Lucy resents any interference with her actions .", "Lucy , what is it ? You frighten me .", "I think it 's very unreasonable , Lucy . He knows we 're his friends . He can count on our discretion .", "My dear Dick , there are two columns of fiery denunciation in this morning 's Times .", "I 've given orders that no one is to be admitted but Dick Lomas and", "Well , for heaven 's sake be polite to him if he comes to-night .", "They would n't give him bail , so he 's remained in prison till now . Of course , I made Lucy and George come here .", "Good-bye . And thanks so much for coming .", "But what are you going to do ?", "Of course , I want you to be happy . But I \u2014 I ....", "Bobbie .", "Thank goodness . The suspense was really too dreadful .", "House owing to ill-health .", "Oh , I heard there was something about you in the papers .", "Oh , I 've got them all comfortably settled in the Lancers , and I 'm free to rest myself for a quarter of an hour . You do n't know what agonies I 've been suffering the whole evening .", "I hope he has the sense to stay away .", "But I saw in the papers that you were going to give up your seat in the", "But think of the disgrace of it . A public trial . And Fred Allerton of all people ! The Allertons were always so proud of their family . It was almost a mania with them .", "Oh , my dear Dick , it 's much worse than that . First poor Lucy 's father died ....", "I 've talked it over with Lucy , and \u2014 I 've made it possible for them all to go abroad . They 'll need rest and quiet . Poor things , poor things !", "Oh , no , Dick Lomas is coming . He 's one of the witnesses for Fred , and my nephew Bobby Boulger .", "Well , darling ?", "My dear , you must bear up . We must all hope for the best .", "Ah , do n't think of me now , dear . Think of yourself .", "What did you think of the letter , Lucy ?", "I thought it would only go in senseless extravagances as all the rest has gone , and when he said it was a matter of life and death , I could n't believe it . He 'd said that so often .", "I 'm so afraid Alec Mackenzie will come ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["I 'm really beginning to think you 're a perfect angel , Mr. Lomas .", "Without fear ?", "Mr. Lomas !", "Well , I 'll forego the pressing , but not the cigarette .", "What do you mean by that ?", "Here 's Lady Kelsey . For heaven 's sake try and amuse her a little .", "Mr. Lomas , what is your opinion ?", "When there 's nothing in them ?", "Mr. Mackenzie .", "Oh , my dear , my dear !", "Do n't . It 's too horrible .", "I do n't positively dislike that .", "With an orange salad ?", "I beg your pardon , upper parlourmaids are always twenty-nine .", "I feel as if I should rather like to cry .", "I do n't know if you have the least idea what you 're talking about . I 'm sure I have n't !", "Good heavens , did n't you read the Times this morning ?", "It 's a sensitive plant whose vagaries one has to humour .", "Do n't you want men to remember you ?", "Oh , I 'm always doing that . I tell my maid that time she does my hair badly .", "Poor boy !", "After much pressure \u2014", "With the light behind , you might still pass for thirty-five .", "Good-bye . A clergyman always helps one so much to bear other people 's misfortunes .", "But the man 's innocent .", "Do !", "Why is it , when you 're so nice really , that you do all you can to make people think you utterly horrid ?", "But you 'll get bored to death .", "You 're so irrelevant .", "Dear Mr. Carbery , do n't draw the very obvious moral . We 're all quite wretched enough as it is .", "I think George has , too , a little .", "The long and short of it is that Mr. Mackenzie was the cause of George", "Take care , here she is .", "But , my dear friend , if a woman really makes up her mind to marry a man , nothing on earth can save him .", "Have you told him that Lucy is coming ?", "You need not be in the least alarmed , because I shall refuse you .", "It does n't matter . Come , Dick !", "You must n't take it too much to heart . In another half-hour at the utmost your father will be here with everything cleared up , and you 'll be able to go back to Oxford with a clear conscience .", "I suppose your servant plucks them out every morning .", "Do n't you think that 's rather foolish , Lucy ?", "You did n't . You showed an entire lack of humour . You might have known that a nice woman does n't marry a man the first time he asks her . It 's making oneself too cheap . It was very silly of you to go off to Scotland as if you did n't care .... How was I to know that you meant to wait three months before asking me again ?", "What will you say if I do ?", "Oh , I waived that with you .", "Then why in heaven 's name did you invite me to tea ?", "Why should she ?", "It must be finished by now . It 's one or the other of them come to tell you the result .", "What a perfectly ridiculous place for an introduction .", "Very well . Mr. Lomas , will you put me into a cab ?", "Because you 're not behaving at all prettily .", "I hope you remember that you asked me to tea to-day ?", "It must be obvious to the meanest intelligence that you 've been on the verge of proposing to me for the last month .", "Really he 's inhuman .", "How dreadful ! What is the matter with it ?", "Nonsense ! You talk as if the whole thing were n't perfectly monstrous . Surely you do n't for a moment suppose that your brother-in-law wo n't be able to explain everything away ?", "Then the breakdown in your health is all humbug ?", "I think she knows that . But I 'll give her the message if you like .... You 're very devoted .", "Oh , you were quite right to refuse .", "But why ?", "It 's too dreadful .", "That is both clear and simple . I reply in one : No !", "London 's the most charming place in the world to get away from and to come back to . Now tell me all you 've been doing , if I can hear it without blushing too furiously .", "Mr. Lomas , I am a widow . I am twenty-nine and extremely eligible . My maid is a treasure . My dressmaker is charming . I am clever enough to laugh at your jokes , and not so learned as to know where they come from .", "Is there anything in the evening papers ?", "Certainly not . You dance abominably .", "Dick .You really are a detestable person .", "I can n't bear a man who thinks women are in love with him .", "I 'm afraid you 're lamentably ignorant of the usages of good society .", "Then I sha n't come to the play with you to-morrow ?", "She 's coming later .... I do n't know why you should squeeze my hands in this pointed manner .", "My dear Mr. Lomas , your only safety is in immediate flight .", "I was just coming to say good-night . Bobby is going to drive me home .What on earth 's the matter ?", "Is that all ? Lucy has suffered very much .", "Let me pluck it out .", "If you had n't been so certain that I was going to accept you , I should never have refused . I could n't resist the temptation of saying \u201c No \u201d just to see how you took it .", "Yes . I think Lucy 's only failing is an inordinate pride in her family . She thinks it very snobbish to have any particular respect for a peer of the realm , but only natural to look up to persons of good family .", "You know that we 'll do everything we can to help you .", "But will he ?", "If you aggravate me I shall box your ears .", "Do n't be so foolish . I was quite alarmed .", "But have n't you any pity for yourself , have n't you any thought for Lucy ?", "Talking of which , what are you going to do when Mr. Mackenzie is gone ?", "It 's growing late , Dick . Wo n't you take me round the house ?", "Tell me .", "Did you really come away before the trial was ended ?"], "true_target": ["Oh , I wish I had known that before . I 'd have refused you again .", "But you 're a barrister . You must have heard his answers . What did he reply to all the questions ?", "You 're as well informed as an encyclopaedia , Mr. Lomas .", "You 've been quite charming , Lady Kelsey , as every one knew you 'd be . But do n't think of these wretched weeks of suspense . Think only that Mr. Allerton has got his chance at last . Why , the trial may be over now , and he may this very minute be on his way to this house .", "I think I see one on the left temple .", "But what will you gain by it all , now that your work in East Africa is over , by all the dangers and the hardships ?", "Good heavens , I was overwhelmed !", "What is the use of principles except to give one an agreeable sensation of wickedness when one does n't act up to them ?", "The answer is in the negative .", "Then you meant to ask me all the time ?", "Mr. Lomas , you 're trying to put me off . It 's not fair to let Lucy buoy herself up with false hopes . She 's absolutely convinced that her father will be acquitted .", "Is that you by any chance ?", "There 's somebody coming .", "You 're very hard .", "Was he very wretched , poor thing ?", "But what I 'm trying to make you understand is that I do n't want to marry you a bit . You 're just the sort of man who 'll beat his wife regularly every Saturday night .... You will say yes if I ask you , wo n't you ?", "You do n't think there would be room for both of us in Spain ?", "Thanks !", "For centuries they 've cherished the firm belief that there was no one in the county fit to black their boots .", "It was sweet of you to look after him through the summer and then insist on his staying here till he went away . How long is he going for this time ?", "I 'm sure you might . And if you press me dreadfully , I 'll have one , too .", "How was the case going ?", "We thought no one would find us in the smoking-room . But why have you abandoned your guests , Lady Kelsey ?", "I do n't think I should so utterly detest you , if you had n't such a good opinion of yourself .", "I sha n't come .", "Of course he 'll be able to clear himself . There 's not the least doubt about that .", "And what about Mr. Mackenzie ? He told me he would be there .", "D'you mean to say you 're going to give up a large practice and a position which may be very important merely to gratify a foolish whim ?", "I would n't trouble her to-day if I were you . I think she most wants to be left alone .", "Lucy , what is it ?", "Yes ... Dick .", "What have you ordered ?", "Come and sit on the sofa and talk seriously .", "What d'you mean ? There can be no doubt about that . When he was arrested Lucy went to him and begged him to tell her the exact truth . He swore that he was n't guilty .", "Good heavens , what on earth makes you think that ?", "I wish you 'd stay for our wedding .", "We shall miss you dreadfully when you 're gone , Mr. Mackenzie .", "I will be a sister to you .", "So could I if I might write it down .", "I promised you I would .", "I believe you have some glimmerings of human nature in you after all .", "How very extraordinary ! I thought of going there , too .", "I was very nicely brought up .", "You 're a perfect idiot , Mr. Lomas !", "Twenty-nine !", "Have n't you anything to say at all ? You must have some explanation to offer ?", "You 're much too flippant to marry anybody , and you 're perfectly odious into the bargain .", "Did he seem unhappy ?", "I shall be very cross with you in a minute .", "You certainly look quite twenty-five .", "D'you mean to say you really do n't know \u2014 seriously ? After all , you were with him .", "Allerton 's death .", "But men ought to be extravagant . That 's what they 're there for .", "Then he 's very much in the way in England , and it 's much better for him that he should go back to Africa .", "On the head of your maternal grandmother ?", "And the end of it , what will be the end ?", "Reading .", "No , of course not . Do n't be so uncivil .", "That 's equally detestable .", "You fibber ! Besides , if I did , it was only on Lucy 's account .", "Very well , have it your own way . But I must have a proposal in due form .", "You seem quite glad to see me ?", "I do n't think I like him , but he 's certainly a strong man , and in England just now every one 's so weak and floppy , it 's rather a relief to come across somebody who 's got a will of iron and nerves of steel .", "If you bury yourself in Scotland all the summer , you can n't expect to see people who go to Homburg and the Italian lakes .", "I suppose you , too , think Fred Allerton little better than a scamp ?", "Then how on earth do you occupy your leisure ?", "But who is going to bring you the news ? Surely you 're not going to wait for the papers ?", "Could n't you infuse a little romance into it ? You might begin by going down on your bended knees .", "What would you do if Lucy came here to-day ?", "I have no doubt you will after six months of holy matrimony .", "Oh , I could n't do anything so immodest .", "Why did you leave the Old Bailey ?", "It 'll be dreadfully cold .", "The slave-traders must be quaking in their shoes if they know he 's starting out again , for he 's made up his mind to exterminate them , and when Alec Mackenzie makes up his mind to do a thing , he appears to do it .", "Are you going to Southampton to see Mr. Mackenzie off ?", "I know he will . And I 'm only prevented from saying all I think of him and how much I love him , by the fear that he 'll become perfectly unmanageable .", "And , of course , you must threaten to commit suicide if I do n't consent .", "Good gracious me ! Why ?", "And proverbs before a clergyman .", "I went to her room for a moment .", "And is that really everything ? I can n't help thinking that at the bottom of your heart is something that you 've never told to a living soul .", "Take care then . There 's nothing so tedious as the constant lover .", "The man 's mad . The man 's nothing short of a raving lunatic .", "Do n't be so silly .", "At all events , there can be no excuse for your not saying that you know you 're utterly unworthy of me ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Yes .", "Oh , God ! What shall I do ?", "She ought to have known that I was n't suited for this kind of life .", "I knew they 'd acquit him . Thank God !", "Yes , I 'll do that .", "Oh , yes ! I remember something about it . It had slipped my memory .", "You would n't do that to me , Alec . Oh , God , no , Alec , have mercy on me . You would n't hang me . Oh , why did I ever come to this damned place ?", "I 'll do anything you want me to , Lucy .", "Like my father before me .", "All right . I 'll do that . And I thank you with all my heart for giving me the chance .", "It 's Alec Mackenzie . He 's come from the trial !", "Yes .", "It 's all right . What a fool I am ! I was so strung up .", "He was most awfully worn and ill . I do n't believe he 'll ever get over it . I saw his counsel before the case began . They told me it was bound to come all right .", "Oh ! But it 's impossible .", "There 's Alec Mackenzie . He 's just driven up in a cab .", "It 's a stupid lie . You know what they are . It 's just like them to tell an absurd lie like that . You would n't believe a parcel of niggers rather than me , would you ? After all , my word 's worth more than theirs .", "I 'm not going to give it to you .", "What are you going to do ?", "Aunt , you do n't think ....", "I knew it was all my fault .", "Yes .", "Why are you all looking at me like that ? You look as if you were going to try me for something .", "I was half drunk when I saw that woman . I was n't responsible for my actions .", "Miller , Miller , Mr. Mackenzie 's to come up .", "Yes , I shot her . She made a row , and the devil got into me . I did n't know I 'd done anything till she screamed and I saw the blood .... What a fool I was to throw the cartridge away ! I wanted to have all the chambers charged .", "Oh !", "I thought Lucy was here .How d'you do ? Have you seen Lucy ?", "Of course he 's not been actually criminal . That 's absurd . But it 's bad enough as it is .", "No ! How should I ?", "I knew you cared for her .", "D'you think I can go to Oxford again when my father has been tried for forgery ? No , no ! No , no ! I 'd rather shoot myself .", "What is she doing ?", "The only man who might have done it is that big scoundrel whom we got on the coast , the Swahili .", "Yes , I broke it . I could n't help it ; the temptation was too strong .", "Do n't you see they all expected it ? It was only you and I who believed in his innocence .", "Is it finished ? For God 's sake tell us quickly , old man .", "I lost my head , I did n't know what I was doing .", "I have n't dared to look . The placards are awful .", "You 've no right to talk to me like that . I 'm sick to death of being ordered about . You seem to think I 'm a dog . I came out here of my own free will , and I wo n't let you treat me as if I were a servant ."], "true_target": ["Was she able to say anything ?", "I 'm not very clear about it . The woman had been shot , had n't she ? One of our station boys had been playing the fool with her , and he seems to have shot her .", "That 's why I 've come .", "Ca n't you imagine ? \u201c Gentleman charged with forgery . \u201d \u201c County gentleman at the Old Bailey . \u201d And all the rest of it . Damn them ! Damn them !", "I wish I could take it as calmly as she does . An outsider would think there was nothing the matter at all . Oh , it 's too awful !", "It was Macinnery 's fault .", "Lucy , for God 's sake ...", "Perhaps it 's in my tent , I 'll go and see .", "I 'm sorry I did that silly thing just now . I 'm glad I did n't hit you .", "I 'll wait in the smoking-room , Lucy .", "I feel that I shall never sleep again . I could n't close my eyes last night . To think that one 's own father ....", "Yes , Lucy ?", "Me ?", "You 're not going to kill me ?", "I ?", "Let me go , damn you !", "He 's not dead ?", "You \u2014 you know I am . Why d'you remind me of her now ? I 've made a rotten mess of everything , and I 'm better out of the way . But think of the disgrace of it . It 'll kill Lucy .... And she was hoping I 'd do so much .", "No , no ! Anything rather than the shame of that .", "Yes , yes ! I 'd do anything to get away from England . I dare n't face my friends \u2014 I 'm too ashamed .", "He 's a thorough blackguard , and after all , if one does make a mistake , he 's only a nigger .", "I have n't had time . We 've all been worked off our legs during these three days .", "Has n't the doctor got some ?", "Well , well ? For God 's sake tell us quickly .", "You always blame me for everything . A man 's not responsible for what he does when he 's down with fever .", "Can I come in ?", "I have n't got it . I lost it in the skirmish this afternoon . I did n't tell you as I thought you 'd be annoyed .", "Oh , God !", "D'you mean you 'll all be killed ?", "Lucy , what are you driving at ? You do n't think ...?", "What are you going to do to me , Alec ?", "But there is no best . Whatever happens , it means disgrace and dishonour . How could he ? How could he ?", "Oh , d'you think I care what any one says to me now ?", "I do n't know what that proves .", "He 's been making an awful nuisance of himself , and I know he was running after her .", "I do n't think so .", "Heaven knows ! I 've walked through the streets till I 'm dog-tired . Oh , the suspense is too awful . My feet carried me to the Old Bailey , and I would have given anything to go in and see how things were going , but I 'd promised the Pater I would n't .", "No , I do n't know what 's to become of me . I wish I were dead .", "I say , could you give me a drink of brandy ? I 'm awfully done up .", "There 's a ring at the bell ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Mr. Mackenzie .", "Mr. Mackenzie !", "Yes , sir !", "Very well , Miss .", "Yes , sir !"], "true_target": ["Mrs. Kent .", "Yes , sir ?", "Mr. Lomas , Sir Robert Boulger .", "Mr. Halliwell , Mr. Kent .", "Mrs. Murray told me to give you this note , Sir ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Shut up , Alec ! Do n't play the heavy father , or we shall burst into tears .", "My friend , if ever I return to my native land , I will never be such a crass and blithering idiot as to give way again to a spirit of adventure .", "Poor Lady Kelsey ! To-morrow half London will be saying that you and", "Half the women I know merely married their husbands to spite somebody else . It appears to be one of the commonest causes of matrimony .", "Thanks .", "My dear fellow , I feel like the Terrible Turk . I 've been wrestling , and I thought I was going to have a fall . But by the display of considerable agility I 've managed to keep my legs .", "I have n't a white hair in my head .", "Oh no , far more serious than that . On the grave of my maiden aunt , who left me all my money .", "I see the dining-room of my club and myself sitting at a little table by the window looking out on Piccadilly , and there 's a spotless tablecloth , and all the accessories are spick and span . An obsequious servant brings me a rump steak , grilled to perfection , and so tender that it melts in the mouth . And he puts by my side a plate of crisp , fried potatoes . Ca n't you smell them ?", "I was going on with the thread of my observations , which you interrupted with the entirely obvious remark that the tinned meat was getting mouldy .", "Spare me these chaste blushes which mantle my youthful brow . Will you pour out the tea ... Nellie ?", "He 's an anomaly in this juvenile century . He 's an ancient Roman who buys his clothes in Savile Row . An eagle caged with a colony of canaries .", "And then , by Jove , he comes down on one like a thousand of bricks . It 's not for nothing the natives call him Thunder and Lightning .", "A pretty woman crossing Piccadilly at Swan and Edgar 's . You are a savage , my good doctor , and a barbarian . You do n't know the care and forethought , the hours of anxious meditation , it has needed for her to hold up that well-made skirt with the elegant grace which enchants you .", "At least , he will the moment he sees you .", "Dreadfully . But I shall be supported by the consciousness of having done my duty .", "Well , I 've had a very good time in my life . I 've loved a little , I 've looked at some good pictures , read some thundering fine books , and I 've worked and played . If I can only account for a few more of those damned scoundrels before I die , I should n't think I had much to complain of .", "Nothing . It 's merely the gaiety of forty-two .", "Why ?", "I thank you from the bottom of my heart .", "I never saw any one make such a fuss about so insignificant a detail as a proposal of marriage .", "Absolute humbug . If I were to tell the truth people would shut me up in a lunatic asylum . I 've come to the conclusion that there 's only one game in the world worth playing , and that 's the game of life . I 'm rich enough to devote myself to it entirely .", "Oh , I assure you , you 're quite mistaken .", "All serene ?", "Can you ask ? I 've banged it about at your feet so long that its functions are excessively impaired . And it 's beaten all my waistcoats out of shape .", "Why the dickens did you wake me up ? I was dreaming \u2014 dreaming of a high-heeled boot and a neat ankle , and the swish of a white lace petticoat .", "The wise man only takes the unimportant quite seriously .", "Will some one kindly explain ?", "My dear girl , I can n't tell you how sorry I am .", "All right .You must be pretty well done up , are n't you ?", "I have n't the least intention of asking you again .", "Lucy 's brother was killed by the slave-traders .", "Really ! How careless of Charles ! I must speak to him .", "It 's one of the most aesthetic sights I know .", "I shall hide my face on his shoulder and weep salt tears . It 'll be most affecting , because in moments of emotion I always burst into epigram .", "I assure you it 's not done in the best circles .", "Wo n't you have some tea , Lucy ?", "Ah , my dear fellow , at my time of life I have to content myself with condemning the behaviour of the younger generation . Even a camp bed in a stuffy tent with mosquitoes buzzing all around me has allurements greater than those of youth and beauty . And I declare for all women to hear that I am proof against their wiles . Give me a comfortable bed to sleep in , plenty to eat , tobacco to smoke , and Amaryllis may go hang .", "Pardon me , I 'm an eager student of the sea-serpent and the giant gooseberry .", "But I 've taken the seats , and I 've ordered an exquisite dinner at the", "My dear lady , you 're as epigrammatic as a dramatist . Do you say such things from choice or necessity ?", "On the contrary , I 'm in the very best of health .", "Of course , it 's me . D'you think I was talking of the man in the moon ?", "I hope for Lucy 's sake he will turn out a different man from his father . I wish he were n't so like him in appearance . At last Fred Allerton had squandered every penny , and he married Lady Kelsey 's sister , one of the three rich daughters of a Liverpool merchant . But he ran through her money , too , gambling , racing , and so forth , and she died of a broken heart \u2014 adoring him still .", "Wild Duck .", "My dear fellow , if paint is the attraction you really need not go much farther than Mayfair .", "Oh , I do n't know . Perhaps I 'll try my hand at big game shooting , if Alec will take me on this expedition of his . I 've always thought shooting would be an agreeable pastime if partridges were the size of well-grown sheep and pheasants a little larger than a cow .", "Macinnery proposes to make things rather uncomfortable , I imagine .", "That , I venture to think , is neither polite nor accurate .", "You 'd better come to the window .", "Alec found Macinnery half starving at Mombassa , and took him solely out of charity . But he was a worthless rascal , and he had to send him back .", "He must have come from the trial . Then it 's all over .", "And then you confess you 're unworthy of me .", "Is this one of your little jokes , Alec ?", "Alec , we 've made friends , Mrs. Crowley and I .", "Does n't the possibility of an extremely unpleasant demise tempt you to a few appropriate reflections ?", "Not at all . However old , ugly , and generally undesirable a man is , he 'll find a heap of charming girls who are willing to marry him . Marriage is still the only decent means of livelihood for a really nice girl .", "By the way , how old are you ?", "Do . You can go just as well by the next boat .", "It 's charming of you to say so . It puts me at my ease at once .", "Now then , Bobbie , shut up !", "I have n't time to work . Life is so much too short . A little while ago it occurred to me that I was nearly forty .D'you know the feeling ?", "We were in rather a tight corner , were n't we ?", "I always said you were melodramatic . I never heard anything so transpontine .", "Really you 're very long-winded . I said it all in four words .", "I beg your pardon ?", "It 's only Alec .", "Oh , Lucy , for heaven 's sake do n't be so sure . You must be prepared for everything .", "You 're over-modest , Alec . If you were n't , you might be a great man . Now , I make a point of telling my friends that I 'm indispensable , and they take me at my word .", "George is quite well now . He wants you to smoke a cigarette with him .", "Well , at all events that 's some comfort . If I am going to be done out of my night 's rest , I should like to take it out of some one .", "Sometimes , when we 're marching under a sun that just about takes the roof of your head off , and we 've had the scantiest and most uncomfortable breakfast possible , I have a vision .", "This time to-morrow he 'll be half-way down the channel .", "Thanks , awfully . But all the same I do n't think I 'll risk a proposal .", "No . I thought that was a pleasing piece of information which I 'd leave you to impart .", "Carlton .", "I say , have you had anything to eat lately ?", "Yes , we all hope that .", "Do you mean to say you deliberately refuse me ?", "You see , I was made the trustee for the poor remains of Mrs. Allerton 's fortune , and I know how Lucy has managed to keep all their heads above water . She 's wonderful . Ever since she was a child she 's held the reins in her own hands . She 's stuck to her father , though Lady Kelsey implored her to leave him to his own foolish ways . She saw that George was decently educated . She hid from the world all the little shifts and devices to which she had to resort in order to keep up an appearance of decency .", "What on earth is to happen to him in his old age ?", "What makes you think that ?", "Oh , that 's nothing . It 's only a scratch .", "Sole Normande ...", "You absurd creature .", "Of course , I 'd forgotten . My heart is seriously deranged .", "Has Mr. Mackenzie come in ?", "He did n't say a word . I wanted to comfort him , but he never gave me a chance . He never mentioned Lucy 's name .", "The boundless plain of Hyde Park is enough for me , and the aspect of Piccadilly on a fine day in June gives me quite as many emotions as I want .", "Have we any chance of getting through , old man ?", "I was about to observe that even in England you will eat the most carefully ordered meal with an indifference which is an outrage to decency . Indeed , you pay less attention to it than here , because at all events you do notice that the meat is mouldy . But if any one gives you a good dinner , you notice nothing . I 've given him priceless port , Doctor , and he drank it as though it were cooking sherry .", "It 's what a woman always means when she asks you to talk sensibly .", "I 've given up youth and its vanities . I no longer pluck out my white hairs .", "I suppose there 's going to be a deuce of a row ?", "That depends entirely on how you do it . I may remind you , however , that first you go down on your bended knees .", "Of course , if you 're going to make yourself systematically disagreeable unless I marry you , I suppose I shall have to do it in self-defence .", "What is it exactly ?", "Now then , no scenes . And you 'll only get the worst of it , Bobby . Alec could just crumple you up . Take him away , Mallins . Do n't stand there like a stuffed owl , Carbery .", "You forget that I vowed on the head of my maternal grandmother never to speak to you again .", "I was a silly young fool in those days , and I habitually played the giddy goat . In the course of which , I fell overboard and was proceeding to drown when Alec jumped in after me . It was an incautious thing to do , because he very nearly got drowned himself .", "And if a caller should ask at what time I 'm expected back , you have n't the least idea .", "Alec was bound to give him another chance .", "D'you think he has any chance of escaping ?", "The position is growing confoundedly awkward !", "I 've often been driven to appease the pangs of raging hunger with a careless epigram , and by the laborious composition of a limerick I have sought to deceive a most unholy thirst .", "I wish to goodness you 'd give up these horrible explorations .", "Allertons are one of the oldest families in Cheshire ?", "I am . But where is Lucy ?", "The fact is , I 've asked her to marry me , and she ....", "My dear lady , I could n't stand it . You do n't know what it is to sit there and watch a man tortured , a man you 've known all your life , whom you 've dined with times out of number , in whose house you 've stayed . He had just the look of a hunted beast , and his face was grey with terror .", "For the last three months I 've been laboriously piecing together the fragments of a broken heart .", "Nonsense ! There 's no such age .", "Then , without a moment 's hesitation , I shall go to Norway .", "I wanted to see if you were really attached to me . You have given me a proof of esteem which I promise you I will never forget .", "Ah , you want to flirt with me , Mrs. Crowley .", "Poor Lucy ! She 's borne up wonderfully . She 'll stick to her father through thick and thin .", "Women always took his side because he had an irresistible charm of manner .", "Whenever an explorer comes home , there 's some one to tell nasty stories about him . People forget that kid gloves are not much use in a tropical forest , and grow very indignant when they hear that a man has used a little brute force to make himself respected .", "Scotch jokes . I daresay they sound funny in an African dialect .", "You must say it .", "My dear people , I have nothing to tell .", "Heaven knows ! Perhaps for ever .", "Ah !", "Well ?", "May I respectfully remind you , first , that you invited yourself ...", "You 're not going to count that as an overwhelming misfortune ? We were unanimous in describing that gentleman 's demise as an uncommonly happy release .", "I suppose you know we were all beseeching Providence you 'd have the grace to stay away to-night ?"], "true_target": ["Come , Bobbie , do n't make a scene .", "You pay me a great compliment , Alec . You repeat to my very face one of my favourite observations .", "Not I ! Why , I 'm growing younger every day . My dear Mrs. Crowley , I do n't feel a day more than eighteen .", "Would n't you like to go back to the drawing-room ?", "Not a bit of it .", "I gather from the general amiability of your demeanour that we 're in a rather tight place ?", "You do n't mind if we leave you ?", "No , it 's one of his hobbies to risk his life to save unnecessary and useless people . But the funny thing is that ever since he saved mine , he 's been quite absurdly grateful . He seems to think I did him an intentional service and fell into the water on purpose to give him a chance of pulling me out .", "What do you mean by that ?", "You 're joking . You 're certainly joking .", "I was merely asking you in a rather well-turned phrase to name the day . The lamb shall be ready for the slaughter !", "Appetising , is n't it ?", "Why ?", "Best of women !", "I 'm convinced there would n't . We should always be running against one another , and you 'd insist on my looking out all your trains in Bradshaw .", "No , I 'm afraid he would n't .", "And to think there 's nothing but tepid water to drink !", "It 's one of his most irritating characteristics .", "I should n't have thought you kept very well abreast of dramatic art if you insist on marrying every man who takes you to a theatre .", "I have registered a vow that I will never offer my hand and heart to any woman again .", "I only came back from Paris to-night . Besides , I never read the papers except in August .", "Alec , old man , have you realised all that this means ?", "Did I ever tell you how I made acquaintance with Alec ? In the", "Yes .", "What does Lucy say of it ? After all , she 's the person most concerned .", "You young blackguard !", "Merely that I wanted to talk to you . And Robert Boulger , being a youth of somewhat limited intelligence , seemed in the way .", "I expect Mrs. Crowley and Miss Allerton to tea . If any one else comes", "Do n't say that , you terrify me .", "Oh , very rarely . One a month at the outside .", "And , secondly , that an invitation to tea is not necessarily accompanied by a proposal of marriage .", "My dear Alec , keep calm .", "I bought an engagement ring yesterday on the off chance of its being useful .", "You must be devilish hungry .", "Come , Alec ! Remember he 's only a boy .", "Oh , it 's not worth bothering about . It 'll be all right to-morrow .", "Poor George , everything has been against him .", "I 've never been able to refuse a woman anything .", "The pleasure of eating is the only pleasure that remains to the old . Love \u2014 what is love when you lose your figure , and your hair grows thin ? Knowledge \u2014 one can never know everything , and the desire passes with the fire of youth . Even ambition fails you in the end . But to those who have lived wisely and well , there remain three pleasures every day of their lives : their breakfast , their luncheon , and their dinner .", "What are you going to do ?", "Well , in another half-hour we shall all know . When I left , the judge was just going to sum up .", "When first I knew Fred he was a very rich man . You know that the", "Shall I go too , Alec ?", "Talking of the weather and the crops , I propose to go to Spain .", "I say , it 's a bit thick after a day like this . We 're all so done up that we sha n't be able to go a mile .", "Women are such sticklers for routine . They have no originality .", "Damnable ! It 's been a source of great anxiety to me in England .", "Bobby had a stand-up fight in her drawing-room .", "Thank Heaven , it 's all over now . We 've none of us had any sleep for three days , and when I once get off , I do n't mean to wake up for a week .", "Potage Bisque ...", "From the bar as well . Henceforth I shall cultivate only such arts and graces as are proper to the man of leisure . My fellow men are a great deal too strenuous , and I propose to offer them the spectacle of a complete idler who demands from the world neither honours nor profit , but only entertainment .", "Now then , be off with you . Do n't make a silly ass of yourself .", "Certainly .Good-bye , dear , and God bless you .", "He seemed quite dazed . I do n't think he took in the gist of his cross-examination .", "Hulloa , Alec ! Where have you been ?", "Do n't you think you 'd better wait for evidence before you condemn him ?", "Take care , George .", "I 'm glad that my fatal beauty wo n't be injured .... You see , Alec 's about the oldest friend I have . And then there 's young Allerton , I 've known him ever since he was a kid .", "Nonsense ! Do n't be so nervous .", "Shall I take Mrs. Crowley into a retired corner ?", "And if he has n't , it 's death you 're sending him to ?", "Why ?", "I assure you that 's quite out of fashion . Lovers , nowadays , are much too middle-aged , and their joints are creaky . Besides , it ruins the trousers .", "Pardon me , you asked yourself . I keep the letter next to my heart and put it under my pillow every night .", "The thing that amuses me is to remember that I came to Africa thinking I was going to have a rattling good time .", "That 's precisely what I 've been asking myself ever since we landed in this God-forsaken swamp .", "Were you very much surprised when you heard Fred Allerton was arrested ?", "My dear chap , Alec is a hardy Scot and bigger than you , so I should n't advise you to try .", "I flatter myself that I took it very well .", "These judges have a weakness for pointing a moral .", "It 's one of my cherished convictions that a really nice woman is never so cruel as to marry a man she cares for .", "You trifled with the tenderest affection of an innocent and unsophisticated old bachelor .", "Oh , I suppose so . Mr. Mackenzie will have given the shippers all directions . You 'd better bring the tea at once . Mrs. Crowley is coming at four .", "Well !", "Lady Kelsey is the most admirable of all hostesses .", "For all the world like the wicked baronet : Once aboard the lugger and the girl is mine !", "Are n't you delighted to be back in town ?", "You 've had nothing to-day , have you ?", "Ah , you see , you and I who have a quite indecent lack of ancestors , can n't realise what the cult of family may be . There are families in the remote parts of England \u2014 not very rich , not very clever , and not very good-looking \u2014 who would look askance at a belted earl who came to demand their daughter 's hand in marriage . They have a natural conviction that they 're the salt of the earth , and in their particular corner they rule more absolutely than half the monarchs in Europe . The Allertons were like that . But Fred somehow seemed to belong to a different stock . The first thing he did was to play ducks and drakes with his fortune .", "She 's only coming to indulge a truly feminine passion for making scenes , and she 's made Alec quite wretched enough already . Why does n't she marry Robert Boulger ?", "D'you mean to say that you are going to sit still and let them throw mud at you ?", "Atlantic \u2014 about three hundred miles from land .", "I could n't judge . I could only see those haggard , despairing eyes .", "My dear people , what are you talking about ?", "D'you know what I 'd do if I were you ? Propose to me .", "Do you really ? So do I .", "Your companions seldom have a chance to complain of the monotony of their existence , Alec . What are you going to do now ?", "You take food for the gross and bestial purpose of appeasing your hunger . You have no appreciation for the delicacies of eating as a fine art .", "My dear lady , when a man has had to leave his club because he plays cards too well , it 's at least permissible to suppose that there 's something odd about him .", "And if it loses you her love ?", "Lucy , you 're torturing us all .", "This enthusiasm at my appearance is no less gratifying than unexpected .", "I 'm going to retire .", "And if things do n't turn out all right ?", "Wild horses would n't induce me to make a statement which is so remote from the truth .", "Surely , that 's absolutely quixotic .", "When I 'm in a bad temper , I much prefer every one else to be in a bad temper too .", "Do n't grin at me in that irritating fashion .", "Alec was splendid , was n't he ?", "I shall allow you to do nothing so familiar .", "Funny thing death is , you know . When you think of it beforehand , it makes you squirm in your shoes , but when you 've just got it face to face , it seems so obvious that you forget to be afraid . It 's one of my principles never to be impressed by a platitude .", "We shall want breakfast at eight to-morrow . I 'm going down to Southampton to see Mr. Mackenzie off . But I shall be home to dinner . How about those cases in the hall ?", "What an age it is since I saw you !", "No . He was just the same as ever , impassive and collected .", "Of course I did , you silly .", "By Jove , I 'd almost forgotten . How one changes out here ! Here am I feeling happy and comfortable and inclined to make a little jest or two , and I 've forgotten already that poor Richardson is dead and Lord knows how many natives .", "Why ?", "Oh , that 's only the reaction . That 's nothing . Since he arrived in Mombassa , after three years in the heart of Africa , he 's made almost a triumphal progress . Of course , it could n't last . The reaction was bound to come .", "Bless you , I do n't think that . I only think they want to marry me .", "I do n't think butter would melt in your mouth .", "George Allerton ?", "Do n't say that , it makes me feel so middle-aged . I 'd much sooner be a young sinner than an elderly cherub .", "And I 've ordered a souffle with an ice in the middle of it .", "Ah , my dear Lucy . So glad you were able to come .", "I had an idea I 'd like Bond Street all the better when I got back . I never knew that I should be eaten alive by every kind of disgusting animal by night and day . I say , Doctor , do you ever think of a rump steak ?", "You have all the instincts of the primeval savage , Alec . It enrages and disgusts me .", "Frankly I do .... I suppose we 're going to fight again ?", "Heavens , how you cultivate respectability !", "For years I 've spent eight hours a day meddling with silly persons \u2019 silly quarrels , and eight hours more governing the nation . I 've never been able to spend more than half my income . I 'm merely working myself to death in order to leave a fortune to my nieces , two desperately plain girls with red noses .", "Hulloa ! What 's this ?", "Remember that you 're Lady Kelsey 's nephew .", "Only four words are needed .Will you marry me ?", "I 'm not at home .", "And then another obsequious servant brings me a pewter tankard , and into it he pours a bottle , a large bottle , mind you , of foaming ale .", "By the way , you do n't want to dance with me , do you ?", "Has consented .", "My behaviour would have done credit to a clergyman 's only daughter . I dragged Alec off to Scotland after that horrible scene at Lady Kelsey 's , and we played golf .", "It seems awfully hard ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Wo n't you sit down ? You must be dreadfully tired .", "You 've been given an opportunity to explain yourself , and you have n't taken it .", "The article is signed by a man named", "Then I can only draw one conclusion . There appears to be no means of bringing you to justice , but at least I can refuse to know you .", "The other day I asked you again to marry me , just before Alec Mackenzie came back .", "It went away of its own accord \u2014 after dinner .", "Certainly . Dick insisted that this room should be particularly reserved for that purpose .", "I asked you .", "Why not ?", "I 'm perfectly able to look after myself , and I 'll thank you not to interfere .If Lucy 's so indifferent to her brother 's death that she 's willing to keep up with you , that 's her own affair ...", "You need n't worry about that , Aunt Alice . He 'll never venture to show his face .", "You 're perfectly wonderful , Lucy . How can you be so calm ?", "By God , I 'll knock you down !", "Miller !", "Mr. Mackenzie is asking for something .", "You must be blinded by your \u2014 friendship for Alec", "Certainly .", "I wanted to tell her that if I could do anything at all , she had only to command .", "By God , I 'll make you answer !", "Look here , Mackenzie , I 'm not going to let you play the fool with me . I want to know what answer you have to make to all these charges that have been brought against you .", "George .", "If you ever really cared for George at all , you must wish to punish the man who caused his death .", "I 've told you often , Lucy , that I 've been in love with you for as many years as I can remember .", "Macinnery .", "Are you not going to deny the charge ?", "I 'm the only man who 's related to you at all , and I love you with my whole soul .", "Of course , he wo n't do that .", "That wo n't do for me . I want the truth , and I 'm going to get it . I 've got a right to know .", "Thank heaven , there 's nobody here .", "Why , of course . What did you think ? You do n't imagine they 'll convict him ?", "Mackenzie sent him into a confounded trap to save his own dirty skin .", "I 'm not joking .", "Where is Lucy ? I was hoping to get a glimpse of her .", "Well ?", "He can think what he jolly well likes .", "Leave me alone , confound you !", "Well , just try . After all , you owe as much as that to the memory of", "Did he write to you ?", "It 's very kind of you to take an interest in me . My headache has passed off ."], "true_target": ["Are you going to continue to know Mackenzie ? If you 'll take the advice of any unprejudiced person about that letter , you 'll find that he 'll say the same as I . There can be no shadow of doubt that Mackenzie is guilty of a monstrous crime .", "Humpty-dumpty 's had a great fall .", "Would you be so kind as to remember that my name is Boulger ?", "Well , I 'm damned !", "Do n't press her . She 's already had far too many .", "I wanted to speak to you about something , and I thought Aunt Alice should be present .", "Yes , he 'll be able to tell us something .", "But have you asked him ?", "Are you afraid he could n't answer them ?", "Except for that letter in this morning 's Times , I should never have dared to say anything to you again . But that changes everything .", "Oh , much . He 'll be all right in a minute .You are a brick to come here to-day , when they 're all in such awful trouble .", "It 's mere shameless impudence that you should come here to-night . You 're using these wretched women as a shield , because you know that as long as Lucy sticks to you there are people who wo n't believe the story .", "He 's worse than that . He 's ten times worse .", "I 'm perfectly serious , Lucy .", "I asked Aunt Alice to beg you to come here . I was afraid you would n't if", "My dear fellow , the letter in the Times is absolutely damning . Interviewers went to him from the evening papers , and he refused to see them .", "Then , surely it can make no difference if you ask him . There can be no reason for him not to trust you .", "I do n't ask you to care for me . I only want to serve you .", "Let me alone , you fool !", "Ask him point blank . If he refuses to answer you ...", "I did n't ask him . D'you think I 'd have come if I knew he was going to be here ? He 's acknowledged that he has no defence .", "I should prefer that you would call me nothing at all . I have absolutely no wish to know you .", "I feel that it ought to be settled at once .", "I 've given up trying to understand her attitude . If I were she , it would make me sick with horror to look at you . Since this morning you 've rested under a direct accusation of causing George 's death , and you 've said nothing in self-defence .", "Shall I take you back ?", "He might give you the truth .", "Oh , do n't be such an ass !", "Mackenzie . I never read anything more convincing .", "I ask you again if you 'll be my wife ? When Alec Mackenzie came back I understood why you were so indifferent to me , but you can n't marry him now .", "I 've been madly in love with her ever since I was ten .", "I sha n't shut up . The man 's got no right to force himself here .", "I venture to think it 's very important .", "Dick !", "You damned skunk !", "If you want things , you can ask the servants for them .", "But have you forgotten that it 's your own brother he killed ? The whole country is up in arms against him , and you are quite indifferent .", "He gives ample proof for every word he says .", "I was engaged to dine with him to-night , but I wired to say I had a headache .", "There can n't be the least doubt about it . By George , I should like to kick him ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["I love you as much as it 's possible for a woman to love a man .", "Then , if you still care , ask your question again .", "The jury had given their verdict ?", "I think you are engaged on a very great work .", "Did the judge say anything ?", "I 'm all attention .", "Wait , and I 'll tell you .Ask Mr. George to come here , please .", "Oh , Bobbie , how can you be so cruel ?", "My dear , it was charming of you to hide the paper from me this morning ....", "Oh , no , I know my father . D'you think I 've not studied him during these years that I 've looked after him ? He 's a child , with all a child 's thoughtlessness and simplicity . And God knows , he 's weak . I know his faults better than any one , but it would be impossible for him to do anything criminal .", "Wo n't you lie down and try and sleep a little ? You must be dreadfully exhausted .", "It would mean nothing . Why should he answer ? I believe in him absolutely . I think he 's the greatest and most honourable man I 've ever known . I care more for his little finger than for the whole world . I love him with all my heart . And that 's why he can n't be guilty of this horrible crime . Because I 've loved him for years , and he 's known it . And he loves me . And he 's loved me always .", "Oh , they said horrible things about you .", "The answer , perhaps , will be different . END OF THE FIRST ACT", "You killed him ! You killed him as surely as if you 'd strangled him with your own hands .", "Not now , Mr. Mackenzie . I do n't want to seem rude , but ...", "I want to know .", "I suppose that you utterly despise me .", "Oh , but you must now . If any part of the story is true , you must give me a chance of judging for myself .", "But I am going to be your wife , and I love you , and you love me .", "Why d'you think I made you tell them we were engaged ?", "Why did n't father come with you ? Is he following ?", "Did you send for me , my aunt ? Mr. Carbery said you wanted to speak to me here .", "I must look after my father . I shall go and live near the \u2014 prison , so that I can see him whenever it 's possible .", "Do you hear , George ? Are you willing to go ?", "Oh , why do you treat me as if we were strangers ? How can you be so cruel ?", "Is it so important that it can n't wait till to-morrow ?", "If he dies a brave man 's death , I have nothing more to ask .", "I hated you then , and yet I could n't crush the love that was in my heart . I used to try and drive you away from my thoughts , but every word you had ever said came back to me . Do n't you remember ? You told me that everything you did was for my sake . Those words hammered at my heart as though it were an anvil . I struggled not to believe them . I said to myself that you had sacrificed George coldly , callously , prudently , but in my heart I knew it was n't true .Your whole life stood on one side and only this hateful story on the other . You could n't have grown into a different man in one single instant . I came here to-day to tell you that I do n't understand the reason of what you did . I do n't want to understand . I believe in you now with all my strength . I know that whatever you did was right and just \u2014 because you did it .", "I 've trusted you implicitly from the first day I saw you .", "I gave my brother into your hands , and told you that if he died a brave man 's death I could ask for no more .", "Oh , I hate them .", "Surely you 've not snatched me from the unwilling arm of my partner in order to make me a proposal of marriage ?", "Do n't worry too much about me . If there 's anything I want , I 'll let you know .", "I 'm convinced of that ...", "Now our only hope is in you . You have the opportunity of achieving a great thing . You can bring back the old name to its old honour . Oh , I wish I were a man . I can do nothing but wait and watch . If I could only fill you with my courage and with my ambition ! Mr. Mackenzie , you asked if you could do anything for me . You can give George the chance of wiping out the shame of our family .", "Alec , Alec , he did n't do something \u2014 unworthy ? You 're not trying to shield him ?", "She said she would be honoured and deeply grateful .", "I could hardly believe him guilty of such an odious crime if he confessed it with his own lips .", "I wanted to kill that gnawing pain of suspicion . I thought if I stood up before them and cried out that my trust in you was so great , I was willing to marry you notwithstanding everything , I should at least have peace in my own heart .", "You do n't know what I can do . With you to help me I can be brave . Let me come , Alec ?", "I do n't understand what you mean .", "But it 's very important . I know that you are a perfectly honest and upright man . If you think he was guilty , there is nothing more to be said .", "I want your love . I want your love so badly .", "You must love me always , Alec , for now I have only you .Come !", "If you had been on the jury would your verdict have been the same as theirs ?", "You must have no heart at all .", "Very well . George , will you take Aunt Alice to her room ? I shall want you in a moment .", "There must be some horrible mistake .", "She 's much better , thanks . We 've been to Spa , you know , for her health .", "An idea has just come to me . I 'm going to ask Mr. Mackenzie to take you with him to Africa . Will you go ?", "Did you hear the evidence ?", "I shall really think I 'm a wonderful person if I 've taught you to pay compliments .", "But you 'll come back .", "How d'you do ?", "And you followed it carefully ?", "It 's very kind and good of you to have told that story .", "He knows I trust him . I could n't cause him the great pain of asking him questions .", "I could n't . Heaven knows , I 'm grateful to you for offering to marry me on this day of my bitter humiliation . I shall never forget your great kindness . But I must stand alone . I must devote myself to my father . When he 's released I must have a home to bring him to , and I must tend him and care for him . Ah , now he wants me more than ever .", "Oh , no .", "I can only see one thing , that you took George , George of all others .", "Ah , do n't be too hard upon yourself . You 're so afraid of letting your tenderness appear .", "Yes , you can do me the greatest possible service .", "I could n't do that .", "I want you to help me .", "Ah , but it 's not to hide yourself that I want you to go . Mr. Mackenzie , I daresay you know that we 've always been very proud of our name . And now it 's hopelessly dishonoured .", "You 're not angry with me , ALEC ?", "No , we have nothing to say that you can n't hear . You and Nellie know that we 're engaged to be married .I want you to dance with me .", "Do n't do that , George . We want all our calmness now .", "Ssh !", "Wo n't you tell me you 're pleased , my aunt ? I know you want me to be happy .", "It was easy to be brave where my father was concerned , and George , but you 're the man I love , and it 's so different . I do n't know any more how to stand alone .", "Have n't you anything more to say to me than that ?", "You 've been acting all the time I 've been here . D'you think I did n't see it was unreal when you talked with such cynical indifference . I know you well enough to tell when you 're hiding your real self behind a mask .", "I do n't care what the evidence is . I know he can n't have done a shameful thing .", "Thank God ! I could n't have borne that .Then I do n't understand .", "Oh , it can n't be true . Oh , Alec , Alec , Alec ! Oh , what shall I do ?", "I wanted to burn my ships behind me . I wanted to reassure myself .Forgive me , dear . You do n't know how terrible it is . I stand so dreadfully alone . Every one is convinced that you caused poor George 's death \u2014 every one but me .I try to put the thoughts out of my head , but I can n't \u2014 I can n't . That letter in the Times looks so dreadfully true . Do n't you see what I mean ? The uncertainty is more than I can bear . At the first moment I felt so absolutely sure of you .", "It 's nothing to you . But to me .... Oh , you do n't know what agony I endure . I 'm such a coward ! I thought I was so much braver ."], "true_target": ["I will wait for you still .", "I 'll be satisfied if you 'll only tell me one thing : only tell me that when you sent George on that expedition you did n't know that he 'd be killed .Only say that , Alec . Say that 's not true , and I 'll believe you .", "What impression did it leave on your mind ?", "No .", "At those times one does n't think of justice . He was so young , so frank . Would n't it have been nobler to give your life for his ?", "I believe in him implicitly . I believe in him with all the strength I 've got .", "You have no right to talk to me like this .", "What else ?...You had better tell me now . I shall see it in the papers to-morrow .", "You knew how much I loved my brother . You knew how much it meant to me that he should live to wipe out my father 's dishonour . All the future was centred on him , and you sacrificed him .", "Are you very glad to go ?", "Do n't you care for me any more ?", "It was very charming of you . You must n't think that because I laugh at you a little I 'm not grateful for your affection .", "Then it 's finished at last .It 's so good of you to come .", "You 're all very kind , and I know you sympathise with me ....", "I assure you it does n't suit you at all .", "Mr. Mackenzie very rightly thought I should know at once what was said about him and my brother . He sent me the paper himself this evening .", "Will you open the window ? It seems stifling here .", "I want you to have mercy on me because I love you . Do n't tell the world if you choose not to , but tell me the truth . I know you 're incapable of lying . If I only have it from your own lips I shall believe , I want to be certain , certain !", "It was very good of you .", "I can only repeat that I 'm very grateful to you . I can never marry you .", "I tell every one that I do n't believe a word of these horrible charges , and I repeat to myself : I 'm certain , I 'm certain that he 's innocent . And yet at the bottom of my heart there 's a doubt , and I can n't crush it .", "Who is it ?", "Because I 'm quite sure of the result . D'you imagine I 'd doubt my father for a moment ?", "Dear friend , do n't think hardly of me . I think", "The moment I 'm with you I feel so confident and happy .", "No , thanks !", "Do !", "I see . And you have no doubt that he was guilty ?", "Try and bear up , George . We want all the strength we 've got , you and I .", "Oh , that 's too horrible . Do n't go , dearest ! I can n't bear it !", "I would rather you cursed me than treat me with such cold politeness .", "I 'm awfully stupid , but if he was innocent , how could they find him guilty ? I do n't know what you mean .", "And what was the sentence ?Well ?", "Oh , I know . I 'm so utterly ashamed of myself . But I can n't bear the doubt .", "Oh , Alec , Alec , I 'm so glad you love me .", "Alec , you must tell them now about you and me .", "I hope they 'll be very happy . They 're very much in love with one another .", "But you 'll kill my love for you . The doubt which lurked at the bottom of my soul now fills me . How can you let me suffer such maddening torture ?", "No , he merely scribbled on a card : \u201c I think you should read this . \u201d", "You say the trial was over when you came away ?", "Oh , why do n't you leave me alone ?", "What nonsense ! I 'm always delighted to see you .", "Then if that 's true , the rest must be true also . Oh , it 's awful . I can n't realise it . Have n't you anything to say at all ?", "I had to tell them . I could n't keep it back . They made me suffer so dreadfully .", "Do you believe that story too ?", "You make me feel such a prig . It 's not really very strange if I keep my head , because I 've had an immensely long training . Since I was fifteen I 've been alone to care for George and my father .... Wo n't you sit down ?", "Are you angry because I came ?", "They found him guilty ?", "I did n't believe it .", "I 'm no longer engaged to Mr. Mackenzie . He can n't deny that what is said about him is true .", "It 's so good of you . There 's really nothing that any one can do . Would you all mind leaving me alone with George ? We must talk this over by ourselves .", "I 've sent my partner away . I felt I must have a few words alone with you .", "Ah , thanks . You are really my friend .", "Not to me . They wanted to hide it from me , but I knew they were talking .", "Are you growing very tired , my aunt ?", "Oh , I do n't understand . Oh , my dearest , do n't treat me as a child . Have mercy on me ! You must be serious now . It 's a matter of life and death to both of us .", "I trust you just as much as ever . I know it 's impossible that you should have done a shameful thing . But there it stands in black and white , and you have nothing to say in answer .", "Then let me wait for you ? Let me wait till you come back ?", "It 's purely selfish . It eases me a little to fuss about you .", "I want to show them all that I do n't believe that you 're guilty of an odious crime .", "When you came to-night , so calm and self-possessed , I admired you as I 'd never admired you before .", "You knew that you were sending George into a death-trap ? You knew he could n't escape alive ?", "Have n't I heard you say that only the impossible is worth doing ?", "Did you want me to tell you that in so many words ? I admire you , and I trust you . I should be very happy if George could grow into so brave and honest a man as you .", "I do , Alec \u2014 with all my soul . But have mercy on me . I 'm not so strong as I thought . It 's easy for you to stand alone . You 're iron , but I 'm a weak woman .", "I want to give into your charge what I love most in the world .... George , have you thought at all what you 're going to do now ? I 'm afraid you can n't go back to Oxford .", "That 's not the only heroic thing he 's done .", "I know in your heart you think I 'm right . You would never seek to dissuade me from what I 'm convinced is my duty .", "Then take me with you .", "No .", "No , no , no !", "Oh , why d'you torment me ? I tell you that he is n't guilty . It 's because", "Oh , Alec , do n't be utterly pitiless . Do n't leave me without a single word of kindness .", "No , I can n't do that . It 's very generous of you , but I could n't .", "I think I can trust you .", "And is there no one you regret to leave ?", "You faithless woman , have you forgotten the guest of the evening ?", "Oh , you 're of iron . Alec , Alec , I could n't let you go without seeing you once more . Even you would be satisfied if you knew what bitter anguish I 've suffered . Even you would pity me . I do n't want you to think too badly of me .", "And you do n't believe in miracles ?", "Alec , Alec , I want you ! Thank God , you 've come !"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["I came to the conclusion that it was hopeless . You seemed to me rotten through and through .", "She accused you of having shot her .", "He 'll be an admirable husband because he 's an admirable friend .", "He called it a very mean and shameful crime , worse than another man 's because your father was a gentleman of ancient family and bore a name of great honour .", "I tell you that whatever I did was inevitable .", "Why , then I 'm afraid the tea-tables of Mayfair will be deprived of your scintillating repartee forever .", "All is over between us . And shall I return your letters and your photograph ?", "I came for the same reason as yourself , dear boy . Because I was invited .", "The only way to be strong is never to surrender to one 's weakness . Strength is merely a habit like everything else . I want you to be strong , too . I want you never to doubt me whatever you may hear said .", "They lick my boots till I loathe them , and then they turn against me like a pack of curs . Oh , I despise them \u2014 these silly boys who stay at home wallowing in their ease while men work . Thank God , I 've done with them all now . They think one can fight one 's way through Africa as easily as one walks down Piccadilly . They think one goes through hardships and dangers , illness and starvation , to be the lion of a dinner-party in Mayfair .", "Oh , no , they interest me enormously . I remember , one of the Kings of Uganda gave a dance in my honour . Ten thousand warriors in war-paint . I assure you it was most impressive .", "You must wish you were treading the light fantastic toe in a London ball-room , Dick .", "I have always lived in polite society . I should never dream of outraging its conventions . If Miss Allerton happened to come , you may be sure I should be scrupulously polite .", "The meat 's getting rather mouldy , is n't it ?", "I 'm very glad . What do you use \u2014 Phenacetin ?", "You 're a philosopher , Dick .", "I loathe all solemn leave-takings . I prefer to part from people with a nod and a smile , whether I 'm going for ever or for a day to Brighton .", "So you resolved to give the girls a treat by coming to Lady Kelsey 's dance ? How nice of you not to disappoint them !I sent you a paper this evening .", "No !", "You could hardly do that when I 'm already lying on my back .", "I could order you , but the job 's too dangerous for me to force it on any one . If you refuse , I shall call the others together and ask some one to volunteer . In that case you will have to find your way back alone as best you can to the coast .", "I daresay I shall never see you again . Perhaps it does n't much matter what I say to you . You 'll think me very silly , but I 'm afraid I 'm rather \u2014 patriotic . It 's only we who live away from England who really love it . I 'm so proud of my country , and I wanted so much to do something for it . Often in Africa I 've thought of this dear England , and longed not to die till I had done my work . Behind all the soldiers and the statesmen whose fame is imperishable , there is a long line of men who 've built up the Empire piece by piece . Their names are forgotten , and only students know their history , but each one of them gave a province to his country . And I , too , have my place among them . For five years I toiled night and day , and at the end of it was able to hand over to the Commissioners a broad tract of land , rich and fertile . After my death England will forget my faults and my mistakes . I care nothing for the flouts and gibes with which she has repaid all my pain , for I have added another fair jewel to her crown . I do n't want rewards . I only want the honour of serving this dear land of ours .", "Thank God ! Oh , I 'm so grateful to you for that .", "Stern man , the doctor , is n't he ? It wo n't hurt me once in a way . And I shall enjoy it all the more now .", "I think perhaps we ought to have told you before , Lady Kelsey . But we wanted to enjoy our little secret by ourselves .", "Hulloa !", "Did you ever know that before we came away I asked Lucy to marry me ?", "Perhaps you would like me to call you Sir Robert ?", "Which shows that your taste is as bad as your breeding .", "No , do n't trouble . The poor chap 's just turned in , dropping with sleep . I told him he might till I called him . I do n't want much , and I can easily get it myself .It 's rather a nuisance that we 've not been able to get any game lately .", "You might give me a light , will you ?", "Why do you want to know so much ?", "I 'm so glad to be alone with you . Now , at all events , people will have the sense to leave us by ourselves .", "I 'm afraid you 're rather difficult to please .", "I 'm afraid that everything is settled now . I 've given instructions at", "What makes you think that ?", "Yes .", "Quite true .", "You are a leaven of flippancy in the heavy dough of British righteousness .", "Somebody told me you 'd gone abroad . Was it you , Dick ? Dick is an admirable person , a sort of gazetteer for polite society .", "It 's very kind of you to say so . I 've been at the Travellers \u2019 , reading various appreciations of my own character .", "If I 'm doing that , the inference is obvious that I wish my real self to be hidden .", "London is an excellent place for showing one of how little importance one is in the world . One makes a certain figure , and perhaps is tempted to think oneself of some consequence . Then one goes away , and on returning is surprised to discover that nobody has even noticed one 's absence .", "There 's no brandy left .", "I must now . Everything is settled , and there can be no drawing back .", "And the answer ?", "I do n't know how I am going to tell you .", "Yes .", "You should n't keep such late hours , Bobbie . At your age one wants one 's beauty sleep .", "Your father asked me to come and break it to you .", "It must . I 've trained them often enough to get on the march quickly .", "Very well . Come with me , and I 'll do my best for you .", "I could break your back , you silly boy .", "I think you might go and see your patients now , doctor .", "Splendid !", "Certainly .You can n't think what a joy it is to look upon London for the last time . I 'm so thankful to get away .", "You have often observed that I joke with difficulty .", "The natives have made up their minds to join the slave-traders , and we shall be attacked on all sides to-morrow . We can n't hold out against God knows how many thousands .", "He said there could be no doubt about the justice of the verdict .", "Do you think this is quite the place for an altercation ? Would n't you gain more notoriety if you attacked me in my club or at Church parade on Sunday ?", "Must I tell you , too , that everything I did was for Lucy 's sake ? And still I love her with all my heart and soul ....", "At this moment , I 'm going to fill my pipe .", "I wish there were .", "I apologise profusely . Pray go on !", "And when I come back ?", "I thought of you always , and everything I did was for your sake . Every single act of mine during these four years in Africa has been done because I loved you .", "The result is that the whole tribe has turned against us . The chief is my friend , and he sent a message to tell me he could n't hold them in . It 's from him I got the cartridge . It would n't be so serious , only the best fighting part of our forces are the Turkana , and we must expect treachery . They 've stirred up the neighbouring tribes against us , and all the work we 've been doing for a year is undone . That 's the explanation of the Arabs \u2019 attack three days ago .", "It 's singular that though I 'm Scotch and you are English I should be able to see how ridiculous you are , while you 're quite blind to your own absurdity .", "I 'm very sorry , I can n't .", "How d'you do ?How is Lady Kelsey ?", "I should tell you that I 've made up my mind to make no answer to the charges that are made against me .", "We must take the risk . Our only chance is to make a bold dash for it , and we can n't leave the wounded here .", "Yes . It 's death ! END OF THE SECOND ACT", "Oh , no , you 're not like other women . I was proud of your unconquerable spirit .", "You 're very proud .", "Do you know that our friend Dick has offered his hand and heart to Mrs. Crowley this afternoon ?", "Is that why you told them we were engaged to be married ?", "Why , Dick , what 's the matter ? You look as pleased as Punch .", "Carbery ? I saw you in Piccadilly just now ! You were darting about just like a young gazelle . I had no idea you could be so active .", "I 've been going the round of the outlying sentries .", "I saw very soon that you were weak and irresolute . But I hoped to make something of you . Your intentions seemed good enough , but you never had the strength to carry them out .... I 'm sorry if I seem to be preaching to you .", "I 'm going to a part of Africa from which Europeans seldom return .", "Do n't ask me these horrible questions .", "Tighter than any of your patent-leather boots , my friend .", "It was too late to send you back to the coast then , and I was obliged to take you on . And now the end has come . Your murder of that woman has put us all in deadly peril . Already to your charge lie the deaths of Richardson and almost twenty natives . Tribes that were friendly have joined with the Arabs , and we 're as near destruction as we can possibly be .", "Pardon me , I acknowledge nothing and deny nothing .", "No , you can stay here . But do n't open your mouth till you 're spoken to .", "Only when you 're with me ?Only when you 're with me , darling ?", "Because I think it 's ten to one that we shall all be dead to-morrow morning .", "That would be ungracious on my part . Perhaps it was n't quite necessary that we should meet again .", "She asked me to bring you here in the hope that you would regain the good name of your family . I think that is the object she has most at heart in the world . It 's as great as her love for you . The plan has n't been much of a success , has it ?", "You see , Dick is going to marry . When a man does that , his bachelor friends are wise to depart gracefully before he shows them that he needs their company no longer . I have no relations and few friends . I can n't flatter myself that any one will be much distressed at my departure .", "Ah , it 's not that I mind . What torments me is that it was so easy to despise their praise , and now I can n't despise their blame .", "It 's easy enough to command one 's face . I learnt to do that in Africa when often my life depended on my seeming to have no fear . But in my heart ... I never knew that I could feel so bitter . And yet , after all , it 's only your good opinion that I care for .", "Listen to me . Our only chance of escaping from the confounded fix we 're in is to make a sudden attack on the Arabs before the natives join them . We shall be enormously outnumbered , but we may just smash them if we can strike to-night . My plan is to start marching as if I did n't know that the Turkana were going to turn against us . After an hour all the whites but one , and the Swahilis whom I can trust implicitly , will take a short cut . The Arabs will have had news of our starting , and they 'll try to cut us off at the pass . I shall fall on them just as they begin to attack . D'you understand ?", "How are the others ?", "Very .", "This was found about two yards from the body . As you see , it 's a revolver cartridge . It was brought to me this evening .", "No , it 's impossible . You do n't know what you ask .", "Any one in great danger ?", "I 'm glad you 've accepted . Whatever happens you 'll have done a brave action in your life .I think there 's nothing more to be said . You must be ready to start in half an hour . Here 's your revolver . Remember that one chamber 's empty . You 'd better put in another cartridge .", "You 'll grow used to hearing shameful things said of me . I suppose I shall grow used to it , too .", "The end is death in some fever-stricken swamp , obscurely , worn out by exposure and ague and starvation . And the bearers will seize my gun and my clothes and leave me to the jackals .", "And do you suppose I 've not suffered ? Because I do n't whine my misery to all and sundry , d'you think I do n't care ? I 'm not the man to fall in and out of love with every pretty face I meet . All my life I 've kept an ideal before my eyes . Oh , you do n't know what it meant to me to fall in love . I felt that I had lived all my life in a prison , and at last Lucy came and took me by the hand and led me out . And for the first time I breathed the free air of heaven . Oh God ! how I 've suffered for it ! Why should it have come to me ? Oh , if you knew my agony and the torture !", "I understand she complained about him to you ?", "Good Lord ! I quite forgot . I wonder when the dickens I had some food last .", "It 's not easy to clear myself at a dead man 's expense . The earth covers his crime and his sins and his weakness .", "Do n't you think that flippancy is the best refuge from an uncomfortable position . We should really be much wiser merely to discuss the weather .", "I observed that you were deeply interested in the shop windows as I passed . How are you ?", "Might I suggest that only Miss Allerton has the least right to receive answers to her questions ? And she has n't questioned me .", "You need not hold him .", "Come now , you must know something about it . Last Tuesday you came into camp and told me the Turkana were very excited .", "I made a mistake , did n't I ? I ought to have dropped him in the river when I had no further use for him .", "Nothing .", "What can it matter how it affected me ?", "And if I never come back ?", "Stop here .", "It 's so difficult to be serious without being absurd . That is the chief power of women , that life and death are merely occasions for a change of costume : marriage a creation in white , and the worship of God an opportunity for a Paris bonnet .", "I 'm so glad . I heartily congratulate you both . I was rather unhappy at leaving Dick , Mrs. Crowley . But now I leave him in your hands , I 'm perfectly content . He 's the dearest , kindest old chap I 've ever known .", "I suspected it , I confess . I should n't have come only I wanted to see Lucy . I 've been in the country all day , and I knew nothing about Macinnery 's letter till I saw the placards at the station .", "Now I must have one white man to head the Turkana , and that man will run the greatest possible danger . I 'd go myself , only the Swahilis wo n't fight unless I lead them .... Are you willing to take that post ?", "Have you made no inquiries as to who the man was ?", "Are you fond of Lucy ?", "If we remain here there 's no escape .", "Yes . I 've just seen a native messenger that Mindabi sent to me .", "The damned cubs !", "Then I found you were drinking . I told you that no man could stand liquor in this country , and you gave me your word of honour that you would n't touch it again .", "Besides , when all is said and done , the boy did die game . Do n't you think that should count for something ? No , I tell you I can n't give him away now . I should never cease to reproach myself . I love Lucy far too much to cause her such bitter pain .", "What about Perkins ?", "Do you know anything about the death of that Turkana woman ?", "She did n't die for nearly an hour .", "I think your self-command is wonderful . I 've never admired you more than at this moment .", "I think she can do without love better than without self-respect .", "I can say what I want in a very few words . You know that in a week I start for Mombassa to take charge of the expedition in North-East Africa . I may be away for three or four years , and I shall be exposed to a certain amount of danger . When I left Africa last time to gather supplies , I determined I would crush those wretched slave-traders , and now I think I have the means to do it .", "Care for you ? I love you with all my heart and soul ."], "true_target": ["I 'm afraid my luggage has made everything very disorderly .", "We 're far away from the coast , and I must take the law into my own hands .", "Good heavens , I must have been reading the headings of a copy-book .", "No , I do n't think so . Those Arabs kept us so confoundedly busy .", "Perhaps they will . Perhaps in a hundred years or so , in some flourishing town where I discovered nothing but wilderness , they will commission a second-rate sculptor to make a fancy statue of me . And I shall stand in front of the Stock Exchange , a convenient perch for birds , to look eternally upon the various shabby deeds of human kind .", "I implore you not to insist , Lucy . Let us remember only that the past is gone and we love one another . It 's impossible for me to tell you anything .", "Does it much matter what I think ? We shall be so many thousand miles apart .", "I feel quite boyish at the very thought .", "Ah , I thought I should find you here , Lady Kelsey .", "Nothing is changed , Lucy . You sent me away on account of your brother 's death .", "Well , I 'm thankful to say that everything 's packed and ready .", "Did n't Selim tell you that I wanted to speak to you ?", "Dick has been teaching me to take life flippantly . And I have learnt that things are only serious if you take them seriously , and that is desperately stupid .Do n't you agree with me ?", "I 'm not .", "I would n't worry about my old age if I were you , Dick .", "Nonsense , you will have had two hours \u2019 rest .", "The case was so plain that the jury were not out of the box for more than ten minutes .", "Do n't be foolish , Bobbie !", "Explain yourself , my friend . Clearly but with as much brevity as possible .", "When George was dead I wrote to Lucy that he died like a brave man . I can n't now publish to the whole world that he was a coward and a rogue . I can n't rake up again the story of her father 's crime .", "Except by a miracle .", "Why ?", "I saw you cleaning it less than an hour ago .", "Now you mention it , I think I am . And thirsty , by Jove ! I would n't give my thirst for an elephant tusk .", "D'you want me to come and take it from you myself ?", "Ah , there 's my little friend Bobbie . I thought you had a headache ?", "No .", "Nothing . I want to gain nothing . Perhaps I shall discover some new species of antelope or some unknown plant . Perhaps I shall find some new waterway . That is all the reward I want . I love the sense of power and mastery . What do you think I care for the tinsel rewards of kings and peoples ?", "I see .", "It certainly looks very much like it .", "I 'm perfectly serious .", "The brutes ! Tell me what they did .", "What is it ?", "You need not trouble about that . In Africa even the strongest people are apt to get excited and lose their balance .", "Do you remember that only an hour ago I told you that I 'd done nothing which I would n't do again ? I gave you my word of honour that I could reproach myself for nothing .", "Like Kilkenny cats .", "It was not unjust that he should suffer for the catastrophe which he had brought about .", "To-morrow we shall know if he has that last virtue of a blackguard \u2014 courage .", "Only that I 've loved you always with all my soul .", "No , no , no !", "No , I have none whatever .", "Do n't make an ass of yourself , Bobby .", "Do you suspect no one ?", "You 'll neither of you sleep in your beds to-night . Another sell for the mosquitoes , is n't it ? I propose to break up the camp and start marching as soon as the moon goes down .", "Yes ... Doctor !", "It 's very good of you .", "My darling !", "Quite . I see now that it was inevitable .", "They 've said horrible things about me ?", "I thought you trusted me .", "Why not ? Do n't you know that I love you ? It would help me so much if I knew that you were waiting for me at home .", "Think a moment .", "Lucy !", "What is he talking about now ?", "You !", "Oh , my dear , you do n't know how easy it is to give one 's life . How little you know me ! Do you think I should have hesitated if my death had been sufficient to solve the difficulty ? I had my work to do . I was bound by solemn treaties to the surrounding tribes . It would have been cowardly for me to die . I tell you , my death would have meant the awful death of every man in my party .", "You took me by surprise .", "I do n't understand you .", "If you put your hand to your hip pocket , I think you 'll find your revolver there .", "Doubt ! You 've said the word at last .", "Do you know that he will have to suffer every sort of danger and privation , that often he will be parched by the heat , and often soaked to the skin for days together ? Sometimes he 'll not have enough to eat , and he 'll have to work harder than a navvy .", "It appears that you were playing the fool with her , and when she got angry you took out a revolver and fired point blank . Presumably that she should tell no tales .", "Zanzibar to collect bearers , and I must arrive as quickly as I can .", "There is .", "You know just as well as I do that none of our natives has a revolver . Besides ourselves only two or three of the servants have them .", "I wo n't hide from you that it means almost certain death . But there 's no other way of saving ourselves . On the other hand , if you show perfect courage at the moment the Arabs attack and the Turkana find that we 've given them the slip , you may escape . If you do , I promise nothing shall be said of all that has happened here .", "You 'd better not make too light of it . The smallest wound has a way of being troublesome in this country .", "But it is true .", "If things turn out all right , we shall have come near finishing the job , and there wo n't be much more slave-raiding in this part of Africa .", "They 're very modest crumbs with which you want me to be satisfied .", "You see , it comes too late . Nothing much matters now , for to-morrow I go away .", "I should have been obliged to judge according to my conscience .", "For it is obvious that it needs more brains to do nothing than to be a cabinet minister .", "May I speak to you for a few minutes alone ?", "I knew at the time that what I did might cost me your love , and though you wo n't believe this , I did it for your sake .", "I am afraid it 's very clear .", "When we came to the station at Muneas you and Macinnery got blind drunk , and the whole camp saw you . I ought to have sent you back to the coast then , but it would have broken Lucy 's heart .", "I 'm so glad . What is it you mean ?", "Do you think that would be enough evidence to punish him on ?", "Yes . How 's the arm , Dick ?", "Do you remember that two months ago I hanged a man to the nearest tree because he 'd outraged a native woman ?", "I do n't think our announcement has been received with enthusiasm .", "It does n't matter at all . I 'd forgotten all about it .", "Do n't laugh at me because you 've found out that at heart I 'm nothing more than a sentimental old woman .", "Seven years \u2019 penal servitude .", "Ca n't I do anything for you at all ?", "If you do n't mind I 'll stay and smoke just one cigarette with Dick", "Go away . Do n't look at me . How can you stand there and watch my weakness ? Oh God , give me strength .... My love was the last human weakness I had . It was right that I should drink that bitter cup . And I 've drunk its very dregs . I should have known that I was n't meant for happiness and a life of ease . I have other work to do in the world . And now that I have overcome this last temptation , I am ready to do it .", "D'you think that I look wildly excited ?", "Why , what does it matter ? I shall die standing up . I shall go the last journey as I have gone every other .", "Well ?", "I do n't know whether you ever noticed that \u2014 that I cared more for you than for any one in the world . But with the long journey in front of me I did n't think it was right to say anything to you . It was n't fair to ask you to bind yourself during my long absence . And there was always the risk that a stray bullet might put an end to me . I made up my mind that I must wait till I returned . But things have changed now . Lucy , I love you with all my heart . Will you marry me before I go ?", "And you know that he may get killed . There may be a good deal of fighting .", "You need not be afraid . I 'm not going to do that . In any case I must preserve the native respect for the white man .", "Thank God for that ! To-day is the first time I 've wanted to be assured that I was trusted . And yet I 'm ashamed to want it .", "What do you mean ?", "Lomas . You know I 'm not a dancing man .", "There 's a good deal . I really had no idea the world was so interested in me .", "If he has pluck he may get through .", "You might stay a minute , will you ?", "Yes .", "I could n't believe a word you said . You did everything you should n't have done . The result was that the men mutinied , and if I had n't come back in the nick of time they 'd have killed you and looted all the stores .", "No . I loved you far too much ever to do that . Believe me , I only wish you well . Now that the bitterness is past , I see that you did the only possible thing . I hope that you 'll be very happy .", "You 'll be surprised to hear that when the woman was found she was n't dead .", "You need n't say anything about striking camp . I do n't propose that any one should know till a quarter of an hour before we start .", "Give me a match , Bobby , there 's a good boy .Bobby , throw me over the matches !", "If I had , I certainly should not bring it to Portman Square . That sentimental organ would be surely out of place in such a neighbourhood .", "You see that it fits . Had n't you better make a clean breast of it ?", "No , it is n't . I tell you I can n't do anything else . I 'm bound hand and foot . Lucy has talked to me of George 's death , and the only thing that has consoled her is the idea that in a manner he had redeemed his father 's good name . How can I rob her of that ? She placed all her hopes in George . How could she face the world with the knowledge that her brother was rotten to the core , as rotten as her father .", "To-morrow at this time I shall be well started . Oh , I long for that infinite surface of the clean and comfortable sea .", "But they 're the very breath of my life . You do n't know the exhilaration of the daily dangers \u2014 the joy of treading where only the wild beasts have trodden before . Oh , already I can hardly bear my impatience when I think of the boundless country and the enchanting freedom . Here one grows so small , so despicable , but in Africa everything is built to a nobler standard . There a man is really a man ; there one knows what are will and strength and courage . Oh , you do n't know what it is to stand on the edge of some great plain and breathe the pure keen air after the terrors of the forest . Then at last you know what freedom is .", "Really ?", "I know , and I would n't insist unless it were a matter of the most urgent importance .", "I know it 's very difficult . That is why I asked you to believe in me .", "Oh , I do n't know . There 's always a chance .", "Perhaps it would be better if he were .", "You can do that as well if you 're my wife .... You have before you a very difficult and trying time . Wo n't you let me help you ?", "I think I might tell you this . He had committed a grave error of judgment . We were entrapped by the Arabs , and our only chance of escape entailed the almost certain death of one of us .", "I can give you my word of honour that I 've done nothing which I regret . I know that what I did was right with regard to George , and if it were all to come again I would do exactly as I did before .", "Do n't you realise that I would never have asked you to marry me if my conscience had n't been quite clear ? Do n't you realise that the reasons I have for holding my tongue must be of overwhelming strength ?", "So glad to see you again , old man .", "Of course not . Everything you do is right and charming .", "And is that a reason for marrying ? Surely love is the worst possible foundation for marriage . Love creates illusions , and marriages destroy them . True lovers should never marry .", "They must !", "I do n't know that it does . I 'm a bit of a fatalist , and my theory is that when my time comes nothing can help me , but at the bottom of my heart I can n't resist the conviction that I sha n't die till I let myself .", "And now you do n't ?", "It 's because I thought he was to blame that I sent him back alone . I wanted to give you another chance . It struck me that the feeling of authority might have some influence on you , and so when we came to the lake I left you to guard the ferry . I put the chief part of the stores in your care and marched on . I need n't remind you what happened then .", "Yes , it 's all over .", "Then have no fear . I will come back . My journey was only dangerous because I wanted to die . I want to live now , and I shall live .", "Will you give me your revolver ?", "What is it precisely you want me to do ?", "No more than that ?", "Thank you .I perceive , Bobbie , that during my absence you have not added good manners to your other accomplishments .", "I have asked Lucy to be my wife , and she ....", "You 've taken your time about it ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["When every one is starving with hunger , and dead tired , and soaked to the skin , Mackenzie fairly bubbles over with good-humour .", "Some men have got natures so crooked that with every chance in the world to go straight they can n't manage it . The only thing is to let them go to the devil as best they may .", "Very well .", "When ?", "They 're going on pretty well on the whole . Perkins , of course , will be down for some days longer . And some of the natives are rather badly hurt . Those devils have got explosive bullets .", "This is the third expedition I 've gone with Mackenzie against the slave-raiders , and I promise you I 've never been so certain that all was over with us .", "He would n't have been much loss , would he ?", "Your arm ?", "Just about dropping . But I 've got a deuce of a lot more work before I turn in .", "No , I do n't think so . There are two men who are in rather a bad way , but all they want is rest .", "You 're not the sort of chap whom one would expect to take to African work . Why the blazes did you come ?", "Well , you see , I know him pretty well . He 's been a pal of yours for twenty years in England , but I 've been with him out here three times , and I tell you there 's not much about a man that you do n't know then .", "What ?", "Yes , by Jove ! He thought we were done for .", "But what 's wrong now ?", "I 'm afraid you 're a very immoral man , Lomas .", "I wo n't answer for their lives .", "Shut up !", "But when things begin to look black , his spirits go up like one o'clock . And the worse they are , the more cheerful he is .", "Well , I must go and put things in order . I 'll bandage those fellows up , and I hope they 'll stand the jolting .", "I must go and see the rest of my patients . Perkins has got a bad dose of fever this time . He was quite delirious a while ago .", "I 'll put a clean dressing on all the same .", "Lord knows ! I 'll try and keep him quiet with chloral .", "You 've certainly added considerably to our cheerfulness .", "The wound looks healthy enough . It 'll hardly even leave a scar ."], "true_target": ["That 's an acquaintance that most of us would n't boast about .", "It 's only by a miracle we escaped . If those Arabs had n't hesitated to attack us just those ten minutes we should have been wiped out .", "Well , when things are going smoothly and everything 's flourishing , he 's apt to be a bit irritable . He keeps rather to himself , and he does n't say much unless you do something he does n't approve of .", "I 'll go and tell the boy to bring you some food . It 's a rotten game to play tricks with your digestion like that .", "He 'll be all right in a day or two .", "Mackenzie has been very patient with him . I wonder he did n't send him back to the coast months ago , when he sacked Macinnery .", "Very well .", "Anything important ?", "Well , last night I thought you 'd made your last joke , old man , and that", "But that wo n't give them time .", "Hulloa !", "These last few days , he 's been positively hilarious . Yesterday he was cracking jokes with the natives .", "Well , let 's look at this wound of yours . Has it been throbbing at all ?", "I had given my last dose of quinine .", "Selim !", "I confess it is lamentable . But why is it a source of anxiety to you ?", "Poor chap , we could ill spare him . The fates never choose the right man .", "Hulloa , there !All right . Do n't shoot . It 's only me .", "I 've never seen him more cheerful . I said to myself : By the Lord Harry , the chief thinks we 're in a devil of a bad way .", "You could n't exactly describe it as a picnic , could you ? But I do n't suppose any of us knew it would be such a tough job as it 's turned out .", "Certainly .", "If we had to lose some one , it would have been a damned sight better if that young cub had got the bullet which killed poor Richardson .", "D'you mind only gesticulating with one arm ?", "I thought I 'd just have a look at your arm .", "But some of those fellows who are wounded can n't possibly be moved ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["May we smoke here , Bobby ?"], "true_target": ["Come along , old chap ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Yes , sir . He 's gone to his room .", "Mr. Mackenzie said they were to be sent for this afternoon . They 're only labelled Zanzibar . Is that sufficient , sir ?", "Very well , sir ."], "true_target": ["Very well , sir .", "Mrs. Crowley .", "Very well , sir .", "Miss Allerton !"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["THE NOVELS OF W. S. 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BOWYER", "JENNY BUSH WINIFRED FRASER"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["ACTS II AND IV \u2014 The drawing-room of Basil 's house at Putney .", "HILDA MURRAY", "BUTLER", "BASIL KENT", "ACT I \u2014 Basil 's lodgings in Bloomsbury .", "MRS. GRIGGS"], "true_target": ["ROBERT BRACKLEY", "JENNY BUSH", "JAMES BUSH", "MABEL", "JOHN HALLIWELL", "TIME : The Present Day .", "FANNY"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Oh \u2014 I always have an extra cup in case some one turns up , you know .", "Do n't look at me like that . Is n't it plain enough ? Do n't you understand ?", "I 'm sure we 're delighted to see you .But you 've only just come in time , because I 've got to go up to town . We might travel up together .", "You may come here when I 'm not at home \u2014 if you behave yourself .", "After that I got into the habit of taking her to the play , and so on . And finally ...!", "Say that you love me , Hilda .", "I 've not told you the worst . I feel such a cad . There 's one thought that 's been with me all night . And I can n't drive it away . It 's worse than anything else . It 's too shameful .", "I should think I was unhappy . For months I 've dreaded going home . When I saw my house as I walked along I almost turned sick . You do n't know how fervently I 've wished that I 'd got killed in the war . I can n't go on .", "You had better come away , Jenny .", "You 're very eloquent , James . You should join a debating society .", "Do n't you know ? I thought I had said it in my telegram .", "What 's that ? I thought I heard a carriage .", "D'you think it 's worth while making a scene ? We seem to have said all this before so many times .", "It 's impossible for us to live together . We shall never agree , and we shall never be happy . For God 's sake let us separate and have done with it .", "He 's a young man with a very bald head .", "Hilda , I can n't live without you .", "I 'm going to marry Miss Jenny Bush .", "The poet ?", "Yes .", "You 're simply mad . Good heavens , I 've done nothing that could give you the least cause to be jealous .", "I did n't say that , Jenny .", "It 's no business of mine . I have no right to talk to you like this .", "To Chancery Lane , to see my agent on business .", "Fanny , do n't let any one up beside Mr. Halliwell . Say I can see no one .Is that you , John ?", "I never loved you .", "D'you want me to go ?", "Jenny !", "Go in alone , John . I dare n't , I 'm afraid to look at her . I can n't bear the look on her face .... I killed her \u2014 as surely as if I 'd strangled her with my own hands . I 've been looking at the door all night , and once I thought I heard a sound . I thought she was coming to reproach me for killing her .", "My marriage is absolutely inevitable \u2014 for another reason .", "You 've got no right to say that .", "What medals ?", "I have some whisky , Mr. Bush .", "Thank you .", "I swear it ... on my honour .", "No .", "Never .", "Oh , it 's absurd . I wo n't let you . You 're making us both utterly wretched . I wo n't let you sacrifice our happiness . Oh , Hilda , I love you . I can n't live without you . At first I tried to resist seeing you . I used to pass your door and look up at your windows ; and the door seemed as if it were waiting for me . And at the end of the street I used to look back . Oh , how I used to want to come in and see you once more ! I thought if I saw you just once , I should get over it . And at last I could n't help myself . I 'm so weak . Do you despise me ?", "Has Mrs. Murray ...?", "I tried to kill myself in the night .", "I do n't want anything .... Do n't worry , there 's a good woman .", "Yes . I love you with all my heart .", "Shall I put down your cup ?", "I 've been thinking of that . I know the stories he and his people will make up . And the papers will get hold of it , and every one will blackguard me . They 'll say it was my fault .", "Sometimes it makes a god of you when you 're dead .", "Yes , I am . What d'you mean by coming here and behaving like this ?", "My dear Jenny , I do n't in the least object to their being grocers and haberdashers . I only wish they 'd sell us things at cost price .", "Hilda !", "My dear Jenny , I do n't .... I 'm very fond of dogs .", "You 've brought it on yourself . You made me too unhappy .", "But you just take it .", "Oh , Mrs. Griggs , I want to give up these rooms this day week . I 'm going to be married . I 'm sorry to leave you . You 've made me very comfortable .", "Yes .... She was quite hysterical . She said she did n't know what to do nor where to go . And she was in an awful funk about her people . She said she 'd kill herself .", "I wonder if she forgives me ?", "How the deuce d'you know ?", "I 'm not such a cad as to go to a house where I can n't take my wife .", "Has she been telling you my numerous faults ?You must have had plenty to talk about , my love .", "We 're too different . It 's impossible for it to get better . We can n't even go on as we have been . I 've felt that the end was coming .", "I 'm very sorry . It 's too late .", "If it were n't for you I could n't have lived . It was only by seeing you that I gathered courage to go on with it . And each time I came here I loved you more passionately .", "Yes . I expect a lady to tea . And there 's a cake that I bought on my way in .", "If you really care to see them , here they are .", "Oh , I suppose you 're shocked and scandalised . I ought to go on posing . I ought to act the part decently to the end . You would never have had the courage to do what I did , and yet , because I 've failed , you think you can look down on me from the height of your moral elevation .", "Let me go , Jenny . I can n't stand it any more . I feel as if I shall go mad .", "Good-bye , then . I dare say you 're right . And perhaps", "Perhaps you 're right , Jenny .", "We can n't go on having these awful quarrels . It 's too degrading . It was a horrible mistake that we ever married .", "That 's the D. S. M .", "I thought that man was never going away .", "No . Of course not .", "You do n't know what I 've suffered . You do n't know what a hell my life is .... I tried so hard to prevent myself from coming here . When I married I swore I 'd break with all my old friends .... When I married I found I loved you .", "The simplest way , I believe , is to marry the wily solicitor 's daughter .", "Oh , I 'd give everything not to have said what I did . I 'd always held myself in before , but yesterday \u2014 I could n't .", "Oh , I did n't expect you to appreciate it . It is n't given to all of us to write about wicked earls and beautiful duchesses .", "I should go abroad for a while .", "Of course not . But still \u2014 you 're not very muscular , are you ?", "What d'you want to know ?", "How d'you do ?", "Oh , yes . The only vehicles that disturb the peaceful seclusion are the milk-cart and the barrel-organs . It 's quite idyllic .", "Do n't cry , Hilda . I can n't bear it .", "But it 's not a matter of people knowing . It 's a matter of honour .", "Come away , Jenny .", "Well , then , we 're both quite satisfied . You seemed to think that because I married Jenny I was bound to keep the whole gang of you for the rest of your lives . I 'm sorry I can n't afford it . And you will kindly tell the rest of them that I 'm sick and tired of forking out .", "Oh , you ... you cad ! It 's only what I should have expected you to do .", "Not unless you choose . Do you suppose I 'm ashamed ?", "Come in .", "I killed her \u2014 as surely as if I 'd strangled her with my own hands .", "Well , the other day she wired for me . I found her in the most awful state . She was simply crying her eyes out , poor thing . She 'd been seedy and gone to the doctor 's . And he told her ...", "Yes . She was all right yesterday .", "I 've been enchanted to see you . Good-bye .", "I may have acted like a cur . I do n't know . I acted as I suppose every other man would . But now I have a plain duty before me , and , by God , I mean to do it .", "I sent a wire to \u2014 to Hilda at the same time as to you .", "I thought you were never coming . I begged you to come at once .", "It seems hours since the girl went to the post-office .", "Do whatever you like .", "But they 're most aesthetic chimney-pots . Do come and look , Mrs. Murray .And at night they 're so mysterious . They look just like strange goblins playing on the house-tops . And you can n't think how gorgeous the sunsets are : sometimes , after the rain , the slate roofs glitter like burnished gold .Often I think I could n't have lived without my view , it says such wonderful things to me .Scoff , Mrs. Halliwell , I 'm on the verge of being sentimental .", "Nonsense .", "What nonsense you talk .", "What 's the time ?", "He 's rather a low blackguard , is n't he ?", "Jenny , what are you saying ?", "I 'm very sorry to make you so unhappy .", "Is n't it clear ? Some one has asked her to marry him , and she means to accept .", "Do n't be abusive , James . It 's rude .", "It 's a solemn thing .", "My duty is to be happy . Let us go where we can love one another \u2014 away from England , to a land where love is n't sinful and ugly .", "Oh , you must see that as well as I . We 're utterly unsuited to one another . And the baby 's death removed the only necessity that held us together .", "Jenny was a barmaid at the \u201c Golden", "I 'm perfectly enchanted .", "Oh , I 'm not going to Italy now , I 've changed all my plans .", "There .", "I shall set to work to earn my living at the Bar . Up till now I 've never troubled myself .", "Only I should be excessively grateful if you 'd time your coming with my \u2014 with my going . And vice versa .", "I felt the only thing I could do was to ask her to marry me . And when I saw the joy that came into her poor , tear-stained face I knew I 'd done the right thing .", "She 's dead .... And she was all right yesterday .", "Oh , my dear Jenny , if it amuses you , by all means discuss me with your brother and your sister and your father and your mother , and the whole crew of them .... I should be so dull if I had no faults .", "But the ghastly pallor ....", "I thought I should be quieter .", "And the spectacle of the fifty little houses opposite all exactly like one another .", "We shall see .", "Well , take a cigar with you .", "I gave it to Mrs. Murray before I was married .", "I have been to Chancery Lane .", "And please do n't talk so loud . It annoys me .", "That is a fact I deplore with all my heart , I assure you .", "Is he ? And \u2014 is your father like that too ?", "Does it look so petty as that in your eyes ? After all , it 's only common morality .", "Will you come with me , Hilda ? I can take you to a land where the whole earth speaks only of love \u2014 and where only love and youth and beauty matter .", "If we lose our souls , what does it matter ? We gain the whole world .", "Do n't be silly , James . You know you would n't like it at all .", "I tried to make you happy .", "Then she followed me to ... to your sister-in-law 's . And she came up and made another scene . Then I lost my head . I was so furious , I do n't know what I said . I was mad . I told her I 'd have nothing more to do with her .... Oh , I can n't bear it , I can n't bear it .", "I think it might be better for both of us \u2014 at least for a time . Perhaps later on we might try again .", "It 's a little difficult to write when you 're talking .", "I have n't the least objection to your knowing all about my correspondence .... And that 's fortunate , since you invariably make yourself acquainted with it .", "He did n't strike me as so juvenile as all that .", "I 've just told you that you used to know Jenny .", "Do n't you think I must have gone through a good deal before I could acknowledge to myself what she was ? I 'm chained to her for all my life . And when I look into the future \u2014 I see her a vulgar , slatternly shrew like her mother , and myself abject , degraded , and despicable . The woman never tires in her conflict with the man , and in the end he always succumbs . A man , when he marries a woman like that , thinks he 's going to lift her up to his own station . The fool ! It 's she who drags him down to hers .", "If you 'd warned me I 'd have made the show a bit tidier .", "The unanimity of their blame was the only thing that consoled me .", "I suppose it 's inevitable .", "I was only slacking . I was cutting a book .", "I really forget .", "God knows .", "Of course , we 're both Christians , dear James ; and there 's a good deal of civilisation kicking about the world nowadays . But , notwithstanding , the last word is still with the strongest .", "Jenny , I can n't help it if I do n't love you . I can n't help it if I \u2014 if I love some one else .", "I wish your mother 's son were .", "You 've thought of a great deal , John \u2014 you 've not thought of the child . I can n't let the child skulk into the world like a thief . Let him come in openly and lawfully . And let him go through the world with an honest name . Good heavens , the world 's bad enough without fettering him all his life with a hideous stigma .", "I ? A person of not the least importance .", "I 'm so sorry .", "Oh ; wo n't you stay and have some tea ?", "Show \u2018 em in .It 's Jenny . She said she was coming to tea .", "I can n't help it .", "I said , until to-day I 've been absolutely faithful to you . Heaven knows ,", "Thank God !", "I do n't know why you 've come . Mrs. Murry has promised to come and have tea with me for ages .", "Yes , you knew her .", "Even if I never see you again , I must tell you now that I love you . I made you suffer , I was blind . But I love you with all my heart , Hilda . All day I think of you , and I dream of you in the night . I long to take you in my arms and kiss you , to kiss your lips , and your beautiful hair , and your hands . My whole soul is yours , Hilda .", "Hulloa , what are you doing in these parts ?", "You drive me perfectly mad . You 'll make me say things that I shall regret all my life . For Heaven 's sake , go .", "Oh \u2014 yesterday we had an awful row ... before you came .", "Oh , I think I 've had enough of duty and honour . I 've used up all my principles in the last year .", "Really , that 's very thoughtful of you . I was under the impression you generally came to borrow money .", "Oh , do n't be afraid , I have n't got the pluck .... I was afraid to go on living . I thought if I killed myself it would be a reparation for her death . I went down to the river , and I walked along the tow-path to the same spot \u2014 but I could n't do it . The water looked so black and cold and pitiless . And yet she did it so easily . She just walked along and threw herself in .Then I came back , and I thought I 'd shoot myself .", "No , he would n't shine at duchesses tea-parties .", "We do n't seem able to get on very well . And I see no chance of things going any better .", "Really , even to please you , I 'm afraid I can n't go about with little samples of tea in my pocket and sell my friends a pound or two when I call on them . Besides , I do n't believe they 'd ever pay me .", "You do n't know what it is . Everything she says , everything she does , jars upon me so frightfully . I try to restrain myself . I clench my teeth to prevent myself from breaking out at her . Sometimes I can n't help it , and I say things that I 'd give anything to have left unsaid . She 's dragging me down . I 'm getting as common and vulgar as she is .", "Certainly \u2014 if it pleases you .", "It 's treachery to her memory . But you do n't know what it is when your prison door is opened .I do n't want to die . I want to live , and I want to take life by both hands and enjoy it . I 've got such a desire for happiness . Let 's open the windows , and let the sunlight in .It 's so good just to be alive . How can I help thinking that now I can start fresh ? The slate is wiped clean , and I can begin again . I will be happy . God forgive me , I can n't help the thought . I 'm free . I made a ghastly mistake , and I suffered for it . Heaven knows how I suffered , and how hard I tried to make the best of it . It was n't all my fault . In this world we 're made to act and think things because other people have thought them good . We never have a chance of going our own way . We 're bound down by the prejudices and the morals of everybody else . For God 's sake , let us be free . Let us do this and that because we want to and because we must , not because other people think we ought .Why do n't you say something ? You stare at me as if you thought me raving mad !", "Quite well , thanks .", "Because I must .", "I do n't vastly care . But if it pleases you very much you may tell me .", "How d'you do . You must scold me for keeping John so long .", "Several months .", "Crown . \u201d", "And d'you know what happened in the night ? I could n't go to bed . I felt I could never sleep again \u2014 and then , presently , I dozed off quite quietly in my chair . And I slept as comfortably \u2014 as if Jenny were n't lying in there , cold and dead . And the maid pities me because she thinks I passed as sleepless a night as she did .", "I can hear her voice now . I can see the look of her eyes . She asked me to give her another chance , and I refused . It was so pitiful to hear the way she appealed to me , only I was mad , and I could n't feel it .", "Now nothing can separate us , Hilda . You belong to me for ever .", "Do n't you remember the Grange case that he was mixed up in ?", "Do n't you ? It does n't matter .", "Hilda , it 's too hard . I can n't leave you .", "We 've been having it out twice a week for the last six months \u2014 and we 've never got anywhere yet .", "Oh , you can n't . You do n't know what you 're doing . I thought \u2014 I thought you loved me .", "I suppose I can make money as well as other men .", "And soon after a constable came up and asked me to go down to the river . He said there 'd been an accident .... She was dead . A man had seen her walk along the tow-path and throw herself in .", "Damn you , why do n't you mind your own business ?"], "true_target": ["You show unusual perspicacity , dear James .", "But life is a game of chess in which one is always beaten . Death sits on the other side of the board , and for every move he has a counter-move . And for all your deep-laid schemes he has a parry .", "I 've seen Mrs. Murray perhaps a dozen times in the last year .", "Oh , my dearest , it 's not hard to risk your life in the midst of battle . I can do that \u2014 but this needs more strength than I 've got . I tell you I can n't endure it .", "I really can n't see that because I married you I must necessarily take your whole family to my bosom .", "That 's rather a delicate question , is n't it ?", "Hilda !", "I do my best to hold myself in , but sometimes I feel it 's impossible . I shall be led to saying things that we shall both regret . For Heaven 's sake let us part .", "My dear Jenny , I never pretended to be a golden idol .", "I have an appointment with him .", "She threw herself into the river last night .", "I 'm getting rather tired , brother James . I 'd go , if I were you .", "What an ass he is ! How can you stand him ?", "My dear , I 'm willing to acknowledge that they have every grace and every virtue , but they rather bore me .", "I 'll try with all my might to be a good husband to you , Jenny .", "No , I 'm cold . Make up the fire .", "You talk of me as if I were a tame cat . I do n't want to brag , John , but after all , I 've shown that I 'm fit for something in this world . I went to the Cape because I thought it was my duty . I intend to marry Jenny for the same reason .", "I do n't care two straws for my friends .", "Then I shall go .", "My dear Jenny , we do n't choose our friends because they 're honest and respectable any more than we choose them because they change their linen daily .", "Jenny , I did my best for you a year ago . I gave you all I had to give . It was little enough in all conscience . Now I ask you to give me back my freedom .", "Well , after I came back from the Cape I began going there again . When I was out there she took it into her head to write me a letter , rather ill-spelt and funny \u2014 but I was touched that she thought of me . And she sent some tobacco and some cigarettes .", "Have n't you got something more to say than how awful ? I feel as if I were going mad .", "For the view , simply and solely .", "Look here , until to-day I swear to you before God that I 've never done anything or said anything that you could n't have known . Do you believe me ?", "Are there no more questions you want to ask me , Mrs. Halliwell ?", "What d'you want here ?", "There 's the bell , Mrs. Griggs . I dare say it 's the lady I expect . If any one else comes , I 'm not at home .", "No .", "I often wonder if the reviewer who abuses you for a printer 's error realises what pleasure he causes the wife of your bosom .", "That 's not true . I hardly ever see any of my old friends .", "Oh , I know , they happen every day . It 's no business of the man 's . And as for the girl , let her throw herself in the river . Let her go to the deuce , and be hanged to her .", "Are you willing to swear that you do n't go to my desk when I 'm away to read my letters ? Come , Jenny , answer that question .", "I humbly apologise . I thought he was a grocer , because last time he did us the honour of visiting us he asked how much a pound we paid for our tea and offered to sell us some at the same price .... But then he also offered to insure our house against fire and to sell me a gold mine in Australia .", "How dare you follow me ?", "You always leave my papers in such disorder after you 've been to my desk .", "She 's dead .", "There 's some one at the door .", "I dare say . But will you have a drink now ?", "You must leave us alone .", "Because you made me .", "You here again ?", "I 'm going away .", "I do n't know what you mean .", "I can for you , and you can have your mother and sister to live here .", "Yes , I was at Harrow .", "Do n't you think we 're both more or less to blame ?", "I 'm ready . We 've just got time to catch the train .", "I can n't be kind and gentle and forbearing day after day , for weeks , and months , and years .", "Oh , my dear , if you 're going in for women 's rights , you may have my vote by all means . And you can plump for all the candidates at once if you choose .", "Perfectly ! We 're going to be married this day week .", "I can n't force the wily solicitor to give me briefs .", "I say , I 've got something to tell you , John .", "I do n't ask you to .", "Oh , I was only a trooper , you know . They only give the D. S. O . to officers .", "How d'you do ?", "James , I told you to get out five minutes ago .", "The only compensation in brother James is that he sometimes causes one a little mild amusement .", "Oh , it 's so despicable . And yet it 's too strong for me .... I can n't help thinking that I 'm \u2014 free .", "Then I have at least something to be thankful for .", "Oh \u2014 I hardly know him yet . He seems very amiable .", "I 've struggled against it for months . And now I 'm beaten .", "I gave the world fine gold , and their currency is only cowrie-shells . I held up an ideal , and they sneered at me . In this world you must wallow in the trough with the rest of them .... The only moral I can see is that if I 'd acted like a blackguard \u2014 as ninety-nine men out of a hundred would have done \u2014 and let Jenny go to the dogs , I should have remained happy and contented and prosperous . And she , I dare say , would n't have died .... It 's because I tried to do my duty and act like a gentleman and a man of honour , that all this misery has come about .", "Oh , I have n't the least objection to your being out of work . All I protest against \u2014 and that very mildly \u2014 is that I should be expected to keep you . How much did you want to-day ?", "Yes .", "Good-bye \u2014 Jimmie .", "I 'm afraid it does .", "And you were so kind I could n't help coming again . I thought I did no harm .", "Do n't touch me !", "It only means that a few snobs will cut me .", "It 's absurd . She was an old friend of mine . Of course she came .", "That is a fact I should never dream of contradicting .", "I thought he was n't admitted into decent houses .", "I never mentioned her name .", "You can bring forward a thousand objections , but nothing alters the fact that , under the circumstances , there 's only one way open to a man of honour .", "What d'you mean ?", "I do n't wish to deceive you . It 's best that you should know what has happened .", "D'you think she 'll come ?", "And so in one way and another I came to know Jenny rather well . She appeared to get rather fond of me \u2014 and I could n't help seeing it .", "You ?...You 're on the wrong tack , old man . It 's not your sister-in-law I 'm going to marry .", "I can n't break the poor girl 's heart .", "D'you think I 've not regretted what I did ? It 's easy enough afterwards to say that I should have resisted . The world would be a Sunday School if we were all as level-headed at night as we are next morning .", "How did you know ?", "You have your marriage lines carefully locked up to prove it .", "It 's quite the most obvious .", "Jenny would kill herself if I did n't marry her .", "I could n't help it . I knew it was poison , but I loved the poison . I would give my whole soul for one look of your eyes .", "Yes , make it quickly , I 'm thirsty .... And I 'm so cold .", "I suppose I thought you 'd see it in the papers .", "I used up all my politeness six months ago .", "This afternoon I told Hilda I loved her .... And she loves me too .", "In there .", "Yes .", "How long is it since you sent the telegrams ?", "Jenny , what are you doing ?", "I 'd rather you did n't make jokes about it ,", "I 'm sorry that you should n't have made so good a bargain as you expected when you married me .", "That is a fate which has befallen better books than mine .", "Oh , Hilda , Hilda , you do n't care for him ?", "Oh , she loves me , and I \u2014 I adore her . God forgive me , I can n't help it .", "What d'you mean by that ?", "You 'll have the goodness to leave the relations between Jenny and myself alone \u2014 d'you hear ?", "For Heaven 's sake , Jenny , let us finish with it . I 'm very sorry . I do n't wish to be unkind to you . But you must have seen that \u2014 that I did n't care for you . What 's the good of going on humbugging , and pretending , and making ourselves utterly wretched ?", "Oh , what a dog 's life it is we lead ! We 've been both utterly wretched . It can n't go on \u2014 and I only see one way out .", "Do n't be foolish , James .", "You 're too flattering .", "Yes , do come .", "I thought you 'd see at once that I was doing the only possible thing .", "Good Heavens , how slowly the hours go . I thought the night would never end .... Oh , God , what shall I do ?", "I choose to remain .", "I should only make you very unhappy .", "He made a scene because I took her out on one of her off-nights , and she broke it off . I could n't help knowing it was on my account .", "Oh , I think she 's perfectly charming .... But what makes you say that ?", "Was he ?", "You have such odd ideas about the duties of a wife , Jenny . They include reading my letters and following me in the street . But tolerance and charity and forbearance do n't seem to come in your scheme of things .", "How spiteful of you !", "What does she look like ?", "I 've tried to do my duty . I 've done all I could to make you happy . And", "And now it 's the end . The life we led was impossible . I tried to do something that was beyond my power . I 'm going away . I can n't and I wo n't live with you any longer .", "Come in .", "Not at all .", "I 'm very sorry if I hurt your feelings . I promise you I do n't mean to . I always try to be kind to you .", "You do n't love me ?", "Is that all ? I could have invented far worse things than that to say of myself ....You know , Jenny , it 's not worth while to worry ourselves about such trifles . One can n't force oneself to like people . I 'm very sorry that I can n't stand your relations . Why on earth do n't you resign yourself and make the best of it ?", "I wo n't see him .", "No , you 're not .", "And what is it precisely you want me to do ?", "Then good-bye .", "And my work takes me away from you . I can n't always be down here . Think how bored you 'd be .", "My darling .", "I have some letters to write .", "How d'you do .", "Oh , that 's just the common or garden South African medal .", "You 'll be much happier . It 's the best thing for both of us . I 'll do all", "Yes .", "Oh , he 'll make a scene . I shall knock him down . I 've suffered too much through him already .", "I did n't get back here till nearly ten , and the maid told me Jenny had just gone out . I thought she 'd gone back to her mother 's .", "Well , you 've finished it now .", "Do n't you know that he 's been mixed up in every scandal for the last twenty years ?", "I sometimes wonder whether we should n't be happier \u2014 if we lived apart .", "John .", "We are in debt . But we share that very respectable condition with half the nobility and gentry in the kingdom . We 're neither of us good managers , and we 've lived a bit beyond our means this year . But in future we 'll be more economical .", "Please go . You can do no good .", "If I have to submit to nothing worse than going without a lot of useless luxuries , I really do n't think I need complain .", "It 's not true .", "Be quiet , Jenny . Are you mad ? Mrs. Murray , for God 's sake leave us . She 'll insult you .", "And she refused , I suppose .", "Well , here 's the tea !I wish you 'd pour it out . I 'm so clumsy .", "You !! Why , you 've tortured me for six months beyond all endurance . You 've made all my days a burden to me . You 've made my life a perfect hell .", "Because I love you .", "I do n't know any longer what 's right and what 's wrong . It all seems confused . It 's very hard .", "I despised myself . I felt I had n't the right to live , and I thought it would be easier just to pull a trigger .... People say it 's cowardly to destroy oneself , they do n't know what courage it wants . I could n't face the pain \u2014 and then , I do n't know what 's on the other side . After all , it may be true that there 's a cruel , avenging God , who will punish us to all eternity if we break His unknown laws .", "Do n't think too well of me Jenny .", "What more d'you want ? Is n't it enough that you 've ruined my whole life ?", "Oh , I would n't hit you for worlds , brother James . I should merely throw you downstairs .", "What on earth made you think ...?", "Your repartees are not brilliant , James .", "I observe that you have not acquired the useful art of being uncivil without being impertinent .", "I say , who is that ?", "You foolish child .", "I think you know my wife .", "Come in .", "Hilda , what are you going to say to him ?", "I 've asked you fifty times . Hulloa , John ! I did n't see you .", "Have you already tried to borrow it from Jenny ?", "After all , it 's my own fault . I brought it on myself , and I must take the consequences .... But I have n't the strength , I do n't love her .", "On the contrary , you never let slip an opportunity of making kind inquiries .", "Go on . Pray do n't hesitate for fear of hurting my feelings .", "Yes .", "D'you remember Jenny ?", "Good heavens , I 'm a man like any other . I have passions as other men have .", "Because I choose .", "Presumably because I 'm in love with her .", "Ah ! Hilda .", "It 's too late now to keep it in . I must tell you and have done with it . You 've been having it out for months \u2014 now it 's my turn .", "You 're mad .", "I 'm rather glad you stayed , John . I wanted to talk to you .", "There 's some one at the door , Fanny . Hurry up .", "I wo n't see him . I knew he 'd be round , curse him !", "I 'll just go and change .", "Merely that discretion is the better part of valour . They say that proverbs are the wealth of nations .", "Ca n't I marry any one I choose ? It 's nothing to you , is it ? D'you suppose I care if she 's a barmaid ?", "If you only knew how I despise myself !", "Would you mind leaving us alone ?", "I 've struggled with all my might to love you .", "They were given to me , I really do n't know what they cost .Wo n't you take the label off ?", "Oh no , I promise you I do n't do that . It 's lasted too long . And God knows where it 'll end .... They say the first year of marriage is the worst ; ours has been bad enough in all conscience ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["If you please , sir .", "Did you ring , sir ?", "Very well , sir ."], "true_target": ["Very well , sir .", "Some more visitors , Sir .", "Ah , well , sir , that 's lodgers all over . If they 're gents they get married ; and if they 're ladies they ai n't respectable ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["You brought him yourself to-day .", "Do n't be horrid , John .", "Robert Brackley . Do n't you know him ?", "How ?", "Nothing . But I want you to do something for me .", "And what did you do to deserve it ?", "Then , my good boy , undo it and do it up again .", "And you wo n't ever care for anybody else ?", "I always forget to ask how it 's getting on .", "I think I shall go and ring up the flat . I wonder if John has gone straight home .", "I 've been trying to remember ever since we arrived . You say it , Hilda ; you invented it .", "And you will give me that two-and-threepence , wo n't you ?", "Well , what have you been talking about ?", "Yes , but she need n't marry them . If she wants to encourage Basil let her do it from a discreet distance . Genius always thrives best on bread and water and platonic attachments . If Hilda marries him he 'll only become fat and ugly and bald-headed and stupid .", "It 's merely to tie up my shoe .", "Oh ! Well , good-bye . Are n't you coming , John .", "Well , Captain Murray left her five thousand a year , and she thinks Basil", "Hilda , John is clamouring for some tea .", "I meant Mr. Kent .", "She 'll snub you awfully .", "I daresay she wants to prove to him that he showed very bad taste a year ago . It is rather annoying when you 're attached to a young man that he should go and marry somebody else .", "I was never taught it . It 's not thought nice for young girls to know .", "Wretched creature !", "And I 've got to pay at least twelve calls . I hope every one will be out .", "John , why did n't you go to the Cape , and do heroic things ?", "Go away , you horror !", "Of course . They say he 'd have been given the Laureateship if it had n't been abolished at Tennyson 's death .", "But , my dear Mr. Kent , that was two years ago .", "John , you must n't make love to me . It would look so odd if they came in .", "I was wondering if you 'd made that up on the spur of the moment , or if you 'd fished it out of an old note-book .", "He went to Putney after luncheon to see your friend Mr. Kent . Have you seen him lately ?", "Well , you need n't turn me out the moment we arrive . Besides , I refuse to go till I 've had a piece of that cake .", "Home , without lime-light .", "Of course there are people who read him .", "I want a motor-car .", "That 's ever so much more fun than reading it , is n't it ?Oh , what a beautiful cake \u2014 and two cups !", "You absurd creature .", "But I hate waiting patiently .", "Oh , but you 're such a monster of discretion .... Now I want to see your medals , Mr. Kent .", "But , good heavens , there is no view . There are only chimney-pots .", "We shall see you again before you go to Italy , sha n't we ?", "John , you do love me ?", "I forget who they are . But I know they 're loathsome . That 's why I asked them .", "I can , indeed . If I had I should never have taken such an unconscionably long time about it .", "John , some body 'll see us ."], "true_target": ["I do n't know . I expect that 's precisely what she 's asking him .", "Good-bye .", "And the other one ?", "What 's this ?", "Perhaps he came to see me .", "Do n't be coy ! You know I mean the medals they gave you for going to the", "Heavens , what 's the matter with him , poor man ? He 's Hilda 's latest celebrity . He pretends to adore her .", "That 's just it . If you wanted to make love to me you ought to have married somebody else .John , do n't , I 'm sure they 'll come in .", "Yes .", "Yes , we really must be going . I 've not seen my precious baby for two hours .", "Oh , you cheat !", "Kent a genius .", "How much will you give me ?", "Well , mind you 're in early . We 've got a lot of disgusting people coming to dinner .", "Oh !", "I do n't know . I met him here last week .", "I wish you 'd treat life more seriously .", "By the way , how is the book ?", "Do n't be flippant . It 's a serious matter .", "What is the time , Mr. Brackley ?", "No , John , I want you .", "Why did n't they give you the D. S. O . ?", "Oh , but I know them well , and I love them dearly . They cost two shillings at the Army and Navy Stores , but I can n't afford them myself .", "I can n't imagine what 's happened to John . He promised to fetch me here .", "Cape .", "I do n't believe you 've written a word of it .", "She 's doing nothing of the sort .", "Why do n't you praise me instead of praising yourself ? People would think it so much nicer .", "Now you 're taking a mean advantage . It 's only this particular two minutes that I want you . Come and sit by me like a nice , dear boy .", "Wretched creature ! I 've been trying to ring you up .", "That 's usually when clever people talk most .", "I can n't do it for less than half-a-crown .", "My dear John , are you mad ? She 'd jump down my throat .", "I knew . Only I wanted to see if Mr. Kent was modest or vain .", "How brutal of you !", "I did n't really want him , you know .", "How unselfish ! And do you always have such expensive cake ?", "Yes , I want to know why you live up six flights of stairs .", "Oh , that 's just what we did n't want . We wanted to see the Celebrity at", "Oh , you are clever ! Do you think Hilda would have climbed six flights of stairs unless Love had lent her wings ?", "Is that funny or vulgar ?", "Is n't it enough for me to say I want you for you to hurl yourself at my feet immediately ?", "Look pleased to see us , Mr. Kent .", "Make it two-and-three .", "Anyhow , I 'm sure it 's a mistake to marry geniuses . They 're horribly bad-tempered , and they invariably make love to other people 's wives ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Good-bye , darling .", "You 've been making quite a day of it .", "I 'm not in the least in love with you .", "It 's because I love you that I shall marry Mr. Brackley .", "Do n't be so absurd , but I thought you 'd like to know her yellow hair was dyed .", "Oh , Basil , Basil ....Take care !", "I went down to see her . I thought she was vulgar and pretentious . I 'm afraid I can n't arouse any interest in her .", "Certainly . But why on Thursday ?", "Oh , Basil , I want your love . I want your love so badly .", "Wo n't you have some more tea , Mr. Kent ?", "I feel rather ashamed at taking you unawares .", "I could have borne it if you 'd been happy .", "It 's just as hard for me , Basil .", "Good-bye , you happy child . You 've got a precious baby , and you 've got a husband you love . What can you want more ?", "Nonsense , Mabel . I 've read it .", "But it 'll get better . You 'll get used to one another , and you 'll understand one another better .", "I 'm rather attached to him . I do n't take everything he says very seriously . And young men ought to be foolish .", "I do n't know .", "Is that a very interesting book ?", "Good-bye , John . You 're not angry with me because I was horrid .... I 'm glad you told me about his wife . Now I shall know what to do .", "No .", "It 's you who 've driven me into it .", "What on earth d'you mean ?Mabel .", "If you care for me at all , do your duty like a brave man \u2014 and let me respect you .", "You should n't have let him out of your sight .", "I 'm afraid you 're going to bore me .", "Yes . He called the other day .You 're unusually silent , Mr. Brackley .", "I thought you were a brave man . They would n't have given you that medal if you 'd been a coward .", "Oh , Basil , let us try to walk straight . Think of your wife , who loves you also \u2014 as much as I do . You 're all the world to her . You can n't treat her so shamefully .", "Oh , no , go away . For God 's sake , go now . I can n't bear it .", "You 're very unromantic .", "I suppose it 's the furniture . I 'm thinking of changing it .", "I shall be delighted .", "And d'you think I 've not suffered , John ? I 'm so unhappy .", "But I 'm afraid I 'm hopelessly romantic .", "If you like I 'll promise you never to see your husband again .", "I 'm sorry , I 've just remembered that I 'm lunching out .", "Were you serious just now , or were you laughing at me ?", "Dear me ! Shakespeare wrote a play about Cleopatra , did n't he ?", "God help me ! What have I done ?", "I 've always wanted to make mine purple .", "I saw you were unhappy .", "But I know many women who wear horrid frocks .", "I do n't know \u2014 perhaps , yes ?", "Oh , I hope not . Why ?", "He comes here , Mr. Kent .", "Oh , why did you come ?", "I wonder why you dislike him !", "I can n't listen to you if you talk like that .", "They bear no distinctive mark of their eccentricity .", "Are you ever serious ?", "Do n't say that , Basil .", "Then do n't let her ever find it out . Be kind to her , and gentle and forbearing .", "No , I do n't care for him . I worship the very ground he treads on .", "You know I love you . But because of my great love I beseech you to do your duty ."], "true_target": ["Let us go where we can be together always . We have so short a time ; let us snatch all the happiness we can .", "He amuses me . I dare say we should get on very well together .", "You brave man . What is it about ?", "He 's asked me to be his wife . And on Thursday I shall give him an answer .", "Good-bye , my dearest .", "And who are they if you please ?", "Mabel , I 'll never take you out again . They 're perfectly incorrigible , Mr. Kent .", "It 's getting very late , Mabel . We really must be going .", "Are you doing anything now ?", "You 're making our friendship impossible . Do n't you see that you 're preventing me from ever having you here again ?", "No \u2014 do n't .... Please !", "But try \u2014 try for my sake .", "And the little things that the indiscreet read of in the papers ....", "Then perhaps I shall be in to luncheon on Thursday after all .", "He 's sure to come if you 'll only wait patiently .", "Poor things ! Who are they ?", "Basil . Do n't go .", "How can you say that of your wife ?", "On the contrary , I provide you with the materials for a sonnet .", "I wonder why you do it ?", "It 's very unflattering to us who 've been doing our little best to amuse you .", "I 'd rather not be cured .", "You did ask us to come and have tea with you , did n't you ?", "Mr. Kent , I want to introduce you to Mr. Brackley .", "May I go out ?", "People are so stupid , they 're always in when you call .", "I wonder you have n't learnt to mind your own business , John .", "Why on earth can n't he help himself ?", "You 've been lunching at Richmond ?", "Do n't you understand that we could never respect ourselves again if we did that poor creature such a fearful wrong ? She would be always between us with her tears and her sorrows . I tell you I could n't bear it . Have mercy on me \u2014 if you love me at all .", "I wanted you to be so happy .", "I suspect he thought precisely the same of you .", "Thanks so much , Mr. Kent . I 'm afraid we disturbed you awfully .", "What do you mean ?", "You must . I know it 's better to do our duty . For my sake , dearest , go back to your wife , and do n't let her ever know that you love me . It 's because we 're stronger than she that we must sacrifice ourselves .", "John ? I saw him at the Martins yesterday .", "I should n't have said that if I did n't know that nothing would induce you to go till you wanted to .", "Glasses .", "I ought never to have seen you again . I thought there was no harm in your coming , and I \u2014 I could n't bear to lose you altogether .", "He 's only forty , poor thing \u2014 and I 've never known a coming young man who was less than that .", "But you must . It 's your duty .", "The weather and the crops , Shakespeare and the Musical", "Mabel !", "Let her speak .", "That 's quite a new trait in you .", "You talk more nonsense than anyone I ever met .", "Oh , I can n't bear it . I wo n't lose you . Basil , say you love me .", "There must be people in the world to provide gossip for their neighbours .", "Have mercy on me . Do n't you see how weak I am ? Oh , God help me !", "No .", "It 's given for distinguished service in the field , Mabel .", "It 's so nice of you to have come .", "You must n't go till you 've told me who the fair charmer was I saw you with at the play last night .", "I do n't want to make you unhappy , Mrs. Kent .", "Did you hear me tell Mr. Brackley to come on Thursday ?"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["I had no such exalted opinion of your disinterestedness , Mr. Bush . I come to you now .", "D'you mind if I have a talk to him ? I think I can save you from all that .", "I thought it might have slipped your memory that Basil was married about a year ago .", "How quickly you reckon !", "Now sit down , there 's a good chap , and let 's have a little talk about it .", "Come , come , Mr. Bush , do n't be ridiculous . You 'd far better keep quiet , you know .", "Basil 's rooms in Bloomsbury .", "Why the Dickens does he come ? He 's got no business to .", "But what on earth is it all about ?", "What are you going to do ?", "I 'm very sorry .", "I do n't care if they do .", "And the quiet is perfectly enchanting .", "Mabel , I command you to let yourself be kissed .", "I know .", "Ah , Fanny , if there were no rogues in the world , life would really be too difficult for honest men .", "What d'you think you 'll get out of making a row at the inquest ? Of course , there 'll be an inquest .", "Have you thought that you , who 've never needed to economise , will have to look at every shilling you spend ? You 've always been careless with your money , and what you 've had you 've flung about freely .", "What 's the matter ?", "No . Certainly not .", "What d'you mean ? She 's not really dead !", "Mabel , are we playing gooseberry \u2014 at our time of life ?", "Take care he does n't hear you .", "It 's usual to take one 's hat off in other people 's houses .", "Upon my word , I do n't think you 've got much cause to be jealous .", "My wife has been here \u2014 and her sister .", "And what d'you think your friends will say to your marrying \u2014 a barmaid ?", "You talk as if such things had never happened before .", "Ha , ha ! I thought so .", "It is n't horrid , it 's natural history .", "Never heard of her . Is it any one I know ?", "There 's not a drawing-room in Regent 's Park or in Bayswater that has n't got its tame genius . I do n't know if Basil Kent is much more than very clever .", "Wo n't you have a cigar ?", "May I ask to whom you 're referring ? There are so many men in the world . In fact , it 's very over-crowded .", "D'you think he means it seriously when he talks of separation ?", "Mr. Bush , you 're a philosopher .", "Society has made its own decalogue , a code that 's just fit for middling people who are not very good and not very wicked . But Society punishes you equally if your actions are higher than its ideal or lower .", "Why are you going to marry her , Basil ?", "I thought , after all you 've told me , you might not care for me to see her .", "Man alive , you 're not going to marry the barmaid of the \u201c Golden Crown \u201d ?", "Why do n't you separate , then ?", "Oh , I do n't know . Passed through my head .", "Nonsense ! Why , I 've been in love with twenty girls , and I have n't married them all . One can n't do that sort of thing in a country where they give you seven years for bigamy . Every public-house along the Thames from Barnes to Taplow is the tombstone of an unrequited passion of my youth . I loved \u2018 em dearly , but I never asked \u2018 em to marry me .", "Do n't you realise that you 've only one life and that mistakes are irreparable ? People play with life as if it were a game of chess in which they can try this move and that , and when they get into a muddle , sweep the board clear and begin again .", "I think I must be off , Basil .", "It 's impossible .", "On the contrary , they 'd be convinced that when we were alone I beat you . Besides , I could n't honestly say that you kept in the background .", "I do n't know any man less fit than you for the dreary waiting and the drudgery of the Bar .", "You need n't look indignant . You can n't deny that you proposed to me .", "Everything .", "Really ?", "Wo n't you sit down ?", "Will you take me in ?", "But I can n't understand ! Why did she do it ?", "It appears that you owe Basil a good deal of money . Can you pay it ?", "Why does she let him hang about her ? She must know she 's turning his silly head .", "Basil , it 's not the woman we used to know before you went out to the", "But she always pretended to be engaged to that scrubby little chap with false teeth who used to hang about the bar and make sheep 's eyes at her over innumerable Scotch-and-sodas .", "What !", "Saw it with mine own eyes . I congratulate you , and I give you my blessing . I 'll get a new frock-coat to give the lady away in .", "Do you really care for him ?", "One moment .... You can give me a little conversation , can n't you ?", "I 'm the discreet husband , I keep in the background .", "Halliwell .", "Where is she now ?", "But you can n't afford to keep a wife and an increasing family .", "I would n't worry myself too much if I were you , Basil , old man .", "How d'you do , Mrs. Kent ? I 've been having an early lunch at Richmond , and I thought I 'd just drop in on my way back . As it was Saturday afternoon I thought I might find you .", "D'you think that would have done any one much good ?", "I dare say .", "Do n't be a fool , Basil .", "She 's happier than she would ever have been if she 'd lived .", "Now that we 've got rid of our womankind let 's make ourselves comfortable .I think I 'll sample your baccy if you 'll pass it along .", "How d'you do ?", "Are you stark , staring mad ? Why on earth d'you want to marry Jenny Bush ?", "What is the matter ?", "Naturally she was very much upset .", "I do n't know . Exercise your invention .", "Why are you going to marry her ?", "Oh , you poor thing , can n't you do without me for two minutes ?", "Well ?", "You know , Jenny , he 's a man of honour .", "What do you mean ?", "It does inspire respect , does n't it ?", "Bush ... Bush ....", "I 'm afraid I 'm in a great hurry .", "I 'm very sorry . Last time we met I thought you a very amiable person . Do n't you remember , we went and had a drink together ?", "No : I think I 'll stay and have a little chat with Basil , while you tread the path of duty .", "My dear girl , you really can n't expect me to play the heavy father when we 've only been married six months . It would be almost improper .", "I told them it was improper for more than one woman at a time to call at a bachelor 's rooms , Basil .", "I 'm very glad you sent for me . You had better come back to London , and stay with me for the present .", "And then ?", "Ha ! ha !", "I would n't presume to judge you , Jenny .", "Mr. Bush , you 'll be so good as to keep a civil tongue in your mouth while you 're here \u2014 and you 'll talk less loudly .", "I would n't have said that if I 'd been you .", "H 'm ! I 've made rather more than an average ass of myself , have n't I ?", "Oh , yes , you will . You must n't take things too seriously .", "How long has this been going on ?", "But , good Lord , Basil , what d'you mean ? You 're not serious ?", "Good heavens , why did you do it ?", "All right . Good-bye , Mrs. Kent .", "Halliwell .", "I 'm afraid you can n't .", "You do n't know what marriage is . Even with two people who are devoted to one another , who have the same interests and belong to the same class , it 's sometimes almost unbearable . Marriage is the most terrible thing in the world unless passion makes it absolutely inevitable .", "All right , thanks .", "Are you sure you 're not making an ass of yourself ? If you 've got into a mess , surely we can get you out . Marriage , like hanging , is rather a desperate remedy .", "Otherwise you would , doubtless , have accepted .", "But , my dear chap , its absurd to act according to an unrealisable ideal in a world that 's satisfied with the second-rate . You 're tendering bank-notes to African savages , among whom cowrie shells are common coin .", "Well , and after that ?", "Perhaps it 's occurred to her also that you 're free .", "Also it appears that there was some difficulty with your accounts in your last place .", "I do n't think so .", "It 's merely to listen to me quietly for two or three minutes .", "Nonsense .", "Well , Basil thought of giving the entire contents of the house to your mother and sister .", "I 'm going out on the balcony . I 'm passionately devoted to chimney-pots .", "I wish I could help you . I do n't see anything I can do .", "Of course , but a clever man like you ....", "And where precisely did the honour come in when you ...?", "No . You can take a hundred and fifty , or go to the devil .", "Already ?", "Well , that 's a silly ass of an answer .", "H 'm !", "You simply wired that you were in great trouble .", "After all , it 's only a very regrettable incident due to your youth and \u2014 want of innocence .", "My name is Halliwell . I had the pleasure of meeting you at", "I confined my heroism to the British Isles . I married you , my angel .", "I do n't ask you to say anything untrue . After all , it 's not worth while for a man of the world like you \u2014 a business man \u2014 to give way to petty spite . And we do n't want to have any scandal . That would be just as unpleasant for you as for us ."], "true_target": ["I 'll give you two shillings .", "What on earth d'you mean ? I 've not seen a paper . Where 's your wife ?", "Hilda always has gone in for literary people . That 's the worst of marrying a cavalryman , it leads you to attach so much importance to brains .", "You do n't seriously think she 'd do that . People do n't commit suicide so easily , you know .", "She may be vulgar , but she told me her love was like music in her heart . Do n't you think she must have suffered awfully to get hold of a thought like that ?", "It opens up endless possibilities of domestic unhappiness .", "It 's nonsense . It can only be a little passing quarrel . You must expect to have those .", "It can n't be true .", "On the other hand \u2014 if you wo n't make a fuss at the inquest , I 'll give you fifty pounds .", "On my oath .", "If you sold it , for instance ?", "Who spoke of fifty pounds ?", "Come , come , Basil , you must make an effort ....", "Not you \u2014 your wife .", "Nonsense . She can be provided for . It only needs a little discretion \u2014 and no one will be a ha'porth the wiser , nor she a ha'porth the worse .", "I say , Mabel , is Basil often here ?", "You followed him in the street , Jenny ?", "I do n't know .", "My dear Basil , I would n't venture to judge you . But I think it 's rather late in the day to set up for a moralist .", "Fleet Street . Presumably you 're not going to marry her .", "By writing books ?", "Yes .", "I was thinking how far a man may fall when he attempts to climb the stars .", "Now what have you been doing that you should n't ?", "Do you expect any one ?", "Yes .", "Now I think I 'll say good morning to you . You can understand that Basil is n't fit to see any one .", "I started immediately I got your wire .", "Sixpence .", "Let me see him . You do n't want him to make a fuss at the inquest .", "D'you think that 'll do you any good ?", "I do n't care .... Look here , you make a diversion so that I can get hold of her .", "Mabel .", "Well , the fact is \u2014 Basil 's going away , and he wants to get rid of the furniture and the house . What d'you think it 's worth , as an auctioneer ?", "I did n't know you were in there .", "Was it from her ?", "I wonder why Hilda wants to marry poor Basil !", "What you might really have foreseen .", "Fiddledidee ! I think you ought to speak to Hilda about it .", "Free ?", "My maiden aunt sent you a woollen comforter , but I 'm not aware that in return you ever made her a proposal of marriage .", "Well , I do n't think she 's playing the game , and I shall tell her so .", "But if at the end Death always mates you , the fight is surely worth the fighting . Do n't handicap yourself at the beginning by foolish quixotry . Life is so full . It has so much to offer , and you 're throwing away almost everything that makes it worth the trouble .", "No .", "We 're both men of the world , Mr. Bush . Will you do me a great favour as a \u2014 friend ?", "Mabel , do you mean to say you brought me here , an inoffensive , harmless creature , for your sister to propose to a pal of mine ? It 's an outrage .", "Show him up , Fanny .", "I did n't . He insisted on coming \u2014 when I said I had to fetch you .", "I wish Love would provide wings for the chaperons as well .", "Have I kept you waiting ? I went down to Chancery Lane with Basil .", "But she was all right yesterday .", "What d'you mean ?", "But it takes precious good care to crucify you when you 're alive .", "No , of course not ! Well , who the deuce are you going to marry ?", "Are you in love with her ?", "Well , do n't be so beastly solemn about it .", "That 's pleasant for them . You know , men and women without end have snapped their fingers at society and laughed at it , and for a while thought they had the better of it . But all the time society was quietly smiling up its sleeve , and suddenly it put out an iron hand \u2014 and scrunched them up .", "Yes , rather . Why , we always lunched there in the old days .", "I see .", "I was thinking as I came along that one must lead quite an idyllic existence in the suburbs \u2014 with the river \u2014 and one 's little garden .", "What 's this for ?", "There 's nothing to be afraid of , Basil . She might be sleeping .", "Then you must do as you think best .... You 're playing the most dangerous game in the world . You 're playing with human hearts .... Good-bye .", "Do n't be silly . I shall kiss you if I want to .", "Why ?", "I wish you 'd explain why we 've come , or Basil will think I 'm responsible .", "After all , I am your husband .", "Certainly not . I would n't dream of such a thing .", "But , my good girl , it 's not undone .", "Well ?", "For goodness sake tell me what you mean , Basil .", "Nine pounds a hundred .", "Nice gal , Hilda \u2014 ai n't she ?", "Dear me , no . Mere statement of fact .", "Possibly . But altogether I fancy we could make it uncommonly nasty for you if you made a fuss . If dirty linen is going to be washed in public \u2014 there 's generally a good deal to be done on both sides .", "I beg your pardon . I thought you were asking for information .", "Mabel , it was only two shillings .", "Oh , the cake was for her , was it ? Would you like me to go ?", "After all , I suppose he has a certain right to come here \u2014 under the circumstances . Had n't you better see what he wants ?", "Jenny Bush I 've ever heard of was a rather pretty little barmaid in", "I say , old gal \u2014 you 're not going to make a fool of yourself , are you ?", "Certainly .", "Yes , I know ; but it 's not necessary . You 'll tell your mother and sister ?", "All right , hurry up .", "Good morning , Mr. Bush .", "Basil \u2014 he 's gone .... Where are you ?", "Well , it 's a way that may do credit to your heart , but scarcely to your understanding .", "Good morning .", "I do .", "I do n't know what to say .", "Come , Basil \u2014 pull yourself together a bit .", "Oh , my dear Basil ...", "Then , by God , you have no right to marry her . A man has no right to marry a woman for pity . It 's a cruel thing to do . You can only end by making yourself and her entirely wretched .", "Then why the dickens did you say it was ?", "Do n't you think it 's rather rough on that poor little woman in Putney ?", "Now come and sit down quietly .", "Basil , old man , we 've known each other a good many years now . Do n't you think you 'd better trust me ?", "Yes .", "My native modesty prevents .", "I assure you ....", "Yes .... Then I went on to Putney .", "Why did n't you tell me that Hilda was fond of Basil ! Does he like her ?", "How d'you know ?", "I wish you would n't wear such prominent hats .", "I 'll give you fifty now and the rest after the inquest .", "How awful !", "The condition is , of course , that nothing is said at the inquest .", "No , it ai n't . I 've done it myself . It 's like a high dive . When you look down at the water it fairly takes your breath away , but after you 've done it \u2014 it 's not so bad as you think . You 're going to be married , my boy .", "I 've been having a cup of tea with Basil .", "Is that all \u2014 honour bright ?", "He did n't say so .", "Yes ?", "But you 're the last man in the world to give up these things . There 's nothing you enjoy more than going to dinner-parties and staying in country houses . Women 's smiles are the very breath of your nostrils .", "Cape ?", "That would n't be a bad present to make to any one , would it ?", "I assure you I 'm not .... Is n't Basil here rather often ?", "Ah , well , we wo n't discuss the point .", "Oh , it was only some stupid idea of my wife 's . Women are such fools , you know . And they think they 're so confoundedly sharp .", "Really , Mr. Bush , you have no reason to be indignant with me .", "My dear Basil , you talk of pity , and you talk of duty , but are you sure there 's anything more in it than vanity ? You 've set yourself up on a sort of moral pinnacle . Are you sure you do n't admire your own heroism a little too much ?", "I can n't tell you how extremely sorry I am for what has happened .", "I thought you got on so well .", "I think I should put it in another way . One has to be very strong and very sure of oneself to go against the ordinary view of things . And if one is n't , perhaps it 's better not to run any risks , but just to walk along the same secure old road as the common herd . It 's not exhilarating , it 's not brave , and it 's rather dull . But it 's eminently safe .", "Why , then he 'll make an ideal Member of Parliament .", "The only", "You must have mistaken me . A hundred and fifty .", "Of course .", "Will you answer me one question \u2014 on your honour ?", "Good-bye and \u2014 my best wishes .", "Good God !"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Oh , thanks , it 's all right . Come and sit by me , Basil .", "No , I want to speak to you . You 're trying to get my husband from me . He 's my husband .", "Oh , you need n't tell me that . I know it . She 's a lady , is n't she ?", "I think it 's a very nice neighbourhood . And you get such a superior class of people here .", "What 's she got your photograph here for ?", "Oh , I 've learnt to know you so well this last six months \u2014 since the baby died . You 've got no cause to set yourself up on a pedestal .", "Ah , you do n't get the fine air at Harrow that you get at Margate .", "I 've caught you .", "No . He never says anything \u2014 but I saw it in his eyes .Oh , you do n't know what our life is . For days he does n't say a word except to answer my questions . And the silence simply drives me mad . I should n't mind if he blackguarded me . I 'd rather he hit me than simply look and look . I can see he 's keeping himself in . He 's said more to-day than he 's ever said before . I knew it was getting towards the end .", "And what 'll you do ?", "Why d'you want to write your letters elsewhere ?", "Much good your promises will do me . I would n't believe a word you said . I know what Society ladies are . We know all about them in the City .", "Oh , you do n't know . Last Tuesday he was dining there , and you should have seen the state he was in . He was so restless he could n't sit still . He looked at his watch every minute . His eyes simply glittered with excitement , and I could almost hear his heart beating .", "You 're stealing my husband from me . You 're a wicked woman .", "I do n't know what 's wrong with him .", "Jimmie , do n't !", "Because I love him . Oh , John , you do n't know how I love him . I 'd do anything to make him happy . I 'd give my life if he wanted it . Oh , I can n't say it , but when I think of him my heart burns so that sometimes I can hardly breathe . I can never show him that he 's all in the world to me ; I try to make him love me , and I only make him hate me . What can I do to show him ? Ah , if he only knew , I 'm sure he 'd not regret that he married me . I feel \u2014 I feel as if my heart was full of music , and yet something prevents me from ever bringing it out .", "No . It was a receipt from the coal merchant . I could see how he despised me when he looked at the envelope \u2014 I did n't stick it down again very well . And I saw him smile when he found it was only a receipt .", "A precious lot of good your work does . You can n't earn enough money to keep us out of debt .", "Well , then , it 's better to do that than moon about like you do .", "He never loved me . He married me because he thought it was his duty . And then when the baby died \u2014 he thought I 'd entrapped him .", "Oh , yes , there is . Speak to your sister-in-law . Ask her to have mercy on me . Perhaps she does n't know what she 's doing . Tell her I love him .... Take care . There 's Basil . If he knew what I 'd said he 'd never speak to me again .", "You 're sorry for her .", "Thanks . You did n't expect I 'd marry Basil when I used to mix cocktails for you in the \u201c Golden Crown , \u201d did you ?", "Oh , I know you have \u2014 for five minutes . It was only an excuse . You might just as well have come here straight .", "We 've lent you so much , Jimmie . And ma 's had a lot , too .", "Good-bye .", "Can you deny that you 're in love with her ?", "With Mrs. Murray . Is that it ? You want to go away with her .", "On your oath ?", "Well , it 's better to make a bit as best one can than to ....", "Oh , well , I 'm going to see that for myself .", "And even if she does marry that other man she 'll love you still . There 's no room for me between you . I can go away like a discharged servant .... Oh , God ! oh , God ! what have I done to deserve it ?", "Are you really going to Chancery Lane ?", "No .", "I 've followed him .", "I do n't know .", "She 's frightened of me . She dare n't stand up to me .", "But you said she loved you .", "D'you always drink out of three cups at once ?", "I want to have it out .", "Is there anything between Basil and Mrs. Murray ?", "Well , I 'm you 're wife ,", "We had a little tiff this morning . That 's why he went out .... Oh , do n't say he does n't care for me . I could n't live .", "She 's got no right to keep it there .", "I sha n't go till you come with me .", "I 'm not going to be always put upon , I 'm your wife and I 'm as good as you are .", "Yes . If I 'm not ladylike enough for him , I need n't play the lady there . You 're shocked now , I suppose ?", "Oh !", "Kiss me .There ! Now I can sit down quietly and talk . How d'you like my brother ?", "Oh , do n't look so surprised . You 're not an utter fool , are you ? He proposed it to-day before you came in . We 'd been having one of our rows .", "He 's not a bad sort when you know him . He 's just like my mother .", "They would n't if they were swells .", "Instead of a barmaid ?", "Oh , I 'm glad you acknowledge that you have something to do with it .", "If you only knew what a life we lead ! He calls it a dog 's life , and he 's right .", "Oh , I brought my brother Jimmie to see you .", "I 've caught you at last .... You liar ! You dirty liar ! You told me you were going to Chancery Lane .", "On Saturday afternoon ? Why , he wo n't be there .", "Have n't I ? I suppose I must shut my eyes and say nothing . You 're in love with her . D'you think I 've not seen it in these months ? That 's why you want to leave me .", "Why should n't I talk ? D'you think I 'm not good enough , eh ? I should have thought I was more important than your letters .", "I have a right to know .", "I gave the butler a sovereign , and he told me .", "I wo n't have you say anything against him .", "I want you . D'you think I did n't guess what was going on ? I saw you come in with Halliwell . Then I saw him go out with his wife . Then another man went out , and I knew you were alone with her .", "Well , he 's none the worse for that , is he ?", "You can n't get round me with polite words . I 'm sick of all that . I want to speak straight .", "What did you mean then ?", "Accuse me of reading your letters now .", "Basil !", "I had a headache .", "I know he is n't a Society man .", "He 's gone out for a walk .", "I wo n't . You 're afraid to let me see her .", "Oh , Jimmie , do n't . It was my fault that we quarrelled this morning . I wanted to make him angry , and I nagged at him . Do n't let him see that I 've said anything to you . I 'll see \u2014 I 'll see if I can n't send you a pound to-morrow , Jimmie .", "That 's what you 've been brooding over this last week , is it ? Separation ! I knew there was something , and I could n't find out what it was .", "It is a long time since I 've seen you . I suppose you 've quietened down now you 're a married man . You were a hot \u2018 un when you was a bachelor .", "Will you tell me the truth if I ask you something ?", "Well , I never ! If that is n't old John Halliwell . I did n't expect to see you . This is a treat .", "It 's not true . It 's not true .", "Well , you 've been at the Bar for five years . I should have thought you could make something after all that time .", "I have n't said a word against you , Basil .", "You do n't think they 're good enough for you to associate with because they 're not in swell positions .", "Then why d'you treat him as if he was a dog ?", "Ca n't you write them here ?", "Now for another thumping lie .", "Much ?", "You do n't love me ?", "He 's been brooding over it . I know him so well , I knew there was something he was thinking over . Oh , John , I could n't live without him . I 'd rather die . If he leaves me , I swear I 'll kill myself .", "Well , you know , Pa has n't had the education that Jimmie 's had . Jimmie was at a boarding-school at Margate .", "It 's a lie !... And she 's just as much in love with you as you are with her .", "All the neighbours know that we 've got bills with the tradesmen .", "Oh , Basil , if it 's true , give me another chance . She does n't love you as I love you . I 've been selfish and quarrelsome and exacting , but I 've always loved you . Oh , do n't leave me , Basil . Let me try once more if I can n't make you care for me .", "It deserved it .", "Will you swear that you 're not in love with her ? Swear it on your honour ?", "What are you going to do ?", "And I 've read his letters , too \u2014 because I wanted to know what he was doing . I steamed one open , and he saw it , and he never said a word .", "D'you think I have n't got eyes in my head ? I saw it that day she came here . D'you suppose she came to see me ? She despises me . I 'm not a lady . She came here to please you . She was polite to me to please you . She asked me to go and see her to please you .", "And I suppose you think it 's my fault ?", "I do n't believe that you 're not in love with that woman ."], "true_target": ["I know that sort of friend . D'you think I did n't see the way she looked at you , and how she followed you with her eyes ? She simply hung on every word you said . When you smiled , she smiled . When you laughed , she laughed . Oh , I should think she was in love with you ; I know what love is , and I felt it . And when she looked at me I know she hated me because I 'd robbed her of you .", "I really think you loathe me .", "Am I your wife or not ?", "Tell him I 've not said anything against him , Jimmie .", "Oh , I hate her . I hate her .", "Oh , Jimmie , Jimmie , sometimes I do n't know which way to turn , I 'm that unhappy . If the baby had only lived I might have kept my husband \u2014 I might have made him love me .There 's Basil .", "And after all we 're not in such a bad position as all that . My mother 's father was a gentleman .", "Oh , do n't pity me . D'you think I want your pity now ?", "It 's nothing at all to you .", "What are you doing here ?", "Oh , before you we 've always kept up appearances . He 's ashamed to let you know he regrets he ever married me . He wants to separate .", "How do other fellows manage it ?", "Say it out if you 've got anything to say , I 'm not afraid to hear .", "Oh , I see . Fancy your being married . How d'you like it ?", "Except Mrs. Murray , eh ?", "What !", "Well , I was n't the only one . The papers praised it , did n't they ?", "I mean it .", "Oh , Jimmie , take care not to say anything to make him angry .", "You only think of yourself . What is to become of me ?", "Basil , you do n't mean that ?", "Jimmie is n't a grocer or a haberdasher . He 's an auctioneer 's clerk .", "You talk as if we only remained together because it was convenient .", "He 's so glad to go ....", "Oh !", "Oh , God , what shall I do ? And even though she 's going to marry somebody else , you care for her better than any one else in the world ?", "What time is it ?", "I know what you are now . And I was such a fool as to think you a hero . You 're merely a failure . In everything you try you 're a miserable failure .", "Oh , I know it is n't fair to him , but I lose my head . I can n't always be refined . Sometimes I can n't help breaking out . I feel I must let myself go .", "I 'm so glad we 're alone . I should like to be alone with you all my life . You do love me , do n't you , Basil ?", "You 're stealing my husband from me . Oh , you ....", "He says you 're a damned snob .", "Oh , yes , I know her . You need n't introduce me . I 've come for my husband .", "Oh no , you 're a gentleman and a barrister and an author , and you could n't do anything to dirty those white hands that you 're so careful about , could you ?", "It is n't a matter of yesterday , or to-day , or to-morrow . I can n't alter myself . He knew I was n't a lady when he married me . My father had to bring up five children on two-ten a week . You can n't expect a man to send his daughters to a boarding-school at Brighton on that , and have them finished in Paris .... He does n't say a word when I do something or say something a lady would n't \u2014 but he purses up his lips , and looks .... Then I get so mad that I do things just to aggravate him . Sometimes I try to be vulgar . One learns a good deal in a bar in the City , and I know so well the things to say that 'll make Basil curl up . I want to get a bit of revenge out of him sometimes , and I know exactly where he 's raw and where I can hurt him .You should see the way he looks when I do n't eat properly , or when I call a man a Johnny .", "Where ?", "You might at least be polite to him , Basil .", "He came into the \u201c Golden Crown \u201d every day of his life , and chance it !", "And then I waited for you , and you did n't come . And at last I could n't wait any longer .", "I 'm awfully late , I could n't come before .", "Can I trust you ?", "No . You 've told me you do n't want me any more . I shall go my own way .", "I 'm not afraid of that . You 're brave and you 're clever and you 're a professional man , and you 're everything .", "Basil !", "What d'you mean ?", "Have you seen him anywhere ?", "He 's always there . He was there twice last week and twice the week before .", "After all , he is my brother .", "D'you mean to say you want to separate ?", "You used to be a good sort . You never looked down on me because I was a barmaid . Tell me I can trust you , John . There 's no one I can speak to , and I feel if I do n't speak I shall go off my head .", "And one of them advised you to study an English grammar . And you 're the fine gentleman who looks down on poor things like us !", "You 've got no right to say that .", "You never loved me \u2014 even at the beginning ?", "Why do n't you like them ? They 're honest and respectable .", "I 've got a right to follow you .", "But I love you , Basil .", "Oh , I know he 's a man of honour . I wish he had a little less of it . One does n't want a lot of fine sentiments in married life . They do n't work .... Oh , why could n't I fall in love with a man of my own class ? I should have been so much happier . I used to be so proud that Basil was n't a clerk , or something in the City . He 's right , we shall never be happy .", "Swear it . Swear it on your honour . Swear you do n't care for her .", "You think of her , you do n't think of me . You do n't care how much I suffer .", "Yes , I 've seen it . But I would n't believe it . When I 've put my hand on your shoulder , I 've seen that you could hardly help shuddering . And sometimes when I 've kissed you , I 've seen you put out all your strength to prevent yourself from pushing me away .", "What d'you mean ?", "What does she mean ?", "Oh , I do n't want any of your Society shams . I 've come here to speak out .", "How d'you know ? Are you sure ? You would n't tell me , if there was . You 're all against me because I 'm not a lady .... Oh , I 'm so unhappy .", "Swear it . You can n't . You 're simply madly in love with her .", "He 's had a bad year \u2014 it 's not his fault . And I was so ill after the baby died , we had to pay the doctor nearly fifty pounds .", "Oh , you are so good , Basil . I 'm so proud of you . I shall be so proud to be your wife .", "Jimmie !", "Where are you going , Basil ?", "I wonder what you do succeed in ? Your book was very successful , was n't it ? You thought you were going to set the Thames on fire , and the book fell flat , flat , flat .", "I 'm so glad . Oh , I do n't know what I should do if you did n't love me . If you had n't been kind to me I should have thrown myself in the river .", "I suppose I disturb you ?", "Oh , do n't you pity me , too . I 've had a great deal too much pity . I do n't want it . Basil married me from pity . Oh , I wish he had n't . I can n't stand the unhappiness .", "Jimmie , you are a caution !", "They can n't help it if they 're poor .", "Oh no , Jimmie , I can n't manage it . Basil made me promise I would n't let you have any more .", "But I love you , Basil . I 'll make you love me .", "D'you know what Jimmie says you are ?", "I can n't really , Jimmie . I would if I could . But we 've got a rare lot of debts worrying us , and the rent will be coming along next week .", "God knows !", "Oh , you 're always sneering . Is n't he as good as I am ? And you condescended to marry me .", "I do n't believe it . You 're in love with her .", "You were at a boarding-school , too , were n't you ?", "Oh no . You did n't say it , but you hinted it . You never say anything , but you 're always hinting and insinuating \u2014 till you drive me out of my senses .", "Then why do n't you treat me as your wife ? You seem to think I 'm only fit to see after the house and order the dinner and mend your clothes . And after that I can go and sit in the kitchen with the servant .", "Jimmie , do n't !", "No , it is n't . No , it is n't . He does n't love me . He 's in love with your sister-in-law .", "Do n't you want me to see who you 're writing to ?", "I think I can catch it . He said 4. 15 .", "Because I can n't live unless I know the truth . I thought it was Mrs. Murray 's handwriting .", "How d'you know ?", "You 've got me to count with . I wo n't let you go .", "Well , you have n't succeeded very well . Did you think I was likely to be happy \u2014 when you leave me alone all day and half the night for your swell friends that I 'm not good enough for ?", "Why did you marry me ?", "Basil , I want you a moment , Basil !", "Fanny !... Bring my hat and my jacket . Quick !", "They 've got no room for me .", "You seem to think it 's a joke .", "You 're sick of me . You 've had all you want out of me , and now I can go . The fine lady comes along , and you send me away like a housemaid . D'you think I can n't see that you 're in love with her ? You 'd sacrifice me without a thought to save her a moment 's unpleasantness . And because you love her you hate me .", "I can n't tell you how much I love you .", "Where are you going ?"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["You can bet anything you like I do n't come \u2018 ere to see you .", "To tell you the truth , it 's no more than he ought to do .", "\u2018 Alliwell ?", "I 've \u2018 ad something to put up with , I \u2018 ave .", "I tell you I want to see my brother-in-law .", "Make it two \u2018 undred , and I 'll say done .", "No . I think I can agree with you there .", "Are you trying to bribe me ?", "Oh !That 's a very different pair of shoes .", "Nicely , thanks . Pleased to make your acquaintance .", "Well , whenever I come here he 's out for a walk .... I say , old tart , could you oblige me with a couple of sovereigns till next Saturday ?", "I would \u2018 ave you know that I 'm a gentleman , and what 's more , I 'm an", "Oh , yes , you are . Do n't try to deny it . I can see through you as if you was a pane of glass . You people in the West End \u2014 you think you know everything .", "\u2018 Ang it all , one 's always got time to have a drop of Scotch in this life .", "Yes . And I mean to ....", "And who are you with your long words , I should like to know ?", "Do n't mind me . Give \u2018 im a kiss , old tart .", "Come on , \u2018 Alliwell . Do n't stop there gassing . You 'll only disturb the canary-birds . So long , old tart , see you later . Ta-ta , Basil , old man .", "Well , I do n't think much of you , any \u2018 ow .", "Shall I give you a receipt ? I 'm a business man , you know .", "Oh , blow the Mister and blow the Bush . Call me Jimmie . I can n't stand ceremony . The way I look on it is this . We 're both of us gentlemen . Now , mind you , I 'm not a fellow to praise myself . But I will say this : I am a gentleman . That 's not self-praise , is it ?", "No , I \u2018 ave n't .", "It 's not for want of something to say , I lay .", "A nice thing Jenny did when she married you .", "Where 's his lordship this afternoon ?", "\u2018 Alliwell . Any relation ?", "Villar .... What do they run you in a hundred ?", "I want him to hear me . I 'm not frightened of him . I should just like to see him touch me now .H 'm , you tried to keep me out , did yer ? Said I could n't come to my sister 's \u2018 ouse \u2014 and kept me waitin \u2019 in the \u2018 all like a tradesman . Oh , I 'll make you all pay for this . I 'll get my own back now . Measley set of West End curs , that 's all you are .", "I sha n't go till I choose .", "No .", "Well , as I was saying , I know I 'm a gentleman . It 's a thing you can n't \u2018 elp , so what 's the good of being proud about it ? If I meet a chap in a pub , and he invites me to have a drink , I do n't ask him if he 's a Lord .", "It might fetch a hundred pounds \u2014 it might fetch a hundred and fifty .", "That 's what he tells you , my dear .", "Throw that in my face now . I can n't \u2018 elp it if I 'm out of work .", "Well , I will say this for myself , you 'd want to get up early in the morning to catch me nappin \u2019 . I did n't catch your name .", "No , thanks . I 'm not much of an \u2018 and at tea ; I leave that to females . I like something stronger myself .", "Well , look here , you can manage a sovereign , can n't you ? You need n't say anything about it .", "Oh , do n't try and get round me .", "I 'm going . D'you think I want to stay \u2018 ere ? Good-bye , Jenny , I 'm not going to stand being insulted by any one .", "Oh , bless you , I know what it is to be engaged . I do n't want to disturb you canary-birds . Me and \u2018 Alliwell \u2018 ll go and have a gargle round the corner . I see you 've got a public nice and \u2018 andy .I suppose you 're not above goin \u2019 in there now and again , eh ?", "I do n't want your dirty money .", "Oh , well , \u2018 and it over .", "You can n't get round me , Jenny . I suppose you \u2018 ave n't been crying to-day ?", "No , I wo n't sit down . This ai n't the \u2018 ouse that a gentleman would sit down in . I 'll be even with \u2018 im yet . I 'll tell the jury a pretty story . He deserves to be strung up , he does .", "I understand . So long .", "What ! He made you promise that ?\u2014 Ugh , the mean skinflint .", "Ha , that 's touched you up , has it ? You think I do n't know what sort of a feller you are . I can just about see through two of you . And I know a good deal more about you than you think .", "Look \u2018 ere , I 'm not going to stand this . I 'm as good as you are any day .", "All right \u2014 keep your shirt in . I 'm blowed if I know what you 've got to stick up for him about . He do n't care much about you .", "Who are you , I should like to know ?", "Larranaga .", "I do n't know what you mean by that . But I flatter myself I know a good cigar when I see it .", "You can n't lend it me because you wo n't . I should just like to know what Basil spends his money on .", "Well ?", "You know what I mean . Jenny has something to put up with , I lay .", "I 've got more than half a mind to knock you down .", "Well , I would n't put on so much side if I was you .", "Afternoon , Basil .", "There 's no denying that she was hysterical . If he 'd only treated me like a gentleman , I should n't have had anything to say .", "You make me laugh . D'you think you can gag me by giving a houseful of furniture to my mother ?", "Are you ? I suppose I can come and see my own sister ?", "Well , if it was well sold \u2014 by a man as knew his business ...."], "true_target": ["Looks like it , do n't it .", "Now then , no bluff . I tell you it wo n't work with me .... D'you include plate and linen ?", "Not if I know it . I do n't smoke a Villar y Villar every day , but when I do , I smoke it with the label on .", "Do n't you try and bully me .", "Well , it was a wonderful fine thing you did when you married him , Jenny . And you thought you done precious well for yourself , too .", "You 're trying to bamboozle me .", "I tell you I do n't want your dirty money .", "If you are so pressing . Villar y", "I do n't mind doing that .", "But I 've had a City training , and you can lay anything you like there ai n't no flies on me .", "I tell you I will see \u2018 im . He 's murdered my sister . He 's a blackguard and a murderer , and I 'll tell him so to his face .", "I 'm a man of principle , I am ; and I keep my \u2018 at on to show it .", "Oh , he 's treated me shockin \u2019 ! He simply treated me like dirt . I would n't \u2018 ave stood it a minute , except for Jenny 's sake . I was n't good enough for \u2018 im , if you please . And the way he used to look right through me as if I was n't there at all \u2014 Oh , I 'll be even with \u2018 im now .", "I 'm not good enough for you , I suppose ?", "Do n't make \u2018 im blush , Jenny . Accidents will \u2018 appen in the best regulated families . And boys will be boys , as they say in the Bible .", "It 's a very different business what a thing 's worth , and what it 'll fetch .", "I 'd just like to give \u2018 im a piece of my mind .", "I 'll pay you out before I 've done .", "What d'you mean by that ?", "No , I can n't say I \u2018 ave. And if I \u2018 ad I would n't boast about it .", "That 's just the sort of thing you 'd do \u2014 to \u2018 it a feller smaller than yourself .", "I do n't say you 're not a gentleman .", "What do you think fifty pounds is to me ?", "What d'you mean by that ?", "That 's a lie .", "I 've got a right to come here as much as anybody . I come to see my sister .", "That 's one and nine apiece , ai n't it ?", "You 're a sharp \u2018 un , you are .", "Yes , go on . That 's right . You seem to think I 'm nobody . I should just like to know why you go on as if I was I do n't know what .", "You coward !", "He 'd better not start patronising me , because I wo n't put up with it . I 'm a gentleman , and I 'm every bit as good as he is \u2014 if not better .", "People say it wants a bit of gettin \u2019 used to .", "I do n't care . I mean to get my own back . If I can only get my knife into that man \u2014 I 'll take the consequences .", "Then what \u2018 ave you got to turn up your nose about , eh ? What d'you mean by sneerin \u2019 and snarlin \u2019 at me when I come here ?", "Good luck to \u2018 im .", "That means you want me to get out , I reckon .", "Who says so ?", "Go along with you . Basil Kent ai n't the only pebble on the beach .", "Do n't you fear . I 'm a gentleman , and I do n't go back on my friends .", "You must be pretty oofy to be able to afford that .", "Well , you 'd do the same yourself , would n't you ?", "That 's what I say \u2014 \u2018 Alliwell . I knew a fellow in the meat trade called", "I want to see that man .", "Fine business \u2018 e \u2018 ad too . There 's a rare lot of money to be made out of meat .", "I should just like to see you try it on .", "I shall say what I choose .", "I know those sort of headaches .", "I know that .", "Look here , you 're not trying to bluff me , are you ?", "I 'm not afraid of you .", "I can n't stick \u2018 im at any price , and I do n't mind who knows it .", "Yes , I know there will . And I 'm lookin \u2019 forward to it , I can tell you .", "Ah , you 're a pretty specimen , you are . You mean skinflint !", "I dare say you 'd like to get me out of the way . But I mean to keep my eye on you .", "Think I can n't see !", "You did .", "Well , I 'll be toddlin \u2019 too . I only come in just to say \u2018 ow d'you do to my future brother-in-law . I 'm a fellow as likes to be cordial . There 's no \u2018 aughtiness about me .", "I wonder you do n't forbid me your house while you 're about it .", "I 've never \u2018 ad any one try and bribe me before .", "Englishman . And I 'm proud of it . You ought to be ashamed of yourself .", "Never you mind . I 'm going to make it hot for \u2018 im .", "That depends on what it is .", "Where 's that man ?"], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Five minutes past four .", "Please , sir , Mr. James .", "If you please , sir , the Coroner 's officer .", "I 'll make you a strong cup of tea . If you do n't \u2018 ave something to pull you together \u2014 I do n't know what 'll \u2018 appen to you .", "Yes , sir .", "He ai n't slept a wink all night , sir .... No more \u2018 ave I , for the matter of that .", "Will you be in to tea , mum ?"], "true_target": ["He wo n't go away , I told \u2018 im you was too ill to see anybody .", "Would n't you like a cup of tea ? You ought to \u2018 ave something after not going to bed all night .", "Good riddance to bad rubbish .", "Shall I open the windows , Sir ? It 's a beautiful morning .", "I took them the moment the office was opened .", "Well , sir , it must be \u2018 alf-past nine by now .", "I came to see if you wanted anything , sir .", "Mr. Halliwell ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Oh , those are the others . I treat them as non-existent .", "I have nothing whatever to say .", "Why not ?", "My dear lady , if you want romance I 'll send you my complete works bound in vellum . I 've ground out ten volumes of romance to Phyllis and Chloe and heaven knows who . The Lord save me from a romantic wife .", "Oh yes , I 'm writing a play in blank verse .", "Are there ? What do they look like ?", "There 's something unhealthy in your passion for information . I 've already told you five times .", "I have n't examined the matter very carefully , but I understand they are clergymen 's daughters by profession .", "Wo n't you marry me ?", "Wo n't you be in to luncheon on Thursday ?", "I like this room , Mrs. Murray . It never seems to say to you : now it 's really time for you to go away , as some drawing-rooms do .", "Upon my word , that almost suggests that I 've outstayed my welcome .", "Ah , the green-eyed monster !", "Cleopatra .", "You break my heart .", "Of course it was dyed . That was just the charm of it . Any woman can have yellow hair naturally : there 's no more credit in that than in having it blue or green ."], "true_target": ["A thousand thanks . Good-bye .", "I daresay . I have n't read it . Shakespeare bores me . He lived so long ago .", "Good-bye .... May I come again soon ?", "Do . I 'm growing very uneasy about him .", "May I come to lunch with you on Thursday ?", "Are merely another proof of my passion for duty . The British public wants its poets to lead romantic lives .", "Do n't you think women ought to be artificial ? It 's just as much their duty to rouge their cheeks and powder their noses as it is for them to wear nice frocks .", "Because on that day I intend to ask you to marry me .", "I sha n't tell you again .", "Well , six months of marriage with a poet will cure you .", "The English are so original .", "That 's my stock in trade . You do n't imagine people would read my poems if they knew that I was sober , industrious , and economical . As a matter of fact I lead the virtuous life of a clergyman 's daughter , but not a reviewer would notice me if he knew it .", "There are only two sorts of women in the world \u2014 the women who powder their noses and the others .", "People who propose to marry should ask themselves if they can look forward with equanimity to breakfasting opposite one another for an indefinite number of years .", "You know me like your glove . But it really is growing monstrous late .", "I 've never been more serious in my life ."], "play_index": 18, "act_index": 18}, {"query": ["Up , up !", "It is Olympio ! Olympio !", "Some one is come ."], "true_target": ["Perhaps Lord Renier \u2014 No : I will learn .", "As he were lord of skies ! To lady Yolanda , by my lute !", "From Famagouste and Lord Amaury !", "Alessa ! Maga ! Stirrings at the gates !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["We have", "Lady Berengere is dead .", "The acolytes summoned from Famagouste", "There in the sacristy .", "I may not .", "Good father ! Father Moro !... He is not here .", "And he would not ?", "I do not know ; perhaps , her chamber .", "To aid your rites before her burial", "My lady \u2014?", "The acolytes", "And strove to speak . Good father !", "And tell him !", "It is as if her spirit still imprisoned", "And I ; to wait .", "Lady , I would have wed him \u2014 wed this toad ! Who 'd kill the Paphian , too ?", "They were writ to her !", "Yolanda", "Lady Yolanda ! you have wed him ? YolandaYes ."], "true_target": ["No .", "You know not , Mauria , what \u2018 tis you say .She is seeking us ; be still .My lady ?", "I will not .", "Maga \u2014 Civa \u2014 Ah !", "The dead are strange ! I knew not all their power .", "The Magdalen !", "Boy , Halil , who ?", "Are waiting .", "Shame !", "Lady !", "Worm ! with dust ? Heeling away from him ?", "But put away the distaff and the needle .", "Have come , and wait .", "But I to see Amaury .", "Hovered beneath the pallor of her face", "Though you boasted love to me ?", "Father !", "At once .", "Ah , you were"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Who writes them , and to whom .", "Of the squadron huddling yesterday for haven", "Pouf ! AlessaNow , what have you ?", "Tell then his name", "And how to make them smart for sauciness .", "A hundred galleys westing up the wind ,", "Of one , then , in this castle !\u2014 See , her lips", "Oho !", "So , so , my Cupid ? None of the Saracens ?", "What are you doing ?", "You dote on \u2014 lady Yolanda !", "Well what , Olympio , from Famagouste ? What tidings ? tell us .", "Ah ! And he comes here ?", "Halil"], "true_target": ["Then , a care , he 'll bite . He 's been in the grave a long while and he 's hungry . A barley-loaf , quick , Maga !", "Some guilt", "The tidings , then , the tidings !", "Betray it is .", "O , loose me .", "Sphinxes and the spheres .", "Scenting the shore , but timorous as hounds .", "To her ? to whom ? what are you saying ? Read ! Read us the verses .", "It is some guilt you hide !\u2014 And touching her", "Stay :", "At Keryneia ?", "Who ?", "A gale \u2014 and twenty down !", "Then", "His word may be of the Saracens ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["No , Civa , no ! of sorrow ! see , her lips !See , see !", "No , no , Civa ! come ;", "The rest are flown ?", "Alessa", "No , sorrow .", "See , his sword !", "Our lady and Sir Camarin .", "No , Mauria ! no !hush !", "Your pitcher , come . He 's troubled by the tale", "There , on the loggia ! Hush , see \u2014", "And oft our lady \u2014!"], "true_target": ["So ? that mouse ?", "Of lady Yolanda \u2014\u2014", "It is ....", "Mauria", "Where is she ?", "Enough of teasing .", "Where Sir Camarin", "No , but \u2014\u2014", "And waits for lord Amaury from the battle .", "No .", "They heard us , Maga ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Stand off .", "Who has told you ?"], "true_target": ["None \u2014 for women .", "Ask Zeus , or ask , to-morrow , lord Amaury , Or , if he comes , to-night . To lady Yolanda I 'm sent and not to tattle silly here .O ! Only Civa ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Or of Alessa !", "His eyes ! his lips ! a prince !", "The \u2014! heigh ! heigh-o ! awaits ! la , la ! he does !", "By", "Or little ants and gnats that buzz about him .", "Not I ! Not I ! Not I !", "Mauria", "Now , is he not ?", "To ladies prisoned in an ogre 's keep !", "Of valour bursting through enchanted bounds", "Was ever sight so sweet upon the world !", "Ho !", "For lord Amaury ! does he so indeed ?", "Then of the bridals !\u2014 O , they are of love !", "Of Alessa !", "With the price of vinegar upon his face ."], "true_target": ["Verily !", "The price of vinegar ! who 'll buy !\u2014 Not I !", "The fountain cypress at the marble feet", "To appease him ! But ssh ! Beware ! There 's something of import .What does he think of ?", "And not a man ! he has discovered it !", "Who died of choler !", "But see him now \u2014 a mummy of the Nile !", "You ever sigh for sorrow !\u2014 They are of love !", "Of chaste Diana !", "O , as a nun", "Look at him ! Maga ! Mauria ! behold !", "Verses ! found in the garden . Verses ! verses ! On papyrus of Paphos . O , to read ! But you , Alessa \u2014! AlessaIn the garden ?", "Maga will you prattle ? Read them to us , Alessa , read them , read . They are of love !", "Alessa !", "You 're not a man , Mauria ! we were duped .", "How , Olympio ! Stay you , and hear !\u2014 May never virgin love him ! Gone as a thistle !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["I am not well . I will go to my chamber .", "Too am a woman , and the woman wants ,", "Then , her design ?", "I too have been aware and kept you blind .", "Go from me and behind leave no farewell ....", "Be in the garden .", "Or did it not , dishonour still would kill !", "Myself the truth .", "I do not know !", "Amaury", "But , nothing ! for he still is overworn .", "Something is vile . Lady Yolanda weeps", "This fang of fate .", "Yolanda !", "The distaff and the needle \u2014 it may be . And yet you do not seem \u2014\u2014", "A soldier of your troop within the forts", "Has come with word .", "Again \u2014 wrong .", "No !", "What brings you here \u2014 to spy upon me ?", "At once .", "Of the Paphian \u2014 or this Venetian .", "So \u2014 and strange .", "Then \u2014", "Slave ! Scythian ! You linger ?", "None , though he yesterday left Nicosie", "The shame ... the shame ... the shame !", "Yolanda", "Is poor of courage \u2014 poverished by guilt ,", "I cannot .", "Perhaps .", "Yolanda \u2014\u2014", "In secret ; all for what ?\u2014 unless because", "My flesh is weak ,", "These hours of ill !", "Of an unreckoned love are mine as yours .", "To-day ... no more .", "Yes .", "Secret and sudden . But ... what has befallen ?", "Stay , stay ! She has not told him ! nothing !... Yes ,", "Fate is begun ! See , with the cross it was", "From happiness whose air is ever sin .", "This moment were it known would end with murder ,", "And wait for shame . But now with Camarin", "Whose end may be \u2014", "As those that wedded love ?", "Wait no longer . Lord Renier will not come .", "Yolanda !", "Though Venice gyves us more with tyranny", "My lord ?", "I \u2014 yes , yes .", "But , there ; the women .", "Into their peril ?", "Pity , then , my fear .", "It sickens me .", "Than would the Saracen .", "Yolanda !", "Go \u2014 go .", "Hassan", "And that you know .", "I am as a leaf", "He sleeps .", "And send me Hassan .", "Nothing ; a pain", "No , no ! nor ever , ever again , for ever !", "But from a brink of danger , or in flight", "I cannot die .", "I waved you hither . Leave me \u2014 let me pass", "Will go from here .", "Withhold from words . At last", "You love me ?", "None can say .", "Or to Yolanda and Amaury 's love .", "Then \u2014 I 'll not stay for death ,"], "true_target": ["Over the threshold yonder I will wave", "And we might be", "With the priest Moro .", "Do not call me so again .", "Renier !", "And what the requital that entices her ?", "Out of this sin \u2014 and to repentance \u2014 after .", "A runner ,", "Before the wind and raging of your love .", "Then hear , hear me ! I", "The candle-sign , when all are passed to sleep .", "Mother !", "Yolanda \u2014", "Little .", "Leave , leave .", "A change is over you \u2014 a difference", "Wait no longer .", "As all my soul is ! But , Yolanda , you \u2014!", "You ?", "He 's much with this Venetian , our guest .", "Now ,", "Yolanda", "Camarin ! Ah !AmauryYolanda ; what is this ?", "Trust to me .", "Yes .", "Now for your aves and o'erneeded sleep .", "Long must I lie !...", "His step ?", "Yes , as she says \u2014 tranquillity and reason .", "It grieves you not .", "Here in my breast .", "Camarin \u2014 you saw ?", "Your lamps ; for it is time", "Come , women , with your lamps and light the way .", "I cannot .", "Has torn tranquillity from her and reason .", "But I have a request that , if you grant ,", "No step was ever taken in the world", "To some retreat", "My brain and breath !... the pall ... where am I ... how", "I 've seen that battle-light in you before .", "Only this token .", "This is o'erstrange .", "You can deliver ! you are innocent .", "In none ;", "It is ill news ?", "You see ? There is escape ? a way from it ?", "The unaccustomed wind of these ill hours", "\u2018 Tis of the Saracens ? you ride to-night", "Alessa . I ?", "Will lead peace back to us ... and from us draw", "Has spurred to us , Yolanda , from his post ,", "Renier", "I cannot ....", "Why are you pale ?", "I have not \u2014 and I will not .", "Evil will come of it , to us some evil ,", "Away !", "And now his wound \u2014\u2014", "My lord , she knows not what she says .", "That now ... I cannot plead .And yet I must ... It is that , till I bid Amaury may not know of this ... not know This trouble fallen from a night or evil \u2014 Pitiless on us as a meteor 's ash .", "The reason of this mood in her ?", "Drawn as a veil between us .", "Renier ... no .", "Go ;", "Life is fear .", "The beauty and ache and dream and glow and urge", "They were not as their wont is .", "If the leech Tremitus has any skill ;", "Christ , save me ... Christ ! Yolanda 's innocent , and I ... \u2018 twas I .", "But first I 'd know if yet Lord Renier \u2014\u2014", "The reason ?", "Amaury", "I will not lose Amaury ; but will tell him"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Only \u2014 one thing it yields \u2014 the love of her", "Renier ?", "To your eyes ,", "Yolanda", "Suspicion and the peril-feet of shame", "And with the beam I shall mount up to you", "They were as ever . Then be done with fear !", "He raves .", "Strike !", "For think , Yolanda 's look when by the cypress", "Is ours \u2014 Renier tarries at Famagouste \u2014", "No .", "Why , you are mad !", "But to return unto your breast !BerengereAh , you are come ; I had forgotten . And it is time for sleep .\u2014 Hassan , the gates : Close them .", "Oh !... Berengere !... treachery !HassanHe 's dead .", "This is \u2014 illusion . In the dew I 've waited ,", "We read the verses ! And my dream that I", "I swore in dread , but will not !", "To the guilt I bear , or to the misery", "Venetian , I covet this \u2014 covet !", "That I am innocent \u2014 as the first dawn", "Of the Pisani , powerful in Venice ,", "Though for your suffering I am pitiful .", "Amaury , I will not .", "A song that seems \u2014\u2014", "That guilt has brought upon you .", "Clasps to his breast ambition as a bride \u2014", "For to one thing , one only now I 'm bent \u2014\u2014", "Up from decay ; and to restore this island ,", "Dawn and the dewy lark !", "She guesses not our guilt , and Renier", "My Berengere , that apprehension haunts .", "You must !", "Is need .", "At Keryneia ! Do you hear me ?", "My love has made unholy .", "Mad ! mad ! Venice would rise !", "No :", "And too brief their stay . What signal for to-night ?", "And dew of Eden !... Yes !", "Whose that anguish ? whose ?", "Dreams are a brood"], "true_target": ["Unswerving love .", "To the abyss with it . To-night", "My brain an arid waste under remorse .", "She knows no shred of it .", "Or death .", "It stays within its sheath .", "Quicker than ecstasy .", "Yolanda !", "A frenzy ! Mere", "Yolanda", "Born of the night and not of destiny .", "He hopes to lift again his dynasty", "Folly ! you wander !", "What ? Come , come .", "Despite of them ! in to his side and say", "Is ours for love and for a long delight !", "Then how ? What ?... You must .", "And I am barren .", "But through this lady", "That Berengere be saved .", "This venture-dream of the seas , unto his house .", "Her eyes !... They open ! open !", "I do not understand .", "Bring her deep bitterness .", "Yet ... I will not entreat it of her .", "Amaury still is many leagues away \u2014", "Then will , still \u2014 if there", "Do your will . I 'll put no more", "Ambition for Amaury .", "I 'll go to him !", "Should with a cross \u2014 inscrutable is sleep !\u2014", "Berengere", "What do you purpose ?", "And passing of all presage from you .", "Yolanda ! Yolanda . I \u2014\u2014", "Amaury was not then delayed ? is \u2014 here ?", "\u2018 Tis clear , my Berengere !", "I must keep from her still .", "As an anchorite for immortality ,", "And the night 's song of you is in my brain \u2014", "Enough is here without \u2014\u2014", "I cannot , cannot !", "To-morrow , then ; but not to-night !Give me thy being once again , thy beauty . For it I 'm mad as bacchanals for wine .Once more be to me all that woman may ! Let us again take rapture wings and rise Up to our world of love , guilt would unsphere . Let us live over days that passed as streams Limpid by lotus-banks unto the sea , O'er all the whispered nights that we have clasped Knowing the heights and all the deeps of passion ! But speak , and we shall be amid the stars ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Venture it , venture !", "Lady Yolanda \u2014", "Is evil mad enchantment come upon", "Revealed , that I might guile you .", "But with exalted pride and happy tears ;", "A moment since , was here \u2014 the women with her . She asked for your return .", "Renier", "And they who love may stray , it seems , beyond", "He 's coming here .", "Be sent to Venice whence she came .", "Nothing .", "I 'll wring", "If it can be done ,", "Spa ! Thy mistress hath , I think ,", "Now , woman !", "A fool I am ....", "Whenever he has lived \u2014 but say !\u2014 too long .", "Yes !", "She and Lord Renier . They broke his sleep .", "Bear him without .", "There is a means \u2014 a might .", "And you have ?", "If you will dare it .", "No , lady , no .", "And at Lord Renier 's command .... It is", "Though it is truthless \u2014 hear :", "But \u2018 tis not , lady ! and Lord Renier", "Now you shall hear , with shame ,", "What do you know ? Be silent .", "And chain them , lady ?", "You order ; then upon a vessel quick", "And flower lips breathe innocent above her .", "Here : came on yesterday at dusk . Was led", "Yolanda", "That still as a madness measures to your sight .", "Some oath against you , were they right : he would not .", "He listened to them as one in a grave .", "Whose purse is daily loose to us .... I curse him !", "Then come obliteration !", "Then shall you hear this mystery 's content ,", "The Venetian !Lady , I will go in .", "I would serve you .", "A portion in this castle . Is it so ?", "Thy tongue out sudden , if it now has lies .", "Why , she .... This slave stung me to pry .", "And Cyprus , to be free !\u2014", "Have you not been gone ?", "Shall have a letter of her guile and flight .", "Bear him without then ever from this place ,", "Lady \u2014", "Yes : it is the women"], "true_target": ["This Camarin , this prinker ,", "Wench .", "Yes .", "No breath in him .", "Perhaps \u2014 with reason .With reason !... knowing , lady , what , here , now , Is rumoured of a baron And lady Yolanda !... Pardon ! YolandaOf a baron And lady Yolanda .", "Thy lady and Lord Renier , I say ! What do they purpose ?", "Lady , I will .", "To know of lord Amaury ?", "Seize her and shut her fast an hour within", "Now he has risen ,", "To compel her .", "Now . CamarinNo !... Sateless God !See , see !... Berengere ! Oh ! fury of hell !", "Last night , pouring his potions \u2014", "That never more shall know a holy rite \u2014", "And from these gates , I care not to what tomb .", "Lady Yolanda \u2014", "Then ... let me but", "Then they besought of him", "Pity alone we owe to sin not blame .", "What of thy lady and Lord Renier ?", "Speak , girl ... Nobility", "Itch ! would You have lady Yolanda hear ? She comes Now , as she has this morning thrice , to ask .Lord Renier 's gall , remember , if she learns .", "Something of hell in her and has unpacked", "The leprous keep , and she shall write whate'er", "Ah !", "Silent and pale and suffering in leash .", "Come here ... look in my eyes , and \u2014 deeper .... Shame !", "Up to his chamber ....", "No word of him ?", "The Venetian , who nurst him", "Who with their ears ever at secresy", "The portals of this castle ?", "Strike her , God . Her smirk admits it .", "I have a stab for Camarin of Paphos", "Had never better title to its truth .", "Not true that lord Amaury from the battle", "Has not returned .", "It shall be .", "What do you say ?", "Yolanda", "Rumour it . But , lady , it is a lie ?", "I swear . YolandaYour thought ! I have no fear .", "So much Lord Renier who slipt him in", "You jeer me .", "On him !", "Alessa", "Not till \u2014\u2014", "All justice of our judging .\u2014", "Though for obedience it be or life ;", "His father .... Well , my mother 's ten years dead", "But I 'll avenge her shame .", "And \u2014 you , who do not hush this tale of you ,"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["To see her suffer .", "Lord Renier , help .", "And how ?", "Sigh . But you 've papers \u2014", "Some officer of Famagouste \u2014 and men .", "Ere he has time , lady ,", "Off !", "they came with me .", "Fool-born ! look around .", "Love and delight \u2014 for urgently she waits them !", "Swooned !", "I am bidden \u2014", "He .", "She lies in danger . Hear \u2014 \u2018 twas as she fled", "Nothing .", "A-ha !... So !", "Lady ?", "Lady Yolanda ? lady Berengere ?", "And you are sought below , I heard it said :", "The lord of Lusignan .", "That you delay the powers of the Senate", "My lady is of Venice .", "Ha ! Fortune 's touch !", "My lady \u2014", "Yes .... Ha !"], "true_target": ["To vaunt of love in Lusignan and babble .", "Civa !", "As you came ? who ? which ?", "She swooned of terror at the castle gate .", "Ha !", "Across the sea", "She !", "Did no one say ?... My mistress must know this !", "Of his mother .", "Oh , with", "Of jade \u2014 and sard !", "Nothing . She was returning from the rocks", "Sent in your keeping to her .", "From my home in Scythia", "Vittia", "The papers , quickly !", "Where nest the windy gulls", "As I came hither . I stole there at noon", "Touch me not !", "To you , lady ? A-ha ! let him refuse . Command !", "This is again fortune !... fortune !", "My mistress .", "And she will hear with love", "And then \u2014 then of your amorous mouthings yonder !", "The spirits strangle him !", "Pietro !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Then he must . And she ,", "Yet madder I , if to this coil my brain", "Have a confession .", "We shall see .", "But brings to me no light \u2014 only again", "The lash in hunger of the wonted bone ?", "Unfaltering . I fear him .", "So deem you and , my Berengere , I grieve ,", "Then at least I shall uncover", "No ; I think you wrong her .", "It has ,", "Then it shall be , at once ... But no , I first", "And wherefore did ?", "In secret , thus , and with", "As you commanded ,", "Delayed ?", "You , Moro , have deferred me ; now , no more .", "Before the fever for it .", "She has power .", "I 'll question her .", "Stay and confront her .", "Of whom ?\u2014 Of whom , and what ?", "Yet ask her this , If she three nights ago \u2014\u2014", "All is vain in me", "I know not , of some shame .", "Ah .", "I will \u2014 that you are mad .", "Mistrust and fret and doubt \u2014 of whom I say not ,", "Still to befool him ! YolandaChoose ! I cannot suffer more of this .", "Has no .... That ,", "The truth !", "And to this wanton 's perfidy to bind", "Withheld her , but ... what ails you ?", "And senseless beads , for such .\u2014 But what more now", "Why do you clutch me ?", "I found her in the arms of Camarin ,", "About Amaury \u2014 till he could not move", "Yolanda", "Allure him yet to wed you ?", "Whether it is suspicion eats in me ,", "Vittia", "You cherish her and reap unchastity", "Still to deceive Amaury ?", "Is she demanding ?", "How !", "What , what ?", "No sake but to o'ersway him with your eyes", "From immortality , or the fair fields", "Rather the convent and the crucifix ,", "So that you may", "With Camarin of Paphos ?", "Or , past releasing , with a philtre ? She", "Your hair that he believes an aureole", "This can be ? BerengereYolanda !", "For", "Be the elected Governor of Cyprus .", "I 'll stay ,", "For gratitude \u2014 unchastity against", "Amaury . I", "Or whether desire and unsubduable", "Where is my wife ?", "Vainly implored .\u2014", "Then \u2014Why , then \u2014 Amaury !CURTAIN . ACT II SEVERAL DAYS HAVE ELAPSED .", "Slave , to your lady who awaits me , say", "Then not ! and half I fear \u2014 you here ?\u2014 it should not . There 's midnight in this thing and mystery . Does she not love \u2014 Camarin ? YolandaSay no more . Be all \u2014 all as you will .", "Power of \u2014! No !", "Speak !", "Within my breast . I love not \u2014 am unlovable .", "Are sent for to behold Yolanda wed ,", "I will return . You put me off , and off .", "She troubles you too much .", "The stumbling in suspicion .", "Matin and Vesper in a round remote ,", "Answer .", "Yes , Amaury ... you"], "true_target": ["Our very son who was betrothed to her .", "I say , withheld her . But she now has chosen .", "As now a fool is doing ?", "She knows what I would bid and does she hurl", "I say \u2014 only delayed ? and you \u2014?", "Dumb to deny it .", "Stand off !\u2014 As dogs forget", "What this Venetian hints .", "I soon may come and seek forgiveness .", "Of what women , then ? My wife ? Yolanda ?", "Not the means", "Insult ?", "Yet see her shameless .", "Beyond you .", "There to the fountain .", "Bid Moro and Amaury .\u2014 As for her ,", "Yes , yes ?", "That too has something hid .", "Of rule ?... Then what ? VittiaOf shame withheld \u2014 dishonour unrevealed .", "Something has gone from me or never was", "Poured from his soul .", "Will drown in him Yolanda 's loveliness .", "I must know .", "Whom now he holds pure as a spirit sped", "To see Amaury sceptred \u2014 I care not .", "She loves Amaury . Wed to her he will", "To hold a sceptre , and Amaury must .", "His mood and mien \u2014 that tremor in his throat ,", "You have suspicion ?", "No ... she shall tell me .", "Girl !", "When they pity . No ,", "Not \u2014 overfar . Where is Yolanda ?\u2014 Well ?", "Were blind .", "None can be great who will not hush his heart", "Will speak to her alone . Go all of you", "Too much .", "Of my arrival , too , no word to any .", "Girl , what rends you ?", "I 'm here and now have chosen .", "No !", "That \u2014 love !", "My lord , of women .", "Him witless to her \u2014 with a charm perhaps \u2014", "You", "And this Venetian Vittia Pisani \u2014\u2014", "But I never until this guiler grants", "Nobly you pity ! But it will not veil her .", "No matter ; find my chamber till I come .", "Where is my wife ?", "He is Lusignan and his lineage", "Amaury is not so ,", "Her soul in any disavowal ?", "That brings you low :", "She is silent ;", "Come softly , lady of Venice .", "The throne , then , but a step .", "It is ! It is !", "The Venetian , has ways to it \u2014 a secret", "Here unto Camarin . Shame has till now", "Brought with you out of Heaven .", "Name them not . They 've shut from me their souls .", "Drinking the frenzied wine of passion he", "I 'll send her Camarin .", "She would .", "To pierce her from his arms .", "Desiring much your peace .", "Chosen .", "Of the sun , to be his bride ?", "A pang !\u2014 For daysBefore I found Yolanda on the breast Of Camarin of Paphos \u2014\u2014 I suffered in the furnace of suspicion The fume and suffocation of the thought That you were the guilty one \u2014 you my own wife .I did ; but rue , rue it !... ... Yet \u2014 it is just That you recoil even as now you do From stain upon your wedded constancy .... But Time that is e'erhYpppHeNpitiful may pass Soon over it \u2014 And leave only forgiveness . And perhaps Then I shall win you as I never have .\u2014 Now the request .", "Though you are cunning .\u2014 Thus you wove the mesh", "Not of it ? he ? not know ?", "So does the Holy Church instill him .", "Berengere", "With him , with him , I say ?..."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Speak .", "God hear you not !", "Freight all of you this tide of night with prayer .", "I \u2014 am a priest \u2014 and shame \u2014\u2014", "Her darkly bid the Paphian be gone \u2014\u2014", "Send hither two .", "To any who have put thy life out , never !", "Lone rest !", "Hints ?", "I bid .", "Its tapers . The departed will be borne", "You are summoned to this place", "But all too great .", "Hither for holy care and sacred rest .", "My son , relentless words . AmauryTo the relentless !", "Salt tears that rust the fountain of the heart .", "He will not yield her .", "Sir , sir ?\u2014 of what ?", "Does she not see lightnings now in Amaury ,", "What you shall rue \u2014\u2014", "Prepare that altar \u2014 masses for the dead .", "But you repulse them .", "Once it has fallen .", "\u2018 Tis of your wife ?\u2014 Yolanda ?", "In blindness still ! For Vittia Pisani , who alone Seems with these twain to share this mystery Is silent to all importunity . Oh , Berengere Lusignan ! But \u2018 tis mine To pray and to prepare .The acolytes .Come here ... You 're Serlio , Of the Ascension . You ? 2nd Acolyte . Hilarion . From Santa Maria by the Templars \u2019 well , Which God looks on with gratitude , father . For though we 're poor and are unworthy servants We 've given willingly our widow 's mite . And now we ...", "Do not !", "But unto any , mother , who have brought thee", "Go ... But if this hour bring forth", "Low to this couch , be never ease again .", "It will not .", "Look to that image of the Magdalen ,"], "true_target": ["My lord , my lord !... It is Yolanda .", "Some question . Do you understand this wedding ?", "But go and for her soul", "From here \u2014 without her .", "Amaury", "To shrivel thee \u2014 whether with pain or fear !", "Kindle all", "But who , now , in a lofty grief above", "And answers only ,", "Has been to-day impenetrable in all .", "Distrust her !", "My lord , not so ;", "I trust , unfold it soon ; I cannot , now ! \u201d ...", "And yet I heard", "As says Yolanda , who", "No .", "Be it so !", "Yes . Your desire ?", "Enough , enough .", "And think ; Yolanda is to him as heaven :", "The misery that blasted her , seems calm ,", "And be appeaseless tears ,", "Shame !", "The evil that has risen in this house ?", "\u201c God in His season will ,", "So do \u2014 then after", "Then bliss Afar for ever !", "But in them be the burning that has seemed", "But not truth . And yesterday a holy relic scorned .", "For ministrations other than the tongue 's .", "Woman , this passes silence . There must be", "Plunging for truth ? What is't ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Still to achieve this wedding , though we have", "That , ere a dawn ,", "No , not ever : no . But now , if you deny me .", "I thank you . And you shall ,", "Will ... for you suffer !", "That do I pledge ... but more .", "The surety flies", "It was enough", "O'er what abyss she hangs !", "Heir of a sceptred line ,", "Then .\u2014 I can compel her .", "Lady \u2014?", "Yolanda", "Yes , implanted deep .", "Is it not so ?", "The bower by the cypress : go , tell him ,", "The loggia \u2014 at once ... Ah !", "Yet I may be mistress of them ,", "Which I will do \u2014", "No ; unblushingly !", "Let her think ... let her ,", "And though Amaury ... But you may avail .", "Amaury", "Amaury ! what is this ?", "How !", "Camarin with us , willing . So I 've learned", "Fitly reply , but I \u2014\u2014", "Smarda", "Blue seas that rock ever against its coast .", "You would when she who 's guilty", "Good-night .", "Hindered ? Little", "Ere all is done \u2014 since still it is my purpose .", "A Paphian ere this has fondled two ?", "But to her lord is constant ! YolandaShe is constant .", "Attempt betrayal !\u2014", "Verging \u2014 go learn !\u2014 to death .", "My lord \u2014\u2014?", "In Venice teach us .", "Ah ! Amaury ?\u2014 It is ?", "Nor me ?", "Yes , and will add \u2014\u2014", "And force him from you , or to have me breathe", "And would be rid of me .", "It must be done . My want is unafraid .", "I say , if you have love .", "Then ... it will cease , my lord \u2014", "Merely to sigh \u2014 and fear her innocence", "Whence you were torn by the Moor who was your master .", "She ... shall do it .", "Blindly , and peril all ?", "Most loyally ;", "And offer me irrevocable aid", "Guileless Yolanda , you shall wed with him", "But for to-day ,", "Another could", "Yes .", "A chance \u2014 my love to him .", "And you will heed it well ; I fear not . But first I have thought of requital . SmardaOuie !", "Out of your cheek and dead upon your heart :", "And then embrace him in whose arms three nights", "To the grave .", "Yolanda , does she know ?", "And from these gates be led wanton away .CURTAIN . ACT III THE SAME DAY .", "Ruler of Cyprus and these Mediterranean", "Your paramour of Paphos \u2014\u2014", "Momently by the terror of her husband ,", "And which", "Whose every pulse seems to her a suspicion .", "But never a wife ; never \u2014\u2014", "And you alone , she knows , can put it far \u2014", "Again unshameful ? No ; one thing", "What bloom I boasted .", "Since you are Lusignan ,", "And he has come now for your answer .", "Was not asleep , but comes ?... My lord \u2014!", "To be repelled ?", "Denial .", "My lord , my lord , I will !", "Smarda \u2014\u2014", "How to compel your pity to my ends ;", "Speak .", "Liar !... ah ... enough .", "You shall not want , I think ,", "That will transmute his wrong to madness ?", "Still , there is none .", "That beauty has no master .", "Is wed with Camarin ... no , do not speak ;", "Pietro !", "My tongue to falter .", "Tell ?... vowing him first", "Will ?", "That do not ask , I pray .", "Fools , to me !", "If she is near , the Paphian is in", "The whole ?", "Ignorantly ? No .", "But of Yolanda \u2014", "Fool !\u2014 Camarin , strike !", "But listen , every sinew will be needed", "Alone would serve you . That I must not bring", "Of gold for weightier witchery upon him .", "Knows better than believing what you say .", "I needed ... Her wings are flightless . She is ill ,", "If you wed freely Camarin of Paphos .", "A ship has come from Venice .", "It is , but tardy . Therefore I must have", "What ?", "What !", "She will come here . Go to the curtains , see .", "So as a flail of doubt it should not still", "\u201c Ah \u201d indeed .", "She has not pledged to wed you \u2014 though the life", "The reason for your sake I must withhold .", "She 's not asleep as you averred to me ,", "His speed upon the road ? now at the gates ?", "By the freedom due us ,", "The home"], "true_target": ["To win Amaury ?", "And \u2014 then go pray ?", "Can only seem simple again as dew", "Yet you are innocent \u2014 oh innocent ?\u2014", "Ah !", "Beat in you \u2014 when Yolanda", "Unless I have the pledge that you will wed ,", "Not to-morrow ! But you must", "Can you so say !", "To Renier Lusignan the one word", "For you will spare his mother .", "Whose burdening is vast upon this land .", "A prophesy !", "To win his father 's lenience ?... No ... I see !", "What ! how ?", "Say quickly . Centuries have stained these walls ,", "Or than your love of Camarin of Paphos !", "The women , they are gone .", "You hold as mother , and who is Amaury 's .", "Of Berengere Lusignan fall for it ,", "It isthat you renounce Amaury 's love .", "Hourly I am expecting out of Venice", "More , my lord ?", "If so , then \u2014 save her .", "When they are fled ! ha ... And it is too late .", "Well , if I win to-night what is begun", "If you seek", "Lady ... your slave !", "Amaury", "As waters of enchantment on his grief \u2014\u2014", "Yes .", "Still , before", "Streets of sea", "Unproven you speak so .", "Of Paphos \u2014 Camarin \u2014 is but her friend ,", "Unblushingly to one who knows \u2014 though by", "I think you are . Think that you are \u2014 if ever the leopard yields .", "And to his bed is true ?", "To ... the medusa of his doubt .", "To make Amaury lordly over Cyprus ,", "Those amulets \u2014\u2014", "A wooing dolt ! but safe \u2014 because he fears .\u2014 I shall be in this place with lord Amaury , Whom I must ... but no matter . He left me suddenly A season since , seeing his father 's look Strangely upon his mother : for that doubt , His father 's , still I 've been compelled to feed , To move Yolanda .\u2014 Here I shall be , then , here within this place .SmardaA-ha ! Ha-ha ! Ha-ha ! If she but win ! A talisman with might upon the Moor !If she but win ! a-ha ! a curse on him !PietroHold , fair one ! Stay !", "Sent me of Venice", "My gratitude ! I wished , and you are here .", "And wholly ?", "With every force , your innocence \u2014 if you", "Yolanda", "And ready skilfully to disavow ,", "And deeply yours \u2014 as oft you feign to shield her ?", "And yet I cannot rue", "Your heart belies your lips ,", "Or \u2014 hope to be ?", "To-night \u2014 if you have love .", "And this baron", "Rather I 'll bring you this :\u2014 Authority", "Now you refuse ?", "Have chosen \u2014 to wed me .", "Who ? Yolanda ? comes ?", "What then , what is your purpose \u2014 to renounce", "No ... not for that", "Now ! YolandaMadonna !", "Ago she was embraced .", "And this enamoured Paphian are fled !", "Suspicious lord ! Yet Berengere Lusignan is his wife ! And soon Yolanda \u2014 But for that I 'm here . You sent for me . RenierI sent .", "And with him from Lusignan hence will pass ,", "To-morrow I return to Venice , then \u2014", "Or to abase him even of Famagouste ;", "And yet ...", "Who ! My lord ?...Smarda ! Why are you here ?... Those papers \u2014 but your lips !Not these alone have brought you thus ; then what ?Of lord Amaury ?", "Yolanda", "And yet may reach \u2014 the realm .", "No .", "Were it folly to make sure ?", "Hah ?", "Will , though indelicacy seem to soil", "None ?", "O do , my lord !", "Letters of power .", "Though not to be his wife and free to leave him ,", "Yolanda", "To say you 've chosen ?", "Her hope was ?", "What ? What ?", "No , and I would that gentle words might be", "Enter , my lord of Paphos \u2014", "And you despise me !", "You \u2014 well I know \u2014 will not desert her thus", "Had you but trusted me , Amaury .", "Smarda", "You see , none .", "And grieves ?\u2014 Be comforted ! For he is \u2014 now security has come .As he is , do not fear .", "With papers that will help .", "Yes .", "This Paphian ,", "And what to you I pledge is he shall be", "I had forgotten , you are of Venice \u2014 Venice", "What matters it ? In Venice our lords know", "That you , for she 's aware of my affection ,", "Them instantly .", "That he awaking sudden from the potion", "Of her", "Is ! though an instant since it seemed disaster .", "Your pardon \u2014", "I have spoken .", "I , a dear guest ? fa !", "Then , I shall .", "Since she is numbed and drained", "You prize so \u2014\u2014", "A babe I am so to be fed with fright .", "Only aware", "Surprised the dew of it upon my lips .", "Knowing", "For to-day .", "Choose and at once .", "Amaury", "Evening is done , you will become his wife ?", "I say her own . I 've done no crime . And you will wed him .", "Yes , Pietro , it must be , has arrived"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["He cannot ask me more than breast can bear", "To the last peak of arid Caucasus .", "And must be .", "Knowing I have already borne for her", "I was betrothed !", "You know something .... He 's dead !", "He cannot .", "No ; but to your heart I leave her", "Ah , for sceptre and for might", "Your tone ...!The still insinuation ! You would do it ! This is the beast then of the labyrinth ? And this your heart is ?", "Were , were he then ...Lord Renier knows it not ! And never must . I have misled his thought From her to me . The danger thus may pass , The open shame . Sir Camarin departed , her release From the remorse and fettering will seem Sweet as a vista into fairyland . For none e'er will betray her .", "Where I have dwelt as under tented love \u2014", "Now of submission in me ; numb and dead", "And past all season of recovery ?", "Lord Amaury \u2014", "Mother , mother !... Ah , his eyes !", "It is ! it is ! Alessa !", "Mother !", "Camarin ?", "Mother , I will go to sleep .", "Here at the lowest of her destiny .", "While , in the battle ,", "A deeper than disdain .", "Again , peace , peace !", "Wound ! he is wounded ?", "A swallow on the battlements to-day", "Sir Camarin ?", "For somewhere in you there is tenderness .", "That love of him has led your thought so low .", "A man would have , a man .", "I pray , no more . To-night I am flooded with a deeper tide Than yet has flowed into my life \u2014 and through it Sounds premonition : so I must have calm .BerengereWhat fear \u2014 if it is fear \u2014 has so unfixed her ? It is suspicion \u2014 Then I must not meet Him here to-night \u2014 or if to-night , no more . Her premonition !\u2014 and my dream that I Should with a cross bring her deep bitterness .Had Renier but come , perhaps I might ...O were I dead this sinning would awake me ?... And yet I care notNo , I will forget .Soon he will come up from the cool , and touch Away my weakness with mad tenderness . Soon he will ... Ah !The cross !... My dream !... Yolanda !Mercy of God , move in me !... Sacrilege !CamarinMy Berengere , a moment , and I come !", "Arms I was found . You will !", "Ah , and he seeks us now ! unwhelmed of it !", "Will , will not , will not , will not !", "No !", "Nor heard ?", "Compel Lord Renier back ! he cannot live ,", "Yes , yes !\u2014", "Amaury", "Am at confession \u2014 penance \u2014 that \u2014 Ah , say", "Fitting revenge through Camarin of Paphos ,", "And that , you could ! though in her heart remorse", "I cannot \u2014 cannot !", "Here in my breast ! to the immutable", "Ready of step , impassive , cold ! And see \u2014", "I 'll go myself to him .", "And I will do it .", "Some woman thing \u2014 that I am ill \u2014 that I", "Our days were merciful and he has made", "Then yours the penance !", "My want is still the same \u2014 words are unneeded .", "You trust me to dispel his love , to pall", "The price , the price .", "Even a moment", "Within your arms oblivion and hold me ,", "The name of Berengere Lusignan must", "No , my Amaury ! I ... do you not see ?", "Vainly , virginity and trust and truth !", "Mother !... Tell you that", "I do not seek them .", "Nor must the bloody leap", "And yet no word from him .", "It should not .", "I will not .", "Thirst of unbounded love as unto her .", "Stand off from her ... Mother !", "The breath still in the veins", "There yet is time .", "I show befitting shame that I was here", "Away from here to any alien air ,", "Yes , the words ; at once !", "In triple mail to every peaceless word ,", "Out of my love ,", "Lore of the east and wonders of the west .", "Fell from the hawk : you soothed and set it free .", "Yielding \u2014 still ,", "At once ! it rings again ! again ! we 'll go !", "I tell you , no . Grief was enough , but now", "This may undo me ! First of all I should", "And as the wind the forest ! As the forest \u2014", "A help for it or healing ? you who know", "May to the world , you came and suddenly", "If there is Womanhood in you to speak .", "You touched my hand gently , as might a father .", "We know not whence or why .", "Your promises , broken two days , are kept ?", "Though he is weak , there is within him \u2014", "Amaury 's love .... You then would rend me there", "Amaury , enough !... I know !", "Save her ?", "As it will be ! with deadlier dark ,", "I took her place within the Paphian 's arms .", "Amaury , no , but sweet ,", "These walls would loathe aloud \u2014 had they a tongue", "Upon her face !", "Speak as a woman ,", "Gulfs wide as the hate of God for infamy", "Here ! In league with you ! in this !", "Must null his doubt and ease the sobbing ebb", "Camarin", "I pray youdo not go .", "Love thee !", "I cast the burden of your cruelty .", "Strength now to walk it ! strength unfaltering .", "With murder ? no . But if you would indeed ,", "Say that you will , and now !...", "O , all the beauty I was once forbid !", "Of Renier Lusignan \u2014 on your peace", "Again I breathe , I breathe !", "Mother ! you hear me ? mother !", "Not bitterness and loneliness and blight !", "As sea the sky ! and as the sky the wind !", "The least of earth , an ides of heaven bliss .", "No , no .", "Hang on his battle-story blessedly !", "Your lover , you shall clasp him openly", "Granite against even its memory .", "Withering and untended and afar", "Or through eternity had desecrated ,", "But you , mother , are come at last to say", "Mother of God ! is there no gentleness", "My heart as a bird 's in May !", "Have seen Amaury ! Now \u2014\u2014!", "As shallows under Morpha 's crystal wave .", "From Mesaoria \u2014", "I can serve you ?", "Because", "You are her murderer ?", "With seeking penetrate the labyrinth", "Thou'rt vowed in heaven .", "No ; no , no ! The thought of it is soil !... Rather ... his death !", "Amaury ! Oh !Amaury ! Amaury !", "As a miasma from Iscariot 's tomb .", "Cruelty like to this you could not do ?", "Yes , something must be done \u2014 something be done .", "Once on the tower when alone at dusk", "These words can wait on what may yet be helped .", "Because", "Mother !...", "Mother ! Her breast ! Mother ! She moves !", "The pleading of it . And upon you , back ,", "Rode in the battle as a seraph might", "The heaping mass of horror ! VittiaNo , on her own ; for she has sinned .", "In thee to move her and dissolve away", "Hear no more of it , ever !", "Dared momently peril ,", "Out of your thought forever let it fall ,", "Be done to lift my hope out of this ruin !", "And overtake you though it were as far", "Has driven here .... Alessa \u2014 Tremitus !", "A cloister thing unvisited of dew ,", "More am sick", "No !", "I fear , Amaury 's !\u2014", "You with the weal of Cyprus on your brow", "Find calmness now , and some expedient .", "Whose alabaster broke amid her tears", "Would he ne'er had come", "He is no more .", "What does the forest love , Amaury ? I", "To see ,", "No , she is holy !", "Then , for her , all I am !", "Chose as the planet-mate of your proud star !", "As , O mother , I love him ,", "With breathed power of your manhood 's might .", "To sway me to forgetting \u2014 I to whom", "Go clean unto the years , fair and unsullied .", "He 's wounded !", "Have lost the sky of love that I had arched", "I am weary .", "Clasp me within your arms ; he must believe", "That thread were vain .", "The price , say , of your silence .\u2014 I am weary .", "Was at that grating \u2014 heard . And from its sheath ,", "Dim now the risen phantom cries of it ,", "And here has planted me in happiness .", "Amaury \u2014\u2014", "Yes , though you hold me purgeless of that sin", "Your silence is ! and sweeter than the dream", "Were I Venetian !", "Before all of Lusigman .", "Something of evil more ,", "Of reverence and grace , and on his lips", "Renier", "The truth !It is suspicion ! is that mad suspicion That you have had of her .", "To bring Amaury grateful to my feet !", "Before any within Lusignan \u2014!", "And \u2014 for some reason of less honour \u2014 you .", "Quickly , and take her .", "To utter .", "Your arms about me , though they burn ! and breathe me", "Be still , be still .", "Though with the wounds of battle he you \u201c love \u201d", "Amaury !... Oh !", "And I again shall see him , hear him speak ,", "You cannot !", "Yes , Amaury , then", "This ne'erhYpppHeNbeforehYpppHeNenvenomed air would banish .", "As Paradise is .", "Perhaps . Let me but think .\u2014 He came \u2014\u2014", "Though all the River of God might be for balm !", "Though driven o'er My heart they trample the lone flower of hope .And even now perhaps Amaury hears And turns away in horror !", "Now , now defend him , if to chastity", "You come : The Saracens \u2014\u2014?", "No , no ; I have not been faithless to you \u2014", "Mother !", "Is livid still .", "Too \u2014? You by some trick \u2014 a trick have \u2014!", "With love impregnable to every ill ,", "Do you hear ?", "Only one thing \u2014 innocence in his sight .", "Plentiful scorn !", "He has not yet returned ?", "That now are spent ... as summer waters ,", "Amaury , in !", "His troop ! Amaury 's ! O the silver chime !", "Found in his arms ... when to Amaury", "And is in danger \u2014 jeopardy ?", "The shame is left , and silence \u2014 no defence ,", "And to tranquillity ,", "Will \u2014?", "And it is all through him", "Infection worse than fetid marshes send", "While to me", "Through it has risen mystery that chokes", "Do not look scorn on Vittia Pisani .", "My brain less weary !", "Not faithless , hear ! it is not true ! not true !", "And to your pity .", "Go to your chamber ; for there yet may be", "Amaury ... it is true .", "Oh !", "I sang \u2014 I know not why \u2014 of lost delights ,", "Yet could I think !", "Amaury ! AmauryPriest , be brief ! MoroThe Church invests me and the powers of This island here to make you man and wife . Be joined , ye who have sinned , In soul , peace and repentances for ever .YolandaAlessa !", "And \u2014 all because I have these days delayed", "To opiate India , a lost sea-isle !", "Me with your beauty , till \u2014\u2014", "Yes , that I love thee !", "Then watch", "Not ? ah !... then what ? \u2018 Twas not his trumpet ? HassanNo . And I will lie to you no longer .", "God shall judge him .", "His doubt that would have sunk !", "Where not Eternity could heal the wound", "White orange blossoms dewy to your pillow", "A flawless courtesy ! as \u2018 twere a king 's .", "The Saracens we know were routed to", "To ... what ?", "Alone , alone ."], "true_target": ["Then ... quell this delirium !", "His wound !", "Or though yon image of the Magdalen ,", "For this Venetian has now , I bode ,", "Laired darkly in you , but to my eyes been clear", "Go , go . BerengereWhat thing is this ?", "Then , mother \u2014\u2014", "Wait not to question , but obey me ! if", "All the bright world ,", "Look on her face and see .", "Holy Magdalen , defend him !", "For you !\u2014 and her who sleeps forgiven there ,Now while her spirit weightless overwingeth Night , to that Throne whose seeing heals all shame ! For her I did ! but oh , for you , whose least Murmur to me is infinite with Spring , Whose smile is light , filling the air with dawn , Whose touch , wafture of immortality Unto my weariness ; and whose eyes , now , Are as the beams God lifted first , they tell us , Over the uncreated , In the far singing mother-dawn of the world !\u2014 Come with me then , but tearless , to her side .While there is sin to sway the soul and sink it Pity should be as strong as love or death !THE END . LYRICS JAEL Jehovah ! Jehovah ! art Thou not stronger than gods of the heathen ? I slew him , that Sisera , prince of the host Thou dost hate . But fear of his blood is upon me , about me is breathen His spirit \u2014 by night and by day come voices that wait . Athirst and affrightened he fled from the star-wrought waters of Kishon . His face was as wool when he swooned at the door of my tent . The Lord hath given him into the hand of perdition , I smiled \u2014 but he saw not the face of my cunning intent . He thirsted for water : I fed him the curdless milk of the cattle . He lay in the tent under purple and crimson of Tyre . He slept and he dreamt of the surge and storming of battle . Ah ha ! but he woke not to waken Jehovah 's ire . He slept as he were a chosen of Israel 's God Almighty . A dog out of Canaan !\u2014 thought he I was woman alone ? I slipt like an asp to his ear and laughed for the sight he Would give when the carrion kites should tear to his bone . I smote thro \u2019 his temple the nail , to the dust a worm did I bind him . My heart was a-leap with rage and a-quiver with scorn . And I danced with a holy delight before and behind him \u2014 I that am called blessed o'er all who 're of Judah born . \u201c Aye , come , I will show thee , O Barak , a woman is more than a warrior , \u201d I cried as I lifted the door wherein Sisera lay . \u201c To me did he fly and I shall be called his destroyer \u2014 I , Jael , who am subtle to find for the Lord a way ! \u201d \u201c Above all the daughters of men be blest \u2014 of Gilead or Asshur , \u201d Sang Deborah , prophetess , under her waving palm . \u201c Behold her , ye people , behold her the heathen 's abasher ; Behold her the Lord hath uplifted \u2014 behold and be calm . \u201c The mother of him at the window looks out thro \u2019 the lattice to listen \u2014 Why roll not the wheels of his chariot ? why does he stay ? Shall he not return with the booty of battle , and glisten In songs of his triumph \u2014 ye women , why do ye not say ? \u201d And I was as she who danced when the Seas were rendered asunder And stood , until Egypt pressed in to be drowned unto death . My breasts were as fire with the glory , the rocks that were under My feet grew quick with the gloating that beat in my breath . At night I stole out where they cast him , a sop to the jackal and raven . But his bones stood up in the moon and I shook with affright . The strength shrank out of my limbs and I fell a craven Before him \u2014 the nail in his temple gleamed bloodily bright . Jehovah ! Jehovah ! art Thou not stronger than gods of the heathen ? I slew him , that Sisera , prince of the host Thou dost hate . But fear of his blood is upon me , about me is breathen His spirit \u2014 by day and by night come voices that wait . I fly to the desert , I fly to the mountain \u2014 but they will not hide me . His gods haunt the winds and the caves with vengeance that cries For judgment upon me ; the stars in their courses deride me \u2014 The stars Thou hast hung with a breath in the wandering skies . Jehovah ! Jehovah ! I slew him the scourge and sting of Thy Nation . Take from me his spirit , take from me the voice of his blood . With madness I rave \u2014 by day and by night , defamation ! Jehovah , release me ! Jehovah ! if still Thou art God ! MARY AT NAZARETH I know , Lord , Thou hast sent Him \u2014 Thou art so good to me !\u2014 But Thou hast only lent Him , His heart 's for Thee ! I dared \u2014 Thy poor hand-maiden \u2014 Not ask a prophet-child : Only a boy-babe laden For earth \u2014 and mild . But this one Thou hast given Seems not for earth \u2014 or me ! His lips flame truth from heaven , And vanity Seem all my thoughts and prayers When He but speaks Thy Law ; Out of my heart the tares Are torn by awe ! I cannot look upon Him So strangely burn His eyes \u2014 Hath not some grieving drawn Him From Paradise ? For Thee , for Thee I 'd live , Lord ! Yet oft I almost fall Before Him \u2014 Oh , forgive , Lord , My sinful thrall ! But e'en when He was nursing , A baby at my breast , It seemed He was dispersing The world 's unrest . Thou bad'st me call Him \u201c Jesus \u201d And from our heavy sin I know He shall release us , From Sheol win . But , Lord , forgive ! the yearning That He may sometimes be Like other children , learning Beside my knee , Or playing , prattling , seeking For help ,\u2014 comes to my heart .... Ah sinful , Lord , I 'm speaking \u2014 How good Thou art ! OUTCAST I did not fear , But crept close up to Christ and said , \u201c Is He not here ? \u201d They drew me back \u2014 The seraphs who had never bled Of weary lack \u2014 But still I cried , With torn robe , clutching at His feet , \u201c Dear Christ ! He died So long ago ! Is He not here ? Three days , unfleet As mortal flow Of time I 've sought \u2014 Till Heaven 's amaranthine ways Seem as sere nought ! \u201d A grieving stole Up from His heart and waned the gaze Of His clear soul Into my eyes . \u201c He is not here , \u201d troubled He sighed . \u201c For none who dies Beliefless may Bend lips to this sin-healing Tide , And live alway . \u201d Then darkness rose Within me , and drear bitterness . Out of its throes I moaned , at last , \u201c Let me go hence ! Take off the dress , The charms Thou hast Around me strown ! Beliefless too am I without His love \u2014 and lone ! \u201d Unto the Gate They led me , tho \u2019 with pitying doubt . I did not wait But stepped across Its portal , turned not once to heed Or know my loss . Then my dream broke , And with it every loveless creed \u2014 Beneath love 's stroke . ADELIL Proud Adelil ! Proud Adelil ! Why does she lie so cold ?We sat at banquet , many maids , She like a Valkyr free .In emerald cups was poured the mead ; Icily blew the night .\u201c A goblet to my love ! \u201d she cried , \u201c Prince where the sea-winds fly ! \u201dShe lifted the cup and drank \u2014 she saw A heart within its lees .They looked upon her stricken still , And sudden they grew appalled .Palely she took it \u2014 did it give Ease there against her breast ?THE DYING POET Swing in thy splendour , O silent sun , Drawing my heart with thee over the west ! Done is its day as thy day is done , Fallen its quest ! Swoon into purple and rose \u2014 then sink , Tho \u2019 to arise again out of the dawn . Sink while I praise thee , ere thro \u2019 the dark link Of death I am drawn ! Sunk ? art thou sunken ? how great was life ! I like a child could cry for it again \u2014 Cry for its beauty , pang , fleeting and strife , Its women , its men ! For , how I drained it with love and delight ! Opened its heart with the magic of grief ! Reaped every season \u2014 its day and its night ! Loved every sheaf ! Aye , not a meadow my step has trod , Never a flower swung sweet to my face , Never a heart that was touched of God , But taught me its grace . Off , from my lids then a moment yet , Fingering Death , for again I must see Miraged by memory all that I met Under Time 's lee . There !... I 'm a child again \u2014 fair , so fair ! Under the eyes does a marvel not burn ? Speak they not vision , song , frenzy to dare , That still in me yearn ?... Youth ! my wild youth !\u2014 O , blood of my heart , Still you can answer with whirling the thought ! Still like the mountain-born rapid can dart , Joyous , distraught !... Love , and her face again ! there by the wood !\u2014 Come thou invisible Dark with thy mask ! Shall I not learn if she lives ? and could I more of thee ask ?... Turn me away from the ashen west , Where love 's sad planet unveils to the dusk . Something is stealing like light from my breast \u2014 Soul from its husk ... Soft !... Where the dead feel the buried dead , Where the high hermit-bell hourly tolls , Bury me , near to the haunting tread Of life that o'errolls . ON THE MOOR 1 I met a child upon the moor A-wading down the heather ; She put her hand into my own , We crossed the fields together . I led her to her father 's door \u2014 A cottage mid the clover . I left her \u2014 and the world grew poor To me , a childless rover . 2 I met a maid upon the moor , The morrow was her wedding . Love lit her eyes with lovelier hues Than the eve-star was shedding . She looked a sweet goodbye to me , And o'er the stile went singing . Down all the lonely night I heard But bridal bells a-ringing . 3 I met a mother on the moor , By a new grave a-praying . The happy swallows in the blue Upon the winds were playing . \u201c Would I were in his grave , \u201d I said , \u201c And he beside her standing ! \u201d There was no heart to break if death For me had made demanding . HUMAN LOVE We spoke of God and Fate , And of that Life \u2014 which some await \u2014 Beyond the grave . \u201c It will be fair , \u201d she said , \u201c But love is here ! I only crave thy breast Not God 's when I am dead . For He nor wants nor needs My little love . But it may be , if I love thee And those whose sorrow daily bleeds , He knows \u2014 and somehow heeds ! \u201d OH , GO NOT OUT Oh , go not out upon the storm , Go not , my sweet , to Swalchie pool ! A witch tho \u2019 she be dead may charm Thee and befool . A wild night \u2018 tis ! her lover 's moan , Down under ooze and salty weed , She 'll make thee hear \u2014 and then her own ! Till thou shall heed . And it will suck upon thy heart \u2014 The sorcery within her cry \u2014 Till madness out of thee upstart , And rage to die . For him she loved , she laughed to death ! And as afloat his chill hand lay , \u201c Ha , ha ! to hell I sent his wraith ! \u201d Did she not say ? And from his finger strive to draw The ring that bound him to her spell ?\u2014 But on her closed his hand \u2014 she saw ... Oh , who can tell ? For tho \u2019 she strove \u2014 tho \u2019 she did wail , The dead hand held her cold and fast : The tide crawled in o'er rock and swale , To her at last ! Down in the pool where she was swept He holds her \u2014 Oh , go not a-near ! For none has heard her cry but wept And died that year . CALL TO YOUR MATE , BOB-WHITE O call to your mate , bob-white , bob-white , And I will call to mine . Call to her by the meadow-gate , And I will call by the pine . Tell her the sun is hid , bob-white , The windy wheat sways west . Whistle again , call clear and run To lure her out of her nest . For when to the copse she comes , shy bird , With Mary down the lane I 'll walk , in the dusk of locust tops , And be her lover again . Ay , we will forget our hearts are old , And that our hair is gray . We 'll kiss as we kissed at pale sunset One summer 's halcyon day . That day , can it fade ?... ah , bob , bob-white , Still calling \u2014 calling still ? We 're coming \u2014 a-coming , bent and weighed , But glad with the old love 's thrill ! TRANSCENDED I who was learned in death 's lore Oft held her to my heart And spoke of days when we should love no more \u2014 In the long dust , apart . \u201c Immortal ? \u201d No \u2014 it could not be , Spirit with flesh must die . Tho \u2019 heart should pray and hope make endless plea , Reason would still outcry .", "Laughter and roses , day-song of the sea ,", "Warn ! Warn him a fever 's here", "But only this \u2014\u2014", "I will not bear it .", "The guilt be !", "One whose abiding", "And quickened the winds with quicker winds of hope ,", "For in the worst that live there still is heaven !\u2014", "While I have breath .", "No , no . The tears of women", "That will o'erwhelm you !", "Who ? What do you \u2014? VittiaMean ? It is not clear ?", "Trampled and tore !", "Arisen up .... Your husband !", "Ah , you remember ; you will hear me ?", "Within Lord Renier fire of suspicion .", "Vittia Visani , who withholds Amaury \u2014\u2014", "From the remembered ruin of my home ,", "Here to take her place ,", "If I am left alone \u2014!", "Came with the chivalry and manly show", "Ah , you are merciless !", "Your peace and this compelling pain ... Ah no !", "But am not ; so remorse has come in you !", "I thank ... Madonna ... thee !", "And \u2014 if she dies in terror of the lips", "But you it was who struck and kindled first", "Shattering love for ever at my feet ?", "To-morrow \u2014", "Who came last night at dusk , as well you know .", "To the Holy Sepulchre 's deliverance .", "Within this castle . But first to her bed ,", "Go to his fear and with persuasion say", "Saw you not ?", "And all the stars of it . See , he is dumb !\u2014", "Vittia", "Once when you chafed in fever and I bore", "Send for the priest and for Amaury , for", "Of stricken Africa . It would be vain .", "Yes , yes .", "This gulf 's dishonour ? Never !... So return", "Into these halls ! that it were beautiful ,", "Pity and pity ! ever pity ! No .", "How , Amaury ; tell your meaning !", "Perhaps .", "Believe !\u2014 believe !", "No earth shall fall and quicken with her dust !", "Nor any .\u2014 Yet I would I might", "Voices of love and tender earthly hopes \u2014", "Of voices , dear as waking to the dead \u2014", "There at the gates that guard your rest you hear", "Think not of me \u2014 no , hush \u2014 but of the peril", "Mother , I cannot have him \u2014 here \u2014 Amaury ! Defer him but a little \u2014 till to-morrow . I cannot see him now .", "The presage beat of them like hungry hands", "But he \u2014 you mean \u2014 is here ?", "And you , whose heart is shaken", "With all my body and soul-breath I love you ,", "O'er no abyss .", "Say .... No use . Too late .", "I speak with love .", "And feigning ! But no matter ; lies are brief .", "Or gushing by the springs of Chitria ,", "Has hid away , or can , the agony", "Then have you not , unshameable !", "Lead her within . O mother ! piteous mother !\u2014\u2014", "Bitterly tho \u2019 it be , he must , for shame !", "Sir , no !... She means", "Fast to your being press me , and there bless me", "Am I not needy , fain of it , and can", "No !... No !It cannot be ! mother ! cannot ! awake her ! And tell her I have wed him ! mother ! cannot !CURTAIN . ACT IV", "Of guile ?", "What does she say ?", "Honour was here and innocence lies now", "Which you would feign , but cannot .", "A dagger \u2014! Ah , he will come .", "One searching of my face shall free your fear .", "Endurance ever dure !", "Where still pursuit would follow ! even ,", "He is not ! no , Amaury !... He ? so soon ?\u2014", "Only the pale arch-angels may endure", "What to me left ! to me !", "This jeopardy congealing over us ?", "Say not pity to me !", "Were", "But wholly shall .", "Can think of nothing !", "Camarin", "There is a way .", "Ah !... he will kill her ! Stop , my lord ! mother ! Lord Renier !Cold is she , stony pale , And sinking !... Go away from her , go go !", "As I had struck , murdered a little child !", "Insolence , false", "Then \u2014 to save her who 's dead \u2014 from death and shame ,", "Ah , it was ruthless , kindless !", "But you it is \u2014", "Ah , it is he !", "And flood of her sick spirit ; you who must", "All that I could to spare her I have done ;", "You ?", "As the sea foams , or past the sandy void", "Trembling to muse on !", "Yet now forget them .", "Who as a guest came pledged into this house .", "Kiss me with quenchless kisses , and embrace", "To separate us with this horror ; that", "Listen !...", "And holy are my lips", "Then to-night", "Berengere", "Find me at once . What sound was that ?... A bugle ?", "You only could against Camarin now !", "You ever \u2014!", "Who shepherded each happy flock of waves", "If you attend me not !", "Now I will wed him , heedless , wantless , wild .", "Be still .", "Or palsied one who put a hand to help me ;", "Oh , unmistakable ; Along the corridor . There !AmauryMy Yolanda !My , my Yolanda ! To touch you is as triumph to the blood , Is as the boon of battle to the strong !", "And suffered ! But you \u2014\u2014", "Amaury , no ; release me and say why", "I have not seen him .", "Peace , peace , peace .", "When once Amaury hears all that has passed .", "Of death fall on her from Lord Renier 's sword ,", "Come as the air and sighing of the night ,", "The Venetian , and when Amaury comes", "All that was duty and of love the most .", "She must be borne , she your cold violence", "Vain , and I cannot have you . No , but listen \u2014\u2014", "No , no .", "Of April nightingale on Troados ,", "And you , Hassan .... But why do you stand stone ?", "And may have destiny you cannot know .", "Only that you spare", "Well ?", "Though he would waste the air of the world to keep", "Amaury !... Come ! we 'll go to him ! we 'll go !", "She breathes !", "And proven would .", "On \u2014 him ?", "Mother !", "Their vessels \u2014 all the Allah-crying horde .", "He does \u2014 he does !", "Of her last terror \u2014 but it trembles still .", "Were it so simple , no design had ever", "Go , go ,", "Laughter and lights and revelry \u2014 for all", "Hassan", "And it is you ... you who have urged again", "And , you mean \u2014\u2014?", "As in a tomb a taper 's flame , would know", "\u2018 Tis I and not his wife you have unhallowed ,", "Pled him to silence which alone can save us ?", "Mother ?...", "Well ?", "A thing may still", "No , no ! But let him .... Then I will go far", "Lady of Venice , yes ; for very shame !", "And chill his passion from me . For I crave", "Of your intent .", "Amaury !...", "We found her \u201d ... Ah , the memory is fire !\u2014\u2014", "Of her his love so wronged ,", "Would lie preventing ; so there is no fear .", "But can leave me so laden here within", "Then to compel you .", "She lifted me , a lonely convent weed ,", "But you , cruel Venetian ... Ah , ah ,", "What have you told him ?", "As oft you have \u2014\u2014", "Lifted my brow up silent to your kiss .", "Of vanished roses that are ere recalling", "Be deaf to it as to a taunt of doom ,", "Can he not smile too on his handiwork ?", "Beauty of it !... look , look not on me so \u2014", "And lord Amaury \u2014 said the courier not ?\u2014\u2014", "Who numbered the little leaves with laughing names", "Were you ! and not one", "What have I left", "Though I am bidden .", "And her torn hair , forbade me with a voice .", "You hear , mother ?Out of my way at once .", "But you will heed ?", "Up to your chamber and be as asleep .", "To wed with Camarin .", "Amaury \u2014\u2014", "And all this night is ours for ecstasy .", "This , then , you would not \u2014!", "And till this pall of doubt be rent away", "If , ere it come , all under Lusignan", "All the bright world I breathe because of her ,", "If he could trust you \u2014 but he could not .", "Of joy to ripple in me or of light", "Liar that I am to say it !", "Prevention !", "There is a way \u2014 I think \u2014 dim , but a way .", "Must be the end .", "None ...", "But anything !", "Each moment 's beat a blow upon the breast .", "Your every word of love ! Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 ah , fold me ,", "I grieve to leave Lusignan , this my home \u2014", "No , you are duped . For empty , cold are the veins", "That he must fend his ear from . \u2018 Twill suffice .", "To-morrow then , unless Amaury runs", "A nun to pity I will be no more .", "A death too ready if he but suspect .", "Then \u2014\u2014", "Hassan", "Not I shall wed him !", "Here in the dimness ... but has only heard", "Help me to think . Go to him , go , and say", "He comes here , mother ?", "With whoever", "Leaving my breast a torrent 's barren bed .", "But I will search her face ... till it reveals .", "He came after your words ... yes ... could not see", "To the divinity of love high-altared", "You 've spoken ? won Lord Renier to wisdom ?", "Hassan !I hear you , speak . His wounds I know . The rest ! They 've told him ?", "Dear mother \u2014\u2014?", "Ah !", "So well the world and its unwonted ways !", "When it is told Amaury , \u201c See her you", "Sweet as the roses of Damascus crusht ,", "True .", "Dawn was enchanted incense once , and day ,", "I cannot understand .", "So to suspect her , since in Camarin 's", "That it is folly of him and of you", "Where not oblivion the void of death", "Holy to hate him as the Lost can hate .", "Blest with betrothal and the boon of faith ,", "For his sake I ask it .", "And pledge him but to wait !", "Running with silvery foaming there to shore ,", "Remembering that they may call her mother !", "A sacrifice that pain cannot consume .", "Return !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["You !", "O , sir , pardon .", "That Camarin of Paphos is their cause . Tell me \u2014\u2014", "But now \u2014 for the sails make home along the sea \u2014", "You play a part !", "Never a moment of you yielded to him ,", "And not you ?", "Her holiness up to contamination", "Muffle my sword from him that now she weds .", "Before your sleep . Therefore my purpose is", "Yolanda ! YolandaI meant it not \u2014 a breath of fear \u2014 no more . Go , go .", "Ah , God !", "Bathing a thousand years in angel song !", "To me her words shall be \u2014 me and no other .", "Yolanda !", "Now , with your head pillowed upon my breast !", "Fear in my mother !", "Still in the love that you a thief have stolen .", "Vittia", "I 'd have the eloquence of quickened moons", "You are my father , and , I must believe ,", "The sun that falls upon you shall not foul", "So my Yolanda now dissolve the cling", "When I knew its source ?", "That Which women trust ? and you ?Mother ?", "An image of the Magdalen within", "Wounded with wonder of this plight , and pity .", "Lady of Venice , nothing !", "That never he has touched too long this hand \u2014", "Yolanda ?", "Tell me \u2014\u2014", "These wounds and all your wants were urging it !", "Sirocco !", "Come to my lips ! or fill so full my eyes", "So , no delay .", "The reason of this sudden piteous death", "Yet you speak gently .", "And I forbid those who", "To my Yolanda .", "This I cannot understand . YolandaNothing \u2014 a folly \u2014 groundless frailty .", "Vows I have kept \u2014", "Its dim unhappiness and hollow want .", "And to dispel your minds", "Now to forget it .", "Would know it unbelievable and laugh .", "I 'll clasp his hand", "To tell us of you !", "Whose lips refuse .", "But \u2018 tis not ?", "My hands and strangle life from it !", "I 've striven with it till no more I can .", "That name again ?", "And saw", "On ; go on . The sudden blood up to my wounds .", "You who are purity if Mary still", "For \u2014 if \u2018 tis near \u2014 her soul with this is wrung .", "Pining along the pages of a book \u2014", "For a proof to her of any tie soever .", "Come , let it be .", "Yolanda", "This wound upon my throat , fever it not", "Now of my mother .", "I cannot fathom \u2014 Camarin \u2014\u2014", "To me than any peril .", "Trust in my veins makes of it but more love .", "Out , quickly .", "She ?", "You in whose presence I am purged as one", "Set down the bier .", "By the white doe on mount Chionodes .", "As does this lady", "Not of them now !", "Of anguish and insatiate accusal .\u2014", "Or silence , then ?", "There is my mother , see ,", "To-morrow ... Scythian !", "You falter ? darken ?", "My being \u2014", "No need , my lord \u2014 though your pang too I marked \u2014", "That she may not grieve .", "With Camarin .", "O !... and by me , driven by me , bore this !Pure as the rills of Paradise , endured ?", "For the issue 's utterance . And this wear you ,", "For though nought 's in the world but prayer may move ,", "You to this coat of steel ?", "But she will , she will . You 've driven her with dread and awe . VittiaAnd truth ?", "But you were tricked ; it was illusion swum", "Or you , Vittia Pisani ,", "Of this invisible but heavy hydra ;", "Invisible and without any voice", "Though as under sirocco I am kept .", "They and no other !", "This is most kind .Kind ; I will do it .", "And did not wonder ?", "Only your death , your death or mine stands pale", "Its yearning and regret to us who live ,", "That you may palter !", "Because you love her ?", "Hard on the haunted flight before my father ,", "Then is He not my God .", "Her that I hold here in my arms is more", "Anchor and land to-night near Keryneia .", "Often , perhaps . I am not skilled to tell . But these \u2014 not these ! They are of trouble known .", "Then I will not be thwarted though I must", "No other better !", "As quickly !", "Draw , and at once .", "Of mystery and myrrh !", "This token of our race ,", "Near ! would it were to hear me and impart", "You ?", "This only ;"], "true_target": ["As that Yolanda \u2014\u2014", "What ! It is moving in me clouded ,", "Pendant upon your breast fears to pollute it !", "Fiercely disown .", "See ; her lips ! They strive to speak ! O faintly , O so faint ! Can you not hear ?", "Though I must go down into hell for it .", "Sir !", "Come , the word , the word !", "Is mother of God and lighteth Paradise !", "No farther !", "Nor once into your eyes too deep has gazed !", "As is the sacring-bell to holy ears ,", "For ... my Yolanda !...", "Should for her any sin beseeching lift .", "Henceforth I will .", "Vows and remembrances ... I shall aspire \u2014", "Slow sullen speech come to my soldier lips ,", "That I may loathe her not o'ermuch ; and to", "So ; and ... it is well . And here are her", "Or silence wrap you , oh , so humanly", "Till I prove it !", "And \u2018 tis that you may live", "Away from us . Say it !", "Upon the April vision of our love ,", "Christ , and the world that craves His blood , I think", "If any tare has been unseemly sown", "Then , by", "Yolanda !", "So undefiled even the perfect lily", "Yolanda !", "Never !", "Vittia", "The galleys of the Saracens have found", "I ? who know nought ? In what ?", "To say all I have yearned ,", "Pouring upon the midnight magical ,", "That the unutterable , shall seem as sweet", "Whom you have so accused .", "I would as quick believe that she had given", "Yolanda !... he !... this reverence as to", "Mean well this monster breath 's unchastity ,", "Say it at once that I may rend and fling it", "If you are firm .", "Have wounded her . But do not fear , Yolanda ,", "For , trust me , ere to-morrow it will cease \u2014", "Be it so .", "Rough with command , and impotent of softness ?", "A hollow word for what had never being .", "What ? what is it she says ?", "A poison so incredible and dark", "They say , you , who are stainless to my eyes", "But of some tribute incense to this beauty !", "With longer fire of doubt , Yolanda .", "It will not leave my heart that somehow \u2014 how", "How ? speak .", "An angel ? Speak !", "You cannot duped innoculate me with .", "Iscariot ! yes !", "And seeming but a veil \u2014", "My father 's look ! you saw it !", "I know you not to-night . Farewell .", "Yes , mother , were you now about us , vain ,", "Still but the lips that loved her", "Till evermore he must , even as I \u2014", "You lie to say it .", "But how now ? tears ?", "You 've been again at some old tale of sorrow ,", "Then would you hear me say \u2014", "Not here yet .... There is more in this than seems .More , Camarin of Paphos , than is clear !And she must tell me !Lady , you I mean .What is beyond this shame upon Yolanda ?", "Still I love her , still !", "They then", "But this to all , I answer !\u2014", "My father ?", "Until I prove you that a word against", "You drive and drain her .", "Yolanda has dwelt by her", "I 'll not return unto my couch though twice", "Listen , they tell me you \u2014 A fool , a fool", "Though I must take your leper throat into", "Were you and now could hear through what of cold", "My troops are ready and await me \u2014", "The spur ? the spur ?", "Dear as the wind wafts from undying shrines", "This , telling of that Italy madonna", "So , with your steel \u2014\u2014!", "Have prized her not !", "Coward !", "For the same sky you breathe I will not .", "Stand away from me .I to believe her pure as my own mother !", "As well she knows , so may refuse to wed", "As the fawn", "Nor I", "who has gently nursed me .", "Between us now , awaiting silently .", "O pause not !", "Yolanda", "God ! God !", "The day you first set step in Lusignan", "Grateful , intent", "Whose days were sad \u2014 I have forgotten how .", "The chapel yonder fell \u2014 presaging this .", "Are landing !", "Yolanda ! my Yolanda !\u2014 Never , never !", "Tell me then you have", "What have I done ? Too pitiless have pressed", "Is it not so ?", "To breathe ever the burning of this mist", "She , if she would , or you , could point to me ,", "Not one .", "Deeper than sight but pressing at my peace .", "I will not so insult her \u2014\u2014", "My words ,", "Crush you as one a viper with his heel ,"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Aeih , aeih ! at last .", "Aeih \u2014\u2014", "But , sir \u2014!... Aeih ! My precious physic wasted !"], "true_target": ["She speaks to visions . So , So can the blood do \u2014 trick us utterly !YolandaSpeak , speak , and tell him !", "Aeih ! and to return", "Now to my drugs ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Then \u2014 They weep and pine \u2014 until I must console them . SmardaAnd for all this , O prince of paramours ,My lady has no doubt bid you to sail From Venice .", "For \u2014 for a lady by the marble knight ,", "Who fell enamoured of me at the gate .", "Slave ?", "\u201c Proud Pietro ! \u201d", "That I was led astray", "She !", "Slave , you \u2014\u2014! By my sins !", "That is , by the fountain , swooned , as \u2014\u2014", "She did . Out by the fountain .", "The same ! I sought to run away ,"], "true_target": ["Who , you 're aware , am sought", "You will not , slave ! but quickly take them to her ,", "Attendant on the lords and high of Venice .", "The papers ... quickly !", "I , Pietro , as you see ,", "And then they sigh .", "O slave , say to her , but I could not for \u2014", "Slave !I greet you .", "Dear slave , you will \u2014 and say if she inquire", "\u201c The gentle Pietro , \u201d they say . You may remember .", "By the little Cyprian with guiling eyes", "Of all the loveliest"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["I lay that it is wise never to foul", "Ah !", "Now have I , now ! It will not totter again .Alessa Would that it might Upon the head of \u2014\u2014You are awaited There in the sacristy .... The chant begins !Begins ! and lady Yolanda still awaits Heedless , though Lord Amaury 's desperate As is the Paphian !... They near !... The curtains !MoroNo moan or any toil of grief be here Where we have brought her for sainted appeal . But in this holy place until the tomb Let her find rest .", "To wife or maid \u2014 till we have sipped !", "When he was curst .", "The dead , even in thinking ,"], "true_target": ["My mother saw a dead man who had gone", "Unshriven start up white and cry out loud", "Man is as grass that withers !", "There , it is done . Now to the image .", "For they may hear us , none can say , and once", "When we are priests we 'll give no comforting", "Tchuck ! tchuck ! Better no breath about that lord of Paphos Or any here . For till the dead are three Days gone , you know \u2014! But there 's the woman . Feign .The blessed dead ! in Purgatory may They briefly bide ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["There are perchance . And now they say that Venus ,", "O Lord !", "No !... Well , such things", "Is come again .... But you have finished ? Soon", "They bring her body here .", "The Chian ! Hee ! None 's like the Chian ! and to-morrow , meat ! Last week old Ugo died and we had pheasant .", "The Anadyomene , who once ruled this isle ,"], "true_target": ["Aye ! aye ! AlessaWhat say you ?", "Alessa", "That image fell first on the day \u2014\u2014", "Olympio , the cock who fetched us , said", "Well ,", "Domine , dirige !HilarionWe 'll have good wine for this !", "And supped ! Though \u2018 tis a Friday and the Pope is dead !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Tho \u2019 He has robed me and crowned \u2014 yet , yet !", "But answers , \u2018 I myself am Heaven and Hell . \u2019 \u201d", "We are not lovers , you and I ,", "Till night , blind as the worm within his clod .", "Drink to Death ,", "Like Snow upon the Desert 's dusty Face ,", "She yielded \u2014 brittle .", "Pray that it may not be a haunting fire ,", "Aye ! for there is no peace to me \u2014", "Over these meadows ,", "Thou art late , O Love ,", "And thinks ne'er to depart .", "For want of love , for beating loud and lonely ,", "Accusing thee and me !", "The kusa-grass sighs with my sighs ,", "A. D. 455", "Of Time , and all with lamentable mien", "\u201c But see His Presence thro \u2019 Creation 's veins ,", "On any grissette .", "From birth , without a name , but others near \u2014", "The seraphs would sing to her", "But not the Master-knot of Human fate . \u201d", "And bide content with dim-lit Earth alone . \u201d", "He 's lord o \u2019 the breath", "But just a place God 's made for us", "To-morrow !\u2014 Why , To-morrow we may be", "When they came shrinkingly to tell me \u2018 twas", "I 'm a-longing for the sea !", "But you , Friend , take the Cash \u2014 the Credit leave ,", "Than sadden after none , or bitter Fruit . \u201d", "Nor all your tears wash out a word of it . \u201d", "From faith and dream , star , flower , and song , and sea .", "\u201c The Master-knot knows but the Master-hand", "May open through all Mystery a breach . \u201d", "And Lo !\u2014 the phantom Caravan has reached", "No heart for Wine . Must we not cross the Sky", "One flash of it within the Tavern caught", "Then I climb the climbing stairway ,", "But one said , \u201c Why weepest thou", "Some letter of the After-life to spell :", "Unto Eternity upon his wings \u2014", "Midnight lay Eve by her outdriven mate ,", "Like seeds upon the unplanted heaven 's Air :", "Which to discover we must travel too ? \u201d", "For women evermore \u2014 women whose tears", "But seek that soul and soul may meet together ,", "My rage was undammable ....", "One cry ... just one ... I think ... because ...", "Its memory of God 's perfecting was strewn", "Into the wounded stillness from her lips .", "I have waited thee long .", "Sated with song .", "To creatures that had quivered but with bliss !", "A vision that shall steal insatiably", "Knowing this fatal spell that so enthralls ,", "Till Sleep , the angel of forgetfulness ,", "Of Death \u2014 until we know \u2014 until we know . \u201d", "\u201c Come , fill the cup , \u201d said he . \u201c In the fire of Spring", "What can a woman 's kisses be ?\u2014", "So , not a home and ease for me \u2014", "\u201c But to this world we come and Why not knowing", "Her lids with anguish , stinging traced her cheeks .", "Will the great Gard'ner for the uprooted soul", "Where is no stone for an eye to spell", "With loneliness that will not rest", "\u201c What , take the Cash and let the Credit go ?", "And hurl their hate \u2014 and a brave ship saves .", "Drink to death ,", "One \u2014 and Two \u2014 and Three .", "Beatitude redeemless evermore !", "Dream ere the night-cool dies ?", "What are the heaths and hills to me ?", "Foresuffering phantoms crowded in the womb", "Then drink , and the goblet shatter !", "That lifts it and at last to Freedom flies ,", "Wept at caresses that were once all joy ,", "Of some one \u2014 somewhere \u2014 who needeth most me ?", "No ?\u2014 then you 're her pitier !", "Love that is passionless within the breast .", "\u201c Into the Dust we shall descend \u2014 we must .", "When the livid breakers angered", "She thought \u2018 twas not bad of her ,", "Tossed to a slave in his hover !", "And then \u2014 to the dust !", "Nor Whence , like water willy-nilly flowing ;", "Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling .", "Brings an omen to the master", "LISSETTE", "\u201c From the Invisible , he does . But sent", "Upon his lids I saw the trail", "Could a stilletto 's one prick be prettier ?", "Love 's joy or pain .", "Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum ! \u201d", "Sadly a-quiver ,", "Still would our souls , unhelpably apart ,", "And I 'm his bride !", "Dip her cool grails of radiant Life .", "\u201c Then , strange , is't not ? that of the myriads who", "Who plough them o'er .", "Ourselves with yesterday 's sev'n thousand Years . \u201d", "With a love death could not harm \u2014", "Then when I die , a grave for me \u2014", "Ah , to be mother of all misery !", "No ! but to lids , that gaze stone-wide ,", "Cast from him \u2014 dumb !", "Hell-hate and rage beyond oblivion .", "There is no Light ?\u2014 the worm may see no star", "THE CHILD GOD GAVE", "Up with the cup \u2014", "For to Immortal Banquets I am bid . \u2019 \u201d", "The clutching agony , the fears !\u2014", "Of all but love , I kiss thine eyes and seem", "\u201c We cannot know \u2014 so fill the cup that clears", "Of one returned . Yet none is sure , we know ,", "And little fingers stealing aimlessly", "Back in unsummoned Void ! and , woe ! wilt fill", "Aye ! though \u2018 twas but kisses \u2014 she swore !\u2014 he had of her .", "And like it goes \u2014 for all our plea or sway .", "Oh , my love , unto thee !", "About my heart .", "Violets , April-rich and sprung of God .", "For vile is the peth", "Drink to Death , drink !", "Of deathly pain .", "And then I knew she lived \u2014 that death 's dark lust", "Let no man shrink !", "\u201c Well , this I know ; whether the one True Light", "Must drown the memory of that insolence . \u201d", "Up with the cup \u2014", "And offering his Cup invite our souls", "Where I may wake when the tempests heap", "Will He say , \u2018 Taste \u2019 \u2014 then shall we no more be ? \u201d", "You are watching , fisher-maiden ,", "The champak hath no odour more", "Dropped on his lips ,", "Silent by worlds where mortals are pent .", "I cannot cry in the jungle 's deep \u2014", "To flutter \u2014 and the Bird is on the Wing . \u201d", "That light will pierce my useless lids \u2014 then grope", "You know ... he never smiled .", "But under the still sod ! \u201d", "I heard the dull clod 's dole ,", "I rose , and on the throne of Saturn sate ,", "\u201c Well , when the Angel of the darker drink", "Stands aliens , aye , and would ! tho \u2019 we should meet", "Let me be laid in the deeps that swell", "Or Hell below .", "At last shall find us by the river-brink ,", "Fleeing one turned ... how like her look to mine", "The uncreated ages visibly !", "Loose me the strapping \u2014", "Of birth within the Garden 's ecstasy .", "The Bird of Time has but a little way", "Doctor and Saint , and heard great argument", "Two \u2014 \u201c I swear me thine ! \u201d", "Late ,", "\u201c Give , for my days beat wild", "He was so strange and still .", "Are not a World to-day \u2014", "Upon this sunny lane ,", "The Nothing it set out from \u2014 Oh , make haste ! \u201d", "Is it not fairer than soul can see ? \u201d", "And I whose dream mourned with all motherhood", "Came out by the same door wherein I went . \u201d", "The swooning ages suffer up to God !", "And understand how slipping hours may twine", "Out of the dark \u2014 move in me longingly .", "Unserverably , and count it as sheer nought \u2014", "Pah ! she 's the better , and I ... I 'm your prisoner .", "Did I curse God and rave", "Of This and That we strive o'er and dispute .", "I fear to think how her arms would twine ,", "Or , failing , fall into the Gulf and die ? \u201d", "A parry !\u2014 and powerful !", "Oh ... there was love in her heart \u2014 no doubt of it \u2014", "Over God 's throne \u2014", "The ploughing means no more", "My barren gaze can never know what throes", "While tears , that had before ne'er visited", "Despair he will \u2014 which is more wise or just ? \u201d", "And Nineveh , a city sinking slow", "They brought him to me cold and pale \u2014", "He lies who saith", "Which cries , \u2018 Feed \u2014 feed me not on Wine alone ,", "It came \u2014 with groping lips", "Upon some world where Time cannot repeat", "Who drink shall drink of Immortality .", "But \u2014 \u201c You are mine , and blood is inflammable ,", "Our childish hearts .", "Hast not , endlessly beating , and to hear", "The lotus leans her head on the stream \u2014", "To be first-called out of the earth and fail", "Their hearts to God ?\u2014 my heart is a husk !", "That scattered Saturn and his countless Band", "Better than in the Temple lost outright . \u201d", "Oh , the reefs ! ah , the sea !", "For , was it little ?", "Cry in thy child , wilt groaning wish the world", "Now do I understand His words , so dim", "But can the soul not break the crumbling Crust", "TEARLESS", "\u201c In Temple or in Tavern \u2018 t may be lost .", "Sudden her dream , too cruelly impent", "With prophesy of ill beyond all years !", "\u201c Such is the ban ! but even though we heard", "Beyond the oblivion of unnumbered births \u2014", "Is , \u201c Love , I know thee mine ! \u201d", "But still the homeless sea !", "\u201c The Moving Finger writes ; and having writ ,", "And many a Knot unravelled by the Road \u2014", "Shall I not lean to thy breast and dream ,", "\u201c Soon he will smile , \u201d I said ,", "Why then should I o'ermuch for earth-sight care ?", "That he must list to were his place", "I sat with Omar by the Tavern door", "Account and mine should know the like no more ;", "In this clay carcass crippled to abide ? \u201d", "\u201c All \u2014 it may be . Yet lie to sleep , and lo ,", "Might burn him back to life and years", "And the soul of a woman has never been mine .", "Into Oblivion 's river !", "LOVE 'S WAY TO CHILDHOOD", "The fever from her lips . Over the palms", "\u201c The Bird of Time ? \u201d I answered . \u201c Then have I", "Pillowed on lilies that still told the sweet", "The Vision it has brought to us away . \u201d", "MOTHER-LOVE", "\u201c The worldly hope men set their hearts upon", "Drink to Death , aye !", "Thou art late , O Death ,", "Through Earth where living Goodness though \u2018 tis blent", "\u2018 To make thee but for Death were toil ill-spent \u2019 ? \u201d", "\u201c Yea , make the most of what you yet may spend ,", "I cannot weep ! Not if hot tears ,", "Is it not time for Nirvana 's sleep ?", "And just as a woman will \u2014 even the best of them \u2014", "Through aeons mounting still from Sky to Sky \u2014", "When the petrel flying faster", "Find Use no sweeter than \u2014 useless Repose ? \u201d", "Turn the light across the storm ;", "Shall lure it back to cancel half a line ,", "Drink to Death !\u2014 So !", "Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor Wit", "But flooding tears nor Wine can ever purge", "For though he pressed us heart to burning heart ,", "Then , cold , she fearfully felt for his hand ,", "How it will thrill ! \u201d", "Rather believe what seemeth not than seems", "Churn against my stormy tower ;", "And from the River"], "true_target": ["Of tenderness \u2014 that will like light awake", "That hid me not from the buried cursing eyes", "All beauteous content , all sweet desire ,", "Softly he soothed her straying hair , and kissed", "Burns with my pain .", "Kindle to Love , or Wrath \u2014 consume me quite ,", "The folded memory children shall bring", "\u201c Yet can not \u2014 ever ! For it is forbid", "Never a child was glad at my knee ,", "I was like one who slips", "Across our Path by glories of the Unknown", "No other sounding , we should fail to spell", "\u201c \u2018 Tis fair , ah !\u2014 -  but keepest thou", "Let no man shiver !", "Not one returns to tell us of the Road ,", "\u201c No Cup there is to bring oblivion", "But in the graveless sea !", "Dropt in her lap from some once lovely Head . \u201d", "To draw this dreary want out of my breast , \u201d", "\u201c Myself when young did eagerly frequent", "Yet thou , Adam , dear fallen thought of God ,", "\u201c So wastes the Hour \u2014 gone in the vain pursuit", "Must hear it soon ! Already do soft skill ,", "Do women weep ?\u2014 I was his bride \u2014", "THE LIGHTHOUSEMAN", "Drives blinding gales of doubt across their sun .", "Low-babbled lulls , enticings and quick tones", "All Hope , when their sojourn too long is thither . \u201d", "And naked on the air of Heaven ride ,", "Pitiful round her face that could not lose", "Sodom and dark Gomorrah ... from whose flames", "But is forsooth our Darkness evidence", "The road , the wood , the heaven , the hills", "The soul seems quenched in Darkness \u2014 is it so ?", "To-day of past regret and future fears :", "\u201c True , little do we know of Why or Whence .", "Of Rome , and Shame is her name !", "To pour on the wind as he passeth o'er \u2014", "Since at the dusk thy kiss to me , and I", "The flowers we pass , the summer brook ,", "Still by that quenchless soul within us hid ,", "Upbuilded on our sin but for a day !", "Of women who gave birth ! And Babylon ,", "God 's ear with troubled wonder and unrest ! \u201d", "They change and perish all \u2014 but He remains . \u201d", "And heartache to flatter her .", "Drink to Death !...", "Forth to our lips to quaff , we shall not shrink . \u201d", "Of yearning love , would any rise", "The Heart which yearns behind the mock-world 's face . \u201d", "Pray the great Mercy-God to give you only", "\u201c Like Snow it comes \u2014 to cool one burning Day ;", "\u201c Give me a little child", "More during than Regret and Fear \u2014 no , none !", "In a hammock hung o'er the voice of the waves ,", "From sunless eyes the Infinite , from hearts", "Wer't not a shame \u2014 wer't not a shame for him", "O'er the star-spaces \u2014", "Of mortals hurled from the world", "The nightingale 's flown to her nest ,", "Ah me , do women weep when men have died ?", "Not me depriven", "\u201c And yet it should be \u2014 it should be that we", "And , all unasked , we 're Whither hurried hence ?", "Within the twilight breeze ; I smoothe thy hair", "That life is just \u2014 \u2018 tis a crust", "Themselves into eternity : yea , rid", "Flooding the night , no hope can wipe away !", "\u201c Up from Earth 's Centre thro \u2019 the Seventh Gate", "He 's god o \u2019 the world .", "For the moon is a-wane .", "PEACELESS LOVE", "To see all beauty God Himself may dream .", "Pray \u2014 pray ! lest love uptorn shall seem as nether", "And quaff like a lover !", "I cannot say thy cheek is like the rose ,", "Turns Ashes \u2014 or it prospers : and anon ,", "Thro \u2019 raging darkness o'er the deep ,", "\u201c Then if , from the dull Clay thro \u2019 with Life 's throes ,", "FROM ONE BLIND", "And o'er all heights of Heaven wandereth . \u201d", "A possible To-morrow may bring thirst", "Folded again her wings above their rest .", "Of his vessel 's fated hour \u2014", "Though they lie deep , they are by Death deterred . \u201d", "THE CRY OF EVE", "And O that birth-cry of a guiltless child !", "One \u2014 that means , \u201c I think of thee ! \u201d", "For a whole world ! To shame maternity", "What are the flowers that dapple the dell ,", "Could never touch her soul !", "More beautiful spring Hyacinth and Rose ,", "With Evil dures , may he not read the Voice ,", "I have slept , seeing through Futurity", "\u201c Better \u2014 unless we hope the Shadow \u2018 s thrown", "\u201c Bubbles we are , pricked by the point of Death .", "And some were far", "A-sudden into Ecstasy", "\u201c So some for the Glories of this World ; and some", "Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape", "And often they 'd fly with her", "When the tree 's horror trembled on my taste !", "And everywhere that Love hath any Cost", "\u201c A moment 's halt \u2014 a momentary taste", "Flaunty Lissette ! \u201d", "And soon with answers alternate we strove", "\u201c And \u2014 were it otherwise ?... We might erase", "But see what came out of it !", "We know not Whither , willy-nilly blowing . \u201d", "With but a breath of spirit speech , a thought ;", "Than that they like to walk the fields", "Of dark unsympathies that \u2018 tween us start .", "Thro \u2019 the lichen a name , a date and a verse .", "Lest we may think we have no more to live", "The Letter of some Sorrow in whose place", "\u201c No , for a day bound in this Dust may teach", "But , in each bubble , hope there dwells a Breath", "Thy hair ripple of sunbeams , and thine eyes", "\u201c The doors of Argument may lead Nowhither ,", "And out of it , as Wind along the waste ,", "Laurels she never had won in earth-strife .", "The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured", "To flood the anguish from my eyes \u2014", "To the song of my desires ,", "ASHORE", "Yearning for beauty never to be seen \u2014", "I touch thy cheek \u2014 and know the mystery hid", "Her troubled hair , and sigh grieved after sigh", "All with sere shadows \u2014", "I 'll lay one more kiss on her .", "The angels would bring to her ,", "Do women weep when men have died ?", "When the stars forget to glisten ,", "And the winds refuse to listen", "Millions of bubbles like us , and will pour . \u201d", "More of the Saki 's Mind than we can reach", "I say unto all hearts that cannot rest", "It may be found ; the Wrath it seems is but", "God who can bind the stars eternally", "O , many a cup of this forbidden Wine", "Or Hate , what matter ?", "For he did not come !", "Burn the clouds with opal fires ;", "Such boons of beauty waken , tho \u2019 I rise", "For Drink but Credit then shall cause to flow ? \u201d", "The earth-things have no name for us ,", "Thou art late , O Moon ,", "Yet unto me thou are not less divine ,", "Lo , they come , swift and free !", "Yet have I wept no tear and made no moan .", "\u201c You speak as if Existence closing your", "For Wine that 's Wine to-day may change and be", "Marah before to-morrow 's Sands have run . \u201d", "But on the peaceless sea !", "Under the anger .", "I waited \u2014 Oh , the dread ,", "\u201c And babble baby love into my ears \u2014", "In it are sounding of our sin and woe ,", "Under a shroud of sandy centuries", "And the ripple of swallow-wings over the dusk ;", "Breathing dear names against his face ,", "The bird that o'er us darts \u2014", "Some love-fear for ever shades", "Her moan on the pale air , \u201c What have I dreamed ?", "\u201c But , all unasked , we 're hither hurried Whence ?", "Yea , even would sigh with her ,", "But my heart it will not rest .", "Fill with a will \u2014", "WITH OMAR", "They said , \u201c Her tears will fall like Autumn rain . \u201d", "Grief seems in vain .", "A Cloud whose Dew should make its power most . \u201d", "Who can within earth 's arms lay the mad sea", "Whether , beyond death , Life hath any shore .", "Musing the mystery of mortals o'er ,", "Late ,", "But children who have never known", "\u201c Yet if the Soul can fling the Dust aside", "Knowing they have for ever been but one \u2014", "What are the church and the folk who tell", "BY THE INDUS", "In which to play .", "Before us passed the door of Darkness through", "In which he is encaged ? To hope or to", "About it and about : but evermore", "\u201c Well oft I think that never blows so red", "Love is above \u2014", "Thou , when thou too shall hear humanity", "When she sat weeping of strange discontent .", "Down the palm-way from Eden in the moist", "And by and by thy Soul returned to thee", "Meet and be surest when ill 's chartless weather", "Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi ; and", "The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled :", "Along her loveliness in the white moon .", "No ... I ... I only gave", "God spare me the rest of them !", "Spend all upon the Wine the while I know", "The Truth we reap from them is Chaff thrice fanned . \u201d", "Fill with a will \u2014", "With His All-might can bind not you and me .", "Late ,", "A pariah is my heart ,", "Love in Life 's All we still should crave the word", "The sad moon poured her peace into their eyes ,", "AT THE FALL OF ROME", "SUNDERED", "Of Being from the Well amid the Waste \u2014", "Here in God 's heaven \u2014", "Lighting a little hour or two \u2014 is gone . \u201d", "Tho \u2019 heaven with myriad multitudes be dense . \u201d", "Where I may swing my sorrow to sleep", "Dust unto Dust , and under Dust , to lie ,", "All the night they sweep :", "They wrapped her in the dust \u2014", "Three \u2014 Ah , hear me tho \u2019 you sleep !\u2014", "Thro \u2019 the darkness , One , Two , Three ,", "For I have sat here by his side ,", "A witless child ?", "The feeblest syllable that once was earth 's .", "The Master of the Well has much to spare :", "Reason become a Prison where may wither", "Look at the gaping .", "Who recks for the rest ?", "\u201c Oh , Adam ! \u201d then as a wild shadow burst", "I cried to God .", "Sans Wine , sans Song , sans Singer , and \u2014 sans End ! \u201d", "To see the wings of Death , as , Adam , thou", "Had I no child there \u2014 whom I forget ? \u201d", "We do not know \u2018 tis they that thrill", "Love is above \u2014", "For the token flashes laden", "Said I would lavish a burning hour full", "Each day a-tremble with the ruthless hope", "That every Hyacinth the Garden wears", "Before we too into the Dust descend ;", "With pain , broke and a cry fled shuddering", "Sigh for the Prophet 's Paradise to come ;", "Not a knave , he !\u2014 A Romeo rhyme-smatterer ,", "For tho \u2019 the day never fades", "Stand aliens \u2014 beating fierce against the walls", "Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains ;", "When at evening smothered lightnings", "\u201c Send then thy Soul through the Invisible", "It cannot be !", "O Death , strike with thy dart !", "Who dares a Nay !", "Cloaking in languor", "And sigh and wander \u2014 an ocean hearse !", "Sigh with wan faces !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Till you are beautiful as Time", ",", "Passes waning by .", "And cruel , armed with death !", "VI .", "Six thousand wandering miles we have come", "No ; as twin sails at anchor ride ,", "That Youth 's sweet-scented Manuscript should close !", "To bear my load !", "Me from their brood that crouch to escape mishap .", "VIII .", "MATING", "First one beside me spoke , in tones that told", "There is furious scathe in the whirl of his wrath ,", "VII .", "IV .", "Of flashing susurration , dashed and swirled", "And loving thee unconquerably trust", "THE WINDS", "Beauty , and power and miss no high", "And lady phlox within the hollow 's cool ;", "EVOCATION", "What shall we do with the April days !", "Then I shall reach the mossy water-way", "So till the wan and early scene of day", "Within whose stormy crucible the stones", "Come to the window , you who are mine .", "On one that shall not end .", "But the frog 's shrill cheer", "The South Wind is a Troubadour ;", "The Spring and its nuptial fear ?", "The sky above and the sea below", "Of heaven , so to uplift thine armed waves ,", "And with Tartarean mutter from cold caves ,", "Crying to fright", "The lark in her skies ,", "Now , as the numb sound", "What if I hush his prattle ? \u201d", "Is singing the air to gladness new", "Of mummied silence laugh", "Till kestrel and hungry kite seek booty", "II .", "So wan , so unavailing ,", "Out on the bough he flutters , a flame .", "That earth can mean ;", "Ours is the dream undying !", "The hills where hung mists muse , and Silence calls", "Luscious enticings under briery green .", "No , but unfurled ,", "There were no need", "Nay , frustrate Hope art thou of the Unknown ,", "Meek , entreat or praise ?", "That strange one was I ?...", "FROM ABOVE", "Of countless dead , thou mighty Alchemist ,", "He once had been a god ,\u2014 \u201c Persephone ,", "\u201c Beauty ! all \u2014 all \u2014 is beauty ? \u201d", "III .", "Till in earth 's shadow swept thy glowings ashen .", "Down from the tomb of Ieyasu", "Though with no eye nor ear \u2014 I felt the thrill", "And the crow 's wild jeer !", "And make the stern Recorder otherwise", "Dark hair \u2014 dark eyes \u2014", "Your breast is against me beating .", "All else that is said or sung \u2018 s but a part of you \u2014", "He ripples the throat", "This path will tell me where dark daisies dance", "Tear from thy brow its withered crown , for we", "Find the worship and glory we", "Dashing the forest down as a slave", "Blossom and leaf and blade .", "O , you who are mine , how a glance can reap", "For now it hath no virtue that can sway", "The sea on his leas ;", "And leaves lorn beaches barren of its motion ;", "Nobler it were to curse as Coward Him", "The livid heat of its malingering ray ,", "Are a-swoon \u2014", "Here on your gates \u2014 the story see", "As the breaking bud", "There is misery and moil .", "And never a sail have seen .", "To heal the defeat", "The high hot mullein fond of the full sun", "The wreck whose weirded form at night unhallows", "Dark hair \u2014 dark eyes \u2014", "\u201c Still , would some winged Angel ere too late", "With star-hieroglyphs , leave thee unharassed", "Fragrant with morn-mown clover and seed-fleece ;", "Of the o'ermounting birth of Harmony .", "To breathe us over all seas of life \u2014", "V .", "Temples and torii on each place", "Of sunk primordial shores , granite and schist ,", "I must pray to Inari .", "With emerald overflowing , waste on waste", "Nor from thee turn apart .", "Still , for see them gather ghostly", "Bound in thy briny bed and gnawing earth", "Thee in her chambers arrassed", "Spraying the moon-path 's glisten .", "Parent of Demogorgon whose dire mind", "Ribald ! is this your song ?", "My senses till I climb up where they heal", "Into your deep eyes falling .", "Thrush-flutes echo \u201c For mating 's elating !", "Not His nor ours \u2014 but fate 's He could not cure . \u201d", "From the breast of a woman", "And that wan , shrivelled sceptre in thy hand ,", "\u201c Yet , ah , that Spring should vanish with the Rose !", "of you", "And the drifting clouds between .", "About thee till the day .", "Ah \u2014 but the dawn is redd'ning up", "Shrine of the dead , I hang my prayer", "Tho \u2019 heaving wild it leapt .", "Who roused us into light \u2014 then light withdrew . \u201d", "Who scours the Autumn 's crest .", "Booms the temple bell ,", "And to wrench", "Hear their soundless feet", "Lowly temple and torii ,", "Long must he mourn , and long be his scourging ,", "Of awe glide through entangled leagues of ooze ,", "The wind at his trees ,", "The false little song you prate !", "Too sweet are its fancies to be chidden ,", "And in the wind 's soft cease", "To-day but as a feather", "The earth he swoops to spoil \u2014", "SONGS TO A. H. R .", "\u201c Amalfi ! \u201d ... Shall we ever forget", "My love 's a guardian-angel", "IN JULY", "In the rain-wet woods and fields ,", "On you for ages has been spilt \u2014", "\u201c He will not . If one evil we endure", "For I heard the March-wind feel", "Where crow and flicker cry melodious din ,", "Than rills that throng", "Never to flee thine enemy ,", "Silently has knelt ,", "After how many lives returning", "Perchance some unobliterated spark", "Oh , heart o \u2019 my heart , oh , heart o \u2019 my love ,", "Of Love that casts out fear .", "Of black disaster and destruction 's strides .", "What do I care for the dead leaves there \u2014", "For there is talismanic might", "And wooingly betray", "The bamboo copse where the rice field stops :", "The world may hear", "To Solitude thro \u2019 aged forest halls ,", "See the invisible vast millions ,", "Perchance \u2014 vain ! vain ! love could not light such gloom . \u201d", "To the brooklet 's song !", "There 's heart in my heart", "With seething necromancy and mad lore ?", "Rest to be found not till thy wild be strewn", "On to that Port above", "The Dead Sea waves", "The cardinal flings , \u201c They are made for mating ! \u201d", "For crows that cark", "They know ! know it ! but better , oh , better ,", "Of drops into cool chalices of clay .", "And hide thy stars away ,", "A surging shape of Life 's unfathomed moan ,", "Unto love 's burgeoning !", "Blindly about in the trees without", "The young stork sleeps in the pine-tree tops ,", "Trusty and fair", "My baby sleeps by the bamboo copse \u2014", "And light and joy have slept .", "Some other god was kinder .", "Ever mossy ways ?", "Beset the Road I was to wander in ,", "Ten thousand years I thought I lay within", "Wrapped as you are in lull \u2014 or rhyme", "Ages have on you smiled \u2014 and dew", "Ever to me \u2018 tis so !", "TO THE SEA", "\u201c No young in the nest , no mate , no duty ? \u201d", "\u2018 Tis not of Him predestined , and the sin", "Of the lark with a note", "And think it as dear", "As heaven tho \u2019 human .", "From Niflheim 's ebon breath .", "Frigid and desert over earth 's last grave ?", "Even Above this glory ?", "The touch of you , soul of you , heart of you . Oh !", "E'en of the rudest fate !", "That I have loved \u2014 O hear it , Air ,", "Out of the night", "Long will earth listen the rue of his dirging \u2014", "The sea afar is a fearful gloom ;", "So enough , the day is good !", "Cedar with sudden memories of Yule", "To plunder the shores of Summer 's stores \u2014", "And evermore thy moanings interfuse", "Too may reverence all of life ,", "With tenderest star-weather !", "But sun that is sweeter upon the trees", "Whatever dark may shroud thee", "And wintry Age , is't ever whisperless", "THE DAY-MOON", "And answer out of the earth and air .", "Of memory shall warm this dismal Dark .", "There I shall rest within the woody peace", "Thinking how men in ages yet unborn", "\u2018 Gainst isles and continents and airs o'erspaced !", "Without thee \u2014 Haste !", "Still about it felt .", "Have come at Dawn , none overmuch should grieve . \u201d", "Yet do I feel thee awing", "We perish in death 's gale !", "\u201c So does it seem \u2014 no other joys like these !", "Beauties beyond all number !", "Are king and queen of Tartarus no more ;", "Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round", "This is my prayer then , this , that I", "Cast it away , and give thy palm to mine :", "And there are so few crumbs !", "Of afternoon . The bending azure frothed", "For buds to heal .", "Oh , how thou dost drive silence from the world ,", "Seemed but a sleep .", "ON THE PACIFIC", "We strove , and silent turned at last away ,", "UNTOLD", "The North Wind is a Viking \u2014 cold", "He blows to bloom from the winter 's tomb", "My giftless call \u2014 and what shall befall ?...", "And enter the gate", "So wan , so unavailing ,", "Ukibo fed , with rice and bread \u2014", "From his clutch the tyrant 's staff .", "When he mounts to quench the Siroc 's stench ,", "Know we to make each moment a debtor", "Weird thro \u2019 the mist and cryptomeria", "Thy phantom life thro \u2019 day , and high enthroning", "All night in dreams , for I smelt ,", "Fancies that only lovers heed !", "Or strands upon near shallows", "Of Paradise , unto the land of mortals ."], "true_target": ["All that my heart breathes loud or soft !", "Not only the blue , not only the breeze ,", "The little white town below lies deep", "Or the sullen road", "Awe of a world with wonder rife .", "Blue scimitar he flies afar ,", "For though Inari cared not at all ,", "Give to the one God great and grave \u2014", "A maelstrom for his breast .", "What do I care for chill in the air ,", "Low and chill when the wind is still", "A day and a night , a night and a day ,", "Across the vacant day-blue dimly trailing !", "Incarnate Motion of all mystery !", "THE WORLD 'S , AND MINE", "\u201c Glad it is ended , \u201d are you ?", "Dearest , than ever a bird in Spring ,", "Carven temple 's seat .", "Can bring \u2014 or breath", "What shall we do with May 's !", "Together still shall sail .", "Dull shades or drive the Furies to their spoil .", "AT AMALFI", "It will slip under coppice limbs that lean", "Are crumbled by thine all-abrasive beat ?", "As e'er drew near", "The Spring , his serenade .", "Many a pilgrimage of millions \u2014", "Brushingly as the slow-belled heifer pants", "Torn from a seraph 's wing in sinful weather ,", "Over the moon low-dying .", "That shade the pool-sunk creek 's reluctant trance .", "And ever she says , \u201c He 's dead ! he 's dead !", "For spring is below and God is above \u2014", "\u2014", "As eternity in slumber .", "Then on , for elders odorously will steal", "Or , dost thou labour with the drifting bones", "And with him sail", "What do I care if the trees are bare", "Who shall the gods be then , the millions ,", "Lowly temple and torii ,", "Above the tangle tipped with blue skullcap .", "Our spirits rock together", "THE DEAD GODS", "Thou seemest with immensity mad , blind \u2014", "Across the vacant day-blue dimly trailing !", "Lean from the casement , listen !", "And the bamboo stems are swaying .", "The fear and lack , are gone , and the rack ,", "And the sun and the moon , the night and the noon ,", "But , there is seen", "He tears the leaves from its limbs and weaves", "Moans while the sun drifts dull from the heaven ,", "Moves thro \u2019 the tides of Ocean", "I shall hear hintings of eternities .", "Of seeing , heard its phantoms move and sigh .", "\u201c Beauty ! \u201d again ? still \u201c beauty \u201d ?", "To glide with silvery passion ,", "Floats as unearthly necromancy", "Will watch and tell the low mint when I 've won", "And when at dawn I awoke ,", "The runes that from thy ageless surfing start", "In them the most", "Ice Sea that froze ere Ymir rose", "Seize it and sow it", "Shall I hither come ?", "On a sea of love \u2014 lit as this tide", "That I may build in spirit fair", "Inari was deaf \u2014 and yet the lack ,", "To hoot thy watery omens evermore ,", "And the hills are dark", "THE ATONER", "A JAPANESE MOTHER", "The fisher maiden 's prayers \u2014", "Wait till the winter comes !", "For I am Nature 's child , and you", "Kingcups soon will be up and swinging \u2014", "To the white sycamores that dell them in ;", "O'er yon far promontory .", "Is night and earthquake , shapeless shame and scorn", "Love is its other name ! \u201d", "Down on the brink of the river .", "The most that death", "The Nightingale that on the branches sang \u2014", "Gathered from primal mist and firmament ;", "What is it tells me mystically", "From the past 's dead ground .", "Come , come away \u2014 we have drunk the cup :", "With raving deaf , with wandering forlorn ;", "The bliss of the wind in the redbud ringing !", "Which is Oblivion , the house of Death .", "Yet do I love thee , O , above all fear ,", "That rill and run", "Wait ? nay , fling it unbidden ,", "Would read , were they revealed , gust upon gust ,", "Was ever a bird so wrong !", "Whither his rovings lead .", "Thou art as Fate in torment of a dearth", "From shuddering profundities where shapes", "With vigil sweet his wings shall beat", "Whelming humanity with fears unmeant .", "And his roar 's", "Of violets coming ere April 's spent \u2014", "There \u2014 in the bright Unseen !", "Nor ever lonely has seemed the wave", "At the rough wind 's way .", "Snow , Frost , and Hail ,", "And cosmic incantation dost thou crave", "He moans in the forest for sins unforgiven", "Hither again ! and climb the votive", "But all is a waste", "I know not why \u2014 with praying .", "But soul as clear ,", "\u201c Amalfi ! \u201d say it \u2014 as the stars set", "Of sounding drum that sudden breaks .", "As Spring on the world .", "Weird thro \u2019 the mist and cryptomeria", "Sit by me here \u2014 with the moon 's fair shine", "At night and the skies are starry .", "And the way , love , will be o'er .", "That gullies the dense hill up to its peak ,", "LOVE-WATCH", "To clasp its mate", "Within our vows of love", "The hither wheat where idle breezes nap ,", "A desolate apocalypse of death .", "With flowing fleet", "All night I smiled as I slept ,", "Where the great Captain of all ships", "\u201c For him !\u2014 that storms may take not unawares ! \u201d", "The West Wind is an Indian brave", "And the freshet 's flood !", "I shall find bell-flower spires beside the gap", "Dark hair \u2014 dark eyes \u2014", "And Egypt caves", "A storm broods far on the foam of the deep ;", "And Nimbus is his steed ;", "My heart with mystery , as thy updrawing", "Down from the tomb where many an aeon", "Not only the lark but the robin too", "When he woos them with his kiss .", "Its Void , blind , deaf , and motionless , until \u2014", "Would with their beauty 's breath repeat of you", "Whither thy Ghost tempestuous can see", "Anear , it breaks with a faery spume ,", "There dally listening to the eerie eke", "A Circe \u2014 mystic destinies divining ;", "And the quick ecstasy within", "Mossy and mellowing ever makes :", "The white fox creeps from his hole in the hill ;", "Of that Last Spring , whose Verdure may not cease ? \u201d", "Death without waking were the fateful brew ,", "To fling", "I thought there blew upon my soul the breath", "Were by the children of Nature built .", "The East Wind is a Bedouin ,", "Yet Summer comes , and Autumn 's honoured ease ;", "And blackberries in ebon ripeness glance", "The coming flowers and the glad green hours", "Thy billowing rebellion \u2018 gainst its ease ,", "Enmesh , and then impute my fall to sin . \u201d", "Like the sound of Chaos \u2019 horde .", "Thanes mighty as their lord ,", "\u201c Freedom is better than love ? \u201d beware you", "Implant the truth of you ,", "Pity and hope", "Climbing the shrine-ways to the gilded", "I wonder why he has heard my call ,", "\u201c To otherwise enregister believe", "His limbs that are naked of grass and leaves .", "Winter has come in sackcloth and ashes", "He toils eternally , nor asks Reprieve .", "Art thou enraged , O sea , with the blue peace", "With immemorial chanting to the moon ,", "Your lord who went to battle .", "Shrine where the spirits of wind and wave", "Enregister or quite obliterate ! \u201d", "And could Creation perfect from his hands", "Arrest the yet unfolded roll of Fate ,", "Amalfi !... Never a night shall win", "Bitterly , cruelly , bleakly he lashes", "May hear the song rise", "The bamboos sigh and shiver .", "By the sullen wood .", "There will be May next year !", "I thought I plunged into that dire Abyss", "Of all Life has undone .", "TO A SINGING WARBLER", "And the skies are gray .", "And , one among them \u2014 pale among them \u2014", "Over the mountain , over the moor ,", "And upon that we two , I think ,", "How shall your baby now be fed ,", "Last night , sphered in thy shining ,", "But I have a music they can never know \u2014", "Not only the peeping grass and the scent \u2014", "Giftless of heat 's beshriving boon .", "Yearning , as a knell .", "With foamy writhing and fierce-panted tides ,", "Born in the doomful deep of the old", "At the blue-bird 's wooing cheep ,", "Yet in our hearts unheaving hope", "Would ask and answer \u2014 trust and doubt and pray .", "That Immortality is might of heart !", "Down-drifting from the portals", "Of time that was but never more can be .", "The moon-path gleams before .", "Ocean and Earth , and grant your grace !", "Who camps about thy heart ,", "I hear her calling me low and chill \u2014", "LOVE-CALL IN SPRING", "Till the dark beads of his days are told .", "From God again such fleeting .", "Whose waves are fury-wings , whose winds are hurled", "But heart of sun ,", "Why dost thou clasp it still ? Cast it away ,", "That summer yields .", "Will waft into me their mysterious ease ,", "Out of the dusk with the lightning 's thin", "Could I , a poet ,", "But Night shall come atoning", "To ultimate Debasing , oh , be sure", "Shall anchor them or send", "AS YOU ARE", "But if in the sable Cup we knew", "Winter with all its chill and pall", "I .", "Them forth on a vaster Voyage , yea ,", "And fluffy quails entrap", "Of lilting love and bliss ,", "Dies the bell \u2014 \u2018 tis dumb .", "The bloom , the sweet of you ,", "And how thou dost drive silence from the world ,", "The red moon rises as I slip back ,", "In his path", "INTIMATION", "Toward weedy water-plants", "\u201c Then thou who didst with pitfall and with gin", "Hope has but left me blinder !", "Waken ! the night is calling .", "Ah , whence , and whither flown again , who knows ? \u201d", "With silveryness , the sunny pastures swathed ,", "To memory many a long-forgotten day .", "SHINTO", "O may it be , my own , or may"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Just at the bridge 's crook .", "To the stile at last ,", "To make her abided return more dear .", "Until , half-arched above the marge of earth ,", "ZILLA }", "Thy dead beneath obliterated stones", "And Christ lay shrouded in the garden 's tomb :", "Life 's flow is weak .", "In search of worthy slain .", "Your last caresses brewed .", "I heard your voice again .", "Crying that he has sinned .", "On the hill ;", "And yearning to borrow", "The west , and mystery", "Away from the world 's keen waging \u2014", "When hope and toil", "At me forlorner", "Is the best", "Of heaven and said , \u201c Come , waiting one , and lay", "The nymph whom an idle god had wed", "Of forest-deeps .", "Down sunny roads where windy odes", "Leading them thro \u2019 dim torii , up fane-ways onward", "And to save \u2014 to save !", "So in the garden of my heart each day", "Or could my gaze more tenderly entwine", "I lingered and the mellow breeze", "The sense of human waking o'er the earth !", "WAKING", "With silence and sad fadings mystical", "Then hid on the bank a-glee", "Through which effulgent Paradise beyond", "Autumn 's near .", "And silent twilight", "For drearier sound or look \u2014", "Who list the Wye not as it lonely moans", "O see , from the lost shore", "It was here I came \u2014 the thistle", "From the Ridge ;", "But how does the robin high in the beech ,", "And the wind sped flinter", "Would tremble with thy trembling : but the sway", "LINGERING", "The hill grew dim \u2014 the pleading cross", "The harvest which sprang in my heart", "To the dim warmth of the February sun ,", "Green plunging of frogs ,", "Know it \u2014 the frenzy of bluets to reach", "As memories", "In pity or reproval meek ;", "And the clematis .", "2", "It hangs , a golden door ,", "Near unto birth ; and soon from lips distraught", "Their protean loveliness in all we cherish .", "Here many times dwelt rueful as she dwells to-day ,", "Gray Tintern , all the hills about thee , lifting", "THE VICTORY", "Pure heart I ne'er shall lose .", "With mortal sight .", "As Valkyries from Valhalla 's court", "\u2018 Tis faded \u2014 the day 's crown ;", "Gripped river and loam ,", "By dread of a mortal 's lot ?", "Thro \u2019 the moss !", "And blow with the blow of breezes ,", "WILDNESS", "Still taunt with wails for help . \u201d \u2014 Then a deep light", "Till they o'ertake", "Nor do my askings fall on the chill voids", "Thy mellow passioning amid the leaves", "Forlorn \u2014 to warn of the tempest born ,", "Beneath the wave ,", "LEAH } Timbrel-players of the King .", "From Pole to Pole .", "I never shall know \u2014 I never shall care !", "Around the still unblossoming rose of love", "Oh , fisher-fleet , go in from the sea", "Or drugging knowledge that but fills o'erfull", "Yet must I sing thy singing ! for the Night", "Thro \u2019 the soft", "And he at feasting forgot .", "The cross emblotted with His blood", "Who never sleeps .", "The doubts in a pack ,", "SAMUEL The Prophet of Israel .", "And care borne on the plumes", "We bid the courier lightning leap along", "Though thou hast ne'er unpent thy pain 's delight", "\u201c Ptah , Ammon , and Osiris \u2014 they who stole", "Where the weird", "Across the rice-lands flooded deep", "For beauty cannot die , howe'er \u2018 tmay fleet .", "Gazing , O wistful sun , upon thy going !", "With empty arms aloft it stood :", "O'erhYpppHeNvain of his firstling lines .", "Not pain nor the sunny wine", "Till they regain", "With winds a-wrestle !", "Till almost I could see how the near laurels", "Ah no , the wind has blown into my veins", "Earth with a mystic majesty is gifted .", "That soothe the fiery day .", "From the air", "But the boon of blue skies deeper than despair ,", "Till not in vain", "More dear than he \u2014 till hearts shall cease to borrow", "Brown mows under mellow haze ;", "Before the magnet eye of Science \u2014 stand", "Of heart and foot ,", "Of forest leaves .", "To whom infinities are as a span ,", "Clouds sweeping o'er thy ruin to the sea ,", "Of unbelievable light and freedom fall ,", "Like maidens waiting to dance .", "They rise and sink and drift and swing ,", "I lift my gaze across the winter meads", "Where leaves are tossed from branches lost", "The victory is , with strength \u2014", "And immortality but make it less !", "Have triumphed ? and now", "Circle oft and again .", "None but the sky-hid lark whose spirit is", "AT WINTER 'S END", "And Acheron make moan of night and cold ?", "Tree unto tree o'ergrown !", "Be thy warm notes like an Orphean lyre", "Of the drear sea-ghost !", "Into our blood \u2014", "By every eye melt on the skies that nourish", "Only a faint and shadow line", "Outreaching arms in patience to divine", "To sing of day and joy as thou of sorrow", "Or by the silence hanging sad", "Till drops their gold to the ground .", "The oblivion of Nature 's flow , or here", "SLAVES", "Upon the fields of Time \u2014 but still the wake", "The quivering memories of love 's fair birth", "Now labour most .", "I plant thee a flower . Now the pansy , peace ,", "A sultry bee seeps faster", "And down the valley .", "For something after death .", "Grief and the face we love in mist \u2014", "Whom frightened ignorance and sin 's appall", "TO THE FALLEN LEAVES", "Sad with the lingering sense of summer 's purpose done ,", "ABNER Captain of the Host of Israel .", "Flush laughter of crowds", "But to vault and dangle !", "Hot hanging of clouds ,", "Eternities as bird-flights o'er the sun ,", "Out of the night of lovelessness I call", "Besprinkled a dower", "As the glory dims on", "WHERE PEACE IS DUTY", "TO HER WHO SHALL COME", "Upon Creation 's morn .", "MICHAL } Daughters of Saul and Ahinoam .", "TO THE SPRING WIND", "THE NYMPH AND THE GOD", "Of shore \u2014 I watch it go .", "The wanton !\u2014 I follow", "The old priest \u2014 dreaming painless how", "Of Progress loud is haunted with the groan", "Have lulled my soul with soft infinitude .", "AUGUST GUESTS", "To the Summit 's brow ?", "And we turn", "The world of will , \u201d the spent East seems", "And night o'erhovering singest , thou'lt e'er be", "Yes , with her golden days \u2014", "The centuries that draw thee to the earth", "AUTUMN", "Of other years move thro \u2019 the mellow fields ,", "And look for thee . Then has my hope grown bold", "Where violets blow :", "Twitterless in the chill ;", "But softer mourns unto me from the mead", "Of an autumn day at the bridge !", "With a cry", "Are at peace and rest \u2014", "The god was the great god , Jove .", "Shall speak to me for ever , from this morn ;", "Who hath one fane \u2014 the heaven above thy nest ;", "And hearts of day-rue healed ,", "Of forest deeps the pale-face hunter never trod ,", "Out of thy window to the morning star !", "Its lyric trouble , still \u2018 tis soothing sweet", "Of the earth 's May-dreams ,", "Of day-long dreams in the vines ,", "Oh , who is he will follow me", "The wood such ecstasies as were not given", "Have never trod ?\u2014 Sweet , sweet , oh , sealing sweet ,", "The chill buoy-bell is rung by the hands", "Summer 's last moon has waned \u2014", "We come ,", "And lo , words spring that breathe immortal might .", "Some thrilled muezzin of the forest cry", "Then silence , sadness , gloam .", "That ebb along the west revealings wing", "Blew to me sweetly dewed \u2014", "The plough-lands long and lorn \u2014", "Of swan-swift clouds away to the sullen shades", "A Chorus of Women . A Band of Priests . Followers of David .", "ADAH Handmaiden to Merab .", "In servitude unto the Nazarene .", "Far barking of dogs", "In the weedy brook 's dry bed .", "And haunts above the runnel 's voice a-husk", "A SEA-GHOST", "And what will the last sight be of life", "I lingered till the whippoorwill", "Then over the virgin corn", "I 'll hear thy beauty calling , ah , for ever \u2014", "LAST SIGHT OF LAND", "Reached empty arms toward the closing gate .", "Winds in the woodland moan \u2014", "Too high for earth may vie for praise with thee", "TO THE DOVE", "Cool lisp of the brook ,", "Over the vale ,", "Not because thy wak'ning lips", "Thou hast been with me , who like dawn wilt go", "But when the night with silent start", "As wildness tingles", "The fading day .", "They have forgotten life ,", "In dreams of infinite sorrow and delight .", "Forgotten sunless death ;", "Slow searing of sheaves", "Tirelessly on o'er buoy and spar", "My life ! my soul ! for the infinite roll", "With plashy willow and bold-wading reed .", "The forms outlaid upon them were unwound", "The musing joy of sadness in her look \u2014", "Of Mystery , whence none may find a path", "Of before and after !", "But would that I were Time , then only tender", "With his chill screech of quavering distress .", "Its Soul invisible .", "AUTUMN AT THE BRIDGE", "Where cattle shiver under sodden hay .", "As the beams", "Thou'lt come I cannot see ; tho \u2019 my heart 's sore", "Along the creek .", "To soar , as the sea-mew pleases !", "With gaze to the peak whose skies ,", "Then night and awe too vast ?", "Chiselled of solid night majestically .", "He 'd dare it again , the dark length ,", "Of quelled snow-storms low-lying in the west ,", "As if the chill waste", "The bay is gray with the twilit spray", "I knew she would come !", "Out mastery of earth and sea and air .", "Each pallid beech or silvery sycamore ,", "Of Araby or Ind .", "Bending her brow bound with the nations \u2019 threne ,", "Across the hours \u2014 till June should come .", "Till sinks within me the last voice to rest !", "Dead from the dunes the winds arise \u2014", "Of the climbing ivy , hope . And they ne'er cease", "His scarlet thirst , has War , fierce Polypheme", "In aery rhapsody . And since \u2018 tis his", "To lead us to life 's Arcady again !", "Might cry one manacled ! And tho \u2019 the way", "And silence round me yearned .", "Chirrs thro \u2019 the weirder green \u2014", "As now over lone sky-ways .", "Time were but pulsing pain ,", "And now from the plentiful South you haste ,", "Were we upon Olympus as of old", "From grief the healing for life 's mystery .", "Here by this cedar 's moan or under the sway", "Pours the warm chrism of Immortality", "Said , \u201c Listen \u201d ... Oh , my love , I heard thee sing", "Thought but of sweetening beauty !", "Pale sampans up the river glide", "Or by the sheathing mists of mauve", "I love the wind for this !", "When Autumn 's melancholy robes the land", "And burn with the burning heaven \u2014", "Into the sky 's blue sea .", "Like priests whose altar fires", "Kindling and calling \u201c Onward , you", "From crimson pods along the earth 's sere floor \u2014", "The wind slipt over the hill", "Of the rough ravine \u2014", "They see the Unseen as night falls stark and starker .", "And the fall at last !", "In the hazel-hovers !", "Ancestral shrines great with the glow of time ,", "Waned", "Again I 've come to remember ,", "Hurled from earth 's sight .", "Trembles around me in the summer dusk", "Of our salty woe .", "JUDITH }", "Vox sperans .", "Blue brim , while the spectral moon half o'er it hangs", "By the songless brook .", "Beaten abaft by the rain ,", "Chirred on like a doting rhymer", "As a gray train", "MERAB }", "\u201c All is allusion , Maya , all", "3", "Of yonder cypress \u2014 lair of winds that rove", "To tell , and trembled \u2014 till God , pitying ,", "SEARCHING DEATH 'S DARK", "And sundry times with questioning I tease", "With the quivering pangs of memory 's yesterday .", "The gulls have left the ship and wheel", "From death and lead them around :", "Of unavailing silence . For a voice", "We gaze off from it", "Oh , for the skylands where soon they 'll be wending \u2014", "Sad with his wail .", "That shrink in misty mournfulness from sight ,", "To the Unknown , and like one who upborne", "Desire is gone \u2014 is it not gone for ever ?", "Of the stars tells day is past .", "Unskilled of human speech , about my heart \u2014", "Before the night .", "Dusking amber dimly dies", "Shall reach the Evermore ! \u201d", "By aged silence , fell , with hollow woe :", "As now \u2014 and the fields lay thinned .", "WANTON JUNE", "Vox desperans .", "The one was sorrow , the other love ,", "The entombed of their estate \u2014 seeking to know", "Last year , as if to entrance", "Thou camest from hands unknown :", "But when I lay in sick unrest", "In endless caravans that have no goal", "Zephyrs awake tree-lyres ,", "On many sylvan eves of childhood thou", "As the sun slips down the day .", "Into the night .", "He 's near me now by the aster ,", "And now ... down sinks the sun ,", "The quail in the croft gave whistle", "Then twilight bells ring back", "I heard the worlds cry , \u201c God alone is God ! \u201d", "And along", "Therefore I love thee !", "Aye , even as I whose hands at the bell", "The summers and the winters , the sky 's girth", "AT TINTERN ABBEY", "Above us flicker", "See , see !\u2014 the blows at his breast ,", "Into my soul \u2014 as if thou must", "DAVID", "The ledging summit", "Laughter of thee would rock its festal height .", "No !\u2014 though at the foot he lies ,", "While memory like a wounded swan", "Oh , the sick gray , the twitter in the trees ,", "But few , how few her worshippers ! For we", "To know that songs unheard and graces missed", "He dimpled the cheek of the rill", "Numbing repose dwelt o'er them like a sea ,", "Their misty waving woodland verdancy !", "A hope that would steal", "Tossing , swirling , swept by the wind ,", "Her silent way", "Ah , Scribe and Pharisee , ye builded well !", "At phantom midnight wakened I have heard", "Be sprung of a mother 's dust .", "He could not attain ,", "And spilt his shower", "3", "With the nut", "THE WORLD", "Buddha within lifts not his eyes", "Lit by the kildee 's silver sweeps ,", "The wind-wild daws about thy arches drifting ,", "By nestling breasts of Venus to the dove .", "Beside the wood with its shake and toss ,", "And lifting up its token shake", "And Death , the woeful , guilty of your fall ,", "Silence is song unheard ,", "And sunny peace more virgin than the glow", "They knew not Rome before its sign ,", "Upon the lily-bud crest", "Than airs within the dead primrose 's heart ,", "Down from the ivy vines ,", "Is light forgotten \u2014 left unstirred", "She lay by the river dead ,", "Thee , as , in a chill chamber where no ray", "Would you not choose the throe ,", "To laugh and warble and dream and dare", "SUNSET-LOVERS", "Which asters tangle ,", "Abyss at his back ,", "SERENITY", "With sunset aureoles crowned \u2014", "With lovingest fingers ,", "And , unabiding , bide .", "And April , oh , out under the blue !", "The lonely rain .", "Have reached unbudding boughs", "Lies down with leaf and blossom on her breast \u2014", "O'er fence , thro \u2019 thicket ,", "But still unburied in the heart lies on !", "\u201c Ah , Pluto , dost thou , one time lord of Styx", "With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above .", "Where peace is duty !", "The while she reaps .", "Or breath of silences in dells begot", "But by her sighs I know her well \u2014", "Wanders the wood-brook 's note .", "Yester you dashed from the west ,", "And furl your wings .", "Touch upon thee should fall as on I sped ;", "Is beauty never born ,", "Enwove with a woman 's woe .", "Up wildly sweet he 's over the mead !", "The World is Visible God \u2014 who is", "Fallen and vain ,", "Autumn 's near .", "Ah , sunset-lovers , though", "She lay by the river dead ,", "In the blue west the mountains hide", "The hay-fields \u2019 mounded math .", "At the mill ;", "I hear the moaning rains beat on your rest", "Leaf-hidden cricket", "Of myriads , from whose peaceful veins , to slake", "Oh , the wood", "SONG", "I love the cloud for this !", "Whether \u2018 tis sweeter in the grave to feel", "But think , think thee of me , to whom or gloom", "The peril of dark that pressed ,", "Of an Aztec shrine .", "Out of a Void it sprang \u2014 and to", "Of souls newly discarnate seeking new life only !", "And melted on the infinite calm of space ,", "By redded hips and haws ,", "The crow with carrion in his beak .", "The solitude 's dim spell it breaketh not ,", "Of bards who 've wreathed thee with unfading chorals", "As lone we fare and fast ?"], "true_target": ["Of clouds that fling their threatening", "Laughed cold and glum", "Then \u2014 for thy shelter from life 's sultrier suns ,", "Their calm seems God , I turn transfigured home .", "Where dry leaves dangle", "In its creed ?", "1", "Though wordless , from a marble seraph 's face .", "On the stubbly meadows !", "A-bask in the mellow beauty of the ripening sun ,", "Of a day to wildness given !", "Soft rush of the wind ,", "A host of bloody centuries lie prone", "From wintry vents .", "Too much it was : I withered in the breath ;", "Not because she gave her breast", "And worlds as sands blown from Sahara 's wilds", "And then my soul shook , woke \u2014 and saw three biers", "The blue infinity of sky , the sense", "Stays for no throttle of pain !", "Where Time aflow thro \u2019 infinite spaces", "Beside me , when I have found thee , evermore !", "Oh , who is he ?\u2014 His eye must be", "UNBURTHENED", "O Tintern , Tintern ! trysting-place , where never", "Beside how many a river 's whispery flowing ,", "Till , youth , age , death ... even earth 's all , it seems ,", "Of vines that vie to clamber high \u2014", "Upon these airs , bird of the poet 's love ,", "Is reached in glee .", "Of vesper scents , and of the glow-worm 's throb", "How sad the sun incarnadined the gloom !", "Us with immortal blue ; and , changed , repeat", "For the labour of God and man .", "4", "Magnolia seeds like Indian beads are strewn", "I know her not by plumping nuts ,", "How a frail cloud-flock was creeping", "To the shade of the hollow", "With set sails vanishing and slow ;", "\u201c They are the gods , \u201d one said \u2014 \u201c the gods whom men", "High poise of the hawk ,", "See the unhurled thunderbolt brought hence", "As a lover 's", "To ripple with waves and murmur with caves ,", "Or resting heaps of hay ;", "I turn unto this meadow of the dead", "Why do I love thee ?\u2014", "From his leafy minaret ? Or by the sea 's", "Anchored beyond in azure unending", "When we set sail on Death ?", "RETURN", "As tides of sleep ,", "And winds that wring the writhen trees in vain", "As amber fires", "Have they , or pain-sick breath ,", "When sleep 's oblivion is torn away", "The rushes \u2014 Oh ,", "I came last year to remember ,", "They stood in the same shy poses", "The stately mulleins to waken", "Engarmented in stubble robes of brown .", "Where the waves ring .", "ADRIEL A Lord of Meholah , suitor for Merab .", "Ghosts of the gale .", "So I have reached \u2014 and am no more distraught", "Till it stops", "The gods , shall they be disquieted", "Or cold were more unknown than impotence !", "By the path", "Can peace release us and give us ease", "There 's a way", "Its metal path with spaceless speed \u2014 command", "With a singing ,", "Are spent , immovable", "Of the tides around .", "Where creepers trestle ,", "Is more than the rapture of earth can teach", "The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs", "To drift with the drifting clouds ,", "Were wooed to bloom by minstrel wind", "DAVID", "Two notes would the bent reed blow ,", "Where green-briar twines ,", "Over the temple cawing flies", "They stand , in awful ecstasy uplifted .", "Will it be so of all our thoughts", "The World is a wind \u2014 on which are blown", "As visions that too soon will go .", "On icy heel ,", "That long hath lost tide , wave and roar , in death .", "And led from her maidenland .", "To leap and woo the chicory 's hue", "For only so", "The withering leaves with its nepenthean wine \u2014", "Were not \u2014 as it seems \u2014", "Of sighing wind may answer , or it leaps ,", "DOEG An Edomite ; chief servant of Saul , and suitor for", "Didst woo my homeward path with tenderness ,", "Across how many a field ,", "Was trusting her seed to the wind ;", "Thy mated dreams from the wind-eerie elm ,", "Of dew-gems \u2014 And ,", "Nirvana 's calm will come when won .", "That stood around \u2014 Baal , Ormuzd , Indra , all", "I know her not by fallen leaves", "A priestess art thou of Simplicity ,", "Undying eyelight", "And he must see that Autumn 's glee", "On the last red ember", "And muse , hid away from care .", "Had given birth , close-huddled in despair .", "Over the lake ,", "Of a chilling yore .", "I look again and lo", "Wheel-rumbling , bee-mumbling \u2014", "The clouds in woe hang far and dim :", "And scattered the hail with maniac zest", "And wonder if my resting shall be dug", "Brown dropping of leaves ,", "\u201c Aye , they ! and these ; \u201d pointing to many wraiths", "As they who 've heard thee say thou dost above", "Eastward swing the silent clouds", "To sacrificing a vain sacrifice !", "And will be soon ! For last night near to day ,", "Deeps tense with the timelessness and solitude of God", "Of Time to their irrevocable end .", "My yearnings speak to thee of days thy feet", "2", "A-haste , for stark is the coming dark", "The homeward path .", "The crows that train o'er desert skies", "Around each heavy eave low smoke hangs blue and still \u2014", "On Glory 's peak and triumphingly cry", "Of seraphs whose gold blasts of light break o'er", "But where now art thou ? Watching with love 's eye", "The eve-star wander ? Listening through dim trees", "Thy crumbling loveliness and ivy streams", "A respite from the blinding sun ,", "Sarcastic November", "The invisible breath of coming death has stained", "SPIRIT OF RAIN", "That hunted to drag him down", "The secrets of this world where evils war . \u201d", "Then go , go in ! and leave us the sea ,", "By sedgy fallows", "Solitude slowly steals ,", "Was loneliness and need .", "Strewn with the leaves stormed from October trees ,", "Thro \u2019 an awaiting soul \u2018 tis slipt", "Had cried delicious pain", "Not because thy fragrance slips", "Faith of the dark'ning distance , charities", "Oh , fear that life shall never more be whole ,", "From his lips and heart will quell all smart \u2014", "Falling from eve 's first star into the night ,", "ACT I", "Wander as gleam and shadow flit her face .", "I know how the hay was steeping ,", "The use-worn wain was stalling", "Beliefless , unanointed , bound not free ,", "Dreaming , God called me thro \u2019 the space-built sphere", "No hopes to fear or fears hope cannot sever .", "BEFORE AUTUMN", "Brings hope believing what it ne'er can know", "Sound clear ... then comes the dusk !", "Oh , hear ye ! hear ye ! ere it be too late !", "Who know the woe of the wind and tow", "Another as in travail of some thought", "Like the faery isle of Avalon , do these", "But strange and shadowy", "As with the silence of eternity .", "\u201c Ptah , Ammon , and Osiris are their names , \u201d", "Already had forgot His pain \u2014", "Under the wind 's sere pause .", "When tryst and trust were o'er ,", "Has held my longing lips from this poor lay .", "To thee for one long night \u2014 she whose", "My wandered spirit from the wilderness", "ABIATHAR A priest and follower of David .", "With all thy ghosts of mist about the mountain , lonely", "The tomb has gloom , but O the doom", "Are but wild moments wakened in that Soul ,", "Again for musing returned", "Back to the cliff 's gray wraith .", "A wanton attempt to destroy .", "MIRIAM A blind prophetess , and later the \u201c Witch of Endor . \u201d", "Of rests that rise", "Burdens of day they seem \u2014 in crowds", "A son and one who was wed and one", "For , as those solitary trees afar", "A cloud blew out of the west", "Their eyes were fixed upon a cloven slope", "As an enchantment 's runic utterance ,", "The sombre zone of hills around", "Has steered the unmeasured summer skies until", "And there are the tall primroses", "Silent the gold steals down", "Whispering in me , \u201c And the call", "Into the sea ....", "In the dew !", "Let thy lone innocence then quickly null", "Ponder a fallen nut or quirking crow whose caws", "Just there where the cat-bird 's calling", "Purplescent passing battlements of cloud ,", "Sun upon moss and root !", "To-morrow would forget the cross \u2014 and all !", "Or the dear light of Hope \u2014 like that ,", "Her steps , ever near ,", "A livid gash in the west , a crash \u2014", "O'er the shadows", "APRIL", "To the searing fields assuaging ,", "Valley and hillside float ;", "From earth were drawn , by the unceasing mesh", "Within our veins doubt-led and wrong desire", "Burns seeming forth along the path of those", "Wearing autumnal warmth the farm sleeps by the mill ,", "The peasant peacefully wades on \u2014", "No memory of strife", "Of peace from rivered vale and upland crest .", "It would draw sleep back to her lulling realm", "All mysteries that are .", "Go in , go in ! O haste from the sea ,", "To mock me when I dream I still am Jove ! \u201d", "Yes , it was here \u2014 September", "Oh , sadness , gladness , madness ,", "I lingered still when you were gone ,", "Of gladness steepeth my still spirit as", "But a bell", "To dip with the dipping sails ,", "Hold the oblivion vain ,", "Still clung to by the tattered mists of day", "Down the road", "And many times has Autumn , on her harvest way ,", "Soon recall", "That lie as if forgotten were all green ,", "With emptiness when morning 's silent gray", "SILENCE", "To have beheld so many days releasing ?", "Wakes me to long aloneness ; yet I know", "Or sometimes from unspeakable deeps of gold", "AVOWAL TO THE NIGHTINGALE", "Among the olives , Oh , how dumb ,", "O'er rocks \u2014 but quicker", "And death no more than its eternal ceasing ,", "Of sunny blue or bleakness , seek thy harm .", "Of all the drowned ,", "Thro \u2019 the gap", "Thro \u2019 golden dingles", "No matter the past !\u2014", "Of fate , insatiately drunk Life 's stream .", "In sorrow sung love 's lore .", "Where silence never shall wane !", "Tilting gulls whip whitely far", "The flowers so full of her joy ,", "Over the wild-wood \u2014 in its thrill", "Over my lids till day should disentrance .", "ISHUI His brother .", "He evermore must wander the ooze", "And her laughter", "Then in great ruin by him moved", "Nor heed thy Gothic shadows grieving o'er .", "My own , must be our meeting 's mystic pangs .", "From love that died with dying yesterday", "Abiding fills not full .", "When snow-hearted winter", "Cloud-sails await wind-tide .", "Mounts , highest Hope of men against earth 's hell !", "Then loose thy song ! Though no grave ear may list", "Birth and the beauty of a new life 's fire .", "Nor , in the bamboos , where they bow", "In a tangle", "The cut and searing fields stretch from me one by one", "The murmurous multitude within the wall", "Aeons with thrill of love or battle 's crime .", "A PHILISTINE SPY .", "A phantom out of voidness drawn .", "One incense \u2014 love ; one stealing litany", "And acorn strown !", "Of meadows free to-day from icy pains \u2014", "O Tintern , Tintern ! evermore my dreams", "Vanish to wing", "Her voice is vibrant beauty dipt", "CHARACTERS", "Into their chimney home .", "If winter 's o'er ?", "In the long nights of Winter and his wind \u2014", "Has poured her jewels o'er the lap of heaven", "And let them rest \u2014", "A Void shall spring , afar .", "Of feverous mystery the days we drain !", "The brook is awake and the blackbird loud", "They are like Sorrow 's breath ;", "In envy of thy desolated charm ,", "He sinks who climbed for the crown", "Because I asked him if June would come !", "Steals", "And lay again ten thousand lifeless years ;", "I was chafing my sorrow", "And we leap \u2014", "Upbore me from the Gulf , and thro \u2019 its might", "Woo till the awing owlet ceased to cow", "Up to me wavering , softly insistent ,", "Upon how many a hill ,", "And silence filled the air \u2014", "Ends with the ivied slab , or whether death", "Afar from those who are my own ,", "Autumn is near , and the tired year \u2018 mid praise", "Hid in the heart of the wood .", "The sullen shudder of the brook ,", "And the cricket , lone little chimer", "MAYA", "Nor Indian , with the silent stealth of Nature shod ;", "How soon \u2018 tis closed \u2014 how soon ! The trumpetings", "Wildly , swiftly , at last they stream", "Dimming in sunniness , aerily distant ,", "But I knew she would come !", "STORM-EBB", "Now strown as deathless flowers o'er its decease !", "ABISHAI A follower of David .", "Ah , it was here \u2014 September", "\u2018 Tis , oh , enough to live and to love !", "And the loud surf springs .", "The corn-stooks drop their shadows down the fallow hill ;", "And began to rally", "The lily that lingers a-faint on the stalk :", "Of the woods are ringing ?", "Striving for sovranty within the soul !", "They stand , with eyes a-thrill ,", "Whether the harvesting of pain and joy", "THE RAMBLE", "Such things I heard as must rend mortal clay", "The stifled brook ,", "Where the stars go at eve to their places ;", "A spirit hieroglyphed unto my soul ,", "Oh , the long dawn , the weary , endless dawn ,", "Joy whose first leaping rends the care-wound coils", "The eve of Golgotha had come ,", "STORM-TWILIGHT", "Seem with prehuman hintings fraught or ancient awes", "And by this longing , strangely still ,", "Down whose descent still other forms a-fresh", "Out of the vale .", "Moves deeper in their hearts and settles darker .", "And the falling leaves \u2019 sad balm :", "Michal .", "Of the hill", "Stars lost in night-eternity to throng", "He was laughing , the scorner ,", "Cast at a myriad shrines our souls , to rise", "But unto War 's necessity we bare", "Jerusalem , oh , count thy loss !", "Where wanting 's stilled in unwanting 's completeness \u2014", "Beneath whose shadowy spray", "That falls along the oatlands \u2019 sallow sheaves", "Oft I have watched the moon orb her fair gold ,", "SAUL King of Israel .", "4", "Troubled of thy grave beauty shall be born ;", "FULFILMENT", "And where did the lark ever learn his speech ?", "Had sown her starry seed ,", "Gathered again into the earth leaf , fruit , and spray ;", "Autumn 's near .", "Along the weedy roads and lanes I walk \u2014 or pause \u2014", "FAUN-CALL", "Spirit of rain !", "Into each human heart whose glow is spent .", "In lushy mallows", "Thine ear unto my Heart \u2014 there thou shall hear", "Of every mossy window \u2014 of thy dead !", "To bend in fragrant tribute to her sway .", "There is no Void beyond that He", "Thro \u2019 the shivering corn \u2014 in scorn", "They tremble upon the peaks and plunge rejoicing dawnward .", "Of every pillar would I be defender ,", "Who went down unblest .", "A laughter of wind and a leaping of cloud ,", "And now she is here .\u2014", "Where there 's no sense but of beauty 's wild sweetness ,", "Autumn 's near .", "And could I love it more \u2014 this simple scene", "Who , crowned by Death with Life , pass to its portal .", "Shadow and mingled mist \u2014 and then", "And chide her for leaving ,", "With a cooling kiss .", "1", "Yea , thou art Hers , who makes prayer of the breeze ,", "To the mouth", "Dusking amber dimly creeps", "Oh , the regret , and oh , regretlessness ,", "Oh , the wood", "Reached bleeding arms \u2014 but how in vain !", "Hope of the cool upwelling from sweet soils ,", "For an hour", "Soldiers of Saul . People of the Court , & c .", "Nor knew that millions would forsake", "Over the wet of the hill .", "Upon the sod that is at last thy floor ,", "But flight \u2014 where darkness flies \u2014", "Tho \u2019 half , still , believing", "His hope must dance like radiance", "Still the bewildering night-fen ,", "Is wanting mysteries that move the breast ,", "To harvest and hills and calm .", "Would sweep all lands from Nile to Rhine", "As in unfurrowed vales of sleep ,", "So bare , so dead ?", "And sunset 's crimson", "TO A ROSE", "The starry deeps are full ,", "We go \u2014", "That would earth of its heavenliness rob .", "Its touch awoke the sorceries", "To ruefully lift and wooingly fan", "Ah , what a changeling !", "Altho \u2019 it is Spring ,", "At the gnarly yoke of a solemn oak she kneels ,", "The swallows high in the sodden sky", "She taunted me so ,", "Her mock-hurt note by the shed ,", "Days", "And still they will stand untaken ,", "And tremor , like etherial swift tongues", "THE EMPTY CROSS", "DAVID A shepherd , secretly anointed King .", "Of Life is but a call of dreams . \u201d", "Than any that grieves \u2014", "The weedy fallows winter-worn ,", "And now the lily , faith \u2014 or now a spray", "Are to prove !", "Spirit of rain !", "Then , again ,", "As the clear", "AHINOAM The Queen .", "A broken reed in her hand ,", "Moan", "Nut-falling , quail-calling ,", "With a climb", "To soothe some grief-wan maid with love a-mort .", "JONATHAN Heir to the throne .", "And as a potion medicined and myrrhed ,", "Of cot-strewn hills and fields long-harvested ,", "So would I lead my dead thoughts high and higher ,", "The heart of Egypt from the God of gods :", "Spirit of rain \u2014", "Our piteous breasts \u2014 and impotently die ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Why hates he David , Zilla ?", "Oh ! Oh !", "Zilla", "And mend my anklet ."], "true_target": ["No , Judith , I 'll put henna on my nails ,", "Oh ! Oh ! Oh !", "Yes !", "What shall we do ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Shall we \u2014 with David whom he hates ?", "Will tell us ! he will tell us !", "All !"], "true_target": ["Until you 're dead .", "A feast indeed ! the men in camp ! When was a laugh or any leaping here ? Never ; and none to charm with timbreling !", "Prince Ishui ! Then he", "Stupid Leah !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["I 'll dance .", "O ! \u2018 tis", "Or till a youth wed Zilla for her beauty ?", "Turban of sapphire ! robe of gold !", "The king ! I had not thought ! David a king ! how beauteous would he be !", "Because these Philistines press round . As well", "Be wenches gathering grapes or wool ! Come , Leah .", "Who , who can tell ?", "So cold ?", "Kingly to meet Goliath \u2014 great Goliath !", "He pluck us ecstasies out of his harp ,", "Have you not heard ? Yesterday in the camp ,", "Now , hear her ! Who , who , now ? who , who is it ? dog , fox , devil ?"], "true_target": ["The Philistine , a brazen tower ,", "Among war-old but fearful men , he offered", "O , is he come ? when , where ?\u2014 quick , quick . And will", "And sigh and laugh and weep to the moon ?", "Of David !", "It is no longer fair ?Oh ! Ah ! I understand ! the princess ! Oh !", "Then \u2018 tis Ishui !Yes , Ishui ! And fury in him , sallow , souring fury ! A jackal were his mate ! Come , come , we 'll plague him .", "Hush , hush , be meet and ready now ; he 's near . Look as for silly visions and for dreams !", "Aie , David ! The joy of rousing men to jealousy !", "I 'll not soil mine with sullen fear all day", "A bastion of strength , fell to the earth !", "Winning until we 're wanton for him , mad ,", "Prince Ishui !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["It shall begin ! To Jonathan and say it .", "I have but told \u2014\u2014", "Disdaining Doeg and his plea to dust ,", "You ?", "Turn from it : I have not", "Fear on the people \u2014 panic \u2014 the kingdom 's ruin !", "Why have senses . He", "Answer ; I am not milky Jonathan ,", "Do you not see it crawl , this serpent scheme ?", "No prophecy shall sink me and no shade .", "His waiting and the winning o'er of Edom ,", "A king ? o'er Israel ?", "Should I not be ?", "Unclench your hands .", "Yes .", "To wed my sister , Merab ?", "And you , lost in the maze of her , fare on", "Dream-bringing amethyst and weft of Ind ,", "I am the king , and Israel , my own .", "And yet I must not speak ; come , Adriel ,", "Hear !", "Do not ask .... Yet how it creeps , and how !", "Now are you kindled \u2014 are you quivering ,", "Or must this shepherd put upon us more ?", "Some secret , and has Samuel not told", "It is this shepherd !", "Now , timbrel-gaud , why gape you here ?", "David ?", "Bidden you here for vapours ... tho \u2019 they had", "Subtle !\u2014 subtle !", "Prophet of prophets , Samuel , return !", "Not ?You say well . I should not , no . Pardon then , Adriel .", "Saul", "No use of us is here .", "Yonder !", "And you 've the king 's consent ; but she denies ?", "Insolent !", "The kingdom from my father shall be rent", "With Samuel the prophet fast enshrouds", "As granite .", "Flinging enchantment on the palace air", "With prophecy or some refusal tears him !"], "true_target": ["Laughter against him ?", "You are enamoured of this David too ?", "And fall unto one another ?", "Michal to die and Israel to fall !", "Michal .... Curst !", "David", "And Samuel", "Still denies !", "Or else the champion slain \u2014", "Speak .", "This is no hour for fools and questioning .", "It is another coiling of their plot !", "No .", "Till he impassions to him all who breathe .", "Substance as well for you !", "I have seen", "In secret .", "What do you say ? to meet Goliath ? JudithAie !AdrielIshui , in a rage ?", "Who likes", "Why ,", "With his harp !", "Then fallen from you \u2014 Michal the victor 's wife ....", "No , father , no .", "That I may save . Again appear and say", "Not fall on ruin !", "Out of the Shadow and the Sleep , return ,", "Low thing ! Chaff of the king !", "Ah ! and of Jonathan and Michal .", "Your David with him .", "Goliath slain \u2014 the people mad with praise ,", "Blindly and find no reason for it !", "Your mistress , Merab , girl , whom does she love ?", "The battle , Ishui , at once command", "Whose cry ?", "Or to their fools .", "That Israel to-morrow may not fall \u2014", "Compassionate , and tell me where she is", "And you see ? Ah , then , if one arise ? If one arise ?", "Off to your sleep ; be off \u2014", "Answer ; and for the rest \u2014 You hear ?", "Lovable ? lovable ?", "This , then : you 've hither come with gifts and gold ,"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Saul \u2014 is slain !", "Ishui , true ? Is Michal to be slain ?", "Then see you now how \u201c lovable \u201d he is ?", "What reason can be ? women are not clear ;", "How of the king to-night ?", "Slain ! And Jonathan \u2014\u2014", "As every wind , you know it .", "Saul \u2014\u2014", "As it were any slave 's ; the while we all", "Why do you urge it ?", "You must not . A fruitless intrepidity it were .", "Michal is won from peril !", "Jealously .", "Are lepered with suspicion .", "How ?", "Of the king ?", "For me ?", "Fell beside him down ...", "But has he not dealt honourably ?", "And ask now no forgiveness \u2014 not until", "Come , all of you \u2014 the battle .", "What sting from that ? He 's lovable and brave .", "The heart of Merab swung as a censer to him ,", "Mildew and mocking to the harp of Doeg", "David ? is it thou ?", "Is David with him ?", "You are certain ?"], "true_target": ["I tell you that he stands athwart us all !", "You were concealed ?", "Who , girl ?", "Michal , delay . Whom lead you ?", "I was laughed at ?", "Here he has brought her .", "Has given Doeg", "David ?", "Power of this .... And to some spot of Endor", "David , himself cannot be far away .", "Ever !...", "And now himself ,", "The king ?", "My seat at table with the king usurped !", "It is so .", "Fierce after Saul , whom Jonathan defended .", "What was the offence ?", "Ishui", "Hush .", "Ope ! open , you !", "I do not see .", "David , I 've wronged you \u2014", "And least unto themselves .", "Not would you be yourself .", "Betray ?", "Ishui , no .", "The fray was fast \u2014 Israel fled \u2014 the foe"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["My mistress , Merab !", "She is unkind ; I will not spy for her", "I hate her .", "Doeg said it .", "She !MerabWoman and witch , did Adriel , my husband ,Come to you with the king ?", "I care not !", "Yes .", "O many ."], "true_target": ["She loves \u2014", "Still .", "I fear \u2014 I fear her !", "I saw her \u2014 she \u2014", "And David does not love her \u2014 and she raves .", "The shepherd David !", "On Michal , and I 'll tell her secrets all !", "Is coming hither ! Do not let her \u2014 she \u2014", "I slumbered ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["You have not wronged him !", "My father ?", "Though once I would not hear . Has all of life", "With Samuel netted fears about my father ,", "Rest sure .", "All unbelievable it seemed that you", "Yet , pity !", "Wronged him ?", "I bend me now with sacrificial joy .", "Ah !", "Cunningly", "Another \u2014 is another !", "To crown you with and crown !", "In face was fairer and in heart than now", "Sang with another \u2014 David .", "But he has heard no word from me ?\u2014 not how", "Where the great Philistine contemning cried ,", "Not much desired discovery of whom", "And Doeg hates thee \u2014 since for me he 's mad !", "No no !", "Over Goliath severs us the more .", "A dancer , then , a very timbrel-player !", "One", "Even as moonlit incense , spirit flame", "As we were dogs !", "A daughter to a father may be true", "Not for the peace of it !", "Why are you here ?", "The throne shall pass from him , and darkens more", "But go a little .", "But Merab ! ah ,", "Hear how the people lift you limitless !", "Say to him all the secret !", "So long in want and sickness he hath hid ?", "Where was so wonderful a deed as this ,", "A step to rise and riot in ambition !", "But to reign over Israel you care ,", "A sling , a shepherd 's sling , you sped the brook ,", "One who has served the king .", "Ask me not , lad , now ;", "Had unto Phalti , a new lord , betrothed me ?", "Too much .", "Into thy hands .", "And spared me , had not flight .", "No ;", "To Eden under me with blossoming .", "Yes .", "Judith", "No more !", "Then swear conspiracy upon its tide", "To loosen , but with passion .", "Wreathing of dawn and loveliness unfading ,", "Yet grant", "David", "A night", "Stay ! Unclean !", "Outcast and faint , forlorn !", "A prophetess .", "Could innocently wait on time to tide", "David , you have not been as sun to him !", "Mounted and flung it deep upon his brain !", "My father , Saul , frantic of my repentance ,", "No , no .", "Jehovah fast is beckoning the realm", "Under the livid day and lonelier night ?", "Till even now my lids from anger falter", "Dawn and delight in you !", "Burning away all barrier !", "Ah , cease !", "Then you will learn .... Who 's that ?", "And all the world has streamed a rapture in ,", "\u2018 Twas wedding him I loathed .", "With but", "Oh , do not !", "Poison ?", "Guile !", "David ...!", "Almost to-day and in my father 's room", "David ! look on me .", "How then I fled to win unto these wilds ?", "What is this strength ! It seizes on me ! No ,", "Pity ! Unclean !I 'll call him ! I will save him ! David ! David !\u2014 I his discomfiture and ruin !\u2014 David !Hear , David ! hear me ! David !The king ! My father ! I cannot \u2014 am not \u2014 whither shall I , whither ...?", "You are the anointed ?", "I 'll plead with him .", "You \u2014 you !", "But he is sent for \u2014 and will ease him \u2014 Ah !", "Yes : It was well .", "And from afar , under the moon , blew faint", "Of Michal , the king 's daughter !", "Ah , yet ...!", "My father !", "Oh ...", "Unto Goliath 's slayer is the hand", "No , no !", "Almost have found ! A prophetess to-day", "You to the kingdom . Then forgive , I plead .", "David", "This stroke to-dayno love of me had in it .", "Poor , that I should have tears !", "Wrong !", "I think my brother Ishui hath a fever .", "There is some other that you lure and love .", "Have heed \u2014 unclean !", "I was a woman \u2014 the entanglement", "So fair a springing of salvation up ?", "You ,", "Tho \u2019 paleness be her doom until she die !", "No , divine it was !", "You snared me to you !", "As magic !", "So have you breathed yourself about my heart ,", "Unclean ! Unclean !", "You must not go !", "From a boy 's breath or the mere sling you wear", "From Saul , my father , penitent I fled ,", "He 's not at rest ; dreads Samuel 's prophecy"], "true_target": ["No , no ! I \u2014\u2014", "Yet what matter , now !", "This !", "Hath told me that he is a \u2014\u2014", "Yet", "As if it were", "Fell thro \u2019 infinity of void !", "David !", "This irremediable victory", "No glow for me ?", "Till I am paltrily unto you pledged .", "Hath told her love to Ahinoam the queen !", "A multitude should flee ! And you shall learn", "Father , unto will of yesterday", "My lord !... my lord !", "Brave , it was brave , my love ! beauteous ! brave !", "Oh , I have heard ...!", "Were it the driven night-unshrouded dead !", "And I \u2014\u2014", "I 'll not believe ; no , no , more than I would", "David ?David ?", "Is jeopardy and fate about you ! drive", "Doubt of it welleth thro \u2019 your voice . No , no ,", "Glory above the heavens could I seize ,", "Little lad !", "Unclean ! DavidWho cries unclean ? Poor leper in these wilds , who art thou ?", "O were it , were it ! But all silently", "I cannot .", "I ask not anything but to be heard \u2014", "She 's cunning , cold and cruel , and she loves thee ;", "David she loved , but anger-torn betrayed ,", "You must not !", "Seeking you in Engeddi 's wild .", "And loving ? Oh , I will \u2014", "Samuel hath anointed ?", "He would not !", "Leave me , ah leave ! I yield !", "Drew from its bed a stone , and up the hill", "This is the place , then , this ?", "David !\u2014 No !", "O father , father ! David ! Listen !... Why", "Whom Jonathan loves more than women love !", "All , all ?", "Never shall lift you !", "Coiling of plot ? What mean you ?", "A frenzy , \u2018 tis a frenzy ! From me ! see !", "David !", "Against this boundless Philistine Goliath", "You , of all !", "Him from you utterly and now away !", "All here is dark and quivering as pain ,", "Unworthy of him .", "Then must I hate you \u2014 scorn you \u2014\u2014", "And will .", "Under the firmament is but one need ,", "You use me !", "And strains that weep o'er me !... I 'll speak to him ... and yet must be unknown ! A leper ? as a leper could I ...?", "A waft , a sunny leap of melody ,", "No , you rend me !", "No ! but he", "Nothing . A chain like this", "You pall me !", "Now that I know what should be done . Be sure !", "Here", "He 's wonderful to heal the king with his harp !", "Fury were better , tempest ! O weak eyes ,", "David !", "You never will be king though Israel", "Father , a secret ! Oh , and it will make", "Who dares at Israel daily on the hills ,", "Then to your will ,", "And had I cried my praise the ground had broke", "And a foreboding binds me ere I breathe !", "The treading of the wine-presses with song .", "Enchantment dead .... Ah then \u2018 tis true \u2014 there is", "It may be told my father ; that I may", "This knife", "Michal ! Michal !", "Under the leaves of Gibeah \u2014 when she", "Anointed ! You whom the king uplifted from the fields !", "It shall not ! There \u2014 now again flows joy : I think it flows .", "I 'll not be kept !", "That anointing , then \u2014\u2014", "I 've found \u2014\u2014", "They would that you were king .", "Unfailingly into my breast had sunk", "Betrayed ? No , loose me !", "Sudden against my lips !", "David \u2014 for ever !DavidAdriel ! Adriel ! What have you ?", "Surrender this anointing ! Spurn it , say", "Miriam ,", "Yes , steal it !", "When \u2018 tis my father , and with Samuel", "And the dew falls !", "That you will understand !", "You creep to steal his kingdom !", "Nobility", "Not to betray !", "They say she is .", "Kingless go mad for it !", "Priests ?", "What anger 's this ?", "I once beheld wind undulantly bright", "David . I", "Of duty amid love we have no skill", "Yes , father , yes ! Have you", "To save you strove I \u2014\u2014!", "If deep she should repent ?\u2014 if deep she should ?", "Have struck him in his sleep ! And merciless ! And now will kill me , too ?", "Merab and Doeg !", "O'er Michal the king 's daughter .", "I must not hear !", "Once , when she", "I know not ; danger rising and its wing", "\u201c If ! \u201d not \u201c if . \u201d", "And swift the hovering mad shadow 's gone \u2014", "Pity !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Witch of Endor , you ,", "Saul ! thou art Saul ! the Terror !", "You threat , and ever thunder threatening !", "Prepare", "Thou brought me from the quietness and rest ?", "O evil king ! and wretched king ! why hast", "Thou fool !", "There is not . Am I king ?See you , \u2018 tis he !... \u2018 Tis David !... And he sings ! DavidSmiter of Hosts , Terrible Saul ! Vile on the hills shall he laugh who boasts None is among Great Israel 's all Fearless for Saul , King Saul !Aye , is there none Galled of the sting , Will at the soul of Goliath run ? Wring it and up To his false gods fling ?... None for the king , the king ?SaulForego this praise and stand Away from him ; \u2018 tis overmuch .", "The earth with death of them ?", "Do not smile wonder , mocking !", "Unto the foes of Israel , and filled", "To this you lead me \u2014 hatred against David !", "I will not . Do you come with vexing too ?", "Merely a little moment !\u2014", "I 'll not endure . They say that you \u2014\u2014", "You swear ?", "The skies on it ?", "Samuel !", "Had Saul", "Unbar and learn .", "Yet \u2014 I am king , remember ! I am king !", "Spirit , give me word !", "Who 've been anathema and have been bane", "And vow to all its divination \u2014 all !", "On , then , reveal .", "Thou full-of-lauding fool ! Of breath and ravishment unceasing !", "Why ! A WomanKing Saul has slain his thousands !", "Conspiracy of silence !... Back to him .But you \u2014 I 'll not forget . I 'll not forget .DavidForget ! anointing peril ! What are they all ? Michal !\u2014 for me you have done this , for me ?I 'm swung with joy as palms of Abila !A princess , you ! and warm within your veins Live sympathy and all love unto your father , Yet you have shielded me ?", "Well ? Well ?", "Hold comfort , and the torrent of despair", "Yes .", "As ever you are building and for ever .", "The battle ! its event !", "Am I not king , the king ? chosen and sealed ?", "Forsaken of all prophesy and dream ,", "Now you cease ?", "You ?", "Pains beyond ...? Who is he ? know you of him ? do you ? know you ? You sup the confidence of Samuel ? I 'll search from Nile to Nineveh \u2014\u2014", "I will not listen to them !", "Woman , I cannot \u2014 dare not \u2014 look upon it . Utter thy sight .", "Have heard !\u2014 Why do you pale ?", "You tarry !", "Then let him \u2014 let him . And upon the field", "\u2018 Tis overmuch !", "To augur it .", "Cannot ! Are you flesh of me ?", "Ready is it , the battle \u2014 but I am", "Now are you Baal-bit ?", "Ah , but the prophecy ! the prophecy !", "I 'll burst all bond of priest or prophesy .", "I 'll not be lulled .", "I cannot overleap this destiny ?", "Woman of Endor ! Woman of Endor ! Woman !", "Swear ?", "Miriam", "Call him up .", "Girl ?", "Death , death ! If he hath touched this prophet \u2014 if", "Folded about us , fettering with flame ?", "I say that you can raise them !", "Of voices and of priest and oracle ,", "You 've slain him and you tremble ! Say it .", "Vexation ? I could \u2014 Ah . Will she not speak !", "Shall come of it . Bid Samuel appear .", "Pain in your eyes ? you think it ? Deem", "A treachery ! You cunningly contrive To aid him , so ....Bring me his head . SoldierMy lord , He is not there ....", "Another hath anointed .", "Within me stay and hush .", "Why do you laugh ?", "Are forty days not dead ? A champion !", "Samuel", "On miracle .", "What mean you ?", "He is not .", "Then who will dare against him !See you now .", "Before thy teraphim . No harm , I swear ,"], "true_target": ["To this with supple envy 's easy glide !", "Then hither with him ; hither !", "I grant \u2014 go not !\u2014 I grovel to your will ,", "I 'll slay you and regretless . DavidSlay , my lord ?", "The folds slip further ;", "Let him . DavidO heart of woe , Heart of unrest and broken as a reed !O heart whose flow Is anguish and all bitterness of need !O heart as a roe , Heart as a hind upon the mountain fleeing The arrow-wounds of being , Be still , O heart , and rest and do not bleed !O days of life , Days that are driven swift and wild from the womb !O days so rife \u2014 Days that are torn of trouble , trod of doom !O days of strife \u2014 Days of desire on deserts spread unending , The burning blue o'erbending , O days , our peace , our victory is the tomb !SaulDavid !", "To rueing it", "David , and with his harp .", "I tell you it is lies \u2014 Because you deem that he shall be the king , And treasure up reward and amnesty .From me ill-fruited ineffectual herd ! Away from me , he 's fled and none of you Is servant and will find and for me seize him ! From me \u2014 I 'll sleep \u2014 I 'll rest \u2014 and then \u2014I 'll sleep .AbnerThe Evil Spirit .", "You shall not , no .", "On , to him ! search the caves ! in , in , and bring Him to my sword and Michal with him .They Shall couch upon eternity and dust .I am the king and Israel is mine .... I 'll sleep upon their grave , I 'll sleep upon it , And hear the worm ...!Where is he ? Bring him .", "Ever this worshipping of utterance ?", "But think you , David , I shall lose the kingdom ? DavidMy lord !...", "And do you still forbid that I bear gold", "Child , well , what then ?", "Of Ephes-Dammin . But I am not blind !", "To you !", "The sceptre ....", "Out of the Pit you call them !", "Not come ? He is not come ? Forever he delays !", "I must have up out of the Awfulness", "Have I not bidden swiftly ! Ever then", "And singing weary madness from my brain .", "You have not ; you have dallied .You have dallied .And now \u2014\u2014", "I know thee now !", "You rouse afar the billowing of ill .", "Cannot ?", "Till a simoon of madness in me moves .", "Then \u2014 you have heard ...?", "It eats in me the food of rest and ease .", "And bribe away this Philistine array", "You have but builded lies ,", "Who of the fate-revealing dead divine .", "And David , nearer : Samuel in my stead", "None will arise \u2014 \u2018 tis vain . And I 'll not wait", "Use ? subtle ? Stand !", "God ! God !", "Tighten the torture more .... Now will you ? SpyYea !", "Fear it and fawn as to omnipotence ,", "What mean you ?", "Ever so rich a rapture from his son ?", "Mountain and desert , wilderness and sea ,", "Is it not praise enough , has he not reached", "I 'll smite where'er I will .", "Thus he sways me .", "How I have wronged thee !", "Then speak !", "There is none .", "Nor cringe to threatening and fondle fear .", "Let him , to-morrow ! Go prepare the host .", "Sudden and senseless !", "Loveliest have you been among my days ,", "Under and over , search \u2014 and find .", "I 'll hear no more against him \u2014 Abner !\u2014 no .", "Woman of Endor ! woman !", "It ever shall .", "What mean you ?", "Death ! if \u2014\u2014 Come here : David ?", "Say you ?", "The battle on the morrow \u2014\u2014", "From me ! No !", "Say on , say on .", "Do you not fear ? And brave me to my breast ?", "Perhaps ; then , well ?", "Pour seething prophecy into my veins ,", "You !", "Thy song is beauteous ! Stilling to sorrow !... Oh , my friend , my son !", "Ever they say ,", "\u201c This David , \u201d and \u201c This David ! \u201d", "Now do the folds slip from me .", "Him I would question .", "Unveil your words .", "Well ?", "He must", "Demand and drain for more ! without an end . Ever vexation ! No ; I will not .", "None ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["To another !", "Is none ! Call ! I order it .", "It is not false ? but now , the uttermost ?", "I tell thee again , thou perilous proud king ,", "Into the hands of David \u2014\u2014", "Evil thou art", "Then ,", "Death to thy daughter Michal \u2014 if at dawn", "There 's peril of desolation , bloody ruin ?", "The sceptre shall slip from thee to another !", "Loose on them pest of panic and of fear .", "I tell thee , Saul , thy sceptre shrivels fast . The battle shall be lost \u2014 it shall be lost .", "To break this beetling giant down to death !", "Doeg , chief servant of the king ?", "Then , Saul of Gibeah , one thing and one", "Beautiful , yea , a bravery from God !", "O !", "The battle shall be lost \u2014 lest she may fall", "Alone is to be done . A champion ,", "To-morrow , if Goliath still exult ,", "Father !"], "true_target": ["Then , Saul of Israel , the hour is near ,", "Liar ! it is no plot .", "Michal , thy fairest , to whoever shall .", "But courage sprung seraphic out of night ,", "David", "When shall arise one , and Goliath fall !", "Do I forbid ! A champion must rise", "Offer thy daughter , then ,", "And Michal for his meed ! or evermore", "For underneath this night thou hast conspired", "Yea , king of Gibeah , and bid him go ,", "Michal", "I answer for him ; yea .", "You , Abner , will not ?", "To level this Goliath . Thus may we", "Ishui", "Evil be on you and the sear of shame \u2014", "Yes ,\u2014 yes ! While there is air \u2014 and awe of Heaven", "And haunting memory beyond the tomb !", "Oh ,\u2014 subtle !", "Out of Jehovah and a vast foreseen", "Open ! and let me enter ! Open !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["A spy 's within our gates \u2014 and scorns to speak .", "Unclean ! away !", "My lord \u2014\u2014", "And Merab , too , will soon be here .", "Then \u2014 safe to leave him ?", "Pardon , O king . A word .", "I 'll go and look upon him ."], "true_target": ["The Philistines \u2014 some fury is afoot ;", "Michal", "no , abide !", "So we may seek us water ;", "It were death and vain .", "Already he sleeps .", "Woman , who are you , who ?", "Time 's yet to pass ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["With insult and illimitable breath", "Dim shall I be , and ere the harvest bend", "Forth and may backward , backward bend defeat .", "Duty to Saul is over .", "As a weed under the wind !", "And I have heard . Cry then", "Untrue of her !", "Upon the blot of it and death and sear !", "Sudden is joy and overfloweth \u2014\u2014", "Nay , nay !", "Child , why do you quail ?", "And craving birth in me is fateful ire .", "Believe , in all the riven realm of duty", "One must go out \u2014 Goliath must have end .", "Of my anointing Jonathan is \u2018 ware ,", "Peace , peace !", "Still , still you shrink ? do you not see , not feel ?", "Not that \u2014 no wrong !", "O king , my lord \u2014\u2014", "As foam-girt Joppa of idolatry ,", "Awful God !", "Beautiful to eternity with bliss .", "Sudden you hound about me ravenous ?", "This \u2014 this can be ?", "A shrivelled hallowing ...", "You are distraught .", "Quicksands of destiny beneath her stir .", "Yet reaches not my love to Jonathan !", "See , even now !...", "It is not Michal speaking ; so I wait .", "At last the word .", "For rapid palsy would come on thy hand ,", "Deep as divinity is deep , I swear .", "Bid me not back with love , nor plea ; I must !", "And judge her when earth has no mystery .", "Now must I fold you , falter all my love", "What does it mean ? I cannot speak ! It shrinks", "Farewell !", "And who am ever faithful to him !", "And often since", "Have I done wrong that I should fear the king ?", "Speak of her no more ,", "Futile and death ? Alien ? Edomite ?", "Girl ?", "Guiltless I , no other !", "Jonathan ! your sister !", "Some wonder ? speak ! MichalNo , no ! horror in me moans out against it . Wed me with destiny against my father ? Dethrone my mother ? Ah !", "Who drove me a prey upon this wilderness !", "Give them no mood ; but see , see yonder fires", "And you have seen", "Lapping the night with bloody tongue \u2014 look out !", "What is it ? I must strike .", "Deeper than all the skill of time can draw ,", "You have not thought ;", "Body of you and soul , lifted me till", "Or perfume out of India jewel poured ?Or than \u2014 I may believe ?\u2014 a miracle Of dew , were you a traveller upon The illimitable desert 's thirst ? Or than \u2014Than this ?", "David !... the dread", "Tell me ,", "And I of vanity should prick it in ?", "Brimmed by the Philistines with bitterness ,", "Of one who has but recently another ,", "This chain of Ophir for thy every need .", "Merab of Saul !", "And I should be oblivion at a word !", "The last void of the everlasting sky \u2014", "Of leaden desolation that makes mad ;", "Where she is prisoned .", "And shut the cry of justice from your breast !", "Beautiful under a tamarisk , until", "That for thee reverently may .", "Though death were easier , if dutiful \u2014", "And from me fall", "Else were it shattered by her love to you !", "All , all your being would become a hiss ,", "They come .SaulHe will not speak , but scorns me , and his lips Bitterly curve and grapple . But he shall Learn there is torture to it ! Set him forth .Tighten his bonds up till he moan .Aye , gasp , Accursed Philistine ! Now wilt thou tell The plan and passion of the people \u2018 gainst us ?", "Of that !... not that !", "If you have tidings , not in words so wild .", "Some peril .", "Saul ?", "Out of my breast \u2014\u2014", "Hither coming ?", "Loose me , I say . \u2018 Twas Michal , and she called !", "The gliding on of firm divinity .", "O hear !", "If it shall come , the kingdom \u2014\u2014", "To warn ?", "And my brother Jonathan ! If I believe it will not miracle Alone bring joy again unto my pain ?O Israel , the Infinite has touched Thy glory and it changes to a shroud ! Thy splendour is as vintage overspilt , For Saul upon the mountains low is lying , And Jonathan beside him , beautiful Beyond the mar of battle and of death . Yea , kingly Jonathan ! And I would give The beating of my life into his veins . Willing for it would I be drouth and die !...Peaks , mountains of Gilboa ! let no more Dew be upon you , and as sackcloth let Clouds cover you , and ashes be your soil , Until I bring upon Philistia And Gath and Askalon extinguishing , And sorrow \u2014 and immensity of tears !But we must calm the flowing of this grief . Though yet we cannot mind us to remember , Love will as sandal-breath and trickling balm O'erheal us in the unbegotten years , Too headlong must not be our agony . Hush now thy woundedness , my Michal , now . See , o'er the East the lifted wings of Dawn .", "Nevermore near me ! never with", "Hireling !", "You are the leper , who have broken troth", "As sun and Sheol .", "Where battle captains pale and falter off ;", "Out of the fields and folding the far sheep !", "Dust on the wind , and all Philistia", "Never against you to lift up \u2014\u2014", "I am \u2014 oh , do not flint your loveliness !\u2014", "Then was I called to play before the king .", "As we were carrion beneath the sun !", "What is its wail ?", "From the inspired cruse of Samuel !", "Look out upon yon Philistine bold fires", "Not until", "Michal !... God !", "For Israel I 've wrought to-day \u2014 and for", "I am a shepherd , have but seized the lion", "Betrayers should have none .", "Off with his armour for me , I will go", "Since then", "Is heaven a mocking shield that ever keeps", "A spy ?", "A tithing of thy loveliness were beauty", "No ...!", "Murder in him , insatiable though", "Michal !", "You who are noble , though in doubt adrift ,", "How , then", "To me is this ? I do not dream ? The king", "As Memphian fane of all abhorrencies !", "To one more bitter outcast than yourself \u2014", "Your look belies .", "We are discovered \u2014 near", "Once it was dear , but should be so no more .", "Wide empery outspans our littleness .", "Then came the prophet Samuel with anointing ! My hope sprung as the sun !", "A singer music-maudled and no more ?...", "Into thy wile as wide as Ashtoreth 's ,", "Water ! I thirst .", "Shall I not play to him ?", "Yes , Miriam .", "Not one of them shall burn !", "To ecstasy \u2014 then snaps .", "I waited , shepherd-timid , and you came ,", "Tempt me not !", "Then is peril up ! Jonathan ...!", "No more : the pledge I fling", "Leave me .", "In any way , that we may from him win", "Now , what fever ? A gentleness clad once your every grace .", "My friend \u2014 my Jonathan ! \u2018 Tis you ?", "All duty and enduring !", "Care but to reign and not for Israel 's calm ?", "The anointing .", "Whom not a slave can serve unhonoured ?", "When you departed \u2014\u2014", "That gather up the desert for their blast ,", "It is .", "One over whom \u2014\u2014", "Not one of all .", "Camping upon the peace of Israel ,", "With sheeted passions like to lightning gusts .", "Merab 's self ?", "Samuel ...?", "But you , fairest of all my hopes , what word !", "Meholah 's Adriel , your conscience asks .", "Shivering down upon my heart in awe !", "Sudden divinity is on them , silence", "And triumph on your senses till they burn", "Reed as I am , could he not breathe and break ?", "Merab . I \u2014", "And wield the throne so well that God Himself", "O'erhYpppHeNtramble me than a multitude of foes .", "Not dead ?", "But see !", "No word !", "Of armed mighty angels triumphing .", "The tread and tremble of seraphic song", "But words ,", "No , not now \u2014 not now .", "As lily blowing of blasphemy ! as dew", "We are alone at last .", "Then gracious be , and question here no more ,", "Ahaste , and bring him then by force or guile ,", "Michal !", "Full from her lips \u2014 and to betray her father .", "A livid sepulchre of shame span o'er ,", "Empty of glow then seems it , impotent ,", "Yet ,", "Wandering came you here ?", "But under the terror of his might have I", "Woman ?", "I know \u2014 that Saul would rather", "Within the cave , for from the bow of Saul", "Again is kind and soft his spirit moves ?", "And numbs you so ?\u2014 Let it rush from your lips !", "Saul , not this !", "Is this thy love , the love of Saul the king ,", "How shelter o'er me then will spring", "Bravely .", "All beauty else is dead \u2014\u2014", "For there is murmur misty of distress ,", "Ah , my harp !", "Or \u2014 you yourself ?...", "And do not bring dissuasion more , or pause .", "Morning would move with horror of it , noon", "Out of my heart , as \u2018 twere enchantment dead ,", "First beheld you the daughter of the king", "As God has swung the world and hung for ever", "Need not lift her veil ,", "To whom , my lord , and what ?", "I spare thee not the furrowed face of pain ...", "That is for me .", "And safety covering !", "And thy horrible heart . Then speak , or unto frenzy I am driven .", "Have we not swayed and swept thro \u2019 happy hours ,", "Utterly false and full of wounding !", "Here in this hall where cherubim shine out ,", "The parable of verdant spring is hushed", "Reveal my helpless chrism , give me to peril .", "As dawn or a drift of dreaming in the night !", "And provoke", "Out unto Saul ! Betray me , cry you out !", "No \u2014 it is not Michal .", "\u2018 Tis only that the soul of Jonathan ,", "And night shrink to remember day had been !", "Knows it is holy , helpless , innocent", "Art thou to know and speak of her , of Michal ?", "And you would go ?", "I have not heard .", "I must .... I will not let them ever throng ,", "You , you \u2014", "And yet whatever may be shall be done .", "But in the wilderness , your perfidy !", "A jackal ?No , the signal ! Word at last !He who is near may prove to thee less kind .Abishai ? Abiathar ?... It is ! But staggering and wounded ? breathless ? torn ? The priest with bloody ephod , too , and wild ?Abishai , what is it that you bring ? Abiathar , up ! answer !", "I do not hear the unashamed words", "Strung me tense ,", "And heard her speak ?", "Never an enemy to venom it ?", "Who 've stifled me with desolation 's woe ,", "The daughter of King Saul has yet to learn .", "Then know that it is I .", "If it seem other \u2014\u2014", "Who once was kindlier than kindest are ?", "This sterile solitude and sun , this scene", "For you !", "Michal !", "Enough .", "The kingdom . That he would slay me though I fought", "A living iteration of remorse .", "Since I a shepherd o'er a wild of hills", "Odious utterly !", "Ah , to pierce a woman !You 've plotted , have been false and bloody , foul , And as a pestilence of midnight marsh Have oozed corruption into all around you . The kingdom thro \u2019 you is in brokenness , Within its arteries you flow , poison , Incentive of irruption and unrest , Of treachery and disaffection 's sore , Till even the stars that light it seem as tares Sown hostile o'er the nightly vale of heaven .DoegNo farther !", "Say no more .", "Upon it is of enmity !", "Enough !", "Nay , again ! immortal kisses !", "Less than a gleam in their forgotten peril !", "But he \u2014 your father ?", "Avenging ere thou shed offenceless blood !", "To that let us not verge ; it has but ill .", "Slain thy father ? slain ?See how I might \u2014 see , see you , yonder he lies , A king who quits the kingdom , though a cloud Of Philistines is foaming toward Gilboa ; Jeoparded leaves it , undefended , for Pursuit of me and pitiless harrying ! A king who murders priests ...", "O queen ... It is but life .", "Link upon link her loveliness that bound .", "In vain . MichalThen ... it is as I thought .", "To the \u2014\u2014 Stay ! Your words again .", "Then \u2014\u2014?", "Our hearts , so pitifully prone for it ,", "I beg you but to cease .", "Jonathan , my friend ! While life has any love , know mine for you .", "Deeper the future gulf is for our fears .", "Who ?", "I a mere shepherd innocent of wile !", "Am come up with the Philistines to win", "An impotence , a shrivelling with fear ,", "Staining the hills , and starving us from peace .", "Of dread and distance and the deep of doubt !", "The sun is set .", "Take it away , the heat and myrrh of it .", "I must see her .", "What brews ? She was not in the camp .", "Unnatural ,", "From babe to age must bleed and be no more !", "My lord , this is no more endurable !", "I cannot \u2014 and I must not . It is holy !", "Then", "Woman of Endor !", "Mercy and memory almost are dead ,", "Has not this Philistine before the gates ,"], "true_target": ["You , ever round about me as a mist", "Boasted and braved and threatened up to Baal ?", "Foolishly from the heart ; a shepherd speech !", "But shall be ; for to tell", "So bitter are you , blind ? even in all ?", "Hurricane rush and deluging and ruin .", "What is it ? sprung of the Philistines ? new terror ?", "Not seen his heart beat justice and beat love ?", "As yonder sea of death and bitter salt !", "I would it had not come and fast am sworn", "Or the still moon , or stars that glide the night .", "For what , and suddenly ?", "Haste and a swirl , a wonderment of air ,", "Flooding it from all duty but the course", "I cannot .", "Michal !DavidFor Israel ! For Israel !", "You cannot understand ; it pains beyond", "Have slain ? have slain him ! I have slain him ! Ah !", "He she has ruined may forget her .", "Awful and sceptre-ruined lord of men ,", "\u2018 Tis riches \u2014 such as Sidon marts and Tyre", "Dawn-lilies under dew are then unworthy ,", "Once me you would have poisoned , but the coil", "Back into hope , eternity of pain !", "No !", "Would rend silence for ever from you \u2014 pale", "I 'll be no more enspelled of thee \u2014 Never !", "You seek , my lord ... you seek whom Samuel", "That fling fate on us , and I care not , care not ,", "King of Israel ! Inexorable !", "Remember it is so .", "Fetter him .", "For Israel !\u2014 But , Michal !\u2014", "Therefore be wielded by no venom-word ,", "Abiathar \u2014?", "But Michal will be now .", "But this is past all carp of rank or station .", "Is yonder bleeding \u2014 from no other .", "Never thy presence pouring beauty , swift ,", "To-day , to-day . A leper wandering .", "Rather the last ray living in me , rather", "Along the infinite .", "Upon my heart each tear were as a sea", "She is in", "Do you know", "Now ?", "A spy of Saul and hypocrite have crept", "This is the victory and not his death ! Tell , tell thy joy with kisses on my lips ! Thy mouth ! thy arms ! thy breast !", "Who breaks forbearance \u2014 yes .", "Terrible fury stealing from the heart", "Hear !", "For but a woman 's wantonness of word", "My lord ?", "Michal", "The pale hours", "The silence and relentless burning swoon !", "Forget it . Forget the brink may ever gape ,", "Restrain ! O do not weep !", "This sounding giant flings again his foam ?", "Use ?", "A memory of syllables that sear ,", "Yet unholier were flight .", "Little it then beseems that I thrust in", "Tell it !", "It is chicanery of chance or craft .", "I , though I sought it not and suffer , though \u2014", "And seething in the brain as frantic wine !", "Have I thrown doom not daring to your feet ,", "Who are you ?", "Of this betrayal leaping from your heart .", "Nay .", "My cloak , then , for thy tattered limbs . Or , no \u2014", "Terror upon you ! Speak , what is it ?", "In will or hope of any envious wrong ,", "Thy soul !", "But not all villainy ?MerabI burn for it !", "No !", "Ah , that I had thy falseness and could slay him !", "My lord , then , choose ! Ere longer waiting fester to disaster .", "Abiathar , is lost ?", "Saul", "But ere to-morrow", "If it adversely veers , the king has planned", "With penitence that He has shaped the world !", "The morning star from Heaven ! Then , I swear it ,", "Jonathan , I am flame that will not wait .", "Then be his hate as wild , as wide as winds", "Ever of bloom , to prove it . Never till", "Saul \u2014\u2014?", "My lord , not anger ! Hear me ...", "Or longer stay . The path she came is open .", "More of her ? still ?", "And throttled the bleating kid out of his throat ;", "Must not unking you , more than He would cry", "Michal", "Woman , who are you ?", "Hermon is swung into the sea ! until", "Yet on the vales behind me I have left", "Falling here ...", "Up !What is it now so fevered from you stares , And breathing , too , abhorrence ? Gasp it out .", "Ashes of ecstasy that burned in vain .", "Where the night silence \u2014\u2014", "Woman , the king 's ?", "You for the king to try my skill ! you , you !", "The leper , you ! The faithless leper , you ,", "I yearn not ; but for you !", "Where words are futile for an utterance .", "And idle air , my life ?", "Adriel , wedded .", "And beating against death unbuoyantly .", "A destiny , a fate in this is hidden !", "And now unless one slay him , Israel", "Unto the end ! unto the end !Your villainy is done .", "Michal ?", "Livid above me as an avalanche ?", "Hither to learn ...?", "Michal !", "The moulded light and fragrant miracle ,", "Who has no ease but cave or shading rock ,", "Vaunting of vanity and smiting laughter ,", "Take away your flesh .", "I do not understand your eyes .", "The quivering", "Let me forget it in a leap of deeds .", "None !", "Almighty , smite , and save to Thee thy people ! And save Thy altars unto Israel !", "Cruel ! fell accusal ! Yea ,", "So limpid overflow in palaces ?", "Ask ?", "Water ! the fever fills me , and I thirst . Water !", "Such kindness ? in all honour ?", "Forgive that even when thy arrows sink", "Unkind , most cruel sister !", "Or till high Gath and Askalon are blown", "Not if you say no more .", "Michal ?", "She withholds her father 's wrath ?", "Here ?", "To you no more ? to you", "A love , a passion fervid through me as", "Flow dead into eternity .", "God !", "No thought !", "The infinite in awe , to-morrow night", "Let us conceive annihilation on them ,", "So swift I hurried hither at your urgence", "Ruler of Israel , that you rise wild ,", "I am the anointed , but all innocent", "Upon his friend , thy servant , David .", "I do not mock . Only the birds have wings .", "The arrow !\u2014 His !His and no other 's ! Quick , no delay . Efface all trace of us .", "My lord !", "I understand .So , without any blame , go \u2014 to content .A desolation left , of rock and air , Of barren sea and bitterness as vast . Thou hast bereft me , Saul !... and Michal , thou !My flesh cries for oblivion \u2014 to sink Unwaking away into the night ... where is No tears , but only tides of sleep .... No , crieth Not for oblivion and night , but for Rage and revenge ! Saul ! Saul !... My spirit , peace . I must revenge 's call within me quell Though righteously it quivers and aflame . As pants the hart for the water-brook , so I !", "Deeper than soul or sea ,", "Your flesh with haunting of it evermore !", "Too much of waiting and of severance ,", "They near .", "Am I not David , faithful , and thy friend ?", "Lie peopleless and still under the stars !...", "Almost I am beyond this tolerance .", "I will not so believe . Your reason ?", "Goliath , then , a laughter evermore !...", "Michal is not to live lest she may hap", "Where have you Michal ? DoegNo closer !", "A seething on the lips , I 'll say no more ....", "For Israel it dripped upon me , and", "No !", "The battle burning yonder ,", "Twice the words \u2014", "And now the king with darkness foams ,", "Unto my arms .", "And nesting doves are horrible to heaven .", "If she is an atom harmed \u2014\u2014! Where is she ?", "Abiathar ! You know obedience ?Listen ! that cry !", "My brain is overfull of fever , mad .", "Michal your sister is the victim .", "Who 've followed still and still have me betrayed !", "Then who", "That it is told him I who shun his ire \u2014", "Nothing .", "What is this ravage in you ? Does the truth", "Delirious wings of hope that fluttered up ,", "Have it , and with it vanish memory", "I have been wonder , ecstasy and dream !", "Almost and I had touched thy peril , held", "Speak , O speak !", "It is well .This was a gift from Saul . In it is ease .This ring was Jonathan 's . The jewel tells Still of the sunny haven of his heart . Upon my hand he pressed it \u2014 the day we leapt Deeper than friends into each other 's love .This chain \u2014\u2014", "I fled upon the wilderness and famine ?", "You are here ?", "For Israel must drip until I die !", "I who am wounded with her every wound ?...", "This should not fall to me , my lord ; no more !", "These words I do not know .", "My words must be alone with her \u2014 alone .", "Hear ; the king !", "Some enemy \u2014 does Doeg curve his lip ?\u2014 Hath put into her mouth this stratagem Of fevered , false-impassioned overpraise .DoegThis is not all , boy out of Bethlehem . Goliath 's dead \u2014\u2014", "Sent for the benison of Israel ,", "Then would I be \u2014\u2014!", "Can any moving in the world so bring", "Stifles God", "My lord , delayed ?", "\u2018 Twas Michal and no other .", "Hear , hear me ! for the kingdom , tho \u2018 t may come ,", "Why , my lord ,", "Be noble now !", "Michal , you have beheld her ?", "Anointed .", "Life that ever strings", "But show a tiger gleam ?", "Say true !", "God from our prayers ?", "But of the king \u2014 the king \u2014\u2014?", "You too late", "Knows it unsought \u2014 out of the skies \u2014 supernal \u2014", "Then you have come", "Say but the reason !", "The battle ! on the wind . Abiathar , Speed out upon the mountain-side and cull All that befalls .AdahOh !", "I \u2014 I myself will save your lips the words", "Thus all is vain ;", "Is the word honey ? Is it balm ?", "Those eyes that hold infinity of fate ,", "I tell you , go .", "Woman ...?", "And crouching cold within the eye , O Saul ?", "At last to fall !", "Be it as Sheol deep , stronger than stars", "Who crieth here ?", "You mean ... that Saul \u2014\u2014? You would not , no !", "None else will !", "Michal !", "Yes \u2014 in the camp of Saul .", "I will not hear thee and be wound by words", "Far from the birth unto the bourne of bliss ?", "O lips !", "Love and you are twain ,", "And in the torrent 's troubled vein amaze ,", "And Phalti ?", "My lord , my lord , this should not fret you . DoegNay !", "Beyond all hope it is , even as day 's", "Thy hideous contagion .", "Then futile to resist", "That breathing cassia-sweet , but sorcery !", "To-night you did not to the king", "Nor of her cruelty , unless to pray", "Would covet .", "The awful dead ?", "If I am trusted and to Michal truth !", "Until this hour I never looked upon her .", "Of thy delight !", "That is all ?...", "And free you ; but no more .", "Peace to you , peace and joy !", "But , hear me !", "Within your bosom I beheld . And now", "One who has less than this lone void to give ,", "No , and see ; they come .", "Enough for earth . Yet it is mine , is mine ?", "On us is death . Open the secret chamber", "Speak , not evade ;", "Amid his servants , leaning , still with noon ,", "Know not your meaning .", "Yea , O king !...", "The vaunting of this victory is done .", "Merab ?", "None else is left .", "Death and the desecration of the worm .", "That quivering and tenderness of lure .", "They say ?", "Were ...?", "In lying rags ?", "Jonathan , nay \u2014\u2014", "Merab", "Her lips could never seal upon a wrong .", "And it was you ...?", "There 's no obedience from thee she would hold .", "All .", "Pierct !", "Haply !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["And shall I , shall I ? how this prophetess"], "true_target": ["Miriam hath foretold \u2014\u2014", "Loose , loose me !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Therefore I pour him splendour passionate .", "In gold and purple , this my own , I clothe him .", "Strike , strike , then ! strike , strike , strike ,", "Father !", "Not though it be the aid of Israel .", "Strike me to darkness and the waiting worm !", "Then am I friended as no man was ever !", "He shall not , no !", "With a spy who keeps", "Saul", "Saul", "Ah , she knows ?", "The madness of it !", "Never !", "Never before in Israel rose beauty", "No , David !", "David !", "O people , look upon him !", "David , my brother !", "Great heart , I 've heard how yesterday before", "Or seraph syllables new-sung to God !", "I will not see you rush on perishing ,", "The king comes here .", "David"], "true_target": ["Woman , thy tongue should know an angel-word ,", "Brother !", "The shame !", "Remorse and riving bitterness and fear !", "Earth has not any rapture well for this !", "The soldiers you .... But Michal 's gone ! No word ?", "No , father ... hold ! MichalWhat have I done ?", "David , you must cool from this .", "David ....", "But think \u2014\u2014", "Strangely my father is unstrung .", "Believing ? tell me .", "Helpless to hold my wonder and delight !", "\u2018 Twere futile \u2014", "And though my soul were morning wide it were", "David , unhurt ? Away , the wilderness !", "And disdains", "Be guilt and all the hideous choke of horror !", "Father ?", "Determination surges you o'erfar .", "Up to this glory !", "Fiercely to silence .", "But after be your every breathing blood !", "David , my brother !", "Murderous king , afoam with murder-heat ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["New forces have arrived ,", "Unless before to-morrow 's moon one 's sent", "Even to sucking babes , they 'll put to sword !"], "true_target": ["Then Gibeah attacked , and all ,", "To overthrow Goliath ... Gods ! the pain !", "Numberless ; more than peaks of Arabah .", "Baal !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["All Gibeah !", "They all are gone .", "Saul ?", "But for the kingdom .", "My lord ?", "When there is ebb of sorrow and of toil .", "And hither comes again , and must be calmed .", "Saul !", "Saul , Saul !", "The harp take you , and winds of beauty bring ,", "Nay .", "And David still enthralls you ?"], "true_target": ["Which you crave ? Then go and lave you in this tide of joy .", "David , the king ... But what is this ?", "And consolation , as of valley eves", "She is your sister . You", "I do not know , my child .", "He 's driven still .", "Are pledged to Adriel .", "Oh , could you heal him and for ever heal !", "My lord , shall David sing \u2014 to ease us ?", "My daughter ?", "At once , for he will come .", "Merab , a care ! Too near in you were ever love and hate .DoegNews , Merab !", "I love thee , David ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Do you hear ? King Saul has slain his thousands , David ten ! Thy servant , is he ? servant ?", "Why , my lord ?", "Wonder of David and quick jealousy", "Have sowed suspicions \u2014\u2014", "Unto your", "A plot ! it is a plot ! He will be slain \u2014", "I was the servant of the king ,", "To seize him with insinuative kisses ,", "I 've skilfully disposed the women", "Well , come .", "\u201c Thy servant David ! \u201d", "This .", "Yes ; upon him swift", "Then I will praise him !", "David ? you ?", "The poison ?", "Dead , she is dead ?", "Lured ? I am snared ? a trap ?", "He , \u201c thy servant ! \u201d", "If this shall reach you .", "David", "I 'll drive you there with \u2014\u2014", "Merab", "Because of praise this whelming of Goliath", "We will send her", "From you , my lord , dominion then will fall !", "Or should it not ...", "You 'll stab him ?", "Fast \u2014\u2014", "Broken of guilt are crumbled in thy groans .", "If it is so , the lightning , that is wrath"], "true_target": ["She is ready", "No stones to stone you ? Hence ! And had I not", "Soft sympathy \u2014 and passion ?", "To coldly sing of Saul , but of our David", "A triumph o'er him , yet !", "Will he brook denial ?", "Michal once jealous \u2014 and already I", "Sudden , as Michal is alone with David ,", "What place is this ? Why do you bar that gate ? Merab , \u2018 tis you ? Why do you gaze , rigid ? And this is the blind witch , Miriam ?", "And ravishing !", "See you , my lord ? Do you not understand ?", "Within the veins of God , should sink its fang", "With lavish of ecstasy as to a king .", "Wakes in the people .", "Why me ? Had I a mother out of Israel ? I am an alien , an Edomite .", "If it is so , this momentary calm ,", "Ah , ah ! and you will !", "She is dead .", "It came as never before \u2014 as drunkenness .", "Into thy bosom and sear out thy heart .", "Not", "Aie !", "But \u2014\u2014", "A brother such as thou \u2014\u2014", "The king is worn , as a leper pent , between", "This silence pouring overfull the world ,", "And arms that wind as they were wonted to him .", "Unclean ? a leper ? in this place ? Are there", "Would rush and in thee cry until thy bones", "What will you do ? MerabAt once with it .", "I but obey him ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Mother !", "Was never \u2014 and shall never be again .", "Give me the phial .", "Herself and not to-day your friend ; but now Conquered to exultation and aglow To wreathe you for this might to Israel , Beautiful , unbelievable and bright ! Noble the dawn of it was in your dream , Noble the lightning of it in your arm , And noble in your veins the fearless flow And dare of blood !\u2014 so noble that I ask As a remembrance and bequest for ever , In priceless covenant of peace between us , A drop of it \u2014\u2014Upon this sacred blade ...", "As he", "Knows to the Philistines you fled \u2014 and loathes you !", "King !", "It is not Michal .", "You scorn \u2014 you scorn me ?", "Murmur about the host your heaven-call ,", "Then Saul shall rend you dead . And Jonathan !...", "Goaded , chagrined ?", "Then of my veins whatever drop you will", "More all-devouring than a Moloch is", "You do not mock me ?", "Return from hunting you and arm for battle .", "Yearning \u2014 I say it \u2014 yearning \u2014 and I will .", "Michal 's to-day , unless \u2014\u2014", "The kingdom .", "Gather again and break toward Gilboa ....", "For long at rioting within their walls ,", "Perchance you had not heard that Jonathan", "Shepherd ! DavidTreachery ? treachery , then ? Under a sham of tribute poison ?", "I will", "You refuse me , then ?", "Well ?", "Because you will not .", "This love within me \u2014\u2014", "Nor have not , ah ? how Michal", "Is given to the embraces of another ?", "I 'm here \u2014 and here will speak ! I 've hither stolen ,", "But \u2014 many would that you were king .", "To-morrow must my father", "For my torture ! What", "Why did my father pledge her to him ? you", "And as a slave ! And if I do not love him there is \u2014 riches ! If he is Sodom-bitter to me \u2014 riches !", "As any fool ? Wait . And the rest now , quick . This timbrel-player , Judith ?"], "true_target": ["Come \u2014 at once !", "False . I am become", "No , but this will I do . The Philistines ,", "Kingdom is to a woman as her love ?", "What is your mien ? you will not ?", "For love of you arouse rebellion up ,", "You desperately breathe and pale at last ?", "In the mid-tempest , with no rest , no shore .", "David , \u2018 tis Adriel !", "To me for aid , to me you yet shall come .", "And Michal , where ?", "That Michal shall be slain ?", "Not hindering ?", "David", "My father so ungenerously wroth ! And wrought away from recompense so right . Can you forgive him ?", "And lift you to the kingdom .", "Hear , hear ! Now he will cozen !", "Though he never", "But , no ...", "Ah ! You know", "May it be their rending .But come , come , we must see ; and show no frown .A WomanOur little ones are saved ! Hosannah ! joy !", "Well ?", "You will not ? answer !", "Rather upon", "Poor requital", "Well , well ; then \u2014?", "Its edge one vein of you \u2014 than priceless nard .", "Not it is David offers against Goliath ?", "Sought me with any murmur or desire !", "To one whose greatness humbles me from hate .", "That even I now ask it ?", "Yet it is one who \u2014\u2014", "Girl , Adah , draw the bar .", "For want of you as famine-wind , a wave", "Then ? the triumph ?", "Is it strange", "Though he is Michal 's for Goliath 's death !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Courage spring up anew .", "Be mutiny unless , Goliath slain ,"], "true_target": ["O King , bid me to speak !", "Fear is upon the host . There will"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["And the servants ! Goliath 's head high-borne upon a charger ! The rocks that cry reverberant and vast ! The people and the palms !"], "true_target": ["See , see , at last !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["All the wild generations of the wind", "Ever shall utter ! Hear them \u2014", "\u201c David ! David ! \u201d", "And David , see ! triumphant , calm , between"], "true_target": ["And now amid the rushes !", "The king and Jonathan !... His glory", "They come !", "O queen ! a sea of shouting !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["An avalanche ! Over the brook and bright amid hosannas !"], "true_target": ["Torn from the trees ! The waving of them \u2014 O !", "Yea , all the branches"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["A thousand Saul hath slain ! but David ten !", "Omnipotence shall not withhold me more ."], "true_target": ["Saul", "Woe ! woe !", "Die , die !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Be it , but I 'll not starve .", "I 'll have it .", "And should I thirst , not he ? Give me the bread ."], "true_target": ["He moves ; peace !", "Listen .", "Nor I ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["The prophesy", "I want it not .", "He calls .", "Weeping among my dreams ....", "Peace .", "If it would strangle you ."], "true_target": ["No matter .", "Is unfulfilled and vain !", "Or betray him ? spitingly ? It is the last . Already you have eat . And we are here within a wilderness .", "There was of Gibeah", "The suffering \u2014 this cliff .", "I care not .", "A woman \u2014 dear to me . Her face at night ..."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Men \u2014 men , we must have news . Perpetual ,", "And , with a host , of leaping to the kingdom ?", "Implacable they stare unto each other ,", "Of sighing \u2014 and remembered verdancy ;", "Thought but of Michal , not of smiting him", "Nor any dew comes here or odour up .", "Even unto the Philistines for shelter ,", "He utters right .", "And now unto this crag . And is not David 's", "And others gone ?", "And life 's but once .... So we will follow you", "And none returned !", "Famish \u2014 over a hundred desert hills ?", "And fawning too ?"], "true_target": ["The prophecy portending him the throne \u2014", "Folly , not fate ! though it is Samuel 's .", "Well , then , we are not swine ;", "Have not Abishai , Abiathar ,", "This rock and stony sky .... We must have news .", "No longer hungered and rewarded never ,", "David", "Let him .", "I 'll trust in it no more .", "Who will go now and bring us word of Saul ?", "But perilously ever .", "Has driven us from waste to waste \u2014 pressed us", "Longer is death . \u2018 Tis over many days", "Why should we but to follow a mere shepherd", "And Saul"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["I brought him water , often .", "Yes .", "Unclean ! Unclean !", "It is his harp .", "Michal"], "true_target": ["Why", "I told of Moab , my own land .... But , oh !", "Yes , princess .", "He heard not anything \u2014 only the tales", "Must he not know you ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["And sleeping lieth \u2014 for a thrust to end .", "Now what alarm ?", "Lest unendurable this lot , I may \u2014\u2014", "Mounting o'er every oath into revenge .", "Cry . Yet you will believe it .", "And many .", "Hear all , hear all ! Thy father , too , and mother ,", "Is near us now \u2014 a-quiver at Engeddi", "Water !", "David", "I know", "With Merab , whelp of him , and many armed ,", "Be clear , clearer .", "You will not come ?", "The breathing of archangels could not so", "Hunted you to this desert 's verge ?", "Has he pursued you , all his hate unleashed ? Are Samuel \u2014 the priests , not slain ? my father ? The kingdom is not in decay , and falls ? You are not prophesy 's anointed one ? Seize up the sword and strike \u2014 or I myself !", "As did her love .", "Remember your anointing !", "Out of his power the sceptre !", "No , no !... an eaglet !...", "No , but of Michal , tell me good at once ,", "Who lieth yonder .", "Are driven into Moab ; and this king ,", "David", "Saul gloating to believe", "Nothing of her .", "David , the battle \u2014\u2014!", "Founts yet in Judah !", "Tell on . I hear .", "Then from your craving put her \u2014 wide ; she is", "Ha \u2014 Michal !", "David", "Not till you know \u2014 and strike !", "Was among them ; fell .", "David", "On , on ! Seek if he lives !", "Seek if prophecy", "Then shall there be an ending \u2014 of these wounds", "And yet you will not strike .", "Only fetter ?"], "true_target": ["Saul", "O , rebuke him , do !", "Slain at the hands of Doeg \u2014 murdered , all !", "For your destruction :", "Even thy kindred , out of Israel", "Under the deeps of me against his wrongs .", "Has given her \u2014 and she will wed him , aye \u2014", "I stifle \u2014 in a universe \u2014 he still \u2014", "Ill scathe him ! Scorpions", "Then ask , and hate shall calm me .", "He 's mad ?", "Is dead !", "David \u2014\u2014", "Saul 's ? But how ; was any here ?", "David", "the murderer", "You are duped .", "Has Saul", "Perhaps :", "Plotted assisting you , hath had them \u2014\u2014", "We are betrayed .", "The priests who gathered sacredly at Nob ,", "Of terror and remorse sting in his soul !", "Of priestly sanctity and of my father ?", "In truth . Therefore it is you rise and shake", "Saul , Saul !... Michal !... Oh , never-ceasing ill !", "She 's well .", "Dead \u2014 and of tidings more calamitous .", "Have swung the burden from me as her ... Ha !", "Unworthy any tremor of your veins .", "To Phalti , a new lord .", "Well , what ? A woman who betrays ?", "Has breath in .", "I fear it .", "Abiathar , my friend !... Appeaseless Saul !", "Foolhardy , no", "Return into the cave , and ere too late !", "If Saul cries out \u2014\u2014", "Delirious still for blood as a desert pard ,", "I tell you \u2018 tis the king .", "That wring me \u2014 of this wail", "And \u2014 why ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["MICHAL enters unseen .", "What stare you on ?", "What will he do ?... listen"], "true_target": ["The prophesy ! And Michal !Michal who lives ! who lives ! who lives !Hosanna !...", "Be ready . MichalWhat is this ?MichalAh , you have slain \u2014 have slain him ! Wretch ! thou wretch ! And sleeping as he was !", "Pierct ?"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["He 's not here ."], "true_target": ["O king \u2014", "No ."], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Perilous !", "Hither to-night to bid me lift the spirit", "Quivering myrrh of memory and joy .", "And cling about him of eternity !", "Adah !... The child is sunken in a sleep . Yet would I have her near me in this night , And hear again the boding of her tale . Unto the blind the vision and the awe Of the invisible sway ever in , The shadow of nativities that lead Upon fatality . Girl ! Adah ! girl !Thou art awake ?", "And now is one within a mantle clad ,", "And gather in them touch of thee again !", "To thieves ?", "I will go to her \u2014 quickly bring her .", "His eyes impale me !", "Whom seek you ?", "David of Jesse , Israel 's desire !", "Who seeks blind Miriam of Endor 's roof ,", "The cords were cruel , hungrily sank in", "Come you a friend ?", "Plotteth against her \u2014 she and Doeg ?", "You , in more ! And must from here", "Who looketh \u2014\u2014", "Again \u2014 you 've hither fled your mistress Merab ,", "Men all are mad ! And you who should be never .", "Of Samuel out of the dead and learn", "Under the night and unextinguished storm ?", "To wound you , lies !", "with my fingers \u2019 sight ,", "What is this ?", "Michal", "Stand you where", "It is I .", "Aie \u2014\u2014", "The issue ?", "Who crieth at my gate ?", "No , David , my lord , he lies !", "Let me behold thee", "That I shall call up Samuel .", "I see her eyes !", "Despairing of to-morrow 's battle , comes", "Thy voice is as dream-dulcimers that stir"], "true_target": ["You would not heed \u2014 \u2018 tis Saul !", "And \u2018 twas in Merab 's tent you heard , the king", "A doom 's in this !", "Depart !", "David \u2014\u2014", "Dim apparitions of a dismal might ,", "Many within the army urge for David ,", "Hide ! The lattice yonder !", "I see her in a vision . She is near \u2014\u2014", "Who looketh with", "As knows my soul !Thy voice again !\u2014 this blindness of my eyes \u2014 If it be David , speak .", "Ah , calamity !", "Forms as of gods in swaying ghostliness ,", "Omniscience in his mien , and there is chill", "Is in a cave \u2014 is bound \u2014 and is alone .", "I see ... ascending", "You are come", "At Engeddi Michal", "Swiftly away , for Saul is \u2014\u2014", "By Saul was apprehended ? Merab now", "Her wrists and ankles .", "But , aie ! why are you here ? You have been there ?", "With incantation .", "You are the anointed !", "David", "Fathoming I may feel within you . Now ,", "In fear of her ?", "Unholy !", "Would cry him king , if Saul were slain ?", "Then must it be .Prophet of Israel , who art beyond The troubling and the terrifying grave , Th \u2019 immeasurable moan and melancholy Of ways that win to Sheol \u2014 Rise ! Arise !Prophet of Israel , arise ! Not in The name of Baal , Amon , Ashtoreth , Dagon or all the deities that dream In trembling temples of Idolatry , But of Jehovah ! of Jehovah ! rise !", "To danger ?", "Is woe and bitterness to all who move", "David , contain thy heart .", "A friend .", "In spite of Death ! Do you not know \u2014\u2014", "And \u2014 you hear ?\u2014\u2014", "With snaring ! knowing well that Saul the king", "He is come"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["The battle 's lost !"], "true_target": ["Saul flees !"], "play_index": 19, "act_index": 19}, {"query": ["Yes , ma'am , the flowers have come . She holds open the door through which VIDA , in a morning gown , comes in slowly . She is smoking a cigarette in as \u00e6sthetic a manner as she can , and is evidently turned out in her best style for conquest .", "Your dressmaker , ma'am .", "The new footman , ma'am \u2014 he 's made a mistake . He 's told the lady you 're at home .", "I hear some one coming .", "Five to eleven , ma'am .", "Beg par \u2014", "Perfectly , ma'am ."], "true_target": ["Pardon me , ma'am \u2014 but I hear Brooks coming !", "Mr . Fiddler , ma'am , says the mare is gettin \u2019 very restive .", "Yes , ma'am , and the ticker 's been mended . The British sporting papers arrived this morning .", "Yes , ma'am .Come !", "There 's a person , ma'am , on the sidewalk .", "Ma'am , the new footman 's been talking with Mr. Phillimore on the wire .He told Mr. Phillimore that his lady was here , and , if I can believe my ears , ma'am , he 's got Sir Wilfrid on the \u2018 phone now !", "A person , ma'am , with a horse .", "Mrs. Karslake ; and she 's on the stairs , ma'am ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Will you kindly go further away and be good !", "Cynthia \u2014", "You came , dear , because you could n't stay away \u2014 you 're in love with her .", "And I know who your troubles are ! Cynthia !", "What !", "My point is you come to see", "I do n't know !", "I hope you do n't mean that ? I never flattered myself for a moment you 'd come . You 're riding Cynthia K ?", "Chance ? You 're not serious ?", "Jack !", "Oh , I saw that you admired her ! And of course , she did say she was coming here at eleven ! But that was only bravado ! She wo n't come , and besides , I 've given orders to admit no one !", "My watch has stopped .", "You can , dear \u2014 it 's as easy as powdering one 's face ; all you have to do is to be too nice to me !", "But , my dear Matthew ,\u2014 I had to come .I have a reason for being here .", "Then , perhaps , you and I may join hands and stroll together into the Garden of Eden . It takes two to find the Garden of Eden , you know \u2014 and once we 're on the inside , we 'll lock the gate .", "But you see , you do n't really love me !", "Do n't you realize she 's jealous of you ? Why did she come to my house this morning ? She 's jealous \u2014 and all you have to do \u2014", "You 'll never love again !", "She never loved you .", "Your name ?", "My dressmaker , Benson ?Oh , of course , show her up . Mr. Karslake , you wo n't mind for a few minutes using my men 's club-room ? Benson will show you ! You 'll find cigars and the ticker , sporting papers , whiskey ; and , if you want anything special , just \u2018 phone down to my \u201c chef . \u201d", "Do n't you see there 's a lovely creature in the room ?", "Oh , but , Jack \u2014", "Whiskey and soda ?", "Run along !Everything just as it was , Benson !There !", "Terribly garish light , Benson . Pull down the \u2014Lower still \u2014 that will do .Men hate a clutter of chairs and tables .I really think I 'm too pale for this light .", "You do n't mind my moving about ?", "Do the honours , dear , in my absence !", "Ah !", "Fifty seconds left .", "Do take off your veil .", "What a delightful , original , fantastic person you are !", "Oh , puffing away !", "I feel quite ill .Oh !", "Please use your eyes .", "With Cynthia at the foot ?", "Never !", "Ah , here you are !", "There 's a rose for you .", "Show Sir Wilfrid the men 's room .", "Hush !", "Will you take me ?", "But it 's to-day at three she marries \u2014 you wo n't let her commit bigamy ?", "Oh , my dear , he 's asked me to champagne and lobster at your house \u2014 his house ! Matthew is coming !And you 're to come , Sir Wilfrid .Of course , my dear , I would like to wait for your wedding , but something rather \u2014 rather important to me is to take place , and I know you 'll excuse me .", "But she came back !", "You refuse to tell me \u2014?", "Quick !", "Oh , pray feel at home , Cynthia , dear !When I 've a nice street frock on , I 'll ask you to present me to Cynthia K .", "I 'll give you a minute to offer yourself .", "Ah , my poor boy , she has broken your heart .Now do n't make love to me .", "Oh , no , Sir Wilfrid , Cynthia is n't here yet !Jack , dear , I never was so ravished to see any one .", "Well , you see , my dear , if you make love to me it will", "Oh , Wilfrid !I can n't be left longer alone with the lobster ! He reminds me too much of Phillimore !", "Now do n't get rattled and forget to make love to me .", "H 'm , h 'm , I shall be caught .The box of roses , Benson !My gloves \u2014 the clippers , and the vase !There !", "It 's Matthew . And , Jack , dear , you 'd best get the hang of it before Cynthia comes . You might tell me all about your divorce . That 's a sympathetic subject . Were you able to undermine it ?", "Tell the man I 'll be down in five minutes .", "You 'll smoke ?", "And I regret to inform you , Brooks , that in America there are no ladies , except salesladies !", "Cynthia \u2014", "I almost fainted .", "She 's broken your heart .", "My dear , I 'm sorry to tell you your husband \u2014 I mean , my husband \u2014 I mean Philip \u2014 he 's asking for you over the \u2018 phone . You must have said you were coming here . Of course , I told him you were not here , and hung up .", "Cigars and cigarettes ! Scotch ?", "Sweet-tempered ? Oh , you 're describing the horse ! By \u201c her , \u201d I meant \u2014", "I must hear the story , for I 'm anxious to know why I 've taken such a fancy to you !", "Brooks , I am at home to Mr. Karslake at eleven ; not to any one else till twelve , when I expect Sir Wilfrid Cates-Darby .", "Hush !", "May I ask where I come in ?"], "true_target": ["This evening ! And sail in the same boat with you ? And shall we sail to the Garden of Eden and stroll into it and lock the gate on the inside and then lose the key \u2014 under a rose-bush ?", "Do what , Jack ?", "Oh ,\u2014 of course ! You 're the new \u2014", "Oh , Cynthia , I 've just been through it again , and I feel as if I were eighteen . There 's no use talking about it , my dear , with a woman it 's never the second time ! And how nice you were , Jack ,\u2014 he never even laughed at us !That 's the wages of virtue !", "Hush !", "Oh , Matthew had a fast horse and Cynthia a slow one \u2014 or she 's a woman and changed her mind ! Perhaps she 's gone back and married Phillimore . And besides , dear , Matthew was n't in the house four minutes and a half ; only just long enough to hoop the hoop .Was n't it lucky he had a ring in his pocket ?", "And you came here , to my house \u2014 in order to ask her \u2014", "And are you aware , dear , that Phillimore bought and intended it for Cynthia ? Do come, I 'm desperately hungry ! Whenever I 'm married that 's the effect it has !", "What person , Benson ?", "To be your wife ?", "Where am I ?Oh , the bride ! I beg every one 's pardon . Cynthia , at a crisis like this , I simply could n't stay away from Philip !", "Please tell me !", "Go to the club-room , Benson , and say to the two gentlemen I can n't see them at present \u2014 I 'll send for them when \u2014", "Oh ! That 's not love ! That 's simply \u2014 well , my dear Jack , it 's beginning at the wrong end . And the truth is you hate Cynthia Karslake with such a whole-hearted hate , that you have n't a moment to think of any other woman .", "Your arm , Jack ; and lead me where there is air . JOHN and VIDA go into the further room . The organ stops . SIR WILFRID and CYNTHIA are practically alone in the room . JOHN and VIDA are barely within sight . He is first seen to take her fan and give her air ; then to pick up a book and read to her .", "It 's the organ !", "Because I like you too much !I might give in , and take a notion to like you still more !", "Hush , Jack \u2014 I 'd much rather no one should know anything about it until it 's all over !", "See you next Derby , Jack !Come along , Wilfrid ! We really ought to be going .I hope , dear , you have n't married him ! Phillimore 's a tomb ! Good-bye , Cynthia \u2014 I 'm so happy !Just think of the silly people , dear , that only have this sensation once in a lifetime !", "You charming , tempting , delightful fellow , I could love you without the least effort in the world ,\u2014 but , no !", "There is only one thing I want to talk about , and that is , you ! Why were you unhappy ?", "Cynthia !", "And you call that the same old usual question ?", "You had another object in coming . In fact , you came to see Cynthia , and you came to see me ! What I really long to know is , why you wanted to see me ! For , of course , Cynthia 's to be married at three ! And , if she was n't she would n't have you !", "Go back !", "I knew I should find you here !", "Oh , you must be more convincing ; that wo n't do at all .", "Under a rose-bush !Come !", "Show her in . SIR WILFRID has been turning over the roses . On hearing this , he faces about with a long stemmed one in his hand . He subsequently uses it to point his remarks .", "Why did you part ?", "Sixty seconds from now .", "Yes , dear ; it 's Mr. Karslake 's crop , but I 'm happy to say he left me a few minutes ago .", "Is that really you , Sir John ?", "Jack \u2014 Jack , I could be as foolish about you as \u2014 oh , as foolish as anything , my dear ! And perhaps some day \u2014 perhaps some day you 'll come to me and say , Vida , I am totally indifferent to Cynthia \u2014 and then \u2014", "When I need you ?", "My maid \u2014 come !", "So you do n't want her to know \u2014?", "Jack , I believe you 'd be a lovely lover !", "But you came here to see her .", "Well , now I am curious \u2014 what is the second ?", "It 's most original of you to come here this morning . I do n't quite see why you did . She places the roses here and there , as if to see their effect , and leaves them on a small table near the door through which her visitors entered .", "And , indeed , if she came now , Mr. Karslake has gone , and her sole object in coming was to make him uncomfortable .Very dangerous symptom , too , that passionate desire to make one 's former husband unhappy ! But , I can n't believe that your admiration for Cynthia Karslake is so warm that it led you to pay me this visit a half hour too early in the hope of seeing \u2014", "Half a cigar ! Benson will call you .", "Wo n't you sit down ?", "What lady ?", "And now do tell me all about her !", "In a month !", "Is that really you , Sir Wilfrid ! I never flattered myself for an instant that you 'd remember to come .", "Go back !", "You 're here to see her ! And of course \u2014", "Oh , about a divorce , everything !", "My dear , what makes you imagine that any one 's here !", "But , you 've just told me \u2014 that", "I do n't believe it !", "cut both ways at once !", "Too late !Jack , dear , we must be off .", "Ca n't I support the news without \u2014", "And what next , pray ?", "I wo n't tell you \u2014 it would flatter you too much .", "Anything more inopportune ! I never dreamed she 'd come \u2014My dear Cynthia , you do n't mean to say \u2014", "You do n't really mean \u2014", "I am at home to no one but the two names I have mentioned .Is the men 's club-room in order ?", "Do n't you think there 's a limit to \u2014", "Oh , she 'll turn up .", "Wilfrid , dear !", "Sir Wil \u2014", "Unhand me , dear villain ! And sit further away from your second choice ! What can I say ? I 'd rather have you for a lover than any man I know ! You must be a lovely lover !", "To quarrel ?", "And I sent him away because I did n't want you to repeat the scene of last night in my house ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["My lady \u2014 Sir Wilf \u2014", "Your ladyship 's dressmaker ! M'lady !", "Sir John Karslake . JOHN , dressed in very nobby riding togs , comes in gaily and forcibly . BENSON withdraws as he enters , and is followed by BROOKS . VIDA , from this moment on , is busied with her roses .", "Yes , m'lady .", "Lady Karslake , milady !"], "true_target": ["Yes , Sir Wilfrid .", "Yes , m'lady .", "Any horders , m'lady ?", "Brooks , m'lady .", "To you , Sir Wilfrid .", "Footman , m'lady ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["This takes the claret , eh ? Oh , Lord , how happy I am !", "I am here ? Who has a better right to attend his wife 's obsequies !", "Come along , come along , never mind them ! A horse is a horse ! JOHN and VIDA go out gaily and in haste . At the same moment CYNTHIA drinks what she supposes to be her glass of plain soda . As it is whiskey straight , she is seized with astonishment and a fit of coughing . SIR WILFRID relieves her of the glass .", "No , no \u2014 of course it 's not the custom , no . But we 'll make it the custom . After all ,\u2014 what 's a divorced wife among friends ?", "Cynthia , I am sorry for you .", "I had a client once , a murderer ; he told me he murdered the man , and he told me , too , that he never felt so kindly to anybody as he did to that man after he 'd killed him !", "I 've rather an ugly bit of news for you .", "Of course , I should have preferred a garden of roses and plenty of twilight .", "Do n't do it !", "There he is \u2014 you can join him .", "Ah , well , now seriously ! Between two people who have suffered and made their own mistakes \u2014", "Oh , come , come , Judge \u2014 suppose", "Shut up !What was that ? Not you \u2014 not you \u2014 a technical error ? You mean to say that Mrs. Karslake is still \u2014 my \u2014 Hold the wire , Central \u2014 get off the wire ! Get off the wire ! Is that you , Clayton ? Yes , yes \u2014 she and I are still \u2014 I got it ! Good-bye !", "Horrid idea !", "Oh , she 's a wonder .", "33246a", "By George , there 's a limit !", "Why does a dollar last such a short time ?", "Oh , no !", "I 'm as hungry as a shark . We 'll nibble together .", "Hello , Fiddler !", "Out with it !", "Cyn ! I love you !And you 've got to stay ! And hereafter you can chuck chairs around till all 's blue ! Not a word now .", "Do n't make it too long . You see , there 's my sheriff 's sale on at twelve , and those races this afternoon . Fiddler will be here in ten minutes , remember !", "I say , you 're feeling better .", "Well , Fiddler , between you and me , we 're a pair of idiots .", "Well , I 've been successful .The decree 's been declared invalid . Understand ?", "\u2014 and lose the key .By George , talk about attar of roses !", "Oh , that 's where you come out !", "I can n't stand it .", "Well , I 'm not so sure about that , but I do n't quite see how \u2014", "And now it 's too late !", "Hello , Central !", "I 've got the jumps .", "Oh , she 's an adorable creature \u2014 delicate , high-bred , sweet-tempered \u2014", "I do n't suppose I 'd go as far as that . It may be the divorce will hold , but anyway I hope never to see her again .", "Eden \u2014", "Good-night , Mrs. Karslake , I 'm going ; I 'm sorry I came .", "Hello , Central \u2014 33246a \u2014 38 !\u2014 Clayton", "Yes , it 's all over .", "Eh ? Oh , Nogam ?", "No . But I know that you imagined I was .", "Good-night !", "You always used to like anchovy .", "Of course ! You did n't know him in those days ! But I did ! And he looked a sight in the saddle !", "Ahem \u2014 former !", "Of course there is .", "Would you mind not breaking my crop ! Thank you ! I meanthat ours was a case of premature divorce , and , ahem , you 're in love with me still .", "There is ! I bar the way ! It means reputation \u2014 it means \u2014", "All right , Vida , what I feel may be love \u2014 but all I can say is , if I could get even with Cynthia Karslake \u2014", "How does it go ?", "Oh , no ! Oh , dear , no .", "I felt simply : Let him take his medicine .", "Do n't you remember ?", "Of course .", "Why do I like you ?", "Gosh !", "Great miracles of Moses !", "But you 'll remain to quarrel !", "I left you on the brink \u2014 made me feel a little uncertain .", "I take it !", "Hello ! Sorry to disturb you .", "Of course , if you find my presence painful , I 'll \u2014 skiddoo . He indicates the door . CYNTHIA shakes her head . JOHN smokes his pipe and remains seated .", "H 'm !", "And why should n't we both be here ? American marriage is a new thing . We 've got to strike the pace , and the only trouble is , Judge , that the judiciary have so messed the thing up that a man can n't be sure he is married until he 's divorced . It 's a sort of marry-go-round , to be sure ! But let it go at that ! Here we all are , and we 're ready to marry my wife to you , and start her on her way to him !", "Tell me !", "What do you think ?", "Awfully sorry ; did n't mean to be beastly , Cyn .Cynthia ! Sorry . I 'll make it a commandment : thou shalt not Cyn ! !", "Oh , call it friendship \u2014", "Mrs. Karslake is coming here ?To this house ? Here ?", "If that mare 's restive , she 'll break out in a rash .", "That 's the rumbling of the early milk wagons .", "And you guessed I would do that ?", "Is that she now ?", "They do n't need to .", "Well , of course we were married , but it did n't quite kill me .", "Cynthia \u2014 Vida , no man can sit beside you and look into your eyes without feeling \u2014", "The door 's open .", "Do n't you ?", "Why are you \u2014", "I like wildcats and I like Christians , but I do n't like Christian wildcats ! Now I 'm close hauled , trot out your tornado ! Let the Tiger loose ! It 's the tamer , the man in the cage that has to look lively and use the red hot crowbar ! But , by Jove , I 'm out of the cage ! I 'm a mere spectator of the married circus !", "There 's nothing to tell . We met , we loved , we married , we parted ; or at least we wrangled and jangled .Ha ! Why were n't we happy ? Do n't ask me , why ! It may have been partly my fault !", "Cynthia , I never knew you to break your word !And anyhow \u2014 they were awfully pretty teeth !And I say \u2014 do you remember , Cyn \u2014", "Oh ! He 'll turn up here , then \u2014 eh ?And you 'll go back with him , I suppose ?", "I want more than a rose \u2014", "And now I must put by anger and pride ! I do ! But not self-respect , not a just indignation \u2014 not the facts and my clear memory of them !", "She has fainted .", "Your wedding ring !", "Now , now , Judge , I like you . But you 're asleep ; you 're living in the dark ages . You want to call up Central . \u201c Hello , Central ! Give me the present time , 1906 , New York ! \u201d", "Ca n't say I 've had any experience of the good old-fashioned bread-poultice .", "Well \u2014", "I shall hear by this evening whether the divorce will stand or not .", "By George ! I should never have come ! I think I 'll go .", "I say there 's a limit \u2014", "Scotch !", "Do you recognize it now ?", "Why do n't you finish your supper ?", "Ca n't ! I 've a date ! With the sheriff !", "It 's worse than eloping \u2014", "Discord and misery \u2014 I know \u2014", "I 'm here to protect your reputation \u2014", "Mrs. Karslake \u2014You used to say she was our mascot ?", "She came back , but not as you mean . She stood at the door and said , \u201c Jack , I shall divorce you . \u201d Then she came over to my study-table , dropped her wedding ring on my law papers , and went out . The door shut , I laughed ; the front door slammed , I damned .She never came back .", "You have n't been divorced from me long enough to forget \u2014 what you should be ashamed to remember .", "I adore you .", "Well , you did kick the stuffing out of the matrimonial buggy \u2014", "Yes , she did . For six or seven months there was not a shadow between us . It was perfect , and then one day she went off like a pistol-shot ! I had a piece of law work and could n't take her to see Flashlight race the Maryland mare . The case meant a big fee , big Kudos , and in sails Cynthia , Flashlight-mad ! And will I put on my hat and take her ? No \u2014 and bang she goes off like a stick o \u2019 dynamite \u2014 what did I marry her for ?\u2014 and words \u2014 pretty high words , until she got mad , when she threw over a chair , and said , oh , well ,\u2014 marriage was a failure , or it was with me , so I said she 'd better try somebody else . She said she would , and marched out of the room .", "What ?", "Hello ! Yes \u2014 yes \u2014 Jack Karslake . Is that you , Clayton ? Yes \u2014 yes \u2014 well \u2014", "But I believe it 's all in the way a girl 's brought up . Our girls are brought up to be ignorant of life \u2014 they 're ignorant of life . Life is a joke , and marriage is a picnic , and a man is a shawl-strap \u2014 \u2018 Pon my soul , Cynthia Deane \u2014 no , I can n't tell you !", "Give her wheatina !\u2014 give her grape-nuts \u2014 give her away !Only be quiet ! Phillimore !", "I beg your pardon \u2014 I meant \u2014", "Now , Judge , never you mind what the stars do in their divorces ! Get down to earth of the present day . Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster are dead . You must be modern . You must let peroration and poetry alone ! Come along now . Why should n't I give the lady away ?", "Vida ,", "Do you mean you 're going \u2014", "I hate her !", "Try me !", "Oh , I say !", "Whatever you say .", "Oh , would n't you ?", "Eh !", "What 's he got to say , more than what his wire said ?\u2014 Eh \u2014what ?\u2014 Will explain .\u2014 Error in wording of telegram .\u2014 Call me up .\u2014The man can n't mean that she 's still \u2014 Hello ! Hello !", "Here 's to old times !", "Certainly , I come as a mourner \u2014 for you !", "Claret ?", "You murdered my happiness !", "No thoroughfare !"], "true_target": ["Does he know you \u2014", "She wagered me I would n't give her away , and of course \u2014 Throughout his stay JOHN hides the emotions he will not show behind a daring irony . Under its effects , PHILIP , on his right , walks about in a fury . SIR WILFRID , sitting down on the edge of the table , is gay and undisturbed .", "In the house ?", "And then ?", "Why not ?", "Mrs. Karslake can n't go with you there ! CYNTHIA starts , amazed at his assumption of marital authority , and delighted that she will have an opportunity of outraging his sensibilities .", "Oh , well , Vida is a woman .I 'm a man , a handkerchief is a handkerchief , and , as some old Aristotle or other said , whatever concerns a woman , concerns me !", "38 ! Did you get it ?", "Now , now , Judge , monogamy is just as extinct as knee-breeches . The new woman has a new idea , and the new idea is \u2014 well , it 's just the opposite of the old Mormon one . Their idea is one man , ten wives and a hundred children . Our idea is one woman , a hundred husbands and one child .", "My fault ?", "Cynthia !", "On your life now , Fiddler , do n't fail to let me \u2014", "I beg pardon !", "No !", "Coming here ? You 're sure ?Fiddler , I want you to stay here , and if Mrs. Karslake comes , do n't fail to let me know ! Now then , for heaven 's sake , what did Matthew say to you ?", "N-o ! That 's the policeman trying the front door ! And now , see here , Mrs. Karslake ,\u2014 you 're only here for a short minute , because you can n't help yourself , but I want you to understand that I 'm not trying to be disagreeable \u2014 I do n't want to revive all the old unhappy \u2014", "Be sensible . You 're breaking off the match \u2014", "Of course we had a pretty lively case of the fever \u2014 the mutual attraction fever , and we were married a very short time . And I conclude that 's what 's the matter with you ! You see , my dear , seven months of married life is too short a time to cure a bad case of the fancies .", "Oh , I thought I was divorced . I begin to feel as if I had you on my hands still .", "Oh \u2014 H 'm ! ah \u2014 yes \u2014 yes .", "I have known others \u2014", "Why do you care ?", "I do n't believe you know that I have been testing the validity of the decree of divorce which you procured .", "You wo n't marry \u2014", "Fiddler .", "And now , may I ask you a very simple question ? Mere curiosity on my part , but , why did you come here this morning ?", "How dare you then pretend \u2014", "How long ?", "Well , she was an heiress , an American heiress \u2014 and she 'd been taught to think marriage meant burnt almonds and moonshine and a yacht and three automobiles , and she thought \u2014 I do n't know what she thought , but I tell you , Mrs. Phillimore , marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins .", "Please do !", "Touch me with your voice ! I have troubles enough of my own .", "Awful cheerful morning chat .", "Crazy country , is n't it ?", "Ask me if you dare !", "There ! I beg your pardon .", "Eh ,\u2014 what ! Not Cates-Darby ?Is that Cynthia ?", "Are you going to marry him ?", "Of course .", "You do n't mean that !", "You do n't mean that !", "Cynthia Karslake ? I 'd rather talk about the last Tornado .", "That 's my diagnosis .", "I know better !", "Oh , I do n't know ; after I 've served my term I do n't mind meeting my jailor .", "My compliments to the bride , Judge .", "Well \u2014 what relation are you ?", "You did !", "Oh , well \u2014 it 's different now .You do n't mind if I smoke ?", "Benedictine !", "Indeed ! Will you ? And why do you care what happens to me ?", "Oh , but that 's not it ; there 's to be more and more and more !", "You 're not able to forget me ! You know you 're not able to forget me ; ask yourself if you are able to forget me , and when your heart , such as it is , answers \u201c no , \u201d then \u2014Well , then , prance gaily up to the altar and marry that , if you can ! He abruptly quits the room and CYNTHIA , moving to an armchair , sinks into it , trembling . MATTHEW comes in and is joined by MISS HENEAGE and PHILIP . They do not see CYNTHIA buried deeply in her chair . Accordingly , MISS HENEAGE moves over to the sofa and waits . They are all dressed for an evening reception and PHILIP is in the traditional bridegroom 's rig .", "A glass of water ! I beg your pardon ,", "Try me ! Try me ! Ah , no , Mrs. Phillimore , I shall laugh , live , love and make money again ! And let me tell you one thing \u2014 I 'm going to rap her one over the knuckles . She had a stick of a Connecticut lawyer , and he \u2014 well , to cut a legal story short , since Mrs. Karslake 's been in Europe , I have been quietly testing the validity of the decree of divorce . Perhaps you do n't understand ?", "Oh , well , then , what shall the toast be ?", "I 'm awfully sorry \u2014 I 'm awfully sorry , Cynthia , but , you 're my wife still .", "Yes ; you know I felt pretty warmly about it .", "Take this one for my sake .", "Immune ?", "Why not ?", "Well , hang it , my dear child , I \u2014 I 'm sorry , but you know I always got foolish with you . Your laugh 'd make a horse laugh . Why , do n't you remember that morning in the park before breakfast \u2014 when you laughed so hard your horse ran away with you !", "Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "That 'll do , Nogam .Well , Cynthia ?", "\u2014 is when we 're to stroll in the Garden of", "Now do n't do that !", "My stars , what a pleasure it is !", "Just wait a moment .", "L \u2014 M \u2014 N \u2014 O \u2014 P \u2014 It 's too late ! She 's married by this ! Married !\u2014 and \u2014 my God \u2014 I \u2014 I am the cause . Phillimore \u2014", "It 's the hour of decision ; are you going to marry him ?Speak up !", "I believe you 're putting up a fake . The organ swells as CYNTHIA enters sweepingly , dressed in full evening dress for the wedding ceremony . JOHN , not knowing what to do , keeps his arms about VIDA as a horrid necessity .", "And I was to deny myself the privilege of being here ?", "It 's a good deal like those mornings after the races \u2014 is n't it ?", "Well , here 's to your next husband .", "Oh , do n't go \u2014 why go ?", "Why go to the Holland ? After all \u2014 you know , Cyn , you 're at home here .", "Damn Cynthia K !\u2014", "No trouble at all .A hansom , of course , to take you round to your hotel ?", "Ca n't imagine ! There !", "Not in this world ! Friends with you , no ! I have a proper pride . I do n't propose to put my pride in my pocket .", "Well , I guess I had a pretty hard hand . Do you remember the time you threw both your slippers out of the window ?", "I see now where we Americans are going to get our titles . Good-morning ! You look as fresh as paint .", "Just a moment ! I 'm trying to get Phillimore on the \u2018 phone to \u2014 to tell Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "What 's Phillimore 's number ?", "Why are you here ?", "Oh , yes , you do ; yes , you do .", "Seeing you in a whirlwind !", "An hour before her wedding !", "Fiddler 's going to lead her round here in ten minutes !", "Mrs. Karslake \u2014 wait \u2014", "But I believe I have guessed your real \u2014 permit me \u2014 your real motive !", "But what I want to know is \u2014", "Nogam , a hansom at once .", "After you slapped my face with it !", "It 's all right , Judge . You need n't wait . There is a pause . JOHN leaves the window and bursts into laughter . He moves toward the door and closes it . CYNTHIA looks dazed .", "What ,\u2014 you feigning an interest in me , feigning a lie \u2014 and in five minutes \u2014Oh , you 've taught me the trick of your sex \u2014 you 're the woman who 's not a woman !", "I hate her . I do n't know why I came .", "No , of course you can n't stay here . But you can have a bite , though .Oh , I insist . Just look at yourself \u2014 you 're as pale as a sheet and \u2014 here , here . Sit right down . I insist ! By George , you must do it !", "Osgood \u2014 yes , yes , and say , Central \u2014 get a move on you !", "Oh , but you must !", "No !", "Humour ,\u2014 Judge ?", "You were going to bite me !", "\u2014 a message from you .", "Polyandry ? A hundred to one it 's polyandry ; and that 's it , Judge ! Uncle Sam has established consecutive polyandry ,\u2014 but there 's got to be an interval between husbands ! The fact is , Judge , the modern American marriage is like a wire fence . The woman 's the wire \u2014 the posts are the husbands .One \u2014 two \u2014 three ! And if you cast your eye over the future you can count them , post after post , up hill , down dale , all the way to Dakota !", "Why are you here ?", "Before you go to your last , long home !", "Mrs. Karslake ; I apologize \u2014 I wo n't do it again . But it 's too late for you to be out alone \u2014 Philip will be here in a moment \u2014 and of course , then \u2014", "If I can make her wince , I 'll make love to you till the Heavenly cows come home !", "Phillimore !", "And lose the key under a rose-bush !", "Well , sit down ; do . Till he comes \u2014 talk it over .This is a more comfortable chair !", "No . I 've got a wire from my lawyer this morning . The divorce holds . She 's a free woman . She can marry whom she likes .Is that Cynthia ?", "I 'm not the man to \u2014 to carry \u2014", "Did you ever see a schooner towed by a tug ? Well , I parted from Cynthia for the same reason that the hawser parts from the tug \u2014 I could n't stand the tug .", "I am using my eyes .", "I begin to think she is just the woman \u2014", "Certainly . I was going to say I am not surprised at your feeling an interest in me . I 'm only astonished that , having actually married Phillimore , you come here \u2014", "Mrs. Karslake !", "How dare you look me in the face with the eyes that I once kissed , and pretend the least regard for me ?I begin to understand our American women now . Fire-flies \u2014 and the fire they gleam with is so cold that a midge could n't warm his heart at it , let alone a man . You 're not of the same race as a man ! You married me for nothing , divorced me for nothing , because you are nothing !", "No , but I mean , a real pleasure ! Why not ? Time 's passed since you and I were together \u2014 and \u2014 eh \u2014", "No .", "Well , she 's just married herself to a \u2014 a sort of a man \u2014", "What 's all right ?", "Not your real motive . Permit me !", "N-o !", "And so , my dear child , I 'm to abate myself as a nuisance ! Well , as far as seeing you is concerned , for my part it 's just like seeing a horse who 's chucked you once . The bruises are O. K ., and you see him with a sort of easy curiosity . Of course , you know , he 'll jolly well chuck the next man !\u2014 Permit me !There 's pleasure in the thought .", "Of course , I will ! But , I say , Cynthia , there 's no hurry ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Yes , my dear , but the point is , will you be mistress of", "There you are ! I 'll send a telegram !", "I 'd rather not . Eh ,\u2014 I fancied I 'd find you and her together \u2014 but her \u2014findin \u2019 me with you looks so dooced intimate ,\u2014 no one else , d'ye see , I believe she 'd \u2014 draw conclusions \u2014", "Mrs. Phillimore , you see it 's this way . Whenever you 're lucky , you 're too lucky . Now , Mrs. Karslake is a nipper and no mistake , but as I told you , the very same evenin \u2019 and house where I saw her \u2014", "Now , then \u2014", "I say , would you mind stopping a moment !I 'm not an American , you know ; I was brought up not to interrupt . But you Americans , it 's different with you ! If somebody did n't interrupt you , you 'd go on forever .", "Well , she did \u2014 she did bowl my wicket , but so did you \u2014", "When were you married ?", "I take you \u2014 count fair .I say , Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "Eh ,\u2014 I admire the door , my boy ! Fine , old carved mahogany panel ; but do n't ask me to leave by it , for Mrs. Karslake made me promise I 'd come , and that 's why I 'm here .", "Well , do n't look so hurried and worried . You 've got buttons and buttons of time . And now my offer . You have n't yet said you would \u2014", "Custom , y \u2019 know , for the husband , that was , to dictate \u2014", "Your w'im was n't wimmy enough , my dear ! If you 'd had more of it , and tougher , it would ha \u2019 stood , y'know ! Now , I 'm not proposin \u2019 !", "Deucedly odd , ye know \u2014 for the Reverend Matthew declared she left Phillimore 's house before he did ,\u2014 and she told them she was coming here !", "What do you want to look at \u2018 em for ?Let \u2018 em be and listen to me ! Sit down ; for damme , I 'm determined .", "Well , that 's what they 're saying over there . They say your gals run to talkand I have seen gals here that would chat life into a wooden Indian ! That 's what you Americans call being clever .\u2014 All brains and no stuffin \u2019 ! In fact , some of your American gals are the nicest boys I ever met .", "Aha !", "Admiration .", "Nogam ? I 've been here thirty minutes . Where are the cigars ?Thank you . Nogam , Mr. Karslake was to have followed us here , immediately .", "So did I !And now , Mrs. Karslake , I 'll tell you why you 're cryin \u2019 .You 're marryin \u2019 the wrong man ! I 'm sorry for you , but you 're such a goose . Here you are , marryin \u2019 this legal luminary . What for ? You do n't know ! He do n't know ! But I do ! You pretend you 're marryin \u2019 him because it 's the sensible thing ; not a bit of it . You 're marryin \u2019 Mr. Phillimore because of all the other men you ever saw he 's the least like Jack Karslake .", "We 'll do the races , and dine at Martin 's \u2014", "Thanks awfully .Mrs. Phillimore \u2014", "May I know if it 's the custom \u2014", "There you are !", "Give you my word I \u2014", "Not if you do n't mind my watchin \u2019 .And sayin \u2019 how wel you do it .", "No good , my boy \u2014 she 's on her way here !The Reverend Matthew was here , y \u2019 see \u2014 and he said \u2014", "Why , it 's as plain as a pikestaff ! You \u2014Phillimore ?Who 's Waldorf Smith ?Tell the gentleman Mrs. Karslake is not here !", "That 's right .", "Whim . You must have a w'im \u2014 w'im for the chappie you marry .", "Oh , hang the future !", "I am !", "One moment !I say , eh \u2014 I 'd rather not see her !", "The men 's room ! Ah ! Oh ! Eh !", "\u2014 except the one that 's calling me ! JOHN returns , and SIR WILFRID , nodding to him , goes out . JOHN shuts the door and crosses the room . There is a pause .", "You are crying ! Poor little gal !", "I say , do you ordinarily take it as high up \u2014 as seven fingers and two thumbs .", "Come along in and I 'll tell you .", "You 're just the person I most want to see !", "I say , is it the custom ? Every time she does that , my boy , you owe me a thousand pounds .Mrs. Karslake .And then you say it 's not an extraordinary country !", "I say , is it the custom ?", "Yes , I know , but \u2014 but will you ? I sail in a week ; we can take the same boat . And \u2014 eh \u2014 eh \u2014 my dear Mrs .\u2014 may n't I say Vida , I 'd like to see you at the head of my table .", "Oh , no \u2014 this evening !", "Mrs. Karslake is not married . That 's why I 'm here . I am here for the same purpose you are ; to ask Mrs. Karslake to be my wife .", "Cockety-coo-coo-ca n't . I say , you must !", "Look here , if you say yes , we 'll be married \u2014", "Oh , but that 's only my first reason for coming , you know .", "Just the man !Just step round and send it , my boy . Thanks !", "Well , I mean to jolly well ask her .", "Orange blossoms .", "Of course you do , and \u2014 there you are !", "I mean , I stayed awake for an hour last night , thinkin \u2019 about you .", "Not a bit what I think \u2014 what my countrymen think !", "Will you have something , and then I 'll tell you !", "Oh , I 'm coming back !", "Ah !", "Eh ? Why you 're cryin \u2019 ?", "Nogam , why is that chair upside down ?", "\u201c Off with Cates-Darby to", "Oh , just explaining my character . I 'm the sort that can pick and choose \u2014 and what I want is heart .", "You understand when you want a brood mare , you do n't choose a Kentucky mule .", "Heat ! No ! You 're dying because you 're ignorin \u2019 nature . Certainly you are ! You 're marryin \u2019 Phillimore !Ca n't ignore nature , Mrs. Karslake . Yes , you are ; you 're forcin \u2019 your feelin 's .And what you want to do is to let yourself go a bit \u2014 up anchor and sit tight ! I 'm no seaman , but that 's the idea !So just throw the reins on nature 's neck , jump this fellow Phillimore and marry me !", "Oh , pooh , pooh ! You can n't tell me that grace before soup is as good as a dinner !", "Oho !", "Well , now , Mrs. Phillimore , I 'll be frank with you , Cynthia 's my favourite , but you 're runnin \u2019 her a close second in the popular esteem !", "Oh , you can n't go !", "Eh \u2014 what did you say your name was ?"], "true_target": ["I 've got to have my innings , y \u2019 know !I say , you 've been crying !\u2014", "I 'm on to you ! You hoped for more buttons !", "Hello ! We 'd almost given you up !", "Oh , just the usual ,\u2014 eh ,\u2014 thing ,\u2014 the \u2014 eh \u2014 the same old question , do n't you know . Will you have me if she do n't ?", "Never mind Mrs. Karslake ,\u2014 I admire her \u2014 she 's \u2014 but you have your own points ! And you 're here , and so 'm I !\u2014 damme I offer myself , and my affections , and I 'm no icicle , my dear , tell you that for a fact , and ,\u2014 and in fact what 's your answer !\u2014Make it , yes ! I say , you know , my dear Vida \u2014", "Come ? \u2018 Course I come ! Keen to come see you . By Jove , you know , you look as pink and white as a huntin \u2019 mornin \u2019 .", "Oh , well , I say ; if he can come , I can ! JOHN KARSLAKE , in evening dress , comes in quickly , carrying a large and very smart bride 's bouquet , which he hands to PHILIP , who stands transfixed . Because it never occurs to him to refuse it or chuck it away , PHILIP accepts the bouquet gingerly , but frees himself of it at the first available moment . JOHN walks to the centre of the room . Deep down he is feeling wounded and unhappy . But , as he knows his coming to the ceremony on whatever pretext is a social outrage , he carries it off by assuming an air of its being the most natural thing in the world . He controls the expression of his deeper emotion , but the pressure of this keeps his face grave , and he speaks with effort .", "I say \u2014", "My dear Lord Eldon \u2014", "Poor little gal .", "I say , y \u2019 know \u2014 extraordinary country ; that old chap , Phillimore , he 's been damned impertinent over the wire ! Says I 've run off with Mrs. Karslake \u2014 talks about \u201c Louise ! \u201d Now , who the dooce is Louise ? He 's comin \u2019 round here , too \u2014 I said Mrs. Karslake was n't here \u2014Hello ! Good job ! What a liar I am !", "To me !", "I 'm coming back .", "We 'll give Mr. Karslake ten minutes , Nogam . If he does not come then , you might serve supper .", "I say , is it the custom for American girls \u2014 that sixty seconds or too late ? Look here ! Not a bit too late . I 'll take you around to Jack Karslake 's , and I 'm going to ask you the same old question again , you know .By Jove , you know in your country it 's the pace that kills .", "Will you consider your \u2014", "It 's boots and saddles !", "Karslake 's coming ; stopped at his club on the way !", "No more than breathin \u2019 ! You can n't get a w'im for me , you know , unless we 're together , so together we 'll be !And to-morrow you 'll wake up with a jolly little w'im \u2014,\u201c Postpone ceremony till seven-thirty . \u201d There .Hello !", "Now , see here , Mrs. Phillimore ! You and I are not bottle babies , eh , are we ? You 've been married and \u2014 I \u2014 I 've knocked about , and we both know there 's a lot of stuff talked about \u2014 eh , eh , well , you know :\u2014 the one and only \u2014 that a fellow can n't be awfully well smashed by two at the same time , do n't you know ! All rubbish ! You know it , and the proof of the puddin 's in the eatin \u2019 , I am !", "Mr. Phillimore ?", "An Englishman , ye see , when he marries expects three things : love , obedience , and five children .", "You 're as nervous as \u2014", "Look here , my boy \u2014!", "Oh ,\u2014 tell you all about myself . I 'm no duke in a pickle o \u2019 debts , d'ye see ? I can marry where I like . Some o \u2019 my countrymen are rotters , ye know . They 'd marry a monkey , if poppa-up-the-tree had a corner in cocoanuts ! And they do marry some queer ones , y \u2019 know .", "That 's it , dragon-fly . Cold as stone and never stops buzzing about and showin \u2019 off her colours . It 's that American dragon-fly girl that I 'm afraid of , because , d'ye see , I do n't know what an American expects when he marries ; yes , but you 're not listening !", "You have n't heard anything of Mrs. Karslake \u2014?", "Yes ; yes , I say \u2014 that 's too clever for me !", "As soon as I see you have a w'im for me !And now , I 'll tell you what we 'll do ! We 've got just an hour to get there in , my motor 's on the corner , and in fifty minutes we 'll be at Belmont Park .", "But I would have come even if I 'd known \u2014", "Eh ?", "May I ask you \u2014", "Eh ?", "Races . Please postpone ceremony till seven-thirty . \u201d", "Yes , but I do n't see how the Reverend Phillimore had the time to get here and make us man and wife , do n't y \u2019 know \u2014", "Ah ! So much the better for me .Now , then , never mind those two !Sit down .", "There 's only one good reason for marrying , and that is because you 'll die if you do n't !", "May I have the \u2014 eh \u2014 the floor ?I was jolly well bowled over with Mrs. Karslake , I admit that , and I hoped to see her here , but \u2014", "All very neat , but you have n't given me a chance , even .", "Rather .", "I knew you 'd take it that way !", "Sorry to disappoint you . They 're artificial .That 's it ! They 're emblematic of artificial domesticity ! And I 'm here to help you balk it .Keep still now , I 've a lot to say to you . Stop looking \u2014", "When may I \u2014?", "I 've come back .", "Be a good girl now \u2014 run me off somewhere !", "Eh ! Oh ! I 'm damned !What do you think that means ?", "We 've got to make haste , you know .", "Oh , I will later ! It 's not time yet ! As I was saying \u2014", "I am !", "Off to the races , my boy !", "I came hopin \u2019 to see \u2014", "By Jove !", "Come , come , Judge \u2014 you Americans have no sense of humour .There 's my regards for the lady \u2014 and, if I must go , I will . Of course , I would like to see her , but \u2014 if it is n't your American custom \u2014", "Oh , rather . That 's what 's giving your heiresses such a bad name lately . If a fellah 's in debt he can n't pick and choose , and then he swears that American gals are awfully fine lookers , but they 're no good when it comes to continuin \u2019 the race ! Fair dolls in the drawin \u2019 - room , but no good in the nursery .", "There 's such a thing as bein \u2019 silly .", "That 's it !\u2014 You 're over !", "You 're not crying because you 're in love with me ?", "Hold the door !", "Hear ! Hear ! Oh , I beg your pardon !", "Why not ?", "Are you feelin \u2019 pretty robust ?", "Thanks !Awfully long fingers you have ! Wish I was a rose , or a ring , or a pair of shears ! I say , d'you ever notice what a devil of a fellow I am for originality , what ?You 've got a delicate little den up here ! Not so much low livin \u2019 and high thinkin \u2019 , as low lights and no thinkin \u2019 at all , I hope \u2014 eh ?", "Traynham ?", "Ah , you put it all in a nutshell , do n't you ?", "The Scripture says : \u201c Try ! try ! again ! \u201d I tell you , there 's nothing like a w'im !", "Good-bye , Mrs. Karslake . And I say , ye know , if you have married that dull old Phillimore fellah , why , when you 've divorced him , come over and stay at Traynham ! I mean , of course , ye know , bring your new husband . There 'll be lots o \u2019 horses to show you , and a whole covey of jolly little Cates-Darbys . Mind you come !Never liked a woman as much in my life as I did you !", "Let him wait .If Mr. Phillimore comes , bring his card up ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Oh !", "I 'm not crying \u2014 or if I am , I 'm crying because I love my country . It 's a disgrace to America \u2014 cast-off husbands and wives getting together in a parlour and playing tag under a palm-tree .", "It 's Fiddler with Cynthia K !", "It goes all right . Thanks !", "They 're engaged ; they 're going to be married to-night , over champagne and lobster at my house !", "Who was it ?", "Yes ?", "Well ?", "No .", "Philip , I \u2014 eh \u2014", "Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "I do n't . Not in your sense \u2014", "It must be fearfully late . I must go . She rises and moves to the chair where she has left her cloak . She sees that JOHN will not help her and puts it on herself .", "Miss Heneage and \u2014", "How 's he changed ?", "I 'm not married to him !", "Jack !Yes , but I 'm here , Jack .", "Sir Wilfrid , I will not .", "I had \u2014 for Jack .", "Horses \u2014 how are the horses ?", "Oh , Jack .", "I did n't sleep a wink last night .Oh , what is the matter with me ?", "Phillimore \u2014", "Could n't we defer \u2014?", "Oh !", "No , no ! It 's mean of you to suggest it !", "I thought not .", "Ask you to dinner ? Oh , my dear fellow .I 'm going to do much more than that .We must be friends , old man ! We must meet , we must meet often , we must show New York the way the thing should be done , and , to show you I mean it \u2014 I want you to be my best man , and give me away when I 'm married this afternoon .", "No .", "Oh , yes , you are ; you 're just exactly the man !", "I 'm your first wife once removed !", "If there 's to be no more marriage in the world \u2014", "New York ought to know .", "No , no , no , no ! Thank you ,", "It was n't a buggy ; it was a break cart \u2014It 's all very well to blame me ! But when you married me , I 'd never had a bit in my mouth !", "I feel all shaken and cold .", "What is ?", "Guess !", "I 'm dying of the heat ; fan me .", "Thanks , no \u2014 That is , yes , thanks . Yes ! You have n't answered my question ?", "What would you have me care for ? The Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus ? or Pithacanthropus Erectus ? Oh , I refuse to take you seriously .", "But I came for a serious purpose , too . I came , my dear fellow , to make an experiment on myself . I 've been with you thirty minutes ; and \u2014It 's all right !", "What ?", "What ? What ? What ?What did I hear you say ?", "Very well ! I repeat then , if there 's to be nothing but marriage and divorce , and re-marriage , and re-divorce , at least , at least , those who are divorced can avoid the vulgarity of meeting each other here , there , and everywhere !", "I do n't know what I believe . My brain is in a whirl ! But , Philip , I am beginning to be \u2014 I 'm afraid \u2014 yes , I am afraid that one can n't just select a great and good manand say : I will be happy with him .", "I can n't say I see any change ; there 's my portrait \u2014 I suppose he sits and pulls faces at me .", "I believe I hear Philip .", "Oh !", "Yes .Is that the hansom ?", "Go gibber and squeak where gibbering and squeaking are the fashion !", "I give you one more chance ! Yes , I 'm determined to be generous . I forgive everything you ever did to me . I 'm ready to be friends . I wish you every happiness and every \u2014 every \u2014 horse in the world ! I can n't do more than that !You refuse ?", "I think I 'll go , Philip .", "Why am I here ! I 'll tell you . I 'm going to be married . I had a longing , an irresistible longing to see you make an ass of yourself just once more ! It happened !", "No ! No ! Oh ! No !", "What is it ?", "To stop his marrying Vida . I 'm blowing a hurricane inside , a horrible , happy hurricane ! I know myself \u2014 I know what 's the matter with me . If I married you and Miss Heneage \u2014 what 's the use of talking about it \u2014 he must n't marry that woman . He sha'n ' t .Sorry ! So long ! Good-night and see you later . Reaching the door , she goes out in blind haste and without further ceremony . MATTHEW , in absolute amazement , throws up his arms . PHILIP is rigid . MRS. PHILLIMORE sinks into a chair . MISS HENEAGE stands supercilious and unmoved . GRACE , the same . The choir , at MATTHEW 'S gesture , mistakes it for the concerted signal , and bursts lustily into the Epithalamis : \u201c Enduring love \u2014 sweet end of strife ! Oh , bless this happy man and wife ! \u201d", "To find her \u2014 to find the man she has once lived with \u2014 in the house of \u2014 making love to \u2014 to find you here !You smile ,\u2014 but I say , it should be a social axiom , no woman should have to meet her former husband .", "Do they ?", "If I fly into a temper when I see him , well , that shows I 'm not yet so entirely convalescent that I can afford to have Jack Karslake at my house . If I remain calm I shall ask him to dinner .", "Be a game sport then ! Our marriage was a wager ; you wagered you could live with me . You lost ; you paid with a divorce ; and now is the time to show your sporting blood . Come on , shake hands and part friends .", "I will not quarrel . No !\u2014 and I 'm only here for a moment . I 'm to be married at three , and just look at the clock ! Besides , I told Philip I was going to Louise 's shop , and I did \u2014 on the way here ; but , you see , if I stay too long he 'll telephone Louise and find I 'm not there , and he might guess I was here . So you see I 'm risking a scandal . And now , Jack , see here , I lay my hand on the table , I 'm here on the square , and ,\u2014 what I want to say is , why \u2014 Jack , even if we have made a mess of our married life , let 's put by anger and pride . It 's all over now and can n't be helped . So let 's be human , let 's be reasonable , and let 's be kind to each other ! Wo n't you give me your hand ?I wish you every happiness !", "Well , all I can say is , I feel that of all the improprieties", "I 'm going to Jack .", "I do , I do !But what was it started me laughing ?That morning . Was n't it somebody we met ?Was n't it a man on a horse ?", "Once a husband always \u2014", "The \u2014 the \u2014 hansom \u2014", "Please not !", "Of what ?", "Oh , I would n't ask you to put your pride in your pocket while Vida 's handkerchief is there .Pretty little bijou of a handkerchief !And she is charming , and divorced , and reasonably well made up .", "You meant what you said !", "Oh , do n't speak to me . I feel as if I 'd been eating gunpowder , and the very first word of the wedding service would set it off !", "Of course . What business have you to be about \u2014 to be at large . To be at all !", "Oh , no , it 's impossible !", "Ready ? Ready ? Ready ?", "However , I suppose there 's nothing for it \u2014 now \u2014 but \u2014 to \u2014 to \u2014", "I can n't .", "Well , I can n't stay . I 'm to be married at three , and I had to play truant to get here !", "Marry you ? I do n't even know you !", "Wait a moment , Sir Wilfrid ! Give me the wire !Thanks !There ! Too rude to chuck him by wire ! But you , Jack , you 've taken on yourself to look after my interests , so I 'll just ask you , old man , to run down to the Supreme Court and tell Philip \u2014 nicely , you know \u2014 I 'm off with Sir Wilfrid and where ! Say I 'll be back by seven , if I 'm not later ! And make it clear , Jack , I 'll marry him by eight-thirty or nine at the latest ! And mind you 're there , dear ! And now , Sir Wilfrid , we 're off .", "Oh !", "Against orders ?", "He 's no laughing matter now .Jack , he 's here !", "No wonder he hates me with the chair in that state ! He nurses his wrath to keep it warm . So , after all , Fiddler , everything is changed , and that chair is the proof of it . I suppose Cynthia K is the only thing in the world that cares a whinney whether I 'm alive or dead .How is she , Fiddler ?", "Yes , but it 's you who behave just as if you were not dead , just as if I 'd not spent a fortune on your funeral . You do ; you prepare to bob up at afternoon teas ,\u2014 and dinners \u2014 and embarrass me to death with your extinct personality !", "I wonder how I ever dreamed I could marry that man .", "I do n't pretend .", "and at Karslake !", "Belmont Park !", "Now do n't say that ! You 'll make me cry more . She wipes her eyes . JOHN takes out the wedding ring from his pocket ; he lifts a wine-glass , drops the ring into it and offers her the glass .", "How does it disgrace you ? Because I like to see a high-bred , clean , nervy , sweet little four-legged gee play the antelope over a hurdle !", "Not a bit of use in coming back ! I shall be married before you get here ! Ta ! Ta ! Goodwood !", "No , Jack , I 'm not \u2014 I 'm not at home here \u2014 unless \u2014 unless \u2014", "Mrs. Phillimore is generally asleep at this hour , and accordingly she will not venture to express \u2014", "Philip , you never felt like a fool , did you ?", "I am not .", "H 'm ?", "I told him I was coming here .", "I can hear you \u2014 I 'm listening !", "A woman can be divorced \u2014 and still \u2014Well , my dear Karslake , you 've a long life before you , in which to learn how such a state of mind is possible ! So I wo n't stop to explain . Will you be kind enough to get me a cab ?", "I \u2014 I \u2014 ah \u2014", "King William !", "I ever committed this \u2014 this \u2014", "I do n't care what you say ! If you marry Vida Phillimore \u2014 you sha'n ' t do it .No , I liked your father and , for his sake , I 'll see that his son does n't make a donkey of himself a second time .", "I thought so yesterday , and to-day I know it . It 's an insufferable thing to a woman of any delicacy of feeling to find her husband \u2014", "No ! I never was so surprised in my life , as when I strolled into the paddock and they gave me a rousing reception \u2014 old Jimmy Withers , Debt Gollup , Jack Deal , Monty Spiffles , the Governor and Buckeye . All of my old admirers ! They simply fell on my neck , and , dear Matthew , what do you think I did ? I turned on the water main !Oh , but you can n't go !", "Not at all with discord and misery ! With harmony and happiness \u2014 with \u2014 with first love , and infinite hope \u2014 and \u2014 and \u2014 Jack Karslake ,\u2014 if you do n't set that chair on its legs , I think I 'll explode .", "Yes , I 've come .", "I 'm all ready to be married . Are they ready ?I beg everybody 's pardon !My goggles are so dusty , I can n't see who 's who !Thanks ! You have carried it well !", "I shall go to my room ! However , all I ask is that you repeat to Philip \u2014", "Oh , if I only could ! I can n't ! I 've got to be married ! You 're awfully nice ; I 've almost got a \u201c w'im \u201d for you already .", "Why are you telling me ?", "You 've been smoking .", "What is it ? Mr. Phillimore ?", "No , no , no !", "Oh , there she is !", "I am to be married at three .", "I do n't doubt it means a wedding here , at once \u2014 after mine !", "You never liked me to sit in that one !", "I can see", "I 'll tell you what you have done \u2014 you 've thrown yourself away ! A woman like that ! No head , no heart ! All languor and loose \u2014 loose frocks \u2014 she 's the typical , worst thing America can do ! She 's the regular American marriage worm !", "Why , I \u2014 I \u2014 can n't stay here .", "No !", "I 'll tell you \u2014you can drink to the relation I am to you !", "Oh , Jack ! Jack !", "Dear me !Oh , good heavens ! Why , it looks like a smart funeral ! MISS HENEAGE moves ; then speaks in a perfectly ordinary natural tone , but her expression is severe . CYNTHIA immediately realizes the state of affairs in its fullness .", "Oh !", "Oh \u2014 yes \u2014 I suppose so . I \u2014 I have n't thought much about it .", "I suppose you think a woman has no right to divorce a man \u2014 and still continue to feel a keen interest in his affairs ?", "Join Phillimore \u2014 and go home \u2014 with him \u2014 to his house , and", "The only opinion that would have any weight with me would be", "That 's not benedictine .What is it ?", "But there is n't !", "Of course , I told you yesterday I was coming here .", "No , Sir Wilfrid , thank you , I wo n't .It 's outrageous !", "Fiddler ! Where is he ? Has he come ? Is he here ? Has he gone ?", "No , Fiddler , no !The room 's in a terrible state of disorder . However , your new mistress will attend to that .Why , that 's not her hat !"], "true_target": ["What is that sound ?", "Oh , yes , you are .", "I know , I know !", "I do n't believe you want me to stay .", "No , no , I can n't go !", "I changed my mind \u2014 that 's all .", "He left the house ?I wanted to see him .", "No , I said I 'd marry you . I 'm a woman of my word . I will .", "Ever so little .Thanks !", "Button off his waistcoat !", "Oh , there 's a limit , is there ?", "Unless I \u2014 unless I 'm at home in your heart , Jack !", "You have ! You shall have ! If you attempt to marry her , I 'll follow you \u2014 and I 'll find her \u2014 I 'll tell Vida \u2014I will . I 'll tell Vida just what sort of a dance you led me .", "Not me . I 'm not a patch on that woman . Do you know anything about her life ? Do you know the things she did to Philip ? Kept him up every night of his life \u2014 forty days out of every thirty \u2014 and then , without his knowing it , put brandy in his coffee to make him lively at breakfast .", "Jack !", "Jack !", "Stay away from Philip ?", "Insufferable ! Well , yes .You 're perfectly right . There 's no possible harmony between divorced people ! I withdraw my hand and all good feeling . No wonder I could n't stand you . Eh ? However , that 's pleasantly past ! But at least , my dear Karslake , let us have some sort of beauty behaviour ! If we cannot be decent , let us endeavour to be graceful . If we can n't be moral , at least we can avoid being vulgar .", "That 's a very good reason .", "To be where I am ! Yes , it 's just as horrible for you to turn up in my life as it would be for a dead person to insist on coming back to life and dinner and bridge !", "I feel awfully queer \u2014 I think I need a scotch .", "The flowers that grow on the tree that hangs over the abyss !They smell of six o'clock in the evening . When Philip 's fallen asleep , and little boys are crying the winners outside , and I 'm crying inside , and dying inside and outside and everywhere .", "Those two here ! It 's just as if Adam and Eve should invite the snake to their golden wedding .What is it , what 's the matter ?", "Vida in the nursery .", "Indeed ! Did she paw the ground like the war-horse in the Bible ? I 'm sure when Vida sees a wedding ring she smells the battle afar off . As for you , my dear Karslake , I should have thought once bitten , twice shy ! But , you know best . VIDA , unable to keep her finger long out of a pie , saunters in .", "And all this because the gasoline gave out .", "Oh , I 've tried that !", "I do awfully apologize for being so late !", "It 's just simply a fact , Karslake , and that 's all there is to it \u2014 if a woman has once been married \u2014 that is , the first man she marries \u2014 then \u2014 she may quarrel , she may hate him \u2014 she may despise him \u2014 but she 'll always be jealous of him with other women . Always !", "So you 're not married ?", "I am hungry . Do n't forget the hansom .", "I hope not !", "Do I ? We used to hear that \u2014 just at the hour , did n't we \u2014 when we came back from awfully jolly late suppers and things !", "Matthew ? He 's been here and gone ?", "I think I see one .", "Asks for air and goes to the greenhouse .I know why you are here . It 's that intoxicating little whim you suppose me to have for you . My regrets ! But the whim 's gone flat ! Yes , yes , my gasoline days are over . I 'm going to be garaged for good . However , I 'm glad you 're here ; you take the edge off \u2014", "I do n't want more than a nibble !I am sorry to give you so much trouble .", "You propose to me here , at a moment like this ? When I 'm on the last lap \u2014 just in sight of the goal \u2014 the gallows \u2014 the halter \u2014 the altar , I do n't know what its name is ! No , I wo n't have you !And I wo n't have you stand near me ! I wo n't have you talking to me in a low tone !Stand over there \u2014 stand where you are .", "Yes .", "Jack , some day you 'll get the blind staggers from conceit . No , I 'm not in love with you , Mr. Karslake , but I should n't be at all surprised if she were . She 's just your sort , you know . She 's a man-eating shark , and you 'll be a toothsome mouthful . Oh , come now , Jack , what a silly you are ! Oh , yes , you are , to get off a joke like that ; me \u2014 in love with \u2014", "All good things come to an end , you know .", "I \u2014 I \u2014 I just heard Cynthia K was ill \u2014I \u2014 I ran round \u2014 I \u2014 and \u2014 and \u2014Well , I understand it 's all over .", "You killed yourself for me \u2014 I divorced you . I buried you out of my life . If any human soul was ever dead , you are ! And there 's nothing I so hate as a gibbering ghost .", "What do you mean ?", "No , there 's a third scheme : Sir Wilfrid explained the theory to me . A woman should marry whenever she has a whim for the man , and then leave the rest to the man . Do you see ?", "Well ?", "I came to apologize .", "I 'm immune .", "I see you got my wire \u2014 so you know where I have been .", "Oh , have you ?", "I thought it was Philip !", "But I do n't think you showed good taste in engaging yourselves here .", "You do n't mean I 'm too late ? He 's married them already ?", "Well , Jack \u2014 what 's to be done ?", "Sorry ? Why are you sorry ?You 've got what you wanted .I would n't mind your marrying Vida \u2014", "Well ?", "Mrs. Phillimore 's .", "And pray , Sir Wilfrid , when will it be time ?", "Oh , you do n't mean that ! And , you know , Jack , if I were caught \u2014 seen at this hour , leaving this house , you know \u2014 it 's the most scandalous thing any one ever did , my being here at all . Good-bye , Jack !I 'd like to say , I \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 well , I sha'n ' t be bitter about you hereafter , and \u2014Thank you awfully , old man , for the fodder and all that !", "And drinking \u2014 a pair of drinks ?Do they fit you , dear ?\u201c Jack , from Cynthia . \u201d", "Vida !", "Done ! Now , then , we 'll see which of us two is the real sporting goods ! Shake !Would you mind letting me have a plain soda ?Thanks .Your hand is a bit shaky . I think you need a little King William .", "You 'll have to take me round to the Holland House !", "No more heart than a dragon-fly !", "Why , you know I never take it .", "Fainted ?Dear , dear , dear , terrible ! So she has .No , no , not her forehead , Sir Wilfrid , her frock ! Sprinkle her best Paquin ! If it 's a real faint , she will not come to !", "Not \u2014 precisely .", "Three things ! I make it seven !", "Phillimore \u2014 no ; never .No ; never , never , Jack .", "You 're saying terrible things to me .", "Jack \u2014 I mean , Mr. Karslake ,\u2014 no , I mean , Jack ! I came because \u2014 well , you see , it 's my wedding day !\u2014 and \u2014 and \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 was rude to you last evening . I 'd like to apologize and make peace with you before I go \u2014", "I feel very queer .", "What 's that to you ?", "Nervous ! Of course I 'm nervous ! So would you be nervous if you 'd had a runaway and smash up , and you were going to try it again .And if some one does n't do away with those calla lilies \u2014 the odor makes me faint !No , it 's not the lilies ! It 's the orange blossoms !", "Here I am .", "He 's married them ! Married ! Married before I could get here !Married in less time than it takes to pray for rain ! Oh , well , the church \u2014 the church is a regular quick marriage counter .Oh !", "Honour bright ?", "Do n't !", "Here I am . Ridiculous to make it a conventional thing , you know . Come in on the swell of the music , and all that , just as if I 'd never been married before . Where 's Philip ?", "I do n't know .", "I 'll tell you the truth . I was bored .", "Yes , and do you remember the time you took my fan from me by force ?", "No , no , you hate me still . You never can forgive me . I know you can n't . For I can never forgive myself . Never , Jack , never , never !", "I am listening . I am !", "No \u2014 I would n't see him for the world !If I 'm too late , I 'm too late ! and that 's the end of it !I 've come , and now I 'll go !Well , Fiddler , it 's all a good deal as it used to be in my day .", "I was bored , and then \u2014 and besides , Sir Wilfrid asked me to go .", "We shall see what it means !", "It should never be absent from your pocket , Mr. Sudley !", "I wanted to see him .", "How can you , Jack ? How can you ?", "Jack ! What are you saying ?", "But you have n't had your dinner .", "Lots .", "What 's that ? W'im ? Oh , you mean a whim ! Do please try and say Whim !", "Yes .", "I wo n't look at them ! I wo n't think of them . Beasts !", "I wo n't recriminate !", "Do you think I can listen to you make love to me when the man who \u2014 who \u2014 whom I most despise in all the world , is reading poetry to the woman who \u2014 who got me into the fix I 'm in !", "Not in this house ! For six heavy weeks have I been laid away in the grave , and I 've found it very slow indeed trying to keep pace with the dead !", "Tata , old man ! Meet you at the altar ! If I do n't , the mare 's mine !", "Do n't I ? I ask you , come ! And come as you are ! And I 'll lay my wedding gown to Cynthia K that you wo n't be there ! If you 're there , you get the gown , and if you 're not , I get Cynthia K !\u2014", "I think I 'll go , Philip .", "Your wedding present ? The little bronze cat !", "She is not the woman for you ! A man with your bad temper \u2014 your airs of authority \u2014 your assumption of \u2014 of \u2014 everything . What you need is a good , old-fashioned , bread-poultice woman !", "I do n't think I understand .", "\u201c love , honour and obey \u201d to", "No .", "I am hungry .", "Oh , oh ! I hardly touched your face ! And do you remember the day you held my wrists ?", "Off her oats ! Well , she loves me , so I suppose she will die , or change , or \u2014 or something . Oh , she 'll die , there 's no doubt about that \u2014 she 'll die .There \u2014 I 'm a fool \u2014 I must go \u2014 before \u2014 before \u2014 he \u2014", "You ought n't to call me \u201c Cyn \u201d \u2014 it 's not nice of you . It 's sort of cruel . I 'm not \u2014 Cyn to you now .", "Thomas ! Call a hansom !I can n't , Philip \u2014 I can n't .It is simply a case of throwing the reins on nature 's neck \u2014 up anchor \u2014 and sit tight !Matthew , do n't come near me ! Yes , yes , I distrust you . It 's your business , and you 'd marry me if you could .", "Jack poured it out . Just shows how groggy he was ! And now , Sir Wilfrid \u2014", "Philip , I did n't mean to make you \u2014", "I do n't know what you mean ?", "See you next Goodwood !", "So that 's what you think ?", "What did I tell you ?", "No .", "No , Karslake . I 'm just waiting to say the words", "Almost !", "It is n't what you say \u2014 it 's \u2014 it 's \u2014 it 's everything . It 's the entire situation . Suppose by any chance I do n't marry Phillimore ! And suppose I were seen at two or three in the morning leaving my former husband 's house ! It 's all wrong . I have no business to be here ! I 'm going ! You 're perfectly horrid to me , you know \u2014 and \u2014 the whole place \u2014 it 's so familiar , and so \u2014 so associated with \u2014 with \u2014", "I have already explained that to you .", "You probably felt jealous of Phillimore .", "Oh , she 's a darling !A perfect darling !Oh ! I did n't know you were here .I came to see you !", "You 're not catching any more ! Yes , you see , I said to myself , if I fly into a temper \u2014", "Ah ,\u2014 that 's it \u2014 nature !I 've a great mind to throw the reins on nature 's neck .", "Jack ,\u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014", "Jack ! I never ! I showed my teeth at you ! And I said I would bite you !", "Of course , I came back . I am here , am I not ?", "Is no one here ?", "There you are ! Always suspicious !", "Very well , if you do n't \u2014 give me my hat .And my sewing ! And my gloves , please !Thanks !There ! I feel better ! And now \u2014 all I ask is \u2014", "How is the bride ?", "Mine ?Is that my work-basket ?My gloves ?And I suppose \u2014My \u2014 yes , there it is : my wedding ring !\u2014 just where I dropped it ! Oh , oh , oh , he keeps it like this \u2014 hat , gloves , basket and ring , everything just as it was that crazy , mad day when I \u2014But for heaven 's sake , Fiddler , set that chair on its feet !", "And you 've forgotten what a vile temper I had !", "It 's indecent \u2014 at the horse-show , the opera , at races and balls , to meet the man who once \u2014 It 's not civilized ! It 's fantastic ! It 's half baked ! Oh , I never should have come here !But it 's entirely your fault !"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["My patience has given out !", "As I go out , I shall do myself the pleasure of calling a hansom for Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "With a rowdy Englishman .", "This comes of horses !", "My dear madam , I take myself seriously \u2014 and madam , I \u2014 I retract what I have brought with meas a graceful gift ,\u2014 an Egyptian scarab \u2014 a \u2014 a \u2014 sacred beetle , which once ornamented the person of a \u2014 eh \u2014 mummy .", "\u201c Accident , auto struck \u201d \u2014 something ! \u201c Gasoline \u201d \u2014 did something \u2014 illegible , ah !\u201c Home by nine forty-five ! Hold the church ! \u201d", "All very well , my dear Sarah . But you see the hour . Twenty to ten ! We have been here since half-past two .", "It 's from Belmont Park .", "C-c-caring for horses !", "At last we shall know !"], "true_target": ["Disgraceful !", "My dear young lady : You come here , to this sacred \u2014 eh \u2014 eh \u2014 spot \u2014 altar !\u2014odoriferous of the paddock !\u2014 speaking of Spiffles and Buckeye ,\u2014 having practically eloped !\u2014 having created a scandal , and disgraced our family !", "Eh ,\u2014 eh ,\u2014 my dear sir , I leave you to your fate .", "\u2018 Pon my word !", "After a young woman has spent her wedding day at the races ? Why , I consider that she has broken the engagement ,\u2014 and when she comes , tell her so .", "Ahem !", "I did not come here at two to have dinner at eight , and be kept waiting until ten ! And , my dear Sarah , when I ask where the bride is \u2014", "For my part , I do n't believe Mrs. Karslake means to return here or to marry Philip at all !", "Enough , madam \u2014 I venture to \u2014 to \u2014 to \u2014 to say , you are leading a fast life .", "Sarah , I 'm going . GRACE , who has met PHILIP , takes occasion to accompany him into the room . PHILIP looks dusty and grim . As they come in , GRACE speaks to him , and PHILIP shakes his head . They pause near the door ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["What Mrs. Karslake cares for is \u2014 men .", "Oh !", "From the lady ! Probably ! MISS HENEAGE opens the first telegram and reads it at a glance , laying it on the salver again with a look at SUDLEY . THOMAS passes the salver to SUDLEY , who takes the telegram .", "You had dinner ?", "I 'll telephone Matthew . The choir boys can go home \u2014 her maid can pack her belongings \u2014 and when the lady arrives \u2014 Impudently , the very distant toot of an auto-horn breaks in upon her words , producing , in proportion to its growing nearness , an increasing pitch of excitement and indignation . GRACE flies to the door and looks out . MRS. PHILLIMORE , helpless , does not know what to do or where to go or what to say . SUDLEY moves about excitedly . MISS HENEAGE stands ready to make herself disagreeable .", "Mrs. Karslake !", "After what has occurred , Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "Do n't trouble yourself . Through the growing noise of voices and laughter , CYNTHIA 'S voice is heard . SIR WILFRID is seen in the outer hall . He is burdened with wraps , not to mention a newspaper and parasol , which in no wise check his flow of gay remarks to CYNTHIA , who is still outside . CYNTHIA 'S voice , and now MATTHEW 'S , reach those inside , and , at last , both join SIR WILFRID , who has turned at the door to wait for them . As she reaches the door , CYNTHIA turns and speaks to MATTHEW , who immediately follows her . She is in automobile attire , wearing goggles , a veil , and an exquisite duster of latest Paris style . They come in with a subdued bustle and noise . As their eyes light on CYNTHIA , SUDLEY and MISS HENEAGE exclaim , and there is a general movement .", "Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "Outrageous !", "Do you intend , despite of our opinion of you \u2014"], "true_target": ["We concluded you desired to break the engagement !", "This is from Philip !\u201c I arrive at ten o'clock . Have dinner ready . \u201dThey are both due now .What 's to be done ?", "To the race-course !", "\u201c Hold the church ! \u201d William , she still means to marry Philip ! and to-night , too !", "Sister , it is high time that you \u2014", "I have told you all I know . Mr. John Karslake came to the house at lunch time , spoke to Philip , and they left the house together .", "I 've a vast mind to withdraw my \u2014", "I shall come or not as I see fit . And let me add , my dear brother , that a fool at forty is a fool indeed .", "Shocking ! GRACE remains standing above sofa . SUDLEY moves toward her , MISS HENEAGE sitting down again . MRS. PHILLIMORE reclines on sofa . CYNTHIA begins to speak as soon as she appears and speaks fluently to the end .", "You smile . We simply inform you that as regards us , the alliance is not grateful .", "Philip , you 've not heard \u2014"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["There 's a toot now .", "So has mine . I 'm going .", "I hear a man 's voice . Cates-Darby and brother Matthew . A loud and brazenly insistent toot outrages afresh . Laughter and voices outside are heard faintly . GRACE looks out of the door , and , as quickly withdraws .", "Where is Philip ?"], "true_target": ["I do ! I 'm sorry I went to the expense of a silver ice-pitcher .", "I sha n't wait to hear any more .", "Hah !", "She went to the races !"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["My dear son \u2014 I wo n't venture to express \u2014", "Shocking !I shall not take any part at all , in the \u2014 eh \u2014"], "true_target": ["I do n't wish to be censorious or to express an actual opinion , but I must say it 's a bold bride who keeps her future mother-in-law waiting for eight hours . However , I will not venture to \u2014", "I am generally asleep at this hour , and , accordingly , I will not venture to express any \u2014 eh \u2014 any \u2014 actual opinion .", "I do n't wish to intrude , but really I cannot imagine Philip marrying at midnight ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Two telegrams for you , ma'am ! The choir boys have had their supper .", "Mr. Phillimore will be down in a few minutes , ma'am . He 's very sorry , ma'am, but there 's a button off his waistcoat .", "Mr. Karslake .", "Sir , Mr. Phillimore wishes to have your assistance , sir \u2014 with Miss Heneage immediately !"], "true_target": ["Yes , sir .Mrs. Vida Phillimore .", "Sir Wilfrid Cates-Darby .", "Yes , sir . Ahem !", "Mr. Phillimore 's excuses , ma'am . In a very short time \u2014"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["My dear child \u2014", "Cynthia , you will take Miss Heneage 's arm .Sarah !Now please do n't forget , my boys . When I raise my hands so , you begin , \u201c Enduring love , sweet end of strife , \u201d etc .Ahem ! Philip !Sarah !The ceremony will now begin . The organ plays Mendelssohn 's wedding march . CYNTHIA turns and faces MISS HENEAGE . MISS HENEAGE slowly reaches CYNTHIA and extends her hand in her readiness to lead the bride to the altar .", "You must really find the hand-bag at once .", "Ah , my very dear Cynthia , I knew there was something . Let me tell you the words of the hymn I have chosen : \u201c Enduring love ; sweet end of strife ! Oh , bless this happy man and wife ! \u201d I 'm afraid you feel \u2014 eh \u2014 eh !", "I do n't think my Bishop would approve of \u2014 eh \u2014 anything before !", "Really , my dear , in the pomp and vanity \u2014 I mean \u2014 ceremony of this \u2014 this unique occasion , there should be sufficient exhilaration .", "But , my dear child \u2014", "Courage !", "Ah , my dear child ! Now this is just as it should be ! That is , eh \u2014That is , when I come to think of it \u2014 your presence might be deemed inauspicious ."], "true_target": ["I 'll return in no time !", "Ah !One moment ! I 'll return .Have you found the bag with my surplice ? He goes out with THOMAS , speaking . SIR WILFRID moves at once to VIDA . JOHN , moving to a better position , watches the door .", "My dear Cynthia . I request you \u2014 to take your place .Your husband to be \u2014 is ready , the ring is in my pocket . I have only to ask you the \u2014 eh \u2014 necessary questions ,\u2014 and \u2014 eh \u2014 all will be blissfully over in a moment .", "My dear brother , Aunt Sarah Heneage refuses to give Mrs. Karslake away , unless you yourself ,\u2014 eh \u2014", "My dear , your indisposition is the voice of nature .", "How do you both do ? My aunt has made me very warm .You hear our choir practising \u2014 sweet angel boys ! H 'm ! H 'm ! Some of the family will not be present . I am very fond of you , Mr. Karslake , and I think it admirably Christian of you to have waived your \u2014 eh \u2014 your \u2014 eh \u2014 that is , now that I look at it more narrowly , let me say , that in the excitement of pleasurable anticipation , I forgot , Karslake , that your presence might occasion remark \u2014Thomas ! I left , in the hall , a small hand-bag or satchel containing my surplice .", "I am sure you will do your part , Sarah \u2014 in a spirit of Christian decorum .It was impossible to find my surplice , Philip , but the more informal the better .", "Philip is ready .", "Ah , here 's the choir !Thomas , I directed you \u2014 One moment , if you please ."], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["No , but whatever your feelings , I conclude you are ready to marry me .", "As you go out , Sudley , have a hansom called , and when it comes , get into it .", "Sir , you are \u2014 impudent \u2014!", "Where 's Cynthia ?", "What motive ? What reason ? On our wedding day ? Why did you do it ?", "Sir what \u2014 what \u2014 wh-who ?Tell Sir Wilfrid Cates-Darby I am not at home to him .", "Where are you going ?", "Do I understand you refuse ?", "Do you believe that now ?", "Exactly , and that was why you went . Cynthia , when you promised to marry me , you told me you had forever done with love . You agreed that marriage was the rational coming together of two people .", "Bored ? In my company ?", "You refuse ?", "I do n't see why not . You must assuredly do one or the other : You must either let your heart choose or your head select .", "Sir \u2014 I \u2014 demand \u2014", "And you , too , have the effrontery ?", "I begin to hope , Sir Wilfrid , that in the future I shall have the pleasure of hanging you !And as to you , sir , your insensate idea of giving away your own \u2014 your former \u2014 my \u2014 your \u2014 oh ! Good Lord ! This is a nightmare !", "I suppose Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "Do I see ? Have I ever seen any thing else ? Marry for whim ! That 's the New York idea of marriage .", "It is , sir , and I 'll not be bantered ! Your both being here is \u2014 it is \u2014 gentlemen , there is a decorum which the stars in their courses do not violate .", "Are you in your senses ?", "What for ?", "Matthew !", "Cates-Darby ."], "true_target": ["I 'll expect you ,\u2014 in half an hour .", "Ah ! Very good , then . Run to your room .Throw something over you . In a half hour I 'll expect you here ! And Cynthia , my dear , remember ! I cannot cuculate like a wood-pigeon , but \u2014 I esteem you !", "Why , then , did you run off to Belmont Park with that fellow ?", "You are ready to marry me ?", "No , mother , do n't ! But I shall expect you , of course , at the ceremony .It is proper for me to tell you that I followed you to Belmont . I am aware \u2014 I know with whom \u2014 in fact , I know all !And now let me assure you \u2014 I am the last man in the world to be jilted on the very eve of \u2014 of \u2014 everything with you . I wo n't be jilted .You understand ? I propose to marry you . I wo n't be made ridiculous .", "Show the gentleman the door .", "Sir , your humour is strained !", "Do n't make it necessary for me to tell you what I think of you .Mother , with your permission , I desire to be alone . I expect both you and Grace , Sarah , to be dressed and ready for the ceremony a half hour from now .", "We are as good as married .", "Everything \u2014 from Grace ! My sister has repeated your words to me \u2014 and her own ! I 've told her what I think of her .", "All very amusing , sir , but the fact remains \u2014", "I may not be fitted to play the love-bird , but \u2014", "Good Lord ! Sir , you cannot trifle with monogamy !", "Sir , this is polyandry .", "Ahem !", "To show your face here , after practically eloping with my wife !", "You will oblige me \u2014 both of you \u2014 by immediately leaving \u2014", "No , never .", "No more ! I 'll attend to the matter !", "And , Cynthia , do n't think any more about that fellow ,", "There I am not , sir ! And \u2014as for Mr. Karslake 's ill-timed jocosity ,\u2014 sir , in the future \u2014", "Marry for whim and leave the rest to the divorce court ! Marry for whim and leave the rest to the man . That was the former Mrs. Phillimore 's idea . Only she spelled \u201c whim \u201d differently ; she omitted the \u201c w . \u201dAnd now you \u2014 you take up with this preposterous \u2014But , nonsense ! It 's impossible ! A woman of your mental calibre \u2014 No . Some obscure , primitive , female feeling is at work corrupting your better judgment ! What is it you feel ?", "And if I had that fellow , Cates-Darby , in the dock \u2014!", "Where 's Cynthia ?"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["On the street in a hansom , sir \u2014 and he requests Mrs. Karslake \u2014", "Yes , sir .", "Mr. Phillimore , sir \u2014", "I 'll serve the supper .Mr . Fiddler , would you mind giving this to the guv'nor ? It 's from his lawyer \u2014 his lawyer could n't find him and left it with me . He said it was very important .I 'm coming , sir ! NOGAM goes out , shutting the door . JOHN KARSLAKE comes in . His hat is pushed over his eyes ; his hands are buried in his pockets , and his appearance generally is one of weariness and utter discouragement . He walks into the room slowly and heavily . He sees FIDDLER , who salutes , forgetting the letter . JOHN slowly sinks into the arm-chair near his study table .", "Do n't you remember ? She threw it on its head when she left here , and he wo n't have it up . Ah , that 's it \u2014 hat , sewing-basket and all ,\u2014 the whole rig is to remain as it was when she handed him his knock-out .", "Sir Wilfrid and Mrs. Phillimore have a date with the guv'nor in the dining-room , and the reverend gentleman \u2014", "Yes , sir ."], "true_target": ["Mr . Fiddler , sir , please to let it alone .", "Mr. Karslake just now \u2018 phoned from his club, and he 's on his way home , sir .", "Nogam , sir .", "Our orders , sir .", "Hansom , sir .", "He 'll soon be here .", "Yes , but I 've got another piece of news for you . Who do you think the Rev . Phillimore expected to find here ?", "No , sir !"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Could n't have a word with you ?", "He has n't spliced them ?He has ? They 're married ? Never saw a parson could resist it !", "Yours , ma'am .", "That mare \u2014", "Sorry to hear it , sir .", "Mrs. Karslake ? I saw her headed this way in a hansom with a balky horse only a minute ago . If she hoped to be in at the finish \u2014", "You kicked it over , ma'am , the day you left us .", "Yes , sir .", "Yes , sir .", "Lost his sharp for horses , and ladies , ma'am \u2014 gives \u2018 em both the boiled eye .", "I 'll tell Mr. Karslake \u2014", "Yes , sir .", "That mare , sir , she 's got a touch of malaria \u2014", "Phew ! A moment 's pause , and CYNTHIA opens the front door , and comes in very quietly , almost shyly , as if she were uncertain of her welcome .", "Does it live on its blooming head ?", "If you think well of it , sir , I 'll give her a tonic \u2014", "Yes , sir \u2014 oh , beg your pardon , sir \u2014 your lawyer left a letter ."], "true_target": ["If you 've no objections , I think I 'll give her a \u2014", "Who was the parson I met leaving the house ?", "Yes , sir !", "Nobody 's gone , ma'am , except the Reverend", "Came in to see you , sir , about Cynthia K .", "All very well , Mr. Karslake , but I must know if I 'm to give her \u2014", "Off her oats , ma'am , this evening .", "Would like to have a word with you , sir \u2014", "Matthew Phillimore .", "Nogam says he married them !", "Yes , ma'am , I think I 'd better tell him of your bein \u2019 here .", "Against orders , ma'am .", "There 's the guv'nor \u2014 I hear him !", "Hello , Nogam , where 's the guv'nor ? That mare 's off her oats , and I 've got to see him .", "No , ma'am \u2014 everything changed , even the horses .", "Or if you like , sir , I 'll give her \u2014", "Ah , when husband and wife splits , ma'am , it 's the horses that suffer . Oh , yes , ma'am , we 're all changed since you give us the go-by ,\u2014 even the guv'nor .", "I 'll give her \u2014"], "play_index": 20, "act_index": 20}, {"query": ["Thank your honour .\u2014 Come along ; St. Patrick , his honour , and strong beer for ever !O'Con . Get along , you thoughtless vagabonds ! yet , upon my conscience , \u2018 tis very hard these poor fellows should scarcely have bread from the soil they would die to defend . Enter DOCTOR ROSY . Ah , my little Dr. Rosy , my Galen a-bridge , what 's the news ?", "There 's the Red Lion a n't half the civility of the old"], "true_target": ["I say you are wrong ; we should all speak together , each for himself , and all at once , that we may be heard the better .", "Red Lion ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["There 's the White Horse , if he was n't case-hardened , ought to be ashamed to show his face . O'Con . Very well ; the Horse and the Lion shall answer for it at the quarter sessions ."], "true_target": ["Right , Jack , we 'll argue in platoons ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Nothing at all , your honour , unless now and then we happen to fling a cartridge into the kitchen fire , or put a spatterdash or so into the soup ; and sometimes Ned drums up and down stairs a little of a night . O'Con . Oh , all that 's fair ; but hark'ee , lads , I must have no grumbling on St. Patrick 's Day ; so here , take this , and divide it amongst you . But observe me now ,\u2014 show yourselves men of spirit , and do n't spend sixpence of it in drink .", "Market-cross , for the honour of King George .", "Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure , and has the gift of reading .", "Please your honour , the doctor is coming this way with his worship \u2014 We are all ready , and have our cues .O'Con . Then , my dear Trounce , or my dear Sergeant , or my dear Serjeant Trounce , take yourself away .", "Come away , then , lads , and first we 'll parade round the", "Let me alone for that . I served three years , within a bit , under his honour , in the Royal Inniskillions , and I never will see a sweeter tempered gentleman , nor one more free with his purse . I put a great shammock in his hat this morning , and I 'll be bound for him he 'll wear it , was it as big as Steven 's Green ."], "true_target": ["Oh , faith ! here comes the lieutenant .\u2014 Now , Serjeant .", "Nor ever will be with that old stingy booby . Look here \u2014 take it .O'Con . What must I do for this ?", "Are you rich ? O'Con . Noa .", "What , sirrah , do you mutiny ? Lay hold of him . O'Con . Nay , then , I 'll try your armour for you .", "Halloa , friend ! do you serve Justice Credulous ? O'Con . I do .", "Mark me , our lieutenant is in love with the old rogue 's daughter : help us to break his worship 's bones , and carry off the girl , and you are a made man . O'Con . I 'll see you hanged first , you pack of skurry villains !"], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Oh ! oh !\u2014 quarter ! quarter !"], "true_target": ["Agreed , agreed .", "Oh , damn malice ! St. Patrick 's and his honour 's by all means ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Wonderful knowledge !\u2014 Well , my heroes , I 'll write word to the king of your good intentions , and meet me half an hour hence at the Two Magpies .", "Oh ! these are the lads I was looking for ; they have the look of gentlemen .\u2014 A n't you single , my lads ?", "The two Magpies are civil enough ; but the Angel uses us like devils , and the Rising Sun refuses us light to go to bed by . O'Con . Then , upon my word , I 'll have the Rising Sun put down , and the Angel shall give security for his good behaviour ; but are you sure you do nothing to quit scores with them ?", "Zounds ! the lieutenant \u2014 I smell of the black hole already .", "Jack !Enter LIEUTENANT O'CONNOR . So , here comes one would make a grenadier \u2014 Stop , friend , will you list ? O'Con . Who shall I serve under ?", "He is , and I am commander over him . O'Con . What ! be your serjeants greater than your captains ?", "No , hang him , the lad is good-natured at the bottom , so I pass over small things . But hark'ee , between ourselves , he is most confoundedly given to wenching .", "To be sure we are ; \u2018 tis our business to keep them in order . For instance , now , the general writes to me , dear Serjeant , or dear Trounce , or dear Serjeant Trounce , according to his hurry , if your lieutenant does not demean himself accordingly , let me know .\u2014 Yours , General Deluge . O'Con . And do you complain of him often ?", "Under me , to be sure . O'Con . Is n't Lieutenant O'Connor your officer ?"], "true_target": ["Nay , hang it , your honour , soldiers should never bear malice ; we must drink St. Patrick 's and your honour 's health .", "Indeed ! a very extraordinary case \u2014 quite your own master then \u2014 the fitter to serve his Majesty .\u2014 Can you read ?", "Well , meet me at the Magpies , and I 'll give you money to buy new ones .", "Come , silence your drum \u2014 there is no valour stirring to-day . I thought St. Patrick would have given us a recruit or two to - day .", "So please your honour , the very grievance of the matter is this :\u2014 ever since your honour differed with justice Credulous , our inn-keepers use us most scurvily . By my halbert , their treatment is such , that if your spirit was willing to put up with it , flesh and blood could by no means agree ; so we humbly petition that your honour would make an end of the matter at once , by running away with the justice 's daughter , or else get us fresh quarters ,\u2014 hem ! hem ! O'Con . Indeed ! Pray which of the houses use you ill ?", "So , what you 're a scholar , friend ?", "But stay ; for fear I should n't see you again in the crowd , clap these little bits of ribbon into your hats .", "Lucky man \u2014 in a campaign or two put yourself down chaplain to the regiment . And I warrant you have read of warriors and heroes ?", "So then , to order .\u2014 Put on your mutiny looks ; every man grumble a little to himself , and some of you hum the Deserter 's March . Enter LIEUTENANT O'CONNOR . O'Con . Well , honest lads , what is it you have to complain of ?"], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Mark , serjeant !"], "true_target": ["Ahem ! hem !"], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["He says you must give this under your hand , while he writes you a miraculous receipt .", "The gilded cane \u2014\u2014", "Not a word . O'Con . Palio vivem mortem soonem .", "O'Con . Is more enraged than ever .", "This is all as it should be .\u2014 My Alexander , I give you joy , and you , my little god-daughter ; and now my sincere wish is , that you may make just such a wife as my poor dear Dolly .", "O'Con . Why , doctor !", "Poor soul ! her illness was occasioned by her zeal in trying an improvement on the Spa-water by an infusion of rum and acid . O'Con . Ay , ay , spirits never agree with water-drinkers .", "There , I told you so , of noted honesty .", "Life 's a shadow \u2014 the world a stage \u2014 we strut an hour . O'Con . Here , doctor .", "O'Con . The justice is \u2014\u2014", "Ay , do n't you think he is , madam ?", "Show him up .", "Thick-sighted mortals . O'Con . Remarkably .", "He says you 'll die presently .", "All things are as they were , my Alexander ; the justice is as violent as ever : I felt his pulse on the matter again , and , thinking his rage began to intermit , I wanted to throw in the bark of good advice , but it would not do . He says you and your cut-throats have a plot upon his life , and swears he had rather see his daughter in a scarlet fever than in the arms of a soldier . O'Con . Upon my word the army is very much obliged to him . Well , then , I must marry the girl first , and ask his consent afterwards .", "Mental accomplishments ! she would have stuffed an alligator , or pickled a lizard , with any apothecary 's wife in the kingdom . Why , she could decipher a prescription , and invent the ingredients , almost as well as myself : then she was such a hand at making foreign waters !\u2014 for Seltzer , Pyrmont , Islington , or Chalybeate , she never had her equal ; and her Bath and Bristol springs exceeded the originals .\u2014 Ah , poor Dolly ! she fell a martyr to her own discoveries . O'Con . How so , pray ?", "Cropped in her prime ! O'Con . For heaven 's sake , come !", "O'Con . I am discovered , and \u2014\u2014", "My taste , my taste !\u2014 Well , Lauretta is none of these . Ah ! I never see her but she put me in mind of my poor dear wife . O'Con .Ay , faith ; in my opinion she can n't do a worse thing . Now he is going to bother me about an old hag that has been dead these six years .", "Speak out !", "The pompous wig \u2014\u2014", "He says he 'll undertake to cure you for three thousand pounds .", "He says you have not six hours to live .", "Well , there 's no time to be lost ; you continue to swell immensely .", "And here 's your receipt : read it yourself .", "Greal . O'Con . Writhum bothum .", "The gaudy palace \u2014\u2014", "Aquafortis . O'Con . Betray your master !", "Doubtless he 'll be a comfort to you . Re-enter SERVANT .", "What ?", "True , true ; you should be ready : the clothes are at my house , and I have given you such a character , that he is impatient to have you : he swears you shall be his body-guard . Well , I honour the army , or I should never do so much to serve you . O'Con . Indeed I am bound to you for ever , doctor ; and when once I 'm possessed of my dear Lauretta , I will endeavour to make work for you as fast as possible .", "And that wild stare in your right eye !", "Ay , he 'll be your porter ; he 'll give the rogues an answer .", "Efacks , I can do nothing , but there 's the German quack , whom you wanted to send from town ; I met him at the next door , and I know he has antidotes for all poisons .", "We are but blind guessers . O'Con . Nothing more .", "Your voice is so low and hollow , as it were , I can n't hear a word you say .", "I have but just called to inform \u2014 hey ! bless me , what 's the matter with your worship ?", "Read it out ; a wondrous nostrum , I 'll answer for it .", "At hand ; he 'll be here in a minute , I 'll answer for't . He 's such a one as you a n't met with ,\u2014 brave as a lion , gentle as a saline draught .", "True , true , my friend ; grief can n't mend the matter \u2014 all 's for the best ; but such a woman was a great loss , lieutenant . O'Con . To be sure , for doubtless she had mental accomplishments equal to her beauty .", "So , then , the case of her fortune is desperate , hey ? O'Con . Oh , hang fortune ,\u2014 let that take its chance ; there is a beauty in Lauretta 's simplicity , so pure a bloom upon her charms .", "Indeed ! Good lack , good lack , to think of the instability of human affairs ! Nothing certain in this world \u2014 most deceived when most confident \u2014 fools of fortune all . O'Con . My dear doctor , I want at present a little practical wisdom . I am resolved this instant to try the scheme we were going to put into execution last week . I have the letter ready , and only want your assistance to recover my ground .", "Men are moles .", "O'Con . Doctor !", "Oh , no , he 's bashful \u2014 a sheepish look \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["As Hercules ; and the best back-sword in the country . Egad , he 'll make the red coats keep their distance .", "Kings , lords , and common whores \u2014", "He says you are poisoned .", "Poor Dolly ! O'Con . \u2018 Tis past twelve .", "Alas ! my dear friend , it is not in my power ; but I 'll certainly see justice done on your murderer .", "He says that he has lost his heart to her , and that if you will give him leave to pay his addresses to the young lady , and promise your consent to the union , if he should gain her affections , he will , on those conditions , cure you instantly , without fee or reward .", "Well , flesh is grass . O'Con . O , the devil !", "Geneable illi arsnecca . O'Con . Pisonatus .", "Oh , poor Dolly ! I never shall see her like again ; such an arm for a bandage \u2014 veins that seemed to invite the lancet . Then her skin , smoothe and white as a gallipot ; her mouth as large and not larger than the mouth of a penny phial ; her lips conserve of roses ; and then her teeth \u2014 none of your sturdy fixtures \u2014 ache as they would , it was but a small pull , and out they came . I believe I have drawn half a score of her poor dear pearls \u2014\u2014 But what avails her beauty ? Death has no consideration \u2014 one must die as well as another . O'Con .Oh , if he begins to moralize \u2014 -", "We must all die \u2014", "Fair and ugly , crooked or straight , rich or poor \u2014 flesh is grass \u2014 flowers fade ! O'Con . Here , doctor , take a pinch , and keep up your spirits .", "I will , I will .", "Change ! never was man so altered : how came these black spots on your nose ?", "Quid effectum ? O'Con . Diable tutellum .", "What a miracle of fidelity !", "Inhuman dropsy ! O'Con . The justice will wait .", "I fancy not ; there 's no one but honest Humphrey . Ha ! Odds life , here comes some of them \u2014 we 'll stay by these trees , and let them pass .", "With all my heart \u2014 I 'll warrant you I 'll bear a part in it : but how the deuce were you discovered ? O'Con . I 'll tell you as we go ; there 's not a moment to be lost .", "I believe not .", "Right , right , my Alexander ! my taste to a tittle . O'Con . Then , doctor , though I admire modesty in women , I like to see their faces . I am for the changeable rose ; but with one of these quality Amazons , if their midnight dissipations had left them blood enough to raise a blush , they have not room enough in their cheeks to show it . To be sure , bashfulness is a very pretty thing ; but , in my mind , there is nothing on earth so impudent as an everlasting blush .", "I was just giving him a little advice .\u2014 Well I must go for the present .\u2014 Good-morning to your worship \u2014 you need not fear the lieutenant while he is in your house .", "No , no , you mistake . Rum agreed with her well enough ; it was not the rum that killed the poor dear creature , for she died of a dropsy . Well , she is gone , never to return , and has left no pledge of our loves behind . No little babe , to hang like a label round papa 's neck . Well , well , we are all mortal \u2014 sooner or later \u2014 flesh is grass \u2014 flowers fade . O'Con .Oh , the devil !\u2014 again !", "So there is , so there is . You are for beauty as nature made her , hey ! No artificial graces , no cosmetic varnish , no beauty in grey , hey ! O'Con . Upon my word , doctor , you are right ; the London ladies were always too handsome for me ; then they are so defended , such a circumvallation of hoop , with a breastwork of whale-bone that would turn a pistol-bullet , much less Cupid 's arrows ,\u2014 then turret on turret on top , with stores of concealed weapons , under pretence of black pins ,\u2014 and above all , a standard of feathers that would do honour to a knight of the Bath . Upon my conscience , I could as soon embrace an Amazon , armed at all points .", "Heaven send we succeed better !\u2014 but there 's no knowing . O'Con . Very true .", "Ay , and , alack , alack , how you are swelled !", "Ay , you do n't value the soldiers , do you , Humphrey ? O'Con . Not I ; they are but zwaggerers , and you 'll see they 'll be as much afraid of me as they would of their captain .", "Well , I think my friend is now in a fair way of succeeding . Ah ! I warrant he is full of hope and fear , doubt and anxiety ; truly he has the fever of love strong upon him : faint , peevish , languishing all day , with burning , restless nights . Ah ! just my case when I pined for my poor dear Dolly ! when she used to have her daily colics , and her little doctor be sent for . Then would I interpret the language of her pulse \u2014 declare my own sufferings in my receipt for her \u2014 send her a pearl necklace in a pill-box , or a cordial draught with an acrostic on the label . Well , those days are over : no happiness lasting : all is vanity \u2014 now sunshine , now cloudy \u2014 we are , as it were , king and beggar \u2014 then what avails \u2014\u2014 Enter LIEUTENANT O'CONNOR . O'Con . O doctor ! ruined and undone .", "Ay , but if you recover , the villain will escape .", "Hey ! O'Con . Confound your morals ! I tell you I am discovered , discomfited , disappointed .", "Ay , ay , you 're right .", "Futurity is dark . O'Con . As a cellar .", "Only a bruise he got in taking seven or eight highwaymen .", "Great luck ; met him passing by the door . O'Con . Metto dowsei pulsum .", "Re-enter JUSTICE CREDULOUS .", "The pride of beauty \u2014\u2014", "The doctor is astonished at the sight of your fair daughter .", "True , true , my friend : well , high grief can n't cure it . All 's for the best , hey ! my little Alexander ? O'Con . Right , right ; an apothecary should never be out of spirits . But come , faith , \u2018 tis time honest Humphrey should wait on the justice ; that must be our first scheme .", "Now you put me in mind of my poor wife again . O'Con . Ah , pray forget her a little : we shall be too late .", "Doubtless you may \u2014 I 'll answer for the lieutenant 's behaviour whilst honest Humphrey is with your daughter .", "Time must show . O'Con . Certainly .", "Wandering in error . O'Con . Even so .", "I never heard such monstrous iniquity .\u2014 Oh , you are gone indeed , my friend ! the mortgage of your little bit of clay is out , and the sexton has nothing to do but to close . We must all go , sooner or later \u2014 high and low \u2014 Death 's a debt ; his mandamus binds all alike \u2014 no bail , no demurrer .", "He desires me to feel your pulse .", "We may and we may not . O'Con . Right .", "His worship hopes you will not part with your honesty for money . O'Con . Noa , noa ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["I 'm sure , mamma , his regimentals \u2014", "Not so free , fellow !", "Then you own , mamma , it was a marching regiment ?", "O pray now , dear Humphrey \u2014\u2014 O'Con . Nay , \u2018 tis but what old Mittimus commanded .Re-enter JUSTICE CREDULOUS .", "Were blue turned up with red , mamma .", "Well now , I declare this is charming \u2014 you are so disguised , my dear lieutenant , and you look so delightfully ugly . I am sure no one will find you out , ha ! ha ! ha !\u2014 You know I am under your protection ; papa charged you to keep close to me . O'Con . True , my angel , and thus let me fulfil \u2014\u2014", "Well now , one kiss , and be quiet .", "Lud , papa ! Now that 's so good-natured \u2014 indeed there 's no harm . You did not mean any rudeness , did you , Humphrey ? O'Con . No , indeed , miss ; his worship knows it is not in me .", "Nay , mamma , one proof \u2014\u2014", "How could he be in the militia when he was ordered abroad ?", "Nay , I 'm sure , mamma , it is you will not let papa speak now .", "I repeat it again , mamma , officers are the prettiest men in the world , and Lieutenant O'Connor is the prettiest officer I ever saw .", "Oh now , papa , you frighten me , and I am giddy again !\u2014 Oh , help ! O'Con . O dear lady , she 'll fall !", "O my father , what is this I hear ? O'Con . Quiddam seomriam deos tollam rosam .", "Not so free , fellow ! O'Con . No recollection !", "Then I 'll be his crutch , mamma ."], "true_target": ["And a full proof \u2014\u2014", "No , indeed , ma'am , a marching regiment .", "Honest Humphrey , be quiet . O'Con . Have you forgot your faithful soldier ?", "Lud , papa , you are so apprehensive for nothing .", "Ah ! Oh preserve me ! O'Con . \u2018 Tis , my soul ! your truest slave , passing on your father in this disguise .", "How this booby stares after him !O'Con . Lauretta !", "Indeed , papa , now I 'll tell you how it was . I was sometime taken with a sudden giddiness , and Humphrey seeing me beginning to totter , ran to my assistance , quite frightened , poor fellow , and took me in his arms .", "Why , Cousin Sophy married an officer .", "Indeed , mamma , it was n't .", "O'Con . Lauretta ! look on me .", "Do , mamma , tell me the meaning of this .", "Nay , mamma , you should n't be against my lieutenant , for I heard him say you were the best natured and best looking woman in the world .", "It was cousin Sophy told me so .", "Well , papa .", "O papa , you 'll kill me !", "Psha ! you know , mamma , I hate militia officers ; a set of dunghill cocks with spurs on \u2014 heroes scratched off a church door \u2014 clowns in military masquerade , wearing the dress without supporting the character . No , give me the bold upright youth , who makes love to - day , and his head shot off to-morrow . Dear ! to think how the sweet fellows sleep on the ground , and fight in silk stockings and lace ruffles .", "Well , then , I can n't bear to be shut up all day so like a nun . I am sure it is enough to make one wish to be run away with \u2014 and I wish I was run away with \u2014 I do \u2014 and I wish the lieutenant knew it ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Bri . Well , deary .\u2014 Now hold your tongue , miss .", "Bri . He ordered abroad ! He went abroad for his health .", "Bri . You 're an obstinate fool , I tell you ; for if that had been the case \u2014\u2014", "Bri . Ay , girl , hold your tongue !\u2014 Well , my dear .", "Bri . I am listening , my love , I am listening !\u2014 But what signifies my silence , what good is my not speaking a word , if this girl will interrupt and let nobody speak but herself ?\u2014 Ay , I do n't wonder , my life , at your impatience ; your poor dear lips quiver to speak ; but I suppose she 'll run on , and not let you put in a word .\u2014 You may very well be angry ; there is nothing , sure , so provoking as a chattering , talking \u2014", "Bri . Stay !\u2014 Now you 're in such a hurry \u2014 it is some canting scrawl from the lieutenant , I suppose .\u2014Let me see :\u2014 ay , \u2018 tis signed O'Connor .", "Bri . Do n't speak to me , girl .\u2014 Unnatural parent !", "Bri . Oh ! \u2018 tis in vain to conceal it !\u2014 Indeed , lovee , you are as big again as you were this morning .", "Bri . No , give me a husband that knows where his limbs are , though he want the use of them :\u2014 and if he should take you with him , to sleep in a baggage-cart , and stroll about the camp like a gipsy , with a knapsack and two children at your back ; then , by way of entertainment in the evening , to make a party with the serjeant 's wife to drink bohea tea , and play at all-fours on a drum-head :\u2014 \u2018 tis a precious life , to be sure !", "Bri . Will he ? then indeed it would be a pity you should recover . I am so enraged against the villain , I can n't bear the thought of his escaping the halter .", "Bri . We are going , Mr . Surly .\u2014 If that had been the case ,", "Bri . Besides , miss , it is very unbecoming in you to want to have the last word with your mamma ; you should know \u2014", "Bri . Ay , girl , how durst you interrupt your papa ?", "Bri . Ay , Laura , an officer of the militia .", "Bri . Oh , barbarous ! to want a husband that may wed you to - day , and be sent the Lord knows where before night ; then in a twelvemonth perhaps to have him come like a Colossus , with one leg at New York , and the other at Chelsea Hospital .", "Bri . You see , lovee , what you have brought on yourself . Re-enter SERVANT .", "Bri . Read , doctor !\u2014 Ah , lovee , the will !\u2014 Consider , my life , how soon you will be dead .", "Bri . Pho ! nonsense , honesty !\u2014 what had you to do , pray , with honesty ? A fine business you have made of it with your Humphrey Hum : and miss , too , she must have been privy to it . Lauretta ! ay , you would have her called so ; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names : if you had called her Deborrah , or Tabitha , or Ruth , or Rebecca , or Joan , nothing of this had ever happened ; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name .", "Bri . For shame , Laura ! how can you talk so ?\u2014 or if you must have a military man , there 's Lieutenant Plow , or Captain Haycock , or Major Dray , the brewer , are all your admirers ; and though they are peaceable , good kind of men , they have as large cockades , and become scarlet , as well as the fighting folks .", "Bri . Do n't tell me !\u2014 Unus fiddlestick ! you ought to be ashamed to show your face at the sessions : you 'll be a laughing-stock to the whole bench , and a byword with all the pig-tailed lawyers and bag-wigged attorneys about town .", "Bri . Oh ! oh ! alas , doctor !"], "true_target": ["Bri . Read it yourself .", "Bri . O my dear , pray consider the will .", "Bri . Oh , lovee , you may be sure it is in vain ; let him run for the lawyer to witness your will , my life .", "Bri . Well , my lovee , I think this will be a good subject for us to quarrel about the rest of our lives .", "Bri .And though disappointed of my designs upon your daughter , I have still the satisfaction of knowing I am revenged on her unnatural father ; for this morning , in your chocolate , I had the pleasure to administer to you a dose of poison !\u2014 Mercy on us !", "I say , how could \u2014\u2014", "Bri . Ay , pray do , my dear , leave me your estate ; I 'm sure he deserves to be hanged .", "Bri . Three thousand pounds ! three thousand halters !\u2014 No , lovee , you shall never submit to such impositions ; die at once , and be a customer to none of them .", "Bri . Red ! yellow , if you please , miss .", "Bri . No , child , I tell you he was a major of militia .", "Bri . What , my dear , will you submit to be cured by a quack nostrum-monger ? For my part , as much as I love you , I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician .", "Bri . Why , you little provoking minx \u2014\u2014", "N. B . \u2018 Tis not in the power of medicine to save you .", "Bri . How could Major \u2014\u2014", "Bri . No , Mr. Credulous , it is you who are a fool , and no one but such a simpleton would be so imposed on .", "Bri .Revenge is sweet .", "Bri . Lovee , stay , here 's a postscript .\u2014", "Bri . Psha ! there is nothing in it : a moment , and it is over .", "Bri . Ay , go , girl .", "Bri . No , child , she would say no such thing .", "Bri . Why , child , I never said but that Lieutenant O'Connor was a very well-bred and discerning young man ; \u2018 tis your papa is so violent against him ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Go , Bridget , you are worse than she , you old hag . I wish you were both up to the neck in the canal , to argue there till I took you out .", "\u2018 Tis false , you dog ! you are not my son-in-law ; for I 'll be poisoned again , and you shall be hanged .\u2014 I 'll die , sirrah , and leave Bridget my estate .", "Well , my lad , what 's your name ? O'Con . Humphrey Hum .", "What colour were they ?", "Yes , I feel it now \u2014 I 'm poisoned !\u2014 Doctor , help me , for the love of justice ! Give me life to see my murderer hanged .", "Oh , the bloody-looking dogs !", "Ay , and it shall not go unrewarded \u2014 I 'll give him sixpence on the spot . Here , honest Humphrey , there 's for yourself : as for this bribe ,such trash is best in the hands of justice . Now , then , doctor , I think I may trust him to guard the women : while he is with them I may go out with safety .", "Silence , Dr. Croaker ! will you cure me or will you not ?", "Zounds ! go for the doctor , you scoundrel . You are all confederate murderers .", "What , does he say I must row in a boat to Fulham ?", "Dr. Rosy says he 'll bring \u2014", "I thank you , my dear friend , but I had rather see it myself .", "Show him up .", "I 'm sensible of your affection , dearest ; and be assured nothing consoles me in my melancholy situation so much as the thoughts of leaving you behind . Re-enter DOCTOR ROSY , with LIEUTENANT O'CONNOR disguised .", "Damn his regimentals !\u2014 Why do n't you listen ?", "Why , Bridget !\u2014", "Swelled !", "No , Bridget , I shall die by inches .", "I have had a message , love \u2014", "Oh , horrible ! What , no antidote ? O'Con . Curum benakere bono fullum .", "Laury , my \u2014 hey ! what the devil 's here ?", "Ay , but it leaves a numbness behind that lasts a plaguy long time .", "Is he ? then I 'm sure I must be wrong .\u2014 Here , sir , I give my daughter to you , who are the most impudent dog I ever saw in my life . O'Con . Oh , sir , say what you please ; with such a gift as Lauretta , every word is a compliment .", "I 'm poisoned , I say !", "Spots on my nose !", "There , doctor ; there 's what he requires .", "Why , truly , my dear ,\u2014 I think so , though we are seldom at a loss for that .", "Ah , he comes in the place of a rogue , a dog that was corrupted by the lieutenant . But this is a sturdy fellow , is he , doctor ?", "Oons , what a dragon it is !\u2014 Well , Humphrey , come with me .\u2014 I 'll just show him to Bridget , doctor , and we 'll agree .\u2014 Come along , honest Humphrey .O'Con . My dear doctor , now remember to bring the justice presently to the walk : I have a scheme to get into his confidence at once .", "How so ? O'Con . Damsellum livivum suvum rislibani .", "In reading this you are cured , by your affectionate son-in-law , O'CONNOR .\u2014 Who in the name of Beelzebub , sirrah , who are you ? O'Con . Your affectionate son-in-law , O'Connor , and your very humble servant , Humphrey Hum .", "Oh ! was that all \u2014 nothing but a little giddiness , hey ! O'Con . That 's all , indeed , your worship ; for seeing miss change colour , I ran up instantly .", "Hum \u2014 I do n't like Hum ! O'Con . But I be mostly called honest Humphrey \u2014\u2014", "Pleasure to administer a dose of poison !\u2014 Oh , horrible ! Cut-throat villain !\u2014 Bridget !", "So , a tall \u2014 Efacks ! what ! has lost an eye ?", "O the villains ; this is St. Patrick 's day , and the rascals have been parading my house all the morning . I know they have a design upon me ; but I have taken all precautions : I have magazines of arms , and if this fellow does but prove faithful , I shall be more at ease .", "Why , honest Humphrey , hey ! what the devil are you at ?", "A very ignorant fellow indeed !", "I know that you are a lying , canting , hypocritical scoundrel ; and if you do n't take yourself out of my sight \u2014\u2014", "Why , you little truant , how durst you wander so far from the house without my leave ? Do you want to invite that scoundrel lieutenant to scale the walls and carry you off ?", "There they go , ding dong in for the day . Good lack ! a fluent tongue is the only thing a mother do n't like her daughter to resemble her in . Enter DOCTOR ROSY . Well , doctor , where 's the lad \u2014 where 's Trusty ?", "Fetch him , my dear friend , fetch him ! I 'll get him a diploma if he cures me .", "Zounds ! what before my face \u2014 why then , thou miracle of impudence !\u2014\u2014 Mercy on me , who have we here ?\u2014 Murder ! Robbery ! Fire ! Rape ! Gunpowder ! Soldiers ! John ! Susan ! Bridget ! O'Con . Good sir , do n't be alarmed ; I mean you no harm .", "Your very humble servant , honest Humphrey ! Do n't let me \u2014 pray do n't let me interrupt you !", "Who brought it ?", "That 's very kind in you , my dear ; but if it 's the same thing to you , my dear , I had as soon recover , notwithstanding .\u2014 What , doctor , no assistance !", "Take it away and burn it .", "Well , come read it out .", "And who made you a doctor , you impudent rascal , hey ? Get out of my sight , I say , this instant , or by all the statutes \u2014", "Hold ! a little caution \u2014 how does he look ?", "Is this language for his majesty 's representative ? By the statutes , it 's high treason and petty treason , both at once !", "Well , get in , Humphrey . Good-morning to you , doctor .\u2014Come along , Humphrey .\u2014 Now I think I am a match for the lieutenant and all his gang .", "Ay , arsenic , black arsenic !\u2014 Why do n't you run for Dr. Rosy , you rascal ?"], "true_target": ["I 'll shoot \u2014 and so your very humble servant , honest", "Get out of the room directly , both of you \u2014 get out !", "What does he say ?", "What ! can n't you hear me ?", "He has a damned wicked leer somehow with the other .", "Stay , John ; did you perceive anything in my chocolate cup this morning ?", "Trim them , trounce them , break their bones , honest Humphrey \u2014 What a spirit he has !", "In my right eye ?", "You do , do you , hussy ? Well , I think I 'll take pretty good care of you . Here , Humphrey , I leave this lady in your care . Now you may walk about the garden , Miss Pert ; but Humphrey shall go with you wherever you go . So mind , honest Humphrey , I am obliged to go abroad for a little while ; let no one but yourself come near her ; do n't be shame-faced , you booby , but keep close to her . And now , miss , let your lieutenant or any of his crew come near you if they can .", "Humphrey Hum .", "Peace , Bridget !\u2014 Why , doctor , my dear old friend , do you really see any change in me ?", "Odds my life , Bridget ! why do n't you call for help ? I 've lost my voice .\u2014 My brain is giddy \u2014 I shall burst , and no assistance .\u2014 John !\u2014 Laury !\u2014 John !", "Odds life , Bridget , you are enough to make one mad ! I tell you he would have deceived a chief justice ; the dog seemed as ignorant as my clerk , and talked of honesty as if he had been a churchwarden .", "It begins so , does it ? I 'm glad of that ; I 'll let the dog know I 'm of his opinion .", "We know that ; but what will be the effect ?", "Ay , ay , she shall go nowhere without him . Come along , honest Humphrey . How rare it is to meet with such a servant !", "He does , you say !\u2014 Hark'ee , Bridget , you showed such a tender concern for me when you thought me poisoned , that , for the future , I am resolved never to take your advice again in anything .\u2014So , do you hear , sir , you are an Irishman and a soldier , ai n't you ? O'Con . I am sir , and proud of both .", "The devil ! did he say all that in so few words ? What a fine language it is ! Well , I agree , if he can prevail on the girl .\u2014And that I am sure he never will .", "A message , I say .", "I wo n't die , Bridget \u2014 I do n't like death .", "There , he sees it already !\u2014 Poison in my face , in capitals ! Yes , yes , I 'm a sure job for the undertakers indeed !", "Now , Bridget , hold your tongue , and let me see if my horrid situation be apparent .", "And i'faith , Humphrey , you have a pretty cudgel there ! O'Con . Ay , the zwitch is better than nothing , but I should be glad of a stouter : ha \u2019 you got such a thing in the house as an old coach-pole , or a spare bed-post ?", "I have had a message from Doctor Rosy .", "Psha , you 're a fool !", "Corporal Breakbones !", "O mercy ! does he know my distemper ?", "Bridget !\u2014 the young man that is to be hired \u2014", "Thieves ! Robbers ! Soldiers ! O'Con . You know my love for your daughter \u2014", "Oh , \u2018 twas very kind in you ! O'Con . And luckily recovered her .", "Fire ! Cut-throats ! O'Con . And that alone \u2014", "Laury !\u2014 says he will bring the young man \u2014", "The two things on earth I most hate ; so I tell you what \u2014 renounce your country and sell your commission , and I 'll forgive you . O'Con . Hark'ee , Mr. Justice \u2014 if you were not the father of my Lauretta , I would pull your nose for asking the first , and break your bones for desiring the second .", "Treason ! Gunpowder ! Enter a SERVANT with a blunderbuss . Now , scoundrel ! let her go this instant .", "Ay , did you ever hear of such a damned confounded crew ? Well , show the lad in here !", "I thought I saw some of the cut-throats .", "I 'm gone then !\u2014 Hic jacet , many years one of his majesty 's justices !", "Well , honest Humphrey , the doctor has told you my terms , and you are willing to serve , hey ? O'Con . And please your worship I shall be well content .", "Why zounds , madam , how durst you talk so ? If you have no respect for your husband , I should think unus quorum might command a little deference .", "Well said , Humphrey \u2014 my chief business with you is to watch the motions of a rake-helly fellow here , one Lieutenant O'Connor .", "Ca n't he speak English ?", "Tell him \u2018 tis black arsenic they have given me .", "Bridget , my love , I have had a message .", "I 'll shoot . O'Con . And you 'll be convinced \u2014\u2014", "Honest Humphrey , be advised . Ay , miss , this way , if you please . O'Con . Nay , sir , but hear me \u2014\u2014", "Why , hussy \u2014\u2014", "Why , zounds ! will you hear me or no ?", "Oh , well , well , for Doctor Rosy ; these rascals try all ways to get in here .", "Well , then , hark'ye , honest Humphrey ,\u2014 you are sure now , you will never be a rogue \u2014 never take a bribe hey , honest Humphrey ? O'Con . A bribe ! what 's that ?", "No tricks , Bridget ; come , you know it is not so ; you know it is a lie .", "Hey ! what 's here ? plain English !", "I 'll shoot . O'Con . How injurious \u2014\u2014", "You wo n't go ?"], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["A letter for your worship .", "Oh , here he is , your worship .", "Blackish , your worship .", "A soldier .", "Yes , please your worship ; there was one here this morning wanted to speak to you ; he said his name was Corporal Breakbones .", "Your worship !"], "true_target": ["Now , sir ?", "A country-looking fellow , your worship .", "Doctor Rosy , sir", "Nothing , your worship , unless it was a little grounds .", "There is a man below , inquires for Doctor Rosy .", "And Drummer Crackskull came again ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Our hats are none of the best .", "Noa , I was always too lively to take to learning ; but"], "true_target": ["Yes , an please you , I be quite single : my relations be all dead , thank heavens , more or less . I have but one poor mother left in the world , and she 's an helpless woman .", "John here is main clever at it ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["I was born so , measter . Feyther kept grammar-school ."], "true_target": ["Yes , that I have : I have read of Jack the Giant Killer , and the Dragon of Wantly , and the \u2014 Noa , I believe that 's all in the hero way , except once about a comet ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["We will , your honour , we will ."], "true_target": ["Bless your honour , thank your honour ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Enter JUSTICE CREDULOUS and"], "true_target": ["LIEUTENANT O'CONNOR ."], "play_index": 21, "act_index": 21}, {"query": ["Upon my faith , Parmeno , it can not be so much as expressed in words , how disagreeable it is to go on a voyage .", "O lucky man ! You don \u2019 t know what evils you have escaped , by never having been at sea . For to say nothing of other hardships , mark this one only ; thirty days or morewas I on board that ship , and every moment , to my horror , was in continual expectation of death : such unfavorable weather did we always meet with ."], "true_target": ["Consider it as said ; that these things are to be taken care of ,", "That \u2019 s not unknown to me : in fine , upon my faith , I would rather run away than go back , if I knew that I should have to go back there .", "I suppose ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I begged him to give his daughter , and with difficulty I prevailed upon him .", "Eh \u2014 What was it you said ?", "Carry him off on your shoulders in-doors as fast as possible .", "Why don \u2019 t you order her to be sent for hither , { to our house }?", "Dromo !", "Yes , you .", "Well \u2014 this I beg of you , that we may prevent it . While an opportunity offers , and while his passion is cooled by affronts , before the wiles of these women and their tears , craftily feigned , bring back his love-sick mind to compassion , let us give him a wife . I trust , Chremes , that , when attached by intimacy and a respectable marriage , he will easily extricate himself from these evils .", "Do you ask the question ? There \u2019 s a report that my son \u2019 s in love .", "Are your scholars forgetful ?", "The funeral procession meanwhile advances ; we follow ; we come to the burying-place .She is placed upon the pile ; they weep . In the mean time , this sister , whom I mentioned , approached the flames too incautiously , with considerable danger . There , at that moment , Pamphilus , in his extreme alarm , discovers his well-dissembled and long-hidden passion ; he runs up , clasps the damsel by the waist . \u201c My Glycerium ,\u201d says he , \u201c what are you doing ? Why are you going to destroy yourself ?\u201d Then she , so that you might easily recognize their habitual attachment , weeping , threw herself back upon him \u2014 how affectionately !", "But for me to inquire now into these matters , were the part of a severe father . For what he has done hitherto , doesn \u2019 t concern me at all . So long as his time { of life } prompted to that course , I allowed him to indulge his inclination : now this day brings on another mode of life , demands other habits . From this time forward , I do request , or if it is reasonable , I do entreat you , Davus , that he may now return to the { right } path .", "And I for you .", "Really , I am glad for many reasons that she has been discovered to be a citizen .", "Very good :of course , that \u2019 s the { only } thing that \u2019 s now wanting here . But do you answer me this , what business had you there ?", "How now , do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place ?", "I \u2019 ll go to him ; and what I \u2019 ve been telling you , I \u2019 ll tell him as well .SCENE VII . DAVUS alone .", "Hah !", "Nay , so I intend , and so I wish it to be , Chremes ; and I would not ask it of you , did not the occasion itself require it .", "Ph\u00e6drus , or Clinias , or Niceratus , they used to say ; for these three then loved her at the same time . \u201c Well now , what { did } Pamphilus { do }?\u201d \u201c What ? He gave his contribution ;he took part in the dinner .\u201d Just so on another day I made inquiry , but I discovered nothing whatever that affected Pamphilus . In fact , I thought him sufficiently proved , and a great pattern of continence ; for he who is brought into contact with dispositions of that sort , and his feelings are not aroused even under such circumstances , you may be sure that he is already capable of undertaking the governance of his own life . This pleased me , and every body with one voice { began } to say all { kinds of } flattering things , and to extol my { good } fortune , in having a son endowed with such a disposition . What need is there of talking ? Chremes , influenced by this report , came to me of his own accord , to offer his only daughter as a wife to my son , with a very large portion . It pleased me ; I betrothed him ; this was the day appointed for the nuptials .", "I have not been deceived by him .", "I gave you warning , I forbade you with threats to do it . Have you been awed ? What has it availed ? Am I to believe you now in this , that this woman has had a child by Pamphilus ?", "You shall hear all the matter from the beginning ; by that means you \u2019 ll be acquainted with both my son \u2019 s mode of life and my own design , and what I want you to do in this affair . For after he had passed youthfulness ,Sosia , and had obtained free scope of living ,were checking him ? ) \u2014", "I greet you , Chremes .", "You shall know . She is brought out ; we proceed . In the mean time , among the females who were there present , I saw by chance one young woman of beauteous form .", "What does he say , Davus ?", "What say you , of all men , the \u2014?", "Now , then , go in-doors , that you mayn \u2019 t be causing delay when you are wanted .", "In spite of it .Take care he \u2019 s kept well secured ; and , do you hear ? Tie him up hands and feet together .Now then , be off ; upon my faith this very day , if I live , I \u2019 ll teach you what hazard there is in deceiving a master , and him { in deceiving } a father .", "Ha ! have you at last found that out only just now , Pamphilus ? Long since { did } that expression , long since , when you made up your mind , that what you desired must be effected by you at any price ; from that very day did that { expression } aptly befit you . But yet why do I torment myself ? Why vex myself ? Why worry my old age with this madness ? Am I to suffer the punishment for his offenses ? Nay then , let him have her , good-by to him , let him pass his life with her .", "Because I choose .Carry him off , I say .", "You act as becomes you , when that which I ask I obtain with { a good } grace .", "No ? Ha \u2014\u2014", "And yet I certainly was expecting something .", "Of course then , you wish me to speak plainly in what further I have to say .", "What is it , pray ?", "What ?", "This maid-servant comes from the Andrian .", "He seemed to me to be somewhat melancholy in a slight degree .", "A sharper !", "Do you ask ? Are you to be acting this way with impunity ? Are you to be luring young men into snares here , inexperienced in affairs , and liberally brought up , by tempting them , and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises ?", "He \u2019 s beginning his tale .", "And if any one has adopted a bad instructor in that course , he generally urges the enfeebled mind to pursuits still more unbecoming .", "So they say ! Unparalleled assurance ! does he consider what he says ? Is he sorry for what he has done ? Does his countenance , pray , at all betray any marks of shame ? That he should be of mind so weak , as , without regard to the custom and the lawof his fellow-citizens , and the wish of his own father , to be anxious , in spite of every thing , to have her , to his own utter disgrace !", "Do you ask ? Bad heart , bad disposition . Whom , however , if I do detect \u2014 But what need is there of talking ? If it should turn out , as I wish , that there is no delay on the part of Pamphilus , Chremes remains to be prevailed upon by me ; and I do hope that all will go well . Now it \u2019 s your duty to pretend these nuptials cleverly , to terrify Davus ; and watch my son , what he \u2019 s about , what schemes he is planning with him .", "I believe it ; and Davus a short time since forewarned me that this would be the case ; and I don \u2019 t know how I forgot to tell it you to-day , as I had intended .", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ?", "There is a quarrel between Glycerium and my son .", "Do it now , while his mind is agitated .", "Do you hear me ? I \u2019 ve been for some time not a little apprehensive of you , Davus , lest you should do that which the common class of servants is in the habit of doing , namely , impose upon me by your artifices ; because my son is engaged in an amour .", "As if I asked how long ago !", "Do your best still to reform my son .", "Not even this was a cause sufficiently strong for censuring him .", "Such was his mode of life ; readily to bear and to comply with all ; with whomsoever he was in company , to them to resign himself ; to devote himself to their pursuits ; at variance with no one ; never preferring himself to them . Thus most readily you may acquire praise without envy , and gain friends .", "Have you come here so well prepared ?", "What is it ?", "Because he has another matter that more nearly concerns himself , and of more importance .", "Are you able to tell me the truth ?", "I , not { know } you !", "He can \u2019 t { do it }.", "From what house is he coming out ?", "As if any thing too severe could now be possibly said against him . Pray , do you say that Glycerium is a citizen \u2014", "What are you saying ?", "This one thing I am sure of , that no person has been delivered here .", "Such is the fact .", "Ho there ! Dromo , Dromo !", "But now he \u2019 ll do { so }: and that , I fancy , not without heavy cost to you .", "What , is Phamphilus in there ?To my confusion , I \u2019 m on the rackHow now ? Didn \u2019 t you say that there was enmity between them , { you } scoundrel ?", "If he at the real marriage { of my son } had taken me off my guard , what sport he would have made of me . Now it is at his own risk ; I \u2019 m sailing in harbor .", "I knew him , and I am aware of it .", "And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage ?", "I \u2019 m going in .", "I told him what you just now told me .", "To bring him here ?", "I commend him .", "By the Gods , I do conjure you not to bring your mind to believe those whose especial interest it is that he should be as degraded as possible . On account of the marriage , have all these things been feigned and contrived . When the reason for which they do these things is removed from them , they will desist .", "The villain ! what does he say ?", "In any thing would I more willingly allow myself to be imposed upon than in this matter .", "Chremes comes to me next day , exclaiming : \u201c Disgraceful conduct !\u201d\u2014 that he had ascertained that Pamphilus was keeping this foreign woman as a wife . I steadfastly denied that to be the fact . He insisted that it was the fact . In short , I then left him refusing to bestow his daughter .", "I am being trifled with .", "This piece of knavery is being now for the first time palmed upon me by this fellow ; they are pretending that she \u2019 s in labor , in order that they may alarm Chremes .", "Meanwhile , three years ago ,a certain woman from Andros removed hither into this neighborhood , driven by poverty and the neglect of her relations , of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth .", "He , a worthy man ! To come so opportunely to-day { just } at the very nuptials , { and yet } never to have come before ?Of course , we must believe him , Chremes .", "The marriage was not to have taken place .", "Pamphilus !", "Nay but , now in especial , Chremes , I do beg and entreat of you , that the favor , commenced a short time since in words , you \u2019 ll now complete by deeds .", "What all young men , for the most part , do ,\u2014 devote their attention to some particular pursuit , either to training horses or dogs for hunting , or to the philosophers ;in not one of these did he engage in particular beyond the rest , and yet in all of them in a moderate degree . I was pleased ."], "true_target": ["O , save you , good sir !", "What is this that you say ?", "How then can you be sure of that , unless you make the experiment ?", "I , hear him ? Why should I hear him , Chremes ?", "Davus himself , who is privy to { all } their plans , has told me so ; and he advises me to expedite the match as fast as I can . Do you think he would do so , unless he was aware that my son desired it ? You yourself as well shall presently hear what he says .Halloo there ! Call Davus out here . Look , here he is ; I see him just coming out .", "At first , in a modest way , she passed her life with thriftiness and in hardship , seeking a livelihood with her wool and loom . But after an admirer made advances , promising her a recompense , { first } one and then another ; as the disposition of all mankind has a downward tendency from industry toward pleasure , she accepted their proposals , { and } then began to trade { upon her beauty }. Those who then were her admirers , by chance , as it { often } happens , took my son thither that he might be in their company . Forthwith I { said } to myself , \u201c He is surely caught ; he is smitten .\u201dIn the morning I used to observe their servant-boys coming or going away ; I used to make inquiry , \u201c Here , my lad , tell me , will you , who had Chrysis yesterday ?\u201d for that was the name of the Andrian", "How do you know that ?", "There \u2019 s no need of that ability in the matter which I have in hand ; but of those { qualities } which I have ever known as existing in you , fidelity and secrecy .", "Will you attend to this , or not ?", "What does he say then ?", "No , it \u2019 s another matter .", "Come then ; where is he just now ?", "Now I do entreat you , Davus , since you by yourself have brought about this marriage for me \u2014\u2014", "Why are you silent ?", "You have taken such very good care .", "Davus .", "Carry him off .", "Since I purchased you , you know that , from a little child , your servitude with me has always been easy and light . From a slave I made you my freedman ;for this reason , because you served me with readiness . The greatest recompense that I possessed , I bestowed upon you .", "I wish you to marry a wife to-day , as I was saying .", "Hold your tongue .", "Why do I delay to accost him ?", "O Jupiter ! What do I hear ! It \u2019 s all over , if indeed this woman speaks the truth .", "And of countenance , Sosia , so modest , so charming , that nothing could surpass . As she appeared to me to lament beyond the rest , and as she was of a figure handsome and genteel beyond the other women , I approached the female attendants ;I inquired who she was . They said that she was the sister of Chrysis . It instantly struck my mind : \u201c Ay , ay , this is it ; hence those tears , hence that sympathy .\u201d", "How ? Because I knew you .", "You are ridiculing { me }: you don \u2019 t at all deceive me . I give you warning , don \u2019 t act rashly , and don \u2019 t say you were not warned . Take care .", "If you add a word \u2014 Dromo !", "There \u2019 s no delay on his part now .", "What is she saying ?", "Why is he there , then ?", "I \u2019 ll hear nothing . I \u2019 ll soon have you set in motion .", "What can you say to me ?", "I \u2019 ll see that these things are properly done .What \u2019 s the meaning of this ? What does this old rogue mean ? But if there \u2019 s any knavery here , why , he \u2019 s sure to be the source of the mischief .ACT THE THIRD .", "If on account of his amour he shall decline to take a wife , that , in the first place , is an offense on his part to be censured . And now for this am I using my endeavors , that , by means of the pretended marriage , there may be real ground for rebuking him , if he should refuse ; at the same time , that if { that } rascal Davus has any scheme , he may exhaust it now , while { his } knaveries can do no harm : who , I do believe , with hands , feet , { and } all his might , will do every thing ; and more for this , no doubt , that he may do me an ill turn , than to oblige my son .", "O Chremes , the dutifulness of a son ! Do you not pity me ? That I should endure so much trouble for such a son !Come , Pamphilus , come out , Pamphilus ! have you any shame left ?", "If I this day find out that you are attempting any trickery about this marriage , to the end that it may not take place ; or are desirous that in this matter it should be proved how knowing you are ; I \u2019 ll hand you over , Davus , beaten with stripes , to the mill ,even to your dying day , upon this condition and pledge , that if { ever } I release you , I shall grind in your place . Now , do you understand this ? Or not yet even this ?", "Well then , let him speak : I allow him .", "The rascal ! I wonder who it is he \u2019 s praising ?", "He is bound .", "I see that both of them are here .", "Just so . DAV . I ?", "Listen ; in a few words you shall learn both what I want of you , and what you seek { to know }.", "Why look , all the inconvenience in fine amounts to this \u2014 possibly , which may the Gods forfend , a separation may take place . But if he is reformed , see how many are the advantages : in the first place , you will have restored a son to your friend ; you will obtain a sure son-in-lawfor yourself , and a husband for your daughter .", "All who are intriguing take it ill to have a wife given them .", "So much so , that I \u2019 m in hopes they may be separated .", "I \u2019 ve come back to see what they are about , or what scheme they are hatching .", "What does this mean ? Is he so infatuated ? { The child } of a foreign woman ? Now I understand ; ah ! scarcely even at last , in my stupidity , have I found it out .", "I returned thence in anger , and hurt at heart : and { yet there was } not sufficient ground for reproving him . He might say ; \u201c What have I done ? How have I deserved { this }, or offended , father ? She who wished to throw herself into the flames , I prevented ; I saved her .\u201d The defense is a reasonable one .", "You go first ; I \u2019 ll follow .", "Whew ! so sudden ? What nonsense ! As soon as she has heard that I \u2019 m standing before the door , she makes all haste . These { incidents }, Davus , have not been quite happily adapted by you as to the points of time .", "What { news } are you bringing , I wonder ?", "{ Then } be it so .", "What unreasonable { requests }?", "I fancied { so }; and therefore , fearing that , I concealed from you what I shall now mention .", "Very well ; be off in-doors ; wait for me there , and get ready what \u2019 s necessary to be prepared .He hasn \u2019 t prevailed upon me { even } now altogether to believe these things , and I don \u2019 t know whether what he has said is all true ; but I deem it of little moment ; this is of far greater importance to me \u2014 that my son himself has promised me . Now I \u2019 ll go and find Chremes ; I \u2019 ll ask him for a wife for my son ; if I obtain my request , at what other time rather than to-day should I prefer these nuptials taking place ? For as my son has promised , I have no doubt but that if he should prove unwilling , I can fairly compel him . And look ! here \u2019 s Chremes himself , just at the very time .", "I \u2019 ll do so . In the first place , in this affair I give you notice : this , which you suppose to be such , is not a real marriage .", "But I was making pretense , that I might test you { all }.", "Davus .", "Any { word brought } to me ?", "Is this marriage at all disagreeable to him , on account of his intimacy with this foreign woman ?", "You shall hear . In about a few days after these things had been agreed on , Chrysis , this neighbor , dies .", "Nay but , tell me what it is .", "I am not changed .", "I am aware .", "You shall know ; for now I almost feel confidence in you .", "Listen to this . Just as I ordered you to go from here into the house , hemost opportunely met me .", "What do you say { to this }? When you perceived that they were adopting this plan , why didn \u2019 t you tell Pamphilus immediately ?", "What , I ?", "With good reason , Chremes , have I always considered you a most valuable friend .", "Why , I \u2019 m sure of it , to a certainty .", "What , nothing ? Eh ?", "It is so .", "How , \u201c my father ?\u201d As if you stood in any need of this father . Home , wife , { and } children , provided { by you } against the will of your father ! People suborned , { too ,} to say that she is a citizen of this place ! You have gained your point .", "Then my son was often there , with those who had admired Chrysis ; with them he took charge of the funeral ; sorrowful , in the mean time , he sometimes wept { with them } in condolence . Then that pleased me . Thus I reflected : \u201c He by reason of this slight intimacy takes her death so much to heart ; what if he himself had wooed her ? What will he do for me his father ?\u201d All these things I took to be the duties of a humane disposition and of tender feelings . Why do I detain you with many { words }? Even I myself ,for his sake , went forth to the funeral , as yet suspecting no harm .", "Even this , who is there that knows you that would not believe that it originated in you ?", "Just step this way to me .", "She didn \u2019 t order in their presence what was requisite to be done for the woman lying in ; but after she has come out , she bawls from the street to those who are in the house . O Davus , am I thus trifled with by you ? Or pray , do I seem to you so very well suited to be thus openly imposed upon by your tricks ? At all events { it should have been } with precaution ; that at least I might have seemed to be feared if I should detect it .", "There \u2019 s no doubt but that my son doesn \u2019 t wish for a wife ; so alarmed did I perceive Davus to be just now , when he heard that there was going to be a marriage . But the very man is coming out of the house .", "I suppose , Chremes , that you believe that we all rejoice at this discovery .", "But I ordered to that effect .", "The event itself has quite brought me to reconcilement .", "Why do you suppose { so }?", "Well , be it so .", "By the Gods , I do entreat you , Chremes , and { by } our friendship , which , commencing with our infancy , has grown up with our years , and by your only daughter and by my own son, that you will assist me in this matter ; and that , just as this marriage was about to be celebrated , it may be celebrated .", "It really is so .", "What mischief is this ?", "\u201c You yourself , father ,\u201d { he might say }, \u201c have prescribed a limit to these proceedings . { The time } is near , when I must live according to the humor of another ; meanwhile , for the present allow me to live according to my own .\u201d", "I allow it . I desire any thing , so long as I find , Chremes , that"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["My { dear } Geta , why in such haste ? Do take breath .", "Let us call him back . Geta \u2014\u2014", "How do you know , my husband , whether she may not have pretended to dislike me , on purpose that she might be more with her mother ?", "It is not unknown to me , my son , that I am suspected by you as the cause of your wife having left our house in consequence of my conduct ; although you carefully conceal your knowledge of it . But so may the Gods prosper me , and so may you answer all my hopes , I have never knowingly deserved that hatred of me should with reason possess her ; and while I thought before that you loved me , on that point you have confirmed my belief : for in-doors your father has just now related to me in what way you have preferred me to your passion . Now it is my determination to return you the favor , that you may understand that with me lies the reward of your affection . My Pamphilus , I think that this is expedient both for yourselves and my own reputation . I have finally resolved to retire hence into the country with your father , that my presence may not be an obstacle , and that no pretense may remain why your Philumena should not return to you .", "Would that the Gods may grant it so ! Why , then , do you weep , or why so dejected ?", "What then stands in the way ? Why should they not take place ?", "It is indeed as you say ; I entreat the Gods that he may be preserved to us .", "Do , my { dear } Chremes .", "Will you do it ?", "I \u2019 ll name another .", "\u2019 Tis I ,\u2014 Sostrata . GETAWhy , where are you ? You are the very person I am looking for . I was in quest of you ; it \u2019 s very fortunate you have met me .", "Then go in-doors at once , and if she has now done bathing , bring me word . I \u2019 ll wait here in the mean time for my husband .", "Bravo ! You \u2019 ve made me happy . I was afraid for him on account of", "What , Parmeno , is it you ? I \u2019 m undone ! wretch that I am , what shall I do ? Am I not to go see the wife of Pamphilus , when she is ill here next door ?", "That she had done as I had ordered her .", "Indeed I do not say so , my { dear } Laches .", "What room for reproving him , then , is there left ?", "You be off as fast as possible , and relate all the matter just as it has happened to her kinsman Hegio ; for he was the best friend of our { lamented } Simulus , and has shown especial regard for us .", "I understand .", "I was looking for you .", "What \u201c now ,\u201d Geta ?", "An intermitting one ?", "I hope so , i \u2019 faith .", "May the Gods forbid it .", "The matter can not possibly be in a worse position than it is at present . In the first place , she has no portion ; then , besides , that which was as good as a portion , { her honor }, is lost : she can not be given in marriage as a virgin . This { resource } is left ; if he should deny it , I have a ring which he lost as evidence { of the truth }. In fine , Geta , as I am fully conscious that no blame attaches to me , and that neither interest nor any consideration unworthy of her or of myself has had a share in this matter , I will make trial \u2014\u2014", "Prithee , my { dear } nurse , how is it like to end ?", "O my son !", "Philtere .", "Well .", "I await your will .", "Really , sir , if you don \u2019 t take care , you \u2019 ll be causing some mischief to your son ; and indeed I do wonder at it , my husband , how any thing so foolish could ever come into your head .", "Very well .", "I don \u2019 t know .", "Alas ! wretched me !", "Alas ! what have I done ?", "Oh ! by no means in the world ! I \u2019 ll not do it .", "In dreadful alarm , I have for some time heard , I know not what confusion going on here ; I \u2019 m sadly afraid Philumena \u2019 s illness is getting worse . \u00c6sculapius , I do entreat thee , and thee , Health ,that it may not be so . Now I \u2019 ll go visit her .", "Do you remember me being pregnant , and yourself declaring to me , most peremptorily , that if I should bring forth a girl , you would not have it brought up .", "Do you hesitate , Clitipho ?", "What about him ?", "Wretched me ! when now I don \u2019 t so much as know why I am accused !", "Ha ! what is this ?", "What is her malady ?", "Why do you pretend it then ?", "Very likely .", "So may the Gods kindly prosper me , Laches , and so may it be allowed us to pass our lives together in unity !", "Then I am undone ! Why so ?", "I \u2019 m quite agreeable .", "Why , they told me that she was very ill just then ; for that reason I was not admitted to her .", "Good luck to it , i \u2019 troth .", "Hold { now }\u2014 prithee , let that be for our enemies . Am I to admit that he is not my son who { really } is ?", "I give thanks unto the Gods ! Well , through that news my spirits are revived , and anxiety has departed from my heart .", "For what reason ?", "You judge aright ; for if you censure him who has assisted to preserve life , what are you to do to him who causes loss or misfortune { to it }?", "This course , while you are making a beginning , is disagreeable , and while you are unacquainted with it . When you have become acquainted with it , { it will become } easy .", "Wretch that I am !Was it this that you wanted , pray ?So may you be the survivor of me and of him , you are my son and his ; and henceforth , if you love me , take care that I never hear that speech from you { again }.", "She gave it me to keep for her , while she went to bathe . At first I paid no attention { to it }; but after I looked at it , I at once recognized it , { and } came running to you .", "Unless my fancy deceives me , surely this is the ring which I suspect it to be , the same with which my daughter was exposed ."], "true_target": ["Chrysis .", "I \u2019 m sure that before long you will be sensible that I have been accused by you undeservedly .", "How much beyond my hopes has { this matter } turned out ! How dreadfully afraid I was , Chremes , that you would now be of feelings as unrelenting as formerly you were on exposing { the child }.", "Because my daughter has been found ?", "This is that ring .", "Do you , my { dear } Canthara , run with all haste , { and } fetch the midwife , so that , when she is wanted , we may not have to wait for her .", "Unhappy me ! How is it that I see Geta hurrying along thus terrified ? GETAWhom neither promises , nor oaths , nor compassion could move or soften ; nor yet the fact that the delivery was nigh at hand of the unfortunate woman on whom he had so shamefully committed violence .", "I rejoice that you are returned safe . Is Philumena in a fair way ?", "What , I ?", "Not at all ; but there was here an elderly woman of Corinth , of no indifferent character ; to her I gave it to be exposed .", "Now , son , I commend you .", "From the young woman whom Bacchis brought here with her .", "I don \u2019 t know ; unless you inquire of herself whence she got it , if { that } can possibly be discovered .", "Are you quite sure of this ?", "Did not you then { reprove } your son ?", "Ha ! my husband !", "My { dear } Chremes , I have done wrong , I own ; I am convinced . Now this I beg of you ; inasmuch as you are more advanced in years than I , be so much the more ready to forgive ; so that your justice may be some protection for my weakness .", "As we { women } are all foolishly and wretchedly superstitious , when I delivered { the child } to her to be exposed , I drew a ring from off my finger , and ordered her to expose it , together with the child ; { that } if she should die , she might not be withoutsome portion of our possessions .", "Don \u2019 t you see how much evil you will be causing by that course ? \u2014 He suspects himself { to be } a foundling .", "That \u2019 s true .", "I don \u2019 t well understand what he is talking about .", "How so ? Tell me .", "Upon my word , through no means or fault of mine has this taken place .", "Alas ! you are unreasonable to expect me to be silent in a matter of such importance .", "I , not know ?", "I conjure you , my son , not to entertain that { notion } in your mind , that you are another person \u2019 s child .", "What meant that confusion ? Tell me ; was she suddenly taken ill ?", "If I have done or am doing aught that is pleasing to you , Simo , I am glad that it has been done ; and that the same has been gratifying to you , I consider { sufficient } thanks . But this is a cause of uneasiness to me ; for the recital is , as it were , a censureto one forgetful of a kindness . But tell me , in one word , what it is that you want with me .", "Her pains are just beginning , my dear .", "Not without reason ; for this I deem in life to be especially advantageous ; that { one do } nothing to excess .", "What do you say ?", "What is it you say ? Has Pamphilus arrived ?", "Say , then , I entreat you , what is the matter .", "{ Nurse }, how is it ? Does it not seem to you the same ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ? Why are you trembling ?", "But have you now examined it thoroughly , my { dear } nurse ?", "Ah ! I \u2019 m afraid that this Andrian will bring some mischief .", "Unfortunate woman that I am ! I have not a person { at home }; we are quite alone ; Geta too is absent . I have no one to go for the midwife , or to fetch \u00c6schinus .", "\u2019 Tis enough ; I \u2019 ll take care ; now let \u2019 s go in-doors .", "In the first place , this I beg of you , not to believe that I have ventured to do any thing contrary to your commands .", "Pray , my Pamphilus , can you not , seeing how each woman is , prevail upon yourself to put up with one matter of inconvenience ? If every thing else is according to your wish , and such as I take it to be \u2014 my son , do grant me this indulgence , { and } take her back .", "Woe unto wretched me !", "He has wisely laid down his rule of life ; for in these days obsequiousness begets friends ; sincerity , dislike .", "How I dread what you are coming to !", "He is my sole comfort in my afflictions .", "Ah wretched me ! What is one now to believe , or whom believe ? Our own \u00c6schinus , the { very } life of us all , in whom all our hopes and comforts were centred ! Who used to swear he could never live a single day without her ! Who used to say , that he would place the infant on his father \u2019 s knees ,{ and } thus entreat that he might be allowed to make her his wife !", "Upon my faith , we assuredly are all of us hated by our husbands with equal injustice , on account of a few , who cause us all to appear deserving of harsh treatment . For , so may the Gods prosper me , as to what my husband accuses me of , I am quite guiltless . But it is not so easy to clear myself , so strongly have people come to the conclusion that all step-mothers are harsh : i \u2019 faith , not I , indeed , for I never regarded her otherwise than if she had been my own daughter ; nor can I conceive how this has befallen me . But really , for many reasons , I long for my son \u2019 s return home with impatience .", "My husband , I entreat you not to do it .", "I \u2019 ll do as you desire .", "If I have acted wrong , my { dear } Chremes , I have done { so } in ignorance .", "I \u2019 ll make it known .", "What is there that my ability can effect for you more than this ?", "I bear it in mind .", "And me as well ; for this affair does not cause me less sorrow than you , my son .", "Upon my word , these things afford me no pleasure now . While my time of life permitted it , I enjoyed them enough ; satiety of that mode of life has now taken possession of me : this is at present my chief concern , that the length of my life may prove an annoyance to no one , or that he may look forward with impatience to my death .Here I see that , without deserving it , I am disliked ; it is time for { me } to retire . Thus , in the best way , I imagine , I shall cut short all grounds { of discontent } with all ; I shall both free myself from suspicion , and shall be pleasing them . Pray , let me avoid this reproach , which so generally attaches on women to their disadvantage .", "Assuredly it will be so .", "Why , what means this \u201c quite \u201d?", "My son , upon my honor I \u2019 ll give you that charming girl , whom you may soon become attached to , the daughter of our neighbor Phanocrata ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Nay but , Chremes , I \u2019 ll let you now hear from me a disgraceful piece of business . An old man , I don \u2019 t know who he is , has just now come here ; look you , he is a confident { and } shrewd person ; when you look at his appearance , he seems to be a person of some consequence . There is a grave sternness in his features , and something commanding in his words .", "What is it you tell me ?", "Assuredly , I \u2019 ll manage this for you .", "And that very thing is in no danger ; trust me for that .", "By me ?", "Hear me , pray .", "So they say .", "I \u2019 ll tell you . If now he were angry { with you }, because Chremes will not give you a wife , he would seem to himself to be unjust , and that not without reason , before he has ascertained your feelings as to the marriage , how they are disposed . But if you refuse to marry her , in that case he will transfer the blame to you ; then such disturbances will arise .", "Well , then , I will release you ; Chremes is not going to give you his daughter at present .", "Through my means , and that of the stranger \u2014\u2014", "Here , take it ; it \u2019 s { all } ready counted out ;the number just amounts to the sum I owed you .", "You please me ; well , that is the duty of a man .", "Out upon you , simpleton ; { the man }, whose trustworthiness you have experienced as to money , are you afraid to intrust with words ? In what way have I any interest in deceiving you ?", "What \u2014 do you ask me again ? Tell me , whose child have you been laying here ? Let me know .", "Why , what is this ?", "Consider what will be the result of it .", "Together with your son .", "Who \u2019 s that ?", "I \u2019 ll be here this moment , I tell you .", "I \u2019 m seen .", "Just as much as nothing .", "Where is Pamphilus , I wonder ?", "What ?", "I was coming to you .", "GETA", "I was wondering if this matter was to go off thus ; and was continually dreading where my master \u2019 s good humor would end ; for , after he had heard that a wife would not be given to his son , he never uttered a word to any one of us , or took it amiss .", "Heyday , indeed ! it really is a wonder if a woman , who is a courtesan , acts impudently .", "Nay but , do hear this .", "It shall be attended to ; but your father \u2019 s coming . Take care that he doesn \u2019 t perceive that you are out of spirits .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Why isn \u2019 t the bride sent for ?It \u2019 s now growing late in the day .", "And yet not at all .", "Not yet even do you know me sufficiently , Simo , what sort of person I am .", "For himI \u2019 ve got it , not for you , don \u2019 t mistake .", "What came of it at last ?", "Absurd .", "I give you my best attention .", "Now then , I bid you set your minds at ease .", "Ha ! what story is this ? How now , Mysis , whence comes this child ? Who has brought it here ?", "Geta , my very good friend and fellow-townsman , came to me yesterday . There had been for some time a trifling balance of money of his in my hands upon a small account ; { he asked me } to make it up . I have done so , { and } am carrying it to him . But I hear that his master \u2019 s son has taken a wife ; this , I suppose , is scraped together as a present for her . How unfair a custom ! \u2014 that those who have the least should always be giving something to the more wealthy ! That which the poor wretch has with difficulty spared , ounce by ounce , out of his allowance ,defrauding himself of every indulgence , the whole of it will she carry off , without thinking with how much labor it has been acquired . And then besides , Geta will be struckfor another presentwhen his mistress is brought to bed ; and then again for another { present }, when the child \u2019 s birthday comes ; when they initiate him ,too : all this the mother will carry off ; the child will { only } be the pretext for the present . But don \u2019 t I see Geta there ?", "Nay , but do be quiet .", "No really ; but I know what has happened to myself .", "Why no , better , I trust .", "He is struck dumb .", "I \u2019 faith , I do not comprehend .", "Come now , did you of your own accord perceive that this was counterfeited ?", "I went in just now .", "{ What ? } Although this is the truth .", "Certainly , by all means .", "Ye gracious Gods , what good news I bring ! But where shall I find Pamphilus , that I may remove the apprehension in which he now is , and fill his mind with joy \u2014?", "Whom , then , ought I to ask , as I don \u2019 t see any one else here ?", "Take it from me directly , and lay it down before our door .", "He says that you are making too sparing preparations .", "Do proceed ; if he isn \u2019 t sufficiently angry of his own accord , do you irritate him .", "Capital !", "I forthwith { betook } myself to the house of Chremes . When I arrived there \u2014 stillness before the door ;then I was pleased at that .", "Why should I not ?", "If you find that I have told a lie in any one matter , { then } kill me .", "What { are } you { going to do }? Whither are you going from here ?", "Don \u2019 t say so .", "To one who had so much property , that he had more than he could use ?", "You have discovered { that }? Still , not a bit the less will they presently be laying the childhere before the door . Of this , then , I now warn you , master , that it will happen , that you may be aware of it . Don \u2019 t you hereafter be saying that this was done through the advice or artifices of Davus . I wish this suspicion of yours to be entirely removed from myself .", "What do you say ?", "Here he is , say no more . GETAOh ! Why I was trying { to come } and meet you , Davus .", "He meant this , that we , thus unsuspecting , should be led away by delusive joy ; that now in hope , { all } fear being removed , we might during our supineness be surprised , so that there might be no time for planning a rupture of the marriage . How clever !", "Do you , Mysis , remain here a little while , until I come out .", "Well , when do you expect your old man ?", "You may be at ease .", "Why nothing but what I heard him mention .", "Come now , you unreasonable person , are you not satisfied that I give you a little respite , by putting off his marriage ?", "I myself , indeed !", "Nothing at all .", "Is his father come back or not ?", "What , the very one I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening ?", "I don \u2019 t know what you are talking about .", "{ Only } see ! I was not able to discover that . Dear me ! what a cunning contrivance !", "Have you found out at last what sort of a person I am ?", "There is .", "What does he say he has found out ?", "I owe you this , Pamphilus , in respect of my servitude , to strive with hands { and } feet , night and day ; to submit to hazard of my life , to serve you . It is your part , if any thing has fallen out contrary to expectation , to forgive me . What I was contriving has not succeeded ; still , I am using all endeavors ; or , do you yourself devise something better , { and } dismiss me .", "That he knows Glycerium to be a citizen of Attica .", "About what ?", "No \u2014 I am Davus , not \u0152dipus .", "Do we seem to you such very suitable persons for you to be playing tricks with us in this way ?", "Step aside to the right .", "Send for the bride when you like .", "It \u2019 s the truth . I saw Canthara stuffed out beneath her clothes .", "This way it has not succeeded ; we \u2019 ll try another . Unless , perhaps , you think that because it failed at first , this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck .", "You did say { so }.", "Extremely well done , I say .", "What , I ?", "Do these things seem to accord with a wedding ?", "As well as your own self .", "I commend you .", "I \u2019 m going .Don \u2019 t you wait until they come out from there ; she will be betrothed within : if there is any thing else that remains , it will be transacted in-doors . Grant us your applause .FOOTNOTES", "I \u2019 m afraid that this day won \u2019 t be long enough for me to execute it , so don \u2019 t suppose that I \u2019 ve now got leisure for relating it ; do you betake yourself off at once , for you are a hinderance to me .", "All the affair is now in a safe position .", "You . \u2014 He says that there has hardly been fare provided to the amount of ten drachm\u00e6 .\u2014\u201c Does he seem to be bestowing a wife on his son ? Which one now , in preference , of my companions shall I invite to the dinner ?\u201d And , it must be owned , you really { are providing } too parsimoniously \u2014 I do not commend you .", "You knew how to make your market .", "Would not his father , if he had returned , have given him leave ?", "It really is not a matter of doubt .", "Mysis , I now stand in need of your cunning being brought into play in this matter , and of your address .", "Why , who has induced him to leave her , but myself ? For , indeed , we all know how desperately he loved her . Now he wishes for a wife . In fine , do you intrust me with that affair ; proceed however , as before , to celebrate these nuptials , just as you are doing , and I trust that the Gods will prosper this matter .", "This is the bride \u2019 s father . It couldn \u2019 t any other way have been managed that he should know the things that we wanted him to know .", "I \u2019 ll follow them ; I don \u2019 t wish the old man to see me at this moment .ACT THE FIFTH .", "Ha ! Are we undone , then ?", "What is it you tell me ?", "He has no doubt at present but that you \u2019 ll refuse to marry . Having considered his course , he \u2019 s come from a retired spot somewhere or other ; he hopes that he has framed a speech by which to disconcert you ; do you take care , then , to be yourself .", "I perceive it ; this vexes the man .", "I know what you are afraid of .", "Why not ?", "And that , constrained by the laws ,he will have to take her as his wife .", "Are you going to tell me what I ask ?", "I stopped { there }. In the mean time I saw no one going in , no one going out ; no matron at the house ,no preparation , no bustle . I drew near ; looked in \u2014"], "true_target": ["Presently I \u2019 ll give you what I \u2019 ve hit upon .", "Why keep dinning me { with it }, when I know it all ?This are you afraid of , lest you should marry her ; and youlest you should not marry her .", "For what reason ?", "I know it already \u2014 fell in love with her .", "Ah , Geta , you undertook a hard task { there }.", "What have I done ?", "No , not at all ;he \u2019 s making the beginning of a { long } story for me .", "Not so . In fact , I think it will be thus : Your father will say : \u201c I wish you to marry a wife to-day .\u201d You reply : \u201c I \u2019 ll marry her .\u201d Tell me , how can he raise a quarrel with you ? Thus you will cause all the plans which are now arranged by him to be disarranged , without any danger ; for this is not to be doubted , that Chremes will not give you his daughter . Therefore do not hesitate in those measures which you are taking , on this account , lest he should change his sentiments . Tell your father that you consent ; so that although he may desire it , he may not be able to be angry at you with reason . For that which you rely on , I will easily refute ; \u201c No one ,\u201d { you think }, \u201c will give a wife to { a person of } these habits .\u201d But he will find a beggar for you , rather than allow you to be corrupted { by a mistress }. If , however , he shall believe that you bear it with a contented mind , you will render him indifferent ; at his leisure he will look out for another { wife for you }; in the mean time something lucky may turn up .", "I \u2019 m in search of \u2014", "Hear me .", "A wonder if he isn \u2019 t at home .", "Word has been brought you ; for { otherwise } how could this suspicion have occurred to you ?", "Take some sacred herbsfrom the altar here ,and strew them under it .", "I have been deceived , but I don \u2019 t despair .", "What of the one who was usher to the Music-girl ?", "Am I right ?", "What would you believe ? As though word had not been brought you that thus it would happen .", "What has he done ?", "O , well done !", "I \u2019 ve heard so , and I believe it : many things combine for me to form this conjecture . In the first place then , she declared that she was pregnant by Pamphilus ; that has been proved to be false .Now , when she sees that preparations are being made for the wedding at our house , the maid-servant is directly sent to fetch the midwife to her , and to bring a child at the same time .Unless it is managed for you to see the child , the marriage will not be at all impeded .", "What , I do that ?", "Who \u2019 s that , speaking ?O Chremes , you have come in good time . Do listen to this .", "You silly fellow ! as though it were a necessary consequence that if he doesn \u2019 t give her to him you should marry her : unless , { indeed }, you look about you ; unless you entreat { and } make court to the old man \u2019 s friends .", "I \u2019 ll pretend too that I \u2019 ve come in this direction from the right . Do you take care to help out the conversation by your words , whenever there \u2019 s necessity .", "Look round at him as though taken unawares .", "Assuredly , upon my faith , it \u2019 s he that \u2019 s now { deceiving } himself , not I .", "Especially as people \u2019 s ways are nowadays ; things are come to such a pass , if a person repays you any thing , you must be greatly obliged to him . But why are you out of spirits ?", "It \u2019 s my master ; What am I to do ?", "O , say no more ; you are the only person whom the Gods favor .", "Now therefore , that you may be quite aware , if you don \u2019 t take up the child , I \u2019 ll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road ; and yourself in the same place I \u2019 ll roll over into the mud .", "Which of our people ?", "You shall know . Your father just now laid hold of me ; he said that a wife was to be given you to-day , and many other things as well , which just now I haven \u2019 t time to relate . Hastening to you immediately , I ran on to the Forum that I might tell you these things . When I didn \u2019 t find you , I ascended there to a high place .I looked around ; you were nowhere . There by chance I saw Byrrhia , his { servant }I inquired of him ; he said he hadn \u2019 t seen you . This puzzled me . I considered what I was to do . As I was returning in the mean time , a surmise from the circumstances themselves occurred to me : \u201c How now ,\u2014 a very small amount of good cheer ; he out of spirits ; a marriage all of a sudden ; { these things } don \u2019 t agree .\u201d", "O abominable piece of effrontery !", "Nor I with myself , and { yet } I \u2019 m giving all due attention to it . I \u2019 ll tell him that I will devise something , in order that I may procure some respite in this dilemma .", "O Geta , what will become of you ?", "No , faith ; or if at all , it is a two or three days \u2019 annoyance this \u2014 you understand . It will then cease . Moreover , he himself has thought over this matter in a proper way .", "Make haste then , and take the child away from the door here :stay { there }; take care you don \u2019 t stir from that spot .", "So so , but poorly .", "Well , what is it ?", "Not at all on account of her , but there \u2019 s something he blames you for .", "I \u2019 m a lost man ! What reason is there why I shouldn \u2019 t take my departure straightway hence for the mill ? There \u2019 s no room left for supplicating ; I \u2019 ve upset every thing now ; I \u2019 ve deceived my master ; I \u2019 ve plunged my master \u2019 s son into a marriage ; I \u2019 ve been the cause of its taking place this very day , without his hoping for it , and against the wish of Pamphilus . Here \u2019 s cleverness { for you }! But , if I had kept myself quiet , no mischief would have happened .But see , I espy him ; I \u2019 m utterly undone ! Would that there were some spot here for me , from which I might this instant pitch myself headlong !", "Oh , { as for that }, I { really } ought to have been a man of fortune .", "While it was allowed him , and while his years prompted him , he intrigued ; { even } then it { was } secretly . He took precaution that that circumstance should never be a cause of disgrace to him , as behooves a man of principle ; now that he must have a wife , he has set his mind upon a wife .", "I understand where he \u2019 s mistaken ; and I see what I must do .", "Well , well , I \u2019 ll come .", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! what a crowd there is in the Forum ! What a lot of people are squabbling there !Then provisions are { so } dear .What to say besides , I don \u2019 t know .", "Is it to you I speak or not ?", "Why , what am I to hear ?", "Is there any thing else that you want with me , Geta ?", "And what you { are afraid of }, I know .", "Assuredly , Davus , there \u2019 s no room for slothfulness or inactivity , so far as I \u2019 ve just now ascertained the old man \u2019 s mind about the marriage ; which if it is not provided against by cunning , will be bringing either myself or my master to ruin . What to do , I am not determined ; whether I should assist Pamphilus or obey the old man . If I desert the former , I fear for his life ; if I assist him , I { dread } the other \u2019 s threats , on whom it will be a difficult matter to impose . In the first place , he has now found out about this amour ; with hostile feelings he watches me , lest I should be devising some trickery against the marriage . If he discovers it , I \u2019 m undone ; or even { if } he chooses to allege any pretext , whether rightfully or wrongfully , he will consign me headlong to the mill . To these evils this one is besides added for me . This Andrian , whether she is { his } wife , or whether { his } mistress , is pregnant by Pamphilus . It is worth while to hear their effrontery ; for it is an undertaking { worthy } of those in their dotage , not of those who dote in love ;whatever she shall bring forth , they have resolved to rear ;and they are now contriving among themselves a certain scheme , that she is a citizen of Attica . There was formerly a certain old man of this place , a merchant ; he was shipwrecked off the Isle of Andros ; he died . { They say } that there , the father of Chrysis , on that occasion , sheltered this girl , thrown on shore , an orphan , a little child . What nonsense ! To myself at least it isn \u2019 t very probable ; the fiction pleases them , however . But Mysis is coming out of the house . Now I \u2019 ll { betake } myself hence to the Forum ,that I may meet with Pamphilus , lest his father should take him by surprise about this matter . ( Exit .", "Hah ! Simo ! O , Chremes , my { dear sir }, all things are now quite ready in-doors .", "The father of the { intended } bride is coming in the middle of it { all }. The plan which I had first purposed I { now } give up .", "Nothing at all .", "Have done with what I know ; tell me what I ask .", "How now , simpleton , don \u2019 t you know what has been done ?", "I ? Nothing more easy .", "Do you suppose that it makes little difference whether you do things according to impulse , as nature prompts , or from premeditation ? SCENE IX . Enter CRITO , looking about him . CRITOIt was said that Chrysis used to live in this street , who preferred to gain wealth here dishonorably to living honestly { as } a poor woman in her own country : by her death that property has descended to me by law .But I see some persons of whom to make inquiry .Good-morrow to you .", "Now then , be on your guard .", "That if perchance I should have to swear to my master that I did not place it there , I may be enabled to do so with a clear conscience .", "It \u2019 s my master , and I didn \u2019 t see him .", "{ Aye }, and quickly too .", "What then ?", "Say that you will marry her .", "It has fallen out just like human affairs in general , that you should know the mishap I have met with , before I the good that has befallen you .", "Certainly , I { will }, to that .", "I \u2019 ve touched him up .", "The cross .But allow me a little time to recover myself ; I \u2019 ll soon hit upon something .", "As though you meant to say that this has been done by my contrivance .", "Assuredly she doesn \u2019 t know him , on whose account she resorts to these schemes . Chremes , { she fancies }, if he sees the child laid before the door , will not give his daughter ; i \u2019 faith , he \u2019 ll give her all the sooner .", "Utterly ruined !", "Oh , piece of effrontery .", "The public troubles itself about that ,of course .", "What can this mean ?", "As if I did not know it ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "I wish that either he were deaf , or she struck dumb .", "I never did see a more opportune person , encounter , { or } occasion .", "Trust me for that , Pamphilus , I tell you ; your father will never this day exchange a single word with you , if you say that you will marry .", "Troth , I \u2019 ll do it with all due care .", "I \u2019 ll do { so }.", "You do tell good news .", "Who \u2019 s the person that \u2019 s \u2014O Pamphilus , you are the very man I \u2019 m looking for . Well done , Charinus ! both in the nick of time : I want you { both }.", "He is .", "Prithee , did you hear it ? Here \u2019 s villainy for you ! sheought to be carried offhence to the torture forthwith .This is Chremes himself ; don \u2019 t suppose that you are trifling with Davus { only }.", "It has turned out contrary to your expectations .", "One scheme brings on another . I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica \u2014", "How ? Not { to have taken place }?", "Perhaps he hasn \u2019 t much to give .", "But I \u2019 ve got it now .", "Who ?", "It \u2019 s a childish thing .", "It is the fact .", "Why should I come ? I can do nothing { for you }.", "I \u2019 m contriving an expedient .", "An amusing piece of assurance !", "Take you care not to utter a single word beyond what I ask you . Why don \u2019 t you say aloud whence it comes ?", "But the door of Glycerium \u2019 s house here makes a noise .", "Assuredly , Pamphilus .", "There \u2019 s a necessity for so doing .", "Yes , perfectly : you have now spoken so plainly upon the subject , you have not used the least circumlocution .", "Still , I \u2019 ll soon extricate you .", "He now supposes that I \u2019 m bringing some trick to bear against him , and that on that account I \u2019 ve remained here .", "He is seeking me distractedly all the city over . But where shall I look for him ? Or in which direction now first to betake me \u2014", "Think , do you say ? You don \u2019 t view it rightly ; the thing is certain . Besides , coming away from there I saw the servant-boy of Chremes carrying some vegetables and little fishes , an obol \u2019 s worth ,for the old man \u2019 s dinner .", "What does he want ?", "Fair words , I entreat .", "What remedy now shall I find for this mishap ?", "For I do believe now , if he has already heard that a marriage is prepared for him \u2014", "How ? What \u2014 to Pamphilus ?", "I \u2019 m quite sure that I shall be safe in future , if for the present I get clear of this mishap .", "But if I begin to tell { you } any thing , at once you think that deceit is being practiced upon you in guile ; therefore , upon my faith , I don \u2019 t dare now { even } to whisper .", "I have it .", "Bestir yourself quickly , that you may learn what I \u2019 m going to do next .Oh Jupiter !", "He is your father , Pamphilus . It is a difficult matter . Besides , this woman is defenseless . No sooner said than done ; he will find some pretext for driving her away from the city ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["My { good } sir , prithee , what is that ? Whither are you carrying the child ?", "Why are you bawling out so ?", "This language has terrified wretched me with apprehension .", "What does this mean ?", "He isn \u2019 t any where to be seen . Woe to wretched me ! the fellow has left me and is off .", "I understand ; have these new scruples only just now occurred to you , pray ?", "What is it you want ?", "I should have no fear if it rested with yourself alone ; but whether you may be able to withstand compulsion \u2014", "I don \u2019 t understand what you are talking about .", "To Pamphilus .", "Why don \u2019 t you do it yourself ?", "ACT THE SECOND .", "Don \u2019 t touch me , villain .On my word , if I don \u2019 t { tell } Glycerium all this ....", "You are out of your senses ; didn \u2019 t you your own self ?", "I wish { she had }.", "So indeed I hope .", "Wretched me ! What language do I hear ?", "Has proved his constancy .", "How should I know ?", "Prithee , on the ground ?", "What , we ? Just as we can , { as } they say ; since we can \u2019 t as we would .", "By all means .", "Aye faith , that is the case ; and for that reason , poor thing , she is now in distress .", "O most worthy stranger ! I \u2019 faith , Crito , you still adhere to your good old-fashioned ways .", "I don \u2019 t at all comprehend what you are about ; but if there \u2019 s any thing in which you have need of my assistance , as you understand the best , I \u2019 ll stay , that I mayn \u2019 t in any way impede your success .SCENE VII .", "Oh ! Good-morrow to you , Pamphilus .", "Pray , why did you leave me here alone ?", "Upon my faith , the fact is really as you mentioned , Lesbia , you can hardly find a man constant to a woman .", "How now \u2014 is it not so ?", "A most excellent one . But follow me in-doors , that you mayn \u2019 t keep her waiting .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?"], "true_target": ["It belongs to your people .", "From our house .", "May the Gods confound you ! you do so terrify poor me .", "Now , wherever he is , I \u2019 ll take care that your own Pamphilus shall be found for you , and brought to you by me ; do you only , my life , cease to vex yourself .", "For the child she brings forth , he has ordered to be brought up .", "Too truly . She has indeed left us poor creatures quite heart-broken .", "Where is he ?", "Prithee , whom do I see ? Isn \u2019 t this Crito , the kinsman of Chrysis ? It is he .", "Who is it ? Why , Pamphilus , you do present yourself opportunely to me . My mistress charged me to beg of you , if you love her , to come to her directly ; she says she wishes to see you .", "Why , what are you going to do ?", "I \u2019 m wretchedly afraid how this uncertainty is to terminate . But now there \u2019 s an absolute necessity , either for him to speak to her , or for me { to speak } to him about her . While the mind is in suspense , it is swayed by a slight impulse one way or the other .", "Welcome to you , Crito .", "For what reason ?", "Don \u2019 t you know ?", "Do you ask ? She is oppressed with grief ,and on this account the poor thing is anxious , because some time ago the marriage was arranged for this day . Then , too , she fears this , that you may forsake her .", "You should have told me that before .", "Are you quite right in your senses , to be asking me that ?", "I begin to revive .", "That nothing can be secure to any one ! Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! I used to make sure that this Pamphilus was a supreme blessing for my mistress ; a friend , a protector , a husband secured under every circumstance ; yet what anguish is she , poor thing , now suffering through him ? Clearly there \u2019 s more trouble { for her } now than { there was } happiness formerly . But Davus is coming out .", "Wretched me ! upon my faith I have told no untruth , my { worthy } old gentleman .", "I \u2019 faith , I thank the Gods that several free women were presentat the delivery .", "I \u2019 m going to fetch the midwife .", "I \u2019 ve heard you already , Archylis ; you request Lesbia to be fetched . Really , upon my faith , she is a wine-bibbingand a rash woman , and not sufficiently trustworthy for you to commit to her care a female at her first delivery ; is she still to be brought ?Do look at the inconsiderateness of the old woman ; because she is her pot-companion . Ye Gods , I do entreat you , give her ease in her delivery , and to that woman an opportunity of making her mistakes elsewhere in preference . But why do I see Pamphilus so out of spirits ? I fear what it may be . I \u2019 ll wait , that I may know whether this sorrow portends any disaster .", "Upon my word , man , you are not sober .", "I understand . ( Exeunt severally .", "O { you } impudent fellow !", "Pshaw !", "This one thing I know , that she is deserving that you should not forget her .", "But this Pamphilas \u2014\u2014", "Well now , pray , is she not a citizen ?", "Make haste ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["What ?", "I see Davus . There is no one in the world whom I would choose in preference ; for I am sure that he of all people will sincerely rejoice in my happiness . SCENE VII .", "Well , I \u2019 ll say it ; but , that he mayn \u2019 t come to know that she has had a child by me , is a thing to be guarded against ; for I have promised to bring it up .", "I will submit to any thing { from him }.", "What remains { to be done }, father ?", "Make all haste . And \u2014 do you hear ?\u2014 take care , { and } not one word about the marriage , lest that too { should add } to her illness .", "What answer shall I make them , or in what manner keep this secret ?", "You may not .", "Why comfort me ? Is there a person in all the world so wretched as { I }? Before I took her to wife , I had my heart engaged by other affections . Now , though on this subject I should be silent , it is easy for any one to know how much I have suffered ; yet I never dared refuse her whom my father forced upon me . With difficulty did I withdraw myself from another , and disengage my affections so firmly rooted there ! and hardly had I fixed them in another quarter , when , lo ! a new misfortune has arisen , which may tear me from her too . Then besides , I suppose that in this matter I shall find either my mother or my wife in fault ; and when I find such to be the fact , what remains but to become still more wretched ? For duty , Parmeno , bids me bear with the feelings of a mother ; then , to my wife I am bound by obligations ; with so much temper did she formerly bear my usage , and on no occasion disclose the many wrongs { inflicted on her } by me . But , Parmeno , something of consequence , I know not what it is , must have happened for { this } misunderstanding to have arisen between them , that has lasted so long .", "I know the whole affair , and how it happened ; I heard it just now , on my arrival .", "So they say . Go in the house , please , mother ; I \u2019 ll follow you immediately .", "Proceed .", "For my own part I \u2019 ll use my endeavors .", "My marriage \u2014", "You don \u2019 t know , Parmeno , how much you have benefited me to-day , and from what troubles you have extricated me .", "Do you loiter ? ( Exit PARMENO .", "It is not my intention , father ; I shall study my mother \u2019 s interests .", "What will you do ? Tell me .", "Ah me ! not to have the leisure to inflict punishment upon you as I desire ! for the present conjuncture warns me to take precautions for myself , not to be taking vengeance on you . ( Exeunt . ACT THE FOURTH .", "Such was the fact .", "I own that I love her ; if that is committing a fault , I own that also . To you , father , do I subject myself . Impose on me any injunction you please ; command me . Do you wish me to take a wife ? Do you wish me to give her up ? As well as I can , I will endure it . This only I request of you , not to think that this old gentleman has been suborned by me . Allow me to clear myself , and to bring him here before you .", "And I too .", "I believe it , father .", "I understand ; a considerable indication .", "Certainly not ; for I quite believe that if you set about it , you will be making two marriages for me out of one .", "Prithee , do order him to be set at liberty .", "I \u2019 m undone ! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this .", "She entreated me that I would give her this pledge , by which she might be sure she should not be deserted .", "Driving her away ?", "Davus , come here ! Stop !", "I \u2019 ll go .", "A child which the father has abandoned , am I to rear ?", "Tell me , have you as yet told any of these matters to my father ?", "If I didn \u2019 t dread my father , I have something , which , in this conjuncture , I could opportunely suggest to him .", "You , extricate { me }?", "No individual , I do believe , ever met with more crosses in love than I. Alas ! unhappy me ! that I have { thus } been sparing of life ! Was it for this I was so very impatient to return home ? O , how much more preferable had it been for me to pass my life any where in the world than to return here and be sensible that I am thus wretched ! For all of us know who have met with trouble from any cause , that all the time that passes before we come to the knowledge of it , is so much gain .", "My mother , blessings on you .", "I am satisfied .", "I believe you .", "So long as I don \u2019 t take her back , let her cause as much disturbance as she pleases .", "How is she ?", "You are mistaken .", "Mysis .", "Am I to suffer his memory to stand in the way of my happiness , when I myself can provide my own remedy in this matter ? I will not suffer it .Hark you , Chremes , that which you are trying to recollect { is } \u201c Pasibula .\u201d", "Miserable that I am !", "Mysis , I swear by all the Gods that I will never forsake her ; not if I were to know that all men would be my enemies in consequence . Her have I chosen for mine ; she has fallen to my lot ; our feelings are congenial ; farewell they , who wish for a separation between us ; nothing but Death separates her from me .", "My mother go away ? By no means .", "It \u2019 s of no consequence ; he hasn \u2019 t yet heard of these misfortunes .", "Whatever he has left , we are the gainers by it .", "Hold ; you do not yet know { all }.", "They are changing sides .", "How so , pray ?", "Go , Parmeno , into the house , and carry wordthat I have arrived .", "Ha ! could I attempt that ? Could I suffer her , poor thing , to be deceived on my account ? She , who has confided to me her affection , and her entire existence ? She , whom I have held especially dear to my feelings as my wife ? Shall I suffer her mind , well and chastely trained and tutored , to be overcome by poverty and corrupted ? I will not do it .", "Is it humane to do or to devise this ? Is this the duty of a father ?", "Father , may I { say } a few words ?", "But why are you leaving her ?", "If I am only able , Davus .", "But immediately .", "I wish to ; restore me to the position in which you found me .", "I am sure that it has been my study , that with reason no slight might possibly be committed by your family ; and if I were now truthful to mention of how faithful , loving , and tender a disposition I have proved toward her , I could { do so } truly , did I not rather wish that you should learn it of herself ; for by that method you will be the more ready to place confidence in my disposition when she , who is now acting unjustly toward me , speaks favorably of me . And that through no fault of mine this separation has taken place , I call the Gods to witness . But since she considers that it is not befitting her to give way to my mother , and with readiness to conform to her temper , and as on no other terms it is possible for good feeling to exist between them , either my mother must be separated , Phidippus , from me , or else Philumena . Now affection urges me rather to consult my mother \u2019 s pleasure .", "Don \u2019 t attempt to persuade me .", "Now , if you can do any thing , either you yourself , or Byrrhia here , manage , fabricate , invent , contrive { some means }, whereby she may be given to you ; this I shall aim at , how she may not be given to me .", "What ! am I to suffer you , who have caused me , when dead , to be restored from the shades to life \u2014 to leave me unrewarded ? Oh , you deem me too thankless ! But look \u2014 I see Bacchis standing before the door ; she \u2019 s waiting for me , I suppose ; I \u2019 ll accost her .", "Agreeable to me ?", "I \u2019 ll remember you ; and because it is tedious for us to wait for him until he comes out , follow me this way ; he is now in-doors at the house of Glycerium ; do you , Davus , go home ; send with all haste to remove her thence . Why are you standing { there }? Why are you delaying ?", "You .", "O , by our faith in the Gods ! what is , if this is not , an indignity ? He had resolved that he himself would give me a wife to-day ; ought I not to have known this beforehand ? Ought it not to have been mentioned previously ?", "What , my father !", "I , take her ? Alas ! you know not in what perplexities , to my sorrow , I am involved , and what vast anxieties this executioner of minehas contrived for me by his devices .", "Why so ?", "In every way I am wretched , and what to do I know not ; with so many troubles is my father now besetting wretched me on every side . I \u2019 ll go away from here , since I avail but little by my presence . For without my consent , I do not believe that they will bring up the child , especially as on that point my mother-in-law will second me . ( Exit speedily . SCENE VII . LACHES and PHIDIPPUS .", "Ha !", "Most opportunely I perceive Davus , on whose advice I have depended .", "Then about the child , Davus .", "I espy Charinus .Good-morrow !", "Ha , ha , ha ! do you { tell } me so ?", "I do entreat you , release wretched me as soon as possible from this apprehension .", "Ah me ! I am racked with pains ! Juno Lucina ,bring aid , save me , I beseech thee !", "Be silent . I perceive a bustling about , and a running to and fro .", "He \u2019 s off . What shall I do in this distressed situation ? Really , I don \u2019 t know in what way I \u2019 m to conceal this , as Myrrhina entreated me , her daughter \u2019 s lying-in ; but I do pity the woman . What I can , I \u2019 ll do ; { only } so long , however , as I observe my duty ; for it is proper that I should be regardful of a parent ,rather than of my passion . But look \u2014 I see Phidippus and my father . They are coming this way ; what to say to them , I \u2019 m at a loss .", "Why delay going in-doors , that I may know as soon as possible for certain what it is ? In what condition , Philumena , am I now to find you ? But if you are in any peril , beyond a doubt I will perish with you .", "What is it ?", "Davus .", "Don \u2019 t be prating .O Jupiter , I heard a shriek !", "Assuredly he \u2019 s not of my way of thinking . Come now , tell me , have you had any more { to do } with her , Charinus ?", "I am undone ! Why didn \u2019 t you tell me of this ?", "Never will I do it .", "He has discovered that she has been brought to bed . I \u2019 m undone !", "Only just now .", "I \u2019 ve heard it from herself a thousand times .", "As you { have } just { done }, I suppose .", "What , am I to believe you , you scoundrel ?You , indeed , make good a matter that \u2019 s all embarrassment and ruin ! Just see , in whom I \u2019 ve been placing reliance \u2014 you who this day from a most happy state have been and plunged me into a marriage . Didn \u2019 t I say that this would be the case ?", "Have you heard \u2014?", "What does this mean ?", "Oh Bacchis ! Oh my Bacchis \u2014 my preserver !", "Where is he ? The villain , who this day \u2014 I \u2019 m ruined ; and I confess that this has justly befallen me , for being such a dolt , so devoid of sense ; that I should have intrusted my fortunes to a frivolous slave !I am suffering the reward of my folly ; still he shall never get off from me unpunished for this .", "Why really , i \u2019 faith , he was a man very much devoted to pleasure while he lived ; and those who are so , don \u2019 t much benefit their heirs , but for themselves leave this commendation : While he lived , he lived well .", "What , I ?", "My Glycerium has discovered her parents .", "My father \u2014\u2014", "You deserve to be \u2014\u2014, with your scruples , { you } plague . You are seeking a knot in a bulrush .", "Not the responses of Apollo are more true than this . If it can possibly be contrived that my father may not believe that this marriage has been broken off through me , I could wish it . But if that can not be , I will do that which is easily effected , for him to believe that through me it has been caused . What do you think of me ?"], "true_target": ["You must run across to the citadel .", "Then I \u2019 ll tell you how to know it ; a huge { fellow }, ruddy , with curly hair , fat , with gray eyes { and } freckled countenance .", "Her father is an intimate friend of ours .", "Forget her ? Oh Mysis , Mysis , at this moment are those words of Chrysis concerning Glycerium written on my mind . Now at the point of death , she called me ; I went to her ; you had withdrawn ; we were alone ; she began : \u201c My dear Pamphilus , you see her beauty and her { youth }; and it is not unknown to you to what extent both of these are now of use to her , in protecting both her chastity and her interests . By this right hand I do entreat you , and by your { good } Genius ,by your own fidelity , and by her bereft condition , do not withdraw yourself from her , or forsake her ; if I have loved you as my own brother , or if she has always prized you above all others , or has been obedient to you in all things . You do I give to her as a husband , friend , protector , father . This property of mine do I intrust to you , and commit to your care .\u201d She placed her in my hands ; that instant , death came upon her . I accepted her ; having accepted , I will protect her .", "This day \u2014", "I am resolved to persevere in the course I determined to pursue .", "Do you deem me so cowardly , so utterly ungrateful , inhuman , { and } so brutish , that neither intimacy , nor affection , nor shame , can move or admonish me to keep faith ?", "I am quite a God , if it is so !", "To meet Callidemides , my entertainer at Myconos , who came over in the same ship with me .", "I \u2019 faith , I have neither time for counsel , nor resources for assistance . But what \u2019 s the matter now ?", "{ So } they say .", "\u2019 Tis I , Pamphilus ; you don \u2019 t know what has happened to me .", "Do you run and meet the servants , Parmeno , and help them with the baggage .", "I think not , Davus .", "Father , he is not rightly bound .", "You would not say that if you understood either myself or my affection .", "Health to you , my father .", "And there \u2019 s no hinderance to my marrying her at once .", "I \u2019 m utterly ruined !", "For my part , I could like , and can hardly forbear it ; but I shall not alter my design ; that which is most advantageous I shall pursue ; I supposethat they will be better reconciled , in consequence , if I shall take her back .", "No ; say that I can not meet him to-day , as I appointed , so that he may not wait for me to no purpose . Fly !", "What then does my father mean ? Why does he { thus } make pretense ?", "What is the malady ?", "Now listen , once for all : I think it , Charinus , to be by no means the part of an ingenuous man , when he confers nothing , to expect that it should be considered as an obligation on his part . I am more desirous to avoid this match , than you to gain it .", "Charinus , unintentionally I have ruined both myself and you , unless the Gods in some way befriend us .", "I will give you my oath that none of these is the reason .", "O fortunate and happy day !", "But what am I to say about my father ? Alas ! that he should so thoughtlessly conclude an affair of such importance ! Passing me in the Forum just now , he said , \u201c Pamphilus , you must be married to-day : get ready ; be off home .\u201d He seemed to me to say this : \u201c Be off this instant , and go hang yourself .\u201d I was amazed ; think you that I was able to utter a single word , or any excuse , even a frivolous , false , { or } lame one ? I was speechless . But if any one were to ask me now what I would have done , if I had known this sooner , { why }, I would have done any thing rather than do this . But now , what course shall I first adopt ? So many cares beset me , which rend my mind to pieces ; love , sympathy for her , the worry of this marriage ; then , respect for my father , who has ever , until now , with such an indulgent disposition , allowed me to do whatever was agreeable to my feelings . Ought I to oppose him ? Ah me ! I am in uncertainty what to do .", "Yes , wait { there }. Run !", "Why are you torturing me to death ? Listen to this . Henever ceased to urge me to tell my father that I would marry her ; to advise and persuade me , even until he compelled me .", "Some one perhaps might imagine that I don \u2019 t believe this to be true ; but now it is clear to me that it really is true . I do think that the life of the Gods is everlasting , for this reason , because their joys are their own .For immortality has been obtained by me , if no sorrow interrupts this delight . But whom in particular could I wish to be now thrown in my way , for me to relate these things to ?", "That \u2019 s the very thing .", "I think you said to this effect \u2014 that Myrrhina had discovered that Bacchis has her ring .", "Well thought of ; I \u2019 ll at once give charge of that to Davus .", "Do you think so ?", "Yes , and waiting for you .", "Who is it speaking here ?Mysis ? Good-morrow to you .", "Do allow me , father .", "What do you deserve ?", "I am ruined !", "But to what purpose this ?", "Chremes .", "There \u2019 s need of it now .", "How , impelled by resentment , could I now be biased against her who never has been guilty of any thing toward me , father , that I could not wish , and who has often deserved as well as I could desire ? I both love and praise and exceedingly regret her , for I have found by experience that she was of a wondrously engaging disposition with regard to myself ; and I sincerely wish that she may spend the remainder of her life with a husband who may prove more fortunate than me , since necessity { thus } tears her from me .", "I \u2019 ll go and see her .", "O kind father ! With regard to her as a wife , since I have taken possession of her , Chremes will not offer any opposition .", "{ That \u2019 s } nothing to you .", "Why are you lingering ?", "Father , if she had wished to have children by me , or to continue to be my wife , I am quite certain she would not have concealed from me what I find she has concealed . Now , as I find that her mind is estranged from me , and think that there would be no agreement between us in future , why should I take her back ?", "All \u2019 s well , mother .", "No , not at all ,\u2014 as you are not acquainted with my sorrows , these nuptials were not in preparation for me ; and no one was thinking at present of giving { me } a wife .", "Even if it had just now been a matter of doubt to me , it is so no longer , since the child of another man is to accompany her .", "What , am I to say so ?", "Phania .", "Here he is , Davus .", "Parmeno , you are concealing from me some great misfortune to me unknown .", "What , pray ?", "Most excellent ; and I trust that this matter will turn out according to our wishes .", "For certain ?", "I don \u2019 t know ; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods , for me to have listened to him .", "By your actions , you give me reason to believe you , and so much do you retain your former charming qualities , that wherever you go , the meeting with you , your company , your conversation , always give pleasure .", "It is not the time at present .", "I know that well enough", "Alas ! I am undone ; this dilemma grows apace !For me and her , unfortunate persons , now to be tortured this way through your means ; for I am sent for , because she has discovered that my marriage is in preparation .", "Father !", "How so ?", "Utterly ruined !", "I am scarcely myself , so much has my mind been agitated by fear , hope , joy , { and } surprise at this so great , so unexpected blessing .", "What ! has no one brought a physician { to see her }?", "I can not discover any fitting commencement of my troubles , at which to begin to narrate the things that have so unexpectedly befallen me , some of which with these eyes I have beheld ; some I have heard with my ears ; { and } on account of which I so hastily betook myself , in extreme agitation , out of doors . For just now , when , full of alarm , I rushed into the house , expecting to find my wife afflicted with some other malady than what I have found it to be ;\u2014 ah me ! immediately the servant-maids beheld that I had arrived , they all at the same moment joyfully exclaimed , \u201c He is come ,\u201d from having so suddenly caught sight of me . But I soon perceived the countenances of all of them change ,because at so unseasonable a juncture chance had brought me there . One of them in the mean time hastily ran before me to give notice that I had come . Impatient to see my wife , I followed close . When I entered the room , that instant , to my sorrow , I found out her malady ; for neither did the time afford any interval to enable her to conceal it , nor could she complain in any other accents than { those which } the case itself prompted . When I perceived { this }: \u201c O disgraceful conduct !\u201d I exclaimed , and instantly hurried away from the spot in tears , overwhelmed by such an incredible and shocking circumstance . Her mother followed me ; just as I got to the threshold , she threw herself on her knees : I felt compassion for her . Assuredly it is the fact , in my opinion , just as matters befall us all , so are we elated or depressed . At once she began to address me in these words : \u201c O my { dear } Pamphilus , you see the reason why she left your house ; for violence was offered to her when formerly a maid , by some villain to us unknown . Now , she took refuge here then , that from you and others she might conceal her labor .\u201d But when I call to mind her entreaties , I can not , wretched as I am , refrain from tears . \u201c Whatever chance or fortune it is ,\u201d said she , \u201c which has brought you here to-day , by it we do both conjure you , if with equity and justice we may , that her misfortune may be concealed by you , and kept a secret from all . If ever you were sensible , my { dear } Pamphilus , that she was tenderly disposed toward you , she now asks you to grant her this favor in return , without making any difficulty of it . But as to taking her back , act quite according to your own convenience . You alone are aware of her lying-in , and that the child is none of yours . For it is said that it was two months after the marriage before she had commerce with you . And then , this is but the seventh month since she came to you .That you are sensible of this , the circumstances themselves prove . Now , if it is possible , Pamphilus , I especially wish , and will use my endeavors , that her labor may remain unknown to her father , and to all , in fact . But if that can not be managed , and they do find it out , I will say that she miscarried ; I am sure no one will suspect otherwise than , what is so likely , the child was by you . It shall be instantly exposed ; in that case there is no inconvenience whatever to yourself , and you will be concealing an outrage so undeservingly committed upon her ,poor thing !\u201d I promised { this }, and I am resolved to keep faith in what I said . But as to taking her back , really I do not think that would be at all creditable , nor will I do so , although love for her , and habit , have a strong influence upon me . I weep when it occurs to my mind , what must be her life , and { how great } her loneliness in future . O Fortune , thou hast never been found constant ! But by this time { my } former passion has taught me experience in the present case . The means by which I got rid of that , I must employ on the present occasion . Parmeno is coming with the servants ; it is far from convenient that he should be here under present circumstances , for he was the only person to whom I trusted the secret that I kept aloof from her when I first married her . I am afraid lest , if he should frequently hear her cries , he might find out that she is in labor . He must be dispatched by me somewhere till Philumena is delivered .", "Consider to what you are persuading me .", "Oho !", "Tell the truth .", "Once more , take care , will you , my { dear } Parmeno , that you have brought me a faithful and distinct account , so as not to allure me for a short time to indulge in these transient joys .", "Prick up your ears , Pamphilus .", "So they say .", "She is a little better .", "What { does } Chremes { do }? He who had declared that he would not intrust his daughter to me as a wife ; because he { himself } sees me unchanged he has changed . Thus perversely does he lend his aid , that he may withdraw wretched me from Glycerium . If this is effected , I am utterly undone . That any man should be so unhappy in love , or { so } unfortunate as I am ! Oh , faith of Gods and men ! shall I by no device be able to escape { this } alliance with Chremes ? In how many ways { am } I contemned , { and } held in scorn ? Every thing done , { and } concluded ! Alas ! { once } rejected I am sought again ; for what reason ? Unless perhaps it is this , which I suspect it is : they are rearing some monster ,{ and } as she can not be pushed off upon any one { else }, they have recourse to me .", "How now , good sir , what are you about ? Do you see how dreadfully I am hampered by your devices ?", "Allow me to obtain thus much of you .", "Just stay , will you ; I fear that I \u2019 m believing one thing , and you are telling another .", "{ That } seems to be the voice of Philumena \u2019 s mother . I \u2019 m undone !", "But what now am I to say to my father ? Am I to deny that I am ready , who have just promised to marry ? With what effrontery could I presume { to do } that ? I know not what to do with myself .", "What excuse to make to my father for not taking her back , I don \u2019 t know !", "Of course , I agree .", "Because I am as yet undetermined what I shall do about my wife .", "That I shall be deprived of the one , { and } fixed with the other .", "Alas ! wretched me !", "Tell me then , Davus , what am I to do ?", "Dear me , what , now at last ?", "How happy am I in other respects , were it not for this one thing alone , in having such a { good } mother , and her for my wife !", "But it must be done directly .", "Neither in that nor in any thing else shall you ever find any hesitation in me .", "How much I wish { you had }.", "A fever .", "Who is there happier than I , and , in fact , more full of joyousness ? What am I to present you for these tidings ? What ? \u2014 what ? I know not .", "Follow me in , Parmeno .", "I \u2019 m undone !", "Who is it that wants me ?I \u2019 m undone ! it \u2019 s my father .", "Who is this ? { Why ,} Charinus , you meet me at the very nick of time .", "Pray , what sort of resolution is this ? Driven away by her folly , would you be removing from the city to live in the country ? You shall not do { so }; and I will not permit , mother , any one who may wish to censure us , to say that this has been done through my perverseness , { and } not your inclination . Besides , I do not wish you , for my sake , to forego your friends and relations , and festive days .", "The one I formerly gave to her ; and she has desired you to tell me this : is such the fact ?", "Nor is there need , in fact ; therefore keep it a secret : I don \u2019 t wish it to be the case here as it is in the Comedies ,where every thing is known to every body . Here , those who ought to know , know already ; but those who ought not to know , shall neither hear of it nor know it .", "How do you know ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Away with you to perdition with that vile suggestion , you rascal !", "Do you hesitate to accost him ?", "How say you , Byrrhia ? Is she to be given in marriage to", "This day , Davus , have I been delivered by your means .", "I \u2019 m come to see what Pamphilus is about ; and look , here he is .", "Be sure to come hitherto my house , if you can { effect } any thing .", "What is it so wonderful , if he takes example from yourself ?", "From which , indeed , how easily a respite could have been obtained , if hehad kept himself quiet .", "You are a clever hand ; if you do set about any thing .", "Why so ? Surely he will not give her to him , after all this .", "Put it off for some days at least , while I go elsewhere , that I may not be witness .", "You say well .", "Davus ! For what reason ?", "Ha ! What do you say , { you } villain ? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds . Come now , tell me , if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage , what advice but this could they have given ?", "Do you wish me to tell you the truth ?", "Pamphilus , if you do that , you behold me this day for the last time .", "I wish for nothing else but Philumena .", "Who was this person ?", "I will entreat his own self ; I will supplicate him ; I will disclose to him my love . I think that I shall prevail upon him to put off the marriage for some days at least ; in the mean time , something will turn up , I trust .", "Now , by our friendship and by my affection , I do beseech you , in the first place , not to marry her .", "Woe unto wretched me ! As , hitherto , until now , my mind has been racked amid hope and fear ; so , since hope has been withdrawn , wearied with care , it sinks overwhelmed .", "Unintentionally , is it ! An excuse has been discovered at last . You have broken your word .", "If you can ; I shall be at home . ( Exit .", "How do you know ?", "Every thing ; come , in your good fortune do have some regard for me . Chremes is now at your command ; I \u2019 m sure that he \u2019 ll do every thing you wish .", "What is it ?", "Davus , I \u2019 m undone !", "For my part , I certainly do know that you are about to marry her .", "That \u2019 s all right .", "I am satisfied .", "Oh Pamphilus , nothing .", "But still , if any thing \u2014"], "true_target": ["Is this the fact , Davus ?", "But you , i \u2019 faith , { tell } me nothing ,except those things which there is no need for knowing .Get you gone from here .", "We all , when we are well , with ease give good advice to the sick . If you were in my situation , you would think otherwise .", "Did this pleasure appear to you not to be quite complete , unless you tantalized me in my passion , and lured me on by groundless hopes ? \u2014 You may take her .", "Since I told you that I loved her , she has become quite pleasing to you . Ah wretched me ! to have judged of your disposition from my own .", "Is this to be believed or spoken of ; that malice so great could be inborn in any one as to exult at misfortunes , and to derive advantage from the distresses of another ! Oh , is this true ? Assuredly , that is the most dangerous class of men , in whom there is only a slight degree of hesitation at refusing ; afterward , when the time arrives for fulfilling their promises , then , obliged , of necessity they discover themselves . They are afraid , and yet the circumstancescompel them to refuse . Then , in that case , their very insolent remark is , \u201c Who are you ? What are you to me ? What { should I give up } to you what \u2019 s my own ? Look you , I am the most concerned in my own interests .\u201dBut if you inquire where is honor , they are not ashamed .Here , where there is occasion , they are not afraid ; there , where there is no occasion , they are afraid . But what am I to do ? Ought I not to go to him , and reason with him upon this outrage , and heap many an invective upon { him }? Yet some one may say , \u201c you will avail nothing .\u201d Nothing ? At least I shall have vexed him , and have given vent to my own feelings .", "That you are as unhappy as myself .", "I \u2019 m sure of that .", "You advise well . I \u2019 ll go ; although , upon my faith , this hope has often eluded me already . Farewell ! ( Exit .", "Pamphilus to-day ?", "Don \u2019 t you hear him ?", "You understand the matter .", "To-day you are going to take a wife ?", "But if that can not be , or if this marriage is agreeable to you \u2014", "Hah !", "Is he dreaming the same that he has been wishing for when awake ?", "What means this rapture ?", "Byrrhia , how seems it to you ? Shall I accost him ?", "O , good-morrow . Pamphilus , I \u2019 m come to you , seeking hope , safety , counsel , { and } assistance .", "I \u2019 m quite aware; you have just now had a dispute with your father , and he is now angry with you in consequence , and has not been able to-day to prevail upon you to marry her .", "But yet , Davus \u2014", "Do you expect to deceive me a second time by these speeches ?", "He \u2019 s rejoiced about something , I don \u2019 t know what .", "But I see Pamphilus ; I \u2019 m determined I \u2019 ll try every thing before I despair .", "I \u2019 faith , my life indeed is really in danger .", "You have restored me to life .", "I am aware ; you have been influenced by your own inclination .", "I \u2019 m all right if these things are true . I \u2019 ll accost them .", "What will become of me ?", "Ah me ! I dread to tell it ; prithee , do you tell it , Bvrrhia .", "That I may marry her \u2014", "I \u2019 m { quite } satisfied ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I \u2019 ll tell it .", "That something is nothing .", "Well , well , just as you like .", "Why not ? Should you not prevail , that at least he may look upon you as a gallant { ready } provided for him , if he marries her .", "It is so .", "My master has ordered me , leaving my business , to keep an eye on Pamphilus to-day , what he is doing with regard to the marriage . I was to learn it ; for that reason , I have now followed himas he came { hither }. Himself , as well , I see standing with Davus close at hand ; I \u2019 ll note this .", "He \u2019 s in love with your betrothed .", "What a speech !"], "true_target": ["Alas ! How much better were it for you to endeavor to expel that passion from your mind , than to be saying that by which your desire is to no purpose still more inflamed .", "My master , so far as I learn , has missed his wife .", "Certainly I { will }, and with all my heart . ( Exit .", "What does he mean ?", "Is there , in no case , putting trust in any man ? That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted , that \u201c all had rather it to be well for themselves than for another .\u201d I remember noticing , when I saw her , { that she was } a young woman of handsome figure ; wherefore I am the more { disposed to excuse } Pamphilus , if he has preferred that he himself , rather than the other , should embrace her in his slumbers . I \u2019 ll carry back these tidings , that , in return for this evil he may inflict evil upon me .( Exit . SCENE VII . SIMO and DAVUS .", "By my troth , Charinus , since that which you wish can not come to pass , prithee , do wish that which can .", "Hah !", "Now I \u2019 m in dread for our side , as to what he will answer .", "I heard { it } just now from Davus at the Forum ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["As yet , Archylis , all the customary symptoms which ought to exist toward recovery , I perceive in her . Now , in the first place , take care and let her bathe ;then , after that , what I ordered to be given her to drink , and as much as I prescribed , do you administer : presently I will return hither .By all that \u2019 s holy , a fine boy has been born to Pamphilus . I pray the Gods that he may survive , since { the father } himself is of a good disposition , and since he has hesitated to do an injustice to this most excellent young woman . ( Exit ."], "true_target": ["I \u2019 ll follow .", "You mention a good disposition on the part of the young man ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Why not ? Do , pray , spare yourself a little while . Your absent son would wish you do so .", "Let him alone .", "You shall soon know .", "Who is my son talking to ?", "I \u2019 ve arranged it .", "I will not do { so }.", "Assuredly , before very long , according as I view this matter , you \u2019 ll have enough of him . But , however that may be , if you are wise , you \u2019 ll give to him cautiously , and a little at a time .", "No \u2014", "What is it you say ?", "But I can \u2019 t by myself ; run { and help me }.", "Pray do be quiet ; I \u2019 ll give it : do you only bring your son to marry the woman we want him { to have }.", "How is it that , so contrary to your usage , you are at Athens ?", "It \u2019 s all right .", "Such is the fact .", "How now \u2014 pray , is there but one wayof going near { them }?", "Shall I accost her , or shall I wait to learn more distinctly what it is she \u2019 s saying ?", "O , you are the very person I was looking for .", "Oh , you persist in being the woman ? Did I ever wish for any one thing in { all } my life , Sostrata , but that you were my contradicter on that occasion ? And yet if I were now to ask you what it is that I have done amiss , or why you act thus , you would not know in what point you are now so obstinately opposing me in your folly .", "Am I knowingly to make my property a present to Bacchis ? I \u2019 ll not do { it }.", "Ah !", "Hush !", "What took place after this ?", "Extremely { good }, I declare .", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "I have heard it all already .", "I wish it hadn \u2019 t been paid him .Halloo , I espy my wife ; I had almost said more than I ought .", "I have heard that he has ; in Asia .", "Whose then ?", "What , he ?But I \u2019 ll restrain myself ; for that the other one should be in fear of { his father } is of service to him .", "But there is no occasion .", "That self-same thing they are now about .", "It shall be done .", "But still , in the mean time , lay down that rake ; don \u2019 t fatigue yourself .", "What more could be done to carry on the cheat ?", "What is it you say ?", "If you had been born from my head , Clitipho , just as they say Minerva was from Jove \u2019 s , none the more on that account would I suffer myself to be disgraced by your profligacy .", "The necessity will not arise , I trust .", "I trust it may turn out as I hope .Come now , tell me , what { did } he then { say } about her ? Did he say she was his own { daughter }?", "Is she not genteel-looking ,just as I told you ?", "Ha ! what are you doing ?", "There \u2019 s no danger { of that }. But , by Gods and men , do take care that no one comes to know that she \u2019 s my daughter .", "I opened all the casks , all the vessels ;Adelphi : Footnotes 14-16 \u2014 This PlayDEM . { \u00c6schinus }, if you are a man , he \u2019 ll do it .Hecyra :", "Portion ?", "He \u2019 s alive , and well .", "I understand { you }.", "Don \u2019 t you answer me ?", "Nothing at all ; only , on going away , she gave me a nod .", "Nay , I had much rather he would go any where in the world , than by his debaucheries here reduce his father to beggary ! For if I go on supplying his extravagance , Menedemus , in that case my circumstances will undoubtedly be { soon } reduced to the level of your rake .", "What ? { Has } he { got } two wives ?", "Look round at me .", "Say on .", "Pray , what does this mean ? What behavior is this , Clitipho ? Is this acting as becomes you ?", "I will not allow it , I tell you .", "After having provided the things necessary for my daughter \u2019 s nuptials , I \u2019 m returning , that I may request her to be sent for .But what \u2019 s this ? I \u2019 faith , it \u2019 s a child .Woman , have you laid that here?", "Courtesan \u2019 s bosom ?", "A great deal , Demipho . It is not enough for you to do your duty , if common report does not approve of it ; I wish { all } this to be done with her own sanction as well , that she mayn \u2019 t be saying that she has been turned out of doors .", "Don \u2019 t you see him , Thais ?", "She certainly is mine .", "But there yet remains one difficultywith me , which keeps me in suspense .", "I know what you have done , you have brought it up .", "Why yes , you had need do so , and with all haste , while the fit is upon him ; for if this other woman shall prove more pressing , perhaps he may throw us over .", "You are mistaken : I myself saw the servant-maid wrangling with", "Is such your determination ?", "Sophrona .", "That I will do every thing ; that as a son-in-law he meets my approbation ; in fine , too , if you like , tell him also that she has been promised him .", "Oh , don \u2019 t be so extremely vexed .", "An unfortunate thing !", "So you will find ; I don \u2019 t speak at random ; I \u2019 ve recovered my recollection .", "Take this money , and carry it .", "I am ready { to serve you }.", "Then besides , I see that Antipho is unwilling to part with her .Say so .", "I \u2019 ll take care of that .", "I \u2019 ll bring it .", "After this fashion , i \u2019 faith , I tell you , \u201c the quarrels of lovers { are } the renewal of love .\u201d", "Because there you would judge extremely ill both for yourself and for him , if you were to show yourself of a spirit so weak and irresolute .", "In real earnest ?", "Yes , indeed , I come off well , and fully to my satisfaction ; indeed , beyond my expectation .", "With an appearance of earnestness , when neither at the moment perceived that I was present there .", "That you should put so little confidence in me !", "I don \u2019 t expect it ; talk on then , I shall still do it not a bit the less .", "For a great offense , a slight punishment ought to satisfy a father .", "No .", "Let me alone , and give me leave to have my own way in this matter .", "I \u2019 ll readily forgive you doing this , of course ; but , Sostrata , my easy temper prompts you to do amiss . But , whatever this { circumstance } is , by reason of which this was begun upon , proceed to tell it .", "Do you persist ?", "He says right , I \u2019 m of his opinion .", "For what reason ?", "Now , therefore , Captain , I give you warning ; don \u2019 t you use any violence toward her . Thais , I \u2019 m going to Sophrona , the nurse , that I may bring her here and show her these tokens .", "Syrus .", "I \u2019 m going into the country .", "My own sister .", "Well , but tell me , what business have you with that family from whose house you were coming out ? Where are the ladies ?", "What does { Clinia } say ?", "Do I see Crito of Andros ? Surely it is he .", "Of course it is to be given .", "I \u2019 ll now go hence in-doors , to see what we have for dinner . Do you , seeing what is the time of day , mind and take care not to be any where out of the way .ACT THE SECOND .", "What do you say ?", "For what purpose , Syrus ? For I don \u2019 t altogether comprehend it .", "Is this { woman } living to whom you delivered { the child }?", "I \u2019 ll break your head this instant if you are not off .", "O Jupiter ! the Gods do befriend us ; I have found that it is my daughter married to your son .", "Have you already forgotten what passed between us , concerning a scheme , that by that method some money might be got out of you ?", "But , Simo , do hear him .", "Inasmuch as it often is the remedy for great disturbances . Then would this man \u2019 s only son have staid at home .", "A crafty knave !", "It \u2019 s all over .Don \u2019 t you mix yourself up { in it }; no one accuses you , Syrus , nor need you look out for an altar ,or for an intercessor for yourself .", "Yes , and for the reason I mentioned to you .", "So may the Deities prosper me , I am now concerned for the fate of Menedemus , that so great a misfortune should have befallen him . To be maintaining that woman with such a retinue ! Although I am well aware he \u2019 ll not be sensible of it for some days to come , his son was so greatly missed by him ; but when he sees such a vast expense incurred by him every day at home , and no limit to it , he \u2019 ll wish that this son would leave him a second time . See \u2014 here comes Syrus most opportunely .", "What then ?", "I say { so }.", "When her mother found that I staid here longer than usual , and at the same time the age of the girl did not suit with my delays , they told me that she , with all her family , set out in search of me .", "We \u2019 ll let you off .", "Step a little this way from that door , Sophrona , if you pleaseDon \u2019 t you , henceforth , be calling me by that name .", "I am a man ,{ and } nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me . Suppose that I wish either to advise { you } in this matter , or to be informed { myself }: if { what you do } is right , that I may do the same ; if it is not , { then } that I may dissuade you .", "In what manner , or from whom has he come to know of this ?", "Do you laugh at me ? You have good reason . How angry I now am with myself ! How many things gave { proof }, whereby , had I not been a stone , I might have been fully sensible { of this }? What was it I saw ? Alas ! wretch that I am ! But assuredly they shall not escape my vengeance if I live ; for this instant \u2014", "I don \u2019 t know as to the Gods ;so far as I shall be enabled , { I will } carefully { prevent it }. You are seeking that which you possess \u2014 parents ; that which you are in want of you don \u2019 t seek \u2014 in what way to pay obedience to a father , and to preserve what he acquired by { his } industry . That you by trickery should bring before my eyes \u2014 I am ashamed to mention the unseemly word in her presence, but you were not in any degree ashamed to act thus .", "What did he say ?", "Where \u2019 s Clitipho now ?", "I believe you .", "Ah me !", "Sue him at law , then .", "I \u2019 ll go { there }.", "Just so .", "Alone ?", "Nay , just as he likes .", "Let me go , I \u2019 ll be here presently .", "Will you never yield to me , nor understand { what I mean }?", "The very same .", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! How often do those things come about through accident , which you couldn \u2019 t dare to hope for ? On my return , I have found my daughter matched with the very person I wished , and just as I wanted ; a thing that we were both using our endeavors , with the greatest earnestness , to bring about . Without any very great management on our part , by her own management , she has by herself brought this about .", "Ha ! what is it you say ?", "If you have any affliction , I could wish it otherwise . But prithee , what sorrow is this { of yours }? How have you deserved so { ill } of yourself ?", "Be it so ; still , at least , you ought to go somewhere for a little time away from their presence . Passion prompts to many a thing ; your presence acts as a restraint upon doing them . I form a judgment from myself . There \u2019 s not one of my friends this day to whom I would venture , Clitipho , to disclose all my secrets . With one , { his } station forbids it ; with another , I am ashamed of the action itself , lest I may appear a fool or devoid of shame ; do you rest assured that he does the same .But it is our part to be sensible of { this }; and , when and where it is requisite , to show due complaisance .", "Follow me ; in-doors we \u2019 ll hear the rest .", "But still , I especially wish you to do your best for it to be brought about ; but in some other way .", "I will prevent it , I tell you .", "Do you ask me ? Old age itself is a malady . However , I heard that they had arrived safe , from the captain who brought them .", "On the contrary , both the son-in-law and the connection are to my taste .", "What ? If I live , I will have him so handsomely dressed , so well combed out , that he shall always remember me as long as he lives ; to imagine that I \u2019 m to be a laughing-stock and a plaything for him ! So may the Gods bless me ! he would not have dared to do to a widow-woman the things which he has done to me .", "And now let your son prepare to fetch the bride . The other one shall be schooled in { such } language as befits children . But Syrus \u2014\u2014", "Won \u2019 t you be off from here ? Do you know how matters stand with you ? If you cause any disturbance here to-day , I \u2019 ll make you remember the place , and day , and me too , for the rest of your life .", "What then ?", "What about the other one that \u2019 s called his relative ?", "What ! are you afraid that you can not prove that he is yours , whenever you please ?", "Heyday ! upon my faith , I \u2019 ve been bamboozled : the wine that I \u2019 ve drunk has got the upper hand . But , so long as I was reclining , how extremely sober I did seem to myself to be ; when I got up , neither feet nor senses were quite equal to their duty .", "Tell { me } how it is .", "Would you have me believe you in this , although so incredible ? { Well ,} I will believe you .", "With { good } reason have I { always } been averse to this match , it \u2019 s clear .", "Who \u2019 s that ? What , Pythias ; dear me , how much more charming you now seem to me than a short time since !", "Away to perdition with you !", "Although this acquaintanceship between us is of very recent date , from the time in fact of your purchasing an estate here in the neighborhood , yet either your good qualities , or our being neighbors, induces me to inform you , frankly and familiarly , that you appear to me to labor beyond your years , and beyond what your affairs require . For , in the name of Gods and men , what would you have ? What can be your aim ? You are , as I conjecture , sixty years of age , or more . No man in these parts has a better or a more valuable estate , no one more servants ; and yet you discharge their duties just as diligently as if there were none at all . However early in the morning I go out , and however late in the evening I return home , I see you either digging , or plowing , or doing something , in fact , in the fields . You take respite not an instant , and are quite regardless of yourself . I am very sure that this is not done for your amusement . But really I am vexed how little work is done here .If you were to employ the time you spend in laboring yourself , in keeping your servants at work , you would profit much more .", "But I { say }, if you fear me , take care how I find these propensities existing in you .", "I \u2019 ll hear nothing .", "And what is he now waiting for , Syrus ? Is it until { his father } drives him away from here a second time , when he can no longer support her expenses ?Has he no plot on foot against the old gentleman ?", "You seem , then , to have effected something , I know not what , with the old gentleman .", "What { is it }?", "Alas !", "Hah !", "You must take a wife .", "Nor yet your son himself ?", "What it may be ? I \u2019 faith , she \u2019 ll now surely be announcing some important trifle , with a great parade .", "Where is she ?", "Will you not hold your tongue ?", "Prithee , first learn what it is to live . When you know that , if life displeases you , then try the other .", "You are a clever fellow ; what is it ? Tell me .", "Nothing less likely .", "It is so .", "Nay , prithee , do take care not to injure your kinswoman .", "The names don \u2019 t agree .", "Stop his mouth .", "Many changes here upon my arrival , as usually the case .", "O , don \u2019 t importune me ; as though you needed to obtain this of me by entreaty . Do you suppose I am different now from what I was formerly , when I promised her ? If it is for the advantage of them both that it should take place , order her to be sent for . But if from this course there would result more harm than advantage for each , this I do beg of you , that you will consult for their common good , as though she were your own { daughter }, and I the father of Pamphilus .", "Would you like to know ? Then , so may Jupiter preserve me , not a person is there more nearly related to her than are you and I .", "She did .", "I \u2019 ll go home at once ; I \u2019 ll tell her to make due preparation , and bring back word here . ( Exit .", "I \u2019 m undone !", "\u2019 Tis that , in fact , that has embarrassed me in my plans . For if I offer my daughter in marriage to any person that \u2019 s a stranger , it must all be told how and by whom I had her . You I knew to be fully as faithful to me as I am to myself ; if a stranger shall think fit to be connected with me by marriage , he will hold his tongue , just as long as good terms exist between us : but if he takes a dislike to me , he \u2019 ll be knowing more than it \u2019 s proper he should know . I am afraid , too , lest my wife should , by some means , come to know of it ; if that is the case , it { only } remains for me to shake myselfand leave the house ; for I \u2019 m the only one I can rely on at home .", "I \u2019 faith , I have not been sensible of sleep this night with my eyes ,for thinking of this \u2014 how to restore your son to you .", "{ So } I see ; but you don \u2019 t stir forward .", "And would she really be a security ?", "What { say } you ? What have you done , Syrus , about that matter which I was mentioning to you a short time since ? Have you any { plan } that suits { you }, or not yet even ?", "I \u2019 m { dead and } buried !", "I \u2019 m alarmed .", "Syrus , what is the meaning of these expressions ?", "\u2019 Tis on my account she \u2019 s turned off ; it \u2019 s right that I should bear the loss .", "Very good .", "Hold now , do , wife , leave off dinning the Gods with thanksgivings that your daughter has been discovered ; unless you judge of them by your own disposition , and think that they understand nothing , unless the same thing has been told them a hundred times . But , in the mean time , why does my son linger there so long with Syrus ?", "I wonder whence it has come .", "I understand .", "But I doubt whether it \u2019 s possible for her to be appeased .", "So may the Gods bless me , \u2019 tis as good as a miracle .", "I \u2019 ll hasten to my daughter . Come now ,along with me , Crito ; for I suppose that she will not know me .", "He does not wish you yet to know of his return , and he shuns your presence ; he \u2019 s afraid that , on account of that fault , your former severity may even be increased .", "How do you know that they are now at variance ?", "Tell me what is the woman \u2019 s name , that she may be inquired after .", "What , I in a fright ?", "Yes , rather , { I should have said } you do know ; inasmuch as either expression amounts to the same thing .", "What are you doing here ?", "Why , what is it , Syrus ?", "Upon my faith , I can not forbear patting your head { for it }. Come here , Syrus ; I \u2019 ll do you some good turn for this matter , and with pleasure .", "Tell { me }.", "Perhaps so .", "Why , I wonder what sort of a man you take me to be .", "Why , faith , a malady detained me .", "Just so .", "What must I do ?", "What \u2019 s that to us ?", "So they say , and you believe it all ; and they say that he is desirous of a wife , in order that , when I have betrothed her , you may give him { money }, with which to provide gold trinkets and clothing , and other things that are requisite .", "Is she , do you ask ? I have felt it ; for I have given her and her retinue one dinner ; had I to give them another such , it would be all over { with me }; for , to pass by other matters , what a quantity of wine she did consume for me in tasting only ,saying thus , \u201c This { wine } is { too } acid ,respected sir ,do please look for something more mellow .\u201d I opened all the casks , all the vessels ;she kept all on the stir : and this { but } a single night . What do you suppose will become of you when they are constantly preying upon you ? So may the Gods prosper me , Menedemus , I do pity your lot .", "A citizen of Attica .", "What can be your object ?", "Hah ! I shall die !", "Certainly not , i \u2019 faith .", "What account did she bring you at the time ?", "Do you see , Thais , what plan he is upon ? Assuredly , that advice of mine about closing the door was good .", "Take care how you believe that fellow in any thing .", "Well enough .", "It is better than that , you being my heir , Bacchis should possess this { estate of mine }."], "true_target": ["Nay rather , I \u2019 ll at once carry it to her myself .", "Are you resolved to believe him ?", "Wretched ? Whom could we less suppose so ? What is there wanting for him to enjoy every thing that among men , in fact , are esteemed as blessings ? Parents , a country in prosperity , friends , family , relations , riches ? And yet , { all } these are just according to the disposition of him who possesses them . To him who knows how to use them , they are blessings ; to him who does not use them rightly , { they are } evils .", "But what old woman \u2019 s this , that has come out of my brother \u2019 s house , half dead with fright ?", "Upon my faith , surely , unless my recollection deceives me , or my sight \u2019 s not very good , I espy my daughter \u2019 s nurse .", "A long time ago ; an age since . There has been a most violent quarrel between them .", "I am listening ; say what you wish .", "\u2019 Tis nothing at all .", "His name ?", "Has she shut the door yet ?", "Pshaw ! Do you boast because it has turned out according to your wishes ?", "How much ? Tell me .", "Save you , Geta .", "You meet me at a welcome moment . Some persons have been to me , to say that they had heard from you , that my daughter was to be married to your son to-day ; I \u2019 ve come to see whether they are out of their senses or you .", "What a large body of troops the Captain is bringing with him against you . Bless me !", "I beg of you , don \u2019 t do so .", "This ought to have been done by him , Syrus .", "Still , however , do allow him to speak .", "He asks what \u2019 s reasonable ; do give him leave .", "If , Simo , you knew this person well , you would not think thus ; he is a worthy man .", "Why not ?", "There \u2019 s no need to tell you .", "What are we to do ?", "I \u2019 faith , he \u2019 ll not do so .", "Thanks are both felt and shall be returned in such way , Thais , as you deserve .", "Pooh , pooh !", "For what reason ?", "Have you told him how it is ?", "Ha !", "So it appears to you ; but I do not thinkthat either he can possibly hold to her with constancy , or that I can put up with it if he does not .", "Ah Menedemus ! you are too precipitate in either extreme , either with profuseness or with parsimony too great . Into the same error will you fall from the one side as from the other . In the first place , formerly , rather than allow your son to visit a young woman , who was then content with a very little , and to whom any thing was acceptable , you frightened him away from here . After that , she began , quite against her inclination , to seek a subsistence upon the town . Now , when she can not be supported without a great expense , you are ready to give any thing . For , that you may know how perfectly she is trained to extravagance , in the first place , she has already brought with her more than ten female attendants , { all } laden with clothes and jewels of gold ; if a satraphad been her admirer , he never could support her expenses , much less can you .", "Why so ?", "Go in-doors { and } see how much he requires . I shall be at home , if you should want me for any thing .", "Upon occasion \u2014 I certainly do commend { them }.", "Enough already , enough , Simo , has my friendship toward you been proved . Sufficient hazard have I begun to encounter ; make an end of your entreaties , then . While I \u2019 ve been endeavoring to oblige you , I \u2019 ve almost fooled away my daughter \u2019 s prospects in life .", "When you \u2019 ve done so , go over to my wife , that she may call upon her before she goes away . She must tell her that we are going to give her in marriage to Phormio , that she may not be angry with us ; and that he is a fitter match for her , as knowing more of her ; that we have in no way departed from our duty ; that as much has been given for a portion as he asked for .", "Ha !", "No .", "Don \u2019 t deny it ; her father went by another name ; that was the cause of your mistake .", "Let him have her at once ; let him give notice to them that he breaks off the match { with the other , and } let him marry this woman .", "What is the matter ?", "With these self-same eyes { I saw it }\u2014 don \u2019 t deny it . Besides , you wrong him unworthily in not keeping your hands off : for indeed it is a gross affront to entertain a person , your friend , at your house , and to take liberties with his mistress . Yesterday , for instance , at wine , how rude you were \u2014", "Really , do bestir yourself more quickly , nurse .", "I can not , I tell you .", "What do you mean ?", "Be it so .Fare you well , and grant us your applause . FOOTNOTES\u2014 M. Juventius Thalna and Ti . Sempronius Gracchus were Consuls in the year from the Building of the City 589 , and B. C . 164 . ]\u2014 Ver . 1 . He refers to the fact that the Prologue was in general spoken by young men , whereas it is here spoken by L. Ambivius Turpio , the leader of the Company , a man stricken in years . The Prologue was generally not recited by a person who performed a character in the opening Scene . ]\u2014 Ver . 3 . His meaning seems to be , that he will first tell them the reason why he , who is to take a part in the opening Scene , speaks the Prologue , which is usually spoken by a young man who does not take part in that Scene ; and that he will then proceed to speak in character, as Chremes , in the first Scene . His reason for being chosen to speak the Prologue , is that he may be a pleaderfor the Poet , a task which would be likely to be better performed by him than by a younger man . ]\u2014 Ver . 4 . In contradistinction to such Plays as the Andria , as to which it was a subject of complaint that it had been formed out of a mixtureof the Andrian and Perinthian of Menander . ]\u2014 Ver . 6 . Vollbehr suggests that the meaning of this line is , that though it is but one Play , it has a two-fold plot \u2014 the intrigues of two young men with two mistresses , and the follies of two old men . As this Play is supposed to represent the events of two successive days , the night intervening , it has been suggested that the reading is \u201c duplex \u2014 ex argumento \u2014 simplici ;\u201d the Play is \u201c two-fold , with but one plot ,\u201d as extending to two successive days . The Play derives its name from the Greek words , \u1f11\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd , \u201c himself ,\u201d and \u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03c9\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u1f78\u03c2 , \u201c tormenting .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 11 . He is to be the pleader and advocate of the Poet , to influence the Audience in his favor , and against his adversaries ; and not to explain the plot of the Play . Colman has the following observation : \u201c It is impossible not to regret that there are not above ten lines of the Self-Tormentor preserved among the Fragments of Menander . We are so deeply interested by what we see of that character in Terence , that one can not but be curious to inquire in what manner the Greek Poet sustained it through five Acts . The Roman author , though he has adopted the title of the Greek Play , has so altered the fable , that Menedemus is soon thrown into the background , and Chremes is brought forward as the principal object ; or , to vary the allusion a little , the Menedemus of Terence seems to be a drawing in miniature copied from a full length , as large as the life , by Menander .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 22 . He alludes to his old enemy , Luscus Lavinius , referred to in the preceding Prologue . ]\u2014 Ver . 24 . He alludes to a report which had been spread , that his friends L\u00e6lius and Scipio had published their own compositions under his name . Servilius is also mentioned by Eugraphius as another of his patrons respecting whom similar stories were circulated . ]\u2014 Ver . 31 . He probably does not intend to censure this practice entirely in Comedy , but to remind the Audience that in some recent Play of Luscus Lavinius this had been the sole stirring incident introduced . Plautus introduces Mercury running in the guise of Sosia , in the fourth Scene of the Amphitryon , l. 987 , and exclaiming , \u201c For surely , why , faith , should I , a God , be any less allowed to threaten the public , if it doesn \u2019 t get out of my way , than a slave in the Comedies ?\u201d This practice can not , however , be intended to be here censured by Plautus , as he is guilty of it in three other instances . In the Mercator , Acanthio runs to his master Charinus , to tell him that his mistress Pasicompsa has been seen in the ship by his father Demipho ; in the Stichus , Pinacium , a slave , runs to inform his mistress Philumena that her husband has arrived in port , on his return from Asia ; and in the Mostellaria , Tranio , in haste , brings information of the unexpected arrival of Theuropides . The \u201c currens servus \u201d is also mentioned in the Prologue to the Andria , l. 36 . See the soliloquy of Stasimus , in the Trinummus of Plautus , l . 1007 . ]\u2014 Ver . 36 . \u201c Statariam .\u201d See the spurious Prologue to the Bacchides of Plautus , l. 10 , and the Note to the passage in Bohn \u2019 s Translation . The Comedy of the Romans was either \u201c stataria \u201d, \u201c motoria \u201d, or \u201c mixta \u201d. \u201c Stataria \u201d was a Comedy which was calm and peaceable , such as the Cistellaria of Plautus ; \u201c motoria \u201d was one full of action and disturbance , like his Amphitryon ; while the \u201c Com\u0153dia mixta \u201d was a mixture of both , such as the Eunuchus of Terence . ]\u2014 Ver . 47 . \u201c In utramque partem ingenium quid possit meum .\u201d This line is entirely omitted in Vollbehr \u2019 s edition ; but it appears to be merely a typographical error . ]\u2014 Ver . 72 . Vollbehr thinks that his meaning is , that he is quite vexed to see so little progress made , in spite of his neighbor \u2019 s continual vexation and turmoil , and that , as he says in the next line , he is of opinion that if he were to cease working himself , and were to overlook his servants , he would get far more done . It is more generally thought to be an objection which Chremes suggests that Menedemus may possibly make . ]\u2014 Ver . 77 . \u201c Homo sum : humani nihil a me alienum puto .\u201d St. Augustine says , that at the delivery of this sentiment , the Theatre resounded with applause ; and deservedly , indeed , for it is replete with the very essence of benevolence and disregard of self . Cicero quotes the passage in his work De Officiis , B. i ., c. 9 . The remarks of Sir Richard Steele upon this passage , in the Spectator , No . 502 , are worthy to be transcribed at length . \u201c The Play was the Self-Tormentor . It is from the beginning to the end a perfect picture of human life , but I did not observe in the whole one passage that could raise a laugh . How well-disposed must that people be , who could be entertained with satisfaction by so sober and polite mirth ! In the first Scene of the Comedy , when one of the old men accuses the other of impertinence for interposing in his affairs , he answers , \u2018 I am a man , and can not help feeling any sorrow that can arrive at man .\u2019 It is said this sentence was received with an universal applause . There can not be a greater argument of the general good understanding of a people , than their sudden consent to give their approbation of a sentiment which has no emotion in it . If it were spoken with ever so great skill in the actor , the manner of uttering that sentence could have nothing in it which could strike any but people of the greatest humanity \u2014 nay , people elegant and skillful in observation upon it . It is possible that he may have laid his hand on his heart , and with a winning insinuation in his countenance , expressed to his neighbor that he was a man who made his case his own ; yet I will engage , a player in Covent Garden might hit such an attitude a thousand times before he would have been regarded .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 124 . As to the \u201c socci ,\u201d or low shoes of the ancients , see the Notes to the Trinummus of Plautus , l. 720 , in Bohn \u2019 s Translation . It was the especial duty of certain slaves to take off the shoes of their masters . ]\u2014 Ver . 125 . The \u201c lecti \u201d or \u201c couches \u201d upon which the ancients reclined at meals , have been enlarged upon in the Notes to Plautus , where full reference is also made to the \u201c coena \u201d or \u201c dinner ,\u201d and other meals of the Romans . ]\u2014 Ver . 130 . It was the custom for the mistress and female servants in each family to make the clothes of the master . Thus in the Fasti of Ovid , B . ii ., l. 746 , Lucretia is found amidst her female servants , making a cloak , or \u201c lacerna ,\u201d for her husband . Suetonius says that Augustus refused to wear any garments not woven by his female relations . Cooke seems to think that \u201c vestiant \u201d alludes to the very act of putting the clothes upon a person . He says , \u201c The better sort of people had eating-dresses , which are here alluded to . These dresses were light garments , to put on as soon as they had bathed . They commonly bathed before eating , and the chief meal was in the evening .\u201d This , however , does not seem to be the meaning of the passage , although Colman has adopted it . We may here remark that the censure here described is not unlike that mentioned in the Prologue to the Mercator of Plautus , as administered by Dem\u00e6netus to his son Charinus . ]\u2014 Ver . 141 . \u201c Vas \u201d is here used as a general name for articles of furniture . This line appears to be copied almost literally from one of Menander , which still exists . ]\u2014 Ver . 145 . On the mode of advertising houses to let or be sold among the Romans , see the Trinummus of Plautus , l. 168 , and the Note to the passage in Bohn \u2019 s Translation . ]\u2014 Ver . 151 . The plural \u201c liberos \u201d is here used to signify the one son which Menedemus has . So in the Hecyra , l. 217 , the same word is used to signify but one daughter . This was a common mode of expression in the times of the earlier Latin authors . ]\u2014 Ver . 162 . It is generally supposed that there were four Festivals called the Dionysia , during the year , at Athens . The first was the Rural , or Lesser Dionysia , \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4 \u1fbd \u1f00\u03b3\u03c1\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 , a vintage festival , which was celebrated in the \u201c Demi \u201d or boroughs of Attica , in honor of Bacchus , in the month Poseidon . This was the most ancient of the Festivals , and was held with the greatest merriment and freedom ; the slaves then enjoyed the same amount of liberty as they did at the Saturnalia at Rome . The second Festival , which was called the Lensea , from \u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u1f78\u03c2 , a wine-press , was celebrated in the month Gamelion , with Scenic contests in Tragedy and Comedy . The third Dionysian Festival was the Anthesteria , or \u201c Spring feast ,\u201d being celebrated during three days in the month Anthesterion . The first day was called \u03c0\u03b9\u03b8\u03bf\u1f77\u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 , or \u201c the Opening of the casks ,\u201d as on that day the casks were opened to taste the wine of the preceding year . The second day was called \u03c7\u03bf\u03b5\u03c2 , from \u03c7\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 , \u201c a cup ,\u201d and was probably devoted to drinking . The third day was called \u03c7\u03c5\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u1f76 , from \u03c7\u03c5\u03c4\u03c1\u1f78\u03c2 , \u201c a pot ,\u201d as on it persons offered pots with flower-seeds or cooked vegetables to Dionysus or Bacchus . The fourth Attic festival of Dionysius was celebrated in the month Elaphebolion , and was called the Dionysia \u1f10\u03bd \u1f04\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9 , \u0391\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f70 , or \u039c\u03b5\u03b3\u03b1\u03bb\u1f70 , the \u201c City \u201d or \u201c great \u201d festival . It was celebrated with great magnificence , processions and dramatic representations forming part of the ceremonial . From Greece , by way of Sicily , the Bacchanalia , or festivals of Bacchus , were introduced into Rome , where they became the scenes of and pretext for every kind of vice and debauchery , until at length they were put down in the year B. C . 187 , with a strong hand , by the Consuls Spurius Posthumius Albinus and Q. Marcius Philippus ; from which period the words \u201c bacchor \u201d and \u201c bacchator \u201d became synonymous with the practice of every kind of vice and turpitude that could outrage common decency . See a very full account of the Dionysia and the Bacchanalia in Dr. Smith \u2019 s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities . ]\u2014 Ver . 199 . He means that it is to the advantage of Clitipho that Clinia should be seen to stand in awe of his father . ]\u2014 Ver . 205 . \u201c Homo ,\u201d \u201c a man ,\u201d is here put for men in general who are fathers . ]\u2014 Ver . 218 . There is a jingle intended here in the resemblance of the words \u201c cognoscendi ,\u201d \u201c knowing ,\u201d and \u201c ignoscendi ,\u201d \u201c pardoning .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 228 . \u201c Recte est .\u201d It is supposed that he pauses before uttering these words , which mean \u201c very well ,\u201d or \u201c very good ,\u201d implying the giving an assent without making a promise ; he tells the reason , in saying that he has scruples or prejudices against confessing that he has got nothing to give her . ]\u2014 Ver . 239 . That is , from the place where they are , in the country , to Athens . ]\u2014 Ver . 245 . The train and expenses of a courtesan of high station are admirably depicted in the speech of Lysiteles , in the Trinummus of Plautus , l . 252 . ]\u2014 Ver . 286 . Among the Greeks , in general , mourning for the dead seems to have lasted till the thirtieth day after the funeral , and during that period black dresses were worn . The Romans also wore mourning for the dead , which seems , in the time of the Republic , to have been black or dark blue for either sex . Under the Empire the men continued to wear black , but the women wore white . No jewels or ornaments were worn upon these occasions . ]\u2014 Ver . 289 . By \u201c null\u00e2 mal\u00e2 re muliebri \u201d he clearly means that they did not find her painted up with the cosmetics which some women were in the habit of using . Such preparations for the face as white-lead , wax , antimony , or vermilion , well deserve the name of \u201c mala res .\u201d A host of these cosmetics will be found described in Ovid \u2019 s Fragment \u201c On the Care of the Complexion ,\u201d and much information upon this subject is given in various passages in the Art of Love . In the Remedy of Love , l. 351 , Ovid speaks of these practices in the following terms : \u201c At the moment , too , when she shall be smearing her face with the cosmetics laid up on it , you may come into the presence of your mistress , and don \u2019 t let shame prevent you . You will find there boxes , and a thousand colors of objects ; and you will see \u2018 oesypum ,\u2019 the ointment of the fleece , trickling down and flowing upon her heated bosom . These drugs , Phineus , smell like thy tables ; not once alone has sickness been caused by this to my stomach .\u201d Lucretius also , in his Fourth Book , l. 1168 , speaks of a female who \u201c covers herself with noxious odors , and whom her female attendants fly from to a distance , and chuckle by stealth .\u201d See also the Mostellaria of Plautus , Act I ., Scene 3 , l. 135 , where Philematium is introduced making her toilet on the stage . ]\u2014 Ver . 291 . \u201c Pax ,\u201d literally \u201c peace !\u201d in the sense of \u201c Hush !\u201d \u201c Be quiet !\u201d See the Notes to the Trinummus of Plautus , ll . 889-891 , in Bohn \u2019 s Translation . ]\u2014 Ver . 293 . See an interesting passage on the ancient weaving , in the Metamorphoses of Ovid , B . vi ., l. 54 , et seq . See also the Epistle of Penelope to Ulysses , in the Heroides of Ovid , l. 10 , and the Note in Bohn \u2019 s English Translation . ]\u2014 Ver . 294 . This line and part of the next are supposed to have been translated almost literally from some lines , the composition of Menander , which are still extant . ]\u2014 Ver . 310 . Colman has the following remark : \u201c Here we enter upon the other part of the table , which the Poet has most artfully complicated with the main subject by making Syrus bring Clitipho \u2019 s mistress along with Antiphila . This part of the story , we know , was not in Menander .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 337 . As to his own mistress . ]\u2014 Ver . 342 . \u201c In aurem utramvis ,\u201d a proverbial expression , implying an easy and secure repose . It is also used by Plautus , and is found in a fragment of the \u03a0\u03bb\u03bf\u03ba\u03b9\u1f78\u03bd , or Necklace , a Comedy of Menander . ]\u2014 Ver . 346 . \u201c Perge porro , tamen istue ago .\u201d Stallbaum observes that the meaning is : \u201c Although I \u2019 m going off , I \u2019 m still attending to what you \u2019 re saying .\u201d According to Schmieder and others , it means : \u201c Call on just as you please , I shall persist in sending Bacchis away .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 363 . \u201c Quos ,\u201d literally , \u201c What persons !\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 372 . \u201c Inversa verba , eversas cervices tuas .\u201d \u201c Inversa verba \u201d clearly means , words with a double meaning , or substituted for others by previous arrangement , like correspondence by cipher . Lucretius uses the words in this sense , B. i ., l. 643 . A full account of the secret signs and correspondence in use among the ancients will be found in the 16th and 17th Epistles of the Heroides of Ovid , in his Amours , B. i ., El . 4 , and in various passages of the Art of Love . See also the Asinaria of Plautus , l. 780 . It is not known for certain what \u201c eversa cervix \u201d here means ; it may mean the turning of the neck in some particular manner by way of a hint or to give a sidelong look , or it may allude to the act of snatching a kiss on the sly , which might lead to a discovery . ]\u2014 Ver . 393 . \u201c Cujus \u2014 hi ;\u201d a change of number by the use of the figure Enallage . ]\u2014 Ver . 400 . Colman has the following remark on this passage : \u201c Madame Dacier , contrary to the authority of all editions and MSS ., adopts a conceit of her father \u2019 s in this place , and places this speech to Clitipho , whom she supposes to have retired to a hiding-place , where he might overhear the conversation , and from whence he peeps out to make this speech to Syrus . This she calls an agreeable jeu de th\u00e9\u00e2tre , and doubts not but all lovers of Terence will be obliged to her father for so ingenious a remark ; but it is to be feared that critical sagacity will not be so lavish of acknowledgments as filial piety . There does not appear the least foundation for this remark in the Scene , nor has the Poet given us the least room to doubt of Clitipho being actually departed . To me , instead of an agreeable { jeu de th\u00e9\u00e2tre }, it appears a most absurd and ridiculous device ; particularly vicious in this place , as it most injudiciously tends to interrupt the course of Clinia \u2019 s more interesting passion , so admirably delineated in this little Scene .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 410 . Though this is the only Play which includes more than one day in the action , it is not the only one in which the day is represented as breaking . The Amphitryon and the Curculio of Plautus commence before daybreak , and the action is carried on into the middle of the day . Madame Dacier absolutely considers it { as a fact beyond all doubt }, that the Roman Audience went home after the first two Acts of the Play , and returned for the representation of the third the next morning at daybreak . Scaliger was of the same opinion ; but it is not generally entertained by Commentators . ]\u2014 Ver . 436 . \u201c Ut essem ,\u201d literally , \u201c How I was .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 452 . \u201c Satrapa \u201d was a Persian word signifying \u201c a ruler of a province .\u201d The name was considered as synonymous with \u201c possessor of wealth almost inexhaustible .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 457 . \u201c Pytiso \u201d was the name given to the nasty practice of tasting wine , and then spitting it out ; offensive in a man , but infinitely more so in a woman . It seems in those times to have been done by persons who wished to give themselves airs in the houses of private persons ; at the present day it is probably confined to wine-vaults and sale-rooms where wine is put up to auction , and even there it is practiced much more than is either necessary or agreeable . Doubtless Bacchis did it to show her exquisite taste in the matter of wines . ]\u2014 Ver . 458 . \u201c Asperum ;\u201d meaning that the wine was not old enough for her palate . The great fault of the Greek wines was their tartness , for which reason sea-water was mixed with them all except the Chian , which was the highest class of wine . ]\u2014 Ver . 459 . \u201c Pater ,\u201d literally \u201c father ;\u201d a title by which the young generally addressed aged persons who were strangers to them . ]\u2014 Ver . 460 . \u201c Dolia omnia , omnes serias .\u201d The finer kinds of wine were drawn off from the \u201c dolia ,\u201d or large vessels , into the \u201c amphor\u00e6 ,\u201d which , like the \u201c dolia ,\u201d were made of earth , and sometimes of glass . The mouths of the vessels were stopped tight by a plug of wood or cork , which was made impervious to the atmosphere by being rubbed over with a composition of pitch , clay , wax , or gypsum . On the outside , the title of the wine was painted , and among the Romans the date of the vintage was denoted by the names of the Consuls then in office . When the vessels were of glass , small tickets or labels , called \u201c pittacia ,\u201d were suspended from them , stating to a similar effect . The \u201c seri\u00e6 \u201d were much the same as the \u201c dolia ,\u201d perhaps somewhat smaller ; they were both long , bell-mouthed vessels of earthen-ware , formed of the best clay , and lined with pitch while hot from the furnace . \u201c Seri\u00e6 \u201d were also used to contain oil and other liquids ; and in the Captivi of Plautus the word is applied to pans used for the purpose of salting meat . \u201c Relino \u201d signifies the act of taking the seal of pitch or wax off the stopper of the wine-vessel . ]\u2014 Ver . 473 . Dromo . ]\u2014 Ver . 482 . \u201c Fenestram ;\u201d literally , \u201c a window .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 491 . Colman has the following Note here : \u201c Hedelin obstinately contends from this passage , that neither Chremes nor any of his family went to bed the whole night ; the contrary of which is evident , as Menage observes , from the two next Scenes . For why should Syrus take notice of his being up so early , if he had never retired to rest ? Or would Chremes have reproached Clitipho for his behavior the night before , had the feast never been interrupted ? Eugraphius \u2019 s interpretation of these words is natural and obvious , who explains them to signify that the anxiety of Chremes to restore Clinia to Menedemus broke his rest .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 511 . Madame Dacier observes that Chremes seizes this as a very plausible and necessary pretense to engage Menedemus to return home , and not to his labors in the field , as he had at first intended . ]\u2014 Ver . 521 . This was a proverbial expression , signifying a hale and vigorous old age . It has been suggested , too , that it alludes to the practice of some old men , who drink more than they eat . It was vulgarly said that eagles never die of old age , and that when , by reason of their beaks growing inward , they are unable to feed upon their prey , they live by sucking the blood . ]\u2014 Ver . 524 . Syrus , by showing himself an admirer of the good old times , a \u201c laudator temporis acti ,\u201d is wishful to flatter the vanity of Chremes , as it is a feeling common to old age , perhaps by no means an unamiable one , to think former times better than the present . Aged people feel grateful to those happy hours when their hopes were bright , and every thing was viewed from the sunny side of life . ]\u2014 Ver . 544 . He refers to Menedemus and Bacchis . ]\u2014 Ver . 555 . \u201c Sed si quid , ne quid .\u201d An instance of Aposiopesis , signifying \u201c But if any thing does happen , don \u2019 t you blame me .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 557 . Some suppose that this is said in apparent candor by Syrus , in order the more readily to throw Chremes off his guard . Other Commentators , again , fancy these words to be said by Syrus in a low voice , aside , which seems not improbable ; it being a just retribution on Chremes for his recommendation , however well intended : in that case , Chremes probably overhears it , if we may judge from his answer . ]\u2014 Ver . 568 . \u201c Factum .\u201d \u201c Done for \u201d is anothor translation which this word will here admit of . ]\u2014 Ver . 577 . Clinia . ]\u2014 Ver . 580 . This is said ironically . ]\u2014 Ver . 583 . And that an immodest one . ]\u2014 Ver . 604 . Madame Dacier remarks , that as Antiphila is shortly to be acknowledged as the daughter of Chremes , she is not therefore in company with the other women at the feast , who are Courtesans , but with the wife of Chremes , and consequently free from reproach or scandal . ]\u2014 Ver . 606 . The question of Chremes seems directed to the fact whether the girl is of value sufficient to be good security for the thousand drachm\u00e6 . ]\u2014 Ver . 612 . Madame Dacier suggests that Chremes is prevented by his wife \u2019 s coming from making a proposal to advance the money himself , on the supposition that it will be a lucrative speculation . This notion is contradicted by Colman , who adds the following note from Eugraphius : \u201c Syrus pretends to have concerted this plot against Menedemus , in order to trick him out of some money to be given to Clinia \u2019 s supposed mistress . Chremes , however , does not approve of this : yet it serves to carry on the plot ; for when Antiphila proves afterward to be the daughter of Chremes , he necessarily becomes the debtor of Bacchis , and is obliged to lay down the sum for which he imagines his daughter is pledged .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 628 . He alludes to Clitipho , who , by the discovery of his sister , would not come in for such a large share of his father \u2019 s property , and would consequently , as Syrus observes , gain a loss . ]\u2014 Ver . 652 . Madame Dacier observes upon this passage , that the ancients thought themselves guilty of a heinous offense if they suffered their children to die without having bestowed on them some of their property ; it was consequently the custom of the women , before exposing children , to attach to them some jewel or trinket among their clothes , hoping thereby to avoid incurring the guilt above mentioned , and to ease their consciences . ]\u2014 Ver . 653 . Madame Dacier says that the meaning of this passage is this : Chremes tells his wife that by having given this ring , she has done two good acts instead of one \u2014 she has both cleared her conscience and saved the child ; for had there been no ring or token exposed with the infant , the finder would not have been at the trouble of taking care of it , but might have left it to perish , never suspecting it would be inquired after , or himself liberally rewarded for having preserved it . ]\u2014 Ver . 659 . Syrus is now alarmed that Antiphila should so soon be acknowledged as the daughter of Chremes , lest he may lose the opportunity of obtaining the money , and be punished as well , in case the imposition is detected , and Bacchis discovered to be the mistress of Clitipho and not of Clinia . ]\u2014 Ver . 666 . This he says by way of palliating the cruelty he was guilty of in his orders to have the child put to death . ]\u2014 Ver . 668 . \u201c Nisi me animus fallit .\u201d He comically repeats the very same words with which Sostrata commenced in the last Scene . ]\u2014 Ver . 668 . \u201c Infortunium !\u201d was the name by which the slaves commonly denoted a beating . Colman has the following remark here : \u201c Madame Dacier , and most of the later critics who have implicitly followed her , tell us that in the interval between the third and fourth Acts , Syrus has been present at the interview between Chremes and Antiphila within . The only difficulty in this doctrine is how to reconcile it to the apparent ignorance of Syrus , which he discovers at the entrance of Clinia . But this objection , says she , is easily answered . Syrus having partly heard Antiphila \u2019 s story , and finding things likely to take an unfavorable turn , retires to consider what is best to be done . But surely this is a most unnatural impatience at so critical a conjuncture ; and , after all , would it not be better to take up the matter just where Terence has left it , and to suppose that Syrus knew nothing more of the affair than what might be collected from the late conversation between Chremes and Sostrata , at which we know he was present ? This at once accounts for his apprehensions , which he betrayed even during that Scene , as well as for his imperfect knowledge of the real state of the case , till apprised of the whole by Clinia .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 673 . He most probably alludes to the custom of tying up the slaves by their hands , after stripping them naked , when of course their \u201c latera \u201d or \u201c sides \u201d would be exposed , and come in for a share of the lashes . ]\u2014 Ver . 678 . \u201c Fugitivum argentum .\u201d Madame Dacier suggests that this is a bad translation of the words of Menander , which were \u201c \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u1f73\u03c8\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u1f73\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u03c7\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u1f78\u03bd \u201d where \u201c \u03c7\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u1f78\u03c2 \u201d signified both \u201c gold \u201d and the name of a slave . ]\u2014 Ver . 719 . He means those who create unnecessary difficulties in their imagination . Colman quotes the following remark from Patrick : \u201c There is a remarkable passage in Arrian \u2019 s Account of Alexander , lib . iv ., where he tells us that some embassadors from the Celtic , being asked by Alexander what in the world they dreaded most , answered , \u2018 That they feared lest the sky should fall\u2019 Alexander , who expected to hear himself named , was surprised at an answer which signified that they thought themselves beyond the reach of all human power , plainly implying that nothing could hurt them , unless he would suppose impossibilities , or a total destruction of nature .\u201d Aristotle , in his Physics , B . iv ., informs us that it was the early notion of ignorant nations that the sky was supported on the shoulders of Atlas , and that when he let go of it , it would fall . ]\u2014 Ver . 723 . \u201c Satis pol proterve ,\u201d & c. C. L\u00e6lius was said to have assisted Terence in the composition of his Plays , and in confirmation of this , the following story is told by Cornelius Nepos : \u201c C . L\u00e6lius , happening to pass the Matronaliaat his villa near Puteoli , was told that dinner was waiting , but still neglected the summons . At last , when he made his appearance , he excused himself by saying that he had been in a particular vein of composition , and quoted certain lines which occur in the Heautontimorumenos , namely , those beginning \u2018 Satis pol proterve me Syri promissa huc induxerunt .\u2019\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 730 . \u201c Dormiunt .\u201d This is clearly used figuratively , though Hedelin interprets it literally . ]\u2014 Ver . 732 . Cooke suggests that the Poet makes Bacchis call the house of Charinus \u201c villa ,\u201d and that of Chremes \u201c fundus \u201d, for the purpose of exalting the one and depreciating the other in the hearing of Syrus . ]\u2014 Ver . 733 . This passage goes far to prove that the Dionysia here mentioned as being celebrated , were those \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4 \u1fbd \u1f00\u03b3\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 , or the \u201c rural Dionysia .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 742 . Colman here remarks to the following effect : \u201c There is some difficulty in this and the next speech in the original , and the Commentators have been puzzled to make sense of them . It seems to me that the Poet \u2019 s intention is no more than this : Bacchis expresses some reluctance to act under the direction of Syrus , but is at length prevailed on , finding that he can by those means contrive to pay her the money which he has promised her .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 796 . Cicero mentions the same proverb in his work De Officiis , B. i ., ch . 10 , substituting the word \u201c injuria \u201d for \u201c malitia .\u201d \u201c\u2018 Extreme law , extreme injustice ,\u2019 is now become a stale proverb in discourse .\u201d The same sentiment is found in the Fragments of Menander . ]\u2014 Ver . 839 . He inveighs , perhaps justly , against the tyranny of custom ; but in selecting this occasion for doing so , he does not manifest any great affection for his newly-found daughter . ]\u2014 Ver . 875 . The three terms here used are borrowed from the stage . \u201c Adjutor \u201d was the person who assisted the performers either by voice or gesture ; \u201c monitor \u201d was the prompter ; and \u201c pr\u00e6monstrator \u201d was the person who in the rehearsal trained the actor in his part . ]\u2014 Ver . 877 . There is a similar passage in the Bacchides of Plautus , l. 1087 . \u201c Whoever there are in any place whatsoever , whoever have been , and whoever shall be in time to come , fools , blockheads , idiots , dolts , sots , oafs , lubbers , I singly by far exceed them all in folly and absurd ways .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 887 . He means that Syrus not only lays his plots well , but teaches the performers to put on countenances suitable to the several parts they are to act . ]\u2014 Ver . 898 . \u201c Mire finxit .\u201d He sarcastically uses the same word , \u201c fingo ,\u201d which Chremes himself employed in l . 887 . ]\u2014 Ver . 909 . \u201c Familia \u201d here means \u201c property ,\u201d as producing sustenance . Colman , however , has translated the passage : \u201c Mine is scarce a ten-days \u2019 family .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 911 . Menedemus speaks of \u201c amico ,\u201d a male friend , which Chremes plays upon by saying \u201c amicae ,\u201d which literally meant a she-friend , and was the usual name by which decent people called a mistress . ]\u2014 Ver . 924 . Madame Dacier observes here , that one of the great beauties of this Scene consists in Chremes retorting on Menedemus the very advice given by himself at the beginning of the Play . ]\u2014 Ver . 954 . Colman has the following Note : \u201c The departure of Menedemus here is very abrupt , seeming to be in the midst of a conversation ; and his re-entrance with Clitipho , already supposed to be apprised of what has passed between the two old gentlemen , is equally precipitate . Menage imagines that some verses are lost here . Madame Dacier strains hard to defend the Poet , and fills up the void of time by her old expedient of making the Audience wait to see Chremes walk impatiently to and fro , till a sufficient time is elapsed for Menedemus to have given Clitipho a summary account of the cause of his father \u2019 s anger . The truth is , that a too strict observance of the unity of place will necessarily produce such absurdities ; and there are several other instances of the like nature in Terence .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 966 . This is an early instance of a trusteeship and a guardianship . ]\u2014 Ver . 974 . \u201c Ilicet ,\u201d literally , \u201c you may go away .\u201d This was the formal word with which funeral ceremonies and trials at law were concluded . ]\u2014 Ver . 975 . He alludes to the practice of slaves taking refuge at altars when they had committed any fault , and then suing for pardon through a \u201c precator \u201d or \u201c mediator .\u201d See the Mostellaria of Plautus , l. 1074 , where Tranio takes refuge at the altar from the vengeance of his master , Theuropides . ]\u2014 Ver . 1010 . \u201c Quam quidem redit ad integrum eadem oratio ;\u201d meaning , \u201c it amounts to one and the same thing ,\u201d or , \u201c it is all the same thing ,\u201d whether you do or whether you don \u2019 t know . ]\u2014 Ver . 1018 . This sentence has given much trouble to the Commentators . Colman has the following just remarks upon it : \u201c Madame Dacier , as well as all the rest of the Commentators , has stuck at these words . Most of them imagine she means to say , that the discovery of Antiphila is a plain proof that she is not barren . Madame Dacier supposes that she intimates such a proof to be easy , because Clitipho and Antiphila were extremely alike ; which sense she thinks immediately confirmed by the answer of Chremes . I can not agree with any of them , and think that the whole difficulty of the passage here , as in many other places , is entirely of their own making . Sostrata could not refer to the reply of Chremes , because she could not possibly tell what it would be ; but her own speech is intended as an answer to his preceding one , which she takes as a sneer on her late wonderful discovery of a daughter ; imagining that he means to insinuate that she could at any time with equal ease make out the proofs of the birth of her son . The elliptical mode of expression so usual with Terence , together with the refinements of Commentators , seem to have created all the obscurity .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 1036 . It is probably this ebullition of Comic anger which is referred to by Horace , in his Art of Poetry : \u201c Interdum tamen et vocem Com\u0153dia tollit , Iratusque Chremes tumido delitigat ore :\u201d \u201c Yet sometimes Comedy as well raises her voice , and enraged Chremes censures in swelling phrase .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 1037 . \u201c Deos nescio .\u201d The Critic Lambinis , in his letter to Charles the Ninth of France , accuses Terence of impiety in this passage . Madame Dacier has , however , well observed , that the meaning is not \u201c I care not for the Gods ,\u201d but \u201c I know not what the Gods will do .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 1048 . \u201c Firmas .\u201d This ratification or affirmation would be made by Menedemus using the formal word \u201c Accipio ,\u201d \u201c I accept .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 1060 . Many take \u201c sparso ore \u201d here to mean \u201c wide-mouthed .\u201d Lemonnier thinks that must be the meaning , as he has analyzed the other features of her countenance . There is , however , no reason why he should not speak of her complexion ; and it seems , not improbably , to have the same meaning as the phrase \u201c os lentiginosum ,\u201d \u201c a freckled face .\u201d] * * * * ADELPHI ; THE BROTHERS , DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . DEMEA ,Brother , aged Athenian . MICIO ,Brother , aged Athenian . HEGIO ,an aged Athenian , kinsman of Sostrata . \u00c6SCHINUS ,son of Demea , adopted by Micio . CTESIPHO ,another son of Demea . SANNIO ,a Procurer . GETA ,servant of Sostrata . PARMENO ,servant of Micio . SYRUS ,servant of Micio . DROMO ,servant of Micio . PAMPHILA ,a young woman beloved by \u00c6schinus . SOSTRATA ,a widow , mother of Pamphila . CANTHARA ,a Nurse . A Music-girl .", "Prithee , what kind of a person are you ?", "What then ?", "See how unreasonable you are from your { very } earnestness ; so long as you effect what you desire , you neither think of limits to compliance , nor what { it is } you request of me ; for if you did think , you would now forbear to trouble me with unreasonable requests .", "His \u201c she-friend \u201d rather .", "I don \u2019 t hear any thing from { him } as yet .", "What ! to Antipho ?", "A great deal ; besides that , I \u2019 ve found out that she is related to us .", "The rogue can even mould the countenances of people .", "Do you say so ?", "Yes , with a full recollection of them .", "That Phania was my brother .", "Ha ! Demipho , has the money been paid him yet ?", "All of them .", "Any thing , rather than what you are thinking of ; supply him { with money } through some other person ; suffer yourself to be imposed upon by the artifices of his servant : although I have smelt out this too , that they are about that , { and } are secretly planning it among them . Syrus is { always } whispering with that { servant } of yours ;they impart their plans to the young men ; and it were better for you to lose a talent this way , than a mina the other . The money is not the question now , but this \u2014 in what way we can supply it to the young man with the least danger . For if he once knows the state of your feelings , that you would sooner part with your life , and sooner with all your money , than allow your son to leave you ; whew ! what an inletwill you be opening for his debauchery ! aye , and so much so , that henceforth to live can not be desirable to you . For we all become worse through indulgence . Whatever comes into his head , he \u2019 ll be wishing for ; nor will he reflect whether that which he desires is right or wrong . You will not be able to endure your estate and him going to ruin . You will refuse to supply him : he will immediately have recourse to the means by which he finds that he has the greatest hold upon you , { and } threaten that he will immediately leave you .", "Give her back to you , or you lay hands upon her ? Of all the \u2014", "Is it requisite for any person to torment himself ?", "By no means .", "For { very } anger , Menedemus , I am not myself .", "Her portion , Pamphilus , is ten talents .", "Whew ! such a heavy one as this , pray !", "Hah ! What \u2019 s the matter ? Are they still alive ?", "Admit it .", "Sostrata , follow me this way in-doors .", "Upon my faith , it is a true saying , that \u201c Venus grows cold without Ceres and Bacchus .\u201d But has Thais got here long before me ?", "It is his way , Crito ; do excuse it .", "If you wish to know , I \u2019 ll tell you ; being a trifler , an idler , a cheat , a glutton , a debauchee , a spendthrift \u2014 Believe me , and believe that you are our { son }.", "I believe you .", "What is it you say ?", "O Jupiter !", "Tell me what you want .", "Syrus .", "She can \u2019 t be got to leave .", "Pretend that you wonder at this , and at the same time ask him the reason why I do so .", "To buy { them }\u2014\u2014?", "Whence did you get it ?", "Do it then .", "I \u2019 m aware of that ; but it \u2019 s foolish to run the risk of what you are able to avoid . I had rather we should prevent it , than , having received an injury , avenge ourselves upon him . Do you go in and fasten the door , while I run across hence to the Forum ; I should like us to have the aid of some legal adviser in this disturbance .", "Is it a matter of doubt to you ? Do you suppose that there is any person of so accommodating and tame a spirit as to suffer his own mistress , himself looking on , to \u2014", "What shall I do ?", "I know it .", "Perfectly .", "If it is your determination thus to act , I hold it to be of very great moment that he should not be aware that with a full knowledge you grant him this .", "Why { do I do so }? To check his feelings , which are now hurried away by luxury and wantonness , and to bring him down so as not to know which way to turn himself .", "{ Then } kindly fare you well .", "Why , really , the more and more I think of it , I shouldn \u2019 t be surprised if this Thais should be doing me { some } great mischief ; so cunningly do I perceive myself beset by her . Even on the occasion when she first requested me to be fetched to herWhen I came , she found an excuse for me to remain there ; she said that she had been offering a sacrifice ,and that she was desirous to speak upon some important business with me . Even then I had a suspicion that all these things were being done for her artful purposes . She takes her place beside me ; pays every attention to me ; seeks an opportunity of conversation . When { the conversation } flagged , she turned off to this point \u2014 how long since my father and mother died ? I said that it was now a long time ago . Whether I had any country-house at Sunium , and how far from the sea ? I suppose that this has taken her fancy , { and } she expects to get it away from me . Then at last , whether any little sister of mine had been lost from there ; whether any person was with her ; what she had about her when she was lost ; whether any one could recognize her . Why should she make these inquiries ? Unless , perhaps , she pretends \u2014 so great is her assurance \u2014 that she herself is the same person that was formerly lost when a little girl . But if she is alive , she is sixteen years old , not older ; { whereas } Thais is somewhat older than I am . She has sent to press me earnestly to come . Either let her speak out what she wants , or not be troublesome ; I assuredly shall not come a third timeHo ! there , ho ! there ! Is any one here ? It \u2019 s I , Chremes .", "I am not at all angry either with you, or with you; nor is it fair that you { should be so } with me for what I am doing .", "Go on with your story .", "What { was it }, Crito ? Can you remember it ?", "Luckily , too , I \u2019 ve now brought { home } some money with me , the rents which my wife \u2019 s farms at Lemnos produce . I \u2019 ll take it out of that , { and } tell my wife that you had occasion for it .", "What am I to do ?", "I \u2019 ll let you know : in the first place , I assert that she is a freeborn woman .", "I \u2019 ll lend my endeavors . This little business is in my way . Our neighbors Simus and Crito are disputing here about boundaries ; they have chosen me for arbitrator . I \u2019 ll go and tell them that I can not possibly give them my attention to-day as I had stated I would . I \u2019 ll be here immediately . ( Exit .", "What do you suspect now , or have you discovered , relative to her ?", "You are in an error .", "Tell me what you would have me do .", "See you , there \u2019 s Davus .", "He has forced tears from me , and I do pity him . But as the day is far gone , I must remind Phania , this neighbor { of mine }, to come to dinner . I \u2019 ll go see whether he is at home .There was no occasion for me to remind him : they tell me he has been some time already at my house ; it \u2019 s I myself am making my guests wait . I \u2019 ll go in-doors immediately . But what means the noise at the door of my house ? I wonder who \u2019 s coming out ! I \u2019 ll step aside here .", "To heart , { indeed }! you are too indulgent to him , Menedemus .", "I know the whole affair . Is Simo within ?", "Alone ?", "But how say you \u2014\u2014?", "Why are you blaming me , Clitipho ? Whatever I have done in this matter , I had a view to you and your imprudence . When I saw that you were of a careless disposition , and held the pleasures of the moment of the first importance , and did not look forward to the future , I took measures that you might neither want nor be able to waste this { which I have }. When , through your own { conduct }, it was not allowed me to give it you , to whom I ought before all , I had recourse to those who were your nearest relations ; to them I have made over and intrusted every thing .There you \u2019 ll always find a refuge for your folly ; food , clothing , and a roof under which to betake yourself .", "I came { just } in time .", "Heyday ! how nice he is ! You would fancy he had set his mind upon it .", "You say what \u2019 s surprising . What did my { servant } Syrus do ? Didn \u2019 t even he { say } any thing ?", "Do you say { so }?", "So far as I can learn , this woman belongs to the Andrian .", "Don \u2019 t be crying out ; you may have those ten of me .", "What { am I to do } here ? I see I am not allowed to carry this through , as I had intended .", "What does she say ?", "So may the Gods bless me , I do believe it .", "But \u2014", "\u2019 Tis the very woman . I \u2019 ll address her .", "Why do you suppose he { is }?Quarreling with her , { of course }.", "What , her that has just been discovered ?", "How much he is mistaken !", "Nay , he could not have more happily contrived to bring about what we want .", "Ha !", "How go matters ?", "How , no ?", "I said there was a design upon me .", "What is it you say ?", "Very well .", "How should I not be aware ? A fellow that deserves the mill .", "All .", "For what reason , I don \u2019 t know .", "So she seems .", "You announce { to me } a great pleasure . How much I wish that Menedemus had accepted my invitation to make one of us : that at my house I might have been the first to surprise him , when not expecting it , with this delight ! \u2014 and even yet there \u2019 s time enough \u2014\u2014", "No ; but for { a reason } why it should be much sooner believed \u2014 because he is just like you in disposition , you will easily prove that he is your child ; for he is exactly like you ; why , he has not a single vice left him but you have just the same . Then , besides , no woman could have been the mother of such a son but yourself . But he \u2019 s coming out of doors , { and } how demure ! When you understand the matter , you may form your own conclusions .", "Ha ! Menedemus , you have come opportunely . Tell me , have you told Clinia what I said ?", "This , indeed , I know for certain , even if you were to deny it , that in every thing you both speak and act ignorantly and foolishly : how many blunders you disclose in this { single } affair ! For , in the first place , then , if you had been disposed to obey my orders , { the child } ought to have been dispatched ; { you ought } not in words to have feigned her death , { and } in reality to have left hopes of her surviving . But that I pass over ; compassion , maternal affection , I allow it . But how finely you did provide for the future ! What was your meaning ? Do reflect . It \u2019 s clear , beyond a doubt , that your daughter was betrayed by you to this old woman , either that through you she might make a living by her , or that she might be sold in open market as { a slave }. I suppose you reasoned thus : \u201c any thing is enough , if only her life is saved :\u201d what are you to do with those who understand neither law , nor right and justice ? { Be it } for better { or } for worse , be it for them or against them , they see nothing except just what they please .", "The sly tricks of my servant , Syrus , { just } came into my mind .", "I hear { you }.", "They will do { so }. Now , if it is convenient { to you }\u2014 the festival of Bacchusis being kept here to-day \u2014 I wish you to give me your company .", "Here , at my house , at home .", "Now speak .", "{ It is } he .", "Ah ! you don \u2019 t know how vexed I am .", "Syrus , I am ashamed { of him }.", "But still , Menedemus , I hope for the best , and I trust that he \u2019 ll be here safe before long .", "And do you ask the question ?", "I \u2019 m thinking where I can find them now .", "What is { one to say } to all this ? If you feel persuaded that this is beneficial , I don \u2019 t wish that any advantage should be denied you .", "Then you ought to assist him \u2014 for the sake of the young man .", "Well \u2014 did Clinia see { all } this going on ?", "Both are to be blamed \u2014 although { I } still { think } this step shows an ingenuous and enterprising disposition .", "Just stop \u2014 first I want to know this , what { money } you have squandered ; for when you told your son that she was promised , of course Dromo would at once throw in a word that golden jewels , clothes , { and } attendants would be needed for the bride , in order that you might give the money .", "Certainly .", "I have disengaged myself , that I might lend you my services at my leisure . Syrus must be found and instructed by me { in this business }. Some one , I know not who , is coming out of my house : do you step hence home , that they may not perceivethat we are conferring together .", "I did think that two talents were sufficient , according to my means . But if you wish me to be saved , and my estate and my son , you must say to this effect , that I have settled all my property on her as her portion .", "That { was } right ; { thereby } you proved the saving of yourself and her .", "He , flying from the wars , and following me to Asia , set out from here . At the same time he was afraid to leave her here behind ; since then , this is the first time I have heard what became of him .", "But I neither give nor betroth my daughter { to him }.", "I \u2019 ll now answer you for Menedemus \u2014 I will not purchase her .", "Say then , that you have seen me , { and } have treated about the marriage .", "Nonsense !", "That he may the sooner ask of you , and you may as soon as possible give him what you wish .", "The plea is a very good one , unless perchance your father says any thing to the contrary .", "Why , so she seemed to me , in fact .", "It will come better from one woman to another .", "Hark you , I don \u2019 t wish our sons even to come to know of this .", "Do you proceed .", "I am brought to such a pass , that I really don \u2019 t know what to do in it .", "Oh ! rather speak about the matter itself , and forbear to use harsh language .", "That servant of the young gentleman , I mean .", "I \u2019 ll tell you . However the case stood , { Clinia } ought still to have remained { at home }. Perhaps his father was a little stricter than he liked : he should have put up with it . For whom ought he to bear with , if he would not bear with his own father ? Was it reasonable that he should live after his { son \u2019 s } humor , or { his son } after his ? And as to charging him with harshness , it is not the fact . For the severities of fathers are generally of one character , those { I mean } who are in some degree reasonable men .They do not wish their sons to be always wenching ; they do not wish them to be always carousing ; they give a limited allowance ; and yet all this tends to virtuous conduct . But when the mind , Clitipho , has once enslaved itself by vicious appetites , it must of necessity follow similar pursuits . This is a wise maxim , \u201c to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage .\u201d", "Get out with you . What , I frightened ? There \u2019 s not a man alive less so .", "But for that experiment to be made upon a daughter is a serious thing \u2014\u2014", "What is the matter ?", "How annoying { you were }! So much so , that for my part , as the Gods may prosper me , I dreaded what in the end might be { the consequence }. I understand lovers . They resent highly things that you would not imagine .", "Many a time a man can not besuch as he would be , if circumstances do not admit of it . Time has now so brought it about , that I should be glad of a daughter ; formerly { I wished for } nothing less .", "Pretending is not in my way ; do you mix up these { plots } of yours , so as not to mix me up { in them }. Do you think that I \u2019 ll betroth my daughter to a person to whom I will not marry her ?", "What then ?", "Bacchis is my son \u2019 s mistress , Menedemus \u2014 I \u2019 m undone .", "Because they are fond of one another .", "Why , do you ask me ? To a fellow \u2014\u2014", "Do you ask the question ? He ought to have found some expedient , contrived { some } stratagem , by means of which there might have been something for the young man to give to his mistress , and { thus } have saved this crabbed old fellow in spite of himself .", "To me ? How so , pray ?", "To suffer it to come to this !", "Ha ! my wife !", "I have hardly substance to suffice for ten days .", "By all means ; but where is Phaedria , our arbitrator ?", "Your own , indeed , { you } gallows-bird !", "She \u2019 ll do well enough .", "My daughter , in fact , has now had ten min\u00e6 from me , which I consider as paid for her board ; another { ten } will follow these for clothes ; and then she will require two talents for her portion . How many things , { both } just { and } unjust , are sanctioned by custom !Now I \u2019 m obliged , neglecting my business , to look out for some one on whom to bestow my property , that has been acquired by my labor .", "It is now daybreak .{ Why } do I delay to knock at my neighbor \u2019 s door , that he may learn from me the first that his son has returned ? Although I am aware that the youth would not prefer this . But when I see him tormenting himself { so } miserably about his absence , can I conceal a joy so unhoped for , { especially } when there can be no danger to him from the discovery ? I will not do { so }; but as far as I can I will assist the old man . As I see my son aiding his friend and year \u2019 s-mate , and acting as his confidant in his concerns , it is { but } right that we old men as well should assist each other .", "Well , Menedemus , why don \u2019 t you order my daughter to be sent for , and close with the offerof the portion that I mentioned ?", "Not too much .", "But how say you \u2014\u2014?Footnote 83 ... She speaks of \u201c liber\u00e6 ,\u201d \u201c free women ,\u201dFootnote 90 ... to tie criminals hands and feet togetherEunuch :", "What then do you intend doing ?", "On this condition , then , I \u2019 ll do it ; if he does that which I think it right he { should do }.", "I believe you to be of an affectionate disposition toward your children ,and him to be an obedient { son }, if one were to manage him rightly or prudently . But neither did you understand him sufficiently well , nor he you \u2014 a thing that happens where persons don \u2019 t live on terms of frankness together . You never showed him how highly you valued him , nor did he { ever } dare put that confidence in you which is due to a father . Had this been done , these { troubles } would never have befallen you .", "What would you have ? We \u2019 ll forgive you the money you \u2019 ve got .", "Certainly .", "So much the better , i \u2019 faith .", "Who { is } Phormio ?", "Say on .", "Was I deceived { in saying } that they were planning this ? That servant of Clinia \u2019 s is somewhat dull ; therefore { that } province has been assigned to this one of ours .", "Davus .", "Thais , I \u2019 ve been here some time .", "I \u2019 ll take care .", "I \u2019 m ruined !", "I have got a shrew of a wife shut up there . For by that name I formerly falsely called myself , in order that you might not chance indiscreetly to blab it out of doors , and then my wife , by some means or other , might come to know of it .", "Did I not see you just now putting your hand into this", "But I see him coming out of his house ; I \u2019 ll go speak to him .Menedemus , good-morrow ; I bring you news , which you would especially desire to be imparted .", "Do not weep , but make me acquainted with it , whatever it is . Do not be reserved ; fear nothing ; trust me , I tell you . Either by consolation , or by counsel , or by any means , I will aid you .", "I had almost fallen unawares into a comical misfortune .", "Why , I didn \u2019 t know that she meant that , until the Captain gave me an explanation , because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house . But look , here she is ; I wonder how it was I got here before her . SCENE VII .", "This spot is not exactly suited for me to tell it { you }.", "Do you ask ? You importuned me to promise my daughter to a young man engaged in another attachment , averse to the marriage state , to plunge her into discord and a marriage of uncertain duration ; that through her sorrow and her anguish I might reclaim your son . You prevailed ; while the case admitted of it I made preparations . Now it does not admit of it ; you must put up with it ; they say that she is a citizen of this place ; a child has been born ; do cease to trouble us .", "As to that , we \u2019 ll consider what is requisite when the occasion does happen . At present do you set about this matter .", "O Jupiter ! that there should be such extreme folly in { a person \u2019 s } mind ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Troth , she had another when little .", "What is that ?", "That \u2019 s it .", "Many other persons in Andros have heard the same , Chremes .", "I \u2019 faith , I really think it was Phania ; this I know for certain , he said that he was a citizen of Rhamnus .", "O Mysis , greetings to you .", "Greetings to you , Chremes .", "Lead me to her , since I have come hither , that I may see her .", "How { is } Glycerium ? Has she discovered her parents yet ?", "His brother \u2019 s daughter .", "For what purpose ?", "The name , in such a hurry !", "Simo , were you asking for me ?"], "true_target": ["How { fare } you here , { and } in what fashion ? Pretty well ?", "Forbear entreating . Of these , any one reason prompts me to do it , either your own sake , or the fact that it is the truth , or that I wish well for Glycerium herself .", "Let him take heed how he behaves . If he persists in saying to me what he likes , he \u2019 ll be hearing things that he don \u2019 t like . Am I meddling with these matters or interesting myself ? Can you not endure your troubles with a patient mind ? For as to what I say , whether it is true or false what I have heard , can soon be known . A certain man of Attica , a long time ago ,his ship being wrecked , was cast ashore at Andros , and this woman together with him , who was { then } a little girl ; he , in his destitution , by chance first made application to the father of Chrysis \u2014", "I \u2019 m trying to recollect it .", "Really , is he to be interrupting me in this way ?", "Is Chrysis then \u2014\u2014?Alas !", "Hah !", "Do you deny it ?", "{ So } it has happened . But is this Simo ?", "No .", "Are you in your senses ?", "What , not yet ? With no favorable omen did I set out for this place ; for , upon my faith , if I had known that , I never would have moved a foot hither . She was always said to be , and was looked upon as her sister ; what things were hers she is in possession of ; now for me to begin a suit at law here , the precedents of others warn me , a stranger ,how easy and profitable a task it would be for me . At the same time , I suppose that by this she has got some friend and protector ; for she was pretty nearly a grown-up girl when she left there . They would cry out that I am a sharper ; that , a pauper , I \u2019 m hunting after an inheritance ; besides , I shouldn \u2019 t like to strip { the girl } herself .", "What do you say ?", "He who received him was a relation of mine . There I heard from him that he was a native of Attica . He died there ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Who is it wants me ?", "Whom ?", "Why so ?", "You shall own that I \u2019 m dumb .", "\u2019 Tis as { I told you },\u2014 but in the mean time , while we \u2019 ve been carrying on our discourse , these women have been left behind ."], "true_target": ["What do you want ?", "What is it ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Halloo , Syrus ! Ctesipho desires you \u2019 ll come back .", "No wonder ; they are so encumbered ; they are bringing a troop of female attendantswith them ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I don \u2019 t think it was gallant in the captain to place a restraint on your tongue .", "Then there \u2019 s the other one : you would declare that he was born for his belly \u2019 s sake .", "What \u2019 s the matter , simpleton ? What do you mean ? What are you laughing about ? Still going on ?", "She has been made a present to her .", "Why , nothing ; for neither in the tidings nor in myself do I know of there being any advantage to you .", "There \u2019 s no doubt but that I shall have a heavy punishment for this affair , only that I was obliged to act thus . I \u2019 m glad of this , that some mischief will befall these women here through my agency , for the old man has , for a long time , been on the look-out for some occasionto do them a bad turn ; at last he has found it . SCENE VII .", "I commend { you }.", "I \u2019 ve come here to be on the look-out , that when there is an opportunity I may take { the presents }. But see , here \u2019 s the Captain .", "You may enjoy those advantages which you just now said he { would enjoy }; you may take your meals together with her , be in company with her , touch her , dally with her , { and } sleep by her side ; as not one of these women is acquainted with you , nor yet knows who you are . Besides , you are of an age and figure that you may easily pass for a eunuch .", "That may be kept a secret .", "Good Gods ! What a malady is this ! That a man should become so changed through love , that you wouldn \u2019 t know him to be the same person ! Not any one was thereless inclined to folly than he , and no one more discreet { or } more temperate . But who is it that \u2019 s coming this way ? Heyday ! surely this is Gnatho , the Captain \u2019 s Parasite ; he \u2019 s bringing along with him the damsel as a present to her . Heavens ! How beautiful ! No wonder if I make but a sorry figure here to-day with this decrepit Eunuch of mine . She surpasses Thais herself .", "Why so ?", "I understand \u2014 is that all ?", "Aye , but I shall have to pay the penaltyfor this ?", "May the Gods confound him ! What if he shouldn \u2019 t come ? Am I to wait { there }, even till the evening ?", "Such is so , I tell you .", "There is no need for its being spread abroad ; ask me no more about it .", "Why is he { thus } overjoyed ?", "By heavens , I \u2019 ll repay you !", "I have taken care .", "He has ; but I doubt whether this match will be lasting .", "I \u2019 m undone : my tongue cleaves { to my mouth } through fright .", "Do you order me , { then }?", "What you are to do ? Why , only to redeem yourself , { thus } captivated , at the smallest price you can ; if you can not at a very small rate , still for as little as you can ; and do not afflict yourself .", "Nay , but indeed I do know : and I did not do it without design .", "Quite .", "Indeed I \u2019 m thinking of this same matter .", "Well done , my { master }, I commend you ;he \u2019 s galled at last .You show yourself a man .", "Thais , then , is wholly your brother \u2019 s .", "Troth now , pray , do let us , with your leave , present to her the things we intend , { and } accost and speak to her .", "How did you come to lose her ?", "I agree with you .", "That \u2019 s all .", "They said that your wife , Philumena , was in alarm aboutsomething , I know not what ; whether that may be it , perchance , I don \u2019 t know .", "What \u2019 s to be done in such case ? If you are determined to do it , you must do it : but don \u2019 t you by-and-by be throwing the blame upon me .", "I \u2019 ll do my best , and use all my endeavors ; I \u2019 ll lend you my assistance .Do you want any thing else with me ?", "What now , if you yourself were to be this fortunate person ?", "Aye , and if you did but know what present he is pitting against this present , you would say so still more .", "The Captain Thraso , Ph\u00e6dria \u2019 s rival .", "Am I to say nothing else ?", "What do you wish me to say ? Or am I to meet him only ?", "You \u2019 ll find it true .", "It shall be done .", "How mistaken you are in your notion !", "Hah ! what is it you say , you hussy ? Have you been telling me lies ? What , laughing still ? Does it appear so delightful to you , you jade , to be making fools of us ?", "Ha ! What means this ?", "I suppose that , poor thing , you shut him out of doors , for love , according to the usual practice .", "Home ; to take those slaves to Thais , as your brother ordered me .", "I don \u2019 t know .", "What sort of a girl is this one of yours ?", "You shall hear just now . At first , for several days , there really was a good understanding between them . In the mean time , however , in a strange way , she began to take a dislike to Sostrata ; nor yet was there ever any quarrel or words between them .", "Don \u2019 t let Thais suffer any violence to be done to him . But why don \u2019 t I go in myself ?", "Come then , I \u2019 ll approach nearer to the door .Ha ! did you hear ?", "Why not ?", "I \u2019 ll do { so }.", "Extremely { so }.", "To cut the matter short , he took home his wife . On the first night , he did not touch the girl ; the night that followed that , not a bit the more .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "I don \u2019 t know .", "I \u2019 troth , I fancy that regret for Athens full oft possessed you , and that you thought but poorly of your foresight .", "I \u2019 m standing .", "It \u2019 s a wonder if he doesn \u2019 t mean her who has just now been made a present of to { Thais here }.", "What is it you tell me ?", "But not a word about shutting you out !", "What , you ? Upon my faith , I don \u2019 t think { so }; for either you \u2019 ll be returning at once , or by-and-by , at night , want of sleep will be driving you hither .", "Only take care that this isn \u2019 t too rash a project .", "But that you mayn \u2019 t be ignorant of this , Pythias , I tell you , { and } give you notice that he is my master \u2019 s son .", "Follow me ; may the Gods prosper it !", "He staggers ; how instantaneously is he vanquished by a single expression !", "Where did you see her ?", "Bound him ?", "She has been brought here", "Still , as it is , you \u2019 ll the sooner know how to extricate yourself from these misfortunes . If you had not returned , this breach might have become much wider ; but now , Pamphilus , I am sure that both will be awed by your presence . You will learn the facts , remove their enmity , restore them to good feeling once again . { These } are but trifles which you have persuaded yourself are { so } grievous .", "PAMPHILUS , alone .", "\u201c For me to declare this , I consider to be inconvenient to me , but for her to be sent back to her father without mentioning any blame , would be insolent ; but I am in hopes that she , when she is sensible that she can not live with me , will go at last { of her own accord }.\u201d", "Who must ?", "It is the fact .", "What say you , Gnatho ? Do you see any thing to find fault with ? And what { say } you , Thraso ?They hold their tongues ; they praise him sufficiently { thereby }.Make trial of him in literature , try him in exercises ,and in music ; I \u2019 ll warrant him well skilled in what it becomes a gentleman to know .", "You yourself are talking , while you forbid me .", "The fact will prove itself .Ho there ! bid those people come out of doors at once , as I ordered .", "With what assurance does he dare { perpetrate } a crime so heinous ?", "I \u2019 faith , Syra , the same to you . Philotis , tell me , where have you been enjoying yourself so long ?", "O Jupiter ! What is this tumult ? Am I then undone ? I \u2019 ll accost her . What \u2019 s all this , Pythias ? What are you saying ? An example made of whom ?", "That very same .", "How , pray ?", "Smartly said ; really { they ought to be } wonderful things to please the Captain . But I see my master \u2019 s youngest son coming this way ; I wonder why he has come away from the Piraeus ,for he is at present on guard there in the public service . It \u2019 s not for nothing ; he \u2019 s coming in a hurry , too ; I can \u2019 t imagine why he \u2019 s looking around in all directions .", "Who is it ?Oh , I \u2019 m glad that you have returned safe .", "It shall be done .", "What , a citizen ?", "Then , Ch\u00e6rea is in love with a certain music-girl here .", "I did see , { and } I do know her ; I am aware to what house she has been taken .", "Because you were neither content with one , nor was he the only one to make you presents ; for he likewisebrought a pretty considerable share to you .", "It is not a proper thing for a general to be walking in the street with a mistress .", "Let go the woman .", "Because I couldn \u2019 t { tell } every thing at once .", "Wretch that I am ; just like a rat , this day I \u2019 ve come to destruction through betrayal of myself .", "I have heard { so }.", "To the citadel ? Why thither ?", "Do you assume his dress .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "And a kind farewell to you , my dear Philotis . ( Exeunt severally .", "Where are you , Dorus ? Step this way .", "By no means ; on the contrary , I \u2019 ll see it done . But do you order any thing else ?", "What do you mean ? Really , I was only joking .", "To Thais .", "Do you say so ?", "Upon my faith , my master does assuredly think my labor of little value ; to have sent me for nothing , where I have been sitting the whole day to no purpose , waiting at the citadel for Callidemides , his landlord at Myconos . And so , while sitting there to-day , { like } a fool , as each person came by , I accosted him :\u2014 \u201c Young man , just tell me , pray , are you a Myconian ?\u201d \u201c I am not .\u201d \u201c But is your name Callidemides ?\u201d \u201c No .\u201d \u201c Have you any { former } guest here { named } Pamphilus ?\u201d All said . \u201c No ; and I don \u2019 t believe that there is any such person .\u201d At last , i \u2019 faith , I was quite ashamed , { and } went away . But how is it I see Bacchis coming out of our neighbor \u2019 s ? What business can she have there ?", "For certain .", "Both these things are false ; out it goes .", "Do you step forward this way ,She comes all the way from \u00c6thiopia .", "Why are you out of spirits , and why in { such } a hurry ? Whence come you ?", "Yes , indeed , if you can do it with impunity ."], "true_target": ["Why so ?", "Very well ;now the door is open for you ,because you are bringing her .", "Still I suspect . \u201c I { restore } him , when dead , from the shades below .\u201dIn what way ?", "Me ? O prodigiously !", "Whence did she come ?", "To the point , { you } simpleton .", "Why , what \u2019 s all this ?", "Another thing altogether .", "But I know .", "She \u2019 s looking for me .", "And he who has sent these things makes no request that you will live for him alone , and that for his own sake others may be excluded ; he neither tells of battles nor shows his scars , nor does he restrict you asa certain person does ; but when it is not inconvenient , whenever you think fit , whenever you have the time , he is satisfied to be admitted .", "I \u2019 ll say that you are he .", "What then , wretch that I am , shall I do , or how resolve ? But look , I see the old gentleman returning from the country ; shall I tell him or shall I not ? By my troth , I will tell him ; although I am certain that a heavy punishment is in readiness for me ; but it \u2019 s a matter of necessity , in order that he may rescue him .", "Do you see the effects of ease and feeding at another \u2019 s cost ?", "How so , or what has happened ? Tell me .", "To take , indeed !", "I see him , and I \u2019 m sorry for it .Ph\u00e6dria \u2019 s presents are ready for you when you please .", "If at any time she came to converse with her , she would instantly withdraw from her presence ,and refuse to see her ; in fine , when she could no longer endure her , she pretended that she was sent for by her mother to assist at a sacrifice . When she had been there a few days , { Sostrata } ordered her to be fetched . She made some , I know not what , excuse . Again she gave similar orders ; no one sent back { any excuse }. After she had sent for her repeatedly , they pretended that the damsel was sick . My { mistress } immediately went to see her ; no one admitted her . On the old man coming to know of this , he yesterday came up from the country on purpose , { and } waited immediately upon the father of Philumena . What passed between them , I do not know as yet ; but really I do feel some anxiety in what way this is to end . You { now } have the whole matter ; { and } I shall proceed whither I was on my way .", "Master , in the first place , I would have you persuaded of what is the fact ; whatever has happened in this affair has happened through no fault of mine .", "Certainly .", "How annoying !", "There is no need for me to follow him into the house at present , for I see that we are all disagreeable to them . Yesterday , no one would give Sostrata admittance . If , perchance , the malady should become worse , which really I could far from wish , for my master \u2019 s sake especially , they would at once say that Sostrata \u2019 s servant had been in there ; they would invent a story that I had brought some mischief against their lives and persons , in consequence of which the malady had been increased . My mistress would be blamed , and I should incur heavy punishment .", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! a lost and miserable fellow the one , and the other a scoundrel .", "Her age ?", "O , is that a matter of doubt ?", "Every day . But as { usually } is the case , after she saw that he belonged to another , she immediately became more ill-natured and more peevish .", "to the house of Thais the", "It \u2019 s this you mean to say now , that we are discarded there . Hark you , there are vicissitudes in all things .", "I \u2019 ll go look for him at home .", "It \u2019 s the very same .It \u2019 s all over with you ; make an end of it ; you \u2019 ve said your last .", "And this circumstance in especial contributed to estrange him from her ; after he had fairly examined himself , and her , and the one that was at home , he formed a judgment , by comparison , upon the principles of them both . She , just as might be expected from a person of respectable and free birth , chaste { and } virtuous , patient under the slights and all the insults of her husband , and concealing his affronts . Upon this , his mind , partly overcome by compassion for his wife , partly constrained by the insolence of the other , was gradually estranged from Bacchis , and transferred its affections to the other , after having found a congenial disposition . In the mean time , there dies at Imbrosan old man , a relative of theirs . His property there devolved on them by law . Thither his father drove the love-sick Pamphilus , much against his will . He left his wife here with his mother , for the old man has retired into the country ; he seldom comes into the city .", "Or else something frivolous , i \u2019 faith , if you would only give words their proper value ; those which are sometimes the greatest enmities , do not argue the greatest injuries ; for it often happens that in certain circumstances , in which another would not even be out of temper , for the very same reason a passionate man becomes your greatest enemy . What enmities do children entertain among themselves for trifling injuries ! For what reason ? Why , because they have a weak understanding to direct them . Just so are these women , almost like children with their fickle feelings ; perhaps a single word has occasioned this enmity between them , master .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Dear me ! to ask the question , as though it were a matter of difficulty . I wish that you were able , Ph\u00e6dria , to find any thing as easily as this present will be lost .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Twenty min\u00e6 .", "The very flower of youth .", "If you are wise . And don \u2019 t be adding to the troubles which love itself produces ; those which it does produce , bear patiently . But see , here she is coming herself , the downfall of our fortunes ,\u2014 for that which we ought ourselves to enjoy she intercepts .", "There \u2019 s a Eunuch for you \u2014 of what a genteel appearance ! of what a prime age !", "How polite ! What a beginning he has made on meeting her !", "I \u2019 ll follow ; for my part , I have done more good to-day , without knowing it , than ever { I did }, knowingly , in all my life .Grant us your applause .FOOTNOTES\u2014 According to some , this Play was borrowed from the Greek of Apollodorus , a Comic Poet and contemporary of Menander , who wrote forty-seven Plays . ]\u2014 Cneius Octavius Nepos and T. Manlius Torquatus were Consuls in the year from the building of the City 587 , and B. C . 166 . ]\u2014\u201c Placuit .\u201d This is placed at the end , in consequence of the inauspicious reception which had been given to it on the two first representations . See the account given in the Prologues . ]\u2014 Ver . 1 . The Greek word \u1f1d\u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u03b1 , a \u201c step-mother ,\u201d or \u201c mother-in-law ,\u201d Latinized . ]\u2014 Ver . 3 . \u201c Calamitas .\u201d This word is used in the same sense in the first line of the Eunuch . This is evidently the Prologue spoken on the second attempt to bring forward the piece . On the first occasion it probably had none . \u201c Vitium \u201d was a word used by the Augurs , with whom it implied an unfavorable omen , and thence came to be used for any misfortune or disaster . He seems to mean the depraved taste of the public , that preferred exhibitions of rope-dancers and pugilists to witnessing his Plays . ]\u2014 Ver . 7 . See the last Note to the Second Prologue . ]\u2014 Ver . 8 . Madame Dacier informs us that Vossius was of opinion that the second representation of this Play did not take place till after that of the Adelphi . In that case , they had already seen the rest of his Plays . ]\u2014 Eugraphius informs us that this Prologue was spoken by Ambivius Turpio , the head of the company of Actors . ]\u2014 Ver . 14 . Colman has the following Note : \u201c A famous Comic Poet among the Romans . His chief excellences are said to have been , the gravity of his style and the choice of his subjects . The first quality was attributed to him by Horace , Tully , etc ., and the last by Varro . \u2018 In argumentis C\u00e6cilius poscit palmam , in ethesi Terentius .\u2019 \u2018 In the choice of subjects , C\u00e6cilius demands the preference ; in the manners , Terence .\u2019\u201d Madame Dacier , indeed , renders \u201c in argumentis ,\u201d \u201c in the disposition of his subjects .\u201d But the words will not bear that construction . \u201c Argumentum ,\u201d I believe , is uniformly used for the argument itself , and never implies the conduct of it ; as in the Prologue to the Andrian , \u201c non tam dissimili argumento .\u201d Besides , the disposition of the subject was the very art attributed by the critics of those days to Terence , and which Horace mentions in the very same line with the gravity of C\u00e6cilius , distinguishing them as the several characteristics of each writer , \u201c Vincere C\u00e6cilius gravitate , Terentius arte .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 33 . Horace probably had this passage in his mind when he penned the First Epistle in his Second Book , l. 185 ; where he mentions the populace leaving a Play in the midst for the sight of a bear , or an exhibition of boxers . ]\u2014 Ver . 34 . The art of dancing on the tight rope was carried to great perfection among the ancients . Many paintings have been discovered , which show the numerous attitudes which the performers assumed . The figures have their heads enveloped in skins or caps , probably intended as a protection in case of falling . At the conclusion of the performance the dancer ran down the rope . Germanicus and Galba are said to have exhibited elephants dancing on the tight rope . ]\u2014 Ver . 38 . He says that on the second representation he followed the plan which he had formerly adopted in the Plays of C\u00e6cilius , of bringing those forward again which had not given satisfaction at first . ]\u2014 Ver . 41 . This was in consequence of their sitting indiscriminately at the Amphitheatre , where the gladiators were exhibited ; whereas at the Theatres there were distinct places appropriated to each \u201c ordo \u201d or class . ]\u2014 Ver . 45 . Madame Dacier remarks that there is great force and eloquence in the Actor \u2019 s affecting a concern for the sacred festivals , which were in danger of being deprived of their chief ornaments , if by too great a severity they discouraged the Poets who undertook to furnish the Plays during the solemnity . ]\u2014 Ver . 57 . It is generally supposed that \u201c meo pretio \u201d means \u201c a price named as my estimate ;\u201d and that it was the custom for the \u00c6diles to purchase a Play of a Poet at a price fixed by the head of the company of actors . It is also thought that the money was paid to the actor , who handed over the whole , or a certain part , to the Poet , and if the Play was not received with favor , the \u00c6diles had the right to ask back the money from the actor , who consequently became a loser by the transaction . Pareus and Meric Casaubon think , however , that in case of this Play , the \u00c6diles had purchased it from the Poet , and the performers had bought it of the \u00c6diles as a speculation . What he means at the end of the First Prologue by selling the Play over again , is not exactly known . Perhaps if the Play had been then performed throughout and received with no favor , he would have had to forfeit the money , and lose all right to any future pecuniary interest in it ; but he preferred to cancel the whole transaction , and to reserve the Play for purchase and representation at a more favorable period . ]\u2014 This is a protatic character , or one that helps to introduce the subject of the Play , and then appears no more . ]\u2014 Ver . 109 . She says this ironically , at the same time intimating that she knows Parmeno too well , not to be sure that he is as impatient to impart the secret to her as she is to know it . Donatus remarks , that she pretends she has no curiosity to hear it , that he may deem her the more worthy to be intrusted with the secret . ]\u2014 Ver . 171 . An island in the \u00c6gean Sea , off the coast of Thrace . ]\u2014 Ver . 182 . For the purpose , as will afterward appear , of not letting Sostrata see that she was pregnant . ]\u2014 Ver . 195 . Here Philotis gives a reason , as Donatus observes , why she does not again appear in the Play . The following is an extract from Colman \u2019 s remarks on this passage : \u201c It were to be wished , for the sake of the credit of our author \u2019 s acknowledged { art } in the Drama , that Philotis had assigned as good a reason for her appearing at all . Eugraphius justly says : \u2018 The Courtesan in this Scene is a character quite foreign to the fable .\u2019 Donatus also says much the same thing in his Preface , and in his first Note to this Comedy ; but adds that \u2018 Terence chose this method rather than to relate the argument by means of a Prologue , or to introduce a God speaking from a machine . I will venture to say that the Poet might have taken a much shorter and easier method than either ; I mean , to have begun the Play with the very Scene which now opens the Second Act .\u2019\u201d]\u2014 Colman has the following observations on this Scene : \u201c Donatus remarks that this Scene opens the intention of Terence to oppose the generally-received opinion , and to draw the character of a good step-mother . It would , therefore , as has been already observed , have been a very proper Scene to begin the Play , as it carries us immediately into the midst of things ; and we can not fail to be interested when we see the persons acting so deeply interested themselves . We gather from it just so much of the story as is necessary for our information at first setting out . We are told of the abrupt departure of Philumena , and are witnesses of the confusion in the two families of Laches and Phidippus . The absence of Laches , which had been in great measure the occasion of this misunderstanding , is also very artfully mentioned in the altercation between him and Sostrata . The character of Laches is very naturally drawn . He has a good heart , and a testy disposition , and the poor old gentleman is kept in such constant perplexity that he has perpetual occasion to exert both those qualities .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 212 . The plural \u201c liberos ,\u201d children , is used where only one is being spoken of , similarly , in the Heautontimorumenos , l . 151 . ]\u2014 Ver . 262 . Donatus observes that the Poet shows his art in here preparing a reason to be assigned by Pamphilus for his pretended discontent at the departure of his wife . ]\u2014 Ver . 271 . Colman observes on this passage : \u201c This is extremely artful . The answer of Philumena , as related by Phidippus , contains an ample vindication of Pamphilus . What , then , can we suppose could make the house so disagreeable to her in his absence , but the behavior of Sostrata ? She declares her innocence ; yet appearances are all against her . Supposing this to be the first Act of the Play , it would be impossible for a Comedy to open in a more interesting manner .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 314 . It was the custom with the Greeks and Romans , when returning from abroad , to send a messenger before them , to inform their wives of their arrival . ]\u2014 Ver . 321 . \u201c Pavitare .\u201d Casaubon has a curious suggestion here ; he thinks it not improbable that he had heard the female servants whispering among themselves that Philumena \u201c paritare ,\u201d \u201c was about to be brought to bed ,\u201d which he took for \u201c pavitare ,\u201d \u201c was in fear \u201d of something . ]\u2014 Ver . 335 . Probably meaning that he will be examined by torture , whether he has not , by drugs or other means , contributed to Philumena \u2019 s illness . ]\u2014 Ver . 338 . She invokes \u00c6sculapius , the God of Medicine , and \u201c Salus ,\u201d or \u201c Health ,\u201d because , in Greece , their statues were always placed near each other ; so that to have offered prayers to one and not to the other , would have been deemed a high indignity . On the worship of \u00c6sculapius , see the opening Scene of the Curculio of Plautus . ]\u2014 Ver . 357 . \u201c Quotidiana ;\u201d literally , \u201c daily .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 369 . This must have been imaginary , as they were not likely to be acquainted with the reason of Philumena \u2019 s apprehensions . ]\u2014 Ver . 394 . There is great doubt what is the exact meaning of \u201c postquam ad te venit ,\u201d here ,\u2014 whether it means , \u201c it is now the seventh month since she became your wife ,\u201d or , \u201c it is now the seventh month since she came to your embraces ,\u201d which did not happen for two months after the marriage . The former is , under the circumstances , the most probable construction . ]\u2014 Ver . 401 . Colman very justly observes here : \u201c it is rather extraordinary that Myrrhina \u2019 s account of the injury done to her daughter should not put Pamphilus in mind of his own adventure , which comes out in the Fifth Act . It is certain that had the Poet let the Audience into that secret in this place , they would have immediately concluded that the wife of Pamphilus and the lady whom he had ravished were one and the same person .\u201d Playwrights have never , in any age or country , troubled themselves much about probability in their plots . Besides , his adventure with Philumena was by no means an uncommon one . We find similar instances mentioned by Plautus ; and violence and debauchery seem almost to have reigned paramount in the streets at night . ]\u2014 Ver . 421 . In his voyage from Imbros to Athens , namely , which certainly appears to have been unusually long . ]\u2014 Ver . 431 . This was the fort or citadel that defended the Pir\u00e6us , and being three miles distant from the city , was better suited for the design of Pamphilus , whose object it was to keep Parmeno for some time at a distance . ]\u2014 Ver . 435 . He facetiously pretends to think that Pamphilus may , during a storm at sea , have vowed to walk him to death , if he should return home . ]\u2014 Ver . 448 . Colman observes here : \u201c This reflection seems to be rather improper in this place , for the discovery of Philumena \u2019 s labor betrayed to Pamphilus the real motive of her departure ; after which discovery his anxiety proceeds entirely from the supposed injury offered him , and his filial piety is from that period made use of merely as a pretense .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 461 . This is living well in the sense used by the \u201c Friar of orders gray .\u201d \u201c Who leads a good life is sure to live well .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 462 . Colman remarks that this passage is taken notice of by Donatus as a particularly happy stroke of character ; and indeed the idea of a covetous old man gaping for a fat legacy , and having his mouth stopped by a moral precept , is truly comic . ]\u2014 Ver . 502 . As was universally done on a separation by agreement . ]\u2014 Ver . 531 . Lemaire observes that , from this passage , it would appear that the Greeks considered seven months sufficient for gestation . So it would appear , if we are to take the time of the Play to be seven , and not nine , months after the marriage ; and , as before observed , the former seems to be the more reasonable conclusion . ]\u2014 Ver . 574 . Colman remarks that this preparation for the catastrophe by the mention of the ring , is not so artful as might have been expected from Terence ; as in this soliloquy he tells the circumstances directly to the Audience . ]\u2014 Ver . 592 . \u201c Festos dies .\u201d The days for sacrificing to particular Divinities , when she would have the opportunity of meeting her friends , and making herself merry with them . ]\u2014 Ver . 596 . Colman says : \u201c This idea of the long life of a step-mother being odious to her family , is applied in a very beautiful and uncommon manner by Shakspeare :\u2014 \u201c Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; for happy days bring in Another morn ; but oh , methinks how slow This old morn wanes ! she lingers my desires Like to a step-dame , or a dowager , Long withering out a young man \u2019 s revenue .\u201d Midsummer Night \u2019 s Dream . ]\u2014 Ver . 621 . \u201c Senex atque anus .\u201d In these words he probably refers to the commencement of many of the stories current in those times , which began : \u201c There were once upon a time an old man and an old woman .\u201d Indeed , almost the same words occur in the Stichus of Plautus , l. 540 , at the commencement of a story : \u201c Fuit olim , quasi ego sum , senex ,\u201d \u201c There was upon a time an old man , just like me .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 638 . In cases of separation it was customary for the father to have the care of the male children . ]\u2014 Ver . 725 . Donatus observes that Phidippus utters these words with an air of disinclination to be present at the conference ; and , indeed , the characters are well sustained , as it would not become him coolly to discourse with a courtesan , whom he supposes to have alienated Pamphilus from his daughter , although he might very properly advise it , as being likely to conduce to the peace of both families . ]\u2014 Ver . 752 . Colman observes , how are we to reconcile this with the words of Parmeno at the beginning of the Play , where he says that Pamphilus visited Bacchis daily ; and he inquires whether we are to suppose that Bacchis , who behaves so candidly in every other instance , wantonly perjures herself in this , or that the Poet , by a strange infatuation attending him in this Play , contradicts himself ? To this it may be answered , that as Bacchis appears to be so scrupulous in other instances , it is credible that , notwithstanding his visits , she may not have allowed him to share her embraces . ]\u2014 Ver . 777 . Colman has the following quotation from Donatus : \u201c Terence , by his uncommon art , has attempted many innovations with great success . In this Comedy , he introduces , contrary to received prejudices , a good step-mother and an honest courtesan ; but at the same time he so carefully assigns their motives of action , that by him alone every thing seems reconcilable to truth and nature ; for this is just the opposite of what he mentions in another place , as the common privilege of all Poets , \u2018 to paint good matrons and wicked courtesans .\u2019\u201d Perhaps the same good feeling prompted Terence , in showing that a mother-in-law and a courtesan could be capable of acting with good and disinterested feelings , which caused Cumberland to write his Play of \u201c The Jew ,\u201d to combat the popular prejudice against that persecuted class , by showing , in the character of Sheva , that a Jew might possibly be a virtuous man . ]\u2014 Ver . 778 . The words here employed are also capable of meaning , if an active sense is given to \u201c suspectas ,\u201d \u201c our wives have entertained wrong suspicions ;\u201d but the sense above given seems preferable , as being the meaning of the passage . ]\u2014 Ver . 809 . Donatus remarks , that Parmeno is drawn as being of a lazy and inquisitive character ; and that Terence , therefore , humorously contrives to keep him always on the move , and in total ignorance of what is going on . ]\u2014 Ver . 824 . Cooke has this remark here : \u201c I suppose that this is the best excuse the Poet could make for the young gentleman \u2019 s being guilty of felony and rape at the same time . In this speech , the incident is related on which the catastrophe of the Play turns , which incident is a very barbarous one , and attended with more than one absurdity , though it is the occasion of an agreeable discovery .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 867 .\u2014 Madame Dacier observes on this passage : \u201c Terence here , with reason , endeavors to make the most of a circumstance peculiar to his Play . In other Comedies , every body , Actors as well as Spectators , are at last equally acquainted with the whole intrigue and catastrophe , and it would even be a defect in the plot were there any obscurity remaining . But Terence , like a true genius , makes himself superior to rules , and adds new beauties to his piece by forsaking them . His reasons for concealing from part of the personages of the Drama the principal incident of the plot , are so plausible and natural , that he could not have followed the beaten track without offending against manners and decency . This bold and uncommon turn is one of the chief graces of the Play .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 876 . Parmeno says this , while pondering upon the meaning of all that is going on , and thereby expresses his impatience to become acquainted with it . He therefore repeats what Pamphilus has before said in the twelfth line of the present Act , about his having been restored from death to life by his agency . ]\u2014 Ver . 881 . We may here remark , that the Hecyra is the only one of the Plays of Terence with a single plot . ] * * * *", "Why so ?", "Be of good heart ; { only } approach this fire ,you \u2019 ll soon be warmer than you need . THAISWho is it that \u2019 s speaking here ? What , are you here , my Ph\u00e6dria ? Why are you standing here ! Why didn \u2019 t you come into the house at once ?", "Not go see her ! Don \u2019 t even send any person for the purpose of seeing { her }; for I \u2019 m of opinion that he who loves a person to whom he is an object of dislike , commits a double mistake : he himself takes a useless trouble , and causes annoyance to the other . Besides , your son went in to see how she is , as soon as he arrived .", "Master , don \u2019 t look so at me ; he didn \u2019 t do these things by my encouragement .", "Far from it , indeed ; for I \u2019 ve not had the opportunity given me to-day ; so much with running and walking about have I wasted the whole day .", "Pamphilus was in the height of his passion for Bacchis here , when his father began to importune him to take a wife , and to urge those points which are usual with all fathers , that he { himself } was { now } in years , and that he was his only son , that he wished for a support for his declining years . He refused at first . But on his father pressing more urgently , he caused him to become wavering in his mind , whether to yield rather to duty or to love . By hammering on and teazing him , at last the old man gained his point ; and betrothed him to the daughter of our next-door neighbor hereThis did not seem so very disagreeable to Pamphilus , until on the very point of marriage , when he saw that all was ready , and that no respite was granted , but marry he must ; then , at last , he took it so much to heart , that I do believe if Bacchis had been present , { even } she would have pitied him . Whenever opportunity was afforded for us being alone , so that he could converse with me , { he used to say }: \u201c Parmeno , I am ruined ! What have I done ! Into what misery have I plunged myself ! Parmeno , I shall never be able to endure this . To my misery , I am undone !\u201d", "So may the Gods bless me , happily done .", "They fancy that , through this present , Thais is { quite } their own .", "I suppose it does seem so to you , for no one comes to you unless he is eager for you ; { but } he had married her against his will .", "Then this is another reason for us to rejoice , that the Captain will be beaten out of doors .", "But I don \u2019 t know the man \u2019 s appearance .", "It isn \u2019 t long { since she came }.", "Do you still persist ?", "Courtesan .", "What , I ? Perfectly well . But , hark you , upon these conditions I pledge my word to you ; the truth that I hear , I \u2019 m silent upon , and retain it most faithfully ; but if I hear what \u2019 s false and without foundation , it \u2019 s out at once ; I \u2019 m full of chinks , and leak in every direction . Therefore , if you wish it to be kept secret , speak the truth .", "Some attendants , I suppose , were accompanying the girl ?", "I can \u2019 t ; I am so tired . ( Exit slowly .", "Did what , pray ?", "I \u2019 m done for !", "He was taken to the house of Thais in place of the Eunuch .", "I \u2019 ll accost them , and pretend as though I had just come out .Are you going any where , Thais ?", "A clever fellow , upon my faith ! From being fools he makes men mad outright .", "Unseasonably , upon my faith .", "Where ? THAIS ,Why ! don \u2019 t you see him ?", "May the Gods confound you !", "What is it you want ?", "Why really , but slight causes formerly made you , Sosia , do what now you are threatening to do . But I see Pamphilus himself standing before the door .Go in-doors ; I \u2019 ll accost him , { to see } if he wants any thing with me .What , still standing here , master ?", "Really , not amiss .", "Yourself .", "Well , but to whom does the damsel belong ?", "Ha !", "Where does she live ?", "Such is the fact . They have since apprehended him in the house as a ravisher , and bound him .", "{ Only } let the next two days go by ; you who , at present , in such high favor , are opening the door with one little finger , assuredly I \u2019 ll cause to be kicking at that { door } full oft , with your heels , to no purpose . Re-enter GNATHO from the house .", "Mark the assurance of courtesans .", "Why , don \u2019 t they know the way themselves to come to our house ?", "Confusion ! I should say he has made a vow that if ever he should return home safe , he would rupture mewith walking .", "To your house ?", "You hold your tongue \u2014 a fellow whom I consider beneath all men of the very lowest grade : for when you can bring yourself to flatter that fellow, I do believe you could pick your victuals out of the { very } flames .", "We shall be guilty of a disgraceful action .", "She tells the truth there ; and that is my greatest failing .If you give me your word that you \u2019 ll keep it a secret , I \u2019 ll tell you .", "Why look , here \u2019 s the other one . He \u2019 s saying something , I don \u2019 t know what , about love . O unfortunate old man , { their father ! } This assuredly is a youth , who , if he does begin , you will say that the other one was mere play and pastime , compared with what the madness of this one will cause .", "Really you have reason to ask . I ought first to have told you the circumstances . Ph\u00e6dria purchased a certain Eunuch , to make a present of to this woman here .", "Astounding !", "Do you say that this voyage was disagreeable to you ?", "Nowhere .", "He has .", "Master , may I not be allowed to know from you what is the good that I have done to-day , or what it is you are talking about ?", "Hark you , Sostrata .", "Not in the least .", "In a very few days after , Pamphilus took me aside , away from the house , and told me how that the young woman was still untouched by him ; and { how } that before he had taken her home as his wife , he had hoped to be able to endure this marriage : \u201c But , Parmeno , as I can not resolve to live with her any longer , it is neither honorable in me , nor of advantage to the young woman herself , for her to be turned to ridicule , but rather I ought to return her to her relations just as I received her .\u201d", "May the Gods prosper what you undertake !", "When wearied , you will be keeping awake ; by this you will be making it worse .", "For what reason ?", "Pshaw ! I should have kept that in mind , even if you hadn \u2019 t reminded me .", "You will again be shut out there .", "You \u2019 ll never speak me so fairly , that I shall trust my back to your discretion .", "A Eunuch .", "For this reason , then , I am especially unwilling you should go in there ; for if Philumena \u2019 s malady at all abates , she will , I am sure , when they are by themselves , at once tell him all the circumstances ; both what misunderstandings have arisen between you , { and } how the difference first began . But see , he \u2019 s coming out \u2014 how sad { he looks }!", "I \u2019 faith , if indeed you { only } can , there \u2019 s nothing better or more spirited ; but if you begin , and can not hold out stoutly , and if , when you can not endure it , while no one asks you , peace being not made , you come to her of your own accord , showing that you love her , and can not endure it , you are done for ; it \u2019 s all over { with you }; you are ruined outright . She \u2019 ll be jilting you , when she finds you overcome . Do you then , while there \u2019 s time , again and again reflect upon this , master , that a matter , which in itself admits of neither prudence nor moderation , you are unable to manage with prudence . In love there are all these evils ; wrongs , suspicions , enmities , reconcilements , war , then peace ; if you expect to render these things , { naturally } uncertain , certain by dint of reason , you wouldn \u2019 t effect it a bit the more than if you were to use your endeavors to be mad with reason . And , what you are now , in anger , meditating to yourself , \u201c What ! I to her ?Who \u2014 him ! Who \u2014 me ! Who wouldn \u2019 t ? Only let me alone ; I had rather die ; she shall find out what sort of a person I am ;\u201d these expressions , upon my faith , by a single false tiny tear , which , by rubbing her eyes , poor thing , she can hardly squeeze out perforce , she will put an end to ; and she \u2019 ll be the first to accuse you ; and you will be too ready to give satisfaction to her .", "I \u2019 m undone ! Wretch that I am ! what have I done ?Whither are you pushing me ? You \u2019 ll throw me down presently . I entreat you , be quiet .", "Is it not most heinous ? Who ever saw any one taken up as a ravisher in a courtesan \u2019 s house ?", "I \u2019 ll take you there instead of him .", "I am staying .", "Why thither ?", "SCENE VII .", "I didn \u2019 t know { that }.", "I \u2019 ve just come back to see what Ch\u00e6rea has been doing here . If he has managed the affair with dexterity , ye Gods , by our trust in you , how great and genuine applause will Parmeno obtain ! For not to mention that a passion , full of difficulty and expense , with which he was smitten for a virgin , belonging to an extortionate courtesan , I \u2019 ve found means of satisfying for him , without molestation , without outlay , { and } without cost ; then , this other point \u2014 that is really a thing that I consider my crowning merit , to have found out the way by which a young man may be enabled to learn the dispositions and manners of courtesans , so that by knowing them betimes , he may detest them ever after .For while they are out of doors , nothing seems more cleanly , nothing more neat or more elegant ; and when they dine with a gallant , they pick daintily about :to see the filth , the dirtiness , the neediness of these women ; how sluttish they are when at home , and how greedy after victuals ; in what a fashion they devour the black bread with yesterday \u2019 s broth :\u2014 to know all this , is salvation to a young man .", "Listen .", "Whew ! an entire three days ! Take care what you are about .", "If the old man should be asking for me , do you say that I have just gone to the harbor to inquire about the arrival of Pamphilus . Do you hear what I say , Scirtus ? If he asks for me , then you are to say { so }; if he does not , { why }, say nothing at all ; so that at another time I may be able to employ that excuse as a new one .\u2014 But is it my dear Philotis that I see ? How has she come { here }?Philotis heartily good-morrow ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["That which is the fact . Her I present to you , nor do I ask of you any return for her .", "There , at that period , a certain merchant made present to my mother of a little girl , who had been stolen away from Attica here .", "Attend ; I entreat you . My mother died there recently ; her brother is somewhat greedy after wealth . When he saw that this damsel was of beauteous form and understood music , hoping for a good price , he forthwith put her up for sale , { and } sold her . By good fortune this friend of mine was present ; he bought her as a gift to me , not knowing or suspecting any thing of all this . He returned ; but when he perceived that I had formed a connection with you as well , he feigned excuses on purpose that he might not give her ; he said that if he could feel confidence that he should be preferred to yourself by me , so as not to apprehend that , when I had received her , I should forsake him , { then } he was ready to give her to me ; but that he did fear this . But , so far as I can conjecture , he has set his affections upon the girl .", "Were you in fear of my severity ?", "O my { dear } Chremes , you are the very person I was wanting . Are you aware that this quarrel took place on your account , and that the whole of this affair , in fact , bore reference to yourself ?", "What can we do to him , simpleton ?", "I , afraid of that ?", "What \u2019 s that you say , you hag ?", "I \u2019 faith , for my own part I both take it in that view and wish { to do so }.", "Prithee , are you frightened , my { dear } sir ?", "How so ?", "I , wretched woman , not speak from my heart ? What , pray , did you ever ask of me in jest , but that you carried your point ? I am unable to obtain { even } this of you , that you would grant { me } only two days .", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ?", "In the clothes \u2019 chest . Tiresome { creature }, why do you delay ?", "No ? What then ?", "There \u2019 s no occasion , Chremes . Only say that she is your sister , and that you lost her { when } a little girl , { and } have now recognized her ; { then } show the tokens . Re-enter PYTHIAS from the house , with the trinkets .", "What Ch\u00e6rea ?", "Pray , what business had he at my house ? What brought him there ?", "Go first ; I \u2019 ll follow . You stay here , Pythias , that you may show Chremes in .", "Ph\u00e6dria , what does this mean ? Although I wish to get her away , and think that by these means it could most probably be effected ; still , rather than make an enemy of you , I \u2019 ll do as you request me .", "Are you quite pleased with it ?", "Most opportunely the brother himself is coming .", "First tell me this ; can this fellow possibly hold his tongue ?", "What ! do you persist , hussy , in talking ambiguously to me ? \u201c I do know ;\u201d \u201c I don \u2019 t know ;\u201d \u201c he has gone off ;\u201d \u201c I have heard ;\u201d \u201c I wasn \u2019 t there .\u201d Don \u2019 t you mean to tell me plainly , whatever it is ? The girl in tears , with her garments torn , is mute ; the Eunuch is off : for what reason ? What has happened ? Won \u2019 t you speak ?", "I love you as you deserve ; you act obligingly .", "Well , what else was I intending to say ? O , do you take particular care of that young woman ; be sure that you keep at home .", "In the mean time , until he comes , would you prefer that we should wait for him in the house , rather than here before the door ?", "But if your father { should say } any thing \u2014", "Very much , as you deserve .", "Why are you silent ?", "We \u2019 ll pass that by . Ch\u00e6rea , you have behaved unworthily of yourself ; for if I am deserving in the highest degree of this affront , still it is unbecoming of you to be guilty of it . And , upon my faith , I do not know what method now to adopt about this girl : you have so confounded all my plans , that I can not possibly return her to her friends in such a manner as is befitting and as I had intended ; in order that , by this means , I might , Ch\u00e6rea , do a real service to myself .", "Do you fancy that you \u2019 ll get off with impunity ?", "Hussy , I \u2019 ve been intrusting the sheep to the wolf . I \u2019 m quite ashamed to have been imposed upon in this way . What sort of man was he ?", "Ha ! Parmeno ; well done ; { just } going out for the day .", "My mother was a Samian ; she lived at Rhodes \u2014", "I \u2019 ll take these in-doors first, and at the same time I \u2019 ll order what I wish ; after that I \u2019 ll return immediately .", "It shall not be ; only do allow me to obtain this of you ."], "true_target": ["I think { so }; we do not know for certain : she herself used to mention her mother \u2019 s and her father \u2019 s name ; her country and other tokens she didn \u2019 t know , nor , by reason of her age , was she able . The merchant added this : that he had heard from the kidnappers that she had been carried off from Sunium .When my mother received her , she began carefully to teach her every thing , { and } to bring her up , just as though she had been her own daughter . Most persons supposed that she was my sister . Thence I came hither with that stranger , with whom alone at that period I was connected ; he left me all which I { now } possess \u2014", "Then now is the time to prove it .", "Take care , Pythias , and be sure that if Chremes should happen to come ,to beg him to wait ; if that is not convenient , then to come again ; if he can not do that , bring him to me .", "Well , what then ?", "Nay , and consider this too ; the person that you have to deal with is a foreigner ;of less influence than you , less known , and one that has fewer friends here .", "What was he then ?", "Not at all .", "Go , find some one to answer you .", "I chose { to do so }.", "But still , take care , Chremes , that you don \u2019 t lose her , before you receive her from me ; for it is she , whom the Captain is now coming to take away from me by force . Do you go , Pythias , and bring out of the house the casket with the tokens .", "If you will wait a little , the brother himself of the young woman will be here presently ; he has gone to fetch the nurse , who brought her up when a little child ; you yourself , shall be present Ch\u00e6rea , at his recognition of her .", "O dear , prithee , do hold your tongue .", "Such is the fact ; but do allow me to arrive at the point I wish . In the mean time , the Captain , who had begun to take a fancy to me , set out to Caria ;since when , in the interval , I became acquainted with you . You yourself are aware how very dear I have held you ; and how I confess to you all my nearest counsels .", "Because , while I \u2019 ve been doing my best to recover and restore your sister to you , this and a great deal more like it I \u2019 ve had to put up with .", "Assuredly not more than two days , or \u2014", "Prithee , don \u2019 t torment yourself , my life , my Ph\u00e6dria . Upon my faith , I did it , not because I love or esteem any person more { than you }; but the case was such { that } it was necessary to be done .", "Stay .", "At home , at my house .", "Is it thus you act , Parmeno ? Well , well .But listen \u2014 the reason for which I desired you to be sent for hither \u2014", "And the same to you , my Ph\u00e6dria ; do you desire aught else ?", "Gather up your cloak .Undone ! the very person whom I \u2019 ve provided as a champion , wants one himself .", "I really do believe that he \u2019 ll be here presently , to force her away from me . Let him come ; but if he touches her with a single finger , that instant his eyes shall be torn out . I can put up with his impertinences and his high-sounding words , as long as they remain words : but if they are turned into realities , he shall get a drubbing .", "I understand , and , i \u2019 faith , for that reason do I now the more readily forgive you . I am not , Ch\u00e6rea , of a disposition so ungentle , or so inexperienced , as not to know what is the power of love .", "He who now seems to you to be a hero , is in reality a mere vaporer ; don \u2019 t be alarmed .", "Pass those matters by .", "Alas ! to my confusion , unhappy woman that I am , I \u2019 m undone , if what you tell me is true . Is it about this that the girl is crying ?", "God bless me , he \u2019 s handsome .", "I see .", "Nothing ; for I have made inquiry . Now , my Ph\u00e6dria , there are many reasons why I could wish to get her away from him . In the first place , because she was called my sister ; moreover , that I may restore and deliver her to her friends . I am a lone woman ; I have no one here , neither acquaintance nor relative ; wherefore , Ph\u00e6dria , I am desirous by my good offices to secure friends . Prithee , do aid me in this , in order that it may be the more easily effected . Do allow him for the few next days to have the preference with me . Do you make no answer ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ? She has been brought up in a manner worthy of yourself and of her .", "Where is he ?", "Take care and say this with presence of mind .", "What had you done ?", "Why not ?", "For what reason , pray ? Because you are ashamed ?", "How say you , you arch-jade ? Did I not warn you about this very thing , when I was going away from here ?", "Take them . If he offers any violence , summon the fellow to justice ; do you understand me ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Still standing here , Parmeno ? Why now , have you been left on guard here , that no go-between might perchance be secretly running from the Captain to her ? ( Exit .", "Ha ! What are you about ? Hold your tongue .", "Do you ask me ? Don \u2019 t you see , if on any occasion she makes mention of Ph\u00e6dria or commends him , to provoke you \u2014\u2014", "That \u2019 s showing prudence ; as soon as he has drawn them up , he secures a retreat for himself .", "How far do you suppose this gift will prove acceptable to Thais ?", "Let \u2019 s go to dinner then .What do you stand { here } for ?", "I \u2019 ve galled the fellow .", "I believe { you },\u2014 but any thing else , pray ?", "Certainly , yes . I know the disposition of women : when you will , they won \u2019 t ; when you won \u2019 t , they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination .", "Very proper .", "Nonsense . You never thought about it ; else how much more readily would you yourself have hit upon it , Thraso !", "How ? { Why }, these people didn \u2019 t know you ; after I had discovered to them your qualities , and had praised you as your actions and your virtues deserved , I prevailed upon them .", "By no means : on the contrary , rather increase her jealousy .", "Why , faith , no person , I \u2019 m quite sure of that , could possibly put up with him , who had the means to get another .", "Exceeding { thanks }.", "Should you like any one to be called out from here ?", "I \u2019 m of opinion that the Captain , your rival , should be received { among you }.", "Immortal Gods ! how much does one man excel another ! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool ! This strongly came into my mind from the following circumstance . As I was coming along to-day , I met a certain person of this place , of my own rank and station , no mean fellow , one who , like myself , had guttled away his paternal estate ; I saw him , shabby , dirty , sickly , beset with rags and years ; \u2014\u201c What \u2019 s the meaning of this garb ?\u201d said I ; { he answered }, \u201c Because , wretch that I am , I \u2019 ve lost what I possessed : see to what I am reduced ,\u2014 all my acquaintances and friends forsake me .\u201d On this I felt contempt for him in comparison with myself . \u201c What !\u201d said I , \u201c you pitiful sluggard , have you so managed matters as to have no hope left ? Have you lost your wits together with your estate ? Don \u2019 t you see me , who have risen from the same condition ? What a complexion I have , how spruce and well dressed , what portliness of person ? I have every thing , { yet } have nothing ; and although I possess nothing , still , of nothing am I in want .\u201d \u201c But I ,\u201d { said he }, \u201c unhappily , can neither be a butt nor submit to blows .\u201d\u201c What !\u201d { said I }, \u201c do you suppose it is managed by those means ? You are quite mistaken . Once upon a time , in the early ages , there was a calling for that class ; this is a new mode of coney-catching ; I , in fact , have been the first to strike into this path . There is a class of men who strive to be the first in every thing , but are not ; to these I make my court ; I do not present myself to them to be laughed at ; but I am the first to laugh with them , and at the same time to admire their parts : whatever they say , I commend ; if they contradict that self-same thing , I commend again . Does any one deny ? I deny : does he affirm ? I affirm : in fine , I have { so } trained myself as to humor them in every thing . This calling is now by far the most productive .\u201d", "He who has the wit that you have , often by his words appropriates to himself the glory that has been achieved by the labor of others .", "Not without reason .", "For the next six months , Parmeno , I \u2019 ll set you at ease ; you sha \u2019 n \u2019 t have to be running to and fro , or sitting up till daylight . Don \u2019 t I make you happy ?", "Because you are out of spirits .", "Rhodian , recurred to my mind . But Thais is coming out .", "Do you hear him ? He is convicting himself of theft . Is not that enough for you ?", "At what you were mentioning just now ; that saying , too , about the", "{ Well }, don \u2019 t be { so }; but what think you of this slave ?", "Without doubt , I do think so .", "Why , go back again : she \u2019 ll soon be with you , of her own accord , to entreat forgiveness .", "Not so much , indeed , at the present itself , as because it was given by you ; really , in right earnest , she does exult at that .", "Do you step a little that way , Thraso .In the first place , I wish you both implicitly to believe me in this , that whatever I do in this matter , I do it entirely for my own sake ; but if the same thing is of advantage to yourselves , it would be folly for you not to do it .", "How could he be otherwise ?", "How soon are we to fall to ?", "But why do I delay to take this girl to Thais , and ask her to come to dinner ?But I see Parmeno , our rival \u2019 s servant , waiting before the door of Thais with a sorrowful air ; all \u2019 s safe ; no doubt these people are finding a cold welcome . I \u2019 m resolved to have some sport with this knave .", "Didn \u2019 t I tell you that he was a master of the Attic elegance ?", "Thraso , whenever you please , step this way .", "You act properly . One thing I have still to beg of you ,\u2014 that you \u2019 ll receive me into your fraternity ; I \u2019 ve been rolling that stonefor a considerable time past .", "If I manage this , I ask that your house , whether you are present or absent , may be open to me ; that , without invitation , there may always be a place for me .", "{ So } I perceive . Pray , do you see any thing here that don \u2019 t please you ?", "Cleverly said , upon my faith , and shrewdly . Astounding ! You did give the fellow a home thrust . What said he ?", "Shall I dismiss the army then ?", "You are a worthy fellow .", "Have a care , if you please . You don \u2019 t know what kind of man you are abusing now .", "I \u2019 ll set about it { then }."], "true_target": ["It \u2019 s a hard task .", "First hear a few words from me ; and when I have said the thing , if you approve of it , do it .", "I know ; just as though on occasion he would rid his mind of those anxieties .", "Do you really say so , puppy ? Is it that you are at ?", "To enjoy your society .", "Never ; but pray , do tell me .I \u2019 ve heard it more than a thousand times already .", "Since she is impatient for and loves that which you give her , she already loves you ; as it is , { then }, it is an easy matter for her to feel vexed . She will be always afraid lest the presents which she herself is now getting , you may on some occasion be taking elsewhere .", "While we were thus talking , in the mean time we arrived at the market-place ; overjoyed , all the confectioners ran at once to meet me ; fishmongers ,butchers , cooks ,sausage-makers , { and } fishermen , whom , both when my fortunes were flourishing and when they were ruined , I had served , and often serve { still }: they complimented me , asked me to dinner , { and } gave me a hearty welcome . When this poor hungry wretch saw that I was in such great esteem , and that I obtained a living so easily , then the fellow began to entreat me that I would allow him to learn this { method } of me ; I bade him become my followerif he could ; as the disciples of the Philosophers take their names from { the Philosophers } themselves , so too , the Parasites ought to be called Gnathonics .", "Only consider . I \u2019 faith , Phaedria , at the free rate you are living with her , and indeed very freely you are living , you have but little to give ; and it \u2019 s necessary for Thais to receive a good deal . That all this may be supplied for your amour and not at your own expense , there is not an individual better suited or more fitted for your purpose { than the Captain }. In the first place , he both has got enough to give , and no one does give more profusely . He is a fool , a dolt , a blockhead ; night and day he snores away ; and you need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him ; you may easily have him discarded whenever you please .", "Indeed , of none ,I fancy , if he \u2019 s on intimate terms with you .", "Whew ! You are telling of a King of refined taste .", "The precedent pleases me .I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper ;but her door makes a noise .", "Sanga , as befits gallant soldiers ,take care in your turn to remember your homes and hearths .", "Quite right .", "How apt , how smart , how clever ; nothing { could be } more excellent . Prithee , was this a saying of yours ? I fancied it was an old one .", "Well now ? With what hope , or what design , are we come hither ? What do you intend to do , Thraso ?", "Come , come , that \u2019 s not handsome .", "The king , then , kept you in his eye .", "Do you hear what he says ?", "Many a time ; and it is mentioned among the first-rate ones .", "Re-enter THAIS , with PYTHIAS and FEMALE ATTENDANTS .", "I \u2019 m detaining you ; perhaps you were about to go somewhere else .", "Hardly so much .", "Very well . ( Exit .", "Very good .", "Upon my faith , I \u2019 ve observed it .", "And this besides , which I deem to be of even greater importance ,\u2014 not a single person entertains in better style or more bountifully .", "I didn \u2019 t know you gave yourself such airs .", "That \u2019 s my way with my friends .", "Ha , ha , ha !", "In that case then , lend me your services a little ; let me be introduced to her .", "I \u2019 m sorry { though } that it was said to a thoughtless young man , and one of respectability .", "Is it so ?", "I pity you , who are making so great a man as this your enemy .", "What is it you say ?", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you , what a thing it is to be wise ! I never come near you but what I go away from you the wiser .", "Ha , ha , ha !", "With his very best wishes Gnatho greets Parmeno , his very good friend . \u2014 What are you doing ?", "I could very muchlike a sling to be given you just now , that you might pelt them from here on the sly at a distance ; they would be taking to flight .", "Then I , in return for this , Phaedria , and you , Chaerea , make him over to youto be eaten and drunk to the dregs .", "Pray , what { did } he { do }?", "Astonishing !", "That such may not be the case , this method is the only remedy . When she speaks of Ph\u00e6dria , do you instantly { mention } Pamphila . If at any time she says , \u201c Let \u2019 s invite Ph\u00e6dria to make one ,\u201d { do } you { say }, \u201c Let \u2019 s { ask } Pamphila to sing .\u201d If she praises his good looks , do you , on the other hand , praise hers . In short , do you return like for like , which will mortify her .", "What do you wish me to do ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Well then , about that matter , Gnatho , the way in which I touched up the Rhodian at a banquet \u2014 did I never tell you ?", "Why are we to stand { here }? Why don \u2019 t we be off ?", "Do you think so ?", "Why should I use many words with you ? You are the very ape of your master . ( Exit PARMENO .", "What are we to do now ?", "But hark you , had I best clear myself of this to Thais , as to her suspicion that I \u2019 m fond of this girl ?", "Then if , on any occasion , a surfeit of society , or a dislike of business , came upon him , when he was desirous to take some recreation ; just as though \u2014 you understand ?", "What fellow are you ? What do you mean ? What business have you with her ?", "What ! Are you to prevent me from touching what \u2019 s my own ?", "Advance hither to the main body , Donax , with your crowbar ; you , Simalio , to the left wing ; you , Syriscus , to the right . Bring up the rest ; where \u2019 s the centurion Sanga , and his manipleof rogues ?", "Well said ; that never came into my mind .", "Do you say the same , Thais ?", "Why any the less so , than Hercules served Omphale .", "Quite disconcerted . All who were present were dying with laughter ; in short , they were all quite afraid of me .", "Hold; it behooves a prudent person to make trial of every thing before arms . How do you know but that she may do what I bid her without compulsion ?", "Whew !", "If you set your mind on any thing , I know you { well }. If you manage this , ask me for any present you like as your reward ; you shall have what you ask .", "Where are the others ?", "But look, I see Thais there herself .", "You have managed well ; I give you my best thanks . Besides ,", "Save you { both }\u2014", "I \u2019 m undone ; the less the hope I have , the more I am in love . Prithee , Gnatho , my hope is in you .", "I never was any where but what all were extremely fond of me .", "I \u2019 ll carry off the girl .", "Did you ever hear it before ?", "What , I ? To surrender myself to Thais , and do what she bids me .", "Are we to go now ?", "What , you booby , do you think of fighting with a dish-clout ,to be bringing that here ?", "If , indeed , she loved me ,this might be of some use , Gnatho .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Very fine presents , I suppose , or { at least } equal to mine .", "I am quite aware .", "Undoubtedly it is the case with me , that every thing I do is a cause for thankfulness .", "O my Thais , my sweet one , how are you ? How much do you love me in return for that music girl ?", "Do you draw up your men in battle order ; I \u2019 ll be behind the second rank ;from that position I \u2019 ll give the word to all .", "Ha !", "The most mighty King ,even , always used to give me especial thanks for whatever I did ; but not so to others .", "Thais , in the first place , answer me this . When I presented you that girl , did you not say that you would give yourself up to me alone for some days to come ?", "I \u2014", "Was she delighted , say you ?"], "true_target": ["Just so .", "Why so ?", "You have it . Then he used to take me aside as his only boon companion .", "This is just the way Pyrrhus used to proceed .CHREMES and THAIS appear above at a window .", "Brazen face !", "That Eunuch , if occasion served ,", "True ; he intrusted { to me } all his army , all his state secrets .", "Let us begone .", "Whenever you like .", "Confusion ! Why , what mischief \u2019 s this ? I never saw this person before ; why , I wonder , is he rushing out in such a hurry ?SCENE IX .", "When you please ; I sha \u2019 n \u2019 t delay .", "Am I to submit , Gnatho , to such a glaring affront as this being put upon me ? I \u2019 d die sooner . Simalio , Donax , Syriscus , follow me ! First , I \u2019 ll storm the house .", "Prithee , how goes it ?", "THAIS ,", "Aye , he is a person of that sort ; a man of but very few acquaintanceships .", "Dumfounded , instantaneously .", "It appears that this is the servant of some beggarly , wretched master .", "What seems { best to you }?", "It \u2019 s my own .", "Did Thais really return me many thanks ?", "It shall be so .", "I shall be off . Do you wait for her .", "There was in my company at a banquet , this young man of Rhodes , whom I \u2019 m speaking of . By chance I had a mistress there ; he began to toy with her , and to annoy me . \u201c What are you doing , sir impudence ?\u201d said I to the fellow ; \u201c a hare yourself , and looking out for game ?\u201d", "You follow me .", "Then give me back Pamphila ; unless you had rather she were taken away by force .", "I understand .", "I \u2019 ll give her own self a mauling .", "I pledge my honor that it shall be { so }.", "You follow me this way .", "Do you ask the question ? You , who have been and brought your lover under my very eyes ? What business had you with him ? With him , too , you clandestinely betook yourself away from me .", "What are you laughing at ?", "You go before ; take care that every thing is ready at home .", "Here are some three min\u00e6 in value .", "Bring this about , by entreaties { or } with money , that I may at least share Thais \u2019 s favors in some degree .", "even in my sober senses ,", "You \u2019 ve just hit it .", "Do you at all doubt , Gnatho , but that I am now ruined everlastingly ?", "Depending on your { kindness }.", "You judge right .", "All the people envied me , and attacked me privately . I don \u2019 t care one straw . They envied me dreadfully ; but one in particular , whom { the King } had appointed over the Indian elephants .Once , when he became particularly troublesome , \u201c Prithee , Strato ,\u201d said I , \u201c are you so fierce because you hold command over the wild beasts ?\u201d", "What do you mean ? Am I not to touch my own ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Do you ask ? Upon my faith , I never did see , nor shall see , a more silly fellow . Oh dear , I can not well express what amusement you \u2019 ve afforded in-doors . And still I formerly took you to be a clever and shrewd person . Why , was there any need for you instantly to believe what I told you ? Or were you not content with the crime , which by your advice the young man had been guilty of , without betraying the poor fellow to his father as well ? Why , what do you suppose his feelings must have been at the moment when his father saw him clothed in that dress ? Well , do you now understand that you are done for ?", "You are wise . I \u2019 m going in-doors ; do you relate to him every thing exactly as it happened .", "Where is he ?", "What could I do ? Just as you ordered , she was intrusted to his care only .", "And there he is , I see ; I \u2019 ll go up to him .", "Besides , too , the villain , after he had abused the girl , rent all the poor thing \u2019 s clothes , and tore her hair as well .", "Ph\u00e6dria .", "Why , faith , I had heard that they were extremely fond of the women , but were incapable ; unfortunately { what has happened } never came into my mind ; otherwise I should have shut him up somewhere , and not have intrusted the girl to him .", "Upon my faith , you villain , I \u2019 ll take vengeance upon you for these sayings and doings ; so that you sha \u2019 n \u2019 t make sport of us with impunity .O , by our trust in the Gods , what a disgraceful action ! O hapless young man ! O wicked Parmeno , to have brought him here !", "Do you ask ? Do you think of admitting him after this into your house ?", "I do pity him ; and so that I mightn \u2019 t see it , wretched creature that I am , I hurried away out of doors . What a dreadful example they talk of making him !", "What do to him , do you ask ? Pray , do look at him ; if his face doesn \u2019 t seem an impudent one .", "Do you ask the question , you most audacious fellow ? You \u2019 ve proved the ruin of the young man whom you brought hither for the Eunuch , while you were trying to put a trick upon us .", "Troth now , you are much more merry , that \u2019 s certain .", "Prithee , what does she say ? Does she recognize them ?", "Take in these golden { trinkets }; I shall learn from him what \u2019 s the matter .", "Did she say nothing about you following her ?", "Upon my faith , I would neither venture to give any thing to you to keep , nor to keep you { myself }: away with you !", "Come now , a trifle , you impudent fellow . Does this appear a trifle to you , to ravish a virgin , a citizen ?", "I \u2019 faith , I \u2019 ll find out a method to-day to be even with him . But now , what do you think ought to be done , Dorias ?", "Very much so .", "Take care , Parmeno , what you are about , lest you both do him no good and come to harm yourself ; for it is their notion , that whatever has happened , has originated in you .", "I \u2019 ll do so .", "I \u2019 m ruined outright !", "Chremes !", "Did you come here to-day to our house ?He says , no . But it was the other one that came , about sixteen years of age ; whom Parmeno brought with him .", "Where , wretch that I am , shall I find this wicked and impious fellow ? Or where look for him ? That he should dare to commit so audacious a crime as this ! I \u2019 m ruined outright !", "Prithee , what are you going to do ?", "See whom , pray ?", "Have you caught the fellow , pray ?", "Why , Ph\u00e6dria , whom should I be looking for ? Away with you , as you deserve , with such fine presents of yours .", "Exactly so .", "{ Here }, Dorias, show this person directly to the Captain \u2019 s .", "Hush ! hush ! mistress , pray ; we are all right . Here we have the very man .", "I won \u2019 t trust you at all in any thing . THAIS ,Do have done .", "Upon my faith , I don \u2019 t believe you , Ch\u00e6rea , except in case you are not trusted .", "How \u201c so heinous ?\u201d", "This reward has been found you in return for that present { of yours };I \u2019 m off .", "That Ch\u00e6rea .", "What is there to believe ? The thing speaks for itself .", "Woe unto me ! Now at last will you believe that we have been insulted in a disgraceful manner ?", "Bid him answer me in my turn .", "I \u2019 m as certain that this is the contrivance of Parmeno as that", "You seem to me to be far from sensible of his assurance .", "Never , upon my faith , for a long time past , has any thing happened to me that I could have better liked to happen , than the old gentleman just now , full of his mistake , coming into our house . I had the joke all to myself , as I knewwhat it was he feared .", "O most charming , dear creature !", "I \u2019 m dying ; I \u2019 m wretchedly tired with laughing at you .", "O well done !", "I \u2019 m alive ."], "true_target": ["And I am satisfied of it .", "I wish that they were so , who wish ill to me .", "Well now , wasn \u2019 t that enough ?", "Prithee , did you fancy that this was he who was brought to our house ?", "I don \u2019 t know ; unless , as I suppose , he was in love with", "Why there , to the left . Don \u2019 t you see ?", "That stripling , the brother of Ph\u00e6dria .", "Why so ? Really , I do believe I should be something in this hang-dog \u2019 s debt , if I were to do so ; especially as he owns that he is your servant .", "Now I \u2019 m come out to meet with Parmeno . But , prithee , where is he ?", "Where is it put ?", "And even though Thais entreated him that he wouldn \u2019 t do so \u2014\u2014", "If you are so determined about it , pray do step over to the place where she is .", "I \u2019 ll do so .", "Have you yet shown the tokens to the nurse ?", "Prithee , do hold your tongue ; as though indeed the difference was so trifling . A young man was brought to our house to-day , whom , really , Ph\u00e6dria , you would have liked to look upon . This is a withered , antiquated , lethargic , old fellow , with a speckled complexion .", "Pray , go and see whether he is there .", "Do , there \u2019 s a dear sir .", "But so she has been discovered { to be }; he , unfortunate { youth }, has ravished her . When the brother came to know of this being done , in a most towering rage , { he }\u2014\u2014", "Not one of our people has ever beheld this person with her eyes ,", "Besides , what effrontery he has .", "Yes ; whether I ought to mention it or be silent ?", "I believe you ; but , perhaps , that which you are threatening , Parmeno , will need a { future } day ; you \u2019 ll be trussed up directly , for rendering a silly young man remarkable for disgraceful conduct , and { then } betraying him to his father ; they \u2019 ll both be making an example of you .", "O dear ! this one really isn \u2019 t to be compared with the other . He was of a handsome and genteel appearance .", "Then , i \u2019 faith , mistress , I foresee you must have a care of him .", "Why , my dear Chremes ?", "What person is this ?", "Trust my word for it , he \u2019 ll be creating some new disturbance .", "Here they are .", "I don \u2019 t know .", "Well ! what now can suggest itself to my mind ? What , I wonder , in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this { fellow } off upon us ?", "Now he is threatening that he { will } also { do } that which is usually done to ravishers ; a thing that I never saw done , nor wish to .", "Then stay here at our house till she comes back .", "Why so ?", "I \u2019 ll tell you : that young woman who was to-day made a present to Thais , are you aware that she is a citizen of this place , and that her brother is a person of very high rank ?", "I believe so .", "Pamphila .", "What , do you ask ? The Eunuch you gave us , what confusion he has caused . He has ravished the girl whom the Captain made present of to my mistress .", "I know nothing about him : as to what he has done , the thing speaks for itself . The girl is in tears ; and when you ask her what \u2019 s the matter , she does not dare tell . But he , a precious fellow , is nowhere to be seen . To my sorrow I suspect too , that when he took himself off he carried something away from the house .", "If he were just now in my reach , how eagerly would I fly at that villain \u2019 s eyes with my nails !", "Wretch that I am , what am I to say to you ? They declare that he was not a Eunuch .", "First , bound him in a shocking manner .", "Fellow-servant ? I can hardly restrain myself from flying at his hair . A miscreant ! Even of his own free will he comes to make fun of us . THAIS ,Won \u2019 t you begone from here , you mad woman ?", "Order him to be seized as quickly as possible .", "Upon my faith , you do bring good news ; for I { really } wish well to this young woman . Go in-doors : my mistress has been for some time expecting you at home .But look , yonder I espy { that } worthy fellow , Parmeno , coming : just see , for heaven \u2019 s sake , how leisurely he moves along . I hope I have it in my power to torment him after my own fashion . I \u2019 ll go in-doors , that I may know for certain about the discovery ; afterward I \u2019 ll come out , and give this villain a terrible fright .", "Thais entreated you most earnestly to come again to-morrow .", "Just so ? But the young woman \u2014\u2014", "How ! Prithee , is it he ?", "Now are you quite satisfied that I am sober , and that we have told you no falsehood ? Is it now sufficiently evident that the girl has been ravished ?", "Has she already come away from the Captain \u2019 s ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Why \u2014 what \u2019 s Ph\u00e6dria going to do now ? In what way does he say that he intends to take his fill of love ?", "I can not change .", "That \u2019 s a long way off .", "Is that quite the thing ?", "What am I to do ?", "You are the very person I was looking for .", "Where is he , pray ?", "Pray , now , if I assume an air , will that do ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "See who \u2019 s coming out .", "I don \u2019 t know .", "Come then , you are the only man able to serve him .", "To whom ? To you ?", "Pray , do try , that he mayn \u2019 t be doing something that we may afterward be more or less sorry for , Geta .", "Troth , you certainly are in the right ; but , meantime , what has been arranged about the club-entertainment ?", "You are a clever band ; but where ? At your house ?", "Ah Ph\u00e6dria , why , what is the matter ?", "Well done , Geta .", "Out with it .", "\u2019 Tis true what he says .", "I know her ; I suppose you mean Thais ?", "What , my { father }\u2014?", "What I , in my possession ? Why yes , as the saying is , I \u2019 ve got a wolf by the ears ;for I neither know how to get rid of her , nor yet how to keep her .", "I know my own self and my offense ; to your management I trust", "That things should have come to such a pass , Ph\u00e6dria , that I should be in utter dread of my father , who wishes me so well , whenever his return comes into my thoughts ! Had I not been inconsiderate , I might have waited for him , as I ought to have done .", "I own I am .", "What was it ?", "Will you have any occasion for my assistance ?", "Halloo ! Geta !", "I \u2019 m glad that , however my own affairs go , my brother has succeeded in his wishes . How wise it is to cherish desires of that nature in the mind , that when things run counter , you may easily find a cure { for them }! He has both got the money , { and } released himself from care ; I , by no method , can extricate myself from these troubles ; on the contrary , if the matter is concealed , { I am } in dread \u2014 but if disclosed , in disgrace . Neither should I now go home , were not a hope { still } presented me of retaining her . But where , I wonder , can I find Geta , that I may ask him what opportunity he would recommend me to take for meeting my father ? SCENE VII .", "How greatly now , Geta , I do dread my uncle \u2019 s safe arrival ! For , according to his single sentence , from what I hear , I am to live or die .", "Will you allow Pamphila to be carried away from this place ? { And } then , besides , can you possibly allow their love to be severed asunder ?", "Don \u2019 t be afraid : together with you , we \u2019 ll share good { and } bad .", "Ruined outright !", "Do you understand what he \u2019 s talking about ?", "Phanium and my own existence . ( Exit hastily .", "I \u2019 m expecting every moment that Geta will be here . But I see my uncle standing close by , with my father . Ah me ! how much I fear what influence his return may have upon my father !", "My { dear } Geta , I love you all .", "Are the Gods quite on good terms with him ?GETA\u201c For I \u2019 m quite sure , if you were to mention any thing that \u2019 s fair and reasonable , as he is a reasonable man , you \u2019 ll not have to bandy three words with him .\u201d", "I wonder what running away or theft it is that he \u2019 s planning . GETABut where shall I find Antipho , or which way go look for him ?", "Well then , this ?", "What , I ?", "But { here \u2019 s } Phormio .What have you to say ?", "Look at my countenance \u2014 there \u2019 s for you .Will that do ?", "I \u2019 m afraid for this Procurer , lest \u2014\u2014 GETASomething may befall his own safety .", "What for ?", "Still , on the other hand , Ph\u00e6dria , you now seem to me the fortunate man , who still have the liberty , without restraint , of resolving on what pleases you best : { whether } to keep , to love on , { or } to give her up . I , unfortunately , have got myself into that position , that I have neither rightto give her up , nor liberty to retain her . But how \u2019 s this ? Is it our Geta I see running this way ? \u2019 Tis he himself . Alas ! I \u2019 m dreadfully afraid what news it is he \u2019 s now bringing me .", "I \u2019 faith , there surely was a day named , if I remember right , for you to pay him .", "Geta .", "Are you not ashamed of your perfidy ?", "In perfect safety , at all events .", "While I am every moment expecting his return , who is to sever from me this connection .", "My father has come home .", "What did he do ?", "What is he about ? Or where is this to end at last ? GETA\u201c He \u2019 ll have to give satisfaction at law , you say , if he turns her out ? That has been already inquired into : aye , aye , you \u2019 ll have enough to do , if you engage with him ; he is so eloquent . But suppose he \u2019 s beaten ; still , however , it \u2019 s not his life , but his money that \u2019 s at stake .\u201d After I found that the fellow was influenced by these words , I said : \u201c We are now by ourselves here ; come now , what should you like to be given you , money down , to drop this suit with my master , so that she may betake herself off , { and } you annoy us no more ?\u201d", "I am sorry for him .", "Do see if you can give him any assistance at all .", "What { was it }?", "It \u2019 s not a long time that he asks , Dorio ; do let him prevail upon you ; he \u2019 ll pay you two-fold for having acted to him thus obligingly .", "Why then carry me off{ at once };\u2014 why do you delay ?", "Geta !", "He did nothing new ."], "true_target": ["Geta , shall we suffer him to continue thus wretched , when he so lately assisted me in the kind way you were mentioning ? On the contrary , why not , as there \u2019 s need of it , try to do him a kindness in return ?", "What then ?", "Aye , aye , don \u2019 t you show too little of the Procurer .What has he been doing ?", "Sold her , say you ?", "I wonder what it is he means .", "How now , whip-scoundrel , do you give me an answer to what I don \u2019 t ask you ?", "Do you say so ?", "Oh , a word to the wiseis quite enough .", "What { part }?", "What have you been doing ?", "Whether to say he \u2019 s doing this through folly or mischief , through stupidity or design , I \u2019 m in doubt .", "How am I , wretch that I am , now to find a remedy for this sudden misfortune ? But if it should be my fortune , Phanium , to be torn away from you , life would cease to be desirable .", "Assuredly that will befall yourself just now unless you stop , you whip-knave .", "Well done , Phormio !", "As I am not equal to this , I should be still less so to the other .", "What was it I did ask ? Through your agency , matters have most undoubtedly come to the pass that I may go hang myself . May then all the Gods , Goddesses , Deities above { and } below , with every evil confound you ! Look now , if you wish any thing to succeed , intrust it to him who may bring you from smooth water on to a rock . What was there less advantageous than to touch upon this sore , or to name my wife ? Hopes have been excited in my father that she may possibly be got rid of . Pray now , tell me , suppose Phormio receives the portion , she must be taken home { by him } as his wife : what \u2019 s to become of me ?", "Tell me , I beg of you , in what posture are my interests and fortunes . Has my father any suspicion ?", "He \u2019 s quite ready ; right boldly lay on him any load you like , he \u2019 ll bear it : he , in especial , is a friend to his friend .", "Procure the money .", "You are worrying me to death .", "I know that . Butwhen they demand the money back , of course , for our sake , he \u2019 ll prefer going to prison .", "Is there still any hope ?", "Ha ! what \u2019 s that you say ?", "Ah me ! Geta , you have ruined me by your treachery .", "Well , will this ?", "Very well . ( Exeunt .", "Stop , this instant . GETAHeyday \u2014 with authority enough , whoever you are .", "So far I recollect .", "Poor fellow !", "Just so .", "I am not myself .", "Won \u2019 t you stop ?", "Pray , do tell me what all this means .", "There \u2019 s nothing I could do with so much pleasure .", "Do you try to trifle with himin this manner ?", "So I could wish ; but I should like to be told why I \u2019 m to believe it is so .", "Undone !", "I understand .", "I \u2019 ll accost him , and I \u2019 ll do him the favor which I see he \u2019 s wishing for .Ch\u00e6rea , why are you thus transported ? What \u2019 s the object of this garb ? Why is it that you \u2019 re so overjoyed ? What is the meaning of this ? Are you quite right in your senses ? Why do you stare at me ? What have you to say ?", "What mischief is this ? GETAWhen he comes to hear of it , what remedy shall I discover for his anger ? Am I to speak ? I shall irritate him : be silent ? I shall provoke him : excuse myself ? I should be washing a brickbat .Alas ! unfortunate me ! While I am trembling for myself , this Antipho distracts my mind . I am concerned for him ; I \u2019 m in dread for him : \u2019 tis he that now keeps me here ; for had it not been for him , I should have made due provision for my safety , and have taken vengeance on the old man for his crabbedness ; I should have scraped up something , and straightway taken to my heels away from here .", "Let \u2019 s go to my house ; there is the nearest place for you to change .", "Not at all .", "What , instead of the Eunuch ?", "Really , I should very much have liked to see that impudent face of yours just then , and what figure a great donkey like you made , holding a fan !", "Pray , tell me what news you bring and dispatch it in { one } word , if you can .", "Why , I wonder , is he coming in such fright ? GETABesides , I \u2019 ve but a moment left for this matter \u2014 my master \u2019 s close at hand .", "To receive what advantage , pray , from this plan ?", "\u2019 Tis he himself . I can not stand it .", "I only wish it may be the case .", "Change your dress .", "O my { dear } Phormio , farewell !", "Alas !", "Yesterday some young fellows of us agreed together at the Pir\u00e6us that we were to go shares today in a club-entertainment . We gave Ch\u00e6rea charge of this matter ; our rings were givenas { pledges }; the place and time arranged . The time has { now } gone by ; at the place appointed there was nothing ready . The fellow himself is nowhere { to be } met with ; I neither know what to say nor what to suppose . Now the rest have commissioned me with this business , to look for him . I \u2019 ll go see , therefore , if he \u2019 s at home . But who \u2019 s this , I wonder , coming out of Thais \u2019 s ? Is it he , or is it not ? \u2019 Tis the very man ! What , sort of being is this ? What kind of garb is this ? What mischief is going on now ? I can not sufficiently wonder or conjecture . But , whatever it is , I should like first at a distance to try and find out .", "Why him ?", "Do you ask the question ? You , who have been my confederate in so bold an adventure ? How I do wish it had never entered the mind of Phormio to persuade me to this , or to urge me in the heat of my passion to this step , which is the source of my misfortunes . { Then } I should not have obtained her ; in that case I might have been uneasy for some { few } days ; but still , this perpetual anxiety would not have been tormenting my mind", "Is that { day } past , then ?", "Why so , or what are you going to do ? Pray , tell me .", "I know not what great misfortune I expect to hear from this messenger .", "Geta !", "On what grounds ? Or what will he say ?", "On my faith , I too have heard the same story .", "Indeed , Antipho , in many ways you are to be blamed for these feelings ; to have thus run away , and intrusted your existence to the protection of other people . Did you suppose that others would give more attention to your interests than your own self ? For , however other matters stood , certainly you should have thought of her whom you have now at home , that she might not suffer any harm in consequence of her confiding in you , whose hopes and resources , poor thing , are all now centred in yourself alone . GETAWhy really , master , we have for some time been censuring you here in your absence , for having { thus } gone away ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Do you mean with regard to this girl ?", "But don \u2019 t I see Chremes ? Thais will be here just now .", "Upon my faith that really is capital !", "Because when I came away from there , a quarrel had just commenced between them ."], "true_target": ["So it is , { no doubt }.", "Upon my word , if you are prudent , you won \u2019 t know what you do know , either about the Eunuch or the girl \u2019 s misfortune . By this method you \u2019 ll both rid yourself of all perplexity , and have done a service to her .Say this only , that Dorus has run away .", "Oh , prithee , my { dear } Pythias , what a monstrous thing this is !", "Ruined outright ! Prithee , my dear , I never did so much as hear of a deed so abominable !"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["To-day .", "Indeed , I do entreat you , Ph\u00e6dria .", "No .", "He did .", "He did .", "With Parmeno .", "Just now ."], "true_target": ["Yes .", "He himself put on mine ; afterward , they both went out together .", "Oh ! oh !", "No .", "Parmeno said he was . He gave me these clothes .", "You did buy { me }.", "Yes .", "Ch\u00e6rea came ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["What could I do ?", "What , I ? I knew the valor of the general , and the prowess of the soldiers ; { and } that this could not possibly go on without bloodshed ; how was I to wipe the wounds ?", "My thoughts have been for some time among the sauce-pans .", "How then , do you know who I am ?", "How could I more so , when to-day I have even afforded my face to his blows ?", "I \u2019 d have him then try that .", "I \u2019 ll { have } her , in spite of all .", "What about what I was asking you ?", "Is this honorable of him ? Ought \u00c6schinus to attempt this ? Ought he to endeavor to take her away from me by downright violence ?", "See , here he is .", "Oh ! scandalous deed !", "Not a foot { do I stir }: Heavens ! I \u2019 m undone !It was upon this hope they devised their project .", "Oh , what villainy ! \u2014 Just look at that ; how he has nicked me in the very joint .Several women have been purchased , and other things as well , for me to take to Cyprus .If I don \u2019 t get there to the fair , my loss will be very great . Then if I postpone this { business }, and settle it when I come back from there , it will be of no use ; the matter will be quite forgotten . \u201c Come at last ?\u201d { they \u2019 ll say }. \u201c Why did you delay it ? Where have you been ?\u201d So that I had better lose it altogether than either stay here so long , or be suing for it then .", "Hear me , Aeschinus , that you may not say that you were in ignorance of my calling ; I am a Procurer .", "But I \u2019 ll not let her .", "I believe that to be the better { plan }\u2014 but I was never so cunning as not , whenever I was able to get it , to prefer getting ready money .", "I never saw a dispute on more unequal termsthan the one that has happened to-day between us ; I , with being thumped , he , with beating me , were both of us quite tired .", "What if I don \u2019 t choose to sell her to you ? Will you compel me ?", "Hah !", "But he is to pay it all .", "Plague on you , what others ? Sannio is the only one left on guard at home .", "He \u2019 s looking for me .Is he bringing any thing { with him }? Confusion ! I don \u2019 t see any thing .", "Pray , \u00c6schinus , do come back to the point at which you set out ."], "true_target": ["I paid { my } money ? Answer me that .", "Oh , you shameless fellow ! Is this the place where they say there is equal liberty for all ?", "I \u2019 ll follow .", "Oh shocking !", "I am a Procurer ,I confess it \u2014 the common bane of youth \u2014 a perjurer , a { public } nuisance ; still , no injury has befallen you from me .", "What point ? Where am I to come to ?", "I do not pay ready money for hope .", "Why , is it I that have been raving , or you against me ?", "With all my heart , only so it be something that \u2019 s fair .", "What is the meaning of this ? Have you the sway here , Aeschinus ?", "Not particularly so ; although still , I \u2019 m stopping here doing nothing at all .", "O supreme Jupiter ! I do by no means wonder that men run mad through ill usage . He has dragged me out of my house , beaten me , taken my { property } away against my will , { and } has given me , unfortunate wretch , more than five hundred blows . In return for all this ill usage he demands { the girl } to be made over to him for just the same price at which she was bought . But however , since he has { so well } deserved { of me }, be it so : he demands what is his due . Very well , I consent then , provided he only gives the money . But I suspect this ; when I have said that I will sell her for so much , he \u2019 ll be getting witnesses forthwith that I have sold her .As to getting the money , it \u2019 s all a dream . { Call again } by and by ; come back to-morrow . I could bear with that too , hard as it is , if he would only pay it . But I consider this to be the fact ; when you take up this trade , you must brook and bear in silence the affronts of { these } young fellows . However , no one will pay me ; it \u2019 s in vain for me to be reckoning upon that .", "Syrus , do urge { the matter }.", "A free man , with whips ?", "What business have you with me ?", "Why yes , Syrus , i \u2019 faith , I have this to request . Whatever the matters that are past , rather than go to law , let what is my own be returned me ; at least , Syrus , the sum she cost me . I know that you have not hitherto made trial of my friendship ; you will have no occasion to say that I am unmindful or ungrateful .", "And of as high a character as any one ever was . When you shall be excusing yourself by-and-by , how that you wish this injury had not been done me , I shall not value it thisDepend upon it , I \u2019 ll prosecute my rights ; and you shall never pay with words for the evil that you have done me in deed . I know those { ways } of yours : \u201c I wish it hadn \u2019 t happened ; I \u2019 ll take my oath that you did not deserve this injustice ;\u201d while I myself have been treated in a disgraceful manner .", "I beseech you , fellow-citizens , do give aid to a miserable and innocent man ; do assist the distressed .", "What greater right then have you to take my { property }, for which", "But you will avail nothing by this .", "I was afraid you would .", "Have I touched any thing of yours ?", "Ah me ! unfortunate wretch , I am now in danger of even losing part of the principal . Has he no shame ? He has loosened all my teeth ; my head , too , is full of bumps with his cuffs ; and would he defraud me as well ? I shall go nowhere ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Why ? Pray , are you not the person you always used to say you were ?", "As for me , being a lone old woman , in want , { and } unknown , I contrived , as well as I could , to get the young woman married to the young man who is master of this house", "Now consider what \u2019 s to be done . The young man \u2019 s father has returned , and they say that he bears this with feelings highly offended .", "Ye Gods , I do beseech you , isn \u2019 t this Stilpho ?", "Who \u2019 s that speaking here ?", "Mentioning my name , too ?", "Why , this is she .", "If now I could find him , there \u2019 s nothing that I should be in fear of .", "It was distress that compelled me to this step , though I knew that the match was not likely to hold good ; my object was , that in the mean time life might be supported .", "I am bestirring .", "And we are not able to find \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Her father .", "I \u2019 faith , that \u2019 s the very reason why we , wretched creatures , have never been able to find you out here .", "The very same , I say .", "Ah , wretched me !", "Dear no , prithee , he has only got this one .", "Do you deny it ?", "No one shall know { it } from me .", "It was done on purpose , in order that her lover might be enabled to marry her without a portion .", "Your daughter is alive . Her poor mother died of grief .", "What am I to do ? What friend , in my distress , shall I find , to whom to disclose these plans ; and where shall I look for relief ? For I \u2019 m afraid that my mistress , in consequence of my advice , may undeservingly sustain some injury , so extremely ill do I hear that the young man \u2019 s father takes what has happened .", "Why are you afraid about that door ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Are you going to fall out with me , too ?", "He \u2019 s off ; what matters it to me ? In fine , let them manage it between themselves , just as they please ; since neither my son nor he pay any regard to me ; they care but little for what I say . I \u2019 ll carry the quarrel to my wife , by whose planning all these things have been brought about , and against her I will vent all the vexation that I feel .", "Did you not say , just now , that she was waiting for my son \u2019 s return ?", "Tell your daughter that Sostrata is going into the country , that she may not now be afraid of returning home .", "Why yes ; but first go and get some one as a nurse for the child . ( Exit PHIDIPPUS .", "What do you want , Pamphilus ?", "Do you run away ? What , and give me no distinct answer ?Does he seem to you to be in his senses ? Let him alone . Phidippus , give me the child ; I \u2019 ll bring it up .", "In place of the Eunuch ?", "Why no , it has proved a loss ; for I could have wished him alive and well .", "We find , Phidippus , that our wives have been unjustly suspectedby us in this matter . Let us now try her still further ; for if your wife discovers that she has given credence to a false charge , she will dismiss her resentment ; but if my son is also angry , by reason of the circumstance that his wife has been brought to bed without his knowledge , that is a trifle : his anger on that account will speedily subside . Assuredly in this matter , there is nothing so bad as to be deserving of a separation .", "Tell me , what has our cousin Phania left us ?", "Troth , now , Bacchis , I suppose you somewhat wonder what can be my reason for sending the lad to fetch you out of doors .", "How is that ? What should you intend to do but bring her home ?", "What am I to do , then , Phidippus ? What advice do you give ?", "Is there any other calamity or misfortune besides , that you have not told me of ?", "We were often longing to see the day on which there should be one to call you father ; it has come to pass . I return thanks to the Gods .", "Oh take home your wife , or tell me why you should not .", "Health to you , my son .", "So may the Gods prosper me , you bring good tidings , and I am glad a child has been born , and that she is safe : but what { kind of } woman have you for a wife , or of what sort of a temper , that we should have been kept in ignorance of this so long ? I can not sufficiently express how disgraceful this conduct appears to me .", "Troth now , Bacchis , I do entreat that what you have promised me you will do .", "It is .", "You can not tell . But it matters nothing to you which they do when she has gone away . { Persons of } this age are disliked by young people ; it is right { for us } to withdraw from the world ; in fine , we are now a { nice } by-word . We are , Pamphilus , \u201c the old man and the old woman .\u201dBut I see Phidippus coming out just at the time ; let \u2019 s accost him .", "That you { do }: and she has taken away her daughter ; and for that reason , has wished secretly to destroy the child that has been born .", "Bought ? Good heavens , I \u2019 m undone ! For how much ?", "What { is it }?", "I must take care that I don \u2019 t , through anger , miss gaining in this quarter what I { otherwise } might , and that I don \u2019 t do any thing which hereafter it would have been better I had not done . I \u2019 ll accost her .Bacchis , good-morrow to you !", "To what woman ?", "They say that he has arrived ; let her return .", "Go in-doors then , and get together the things that are to be taken with you . I have { now } said it .", "May the Gods avert { such } a misfortune !", "This anger will depart ; although he has some reason for being vexed .", "Who was it I heard speaking here ?", "Take home your wife , and don \u2019 t oppose my will .", "I \u2019 ll go with you . ( Exeunt .", "Nay , { through you } in especial ; you were the only person here ; on you alone , Sostrata , falls all the blame . You ought to have taken care of matters here , as I had released you from other anxieties . Is it not a disgrace for an old woman to pick a quarrel with a girl ? You will say it was her fault .", "Is this your final determination ?", "O faith of Gods and men ! what a race is this ! what a conspiracy this ! that all women should desire and reject every individual thing alike ! And not a single one can you find to swerve in any respect from the disposition of the rest . For instance , quite as though with one accord , do all mothers-in-law hate their daughters-in-law . Just in the same way is it their system to oppose their husbands ; their obstinacy { here } is the same . In the very same school they all seem to me to have been trained up to perverseness . Of that school , if there is any mistress , I am very sure that sheit is .", "Go , and satisfy their minds , so as to make them believe it .", "Your language has rendered me quite friendly and well disposed toward you ; but not only did they think { so }\u2014 I too believed it . Now that I have found you quite different from what I had expected , take care that you still continue the same \u2014 make use of my friendship as you please ; if otherwise \u2014\u2014; but I will forbear , that you may not hear any thing unkind from me . But this one thing I recommend you \u2014 make trial what sort of a friend I am , or what I can effect { as such }, rather than { what as } an enemy . SCENE IX .", "Phidippus , stay ; listen to a few words \u2014", "How ! What ? In love ? Does he know already what a courtesan means ? Is he come to town ? One misfortune close upon another .", "I am glad of that , so may the Gods prosper me , for my son \u2019 s sake . I am quite sure { of this }, that no fault of yours can possibly put you in a worse light .", "I fancy that your humors are more her malady than any thing else ; and with good reason in fact , for there is not one of you but wants her son to take a wife ; and the match which has taken your fancy must be the one ; when , at your solicitation , they have married , { then }, at your solicitation , they are to put them away again .", "Whither are you going ? Stay , stay , I tell you ; whither are you going ? ( Exit PAMPHILUS . SCENE IX . LACHES and PHIDIPPUS .", "\u2019 Tis the very person about whom I was talking to you .", "So then , you have brought home nothing morethan a single sentiment ?", "What say you { to this }? Is it not proof sufficient , when yesterday no one was willing to admit you into the house , when you went to see her ?"], "true_target": ["Then may the Gods confound those spiteful people who told this news with such readiness !", "Pamphilus , there is no room now for deliberation for you in this matter .", "But they will be your friends , when they know the reason of your coming .", "Your own self , and you act unjustly therein . You feign false grounds for discord , that you may live with her when you have got rid of this witness { of your actions }; your wife has perceived it too ; for what other reason had she for leaving you ?", "Have you but just arrived ?", "Take the child , for surely that is not in fault ; I will consider about the mother afterward .", "Go in-doors thereto the women , and make the same promise , on oath , to them ; satisfy their minds , and clear yourself from this charge .", "Retire then into the country ; there I will bear with you , and you with me .", "You , undeservedly ? Can any thing possibly be said that you deserve in return for this conduct of yours ? You , who are disgracing both me and yourself and the family , { and } are laying up sorrow for your son . Then besides , you are making our connections become , from friends , enemies to us , who have thought him deserving for them to intrust their childrento him . You alone have put yourself forward , by your folly , to be causing this disturbance .", "If you are in your senses , order her to come back .", "You admit my son , Pamphilus , to your house .", "If you speak the truth , you will be in no danger , woman , from me , for I am now of that age that it is not meet for me to receive forgiveness for a fault ; for that reason do I the more carefully attend to every particular , that I may not act with rashness ; for if you now do , or intend to do , that which is proper for deserving { women } to do , it would be unjust for me , in my ignorance , to offer an injury to you , when undeserving of it .", "You are very good . But , pray , do you know what I would prefer that you should do ?", "LACHES , alone .", "Did I not tell you , Phidippus , that he would take this matter amiss ? It was for that reason I entreated you to send your daughter back .", "I have this advantagefrom my country-house being so near at hand ; no weariness , either of country or of town , ever takes possession of me ; when satiety begins to come on , I change my locality . But is not that our Parmeno ? Surely it is he . Whom are you waiting for , Parmeno , before the door here ?", "The young woman has done what her mother persuaded her . Is that to be wondered at ? Do you suppose you can find any woman who is free from fault ? Or is it that men have no failings ?", "Phidippus , you meet me at a lucky moment , just at the very time .", "What is there that I could more wish for , than what I see has happened to this woman ? To gain favor without loss to myself , and to benefit myself at { the same time }. For if now it is the fact that she has really withdrawn from Pamphilus , she knows that by that step she has acquired honor and reputation : she returns the favor to him , and , by the same means , attaches us as friends to herself .", "I will do as you advise .Ho , there , boy ! run to the house of Bacchis here , our neighbor ; desire her , in my name , to come hither .And you , I further entreat , to give me your assistance in this affair .", "Examine { her }; here she is ; she herself will satisfy you .", "Whom are you waiting for ?", "The child ! What child ?", "Eh ! you don \u2019 t know ?", "Ha ! Sostrata !", "Pamphilus , your words have reached my ears not otherwise than to my satisfaction , since I find that you postpone all considerations for your parent . But take care , Pamphilus , lest impelled by resentment , you carry matters too far .", "You , woman , I say , who take me to be a stone , not a man . Do you think because it \u2019 s my habit to be so much in the country , that I don \u2019 t know in what way each person is passing his life here ? I know much better what is going on here than there , where I am daily ; for this reason , because , just as you act at home , I am spoken of abroad . Some time since , indeed , I heard that Philumena had taken a dislike to you ; nor did I the least wonder at it ; indeed , if she hadn \u2019 t done so , it would have been more surprising . But I did not suppose that she would have gone so far as to hate even the whole of the family ; if I had known { that }, she should have remained here in preference , { and } you should have gone away . But consider how undeservedly these vexations arise on your account , Sostrata ; I went to live in the country , in compliance with your request , and to look after my affairs , in order that my circumstances might be able to support your lavishness and comforts , not sparing my own exertions , beyond what \u2019 s reasonable and my time of life allows . That you should take no care , in return for all this , that there should be nothing to vex me !", "Do I delay rushing in here ?", "Done for , quite .", "Why , what is it you are trembling about ? Is all quite right ? Tell me .", "Yesterday , hedesired Philumena to be fetched to his house .Say that you desired it .", "SCENE X .", "But he \u2019 ll now send her home again .", "His mother-in-law .", "What was it you said ? How \u2014 not rear it , Pamphilus ? Prithee , are we to expose it , in preference ? What madness is this ? Really , I can not now be silent any longer . For you force me to say in his presencewhat I would rather not . Do you suppose I am in ignorance { of the cause } of your tears , or what it is on account of which you are perplexed to this degree ? In the first place , when you alleged as a reason , that , on account of your mother , you could not have your wife at home , she promised that she would leave the house . Now , since you see this pretext as well taken away from you , because a child has been born without your knowledge , you have got another . You are mistaken if you suppose that I am ignorant of your feelings . That at last you might prevail upon your feelings to take this step , how long a period for loving a mistress did I allow you ! With what patience did I bear the expense you were at in keeping her ! I remonstrated with you and entreated you to take a wife . I said that it was time : by my persuasion you married . What you then did in obedience to me , you did as became you . Now again you have set your fancy upon a mistress , and , to gratify her , you do an injury to the other as well . For I see plainly that you have once more relapsed into the same course of life .", "Why would you have it so ?", "What is it prevents you from effecting it ? Come , now , does she make any complaint against her husband ?", "I waited on you yesterday about your daughter ; you sent me away just as wise as I came . It does not become you , if you wish this alliance to continue , to conceal your resentment . If there is any fault on our side , disclose it ; either by clearing ourselves , or excusing it , we shall remedy these matters for you , yourself the judge . But if this is the cause of detaining her at your house , because she is ill , { then } I think that you do me an injustice , Phidippus , if you are afraid lest she should { not } be attended with sufficient care at my house . But , so may the Gods prosper me , I do not yield in this to you , although you are her father , that you can wish her well more than { I do }, and that on my son \u2019 s account , who I know values her not less than his own self . Nor , in fact , is it unknown to you , how much , { as } I believe , it will vex him , if he comes to knowof this ; for this reason , I wish to have her home before he returns .", "You do ask an absurd question ; whatever happens , send him back his { child } of course , that we may bring it up as ours .", "And look , most opportunely I see Phidippus ; I \u2019 ll presently know from him how it is .Phidippus , although I am aware that I am particularly indulgent to all my family , still it is not to that degree to let my good nature corrupt their minds . And if you would do the same , it would be more for your own interest and ours . At present I see that you are under the control of those { women }.", "Just look at that , now ; you too are getting obstinate and huffish .", "While standing just by here , I have heard , wife , the conversation you have been holding with him . It is true wisdom to be enabled to govern the feelings whenever there is necessity ; to do at the present moment what may perhaps , in the end , be necessary to be done .", "Just let me { speak }: before he was married to this woman , I tolerated your amour . Stay ! I have not yet said to you what I intended . He has now got a wife : look out for another person more to be depended on , while you have time to deliberate ; for neither will he be of this mind all his life , nor , i \u2019 faith , will you be { always } of your present age .", "Death !", "I \u2019 ll \u2014\u2014 But first give me an account of it , whatever it is .", "Leave off talking about yourself . If I live , you hang-dog ,", "My son \u2019 s father-in-law , I see , is coming ; he is bringing a nurse for the child .Phidippus , Bacchis swears most solemnly ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Have you so much leisure , Chremes , from your own affairs , that you can attend to those of others \u2014 those which don \u2019 t concern you ?", "You seem to speak the truth , and just what is the fact .", "He began to rejoice , just like people do who wish to be married .", "Why so ?", "Pshaw !", "When they had gone into { the room }, they shut the door .", "I certainly do want you ; for I shall let you know whatever I do .", "It \u2019 s requisite for me { to do } so ; do you as it is necessary for you to do .", "What ! are you alarmed at it , because he is paying attention to his friend ?", "You have this day found a daughter .", "My son , Clinia , come { home }?", "I do give you leave : is this your desire ?", "You shall know :\u2014 There is a poor old woman here , a stranger from Corinth :\u2014 her daughter , a young woman , he fell in love with , insomuch that he almost regarded her as his wife ; all this { took place } unknown to me . When I discovered the matter , I began to reprove him , not with gentleness , nor in the way suited to the love-sick mind of a youth , but with violence , and after the usual method of fathers . I was daily reproaching him ,\u2014 \u201c Look you , do you expect to be allowed any longer to act thus , myself , your father , being alive ; to be keeping a mistress pretty much as though your wife ? You are mistaken , Clinia , and you don \u2019 t know me , if you fancy that . I am willing that you should be called my { son }, just as long as you do what becomes you ; but if you do not do so , I shall find out how it becomes me to act toward you . This arises from nothing , in fact , but too much idleness . At your time of life , I did not devote my time to dalliance , but , in consequence of my poverty , departed hence for Asia , and there acquired in arms both riches and military glory .\u201d At length the matter came to this ,\u2014 the youth , from hearing the same things so often , and with such severity , was overcome . He supposed that I , through age and affection , had more judgment and foresight for him than himself . He went off to Asia , Chremes , to serve under the king .", "That my son is pretending that he is overjoyed , is it that you mean ?", "How shouldn \u2019 t he ? He was with me .", "Forgive him , Chremes ; do let them prevail upon you .", "Nothing at all .", "I am aware that this must be much more harsh and severe to you , on whom it falls ; but { yet } I take it no less amiss { than you }. How it is so I know not , nor can I account for it , except that from my heart I wish you well .", "Alas ! in vain then , unhappy man , have I been overjoyed ; still however , I had rather any thing than be deprived of him . What answer now shall I report from you , Chremes , so that he may not perceive that I have found it out , and take it to heart ?", "Chremes , you are the very person I wanted ; preserve , so far as in you lies , my son , myself , and my family .", "{ Then } be it so .", "If he { really } is paying it .", "Alone .", "My son ?", "Why , where is he , pray ?", "By no means .", "Still more would you think such to be the fact , if you knew more .", "Give { me your } right hand . I request that you will still act in a like manner , Chremes .", "He \u2019 ll do it all .", "Do leave me alone , that I may give myself no respite from my labor .", "Not in the slightest , Chremes . He was only the more pressing on { this } one point , that the match might be concluded to-day .", "No .", "Do you know what it is I now want you to do ?", "Alas ! alas !", "What evils you will bring upon yourself in this affair , if you don \u2019 t act with caution ! You \u2019 ll show yourself severe , and still pardon him at last ; that too with an ill grace .", "Ah ! that \u2019 s not fair .", "Only listen . In the inner part of my house there is a certain room at the back ; into this a bed was brought , { and } was made up with bed-clothes .", "I will tell you .", "What do you tell { me }, Chremes ? Why surely , this Courtesan , who is at my house , is Clitipho \u2019 s mistress .", "Alone .", "Why not ? That I may be imposed upon the more easily .", "It is my wish .", "Just as you please . What about that which I desire \u2014 that she may be married to my { son }? Unless there is any other step that you would prefer .", "For my part , I wonder at { that }, when you know other things so well . But this same Syrus has moulded your son ,too , to such perfection , that there could not be even the slightest suspicion that she is { Clinia \u2019 s } mistress !", "No sooner said than done , thither went Clitipho .", "See , here he is .", "You are acting as becomes you .", "I can not .", "I \u2019 ll take it upon myself ; he shall do so .", "Well , that \u2019 s what I wanted \u2014", "I \u2019 ll do { so }.", "Come , Chremes , pray , don \u2019 t be so obdurate .", "I remember ."], "true_target": ["Is she at your house ?", "Did you not tell him how I was affected ?", "Every thing .", "Why ?", "What shall I do ?", "When I learned { this } from those who were in the secret , I returned home sad , and with feelings almost overwhelmed and distracted through grief . I sit down ; my servants run to me ; they take off my shoes :then some make all haste to spread the couches ,and to prepare a repast ; each according to his ability did zealously { what he could }, in order to alleviate my sorrow . When I observed this , I began to reflect thus :\u2014 \u201c What ! are so many persons anxious for my sake alone , to pleasure myself only ? Are so many female servants to provide me with dress ?Shall I alone keep up such an expensive establishment , while my only son , who ought equally , or even more so , to enjoy these things \u2014 inasmuch as his age is better suited for the enjoyment of them \u2014 him , poor { youth }, have I driven away from home by my severity ! Were I to do this , really I should deem myself deserving of any calamity . But so long as he leads this life of penury , banished from his country through my severity , I will revenge his wrongs upon myself , toiling , making money , saving , and laying up for him .\u201d At once I set about it ; I left nothing in the house , neither movablesnor clothing ; every thing I scraped together . Slaves , male and female , except those who could easily pay for their keep by working in the country , all of them I set up to auction and sold . I at once put up a bill to sell my house .I collected somewhere about fifteen talents , and purchased this farm ; here I fatigue myself . I have come to this conclusion , Chremes , that I do my son a less injury , while I am unhappy ; and that it is not right for me to enjoy any pleasure here , until such time as he returns home safe to share { it } with me .", "{ It is } for me .", "Let us go . Lead me to him , I beg of you .", "Not to mention , then , their kissing and embracing ; that I count nothing .", "Chremes .", "I can not { help it }: enough already , enough , have I proved a rigorous father .", "Pray , have you heard any thing about my son , Chremes ?", "For what reason , Chremes ?", "Why , really , I can \u2019 t conceive the reason for your doing so .", "Come { home }?", "The very same thing came into my mind .", "Do you wish to know this matter ?", "I am { quite } aware that I am not so overwise , or so very quick-sighted ; but this assistant , prompter , and directorof mine , Chremes , outdoes me in that . Any one of those epithets which are applied to a fool is suited to myself , such as dolt , post , ass ,lump of lead ; to him not one can { apply }; his stupidity surpasses them all .", "Why really , Chremes is treating his son too harshly and too unkindly . I \u2019 m come out , therefore , to make peace { between them }. Most opportunely I see them { both }.", "What portion shall I say that you have named for your daughter ? Why are you silent ?", "Such is the fact , I confess ; the greatest fault is on my side .", "Oh that the Gods would grant it !", "Did they ?", "I \u2019 ll say { so }\u2014 what then ?", "Clinia wishes her to be given him for a wife .", "Why , we would not suffer { it }.", "Why are you laughing ?", "Do you give attention then ?", "I have an only son ,\u2014 a young man ,\u2014 alas ! why did I say \u2014\u201c I have ?\u201d\u2014 rather { I should say }, \u201c I had \u201d { one }, Chremes : \u2014 whether I have him now , or not , is uncertain .", "It is not right that I , who have driven him hence to endure hardships , should now shun them myself .", "Let him do what he will ; let him take , waste , { and } squander ; I \u2019 m determined to endure it , so long as I only have him with me .", "What of him ?", "What is your design ?", "That is it , no doubt ; that money will be given to his mistress .", "Chremes , don \u2019 t be at all afraid { to speak }, if it is but a small one . The portion is no consideration at all with us .", "Assuredly I was either born with a disposition peculiarly suited for misery , or else that { saying } which I hear commonly repeated , that \u201c time assuages human sorrow ,\u201d is false . For really my sorrow about my son increases daily ; and the longer he is away from me , the more anxiously do I wish for him , and the more I miss him .", "That which you said I failed to do : make him sensible that you are his father ; make him venture to intrust every thing to you , to seek and to ask of you ; so that he may look for no other resources and forsake you .", "Such are my deserts .", "It is .", "Bacchis followed directly .", "For you to talk in that manner ! Is it not a shame for you to be giving advice to others , to show wisdom abroad { and yet } be able to do nothing for yourself ?", "What persons do you say are lingering ?", "What scheme are you upon ?", "I say so .", "Pray do .Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! That the nature of all men should be so constituted , that they can see and judge of other men \u2019 s affairs better than their own ! Is it because in our own concerns we are biased either with joy or grief in too great a degree ? How much wiser now is he for me , than I { have been } for myself ! Re-enter CHREMES .", "Let me go on ; I have { now } begun : assist me in this throughout ,", "No , I tell you .", "And you { the same }.", "ACT THE FIFTH .", "Can you not contain yourself ? Have you no respect for yourself ? Am I not a sufficient example to you ?", "He departed without my knowledge \u2014 { and } has been gone these three months .", "As you have perceived that they are laying a plan to deceive me , that they may hasten to complete it . I long to give him whatever he wants : I am now longing to behold him .", "My son , I now think myself the happiest of all men , since I find that you have returned to a rational mode of life ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I \u2019 m ruined !", "Don \u2019 t you hear , Clinia ? Your mistress is close at hand .", "Where am I to go ?", "Do you know that he has a son ?", "Plague on it , what roundabout story is he beginning to tell me ?", "Ha ! What ! Bacchis ? How now , you rascal ! whither are you bringing her ?", "Syrus , I say !", "What \u2019 s the matter ? Why , what is it that troubles you ?", "What { hope }?", "At our house .", "Take care what you do ; there is no necessity , father , { for doing so }.", "Why there ?", "But only for a moment , pray .", "I am .", "Stuff ! I see no grounds sufficiently solid why it should be for my advantage to incur this risk .", "Look { now }; are you seeking to gain credit for yourself , at the hazard of my character , you rascal , in a point , where , if you only make the slightest slip , I am ruined ? What would you be doing with her ?", "Would I were dead !", "Perhaps you are joking with me .", "Do you know this neighbor of ours , Menedemus ?", "Upon his arrival , after he had { just } landed from the ship , I immediately brought him to dine with us ; for from our very childhood upward I have always been on intimate terms with him .", "If , indeed , this could be brought about \u2014", "What , Syrus ?", "Take courage . Look , here comes Dromo , together with Syrus : they are close at hand .", "I believe so .", "Why \u201c still ?\u201d", "Oh ! now at last I understand you .", "I want you to pardon Syrus for what he has done for my sake .", "Do you ask me ?", "This is not the language of a parent .", "I \u2019 faith , that \u2019 s true .Syrus , Syrus , I say , harkye , harkye , Syrus !", "But he has { full } confidence in me , father , that I would not do any thing of that kind .", "Prithee , is it really the fact , Menedemus , that my father can , in so short a space { of time }, have cast off all the { natural } affection of a parent for me ? For what crime ? What so great enormity have I , to my misfortune , committed ? { Young men } generally do { the same }.", "May I not go near them ?", "Here comes my father , whom I wished { to see }: I \u2019 ll accost him . Father , you have met me opportunely .", "Make haste , { then }.", "Father \u2014\u2014", "Well , well , disclose this project of yours . What is it ?", "There is nothing , Clinia , for you to fear as yet : they have not been long by any means : and I am sure that she will be with you presently along with the messenger . Do at once dismiss these causeless apprehensions which are tormenting you .", "Why , because he is as yet undetermined what to do with himself . He is but just arrived . He fears every thing ; his father \u2019 s displeasure , and how his mistress may be disposed toward him . He loves her to distraction : on her account , this trouble and going abroad took place .", "You do prate away . \u2014 Where from ?", "Do , pray , take care that no one coming out of your father \u2019 s house sees you here by accident .", "Hold your tongue , I beg .", "Do let me .", "What { does } he { say }? That he is wretched .", "I \u2019 m undone !", "I \u2019 m utterly undone !", "Where then ?", "If there ever was any time , mother , when I caused you pleasure , being called your son by your own desire , I beseech you to remember it , and now to take compassion on me in my distress . A thing I beg and request \u2014 do discover to me my parents .", "Syrus , tell { me }, in my turn , who this other lady is .", "Oh , the audacious impudence of the fellow !", "It \u2019 s very probable .", "Father , this now remains .", "Do you persist , then ?", "Indeed , then , I am a lucky man . Syrus , I do love you from my heart .", "Only tell me the truth , Syrus .", "Do you persist in making up your mind upon that , before you know what is the fact ?"], "true_target": ["What am I to do now ?", "O happy man !", "He has just sent a servant into the city to her , and I { ordered } our Syrus { to go } with him .", "Pray , who is the other one ?", "But this I wonder at , how you could so easily prevail upon her , who is wont to treat such { great people }with scorn .", "How \u2019 s that , Syrus ? Are you quite in your senses ?", "Did not you say that my father was waiting here ?", "Where are they ?Why do you hold me back ?", "I \u2019 m off . { But } what \u2019 s he { to do }?", "She \u2019 ll be here presently .", "Father , I entreat you to forgive me .", "You give good advice ; I \u2019 ll do so .", "Why no \u2014 since I must marry , I myself have one that I should pretty nearly make choice of .", "What ?", "I know it , before my father ; but now in the mean time \u2014", "Ah me !", "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance . As this walk of mine , for instance , though not fatiguing , it has reduced me to weariness . And now I dread nothing more than that I should be packed off somewhere hence once again , that I may not have access to Bacchis . May then all the Gods and Goddesses , as many as exist , confound you , Syrus , with these stratagems and plots of yours . You are always devising something of this kind , by means of which to torture me .", "Has it then come to this pass , Syrus \u2014 that I am to be in danger even of starving ?", "He is not { in Asia }, father ; he is at our house .", "Here am I .", "The daughter of Archonides { here }.", "Aye , but he always was a morose old man ; and now I dread nothing more , father , than that in his displeasure he \u2019 ll be doing something to him more than is justifiable .", "I do not think { so }.", "You don \u2019 t consider that it is a great way from here .Besides , you know the ways of women , while they are bestirring themselves , { and } while they are making preparations a { whole } year passes by .", "I \u2019 ll do it , father .", "If this is true , Clinia , as I believe it is , who is there more fortunate than you ? Do you mark this { girl } whom he speaks of , as dirty and drabbish ? This , too , is a strong indication that the mistress is out of harm \u2019 s way , when her confidant is in such ill plight ; for it is a rule with those who wish to gain access to the mistress , first to bribe the maid .", "Find out something of that description , I beseech you .", "You say true ; what then shall I now do , Syrus ?", "What have I done ?", "Upon my faith , I wish it had been { so }; just what you deserve .", "Very well , give it me .", "If you desire me to live , father , do forgive me .", "\u2019 Tis with good reason that I love you , Clinia .", "What then would you have me to say to you ? You \u2019 ve made a fool of me ; brought my mistress hither , whom I \u2019 m not allowed to touch \u2014\u2014", "What , I ?", "What ! to my father \u2019 s ?", "Very fine ! Tell me , what is he to do with his own ? Is she , too , to be called his , as if one was not a sufficient discredit ?", "You shall have to commend { me }.", "You yourself shall be surprised at me .", "Take a walk ! where ?", "What { propensities }?", "What is it , then ?", "I give him leave { then }.", "But I was sure that there was no reason , Clinia . Come now ,", "Only to salute her .", "Clinia !", "Do you jest in a matter so serious , and not give me any assistance with your advice ?", "Alas ! how thoroughly displeased I now am with myself ! How much ashamed ! nor do I know how to make a beginning to pacify him .", "What is it you are saying to yourself !", "Come back , come back .", "Nay , Syrus , I commit myself , and my love , and { my } reputation { entirely } to you : you are the seducer ; take care you don \u2019 t deserve any blame .", "Ha ! what was it you said ?", "What partial judges are all fathers in regard to all { of us } young men , in thinking it reasonable for us to become old men all at once from boys , and not to participate in those things which youth is { naturally } inclined to . They regulate us by their own desires ,\u2014 such as they now are ,\u2014 not as they once were . If ever I have a son , he certainly shall find in me an indulgent father . For the means both of knowing and of pardoninghis faults shall be found { by me }; not like mine , who by means of another person , discloses to me his own sentiments . I \u2019 m plagued to death ,\u2014 when he drinks a little more { than usual }, what pranks of his own he does relate to me ! Now he says , \u201c Take warning from others of what may be to your advantage .\u201d How shrewd ! He certainly does not know how deaf I am at the moment when he \u2019 s telling his stories . Just now , the words of my mistress make more impression upon me . \u201c Give me { this }, and bring me { that },\u201d { she cries }; I have nothing to say to her in answer , and no one is there more wretched than myself . But this Clinia , although he , as well , has cares enough of his own , still has { a mistress } of virtuous and modest breeding , and a stranger to the arts of a courtesan . Mine is a craving , saucy , haughty , extravagant { creature }, full of lofty airs . Then { all } that I have to give her is \u2014 fair words\u2014 for I make it a point not to tell her that I have nothing . This misfortune I met with not long since , nor does my father as yet know { any thing of the matter }. ( Exit .", "Father , I \u2019 ll do any thing ; command me .", "May the Gods extirpate you , Syrus , for thrusting me away from here .", "What ! that red-haired girl , with cat \u2019 s eyes , freckled face ,{ and } hooked nose ? I can not , father ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["But still , Syrus , nothing can make more against my marriage than this ; for with what face am I to address my father { about it }? You understand what I mean ?", "Upon my faith , he ought to have a hearing .Do be silent .", "But yet , by these means you again cut off all hopes of my marriage ; for as long as { Chremes } believes that she is my mistress , he \u2019 ll not give me his daughter . Perhaps you care little what becomes of me , so long as you provide for him .", "How so , prithee ? For nothing in the world could I rather wish for just now , than that I have suspected this without reason .", "What can I say ? What excuse can I make ?", "Why yes , I do hear now at last , and I see and revive , Clitipho .", "Had no misfortune happened , she would have been here by this .", "We are blest with the life of the Gods .", "O Jupiter !", "How fare you , { my love }?", "I will .", "When will that presently be ?", "Alas ! wretched me !", "Ah me !", "I will do { so }; but really my mind presages I know not what misfortune .", "And , so may the Gods prosper me , I do not now rejoice so much on my own account as hers , whom I know to be deserving of any honor .", "Is that sufficient ? If his father should come to know of it , pray , what then ?", "Syrus , I can scarce endure it !Wretch that I am , that I should not be allowed to possess one of such a disposition at my own discretion !", "Did you { ever } hear of any thing falling out so fortunately for any one ?", "What is it you say ?", "O Clitipho , I \u2019 m afraid \u2014", "I beseech you .", "Do give him leave .", "Blessings on you , my life !", "Ah ! \u2019 tis for that reason , my Antiphila , that you alone have now caused me to return to my native country ; for while I was absent from you , all { other } hardships which I encountered were light to me , save the being deprived of you ."], "true_target": ["Woe unto wretched me ! \u2014 from what high hopes am I fallen !", "The Gods provide , enjoy while { yet } you may ; for you know not \u2014", "Well , well ; let Bacchis be brought over { to our house }.", "Do you ask what it is ? Why , don \u2019 t you see ? Attendants , jewels of gold , { and } clothes , her { too }, whom I left here with { only } one little servant girl . Whence do you suppose that they come ?", "I \u2019 m afraid to go about it .", "Syrus , he says what \u2019 s right \u2014 do omit { digressions }; come to the point .", "O my { dear } Syrus , have you heard of it , pray ?", "My { dear } Syrus , do not without cause throw me into ecstasies ,", "What can I do ? My { dear } Syrus , I \u2019 m transported with joy ! Do bear with me .", "What are you { to do }? The goods that \u2014", "Nothing can possibly henceforth befall me of such consequence as to cause { me } uneasiness ; so extreme is this joy that has surprised me . Now then I shall give myself up entirely to my father , to be more frugal than { even } he could wish .", "She promises you very fairly .", "Oh Jupiter ! Why , where is fidelity { gone }? While I , distractedly wandering , have abandoned my country for your sake , you , in the mean time , Antiphila , have been enriching yourself , and have forsaken me in these troubles , { you } for whose sake I am in extreme disgrace , and have been disobedient to my father ; on whose account I am now ashamed and grieved , that he who used to lecture me about the manners of these women , advised me in vain , and was not able to wean me away from her :\u2014 which , however , I shall now do ; { whereas } when it might have been advantageous to me { to do so }, I was unwilling . There is no being more wretched than I .", "If my love-affairs had been prosperous for me , I am sure she would have been here by this ; but I \u2019 m afraid that the damsel has been led astray here in my absence . Many things combine to strengthen this opinion in my mind ; opportunity , the place , her age , a worthless mother , under whose control she is , with whom nothing but gain is precious .", "Speak ; I hear you .", "Go on , I beseech you ; and beware of endeavoring to purchase favor by telling an untruth . What did she say , when you mentioned me ?", "What ? Are you quite in your senses or sober ? Why , you were for ruining him outright . For how could he be in a state of security ? Tell me { that }.", "Whether you may have another opportunity hereafter or ever again .", "You require a thing that is fair and reasonable , and easy to be done . And I suppose , then , you would have me request my father to keep it a secret from your old man .", "I \u2019 m undone ! Whence come these female attendants ?", "You may rest assured I \u2019 ll do so . The matter has now come to that pass , that it is a case of necessity .", "But she mustn \u2019 t be tripping at all .", "My Antiphila will be mine .", "So may the Deities bless me , I know not where I am for joy ! I was so alarmed { before }.", "And do I embrace you , Antiphila , { so } passionately longed for by my soul ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["She wants you , see what it is she wants ; she is in a serious mood , I don \u2019 t know why ; it is not without a cause \u2014 I fear what it may be .", "Bid { him } go somewhere { out of the way }.", "Upon my honor , I have not the leisure to listen to you just at present : I have got some fish just to my taste , { and } must take care they are not spoiled ; for that would be as much a crime in me , as for you , Demea , not to observe those maxims which you have just been mentioning ; and so far as I can , I lay down precepts for my fellow-servants on the very same plan ; \u201c this is { too } salt , that is quite burned up , this is not washed enough , that is { very } well done ; remember { and do } so another time .\u201d I carefully instruct them so far as I can to the best of my capacity . In short , Demea , I bid them look into their sauce-pans as though into a mirror ,and suggest to them what they ought to do . I am sensible these things are trifling which we do ; but what is one to do ? According as the man is , so must you humor him . Do you wish any thing else ?", "She is soliciting Clinia at once to advance her this { money }; she says , however , that this { girl } is to be a security , that , at a future time , she will repay the thousand pieces of money .", "What are you about ? Whither are you going ?", "What is it he is saying ?", "Capital ! she is coming out of doors .", "He certainly has been misled by our words which we have been speaking here .Clinia , you imagine your mistress quite different from what she really is . For both her mode of life is the same , and her disposition toward you is the same as it { always } was ; so far as we could form a judgment from the circumstances themselves .", "Hold now ; are you spouting your sage maxims here ?", "At Clinia \u2019 s .", "Yes .", "You only be off in-doors , I \u2019 ll see to that .", "If , indeed ? You shall know { it } by experience .", "But do you think she is in jest ? She \u2019 ll do it , if I don \u2019 t take care .", "Really , I wish I hadn \u2019 t come out .", "He is not .", "Good Gods ! what a multitude there is ! Our house will hardly hold them , I \u2019 m sure . How much they will eat ! how much they will drink ! what will there be more wretched than our old gentleman ?But look , I espy the persons I was wanting .", "What { am I to do }?", "Stay ; if there is this risk , I have another { project }, which you must both confess to be free from danger .", "By all means ; I \u2019 ll go meet her , { and } tell her to return home .", "{ Then } you \u2019 ll never make a fortune . Get out with you , Sannio ; you don \u2019 t know how to take in mankind .", "I \u2019 m taking pains to no purpose , I doubt .", "Whither { am I bringing } her ? To our house , to be sure .", "That we shall be hungry enough .", "I \u2019 m undone ! I see more hopes{ from this incident } than I desire . If it is so , she { certainly } must be ours .", "He is alarmed . I \u2019 ve brought the fellow into a fix .", "Well \u2014 are you aware of what I tell you ? To slight money on some occasions is sometimes the surest gain . What ! \u2014 were you afraid , you greatest simpleton alive , if you had parted with ever so littleof your right , and had humored the young man , that he would not repay you with interest ?", "For what should you do here , where , if you do give any good precepts , no one will regard them ?", "Whether he says this in jest or in earnest , I don \u2019 t know ; only , in fact , that he gives me additional zest for longing still more { to trick } him .", "I did ; but he afterward came back , raving like a madman ; he spared nobody \u2014 ought he not to have been ashamed to beat an old man ? Him whom , only the other day , I used to carry about in my arms when thus high ?", "O dear , you are { so } dull .", "I \u2019 ve been wishing for some time for you to be thrown in my way .", "Quite right .", "She has brought her hither along with her , her { I mean } who is now with your wife .", "What is your design ?", "You must now go over to the house of Menedemus , and your equipage must be taken over thither .", "I have a good reason .", "I wasn \u2019 t mistaken ; she has been discovered , so far as I understand from these words of his .I am rejoiced that this matter has turned out for you so much to your wish .", "But { your } father \u2019 s coming out . Take care not to express surprise at any thing , for what reason it is done ; give way at the proper moment ; do what he orders , { and } say but little . SCENE VII .", "On my word , not I , indeed ; I am telling the truth .", "Master , may I be allowed \u2014\u2014?", "Why , the money \u2019 s ready .", "I \u2019 faith , and I trust so too : nor do I say so now , because I have suspected him in any way ; but in case , none the more\u2014 You see what his age is ;and truly , Chremes ,if an occasion does happen , I may be able to handle you right handsomely .", "Deserve ? How so ? Really , I \u2019 m glad that I \u2019 ve heard this from you before you had the money which I was just going to give you .", "The wolf in the fable\u2014\u2014", "It \u2019 s all up with us \u2014 I \u2019 m utterly undone !", "This excuse portends I know not what offense .", "Do you { still } interrupt me thus ?", "He gives ground .I have this one { proposal to make }; see if you fully approve of it . Rather than you should run the risk , Sannio , of getting or losing the whole , halve it . He will manage to scrape together ten min\u00e6from some quarter or other .", "Strange , indeed ! He had the means at home of learning them .", "Upon my word , I will repay it ; only lend it me .", "For the present she is nothing to you .", "An imprudent lenity in his father , and a vicious indulgence .", "I \u2019 faith , I \u2019 m saying the truth , as it appears { to me }.", "I \u2019 ll rid you at once of all fears , so that you may sleep at your ease upon either ear .", "All right . Really , I am quite surprised at you , Chremes , up so early , after drinking so much yesterday .", "Can you not be quiet ?", "He loves to hear you praised : I make a god of you to him , { and } recount your virtues .", "For my part , I yield the palm to this device . Here I do pride myself exultingly , in having in myself such exquisite resources , and power of address so great , as to deceive them both by telling the truth : so that when your old man tells ours that she is his son \u2019 s mistress , he \u2019 ll still not believe him .", "I will not let you , I tell you .", "The old woman was spinning the woof :there was one little servant girl besides ;\u2014 she was weavingtogether with them , covered with patched clothes , slovenly , { and } dirty with filthiness .", "But now , master , he must be looked after by you .", "I believe it .", "Then do you for the future keep those hands { of yours } within bounds .Really { now }, what do you think ? What do you imagine will become of him next , unless , so far as the Gods afford you the means , you watch him , correct { and } admonish him ?", "{ I do say } so .", "Unless my fancy deceives me ,retributionwill not be very , far off from me ; so much by this incident are my forces now utterly driven into straits ; unless I contrive by some means that the old man mayn \u2019 t come to know that this { damsel } is his son \u2019 s mistress . For as to entertaining any hopes about the money , or supposing I could cajole him , it \u2019 s useless ; I shall be { sufficiently } triumphant , if I \u2019 m allowed to escape with my sides covered .I \u2019 m vexed that such a { tempting } morsel has been so suddenly snatched away from my jaws . What am I to do ? Or what shall I devise ? I must begin upon my plan over again . Nothing is so difficult , but that it may be found out by seeking . What now if I set about it after this fashion .That \u2019 s of no use . What , if after this fashion ? I effect just about the same . But this I think will do . It can not . Yes ! excellent . Bravo ! I \u2019 ve found out the best of all \u2014 I \u2019 faith , I do believe that after all I shall lay hold of this same runaway money .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "He commended his son . To me , who put them upon this project , he gave thanks \u2014\u2014", "Go , by all means . I \u2019 ll work you to day , { you } skeleton ,as you deserve . \u00c6schinus loiters intolerably ; the breakfast \u2019 s spoiling ; and as for Ctesipho , he \u2019 s head and ears in love .I shall now think of myself , for I \u2019 ll be off at once , and pick out the very nicest bit , and , leisurely sipping my cups ,I \u2019 ll lengthen out the day .", "What the plague do you talk to me about , \u201c good sir \u201d? I \u2019 m quite distracted !", "It shall be done : some other { method } must be thought of ; but as to what I was telling you of ,\u2014 about the money which she owes to Bacchis ,\u2014 that must now be repaid her . And you will not , of course , now be having recourse to this method ; \u201c What have I to do with it ? Was it lent to me ? Did I give any orders ? Had she the power to pawn my daughter without my consent ?\u201d They quote that saying , Chremes , with good reason , \u201c Rigorous lawis often rigorous injustice .\u201d", "Do you say so ?", "I imagined { so }.", "I forbid it .", "She is { now } dead : she has left a daughter , a young girl . She has been left with this { Bacchis } as a pledge for that sum .", "Go through that \u2014", "Let us be off , for he is in haste for Cyprus .", "He will stay { here }.", "Where I am to get my subsistence ; he has so utterly cast us adrift . You are to have it , for the present , at your sister \u2019 s , I find .", "Well .", "No \u2014 she shall be taken to your mother .", "I came to her at the { proper } moment , which in all things is of the first importance : for there I found a certain wretched captain soliciting her favors : she artfully managed the man , so as to inflame his eager passions by denial ; and this , too , that it might be especially pleasing to yourself . But hark you , take care , will you , not to be imprudently impetuous . You know your father , how quick-sighted he is in these matters ; and I know you , how unable you are to command yourself . Keep clear of words of double meaning ,your sidelong looks , sighing , hemming , coughing , tittering .", "Hark you , Demea , your brother begs you will not go out of the way .", "What is she going to be at ?", "He warms { a little }.What is it you want ?", "Quite right .", "O my { dear } Demea ! upon my word , you are a worthy man ! I have strictly taken care of both these { sons } of yours , from childhood ; I have taught , advised , { and } carefully instructed them in every thing I could .", "Really I can not hold my tongue . Clitipho , you are every way unjust , and can not possibly be endured .", "I \u2019 m ruined irrevocably ! \u2014 Of what mischief have I , wretch that I am , unthinkingly been the cause ?", "Well now , what is it ?", "For what reason ? What have I done ?", "Now will you hold your tongue ? I \u2019 ll take care .", "Run to and fro in every direction ; still , money , you must be found : a trap must be laid for the old man .", "His own self .", "Be of good heart ; you shall presently carry to her the money that you promised her .", "Not { too much }, say you ? Really , you \u2019 ve seen the old age of an eagle ,as the saying is .", "Pshaw ! Just as if there was no place { to walk in }. Why , then , go this way , that way , where you will .", "What , your son ?I \u2019 ll pack him off into the country .I fancy he \u2019 s busy at the farm long before this .", "Why yes , pretty fair . But listen , what a piece of policy still remains . He is then to say that he has seen your daughter \u2014 that her beauty charmed him as soon as he beheld her ; { and } that he desires her for a wife .", "O no ; I \u2019 m only going to give you what \u2019 s your own .", "Very much so , to be beating a poor woman , and me , a slave , who didn \u2019 t dare strike him in return ; heyday ! very spirited indeed !", "Upon my faith , I \u2019 m ruined ! Bacchis , stay , stay ; prithee , where are you sending her ? Order her to stop .", "He is at the farm at this very moment ,I warrant \u2014 hard at some work or other .", "Why so ?", "Do you suppose that he is so angry on account of this fault ?", "Ha !", "Because it will seem to be more like probability when he gives it her ; and at the same time I shall effect more easily what I wish . Here he comes too ; go , { and } bring out the money .", "If you are wise , get you gone .", "Such is the fact , { I \u2019 m sure }: my young master has gained a lossin consequence .", "This must be seen to , I say , that your friend \u2019 s business as well is placed in a state of security . For if you now go away from us , and leave Bacchis here , our { old man } will immediately come to know that she is Clitipho \u2019 s mistress ; if you take her away { with you }, it will be concealed just as much as it has been hitherto concealed .", "He shall pay it all ; only hold your tongue and follow { us } this way .", "I \u2019 ve told him pretty well every thing .", "No one ; for not a single one of them , rest assured , comes to you without making up his mind , by means of his flatteries , to gratify his passion with you at the least possible expense . Will you not , pray , plot against them in return ?", "Follow this way .Ho there ! Dromo .", "Really , upon my faith , no person can stay here , if this is to be the case ! For my part , I should like to know how many masters I have \u2014 what a cursed condition this is !", "He is a stupid fellow .", "What is it you say ? Do speak more agreeably to our wishes .", "Not a bit the more .", "Nay , I don \u2019 t want you to dissemble ; tell him the whole case just as it really is .", "Your Bacchis , { whom } we are bringing .", "And extremely angry too .", "From your own father .", "You will be going off into the country , { I suppose }?", "And it will be given you presently .", "You are { surely } joking .", "He told down the money instantly , { and } gave me half a mina besides to spend . That was laid out quite to my liking .", "And the first to suckle your grandchild , his son , today", "Your own fault .", "That \u2019 s the thing .", "In real .", "He has given some couches to be made , with oaken legs , for use in the open air .", "No .", "If you are wise ,\u2014 for now he minds me less and less { every day }.", "You have been engaged with them .", "I \u2019 m amused at him ; he says that he is the first to know of { every thing , while } he is the only one ignorant of every thing .", "But still you \u2019 ll not mind it .", "You wish to indulge in your amours ; you wish to possess { your mistress }; you wish that to be procured wherewithal to make her presents ; in getting { this }, you do not wish the risk to be your own . You are not wise to no purpose ,\u2014 if indeed it is being wise to wish for that which can not happen . Either the one must be had with the other , or the one must be let alone with the other . Now , of these two alternatives , consider which one you would prefer ; although this project which I have formed , I know to be both a wise and a safe one . For there is an opportunity for your mistress to be with you at your father \u2019 s house , without fear { of a discovery }; besides , by these self-same means , I shall find the money which you have promised her \u2014 to effect which , you have already made my ears deaf with entreating me . What would you have more ?", "When we told her that you had returned , and had requested her to come to you , the damsel instantly put away the web , and covered her face all over with tears ; so that you might easily perceive that it really was caused by her affection for you .", "Come , come , I know your spirit ; as if twenty min\u00e6 were any thing at all to you in comparison to obliging him ; besides , they say that you are setting out for Cyprus \u2014\u2014", "Don \u2019 t , I tell you .", "Never .", "Do you ask the question ? Ctesipho has been beating me , poor wretch , and that Music-girl , almost to death .", "O most worthy man !", "Demea , in particular .", "Do so , still I \u2019 ll get rid of him .", "I believe so ; such is his madness !", "And really of handsome appearance .", "She is thoroughly tutored in her part .", "Do be quiet .", "It is this \u2014 I think that you are not their { son }.", "We just now told the old gentleman the whole affair just as it happened ; I never did see any one more delighted .", "On the contrary ; to tell him directly the matter just as it is .", "It \u2019 s not without a purpose .", "But why ?", "Therefore , for that very reason , I earnestly both advise and entreat you to take pity upon no one , but plunder , fleece , { and } rend every man you lay hold of ."], "true_target": ["Just as you please . Have you any thing more to say before I go ?", "Tell me , please , { what you think of it }.", "Take yourself off . ( Exit CLITIPHO .", "On the contrary , I \u2019 m both now thinking of that , and have been about it all the time your father was speaking just now ; and so far as I can perceive \u2014\u2014", "Will you not away with you \u2014 to where you deserve ? How nearly had your forwardness proved my ruin !", "I \u2019 faith , I really do bear with you .", "It may .", "The same ; and , in fact , he \u2019 ll request that she may be asked for .", "That shall not happen , be of good heart ; meanwhile enjoy yourself in-doors with her , and onder the couchesto be spread for us , and the other things to be got ready . As soon as { this } business is settled , I shall come home with the provisions .", "Just so .", "But for my part , Chremes , I take it well and good , { either way }.", "This Courtesan is a very bad woman .", "Why , really silly enough , and , to speak without disguise , { altogether } absurd .Dromo , clean the rest of the fish ; let the largest conger-eel play a little in the water ; when I come { back } it shall be boned ;not before .", "I \u2019 ll tell you what \u2019 s { come } into my mind ; be you the judge . While they had you alone , while they had no other source of joy more nearly to affect them , they indulged you , they lavished upon you . Now a daughter has been found , a pretense has been found in fact on which to turn you adrift .", "{ Why } delay to accost him ?", "Upon my faith , my dear little Syrus , you have taken delicate care of yourself , and have done your dutywith exquisite taste ; be off with you . But since I \u2019 ve had my fill of every thing in-doors , I have felt disposed to take a walk .", "I \u2019 faith , that \u2019 s true ; dear , dear , would you take me to be in my senses ?I made a mistake . Return to the portico ; indeed that will be a much nearer way , and there is less going round about : you know the house of Cratinus , the rich man ?", "Just as you please . I don \u2019 t mean that in reality you should give her to him , but that you should pretend it .", "You mean the design { upon Menedemus }? I have ; I have just hit upon one .", "Stop , stop ; what is the reason that there is such a great noise at our door ?ACT THE FOURTH .", "As for myself , it isn \u2019 t to my taste , and I often exclaim { against it }.Stephanio , take care that the salt fish is well soaked .", "\u201c By this you are not squandering your money { only }, but your reputation .\u201d", "To the very same .", "Confusion ! He \u2019 ll be betraying himself before I \u2019 ve got the money .Chremes , will you give attention to me , who am but a silly person ?", "Yours ; immediately the tears fall from him as from a child , for { very } joy .Hah ! take care \u2014\u2014", "\u2019 Tis not my way to tell an untruth .", "Go straight along , right up that street ; when you come there , there is a descent right opposite that goes downward , go straight down that ; afterward , on this side, there is a chapel : close by it is a narrow lane , where there \u2019 s also a great wild fig-tree .", "What ! unfair to take revenge on your enemies ? or , for them to be caught in the very way they try to catch you ? Alas ! wretched me ! why do not your age and beauty belong to me , or else these sentiments { of mine } to you ?", "By my troth , good-morrow , Parmeno .", "Follow me this way directly .You in the mean while will wait here for us till we return ; for there \u2019 s no occasion for us to stay there long .", "The thing itself will prove it .", "It has been done as you ordered , Demea .", "Ask no questions . Let them take what they brought here with them . The old gentleman will hope his expenses are lightened by their departure ; for sure he little knows how much loss this trifling gain will bring him . You , Dromo , if you are wise , know nothing of what you do know .", "This affair is now just as though when \u2014", "Oh dear , he didn \u2019 t at all mince the matter ; for just as the money was being counted out , the gentleman came upon us by chance , { and } began exclaiming , \u201c Oh \u00c6schinus , that you should perpetrate these enormities ! that you should be guilty of actions { so } disgraceful to our family !\u201d", "Take over all the attendants of Bacchis to your house here immediately .", "How now \u2014 pray , do you commend { servants }, who deceive their masters ?", "Say no more ; I myself will arrange with him ; I \u2019 ll make him glad to take the money at once , and say besides that he has been fairly dealt with .Sannio , how is this , that I hear you have been having some dispute or other with my master ?", "Take care of that , please .", "Dear me , how much I do wish it was the custom for one to be engaged with friends at night as well ! But you be easy ; I know his humor perfectly well . When he raves the most violently , I can make him as gentle as a lamb .", "Here I am ; tell me what you would have . You \u2019 ll be presently saying that this , too , doesn \u2019 t please you .", "I believe it : but now , Clinia , come , attend to me in my turn . For your friend \u2019 s business as well ,\u2014 it must be seen to \u2014 that it is placed in a state of security , lest the old gentleman should now { come to know } any thing about his mistress .", "It is ridiculous for you to give me that caution , Clitipho , as if my interest was less at stake in this affair than yours . Here , if any ill luck should perchance befall us , words will be in readiness for you , { but } for this individual blowsFor that reason , this matter is by no means to be neglected on my part : but do prevail upon himto pretend that she is his own { mistress }.", "Go in-doors ; for the old gentleman has been waiting for us some time .ACT THE THIRD .", "O Ctesipho !", "A pleasant and agreeable woman this Courtesan .", "Never on any occasion did I hear my master talk more to the purpose ; nor { at any time } could I believe that I was authorized to play the rogue with greater impunity . I wonder who it is coming out of our house ?", "He says that she was bought by my advice .", "What , I ? I shall go to Menedemus ; I \u2019 ll tell him she is a captive from Caria , rich , and of noble family ; if he redeems her , there will be a considerable profit in this transaction .", "What if I have recourse to those who say , \u201c What now if the sky were to fall ?\u201d", "\u2019 Tis the very same . It \u2019 s a wonder if she isn \u2019 t found , and I lost .", "Why not ?", "What ! \u2014 when I saw him part of the way { myself }\u2014\u2014", "Say \u2014 here I am .", "Syrus ! I was sadly afraid for you .", "We will pretend that your mistress is his", "Stay ; what I have begun I wish first to relate . Clitipho ; I shall come to that afterward .", "I thank you .", "Clitipho , these same injunctions I gave you . You have acted the part of a prudent and discreet person .", "Who ?", "He \u2019 s gone . I wish I had asked him \u2014\u2014", "Why , because the suspicion of being in love with her has been transferred to him { with Menedemus }.", "Aye , see how he has cut my lip .", "But hark you ! Just take care and remember this , in case any thing of this sort should perchance happen at a future time , such are human affairs ! \u2014 your son might do { the same }.", "I can \u2019 t tell the person \u2019 s name { he \u2019 s gone to }, but I know the place where he lives .", "What injustice or what madness is this , that that in which I have offended , should be to his detriment ?", "Question them on this suspicion ; mention the matter without reserve ; either , if it is not true , you \u2019 ll soon bring them both to compassion , or else you \u2019 ll { soon } find out whose son you are .", "Well \u2014", "It will not be wanting long .", "I believe it ; and not without reason . Why , he vexes myself even .", "On the contrary , though others were at liberty , you are not at liberty ; all think that you are in good and very easy circumstances .", "What the plague , do you suppose I want this pretense to be kept up for an age ? \u2019 Tis but for a single day , { only } till I have secured the money : you be quiet ; { I ask } no more .", "So be it , and any thing still better than that ,if possible .", "Why , you would be a rich man , Demea , and improve your estate .", "He attacked his brother in the Forum with strong language about this Music-girl .", "You , afraid ! As if it was not in your power to clear yourself at any time you like , { and } discover the { whole } matter .", "O Demea ! that is wisdom { indeed },\u2014 not only to look at the present moment , but also to look forward to what \u2019 s to come .", "What was he to do ?", "When you have passed that , keep straight along that street on the left hand ;when you come to the Temple of Diana , turn to the right ; before you come to the { city } gate ,just by that pond , there is a baker \u2019 s shop , and opposite to it a joiner \u2019 s ; there he is .", "This , in the first place , { then }; the old woman , who was formerly said to be her mother , was not { so }. \u2014 She is dead : this I overheard by accident from her , as we came along , while she was telling the other one .", "Extremely good .", "Heyday !", "It shall be paid , don \u2019 t fear .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "Dear me , is it to be doubted ? I think so .", "It would be tedious , Clitipho , if I were to tell you why I do so ;", "As to what we were talking of a short time since ? No sooner said than done .", "Who \u2019 s that speaking ?I \u2019 m undone ! Did he hear it , I wonder ?", "Demea ! between you there is a great \u2014 I do not say it because you are here present \u2014 a too great difference . You are , every bit of you , nothing but wisdom ; he a { mere } dreamer . Would you indeed have suffered that son of yours to act thus ?", "I believe you . I wish that this joy were made complete \u2014 that I could see my wife , Phrygia ,free as well .", "Stay , stay ; \u2019 tis { \u00c6schinus } himself coming out .", "Clinia has told Menedemus , that this Bacchis is your Clitipho \u2019 s mistress , and that { he } has taken her thither with him in order that you might not come to know of it .", "But if you knew how cleverly it came into my head \u2014\u2014", "He is not .", "Money will be given him for the wedding \u2014 with which golden trinkets and clothes \u2014\u2014 do you understand me ?", "\u2019 Tis the truth .", "Nay , do be of good heart .", "I \u2019 ll tell { you }; but , as one matter arises , out of another \u2014\u2014", "I bid you { do this ; tell him } that you are in love with her , and want her for a wife : that this { Bacchis } is Clitipho \u2019 s { mistress }.", "Very well .", "{ Well }, I \u2019 m not angry then . But do you know where Bacchis is just now ?", "First of all , then , when we came to the house , Dromo knocked at the door ; a certain old woman came out ; when she opened the door , he directly rushed in ; I followed ; the old woman bolted the door , { and } returned to her wool . On this occasion might be known , Clinia , or else on none , in what pursuits she passed her life during your absence ; when we { thus } came upon a female unexpectedly . For this circumstance then gave { us an } opportunity of judging of the course of her daily life ; { a thing } which especially discovers what is the disposition of each individual . We found her industriously plying at the web ; plainly clad in a mourning dress ,on account of this old woman , I suppose , who was { lately } dead ; without golden ornaments , dressed , besides , just like those who { only } dress for themselves , { and } patched up with no worthless woman \u2019 s trumpery .Her hair was loose , long , { and } thrown back negligently about her temples .Do you hold your peace .", "Syrus .", "Some time since .", "Need I be told by you of your foresight ?", "Have you by this reckonedup what you calculate will be your profits ?", "How so , I wonder ?", "But see , here comes our old man .What \u2019 s the matter ? Why out of spirits ?", "Now consider another thing . All mothers are wont to be advocates for their sons when in fault , { and } to aid them against a father \u2019 s severity ; \u2019 tis not so { here }.", "I \u2019 ll do the best I can . But I see Ctesipho ; he \u2019 s in high spirits about his mistress .", "Hark \u2019 ye , no great and memorable action is done without some risk .", "Most fortunately did this come into my mind . For the less hope the young man entertains , the greater the difficulty with which he \u2019 ll bring his father to his own terms . I \u2019 m not sure even , that he may not take a wife , and { then } no thanks for Syrus . But what is this ? The old man \u2019 s coming out of doors ; I \u2019 ll be off . What has so far happened , I am surprised at , that he didn \u2019 t order me to be carried off from here : now I \u2019 ll away to Menedemus here , I \u2019 ll secure him as my intercessor ; I can put no trust in our old man .", "You act generously ; I return my thanks to you all ;\u2014 and to you ,", "We ought not to have left them ; what a quantity of things they are bringing !", "May all the Gods always grant you , Demea , all you desire .", "Just as each person wishes his son to be , so he turns out .", "But do you know what { you are to do }, pray ?", "You ought to have yielded to the young man .", "So much the worse\u2014 have you no client , friend , or guest ?", "What , I ? Coining money to give you .", "It might have been cleverly managed ; and I undertook this affair for the very reason , that a short time since you so urgently requested it .", "That you have been buying up many things to take thither ; { and } that the vessel is hired . This I know , your mind is in suspense ; however , when you return thence , I hope you \u2019 ll settle the matter .", "Nay , so far as I understand your father , he will for a long time yet be giving you a hard task .", "But { may I } safely ?", "Do you know the portico down this way , just by the shambles ?", "Very good .", "Nothing .", "For my part , I can do { so } easily , if you command me ; for I know well in what fashion it is usually done .", "Stay a little .", "Very shrewd .", "O , what a delightful man !", "Jewels of gold , { and } clothes ; it \u2019 s growing late too , and they don \u2019 t know the way . It was very foolish of us { to leave them }. Just go back , Dromo , and meet them . Make haste \u2014 why do you delay ? ( Exit DROMO .", "He \u2019 s gone ! no very pleasant boon-companion , upon my faith , particularly to Ctesipho . What am I to do now ? Why , even get into some corner till this tempest is lulled , and sleep off this drop of wine . That \u2019 s my plan .", "Go on ; I shall still do that { which I said }.", "Where you please ; leave the place to them ; be off and take a walk .", "Does nothing suggest itself to your mind ?", "No occasion ?", "Why , yes , she \u2019 s in-doors .", "I know where he is \u2014 but I shall not tell you at present .", "Dispatch quickly ; you \u2019 ll be wishing just now too late and in vain .", "He is pacified at last .", "Not like { those } of former days ,but as { times are } now , very passable : nor do I in the least wonder that Clinia doats upon her . But he has a father \u2014 a certain covetous , miserable , and niggardly person \u2014 this neighbor { of ours }Do you know him ? Yet , as if he was not abounding in wealth , his son ran away through want . Are you aware that it is the fact , as I am saying ?", "How shouldn \u2019 t I , when I was present all the while ?", "But how quickly the ladies have come up with us !", "Why , look \u2014 he \u2019 s at home , waiting for you .", "Get you gone .", "Ha , Demea ! I didn \u2019 t see you ; how goes it ?", "Commend him ? Assuredly he will keep his hands to himself in future , if he \u2019 s wise .", "Aye , if you did but know . O shocking ! just see what she is hatching . There was a certain old woman here from Corinth ,\u2014 this { Bacchis } lent her a thousand silver drachm\u00e6 .", "Why no ; request your son in preference .", "But still \u2014", "It \u2019 s another person ; a little diminutive Parasite . Don \u2019 t you know him ?", "So we only live , there \u2019 s hope \u2014\u2014", "If you \u2019 ll give me leave , I \u2019 ll tell you .", "Go \u2014 why do you stand still , { you } stone ; why don \u2019 t you take it ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Oh my long-wished for Clinia , blessings on you !", "Ah ! do support me , I entreat you !", "I \u2019 m overjoyed that you have returned safe ."], "true_target": ["I know nothing about other women : I \u2019 m sure that I have , indeed , always used every endeavor to derive my own happiness from his happiness .", "Is it Clinia that I see , or not ?", "I shall die , alas ! I shall die !"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I will give you up my female servants ; with my full permission , examine them with any tortures you please . The business at present is this : I must make his wife return home to Pamphilus ; should I effect that , I shall not regret its being reported that I have been the only one to do what other courtesans avoid doing .", "Why are you { thus } surprised , Antiphila ?", "Would you wish me , then , to go in about this business ?", "It is not for nothing that Laches now desires to speak with me ; and , i \u2019 faith , I am not very far from mistaken in making a guess what it is he wants me for .", "What great joy have I caused for Pamphilus by my coming to-day ! How many blessings have I brought him ! and from how many sorrows have I rescued him ! A son I save for him , when it was nearly perishing through the agency of these { women } and of himself : a wife , whom he thought that he must cast off forever , I restore { to him }: from the suspicion that he lay under with his father and Phidippus , I have cleared him . This ring , in fact , was the cause of these discoveries being made . For I remember , that about ten months ago , at an early hour of night , he came running home to my house , out of breath , without a companion , and surcharged with wine ,with this ring { in his hand }. I felt alarmed immediately : \u201c My Pamphilus ,\u201d I said , \u201c prithee , my dear , why thus breathless , or where did you get that ring ? \u2014 tell me !\u201d He { began } to pretend that he was thinking of something else . When I saw { that }, I began to suspect I know not what , { and } to press him still more to tell me . The fellow confessed that he had ravished { some female }, he knew not whom , in the street ; and said , that while she was struggling , he had taken that ring away from her . Myrrhina here recognized it just now , while I had it on my finger . She asked whence it came : I told her all the story . Hence the discovery has been made that it was Philumena ravished by him , and that this new-born child is his . I am overjoyed that this happiness has befallen him through my agency ; although other courtesans would not have similar feelings ; nor , indeed , is it to our interest that any lover should find pleasure in matrimony . But , i \u2019 faith , I never , for the sake of gain , will give my mind to base actions . So long as I had the opportunity , I found him to be kind , easy , and good-natured . This marriage has fallen out unluckily for me ,\u2014 that I confess to be the fact . But , upon my word , I do think that I have done nothing for it to befall me deservedly . It is but reasonable to endure inconveniences from one from whom I have received so many benefits .", "You had reason , Pamphilus , for being so fond of your wife . For never before to-day did I set eyes upon her , so as to know her : she seems a very gentle person .", "Yes ; that Myrrhina has recognized that ring as her daughter \u2019 s , which he formerly gave me .", "What ! that I \u2014", "Do you think me a proper person { for you } to play upon ?", "Wretched me ! I \u2019 m ashamed { to meet } Philumena .Do you both follow me into the house .", "Good-morrow to you , Laches !", "Run thither post-haste ; the Captain is keeping the feast of Bacchusat his house .", "Nay more , I will give you a { proof } why you may suppose that this may be the more easily concealed . Myrrhina has told Phidippus to this effect \u2014 that she has given credit to my oath , and that , in consequence , in her eyes you are exculpated .", "To a very fine purpose ,upon my faith , have the promises of Syrus brought me hither , who agreed to lend me ten min\u00e6 . If now he deceives me , oft as he may entreat me to come , he shall come in vain . Or else , when I \u2019 ve promised to come , and fixed the time , when he has carried word back for certain , { and } Clitipho is on the stretch of expectation , I \u2019 ll disappoint him and not come . Syrus will make atonement to me with his back .", "That \u2019 s all . He will be here directly he has heard this from you . But do you linger ?", "I \u2019 ll go : although , upon my word , I am quite sure that my presence will be disagreeable to them , for a married woman is the enemy of a mistress , when she has been separated from her husband .", "On my word , great is the gratitude that I ought to feel toward you for such conduct ; for he who , after committing an injury , would excuse himself , would profit me but little . But what is the matter ?", "That it was the next to the farm here on the right-hand side .", "Ah !", "Prithee , what is the matter with you ?", "What ? Tell me .", "They \u2019 re asleep\u2014 I \u2019 faith , I \u2019 ll rouse them .My { dear } Phrygia , did you hear about the country-seat of Charinus , which that man was showing us just now ?", "Whom do you see ?"], "true_target": ["Just when you please ; do I press you ?", "I will do { so }; although , i \u2019 faith , if it had been any other woman of this calling , she would not have done so , I am quite sure ; present herself before a married woman for such a purpose ! But I do not wish your son to be suspected on an unfounded report , nor appear inconstant , undeservedly , to you , to whom he by no means ought ; for he has deserved of me , that , so far as I am able , I should do him a service .", "Did I know any other means whereby I might be enabled to establish my credit with you , more solemn than an oath , I would , Laches , assure you of this , that I have kept Pamphilus at a distancefrom me ever since he took a wife .", "Save you , Pamphilus !", "Tell him I am here very much against my inclination , and am detained ; but that by some means or other I \u2019 ll give them the slip and come { to him }.", "Why , then I \u2019 ll stay .", "{ It is } a fortunate thing , and gives me great delight .", "What scheme are you upon , { you } rascal ?", "No ; to Philumena .", "Who is it says this ?", "So may the Gods bless me , Pamphilus !", "Upon my faith , I am even in some anxiety as well , when I reflect what I am , lest the name of my calling should be to my prejudice ; for my behavior I can easily defend .", "Why , who is that young man that \u2019 s looking at us ?", "Say that I entreat him to come .", "Nothing that concerns you ; so cease to make inquiry .", "Why , have I any business then with you here ?", "Be off .", "Parmeno , you make your appearance opportunely ; run with all speedto Pamphilus .", "And you , upon my word , possess your former manners and disposition ; so much so that not a single man living is more engaging than you .", "What ?", "Could Parmeno , from negligence , omit any thing that ought to be done ?", "Not a word .", "{ Then } let \u2019 s be going ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["As for me , I said it was the same the very instant that you showed it me ."], "true_target": ["Thoroughly ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I remember ."], "true_target": ["I heard of it ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I am aware of it .", "What can I do else ?", "You will gain your point ; by that means you will keep your son fast there ; only take care to secure her .", "Not at all , and indeed I have no wish to sell her .", "Just so ; for I wondered what business you could have here .He blushes ; all \u2019 s well .", "Why not ?", "Was it you knocking at this door ?He is silent . Why shouldn \u2019 t I rally him a little ? It would be as well , as he was never willing to trust me with this { secret }.Don \u2019 t you answer me ?", "Not I : certainly I had rather\u2014\u2014", "What do you suppose they should ? Why , nothing at all . The mother has trumped up a tale , that there is a child by some other man , I know not who , and she does not state the name ; { she says } that he was the first , { and } that she ought not to be given to the other .", "Why so ?", "Why then , if you desire it , just come hither , Syrus , to me; be a free man .", "Now , as soon as possible .", "What am I to say to this ? Well then , as he desires it, it shall be given { him }.", "Of course .", "Here \u2019 s for you ! he has discovered all about the affair ; { and } of course is now raving about it ; a quarrel is the consequence ; I must assist him ,{ however }. DEM . See , here comes the common corrupter of my children .", "{ What }, for doing that ?", "Really I do think { so }.", "Ah ! at it again !", "What now ? What remains { to be done }?", "What ! { better } than her ?", "\u00c6schinus , I have heard and know it all ; for I love you , and therefore every thing you do is the more a care to me .", "What can be his meaning ?", "Why , none of my own ; { but } a certain friend { of mine } just now brought me hither from the Forum to give him some assistance .", "If I were able to alter it , no ; now , as I can not , I bear it with patience . The life of man is just like playing with dice :if that which you most want to throw does not turn up , what turns up by chance you must correct by art .", "Go home , and pray to the Gods that you may have your wife ; be off .", "What , ass ! do you attend to him ?", "Does my brother order it ? Where is he ?Is this your order , Demea ?", "There is a girl living with her mother .", "Why not ?", "Syrus , you have thrived pretty well to-day .", "I can see no reason here , Hegio , that I should be so greatly commended . I do my duty ; the wrong that has originated with us I redress . Unless , perhaps , you thought me one of that class of men who think that an injury is purposely done them if you expostulate about any thing they have done ; and yet are { themselves } the first to accuse . Because I have not acted thus , do you return me thanks ?", "But is it a little one ?", "Will you not have done ?", "Every thing \u2019 s ready with us , as I told you , Sostrata , when you like . \u2014 Who , I wonder , is making my door fly open with such fury ?", "Nay , I \u2019 ll go as well .", "You are his father by nature , I by my anxiety .", "This girl has lost her father ; this friend of mine is her next of kin ; the law obliges him to marry her .", "Like enough ; and you too along with us , if there \u2019 s need .", "It is the fact ,\u2014 I don \u2019 t deny it .", "Why not put up with it ?", "As if this was not the greatest !", "Upon my word I believe it , for I know your ingenuous disposition : but I am afraid that you are too inconsiderate . In what city , pray , do you suppose you live ? You have debauched a virgin , whom it was not lawful for you to touch . In the first place then that was a great offense ; great , but still natural . Others , and even men of worth , have frequently done the same . But after it happened , pray , did you show any circumspection ? Or did you use any foresight as to what was to be done , { or } how it was to be done ? If you were ashamed to tell me of it , by what means was I to come to know it ? While you were at a loss upon these points , ten months have been lost . So far indeed as lay in your power , you have periled both yourself { and } this poor { girl }, and the child . What did you imagine \u2014 that the Gods would set these matters to rights for you while you were asleep , and that she would be brought home to your chamber without any exertions of your own ? I would not have you to be equally negligent in other affairs . Be of good heart , you shall have her for your wife .", "She shall be at my house .", "Are you quite in your right mind ? Am I , in my five-and-sixtieth year , to be marrying at last ? A decrepit old woman too ? Do you advise me { to do } this ?", "I \u2019 ll go and tell them there \u2019 s no delay on our part .", "These things arenot nothing at all , nor yet all just as he says ; still they do give me some uneasiness ; but I was unwilling to show him that I took them amiss , for he is such a man ; when I would pacify him , I steadily oppose and resist { him }; { and } in spite of it he hardly puts up with it like other men ; but if I were to inflame , or even to humor his anger , I should certainly be as mad as himself . And yet \u00c6schinus has done me some injustice in this affair . What courtesan has he not intrigued with ? Or to which { of them } has he not made some present ? At last , he recently told me that he wished to take a wife ,I suppose he was just then tired of them all . I was in hopes that the warmth of youth had now subsided ; I was delighted . But look { now }, he is at it again ; however , I am determined to know it , whatever it is , and to go meet the fellow , if he is at the Forum . ( Exit .", "But I have already betrothed the young woman { to him }; the matter is settled : the marriage takes place { to-day }. I have removed all apprehensions . This is rather the duty of a man .", "Go in-doors then , and let \u2019 s devote this day to the objectto which it belongs .", "Are you out of your senses ? Take yourself off .", "Oh dear ,\u2014 if you persist , I \u2019 ll leave you .", "Say no more ; there \u2019 s no danger of that . Now think no further of these matters . Put yourself to-day into my hands ; smooth your brow .", "Promised , indeed ; be generous at your own cost , young man .", "Although this seems to meto be wrong , foolish , absurd , and repugnant to my mode of life , yet , if you so strongly wish it , be it so .", "I \u2019 ll go in-doors , that what is requisite may be prepared . You do as I said , if you are wise .SCENE VII . \u00c6SCHINUS alone .", "For surely it is a maxim of old , that among themselves all things are common to friends .", "Oh ! do listen to me , and do not everlastingly din me upon this subject . You gave me your son to adopt ; he became mine ; if he offends in any thing , Demea , he offends against me : in that case I shall bear the greater part { of the inconvenience }. Does he feast ,does he drink , does he smell of perfumes ,\u2014 it is at my cost . Does he intrigue , money shall be found by me , so long as it suits me ; when it shall be no { longer convenient }, probably he \u2019 ll be shut out of doors .Has he broken open a door \u2014 it shall be replaced ; has he torn any one \u2019 s clothes \u2014 they shall be mended . Thanks to the Gods , I both have means for doing this , and { these things } are not as yet an annoyance . In fine , either desist , or else find some arbitrator { between us }: I will show that in this matter you are the most to blame .", "Be of good heart , I tell you ."], "true_target": ["I , marry her , indeed ?", "Listen to a few words , unless it is disagreeable , Demea . In the first place , if the extravagance your sons are guilty of distresses you , pray do reason with yourself . You formerly brought up the two suitably to your circumstances , thinking that your own property would have to suffice for them both ; and , of course , you then thought that I should marry . Adhere to that same old rule { of yours },\u2014 save , scrape together , { and } be thrifty { for them }; take care to leave them as much as possible , and { take } that credit to yourself : my fortune , which has come to them beyond their expectation , allow them to enjoy ; of { your } captial there will be no diminution ; what comes from this quarter , set it { all } down as so much gain . If you think proper impartially to consider these matters in your mind , Demea , you will save me and yourself , and them , { considerable } uneasiness .", "Pray moderate your passion , and recover yourself .", "Of course .", "Less than this", "I do .", "Just look at that !", "If you think I ought , or if there is a necessity for doing so , let us go .", "\u00c6schinus !", "Hold ; I understand you ; that point I was coming to .There are in men , Demea , many signs from which a conjecture is easily formed ; { so that } when two persons do the same thing , you may often say , this one may be allowed to do it with impunity , the other may not ; not that the thing { itself } is different , but that he is who does it . I see { signs } in them , so as to feel confident that they will turn out as we wish . I see that they have good sense and understanding , that they have modesty upon occasion , { and } are affectionate to each other ; you may infer that their bent and disposition is of a pliant nature ; at any time you like you may reclaim them . But still , you may be apprehensive that they will be somewhat too apt to neglect their interests . O my { dear } Demea , in all other things we grow wiser with age ; this sole vice does old age bring upon men : we are all more solicitous about our own interests than we need be ; and in this respect age will make them sharp enough .", "May the Gods be propitious { to it }.", "You quite delight me ; now you seem to me to be wise ; and for my part I would then compel my son to go to bed with her , even though he should be unwilling .", "He free ! For what reason ?", "Now .", "Am I so often to hear about the same thing ?", "No .", "So they say .", "Such is the fact .", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ?", "Because , Demea , you misjudge these matters . It is no heinous crime , believe me , for a young man to intrigue or to drink ; it is not ; nor yet for him to break open a door . If neither I nor you did so , it was poverty that did not allow us to do { so }. Do you now claim that as a merit to yourself , which you then did from necessity ? That is unfair ; for if we had had the means to do so , we should have done { the same }. And , if you were a man , you would now suffer that { other son } of yours to act { thus } now , while his age will excuse it , rather than , when he has got you , after long wishing it , out of the way , he should still do { so }, at a future day , { and } at an age more unsuited .", "What ?", "He has come to take her with him ; for he lives at Miletus .", "There now \u2014 at it again .", "Why are you out of spirits ?", "{ So } I have heard .", "Do as I told { you }, Sostrata ; I \u2019 ll go find \u00c6schinus , that he may know how these matters have been settled .But who was it knocking at the door ?", "Again angry , Demea ?", "Really , this is downright force .", "Demea , do , for once , lay aside this anger of yours , and show yourself as you ought at your son \u2019 s wedding , cheerful and good-humored . I \u2019 ll just step over to them , { and } return immediately .SCENE X . DEMEA alone .", "Never is there any thing more unreasonable than a man who wants experience , who thinks nothing right except what he himself has done .", "I , { jesting } with you ! For what reason ?", "Ridiculous ! Was I to have pleaded against him whom I was to support ? But what \u2019 s all this , \u00c6schinus , to us ? What have we to do with them ? Let us begone :\u2014\u2014 What \u2019 s the matter ? Why these tears ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "On what grounds is it so ? Who betrothed her ?Who gave her away ? When { and } to whom was she married ? Who was the author of all this ? Why did he connect himself with a woman who belonged to another ?", "Departed , vanished , gone on board ship ; but why do you delay ?", "Do you desire this to be done ?", "Why , what the case itself points out : the young woman must be brought hither .", "You are trifling !", "She is . What then ?", "I have some concern { for him } too ; but , Demea , let us each be concerned for his own share \u2014 you for the one , and I for the other . For , to concern yourself about both is almost the same thing as to demand him back again , whom you intrusted to me .", "I do not oppose it .", "Storax ! \u00c6schinus has not returned { home } from the entertainment last night , nor any of the servants who went to fetch him .Really , they say it with reason , if you are absent any where , or if you stay abroad at any time , \u2019 twere better for that to happen which { your } wife says against you , and which in her passion she imagines in her mind , than the things which fond parents { fancy }. A wife , if you stay long abroad , either imagines that you are in love or are beloved , or that you are drinking and indulging your inclination , and that you only are taking your pleasure , while she herself is miserable . As for myself , in consequence of my son not having returned home , what do I imagine ? In what ways am I not disturbed ? For fear lest he may either have taken cold ,or have fallen down somewhere , or have broken some { limb }. Oh dear ! that any man should take it into his head , or find out what is dearer { to him } than he is to himself ! And yet he is not my son , but my brother \u2019 s . He is quite different in disposition . I , from my very youth upward , have lived a comfortable town life , and { taken } my ease ; and , what they esteem a piece of luck , I have never had a wife . He , on the contrary to all this , has spent his life in the country , { and } has always lived laboriously and penuriously . He married a wife , { and } has two sons . This one , the elder of them , I have adopted . I have brought him up from an infant , { and } considered { and } loved him as my own . In him I centre my delight ; this { object } alone is dear to me . On the other hand , I take all due care that he may hold me equally dear . I give \u2014 I overlook ; I do not judge it necessary to exert my authority in every thing ; in fine , the things that youth prompts to , { and } that others do unknown to their fathers , I have used my son not to conceal from me . For he , who , as the practice is , will dare to tell a lie to or to deceive his father , will still more dare { to do so } to others . I think it better to restrain children through a sense of shame and liberal treatment , than through fear . On these points my brother does not agree with me , nor do they please him . He often comes to me exclaiming , \u201c What are you about , Micio ? Why do you ruin for us this youth ? Why does he intrigue ? Why does he drink ? Why do you supply him with the means for these goings on ? You indulge him with too much dress ; you are very inconsiderate .\u201d He himself is too strict , beyond what is just and reasonable ; and he is very much mistaken , in my opinion , at all events , who thinks that an authority is more firm or more lasting which is established by force , than that which is founded on affection . Such is my mode of reasoning ; and thus do I persuade myself . He , who , compelled by harsh treatment , does his duty , so long as he thinks it will be known , is on his guard : if he hopes that it will be concealed , he again returns to his natural bent . He whom you have secured by kindness , acts from inclination ; he is anxious to return like for like ; present and absent , he will be the same . This is the duty of a parent , to accustom a son to do what is right rather of his own choice , than through fear of another . In this the father differs from the master : he who can not do this , let him confess that he does not know how to govern children . But is not this the very man of whom I was speaking ? Surely it is he . I don \u2019 t know why it is I see him out of spirits ; I suppose he \u2019 ll now be scolding as usual . Demea , I am glad to see you well .", "I am glad of it .", "How is this ? What has so suddenly changed your disposition , { Demea }? What caprice { is this }? What means this sudden liberality ?", "I know it .", "That \u2019 s right .Grant us your applause . FOOTNOTES\u2014 This Playwas performed at the Funeral Games of Lucius \u00c6milius Paulus , who was surnamed Macedonicus , from having gained a victory over Perseus , King of Macedon . He was so poor at the time of his decease , that they were obliged to sell his estate in order to pay his widow her dower . The Q. Fabius Maximus and P. Cornelius Africanus here mentioned were not , as some have thought , the Curale \u00c6diles , but two sons of \u00c6milius Paulus , who had taken the surnames of the families into which they had been adopted . ]\u2014 The \u201c Sarranian \u201d or \u201c Tyrian \u201d pipes , or flutes , are supposed to have been of a quick and mirthful tone ; Madame Dacier has consequently with much justice suggested that the representation being on the occasion of a funeral , the title has not come down to us in a complete form , and that it was performed with the Lydian , or grave , solemn pipe , alternately with the Tyrian . This opinion is also strengthened by the fact that Donatus expressly says that it was performed to the music of Lydian flutes . ]\u2014 L. Anicius Gallus and M. Cornelius Cethegus were Consuls in the year from the Building of the City 592 , and B. C . 161 . ]\u2014 Ver . 6 . Signifying \u201c persons dying together .\u201d The \u201c Commorientes \u201d of Plautus is lost . It has been doubted by some , despite these words of Terence , if Plautus ever did write such a Play . ]\u2014 Ver . 6 . Diphilus was a Greek Poet , contemporary with Menander . ]\u2014 Ver . 20 . According to Donatus , by the words \u201c in bello ,\u201d Terence is supposed to refer to his friend and patron Scipio ; by \u201c in otio ,\u201d to Furius Publius ; and in the words \u201c in negotio \u201d to L\u00e6lius , who was famed for his wisdom . ]\u2014 Ver . 23 . This is similar to the words in the Prologue to the Trinummus of Plautus , l. 16 : \u201c But expect nothing about the plot of this Play ; the old men who will come hither will disclose the matter to you .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 24 . \u201c Advorsum ierant .\u201d On the duties of the \u201c adversitores ,\u201d see the Notes to Bohn \u2019 s Translation of Plautus . ]\u2014 Ver . 36 . Westerhovius observes that this passage seems to be taken from one in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus , l. 721 , et seq . : \u201c Troth , if I had had them , enough anxiety should I have had from my children ; I should have been everlastingly tormented in mind : but if perchance one had had a fever , I think I should have died . Or if one in liquor had tumbled any where from his horse , I should have been afraid that he had broken his legs or neck on that occasion .\u201d It may be remarked that there is a great resemblance between the characters of Micio here and Periplecomenus in the Miles Gloriosus . ]\u2014 Ver . 81 . Cooke remarks , that though there are several fine passages in this speech , and good observations on human life , yet it is too long a soliloquy . ]\u2014 Ver . 81 . Donatus observes that the Poet has in this place improved upon Menander , in representing Demea as more ready to wrangle with his brother than to return his compliments . ]\u2014 Ver . 82 . The passage pretty clearly means by \u201c ubi nobis \u00c6schinus sit ,\u201d \u201c when I \u2019 ve got such a son as \u00c6schinus .\u201d Madame Dacier , however , would translate it : \u201c Ask me \u2014 you , in whose house \u00c6schinus is ?\u201d thus accusing him of harboring \u00c6schinus ; a very forced construction , however . ]\u2014 Ver . 88 . The works of Ovid and Plautus show that it was no uncommon thing for riotous young men to break open doors ; Ovid even suggests to the lover the expediency of getting into the house through the windows . ]\u2014 Ver . 117 . Colman has the following observation here : \u201c The mild character of Micio is contrasted by Cicero to that of a furious , savage , severe father , as drawn by the famous Comic Poet , Caecilius . Both writers are quoted in the Oration for Caelias , in the composition of which it is plain that the orator kept his eye pretty closely on our Poet . The passages from Caecilius contain all that vehemence and severity , which , as Horace tells us , was accounted the common character of the style of that author .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 117 . For an account of the \u201c unguenta ,\u201d or perfumes in use among the ancients , see the Notes to Bohn \u2019 s translation of Plautus . ]\u2014 Ver . 119 . No doubt by his mistress when she has drained him of his money , and not by Micio himself , as Colman says he was once led to imagine . ]\u2014 Ver . 141 . Donatus observes here , that Terence seems inclined to favor the part of mild fathers . He represents Micio as appalled at his adopted son \u2019 s irregularities , lest if he should appear wholly unmoved , he should seem to be corrupting him , rather than to be treating him with only a proper degree of indulgence . ]\u2014 Ver . 151 . Donatus remarks here , that the art of Terence in preparing his incidents is wonderful . He contrives that even ignorant persons shall open the plot , as in the present instance , where we understand that Aeschinus has mentioned to Micio his intention of taking a wife , though he has not entered into particulars . This naturally leads us to the ensuing parts of the Play , without forestalling any of the circumstances . ]\u2014 Ver . 161 . He says this aloud , and with emphasis , relying upon the laws which were enacted at Athens in favor of the \u201c lenones ,\u201d whose occupation brought great profits to the state , from their extensive trading in slaves . It was forbidden to maltreat them , under pain of being disinherited . ]\u2014 Ver . 188 . Westerhovius supposes this part to be a translation from the works of Diphilus . ]\u2014 Ver . 194 . \u201c Asserere liberati causa ,\u201d was to assert the freedom of a person , with a determination to maintain it at law . The \u201c assertor \u201d laid hands upon the person , declaring that he or she was free ; and till the cause was tried , the person whose freedom was claimed , remained in the hands of the \u201c assertor .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 196 . Colman has a curious remark here : \u201c I do not remember , in the whole circle of modern comedy , a more natural picture of the elegant ease and indifference of a fine gentleman , than that exhibited in this Scene in the character of \u00c6schinus .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 204 . He means , that if he only names a price , \u00c6schinus will suborn witnesses to say that he has agreed to sell her , in which case \u00c6schinus will carry her off with impunity , and the laws will not allow him to recover her ; as it will then be an ordinary debt , and he will be put off with all the common excuses used by debtors . ]\u2014 Ver . 212 . \u201c Certationem comparatam .\u201d This was a term taken from the combats of gladiators , where it was usual to choose as combatants such as seemed most nearly a match for each other . ]\u2014 Ver . 217 . This passage is probably alluded to by Cicero , in his work , De Officiis B. ii . c. 18 : \u201c For it is not only liberal sometimes to give up a little of one \u2019 s rights , but it is also profitable .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 229 . \u201c Ut in ipso articulo oppressit .\u201d Colman translates this , \u201c Nick \u2019 d me to a hair .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 230 . He alludes to a famous slave-market held in the Isle of Cyprus , whither merchants carried slaves for sale , after buying them up in all parts of Greece . ]\u2014 Ver . 236 . \u201c Jamne enumerasti id quod ad te rediturum putes ?\u201d Colman renders this , \u201c Well , have you calculated what \u2019 s your due ?\u201d referring to the value of the Music-girl that has been taken away from him ; and thinks that the following conversation between Sannio and Syrus supports that construction . Madame Dacier puts another sense on the words , and understands them as alluding to Sannio \u2019 s calculation of his expected profits at Cyprus . ]\u2014 Ver . 242 . Donatus remarks , that Syrus knows very well that \u00c6schinus is ready to pay the whole , but offers Sannio half , that he may be glad to take the bare principal , and think himself well off into the bargain . ]\u2014 Ver . 265 . Donatus remarks upon the readiness with which Sannio takes the appellation of \u201c sacrilegus ,\u201d as adapted to no other person than himself . ]\u2014 Ver . 275 . Donatus tells us , that in Menander the young man was on the point of killing himself . Terence has here softened it into leaving the country . Colman remarks : \u201c We know that the circumstance of carrying off the Music-girl was borrowed from Diphilus ; yet it is plain from Donatus that there was also an intrigue by Ctesipho in the Play of Menander ; which gives another proof of the manner in which Terence used the Greek Comedies .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 278 . Donatus remarks that this is a piece of malice on the part of Syrus , for the purpose of teasing Sannio . ]\u2014 Ver . 285 . Those used for the purpose of reclining on at the entertainment . ]\u2014 Ver . 321 . Quoting from Madame Dacier , Colman has this remark here : \u201c Geta \u2019 s reply is founded on a frolicsome but ill-natured custom which prevailed in Greece \u2014 to stop the slaves in the streets , and designedly keep them in chat , so that they might be lashed when they came home for staying out so long .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 333 . It was a prevalent custom with the Greeks to place the newly-born child upon the knee of its grandfather . ]\u2014 Ver . 378 . The operation of boning conger-eels is often mentioned in Plautus , from whom we learn that they were best when eaten in that state , and cold . ]\u2014 Ver . 385 . See a similar passage in the Trinummus of Plautus , l. 722 , whence it appears that it was the practice for young men of ruined fortunes to go and offer their services as mercenaries to some of the neighboring potentates . Many of the ten thousand who fought for the younger Cyrus at the battle of Cunaxa , and were led back under the command of Xenophon , were , doubtless , of this class . ]\u2014 Ver . 428 . He parodies the words of Demea in l. 415 , where he speaks of looking into the lives of men as into a mirror . ]\u2014 Ver . 439 . Solon divided the Athenians into ten tribes , which he named after ten of the ancient heroes : Erectheis , \u00c6geis , Pandionis , Leontis , Acamantis , \u0152neis , Cecrops , Hippothoontis , \u00c6antis , and Antiochis . These tribes were each divided into ten Demi . ]\u2014 Ver . 473 . As his wife . ]\u2014 Ver . 479 . \u201c In medio ,\u201d \u201c is alive ,\u201d or \u201c in the midst of us .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 482 . In allusion to the method of examining slaves , by binding and torturing them . ]\u2014 Ver . 487 . So in the Andria , l. 473 , where Glycerium is overtaken with the pains of labor , she calls upon Juno Lucina . ]\u2014 Ver . 494 . In the Play of Menander , Hegio was the brother of Sostrata . ]\u2014 Ver . 500 . \u201c Is , quod mihi de hae re dederat consilium , id sequar .\u201d Coleman has the following Note on this passage : \u201c Madame Dacier rejects this line , because it is also to be found in the Phormio . But it is no uncommon thing with our author to use the same expression or verse for different places , especially on familiar occasions . There is no impropriety in it here , and the foregoing hemistich is rather lame without it . The propriety of consulting Micio , or Demea \u2019 s present ill-humor with him , are of no consequence . The old man is surprised at Hegio \u2019 s story , does not know what to do or say , and means to evade giving a positive answer , by saying that he would consult his brother .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 506 . \u201c Redite .\u201d Demea most probably uses this word , because Hegio has come back to him to repeat the last words for the sake of greater emphasis . ]\u2014 Ver . 512 . Colman has the following Note here : \u201c Donatus tells us , that in some old copies this whole Scene was wanting . Guyetus therefore entirely rejects it . I have not ventured to take that liberty ; but must confess that it appears to me , if not supposititious , at least cold and superfluous , and the substance of it had better been supposed to have passed between Hegio and Sostrata within .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 519 . It is very doubtful whether the words \u201c cum maxime \u201d mean to signify exactly \u201c at this moment ,\u201d or are intended to signify the intensity with which Demea is laboring . ]\u2014 Ver . 522 . Lemaire suggests that by these words Syrus intends to imply that he should not care if Demea were never to arise from his bed , but were to die there . Ctesipho , only taking him heartily to second his own wishes for the old man \u2019 s absence , answers affirmatively \u201c ita ,\u201d \u201c by all means ,\u201d \u201c exactly so .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 529 . Schmieder observes that \u201c tanto nequior \u201d might have two meanings ,\u2014 \u201c so much the worse { for us },\u201d or , as the spectators might understand it , \u201c so much the more worthless you .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 538 . This was a proverbial expression , tantamount to our saying , \u201c Talk of the devil , he \u2019 s sure to appear .\u201d Servius , in his Commentary on the Ninth Eclogue of Virgil , says that the saying arose from the common belief that the person whom a wolf sets his eyes upon is deprived of his voice , and thence came to be applied to a person who , coming upon others in the act of talking about him , necessarily put a stop to their conversation . Cooke says , in reference to this passage , \u201c This certainly alludes to a Fable of \u00c6sop \u2019 s , of the Wolf , the Fox , and the Ape : which is translated by Ph\u00e6drus , and is the tenth of his First Book .\u201d It is much more certain that Cooke is mistaken here , and that the fable of the arbitration of the Ape between the Wolf and the Fox has nothing to do with this passage . If it alludes to any fable, it is more likely to be that where the Nurse threatens that the wolf shall take the naughty Child , on which he makes his appearance , but is disappointed in his expectations , or else that of the Shepherd-boy and the Wolf . See the Stichus of Plautus , l. 57 , where the same expression occurs . ]\u2014 Ver . 542 . Donatus remarks that the Poet artfully contrives to detain Demea in town , his presence being necessary in the latter part of the Play . ]\u2014 Ver . 553 . Donatus observes that the young man was silly in this , for if discovered to be there he would be sure to be caught . His object , however , for going there would be that he might not be discovered . ]\u2014 Ver . 580 . \u201c Censen hominem me esse ?\u201d literally , \u201c Do you take me to be a human being ?\u201d meaning , \u201c Do you take me to be a person in my common senses ?\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 583 . Theobald , in his edition of Shakspeare , observes that the direction given by Lancelot in the Merchant of Venice seems to be copied from that given here by Syrus : \u201c Turn up on your right hand at the next turning , but at the next turning of all on your left ; marry , at the very next turning of no hand , but turn down indirectly to the Jew \u2019 s house .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 584 . From this we discover that Demea is being sent to the very extremity of the town , as Donatus informs us that ponds of water were always close to the gates of towns , for the purpose of watering the beasts of burden , and of having a supply at hand in case the enemy should set fire to the city gates . ]\u2014 Ver . 586 . Donatus remarks that it was usual for the Greeks to sit and drink in the sun ; and that Syrus being suddenly asked this question shows his presence of mind by giving this circumstantial answer , that he may the better impose upon Demea . The couches used on such occasions may be presumed to have required stout legs , and to be made of hard wood , such as oak , to prevent them from splitting . Two instances of couches being used for carousing in the open air will be found in the last Scenes of the Asinaria and Stichus of Plautus . ]\u2014 Ver . 588 . \u201c Silicernium .\u201d This was said to be the name of a funeral entertainment or dish of meats offered up to the \u201c umbr\u00e6 \u201d or \u201c manes ,\u201d in silence . The word is also said to have been applied to an old man from his stooping postures , \u201c silices cernit ,\u201d \u201c he looks at the stones .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 590 . \u201c Totus ,\u201d literally , \u201c quite \u201d or \u201c altogether .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 592 . As to the \u201c cyathi \u201d and cups of the ancients , see the last Scene of the Stichus of Plautus , which is a perfect specimen of a carousal among the lower classes in ancient times . See also the last Scene of the Asinaria . The slaves generally appear to have taken part in the entertainments with their young masters . ]\u2014 Ver . 606 . These lines are supposed to be founded on some verses of Menander which are still extant . ]\u2014 Ver . 655 . It appears to have been a law given by Solon to the Athenians that the next male relative of suitable age should marry a female orphan himself , or find her a suitable portion . Madame Dacier suggests that the custom was derived from the Ph\u0153nicians , who had received it from the Jews , and quotes the Book of Numbers , xxxvi . 8 . This law forms the basis of the plot of the Phormio . ]\u2014 Ver . 658 . A colony of Athens , on the coast of Asia Minor . ]\u2014 Ver . 673 . Donatus observes that these questions , which enumerate all the proofs requisite for a marriage , are an indirect and very delicate reproof of \u00c6schinus for the irregular and clandestine nature of his proceedings . ]\u2014 Ver . 707 . Donatus remarks that there is great delicacy in this compliment of \u00c6schinus to Micio , which , though made in his presence , does not bear the semblance of flattery . Madame Dacier thinks that Terence here alludes to a line of Hesiod , which says that it is the duty of the aged to pray . Colman suggests that the passage is borrowed from some lines of Menander still in existence . ]\u2014 Ver . 730 . He pauses after \u201c quidem ,\u201d but he means to say that if he had his choice , he would rather it had not been so . ]\u2014 Ver . 742 . The \u201c tesser\u00e6 \u201d of the ancients were cubes , or what we call \u201c dice ;\u201d while the \u201c tali \u201d were in imitation of the knuckle-bones of animals , and were marked on four sides only . For some account of the mode of playing with the \u201c tali ,\u201d see the last Scene of the Asinaria , and the Curculio of Plautus , l. 257-9 . Madame Dacier suggests that Menander may possibly have borrowed this passage from the Republic of Plato , B. X ., where he says , \u201c We should take counsel from accidents , and , as in a game at dice , act according to what has fallen , in the manner which reason tells us to be the best .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 755 . \u201c Restim ductans saltabis .\u201d Donatus and Madame Dacier think that this is only a figurative expression for a dance in which all joined hands ; according to some , however , a dance is alluded to where the person who led off drew a rope or cord after him , which the rest of the company took hold of as they danced ; which was invented in resemblance of the manner in which the wooden horse was dragged by ropes into the city of Troy . ]\u2014 Ver . 764 . See an observation relative to the translation of the word \u201c Salus ,\u201d in the Notes to Plautus , vol . i. pages 193 , 450 . ]\u2014 Ver . 767 . His duty of providing the viands and drink for the entertainment . So Ergasilus says in the Captivi of Plautus , l. 912 , \u201c Now I will go off to my government, to give laws to the bacon .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 795 . Colman remarks on this passage : \u201c The character of Micio appears extremely amiable through the first four Acts of this Comedy , and his behavior is in many respects worthy of imitation ; but his conduct in conniving at the irregularities of Ctesipho , and even assisting him to support them , is certainly reprehensible . Perhaps the Poet threw this shade over his virtues on purpose to show that mildness and good-humor might be carried to excess .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 824 . Colman observes here : \u201c Madame Dacier makes an observation on this speech , something like that of Donatus on one of Micio \u2019 s above ; and says that Micio , being hard put to it by the real circumstances of the case , thinks to confound Demea by a nonsensical gallimatia . I can not be of the ingenious lady \u2019 s opinion on this matter , for I think a more sensible speech could not be made , nor a better plea offered in favor of the young men , than that of Micio in the present instance .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 851 . Exposed to the heat of a mid-day sun . ]\u2014 Ver . 857 . The marriage and its festivities . ]\u2014 Ver . 884 . And therefore likely to be the first to die , and to avoid seeing such a time come . ]\u2014 Ver . 886 . The emptiness of his poor attempts to be familiar are very evident in this line . ]\u2014 Ver . 908 . \u201c Tibicin\u00e6 ,\u201d or music-girls , attended at marriage ceremonials . See the Aulularia of Plautus , where Megadorus hires the music-girls on his intended marriage with the daughter of Euclio . ]\u2014 Ver . 910 . See the Casina of Plautus , Act IV ., Scenes 3 and 4 , for some account of the marriage ceremonial . The torches , music-girls , processions , and hymeneal song , generally accompanied a wedding , but from the present passage we may conclude that they were not considered absolutely necessary . ]\u2014 Ver . 911 . The \u201c maceria ,\u201d or garden-wall of loose stones , is also mentioned in the Truculentus of Plautus , l . 301 . ]\u2014 Ver . 918 . This passage has much puzzled the Commentators ; but it seems most probable that it is said aside , and that in consequence of his profuseness he calls his brother a Babylonian ,and says , \u201c Well , let him , with all my heart , be paying twenty min\u00e6for music-girl .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 940 . \u00c6schinus , probably , in his earnestness , has seized hold of him with his hand , which Micio now pushes away . ]\u2014 Ver . 943 . This is not the truth ; the notion has only been started since he last saw them . ]\u2014 Ver . 946 . \u201c Vis est h\u00e6c quidem .\u201d The same expression occurs in the Captivi of Plautus , l. 755 . The expression seemed to be a common one with the Romans . According to Suetonius , Julius C\u00e6sar used it when attacked by his murderers in the senate-house . On Tullius Cimber seizing hold of his garments , he exclaimed , \u201c Ita quidem vis est !\u201d\u2014 \u201c Why , really , this is violence !\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 947 . Donatus informs us that in Menander \u2019 s Play , the old man did not make any resistance whatever to the match thus patched up for him . Colman has the following observation on this fact : \u201c It is surprising that none of the critics on this passage have taken notice of this observation of Donatus , especially as our loss of Menander makes it rather curious . It is plain that Terence in the plan of his last Act followed Menander ; but though he has adopted the absurdity of marrying Micio to the old lady , yet we learn from Donatus that his judgment rather revolted at this circumstance , and he improved on his original by making Micio express a repugnance to such a match , which it seems he did not in the Play of Menander .\u201d]\u2014 Ver . 961 . He probably means , by aping the kind feeling which is a part of Micio \u2019 s character . ]\u2014 Ver . 969 . A banquet in the early part or middle of the day was considered by the Greeks a debauch . ]\u2014 Ver . 974 . He touches Syrus on the ear , and makes him free . The same occurs in the Epidicus of Plautus , Act V ., Sc . 2 , l . 65 . ]\u2014 Ver . 977 . The so-called marriage , or rather cohabitation , of the Roman slaves will be found treated upon in the Notes to Plautus . Syrus calls Phrygia his wife on anticipation that she will become a free woman . ]\u2014 Ver . 981 . The only sign of generosity he has yet shown . ]\u2014 Ver . 989 . \u201c Quid prolubium ? Quae ist\u00e6c subita est largitas ?\u201d Madame Dacier tells us that this passage was borrowed from Coecilius , the Comic Poet . ]\u2014 Ver . 1001 . It must be remembered that he has the notions of a Greek parent , and sees no such criminality in this sanction as a parent would be sensible of at the present day . ] * * * *", "You are mad !", "So it seems to me .", "Yes .", "Aye , to-night , for my share ; only keep yourself in good-humor for the day .", "Did I not say it would be so ?What has he been doing ?", "Why should he not take her ?", "Very kind of you !", "Do what ?", "I \u2019 ll consider of it afterward .", "Why , what is it ?", "You don \u2019 t reason fairly .", "I \u2019 ll tell you . There are some women living here ; in impoverished circumstances , as I suppose you don \u2019 t know them ; and , { in fact }, I \u2019 m quite sure , for it is not long since they removed to this place ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Won \u2019 t you believe me ? Do I demand him back whom I have intrusted ? I am concerned for him ; I am not a stranger in blood ; if I do interpose \u2014 well , well , I have done . You desire me to concern myself for one { of them },\u2014 I do concern myself ; and I give thanks to the Gods , he is just as I would have him ; that fellow of yours will find it out at a future day : I don \u2019 t wish to say any thing more harsh against him . ( Exit .", "It was about that I was talking to him just now .", "Is there any judge who can possibly know your rights , when you yourself don \u2019 t answer a word \u2014 as he has done ?", "Follow him , and hold him back , till I call out the servants .", "For you to carouse upon ! Very fine ! But { why } do I delay going to him ?", "Getting on by degrees \u2014 I \u2019 ll first make the lower classes my own . SCENE VII .", "Well now , is he to be carrying offfrom us such a sum of money as this , and so palpably to impose upon us ? By heavens , I \u2019 d sooner die . Manage to show yourself of resolute and ready wit . You see that this slip of yours has got abroad , and that you can not now possibly conceal it from your wife ; it is then more conducive to our quiet , Chremes , ourselves to disclose what she will be hearing from others ; { and } then , in our own fashion , we shall be able to take vengeance upon this dirty fellow .", "I \u2019 m bringing you some new and great enormities of that hopeful youth .", "I \u2019 m thinking where to look for him .", "Why not ?", "Is there any thing still worse ?", "Is that , then , a matter of doubt ?", "Act with heartiness , Micio .", "What , I seek your friendship , or have any wish to see or hear you ?", "If it were a large one , { still } it ought to be done ; he has been as it were a father to her ; he is a worthy man , { and } connected with us ; it would be properly bestowed . In fine , I now adopt that proverb which you , Micio , a short time ago repeated with sense and wisdom \u2014 it is the common vice of all , in old age , to be too intent upon our own interests . This stain we ought to avoid : it is a true maxim , and ought to be observed in deed .", "Say now , Hegio .", "Away with you to utter perdition , with this swaggering , you vagabond . What , then , do you fancy we don \u2019 t know you , or your doings ?", "Won \u2019 t you keep your hands off , whip-scoundrel ? Or would you like me to knock your brains out this instant ?", "Pray , then , why did you stay there so long , when you had heard of this ?", "Are you quite sure he is there ?", "May he be preserved to me ! I trust he will be like his forefathers .", "If he won \u2019 t follow , plant your fists in his stomach .", "Really , a most excellent woman .", "Not try it ? On the contrary , I shall not desist until I have gone through with it .", "Very much so .", "I , come to pump you , indeed ?", "Did she not know who was her father ?", "Hold your peace .", "Alas , Micio !", "I have moderated it ; I am myself ; I forbear all reproaches ; let us come to the point : was this agreed upon between us ,\u2014 proposed by yourself , in fact ,\u2014 that you were not to concern yourself about my { son }, nor I about yours ? Answer me .", "Let us now away in-doors .", "{ \u00c6schinus }, if you are a man , he \u2019 ll do it .", "Geta !", "Mark what I say . There have been words enough already ; if you don \u2019 t make haste to fetch away the woman , I shall turn her out : I have said it , Phormio .", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! let \u2019 s away to her ; I wish for all of us , one way or other , to be sure about this", "I say I do not ; you , who affirm it , recall it to my recollection .", "Do you say this for certain ?", "Do you talk about my son to me ? Of whose folly there is no speaking in the language it deserves .", "Never was there any person of ever such well-trained habits of life , but that experience , age , { and } custom are always bringing { him } something new , { or } suggesting something ; so much so , that what you believe you know you don \u2019 t know , and what you have fancied of first importance to you , on making trial you reject ; and this is my case at present : for the rigid life I have hitherto led , my race nearly run , I { now } renounce . Why so ? \u2014 I have found , by experience , that there is nothing better for a man than an easy temper and complacency . That this is the truth , it is easy for any one to understand on comparing me with my brother . He has always spent his life in ease { and } gayety ; mild , gentle , offensive to no one , having a smile for all , he has lived for himself , { and } has spent his money for himself ; all men speak well of him , { all } love him . I , { again }, a rustic , a rigid , cross , self-denying , morose and thrifty person , married a wife ; what misery I entailed in consequence ! Sons were born \u2014 a fresh care . And just look , while I have been studying to do as much as possible for them , I have worn out my life and years in saving ; now , in the decline of my days , the return I get from them for my pains { is } their dislike . He , on the other hand , without any trouble on his part , enjoys a father \u2019 s comforts ; they love him ; me they shun ; him they trust with all their secrets , are fond of him , are { always } with him . I am forsaken ; they wish him to live ; but my death , forsooth , they are longing for . Thus , after bringing them up with all possible pains , at a trifling cost he has made them his own ; thus I bear all the misery , he enjoys the pleasure . Well , then , henceforward let us try , on the other hand , whether I can \u2019 t speak kindly and act complaisantly , as he challenges me to it : I also want myself to be loved and highly valued by my friends . If that is to be effected by giving and indulging , I will not be behind him . If our means fail , that least concerns me , as I am the eldest .", "Tell { me }, Cratinus .", "No ?", "Whew !", "Very likely what you say . In that case , when I had undertaken it , I should have shown how she was related to me ; do you do the same : tell me , how is she related to me ?", "How now , { you } hang-dog , is Ctesipho in the house ?", "I certainly will be off , as he on whose account I came hither has gone into the country . I have a care for him : that alone is my own concern , since my brother will have it so ; let him look to the other himself . But who is it I see yonder at a distance ? Isn \u2019 t it Hegio of our tribe ?If I see right , i \u2019 faith , it is he . Ah , a man I have been friendly with from a child ! Good Gods ! we certainly have a great dearth of citizens of that stamp nowadays , with the old-fashioned virtue and honesty . Not in a hurry will any misfortune accrue to the public from him . How glad I am to find some remnants of this race even still remaining ; now I feel some pleasure in living . I \u2019 ll wait here for him , to ask him how he is , and have some conversation with him .", "Are you quite in your senses ?", "Why so ?", "How ! change it indeed ?", "I must wait for my brother . The advice that he gives me about this matter , I shall follow . I \u2019 ll go make inquiry at the harbor , when he is to come back . ( Exit .", "I commend him ; O Ctesipho , you take after your father . Well , I do pronounce you a man .", "An honest and respectable woman .", "I will know him before long .", "For he did this neither through neglect or aversion to yourself . About fifteen years since , in a drunken fit , he had an intrigue with this poor woman , of whom this girl was born , nor did he ever touch her afterward . She is dead and gone : the { only } difficulty that remained in this matter . Wherefore , I do beg of you , that , as in other things , you \u2019 ll bear this with patience .", "Ha ! what \u2019 s that you say ?", "Avoid that \u2014\u2014", "Pray , what does she say ?", "Well , what do you say ?", "What news of him ? Have you seen him to-day ?", "That more wisdom may be granted you .", "If , in addition , Micio , you will do your duty , and lend him a little ready money in hand for present use , he will soon repay you .", "Fresh ones , of blackest dye .", "Why did she call him by another { name }?", "What { say } you ? Have you been letting her know why we are going to bring her ?", "What has he been doing ? He , who is ashamed of nothing , and fears no one , nor thinks that any law can control him . But I pass by what has been previously done : what a thing he has just perpetrated !", "For doing that ; in fine , receive the amount from meat which she is valued .", "Go back { now };every thing shall be done that is proper to be done .", "Let her cheer up yourself ; keep her to yourself .", "What is it he says about Ctesipho ?", "What will you do with her then ?", "Of course it does .", "For if it had not been so , you would not , Ph\u00e6dria , have stood up for him .", "For heaven \u2019 s sake , a courtesan and a matron in the same house !", "Let those things alone , the nuptial song , the crowds , the torches ,{ and } the music-girls , and order the stone wall in the gardenhere to be pulled down with all dispatch , { and } bring her over that way ; make but one house { of the two }; bring the mother and all the domestics over to our house .", "What { is } the remedy ?", "Then do you give me my money ?", "Do you ask me ? in the midst of this confusion , and during the greatest mischief , which is hardly yet set right , you have been getting drunk , you villain , as though things had been going on well .", "But does the affair please you , Micio ?", "I believe it ; answer my question .", "Oh you rascal !", "But see here \u2019 s the very man : O Micio , I have been seeking you this long time .", "Where is Antipho at present ?", "He \u2019 ll do it , { Syrus }.", "Have you heard , Chremes , what has happened to my son in my absence ?", "You , I say .", "{\u2019 Twas done } with spirit .", "Do you banter me ? Happy man , to have such a temper ! I feel \u2014", "Do be quiet , I tell you ; I \u2019 ll take care he shall not be playing any tricks { upon us }. I \u2019 ll not rashly part with this without having my witnesses ; I \u2019 ll have it stated to whom I pay it , { and } for what purpose I pay it .", "Tell me the place then .", "I have some concern { for my son }.", "You , feel any anxiety ?", "How very foolishly , in fact , we have managed the affair with him !", "Although wrong has been done me , still , however , rather than engage in litigation , or listen to you , just as though she had been my relation , { as } the law orders one to find her a portion , rid me of her , { and } take five min\u00e6 .", "I , suffer him ? Would I not have smelt it out six months before he attempted it ?", "Why can \u2019 t she ?", "I will tell you , when my wish has been complied with .", "What can you do ? If in reality this causes you no concern , to pretend it were surely the duty of a man .", "I think they deserve it . What say you , { \u00c6schinus , as to this plan }?", "Why so ?", "Your father , indeed , both by affection and by nature ; as I love you more than my very eyes ; but why don \u2019 t you send for your wife ?", "I know ; let \u2019 s go into court .", "And is it possible that Antipho has taken a wife without my consent ? and that no authority of mine \u2014 but let alone \u201c authority \u201d\u2014 no displeasure of mine , at all events , has he been in dread of ? To have no sense of shame ! O audacious conduct ! O Geta , { rare } adviser ! GETAJust { brought in } at last .", "What \u2019 s that to us ?", "Alas ! what shall I do ? How behave ? In what terms exclaim , or how make my complaint ? O heavens ! O earth ! O seas of Neptune !", "Come now , Nausistrata , after your usual way , manage to keep her in good-humor with us , { and } make her do of her own accord what must be done .", "What will they say to me , or what excuse will they find ? I wonder much . GETAWhy , I \u2019 ve found that out already ; do think of something else .", "Why , Phormio , we were coming to you .", "Will he be saying this to me : \u201c I did it against my will ; the law compelled me ?\u201d I hear { you , and } admit it . GETAWell said !", "I certainly am an unfortunate man . In the first place , I can find my brother nowhere ; and then , in the next place , while looking for him , I met a day-laborerfrom the farm ; he says that my son is not in the country , and what to do I know not \u2014\u2014", "Well now \u2014 did you ever hear of an injury being done to any person in a more affronting manner than this has to me ? Assist me , I do beg of you . GETAHe \u2019 s in a passion .", "Only { take care }, Micio , that these fine reasonings of yours , and this easy disposition of yours , do not ruin us { in the end }.", "Yes , to her nearest relative , indeed ; but why to us , or on what ground ?", "What is the meaning of all this ?", "That I \u2019 m quite sure of .", "Really , I am ashamed and grieved at my brother .", "Speak , Crito .", "O simpleton ! you are dreaming that I \u2019 m talking about the", "May the Gods confound you !", "I do every thing I can ; I spare no pains ; I train him up to it : in fine , I bid him look into the lives of men , as though into a mirror , and from others to take an example for himself . Do this , { I say }\u2014\u2014", "He has broken open a door ,and forced his way into another person \u2019 s house , beaten to death the master himself , and all the household , { and } carried off a wench whom he had a fancy for . All people are exclaiming that it was a most disgraceful proceeding . How many , Micio , told me of this as I was coming here ? It is in every body \u2019 s mouth . In fine , if an example must be cited , does he not see his brother giving his attention to business , { and } living frugally and soberly in the country ? No action of his { is } like this . When I say this to him , Micio , I say it to you . You allow him to be corrupted .", "You may go then , Nausistrata .", "Syrus , he is full of these maxims .", "Smartly { said }; you \u2019 ve got that speech up for the occasion .", "So may the Gods prosper me , I { now } see your folly ; I believe you are going to do so that you may have somebody to practice music with .", "{ Then } why does he mention him ?", "I \u2019 ll do as my brother advised me , bring hither his wife , to talk with her . Do you , Geta , go before ; tell her that Nausistrata is about to visit her .", "Let me alone .", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "I , know ?", "{ O rare } corrector ! of course it is by your art that twenty min\u00e6 have been thrown away for a Music-girl ; who , as soon as possible , must be got rid of at any price ; and if not for money , why then for nothing .", "Do you wish me to believe you ? Do you wish me to consider this as quite certain ? Very well , be it so . Well , what \u2019 s to be done with our friend \u2019 sdaughter ?", "Come , what if he should ask a still greater favor ?", "Do you ask me , when we have { such a son as } \u00c6schinus ,why I \u2019 m out of spirits ?", "Now , Micio , you are { indeed } my brother , both in spirit and in body .", "I would take care that you should be an example to all the rest .", "But knowingly , in silence , to give up the cause to his adversaries \u2014 did the law oblige him to do that as well ? GETAThat is a hard { blow }.", "If you don \u2019 t tell me of any thing \u2014\u2014", "This is praiseworthy \u2014\u2014", "I know it all , as well as yourself .", "Through her years , she is long past child-bearing ; there is no one to take care of her ; she is a lone woman .", "Would you have married her , if she had been given to you ?", "Who ordered you to say so ?", "What \u2019 s he whining about ? What does he mean ? How say you , good sir , is my brother at home ?", "That fellow , the woman \u2019 s next friend ?", "Well \u2014 is this Music-girl still with you ?", "Music-girl ; this crime is against a virgin { and } a citizen .", "I am ashamed ; and what to do , or how to answer him , I don \u2019 t know .", "What a jest he \u2019 s making { of us }.", "\u00c6schinus ! how goes it ?", "How should it go ? I can not enough wonder at your mode of living { here }.", "You have done very well .I am much more at a lossthan before . Re-enter GETA , from the house .", "He could not { have done } better : he thought the same as I { did }, that you were the principal in this affair . But is my brother within ?", "You see how the case stands . What am I to do ? Tell { me }, Hegio .", "The thing is evident ; and then besides { all } this , to cater { for them }, secretly bring home a wench , prepare a morning entertainment ;these are the accomplishments of no ordinary person .", "Go , Ph\u00e6dria , look for him , and bring him here .", "Come , do oblige your son .", "He might have borrowed it from some person or other .", "Of course .Why are you silent now ?", "They now get rewarded for it , who confound right with wrong .", "\u2019 Tis caused by our own fault , that it is advantageous to be dishonest ; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and generous . \u201c So run away as { not to run } beyond the house ,\u201das the saying is . Was it not enough to receive an injury from him , but money must be voluntarily offered him as well , that he may have something on which to subsist while he plans some other { piece } of roguery ?", "I shall burst asunder .", "Then let him at once bring six hundred actionsagainst me ; I shall give nothing at all ; is this dirty fellow to be laughing at me as well ?", "It \u2019 s my way ; but see , here \u2019 s Micio coming out ."], "true_target": ["What is to be done then ?", "I see Ph\u00e6dria , my brother \u2019 s son , coming toward me .", "How now \u2014 is he going to keep her at home ?", "I grant all that : I admit this too \u2014 the young man , unused to courts , was bashful ; I allow it : you , { too , are } a slave : still , if she was ever so near a relative , it was not necessary { for him } to marry her , but as the law enjoins , you might have given her a portion ;she could have looked out for another husband . Why , then , in preference , did he bring a pauper home ?", "I \u2019 ll carry off that Music-girl along with me as well .", "What { am I to say } to this ? If it pleases you , { henceforth }\u2014 let him spend , squander , { and } destroy ; it \u2019 s nothing to me . If I { say } one word after this \u2014\u2014", "Is profligacy like this \u2014\u2014", "Well done ! now I am called \u201c kind .\u201d My brother \u2019 s house will become a thoroughfare ; he will be bringing home a multitude , incurring expense in many ways : what matters it to me ? I , as the kind { Demea }, shall get into favor . Now then , bid that Babylonianpay down his twenty min\u00e6 .Syrus , do you delay to go and do it ?", "Well ! am I asking any thing unfair ? Or am I not to obtain even this , which is my right at common law ?", "How so ?", "I consent . Let him have { his mistress }:with her let him make an end { of his follies }.", "I \u2019 ll have done then at once .", "She is not .", "I don \u2019 t speak about the expense ; their morals \u2014", "But he has dissuaded me from giving her to you . \u201c For what ,\u201d says he , \u201c will be the talk among people if you do this ? Formerly , when she might have been handsomely { disposed of }, then she wasn \u2019 t given ; now it \u2019 s a disgrace for her to be turned out of doors , a repudiated woman ;\u201d pretty nearly , { in fact }, all the reasons which you yourself , some little time since , were urging to me .", "Did not you tell me , a short time since , that you had seen him on his way into the country ?", "See how strong the rascal is .", "Tell me , pray , don \u2019 t you exclaim about it ? Don \u2019 t you go distracted ?", "Greetings to you ; but where is Antipho ?", "Villain , is he to relate it at your request ?", "I know it .", "That my son might cohabit with her at your house , that was your design .", "Very good .I have now for the first time used these three expressions contrary to my nature ,\u2014 \u201c O Syrus , my { friend }, how are you ? \u2014 how goes it with you ?\u201dYou show yourself far from an unworthy servant , and I shall gladly do you a service .", "The girl has no fortune .", "Utterly undone ! I hear that Ctesipho was with \u00c6schinus at the carrying off { of this girl }. This sorrow { still } remains for unhappy me , should { \u00c6schinus } be able to seduce him , even him , who promises so fair , to a course of debauchery . Where am I to inquire for him ? I doubt he has been carried off to some bad house ; that profligate has persuaded him , I \u2019 m quite sure . But look \u2014 I see Syrus coming { this way }, I shall now know from him where he is . But , i \u2019 faith , he is one of the gang ; if he perceives that I am looking for him , the rascal will never tell me . I \u2019 ll not let him know what I want .", "That is considered blamable \u2014\u2014", "You are a worthy fellow . Upon my faith ,\u2014 in my opinion , at least ,\u2014 I think Syrus ought at once to be made free .", "When the one is in fault , the other is at hand to defend him ; when it is the other , { then } he is ready ; they { just } help one another by turns . GETAThe old man , without knowing it , has exactly described their proceedings .", "I \u2019 ve now come back ; and I \u2019 ll go see whether perchance my brother has yet returned .", "And he \u2014 must he marry her without one ?", "Yes , Syrus , it is the truth ; and you shall be convinced of it by experience before long .", "What has he been doing ?", "Come before a magistrate .", "I congratulate you .", "I \u2019 ll just step home to salute the household Gods .From there , I \u2019 ll go to the Forum , and summon some of my friends to give me their assistance in this affair ; so that I may not be unprepared , when Phormio comes .", "Whom did you say ?", "What is the meaning of that ?", "Ah me ! Learn to be a father from those who are really so .", "Won \u2019 t you hold your tongue ?", "Why surely , he has heard this about the Music-girl ; that gives him concern , { though } a stranger ; this father { of his } thinks nothing of it . Ah me ! I wish he were somewhere close at hand to overhear this .", "I \u2019 ll see to that ; and what with cooking and grinding , I \u2019 ll take care she shall be well covered with ashes , smoke , and meal ; besides { all } this , at the very mid-dayI \u2019 ll set her gathering stubble ; I \u2019 ll make her as burned and as black as a coal .", "I do give and return hearty thanks to the Gods , and with reason , brother , inasmuch as these matters have turned out for us so fortunately . We must now meet with Phormio as soon as possible , before he squanders our thirty min\u00e6 , so that we may get them from him .", "Why , as the occasion requires it , I must do so ; but to-morrow { I shall be off } with my son into the country at daybreak .", "Is it thus you act ?", "Ha ! How can that possibly be ?", "Be of good courage ; I \u2019 ll effect a reconciliation between you ; remembering this , Chremes , that she is deadand gone by whom you had this girl .", "Why do you wish I hadn \u2019 t , Chremes ?", "Just look at that \u2014 there \u2019 s an instance of their { good } training !", "Pull down { the wall }: and you , { Geta }, go and bring them across .", "What care and anxiety my son does bring upon me , by entangling himself and me in this same marriage ! And he doesn \u2019 t { so much as } come into my sight , that at least I might know what he says about this matter , or what his sentiments are .Be off , go see whether he has returned home or not by this .", "I know it is so , and that circumstance is a cause of anxiety to me ; and I shall never cease trying , until I \u2019 ve made good what I promised you .", "Why is he now carousing at your house ? Why are you harboring my son ? Why do you purchase a mistress for him , Micio ? Is it at all fair , that I should have any less justice from you , than you from me ? Since I do not concern myself about your { son }, don \u2019 t you concern yourself about mine .", "Two { talents }, pray ?", "On the contrary , i \u2019 faith , it is what we ought to do : in the first place , she is the mother of his wife", "Ah , { Micio }! you little know what sort of person he is .", "I neither know him , nor had I ever any relation of that name .", "I believe it is the very man I was speaking about . Follow me .", "With reason I love you ; but \u2014\u2014", "Well , well , let him take her then ; I \u2019 ll give it .", "You torture me to death ; tell me his name .", "Then besides , I see that my son is very unwilling to part with the damsel . But have the goodness to step over to the Forum , and order this money to be transferred to my account ,Phormio .", "Very good . I was afraid he might be loitering here .", "What ! You are mad , { surely }.", "Hegio here is their nearest relation ; { he is } a connection of ours { and } poor ; we ought to do some good for him .", "What will you do ?", "Oh , I shall weep for joy .", "What if he \u2019 s in debt to the amount of his life ?", "Very fine \u2014 if you would wish a thing to be nicely managed , intrust it to this { fellow }.", "What \u2019 s the matter with you ?", "Say , what did he ask ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "There is a little farm here in the suburbs , which you let out ; let us give it him to live upon .", "Then I \u2019 ll break your head for you this instant .", "You . MIC . I ?", "O Jupiter ! must that be the way { then }?", "Not without warning on my part have these things happened : I only wish it may end here ; but this immoderate indulgence will undoubtedly lead to some great misfortune . I \u2019 ll go find my brother , and vent these feelings upon him . ( Exit . SCENE VII .", "What the plague does that matter to you ?", "What \u2019 s to be done , then ?", "Plague on it ! what ill luck is this ? I can not really account for it , unless I suppose myself { only } born for the purpose of enduring misery . I am the first to feel our misfortunes ; the first to know of them all ; then the first to carry the news ; I am the only one , if any thing does go wrong , to take it to heart .", "From what cause ? Or what { was it }?", "Now { she has }.", "Do you really say so ?", "What is he doing there ?", "I took care immediately .", "Huy , huy ! that \u2019 s too much .", "And the new-made bride to be learning too ?", "It \u2019 s all up { with } you .", "For many .", "There has been a child born .", "Last of all , he assisted to-day in purchasing this Music-wench \u2014 he had the management of it ; it is right he should be rewarded ; other servants will be encouraged { thereby }: besides , hedesires it to be so .", "I can do { all } that myself .", "I will tell you :\u2014 That I may convince you of this , Micio , that the fact that they consider you an easy and kind-hearted man , does not proceed from your real life , nor , indeed , from { a regard for } virtue and justice ; but from your humoring , indulging , and pampering them . Now therefore , \u00c6schinus , if my mode of life has been displeasing to you , because I do not quite humor you in every thing , just { or } unjust , I have done : squander , buy , do what you please . But if you would rather have one to reprove and correct those faults , the results of which , by reason of your youth , you can not see , which you pursue too ardently , { and } are thoughtless upon , and in due season to direct you ; behold me ready to do it for you .", "Lead me to him then .", "I \u2019 ll ask her .", "Only let me alone { for that }.", "Why really , in seriousness , if she was the first to do so , there is no doubt she ought to be made free .", "Now , do look at that ; all alike ; all hanging together ; when you know one , you know all .", "Well now , have done .Young man , in the first place , with your good leave , I ask you this , if you may possibly be pleased to give me an answer : explain to me who this friend of yours was , that you speak of , and how he said that he was related to me .", "It is right you should marry her ; and that you , { \u00c6schinus }, should use your endeavors to effect it .", "You are a wise woman , Nausistrata .", "Have I not reason to be angry with him ? I long for him to come into my sight , that he may know that through his faultiness , from being a mild father , I am become a most severe one .", "O Jupiter ! the folly of the man !", "\u2019 Tis all in vain ; it can not be otherwise .", "Is it possible ?", "I foil him at his own weapon .SCENE IX .", "Advanced in years .", "You are now seconding me with your endeavors , just as you assisted me with your moneybefore .", "After all , if on no other terms , on interest .", "Certainly , I do order it , and in this matter , and in every thing else , { wish } especially to make this family one with ourselves , to oblige , serve , { and } unite them .", "I wish it was so , indeed .", "For my part , upon my faith , I don \u2019 t know .", "It is a matter of doubt what I am to do ; for beyond expectation , and quite past all belief , has this befallen me . So enraged am I , that I can not compose my mind to think { upon it }. Wherefore it is the duty of all persons , when affairs are the most prosperous ,then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity . Returning from abroad , let him always picture to himself dangers and losses , either offenses committed by a son , or the death of his wife , or the sickness of a daughter ,\u2014 that these things are the common lot , so that no one of them may ever come as a surprise upon his feelings . Whatever falls out beyond his hopes , all that he must look upon as so much gain . GETAO Ph\u00e6dria , it is incredible how much I surpass my master in wisdom . All my misfortunes have been { already } calculated upon by me , upon my master coming home . I must grind at the mill , be beaten , wear fetters , be set to work in the fields ; not one individual thing of these will happen unexpected by my mind . Whatever falls out beyond my expectations , all that I shall look upon as so much gain . But why do you hesitate to accost him , and soften him at the outset with fair words ?", "But see ! there \u2019 s that rascal , Syrus .", "I \u2019 ll accost him .Hegio , I bid you welcome right heartily .", "Do you imagine you are in your senses ?", "So then , you know it , and put up with it !", "Are we to drop her , then ?", "Ha ! what is it you tell me ?", "I know it .", "Far from it : but since , by reproaching , it can not now be undone , forgive him : he entreats you \u2014 he begs your pardon \u2014 owns his fault \u2014 makes an apology . What would you have more ?", "It is much more proper than that she , being sick { and } lying-in , should be brought hither through the street .", "A plague may { all } the Gods and Goddesses send upon him . That any fellow should be possessed of so much impudence ! Does not this villain deserve to be transported hence to some desolate land at the public charge ?", "Consider that it is he that says to you all I now say , or else assuredly , together with this wife { of his }, I \u2019 ll be forbidding him the house . GETAHe \u2019 s in a passion .", "O Jupiter ! here \u2019 s a life ! here are manners ! here \u2019 s madness ! A wife to be coming without a fortune ! A music-wench in the house ! A house full of wastefulness ! A young man ruined by extravagance ! An old man in his dotage ! \u2014 Should Salvation herselfdesire it , she certainly could not save this family . ( Exit .", "Do you ask me , Ph\u00e6dria ? You { people } have cooked up a fine marriage in my absence .", "Are you so resolved , you unlucky fellow , to do me all the mischief you can ?", "And then , moreover \u2014\u2014", "Forbear , pray , that you may be able { to do battle } with her ; lest she , { being } a young woman , may be more than a match for you .", "Who { is it }? \u2014 O Syrus , my { friend },save you ! how are you ? How goes it { with you }?", "But that lane is not a thoroughfare .", "Why not ?", "Do promise .", "I pray he may only continue the same he is at present !", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ?", "How should I but know it ?", "No , it shall not be so ; it must not be . Ought I to allow her to remain with him as his wife a single day ? She merits no indulgence . I should like this fellow to be pointed out to me , or to be shown where he lives .", "Well , have you brought your daughter with you , Chremes , for whom you went to Lemnos ?", "If you were my { servant }\u2014\u2014", "O , what \u2019 s your name ?", "For what reason ?", "O Jupiter ! You , sir , are driving me to distraction . Is it not a heinous thing for a young man to do these things ?", "Oh , the impudence { of the fellow }! Does he come on purpose to accuse me ?", "Come now , are you willing to listen to an old fellow like me ?", "Well then , step in-doors .", "Geta , I have this day come to the conclusion that you are a man of very great worth , for I look upon him as an undoubtedly good servant who has a care for his master ; as I have found to be your case , Geta ; and for that reason , if any opportunity should offer , I would gladly do you a service .I am practicing the affable , and it succeeds very well .", "Hah !", "Ah , excellent guardian ! save you , stay of my family , no doubt , to whom , at my departure , I intrusted my son .", "Ye Gods , by our trust in you ! is he doing this for any purpose of his own , or does he think it creditable to ruin { his } son ? Wretch that I am ! methinks I already see the day when { \u00c6schinus } will be running away for want , to serve somewhere or other as a soldier .", "I \u2019 ll go find my brother , Hegio : the advice he gives me upon this matter I \u2019 ll follow .", "Directly .", "Nausistrata , I don \u2019 t deny that in this matter he has been deserving of censure ; but still , it may be pardoned .", "Lay hold of him .", "The other one to stop ?", "Do comply .", "I don \u2019 t know ; but that I \u2019 ve told it to no one , I know for certain .", "Yes , { and } little joy to him of the bargain !", "Aye , faith , perdition { to him rather }; has he no shame ?", "Ah me ! are you not ashamed of this ?", "He shall do as you wish .", "Having hold of the rope ,you will be dancing with them .", "Oh ,\u2014 opportunely met ; you are the very man I was looking for .", "Geta ! GETAA plunderer of people \u2019 s property \u2014 a perverter of the laws !"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I did wrong .", "I felt ashamed .", "Undone !", "In what way ?", "Pray { do } so . Since this has turned out so well , let us make a cheerful day of it .", "What \u2019 s the matter ? \u2019 Tis through him , Syrus , that I am now alive \u2014 generous creature ! Has he not deemed every thing of secondary importance to himself in comparison with my happiness ? The reproach , the discredit , my own amour and imprudence , he has taken upon himself . There can be nothing beyond this ; but what means that noise at the door ?", "Just so ; for I do most confoundedly wish to pass this whole day in merry-making as I have begun it ; and for no reason do I detest that farm so heartily as for its being so near { town }. If it were at a greater distance , night would overtake him there before he could return hither again . Now , when he doesn \u2019 t find me there , he \u2019 ll come running back here , I \u2019 m quite sure ; he \u2019 ll be asking me where I have been , that I have not seen him all this day : what am I to say ?", "Nothing whatever .", "I really wish , provided it be done with no prejudice to his health , I wish that he may so effectually tire himself , that , for the next three days together , he may be unable to arise from his bed .", "My father gone into the country , say you ?", "Why , what \u2019 s the matter ?", "What , mine ?", "Ha !", "Syrus , pray do take care that he doesn \u2019 t suddenly rush in upon us here ."], "true_target": ["Pray do discharge that most abominable fellow as soon as possible ; for fear , in case he should become more angry , by some means or other this matter should reach my father , and then I should be ruined forever .", "Syrus !", "From any man , when you stand in need of it , you are glad to receive a service ; but of a truth it is doubly acceptable , if he does you a kindness who ought to do so . O brother , brother , how can I sufficiently commend you ? This I am quite sure of ; I can never speak of you in such high terms but that your deserts will surpass it . For I am of opinion that I possess this one thing in especial beyond all others , a brother than whom no individual is more highly endowed with the highest qualities .", "During the daytime ; but if I pass the night here , what excuse can I make , Syrus ?", "O Syrus , where is \u00c6schinus ?", "Do tell me , I beseech you .", "By my troth , I certainly will away with it , when I have such a brother as you . O my { dear } \u00c6schinus ! O my brother ! Alas ! I am unwilling to praise you any more to your face , lest you should think I do so rather for flattery than through gratitude .", "Is he looking for me ?", "I have ; what then ?", "Harkye , harkye , Syrus .", "What shall we do , Syrus ?", "What ! my father ?", "If he makes any inquiries , you { have seen } me nowhere ; do you hear ?", "Never this day will I depend on your management for that , upon my faith ; for I \u2019 ll shut myself up with her in some cupboard\u2014 that \u2019 s the safest .", "When I have not been engaged ? That can never do ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I \u2019 faith , he \u2019 ll certainly be here just now , for he never lets a day pass without visiting us .", "Like to end , do you ask ? I \u2019 troth , right well , I trust .", "Pooh , pooh ! are you in your senses , my { good } man ? Does this seem to you a business to be made known to any one ?"], "true_target": ["You are in a fright now , just as though you had never been present { on such an occasion }\u2014 never been in labor yourself .", "Pray , let us go nearer to him , Sostrata . GETAAh wretched me ! I am scarcely master of my senses , I am so inflamed with anger . There is nothing that I would like better than for all that family to be thrown in my way , that I might give vent to all { my } wrath upon them while this wound is still fresh . I could be content with any punishment , so I might only wreak my vengeance on them . First , I would stop the breath of the old fellow himself who gave being to this monster ; then as for his prompter , Syrus , out upon him ! how I would tear him piecemeal ! I would snatch him by the middle up aloft , and dash him head downward upon the earth , so that with his brains he would bestrew the road : I would pull out the eyes of the young fellow himself , { and } afterward hurl him headlong { over some precipice }. The others I would rush upon , drive , drag , crush , and trample them { under foot }. But why do I delay at once to acquaint my mistress with this calamity ?", "Things could not have happened , mistress , more for the advantage of your daughter than they have , seeing that violence was offered her ; so far as he is concerned , it is most lucky ,\u2014 such a person , of such disposition and feelings , a member of so respectable a family ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["He has never left off uttering abuse against you behind your back , unworthy of you , and { just } befitting himself .", "There \u2019 s for you . Is it any thing new or wonderful to be called back , directly you \u2019 ve started ?", "That I have seen his father , your uncle .", "I \u2019 ll tell you on the road ; first thing , betake yourself off . ( Exeunt", "I entreat you \u2014\u2014", "But really , on carefully reflecting upon this matter I think I have found a remedy .", "Just so .", "I tell you .", "Therefore , Antipho , since matters are thus , the more need have you to be on your guard ; fortune helps the brave .", "Aye , faith , put me to the torture , Demea , if such is not the fact : besides , he will not deny it . Confront me with him .", "I \u2019 ll have him here immediately .", "His land is mortgaged ,\u2014 for ten min\u00e6 he said .", "\u00c6schinus \u2014\u2014", "I am obliged to you ; and I return you thanks for not having forgotten me .", "But he \u2019 s not going to marry her .", "From some person or other ? Nothing more easily said .", "Well done , my { master }, that \u2019 s right !", "Do have done ; that is his way .", "When I left you , by accident Phormio met me .", "See , he \u2019 s coming from his place of exercise .", "What is it you say ?", "Most undoubtedly .", "He formerly cohabited secretly with her mother at Lemnos .", "Not yet .", "Now \u2014\u2014", "Do help us .", "May the Gods bless you , Demea , as I see you so sincere a well-wisher to our family .", "That \u2019 s just the thing . There now , keep to that , and answer him word for word , like for like ; don \u2019 t let him , in his anger , disconcert you with his blustering words .", "He was persuaded to this . It was carried out ; they came { into court }: we were beaten . He has married her .", "Do you remember what were your words formerly on our entering upon this project , with the view of protecting yourselves from ill consequences \u2014 that their cause was just , clear , unanswerable , { and } most righteous ?", "O brave and kind man ! But , Phormio , I often dread lest this courage may end in the stocks at last .", "He does deny it .", "I will .", "Antipho , you are the only favorite of the Gods .", "Suppose he were to give a great talent .", "Aye , and I \u2019 ll give you still further reason for believing it : your uncle in the mean time came out from there ; not long after he returned again , with your father ; each said that he gave you permission to retain her ; in fine , I \u2019 ve been sent to find you , and bring you to them .", "Can you imagine to what an extent ? Observe the consequence . The day after , he goes straight to the old woman ; entreats her to let him have her : she , on the other hand , refuses him , and says that he is not acting properly ; that she is a citizen of Athens , virtuous , and born of honest { parents }: that if he wishes to make her his wife , he is at liberty to do so according to law ; but if otherwise , she gives him a refusal . Our { youth } was at a loss what to do . He was both eager to marry her , and he dreaded his absent father .", "I \u2019 m considering .He \u2019 s all safe , so far as I can guess : but still , I \u2019 m afraid of mischief .", "What ? A great deal too much .", "None ; but be off home , and comfort that poor thing , who I am sure is now in-doors almost dead with fear . Do you linger ?", "But still , we were not a bit the more remiss on that account .", "Exactly so .", "There is nothing , Antipho , but what it may be made worse by being badly told : you leave out what is good , { and } you mention the bad . Now then , hear the other side : if he receives the money , she must be taken as his wife , you say ; I grant you ; still , some time at least will be allowed for preparing for the nuptials , for inviting , { and } for sacrificing . In the mean time , { Ph\u00e6dria \u2019 s } friends will advance what they have promised ; out of that he will repay it .", "Undone \u2014 It \u2019 s all over with us .", "May all the Gods grant you what you are deserving of !", "You shall know , if you can only keep it secret .", "Extremely so .", "Has abandoned our family .", "He has attached himself to another woman .", "Well .", "Well \u2014 leave me alone ,whoever you are .", "What do you think ?", "I \u2019 faith , judging from what the fellow is , I don \u2019 t know whether he mightn \u2019 t change his mind .", "When departing hence , both the old gentlemen left me as a sort of tutor to their sons .", "But Ph\u00e6dria has not neglected to use his endeavors in your behalf .", "Here I overheard a very pretty piece of business ; so much so that I had nearly cried out for joy .", "If by these means we can only manage for him to marry her .", "I don \u2019 t know for certain ; but I just now heard that a letter has been brought from him , and has been left with the officers of the customs : I \u2019 m going to fetch it .", "He has given this piece of advice , which I will tell you of . \u201c There is a law , that orphan girls are to marry those who are their next-of-kin ; and the same law commands such persons to marry them . I \u2019 ll say you are the next-of-kin , and take out a summonsagainst you ; I \u2019 ll pretend that I am a friend of the girl \u2019 s father ; we will come before the judges : who her father was , who her mother , how she is related to you \u2014 all this I \u2019 ll trump up , just as will be advantageous and suited to my purpose ; on your disproving none of these things , I shall prevail , of course . Your father will return ; a quarrel will be the consequence ; what care I ? She will still be ours .\u201d", "Quite sure ; I saw it myself , Sostrata , with these same eyes .", "For my part , I \u2019 m sure it is { but } fair .", "And I \u2019 ll go look for Antipho , that he may learn what has passed here . But look , I see him coming this way , just in the very nick of time .", "How go matters ?", "Aye , faith , because nobody else takes any notice { of us }.", "O being most blessed of all men living ! For without question ,", "What ! Sold her ?", "Do you ask the question ? \u201c How many circumstances , since then , have befallen me as prodigies ? A strange black dogentered the house ; a snake came down from the tiles through the sky-light ;a hen crowed ;the soothsayer forbade it ; the divinerwarned me not : besides , before winter there is no sufficient reason for me to commence upon any new undertaking .\u201d This will be the case .", "It \u2019 s impossible that sufficient thanks can be returned you by him for your kindness .", "Just what you have heard .", "What will you do ?", "May the Gods prosper your design ! Cautiously \u2019 s { the word }, however .", "Be sure , Phormio , that there is some reason : but do you suppose that , outside of the door , I was able to understand every thing that passed between them within ?", "Ha , my { dear } Sostrata , take care what you do !", "For some minutes past I \u2019 ve heard you accusing all of us undeservedly ; and me the most undeservedly of them all ; for what would you have had me do for you in this affair ? The laws do not allow a person who is a slave to plead ; nor is there any giving evidence{ on his part }.", "I , indeed , have no wish for it . In the first place , then , that his feelings are estranged from us , the thing itself declares . Now , if we make this known , he \u2019 ll deny it , I \u2019 m quite sure ; your reputation and your daughter \u2019 s character will { then } be in danger . On the other hand , if he were fully to confess it , as he is in love with another woman , it would not be to her advantage to be given to him . Therefore , under either circumstance , there is need of silence .", "All my hope is in myself .", "How { is } that ?", "Away from home .", "Well , { and } his son Ph\u00e6dria ?", "They say that he has not come back .", "Most clearly so .", "You \u2019 ve hit upon the very thing .", "Take yourselves off .", "Aye , aye , fine talking ; as if any one would have trusted him , while you were living .", "He said he was wishful to act by his advice , in all that relates to this business .", "It seemed to me that I might first sound him ; I took the fellow aside : \u201c Phormio ,\u201d said I , \u201c why don \u2019 t we try to settle these matters between us rather with a good grace than with a bad one ? { My } master \u2019 s a generous { man }, and one who hates litigation ; but really , upon my faith , all his friends were just now advising him with one voice to turn her instantly out of doors .\u201d", "Hark you , take you care .", "You are trifling .", "Do you persist ? Troth , you shall not on this occasion get the better of me by your annoyance .", "You are kind , sir , to think so .", "Oh ! What are you about ? Whither are you going , Antipho ? Stop ,", "You shall have them directly ; but I must have Phormio for my assistant in this business ."], "true_target": ["What , have you told him ? Disgraceful conduct , Chremes , thus to be imposed on .", "Well , well , I \u2019 ll get them for you .", "Diddling the old fellows out of their money .", "With his words he silenced the old man , who was very angry .", "Geta .", "He let him marry a girl with no fortune , and of obscure birth ! He would never do { so }.", "He has a house besides , { mortgaged } for another ten .", "I \u2019 ll omit telling you { that }, as it is nothing to the present purpose , Antipho . Just as I was going to the woman \u2019 s apartments , the boy Mida came running up to me , and caught me behind by my cloak , { and } pulled me back ; I turned about , { and } inquired for what reason he stopped me ; he said that it was forbidden for any one to go in to his mistress . \u201c Sophrona has just now ,\u201d said he , \u201c introduced here Chremes , the old gentleman \u2019 s brother ,\u201d and { he said } that he was then in the room with them : when I heard this , on tip-toe I stole softly along ; I came there , stood , held my breath , I applied my ear , { and } so began to listen , catching the conversation every word in this fashion", "Any at all \u2014 how ?", "And he makes no secret of it ; he himself has carried her off openly from a procurer .", "I \u2019 ll do so .", "You \u2019 ll be getting a beating .", "And relieved us , his friends , from alarm ; but I \u2019 m now delaying , in not throwing my cloakover my shoulder, and making haste to find him , that he may know what has happened .", "Is that it , then ?", "I \u2019 ll accost them .O welcome to you , our { neighbor } Chremes .", "\u201c Take care and let me know ,\u201d said he , \u201c as soon as possible , if they are going to let me have her , that I may get rid of the other , so that I mayn \u2019 t be in doubt ; for the others have agreed to pay me down the portion directly .\u201d", "Stilpho .", "I never saw a more cunning fellow than this Phormio . I came to the fellow to tell him that money was needed , and by what means it might be procured . Hardly had I said one half , when he understood me ; he was quite delighted ; complimented me ; asked where the old man was ; gave thanks to the Gods that an opportunity was afforded him for showing himself no less a friend to Ph\u00e6dria than to Antipho : I bade the fellow wait for me at the Forum ; whither I would bring the old gentleman . But see , here \u2019 s the very manWho is the further one ? Heyday , Ph\u00e6dria \u2019 s father has got back ! still , brute beast that I am , what was I afraid of ? Is it because two are presented instead of one for me to dupe ? I deem it preferable to enjoy a two-fold hope . I \u2019 ll try for it from him from whom I first intended : if he gives it me , well and good ; if I can make nothing of him , then I \u2019 ll attack this new-comer .", "Well then , listen .", "Listen , then . When we just now paid you the money at the Forum , we went straight to Chremes ; in the mean time , my master sent me to your wife .", "But just now it is especially necessary you should be so , Antipho ; for if your father perceives that you are alarmed , he will think that you have been guilty of some fault .", "Pretty well .", "This is doing nothing at all , Ph\u00e6dria , let \u2019 s be gone ; why do we waste our time here to no purpose . I shall be off .", "It was you that urged us .", "Upon my faith , you really do give me fine advice ; out upon you ! Ought I not to be heartily glad , if I meet with no mishap through your marriage , but what , in addition to that , you must now bid me , for his sake , to be seeking risk upon risk ?", "Why , something most marvelous . Your uncle has been discovered to be the father of your wife , Phanium .", "I wish I could ; but where { it is to come } from \u2014 tell me that .", "Quite \u2014", "The very person I wanted to find .", "What am I to say to this ? I agree , as you speak for the best .", "It shall be the case ; trust me for that . Your father \u2019 s coming out ; go tell Ph\u00e6dria that the money is found .", "How much money do you want ? Tell me .", "Davus , do you know Chremes , the elder brother of our old gentleman ?", "Do you then accost him first ; I \u2019 ll be here in reserve ,by way of reinforcement , if you give ground at all .", "He does deny it .", "Then Phormio , too , in this matter , just as in every thing else , showed himself a man of energy .", "{ Say } that you were forced against your will by law , by sentence of the court ; do you take me ?But who is the old man that I see at the end of the street ?", "Just now , at the harbor \u2014", "I , too , { did } all I could .", "No { particular } reason ; but he hadn \u2019 t the money .", "I \u2019 faith , I don \u2019 t know : it \u2019 s just what I was told { to do }.", "I don \u2019 t consider { you so }. But is it so trifling a matter that the old gentleman is now vexed with us all , that we must provoke him still more , and leave no room for entreaty ?", "I know ; but what of that ?", "What was it then that you did ask ?", "Such is the fact .", "I \u2019 ll be off hence to the Procurer \u2019 s ; they are there just now .", "You will just hear some harsh language : I shall be trussed up and trounced , if I am not somewhat mistaken . But what we were just now advising Antipho to do , the same we must do ourselves , Ph\u00e6dria .", "Phormio , do you mean ?", "Just what I said to him : \u201c Pray ,\u201d { said I }, \u201c suppose he was portioning an only daughter of his own . It has been of little benefit that he hasn \u2019 t one of his own , when another has been found to be demanding a fortune .\u201d To be brief , and to pass over his impertinences , this at last was his final answer : \u201c I ,\u201d said he , \u201c from the very first , have been desirous to marry the daughter of my friend , as was fit I should ; for I was aware of the ill results of this , a poor wife being married into a rich family , and becoming a slave . But , as I am now conversing with you unreservedly , I was in want of { a wife } to bring me a little money with which to pay off my debts ; and even yet , if Demipho is willing to give as much as I am to receive with her to whom I am engaged , there is no one whom I should better like for a wife .\u201d", "Upon my faith , I don \u2019 t know ; this one thing I do know , whatever fortune may bring , I \u2019 ll bear it with firmness .", "The old man is coming ; take care what you are about ; the first onset is the fiercest ; if you stand that , then , afterward , you may play just as you please .", "You \u2019 ve hit it .", "What came of it ? There is one Phormio here , a Parasite , a fellow of great assurance ; may all the Gods confound him !", "Suppose I have recourse to some one to intercede for me , who will plead for me in these terms : \u201c Pray , do forgive him this time ; but if after this { he does } any thing , I make no entreaty :\u201d if only he doesn \u2019 t add , \u201c When I \u2019 ve gone , e \u2019 en kill him { for my part }.\u201d", "Thirty ? Heyday ! she \u2019 s monstrous dear , Ph\u00e6dria .", "What , I ? You little know what terror and peril I am in .", "He who { patronized } her .", "No .", "Well then , now there \u2019 s need of that { plea }, or of one still better and more plausible , if such there can be .", "{ Dear } mistress , forbear weeping , and rather consider what must be done for the future in this matter . Shall we submit to it , or shall we tell it to any person ?", "True ; have you heard what has happened to Antipho ?", "I won \u2019 t delay .", "I came to experience it , I know that . I \u2019 m quite sure that I was forsaken by my good Genius , who must have been angry with me .I began to oppose them at first ; { but } what need of talking ? As long as I was trusty to the old men , I was paid for it in my shoulder-blades . This , then , occurred to my mind : why , this is folly to kick against the spur .I began to do every thing for them that they wished to be humored in .", "Is it enough if I plunge you into a sea of joy ?", "Our { young fellow did } no mischief whatever at first ; that Ph\u00e6dria at once picked up a certain damsel , a Music-girl , { and } fell in love with her to distraction . She belonged to a most abominable Procurer ; and their fathers had taken good care that they should have nothing to give him . There remained nothing for him then but to feed his eyes , to follow her about , to escort her to the school ,and to escort her back again . We , having nothing to do , lent our aid to Ph\u00e6dria . Near the school at which she was taught , right opposite the place , there was a certain barber \u2019 s shop : here we were generally in the habit of waiting for her , until she was coming home again . In the mean time , while { one day } we were sitting there , there came in a young man in tears ;we were surprised at this . We inquired what was the matter ? \u201c Never ,\u201d said he , \u201c has poverty appeared to me a burden so grievous and so insupportable as just now . I have just seen a certain poor young woman in this neighborhood lamenting her dead mother . She was laid out before her , and not a single friend , acquaintance , or relation was there with her , except one poor old woman , to assist her in the funeral : I pitied her . The girl herself was of surpassing beauty .\u201d What need of a long story ? She moved us all . At once Antipho { exclaims }, \u201c Would you like us to go and visit her ?\u201d The other { said }, \u201c I think we ought \u2014 let us go \u2014 show us the way , please .\u201d We went , and arrived { there }; we saw her ; the girl was beautiful , and that you might say so the more , there was no heightening to her beauty ; her hair disheveled , her feet bare , herself neglected , and in tears ; her dress mean , so that , had there not been an excess of beauty in her very charms , these circumstances must have extinguished those charms . The one who had lately fallen in love with the Music-girl said : \u201c She is well enough ;\u201d but our { youth }\u2014", "Let \u2019 s go to him at once then .", "What would you do , if now something else still more difficult had to be done by you ?", "Who is it ?Oh !\u2014\u2014", "In you is { all } our hope .", "Alas ! Alas !", "Why , really , nothing at all , except mere hopes .", "How cautious he is , when there \u2019 s no need for it !", "It { so } happened to both the old gentlemen , just at the same period , that the one had to take a journey to Lemnos , and our { old man } to Cilicia , to see an old acquaintance ; he tempted over the old man by letters , promising { him } all but mountains of gold .", "All our hopes , Hegio , are centred in you ; you we have for { our } only { friend }; you are our protector , our father . The old man , { Simulus }, when dying , recommended us to you ; if you forsake us , we are undone .", "I \u2019 ll do { so }.", "Oh , are you here too , Phormio ?", "What is the meaning of that expression ?", "At first the fellow raved .", "{ Nothing ; but } that I wish you well .Hark you , boyIs nobody coming out here ?Take this , and give it to Dorcium .", "O fortune ! O good luck !with blessings how great , how suddenly hast thou loaded this day with thy favors to my master Antipho !\u2014", "I don \u2019 t know .", "I \u2019 m delighted to see you safe returned .", "What can I do ?", "The money \u2019 s been got for Ph\u00e6dria ; it \u2019 s all hushed about the lawsuit ; due care has been taken that she \u2019 s not to leave for the present . What next , then ? What \u2019 s to be done ? You are still sticking in the mud . You are paying by borrowing ;the evil that was at hand , has been put off for a day . The toils are increasing upon you , if you don \u2019 t look out . Now I \u2019 ll away home , and tell Phanium not to be afraid of Nausistrata , or his talking .", "Here comes Ph\u00e6dria .", "This must be some one pretty familiar , threatening me with a beating .But is it the person I \u2019 m in search of or not ? \u2019 Tis the very man ! Up to him at once .", "The commencement is just in this position , as I tell you : matters , at present , are going on smoothly , and your father intends to wait for your uncle till he arrives .", "I don \u2019 t know : but \u201c if perhaps ,\u201d I say .", "A lady \u2019 s maid must be brought for his wife ; and then too , a little more is wanted for some furniture , { and } some is wanted for the wedding expenses . \u201c Well then ,\u201d said he , \u201c for these items , put down ten more .\u201d", "No doubt of it , Hegio .", "He does deny it .", "Dunghill !", "Not any at present ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I believe that he has spoken with due deliberation ; but it is the fact , \u201c as many men , so many minds ;\u201devery one his own way . It doesn \u2019 t appear to me that what has been done by law can be revoked ; and it is wrong to attempt it .", "Be of good heart ,Sostrata , and take care and console her as far as you can . I \u2019 ll go find Micio , if he is at the Forum , and acquaint him with the whole circumstances in their order ; if so it is that he will do his duty { by you }, let him do so ; but if his sentiments are otherwise about this matter , let him give me his answer , that I may know at once what I am to do . ( Exit .", "Worse , by far : for this indeed might in some measure have been borne with . The hour of night prompted him ; passion , wine , young blood ; \u2019 tis human nature . When he was sensible of what he had done , he came voluntarily to the girl \u2019 s mother , weeping , praying , entreating , pledging his honor , vowing that he would take her home .{ The affair } was pardoned , hushed , up , his word taken . The girl from that intercourse became pregnant : { this } is the tenth month . He , worthy fellow , has provided himself , if it please the Gods , with a Music-girl to live with ; the other he has cast off .", "But , Demea , take you care and reflect upon this : the more easy you are in your circumstances , the more powerful , wealthy , affluent , { and } noble you are , so much the more ought you with equanimity to observe { the dictates of } justice , if you would have yourselves esteemed as men of probity .", "Beware how you mention { that }; I neither will do it , nor do I think thaat ; with due regard to the ties of relationship , I could .", "You act with kindness ; all who are in distressed circumstances are suspicious ,to I know not what degree ; they take every thing too readily as an affront ; they fancy themselves trifled with on account of their helpless condition ; therefore it will be more satisfactory for you to justify him to them yourself .", "Oh immortal Gods ! a disgraceful action , Geta ! What is it you tell me ?", "The mother of the young woman is among us ,the young woman too ; the fact { speaks for } itself ; this Geta , besides , according to the common run of servants , not a bad one or of idle habits ; he supports them ; alone , maintains the whole family ; take him , bind him ,examine him upon the matter .", "Unless they do as they ought to do , they shall not come off so easily .", "Oh ! I you are the very man I was looking for . Greetings to you , Demea .", "You knew my friend and year \u2019 s-mate , Simulus ?"], "true_target": ["You act with kindness ; for you \u2019 ll then both have relieved her mind who is { now } languishing in sorrow and affliction , and have discharged your duty . But if you think otherwise , I will tell her myself what you have been saying to me .", "That so ignoble a deed should come from that family ! Oh \u00c6schinus , assuredly you haven \u2019 t taken after your father in that !", "Your eldest son \u00c6schinus , whom you gave to your brother to adopt , has been acting the part of neither an honest man nor a gentleman .", "He has debauched his daughter , a virgin .", "Oh , far from it ; I never led myself to believe you to be otherwise than you are ; but I beg , Micio , that you will go with me to the mother of the young woman , and { repeat to her } the same ; what you have told me , do you yourself tell the woman , that this suspicion of { \u00c6schinus \u2019 s fidelity } was incurred on his brother \u2019 s account , { and } that this Music-girl was for him .", "What , I ? I think Cratinus { ought }, if it seems good to you .", "Do you want any thing further with us ?", "Stay , Demea . You have not yet heard the worst .", "Ah ! she is now imploring your protection , Demea ; let her obtain from you spontaneously what the power { of the law } compels you to give . I do entreat the Gods that what befits you may at once be done . But if your sentiments are otherwise , Demea , I will defend both them and him who is dead to the utmost of my power . He was my kinsman :we were brought up together from children , we were companions in the wars and at home , together we experienced the hardships of poverty . I will therefore exert myself , strive , use all methods , in fine lay down my life , rather than forsake these women . What answer do you give me ?", "It becomes you to act { thus }. Geta , show me in to Sostrata .", "Hold ; is she in labor , pray ?"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["For my part , indeed , I have been far from enjoying myself , in leaving this place for Corinth with a most brutal captain ; for two whole years , there , had I to put up with him to my sorrow .", "What then ?", "Why , look you , has he not taken one ?", "What ! Hold no one exempt ?", "It can not be expressed how impatient I was to return hither , get rid of the captain , and see yourselves here , that after our old fashion I might at my ease enjoy the merry-makings among you ; for there it was not allowed { me } to speak , except at { the moment } prescribed , { and } on such subjects as he chose .", "For fear , I suppose , it may be made public . So may the Gods prosper me , I do not ask you in order that I may spread it abroad , but that , in silence , I may rejoice within myself .", "Pamphilus .", "And yet , upon my faith , it is unfair to be the same to all .", "Oh , don \u2019 t { say so }, Parmeno ;as though you were not much more impatient to tell me this , than I to learn what I \u2019 m inquiring about .", "You tell me of a conscientious and virtuous disposition in", "I \u2019 faith , Syra , you can find but very few lovers who prove constant to their mistresses . For instance , how often did this Pamphilus swear to Bacchis \u2014 how solemnly , so that any one might have readily believed him \u2014 that he never would take home a wife so long as she lived . Well now , he is married .", "What is there yet in this marriage to prevent its being lasting ?"], "true_target": ["Farewell !", "After this , what followed ?", "But what is this piece of business that Bacchis has just now been telling me in-doors here ?{ A thing } I never supposed would come to pass , that he , in her lifetime , could possibly prevail upon his feelings to take a wife .", "May the Gods and Goddesses grant it so , if it is for the advantage of Bacchis . But why am I to believe it is so ? Tell me , Parmeno .", "What is it you tell me ? A young man go to bed with a virgin , intoxicated to boot , { and } able to restrain himself from touching her ! You do not say what \u2019 s likely ; nor do I believe it to be the truth .", "What { did he do } in the mean while ? Used he to visit Bacchis ?", "O , good-morrow , Parmeno .", "You are { now } returning to your { natural } disposition . I give you my word ; say on .", "I \u2019 m all attention .", "I \u2019 faith , that \u2019 s not to be wondered at .", "May the Gods and Goddesses confound you , Laches , for vexing him so !", "And I too , for I made an appointment with a certain strangerto meet him ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["My wife , when she saw me going to my daughter , betook herself out of the house : and look , there she is .What have you to say , Myrrhina ? Hark you ! to you I speak .", "Let him consider , and bring me word to-day , whether he will or will not , that she may belong to another if she does not to him .", "Don \u2019 t punch me so .I desired it .", "Upon my faith , I did not believe he would be so brutish ; does he now fancy that I shall come begging to him ? If { so } it is that he chooses to take back his wife , why , let him ; if he is of another mind , let him pay back her portion ,{ and } take himself off .", "I wish I were sure that so it was ; but now it recurs to my mind what you once said about this matter , when we accepted him as { our } son-in-law . For you declared that you could not endure your daughter to be married to a person who was attached to a courtesan , { and } who spent his nights away from home .", "By all means . No wonder if my wife has taken this amiss : women are resentful ; they do not easily put up with such things . Hence that anger of hers , for she herself told me of it ; I would not mention this to you in his presence , and at first I did not believe her ; but now it is true beyond a doubt ; for I see that his feelings are altogether averse to marriage .", "What obstinacy is this ?", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "\u2019 Tis in your own power to prevent that .", "Why do you tell me these things ? { Is it } because you have not already heard what my feelings are with regard to this matter , Laches ? Do you only satisfy their minds .", "I sincerely wish it may be { so }.", "I knew much sooner than you did , Myrrhina , that he kept a mistress ; but this I never considered a crime in young men ; for it is natural to them all . For , i \u2019 faith , the time will soon come when even he will be disgusted with himself { for doing so }. But just as you formerly showed yourself , you have never ceased to be the same up to the present time ; in order that you might withdraw your daughter from him , and that what I did might not hold good , one thing itself now plainly proves how far you wished it carried out .", "Because you have had a windfall , a little money , your minds are elevated .", "Nothing at my house will I suffer you to be in want of ; but whatever is requisite shall be supplied { you } in abundance . Still , when you are well fed and well drenched , do take care that the child has enough .", "Do you yourselves now consider , Laches , and you , Pamphilus , whether it is most advisable for you to leave her or take her back . What your wife may do , is not in my control . Under neither circumstance will you meet with any difficulty from me . But what are we to do with the child ?", "And I promise that they shall be your friends , when they know the fact ; for you will release them from their mistake , and yourself , at the same time , from suspicion .", "Upon my faith , I am angry with you too , Philumena , extremely so , for , on my word , you have acted badly ; still there is an excuse for you in this matter ; your mother forced you to it ; but for her there is none .", "You may wish that with impunity ; he \u2019 ll never come to life again ; and after all I know which of the two you would prefer .", "This conduct does not vex me less than yourself , Laches .", "Well , I have already said , and I now say again to the same effect , Laches , I wish this alliance between us to continue , if by any means it possibly may , which I trust will be the case . But should you likeme to be with you while you meet her ?", "I , Pamphilus , could really wish , if it were possible , this alliance between us to be lasting ; but if you are otherwise inclined , { still } take the child ."], "true_target": ["Upon my faith , those women don \u2019 t fear the Gods ; and I don \u2019 t think that the Gods care about them .", "Laches , I am sensible of both your carefulness and your good-will , and I am persuaded that all you say is just as you say : and I would have you believe me in this ; I am anxious for her to return to you , if I possibly can by any means effect it .", "Of course .", "Just look at that , now !", "We have had a grandson born to us ; for my daughter was removed from you in a state of pregnancy , and yet never before this day did I know that she was pregnant .", "I am glad that you have returned , Pamphilus , and the more especially so , as you are safe and well .", "Do you ask the question ? Is not your daughter brought to bed ? Eh , are you silent ? By whom ?", "And suppose he does not wish it , and you , Myrrhina , knew him to be in fault ; { still } I was at hand , by whose advice it was proper for these matters to be settled ; therefore I am greatly offended that you have presumed to act thus without my leave . I forbid you to attempt to carry the child any where out of this house . But I am very foolish to be expecting her to obey my orders . I \u2019 ll go in-doors , and charge the servants to allow it to be carried out nowhere .", "Am I your husband ? Do you consider me a husband , or a man , in fact ? For , woman , if I had ever appeared to you to be either of these , I should not in this way have been held in derision by your doings .", "I believe it ; nor indeed is it for a father to think otherwise . But I wonder much what the reason can be for which you so very much wish all of us to be in ignorance of the truth , especially when she has been delivered properly , and at the right time .That you should be of a mind so perverse as to prefer that the child should perish , through which you might be sure that hereafter there would be a friendship more lasting between us , rather than that , at the expense of your feelings , his wife should continue with him ! I supposed this to be their fault , while { in reality } it lies with you .", "Alas ! your wife has been guilty of no fault in this affair ; all this { mischief } has originated in my wife Myrrhina .", "By no means ; for when I urged it still more strongly , and attempted to constrain her by force to return , she solemnly protested that she couldn \u2019 t possibly remain with you , while Pamphilus was absent . Probably each has his own failing ; I am naturally of an indulgent disposition ; I can not thwart my own family .", "\u2019 Tis she that causes our disturbances , Laches .", "It \u2019 s clear he guesses right ; for that must be it .", "Can you possibly foresee or judge what is to our advantage ? You have heard it of some one , perhaps , who has told you that he has seen him coming from or going to his mistress . What then ? If he has done so with discretion , and but occasionally , is it not more kind in us to conceal our knowledge of it , than to do our best to be aware of it , in consequence of which he will detest us ? For if he could all at once have withdrawn himself from her with whom he had been intimate for so many years , I should not have deemed him a man , or likely to prove a constant husband for our daughter .", "Is this she ?", "Just so .", "You have returned to us in a very ungovernable mood , Pamphilus .", "Although I am aware , Philumena , that I have the right to compel you to do what I order , still , being swayed by the feelings of a father , I will prevail { upon myself } to yield to you , and not oppose your inclination .", "What are you to do ? I am of opinion that first we ought to go to this mistress of { his }. Let us use entreaties with her ; { then } let us rebuke her ; and at last , let us very seriously threaten her , if she gives him any encouragement in future .", "For the present , at least , as it seems ; but have you any thing else to say ? for I have some business that obliges me to go at once to the Forum ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Is it proper for a father to be asking such a question ? Oh , shocking ! By whom do you think , pray , except by him to whom she was given in marriage ?", "Do have done about the young man , I pray ; and what you say I \u2019 ve been guilty of . Go away , meet him by yourself ; ask him whether he wishes to have her as a wife or not ; if so it is that he should say he does wish it , { why }, send her { back }; but if on the other hand he does not wish it , I have taken the best course for my { child }.", "By what { doings }?", "Do you suppose that I am so willful that I could have entertained such feelings toward one whose mother I am , if this match had been to our advantage ?", "I am undone ! What am I to do ? which way turn myself ? In my wretchedness , what answer am I to give to my husband ? For he seems to have heard the voice of the child when crying , so suddenly did he rush in to my daughter without saying a word . What if he comes to know that she has been delivered ? for what reason I am to say I kept it concealed , upon my faith I do not know . But there \u2019 s a noise at the door ; I believe it is himself coming out to me : I \u2019 m utterly undone !"], "true_target": ["I am an unhappy creature !", "Upon my faith , I do believe that there is no woman living more wretched than I ; for how he would take it , if he came to know the real state of the case , i \u2019 faith , is not unknown to me , when he bears this , which is of less consequence , with such angry feelings ; and I know not in what way his sentiments can possibly be changed . Out of very many misfortunes , this one evil alone had been wanting to me , for him to compel me to rear a child of whom we know not who is the father ; for when my daughter was ravished , it was so dark that his person could not be distinguished , nor was any thing taken from him on the occasion by which it could be afterward discovered who he was . He , on leaving her , took away from the girl , by force , a ring whichshe had upon her finger . I am afraid , too , of Pamphilus , that he may be unable any longer to conceal what I have requested , when he learns that the child of another is being brought up as his .", "What , to me , my husband ?", "Any cause whatever I had rather he should suspect than the right one .", "Prithee , my child , do be silent ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["And I just as much .", "Nothing at all . I know a certain lady herewhose husband had \u2014\u2014", "You are trifling .", "If you can agree with her , you will have some one to cheer up your old age ; { just } consider your time of life .", "Perhaps about the very same affair .I \u2019 faith , I thought so . What were you coming to my house for ? Ridiculous ; are you afraid that I sha \u2019 n \u2019 t do what I have once undertaken ? Hark you , whatever is my poverty , still , of this one thing I have taken due care , not to forfeit my word .", "His name ?", "Oh , oh , why are you mute now ?", "Or e \u2019 en gouge out an eye . The time \u2019 s coming when I shall have a full revenge on you .", "He is talking to the dead .", "If you will let me have her for a wife , as you promised , I \u2019 ll take her ; but if you prefer that she should stay with you , the portion must stay with me , Demipho . For it isn \u2019 t fair that I should be misled for you , as it was for your own sakes that I broke off with the other woman , who was to have brought me a portion just as large .", "Because the net is never spread for the hawk or the kite , that do us the mischief ; it is spread for those that do us none : because in the last there is profit , while with the others it is labor lost . For persons , out of whom any thing can be got , there \u2019 s risk from others ; they know that I \u2019 ve got nothing . You will say : \u201c They will take you ,when sentenced , into their house ;\u201d they have no wish to maintain a devouring fellow ; and , in my opinion , they are wise , if for an injury they are unwilling to return the highest benefits .", "I \u2019 ve been for some time in a state of suspense .", "You \u2019 d have been the first , from memory , to trace your line of kindred , even as far back as from grandfather and great-grandfather .", "The whole business , Phormio , rests on yourself alone ; you yourself have hashed it up ;it must all be swallowed by yourself , { so } set about it .", "Upon my faith , you are treating me in a very insulting manner .", "If he inquires .", "Why , it \u2019 s { just } what he deserves . GETASay you so , you jail-bird ?", "So it is , I tell you . Do you only { give me } the thirty min\u00e6 which Dorio \u2014", "You are provoking me .", "Invite me to dinner .", "If you use her in any other manner than is befitting a free-born woman , I shall be bringing a swinging action against you : I have said it , Demipho .Hark you , if there should be any occasion for me , I shall be at home . GETAI understand you . ( Exit PHORMIO .", "Say you so ? Are you not ashamed of this ? But if he had left you ten talents \u2014\u2014", "What , mine ? Phormio ; a well-wisher to your family , upon my honor , and to your { son } Phaedria in particular .", "Ha , ha , ha ! a pleasant individual !", "I \u2019 ll go see if Demipho \u2019 s at home ; that as to what\u2014", "Pray , really is it so , that when you have abused her like a courtesan , the law orders you to pay her hire and pack her off ? Or { is it } the fact , that in order that a citizen may bring no disgrace upon herself through poverty , she has been ordered to be given to her nearest relative , to pass her life with him alone ? { A thing } which you mean to prevent .", "What is it you tell me ? Are you dreaming , pray ?", "And that the old man is in a rage ?", "When you are in doubt which in especial to partake of . When you enter upon a consideration how delicious these things are , and how costly they are , the person who provides them , must you not account him a very God \u2014 neither more nor less ?", "There \u2019 s one action of damages against you .", "Does it seem to you so very improper for your son , a young man , to keep one mistress , { while } you { have } two wives ? Are you ashamed of nothing ? With what face will you censure him ? Answer me that .", "{ Not } for you , indeed ; but there \u2019 s need for her to know it . At", "All right , of course : since you are not in a fright at all , and this is nothing at all that I \u2019 m going to tell , do you relate it .", "Heavens , I \u2019 m undone ; I \u2019 ve forgot the name .", "Oh , were you the person ?", "It \u2019 s Geta .", "Then do you , who are so wise , go to the magistrates , that for you they may give a second decision in the same cause , since you reign alone{ here }, and are the only man allowed to get a second trial in the same cause .", "That Phanium is left alone ?", "The poor creature is distracted from fright .", "A dream : how could she be ignorant about her own father ?", "There are many particulars , which at present I have not the opportunity to relate . Let \u2019 s go in-doors , for Nausistrata has invited me to dinner , and I \u2019 m afraid we may keep them waiting .", "Yes .", "Do you mind your cue ; I \u2019 ll rouse him just now .Oh immortal Gods ! does Demipho deny that Phanium here is related to him ?", "But if , on the contrary , you endure what must be endured , you \u2019 ll be doing what \u2019 s worthy of you , so that we may be on friendly terms .", "What , when I \u2019 ve paid it over to the persons to whom I was indebted ?", "Yes , and this , too , is a true saying : \u201c You \u2019 ll have no great difficulty in believing that to be true , which you greatly wish { to be so }.\u201d", "I am : but { why } do you delay ?", "Lemnos \u2014", "Come now , didn \u2019 t you know your own cousin-german ?", "Stilpho , I tell you ; you knew him .", "Look at this , now :\u2014 What if he sends her back ?", "Nay , but do you give me my wife ?", "And had a daughter by her , too , while you never dreamed of it .", "Was ever any thing now more ungenerously done ? Your men , who , when they come to their wives , then become incapacitated from old age .", "And that he knows who Stilpho was ?", "For really , I have no reason why I should be offended at the young man , if he did not know him ; since that person , when growing aged { and } poor , and supporting himself by his labor , generally confined himself to the country ; there he had a piece of land from my father to cultivate ; full oft , in the mean time , did the old man tell me that this kinsman of his neglected him : but what a man ? The very best I { ever } saw in { all } my life . GETALook to yourself as well as to him , how you speak .", "First , then , will you do this , Nausistrata , at once , to please me , and to make your husband \u2019 s eyes ache { with vexation }?", "Really , do moderate your passion .", "In his turn , he \u2019 s going to act your part .", "Go , touch him ; if he isn \u2019 t in a cold sweat all over , why then kill me .", "About what ?", "But really , before she grants pardon to him , I must take care of myself and Ph\u00e6dria .Hark you , Nausistrata , before you answer him without thinking , listen { to me }."], "true_target": ["Another { wife } at Lemnos \u2014", "I think that will do .", "Why no ; no person can return thanks sufficient to his patronfor his kindness . For you to take your place { at table } at free cost ,anointed and just washed at the bath , with your mind at ease , whereas he is devoured with the care and expense : while every thing is being done to give you delight , he is being vexed at heart ; you are laughing away , first to drink ,take the higher place ; a banquet full of doubtsis placed before you \u2014", "Trust me for that ; I \u2019 ll have all this matter managed for you ; Phormio has so arranged it , that you shall not be a suppliant to your father , but his judge .", "What , he to answer you ? who , upon my faith , doesn \u2019 t know where he is .", "Nonsense .", "Those who havea mind to come to the funeral of Chremes , why now \u2019 s their time . \u2019 Tis thus I retaliate : come now , let him challenge Phormio who pleases : I \u2019 ll have him victimizedwith just a like mischance . Why then , let him return again into her good graces . I have now had revenge enough . She has got something for her as long as she lives , to be forever ringing into his ears .", "You speak obligingly .", "Geta , if you recollect the { name } I told you a short time since , prompt me .Well then , I sha \u2019 n \u2019 t tell you ; as if you didn \u2019 t know , you come to pump me .", "I hear you . Why the plague , then , do you { two } trifle with me in this way , you silly men , with your childish speeches \u2014 \u201c I won \u2019 t , { and } I will ; I will , { and } I won \u2019 t ,\u201d over again : \u201c keep it , give it me back ; what has been said , is unsaid ; what had been just a bargain , is { now } no bargain .\u201d", "Hold my tongue ?", "Heyday ! what means this ? I \u2019 ve met with Socrates , not Ph\u00e6dria , so far as I see . Why hesitate to go up and address him ?How now , Ph\u00e6dria , whence have you acquired this new wisdom , and derived such great delight , as you show by your countenance ?", "What would you have me ? But that Phanium may continue { with him }, and that I may clear Antipho from this charge , and turn upon myselfall the wrath of the old gentleman ?", "Is this the way you are going to deal with me ? Very cleverly { done }. Come on with you . By heavens , Demipho , you have provoked me , not to his advantageHow say you ?When you \u2019 ve been doing abroad just as you pleased , and have had no regard for this excellent lady { here }, but on the contrary , have been injuring her in an unheard-of manner , would you be coming to me with prayers to wash away your offenses ? On telling her of this , I \u2019 ll make her so incensed with you , that you sha \u2019 n \u2019 t quench her , though you should melt away into tears .", "Come now , you \u2019 ve managed nicely for your brother .", "How , then , were they discovered ?", "SCENE IX .", "He \u2019 s afraid of us , although he \u2019 s so careful to conceal it . GETAYour beginning has turned out well .", "Because the poor thing was left destitute , her father is disowned ; she herself is slighted : see what avarice does . GETAIf you are going to accuse my master of avarice , you shall hear what you won \u2019 t like .", "Nay but do have done with your promises , and tell us what you bring .", "I understand .", "I got out of him thirty min\u00e6 by a stratagem . I give them to your son ; he paid them to a Procurer for his mistress .", "Away , to utter perdition , { with you }. For if I had not formed such an opinion of him , I should never have incurred such enmity with your family on her account , whom he now slights in such an ungenerous manner . GETAWhat , do you persist in speaking abusively of my master in his absence , you most abominable fellow ?", "You \u2019 ll be acting more considerately .", "He married another \u2014\u2014", "And this is what I \u2019 m come to tell you , Demipho , that I \u2019 m quite ready ; whenever you please , give me my wife . For I postponed all my { other } business , as was fit I should , when I understood that you were so very desirous to have it so .", "{ And } another with you , Chremes .", "This I shall assuredly now inform her of .", "Try the experiment .", "Such is the fact .", "Let the old gentleman come ; all my plans are now ready prepared in my mind .", "And that he knows who her father was ?", "I \u2019 ll have him here just now .Fare you well , and grant us your applause .ADDITIONAL SCENE .", "So may the Gods bless me , this has turned out luckily . I \u2019 m glad { of it }, that such good fortune has thus suddenly befallen them . I have now an excellent opportunity for diddling the old men , and ridding Ph\u00e6dria of { all } anxiety about the money , so that he mayn \u2019 t be under the necessity of applying to any of his companions . For this same money , as it has been given him , shall be given { for good }, whether they like it or not : how to force them to this , I \u2019 ve found out the very way . I must now assume a new air and countenance . But I \u2019 ll betake myself off to this next alley ; from that spot I \u2019 ll present myself to them , when they come out of doors . I sha \u2019 n \u2019 t go to the fair , where I pretended I was going .", "PHORMIO , alone .", "And so you saythat , dreading his father \u2019 s presence , he has taken himself off ?", "Now , Ph\u00e6dria , I return you thanks ; I \u2019 ll make you a return upon occasion , if ever I have the opportunity . You impose a heavy task upon me , to be contending with you in good offices , as I can not in wealth ; and in affection and zeal , I must repay you what I owe . To be surpassed in deserving well , is a disgrace to a man of principle .", "Answer him .", "You shall know directly ; listen { now }.", "In short , Demipho , I have nothing to do with you ; your son has been cast , { and } not you ; for your time of life for marrying has now gone by .", "Good lack-a-day , { now \u2019 s } the sticking-point , if I don \u2019 t look out for myself . They are making toward me with a gladiatorial air .", "To run away from his father ; he begs that you in your return will act on his behalf \u2014 to plead his cause for him . For he \u2019 s going to carouse at my house . I shall tell the old man that I \u2019 m going to Sunium , to the fair , to purchase the female servant that Geta mentioned a while since , so that , when they don \u2019 t see me here , they mayn \u2019 t suppose that I \u2019 m squandering their money . But there is a noise at the door of your house .", "Pray , what is that you say ?", "Nausistrata , I say .", "O , how extremely fortunate !", "Why , really , if you persist in being troublesome \u2014\u2014", "Do you ask me ? Because I shall not be able to marry the other person { I mentioned }; for with what face shall I return to her whom I \u2019 ve slighted ?", "Is it thus you do ? Why then I must exert my voice : Nausistrata , come out", "I \u2019 ve already made the matter quite plain where I ought , before the judges ; besides , if it was untrue , why didn \u2019 t your son disprove it ?", "Well , well , a thing tried , they say , you can \u2019 t try over { again }.", "I received the money ; handed it over to the Procurer ; brought away the woman , that Ph\u00e6dria might have her as his own \u2014 for she has { now } become free . Now there is one thing still remaining for me to manage ,\u2014 to get a respite from the old gentlemen for carousing ; for I \u2019 ll enjoy myself the { next } few days .", "Into court ? Here { in preference }, if it suits you in any way .", "Do you ?", "Pray , tell me what is the matter .", "By whom he had a daughter ; and her he is secretly bringing up .", "Unknown to you \u2014\u2014", "You are fishing it out , just as if you didn \u2019 t know .", "Farewell , Antipho .", "As well as { I do } yourself .", "Oh , by no means ; I \u2019 ve made trial , and have already pondered on the paths for my feet . How many men before to-day do you suppose I have beaten , even to death , strangers as well as citizens : the better I understand it , the oftener I try it . Just tell me , look you , did you ever hear of an action of damages being brought against me ?", "But , after all , what matters that to me ? It is Stilpho .", "I \u2019 ve graveled them .", "What , I ? You fancy , perhaps , just now , that I am the protector of the portionless ; for the well portioned ,I \u2019 m in the habit { of being so } as well ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["Very good .", "Speak { then }; I \u2019 m listening .", "For you to be of a disposition so unreasonable and so unconscionable , Ph\u00e6dria , that you can be talking me over with fine words ,and be for amusing yourself with what \u2019 s my property for nothing !", "No ; but this one has come before it .", "Nonsense !", "{ Mere } words !", "I have borne with you for several months quite against my inclination ; promising { and } whimpering , and { yet } bringing nothing ; now , on the other hand , I have found one to pay , and not be sniveling ; give place to your betters .", "Stuff !", "Let me alone .", "What a shocking crime \u2014 a wench bought with one \u2019 s own money !", "It is my way ; if I suit you , make use of me ."], "true_target": ["Why really , on the contrary , Antipho , it \u2019 s he trifling with me , for he knew me to be a person of this sort ; I supposed him to be quite a different man ; he has deceived me ; I \u2019 m not a bit different to him from what I was { before }. But however that may be , I \u2019 ll yet do this ; the captain has said , that to-morrow morning he will pay me the money ; if you bring it me before that , Ph\u00e6dria , I \u2019 ll follow my rule , that he is the first served who is the first to pay . Farewell !", "Now , do prate on .", "The same story over again .", "Do I deny it ?", "Why really I am tired of hearing the same thing a thousand times over .", "That \u2019 s just my case with regard to him", "Neither I nor you { cause that }.", "I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer .", "Not at all , so long as it is for my interest .", "You guess right .", "I \u2019 ll not hear you .", "{ Mere } dreams !"], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I will .", "It isn \u2019 t for nothing , i \u2019 faith , that you are in such a fright .", "Then , Phormio , on my word , henceforward I \u2019 ll both do and say for you all I can , and whatever you may desire .", "O immortal Gods ! \u2014 a disgraceful and a wicked misdeed !", "Does it appear , then , that I deserved this treatment ?", "What is it , then , that this person is talking about ?", "Why { should I } with patience ? I could wish , afflicted as I am , that there were an end now of this matter . But how can I hope ? Am I to suppose that , at his age , he will not offend in future ? Was he not an old man then , if old age makes people behave themselves decently ? Are my looks and my age more attractive now , Demipho ? What do you advance to me , to make me expect or hope that this will not happen any more ?", "My husband , pray what means this disturbance ?", "{ Aye }, and when things were much worse , two talents even .", "My husband , will you not tell me ?", "But what ?", "I wish I had been born a man ; I \u2019 d have shown \u2014\u2014", "Pray , how can I believe him , when he has told me nothing ?", "But it was because I deserved this , I suppose ; why should I now , Demipho , make mention of each particular , how I have conducted myself toward him ?", "What ! does this seem surprising ?", "Demipho , I appeal to you ; for with that man it is irksome for me to speak . Were these those frequent journeys and long visits at Lemnos ? Was this the lowness of prices that reduced our rents ?"], "true_target": ["I \u2019 ll do as you bid me ; but I see my husband coming out of your house .", "I \u2019 faith , it is as you deserve .", "I wonder what { all } this can be .", "Who calls my name ?", "I wish to do so ; and yet , i \u2019 faith , through the fault of my husband , I am less able than I ought to be .", "Does that satisfy you , Chremes ?", "My { dear } sir , may the Gods forbid it !", "Assuredly indeed , I do invite you .", "Because , i \u2019 faith , he takes such indifferent care of the property that was so industriously acquired by my father ; for from those farms he used regularly to receive two talents of silver { yearly }; there \u2019 s an instance , how superior one man is to another .", "In what way \u2014\u2014", "Do you tell me , what is your name ?", "Wretch that I am , I \u2019 m undone !", "What \u2019 s the matter ?", "I \u2019 faith , I think it better for all that she should remain here as it is , than as you { first } intended ; for she seemed to me a very genteel person when I saw her .", "Who is this man ? Won \u2019 t you answer me ?", "With all my heart .", "Nay , that you may now know my determination . I neither forgive nor promise any thing , nor give any answer , before I see my son : to his decision I leave every thing . What he bids me , I shall do ."], "play_index": 22, "act_index": 22}, {"query": ["I like it not ; and much I fear she 'll stand", "And all his northern clans . A dreadful power !", "\u201c And has th \u2019 ungrateful wretch defy 'd my mandate ?", "It was the Lady Nottingham , not I .", "This fair applause too highly over-rates ,", "Let him rave on , and rage . The lion , in", "I much suspect he had some private notice ,", "Their black debates", "There spoke the very genius of the sex !", "How new , unpopular , this step must be ,", "You may approve your innocence and faith .", "Let fall on me ? Am I alone the cause", "Must now befriend his cause .", "His eloquence on the behalf of Essex .", "Without your royal mandate ; and they now", "Between this high offender and the laws .", "But soon was countermanded , and desired", "To open mutiny , and bold rebellion .", "Attend without , to know your final pleasure .", "Have ever been my guiding stars through life ,", "With terms of proffer 'd grace , she then received ,", "Herself confess 'd it all , in wild despair ,", "Your country has impeach 'd , your queen accused you ;", "Madam , your orders came , alas ! too late . Ere they arrived , the axe had fallen on Essex .", "I obey .", "Meanwhile , Tyrone embarks six thousand men", "And never meant , but with respect to serve you .", "Was this : that Essex should alarm the citizens", "The proud , audacious traitor , scorn 'd my power ?", "Keep up thy usual strength , my better genius !", "Who , that had eyes to look on beauty ;", "Shall join them with his friends .", "And headlong faction urged its force within .", "Perhaps , a punctual order , to return .", "Were held at Drury House . The dire result", "To stand between your parliament 's enquiry", "Now is the important crisis \u2014", "That gives this working humour strength ? Do I", "His crimes , I fear , will justify the charge ,", "I stood between your mercy and his life .", "Essex arrived ! Confusion to my hopes !", "Their purpose was to seize your royal palace ,", "And all my anxious hopes , at last , are crown 'd .", "And sacred person ; but your faithful people ,", "Rose up at once , and with their virtue quell 'd them .", "\u2018 Tis clear and full . To parts , like yours , discretion", "She wants , no doubt , to be advised by you . Improve this fair occasion , urge it home .", "The bill , at length , has pass 'd opposing numbers ,", "What answer to the queen shall I return ?", "In vain ; his efforts but amuse me now .\u2014", "Perhaps you 'll meet me there . Till then , farewell .", "Tyrone 's invasion wakes her fear and anger ,", "Arrived ! how ? when ?", "That you forthwith resign your staff of office ;", "At once , both to surprise and to destroy .", "Of greater note , I would not dare dispose of", "Nay , more ; we have advices from the borders ,", "The man , that in his public duty fails ,", "And mighty love , who rules all nature else ,", "This arrogance will make your guilt the stronger .", "The queen , my lord , demands your quick compliance .", "And we have proofs sufficient for his ruin .", "Yet humbly would entreat you to consider", "In Ireland , where the west is all in arms ,", "These gladsome tidings fly beyond my hopes !", "My sure direction still .\u2014 To these I now", "This bold refusal will incense the queen ,", "It wastes itself in vain ; the queen shall judge", "She seem 'd deprived of reason for a moment ;", "Yet mark me well , my lord ; the clinging ivy", "Let them , like batteries conceal 'd , appear", "And this offending lord .\u2014 We have such proofs \u2014", "No , madam .", "From his own hand , a fatal ring , a pledge ,", "The lady Rutland 's hand , in sacred wedlock ,", "But there 's a surer method to destroy him ;", "What may the purport of her business be ?", "Prevent , as much as possible , his suit :", "I own my judgment did concur with theirs .", "And trust the counsel of her faithful Burleigh .", "And , if you 'll join with me , \u2018 tis done \u2014 he falls .", "Here then , my Nottingham , begins thy task :", "And vindicate their loyalty and mine .", "Leave me to deal with this o'erbearing man .", "To her revenge .\u2014 Her temper 's form 'd to serve me .", "The very night before his setting out", "The toils entangled , wastes his strength , and roars", "In love 's soft fetters , and endearing bands .\u2014", "For , well I know , he will not fail to try", "It seems , of much importance , which the earl ,", "His day of glory now is set in night ;", "But then the queen \u2014 you know how fair he stands"], "true_target": ["Madam , I wish some other rumours false ;", "Command ,", "Madam , the queen expects you instantly . I must withdraw , and wait the earl 's arrival .", "Reports , I fear , of great concern to you .", "She paused , like thunder in some kindling cloud ,", "Raleigh , \u2018 tis well ! Withdraw \u2014 attend the queen \u2014", "Soon as I told her , Essex had refused", "How say'st ? to prove them ?", "They 're now our prisoners , and are safe secured ;", "Then instant burst with dreadful fury forth :", "Your question 'd conduct from disloyal guilt .", "For Ireland .", "Madam , your wrongs , I must confess , are great ;", "My lord of Essex , \u2018 tis the queen 's command ,", "\u2018 Mong whom the bold Southampton foremost stands .", "Appeal ;\u2014 from these , no doubt , this lord 's misconduct", "And further , she confines you to your palace .", "Madam , my duty now compels me to \u2014", "A disappointed woman sets no bounds", "Restrain a while your rage ; curses are vain .", "You must have heard , the commons have impeached him ,", "Yet honour and esteem I always bore you ;", "Bright excellence ,", "But Essex , with Southampton , and the rest", "Try every art t \u2019 incense the queen against him ,", "Madam , he is ;", "And every curious eye may mark the beam .", "As she would prize his life , to give your majesty ;", "His presence will destroy me with the queen .", "I pray , have patience , madam !", "And now comes guarded to the court .", "May tamper with their thoughts and change their minds :", "To yield his dignities , and staff of office ,", "Who , but the false , perfidious Essex , could", "To these address your best defence , and clear", "Yes , madam , many more ;", "That , from your majesty to Essex sent", "Hath full possession of the royal ear .", "Then step between her and the Lady Rutland :", "The laws condemn 'd him first to die ; nor think", "He dares not , sure ?\u2014 He dies \u2014 the villain dies ! \u201d", "Dispose them well , till kind occasion calls", "Start not !\u2014 By Heaven , I tell you naught but truth ,", "Hath widely stray 'd ; and reason , not reviling ,", "As by one mind inform 'd , one zeal inspired ,", "With the oak may rise , but with it too must fall .", "Illustrious queen ! the traitors all are seized .", "Between us in this warm debate . To her", "I now repair : and , in her royal presence ,", "Observe Southampton , too , with jealous eye ;", "What means my lord ?", "\u2018 Tis thought to favour an attempt from Scotland .", "Against her high command , pronounced by me ,", "No doubt , they 've well explained your honest meaning ;", "Some new commotions are of late sprung up", "The Earl of Essex waits your royal will .", "To bring the Earl of Essex to her presence .", "I instantly withdrew ,", "With earnest suit , and warm entreaty , begg 'd her ,", "Of sudden risings , near the banks of Tweed ;", "Madam ; my power and will are yours .", "Though ne'er my wishing heart could call you friend ,", "But why should stern reproach her angry brow", "Those proofs against him , Raleigh \u2014", "On private virtue will disdainful tread ;", "I see she muses deep ;", "My gracious mistress , blame not thus my duty ,", "\u2018 Tis well , my lord ! your words no comment need ;", "Conduct her in .", "Would be a clog , and caution but incumbrance .", "And all her soul is one continued storm .", "My country 's welfare , and my queen 's command ,", "And moves with hasty march to join Tyrone ,", "Direct my steps to crush my mortal foe .", "In this she fail 'd \u2014 In this she murder 'd Essex .", "He lurks too near her heart .\u2014 What 's to be done ?", "The queen will listen now , will now believe ,", "Too much extols , the low deserts of Cecil .", "I know it well \u2014 but can assign no cause .", "Yet still , I fear , you know not half his falsehood .", "Her tender wishes are to Essex tied", "Rail on , proud lord , and give thy choler vent :", "To land at Milford , and to march where Essex", "Prefer to Nottingham a Rutland 's charms ?", "What I can prove , past doubt ; that he received", "Must follow here in proud ambition 's train .", "My firm obedience to your high command .", "In her esteem ; and Rutland , too , his wife ,", "Justice , untaught , shall poise the impartial scales ,", "Whilst crowds , seditious , clamour 'd round the senate ,", "Instruct the public voice to warp his actions ?", "Their office forth ; lest prying craft meanwhile", "Her working mind betray 'd contending passions ;"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["But naught avail 'd \u2014 their crimes were too notorious .", "Now finds his rash endeavours all defeated ,", "Have , in their gratitude and love for you ,", "A deep-laid mischief , by the earl contrived", "In haste , your lordship ; and , forgetting forms ,", "As shall , with speed , o'erturn this hated man ,", "And England bless him , as her guardian saint .", "Ay , my lord , and back 'd", "They bore their sentence with becoming spirit ;", "And ruin Cecil . Oh , it is a subtile ,", "When this proud idol of the people 's hearts", "Now fortune , with officious hand , invites us", "Pursues me hither , and demands to see you .", "With circumstances of a stronger nature .", "It has , my lord !\u2014 The wish'dhYpppHeNfor day is come ,", "I see great Cecil shine without a rival ,", "It now appears , his secretary , Cuff ,", "Resents aloud his disappointed measures .", "The Lord Southampton , with ungovern 'd rage ,", "To you , my Lord Southampton , from the queen ,", "The mystic schemes of this aspiring man .", "Madam , the earl is now at court , and begs", "And , horror to conceive ! dethrone the queen !", "Their peers , with much indulgence , heard their plea ,", "I met him in the outward court ; he seeks ,"], "true_target": ["A pardon comes ; your life her mercy spares .", "With Blunt and Lee , were deep concern 'd in this", "This very hour , my lord :", "Preferred this salutary bill against him .", "My lord , the minute 's near , that shall unravel", "Dread sovereign , your ever faithful commons", "His headstrong friend , the bold Southampton , too ,", "I see , my lord , our utmost wish accomplish 'd !", "To her , and opens wide the gates of greatness ,", "Nay more , a person comes , of high distinction ,", "An audience of your majesty .", "With Scotland 's monarch , and the proud Tyrone .", "The Lady Nottingham ! What brings her hither ?", "And dash him down , by proof invincible .", "All arrived .", "To prove some secret treaties made by Essex ,", "Destructive scheme contrived to raise this lord ,", "And gave them ample scope for their defence ;", "And storms at thee , and the impeaching commons .", "And here 's the royal mandate for their deaths .\u2014", "Madam , I go .", "The way to power . My heart exults ; I see ,", "Shall now no more be worshipp 'd .\u2014 Essex falls .", "Such potent instruments I have prepared ,", "What means this message ? Does the queen relent ?", "In hour malignant , to o'erturn the state ,"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["Madam , the queen", "With much impatience , to attend your lordship ."], "true_target": ["Is in her closet , and desires to see you .", "My lord , the Lady Nottingham desires ,"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["And faction 's rage . I begg 'd him to consider", "Rise up in raging anarchy at once ,", "With Albion 's glory , and Eliza 's fame ;", "Your proffer 'd grace ; and scorn 'd , he said , a life", "I own myself t \u2019 have been your bitt'rest foe ,", "To tear , with ceaseless pangs , my tortured soul ?", "And friendship can inspire , I 'll urge the queen", "She sent me , in her mercy , here to know", "I come not to upbraid , but serve you now ;", "Is Essex then secured ?", "Scarce sits in safety on her throne , while he ,", "I then could find no joy but in his smiles ,", "To shield him longer from their just resentment .", "This insolence , this treason to their queen ;", "And with a cold indifference heard your offer ;", "And obstinate resistance ; till , at length ,", "My lord , I 've sought you out with much impatience . You 've had an audience of the queen : what follow 'd ?", "The only god he serves ; to whom he 'd sacrifice", "A deadly foe , whilst hated Essex lives !", "His mighty deeds ; his service to the state ;", "My erring heart pursued the ways of faction ;", "My lord , with all the powers that nature gave", "My lord ! and let me fly , on friendship 's wings ,", "Thrice hail to rescued England 's guiding genius !", "It is enough , my lord , I know it well ,", "Ambition is the spur of all his actions ,", "I dread to tell it \u2014 lost , ill-fated man !", "Which often drives him o'er his duty 's limits ;", "There was a time , that presence could subdue", "How much he feels from proud oppression 's arm :", "To grant you your request .", "His country 's guardian , and his queen 's defence !", "Accused your majesty of partial leaning", "Great Burleigh , thou whose patriot bosom beats", "Surely , my gracious queen , it cannot be !", "Aloud , against the partial power of fortune ,", "To take so bold a step , to such rash guilt :", "Of jealous disappointment , and revenge .", "I pity , from my heart , his rash attempts ,", "His honour , country , friends , and every tie", "Like death \u2014\u2014 O , Cecil , will you kindly lend", "It is , indeed , the instrument by which", "I wish , with all my soul ,", "If you had aught to offer , that might move", "His heat and passion never could impel him", "Or what applause exceeds the price of virtue ?", "Methinks his very honour should prevent it .", "But , with contemptuous front , disclaim 'd at once", "And Rutland , in her turn , shall learn to weep .", "Of Essex , leagued with desperate friends , made strong", "Come , vengeance , come ! assist me now to breathe", "For thee , what fervent thanks , what offer 'd vows ,", "Oh \u2018 twas a precious thought ! I never knew", "Pronounce it not ! my soul abhors the sound", "\u2018 Tis well , my lord ; but there 's no time to spare \u2014", "Alas , my queen ! I fear to say ; his mind", "On blackest thoughts begot .\u2014\u2014 He scarce would speak ;", "And when he did , it was with sullenness ,", "Will Cecil 's friendly ear vouchsafe to bend", "I bring a message to him from the queen .", "I attend her .", "A summer-house , upon the Thames ; resolved", "Is in the strangest mood that ever pride", "Ha ! say'st thou , Burleigh ! Speak , my genius , speak ! Be quick as vengeance \u2019 self to tell me how !", "Against the pleadings of my pitying soul ,", "Presumptuous man !", "He rather seem 'd insensible to both ,", "Your faithful subjects will resent this pride ,", "Go you to court , for Cecil there expects you .", "Within my heart , and every wish is yours .", "O Cecil , Cecil , what a foe hast thou !", "Of high complaint against this haughty lord .", "\u2018 Twixt me and Essex , ere I see the queen .", "My pride , and melt my heart to gentle pity .", "To perish , rather than submit to power .", "They must , my gracious sovereign . \u2018 Tis not safe"], "true_target": ["Give , give it me ,", "Do prostrate millions pay !", "His hasty temper knows not where to stop .", "But all his beauties are now hateful grown .", "I 've promised to acquaint him with what passes", "To malice only , and revenge , will bow ;", "To blast your honour and traduce your fame .", "Which daily rises , with repeated cries", "What praises are too high for patriot worth ;", "My lord , I 'm glad you think me still your friend .", "I know her foible . Essex long has had", "But see , he comes , with manly sorrow clad .", "And proud disdain provoked him to exclaim", "Such heartfelt satisfaction .\u2014 Essex dies !", "Madam , my sentiments were well intended ;", "Ambition 's restless hand has wound his thoughts", "None , madam !", "Th \u2019 audacious Essex , freely treads at large ,", "Of such glad tidings , in the day of trouble ,", "Nay , something too he darkly hinted at ,", "And breathes the common air . Ambition is", "Honour and gratitude their force resume", "My prayers and influence to preserve thy life .", "I fear she does ;", "With hasty tone , and downcast look .", "And feel rekindling virtue warm my breast ;", "Words are unequal to the woes I feel ;", "An interest in her heart , which nothing can", "Now , vengeance , steel my heart !", "And every virtue at that altar sacrifice .", "The only hand that could preserve him .", "We work , and cannot fail , if rightly used .", "His sad condition ; nor repulse , with scorn ,", "Offended woman , whilst her pride remains ,", "The ungrateful task had been another 's lot .", "My words were echoes of the public voice ,", "Madam , by truth , and duty , both compell 'd ,", "Then give him up to justice and the laws .", "And pleased I am to be the messenger", "And much esteem the man .", "I must declare", "To bear it to the queen , and to it add", "And language lessens what my heart endures .", "And I am honour 's proselyte :\u2014 Too long", "Justice , not malice , moved my honest zeal .", "His conduct has , I fear , been too unguarded :", "O'erturn , except his own ungovern 'd spirit :", "Lieutenant , lead me to the Earl of Essex ,", "He fled for shelter to a small retreat ,", "That never pride insulted mercy more .", "Thy venom 'd spirit in the royal ear !", "Too high for England 's welfare ; nay , the queen", "Whose pride and shame , resentment and despair ,", "He ran o'er all the dangers he had past ;", "O'erpower ' d by numbers , and increasing force ,", "And thought him lovely as the summer 's bloom ;", "Upon such terms bestow 'd .", "Till warming up , by slow degrees , resentment", "Oh ! may quick destruction seize them ! May furies blast , and hell destroy their peace ! May all their nights \u2014\u2014", "To favourite lords , to whom he falls a sacrifice ;", "The queen impatient waits for my return .", "Who shield'st her person , and support'st her throne ;", "Of truth and bond of nature ; nay , his love .", "My lord , conviction has at last subdued me ,", "But malice , madam , seldom judges right .", "As I now bring you . When the queen had heard ,", "Began to swell his restless haughty mind ;", "No , madam : for the Earl", "Her royal clemency to spare your life .", "It shall be done ; his doom is fix 'd : he dies .", "Appeals to justice , and to future times ,", "The time is precious ; I 'll about it straight .", "That by the lords you were condemn 'd to die ,", ",", "Its great attention to a woman 's wrongs ;", "And join 'd with Essex in each foul attempt", "Some pity to a wretch like me ?"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["And what is death , did we consider right ?", "T'inflame her wrath , and make it still burn fiercer .", "Shall we , who sought him in the paths of terror ,", "The specious shield , which private malice bears ,", "By crafty faction , and tyrannic power !", "And honour , and unlike my noble friend", "Wilt thou then tear him hence ?\u2014 Severe divorce !", "For should the queen", "Collect thy fortitude , and summon all", "His innocence shall rise against the weight ,", "On earth could step between you and destruction .", "Those strangers to thy practised heart , shall shield", "And spring , triumphant , in a friend 's embrace ?", "And plant deceit and rancour in its stead :", "Consider well , my lord , the consequence \u2014", "Oh , must we part for ever ? Cruel fortune !", "With warmth increasing ; whilst Lord Burleigh labours", "From whence they take their fatal aim unseen ;", "Permit me , madam , to approach you thus ;", "Lay all their envy open to her view ,", "Falsehood would trample then on truth and honour ,", "Then power and pride would stretch the enormous grasp ,", "His sinking trophies , and his falling fame ,", "Thus bid defiance to each show of worth ,", "Thy rage attempt ? Consider well the great", "Then suffer not , thou best of queens , this lord ,", "Or thought to suffer !\u2014 No , I 'll die with thee !", "This valiant lord , to fall a sacrifice", "The genial summer swell 'd our joyful hearts ,", "And call their arbitrary portion , justice :", "To meet and mix each growing fruitful wish .", "And all the power of warmest words employ ,", "Thy empty threats , ambitious man , hurt not", "To gain you yet one audience more , and bring", "And keep my sinking frame from dissolution !", "Ten thousand accidents in ambush lie", "Whilst thou , amidst thy tangling snares involved ,", "Sustain , my noble friend , thy wonted greatness ;", "Oh , \u2018 tis a goodly group of attributes ,", "And start at scaffolds , and their gloomy trappings ?", "At length prevails ,\u2014 and now your malice triumphs .", "Shall lend a helping hand , and share the burden .", "It is not like .\u2014 By Heaven , the hand of envy", "Shall we astonish 'd shrink , like frighted infants ,", "And honest merit is their destined mark .", "Had sacred right 's eternal rule been left", "Oh , it smells foul , indeed , of rankest malice ,", "Behind that artful fence , skulk low , conceal 'd ,", "Oh , \u2018 tis too much for mortal strength to bear ,", "Is ever blazon 'd with some public good ;", "Drew these false lines , distorted far from truth", "Support me ! hold , ye straining heart-strings , hold ,", "As light to shade , or hell to highest heaven .", "All-ruling Heavens ! can this \u2014 can this be just ?", "No human bosom can endure its dart .", "To tear the applauded wreath from Essex \u2019 brow ;", "When we can bravely leap from life at once ,", "My noble and illustrious friend betray 'd", "Your royal feet , to clear him to his sovereign ,", "Then put this cruel purpose from thee far ,", "The core of honesty from virtue 's heart ,", "Thy soul , to bear with strength this crushing weight ,", "Alas , my lord ! the queen 's displeasure kindles", "Or cling like reptiles to the verge of being ,", "Eternal band , which never shall be loosed .", "Your private loves , your plighted hands , no power", "My honour , and preserve my friend . In vain ,", "Oppress my very soul . I 'll to the queen ,", "Its date is but the immediate breath we draw ;", "For the embody 'd dream .", "But we shall meet again \u2014 embrace in one", "Alas , my friend ! what would"], "true_target": ["Thus lowly to present the humble suit", "With thee , my friend , \u2018 tis joy to die !\u2014 \u2018 tis glory !", "How ill had Providence", "Advantage now your rash , ungovern 'd temper", "discover", "Whom , next to heaven , he wishes most to please .", "Your suffering country , in her bravest son !", "O fraud ! shall valiant Essex", "Thy malice , with unequal arm , shall strive", "The bloody purpose , and the poison 'd shaft ;", "We never can take leave , my friend , of life ,", "Nor have we surety for a second gale ;", "And envy poison sweet benevolence .", "Let caution guide you in this dangerous step .", "Which , like the brittle glass that measures time ,", "The lessening mark of irksome life behind .", "Still clasp thee to my bosom close , and keep", "Their fury loose .\u2014 I dread the dire event !", "His honest laurel , held aloft by fame ,", "But let him , face to face , this charge encounter ,", "To crafty politicians \u2019 partial sway !", "Amidst a hardy race , inured to danger ;", "Nor let the blood of Essex whelm thy soul .", "A frail and fickle tenement it is ,", "To treachery and base designs ; who now", "The breast of truth . Fair innocence , and faith ,", "Count not on hope \u2014", "Where all the wise and brave are gone before us ,", "My bursting breast ! I fain would speak , but words", "My bosom 's better half , I can .\u2014 With thee ,", "Let me cling round thy sacred person still ,\u2014", "Be made a sacrifice to your ambition ?", "Engages death in all his horrid shapes ,", "Yes , oh yes ,", "Out , out upon such bloody doings !", "And bloom immortal to the latest times ;", "Disposed the suffering world 's oppressed affairs ,", "Where is the man , whom virtue calls her friend ?\u2014", "Who dares not , unpermitted , meet your presence .", "And the vile statesman 's craft . You dare not , sure ,", "Each claim of honour : dare not injure thus", "And view his struggles with malicious joy .", "I 'll hence with speed , and to the queen repair ,", "Her majesty to milder thoughts . Farewell .", "And faced him in the dreadful walks of war ,", "Ambition 's arm , by avarice urged , would pluck", "Of the much-injured , faithful Earl of Essex ,", "On nobler terms . Life ! what is life ? A shadow !", "They shall not part us , Essex !", "The term of being is not worth the sin ;", "Let faction load him with her labouring hand ,", "I give you joy , my lord !\u2014 Your quenchless fury", "Stern Fate at distance .", "We 're now embark 'd upon that stormy flood ,", "Which falls severe upon thee ; whilst my friendship", "Is often broke , ere half its sands are run .", "Affords your foes . The queen , incensed , will let", "He begs , most gracious queen , to fall before", "And every falsehood , like his foes , shall fly .", "And well befits some statesman 's righteous rule !", "In life 's first spring ,", "E'er since the birth of time , to meet eternity .", "Confront their malice , and preserve my friend .", "Shalt sink confounded , and unpitied fall .", "Are poor \u2014 Farewell !\u2014", "For who would wait the tardy stroke of time ?", "Ambition there , and envy , nestle close ;", "Our green affections grew apace and prosper 'd ;", "Confusion wait thy steps , thou cruel monster !\u2014", "I 'll gladly seek the coast unknown , and leave", "If but his gracious mistress deign to smile .", "You 've hunted honour to the toil of faction ,", "Above thy blasting reach , shall safely flourish ,"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["Eliz . This ardent language , and this glow of soul ,", "Do you withdraw , and wait within our call .", "How now , my Nottingham \u2014 what news from Essex ?", "Eliz . Ill-fated , wretched man ! perverse and obstinate !", "What censure says of his unruly deeds .", "And to yourself assumed the wrested office .", "Of studied treasons , or design 'd rebellion .", "This Essex ever did .", "And I , your queen , applaud !\u2014 Triumphant man !", "The rest , if true , or false , it matters not .", "Methinks I might be trusted with the secret .", "What a base portrait 's here ! The faithful Essex", "When with my mortal foes you tamely dally 'd ,", "Eliz . Ha ! tell not me your smooth deceitful story !", "Here , from my finger , take this ring , a pledge", "In league with James !", "Oh , quick to kill , and ready to destroy !", "Of practising against the state and me .", "What ! is it thus that Essex gains his laurels ?", "Enter LADY RUTLAND .", "His honour and allegiance ;\u2014 and refused", "But justice , sometimes , has a cruel sound .", "To raise the virtuous , and protect the brave .", "Beyond thy wretched purpose stands secure .", "The people 's clamours , and my special safety ,", "My fame is soil 'd to all succeeding times ;", "Were nobly graceful in a better cause ;", "And wrest his meaning from the purposed point .", "You 'd turn my favour into party feuds ,", "Eliz . To me you seem to recommend strict justice ,", "And tremble at the vengeance you provoke .", "Forsake his post , and disobey his queen !", "Eliz . Hapless man !", "And let them then appear . But once again", "And destroys my peace !", "The earl possess 'd of many splendid virtues .", "My anxious toilsome days , and watchful nights ?", "Whilst ruling justice guides eternal sway ,", "She shall henceforth be partner of my sorrows ,", "Oh , ill-performing , disobedient , heart !", "To end effectually this hated war ,", "Then could I think this grateful isle", "Offended majesty but seldom wants", "To whom I ought to fly with all the confidence", "Unhappy state , where peace shall never come !", "Eliz . Your guilty scorn of my entrusted power ,", "Let nature tremble , and let man obey .", "What ! break his trust ! desert his high command ,", "Something sits heavy here , and presses down", "Eliz . Her words betray a warm , unusual , fervour ;", "And on that brow rebellion lours , where once", "But cannot screen you from a public trial .", "If then your accusations are of force ,", "Eliz . What means this phrensy ?", "I know your projects , and your close cabals ,", "Eliz . I 'll hear no more . I 'm tortured \u2014 take her hence .", "No doubt , provoked my anger , and the laws ;", "To save his life .", "My pity , rather , would relieve thy sorrow .", "Eliz . Amazing ! Not feel the terrors of approaching death ! Nor yet the joyful dawn of promised life !", "At distance to revere your queen !", "And power 's disposing hand , as clemency .", "Speak , for I know it well , \u2018 twas thy contrivance .", "Eliz . You , my Lord Burleigh , must have known of this .", "But is not Essex here without my leave !", "Enter SOUTHAMPTON .", "Eliz . You seem well pleased to urge severity .", "But treat him as his daring crimes deserve .", "Enter LADY NOTTINGHAM .", "Eliz . Reserve your proofs to a more proper season ,", "Impeach the very man to whom I owe", "Did sorrow settle in my heart its throne .", "Eliz . No more ! see that my orders be obey 'd .", "The public good is all my private care !", "Eliz . Hapless woman !", "My brightest rays of glory ! Look to it , lords ;", "But you found reason to dislike my care ,", "Behold , Southampton ,", "Eliz . Take her away .", "Is not the aggressor .", "And pity pleads thy cause within my breast .", "Such arrogance uncheck 'd , or unchastised .", "Eliz . Rise , my lord !", "And mourn , too late , the bounty you abused .", "Beneath my very eye .", "Eliz . I 'll hear no more \u2014 Must I then learn from you", "Ha ! was it not ? You dare not say it was not .", "My fearful and suspicious soul 's alarm 'd .", "Eliz . Go , Nottingham ,", "Till Essex can defend himself in person .", "Eliz . Not taken yet ?", "He has my strict command , with menace mix 'd ,", "Eliz . Traitor ! villain !", "Eliz . Eternal silence seal thy venom 'd lips", "My palace gates . How say'st thou , Nottingham ?", "Could Essex treat me thus ?\u2014 You basely wrong him ,", "Destroy him , and defeats my friendly purpose ,", "Have I sent forth a wish , that went not freighted", "Turn 'd all my comfort to intestine strife ,", "Eliz . What rumours ? what reports ? your frown would much", "And plotting with Tyrone ! It cannot be .", "Raleigh and you withdraw , and wait our leisure .", "The commons here impeach the Earl of Essex", "Eliz . You have obey 'd , my lord ! you 've served me well !", "Let him this instant to the block be led .", "Suppose he is condemn 'd ! my royal word", "Eliz . Impossible !", "My honour was exposed , engaged for yours :", "And give him up to death !\u2014 But life or death", "So near the brink of fate \u2014 - unhappy man !", "He counterworks my grace , and courts destruction .", "He gives his deadly foes the dagger to", "The laws , and my consent , no doubt , are open .", "Eliz . My lord , I would convince you , that I still", "Essex has ,", "To render up his staff of office , here ,", "My spirits with its weight . What can it mean ?", "How low the traitor can degrade the soldier !", "As each designing mind directs ?\u2014 Leave me .", "Yet , lest you then should want a faithful friend", "But say , were any persons else concern 'd ,", "Go , stand the test severe , abide the trial ,", "What hast thou utter 'd , wretch , to rouse at once", "Eliz . Oh , where shall majesty bestow its favours ,", "You beg a traitor 's life !", "Should Essex thus , so meanly compromise ,", "Your woes , and reconcile you to your fate ,", "But hence with pity , and the woman 's pangs :", "With prudence make your best defence ; but should", "With scornful steps , in honour 's sacred path ,", "That Essex \u2019 breast should lodge it ? Call the monster ,", "Resentment , and support my soul ! Disdain ,", "Hold up , my soul , nor sink beneath this wound .\u2014\u2014", "Recall betimes the horrid words you 've utter 'd :", "Rutland , I want thy timely", "And we 'll contend who most shall weep for Essex .", "Against my strict command ! that , that 's rebellion .", "Eliz . Thanks to their honest , to their loyal hearts !", "Think not that injured majesty will bear", "Surrounded still by treachery and fraud !", "To stop this vile proceeding ; and to wait", "Such boasted loyalty was said to flourish .", "To Heaven 's corrective rod submissive bend ;", "Or length of days desired , but for their sake ?", "And judgment winks , when passion holds the scale .", "My life", "Eliz . Is this the just return of all my care ?", "Nor envy deck her in the borrow 'd guise .", "A servile pause , and begg 'd a shameful truce .", "Expect to meet this base return ? from thee ,", "His haughty conduct calls for sharp reproof ,", "Take heed , that malice does not wear the mask ,", "Such frequent , sad occasions to undo him !", "Eliz . Oh , Nottingham ! his pride is past enduring ;", "Can make the few short hours you live more easy ,", "To spoil his country , and dethrone his queen !", "Eliz . What would th \u2019 imperious traitor do ?"], "true_target": ["What says the earl ?", "And feels , ev'n now , his trait'rous deeds with pity ?", "As I do hope for mercy on my soul ,", "By hardy rebels braved , you poorly sought", "Regard your life , and labour to preserve it ;", "Since Essex has a traitor proved to me ,", "Eliz . It is the godlike attribute of kings ,", "What cause could prompt , what fiend could urge thee on", "Eliz . Shall added insolence , with crest audacious ,", "To this detested deed ? Could I from thee", "I was the guardian of your reputation ;", "Eliz . I grant you , Rutland , all you say ; and think", "I know him honest , and despise their malice .", "Then , tell me , Rutland , what the world reports ,", "With all my people 's good ? Or have I life ,", "Abused my bounty , and despised my favours .", "Eliz . What means this mystery , this strange behaviour ? Pronounce \u2014 declare at once ; what said the earl ?", "Confess , and own the whole you 've said was false .", "The arm parental , and the indulgent blow .", "And , oh , ill-fated queen ! Never till now", "My deadly foes are quell 'd ! and you come home", "Eliz . Let him approach \u2014 And now once more support", "What 's to be done ?\u2014 admit him to my presence ?", "No subtle vice conceal 'd assumes her garb !", "His very pride disdains such perfidy .", "What pity \u2018 tis , he should afford his foes", "Eliz . Oh , barbarous woman !", "Call loud for justice , and demand your life .", "Resentment governs , and the queen shall punish .", "This insolent , audacious man , forgets", "Conviction still on acting worth attends ;", "And yet foreboding tremors shake my heart .", "From me you have appeal 'd , ungrateful man !", "My agitated heart can find no rest .", "And use my sceptre as the rod of faction :", "\u2018 Tis false \u2014 invented all .\u2014 You wish it so .", "Rancour has often darken 'd reason 's eye ,", "Denote : your preface seems important .\u2014 Speak .", "The place of deeds , and duty 's just demand .", "Whose heart has shared in all his splendid triumphs ,", "Eliz . Presuming wretch ! Audacious traitor !", "A conqueror ! Your country bids you welcome !", "Thy dignity , my soul ; nor yield thy greatness", "Eliz . High swelling words , my lord , but ill supply", "Eliz . Without consulting me ! presumptuous man ! Who governs here ?\u2014 What ! am not I your queen ? You dared not , were he present , take this step .", "Eliz . Depend , my lord , on this \u2014 \u2018 twixt you and me ,", "If aught you have to offer can allay", "No : let me all the monarch re-assume ;", "And inward horror trembles in thine eye .", "From hence , let proud , resisting mortals know", "Contain 'd one traitor 's heart ? But , least of all ,", "Of insolence , neglect , and high contempt .", "Extend too far , and give thee up condemn 'd", "A moment 's space .\u2014 What ! must I bear this scorn !", "My Nottingham , and would complain to thee", "Her front uplift against the face of power ?", "Severity her iron jurisdiction", "Counsel . I 'm importuned , and urged to punish \u2014", "Enter ESSEX .", "No doubt , will censure much .\u2014 No matter ; let them ;", "This rash , audacious , this once favour 'd man ;", "I 'll nurse no party , but will reign o'er all ,", "An advocate with me , for whensoe'er", "And my sole rule shall be to bless my people :", "Frowns stern reproof upon the false assertion ,", "A whirlwind in my soul , which roots up pity ,", "And contradicts it with the force of facts .", "Then let its will be done .", "Which would , by seeming to abandon , save him .", "Of mercy ; having this , you ne'er shall need", "Take care , be cautious on what ground you tread ;", "Though treason sits within your heart enthroned ,", "Eliz . For once my pride shall stoop ; and I will see", "Each crime must from its quality be judged ;", "What malice , or what faction , then , could reach you ?", "To know my province , and be taught to move ,", "Exert my power , and be myself again .", "You see , we dare abide your dangerous presence ,", "And lose the harvest of a plenteous glory ,", "Desert your province , and betray your queen ?", "Who serves them best , has still my highest favour :", "Eliz . Dispatch a speedy messenger to haste her .\u2014", "Eliz . I sent my orders for your staff of office .", "I give it freely , from my pitying heart ;", "In idle treaties , and suspicious parley ?", "Ungrateful man , approach me not ; rise , rise ,", "And just correction . Yet I think him guiltless", "Proceed ;\u2014 and I with patient ear will listen .", "That giving bounty ever could inspire ,", "Mere friendship never could inspire this transport .", "Eliz . Unhappy man ! My yielding soul is touch 'd ,", "Guilt glares in conscious dye upon thy cheek ,", "And pity there should interpose , where malice", "Why shrink'st thou , fearful , from thy own resolve ?", "No public trust becomes the man , who treads ,", "But Heaven alone can view my breaking heart \u2014", "Eliz .", "Whose arm hath raised him up to power and greatness ;", "The laws , not I , must listen to your plea .", "Enter LADY NOTTINGHAM .", "Essex presumed to dictate laws within", "Such sharp advisers \u2014 Yet no attribute", "Eliz . To execution !\u2014 Fly with lightning 's wing ,", "Be calm , he shall not die ! Rise up \u2014 I came", "Eliz . Her warmth has touch 'd me home . My jealous heart ,", "Let honest means alone secure your footing .", "Eliz . Wedded to Rutland ! Most unhappy pair !", "Go , learn at leisure what your deeds deserve ,", "What ! is it thus you 've borne my high commission ?", "My mind 's disturbed , and send me Rutland hither .", "And let me meet this rebel face to face !", "And wish my willing power could grant thee more .", "Eliz . Alas ! her sorrows pierce my suffering heart !", "Eliz . My pride forbids me to reproach thee more ;", "Eliz . Amazing !", "How mean is fraud ! How base ingratitude !", "To me is equal now .", "And fill 'd with mortal pangs my future life !", "Do thou assist me \u2014 Yes , it shall be so .", "To strong usurping passion \u2014 But he comes .", "Ere he presume to quit the Irish coast .", "Where virtue warrants , and where truth inspires :", "Thou comest in time ; I 'm much disturb 'd , abused ,", "One fatal moment has confirm 'd my doom \u2014", "No , no \u2014 my dignity , my pride forbid it .", "Eliz . It cannot be ! Return 'd without my leave ! Against my strict command !\u2014 Impossible !", "Recall my pledge of safety from his hands ,", "In all her pomp of power . But are you sure", "Eliz . \u2018 Tis done ;", "And save him !", "Eliz . Let him appear .", "This ring shall be a private mark of faith", "You give , or send it back , by heaven , I swear ,", "Eliz . Why am I not obey 'd ?", "But injured truth , with brow invincible ,", "We charge you , on your duty and allegiance ,", "Or seeming gratitude and worth could promise ?", "Here drawn at large , associating with rebels ,", "But Henry 's daughter claims a nobler soul .", "How durst you disregard your trusted duty ,", "Of high distinction , or of noted rank ?", "Is plighted for his life ; his enemies ,", "Whilst mere professions are by doubts encumber 'd .", "But if forgiveness from an injured queen", "In danger 's onset , and the day of trial ,", "And stands at bold defiance with his duty .", "Nor will he keep the mask of prudence on", "Eliz . Ha ! is not Nottingham return 'd ?", "Adore its wisdom , on its power depend ;", "To angry laws , thy queen will not forget thee .", "So well befits the exalted seat supreme ,", "That I will grant whatever boon you ask .", "Eliz . Ha ! What !\u2014 Said he nothing of a private import ? No circumstance \u2014 no pledge \u2014 no ring ?", "Eliz . This haughty man has wanton 'd with my grace ,", "What bloody deed is this !\u2014 Thou injured Essex !", "Eliz . Husband !\u2014 What sudden , deadly blow is this !", "Eliz . Hence from my sight , ungrateful slave , and learn"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["Of joy ! dry up her bleeding sorrows all !", "Oh , beg , entreat , implore her majesty ,", "And bleeding for my country \u2014 Was't not hard ,", "Kind Nottingham !", "Me fly beyond the limits of the world ,", "If you command .", "A few short moments more , its weight of woe ,", "The poison 'd shaft has drank my spirits deep .\u2014", "To hands unworthy . No , my gracious queen ,", "My power to parley , or to fight , I had", "And smiling time his treasures shall unfold", "Would weary mercy , and make goodness poor ;", "Thee with the dearest secret of my life ,", "And , joyful , feast thy fierce rapacious soul", "Immediate execution ! what , so sudden ?\u2014", "And , oh ! a dearer treasure to thy care", "And , oh ! may life make largely up to thee", "Defy my fate , and meet its utmost rigour .", "Grows dim , and reason from her throne retires :", "Were purchased only to adorn my queen :", "The weak support that holds up life ! to bear", "And from the obdurate axe , to save my friend .", "The high-hung banner , and recording gold ,", "Forget our sorrows , and be bless 'd for ever .", "That , whensoever I should give , or send", "Eclipse my glory , and disgrace my deeds ?", "Yes ; let", "And this , O fatal rashness ! made me think", "Transporting bliss ! my richest , dearest treasure !", "Guiltless of all attempts against your throne ,", "Oh ! take it then \u2014 it is the pledge of life !", "Ye better angels , waft the welcome tidings", "For that I stand a guarded felon here ; a traitor ,", "The splendid noon of Fortune 's brightest sunshine ,\u2014", "I pr'ythee , leave this woman 's work .\u2014 Farewell !", "Know then , kind Nottingham , for now I 'll trust", "My better angel , and my guardian genius !", "Deluded hopes ! Oh , worse than death !", "Welcome , my fate ! Let fortune do her utmost ;", "On her deep-wounded spirit , and let her find", "And bravely bear the unexpected blow .", "Oh , she will want a friend !", "This only boon \u2014 he 'll thank you with his last ,", "Thou sinking excellence ! thou matchless woman !", "Which justly urged the shameful blow I felt ;", "Gave me this ring , this sacred pledge of mercy ;", "Nor wound with piercing looks , a heart already", "Let smiling hope drive doubt and fear away ,", "My friend shall thank you too for lengthen 'd life .", "From malice , tyranny , from courts , from you .", "Your awful looks , alone , are arm 'd with death ,", "To life , entangled by that loved idea !", "Shall upward spring , and mingle with the bless 'd .", "And will to her , and her alone , resign it .", "Perfidious queen ! to make a mock of life !", "Vouchsafe your Essex but this one request ,", "Agree to part , and nature send thee to me !", "How close thy image clings around my soul !", "May victory her dreaded banners bear ,", "Oh , grace surprising ! most amazing goodness !", "As saving yours , though for a single hour .", "I 'll do some dreadful thing !\u2014 I know not what ;", "My queen had given her Essex up , a victim", "Oh ! it is my dear Southampton 's", "Then be it so .\u2014\u2014 Unmoved and dauntless , let me", "Let every bliss be mingled in her cup ,", "And force it back to life ?", "Oh , cancel from her thoughts this dismal hour ,", "My ever faithful , and my gallant friend !", "Was loyalty misled , and duty in extreme .", "With anguish torn , and bleeding with remorse .", "The queen , incensed at my return , abandons me", "Or earth 's whole power , or death divide us now ?", "Which more than worlds I prize !\u2014 Oh , take it , then ;", "Oh , my friend ! we 'll meet", "Redeem my glory , or embrace my fate .", "I stand confounded at the unlook'dhYpppHeNfor change ,", "Let villains thrive , and outcast virtue perish ;", "This shock of adverse fortune firmly stand .", "From hence we 'll fly , where love and greatness call ;", "Restore her back to life , and lengthen 'd years", "Shall fortune rob me of thy dear embrace ,", "My life atone for both \u2014 my blood appease ?", "The throbs that tear my vital strings away ,", "The world 's derision , and my queen 's abhorrence .", "You 'd pity now the mortal pangs I feel ,", "Disease , and care , invite him to their dwelling .", "May aught presage to my afflicted heart ,", "Say , but , my gracious sovereign , ere I go", "To death 's concluding stroke , lead on , Lieutenant .\u2014", "From thy departing friend !", "Each swelling tide came loaded with my wrongs ;", "What honour wrong 'd , and honest wrath can act .", "Demands me .", "If aught disloyal in this bosom dwells ,", "Lies prostrate now beneath thy savage feet ;", "My faithful sentiments , my soul 's true dictates ;", "With soul as penitent , as if before", "They press me down beneath the reach of pity .", "It back again , she 'd freely grant whate'er", "Thou generous soul , farewell !\u2014\u2014 Live , and be happy !", "\u2018 Tis done .\u2014", "Those gilded visions of deceitful joys ,", "And danger dare not meet us more . Fly swift ,", "My real errors , and my seeming crimes ,", "I need not bid thee guard my fame from wrongs :", "Retards each rising wish , and draws me back", "To Cecil 's malice , and the rage of faction .", "My rescued soul disdains the house of greatness ,", "And Heaven , at last , become her great reward .", "Has honest pride no just resentment left ?", "Invert th \u2019 eternal rules of right and justice ;", "Take , take your gaudy trifles back , those baits", "And me to honour , loyalty , and truth .", "Enter COUNTESS of RUTLAND .", "May healing wisdom in her councils reign ,", "Stay , stay , thou spotless , injured saint !", "I trust , than either life or fame \u2014 my wife !", "And all my bravely gather 'd , envy 'd laurels", "Could bitter anguish pierce your heart , like mine ,", "Nature and time , let go your hold !\u2014 Eternity", "Amidst the inclemencies of camps and climes ?", "Oh , com'st thou now to arrest my parting soul ,", "And lurking snares , you plant in virtue 's path ,", "She sinks beneath oppressing ills ; she fades ,", "Restrain , good Heaven ! down , down , thou rebel passion ,", "To let him know the mercy that you bring .", "I 've served you , madam , with the utmost peril ,", "To hurl destruction at my foes on high ;", "Let every star shed down its mortal bane", "O , deadly stroke ! My life 's the destined mark .", "Where happiness invites \u2014 that wish of all :", "Of solid happiness , and true enjoyments .", "Afford me to my sorrows \u2014 Oh , look there !", "To live embosom 'd in the shades of joy ,", "I 'm now no more the fav'rite child of fortune :", "Then , let us hence from this detested place ;", "Me , sorrowing , in the walks of woe .\u2014 Distraction !", "With thee , my sweetest comfort , I 'll retire", "My deeds have oft declared in danger 's front", "How hard to turn the fond , deluded heart", "The trampled corse of all his envy 'd greatness ,", "My fervent theme ; and if my doubtful span", "The victor 's triumph , and the people 's gaze ;", "And nature 's verge , from proud oppression far ,", "Too long they 've robb 'd me of substantial bliss ,", "The all-searching eye of Heaven . But , oh , that frown !", "Oh , tell me not of danger , death , and Burleigh ;", "Nor with that look melt down my fix 'd resolve !", "And with it made a solemn vow to Heaven ,", "And justice gives them terror .", "Go , then , thou gladsome messenger of ill ,", "To this most shameful fall ; and , what 's still worse ,", "Lead on .", "Of pardon to my friend \u2014 of life and joy !", "So dearly purchased in the field of glory ,", "I give them to the winds , and lighter vanity ;", "My tender helps in thee !\u2014 I must be gone ,", "Then hence , like lightning , let me furious fly ,", "Can you , my friend , forgive me ?", "Could harbour in his breast so foul a thought .", "And leave me to my fate !", "Death is still distant far .", "The traitor Essex .\u2014 Was't not hard , my queen ,", "So jealous was my sanguine heart , so warm", "Is't come to this ? Conspire with rebels ! Ha !", "Aloud for mutual treaty and condition ;", "And yet the source of all my greatest faults", "I feel assurance rise within my breast ,", "His dying breath , and bless you in his passage .", "And bounteous Heaven hath sent thee to my hopes .", "To bribe thy stay !", "From splendid palaces , and glitt'ring throngs ,", "Encountering death in every shape of terror ,", "The joy , nor make my life so greatly blest ,", "Or stamp my conduct with a rebel 's brand !", "Despair alone can shield me from myself .", "For pity 's sake , let go my breaking heart ,"], "true_target": ["Imputed guilt , and slanderous accusations .", "The painted clouds , which bore my hopes aloft ,", "May watchful angels ever guard my queen ;", "My shame was wafted in each passing gale ,", "And I am fall'n indeed !\u2014", "Thou noblest , bravest , best of men and friends !", "Stand forth the villain , whose envenom 'd tongue", "From flatt'ring toys , which sooth 'd its vanity !", "With sweet content enjoy each blissful hour ,", "Suspicion of my duty to my queen .", "Whilst life is worth thy wish \u2014 till time and thou", "From you ; the time and circumstance did call", "Is this the just requital , then , of all", "Your soldier falls degraded ;", "When in my highest pitch of glory raised ,\u2014", "And pull my reason down .", "If aught of treason lodges in this heart ,", "My friend \u2014 my friend destroy 'd ! Why could not mine \u2014", "From public shame , and ignominious death ,", "I know her royal mercy , and her goodness ,", "And therefore justly held it far beneath me", "The sport of faction , and the mark of scorn ,", "And blot my image from her sad remembrance !", "Permitted thus to bend , with prostrate heart ,", "At once to thank , and bless the hand that gives it .", "Confusion ! what , a blow !", "I know the worst , and will confront her malice ,", "Then take her to thy care \u2014 do thou pour balm", "Your pious offices shall ever be", "And friendship shudders at the moral tale .", "That all will yet be well .", "To my dread sovereign 's goodness , \u2018 tis the making", "To statesmen 's schemes , and wicked policy .", "And scarcely feel this thunderbolt of fate .", "Where seasons sicken 'd , and the clime was fate .", "Which saves my friend ! This weight ta'en off , my soul", "That , while I stood in danger 's dreadful front ,", "Again , where virtue finds a just reward !", "Alas ! I own my crimes , and feel my treasons ;", "Request I then should make .", "Each passing hour shall still remind my thoughts ,", "For fate can add no more ,\u2014", "Forbear , my only comfort ;", "And every thought surveys , can witness for me ,", "High Heaven shall hear , and earth regret , my wrongs .", "Let Providence dispose my lot as \u2018 twill ,", "Go , tell the queen thy own detested story :", "No message from the queen , or Nottingham !", "One moment more", "Hot indignation burns within my soul .", "Would taint my honour , and traduce my name ,", "Hemm 'd in by villains , and by slaves surrounded .", "O , bounteous recompence from royal hands !", "Forbear reproach , thou injured majesty ,", "And shield the righteous in the paths of peril ,", "Believe it not , my queen . By heaven , I swear ,", "This , too , impell 'd me to that rude behaviour ,", "Thee in my raptured arms , I 'll brave them all ,", "With flattering honours , and deceitful power !", "The laurell 'd trophy , and the loud applause ,", "With thee , I 'll timely fly from proud oppression .", "Where life itself a willing victim falls ,", "My mourning turtle , my long-absent peace ,", "As newly waked from all my dreams of glory ,", "This drove me from my high command in Ireland ;", "Lives there a monster in the haunts of men ,", "Let me receive it on my grateful knees ,", "Stung by that piercing thought , my madness flew", "The kind , the generous Nottingham its messenger .", "And now , ye trembling cords of life , give way !", "Its loss of thee ! Oh , turn away those eyes !", "May I to guilt and lasting shame be wedded ,", "Madam , my envy 'd dignities and honours ,", "Such cold philosophy the heart disdains ,", "Relenting Heaven should stretch to years remote ,", "I came to clear my injured name from guilt ,", "Too much , thou partner of this dismal hour ,", "For now , indeed , comes on my sorest trial .", "Nor injured honour , feeling ?\u2014 Not revenge !", "Let slaves be raised , and cowards have command .", "With Essex \u2019 sudden and accomplish 'd fall .", "My staff of office I from her received ,", "Some deeds , as horrid as the shame I feel ,", "Last , last remaining stay ! his thread of being ,", "And ever gloried in th \u2019 illustrious danger ,", "And now I fly with comfort to his arms ,", "Affection 's zeal , I could not bear the least", "Beyond the smiles of fraud , or frowns of power .", "Should in my absence basely blast my fame ?", "Words cannot paint , the transports of my soul !", "For ever from your presence , that you think me", "Permit me , royal mistress , to announce", "Full in her sight disclose the snaky labyrinths ,", "I meant to lay them at your royal feet ;", "Sure mercy only from those lips should flow ,", "On my unshelter 'd head : whilst thus I fold", "My patriot toils , and oft-encounter 'd perils ,", "Oh , let me prostrate thus before you fall ,", "Oh , name it not ! my friend shall live \u2014 he shall !", "And death be banish 'd far ; where creeping age ,", "How weak is reason , when affection pleads !", "But still th \u2019 exalted spirit moves above thee .", "Of vice , and virtue 's bane . \u2018 Tis clear , my queen ,", "My friend , the fearful precipice is past ,", "Of Queens , this seeming disobedience . See ,", "Whether you bring me death , or life , I know not .", "To yield my trophies , and exalted power ,", "Disgraced and struck ! Damnation ! Death were glorious ! Revenge ! revenge !", "Traitor !", "To catch integrity 's unguarded step .", "Will give you back to life , to length of days ,", "My raptured soul springs forward , to receive thee :", "And rend my agonizing soul .", "Forgive , thou injured majesty , thou best", "And joyful conquests crown her soldiers \u2019 brow ;", "Oh , come yet nearer , nearer to my heart !", "I bend submissive in your royal presence ,", "Yet , still I trust long years remain of friendship .", "My heart was wishing for some faithful friend ,", "And yet a little longer let me gaze", "With Cecil to destroy my life and fame .", "And , judgment , take the reins . Madam , \u2018 tis well \u2014", "And life has nothing worth my wish but thee .", "And tell me , that I owe my all to thee :", "Take this last , dear embrace \u2014 Farewell for ever !", "Oh , lead me to her , to my soul 's desire .", "My enemies have caught me in the toil ,", "My wife !\u2014 Now reason , fortitude , support me !", "Could any circumstance new lustre add", "Thou heaven on earth , thou balm of all my woe !", "Where famine faced me with her meagre mien ,", "Away with dignities and hated trust ,", "But one short moment , and I will attend .", "Long years of bliss remain in store for thee ;", "My own reproaches , and my queen 's displeasure .", "Live , oh , live !", "And sacred life . Your faithful Essex ne'er", "Where humble honesty can find no shelter .", "But lead me to my mourning love ; alas !", "Take it , thou guardian angel of my life ,", "The awful Searcher , whose impartial eye", "I scorn the blaze of courts , the pomp of kings ;", "But , if strict friendship , and remembrance past ,", "Where sweet content extends her friendly arms ,", "His glory 's tarnish 'd , and his fame undone .", "Nor can thy tender , trembling , heart sustain it .", "Whatever blessing fate has thus cut off ,", "Pull down oppression from its tyrant seat ,", "Shall startle nature , and alarm the world .", "And echo sounded forth , from faction 's voice ,", "Oh , thou last , dear reserve of fortune 's malice !", "And gives increasing love a lasting welcome .", "For ever blest be that indulgent power", "Not ages of renown ,\u2014 could yield me half", "My mortal enemies at home , like cowards ,", "And firm fidelity surround her throne ;", "Alas , are now vanish 'd to yielding air ,", "And grace be utter 'd from that friendly tongue .", "I first from your own royal hand received ,", "Thy gen'rous soul would prompt thee to endure !", "But you , ye implements , beware , beware ,", "Dares tear my trophies from their pillar 'd base ,", "Subdue me still , still cling around my heart ,", "On that loved form ! Alas ! I feel my sight", "My queen 's resentment wounds my inmost spirit ,", "Strikes me like death , and pierces through my heart .", "Allegiance still my thirst of glory fired ,", "How far my duty and my valour lead me .", "And pestilence and death brought up her train .", "Oh , strain not thus the little strength I 've left ,", "Beyond all bounds , and now , alas ! has brought me", "Ye sacred ministers , that virtue guard ,", "And offer up the incense of my prayer !", "I 've fought your battles , in despite of nature ,", "She dies for my afflicting pangs , and seeks", "\u2018 Tis not long since , the queen", "My royal mistress , casts me off ; nay , joins", "Where factious malice never more can reach us !", "Explores the secrets of each human heart ,"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["And all his thoughts are loyalty and you .", "Us both at once , above the distant stars ,", "Oh ! where 's my lord , my Essex ?", "Bear , bear me to my murder 'd lord \u2014 to clasp", "Thou only joy which life could ever give ,", "I cannot let you go .", "My life ! my Essex ! Oh ! whither have they ta'en him ?", "And seek some dwelling in a world beyond it !", "And all thy business shall be love and me .", "Each precious moment is by fate beset ,", "Where is the queen ? I 'll fall before her feet", "It has , it has ; my Essex is return 'd !", "I come , with thee , determined to endure", "I know his noble heart , \u2018 tis fill 'd with honour ;", "Let passion paint , and looks express my soul .", "And has my fatal fondness then destroy 'd thee ?", "Now \u2014 now the horrid axe is lifted high \u2014", "Madam , \u2018 tis malice all , and false report .", "One pitying look , to save me from distraction .", "Oh , mercy , mercy !\u2014 Then to thee , good Heaven ,", "And time stands trembling whilst we thus confer .", "Me not !\u2014 My lord ! my love ! my husband bleeds !", "My dreadful fate appears .\u2014 Oh ! where 's my lord ?\u2014", "Alas , this universe , this goodly frame ,", "See ,\u2014 see they bend him to the fatal block !", "Prostrate ; implore , besiege her royal heart ,", "Destruction seize , and madness rend my brain !", "And , in thy latest moments , waft thy soul ,", "Thou sole delight \u2014", "Assert thy rightful claim \u2014 possess me all !", "Longing to see thee , with impatience listen 'd", "Oh , \u2018 tis the queen 's apartment ;", "Where has my lost , benighted soul been wand'ring ?\u2014", "My gracious queen , he 'll nobly earn your bounty ,", "\u2018 Tis mercy 's voice that speaks !\u2014", "Thy cruel foes have laid ?", "Ha ! dead ! What hell is this , that opens round me ?", "Thou cruel comforter !", "In this calm state of innocence and joy ,", "Where fortune 's venom 'd shafts can never pierce ,", "Such manly merit in distress , beset", "Her frowns are dreadful , and her eye looks terror . I tremble for my Essex . Save him , Heav'n !", "The utmost rigour of our angry stars !", "Inspires it . Sure some angel moves your heart ,", "But language poorly speaks the joys I feel ;", "Your saving arm , and snatch him from destruction ,", "And with his dearest blood deserve your mercy .", "To join thee , fearless , in the grasp of death ,", "Or death deprive me of \u2014 my wedded lord !", "This gracious deed shall shine in future story ,", "Destroy his precious life ; preserve my Essex ,", "Delusive dream of fancied happiness !", "Oh , gracious queen !", "My bounteous , gracious queen , has said the word !", "And mingle with his dust \u2014 for ever !", "Has pitying Heaven consented to my prayer ?", "Where fortune 's hand shall never part us more !", "And ages yet to come record your goodness .", "I 'll press thee to my throbbing bosom close .", "And force her to forgive .", "The thankless world , shall never claim thee more ,", "Of parting talk ?", "Inexorable queen !\u2014 He yet may live .", "Oh , that the friendly hand of Heaven would snatch", "Your royal heart , to pity and forgiveness ."], "true_target": ["His bleeding body in my dying arms !", "He ever loved \u2014 was ever faithful \u2014 brave !", "What human heart can , unafflicted , bear", "Melt down her bosom 's frozen sense , to feel", "What fiend art thou , that draws the horrid scene ?", "Stay , stay , my love ! my dearest , dying lord ! Ah ! whither wouldst thou go ? Ah , do not leave me !", "My soul 's delight , my utmost joy , my husband !", "Nor cruel queens destroy !", "Distraction .\u2014 Turn , oh , turn , and see a wife ,", "And every trace destroy ! Arise , Despair !", "Alas ! what 's life \u2014 what 's hated life to me ?", "Posterity shall praise the princely act ,", "Oh ! let us hence , beyond the reach of power ,", "To thee , for mercy bend .", "Shall all as one continued curse appear ,", "Oh , shall I credit , then , each ravish 'd sense ?", "It falls \u2014 it falls !\u2014 he bleeds \u2014 he bleeds ! he dies !", "By cruel foes , and faction 's savage cry ?", "Imperfect forms and horrid shapes of woe ?\u2014", "Oh , have I lured thee to the deadly snare", "Oh , let me fly ,", "Hold off your hands !\u2014 Here on this spot I 'll fix \u2014", "Oh , give him to my poor , afflicted heart !", "Oh , \u2018 tis a godlike thought , and Heav'n itself", "Some portion of my deadly grief , my fell", "My life , my hope , my joy , my all , my husband !", "Ah ! Burleigh ! bloody murd'rer ! where 's my husband ?", "My good , my gracious mistress , stretch , betimes ,", "A tortured wife \u2014\u2014", "Through which reflection 's painful eye discerns", "To clasp , embrace , the lord of my desires ,", "That sees my sorrows , will avenge the wrong ,", "Once more I hold him in my eager arms ,", "Abandon me to fell despair . Just Heaven ,", "This cruel wrong \u2014 this barbarous tyranny .", "And , in the tomb , embrace his dear remains ,", "Alas , my lord ! consider where we are .", "Nay , do not thus", "Behold his face , and lose my soul in rapture !", "The world , with envy 's eye , beholds his merit ;", "No trait'rous taint has touch 'd his generous soul ;", "Which , now , thy royal goodness grants to me !", "And deck your annals with the brightest virtue ;", "Here lose all sense . Still let me stretch these arms ,", "The cloud dispels , the shades withdraw , and all", "And nature 's laws dissolve ! expunge \u2014 erase", "Your generous breast , let not the cruel axe", "The force of love .", "Ambition 's voice shall call in vain ; the world ,", "Nay , force me not away .\u2014 Inhuman wretches !", "If nature dwells about your heart , oh , spurn", "My Essex shall again be mine ! My queen ,", "From deadly malice , treachery , and Cecil .", "What means this mist , that hangs about my mind ,", "His grateful mind still glows with pure affection ;", "To meet that mercy in the realms of joy ,", "May troops of angels guard thy sacred life !", "Eternal discord tear the social world ,", "To its own alarms ; and prudence sunk beneath", "Oh , let him live , to clear his conduct up !", "I dreaded Cecil 's malice , and my heart ,", "Oh , gracious queen ! if ever pity touch 'd", "The hated marks of Time 's engraving hand ,", "And every object blast , when thou art gone .", "Why wilt thou still"], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["My lord \u2014\u2014", "He 's with his friend , the brave Southampton , madam ,", "Beyond what I can warrant by my orders .", "But must , my lords , entreat you to prepare", "It now grows late .", "My lord ,", "My lord , already you have been indulged"], "true_target": ["None , sir .", "I grieve to be the messenger of woe ,", "For instant death . Here is the royal mandate ,", "My lord , my warrant", "Strictly forbids to grant a moment 's time .", "Preparing now for his expected fate .", "That orders your immediate execution .", "But I 'll acquaint his lordship with your pleasure ."], "play_index": 23, "act_index": 23}, {"query": ["The afternoon of the same day .", "Six months later .", "ACT I ."], "true_target": ["THE EASIEST WAY", "Late in an August afternoon .", "Two months later . In the morning ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["When the curtain rises , there are two big trunks and one small one up stage . These are marked in the usual theatrical fashion . There are grips packed , umbrellas , and the usual paraphernalia that accompanies a woman when she is making a permanent departure from her place of living . All the bric-\u00e0-brac , & c ., has been removed from dresser . On down-stage end of dresser is a small alligator bag containing night-dress , toilet articles , and bunch of keys . The dresser drawers are some of them half open , and old pieces of tissue-paper and ribbons are hanging out . The writing-desk has had all materials removed and is open , showing scraps of torn-up letters , and in one pigeon-hole is a New York Central time-table ; between desk and bay-window is a lady 's hat-trunk containing huge picture hat . It is closed . Behind table is a suit-case with which ANNIE is working when curtain rises . Under desk are two old millinery boxes , around which are scattered old tissue-paper , a pair of old slippers , a woman 's shabby hat , old ribbon , & c. In front of window at end of pianola is thrown a lot of old empty boxes , such as are used for stocking and shirtwaist boxes . The picture-frame and basket of flowers have been removed from pianola . The stool is on top of pianola , upside down . There is an empty White Rock bottle , with glass turned over it , standing between the legs of the stool . The big trunk is in front of sofa , and packed , and it has a swing tray under which is packed a fancy evening gown ; the lid is down . On top of lid are an umbrella , lady 's travelling-coat , hat and gloves . On left end of sofa are a large Gladstone bag , packed and fastened , a smaller trunk, tray with lid . In tray are articles of wearing apparel . In end of tray is revolver wrapped in tissue-paper . Trunk is closed , and supposed to be locked . Tossed across left arm of armchair are couple of violet cords . Down stage centre is a large piece of wide tan ribbon . The room has the general appearance of having been stripped of all personal belongings . There are old magazines and tissue-paper all over the place . A bearskin rug is thrown up against table in low window , the furniture is all on stage as used in Act III . At rise LAURA is sitting on trunk with clock in hand . ANNIE is on floor behind table , fastening suit-case . LAURA is pale and perturbed ."], "true_target": ["LAURA MURDOCK is seen leaning a bit over the balustrade of the porch and shielding her eyes with her hand from the late afternoon sun , as she seemingly looks up the Pass to the left , as if expecting the approach of someone . Her gown is simple , girlish and attractive , and made of summery , filmy stuff . Her hair is done up in the simplest fashion , with a part in the centre , and there is about her every indication of an effort to assume that girlishness of demeanour which has been her greatest asset through life . WILLARD BROCKTON enters ; he is a man six feet or more in height , stocky in build , clean-shaven and immaculately dressed . He is smoking a cigar , and upon entering takes one step forward and looks over toward LAURA in a semi-meditative manner .", "When the curtain rises on this scene it is noticeable that the occupants of the room must have returned rather late at night , after having dined , not wisely , but too well . In the alcove is a man 's dress-coat and vest thrown on the cushions in a most careless manner ; a silk hat badly rumpled is near it . Over the top of sofa is an opera-cloak , and hung on the mirror is a huge hat , of the evening type , such as women would pay handsomely for . A pair of gloves is thrown on top of the pier-glass . The curtains in the bay-window are half drawn , and the light shades are half drawn down the windows , so that when the curtain goes up the place is in a rather dim light . On the table are the remains of a breakfast , which is served in a box-like tray such as is used in hotels . LAURA is discovered sitting at right of table , her hair a bit untidy . She has on a very expensive neglig\u00e9e gown . WILL , in a business suit , is at the other side of the table , and both have evidently just about concluded their breakfast and are reading the newspapers while they sip their coffee . LAURA is intent in the scanning of her \u201c Morning Telegraph , \u201d while WILL is deep in the market reports of the \u201c Journal of Commerce , \u201d and in each instance these things must be made apparent . WILL throws down the paper rather impatiently ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Be careful . You 're not taking the wash off the line .", "Here 's a despatch about him .", "You mean you do n't know what to say ?", "And I tell you I wo n't go . I 'm going to show you up . I 'm going to tell him the truth . It is n't you I care for \u2014 he 's got to know .", "I said common sense .", "Oh , yes ; south of here in the San Juan country . Spent a couple of years there once .", "Agreed ?", "Ready ?", "All right , I wo n't be unkind . I 'll be back early this afternoon , and just remember , this is the time you 'll have to go right through to the end . Understand ?", "\u201c All I have to say can be expressed in one word , \u2018 good-bye . \u2019 I shall not tell you where I 've gone , but remind you of what Brockton told you the last time he saw you . He is here now, dictating this letter . What I am doing is voluntary \u2014 my own suggestion . Do n't grieve . Be happy and successful . I do not love you \u201d \u2014", "Just a bit sharp .", "And he does n't knowabout us ?", "Not a great deal . What do you want to tell me ?", "But like all the rest you found that would n't keep you , did n't you ?", "West ?", "No game then, and I 'm going to help Mrs. Williams ; maybe she 's lost nearly seven dollars by this time , and I 'm an awful dub when it comes to bridge .", "Come on !", "I 'm interested . I 'm a plain man , Mr. Madison , and I do business in a plain way . Now , if I ask you a few questions and discuss this matter with you in a frank way , do n't get it in your head that I 'm jealous or sore , but simply I do n't want either of you people to make a move that 's going to cost you a lot of pain and trouble . If you want me to talk sense to you , all right . If you do n't we 'll drop it now . What 's the answer ?", "That 's just exactly what I want him to do .", "Then the Riverside Drive proposition , with Burgess 's show thrown in , is declared off , eh ?", "And you did n't mail the letter, did you ?", "Do you know how much Laura could make if she just took a job on her own merits ?", "Oh , for that sort of a blow-out . Not too rough , but just a little easy . I like them at night and I hate them in the morning .Were you bored ?", "If it will interfere in the least with the plans I have made for you and for me .", "That telegram 's from Madison . Give it here !", "I 'd asked her .", "You know if you were working without anybody 's help , Laura , you might have a hard time getting a position . As an actress you 're only fair .", "I 'll pass ; it 's your deal , Mr. Madison .", "From Elfie ?", "Is that all I 've got ,\u2014 just your time ?", "It was then . I made some money there . It 's always interesting when you make money . Still \u2014", "I feel like hell .", "Ca n't even be friends any more , eh ? JOHN crosses , and , taking LAURA 'S arm , passes her over to seat ; his back is partly to audience .", "Good . It will be the first happy evening I 've had in a long , long time . You 'll be ready ?", "Ca n't make out why you have your eyes glued on that road . Someone coming ?", "Speak of the devil , you know .", "One of Mrs. Williams \u2019 friends , eh ?", "What are you going to live on ,\u2014 the extra editions ?", "Do n't think for a moment that there 's much to come around here for . Annie , this room 's stuffy .", "Sounds well \u2014 a year off .", "Marriage ?", "I presume he never replied to that letter you wrote ?", "Lose my temper and make a damn fool of myself . That 's something I 've not done for \u2014 let me see \u2014 why , it must be nearly twenty years \u2014 oh , yes , fully that .", "Give it here ; maybe I can help you . LAURA crosses to right of table , sits opposite WILL , and hands him the time-table . He takes it and handles it as if he were familiar with it .", "For instance , what ?", "Just that .", "All right . You 're a little upset now , and I 'm going . We are all to dine at Martin 's to-night at seven-thirty . There 'll be a party . Of course you 'll come .", "Well , that 's the best I can do for you .", "Madison been here ?", "No hurry . Do you \u2014 er \u2014 want to get rid of me ?", "I do n't know . Here . Pause ; he faces her , looking at her . She opens it quickly . She reads it and , as she does , gasps quickly with an exclamation of fear and surprise . This is what the despatch says\u201c I will be in New York before noon . I 'm coming to marry you and I 'm coming with a bank-roll . I wanted to keep it secret and have a big surprise for you , but I can n't hold it any longer , because I feel just like a kid with a new top . Do n't go out , and be ready for the big matrimonial thing . All my love . John . \u201d", "Does n't make any difference . I do n't feel much like the office now . Thought I might order the car and take a spin through the park . The cold air will do me a lot of good . Like to go ?", "Just a word . Is it settled ?", "Yes , and it 's mine .", "Have you seen the Sun , Laura ?", "One of Charlie Burgess 's shows , translated from some French fellow . It 's been running over in Paris , Berlin , and Vienna , and all those places , for a year or more , and appears to be an awful hit . It 's going to cost a lot of money . I told Charlie he could put me down for a half interest , and I 'd give all the money providing you got an important r\u00f4le . Great part , I 'm told . Kind of a cross between a musical comedy and an opera . Looks as if it might stay in New York all season . So that 's the change of plan . How does it strike you ?", "Have a cigar ?", "A little preoccupied .", "No .", "Then we have a good deal in common , Mr. Madison , for I also count Miss Murdock a friend , and when two friends of a friend have the pleasure of meeting , I dare say that 's a pretty good foundation for them to become friends too .", "No ; head too big .Tastes like punk .", "Of course you told him about the letter , and how it was burned up , and all that sort of thing , did n't you ?", "Never have made it , have you ?", "Yes , the very first thing you did was to lose your temper . Now people who always lose their temper will never make a lot of money , and you admit that that is a great necessity \u2014 I mean now \u2014 to you .", "What 's his business ?", "Going \u2014 er \u2014 to get married ?", "What kind ?", "Well , she ought to be here .", "A wire .", "Any difference from the many you have known ?", "Yes , it 's been a mighty good two years for me . I was always proud to take you around , because I think you one of the prettiest things in New York, and that helps some , and you 're always jolly , and you never complained . You always spent a lot of money , but it was a pleasure to see you spend it ; and then you never offended me . Most women offend men by coming around looking untidy and sort of unkempt , but somehow you always knew the value of your beauty , and you always dressed up . I always thought that maybe some day the fellow would come along , grab you , and make you happy in a nice way , but I thought that he 'd have to have a lot of money . You know you 've lived a rather extravagant life for five years , Laura . It wo n't be an easy job to come down to cases and suffer for the little dainty necessities you 've been used to .", "Going away ?", "Not what you are going to do for him \u2014 what am I going to do for him . Why , I could n't have that young fellow think that I tricked him into this thing for you or all the rest of the women of your kind on earth . God ! I might have known that you , and the others like you , could n't be square .You 've made a nice mess of it , have n't you ?", "And you 'll need some money in the meantime . I 'll leave this here .", "She 'd get about forty dollars .", "Very well .", "But you have got to stand it . The truth is never gentle .Most conditions in life are unpleasant , and , if you want to meet them squarely , you have got to realize the unpleasant point of view . That 's the only way you can fight them and win . JOHNStill , I believe Laura means what she says , in spite of all you say and the disagreeable logic of it . I think she loves me . If she should ever want to go back to the old way of getting along , I think she 'd tell me so . So you see , Brockton , all your talk is wasted , and we 'll drop the subject .", "Show me that telegram !", "If she leaves you first , you are to tell me , and if she comes to me I 'll make her let you know just when and why . JOHN is leaning on arm , facing WILL ; his hand shoots out in a gesture of warning to WILL .", "Where is it ?", "We 'll have to cut out those parties . I can n't do those things any more . I 'm not as young as I was , and in the morning it makes me sick . How do you feel ?", "I 'm mighty glad of that , Laura . I 've missed you like the very devil .", "What 's the game ?", "Oh , do n't get sentimental . If you 're going to bring up that sort of talk , Laura , do it sometime when I have n't got a hang-over , and then do n't forget talk never does count for much . LAURA crosses up to mirror , picks up hat from box , puts it on , looks in mirror . She turns around and looks at him steadfastly for a minute . During this entire scene , from the time the curtain rises , she must in a way indicate a premonition of an approaching catastrophe , a feeling , vague but nevertheless palpable , that something is going to happen . She must hold this before her audience so that she can show to them , without showing to him , the disgust she feels . LAURA has tasted of the privations of self-sacrifice during her struggle , and she has weakly surrendered and is unable to go back , but that brief period of self-abnegation has shown to her most clearly the rottenness of the other sort of living . There are enough sentimentality and emotion in her character to make it impossible for her to accept this manner of existence as ELFIE does . Hers is not a nature of careless candour , but of dreamy ideals and better living , warped , handicapped , disillusioned , and destroyed by a weakness that finds its principal force in vanity . WILL resumes his newspaper in a more attentive way . The girl looks at him and expresses in pantomime , by the slightest gesture or shrug of the shoulders , her growing distaste for him and his way of living . In the meantime WILL is reading the paper rather carefully . He stops suddenly and then looks at his watch .", "What did you do with it ?", "On thirty dollars a week ?", "How ?", "I know . I guess there 's enough therefor your immediate needs . Later you can straighten things up . Shall I send the car ?", "Yourself .", "Why , I guess so . If I was perfectly confident that this new arrangement was going to result happily for you both , I think it would be great , only I 'm somewhat doubtful , for when people become serious and then fail , I know how hard those things hit , having been hit once myself .", "Thank you .", "Oh ! He makes himself rather comfortable in the chair , and LAURA regards him for a moment from up stage as if trying to figure out how to get rid of him .", "Annie , Annie !Annie !Where the devil is that nigger ?", "What 's his name ?", "Ever been to New York before ?", "How soon do you expect him back ?", "That depends .", "You 're foolish .", "All right .", "Man ?", "Laura , run into the house and see if Mrs. Williams has won another quarter .Madison and I are going to smoke a cigar and have a friendly chat , and when we get through I think we 'll both be better off .", "Oh ! ANNIE re\u00ebnters with a time-table and hands it to LAURA .", "You have had that idea before . Every woman 's love is the real one when it comes .Do you make a distinction in this case , young lady ?", "Feel like quitting ?", "How are you going to support her ? Her cabs cost more than your salary , and she pays her week 's salary for an every-day walking-hat . She 's always had a maid ; her simplest gown flirts with a hundred-dollar note ; her manicurist and her hair-dresser will eat up as much as you pay for your board . She never walks when it 's stormy , and every afternoon there 's her ride in the park . She dines at the best places in New York , and one meal costs her more than you make in a day . Do you imagine for a moment that she 's going to sacrifice these luxuries for any great length of time ?", "Up the road there . On that yellow horse .", "Well , Laura .", "Then you 've lied again . You lied to him , and you just tried to lie to me now . I must say , Laura , that you 're not particularly clever at it , although I do n't doubt but that you 've had considerable practice . Gives her a searching look and slowly walks over to the chair at the table and sits down , still holding his hat in his hand and without removing his overcoat . LAURA sees BROCKTON sitting , stops and turns on him , laying dresses down .", "No , nothing particularly . I 've been rather curious to know how he came out . He was a pretty fresh young man and did an awful lot of talking . I wonder how he 's doing and how he 's getting along . I do n't suppose by any chance you have ever heard from him ?", "Well , I 'm damned if he has n't done what he said he 'd do \u2014 see !He 's been in Chicago , and is on his way to New York . He 's struck it rich in Nevada and is coming with a lot of money . Queer , is n't it ?Did you know anything about it ?", "But I 've got to do it just the same .", "No bad news , I hope ?", "All right , but how much did you say you made ?", "Yes .", "If that 's the way you want it , I 'm willing .", "Why \u2014 do you think that I 'm going to let you trip him the way you tripped me ?No . I 'm going to stay right here until that young man arrives , and I 'm going to tell him that it was n't my fault . You were to blame .", "A new sensation .", "And if you go back on the Overland Limited day after to-morrow , you 'd just as soon I 'd go to-morrow of wait until the day after you leave ?", "I thought you were startled .", "Yours too ?", "You did n't touch anything ?", "I 'll take it away from you .", "Yes .", "By God , I never beat a woman in my life , but I feel as though I could wring your neck .", "Possibly \u2014 but you see , Mr. Madison , after all , you 're at fault .", "Damn that bell . He continues on his way ; he opens the door , leaves it open , and passes on to the outer door , which he opens . LAURA remains immovable and impassive , with the same cold , hard expression on her face . He comes in , slamming the outer door with effect , which one must have at this point of the play , because it is essential to a situation coming later . Enters the room , closes the door , and holds in his hand a telegram . Looks from newspaper to telegram .", "All right .I am sorry for you , Laura , but remember you 've got to tell the truth .", "Do n't evade . There 's only one meaning when I say that , and you know it . I 'm pretty liberal . But you understand where I draw the line . You 've not jumped that , have you , Laura ?", "And , Laura , you know when we were in Denver , and \u2014", "And now I must be off .Good-bye , girlie ! Madison , good luck .I think you 've got the stuff in you to succeed if your foot do n't slip .", "Think he might take a trip East and see you act . You know you 've got quite a part now .", "It 'll be worse if you do n't . He 'll like you for telling him . It would be honest , and that is what he expects .", "Do n't get sore . It 's common sense and it goes , does it not ?", "All right .Laura , it 's a shame to lure me away from that mad speculation in there . I thought I might make my fare back to New York if I played until next summer . What 's up ?", "Then you do expect someone , eh ?", "Where is she coming from ?", "Missouri .", "He 's been in Chicago .", "No .", "There 's a train comes in here at 9 : 30 \u2014 that 's the Twentieth Century ,\u2014 that does n't carry passengers from Buffalo ; then there 's one at 11 : 41 ; one at 1 : 49 ; another at 3 : 45 ; another at 5 : 40 ; and another at 5 : 48 \u2014 that 's the Lake Shore Limited , a fast train ; and all pass through Buffalo . Did you think of meeting her ?", "So that is why you did n't come into Denver to meet me to-day , but left word for me to come out here ?", "And he said it did n't make any difference ?"], "true_target": ["How old is he ?", "Have you heard from him ?", "It 's the newspaper man , eh ?", "Blue ?", "Did she say what train she was coming on ?", "Address it the way you want to .I 'm going to be pretty brutal . In the long run I think that is best , do n't you ?", "I 'm sorry , but I 've got to . I toldMadison\u2014 pardon me , but I must do this \u2014 that if this time ever came I 'd have you write him the truth . Before we go any further I 'd like you to do that now .", "Thank you .", "Why ?", "Well , you liked it , did n't you ?", "If you want to work , Burgess has a nice part for you . I 'll telephone and arrange if you say so .", "And if she should ever go back and come to me , I am going to insist that she let you know all about it . It 'll be hard enough to lose her , caring for her the way you do , but it would hurt a lot more to be double-crossed .", "Surely . LAURA hurriedly exits . WILL goes down centre of the stage . After a short interval LAURA comes in , more like a sixteen-year-old girl than anything else , pulling JOHN after her . He is a tall , finely built type of Western manhood , a frank face , a quick , nervous energy , a mind that works like lightning , a prepossessing smile , and a personality that is wholly captivating . His clothes are a bit dusty from the ride , but are not in the least pretentious , and his leggins are of canvas and spurs of brass , such as are used in the Army . His hat is off , and he is pulled on to the stage , more like a great big boy than a man . His hair is a bit tumbled , and he shows every indication of having had a rather long and hard ride .", "What the hell is the use of fussing with a woman .", "The way you are looking .", "And may I ask what circumstances you refer to ?", "Too bad he could n't get this a little sooner , eh , Laura ?", "So you 've been corresponding all this time .", "Well , you do n't have to go .", "Your old friend Madison .", "I was n't conscious that I was looking at you in any particular way \u2014 why ?", "I thought that I was pretty decent to take a dusty ride half-way across the continent in order to keep you company on your way back to New York , and welcome you to our home ; but maybe I had the wrong idea .", "And you did n't know Madison was coming East until you read about it in that newspaper ?", "So did I , but somehow I think that maybe we do n't quite understand each other .", "You know , dearie , I do a lot for you because you 've always been on the level with me . I 'm sorry I hurt you , but there was too much wine last night and I 'm all upset . Forgive me . LAURA , in order to avoid his caresses , has leaned forward ; her hands are clasped between her knees , and she is looking straight outward with a cold , impassive expression . WILL regards her silently for a moment . Really in the man 's heart there is an affection , and really he wants to try to comfort her ; but he seems to realize that she has slipped away from the old environment and conditions , and that he simply bought her back ; that he has n't any of her affection , even with his money ; that she evinces toward him none of the old camaraderie ; and it hurts him , as those things always hurt a selfish man , inclining him to be brutal and inconsiderate . WILL crosses to centre , and stands reading paper ; bell rings ; a pause and second bell . WILL seizes upon this excuse to go up-stage and over towards the door .", "I 'll leave , Madison , but I 'm not going to let you think that I did n't do the right thing with you . She came to me voluntarily . She said she wanted to come back . I told you that , when I was in Colorado , and you did n't believe me , and I told you that when she did this sort of thing I 'd let you know . I dictated a letter to her to send to you , and I left it sealed and stamped in her hands to mail . She did n't do it . If there 's been a lie , she told it . I did n't . JOHN turns to her . She hangs her head and averts her eyes in a mute acknowledgment of guilt . The revelation hits JOHN so hard that he sinks on the trunk centre , his head fallen to his breast . He is utterly limp and whipped . There is a moment 's silence .", "A real man . By that you mean \u2014", "Think he is going to make a proposition , eh ?", "I did n't think it was possible for me to miss anyone the way I have you . I 've been lonely .", "Down in the mouth , eh ? I 'm sorry .", "Pay you well ?", "She picked me up at Martin 's ; we lunched there .", "Draw those porti\u00e8res . Let those curtains up .Let 's have a little light . Take away these clothes and hide them . Do n't you know that a man does n't want to see the next morning anything to remind him of the night before . Make the place look a little respectable . In the meantime ANNIE scurries around , picking up the coat and vest , opera-cloak , & c ., as rapidly as possible , and throwing them over her arm without any idea of order . It is very apparent that she is rather fearful of the anger of WILL while he is in this mood .", "Gun-fighter , eh ?", "Yes .", "No one 's listening .", "Well , there are a lot of trains . About what time did you expect her in ?", "You 've been on the square with me this summer , have n't you ?", "You know I do n't want to delve into a lot of past history at this time , but I 've got to talk to you for a moment .", "What 's up ?", "Thank you again .", "Of course you are going with him ?", "I do n't quite get you .", "I 'll give you every chance that you deserve when he knows . Then he can do as he pleases , but there must be no more deception , that 's flat .", "Expecting someone ?", "She 's your servant , is n't she ?", "Well , you see , Madison , that what I said when I was \u2014", "What is your business ?", "Well , I 'm sorry . I did n't mean that , Laura . I guess I am feeling a little bad to-day . Really , I do n't want to hurt your feelings , my dear . He gets up , goes to her , puts his hands on her shoulders , and his cheek close to the back of her head . She bends forward and shudders a little bit . It is very easy to see that the life she is leading is becoming intolerable to her .", "Well , young man , I size up a fellow in pretty short order , and all things being equal , I think you 'll do .", "I know .", "Yes , I have given up the lease of our apartment on West End Avenue , and I 've got a house on Riverside Drive . Everything will be quiet and decent , and it 'll be more comfortable for you . There 's a stable near by , and your horses and car can be kept over there . You 'll be your own mistress , and besides I 've fixed you up for a new part .", "There 's where you make a mistake . Money-getting does n't always come with brilliancy . I know a lot of fellows in New York who can paint a great picture , write a good play , and , when it comes to oratory , they 've got me lashed to a pole ; but they 're always in debt . They never get anything for what they do . In other words , young man , they are like a sky-rocket without a stick ,\u2014 plenty of brilliancy , but no direction , and they blow up and fizzle all over the ground .", "Waiting for him to come ?", "I guess you 're on the safe side . It was a great old party , though , was n't it ?", "Hello , Madison , when did you get in ? Slowly JOHN seems to recover himself . His right hand starts up toward the lapel of his coat and slowly he pulls his Colt revolver from the holster under his armpit . There is a deadly determination and deliberation in every movement that he makes . WILL jumps to his feet and looks at him . The revolver is uplifted in the air , as a Western man handles a gun , so that when it is snapped down with a jerk the deadly shot can be fired . LAURA is terror-stricken , but before the shot is fired she takes a step forward and extends one hand in a gesture of entreaty .", "Just thought you might meet him , that 's all . Do n't get sore about it .", "Why , yes \u2014 do you ?", "And his job ?", "But I 've got to talk to you . Laura , you 're lying to me .", "Do I know him ?", "I 'm a broker .", "Is that the fellow coming up here ?", "I do n't know him .", "After ten .", "Well , what have you got her for ,\u2014 to eat or to wait on you ? Annie !", "Do n't you know that I gave Madison my word that if you came back to me I 'd let him know ? Do n't you know that I like that young fellow , and I wanted to protect him , and did everything I could to help him ? And do you know what you 've done to me ? You 've made me out a liar \u2014 you 've made me lie to a man \u2014 a man \u2014 you understand . What are you going to do now ? Tell me \u2014 what are you going to do now ? Do n't stand there as if you 've lost your voice \u2014 how are you going to square me ?", "Yes ?", "But you did n't know he was coming until this arrived ?", "I 'm not hedging , Laura . If that 's the way you want it to be , I 'll stand by just exactly what I said, but I 'm fond of you , a damn sight fonder than I thought I was , now that I find you slipping away ; but if this young fellow is on the squareand he has youth and ability , and you 've been on the square with him , why , all right . Your life has n't had much in it to help you get a diploma from any celestial college , and if you can start out now and be a good girl , have a good husband , and maybe some day good children, why , I 'm not going to stand in the way . Only I do n't want you to make any of those mistakes that you made before .", "If you do n't mind , I 'll stay here .", "In somewhat of a hurry , I should say .", "I think I understand your position , young man , and I perfectly agree with you , that is \u2014 if your plans come out successfully .", "\u201c I will be in New York before noon . I 'm coming to marry you , and I 'm coming with a bank-roll . I wanted to keep it a secret and have a big surprise for you , but I can n't hold it any longer , because I feel just like a kid with a new top . Do n't go out , and be ready for the big matrimonial thing . All my love . John . \u201d Then you knew ?", "You 're lying to me , and you 've been lying to me , and I 've trusted you . Show me that telegram !", "Still , you could say no .", "I do n't want to make fun of you , but you must realize that after two years it is n't an easy thing to be dumped with so little ceremony . Maybe you have never given me any credit for possessing the slightest feeling , but even I can receive shocks from other sources than a break in the market .", "Liar ?", "You 'll have to move out of here right away .This place is enough to give one the colly-wabbles . If you 'll be ready to-morrow I 'll send my man over to help you take care of the luggage .", "H'mhYpppHeNm . Romance ?", "Wait a minute, young man , or I 'll \u2014 JOHN rises quickly . Both men stand confronting each other for a moment with fists clenched . They are on the very verge of a personal encounter . Both seem to realize that they have gone too far .", "Hello , Laura . There is an obvious embarrassment on the part of each of them . She rises , goes to him and extends her hand .", "And you mean to tell me that you kept your promise and told him the truth ?", "Well , I hope I 'll like him .", "Not at all unless you want to . I understand \u2014 in fact , I always have .", "Then how do you know you can ?", "Huh .", "You 're crazy .", "By George , this is funny .", "He is a good-looking chap .", "Why ?", "Do I know her ?", "It will be just the same as it was before , you know .", "No , I do n't make any such gloomy prophecy . If you make Laura a good husband , and she makes you a good wife , and together you win out , I 'll be mighty glad . As far as I am concerned I shall absolutely forget every thought of Laura 's friendship for me .", "What 's up that way ?", "I hope you 'll make your money , because I tell you frankly that 's the only way you can hold this girl . She 's full of heroics now , self-sacrifice , and all the things that go to make up the third act of a play , but the minute she comes to darn her stockings , wash out her own handkerchiefs and dry them on the window , and send out for a pail of coffee and a sandwich for lunch , take it from me it will go Blah !You 're in Colorado writing her letters once a day with no checks in them . That may be all right for some girl who has n't tasted the joy of easy living , full of the good things of life , but one who for ten years has been doing very well in the way these women do is not going to let up for any great length of time . So take my advice if you want to hold her . Get that money quick , and do n't be so damned particular how you get it either . JOHN 'S patience is evidently severely tried . He approaches WILL , who remains impassive .", "Did you mention my name and say that we 'd been rather companionable for the last two months ?", "I want the Sun .", "I do n't see why not . This is my own place .", "So he did n't care then ?", "You 've always been on the square with me , Laura . That 's why I 've liked you a lot better than the other women .", "Are you going to make me take it awayfrom you ? I 'venever laid my hands on you yet .", "That letter I dictated to you the day that you came back to me , and left it for you to mail \u2014 did you mail it ?", "Not planned \u2014 just hoped . I think you 'd better go to some nice hotel now . Later we can arrange .", "In love , eh ?", "Depends on the train you take .", "It has got to go just that way \u2014 \u201c I do not love you . \u201d Sign it \u201c Laura . \u201dFold it , put it in an envelope \u2014 seal it \u2014 address it . Now shall I mail it ?", "Not much . Why do n't you find out for yourself ? Have Annie get the time-table ?", "Sure . LAURA looks at JOHN for assurance , and exits ; he nods reassuringly .", "I know that . You know I 've done a lot of business west of the", "What 's the plan ?", "I 'm going to find out where I stand . Give me that telegram , or", "Laura , you can n't do this .", "You want me to tell you ?", "Lucky for him , eh ?", "Do you think I 'm going to let a woman make a liar out of me ? I 'm going to stay right here . I like that boy , and I 'm not going to let you put him to the bad .", "Inside , I guess , up to her neck in bridge .", "Then the Riverside Drive proposition and Burgess 's show is off , eh ?", "You 're quite sure this is in earnest . You do n't want to change ? You 've time enough now .", "Sit down here and rest a few moments ; maybe longer .", "Well , he 's twenty-seven and broke , and you 're twenty-five and pretty ; and he evidently , being a newspaper man , has that peculiar gift of gab that we call romantic expression . So I guess I 'm not blind , and you both think you 've fallen in love . That it ?", "What did you go for if you did n't want to ?", "You 've tried that once , and taken the wrong end . Are you going to play the same game again ?", "No , I 'll wait . This time I 'm going to tell him myself , and I do n't care how tough it is .", "All right . For a moment LAURA sits silent , and then angrily rises , crosses up to dresser , gets alcohol lamp , crosses to table with lamp , lights same , and starts back to dresser . Knock at door .", "No , forty-six .", "You did n't know any better ?", "Then I 'll dictate .", "It would be rather queer , eh , if this young fellow shouldhappen to come across a lot of money \u2014 not that I think he ever could , but it would be funny , would n't it ?", "Oh , nothing . I suppose he ought to be here to-day . Are you going to see him if he looks you up ?", "You see ! Why , my boy , whatever you think of me or the life I lead , I would n't have had this come to you for anything in the world .No , I would n't . My women do n't mean a whole lot to me because I do n't take them seriously . I wish I had the faith and the youth to feel the way you do . You 're all in and broken up , but I wish I could be broken up just once . I did what I thought was best for you because I did n't think she could ever go through the way you wanted her to . I 'm sorry it 's all turned out bad .Good-bye . He looks at JOHN for a moment as if he was going to speak . JOHN remains motionless . The blow has hit him harder than he thought . WILL exits . The first door closes . In a moment the second door is slammed . JOHN and LAURA look at each other for a moment . He gives her no chance to speak . The hurt in his heart and his accusation are shown by his broken manner . A great grief has come into his life and he does n't quite understand it . He seems to be feeling around for something to say , some way to get out . His head turns toward the door . With a pitiful gesture of the hand he looks at her in all his sorrow .", "I dare say you are .", "How ?", "Between eight and ten hours , I think . Some one coming ?", "You 're quite sure ?", "Yes , I did want you , but do n't now . When I 'm at home I have a man to look after me , and I get what I want .", "I think you should .", "Knows where you live ?", "We are not talking business now , but women . How much money do you earn ?", "The hotel scheme is the best , but , Laura \u2014", "Then the wire was from her ?", "I do n't suppose , Laura , that you 'd be interested now in knowing anything about that young fellow out in Colorado ? What was his name \u2014 Madison ?", "Just a moment ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Market unsatisfactory ?", "I 'm sorry ; I 'll try again to-day .", "Was n't it partly your fault , Elfie ?", "Where ?", "Who 's the liar now ?", "Yes ; everything is absolutely declared off .", "But that was business .", "When does he want to see me ?", "No .", "I 'll do just as you say . You 're the one to tell me now .", "Could \u2014 could you lend me thirty-five dollars until I get to work ?", "Give me another .", "I will . Annie ! Annie !", "No , only if you want me to be frank , I 'm a little tired . You may not believe it , but I work awfully hard over at the theatre . Burgess will tell you that . I know I 'm not so very good as an actress , but I try to be .I 'd like to succeed , myself . They 're very patient with me . Of course they 've got to be ,\u2014 that 's another thing you 're paying for , but I do n't seem to get along except this way .", "Yes , yes ; it would be unexpected . I hope he does . It might make him happy .", "He 's just left .", "I do n't know .", "Do n't try to fool me . What you 've got you 're welcome to , but for heaven 's sake do n't prate around here about loyalty and honesty . I 'm sick of it .", "Oh !", "Yes , but you see how impossible it is \u2014", "Come in . ANNIE enters with a note , crosses , and hands it to LAURA .", "Yes . Do you remember what I told you about that letter \u2014 the one", "John \u2014 John \u2014 I \u2014Annie ! Annie !", "Just that \u2014 a real man .", "In what way ?", "Please do .", "I 'm sorry , Annie , if I 've caused you any trouble . Never mind , I 'll be able to pay the rent to-morrow or next day anyway .Here !", "Yes .", "You 've been about as honest as most colouredgirls are who work for women in the position that I am in . You have n't stolen enough to make me discharge you , but I 've seen what you 've taken .", "Yes .", "Yes .", "Do n't \u2014 do n't . Go do as I tell you and mind your business .Wait a minute . I want you to mail a letter .Never mind .", "Maybe that 's John .", "That would be the only reason .", "Which way ?", "Take two . And look in that upper drawer . You 'll find some pawn tickets there .", "I know he is .", "Why do n't you do it some other time ? I do n't want to be talked to now .", "When do we go ?", "Thanks . Say I 'll see him in the morning .", "No \u2014 no \u2014 I have n't heard from him . Do n't talk to me about this thing . Why can n't you leave me alone ? I 'm miserable enough as it is .", "Will , we 'll always be frank . I said I was ready to go . It 's up to you \u2014 when and where .", "What makes you think that ?", "Thank you .", "Then you must let me tell him \u2014\u2014 yes , you must . If I did n't tell him before , I 'll do it now . You must go . If you ever had any regard for me \u2014 if you ever had any affection \u2014 if you ever had any friendship , please let me do this now . I want you to go \u2014 you can come back . Then you 'll see \u2014 you 'll know \u2014 only I want to try to make him understand that \u2014 that maybe if I am weak I 'm not vicious . I want to let him know that I did n't want to do it , but I could n't help it . Just give me the chance to be as good as I can be .Oh , I promise you , I will tell him , and then \u2014 then I do n't care what happens \u2014 only he must learn everything from me \u2014 please \u2014 please \u2014 let me do this \u2014 it 's the last favour I shall ever \u2014 ever ask of you . Wo n't you ?", "No .", "Annie , Annie , come here !", "Oh , I guess you 'll get along all right , Elfie .", "I 'll tell you when I get dressed . Make yourself at home , wo n't you , dear ?", "Then you are going to let him know . You 're not going to give me a single , solitary chance ?", "I know .You thought it was n't decent . Is that it ?", "I do n't know yet , Annie . I do n't even know what the place is like that we 're going to . Mr. Madison has n't said much . There has n't been time .", "Yes ?", "It 's comfortable .", "Well ?", "I think it would be right you should . I 'll call him now .", "I will get it for you . Rather wearily she gets up and goes to the table , where there are other morning papers ; she takes the \u201c Sun , \u201d hands it to him , goes back to her seat , re-opens the \u201c Morning Telegraph . \u201d There is a pause . ANNIE enters from the sleeping-room .", "Yes , but things are different with me now . You 'd be the same way if you were in my place .", "Well ?", "Hello , Annie .", "Yes . I 'm going to Rector 's to make a hit , and to hell with the rest ! At this moment the hurdy-gurdy in the street , presumably immediately under her window , begins to play the tune of \u201c Bon-Bon Buddie , My Chocolate Drop . \u201d There is something in this ragtime melody which is particularly and peculiarly suggestive of the low life , the criminality and prostitution that constitute the night excitement of that section of New York City known as the Tenderloin . The tune ,\u2014 its association ,\u2014 is like spreading before LAURA 'S eyes a panorama of the inevitable depravity that awaits her . She is torn from every ideal that she so weakly endeavoured to grasp , and is thrown into the mire and slime at the very moment when her emancipation seems to be assured . The woman , with her flashy dress in one arm and her equally exaggerated type of picture hat in the other , is nearly prostrated by the tune and the realization of the future as it is terrifically conveyed to her . The negress , in the happiness of serving LAURA in her questionable career , picks up the melody and hums it as she unpacks the finery that has been put away in the trunk .", "I 've thought all about that , and I think I understand .", "I 'm just going , that 's all .", "No , this has been such a wonderful summer , such a wonderfully different summer . Can you understand what I mean by that when I say \u201c wonderfully different summer ? \u201d", "I do n't know .", "Yes , everything .", "Elfie\u2014 I \u2014 I do n't think I could do like that to John . I do n't think \u2014 I could deceive him .", "But , Mr. Weston , I 'm not going to be Mrs. Brockton .", "Nothing .", "No , a gentleman .", "By appointment ?", "Annie !", "You can n't do that .", "How long ?", "Yes .", "I do n't think you 're at all pleasant , but I 'll tell you one thing \u2014 it 's tea this deal or no game .", "But I do n't know ; do n't you see , Elfie , I do n't know . If I do n't tell him , Will will come back and he 'll tell him , and I know John and maybe \u2014 Elfie , do you know , I think John would kill him .", "Still what ?", "There is n't any mess . Please go away . He 'll be here soon . Please let me see him \u2014 please do that .", "Take all my things ?", "What are we going to do ?", "You do n't care . You 'll wait , wo n't you ?", "I 'll tell you in a moment . Just as soon as", "Do n't you think so ? I know you can n't see what I see , but I do . And why can n't you go away ? Why can n't you leave me this ? It 's all I ever had . He does n't know . No one will ever tell him . I 'll take him away . It 's the best for him \u2014 it 's the best for me . Please go .", "Come in .", "Yes .", "Well , John , there are so many things I do n't want to speak of even to you . It is n't easy for a woman to go back and dig up a lot of ugly memories and try to excuse them .", "I 'm \u2014 I 'm glad to see you , Will .", "No ; I can n't let you do that .You may have been mad ,\u2014 awfully mad ,\u2014 but what you said was the truth . I can n't take your money .", "You mean Will Brockton ?", "Annie , I 'm going away , and I 've got to hurry .", "Madison \u2014 John Madison .", "Did you think so ?", "No . It 's all gone .", "You asked me .", "Gallipolis ?", "I 'm going to be happy .", "Because you can n't ; you 've never felt as I have .", "Please , please , do n't speak of it .", "And now the season 's over and there is nothing to keep me in Colorado , and I 've got to go back to New York to work .", "Sure .", "I want to be happy , I 'm going to be married ,", "I know just how you feel . Sit down , Jim .It 's pretty tough for me, but it must be a whole lot worse for you with a wife and kids .", "Surely .", "Reporter .", "Please take it .", "I 'll try .If that 's Mr. Madison , Annie , tell him to come in . LAURA stands near the table , almost rigid . Instinctively ELFIE goes to the mirror and re-arranges her gown and hair as ANNIE exits . ELFIE turns to LAURA .", "She 's been a very great friend to me .", "I can n't make this out .", "Yes , please .", "Yes , dear , I could do anything for you . He takes her in his arms and kisses her again . Looks at her tenderly .", "You came with Elfie in the car ?", "Who got me in debt , and then , when I would n't do what you wanted me to , who had me discharged from the company , so I had no means of living ? Who followed me from one place to another ? Who , always entreating , tried to trap me into this life , and I did n't know any better ?", "I hope so . But things are looking pretty hopeless now , are n't they ?", "Possibly .", "No .", "I think it hurt him .", "Oh , I beg your pardon ! Mr. Madison , this is Mr. Brockton , a friend of mine from New York . You 've often heard me speak of him ; he came out here to keep me company when I go home .", "Can you spare a moment to come out here ?", "I \u2014 I \u2014What business have you got to ask me that ? What business have you got to interfere anyway ?", "You are sure that everything will be all right ?", "How can you say such things to me ?", "But you do n't understand \u2014 it 's John . I can n't lie to him .", "I did n't think that , when I came out here to Denver to play in a little stock company , it was going to bring me all this happiness , but it has , has n't it ?", "Nothing .", "No . If you do n't mind I 'd sooner . It 's a sort of a last \u2014 last message .", "You need n't remind me of that . That part of my life is my own .I do n't want you to start now and make it harder for me to do the right thing . It is n't fair ; it is n't square ; and it is n't right . You 've got to let me go my own way .I 'm sorry to leave you , in a way , but I want you to know that if I go with John it changes the spelling of the word comradeship into love , and mistress into wife . Now please do n't talk any more .", "Nothing .", "I can n't tell .", "Yes .", "I would n't know how to begin . It will hurt him awfully deeply .", "Do n't shoot . The gun remains uplifted for a moment . JOHN is evidently wavering in his determination to kill . Slowly his whole frame relaxes . He lowers the pistol in his hand in a manner which clearly indicates that he is not going to shoot . He quietly puts it back in the holster , and WILL is obviously relieved , although he stood his ground like a man .", "Worse , you think ?", "Hurry up .", "Elfie , I 've been a little cross ; I did n't mean it .", "You must ask her to wait .", "No , we 're not .", "Yes . Put it back . I thought perhaps it was lost .See \u2014 who \u2014 that is \u2014 and let me know .", "No , I 'm not . I 'm going to stay right here .Open these trunks , take out those clothes , get me my prettiest dress . Hurry up .Get my new hat , dress up my body and paint up my face . It 's all they 've left of me .They 've taken my soul away with them .", "No , just a friend .", "You can go now , Elfie , and do n't come back .", "Jim !", "How long does it take to come from Buffalo ?", "Brockton ?", "The road from Manitou Springs . They call it the trail out here .", "We 've been very happy all summer .", "Annie says a lot of people owe her .", "I can n't tell you now .", "That 's interesting .", "Oh , I 'm slow . I did n't know it was so late . Just excuse me , wo n't you , while I get some clothes on . He may be here any moment . Annie !", "Was that all ?", "Will , I 'm ready to come back .", "Only one of the girls who used to be in the same company with me . But I 'm not sure that she 's coming here .", "Do you remember in the boarding-house \u2014 when we finally packed up \u2014 what you did with everything ?", "I 'm going to be married this afternoon .", "Just as you please .Will ?", "In what way ?", "But what , John ? He goes over to her . She intuitively understands that she is about to go through an ordeal . She seems to feel that JOHN has become acquainted with something which might interfere with their plan . He looks at her long and searchingly . Evidently he too is much wrought up , but when he speaks to her it is with a calm dignity and force which show the character of the man .", "Yes .", "Honest ?", "About us ?", "Take the two top ones and go get my lace gown and one of the hats . The ticket is for a hundred and ten dollars . Keep ten for yourself , and hurry .", "Yes .", "What is your time , Elfie ?", "And it 's going to be altogether different . I know what you meant when you said about the missis and the kids , and that 's what I want \u2014 just a little home , just a little peace , just a little comfort , and \u2014 and the man has come who 's going to give it to me . You do n't want me to say any more , do you ?", "That and the rest .I guess you know .", "I can take two .", "Why should I ?", "Are n't you a little late , dear ?", "That would n't pay , would it ?", "I 'm not thinking about squaring you . What am I going to do for him ?", "Are you going into all that again now , this morning ? I thought we understood each other .", "And this thing has gradually been growing on us ?", "Come over here and sit down .", "Yes .", "But , John , you 've been so mysterious . In all your letters you have n't told me a single , solitary thing about your good luck .", "But if I had n't succeeded and if things \u2014 things were n't just as they seem \u2014 would it make any difference to you , John ?", "John , please , do n't . I 'm not worth it .", "From whom , I wonder . Perhaps Elfie with a luncheon engagement .", "She 's a dear .", "Where is it now ?", "What !", "Yes , if you want to call it that ,\u2014 romance .", "Elfie !", "A new part ! What kind of a part ?", "How ?", "I thought you 'd be just that way .", "John .", "What are you going to do ?", "Well ?", "You wanted me to .", "Yes , I am .", "Thank you !", "I 'll give it to you .He takes it slowly , looking her squarely in the eye . WILL crosses to centre , and does not glance away while he slowly smoothes it out so that it can be read ; when he finally takes it in both hands to read it she staggers back a step or two weakly .", "Yes , from all I have known .", "No , I did n't know it .", "Here ?", "Shall I tell you about him ? Huh ?", "What \u2014 what about him ?", "She has the address .", "Yes , and there 's always to-day to look after .", "Do you know what I 'm going to ask of you ?", "She wants money \u2014 three weeks \u2019 room-rent . I presume she thought you 'd give it to me .", "No ; the first conviction .", "I think not . I met her while I worked in \u2018 Frisco .", "If you came up here , Elfie , to talk that sort of stuff to me , please do n't . I was West this summer . I met someone , a real man , who did me a whole lot of good ,\u2014 a man who opened my eyes to a different way of going along \u2014 a man who \u2014 Oh , well , what 's the use ? You do n't know \u2014 you do n't know .", "You 've no right to ask me .", "Will \u2014 please .", "Do you see much of Jerry nowadays , Elfie ?", "Then why do you ask ?", "I do n't think I can . You see \u2014", "But you asked me .", "Yes , yes ; it 's very nice .", "All right .", "No , no ; I do n't want to see him . You know that , do n't you , that I do n't want to see him ? What makes you ask these questions ?", "Jim Weston ?", "John ! As the Act progresses the shadows cross the Pass , and golden light streams across the lower hills and tops the snow-clad peaks . It becomes darker and darker , the lights fade to beautiful opalescent hues , until , when the curtain falls on the act , with JOHN and WILL on the scene , it is pitch dark , a faint glow coming out of the door . Nothing else can be seen but the glow of the ash on the end of each man 's cigar as he puffs it in silent meditation on their conversation .", "No .", "I 'm not . She holds the telegram crumpled in one hand . WILL lays down the paper , and regards LAURA curiously . She sees the expression on his face and averts her head in order not to meet his eye .", "Do you know anything about the trains ?", "There 's no answer .", "No , I have n't any .", "No .", "Yes , tea . You know it must be tea \u2014 nothing stronger .", "Do n't be so cross . What do you want ?", "Yes .", "No , indeed .", "What good would my recommendation do ? You can always go and get another position with people who 've lived the way I 've lived , and my recommendation to the other kind would n't amount to much .", "No : just a little advice .", "Never mind where I 'm going . I have n't any time to waste now talking . I 'll tell you later . This is one time , Annie , that you 've got to move . Hurry up . LAURA pushes her in front of her . Exeunt the same way and re-appear with a smaller trunk .", "Hello , Jim Weston .Any luck ?", "I know , but somehow I feel that this time the real thing has come , and with it the real man . I can n't tell you , Will , how much different it is , but everything I felt before seems so sort of earthly \u2014 and somehow this love that I have for this man is so different . It 's made me want to be truthful and sincere and humble for the first time in my life . The only other thing I ever had that I cared the least bit about , now that I look back , was your friendship . We have been good pals , have n't we ?", "Then everything is settledjust the way it ought to be \u2014 frankly and aboveboard ?", "But I 've got what you have n't got . I may have to hide my clothes , but I do n't have to hide my face . And you with that man \u2014 he 's old enough to be your father \u2014 a toddling dote hanging on your apron-strings . I do n't see how you dare show your face to a decent woman .", "It 's not excuses . I want to tell you what 's in my heart , but I can n't ; it wo n't speak , and you do n't believe my voice .", "I tried to lie to Will \u2014 he would n't have it that way . He seemed to know . He was furious .", "Now before you go , and to you both , I want to tell you how I 've learned to despise him . John , I know you do n't believe me , but it 's true \u2014 it 's true . I do n't love anyone in the world but just you . I know you do n't think that it can be explained \u2014 maybe there is n't any explanation . I could n't help it . I was so poor , and I had to live , and he would n't let me work , and he 's only let me live one way , and I was hungry . Do you know what that means ? I was hungry and did n't have clothes to keep me warm , and I tried , oh , John , I tried so hard to do the other thing ,\u2014 the right thing ,\u2014 but I could n't .", "Well , Will , you have all my time when I 'm not in the theatre , and you can do with it just what you please . You pay for it . I 'm working for you .", "No .", "Is it good-bye ?", "Mr. Madison and I are going to be married .Heknows of your former friendship for me , and he has the idea that it must end .", "Please take it , Annie . I might just as well get rid of this as anything else .", "Shall I get the tea ?", "I know , Elfie . I 've gone through about all I can stand .", "Yes , this afternoon .", "Yes ?", "But perhaps it was true , and , Elfie \u2014", "No \u2014 no , I did n't know .", "No .", "Do n't hurry , dear .", "Yes .", "O God \u2014 O my God . A SLOW CURTAIN . END OF THE PLAY .", "Mr. Madison is coming up the path .", "Hope , just nothing but hope . She crosses to bed , falls face down upon it , burying her face in her hands . Her despondency is palpable . As she lies there a hurdy-gurdy in the street starts to play a popular air . This arouses her and she rises , crosses to wardrobe , takes out box of crackers , opens window , gets bottle of milk off sill outside , places them on table , gets glass off washstand , at the same time humming the tune of the hurdy-gurdy , when a knock comes ; she crosses quickly to dresser ; powders her nose . The knock is timidly repeated .", "I told him you 'd been a very good friend to me . During this scene LAURA answers WILL with difficulty , and to a man of the world it is quite apparent that she is not telling the truth . WILL looks over toward her in an almost threatening way .", "Well , do you think you 'll like him ?", "John , that is what I want above everything else .", "What \u2014 where \u2014 what 's it about ?", "Did it ever occur to you that she has got to eat just the same as you have ?", "I \u2014 can n't \u2014", "John , I \u2014", "What time is it ?", "It 's an awful tough game , is n't it ?", "No , not at all .", "Yes ; you 've got plenty of money to spare .", "A little tired , that 's all .", "Mrs. Farley wants her rent . There is some money .Take it to her . ANNIE goes to the table , examines the roll of bills and is palpably surprised .", "Well ?", "Yes .", "You never told me about your good fortune . If you had n't telegraphed I would n't even have known you were coming .", "I \u2014 I burned it .", "It 's my business .", "Gracious , Elfie , do n't play so loud . What 's the matter ?", "No ."], "true_target": ["John , I 'll never make you take those words back .", "You seem to have come prepared . Did Elfie and you plan this all out ?", "Oh , I do n't know \u2014 I do n't think it 's too bad . What makes you ask ?", "That 's nice in you to say that .", "You drank a lot .", "Not this morning , dear ; I 'm expecting somebody .", "Elfie , you 're looking bully . How are you , dear ?", "What was that ?", "Thank you .", "Yes , liar . You are . You do n't care for this man , and you know it .", "You 'll never leave me to do that . I 'll kill myself .", "No , I suppose not . What did Mrs. Farley say about me ?", "Oh , Annie !", "Yes .", "Yes .", "Yes , I am going to move , and a long ways , too . How well you 're looking ,\u2014 as fit as a fiddle .", "John , I said I 'd kill myself , and I mean it . If it 's the only thing to do , I 'll do it , and I 'll do it before your very eyes .You understand that when your hand touches that door I 'm going to shoot myself . I will , so help me God !", "Must I \u2014 now ?", "Yes .", "Hurry up , you 're late .", "You 're killing me \u2014 killing me .", "I did n't say that .", "I am sorry , but I can n't go out this afternoon , Elfie .", "Now , Will , does he look like a yellow reporter ?", "I 've quite made up my mind . It 's final .", "No \u2014 why ?", "No ; but I promise you faithfully to help you out this afternoon or to-morrow .", "No ! No one .", "But you do n't understand , dear . I \u2014 I \u2014 Well , you know I \u2014 well , you know \u2014 I can n't say what I want .", "Why ?", "Yes , I think that 's about it ; only I do n't agree to the \u201c gift of gab \u201d and the \u201c romantic \u201d end of it .He 's a man and I 'm a woman , and we both have had our experiences . I do n't think , Will , that there can be much of that element of what some folks call hallucination .", "Hurry back , John .", "So you 're very , very rich , dear ?", "Yes , John , I have been on the level .", "What do you mean by a while ?", "I will .I can n't stand it \u2014 I just simply can n't stand it .", "Is that you , Elfie ?", "I know .", "Fine ! Do hurry .", "I know there was n't then , Elfie , but I tell you I 'm different now . I do n't want to do that sort of thing , and I 've been very unlucky . This has been a terribly hard season for me . I simply have n't been able to get an engagement .", "What did they say ?", "Then it was all planned , and \u2014 and \u2014", "I 'll answer her .What is it , Mrs. Farley ?", "No .", "Yes .", "Well , if you hope you 'll like him you ought to think you like him . He 'll turn the corner of that rock in just a minute and then you can see him . Do you want to see him ?", "Oh , shut up !", "Oh , he 's just simply more than that .Where 's Mrs. Williams ?", "He wired me when he reached Kansas City .", "Will suspected . There was something in the paper about Mr. Madison \u2014 the telegram came \u2014 then we had a row .", "He has n't anything to send .", "Yes \u2014 when ?", "How do you know ?", "I do n't know \u2014 I do n't know .", "Hello , John !", "Why ?", "Not exactly . I 've let him think that I 'm getting along all right .", "Come in . ANNIE , a chocolate-colored negress , enters . She is slovenly in appearance , but must not in any way denote the \u201c mammy . \u201d She is the type one encounters in cheap theatrical lodging-houses . She has a letter in her hand ,\u2014 also a clean towel folded ,\u2014 and approaches LAURA .", "For what , dear ?", "Why , dear , I can get ready most any time .", "No ; he made me admit that John did n't know , and then he said he 'd stay here and tell himself that I 'd made him lie , and then he said something about liking the other man and wanting to save him .", "I wonder where John is . We 'll never be able to make that train .That must be he ,\u2014 Annie \u2014 go quick .", "No , no ; I 've never heard .", "How shall I begin , Will ?", "You 're going \u2014 you 're going ?", "No \u2014 not exactly .", "I think not .", "But I must tell . I can n't let you go like this .I love you . I \u2014 how can I tell you \u2014 but I do , I do , and you wo n't believe me . He remains silent for a moment and then takes her by the hand , leads her over to the chair and places her in it .", "No , you must n't do that .Oh , Will , I 'm not offering any excuse . I 'm not saying anything , but I 'm telling you the truth . I could n't give him up \u2014 I could n't do it . I love him .", "To-morrow will be all right , thank you .", "No , not to-day . I thought your business was important ; you said so last night .", "No .", "There 's nothing to tell . I have n't been able to find work , that is all , and I 'm short of money . You can n't live in hotels , you know , with cabs and all that sort of thing , when you 're not working .", "Do I ? Why , I have n't seen him since last night ! There he is .Hello , John !", "Yes , I did .", "Will .", "You remember that I used to keep a pistol ?", "Why not ?", "Absolutely .", "It 's awfully kind of you to come out here , but under the circumstances I 'd rather you 'd take an earlier or a later train .", "Wo n't you sit down ?", "Yes .", "Who ?", "What ?", "That 's good .I 'm so excited .Come on . In the meantime JOHN crosses by to get his hat and coat , and while the preparations are about to be completed and LAURA has said \u201c Come on , \u201d she is transfixed by the noise of the slamming of the outer door . She stops as if she had been tremendously shocked , and a moment later the rattling of a latch-key in the inner door also stops JOHN from going any further . His coat is half on . LAURA looks toward the door , paralyzed with fright , and JOHN looks at her with an expression of great apprehension . Slowly the door opens , and BROCKTON enters with coat and hat on . As he turns to close the door after him , LAURA , pitifully and terribly afraid , retreats two or three steps , and lays coat , bag , purse and umbrella down in armchair , standing dazed . BROCKTON enters leisurely , paying no attention to anyone , while JOHN becomes as rigid as a statue , and follows with his eyes every move BROCKTON makes . The latter walks leisurely across the stage , and afterwards into the rooms through the porti\u00e8res . There is a wait of a second . No one moves . BROCKTON finally re\u00ebnters with coat and hat off , and throws back the porti\u00e8res in such a manner as to reveal the bed and his intimate familiarity with the outer room . He goes down stage in the same leisurely manner and sits in a chair opposite JOHN , crossing his legs .", "Mr. Madison wants to talk to you , or rather I do , and I want him to listen .", "Come in and sit down . I have n't much to offer , but \u2014", "Do you like him ?", "What is it ?", "Yes . I think this is my one great chance . I do love you and I want to do just what you said .", "Where ?", "In what way ?", "You 've heard of him .", "Oh , what 's the use of explaining ?", "Are you going to be cross with me ?", "You do n't really think that ?", "It 's rather cold out , is n't it ?", "What are you looking at me that way for ?", "I wish you would n't discuss this . Why do you mention it now ?Is it because you were drinking last night and lost your sense of delicacy ? You once had some consideration for me . What I 've done I 've done . I 'm giving you all that I can . Please , please , do n't hurt me any more than you can help . That 's all I ask .", "Elfie ! Elfie ! Do n't go now ! Do n't leave me now !I can n't stand it . I can n't be alone . Do n't go , please ; do n't go . LAURA falls into ELFIE 'S arms , sobbing . In a moment ELFIE 'S whole demeanour changes and she melts into the tenderest womanly sympathy , trying her best to express herself in her crude way .", "Oh , I know it is n't pleasant , but it 's my home , and after all \u2014 a home 's a home .", "Has anything happened ?", "I 'm going to marry another man , and a good man .", "I 'm going home day after to-morrow on the Overland Limited .", "Do you know anything ?", "How hard you must have worked and suffered .", "How could you ? You only came from New York to-day , and he has never been there . He regards her with a rather amused , indulgent , almost paternal expression , in contrast to his big , bluff , physical personality , with his iron-gray hair and his bulldog expression . LAURA looks more girlish than ever . This is imperative in order to thoroughly understand the character .", "And \u2014 and \u2014 you never thought that perhaps I 'm frail , and weak , and a woman , and that now , maybe , I need your strength , and you might give it to me , and it might be better . I want to lean on you ,\u2014 lean on you , John . I know I need someone . Are n't you going to let me ? Wo n't you give me another chance ?", "Yes , I 'm on .", "Yes .", "More than I had any idea it would .", "You can get a lot of gilt and cushions in New York at half price , and besides , I 've got a pretty good part now .", "She did n't say .", "Wo n't you be rather late getting down town , Will ?", "Yes .", "Annie gets through with me .", "What do you want ?", "For heaven 's sake , Will , have a little patience . If you like your man so well , you had better live at home , but do n't come around here with a grouch and bulldoze everybody .", "Elfie !", "Mr. Brockton ! Oh , Mr. Brockton !", "That 's good . Tell me .", "He \u2014 he did n't say anything . We 're just going to be married , that 's all .", "I never was so happy . For heaven 's sake , go get something . Do n't stand there looking at me . I want you to hurry .", "Why , certainly . She waits at the door for a moment , and ELFIE ST. CLAIR appears . She is gorgeously gowned in the rather extreme style affected by the usual New York woman who is cared for by a gentleman of wealth and who has not gone through the formality of matrimonial alliance . Her conduct is always exaggerated and her attitude vigorous . Her gown is of the latest design , and in every detail of dress she shows evidence of most extravagant expenditure . She carries a hand-bag of gold , upon which are attached such trifles as a gold cigarette-case , a gold powder-box , pencils , and the like . ELFIE throws her arms around LAURA , and both exchange kisses .", "Twenty-seven . You 're forty-five .", "Sha'n ' t you come and see him ?", "I said I did n't know . I would know to-day \u2014 that 's what I 'm waiting for . Oh , I do n't see why he does n't come .", "I do n't know .", "Well , I wish I could do something else too , but I can n't , and we 've got to make the best of it .", "Yes ; always at things like that .", "Exactly .", "Perhaps all of them are not so bad .", "Sure .", "Annie , you put the best dresses on the foot of the bed and I 'll get them myself . You heard what I said ?", "In the chorus ?", "She told you ?", "And he thinks I am too particular ?", "You see I 'm staying home a good deal nowadays . I have n't been feeling very well and I do n't go out much .", "You say I 'm bad , but who 's made me so ? Who took me out night after night ? Who showed me what these luxuries were ? Who put me in the habit of buying something I could n't afford ? You did .", "It 's up to you .", "Jim Western , I 'm mighty glad to see you .", "You want to hear me tell him ?", "Maybe they 're better off , Jim .", "I know .", "Now ?", "No .", "What , dear ?", "He cautioned me to be very careful and to be sure I knew my way .", "He 's a newspaper man .", "Go ask one of the hall-boys to bring me a New York Central time-table .", "Say good-bye ?", "Perhaps what you said was true .", "I told him if he 'd only go I 'd \u2014 tell John myself when he came , and now you see I 'm waiting \u2014 and I 've got to tell \u2014 and \u2014 and I do n't know how to begin \u2014 and \u2014 and I thought you could help me \u2014 you seem so sort of resourceful , and it means \u2014 it means so much to me . If John turned on me now I could n't go back to Will , and , Elfie ,\u2014 I do n't think I 'd care to \u2014 stay here any more .", "Please do n't . Remember we do n't dine until seven-thirty .", "This man is poor \u2014 absolutely broke . He has n't even got agood job . You know , Will , all the rest , including yourself , generally had some material inducement .", "I do n't want you to talk about him or any of them . I just want you to know that I 'm trying to do everything in my power to go through this season without any more trouble . I 've pawned everything I 've got ; I 've cut every friend I knew . But where am I going to end ? That 's what I want to know \u2014 where am I going to end ?Every place I look for a position something interferes . It 's almost as if I were blacklisted . I know I could get jobs all right if I wanted to pay the price , but I wo n't . I just want to tell you , I wo n't . No !", "Yes , just that ,\u2014 in love .", "Mrs. Williams ! Oh , Mrs. Williams !", "For me ?", "You might give it to me . I have n't a dollar in the world , and you pretend to be such a friend to me !", "To Nevada .", "Still , I do n't see how you can live that way .", "Why do n't you ? You 've done everything else . Why do n't you ?", "But do n't you see that he 'll come back here soon and find you here ?", "Why , I suppose she 's at breakfast .", "Do we \u2014 do we have to talk it over much ?", "Thanks ; take those breakfast things away , Annie .ANNIE complies ; takes them across stage , opens the door leading to the corridor , exits . LAURA in the meantime is studying the time-table .", "I think I 've stood this just as long as I can . Every day is a living horror .", "I \u2014 I could n't help it \u2014 I simply could n't help it .", "Still he does n't know how desperately poor I am .", "Well , I must say you 're rather amiable this morning .", "And then I 'm going West .", "She 's taking advantage of your being here .", "Tell her I 'll be right down \u2014 that it will be all right .", "Yes ?", "Yes , I 'm quite sure . I would n't say so if I was n't .", "How a boost , Elfie ?", "I know .", "No .", "To-day .", "Come in .That you , Annie ?", "No .", "Why not ?", "I 've got to have money to pay the rent . I 've pawned everything", "Quite soon . I do n't know just exactly how long he 'll be .", "Because he came ?", "You mean that we should tell each other all about each other , so , no matter what 's ever said about us by other people , we 'll know it first ?", "You do n't care for me ?", "You mean to go ?", "Go \u2014 go . Please go .", "Doll me up , Annie .", "On what ?", "Begin .", "Yes , I 'll do it ,\u2014 all of it . Wo n't you please go \u2014 now ?", "What have I done ?", "John , I \u2014", "Why , I told you tostay here and get your things together, and then Mr. Brockton will probably want you to do something . Later , I think he 'll have you pack up , just as soon as he finds I 'm gone . I 've got the address that you gave me . I 'll let you know if you can come on .", "Why , yes .", "I 've told him .", "Yes .", "Good-bye .I wonder why he does n't come .Hurry , Annie , and see who that is . ANNIE enters , crosses , opens door , exits , and opens the outer door .", "Yes , a real man .", "John !", "Good-bye , Jim . I 'm so glad to know you 're happy , for it is good to be happy .", "Well , what is it ?", "They 're pawned . What did Mrs. Farley say she was going to do ?", "John ,", "It is n't me you 're thinking of ?", "Oh , John , I 'm so glad \u2014 so glad to see you .Oh , pardon me , John \u2014 one of my dearest friends , Miss Sinclair ; she 's heard a lot about you . ELFIE , with a slight gush , in her most captivating manner , goes over and holds out her gloved hand laden with bracelets , and with her sweetest smile crosses to centre .", "No .", "Hello , Elfie . LAURA crosses and sits on sofa . ELFIE puts muff , & c ., on table .", "I 'm sorry . Where have you been ?", "No , thank you .", "I did n't say that , either .", "You can n't help me . I 'm all right \u2014 I tell you I am . What do you care anyway ?", "No , you wo n't ; you wo n't stay here . You 're not going to do this thing again . I tell you I 'm going to be happy . I tell you I 'm going to be married .You wo n't see him ; I tell you , you wo n't tell him . You 've got no business to . I hate you . I 've hated you for months . I hate the sight of your face . I 've wanted to go , and now I 'm going . You 've got to go , do you hear ? You 've got to get out \u2014 get out .", "No .", "I know .", "No . She 'll come here when she arrives .", "It is n't easy for me to do this . You 've been awfully kind , awfully considerate , but when I went to you it was just with the understanding that we were to be pals . You reserved the right then to quit me whenever you felt like it , and you gave me the same privilege . Now , if some girl came along who really captivated you in the right way , and you wanted to marry , it would hurt me a little ,\u2014 maybe a lot ,\u2014 but I should never forget that agreement we made , a sort of two weeks \u2019 notice clause , like people have in contracts .", "What did you come here for ? Why can n't you leave me alone when I 'm trying to get along ?", "Yes , Nevada .", "Maybe not . I 've been trying to get an engagement from him . There are half a dozen parts in his new attractions that I could do , but he has never absolutely said \u201c no , \u201d but yet somehow he 's never said \u201c yes . \u201d", "Yes .", "Yes ,\u2014 Annie .", "Good-bye .", "What do you mean when you say \u201c he did n't care \u201d ?", "Oh . WILL at this moment particularly reads some part of the paper , turns to her with a keen glance of suspicion and inquiry , and then for a very short moment evidently settles in his mind a cross-examination . He has read in this paper a despatch from Chicago , which speaks of JOHN MADISON having arrived there as a representative of a big Western mining syndicate which is going to open large operations in the Nevada gold-fields , and representing MR. MADISON as being on his way to New York with sufficient capital to enlist more , and showing him to be now a man of means . The attitude of LAURA and the coincidence of the despatch bring back to WILL the scene in Denver , and later in New York , and with that subtle intuition of the man of the world he connects the two .", "Yes .", "Shall I give him some tea ?", "One thing ?", "I 'm tired , Elfie , and blue \u2014 terribly blue .", "I 'm coming down to meet you .", "Yes , I am crazy .You 've made me crazy . You followed me to Denver , and then when I got back you bribed me again . You pulled me down , and you did the same old thing until this happened . Now I want you to get out , you understand ? I want you to get out .", "In Nevada .", "About what ?", "Come in . JIM WESTON , a rather shabby theatrical advance-agent of the old school , enters timidly , halting at the door and holding the knob in his hand . He is a man of about forty years old , dressed in an ordinary manner , of medium height , and in fact has the appearance of a once prosperous clerk who has been in hard luck . His relations with LAURA are those of pure friendship . They both live in the same lodging-place , and , both having been out of employment , they have naturally become acquainted .", "I want to tell you this . If you do this thing you 'll ruin my life . You 've done enough to it already . Now I want you to go . You 've got to go . I do n't think you 've got any right to come here now , in this way , and take this happiness from me . I 've given you everything I 've got , and now I want to live right and decent , and he wants me to , and we love each other . Now , Will Brockton , it 's come to this . You 've got to leave this place , do you hear ? You 've got to leave this place . Please get out .", "No , thanks . I have n't anything to wear to the theatre , and I do n't \u2014", "The West ; the telegram was from Buffalo . I suppose she was on her way when she sent it .", "Do you know where he is ?", "I sleep on it .", "I have , except the clothes on my back .", "Maybe \u2014 maybe if he knew all about it \u2014 the suffering \u2014 he would n't blame me .", "Privilege car ?", "And have you made any particular plans for me that have anything particularly to do with you ?", "Well ?", "Well , what ?", "Yes , I guess you always did . I did n't .", "Yes , I am foolish and I 've been foolish all my life , but I 'm getting a little sense now .All my life , since the day you first took me away , you 've planned and planned and planned to keep me , and to trick me and bring me down with you . When you came to me I was happy . I did n't have much , just a little salary and some hard work .", "Pleasedo n't , Annie .", "Yes .", "Now shut your noise . I do n't want to hear any more . I 've given you twenty-five dollars for a present . I think that 's enough .", "Will made me write \u2014 I mean to John \u2014 telling him what I had done ?", "You must come now .", "Yes . I want you to bring both my trunks out here ,\u2014 I 'll help you ,\u2014 and start to pack . We can n't take everything .", "No , no \u2014 not bad news .", "No , we 're young , there 's plenty of time . I can work in the meantime , and so can he ; and then with his ability and my ability it will only be a matter of a year or two when things will shape themselves to make it possible .", "Oh , nothing . I guess I 'm nervous , too .", "About how long ?", "Yes , I think you had the wrong idea .", "You should have told me ,\u2014 I 've been so anxious .", "Perhaps .", "What 's the use of talking to you, Elfie ; you do n't understand .", "Yes , that 's John .Hello !", "Who , for instance ?", "I want you to go .", "Yes , but with a different card .", "Please go . LAURA sits in a chair in a state of almost stupefaction , holding this attitude as long as possible . ANNIE enters , and in a characteristic manner begins her task of tidying up the room ; LAURA , without changing her attitude , and staring straight in front of her , her elbows between her knees and her chin on her hands .", "Annie !", "If I thought you were going to make fun of me , Will , I should n't have talked to you .", "What do you mean by \u201c on the square ? \u201d", "No , no ; nothing at all .", "I knew it was wrong \u2014 yes ; but you told me everybody in this business did that sort of thing , and I was just as good as anyone else . Finally you got me and you kept me . Then , when I went away to Denver , and for the first time found a gleam of happiness , for the first time in my life \u2014", "My maid ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Yes , and tell him you go back to New York without any travelling companion this season .", "What 's yours ?", "Well ?", "I 'd be careful what I said . Do n't try to make excuses . I understand .", "Just what goes ?", "Laura , you 've got trunks enough , have n't you ? One might think we 're moving a whole colony .And , by the way , to me you are a whole colony \u2014 anyway you 're the only one I ever wanted to settle with .", "Nothing else .", "Possibly . Whatever my opinion may have been of you , Mr. Brockton , before you arrived , now I have seen you \u2014 and I 'm a man who forms his conclusions right off the bat \u2014 I do n't mind telling you that you 've agreeably surprised me . That 's just a first impression , but they run kind o \u2019 strong with me .", "Some lovers place a woman on a pedestal and say , \u201c She never has made a mistake . \u201dWell , we do n't need any pedestals . I just know you never will make a mistake .", "Yes ?", "You 'll what ?", "Thank you . You said that just in time .", "You know what I said in the telegram ?", "No , I 'll smoke my own .", "Nobody else ever accused me of that , but I sure will have to plead guilty to you .Why , dear , since the day you came into my life , hell-raising took a sneak out the back door and God poked His toe in the front , and ever since then I think He 's been coming a little closer to me .I used to be a fellow without much faith , and kidded everybody who had it , and I used to say to those who prayed and believed , \u201c You may be right , but show me a message . \u201d You came along and you brought that little document in your sweet face and your dear love . Laura , you turned the trick for me , and I think I 'm almost a regular man now . LAURA turns away in pain ; the realization of all she is to JOHN weighs heavily upon her . She almost loses her nerve , and is on the verge of not going through with her determination to get her happiness at any price .", "But , Laura , we must come to some distinct understanding before we start to make our plans . We 're not children .", "Good-bye .", "Now get that man out of here .", "Well , dear ?", "That was right . LAURA gets a cushion in each hand off seat ; crosses down to left of armchair , throws one cushion on ground , then the other on top of it , and kneels beside his chair . Piano in house playing a Chopin Nocturne .", "As I do n't intend to share in her salary , I never took the trouble to inquire .", "Gee ! fixed up kind o \u2019 scrumptious , ai n't you ?Maybe you 've been almost as prosperous as I have .", "All right .", "Well , I meant it .", "I waited until it was a dead-sure thing . You know it 's been pretty tough sledding out there in the mining country , and it did look as if I never would make a strike ; but your spirit was with me and luck was with me , and I knew if I could only hold out that something would come my way . I had two pals , both of them miners ,\u2014 they had the knowledge and I had the luck ,\u2014 and one day , clearing away a little snow to build a fire , I poked my toe into the dirt , and there was somethin \u2019 there , dearie , that looked suspicious . I called Jim ,\u2014 that 's one of the men ,\u2014 and in less time than it takes to tell you there were three maniacs scratching away at old mother earth for all there was in it . We staked our claims in two weeks , and I came to Reno to raise enough money for me to come East . Now things are all fixed and it 's just a matter of time .", "Well , are you ready ?", "Look out !", "All \u2014 right .", "I 've got to get back, Laura , just as soon as ever I can . There 's a lot of work to be done out in Nevada and I stole away to come to New York . I want to take you back . Can you go ?", "I 've made all the arrangements . The men will be here in a few minutes for your trunks .I 've got the railroad tickets and everything else , but \u2014", "Hello , girlie ! How 's everything ?", "We 're guests .", "You know when I went down town I said I was going to call on two or three of my friends in Park Row .", "You did n't know , did you ?", "Naturally .", "Look out , Brockton , I do n't want to talk to you .", "I 'm sorry .", "I 've heard a great deal about you and your kindness to Miss Murdock . Anything that you have done for her in a spirit of friendliness I am sure all her friends must deeply appreciate , and I count myself in as one .", "I do n't know just how long , but we 'll make that train . I 'll get the license . We 'll be married and we 'll be off on our honeymoon this afternoon . Can you do it ? LAURA goes up to him , puts her hands in his , and they confront each other .", "That your maid ?", "Why , you 've got to go , I suppose .", "I told them who I was going to marry .", "Here ?", "That 's New York . I 'm in Colorado , and I guess you know there is a difference .", "This afternoon . We 'll take the eighteen-hour train to Chicago , late this afternoon , and connect at Chicago with the Overland , and I 'll soon have you in a home .And here 's another secret .", "Not the least in the world .Now do n't you get blue . I should not have surprised you this way . It 's taken you off your feet .But we 've not any time to lose . How soon can you get ready ?", "I intend to give them to her .", "I sure do .", "Understand I do n't think it is any of your damn business , but I 'm going through with you on this proposition , just to see how the land lays . But take my tip , you be mighty careful how you speak about the girl if you 're not looking for trouble .", "General utility , dramatic critic on Sunday nights .", "Tea !", "Just make this horse for a minute . Hurry is not in his dictionary .", "I know ; I 've been awake all night thinking about it .", "With what result ?", "Yes .", "What do you mean by my foot slipping , Mr. Brockton ?", "Not with this horse .", "\u2018 Tis n't that . If it was anywhere but here , if there was any way to avoid all the nasty scandal , I 'd come a shootin \u2019 for you , and you know it .", "Better late than never .", "Does he know ?", "That 's precisely what I 'm trying to get at .", "Sure .", "That 's very kind . Thanks !", "I did n't want you to . I 'd made up my mind to sort of drop in here and give you a great big surprise ,\u2014 a happy one , I knew ,\u2014 but the papers made such a fuss in Chicago that I thought you might have read about it \u2014 did you ?", "Why ?", "Of course I know that , but I did n't think it would make you quite so comfortable . Great , ai n't it ?", "Yes .", "Oh , not rich, just heeled . I 'm not going down to the Wall Street bargain counter and buy the Union Pacific , or anything like that ; but we wo n't have to take the trip on tourists \u2019 tickets , and there 's enough money to make us comfortable all the rest of our lives .", "I 'm not much on the love-making business , Laura , but I never thought I 'd be as happy as I am now .I 've been counting mile-posts ever since I left Chicago , and it seemed like as if I had to go \u2018 round the world before I got here .", "I 'll take a chance , but before you start I want to tell you that the class of people that you belong to I have no use for \u2014 they do n't speak my language . You are what they call a manipulator of stocks ; that means that you 're living on the weaknesses of other people , and it almost means that you get your daily bread , yes , and your cake and your wine , too , from the production of others . You 're a \u201c gambler under cover . \u201d Show me a man who 's dealing bank , and he 's free and aboveboard . You can figure the percentage against you , and then , if you buck the tiger and get stung , you do it with your eyes open . With your financiers the game is crooked twelve months of the year , and , from a business point of view , I think you are a crook . Now I guess we understand each other . If you 've got anything to say , why , spill it . WILL rises , comes down toward JOHN , showing anger in his tones ."], "true_target": ["That 's true .", "Perhaps that 's the only thing left for you to do , but you 'll not do it . It 's easier to live .", "That laps me ten .", "Perhaps . Let me tell you this . I do n't know how you make your money , but I know what you do with it . You buy yourself a small circle of sycophants ; you pay them well for feeding your vanity ; and then you pose ,\u2014 pose with a certain frank admission of vice and degradation . And those who are n't quite as brazen as you call it manhood . Manhood ?Why , you do n't know what the word means . It 's the attitude of a pup and a cur .", "I think you will . I 'm going to make the same promise . Your life , dear girl , has been an angel 's compared with mine . I 've drank whiskey , played bank , and raised hell ever since the time I could develop a thirst ; and ever since I 've been able to earn my own living I 've abused every natural gift God gave me . The women I 've associated with are n't good enough to touch the hem of your skirt , but they liked me , andwell \u2014 I must have liked them . My life has n't been exactly loose , it 's been all in pieces . I 've never done anything dishonest . I 've always gone wrong just for the fun of it , until I met you .Somehow then I began to feel that I was making an awful waste of myself .", "Just that \u2014 too much and not quite enough . There 's a minister waiting for us over on Madison Avenue . You see , then you 'll be my wife . That 's pretty serious business , and all I want now from you is the truth .", "I have never tried .", "I can see that all right .", "All your duds .", "I 've planned to take you out and show you all that .", "Not worth it ? Why , you 're worththat and a whole lot more . And see how you 've got on ! Brockton told me you never could get along in your profession , but I knew you could .I knew what you had in you , and here you are . You see , if my foot had n't slipped on the right ground and kicked up pay-dirt , you 'd been all right . You succeeded and I succeeded , but I 'm going to take you away ; and after a while , when things sort of smooth out , and it 's all clear where the money 'scoming from , we 're going to move back here , and go to Europe , and just have a great time , like a couple of good pals .", "Do n't make such a mistake . In a month you 'll recover . There will be days when you will think of me , just for a moment , and then it will be all over . With you it is the easy way , and it always will be . You 'll go on and on until you 're finally left a wreck , just the type of the common woman . And you 'll sink until you 're down to the very bed-rock of depravity . I pity you .", "You 're on . By this time the stage is black and all that can be seen is the glow of the two cigars . Piano in the next room is heard . JOHN crosses slowly and deliberately to door , looks in , throws cigar away over the terrace , exits into house , closes doors , and , as WILL is seated on terrace , puffing cigar , the red coal of which is alone visible , a slow curtain .", "Very .", "She wants to kill herself . I just called you to witness that the act is entirely voluntary on her part . Now , Laura , go ahead .", "When ?", "I \u2014 I know I could n't help much , and perhaps I could have forgiven you if you had n't lied to me . That 's what hurt .I expected you to lie , you 're that kind of a man . You left me with a shake of the hand , and you gave me your word , and you did n't keep it . Why should you keep it ? Why should anything make any difference with you ? Why , you pup , you 've no right to live in the same world with decent folks . Now you make yourself scarce , or take it from me , I 'll just kill you , that 's all .", "I have n't decided yet , but you can bet your sweet life that if I ever try and make up my mind that it 's got to be , it 's got to be .", "Right away . The great idea is to get away .", "I 've known everything from the first ; how you came to San Francisco as a kid and got into the show business , and how you went wrong , and then how you married , still a kid , and how your husband did n't treat you exactly right , and then how , in a fit of drunkenness , he came home and shot himself .But that 's all past now , and we can forget that . And I know how you were up against it after that , how tough it was for you to get along . Then finally how you 've lived , and \u2014 and that you and this man Brockton have been \u2014 well \u2014 never mind . I 've known it all for months , and I 've watched you . Now , Laura , the habit of life is a hard thing to get away from . You 've lived in this way for a long time . If I ask you to be my wife you 'll have to give it up ; you 'll have to go back to New York and struggle on your own hook until I get enough to come for you . I do n't know how long that will be , but it will be . Do you love me enough to stick out for the right thing ? LAURA crosses to him , puts her arms around him , kisses him once very affectionately , looks at him very earnestly .", "Yes . I wo n't be long .", "So you think we 're making a wrong move and there is n't a chance of success !", "Thencall him .", "Now in the first placewe 'll discuss you , and in the second place we 'll discuss me . We 'll keep nothing from each other, and we 'll start out on this campaignof decency and honour , fully understanding its responsibilities , without a chance of a come-back on either side .", "Just tell me that what they said was just an echo of the past \u2014 that it came from what had been going on before that wonderful day out in Colorado . Tell me that you 've been on the level . I do n't want their word , Laura \u2014 I just want yours . LAURA summons all her courage , looks up into his loving eyes , shrinks a moment before his anxious face , and speaks as simply as she can .", "Well , you and she can pack everything you want to take ; the rest can follow later .I planned it all out . There 's a couple of the boys working down town ,\u2014 newspaper men on Park Row . Telephoned them when I got in and they 're waiting for me . I 'll just get down there as soon as I can . I wo n't be gone long .", "I am very glad to know you , Mr. Brockton .", "I gave you your chance , Laura .", "That 's pretty fresh . What 's the idea ?", "That 's good , but do n't I get a \u201c how-dy-do , \u201d or a handshake , or a little kiss ? You know I 've come a long way . LAURA goes to him and places herself in his arms ; he kisses her affectionately . During all this scene between them the tenderness of the man is very apparent . As she releases herself from his embrace he takes her face in his hands and holds it up towards his .", "Thirty dollars a week .", "For a while , I suppose \u2014 it 's good-bye .", "You 'd better leave it unsaid .", "Of course you know you 've got the best of me .", "How strong are you for that tea , Mr. Brockton ?", "They said something about you and Brockton , and I found that they 'd said too much , but not quite enough .", "Get him out . Get him out before I lose my temper or they 'll take him out without his help .", "That goes double . You 're going to cut out the cabs and caf\u00e9s , and I 'm going to cut out the whiskey and all-night sessions; and you 're going to be somebody and I 'm going to be somebody , and if my hunch is worth the powder to blow it up , we 're going to show folks things they never thought were in us . Come on now , kiss me . She kisses him ; tears are in her eyes . He looks into her face with a quaint smile .", "We 're partners , are n't we ? I ought to be in on any important transaction like that , but it 's just as you say .", "But you leaned the wrong way . Good-bye .", "Thank you .", "That he was coming ?", "Brockton ?", "UntilI get money enough together , and am making enough to support you , then come and take you out of the show business and make you Mrs. Madison . LAURA tightens her arm around his neck , her cheek goes close to his own , and all the wealth of affection the woman is capable of at times is shown . She seems more like a dainty little kitten purring close to its master . Her whole thought and idea seem to be centred on the man whom she professes to love .", "You could hardly expect Miss Murdock to be friendly with you under the circumstances . You could hardly expect me tosanction any such friendship .", "I think you do as far as you are able ; but , Laura , I guess you do n't know what a decent sentiment is .Laura , you 're not immoral , you 're just unmoral , kind o \u2019 all out of shape , and I 'm afraid there is n't a particle of hope for you . When we met neither of us had any reason to be proud , but I thought that you thought that it was the chance of salvation which sometimes comes to a man and a woman fixed as we were then . What had been had been . It was all in the great to-be for us , and now , how you 've kept your word ! What little that promise meant , when I thought you handed me a new lease of life !", "I propose to go out and make a lot of money .", "I 'm a reporter , so I 've got something on you .", "All right .", "Kill yourself ?Before me ?All right .Annie , Annie !", "I knew that , dear , I knew it .Well , now everything 's all ready , let 's get on the job . We have n't a great deal of time . Get your duds on .", "Yes .", "Possibly it 's been about that length of time since you were human , eh ?", "You see your mistress there has a pistol in her hand ?", "I 've got that home all bought and furnished , and while you could n't call it a Fifth Avenue residence , still it has got something on any other one in town .", "Hello yourself !", "That 's good . Hurry now . I wo n't be long . Good-bye .", "Oh , no ; not rich .", "Mine ! No , deal me out this hand .", "I bet she 's a character .", "Hello , girlie ! Then she suddenly recovers herself and realizes the position she is in . Both men measure each other for a moment in silence , neither flinching the least bit . The smile has faded from JOHN 'S face , and the mouth droops into an expression of firm determination . LAURA for a moment loses her ingenuousness . She is the least bit frightened at finally placing the two men face to face , and in a voice that trembles slightly from apprehension :", "You may go .You did n't have the nerve . I knew you would n't . For a moment you thought the only decent thing for you to do was to die , and yet you could n't go through . I am sorry for you ,\u2014 more sorry than I can tell .", "Well ?", "Yes .", "Laura .", "I can n't stand for the brutal way you talk .", "Annie , she 's evidently changed her mind . You may go .", "Hello , Laura ! I 'm on time . LAURA smiles , quickly crosses the stage , and holds out her hand .", "I \u2014 I was detained down town a few minutes . I think that we can carry out our plan all right .", "You 're on , ai n't you , dear ?", "Well , I 'm honest and energetic . If you can get great wealth the way you go along , I do n't see why I can n't earn a little ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["That 's good .", "Lord , no ! I 'm six dollars and twenty cents out now , and up against an awful streak of luck ."], "true_target": ["What is it , my dear ?", "Yes , do , dear ; and tell him to cross his fingers when he thinks of me . In the meantime WILL has leaned over the balustrade , evidently surveying the young man , who is supposed to be coming up the , path , with a great deal of interest . Underneath his stolid , businesslike demeanour of squareness , there is undoubtedly within his heart a very great affection for LAURA . He realizes that during her whole career he has been the only one who has influenced her absolutely . Since the time they lived together , he has always dominated , and he has always endeavoured to lead her along a path that meant the better things of a Bohemian existence . His coming all the way from New York to Denver to accompany LAURA home was simply another example of his keen interest in the woman , and he suddenly finds that she has drifted away from him in a manner to which he could not in the least object , and that she had been absolutely fair and square in her agreement with him . WILL is a man who , while rough and rugged in many ways , possesses many of the finer instincts of refinement , latent though they may be , and his meeting with JOHN ought , therefore , to show much significance , because on his impressions of the young man depend the entire justification of his attitude in the play ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Golly , such excitement .Wheah yuh goin \u2019 , Miss Laura ?", "No , ma'am , Ah don \u2019 want dat .", "Goin \u2019 away ?", "Yuh always was so good , Miss", "Ai n't yuh goin \u2019 away , Miss", "Well , you know , Mis \u2019 Farley she 's been havin \u2019 so much trouble wid her roomers . Yestuhday dat young lady on de second flo \u2019 front , she lef \u2019 . She 's goin \u2019 wiv some troupe on the road . She owed her room for three weeks and jus \u2019 had to leave her trunk .My ! how Mis \u2019 Farley did scold her . Mis \u2019 Farley let on she could have paid dat money if she wanted to , but somehow Ah guess she could n't \u2014", "Yassum , she 's in . LAURA immediately evinces her tremendous relief , and ELFIE , without waiting for a reply , has shoved ANNIE aside and enters , ANNIE following and closing the door . ELFIE is beautifully gowned in a morning dress with an overabundance of fur trimmings and all the furbelows that would accompany the extravagant raiment generally affected by a woman of that type . ELFIE approaching effusively .", "Ai n't yo \u2019 got any job at all ?", "No , ma'am , Ah don \u2019 want it . You need dat . Dat 's breakfast money for yuh , Miss Laura .", "Yo \u2019 all mean dat one yo \u2019 say dat gemman out West gave yuh once ?", "Ten for myself \u2014 I never see so much money .Yassum , Miss Laura , yassum .Ah 'm so mighty glad yo \u2019 out all yo \u2019 trouble , Miss Laura . I says to Mis \u2019 Farley now \u2014", "Mis \u2019 Farley sent dis , Miss Laura .", "Yassuh .", "Guess must be from yo \u2019 husban \u2019 , ai n't it ?", "Now , Miss Laura .", "She wants an answah .", "Mis \u2019 Farley says yuh would n't have no trouble at all gettin \u2019 any man to take care of yuh if yuh wanted to .", "She kinder say somethin \u2019 \u2018 bout yo \u2019 being three weeks behind in yo \u2019 room rent , and she said she t'ought it was \u2018 bout time yuh handed her somethin \u2019 , seein \u2019 as how yuh must o \u2019 had some stylish friends when yuh come here .", "But , Miss Laura , Ah \u2014", "Ah \u2014 Ah \u2014 hai n't asked , Missy Farley .", "Heah 's yo \u2019 mail , Miss Laura .", "She has a rule in dis house dat nobody can use huh chiny or fo'ks or spoons who ai n't boa'ding heah , and de odder day when yuh asked me to bring up a knife and fo'k she ketched me coming upstairs , and she says , \u201c Where yuh goin \u2019 wid all dose things , Annie ? \u201d Ah said , \u201c Ah 'm just goin \u2019 up to Miss Laura 's room with dat knife and fo'k . \u201d Ah said , \u201c Ah 'm goin \u2019 up for nothin \u2019 at all , Mis \u2019 Farley , she jest wants to look at them , Ah guess . \u201d She said , \u201c She wants to eat huh dinner wid \u2018 em , Ah guess . \u201d Ah got real mad , and Ah told her if she 'd give me mah pay Ah 'd brush right out o \u2019 here ; dat 's what Ah 'd do , Ah 'd brush right out o \u2019 here .", "Look out for your toes , Miss Laura .", "Yassum , Mis \u2019 Farley , yassum !", "Ah nevah see you so happy , Miss Laura .", "Yassum .", "She tol \u2019 me not to leave until Ah got an answah .", "Dey ai n't nothin \u2019 heah , Miss Laura , but five great big one hunderd dollah bills .", "Yassum .", "Ai n't yuh goin \u2019 to give me anything at all jes \u2019 to remembuh yuh by ? Ah 've been so honest \u2014", "Yassum .", "\u2014 for if she could she would n't have left her trunk , would she , Miss Laura ?", "Look out fo \u2019 your dress , Miss Laura . These trunks are of the same type as those in Act II . When the trunks are put down LAURA opens one and commences to throw things out . ANNIE stands watching her . LAURA kneels in front of trunk , working and humming \u201c Bon-Bon Buddie . \u201d", "Mah sakes ! All dem rings and things ? You ai n't done sold them ?", "Yassum .Dat 's real money \u2014 dem 's yellow-backs sure .", "Ah know , but twenty-five dollars ai n't a home , and I 'mlosin \u2019 my home . Dat 's jest my luck \u2014 every time I save enough money to buy my weddin \u2019 clothes to get married I lose my job .", "Ai n't yuh goin \u2019 to let me come to yuh at all , Miss Laura ?", "Dat 's what Ah tole Mis \u2019 Farley when she was down talkin \u2019 about you dis morning . She said if he all was yo \u2019 husband he might do somethin \u2019 to help you out . Ah told her Ah did n't think you had any husban \u2019 . Den she says you ought to have one , you 're so pretty .", "Ai n't yuh goin \u2019 to give me no recommendation ?"], "true_target": ["In Nevada ?", "Yassum , Ah \u2018 membuh it .", "Ah can just see whah Ah 'm goin \u2019 ,\u2014 back to dat boa'din \u2019 - house in 38th Street fo \u2019 me .", "Laura . Sho \u2019 yuh don \u2019 want dis ?", "Yassuh , she 's in . LAURA is up stage and turns to receive visitor . JIM enters . He is nicely dressed in black and has an appearance of prosperity about him , but in other respects he retains the old drollness of enunciation and manner . He crosses to LAURA in a cordial way and holds out his hand . ANNIE crosses , after closing the door , and exits through the porti\u00e8res into the sleeping-apartment .", "Sho \u2019 yo \u2019 goin \u2019 to get planty mo \u2019 ?", "Yassum ! Crosses the stage and exits through door . LAURA sits on left arm of sofa .", "When yuh come here yuh had lots of money and yo \u2019 was mighty good to me . You know Mr. Weston ?", "Mis \u2019 Farley says \u2014Damn dat door !Mis \u2019 Farley says if she do n't get someone in the house dat has reg'lar money soon , she 'll have to shut up and go to the po'house .", "Dere 's a gemmandat calls on one of de ladies from the Hippodrome , in de big front room downstairs . He 's mighty nice , and he 's been askin \u2019 \u2018 bout you .", "Yassuh .", "Oh ! nothin \u2019 much .", "One like dat comes every mornin \u2019 , do n't it ? Used to all be postmahked Denver . Must \u2018 a \u2019 moved .Where is dat place called Goldfield , Miss Laura ?", "Ah do n't know . Mis \u2019 Farley said some of \u2018 em might slip yo \u2019 enough jest to help yuh out .Ai n't yo \u2019 got nobody to take care of you at all , Miss Laura ?", "Huh ?", "Must be mighty smaht to write yuh every day . De pos'man brings it \u2018 leven o'clock mos \u2019 always , sometimes twelve , and again sometimes tehn ; but it comes every day , do n't it ?", "Yassuh \u2014", "Last Ah saw of it was in dis heah draw \u2019 in de writin \u2019 - desk .Is dis it ?", "Yassum , Mr. Weston what goes ahead o \u2019 shows and lives on the top floor back ; he says nobody 's got jobs now . Dey 're so many actors and actoresses out o \u2019 work . Mis \u2019 Farley says she do n't know how she 's goin \u2019 to live . She said you 'd been mighty nice up until three weeks ago , but yuh ai n't got much left , have you , Miss Laura ?", "Guess maybe Ah 'd better not tell .", "Do yuh want me , suh ?", "Dat 's Mis \u2019 Farley .Yassum , Mis \u2019 Farley .", "Laura ?", "Dat 's too bad .", "Yassum . ANNIE hangs dresses across bed in alcove . LAURA continues busily arranging the contents of the trunk , placing some garments here and some there , as if she were sorting them out . WILL quietly enters and stands at the door , looking at her . He holds this position as long as possible , and when he speaks it is in a very quiet tone .", "Yassum , yassum .", "Yuh been so good to me , Miss Laura . Never was nobody in dis house what give me so much , and Ah ai n't been gettin \u2019 much lately . And when Mis \u2019 Farley said yuh must either pay yo \u2019 rent or she would ask yuh for your room , Ah jest set right down on de back kitchen stairs and cried . Besides , Mis \u2019 Farley do n't like me very well since you 've ben havin \u2019 yo \u2019 breakfasts and dinners brought up here .", "Why , Ah 've done ma best for yuh , Miss Laura , yes , Ah have . Ah jest been with yuh ev'ry moment of ma time , an \u2019Ah worked for yuh an \u2019 Ah loved yuh , an \u2019 Ah doan \u2019 wan \u2019 to be left \u2018 ere all alone in dis town \u2018 ere New York .Ah ai n't the kind of cullud lady knows many people . Ca n't yuh take me along wid yuh , Miss Laura ?\u2014 yuh all been so good to me .", "I 'll bring out all de fluffy ones first .", "Honest , Ah have .", "Yassum !", "Yes , sir .", "But , Miss Laura , she tol \u2019 me to get an answah .", "Yo \u2019 sho \u2019 dere ai n't nothin \u2019 I can do fo \u2019 yuh , Miss Laura ?", "Yassum .", "Der ai n't a decent door in dis old house . Mis \u2019 Farley said yo \u2019 might have mos \u2019 any man youwanted just for de askin \u2019 , but Ah said yuhwas too particular about the man yo \u2019 \u2018 d want . Den she did a heap o \u2019 talking .", "Yassum .", "Yuh goin \u2019 out , Miss Laura ?", "You goin \u2019 to take dat opera-cloak ?My , but dat 's a beauty . I jest love dat crushed rosey one ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Miss Murdock \u2014 Miss Murdock ."], "true_target": ["Annie ! Annie !"], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["There 's a lady down here to see you ."], "true_target": ["Is Miss Murdock up there ?"], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Anything doin \u2019 ?", "Anything doin \u2019 ?", "Then do it ."], "true_target": ["Sure ? Are you certain ?", "Well , I must say these people expect me to keep \u2014 LAURA quietly closes the door , and MRS. FARLEY 'S rather strident voice is heard indistinctly . LAURA sighs and walks toward table ; sits . ANNIE looks after her , and then slowly opens the door .", "Did ye have any luck this morning , dearie ?"], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["You bet .Never mind , I can get out all right .Good-bye again .", "Oh \u2014 oh \u2014", "Oh , not exactly , only \u2014 well , you see I 'm gettin \u2019 along prettygood now . I got a little one-night-stand theatre out in Ohio \u2014 manager of it , too . The town is called Gallipolis .", "How-dy-do , Miss Laura ?", "I guess so . I 'll see you this evening . I hope you 'll have good news by that time .If you 'd like to go to the theatre to-night , and take some other woman in the house , maybe I can get a couple of tickets for some of the shows . I know a lot of fellows who are working .", "No , I do n't , and now I 'm just going to put my mit out and shake yours and be real glad . I want to tell ye it 's the only way to go along . I ai n't never been a rival to Rockefeller , nor I ai n't never made Morgan jealous , but since the day my old woman took her make-up off for the last time , and walked out of that stage-door to give me a little help and bring my kids into the world , I knew that was the way to go along ; and if you 're goin \u2019 to take that road , by Jiminy , I 'm glad of it , for you sure do deserve it . I wish yer luck .", "Well , you can n't pay what you have n't got . And even if money was growing on trees , it 's winter now .I 'm off . Maybe to-day is lucky day . So long !", "Weston family is with you forty ways from the Jack day and night .", "Good-bye , and God bless you .", "You know Burgess and I used to be in the circus business together . He took care of the grafters when I was boss canvas man . I never could see any good in shaking down the rubes for all the money they had and then taking part of it . He used to run the privilege car , you know .", "Had charge of all the pickpockets ,\u2014 dips we called \u2018 em \u2014 sure-thing gamblers , and the like . Made him rich . I kept sort o \u2019 on the level and I 'm broke . Guess it do n't pay to be honest \u2014", "Now you just cheer up ! Something 's sure to turn up . It always has for me , and I 'm a lot older than you , both in years and in this business . There 's always a break in hard luck sometime \u2014 that 's sure .", "I kind o \u2019 felt around up at Burgess 's office . I thought I might get a job there , but he put me off until to-morrow . Somehow those fellows always do business to-morrow .", "No , maybe not . Ever since I married the missis and the first kid come , we figured the only good money was the kind folks worked for and earned ; but when you can n't get hold of that , it 's tough .", "The hell you are !", "They only stop there on signal . And make up your mind that the", "It 's hell forty ways from the Jack . It 's tough for me , but for a pretty woman with a lot o \u2019 rich fools jumping out o \u2019 their automobiles and hanging around stage doors , it must be something awful . I ai n't blaming the women . They say \u201c self-preservation is the first law of nature , \u201d and I guess that 's right ; but sometimes when the show is over and I see them fellows with their hair plastered back , smoking cigarettes in aholder long enough to reach from here to Harlem , and a bank-roll that would bust my pocket and turn my head , I feel as if I 'd like to get a gun and go a-shooting around this old town .", "I 'm mighty glad you side-stepped Brockton . You 're young, and you 're pretty , and you 're sweet , and if you 've got the right kind of a feller there ai n't no reason on earth why you should n't jest forgit the whole business and see nothin \u2019 but laughs and a good time comin \u2019 to you , and the sun sort o \u2019 shinin \u2019 every twenty-four hours in the day . You know the missis feels just as if she knew you , after I told her about them hard times we had at Farley 's boarding-house , so I feel that it 's paid me to come to New Yorkeven if I did n't book anything but \u201c East Lynne \u201d and \u201c Uncle Tom 's Cabin . \u201dNow I 'm goin \u2019 . Do n't forget Gallipolis 'sthe name , and sometimes the mail does get there . I 'd be awful glad if you wrote the missis a little note tellin \u2019 us how you 're gettin \u2019 along , and if you ever have to ride on the Kanawha and Michigan , just look out of the window when the train passes our town , because that is about the best you 'll get .", "Looks like as if you were going to move ?", "I was just thinking about you and what Burgess said ?", "Lots of it .", "I 'm ready to give up . I 've tramped Broadway for nine weeks until every piece of flagstone gives me the laugh when it sees my feet coming . Got a letter from the missis this morning . The kids got to have some clothes , there 's measles in the town , and mumps in the next village . I 've just got to raise some money or get some work , or the first thing you 'll know I 'll be hanging around Central Park on a dark night with a club .", "That 's what was slipped me . Seems that one of the richest men that is in on Mr. Burgess 's address-book is a fellow named Brockton from downtown some place . He 's got more money than the Shoe and Leather National Bank . He likes to play show business .", "Burgess do n't seem to be losing sleep over the tricks he 's turned . He 's happy and prosperous , but I guess he ai n't any better now than he was then ."], "true_target": ["It 's bad luck . Guess you do n't want to hear .", "No , they 're not worth the job of sitting on that throne in Sing Sing , and I 'm too poor to go to Matteawan . But all them fellows under nineteen and over fifty-nine ai n't much use to themselves or anyone else .", "He spoke about you .", "Bad business . It took a year for some of them folks to get back to Broadway . Some of the girls never did , and I guess never will .", "Burgess do n't put up the money for any of them musical comedies \u2014 he just trails . Of course he 's got a lot of influence , and he 's always Johnny-on-the-Spot to turn any dirty trick that they want . There are four or five rich men in town who are there with the bank-roll , providing he engages women who ai n't so very particular about the location of their residence , and who do n't hear a curfew ring at 11 : 30 every night .", "Thought not . What 's comin \u2019 off now ?", "Yes , I do \u2014 you bet .", "Yes , they are ,\u2014 angels and all . Last season I had one of them shows where a rich fellow backed it on account of a girl . We lost money and he lost his girl ; then we got stuck in Texas . I telegraphed : \u201c Must have a thousand , or can n't move . \u201d He just answered : \u201c Do n't move . \u201d We did n't .", "Well , it looks just like it sounds . We got a little house , and the old lady is happy , and I feel so good that I can even stand her cookin \u2019 . Of course we ai n't makin \u2019 much money , but I guess I 'm gettin \u2019 a little old-fashioned around theatres anyway . The fellows from newspapers and colleges have got it on me . Last time I asked a man for a job he asked me what I knew about the Greek drama , and when I told him I did n't know the Greeks had a theatre in New York he slipped me a laugh and told me to come in again on some rainy Tuesday . Then Gallipolis showed on the map , and I beat it for the West .Sorry if I hurt ye \u2014 did n't mean to ; and now that yer goin \u2019 to be Mrs. Brockton , well , I take back all I said , and , while I do n't think I want to change my position , I would n't turn it down for \u2014 for that other reason , that 's all .", "Yes ; I am feelin \u2019 fine . Where yer goin \u2019 ? Troupin \u2019 ?", "Well , Johnny Ensworth \u2014 you know he used to do the fights on the Evening Journal ; now he 's press-agent for Burgess ; nice fellow and way on the inside \u2014 he told me where you were in wrong .", "I gave him my address and he seen it was yours , too . Asked if I lived in the same place .", "No ?", "Wanted to know how you was getting on . I let him know you needed work , but I did n't tip my hand you was flat broke . He said something about you being a damned fool .", "Can I come in ?", "Well , ye see , there are three kids and they 're all growing up , all of them in school , and the missis , she 's just about forgot show business and she 's playing a star part in the kitchen , juggling dishes and doing flip-flaps with pancakes ; and we figgered that as we 'd always gone along kinder clean-like , it would n't be good for the kids to take a job comin \u2019 from Brockton because you \u2014 you \u2014 well \u2014 you \u2014", "I thought you knew him . I thought it was just as well to tell you where he and Burgess stand . They 're pals .", "Oh , if a man 's alone he can generally get along \u2014 turn his hand to anything ; but a woman \u2014", "Could n't be worse . They 're still in Texas .Wish I knew how to do something else , being a plumber or a walking delegate ; they always have jobs .", "Oh , that ai n't a disease . It is the name of a town . Maybe you do n't know much about Gallipolis , or where it is .", "That 's the way to talk .I do n't know you very well , but I 've watched you close . I 'm just a common , ordinary showman who never had much money , and I 'm going out o \u2019 date . I 've spent most of my time with nigger-minstrel shows and circuses , but I 've been on the square . That 's why I 'm broke .Once I thought the missis would have to go back and do her acrobatic act , but she could n't do that , she 's grown so damn fat .Just you do n't mind . It 'll all come out right .", "I 'll go down and give Mrs. F. a line o \u2019 talk and try to square you for a couple of days more anyway . But I guess she 's laying pretty close to the cushion herself , poor woman .", "Keep your nerve .", "Now I 'm just glad to hear that . Ye know when I heard how \u2014 how things was breakin \u2019 for ye \u2014 well , I ai n't knockin \u2019 or anythin \u2019 like that , but me and the missis have talked ye over a lot . I never did think this feller was goin \u2019 to do the right thing by yer . Brockton never looked to me like a fellow would marry anybody , but now that he 's goin \u2019 through just to make you a nice , respectable wife , I guess everything must have happened for the best .Y \u2019 see I wanted to thank you for what you did a couple of weeks ago . Burgess wrote me a letter and told me I could go ahead of one of his big shows if I wanted to come back , and offering me considerable money . He mentioned your name , Miss Laura , and I talked it over with the missis , and \u2014 well , I can tell ye now when I could n't if ye were n't to be hooked up \u2014 we decided that I would n't take that job , comin \u2019 as it did from youand the way I knew it was framed up .", "Married ?"], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Hello , Annie ,\u2014 folks home ?"], "true_target": ["Hello , dearie , can I come up ?"], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Well , that 's cheap , and Lord knows you need it . What 's happened ? LAURA takes the crumpled and torn telegram that WILL has left on the table and hands it to ELFIE . The latter puts the two pieces together , reads it very carefully , looks up at LAURA about middle of telegram , and lays it down .", "Oh , something with a regular tune to itOh , here 's one ; just watch me tear this off .Ai n't it grand ?", "But I do care . I know how you feel with an old cat for a landlady and living up here on a side street with a lot of cheap burlesque people . Why , the room 's cold, and there 's no hot water , and you 're beginning to look shabby . You have n't got a job \u2014 chances are you wo n't have one . What doesthis fellow out there do for you ? Send you long letters of condolences ? That 's what I used to get . When I wanted to buy a new pair of shoes or a silk petticoat , he told me how much he loved me ; so I had the other ones re-soled and turned the old petticoat . And look at you , you 're beginning to show it .I do believe there are lines coming in your face, and you hide in the house because you 've nothing new to wear .", "Who ?", "Yes , I 'm sure you are \u2014 particularly just at this time .You know that old stuff about two 's company and threeis a crowd . Here 's where I vamoose .", "Now , dearie , I knew you were up against it , and I wanted to bring you two together . He 's got half of the Burgess shows , and if you 'll only see him everything will be fixed .", "He knows you 're out of work , do n't he ?", "Just wanted to hear from your own dear lips what the trouble was . Now tell me all about it . Can I smoke here ?", "Oh , that 's a cinch, but I like to leave well enough alone , and if I had to make a change right now it would require a whole lot of thought and attention , to say nothing of the inconvenience , and I 'm so nicely settled in my flat .Say , dearie , when did you get the piano-player ? I got one of them phonographs, but this has got that beat a city block . How does it work ? What did it cost ?", "Who \u2014 the good man who wanted to lead you to the good life without even a bread-basket for an advance-agent ? Huh !", "Yes , you can . I have n't worked in a year .", "What 's the matter ?", "Serious ?", "You wo n't get sore again if I tell you , will you ?", "Save \u2014 shucks ! He 's jealous .", "What 's up ?", "Because I want you to be square with yourself . You 've lost all that precious virtue women gab about . When you 've got the name , I say get the game .", "Well , do n't you think anything about that . Now let 's getdown to cases , and we have n't much time . Business is business , and love is love . You 're long on love and I 'm long on business , and between the two of us we ought to straighten this thing out . Now , evidently John is coming on here to marry you .", "H'mhYpppHeNm , h'mhYpppHeNm , hah !Now go ahead . Tell me all the scandal . I 'm just crazy to know .", "I do n't see anything impossible . From all you 've said to me about this fellow there is only one thing to do .", "Well , you can n't get on this way . Wo n'tBrockton help you out ?", "Yes \u2014 get married quick . You say he has the money and you have the love , and you 're sick of Brockton , and you want to switch and do it in the decent , respectable , conventional way , and he 's going to take you away . Have n't you got sense enough to know that , once you 're married to Mr. Madison , Will Brockton would n't dare go to him , and if he did Madison would n't believe him ? A man will believe a whole lot about his girl , but nothing about his wife .", "No , I suppose not ; just fall down stairs and get out of the way , that 's all .Anyway , Mr. Madison , I 'm awfully glad to have met you , and I want to congratulate you . They tell me you 're rich .", "Hello , dearie .", "Have one ?", "I 'd sooner hear . What is the scandal anyway ?", "You do n't !\u2014 but you did once and I never caught you hanging your head . You say he 's old . I know he 's old , but he 's good to me . He 's making what 's left of my life pleasant . You think I like him . I do n't ,\u2014 sometimes I hate him ,\u2014 but he understands ; and you can bet your life his check is in my mail every Saturday night or there 's a new lock on the door Sunday morning .", "Yes .", "Yes , dear .", "Well now , you just brace up and cut out all that emotional stuff . I came down to take you for a drive . You 'd like it ; just through the park . Will you go ?", "Yes ; shall I come up ?", "And as far as you know the moment that he comes in here it 's quick to the Justice and a big matrimonial thing .", "I shoved over that thing marked \u201c Swell . \u201dI sure will have to speak to Jerry about this . I 'm stuck on that swell thing . Hurry up .Gee ! you look pale .I 'll just bet you and Will have had a fight , and he always gets the best of you , does n't he , dearie ?Listen . Do n't you think you can ever get him trained ? I almost threw Jerry down the stairs the other night and he came right back with a lot of American beauties and a check . I told him if he did n't look out I 'd throw him down-stairs every night . He 's getting too damned independent and it 's got me nervous . Oh , dear , I s'pose I will have to go back on the stage .", "I must say , Laura , that when it comes to picking live ones , you certainly can go some .After ELFIE exits , JOHN turns to LAURA with a pleasant smile , and jerks his head towards the door where ELFIE has gone out .", "I 'll give you all the money you need , dearie . Great heavens , do n't worry about that . Do n't you care if I got sore and \u2014 and lost my head .", "Well , you certainly have got a nerve .", "In the park . Asked me out to luncheon , but I could n't go . You know , dearie , I 've got to be so careful . Jerry 's so awful jealous \u2014 the old fool .", "He 's downstairs \u2014 waiting in the car . I promised to tell him what you said .", "Yes .", "Was it my fault that time made me older and I took on a lot of flesh ? Was it my fault that the work and the life took out the colour , and left the make-up ? Was it my fault that other pretty young girls came along , just as I 'd come , and were chased after , just as I was ? Was it my fault the cabs were n't waiting any more and people did n't talk about how pretty I was ? And was it my fault when he finally had me alone , and just because no one else wanted me , he got tired and threw me flat \u2014 cold flat\u2014 and I 'd been on the dead level with him !It almost broke my heart . Then I made up my mind to get even and get all I could out of the game . Jerry came along . He was a has-been and I was on the road to be . He wanted to be good to me , and I let him . That 's all .", "How do you do ?", "Well , do n't be so mysterious . Who is he ?", "There , old girl , do n't cry , do n't cry . You just sit down here and let me put my arms around you .I 'm awful sorry \u2014 on the level , I am . I should n't have said it . I know that . But I 've got feelings too , even if folks do n't give me credit for it .", "We wo n't talk about it .", "Did he hit you ?", "Well , I do n't believe you \u2014 anyway I 'm going . Ta-ta , dearie . Good-bye , Mr. Madison .", "Fine .", "No . I 've had all the romance I want , and I 'll stake you to all your love affairs .I am out to gather in as much coin as I can in my own way , so when the old rainy day comes along I 'll have a little change to buy myself an umbrella .", "Well ?", "It 's the limit ."], "true_target": ["You make me sick . The thing to do is to lie to all men .\u2014 they all lie to you . Protect yourself . You seem to think that your happiness depends on this . Now do it . Listen .Do n't you realize that you and me , and all the girls that are shoved into this life , are practically the common prey of any man who happens to come along ? Do n't you know that they 've got about as much consideration for us as they have for any pet animal around the house , and the only way that we 've got it on the animal is that we 've got brains ? This is a game , Laura , not a sentiment . Do you suppose this Madison\u2014 now do n't get sore \u2014 has n't turned these tricks himself before he met you , and I 'll gamble he 's done it since ! A man 's natural trade is a heartbreaking business . Do n't tell me about women breaking men 's hearts . The only thing they can ever break is their bank roll . And besides , this is not Will 's business ; he has no right to interfere . You 've been with him \u2014 yes , and he 's been nice to you ; but I do n't think that he 's given you any the best of it . Now if you want to leave and go your own way and marry any Tom , Dick , or Harry that you want , it 's nobody 's affair but yours .", "Well , I should say you have \u2014 and more than I would . Anyway a good cry never hurts any woman . I have one myself , sometimes \u2014 under cover .", "What !Dearie , get that nonsense out of your head and be sensible . I 'd just like to see any two men who could make me think about \u2014 well \u2014 what you seem to have in your mind .", "Oh ! And you 'll promise me , Laura ?", "Not any more than I can help and be nice . He gets on my nerves . Of course , I 've heard about your quitting Brockton .", "Yes , I 'm afraid I 'll have to . I think I need a sort of a boost to my popularity .", "If I think he 's the fellow when I see him , watch me and I 'll tip you the wink .She goes up stage to centre ; LAURA remains in her position . The doors are heard to open , and in a moment JOHN enters . He is dressed very neatly in a business suit , and his face is tanned and weather-beaten . After he enters , he stands still for a moment . The emotion that both he and LAURA go through is such that each is trying to control it , LAURA from the agony of her position , and JOHN from the mere hurt of his affection . He sees ELFIE and forces a smile .", "If it 's a touch , you 'll have to wait until next week .", "Now you 're a sensible dear . I 'll bet he 's half frozen down there .I 'll send him up . Look at you , Laura , you 're a sight .It 'll never do to have him see you looking like this ; come over here and let me fix your eyes . Now , Laura , I want you to promise me you wo n't do any more crying .Come over here and let me powder your nose . Now when he comes up you tell him he has got to blow us all off to a dinner to-night at Martin 's , seven-thirty . Let me look at you . Now you 're all right .Make it strong now , seven-thirty , do n't forget . I 'll be there .So long .After ELFIE 'S exit LAURA crosses slowly to wardrobe , pulls off picture of JOHN ; crosses to dresser , takes picture of JOHN from there ; carries both pictures over to bed ; kneels on bed , pulls down picture at head of bed ; places all three pictures under pillow . WILL is heard coming upstairs , and knocks .", "Yes .", "Do n't be foolish , dearie . You know there is somebody waiting for you \u2014 somebody who 'll be good to you and get you out of this mess .", "Well ?", "Because I want to help you .", "It 's a bully day out .I 've been shopping all morning long ; just blew myself until I 'm broke , that 's all . My goodness , do n't you ever get dressed ? Listen .Talk about cinches . I copped out a gown , all ready made , and fits me like the paper on the wall , for $ 37. 80 . Looks like it might have cost $ 200 . Anyway I had them charge $ 200 on the bill , and I kept the change . There are two or three more down town there , and I want you to go down and look them over . Models , you know , being sold out . I do n't blame you for not getting up earlier .That was some party last night . I know you did n't drink a great deal , but gee ! what an awful tide Will had on . How do you feel ?What 's the matter , are you sick ? You look all in . What you want to do is this \u2014 put on your duds and go out for an hour . It 's a perfectly grand day out . My Gaud ! how the sun does shine ! Clear and cold .Well , much obliged for the conversation . Do n't I get a \u201c Good-morning , \u201d or a \u201c How-dy-do , \u201d or a something of that sort ?", "How do you know ?", "Me ?", "Yes , you burned it .", "Five minutes past eleven .", "Now .", "So that 's the kind of woman you are , eh ? A moment ago you were going to kick me out of the place because I was n't decent enough to associate with you . You know how I live . You know how I get my money \u2014 the same way you got most of yours . And now that you 've got this spasm of goodness I 'm not fit to be in your room ; but you 'll take my money to pay your debts . You 'll let me go out and do this sort of thing for your benefit , while you try to play the grand lady . I 've got your number now , Laura . Where in hell is your virtue anyway ? You can go to the devil \u2014 rich , poor , or any other way . I 'm off ! ELFIE rushes toward door ; for a moment LAURA stands speechless , then bursts into hysterics .", "Yes , there is . What happened between you and Brockton ?He 's not broke , because I saw him the other day .", "Oh , yes , you can . You can say anything to me \u2014 everybody else does . We 've been pals . I know you got along a little faster in the business than I did . The chorus was my limit , and you went into the legitimate thing . But we got our living just the same way . I did n't suppose there was any secret between you and me about that .", "Oh , never mind . It 's such a grand day outside , and I 've come around in my car to take you out .You know I 've got a new one , and it can go some .", "You know , Laura , I 'm not much on giving advice , but you make me sick . I thought you 'd grown wise . A young girl just butting into this business might possibly make a fool of herself , but you ought to be on to the game and make the best of it .", "Lend you thirty-five dollars ?", "No ? Why do n't I understand ?", "No wonder you look tired . Say , listen , dearie . What else is the matter with you anyway ?", "All right , if that 's the way you want it to be , I 'm sorry .", "Yes . Shall I tell him to come up ?", "I do n't know , do n't I ? I do n't know , I suppose , that when I came to this town from up state ,\u2014 a little burg named Oswego ,\u2014 and joined a chorus , that I did n't fall in love with just such a man . I suppose I do n't know that then I was the best-looking girl in New York , and everybody talked about me ? I suppose I do n't know that there were men , all ages and with all kinds of money , ready to give me anything for the mere privilege of taking me out to supper ? And I did n't do it , did I ? For three years I stuck by this good man who was to lead me in a good way toward a good life . And all the time I was getting older , never quite so pretty one day as I had been the day before . I never knew then what it was to be tinkered with by hair-dressers and manicures or a hundred and one of those other people who make you look good . I did n't have to have them then .Well , you know , Laura , what happened .", "And you love him ?", "Well , I should say not . I 'm going to give up my musical career . Charlie Burgess is putting on a new play , and he says he has a part in it for me if I want to go back . It is n't much , but very important ,\u2014 sort of a pantomime part . A lot of people talk about me , and just at the right time I walk across the stage and make an awful hit . I told Jerry that if I wenton he 'd have to come across with one of those Irish crochet lace gowns . He fell for it . Do you know , dearie , I think he 'd sell out his business just to have me back on the stage for a couple of weeks , just to give box-parties every night for my en-trance and ex-its .", "I think he is getting a relapse of that front-row habit . There 's no use in talking , Laura , it 's a great thing for a girl 's credit when a man like Jerry can take two or three friends to the theatre , and when you make your entrance delicately point to you with his forefinger and say , \u201c The third one from the front on the left belongs to muh . \u201d The old fool 's hanging around some of these musical comedies lately , and I 'm getting a little nervous every time rent day comes .", "I should think not . I have n't seen you in Rector 's or Martin 's since you come back from Denver . Got a glimpse of you one day trailing up Broadway , but could n't get to you \u2014 you dived into some office or other .Gee ! Whatever made you come into a dump like this ? It 's the limit .", "I think Jerry is getting cold feet . He 's seeing a little too much of menowadays .", "Not !", "Then you 're a chump . Has n't he sent you anything ?", "How ?", "Looks more like a prison .Makes me think of the old days of Child 's sinkers and a hall bedroom .", "Same thing . Do I know him ?", "Laura , you old dear, I 've just found out where you 've been hiding , and came around to see you .", "Well , you did , and you did n't kick .", "Oh , forget that .", "A man ?", "Well , that 's too bad about you . I used to have that truthful habit myself , and the best I ever got was the worst of it . All this talk about love and loyalty and constancy is fine and dandy in a book , but when a girl has to look out for herself , take it from me , whenever you 've got that trump card up your sleeve just play it and rake in the pot .You know , dearie , you 're just about the only one in the world I love .", "Well , Jerry 's got to stake me to one of these .\u201c Tannhauser , William Tell , Chopin . \u201dListen , dear . Ai n't you got anything else except all this high-brow stuff ?", "Well , what does he think you 're going to live on ?\u2014 asphalt croquettes with conversation sauce ?", "Since I broke away from the folks up state and they 've heard things , there ai n't any more letters coming to me with an Oswego postmark . Ma 's gone , and the rest do n't care . You 're all I 've got in the world , Laura , and what I 'm asking you to do is because I want to see you happy . I was afraid this thing was coming off , and the thing to do now is to grab your happiness , no matter how you get it nor where it comes from . There ai n't a whole lot of joy in this world for you and me and the others we know , and what little you get you 've got to take when you 're young , because , when those gray hairs begin to come , and the make-up is n't going to hide the wrinkles , unless you 're well fixed , it 's going to be hell . You know what a fellow does n't know does n't hurt him , and he 'll love you just the same and you 'll love him . As for Brockton , let him get another girl ; there 're plenty \u2018 round . Why , if this chance came to me I 'd tie a can to Jerry so quick that you could hear it rattle all the way down Broadway .Dearie , promise me that you wo n't be a damn fool .", "Huh !", "Do you know , Laura , I think I 'll go back on the stage ."], "play_index": 24, "act_index": 24}, {"query": ["Rouse him to vengeance ; on the tyrant turn", "Euphrasia lives , and fills the anxious moments", "And , when th'assault begins , my faithful cohorts", "Perhaps , provoke her fate : Greece arms in vain ,", "My heart misgives ; Evander 's fatal period \u2014\u2014", "Resistless in his course ! Your boasted master", "\u2018 Midst the wild tumult of eventful war", "Your forfeit lives ? Philotas , thou conduct them", "Stript of the crown , and to his humble rank", "Admit me to his presence ; let me see", "My timely succour may protect his days ;", "Now close encircled by the Grecian bands ;", "Ha ! mov 'd him , say'st thou ?", "Perhaps he dies this moment .\u2014 Since Timoleon", "My tongue denies its office .", "Alas ! that hour", "We may ward off the blow . My friends , farewell :", "The monster waded through whole seas of blood .", "Torn by a ruffian , by a tyrant 's hand ,", "When all things lay in sleep and darkness hush 'd .", "Has the fell tyrant ,\u2014 have his felon murderers \u2014\u2014", "The guard is yours \u2014\u2014", "I 'll take my post , near where the pillar 'd aisle", "He pines in bitterest want .", "But soon that pow'r shall cease : behold his walls", "The Greeks may enter , and let in destruction", "Oh , lost Evander ! Lost Euphrasia too !", "Clandestine murderer ! Yes , there 's the scene", "Thy dark half-hinted purpose \u2014 lead me to him ;", "Till rous 'd at length Evander came from Greece ,", "I 'll guide thy steps ; there dwell , and in apt time", "Summon all", "The father of his people , from a throne", "Thus wilt thou spurn me , when a king distress 'd ,", "No nutriment has touch 'd Evander 's lips .", "Plung 'd from the rock into the wave beneath ,", "And heard the mournful sound of many a corse", "To hurl ambition from a throne usurp 'd ,", "Alas ! those glitt'ring hopes but lend a ray", "Groans in captivity ? In his own palace", "I fear , the fates averse will e'er lead on .", "Sends her avenger forth , array 'd in terror ,", "Fly to Timoleon ; I can grant a passport :", "When hence your husband , the brave Phocion , fled ,", "It were in vain ;", "Assail the walls ; thou with thy phalanx seek", "The subterraneous path ; that way at night", "Canst grant admittance ; let me , let me see him .", "Surprise you in the pious act .", "Still my fears", "Our fate allows us now .", "First form 'd his lines round this beleagur 'd city ,", "Thrice has the sun gone down , since last , these eyes", "Lives a sequester 'd prisoner ? Oh ! Philotas ,", "Like Freedom 's Genius came , and sent the tyrant ,", "Each avenue to thee is open ; thou", "Sore groan 'd the land beneath his iron rod ,", "Obdurate man ;", "Shall merit heartfelt praise .", "Soon to rain sorrow down , and plunge you deeper", "Which long with ev'ry virtue he adorn 'd ,", "Now , Phocion , now , on thee our hope depends .", "If thou hast murder 'd him \u2014\u2014", "Thy wonted firmness ; in that dreary vault", "Of a dear father , thus in ling'ring pangs", "All possible events , he rushes on", "Would come with joy to ev'ry honest heart ,", "Direct thy footsteps ; Dionysius there", "On the astonish 'd foe .", "Art thou a stranger to Timoleon 's name ?", "But no such hour in all the round of time ,", "Of horrid massacre . Full oft I 've walk 'd ,", "Have we forgot the elder Dionysius ,", "My royal master .", "The good Evander then \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["But when dun night \u2014\u2014", "Still new horrors", "Increase each hour , and gather round our heads .", "Thou must withdraw thee hence ; regain once more", "Yet , yet a moment ; hear , Philotas , hear me .", "To gild the clouds , that hover o'er your head ,", "Surnam 'd the Tyrant ? To Sicilia 's throne", "Marshals a chosen band .", "To end a monarch 's life ? Oh ! grant my pray'r ;", "Hems him in closer , and ere long thou'lt view", "Yes , oft I 've walk 'd the lonely sullen beach ,", "All 's lost ; Evander dies !", "That officer will guide your steps .", "Scarce stands at bay ; each hour the strong blockade", "And yet", "To the citadel", "Intent to plan , and circumspect to see", "In vain she 'll rave , with impotence of sorrow ;", "These wild upbraidings .", "Shall form their ranks around this sacred dome .", "Forbode for thee . \u2018 Would thou hadst left this place ,", "Hush", "The pious act , whate'er the fates intend ,", "Why with rash valour penetrate our gates ?", "Wherefore debarr 'd his presence ? Thee , Philotas ,", "Detested spoiler !\u2014 his ! a vile usurper !", "Timoleon 's camp ! alarm his slumb'ring rage ;", "If any spark of virtue dwell within thee ,", "A wandering sophist through the realms of Greece .", "In black despair .", "Whom the hard hand of misery hath grip 'd !", "How will her gentle nature bear the shock", "Fled with your infant son !", "Deem not , Euphrasia ,", "I e'er can doubt thy constancy and love .", "Ha ! the fell tyrant comes .\u2014 Beguile his rage ,", "And save a virtuous king !", "Once more reduc 'd , to roam , for vile subsistence ,", "Timoleon leads them on ; indignant Corinth", "A prey to famine , like the veriest wretch", "Thy pent-up valour : to a secret haunt", "Th'attempt would hazard all .", "Woe , bitt'rest woe , impends ; thou wouldst not think \u2014\u2014", "Unhappy men ! how shall my care protect", "Moderate your zeal ,", "To the deep dungeon 's gloom . In that recess ,", "In the deep caverns of the rock imprison 'd", "A living king is number 'd with the dead .", "If thou hast not renounc 'd humanity ;", "The troops obey , that guard the royal pris'ner ;", "Trust to my care : no danger shall assail them .", "I 'll bring Euphrasia to thy longing arms .", "Have seen the good old king ; say , why is this ?", "Let me behold my sovereign ; once again", "Lead me , Philotas , lead me to his prison .", "How ! not behold it ! Say , Philotas , speak ;", "Then bless me with one tender interview .", "I fear to shock thee with the tale of horror !", "Thou canst not mean it : his to give the law !", "And bid all Sicily resume her rights .", "His own insidious arts , or all is lost .", "Now give the Grecian sabre tenfold edge ,", "And o'er your sorrows cast a dawn of gladness .", "I would not add to my afflictions ; yet", "Now , ye just gods , now look propitious down ;", "Supports the central dome , that no alarm", "He ,", "Nor let him hear these transports of the soul ,", "Would shed divinest blessings from its wing ;", "That murmurs on the shore . And means he thus", "Alas , he lives imprisoned in the rock .", "Despair , alas ! is all the sad resource", "A good , a virtuous , venerable king ,", "With every virtue . Wherefore venture hither ?", "Oppression 's iron rod to fragments shiver 'd !"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["The Grecian bands , the winds , the waves are hush 'd ;", "The tyrant 's jealous care hath mov 'd him thence .", "He bent his way to seek thee .\u2014 Oh ! my sovereign ,", "I saw life ebb apace . With studied art", "A child like her .", "Unerring signals . With disastrous glare ,", "I am rewarded : feelings , such as mine ,", "There may'st thou dwell amidst the wild commotion .", "Deep cavern 'd in the cliff , where many a wretch ,", "Ye tyrants , hear it ,", "I feel thee , Nature , and I dare obey .", "I pity your misfortunes ; yes , by Heav'n ,", "The gen'rous impulse is not giv'n in vain .", "Of distant uproar chas 'd affrighted sleep .", "Evander wants not ; it is fruitless all ;", "Forbid access ; he is our sov'reign now ;", "Unheard-of torture , virtue can keep pace", "Imbibe with eager thirst the kind refreshment ,", "Why , princess , thus anticipate the dawn ?", "Behold that unexampled goodness ; see", "I 'll to my station ; now thou know'st the worst .", "Know then , a fleet from Carthage even now", "Is the best sympathy , the purest joy", "Would Dionysius abdicate his crown ,", "Some dread event is lab'ring into birth .", "Which overhangs the deep , a dungeon drear :", "Still sleep and silence wrap the weary world ;", "Thou wert a statesman once , Melanthon ; now ,", "Convey him hence ; I do release him to you .", "Allays the parching fever .", "Fate lifts the awful balance ; weighs his life ,", "To bid men grow enamour 'd of her charms .", "On the bare earth", "Of pure delight , of exquisite sensation ,", "Wonder-working virtue !", "The moon 's full orb rose crimson 'd o'er with blood ;", "And while pale famine drinks his vital spirit ,", "You 'll pardon , sir , my over-hasty zeal .", "And lo ! Calippus", "That wait on conscious guilt .", "The lives of numbers , in the trembling scale .", "As yet , my friend , Evander lives .", "That piteous sight !", "The deep-laid schemes which Dionysius plans .", "All bend the knee ; his the supreme dominion ,", "Falls from a throne usurp 'd .", "No god there smiles propitious on his cause .", "Urge thy suit no further ;", "In the drear monument , should hostile steps", "Darts with the lightning 's speed across the aisle .", "Lo here 's a weapon ; bear this dagger to him .", "Methought the sound", "Life ebbs apace ;", "His troops prepare , in the dead midnight hour ,", "Alas ! this frantic grief can nought avail .", "Its executioner , and smile upon him .", "My heart bleeds for you .\u2014 Gods ! you 've touch 'd my soul !", "I stopp 'd Calippus , as with eager haste", "And sue for terms of peace ?", "And tell Timoleon , the good old Evander", "You must withdraw ; trust to your faithful friends .", "Thy heart will burn , will melt , will yearn to view", "\u2018 Tis his to give the law , mine to obey .", "Whate'er his right , to him in Syracuse", "Euphrasia views him with the tend'rest glance ,", "That now declining seeks the western wave ,", "To the deep vale , which these o'erhanging rocks", "She 's here at hand .", "Oh ! her lovely daring", "Oh ! vile , detested lot ,", "To see that suffering virtue . On the earth ,", "Ill omens hover o'er us : at the altar", "That sweetens grief to rapture . All her laws", "Let me conduct thee to the silent tomb .", "A silent tear steals down ; the tear of virtue ,", "Whose soft declivity will guide your steps", "The stubborn heart , and mould'st it to thy purpose .", "And murder virtue that can thus behold", "Yet , mark my words ; if aught of nourishment", "Arcas , yes ;", "For her own offspring , on the parent 's lip", "Though each emotion prompts the gen'rous deed ,", "Nature intended for the heart of man ,", "\u2018 Twere best withdraw thee , princess ; thy assistance", "And died obscure , unpitied , and unknown .", "I must conceal your flight from ev'ry eye .", "Alas ! I fear to yield : awhile I 'll leave thee ,", "Dispel thy fears ;", "A secret weakness ? My heart inward melts", "The tyrant 's fury mounts into a blaze ;", "Take him , take your father ;", "He heav 'd a sigh , invok 'd his daughter 's name ,", "Who feel for other 's woes \u2014 She leads him forth ,", "Yes , princess , lead him forth ; I 'll point the path ,", "What art thou ? what thy errand ? quickly say ,", "Assault their camp , he 'll meet a marshall 'd foe .", "O ! filial piety !\u2014 The milk design 'd", "Behold thy father .", "For thee , Euphrasia , Dionysius calls .", "This moment to his presence .", "Those plaintive notes ?", "Yes , I will save \u2018 em , or perish in their cause .", "Oh ! forgive", "The glorious pow'r to shelter innocence ,", "My heart in pity bleeds .", "On the sharp summit of the pointed rock ,", "Encompass round . You may convey him thence", "Yet for a moment to assuage its woes ,", "Farewell , despatch a message to the Greeks ;", "Shall to the shades of night resign the world ,", "At close of day the sullen sky held forth", "Mourn , mourn , ye virgins ; rend your scatter 'd garments :", "Euphrasia !\u2014\u2014", "No , never , never :", "For thee , Evander ! thee his rage hath order 'd", "Arcas , shall I own", "Will ne'er consent .", "Oh ! thou hast conquer 'd .\u2014 Go , Euphrasia , go ,", "No more ; it must not be .", "To where the elder Dionysius form 'd ,", "Evander lies ; and as his languid pow'rs"], "true_target": ["Th \u2019 expedient sharp necessity has taught her ;", "Thou'lt see the Punic sails in yonder bay ,", "All things are mute around us ; all but you", "Have triumph 'd o'er me .", "I 'll perish rather ! But the time demands", "Yon lamp will guide thee thro \u2019 the cavern 'd way .", "To some safe shelter . Yet a moment 's pause ;", "Rest in oblivious slumber from their cares .", "And learn , that , while your cruelty prepares", "And , ever and anon , amidst the smiles", "O ! I can hold no more ; at such a sight", "Some new suspicion goads him . At yon gate", "Th \u2019 impending wrath of ill-requited Heav'n .", "As yet , my liege ,", "Of filial piety to after times .", "Ev'n the hard heart of tyranny would melt", "Had gor 'd his knife . The brazen statues tremble ,", "Prevailing , powerful virtue !\u2014 Thou subdu'st", "To-morrow 's sun sees him a breathless corse .", "Smil 'd , and expir 'd .", "Pass but another day , and Dionysius", "Alas , Euphrasia ! \u2018 would I dare comply !", "In vain the tyrant would appease with sacrifice", "Do thou retire ,", "I gave the body to the foaming surge ,", "Is now perform 'd ; I take thy post .", "Wherefore alarm'st thou thus our peaceful watch ?", "And though I feel soft pity throbbing here ;", "Grown dim with age , thy eye pervades no more", "And seek repose ; the duty of thy watch", "The fates are busy : wait the vast event .", "What , ho ! brave Arcas ! ho !", "It shall , dread sir ; that task", "Down the steep rock despis 'd .", "Trust to my truth and honour . Witness , gods ,", "My voice shall warn her of th \u2019 approaching danger .", "Whose waters wash the walls of Syracuse .", "The wrongs I 've done thee ?", "Silent convey 'd him up the steep ascent ,", "Let Greece urge on her general assault .", "The pious fraud of charity and love ;", "To infant softness . Arcas , go , behold", "Forbear ; thou plead'st in vain ;", "Down the steep rock .", "No plan is fix 'd , and no concerted measure .", "Some dread calamity hangs o'er our heads .", "No other fear assails this warlike breast .", "I thank thee , Arcas ; we will act like men", "Thy tears , thou miracle of goodness .", "The cold , damp earth , the royal victim lies ;", "Go with your daughter , with that wond'rous pattern", "And at the temple 's entrance wait thy coming .", "With base surprise to storm Timoleon 's camp .", "Those wild , those piercing shrieks will give th'alarm .", "What , ho ! Melanthon , this way lead your prisoners .", "Ev'n as a mother doating on her child ;", "Worn out with anguish ,", "Is ever wakeful ; rent with all the pangs", "My King , my injur 'd master , will you pardon", "Philotas swears \u2014\u2014", "Our utmost vigour . His policy has granted", "Lies hush 'd in sleep ; I 'll marshall thee the way", "How didst thou gain the summit of the rock ?", "Inevitable ruin hovers o'er you :", "Alas , Evander", "Retire and seek the couch of balmy sleep ,", "When thus she gave the social gen'rous tear .", "Will ne'er behold the golden time you look for !", "Thy words are fruitless ; Dionysius \u2019 orders", "Ha ! what mean", "Speak , ere thou dar'st advance . Unfold thy purpose :", "Sounds on the flinty rock ? Stand there ; what , ho !", "And life , now wearied out , almost expires .", "Cell within cell , a labyrinth of horror ,", "Here to obey the savage tyrant 's will ,", "And his looks speak unutterable thanks ,", "Despatch some friend , who may o'erleap the walls ,", "Evander is no more .", "Stems the rough billow ; and , ere yonder sun ,", "Thou wouldst convey , my partners of the watch", "The father foster 'd at his daughter 's breast !", "He flies the altar ; leaves th \u2019 unfinish 'd rites .", "At the midnight hour ,", "I must not yield ; it were assur 'd destruction !", "Who and what art thou ?", "Are worth all dignities ; my heart repays me .", "All things are apt ; the drowsy sentinel", "Entreat no more ; the soul of Dionysius", "By Heav'n ,", "And tremblingly supports his drooping age .", "The victim dropp 'd , ere the divining seer", "Trails a long tract of fire !\u2014 What daring step", "Transcends all praise . By Heav'n , he shall not die .", "In this dead hour , this season of repose .", "Thou art my king , and now no more my pris'ner ;", "What voice thus piercing thro \u2019 the gloom of night \u2014", "Thy tears , thy wild entreaties , are in vain .", "The stars in mid career usurp the pole ;", "He welcomes death , and smiles himself to rest .", "Leave to thy faithful servant .", "Alas ! it cannot be : but mark my words .", "My ardent zeal ? there is no time to waste .", "Unsated yet with blood , he calls aloud", "Lock 'd up from ev'ry sustenance of nature ,", "And death and torment wait his sovereign nod .", "In chains they wait their doom .", "Dare to approach him , they must enter singly ;", "Phocion will bring relief ; or should the tyrant", "With your worst efforts , and can try new modes", "Has liv 'd three days , by Dionysius \u2019 order ,", "Oh ! \u2018 would I could relieve him !", "This guards the passage ; man by man they die .", "We gave each cordial drop , alas , in vain ;", "Inverted quite , great nature triumphs still .", "\u2018 Would I could save them !\u2014 But tho \u2019 not for me", "Here , in the temple of Olympian Jove ,", "And from the marble , drops of blood distil .", "A day 's suspense from arms ; yet even now", "And lo ! athwart the gloom a falling star", "By Heav'n , he lives .", "Unseen by mortal eye , has groan 'd in anguish ,"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Lead to the onset ; Greece shall find we bear", "Our weary foes", "Our troops , that sallied to attack the foe ,", "Thy hardy veterans ; haste , or all is lost !", "All .", "Despair and terror fly . A panic spreads", "My liege , Timoleon , where the harbour opens ,", "Has storm 'd the forts , and even now his fleet", "Jove arm 'd with thunder , and the gods against us .", "The city round lies hush 'd in sleep .", "The Greeks pursue : Timoleon rides in blood !", "From the watch-tower I saw them : all things spoke", "Retire disordered ; to the eastern gate", "Hearts prodigal of blood , when honour calls ,", "From man to man , and superstition sees"], "true_target": ["A foe secure , and discipline relax 'd .", "Desist from the pursuit .", "Pursues its course , and steers athwart the bay .", "Where is the King ?", "Her life preserv 'd may plead your cause with Greece ,", "Do thou call forth", "Through ev'ry street", "This moment to his presence .", "Arm , arm , and meet their fury !", "Alarms suspicion : the king knows thy plottings ,", "This sullen musing in these drear abodes", "Thy rooted hatred to the state and him .", "Resolv 'd to conquer or to die in freedom .", "And mitigate your fate .", "My liege , forbear ;", "His sov'reign will commands thee to repair"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["His brightest honours , shall be lavish 'd on thee .", "So meanly of my Phocion ?\u2014 Dost thou deem him", "I 'll bathe thy hand with tears , thou gen'rous man !", "Think'st thou then", "Where shall the lost Euphrasia find a shelter ?", "Together here", "And be your own just image here on earth .", "How is my father ? Say , Melanthon \u2014\u2014", "Oh ! bless him gods !", "Here will I dwell , and rave , and shriek , and give", "His walls , his ramparts , and his tow'rs in ruin ;", "Oh ! say , speak of my Phocion .", "Who 's there ?\u2014 Evander ?\u2014\u2014 Answer \u2014\u2014 tell me \u2014\u2014 speak \u2014\u2014", "Soon must he seal his eyes in endless night ,", "Was a state crime ; the pow'rs of genius then", "With wreaths of triumph , and with conquest crown 'd ,", "Pardon , sir :", "Why , my father ,", "There , while the victims at yon altar bleed ,", "And yet I went not with him . Could I do it ?", "look there ;", "Becalms his looks , the rankling heart within", "Sprung from Evander , if a little portion", "Come , vengeance , come , shake off the feeble sex ,", "An humble suppliant comes \u2014 Alas , my strength", "To melt away in a weak woman 's tear ?", "My father still shall live . Alas ! Philotas ,", "The gods can witness how I lov 'd my Phocion ,", "Broods o'er the world , I 'll to thy sacred shrine ,", "Resolv 'd with him , and with my blooming boy ,", "Yet still th'unconquer ' d mind with scorn can view thee ;", "To tell her sad , sad tale , implore thy aid ,", "Thro \u2019 walls and rocks , to save him ? Think , Philotas ,", "Defenceless quite , may meet some ruffian stroke .", "Till that sad close of all , the task be mine", "A weeping pilgrim o'er Eudocia 's ashes .", "Did I not weep ? Did I not rave and shriek ,", "O let me then , in mercy let me seek", "Retire , Philotas ; let me here remain ,", "Now , one glorious effort !\u2014", "Of filial virtue bid ev'n bondage smile ?", "Lies an extended ruin .", "Ruin impends !\u2014 This will discover all !", "Invites thee back to life .", "In vain she 'll kneel , and clasp the sacred altar .", "I bring no value to alarm thy fears :", "And have they then \u2014 Have the fell murderers \u2014 Oh !", "How fares my father now ?", "And show mankind , ev'n on this shore of being ,", "No warrior to surprise thee on the watch .", "Nature and duty call 'd me \u2014 Oh ! my father ,", "No , tyrant no ;", "We will remain , safe in the cave of death ;", "Alas ! too much you over-rate your daughter ;", "With the calm sunshine of the breast can see ,", "Just retribution .", "And I will bless thee for it .", "Now , then , Euphrasia , now thou may'st indulge", "Hast thou not heard with what resistless ardour", "And supplicate thy mercies to my father .", "Pay this sad visit to the honour 'd clay ,", "The people look aghast , and , wan with fear ,", "The venerable man , who gave me being ,", "O , Dionysius , if distracting fears", "Here in Eudocia 's tomb ; let me conduct thee .", "What , no assistance ! Monsters , will you thus", "If Carthage comes , if her perfidious sons", "Support his drooping age ; and when anon", "\u2014 And has thy heart", "Lo ! a wretch ,", "Depress thy spirit ? Lo ! Timoleon comes", "That from his covert , in the hour of peace ,", "Divine content can dwell , the heartfelt tear ,", "And gain the ever honour 'd bright reward ,", "List in his cause , the dawn of freedom 's gone .", "Has touch 'd your heart , oh ! send me , send me to him .", "Shall not the monster hear his deeds accurst ?", "This arm shall vindicate a father 's cause .", "The brave Timoleon , with the pow'r of Greece ;", "Of war subside , the wild , the horrid interval", "Were fatal to our hopes ; oppress 'd , dismay 'd ,", "Exhausted quite forsakes this weary frame .", "Thou wilt not wonder .", "Let no mistrust affright thee \u2014", "Oh , thou dear wanderer ! But wherefore here ?", "Where'er my hero treads the paths of war ,", "Detested homicide !", "Well do your vital drops forget to flow .", "Oh ! be the grave at least a place of rest ;", "Could I abandon that white hoary head ,", "Admit me to Evander . In these caves", "Do you retire ,", "Call on Evander lost ;\u2014", "Raise me , raise me up ;", "Ah ! there Evander , naked and disarm 'd ,", "He guides the war , and gains upon his prey .", "Kneel to your rightful king : the blow for freedom", "To trust the winds and waves ?", "Guides this great frame of things ; who now behold'st me ,", "How my heart sinks within me !", "Or lost Euphrasia dies .", "Some charitable succour to a father .", "Deep in the flinty rock ; a monument", "And by the roots tear my dishevell 'd hair ?", "Guilt is at rest : I only wake to misery .", "I die content , if in his arms I perish .", "Oh ! my honour 'd sire !", "And cruel gods , and cruel stars invoking ,", "Afford a refuge to thee ?", "Not found him there ?\u2014", "It is a friend approaches .", "The glorious tumult lifts my tow'ring soul .", "Again th'alarm approaches ; sure destruction", "Vile dissembler !", "The pale remains of my dear mother lie .", "A victim here in Syracuse , nor stay", "Will catch , and wipe the sorrows from my eye ,", "And those pale , quiv'ring lips ! He clasps my hand :", "Oh ! give the means ,", "Oh ! thou dost little know him ; know'st but little", "Ye guardian deities , watch all his ways .", "Thou man of woe , thou man of every virtue .", "The portal opens ; lo !\u2014 see there !\u2014 behold ,", "And saw Evander ?", "Yes .", "The precious drops of life .", "No , I will trust the gods . Desponding man !", "Timoleon shall reward ; the bounteous gods ,", "Ha !", "On any terms , oh ! let me , let me see him .", "Yet , why despair ?", "Shall mount Sicilia 's throne .", "Why in this place of woe ? My tender little one ,\u2014", "Advise a wretch like me to know repose ?", "This dagger there , this instrument of death ,", "Go with my child , torn from this matron breast ,", "To watch his fate , to visit his affliction ,", "Destruction pouring in on ev'ry side ,", "See him sink gradual into mere decay ,", "Shall he not tremble , when a daughter comes ,", "For three long days , with specious feign 'd excuse", "Is that my father ?", "Give me my father ; here you hold him fetter 'd ;", "Yes , Phocion , go ,", "Will none relieve his want ? A drop of water", "Timoleon drives the tumult of the war ?", "And once again I shall behold him king .", "Fierce in despair , all nature in her cause", "I 'll perish first .", "Ye great assertors of a monarch 's cause !", "Chain 'd to the earth , with slow-consuming pangs", "Each secret image that my fancy form 'd ,", "Poorly wound up to a mere fit of valour ,", "Arm 'd with the pow'r of Greece ; the brave , the just ,", "His justice shall reward . Thee too , Philotas ,", "Anon thou'lt see his battlements in dust ,", "A crime to fill the measure of thy guilt ,", "Implor 'd relief , yet cruel men deny 'd it ,", "His eyes are fix 'd !", "Support me ;\u2014 reach thy hand .", "Despair and horror mark his haggard looks .", "To thee , to all , will follow :\u2014 hark ! a sound", "The agonizing scene ?", "A frail and tender sex . Should ruthless war", "Ah ! wherefore does the tyrant bend his way ?", "What miracle has brought thee to me ?", "Hath reap 'd in earlier days .", "Accept my thanks , Philotas ;\u2014 generous man ! These tears attest th'emotions of my heart . But , oh ! should Greece defer \u2014\u2014", "Forth he may come to bless a willing people ,", "This dagger then may free me from his pow'r ,", "The bounteous hand of nature meant for all .", "Virgins , I thank you \u2014 Oh ! more lightly now", "Indulge a daughter 's love ; worn out with age", "And thy own virtue shall reward the deed .", "In that black period , to be great and good", "Teems with destruction .", "The righteous gods", "The caves , the rocks , re-echo to his groans ! And is there no relief ?", "On the last verge of life watch ev'ry look ,", "Not your own Euphrasia ?", "How didst thou bear thy long , long suff'rings ? How", "In duty fixed ,", "Timoleon too", "Prepar 'd for innocence !\u2014 Vice liv 'd secure ,", "Half lost , is swallow 'd by the roaring sea .", "Down tumbling from its base the eastern tow'r ,", "And wait our freedom from thy conqu'ring arm .", "Be hush 'd to silence , when a father dies ?", "To perish here in misery and famine ?", "Behold , ye pow'rs , that spectacle of woe !", "For sure the pow'r is thine , thou canst relieve", "Uprear his mighty buckler ; to his sword", "What sudden cause requires Euphrasia 's presence ?", "Did I not follow to the sea-beat shore ,", "Aged , infirm , worn out with toil and years \u2014", "Comes here to grovel on the earth before thee ,", "For nations freed , and tyrants laid in dust .", "The din", "Once more , Melanthon , once again , my father", "Evander , too , will place you near his throne ;", "These scatter 'd locks to all the passing winds ;", "I 'll burn an offering to a parent 's shade ,", "Burst on the tyrant 's ranks , and on the plain", "The purest ecstacy of soul . Come forth ,", "The spirit-stirring virtue ,", "Fled from the tyrant 's pow'r .", "Thy doom , perhaps ,", "Say , is he safe ? Oh ! satisfy a mother ;", "I ask no more .", "There may'st thou dwell ; it will not long be wanted .", "Stand on the cliff in madness and despair .", "And a whole nation 's voice", "A wretched pittance ; one poor cordial drop", "Applaud my hero with a love like mine !", "In safety let me sooth to dear delight", "Shall we direct our steps ? What sacred altar", "He is all truth and honour :", "There let me pay the tribute of a tear ,", "If yet there 's wanting", "Of that fell malice , and that black suspicion ,", "Melanthon , how I loved , the gods , who saw", "Still is far off ; the gods have sent relief ,"], "true_target": ["Tell me his fate , and tell me all thy own .", "The shatter 'd refuse seek the Lybian shore ,", "Hold , hold my heart ! Oh ! how shall I sustain", "Another day shall make this city his .", "The weakness of my sex is gone ; this arm", "The veriest wretch that ever groan 'd in anguish ,", "The tyrant ?\u2014 I obey .", "That venerable form ? Abandon him", "That duty paid , I will return , my virgins .", "The touch of nature throbb 'd within your breast ,", "And will you , then , on self destruction bent ,", "That glows within me , ne'er shall know despair .", "Nature , that drives me on , will lend me force .", "Hard as Evander 's ; if by felon hands", "From thee the crown ! from thee ! Euphrasia 's children", "Thy sway shall bless the land . Not for himself", "Anon , Erixene , I mean to visit ,", "Exult and triumph . Thy worst shaft is sped .", "My father , who inhabit'st with the dead ,", "Of soft humanity , the hero 's bounty ,", "All 's lost , if thou art seen .", "Enough of laurell 'd victory your sword", "My woman 's breast , turn to vindictive rage ;", "Thee , good Melanthon , thee , thou gen'rous man ,", "He felt sharp want , and with an asking eye", "Bears down each feeble sense : restore him , Heaven !", "In a lov 'd father 's presence : from his sight ,", "Inhuman wretches !", "Wert born in Greece :\u2014 Oh ! by our common parent \u2014", "To renovate exhausted drooping age ,", "My father lives sepulchred ere his time ,", "Alas , he faints ! the gushing tide of transport", "Yes ; all , all rest : the very murd'rer sleeps ;", "That virtue still shall meet its sure reward .", "Shall whelm thee down , no more to blast creation .", "Wild with her griefs , and terible with wrongs ;", "And does my Phocion share Timoleon 's glory ?", "Ha ! what means", "Well may'st thou ask it . O ! my breaking heart ! The hand of death is on him .", "But a small ,", "May first be fix 'd ; the doom that ever waits", "Oh ! thus , my father ,", "Shall Euphrasia 's voice", "And that drear vault intomb us all in peace .", "These agonies must end me \u2014 ah , my father !", "My bleeding heart , and soften all my woes .", "My heart expands ; the pious act is done ,", "And bids for ever flourish on his tomb ,", "\u2018 Tis speechless rapture !", "Ha !\u2014 What new event ? And is Philotas false ?\u2014 Has he betray 'd him ?", "And dost thou then , inhuman as thou art !", "Your guards debarr 'd me . Oh ! while yet he lives ,", "For Heav'n and earth , for men and gods to wonder at !", "Fled with my child , and from his mother 's arms", "Ask of thee protection ! The father 's valour shall protect his boy .", "Blood is his due , Melanthon ; yes , the blood ,", "Whose sympathizing heart could feel the touch", "Melanthon come ; my wrongs will lend me force ;", "As in the gorgeous palace , now , while night", "Were a constructive treason .", "Hurl 'd headlong down . Think of thy father 's fate", "Which fame entwines around the patriot 's brow ,", "All hail , ye caves of horror !\u2014 In this gloom", "And nought to save him in his hopeless hour .", "Ye pitying gods , protect my father there !", "I know he pines in want ; let me convey", "Which , as it falls , a father 's trembling hand", "Bore my sweet little one . Full well thou know'st", "A little interval shall set the victor", "Ha ! lead him hither ! Sir , to move him now ,", "Endure their barb'rous rage ?", "God-like Timoleon ! ardent to redress ,", "I must behold him ;", "None dare espouse your cause .", "Disastrous fate !", "And with his converse charm my ear no more .", "Euphrasia 's care has form 'd a safe retreat ;", "Soon shall Timoleon with resistless force ,", "At Corinth , Dionysius !", "Sinew my arm , and guide it to his heart .", "Let him expire in these weak , feeble arms ?", "I will observe your orders :", "Who , in that cave of death , art full as perfect", "Is that the tribute to a father due ?", "Of his exalted soul . With gen'rous ardour", "Ha ! those sounds !\u2014", "Of bleeding Sicily , the hero comes .", "A daughter 's arm , fell monster , strikes the blow .", "The pangs I suffer 'd in that trying moment .", "Shall on a nobler basis found their rights ;", "The fell oppressor , from a throne usurp 'd", "Would graceful look upon my dagger 's point .", "Alarm 'd and rous 'd with horror ?", "Horror ! It must not be .", "That sudden burst !\u2014 Again !\u2014 They rush upon us !", "Pride and oppression at their utmost need ,", "Should fortune prosper the fell tyrant 's arms ,", "Speak of my child , or I go wild at once !", "And will you then refuse , when thus the gods", "The tyrant 's pent up in his last retreat ;", "Than linger thus beneath the gripe of famine ,", "Better for him to sink at once to rest ,", "To bear the news of their defeat to Carthage .", "And thou , O filial piety , that rul'st", "List on his side ; against the hostile javelin", "Lo ! there the wonders of Euphrasia 's arm !", "Reject my prayer , nor trust your fate with me .", "And sprinkle with this wine the hallow 'd mould .", "Comes hollow murm'ring through the vaulted aisle .", "Gives you the rights of men ! And , oh , my father ,", "Speak of Evander ; tell me that he lives ,", "To smooth the pillow of declining age ,", "And I have paid my tribute to a parent .", "Timoleon conquers ; to redress the wrongs", "Well , my heart ,", "Within our gates triumphant .", "Alarm this throbbing bosom , you will pardon", "Of arms with clearer sound advances . Hark !", "To scourge a guilty race . The Punic fleet ,", "Yet stay ; yet be advis 'd .", "And still , Melanthon , still does pale despair", "Enter EUPHRASIA .", "Mine no hostile step ;", "With that complete the horrors of thy reign .", "Roam through our streets , and riot here in blood ,", "My heart runs o'er in thanks ; the pious act", "He fled to save my child .", "Of all his goodness dwell within my heart ,", "Oh ! give him to me \u2014\u2014 If ever", "The gloomy mansion , where my father dwells ;", "I understand thee ;\u2014 butchers , you have shed", "Felt for the wretched ?", "Oh ! once again , my father ,", "For this benignity accept my thanks . They gush in tears , and my heart pours its tribute .", "I clasp his hand , and bathe it with my tears .", "How ? speak ! unfold .", "To pious worship and to filial love .", "To cheer his prison hours , and with the tear", "In a vile dungeon , scoop 'd with barb'rous skill", "Behold , all Sicily behold !\u2014 The point", "Nay , stay ; thou shalt not fly ; Philotas , stay ;\u2014", "Support him ; bear him hence ; \u2018 tis all I ask .", "Thou Pow'r supreme ! whose all-pervading mind", "Thy pow'r unequal to subdue the soul ,", "Shall ring for ever with Euphrasia 's wrongs .", "I know the monster well : when specious seeming", "Catch his last breath , and close his eyes in peace .", "Avenging justice shakes her crimson steel ,", "That mark 'd your father 's reign ; a dungeon drear ,", "The vile , black blood , that fills the tyrant 's veins ,", "Add that black murder to the dreadful list ;\u2014", "Again I have him , gracious pow'rs ! again", "My father 's voice ! It pierces here ! it cleaves my very heart . I shall expire , and never see him more .", "Which way , Erixene , which way , my virgins ,", "Glows with the tyrant 's blood . Ye slaves ,", "Explore each fond unutterable wish ,", "Hast thou not heard him thund'ring at our gates ?", "Ha !\u2014 hark !\u2014 what noise is that ! Some busy footstep beats the hallow 'd pavement . Oh ! sir , retire \u2014 Ye pow'rs !\u2014 Philotas !\u2014 ha !", "Now let me seek thee in the lonely tomb ,", "Could I desert my father ? Could I leave", "We 'll perish thus together .", "Yet till the fury", "Tyrannic guilt hath never dar 'd in Syracuse ,", "This night , perhaps ,", "Banish that thought ; forbear ; the rash attempt", "Heart-piercing sight ! Let me support you , sir .", "And with your pray'rs the vaulted roof resounds .", "Of thy own aged sire , and pity mine .", "Clasp on our knees ?", "Fly , Phocion , fly ; Melanthon will conduct thee .", "My ever honour 'd sire , it gives thee life !", "Let the wild tempest rage . Melanthon , ha !", "Ha !\u2014 thou hast murder 'd him ; he is no more ;", "If he be safe , Euphrasia dies content .", "Fly with my infant to some happier shore ,", "Beyond the reach of virtue .", "It gains upon the ear . Withdraw , my father ;", "I will , my father .", "No , let me seek him rather \u2014 If soft pity", "Here is no ambush 'd Greek ,", "War , horrid war , invades the sacred fane !", "My lord !\u2014 my Phocion !\u2014 welcome to my heart .\u2014", "And , oh ! ye pow'rs ,", "That moulders in the tomb . These sacred viands", "It flourish 'd , triumph 'd , grateful to his heart ;", "This breast that still should yield its nurture to him ,", "And give the moments of suspended fate", "Which virtue form 'd , and which the gods protect .", "No altar gives a sanctuary now .", "Assume the port of justice ; show mankind", "Have mark 'd thy ways , and will in time repay", "What do I hear ? Melanthon , can it be ?", "O'erwhelm ' d my spirits .", "Oh ! let us quickly hence .", "Lend the fierce whirlwind 's rage , that he may come", "Lo ! the sad sepulchre where , hears 'd in death ,", "Dost thou not know me , sir ?", "Wouldst thou not burst thro \u2019 adamantine gates ,", "Did'st thou not hear the vast tremendous roar ?", "\u2018 Twas virtue only could give umbrage ; then ,", "It will be virtue in thee . Thou , like me ,", "Glory in it ;", "War on , ye heroes ,", "Might save his life ; and even that 's deny 'd him .", "This way , my virgins , this way bend your steps .", "On their own virtue , and a people 's choice .", "When thus a parent wants the common food ,", "I have reliev 'd him \u2014 Oh ! the joy 's too great ;", "Ye ministers of Heaven , defend my father ;", "This is my last abode :\u2014 these caves , these rocks ,", "Think of the agonies a daughter feels ,", "Perhaps for the last time , a mother 's urn .", "Here I remain 'd , while my brave , gen'rous Phocion ,", "And tremble there with anxious hope and fear .", "You have a father too ; think , were his lot", "To tend a father with delighted care ,", "Why thus adventure forth ! The strong alarm", "My tears have dry 'd their source ; then let me here ,", "Still will he urge the great , the glorious plan ,", "His active genius comes", "Burst yon devoted walls .", "Feels tenfold strength ; this arm shall do a deed"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Of half my great revenge .", "Let some selected officer instruct him", "Shall sate my great revenge .", "Despatch his herald ?\u2014 Let the slave approach .", "My valiant friends , haste to your several posts ,", "Unconquer 'd ev'n by Fate .", "And from the means of safety dangers rise .", "Nor yet Timoleon issues from his fleet .", "Why doth affrighted peace behold his standard", "Expands and rouses in the swelling heart .", "Your king , your leader : in the friendly gloom", "Where the wood skirts the valley ; there make halt", "Control this wild alarm ; with prudent care", "The vain presumptuous Greek ! His hopes of conquest ,", "And give him to my rage .", "Perdiccas , ere the morn 's revolving light", "An easy prey ; a sacrifice to glut", "Thou shalt be heard .", "Bar the gates ;", "Now your father 's doom", "Tho \u2019 ev'ry god conspire , I will not yield .", "And fame eternal , shall attend the men", "Thus , then , I warn them of my great revenge .", "I saw their canvass swelling with the wind ,", "Weighs down the soldier 's eye . Afflicted fair ,", "And round my laurels the fell serpent twines .", "Ruin impends ; and yet , if fall it must ,", "Have I not vow 'd protection to your boy ?", "Ye brave associates , who so oft have shar 'd", "Bring me his hoary head !", "Rush not on sure destruction ; ere too late", "Away , my friends !", "Let incense roll its fragrant clouds to Heav'n ,", "If I must fall , the temple 's pond'rous roof ,", "His age sequester him , yet honours high", "While on the purple wave the western sun", "I grant thy suit : soon as to-morrow 's dawn", "The mansion of the gods combin 'd against me ,", "The flatt'ring train , the sentinel that guards me ,", "Forsake his couch , and with delib'rate spirit ,", "Presumptuous slave ! My rage is up in arms ;\u2014 by Heav'n , she dies .", "To march thy cohorts to the mountain 's foot ,", "Shall be dispos 'd of . Curse on Phocion 's fraud ,", "There let him linger on the wave-worn beach ;", "Thou know'st my last resolve , and now farewell .", "Ungrateful fair ! Has not our sovereign will", "That dashes on the rock , there breaks , and foams ,", "Have prov 'd abortive .", "Her flaming brand through all the realms of Greece ;", "Philotas , waits Euphrasia as we order 'd ?", "Approach , fair mourner , and dispel thy fears .", "A heart that 's torn , that 's mangled with remorse .", "Thou may'st prevent their fate .", "Convulse the land ; to its foundation shake", "Aim 'd at my breast ?", "Before the dawn ; \u2018 tis fix 'd to storm their camp ;", "Let slaughter loose , and taught his dastard train", "For my revenge preserv 'd !\u2014 By Heaven , \u2018 tis well ;", "A well-oar 'd galley to Hamilcar 's fleet ;", "My great revenge . Calippus , let each soldier", "And doth he now , on peaceful councils bent ,", "His boasted phalanx on the embattled plain .", "Your leader weeps !", "Shower 'd on my head ? Did not your swords at once", "The signal of the charge ; then , oh , my friends !", "Hath kindled up this war ; with treacherous arts", "Let him , with those that live , embark for Greece ,", "He ; \u2018 tis he", "My orders issued ?", "Evander dies this night :\u2014 Euphrasia too", "In hostile blood , and riot in destruction .", "Shall first be crush 'd , and lie in ruin with me .", "Some careful officer conduct him forth .", "Now speak thy purpose ; what doth Greece impart ?", "Thy dark complottings , and thy treach'rous arts ,", "Then may Timoleon tremble : vengeance then", "Thy grief , thy tender duty to thy father ,", "Erect her standard here .", "There meet the heroes , whom this night shall lead", "Where are those Greeks , the captives of my sword ,", "The image of their gods .", "Though now unequal to the cares of empire", "With him invests our walls , and bids rebellion", "Close ev'ry passage , and repel their force .", "Their folly gives them to my sword . Are all", "Her chosen sons , her first adventurers met .", "And pious matrons , and the virgin train ,", "Unfold thy mystery ;", "Might view their camp , their stations , and their guards ,", "This night , this very hour , you both must meet .", "Urgencies of state", "By Heav'n , the Greek hath offered to my sword", "I scorn all dull delay . This very night", "The winds shall parch them on the craggy cliff .", "Inflam 'd the states of Greece ; and now the traitor", "Evander breathes his last .", "Go , see our will obey 'd ; that done , with all", "If here to meet him in a fond embrace ,", "In the fierce soldiery religious rage .", "And rend your scatter 'd hair . No more Evander", "Once more approach and hear me ; \u2018 tis not now", "Ere the day clos 'd , while yet the busy eye", "No more shall deck his brow ; and if the sand", "Vengeance awaits thy guilt , and this good sword", "To sweep the Grecian spoiler from the land ,", "Calippus , thou survey the city round ;", "Shall gild the ev'ning of his various day .", "Fortune hath giv'n us . In his dark embrace", "The tender interview .", "At the north point of yonder promontory ,", "Whoe'er in battle shall become our pris'ner ,", "Where 's your pris'ner ?", "Invade the unguarded works , while drowsy night", "Now then , thou feel'st my vengeance .", "Accept our proffer 'd grace . The terms are these ;", "No , though ambition teem with countless ills ,", "A time to waste in the vain war of words .", "Thus I 've resolv 'd : When the declining moon", "Alike is glorious . Then , my gallant friends ,", "With sacred rites their wrath must be appeas 'd .", "The troops retir 'd", "Admit her to our presence .", "Rouse all the war ! fly to your sev'ral posts ,", "Haste , Calippus ,", "Give me to see \u2018 em ; bring the slaves before me .", "Like a gay dream , are vanish 'd into air .", "Uprear 'd in Sicily ? and wherefore here", "A moment more shall bring him to your presence .", "To freedom , victory ,\u2014 to glorious havoc ,", "Ha ! the fierce tide of war", "May storms and tempests follow in their rear ,", "Thou little know'st the cares , the pangs of empire .", "Instant send forth a message to your husband ;", "Has touch 'd me nearly . In his lone retreat ,", "Illume the world , the rage of wasting war", "Philotas , thou draw near : how fares your pris'ner ?", "This night resign his wearied limbs to rest ,", "Clad in their mail 'd cuirass , will circle round", "Of night , assault their camp ; your country 's love ,", "To seek their safety by inglorious flight .", "Rage and despair , a thousand warring passions ,", "Then let the author of those ills thou speak'st of ,", "Glanc 'd the remains of day .", "And the destruction of the Grecian name .", "Here will I mock their siege ; here stand at bay ,", "And the whole hated line at once extinguish 'd .", "And backward rolls into the sea again .", "What need of words ? The gen'rous call of freedom ,", "Whose desperate valour rush 'd within our walls ,", "Thou lovely trembler , hush thy fears to rest .", "Of half the year , while closer to her breast", "Here the vain Greek shall find another Troy ,", "Vile slave , no more . Melanthon , drag \u2018 em hence", "Away , my friends , prepare the sacred rites .", "Ourself , still Dionysius , here remains .", "And by one carnage bury all in ruin .", "Curse on their Punic faith ! did they once dare", "Their preparations for approaching night ;\u2014", "Base deserters !", "Away each vain alarm ; the sun goes down :", "Unsparing , unrelenting ; drench your swords", "Retires appall 'd , and leaves the blasted hopes", "Let me despatch ; thou traitor , thus my arm \u2014"], "true_target": ["Misguided woman !", "With all your darts , in one collected volley ,", "Thy couch invites thee . When the tumult 's o'er ,", "Be my inspirer , and consummate all .", "To die in misery . Impal 'd alive ,", "Comes with a foreign aid to wrest my crown .", "Though horrors multiply around my head ,", "Anon", "From the invader 's pow'r , their native land .", "The groaning isle ! May civil discord bear", "Selected from the rest , let one depart", "A crisis big with horror is at hand .", "May the fiends seize Philotas ! Treach'rous slave !", "In mingled heaps upon the naked shore .", "\u2018 Tis well thou liv'st ; thy death were poor revenge", "Follow th'impulsive ardour ; follow me ,", "Thus do ye come against a single life", "All honour hath been paid .", "Of Carthage . From the hill that fronts the main ,", "To sooth affliction , and extend his life ,", "Let the ambitious factor of destruction ,", "This moment , bear her hence !\u2014 you know the rest :\u2014", "Amazement blasts and freezes ev'ry pow'r !", "Shall overwhelm his camp , pursue his bands ,", "Be it so ;", "Point at my breast , and thirst for regal blood ?", "Hath veil 'd her orb , our silent march begins .", "And to our presence leads Evander . All", "But now ordain 'd , is mockery to Heav'n .", "A messenger to Greece , to tell the fate", "The ermin 'd pride , the purple that adorns", "Bid him draw off his Greeks ! unmoor his fleet ,", "You and your father are my hostages ;", "Thou'lt see Evander with redoubled joy .", "From any hand but mine .", "A more than Hector here . Though Carthage fly ,", "Thou shalt behold him , while inventive cruelty", "May curses blast thy arm ! May \u00c6tna 's fires", "And more , full well you know , are still to bleed .", "Will gain the popular belief , and kindle", "Freebooters , roving in pursuit of prey ,", "From every quarter we may rush undaunted ,", "I meant to spare the stream of blood , that soon", "Each object round me wakens horrid doubts ;", "Will calm thy breast , and dry those beauteous tears ,", "When the wide range of battle claims your sword ,", "And instant bring all Syracuse in arms !", "Now rave and shriek ,", "Yet ev'ry means , all measures must be tried ,", "This night has massacred .", "Shall deluge yonder plains . My fair proposals", "Evander mocks the injuries of time .", "On every side let the wild uproar loose ,", "Bid massacre and carnage stalk around ,", "O'er vulgar warriors , to the gates of Syracuse", "Disarm 'd , and bent on superstitious rites ,", "Philotas , bear her hence ; she shall not live ;", "To wage the war ? Did not our buckler ring", "And now , by Heav'n , here , in thy very sight ,", "Go tell your leader , his pretexts are vain .", "Euphrasia here ! Detested , treach'rous woman !", "Thus sends thee to atone the bleeding victims", "To moor his ships , and issue on the land .", "And brave them to the last .", "Evander !\u2014\u2014 Do my eyes once more behold him ?\u2014", "Of those he murder 'd , from my tender care", "Still loiter in the glass , thy hand , my friend ,", "Evander dies ; and thou , detested fair !", "Who march 'd through blood and horror , to redeem ,", "Together you may serve the state and me .", "All rise by turns , and piecemeal rend my heart .", "Iberia 's sons with the Numidian bands ,", "Meet at the citadel . An hour , at furthest ,", "Shall meet due obsequies .", "To gain recruited vigour from repose ?", "Let instant victims at the altar bleed :", "Lo ! sleep envelops the whole Grecian camp .", "And measure back his way . Full well he knows", "Was ting 'd with blood , they turn 'd their ships averse .", "To where their camp extends its furthest line ;", "Unveil the face of things , do thou despatch", "And the whole race expire in pangs like mine !", "That ere the dawn , with renovated strength ,", "And line the shore .\u2014 Perdiccas , be it thine", "Assassins , and not warriors ! do ye come ,", "Fly to thy post , and bid Euphrasia enter .", "What , ho ! Philotas !", "With fatal havoc , to the ocean 's margin ,", "A warrior 's speed , attend me at the citadel ;\u2014", "Is fix 'd ; irrevocably fix 'd .", "By Heav'n , this panting bosom hop 'd to meet", "Lie hush 'd in sleep : away , my friends , disperse .", "Till brave Amyntor stretch along the vale .", "The iron ranks of war , from which the shepherd", "Torments have wrung the truth . Thy husband , Phocion \u2014", "Respect , attendance , every lenient care", "Appears in view , and brings the chosen sons", "If to see your father ,", "The Greek recoils ; like the impetuous surge", "All shall be well in Syracuse : a fleet", "And fix the crown unshaken on my brow .", "Oh ! Philotas ,", "By Heav'n , this night Evander breathes his last .", "Shall sway Sicilia 's sceptre .", "And for his treason both may answer .", "To grapple with the Greek ? Ere yet the main", "The mother clasps her infant ?", "The order thus :\u2014 Calippus thou lead forth", "On the unguarded , unsuspecting foe ,", "And leave our peaceful plains ; the mangled limbs", "Thy haughty spirit has with scorn rejected .", "Has he yet breath 'd his last ?", "Ev'n victory itself plants anguish here ,", "I bear a mind to meet it undismay 'd ,", "In him the seed of future kings were crush 'd ,", "Evander has commanded .", "Success by war or covert stratagem", "That from my pow'r withdrew their infant boy .", "\u2018 Tis vain , \u2018 tis fruitless ; then let daring guilt", "Ourself with the embodied cavalry", "On thy descendants fix 'd Sicilia 's crown ?", "In slow procession to the temple bear", "Woman , beware : Philotas is at hand ,", "Enter the HERALD .", "A conqueror 's breast , but serves , my friend , to hide", "Why thus anticipate misfortune ? Still", "Station the centinels , that no surprise", "In vain shall thirst for blood .", "In torment meets his doom .", "Our toil and danger in the field of glory ,", "Guards , seize the slave ,", "And let this night a calm unruffled spirit", "Against a foe , the outcasts of their country ,", "Let each brave officer , of chosen valour ,", "It still has charms of pow'r to fire the soul .", "Detested thought !", "Ha !\u2014 Death has robb 'd me", "Abridg 'd his liberty ; but to his person", "He urg 'd the war , till Dionysius \u2019 arm", "Timely retreat , and close the scene of blood .", "Pursues his wearied life through every nerve .", "Fought near our person , and the pointed lance", "The solemn sacrifice , the virgin throng ,", "And cast their limbs to glut the vulture 's famine ,", "Ha ! this night", "Proudly elate , and flush 'd with easy triumph", "From a Greek", "May shake it thence .", "Tho \u2019 all betray me ,", "Give the invaders to the deathful steel ,", "Unnumber 'd torches there shall blaze at once ,", "My fellow warriors , what no god could promise ,", "Curse on his ling'ring pangs ! Sicilia 's crown", "And dash their fleet upon the Lybian shore !", "The slave that waits , all give some new alarm ,", "All that can steel the patriot breast with valour ,", "Your wives , your children , your invaded rights ,", "Philotas shall conduct him ; here I grant", "Didst thou then mark the motions of the Greek ?", "Thou seest the havoc of wide wasting war ;", "I will oppose them all . The pomp of sacrifice ,", "And means the Greek to treat of terms of peace ?", "Enter EUPHRASIA ."], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["As \u2018 twere a pause of nature ; on the beach", "And yet we must be wary ; I 'll go forth ,", "Comes echoing from the main . Save that report ,", "No murmuring billow breaks ; the Grecian tents", "Unloose the chain that binds him to the rock ,", "The tale unmans my soul .", "Wakes these emotions ?", "Rides in the bay .", "Lie sunk in sleep ; no gleaming fires are seen ;", "How fares", "Why thus desert thy couch ?", "And o'er the solemn scene such stillness reigns ,", "May no alarm disturb thee .", "Has she then form 'd , eluding all our care ,", "Delay undoes us both . The restless main", "Broods o'er the dreary coast .", "The groan of anguish from Evander 's cell ,", "The fates prepare new havoc ; on th \u2019 event", "That sudden haste , that pale , disorder 'd look ?", "I have indulg 'd \u2014 Philotas !\u2014 ha ! the cell", "I now can hazard all . Let us preserve", "All I can grant ,", "Perhaps at this dead hour Hamilcar 's fleet", "And first explore each avenue around ,", "Not the smallest store", "Now warns Euphrasia hence : what man could dare ,", "I dread th \u2019 event ; and hark !\u2014 the wind conveys", "All Syracuse is hush 'd ; no stir abroad ,", "The time requires", "Save ever and anon the dashing oar ,", "And leave your interview without restraint ."], "true_target": ["Her father for her .", "Philotas , speak .", "Of bustling prows , that cleave the briny deep .", "Lest the fix 'd sentinel obstruct your purpose .", "At intervals the oar 's resounding stroke", "A death-like silence through the wide expanse", "That beats the sullen wave . And hark !\u2014 Was that", "Our lives were forfeit else : a moment 's parley", "Take your last farewell . His vigour seems not yet exhausted quite . You must be brief , or ruin will ensue .", "Of scanty nourishment must pass these walls .", "Depends the fate of empire . Wherefore thus", "Left void !\u2014 Evander gone !\u2014 What may this mean ?", "No ; on my life , I dare not .", "You shall command . I will unbar the dungeon ,", "\u2018 Twere time this interview should end : the hour", "Your royal pris'ner ?", "Ha !\u2014 say what mystery", "\u2018 Would she had ne'er adventur 'd to our guard !", "Repose thee , princess , here ,here rest thy limbs , Till the returning blood shall lend thee firmness .", "The gloom of night sits heavy on the world ;", "That she depart this moment .", "Is all I grant ; in yonder cave he lies .", "Glows with the blush of day .", "Philotas , for Euphrasia , in her cause ,", "To minister relief ?", "She must withdraw , Philotas ;", "The grey of morn breaks thro \u2019 yon eastern clouds .", "Delays Euphrasia ? Ha ! what means , Philotas ,", "Piercing the midnight gloom ?\u2014 It is the sound", "That device", "In clearer sound the uproar of the main .", "Without or further pause , or vain excuse ,"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Shall grace her father 's throne . Indulgent Heaven !", "Sinks , and expires : I have survived it all ;", "Farewell , Euphrasia ; in one lov 'd embrace", "Yet , while I stay , thou darling of my age !\u2014", "And to my people show their rightful king .", "Whoe'er thou art , I thank thee : that kind breeze", "To mingle rapture in a daughter 's arms ?", "These strong emotions \u2014 Oh ! that eager air \u2014", "Deriv'st thy being ; with unheard-of duty", "Methinks I know", "To me had Heav'n decreed a longer date ,", "Still a little ,", "\u201c Declares thee blameless , and the gods behold thee . \u201d", "My child \u2014 my daughter \u2014 sav 'd again by thee !", "There is no refuge for me .", "Of filial piety to times unborn ,", "Oh , she has us 'd it for the noblest ends !", "As now it does , just vengeance on its head ,", "And leave me here to sink to silent dust .", "Expos 'd and helpless ?", "Oh ! thou shalt reign in Sicily ! my child", "Trust thee , Euphrasia ? Trust in thee , my child ?", "Attend my words : Tho \u2019 guilt may oft provoke ,", "It is too much \u2014 assist me ; bear me hence ;", "In that bright eminence of care and peril ,", "And crave the care of Heav'n for thee and thine .", "To turn the hour of peace to blood and horror ?", "Come , my Euphrasia , in this interval", "And learn to emulate \u201c The Grecian Daughter . \u201d", "Gods ! do I hold her once again ? Your mercies", "Oh ! thou art good ; thy virtue soars a flight", "To that futurity which Plato taught .", "It will not be : the momentary blaze", "Anon I 'll meet them there : my child , farewell ;", "Oh , would the gods roll back the stream of time ,", "Whither , oh ! whither shall Evander go ?", "How my distracted heart throbs wild with fear !", "To act like men ;\u2014 their king , I gave myself", "The purest joy , the heart-dissolving bliss", "All nature shudders at it !\u2014 Will no friend", "Thou hast repaid it to thy native source .", "In the worst hour of pain , a voice still whisper 'd me ,", "Will show , that victory has not forgot", "Has giv'n new life . Thou from this vital stream", "It ne'er had suffer 'd a fell monster 's reign ,", "Lead me to him :", "And does he still", "Melanthon there \u2014\u2014", "Prevent this waste of nature \u2014 I 'll go forth", "Who feels the best emotions of the heart ,", "And must I see thee bleed ? Oh , for a sword ! Bring , bring me daggers !", "Glows here about my heart . Conduct me forward ;", "Remain inactive , unperforming quite ?", "He begs to die :\u2014 exhaust the scanty drops", "To have a grateful child .\u2014 But has the rage", "Oh ! Inhuman villains !", "Are without number .", "Oh ! lend your arm .", "I do indeed : the father sees his child .", "Art thou my daughter ?", "Do you go forth , and leave this mould'ring corpse .", "Yet I will prize it , since bestow 'd by thee .", "Arm in a cause like this a father 's hand ?", "But thou recall'st me ; thou !", "My old fond heart runs o'er ; it aches with joy .", "My foes but did", "And lay me down in peace .", "Come , let us seek Timoleon ; to his care", "And in due time transmit it to their boy !", "Shalt reign in Sicily . And , oh ! ye Pow'rs ,", "Lead me , Melanthon ; guide my aged steps ;", "For all the wond'rous goodness lavish 'd on us .", "Strike at this bosom rather . Lo ! Evander", "Blessings , blessings on thee !", "Add still another laurel to my brow .", "I burn , I burn ; alas ! no place of rest :", "Methought I heard him ! did he say release me ?", "Horror ! forbear !\u2014 Thou murd'rer , hold thy hand !", "Your boy is safe , Euphrasia ?\u2014 Oh ! my heart !", "Where is Timoleon ?", "Thither , oh ! thither was Evander going ,", "And does the grave thus cast me up again ,", "To her direct thy looks ; there fix thy praise ,", "Of such a race no matter who is king .", "Where is he ? let me see him .", "\u201c Rouse thee , Evander ; self-acquitting conscience", "Of slaughter ceas 'd ?", "Tho \u2019 worn with age , this arm will know its office ;", "That men may hear her unexampled virtue ,", "Truth , reason , justice , honour 's fine excitements ,", "When all was dark , and awful silence round ,", "Conquest is proud , inexorable , fierce ;", "So thinks Evander , and so tell Timoleon .", "Mow 'd down the ranks of war : I then might guide", "Shines forth with added lustre .", "The forfeit of his crimes , what streams of blood", "Youth , second youth , rekindles in my veins :", "Acquaintance with this hand .\u2014 And yet \u2014 O shame", "Let me behold ; in faith I see thee now ;", "Where all is peace , all bliss , and endless joy ,", "Pass but a moment , and this busy globe ,", "But ere he pays", "That was my compact ; is the subjects \u2019 less ?", "And is there left one charitable hand", "A father 's eyes ! Giv'n to my last embrace !", "The father finds a parent in his child .", "To throw me prostrate at the altar 's foot ,", "Are brave and gen'rous ; I will trust their valour .", "Oh ! when shall I get free ? \u2014 These ling'ring pangs \u2014"], "true_target": ["To her and Phocion give Evander 's crown ;", "What brings Calippus ? wherefore ? save me , Heaven !", "Each object swims before me \u2014 No , in truth", "The gods behold thee , horrible assassin !", "I do not know thee .", "Its thrones , its empires , and its bustling millions ,", "Thou shalt direct me now .", "It is humanity ennobles all .", "Yes , all will dare", "Hear it all nature , future ages hear it ,", "And shall my sword ,", "Yet , ere thou go'st , young man ,", "Thus call his child before ?\u2014 my heart 's too full ,", "Where ,\u2014", "And much I wonder at this gen'rous pity .", "And gaze with wonder there . The life I gave her ,", "Despatch me , pitying gods , and save my child !", "Tho \u2019 I was entering the wish'dhYpppHeNfor port ,", "Oh ! weak , decay 'd old man !", "To this old frame , what Nature 's hand must do .", "All , my Euphrasia , all will soon be well .", "A Flourish of Trumpets . Enter PHOCION , MELANTHON , PHILOTAS , & c .", "Will show , that liberty has leaders still .", "Can add no trophy to the victor 's triumph ;", "After the storms of a tempestuous life ,", "To fill each duty ; make her father feel", "At the last gasp preserved ! Ha ! dawning light !", "A parent to her people ; stretch the ray", "Pledg 'd to the public cause ; devoted to it ;", "Joy and wonder rise", "Restrain the blow ; it were a stab to Heav'n ;", "But there sits smiling with her laurel wreath ,", "And not inglorious lay me down to rest .", "Euphrasia , oh ! my child ! returning life", "To thee I give my crown : yes , thou , Euphrasia ;", "Pour down your blessings on this best of daughters ;", "Though life 's a burden I could well lay down ,", "Honour has follow 'd with no ling'ring step ,", "Timoleon !", "Virtue such as thine ,", "I went forth , my child ,", "That lag about his heart ;\u2014 but spare my child .", "Oh , struggling nature ! let thy conflict end . Oh ! give me , give me rest .", "For the wide world to wonder at ; in thee ,", "My young Evander !", "Alas ! I faint ; I die .", "And thank the God , whose presence fills the dome ,", "These are thy wonders , Heaven ! Abroad thy spirit", "To crown my brow , there would I fain make halt ,", "Thou author of my life ?\u2014 Did ever parent", "And doth he grant a false insidious truce ,", "Melanthon , Dion , and their brave associates ,", "The goodness you inspir 'd ; that she may prove ,", "\u2018 Tis well ;\u2014 I thank thee ; thou art kind and good ,", "And yet I will not think it ; no ! my people", "In mix 'd emotions !\u2014 Though departing hence ,", "His presence hath no terror for Evander .", "And give this arm the sinew that it boasted", "My life was theirs ; each drop about my heart", "Yet here contented I can linger still", "I 'm at the goal of life ; if in the race", "What said Philotas ! Do I fondly dream ?", "Urge on the siege ?", "A little air ; once more a breath of air ;", "From the fierce trial of tyrannic pow'r ,", "Nay , dry those tears .", "That voice : art thou \u2014 alas ! my eyes are dim !", "The blood but loiters in these frozen veins :", "Watch over all her ways ; conduct and guide", "Prostrate and groveling on the earth before thee !", "In mercy punish it . The rage of slaughter", "Do you , whose youthful spirit glows with life ,", "My daughter , my Euphrasia ? come to close", "Euphrasia !\u2014 Phocion , too !\u2014 Yes , both are here ! Oh , let me thus , thus strain you to my heart .", "To a whole people . I made no reserve ;", "Nor let me see the carnage of my people .", "And the old sinking to ignoble graves ,", "To reach its succour to a wretch like me ?", "Thy aid , Euphrasia ,", "With a fond father 's love to view thee ? Thus", "If they are all debas 'd , and willing slaves ,", "Forbear : the man like thee ,", "I was but going hence by mere decay ,", "Indeed my senses are imperfect ; yet", "Shall flow in torrents round ! Methinks I might", "Will seem a speck in the great void of space .", "Comes gently o'er my senses \u2014 lead me forward :", "And left thee here", "At Tauromenium , when its force resistless", "The battle 's rage , and , ere Evander die ,", "Surviv 'd my reign , my people , and myself .", "To these remains pay the last obsequies ,", "I will commend ye both : for now , alas !", "I fear to ask it , where is virtuous Phocion ?", "Moves o'er the deep , and mighty fleets are vanish 'd .", "If e'er distress like mine invade the land ,", "Oh ! my child ,", "Thou at the senate house convene my friends .", "Bid him not shed unnecessary blood .", "Let them , oh ! let them both in virtue wear it ,", "A little onward to the air conduct me ;", "The young but breathing to grow grey in bondage ,", "To view thy goodness , and applaud thy deeds ,", "Acts by those laws , and wants no other sanction .", "Alas ! quite gone ; worn out with misery ;", "Timoleon come to vindicate my rights !", "Together we will seek the sacred altar ,", "Thrones and dominions now no more for me .", "When the great cause of liberty invites ,"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["An open foe in arms , I meant to slay", "How vile the body to a mind that pants", "Appear in arms , the faithful band will meet thee .", "Whene'er you sally forth , whene'er the Greeks", "For genuine glory . Twice three hundred Greeks", "Thus notify the war they mean to wage .", "Have sworn like us , to hunt thee through the ranks ;", "Off . We sought thy life . I am by birth a Greek ."], "true_target": ["A like assault . By me the youth of Greece", "Ours the first lot ; we 've fail 'd ; on yonder plain", "Off . Then wilt thou see", "The foe of human kind . With rival ardour", "We took the field ; one voice , one mind , one heart ;", "All leagu 'd , all covenanted : in yon camp", "Spirits there are who aim , like us , at glory .", "Shall scale your walls , prepare thee to encounter"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["I fear to ask it , lives Evander still ?", "Your boy is safe , Euphrasia ; lives to reign", "Alarm th'astonish ' d world .", "The tyrant keeps all that my heart holds dear ;", "Down from the walls superior numbers came .", "Could I refrain ? Oh ! could I tamely wait", "A hundred chosen Greeks pursu 'd my steps ,", "Protects him in his camp :\u2014 dispel thy fears ;", "For her I burst the barriers of the gate ,", "Farewell ;\u2014 the midnight hour shall give you freedom .", "For her dear sake , all danger sinks before me ?", "Thy Phocion calls ; the gods will guard Evander ,", "Timoleon thunders at your gates ! the rage ,", "Once more I clasp her in this fond embrace !", "Blaze in the front of war , and glut its rage", "If here", "Love", "His conqu'ring troops .", "Behold !\u2014 I cannot fly to thy embrace .", "Each step I move , a grateful terror shakes", "Where the deep cavern 'd rock affords a passage .", "Heart-swelling transport !", "My frame to dissolution .", "Shall bid my sword with more than lightning 's swiftness .", "With blow repeated in the tyrant 's veins .", "And is the proud one fall'n ! The dawn shall see him", "Protected by a daughter 's tender care ,", "To calm the uproar , and recal from carnage", "Now let the monster yield .\u2014 My best Euphrasia !", "Shall burst at once ; and the tumultuous roar ,", "If we could reach his heart , to end the war .", "He guards the citadel ; there gives his orders", "Invites my steps \u2014 now , be propitious Heaven !", "Evander too !\u2014 Thus to behold you both \u2014\u2014", "Oh ! lead me to her ; that exalted virtue", "Alas ! I found him not .", "The pent-up rage , of twenty thousand Greeks ,", "By my Euphrasia sav 'd ! That sweet reflection", "By Heav'n I will ;"], "true_target": ["The tyrant led them on . We rush 'd upon him ,", "Exalts the bliss to rapture .", "Fell Dionysius tremble ; ere the dawn", "Shall stalk with death and horror o'er the ranks", "Euphrasia meets my search , the fates atone", "We forc 'd an entrance ; the devoted guard", "Art thou Euphrasia ? \u2018 tis thy Phocion , love ;", "Fell victims to our rage ; but in that moment", "I 've been too rash ; revive , my love , revive ;", "Thy husband comes .", "By Heav'n , the glorious expectation swells", "I came this moment thence .", "For all my suff'rings , all afflictions past .", "It has .", "Evander thou , and thou , my best Euphrasia ,", "Of slaughter 'd troops a sacrifice to freedom !", "The lazy-pacing hours , while here in Syracuse", "In Sicily : Timoleon 's gen'rous care", "And my poor captive friends , my brave companions", "Inspir 'd my heart , and guided all my ways .", "Satisfy my doubts ; how fares Euphrasia ?", "A spectacle for public view . Euphrasia !", "Taken in battle , wilt thou guard their lives ?", "Thy father lives ;\u2014 thou venerable man !", "A while I leave you to the care of Heaven .", "Yes , I will seek them \u2014 ha !\u2014 the gaping tomb", "The gods once more will give him to thy arms .", "When sleep sits heavy on the slumb'ring city ,", "Both shall attend my flight .", "But Heav'n thought otherwise . Melanthon , say ,\u2014", "My breath shall wake his rage ; this very night", "With firmer nerve shall bid me grasp the javelin ;", "My Euphrasia ;", "This panting bosom ! Yes , Euphrasia , yes ;", "They both are found ; if in Evander 's arms", "Then Greece unsheaths her sword , and great revenge", "And save him to reward thy matchless virtue .", "Th \u2019 event of ling'ring war ? With patience count", "What voice is that ?\u2014 Melanthon !", "But first let me behold Euphrasia ."], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["Alas , the horrid tumult", "Now find the guilty head .", "Forbear , Euphrasia , to renew your sorrows .", "In wild confusion rise . Once more descend", "Eudocia 's tomb ; there thou may'st find a shelter ."], "true_target": ["Look down , propitious pow'rs ! behold that virtue ,", "The victor 's shouts , the groans of murder 'd wretches ,", "Now , ye just gods , if vengeance you prepare ,", "And heal the pangs that desolate her soul .", "Spreads the destruction wide . On ev'ry side"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["The heaps of slain that cover yonder field ,", "Of a whole people have unsheath 'd his sword .", "And , touch 'd with gen'rous sense of human woe ,", "That urge him to the war : the only scope", "We , on our part , to give an humble sod", "Of mild humanity , that sway his heart ,", "The fiercest nature , though it spurns at justice ,", "And decent lie in honourable graves .", "Lie weltering in their blood , from either host", "To justify the strong , the righteous motives", "\u2018 Tis not mine", "Is equall 'd only by the softer virtues", "To those , who gain 'd a footing on the isle ,", "Timoleon , sir , whose great renown in arms", "\u2018 Tis for the dead I supplicate ; for them", "The gen'rous leader sees ,", "The hero , sir ,", "Without hostility , and all in honour ;"], "true_target": ["And by their death have conquer 'd .", "On which ev'n foes may well accord ; on which", "Sends me his delegate to offer terms ,", "That they , whose bodies , on the naked shore ,", "My deputation aims at , is to fix", "We sue for peace ; and to the living too", "To plead Timoleon 's cause ; not mine the office", "May sympathize with his .", "To-morrow 's sun may see both armies meet", "A single day will pay the funeral rites .", "You to inter the troops who bravely fell ;", "May meet the last sad rites to nature due ,", "An interval of peace , a pause of horror ,", "Timoleon would extend it , but the groans", "Wages no war with those , who bravely die .", "Of ruthless war ; he hath survey 'd around", "Weeps o'er his victories .", "With pity sees , the wild destructive havoc"], "play_index": 25, "act_index": 25}, {"query": ["And so her friends will oblige me to marry the mother .", "Only to exercise you , sir .", "Nay , then , I command you to stay : I place you both centinels in this place for two hours , to watch the motion of St. Mary 's clock you , and you the motion of St. Chad 's ; and he , that dares stir from his post till he be relieved , shall have my sword in his guts the next minute .", "Your ladyship is to stay much longer than you imagine .", "Tycho , chairs for the ladies .", "Oh ! a mighty large bed ! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware \u2014 ten thousand people may lie in it together , and never feel one another .", "Seeing is believing .Here Tre , Tre , poor Tre , give me the bone , sirrah . There 's your name upon that square piece of paper . Behold \u2014", "May it please your worship , this man has no visible means of a livelihood , for he works underground .", "A couple of honest brave fellows that are willing to serve the king : I have entertained them just now as volunteers , under your honour 's command .", "So , sir , as I was telling you , I have seen one of these hussars eat up a ravelin for his breakfast , and afterwards pick his teeth with a palisado .", "Captain ! captain ! Sir , look yonder ; she 's a-coming this way . \u2018 Tis the prettiest , cleanest , little tit !", "He 's a little busy at present , but when he has done he shall wait on you .", "Hunger and ambition . But here comes Justice Balance .", "My captain scorns assistance , sir .", "No , sir , I reserve that for the last stroke .", "Lack-a-day , sir , not I \u2014\u2014 only that I believe I shall marry her to-morrow .", "Say you so ! then I find , brother \u2014\u2014", "Only the last you received , if you please .Now , sir , if you please to let me consult my books for a minute , I 'll send this letter enclosed to you with the determination of the stars upon it to your lodgings .", "I was born in Algebra .", "Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin , about the thickness of my leg .", "Yes , yes , sir ; and my fame 's all about the country for the most faithful fortune-teller that ever told a lie \u2014 I was obliged to let my landlord into the secret , for the convenience of keeping it so ; but he is an honest fellow , and will be faithful to any roguery that is trusted to him . This device , sir , will get you men , and me , money , which , I think , is all we want at present \u2014 But yonder comes your friend , Mr. Worthy \u2014 Has your honour any further commands ?", "Pray , who are those honourable gentlemen upon the bench ?", "Let me see \u2014 About the hour of ten to-morrow morning you will be saluted by a gentleman who will come to take his leave of you , being designed for travel ; his intention of going abroad is sudden , and the occasion a woman . Your fortune and his are like the bullet and the barrel , one runs plump into the other \u2014 In short , if the gentleman travels , he will die abroad , and if he does you will die before he comes home .", "Conundrum .", "I wonder at that ; I have two of them set in gold , and as like his majesty , God bless the mark ! see here , they are set in gold .", "\u2014 Or no \u2014 but I must have the year and the day of the month when these letters were dated .", "Bravely said , \u2018 faith ! huzza for the queen .But harkye , you Mr. Justice , and you Mr. Queen , did you ever see the king 's picture ?", "What ! not listed ? ha ! ha ! ha ! a very good jest , i'faith .", "Done ; you are a justice of peace , and you are a king , and I am a duke , and a rum duke , a n't I ?", "But there is , sure .", "O ! Carolus ! why , Carolus is Latin for King George ; that 's all .", "A justice of peace , man !", "Welcome to Shrewsbury , noble captain ! from the banks of the", "Madam , he 's a fine gentleman , and a lover ; that is , a man of very good sense , and a very great fool .", "Here are the guineas , sir \u2014 I took the gold as part of my wife 's portion . Nay , farther , sir , she sent word the child should be taken all imaginable care of , and that she intended to stand godmother . The same footman , as I was coming to you with this news , called after me , and told me , that his lady would speak to me \u2014 I went , and upon hearing that you were come to town , she gave me half a guinea for the news , and ordered me to tell you , that Justice Balance , her father , who is just come out of the country , would be glad to see you .", "I hope so too .", "A queen .", "I have sent away a shoemaker and a tailor already ; one 's to be a captain of marines , and the other a major of dragoons \u2014 I am to manage them at night \u2014\u2014 Have you seen the lady , Mr. Worthy ?", "One that you beat up for the last time you were in the country . You remember your old friend Molly , at the Castle ?", "And what shall I do with the parson ?", "She was brought to-bed yesterday .", "Nay , sir , I must whisper that \u2014 Mrs. Sylvia .", "By the position of the heavens , gained from my observation upon these celestial globes , I find that Luna was a tide-waiter , Sol a surveyor , Mercury a thief , Venus a whore , Saturn an alderman , Jupiter a rake , and Mars a serjeant of grenadiers \u2014 and this is the system of Kite the conjurer .", "I can n't tell , sir .", "Hum ? he plays rarely upon the fiddle .", "Mr. Worthy , you were pleased to wish me joy to-day ; I hope to be able to return the compliment to-morrow .", "Yes , sir , I understand my business , I will say it .", "They have each of them received one-and-twenty shillings , and \u2018 tis now in their pockets .", "Scotch pedlar , a scoundrel attorney , and a Welsh parson .", "Away to your ambuscade .", "Ay , sir . Silence , gentlemen !", "Right \u2014 I told you I was bewitched .", "And so , sir , while we were in the heat of battle \u2014 the captain carried off the baggage .", "See there , a guinea , one and twenty shillings ; t'other has the fellow o n't .", "Yes , my dear ! but mine is a peaceable spirit , and hates gunpowder . Thus I fortify myself :and now , captain , have a care how you force my lines .", "\u2018 Tis so , madam \u2014 the word demonstration comes from Daemon , the father of lies .", "Your worship very well may \u2014 for I have got both a wife and a child in half an hour \u2014 But as I was saying \u2014 you sent me to comfort Mrs. Molly \u2014 my wife , I mean \u2014 but what d'ye think , sir ? she was better comforted before I came .", "Sir , if you please \u2014\u2014", "A very understanding youth of his age : but I see a storm coming .", "For a husband \u2014 For your part , madam , you wo n't stay for a husband .", "No , sir ; I 'd have you to know I do n't keep such company .", "And I 'll swear it : give me the book \u2014 \u2018 tis for the good of the service .", "Because , madam \u2014 because it is so \u2014 A woman 's reason is the best for a man 's being a fool .", "I must beg your patience till another time , for I expect more company this minute ; besides , I must discharge the gentleman under the table .", "Ay , or unmake it upon occasion . But your honour knows that I am married already ."], "true_target": ["I have listed the strong man of Kent , the king of the gipsies , a", "Yes , sir , she shall go with us to the sea-side , and there , if she has a mind to drown herself , we 'll take care nobody shall hinder her .", "Beat drum .", "I 've been here a week , and I 've recruited five .", "You know , sir , that you sent me to comfort the good woman in the straw , Mrs. Molly \u2014 my wife , Mr. Worthy .", "O dear , sir ! I am your most obedient servant .I fancy , sir , that your employment and mine are much the same ; for my business is to keep people in order , and , if they disobey , to knock them down ; and then we are both staff officers .", "If any gentlemen soldiers or others , have a mind to serve his majesty , and pull down the French king ; if any \u2018 prentices have severe masters , any children have undutiful parents ; if any servants have too little wages , or any husband too much wife , let them repair to the noble Serjeant Kite , at the sign of the Raven , in this good town of Shrewsbury , and they shall receive present relief and entertainment .\u2014\u2014 Gentlemen , I do n't beat my drums here to insnare or inveigle any man ; for you must know , gentlemen , that I am a man of honour : besides , I do n't beat up for common soldiers ; no , I list only grenadiers ; grenadiers , gentlemen .\u2014\u2014 Pray , gentlemen , observe this cap \u2014 this is the cap of honour ; it dubs a man a gentleman , in the drawing of a trigger ; and he , that has the good fortune to be born six foot high , was born to be a great man \u2014 Sir , will you give me leave to try this cap upon your head ?", "Yes , sir , the king of the gipsies is a very good one ; he has an excellent hand at a goose or a turkey \u2014 Here 's Captain Brazen , sir . I must go look after the men .", "I 'm too mild , sir ; they disobey command , sir ; and one of them should be shot , for an example to the other .", "Captain , captain ! a word in your ear .", "Stand off , I have my familiar already .", "Ten \u2014 about the hour of tea-drinking throughout the kingdom .", "A chopping boy .", "At your service .", "Danube to the Severn side , noble captain ! you 're welcome .", "Here , sir .", "Here 's a chambermaid now will outlie the devil !", "Sir , he in the plain coat is Captain Plume ; I am his serjeant , and will take my oath o n't .", "You must know , sir , I was born a gipsy , and bred among that crew till I was ten years old ; there I learned canting and lying : I was bought from my mother Cleopatra by a certain nobleman for three pistoles , there I learned impudence and pimping : I was turned off for wearing my lord 's linen , and drinking my lady 's ratafia , and turned bailiff 's follower ; there I learned bullying and swearing : I at last got into the army ; and there I learned whoring and drinking \u2014 so that if your worship pleases to cast up the whole sum , viz . canting , lying , impudence , pimping , bullying , swearing , whoring , drinking , and a halberd , you will find the sum total amount to a Recruiting Serjeant .", "I shall , sir .", "Why , sir ?", "No !", "Off with your hats ; \u2018 ounds ! off with your hats : this is the captain , the captain .", "I 'll take care of him , if you please .", "Give me your hand then ; and now , gentlemen , I have no more to say but this \u2014 here 's a purse of gold , and there is a tub of humming ale at my quarters \u2014 \u2018 tis the king 's money , and the king 's drink \u2014 he 's a generous king , and loves his subjects \u2014 I hope , gentlemen , you wo n't refuse the king 's health .", "The crown , or the bed of honour .", "They are not so good , my dear \u2014 but if they bear no date , I must examine the contents .", "May it please the worshipful bench , I desire to be heard in this case , as being the counsel for the king .", "Yes , madam , and he 's now under the table .", "May it please your worship , she 's with child in conscience .", "With both ; when I have the destinies of men in search , I consult the stars ; when the affairs of women come under my hands , I advise with my t'other friend .", "You shall be better acquainted with them , honest Bullock , or I shall miss of my aim .", "Officers , to your posts . Tycho , mind the door .", "So you shall \u2014 in your guts .\u2014 March , you sons of whores !", "Writing your name in his pocket-book .", "Sound ! ay , so sound that they never wake .", "Any thing for your satisfaction , madam \u2014 Here is pen and ink .", "Silence , you dog , silence !", "If you be afraid of him , why do ye come to consult him !", "Huzza , then ! huzza for the king , and the honour of Shropshire .", "Home ! for shame , gentlemen ; behave yourselves better before your captain . Dear Tummas , honest Costar !", "No farther than the chops of the channel , I presume , sir .", "I can n't tell readily \u2014 I have set them down here upon the back of the muster-roll .Let me see \u2014 Imprimis , Mrs. Shely Snikereyes ; she sells potatoes upon Ormond key , in Dublin \u2014 Peggy Guzzle , the brandy woman at the Horse Guards , at Whitehall \u2014 Dolly Waggon , the carrier 's daughter , at Hull \u2014 Mademoiselle Van Bottomflat , at the Buss \u2014 then Jenny Oakum , the ship-carpenter 's widow , at Portsmouth ; but I do n't reckon upon her , for she was married at the same time to two lieutenants of marines , and a man of war 's boatswain .", "Silence .", "No , no , no more than I can .\u2014 Come , let me see how it becomes you .", "A crown ! never talk of buying ; \u2018 tis the same thing among friends , you know ; I 'll present them to ye both : you shall give me as good a thing . Put them up , and remember your old friend when I am over the hills and far away . Enter PLUME , singing . Over the hills and over the main , To Flanders , Portugal , or Spain The king commands and we 'll obey , Over the hills and far away . Come on my men of mirth , away with it ; I 'll make one among ye . Who are these hearty lads ?", "No , no , friend ; do n't fear , man .", "Come , Mr . Militia Serjeant , I shall silence you now , I believe , without your taking the law of me .", "A n't you a couple of pretty fellows , now ! Here , you have complained to the captain ; I am to be turned out , and one of you will be serjeant . Which of you is to have my halberd ? Both Rec . I .", "They disobey command ; they deny their being listed .", "She 's gone with the captain .", "Tycho , wait on the ladies down stairs .", "Ay , you are shouldered pretty well for a constable 's staff , but for a musket you must put it on the other shoulder , my dear !", "The butcher , sir , will have his hands full , for we have two sheep-stealers among us \u2014 I hear of a fellow , too , committed just now for stealing of horses .", "This man is but one man , the country may spare him , and the army wants him ; besides , he 's cut out by nature for a grenadier ; he 's five feet ten inches high ; he shall box , wrestle , or dance the Cheshire round with any man in the country ; he gets drunk every Sabbath-day , and he beats his wife .", "I coax ! I wheedle ! I 'm above it , sir : I have served twenty campaigns \u2014\u2014 but , sir , you talk well , and I must own that you are a man , every inch of you ; a pretty , young , sprightly fellow !\u2014 I love a fellow with a spirit ; but I scorn to coax ; \u2018 tis base ; though I must say , that never in my life have I seen a man better built . How firm and strong he treads ! he steps like a castle ! but I scorn to wheedle any man \u2014 Come , honest lad ! will you take share of a pot ?", "Come , honest friend , you shall go to my quarters instead of the captain 's .", "Lookye , fair lady ! the devil is a very modest person , he seeks nobody unless they seek him first ; he 's chained up , like a mastiff , and can n't stir unless he be let loose \u2014 You come to me to have your fortune told \u2014 do you think , madam , that I can answer you of my own head ? No , madam ; the affairs of women are so irregular , that nothing less than the devil can give any account of them . Now to convince you of your incredulity , I 'll show you a trial of my skill . Here , you Cacodemo del Plumo , exert your power , draw me this lady 's name , the word Melinda , in proper letters and characters of her own hand-writing \u2014 do it at three motions \u2014 one \u2014 two \u2014 three \u2014 \u2018 tis done \u2014 Now , madam , will you please to send your maid to fetch it ?", "Lack-a-day ! so am I .", "Why , sir , a footman in a blue livery had brought her ten guineas to buy her baby-clothes .", "Certainly .", "Why , \u2018 tis like a modern minc 'd pie , but the crust is confounded hard , and the plums are somewhat hard of digestion .", "Before the sun has made one course round this earthly globe , your fortune will be fixed for happiness or misery .", "Sir , the mob are so pleased with your honour , and the justices and better sort of people , are so delighted with me , that we shall soon do your business \u2014\u2014 But , sir , you have got a recruit here , that you little think of .", "Hey , boys ! thus we soldiers live ! drink , sing , dance , play ;\u2014 we live , as one should say \u2014 we live \u2014 \u2018 tis impossible to tell how we live \u2014 we are all princes \u2014 why , why you are a king \u2014 you are an emperor , and I 'm a prince \u2014 now , a n't we ?", "Ay , ay , sir .Will you please to have your office taken from you ? or will you handsomely lay down your staff , as your betters have done before you ?"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Pray , Serjeant , what writing is this upon the face of it ?", "Pray now , what may be that same bed of honour ?", "Nothing but the king 's picture , that the serjeant gave me just now .", "Mind that , Tummas .", "Nay , Tummus , let me speak , you know I can read .\u2014\u2014 And so , sir , he gave us those two pieces of money for pictures of the king , by way of a present .", "Wounds ! not I .", "Tis a fine thing to be a scollard .\u2014 Serjeant , will you part with this ? I 'll buy it on you , if it come within the compass of a crown .", "Wauns ! I 'll have it . Captain \u2014 give me a shilling ; I 'll follow you to the end of the world .", "Now , Tummas , Carolus is Latin for a beating . This is the bravest captain I ever saw \u2014 Wounds ! I 've a month 's mind to go with him .", "Come , Tummus , we 'll go home .", "I wull \u2014 I wull \u2014 Waunds ! my mind gives me that I shall be a captain myself \u2014 I take your money , sir , and now I am a gentleman .", "Wounds , Tummas , what 's this ! are you listed ?", "Ay , and lieutenant-captains too . \u2018 Sflesh ! I 'll keep on my nab .", "Are you sure there is no conjuration in it ? no gunpowder plot upon me ?", "Brother ! hold there friend ; I am no kindred to you that I know of yet .\u2014 Lookye , serjeant , no coaxing , no wheedling , d'ye see \u2014 If I have a mind to list , why so \u2014 if not , why \u2018 tis not so \u2014 therefore take your cap and your brothership back again , for I am not disposed at this present writing .\u2014 No coaxing , no brothering me , \u2018 faith ."], "true_target": ["Thank you , noble captain \u2014\u2014 Icod ! I can n't find in my heart to leave him , he talks so finely .", "Costar Pearmain .", "My wife and I would do well to lie i n't , for we do n't care for feeling one another \u2014\u2014 But do folk sleep sound in this same bed of honour ?", "Ay , of England , that 's greater than any king of them all .", "Wauns ! I wish again that my wife lay there .", "Nay , for that matter , I 'll spend my penny with the best he that wears a head , that is , begging your pardon , sir , and in a fair way .", "My mind misgives me plaguily .\u2014 Let me see it \u2014It smells woundily of sweat and brimstone . Smell , Tummas .", "Shot ! Tummas ?", "Flesh ; but we a n't , Tummus : I desire to be carried before the mayor , captain .", "Well , Tummas , must we part ?", "Not a brass farthing , sir .", "Is there no harm i n't ? wo n't the cap list me ?", "Wounds ! if I have a penny in my pocket but a bent sixpence , I 'll be content to be listed and shot into the bargain .", "I 'll be a queen .", "So it seems that Carolus is one-and-twenty shillings in Latin ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Why , captain , we know that you soldiers have more liberty of conscience than other folks ; but for me or neighbour Costar here to take such an oath , \u2018 twould be downright perjuration .", "No , Costar , I cannot leave thee .\u2014 Come , captain , I 'll e'en go along too ; and if you have two honester simpler lads in your company than we two have been , I 'll say no more .", "Nay , dear Costar ! do'na : be advis 'd .", "Flesh ! not I : are you , Costar ?", "Ay , Costar , would he always hold in this mind .", "And I'se scarcely d'off mine for any captain in England . My vether 's a freeholder .", "\u2018 Tis the same thing in Greek , for we are listed .", "Ay , wauns will I ; for since this pressing act , they are greater than any emperor under the sun .", "We do n't know ; the noble serjeant is pleas 'd to be in a passion , sir ; but \u2014\u2014", "The wonderful works of nature ! What 's this written about ? here 's a posy , I believe .\u2014 Ca-ro-lus !\u2014 what 's that , serjeant ?", "Nay , serjeant , we do n't downright deny it , neither ; that we dare not do , for fear of being shot ; but we humbly conceive , in a civil way , and begging your worship 's pardon , that we may go home ."], "true_target": ["And I : look ye here , sir .", "Both in Herefordshire .", "Mind that , Costar . A sweet gentleman !", "No , no ! we 'll be gone .", "Tummas Appletree .", "We have seen captains afore now , mun .", "I 'll be a justice of peace .", "No serjeant , I 'll be no emperor .", "Ay , ay , come .", "Nay , then we 'll speak . Your serjeant , as you say , is a rogue , a n't like your worship , begging your worship 's pardon \u2014 and \u2014", "Do'na take it ; do'na , dear Costar .", "Ay , wauns does it ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["No , no , no ."], "true_target": ["Huzza !"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["No , sir , but I 'll have her notwithstanding .", "No ; I think myself above administering to the pride of any woman , were she worth twelve thousand a-year ; and I ha'n ' t the vanity to believe I shall gain a lady worth twelve hundred . The generous , goodnatured Sylvia , in her smock , I admire ; but the haughty and scornful Sylvia , with her fortune , I despise .\u2014 What ! sneak out of town , and not so much as a word , a line , a compliment !\u2014 \u2018 Sdeath ! how far off does she live ? I 'll go and break her windows .", "Very well . Courage , my lads . Now we 'll", "Why then I have saved my legs and arms , and lost my liberty ; secure from wounds , I am prepared for the gout ; farewell subsistence , and welcome taxes \u2014 Sir , my liberty and the hope of being a general , are much dearer to me than your twelve hundred pounds a-year \u2014 but to your love , madam , I resign my freedom , and , to your beauty , my ambition \u2014 greater in obeying at your feet , than commanding at the head of an army .", "No , no ; I never quarrel with any thing in my cups , but an oyster-wench , or a cookmaid , and if they be n't civil , I knock them down . But hearkye , my friend , I 'll make love , and I must make love \u2014 I tell you what , I 'll make love like a platoon .", "He 's at my quarters , I suppose , with the rest of my men .", "You are no logician , if you pretend to draw consequences from the actions of fools \u2014 Whim , unaccountable whim , hurries them on , like a man drunk with brandy before ten o'clock in the morning \u2014\u2014 But we lose our sport ; Kite has opened above an hour ago : let 's away .", "By the Grenadier 's march , that should be my drum , and by that shout , it should beat with success .\u2014 Let me see \u2014 four o'clock \u2014At ten yesterday morning I left London \u2014 an hundred and twenty miles in thirty hours is pretty smart riding , but nothing to the fatigue of recruiting .", "Ha ! ha ! ha ! a battle royal ! Do n't frown so , man ; she 's your own , I 'll tell you : I saw the fury of her love in the extremity of her passion . The wildness of her anger is a certain sign that she loves you to madness . That rogue , Kite , began the battle with abundance of conduct , and will bring you off victorious , my life o n't : he plays his part admirably .", "But it is not so", "Here , my hero , here are two guineas for thee , as earnest of what I 'll do farther for thee .", "I want ; those are the men fit to make soldiers , captains , generals .", "I forbid the bans . Lookye , friend , you shall list with Captain", "There the comparison breaks : the favours , sir , that \u2014\u2014", "And I 'll buy it all , child , were it ten times more .", "And do you give her to me in good earnest ?", "Now , Worthy , to show you how much I 'm in love \u2014 here she comes . But , Kite , what is that great country fellow with her ?", "Let me see ; young and tender , you say .", "Will you list with me if I give up my title ?", "A jilt ! pho ! is she as great a whore ?", "Ay ! for what reason ?", "Kite , you must father the child .", "No more it is , \u2018 faith .", "Lookye there , gentlemen ; the honest woman has spoke it at once ; the parish had better maintain five children this year , than six or seven the next . That fellow , upon this high feeding , may get you two or three beggars at a birth .", "Come , gentlemen , what 's the matter ?", "But I tell you , she 's gone this minute to the waterside .", "Then you are married , surely ?", "That 's easily known . Have either of you received any of the king 's money ?", "She 's well rigged , but how is she manned ?", "\u2018 Tis the way of them all \u2014\u2014 Come , Worthy , your obsequious and distant airs will never bring you together ; you must not think to surmount her pride by your humility . Would you bring her to better thoughts of you , she must be reduced to a meaner opinion of herself . Let me see , the very first thing that I would do , should be , to lie with her chambermaid , and hire three or four wenches in the neighbourhood to report , that I had got them with child \u2014 Suppose we lampooned all the pretty women in town , and left her out ; or , what if we made a ball , and forgot to invite her , with one or two of the ugliest .", "Lucy 's !", "Pho , pho , pho ! I 'll do more than all this ; I 'll make you a corporal , and give you a brevet for serjeant .", "Because I will have nobody in my company that can write ; a fellow that can write , can draw petitions \u2014 I say this minute discharge him .", "Just so .", "And I have a trick for mine .", "Melinda ! why she began to capitulate this time twelvemonth , and offered to surrender upon honourable terms : and I advised you to propose a settlement of five hundred pounds a year to her , before I went last abroad .", "Five ! pray what are they ?", "A full company \u2014 you have named five \u2014 come , make them half a dozen \u2014 Kite , is the child a boy , or a girl ?", "Your friend . \u2018 Sdeath ! there 's something in this fellow that charms me .", "Well said , Costar ! Born where ?", "Come , leave it to the girl 's own choice . Will you belong to me or to that gentleman ?", "Your affairs had quite put mine out of my head . \u2018 Tis true , Sylvia and I had once agreed to go to bed together , could we have adjusted preliminaries ; but she would have the wedding before consummation , and I was for consummation before the wedding : we could not agree .", "Pretensions !", "Kite , do you distribute the levy money to the men , while I read .", "Let 's away , then .\u2014 Mr . Kite , go to the lady , with my humble service , and tell her , I shall only refresh a little , and wait upon her .", "Behold , how humbly does the Severn glide ,", "I 'm very glad to hear it \u2014 for I wanted but a man of that quality to make my company a perfect representative of the whole commons of England .", "Who , in the name of wonder , could send them ?", "Kite !Pretty Mrs. Rose \u2014 you have \u2014 let me see \u2014 how many ?", "Were it not requisite to project first how to get it in ?", "I always do , but for a man I 'll fight knee-deep ; so you lie again .", "Here , you chickens .", "What , no bastards ! and so many recruiting officers in town ! I thought \u2018 twas a maxim among them , to leave as many recruits in the country as they carried out .", "None at present .\u2018 Tis indeed , the picture of Worthy , but the life is departed . Enter WORTHY . What , arms across , Worthy ! methinks you should hold them open when a friend 's so near \u2014 The man has got the vapours in his ears , I believe . I must expel this melancholy spirit .Spleen , thou worst of fiends below , Fly , I conjure thee , by this magic blow .", "Well , what success ?", "Keep him , by all means \u2014 But how stands the country affected ? were the people pleased with the news of my coming to town ?", "Melinda 's hand as surely as this is mine .", "By sight only .", "Envy 'd by nymphs , and worshipp 'd by the swains \u2014", "To greet thee , princess of the Severn side .", "How , sir ? I hope she is not to be seduced .", "And yours ?", "No ; pray what did it cost ?", "Twenty thousand things \u2014 I would \u2014 but \u2014 now , sir , pray \u2014 Devil take me \u2014 I cannot \u2014 I must \u2014", "How , the justice ! then I 'm arraigned , condemned and executed .", "Come , my lads , one thing more I 'll tell you : you 're both young tight fellows , and the army is the place to make you men for ever : every man has his lot , and you have yours : what think you of a purse of French gold out of a monsieur 's pocket , after you have dashed out his brains with the but end of your firelock , eh ?", "Give me thy hand ; and now you and I will travel the world o'er , and command it wherever we tread .\u2014 Bring your friend with you , if you can .", "No , he 's generally with me .", "Married !", "Explain , explain .", "Do you know the gentleman ?", "Do you live in the country , sir ?", "Captain Plume ! I 'm your servant , my dear !", "Take her ; I 'll change a woman for a man at any time .", "No , no , my dear ! men are my business at present .", "Sylvia ! generous creature !", "Melinda ! and by this light her own hand ! Once more , if you please , my dear \u2014 Her hand exactly \u2014 Just now , you say ?", "What ails thee , man ? no inundations nor earthquakes , in Wales ,", "Whip and spur , Worthy , or you wo n't mount .", "Another ! who is he ?", "What , Mr. Wilful so close with my market woman !", "Upon my honour , sir , she had no harm from me .", "I do n't like the wages ; I wo n't be your man .", "Do n't trouble your head ; Melinda has secured a parson already .", "The March beer at the Raven . I have been doubly serving the king , raising men , and raising the excise . Recruiting and elections are rare friends to the excise .", "Who are those jolly lads , serjeant ?", "If they should , we 'll take her with us ; she can wash , you know , and make a bed upon occasion .", "I am Captain Plume .", "I hope ? Has your father rose from the dead , and reassumed his estate ?", "Now the natural inconstancy of her sex begins to work .", "Yes , I saw it under her hand \u2014 Brazen and she are to meet half a mile hence , at the waterside , there to take boat , I suppose , to be ferried over to the Elysian Fields , if there be any such thing in matrimony .", "Thou'rt a bloody impudent fellow !", "\u2018 Sdeath ! child , are you mad ?\u2014 Mr . Balance , I am so full of business about my recruits , that I ha'n ' t a moment 's time to \u2014\u2014 I have just now three or four people to \u2014\u2014", "Your pardon , sir , I 'll marry upon no condition at all \u2014 If I should , I am resolved never to bind myself down to a woman for my whole life , till I know whether I shall like her company for half an hour . Suppose I married a woman without a leg \u2014 such a thing might be , unless I examined the goods before-hand .\u2014 If people would but try one another 's constitutions before they engaged , it would prevent all these elopements , divorces , and the devil knows what .", "No , no , friend , I ha n't done with her yet .", "Just now , I tell you , half a mile hence , at the waterside .", "A very elegant reception , indeed , Mr. Kite . I find you are fairly entered into your recruiting strain \u2014 Pray what success ?", "The battle , sir , was a very pretty battle as any one should desire to see ; but we were all so intent upon victory , that we never minded the battle : all that I know of the matter is , our general commanded us to beat the French , and we did so ; and , if he pleases but to say the word , we 'll do it again . But pray , sir , how does Mrs. Sylvia ?", "I 'll buy all you have .", "We 'll dispose of him among the dragoons \u2014 Have we never a poulterer among us ?", "Then you wo n't list with Captain Brazen ?", "What 's the matter , serjeant ? I 'm afraid you are too rough with these gentlemen .", "Who ?", "I hate country towns for that reason .\u2014 If your town has a dishonourable thought of Sylvia , it deserves to be burnt to the ground \u2014 I love Sylvia , I admire her frank , generous disposition \u2014 there 's something in that girl more than woman \u2014 In short , were I once a general , I would marry her .", "\u2018 Tis plain they are not the same ; and is this the malicious name that was subscribed to the letter which made Mr. Balance send his daughter into the country ?", "I never saw yours in my life , my dear \u2014\u2014 but there 's a face well known as the sun 's , that shines on all , and is by all adored .", "Bid him come up . Here 's the discharge , sir ."], "true_target": ["With all my heart , my dear !I suppose Kite has listed him by this time .", "I 'll kneel , stoop , and stand , \u2018 faith : most ladies are gained by platooning .", "Pray , Mr. Balance , how does your fair daughter ?", "Probably I shall furnish you , my dear ! instead of the twenty thousand pounds you talked of , you shall have the twenty brave recruits that I have raised , at the rate they cost me \u2014\u2014 My commission I lay down , to be taken up by some braver fellow , that has more merit , and less good fortune \u2014 whilst I endeavour , by the example of this worthy gentleman , to serve my king and country at home .With some regret I quit the active field , Where glory full reward for life does yield ; But the recruiting trade , with all its train Of endless plague , fatigue , and endless pain , I gladly quit , with my fair spouse to stay , And raise recruits the matrimonial way .", "Indeed , indeed , but you can \u2014 my lodging is hard by , chicken ! and we 'll make change there .", "Come hither , pretty maid .", "But hold , have you made any use of your fortune-teller 's habit since you arrived ?", "Then you shall have him for nothing .", "You lie ; and you are a son of a whore .", "Oh , the devil ! what a delicate woman was there spoiled ! But , by the rules of war , now \u2014\u2014 Worthy , blockade was foolish \u2014 After such a convoy of provisions was entered the place , you could have no thought of reducing it by famine ; you should have redoubled your attacks , taken the town by storm , or have died upon the breach .", "And leave us here to mourn upon the shore \u2014 a couple of poor melancholy monsters . What shall we do ?", "Lookye , young spark , say but one word more , and I 'll build a horse for you as high as the cieling , and make you ride the most tiresome journey that ever you made in your life .", "As a mistress , I confess \u2014 but as a friend , Mr. Balance \u2014\u2014", "Nay , Worthy , that 's not fair ; market for yourself \u2014 Come , child ,", "Mr. Kite , take the constable into custody .", "I have served at home , sir , for ages served this cruel fair , and that will serve the turn , sir .", "She 's not with child , I hope ?", "Shake hands , brother . If you go to that , behold me as obsequious , as thoughtful , and as constant a coxcomb , as your worship .", "Pho ! let me see it .If she be a jilt \u2014 Damn her , she is one \u2014 there 's her name at the bottom o n't .", "I had forgot : pray be kind to her .", "Not a penny , sir ; I value an obligation to you much above an hundred pounds .", "\u2018 Tis ten thousand pities !\u2014 But who is she ?\u2014 do I know her ?", "Lookye , rascal , you villain ! If I find that you have imposed upon these two honest fellows , I 'll trample you to death , you dog \u2014 Come , how was't ?", "What letter ?", "With those that go", "The case is plain , gentlemen : the goods are found upon you : those pieces of gold are worth one-and-twenty shillings each .", "Here 's a guinea , my dear !", "Ha ! ha ! ha ! why do n't you follow , sir , and fight the bold ravisher ?", "I escaped safe from Germany , and sound , I hope , from London : you see I have lost neither leg , arm , nor nose . Then for my inside , \u2018 tis neither troubled with sympathies , nor antipathies ; and I have an excellent stomach for roast beef .", "That injury , madam , was done to me , and the reparation I expect , shall be made to my friend : make Mr. Worthy happy , and I shall be satisfied .", "Sir , you must charge our want of respect upon our ignorance of your quality \u2014 but now you are at liberty , I have discharged you .", "My will , madam , is made already , and there it is ; and if you please to open that parchment , which was drawn the evening before the battle of Hockstet , you will find whom I left my heir .", "So , as you grew obsequious , she grew haughty , and , because you approached her like a goddess , she used you like a dog .", "Hast thou really a mind to the service ?", "A dog , to abuse two such honest fellows as you .\u2014 Lookye , gentlemen , I love a pretty fellow ; I come among you as an officer to list soldiers , not as a kidnapper to steal slaves .", "Ay , that is promised ; but what think you of barrack-master ? you are a person of understanding , and barrack-master you shall be \u2014 But what 's become of this same Cartwheel you told me of , my dear ?", "Then you are mad , or turning quaker ?", "That I do n't know .", "Ay , ay , we 'll all take care of her ; she shall live like a princess , and her brother here shall be \u2014 What would you be ?", "Yes , yes ; and now , sir , here are your forty shillings .", "Most apropos ,", "And pray , what is all this for ?", "So ! now must I look as sober and demure as a whore at a christening .", "But , sir , was that country gentleman your friend and benefactor ?", "You may , when \u2018 tis backed by private insurance ; for I swear , madam , by the honour of my profession , that whatever dangers I went upon , it was with the hope of making myself more worthy of your esteem ; and if ever I had thoughts of preserving my life , \u2018 twas for the pleasure of dying at your feet .", "You are indebted to me a welcome , madam , since the hopes of receiving it from this fair hand was the principal cause of my seeing England .", "Thro \u2019 frost and snow \u2014\u2014", "Can he write ?", "My dear !", "Pray , gentlemen , do n't mind him , he 's distracted .", "What twenty thousand ?", "And good entertainment they shall have : volunteers are the men", "I desire no man to go with me but as I went myself ; I went a volunteer , as you or you may do ; for a little time carried a musket , and now I command a company .", "Half a score , if you will , my dear ! What hast got in thy hand , child ?", "A very pretty couple ! What say you , Mr. Kite ? will you take care of the woman ?", "\u2018 Twill never do , Kite \u2014 your damned tricks will ruin me at last \u2014 I wo n't lose the fellows , though , if I can help it .\u2014 Well , gentlemen , there must be some trick in this ; my serjeant offers to take his oath that you are fairly listed .", "Pho ! that 's easily done : I 'll do more for thee , child , I 'll buy you a furbelow-scarf , and give you a ticket to see a play .", "An attorney ! wert thou mad ? list a lawyer ! discharge him , discharge him , this minute .", "Nay , nay , there 's nothing of Lucy in this \u2014 I tell ye , I saw", "Pray , gentlemen , let me have one honest man in my company , for the novelty 's sake .", "That is , her journey was a put off to you .", "Come , I must examine your basket to the bottom , my dear !", "In the army , I presume .", "For a regiment \u2014 but for a woman ! \u2018 Sdeath ! I have been constant to fifteen at a time , but never melancholy for one : and can the love of one bring you into this condition ? Pray , who is this wonderful Helen ?", "I think he 's a very pretty fellow , and therefore fit to serve .", "Worthy , I 'll win her , and give her to you afterwards .", "But \u2018 twas barbarous to conceal this so long , and to continue me so many hours in the pernicious heresy of believing that angelic creature could change . Poor Sylvia !", "Your usage will chiefly depend upon your behaviour ; only this you must expect , that if you commit a small fault I will excuse it ; if a great one I 'll discharge you ; for something tells me I shall not be able to punish you .", "No , no , there 's your captain . Captain Plume , your serjeant has got so drunk , he mistakes me for you .", "No , no , whimsical only ; I could be mighty foolish , and fancy myself mighty witty . Reason still keeps its throne , but it nods a little , that 's all .", "Then \u2018 tis certainly Lucy 's contrivance to draw in Brazen for a husband \u2014 But are you sure \u2018 tis not Melinda 's hand ?", "As how ?", "I hope Sylvia has not heard of it .", "That 's impossible \u2014\u2014 I know no woman that will hold out a ten years \u2019 siege .", "How ? by way of a present ! the son of a whore ! I 'll teach him to abuse honest fellows like you !\u2014 scoundrel ! rogue ! villain !", "Have a little patience , and I 'll go with you .", "They live upon wild-fowl and venison , sir ; the husband keeps a gun , and kills all the hares and partridges within five miles round .", "Here , my lad .Now , your name ?", "Then set the mother down in your list , and the boy in mine ; enter him a grenadier , by the name of Francis Kite , absent upon furlow \u2014 I 'll allow you a man 's pay for his subsistence ; and now , go comfort the wench in the straw .", "Have you got your recruits , my dear ?", "There 's a girl for you , Worthy !\u2014 Is there any thing of woman in this ? no , \u2018 tis noble , generous , manly friendship . Show me another woman that would lose an inch of her prerogative that way , without tears , fits , and reproaches . The common jealousy of her sex , which is nothing but their avarice of pleasure , she despises , and can part with the lover , though she dies for the man \u2014 Come , Worthy \u2014 where 's the best wine ? for there I 'll quarter .", "That we have concerted already .Heyday ! you do n't profess midwifery , doctor ?", "No , she 's above my hopes \u2014\u2014 but for her sake , I 'll recant my opinion of her sex . By some the sex is blam 'd without design , Light harmless censure , such as yours and mine , Sallies of wit , and vapours of our wine : Others the justice of the sex condemn , And , wanting merit to create esteem , Would hide their own defects by censuring them : But they , secure in their all-conq'ring charms , Laugh at our vain attempts , our false alarms . He magnifies their conquests who complains , For none would struggle , were they not in chains .", "You 'll find me at the Hall : the justices are sitting by this time , and I must attend them .", "Any other time , sir \u2014 I cannot , for my life , sir \u2014", "You may speak out , here are none but friends .", "And are you , Sylvia , in good earnest ?", "To how many ?", "I 'll lay you a hundred , that I return it if she does \u2014 Look ye ,", "My maid with the milking pail .", "Pr'ythee be quiet \u2014 I shall be out \u2014", "Thou peerless princess of Salopian plains ,", "A baker , a tailor , a smith , butchers , carpenters , and journeymen shoemakers , in all thirty-nine \u2014 I believe the first colony planted in Virginia had not more trades in their company than I have in mine .", "Gentlemen , I thank you .", "Ill news ! Heavens avert it ! nothing could touch me nearer than to see that generous , worthy gentleman afflicted . I 'll leave you to comfort him ; and be assured that if my life and fortune can be any way serviceable to the father of my Sylvia , he shall freely command both .", "Gone .", "Brazen .", "Tis true , gentlemen , I might take an advantage of you ; the king 's money was in your pockets \u2014 my serjeant was ready to take his oath you were listed ; but I scorn to do a base thing ; you are both of you at your liberty .", "Not under a hundred pounds sterling .", "No , \u2018 faith ; the young rogue fell in love with Rose , and has lain with her , I think , since she came to town .", "I 'll never think of her again .", "Well said , Kite ; besides , the army wants miners .", "Ha ! ha ! ha ! West Indies ! No , no , my honest lad , give me thy hand ; nor you nor she shall move a step farther than I do . This gentleman is one of us , and will be kind to you , Mrs. Rose .", "What you please as to that \u2014 Will you lodge at my quarters in the mean time ?", "Corporal ! I 'll make you my companion ; you shall eat with me .", "That 's home .My little boy ! lack-a-day , madam ! that alone may convince you \u2018 twas none of mine : why , the girl , madam , is my serjeant 's wife , and so the poor creature gave out that I was the father , in hopes that my friends might support her in case of necessity .\u2014 That was all , madam \u2014 my boy ! no , no , no !", "Then they had a dear bargain .", "Come , then , we wo n't quarrel about the price ; they 're fine birds .\u2014 Pray , what 's your name , pretty creature !"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["No .", "Sir , I 'm your humble servant .", "Thou art a happy fellow : once I was so .", "Up or down the water ?", "Her maid gave me the history of part of the battle just now , as she overheard it : but I hope , sir , your daughter has suffered nothing upon the account .", "Already ! do you know more than I ?", "The walk is broad enough for us both .", "I 'm glad my horses are ready \u2014 I shall return presently .", "The very same : the other fragments I showed you just now .", "I do n't envy your happiness very much , if the lady can afford no other sort of favours but what she has bestowed upon you .", "No !", "How ! then I 'll travel in good earnest \u2014 By all my hopes , \u2018 tis", "What is't ?", "Ha ! ha ! ha ! I know his sister is gone with Plume to his lodging , to sell him some chickens .", "You see , sir , how little he values your daughter 's disdain .", "I 'm sorry , sir , to be the messenger of ill news .", "Whispering , sir , before company , is not manners , and when nobody 's by \u2018 tis foolish .", "I do n't think she encourages him so much for gaining herself a lover , as to set up a rival . Were there any credit to be given to his words , I should believe Melinda had made him this assignation . I must go see , sir , you 'll pardon me .", "Certainly \u2014 \u2018 tis no more like Melinda 's character , than black is to white .", "Sylvia ! impossible !", "Hast thou no more sense , fellow , than to believe that the captain can list women ?", "Nay , for that matter , the town did not stick to say that \u2014\u2014", "So pressing to be gone , sir ?\u2014 I find her fortune will give her the same airs with Melinda , and then Plume and I may laugh at one another .", "At Horton 's .", "Nobody doubts your good will , noble captain , in serving your country ; witness our friend Molly at the Castle ; there have been tears in town about that business , captain .", "Rich Sylvia , you mean , and poor captain ; ha ! ha ! ha !\u2014 Come , come , friend , Melinda is true , and shall be mine ; Sylvia is constant , and may be yours .", "But do you intend to marry upon no other conditions ?", "I have a trick for mine ; the letter , you know , and the fortune-teller .", "Why thou art the most useful fellow in nature to your captain , admirable in your way I find .", "But I shall ; Melinda and I are agreed ; she 's gone to visit Sylvia , we are to mount and follow ; and could we carry a parson with us , who knows what might be done for us both ?", "I 'll make it the best compliment to you that ever I made in my life , if you do ; but I must be a traveller , you say ?", "Ask him .", "Platoon ! how 's that ?", "Then must I shift for myself , I find .", "Ha ! ha ! ha ! ay , and the window-bars too , to come at her . Come , come , friend , no more of your rough military airs .", "Nay , then , sir , I must do myself justice , and endeavour to find out the author .\u2014 Sir , I know the hand , and if you refuse to discover the contents , Melinda shall tell me .", "I did , and she hearkened to it , desiring only one week to consider \u2014 when beyond her hopes the town was relieved , and I forced to turn the siege into a blockade .", "You shall see ; where 's the bit of paper I gave you just now that the devil wrote Melinda upon ?", "To boot and saddle , captain , you must mount .", "I did make one general assault , but was so vigorously repulsed , that , despairing of ever gaining her for a mistress , I have altered my conduct , given my addresses the obsequious , and distant turn , and court her now for a wife .", "I had no design to affront you , nor appear before you either , madam ; I left you here because I had business in another place , and came hither thinking to meet another person .", "O ho ! very well . I wish you joy , Mr. Kite .", "But I engage he knows you and every body at first sight : his impudence were a prodigy , were not his ignorance proportionable ; he has the most universal acquaintance of any man living , for he wo n't be alone , and nobody will keep him company twice : then he 's a Caesar among the women , veni , vidi , vici , that 's all . If he has but talked with the maid , he swears he has lain with the mistress : but the most surprising part of his character is his memory , which is the most prodigious and the most trifling in the world .", "My letters say he 's dead , sir .", "Exactly .", "Yes , child , we 'll both buy .", "\u2018 Faith , you have reason \u2014 for were you but a corporal , she would marry you \u2014 but my Melinda coquets it with every fellow she sees \u2014 I 'll lay fifty pounds she makes love to you ."], "true_target": ["I have it , I 'm afraid to open it .", "Very well .", "\u2018 Tis plain , plain \u2014 But how , where , when is she to meet Brazen ?", "My rival , in the first place , and the most unaccountable fellow \u2014 but I 'll tell you more as we go .", "This is your man , sir , add but the traveller 's privilege of lying , and even that he abuses : this is the picture , behold the life .", "One that I would not let you see , for fear that you should break windows in good earnest . Here captain , put it into your pocket-book , and have it ready upon occasion .", "By Captain Brazen , that I told you of to-day ; she is called the Melinda , a first rate I can assure you ; she sheered off with him just now , on purpose to affront me ; but according to your advice I would take no notice , because I would seem to be above a concern for her behaviour ; but have a care of a quarrel .", "O doctor ! that letter 's worth a million ; let me see it : and now", "For a woman .", "Then recover me that vessel , from that Tangerine .", "Very slowly . My mistress has got a captain too , but such a captain !\u2014 as I live , yonder he comes !", "You a'n ' t drunk ?", "Then you 're just fit for a frolic .", "Death and fire ! this is not to be borne !", "And pray what induced you to turn soldier ?", "No , no .", "Her intimacy with me ! Dear sir ! let me pick up the pieces of this letter , \u2018 twill give me such a power over her pride to have her own an intimacy under her hand .\u2014 This was the luckiest accident !The aspersion , sir , was nothing but malice ; the effect of a little quarrel between her and Mrs. Sylvia .", "Lucy 's hand .", "What think you of Melinda ?", "Hold , Kite \u2014 have you seen the other recruiting captain ?", "But what could be the meaning of Brazen 's familiarity with her ?", "How ! her journey put off ?", "Withdraw ! Oons ! sir , what d'ye mean by withdraw ?", "How came you so qualified ?", "A Helen , indeed ! not to be won under ten years \u2019 siege ; as great a beauty , and as great a jilt .", "Here they come ; I must leave you .", "My Lady Richly , her aunt in Flintshire , dies , and leaves her , at this critical time , twenty thousand pounds .", "But I tell you , she 's gone this minute to Justice Balance 's country-house .", "What ?", "She 's lost , irrecoverably lost , and Plume 's advice has ruined me . \u2018 Sdeath ! why should I , that knew her haughty spirit , be ruled by a man that 's a stranger to her pride ?", "No .", "I hope , sir , you are under no apprehensions of wrong from any body .", "Ay , but it wo n't do \u2014 Have you showed her her name , that I tore off from the bottom of the letter ?", "Do you know one Captain Plume , sir ?", "I am sorry to hear , Mr. Balance , that your daughter is lost .", "Oh , sir , have you thought of her ? I began to fancy you had forgot poor Sylvia .", "At Horton 's ; I am to meet him there two hours hence , and we should be glad of your company .", "For whom ?", "I cannot forbear admiring the equality of our fortunes : we love two ladies , they meet us half way , and just as we were upon the point of leaping into their arms , fortune drops in their laps , pride possesses their hearts , a maggot fills their heads , madness takes them by the tails ; they snort , kick up their heels , and away they run .", "I find she 's warned ; I must strike while the iron is hot \u2014 You 've a great deal of courage , madam , to venture into the walks where you were so lately frightened .", "These would be mortifications I must confess ; but we live in such a precise , dull place , that we can have no balls , no lampoons , no \u2014\u2014", "Plume ! my dear captain ! welcome . Safe and sound returned !", "And is she gone ?", "Come , I must out with it .\u2014\u2014 Your once gay , roving friend , is dwindled into an obsequious , thoughtful , romantic , constant coxcomb .", "If you win her , you shall wear her , \u2018 faith ; I would not value the conquest , without the credit of the victory .", "You wrong my honour , in believing I could know any thing to your prejudice , without resenting it as much as you should .", "I parted with Melinda just now ; she assured me she hated Brazen , and that she resolved to discard Lucy for daring to write letters to him in her name .", "Then , sir , you must have rid mighty hard ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Were I sure of that , I would be glad to take up with a rakehelly officer , as you do .", "Satisfaction ! you begin to fancy yourself in breeches in good earnest \u2014 But , to be plain with you , I like Worthy the worse for being so intimate with your captain ; for I take him to be a loose , idle , unmannerly coxcomb .", "That is , you are tired of an appendix to our sex , that you can n't so handsomely get rid of in petticoats as if you were in breeches .\u2014 O'my conscience , Sylvia , hadst thou been a man , thou hadst been the greatest rake in Christendom .", "Our education , cousin , was the same , but our temperaments had nothing alike ; you have the constitution of an horse .", "Do n't fear , fool : do you think , sir , that because I 'm a woman I 'm to be fooled out of my reason , or frighted out of my senses ? Come , show me this devil .", "You are certainly mad , cousin !", "The sooner , therefore , you make an end of this , the better .", "I 'm glad o n't , sir .", "What do you mean , madam ?", "Who sent it ?", "Enter WORTHY .", "For what ?", "Thou poor romantic Quixote !\u2014 hast thou the vanity to imagine that a young sprightly officer , that rambles o'er half the globe in half a year , can confine his thoughts to the little daughter of a country justice , in an obscure part of the world ?", "You ! why I passed for you .", "Here , doctor .Lucy , have you any questions to ask ?", "And pray was it a ring , or buckle , or pendants , or knots ; or in what shape was the almighty gold transformed , that has bribed you so much in his favour ?", "What ! so near the crisis of my fate ?", "So , between the fool and the rake , I shall bring a fine spot of work upon my hands !", "Oh , are you there , gentleman ?\u2014 Come , captain , we 'll walk this way . Give me your hand .", "He 's my aversion .", "Well , doctor , I 'm convinced : and now , pray , what account can you give of my future fortune ?", "And if you had kept in yours , I should have excused you .", "I 'm sorry the favour miscarried , for it was designed for you , Mr. Worthy ; and be assured \u2018 tis the last and only favour you must expect at my hands \u2014\u2014 captain , I ask your pardon .", "Psha ! I talk only of the air we breathe , or more properly of that we taste \u2014 Have not you , Sylvia , found a vast difference in the taste of airs ?", "My name , in my own hand-writing ! that would be convincing indeed !", "Welcome to town , cousin Sylvia .I envied you your retreat in the country ; for Shrewsbury , methinks , and all your heads of shires , are the most irregular places for living : here we have smoke , scandal , affectation , and pretension ; in short , every thing to give the spleen \u2014 and nothing to divert it \u2014 then the air is intolerable .", "Do n't trouble yourself ; we sha n't stay , doctor .", "And have you raised the devil upon my account ?", "Better it had , madam ; for methinks you are too plain .", "What sort of a man is he ?", "Oh , Lucy ! I can hold my secret no longer . You must know , that hearing of a famous fortune-teller in town , I went disguised to satisfy a curiosity which has cost me dear . The fellow is certainly the devil , or one of his bosom-favourites : he has told me the most surprising things of my past life ."], "true_target": ["Did not you see the proud nothing , how she swelled upon the arrival of her fellow ?", "What do you say , madam ?", "Extravagant coxcomb !To be sure , a great many ladies of that fortune would be proud of the name of Mrs. Brazen .", "Oh , Mr. Worthy ! save me from these madmen !", "And from all the men I ever saw , I never had so fine a compliment : but you soldiers are the best bred men , that we must allow .", "Saucy thing !", "One thing very surprising ; he said , I should die a maid !", "Your history is a little romantic , cousin ; but since success has crowned your adventures , you will have the world on your side , and I shall be willing to go with the tide , provided you 'll pardon an injury I offered you in the letter to your father .", "He 's a fool , and I 'm tired of him : send it back unopened .", "You are in a fair way of being put to't , for I am told your captain is come to town .", "How is that possible , doctor ?", "Ha ! ha ! my name ! pray what have you or he to do with my name ?", "\u2018 Tis a pretty melancholy amusement for lovers .", "Ten o'clock , you say ?", "Then how should I send an answer ? Call him back immediately , while I go write .", "Ay , Flanders \u2019 lace is a constant present from officers to their women . They every year bring over a cargo of lace , to cheat the king of his duty , and his subjects of their honesty .", "A brother officer of yours , I suppose , sir .", "Pray , Mr. Balance , what 's become of my cousin Sylvia ?", "A good example , sir , will go a great way \u2014 When my cousin is pleased to surrender , \u2018 tis probable I sha n't hold out much longer .", "I do but jest . I would have passed for you , and called myself Lucy ; but he presently told me my name , my quality , my fortune , and gave me the whole history of my life . He told me of a lover I had in this country , and described Worthy exactly , but in nothing so well as in his present indifference \u2014 I fled to him for refuge here to-day ; he never so much as encouraged me in my fright , but coldly told me that he was sorry for the accident , because it might give the town cause to censure my conduct ; excused his not waiting on me home , made me a careless bow , and walked off \u2014 \u2018 Sdeath ! I could have stabbed him or myself , \u2018 twas the same thing \u2014 Yonder he comes \u2014 I will so use him !", "What is he doing ?", "\u2018 Tis wonderful ! my very letters to a tittle !", "and Wor . How !", "Has any of them been bartering with you , Mrs. Pert , that you talk so like a trader ?", "Nor sha n't , if I can help it .\u2014 Let me see \u2014 I have it ; bring me pen and ink \u2014 Hold , I 'll go write in my closet .", "Since you find yourself disappointed , I hope you 'll withdraw to another part of the walk .", "And you have a quantity of impudence , to appear before me , that you so lately have affronted .", "This is demonstration .", "Who told you , pray , that I was concerned for his absence ? I 'm only vexed that I have had nothing said to me these two days : as one may love the treason and hate the traitor . Oh ! here comes another captain , and a rogue that has the confidence to make love to me ; but indeed , I do n't wonder at that , when he has the assurance to fancy himself a fine gentleman .", "But you do n't consider , Sylvia , how long I have lived in it ; for I can assure you that to a lady the least nice in her constitution \u2014 no air can be good above half a year . Change of air I take to be the most agreeable of any variety in life .", "No matter .", "What means this insolence ?"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["My father ! then I am discovered \u2014\u2014 Oh , sir !I expect no pardon .", "Yes , sir , I live where I stand ; I have neither home , house , or habitation , beyond this spot of ground .", "I can n't be altogether so kind to you ; my circumstances are not so good as the captain 's ; but I 'll take care of you , upon my word .", "You have often commended the gentleman , sir .", "My desire in being punctual in my obedience , requires that you would be plain in your commands , sir .", "I am easily persuaded to follow my inclinations ; and so , madam , your humble servant .", "Psha ! what care I for his thoughts ; I should not like a man with confined thoughts ; it shows a narrowness of soul . In short , Melinda , I think a petticoat a mighty simple thing , and I am heartily tired of my sex .", "Hold , sir \u2014\u2014 Once more , gentlemen , have a care what you do ; for you shall severely smart for any violence you offer to me ; and you , Mr. Balance , I speak to you particularly , you shall heartily repent it .", "Vapours !", "Lookye , captain , if you wo n't resign , I 'll go list with Captain", "Sir , you need make no apology for your warrant , no more than I shall do for my behaviour \u2014 my innocence is upon an equal foot with your authority .", "But consider my father , sir ; he 's as good , as generous , as brave , as just a man as ever served his country ; I 'm his only child ; perhaps the loss of me may break his heart .", "Nor have I begun with her ; so I have as good a right as you have .", "You have made a fine speech , good Captain Huff-cap ! but you had better be quiet ; I shall find a way to cool your courage .", "Heyday !", "As you say , cousin Melinda , there are several sorts of airs .", "Well , well , you shall die at my feet , or where you will ; but you know , sir , there is a certain will and testament to be made beforehand .", "Is it your wife , or daughter , booby ?", "Afterwards ! After what ?", "He means marriage , I think \u2014 but that , you know , is so odd a thing , that hardly any two people under the sun agree in the ceremony ; but among soldiers \u2018 tis most sacred \u2014 our sword , you know , is our honour , that we lay down \u2014 the Hero jumps over it first , and the Amazon after \u2014 Leap , rogue ; follow , whore \u2014 the drum beats a ruff , and so to bed : that 's all : the ceremony is concise .", "Again ! lookye , madam , you are in your own house .", "So young that I do n't remember I ever had one ; and you have been so careful , so indulgent to me since , that indeed I never wanted one .", "Oh , madam ! I have heard the town commended for its air .", "\u201c And there 's a pleasure in being mad ,", "Oh , Madam ! you never saw him , perhaps , since you were mistress of twenty thousand pounds : you only knew him when you were capitulating with Worthy for a settlement , which perhaps might encourage him to be a little loose and unmannerly with you .", "Which none but madmen know . \u201d", "Sir , you are welcome to England .", "Me for a soldier ! send your own lazy lubberly sons at home ; fellows that hazard their necks every day , in the pursuit of a fox , yet dare not peep abroad to look an enemy in the face .", "Make the dispute between love and duty , and I am prince Prettyman exactly .\u2014 If my brother dies , ah , poor brother ! if he lives , ah , poor sister ! It is bad both ways , I 'll try it again \u2014 Follow my own inclinations , and break my father 's heart ; or obey his commands , and break my own ? Worse and worse .\u2014 Suppose I take it thus : A moderate fortune , a pretty fellow , and a pad ; or a fine estate , a coach and six , and an ass .\u2014 That will never do neither .", "The necessity must be very pressing that would engage me to endanger either .", "My meaning needs no interpretation , madam .", "Give thee , child ! I 'll set thee above scandal ; you shall have a coach with six before and six behind ; an equipage to make vice fashionable , and put virtue out of countenance .", "Sir , I do n't care a farthing for you , nor your bench neither .", "Pray , cousin , are not vapours a sort of air ? Taste air ! you might as well tell me I may feed upon air ! but pr'ythee , my dear Melinda ! do n't put on such an air to me . Your education and mine were just the same , and I remember the time when we never troubled our heads about air , but when the sharp air from the Welsh mountains made our fingers ache in a cold morning , at the boarding-school .", "Plume ! do you know Captain Plume ?", "Hold , once more . Pray , Mr. Balance , to you I speak ; suppose I were your child , would you use me at this rate ?", "A very sad dog . Give me the money , noble Captain Plume .", "I have often heard that soldiers were sincere ; may I venture to believe public report ?", "Brazen this minute .", "A rake .", "Your promises are so equal , that I 'm at a loss to chuse . There is one Plume , that I hear much commended , in town ; pray , which of you is Captain Plume ?", "Then I will tell you , Captain Brazen ,that you are an ignorant , pretending , impudent coxcomb .", "You should have a care , my dear ! men will promise any thing beforehand .", "Why should you question it , sir ?", "Sir , I would qualify myself for the service .", "Ay , Melinda , he is come , and I 'll take care he sha n't go without a companion .", "Never , that I remember ."], "true_target": ["Yes , sir , so let her go .", "Do n't be troubled , madam ; I sha n't desire to have my visit returned .", "There are some letters , sir , come by the post from London ; I left them upon the table in your closet .", "Plume : I am a free-born Englishman , and will be a slave my own way .", "Had I but a commission in my pocket , I fancy my breeches would become me as well as any ranting fellow of them all ; for I take a bold step , a rakish toss , and an impudent air , to be the principal ingredients in the composition of a captain . What 's here ? Rose , my nurse 's daughter ! I 'll go and practise . Come , child , kiss me at once .And her brother too ! Well , honest Dungfork , do you know the difference between a horse and a cart , and a cart-horse , eh ?", "I think , captain , you might have used me better , than to leave me yonder among your swearing drunken crew ; and you , Mr. Justice , might have been so civil as to have invited me to dinner , for I have eaten with as good a man as your worship .", "I wo n't .", "Does this advice , sir , proceed from the contents of the letter you received just now ?", "Wilful , Jack Wilful , at your service .", "So !\u2014\u2014 And pray what do you expect from this captain , child ?", "Well , sir , and what then ?", "Then I would not take your oath for a farthing .", "So far as to be troubled neither with spleen , cholic , nor vapours . I need no salts for my stomach , no hartshorn for my head , nor wash for my complexion ; I can gallop all the morning after the hunting-horn , and all the evening after a fiddle . In short , I can do every thing with my father , but drink and shoot flying ; and I am sure I can do every thing my mother could , were I put to the trial .", "I will see Captain Brazen hanged first ; I will list will Captain", "Mrs. Sylvia Balance .Well , captain , this is a handsome and substantial compliment ; but I can assure you I am much better pleased with the bare knowledge of your intention , than I should have been in the possession of your legacy : but , methinks , sir , you should have left something to your little boy at the Castle .", "Save ye , save ye ! gentlemen .", "No , but I intend to list immediately . Lookye , gentlemen , he that bids the fairest , has me .", "Sir .", "Propose the thing , sir .", "\u2018 Tis true , sir ; but this rogue of a constable let the rest escape , for a bribe of eleven shillings a man , because he said the act allowed him but ten , so the odd shilling was clear gains .", "If you mean the plainness of my person , I think your ladyship 's as plain as me to the full .", "Do you think it strange , cousin , that a woman should change ; but I hope you 'll excuse a change that has proceeded from constancy : I altered my outside , because I was the same within , and only laid by the woman , to make sure of my man : that 's my history .", "What ! you are serjeant Kite ?", "\u2018 Tis false ! I am descended of as good a family as any in your county ; my father is as good a man as any upon your bench , and I am heir to twelve hundred pounds a-year .", "Suppose I were , would you be contented to list , friend ?", "One favour I must beg \u2014 this affair will make some noise , and I have some friends that would censure my conduct , if I threw myself into the circumstance of a private centinel of my own head \u2014 I must therefore take care to be impressed by the act of parliament ; you shall leave that to me .", "Now , serjeant , I shall see who is your captain , by your knocking down the other .", "I 'll try if he loves her .Close , sir , ay , and closer yet , sir . Come , my pretty maid , you and I will withdraw a little .", "Gentlemen , he offered to let me go away for two guineas , but I had not so much about me : this is truth , and I am ready to swear it .", "I say , that you should not use that honest fellow so inhumanly : he 's a gentleman of parts and fortune , and besides that , he 's my Plume 's friend ; and by all that 's sacred , if you do n't use him better , I shall expect satisfaction .", "I will .", "I promise .", "A pinch , sir : I know you country gentlemen want wit , and you know that we town gentlemen want money , and so \u2014\u2014", "Lookye , sir , will you stand by me ?", "I 'm head of the family at present .", "Captain Pinch : I cock my hat with a pinch , I take snuff with a pinch , pay my whores with a pinch ; in short , I can do any thing at a pinch but fight .", "Captain Plume , I despise your listing money ; if I do serve , \u2018 tis purely for love \u2014 of that wench , I mean \u2014 now let me beg you to lay aside your recruiting airs , put on the man of honour , and tell me plainly what usage I must expect when I am under your command ?", "Discharged me !", "And something tells me that if you do discharge me \u2018 twill be the greatest punishment you can inflict ; for were we this moment to go upon the greatest dangers in your profession , they would be less terrible to me than to stay behind you \u2014 And now , your hand , this lists me \u2014 and now you are my captain .", "I should have endeavoured to know the world , which a man can never do thoroughly without half a hundred friendships , and as many amours . But now I think o n't , how stands your affair with Mr. Worthy ?", "No , no , captain ; you forget Rose ; she 's to be my bedfellow , you know .", "Whilst there is life there is hope , sir ; perhaps my brother may recover .", "Then you must make me a field-officer .", "Yes .", "No , Mr. Goosecap , she seduced me .", "What , gentlemen , rob me of my freedom and my wife at once ! \u2018 tis the first time they ever went together .", "Both , sir , both ; I 'm related to all the Wilfuls in Europe , and", "Earnest ! I have gone too far to make it jest , sir ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Things past , madam , can hardly be reckoned surprising , because we know them already . Did he tell you any thing surprising that was to come ?", "Pray , doctor , do you converse with the stars , or the devil ?", "If he should speak o \u2019 th \u2019 assignation I should be ruined !", "Lookye , madam , they sha n't impose upon us ; people can n't remember their hands no more than they can their faces \u2014 Come , madam , let us be certain ; write your name upon this paper , then we 'll compare the two hands .", "Your captain , madam .", "The messenger 's gone , madam .", "One would imagine , madam , by your concern for Worthy 's absence , that you should use him better when he 's with you .", "What 's the matter , madam ?", "Oh , Heavens protect us ! Dear madam , let 's be gone .", "An answer to this letter , I hope , madam ?", "They only barter one sort of prohibited goods for another , madam ."], "true_target": ["You are thoughtful , madam , am not I worthy to know the cause ?", "Indeed , madam , the last bribe I had from the captain , was only a small piece of Flanders \u2019 lace , for a cap .", "Do n't exasperate him ; consider what the fortune-teller told you . Men are scarce , and as times go it is not impossible for a woman to die a maid .", "\u2018 Tis like your hand , madam ; but not so like your hand , neither ; and now I look nearer \u2018 tis not like your hand at all .", "Let me see it , madam ; \u2018 tis the same \u2014 the very same \u2014 But I 'll secure one copy for my own affairs .", "Oh , madam ! a thousand .", "Her fellow has not been long enough arrived , to occasion any great swelling , madam ; I do n't believe she has seen him yet .", "Die a maid ! come into the world for nothing !\u2014 Dear madam ! if you should believe him , it might come to pass ; for the bare thought o n't might kill one in four and twenty hours \u2014 And did you ask him any questions about me ?", "O , pray , sir , discharge us first !", "I fetch it ! the devil fetch me if I do .", "Are you mad ? do n't you see Mr. Worthy ?", "So \u2018 tis I that am to die a maid \u2014 But the devil was a liar from the beginning ; he can n't make me die a maid \u2014 I 've put it out of his power already ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Lookye , captain , give us but blood for our money , and you sha n't want men . Ad 's my life , captain , get us but another marshal of France , and I 'll go myself for a soldier .", "Hold thy prating , fool \u2014\u2014 Your appearance , sir , promises some understanding ; pray , what does this fellow mean ?", "Hold , gentlemen . Harkye , friend , how do you maintain your wife and five children ?", "A gun ! nay if he be so good at gunning , he shall have enough o n't . He may be of use against the French , for he shoots flying to be sure .", "Here you , serjeant , where 's your captain ? here 's a poor foolish fellow comes clamouring to me with a complaint that your captain has pressed his sister . Do you know any thing of this matter , Worthy ?", "Ah , captain ! what is my daughter to a marshal of France ? we 're upon a nobler subject ; I want to have a particular description of the last battle .", "No , no , poor girl ! she 's so afflicted with the news of her brother 's death , that , to avoid company , she begged leave to go into the country .", "Did you know him ?", "You ha'n ' t told that circumstance to any body ?", "Come , Mr . Scale , we 'll manage the spark presently .", "Come , come , captain , never mince the matter ; would not you seduce my daughter , if you could ?", "Yes , sir , and you must once more go home to your father .", "Oh ho ! the captain ! now the murder 's out . And so the captain taught you to take it with an air ?", "Nay , captain , I must speak to you \u2014", "The death of your brother makes you sole heiress to my estate , which you know is about three thousand pounds a year : this fortune gives you a fair claim to quality and a title : you must set a just value upon yourself , and , in plain terms , think no more of Captain Plume .", "If you can have so mean an opinion of Melinda , as to be jealous of this fellow , I think she ought to give you cause to be so .", "All 's safe , I find \u2014 Now , captain , you must know , that the young fellow 's impudence in court was well grounded ; he said I should heartily repent his being listed , and so I do , from my soul .", "Very laconic , sir .", "Perhaps , sir , you sha n't repent your generosity \u2014\u2014 Will you please to write his discharge in my pocket-book ?In the mean time , we 'll send for the gentleman . Who waits there ? Enter STEWARD . Go to the captain 's lodging , and inquire for Mr. Wilful ; tell him his captain wants him here immediately .", "Who was the minister ?", "\u2018 Faith , but she is , sir ; and any woman in England of her age and complexion , by your youth and vigour . Lookye , captain , once I was young , and once an officer , as you are , and I can guess at your thoughts now by what mine were then ; and I remember very well that I would have given one of my legs to have deluded the daughter of an old country gentleman like me , as I was then like you .", "Still upon Sylvia ! for shame , captain ! you are engaged already \u2014 wedded to the war : victory is your mistress , and \u2018 tis below a soldier to think of any other .", "I have known another acquire so much by travel as to tell you the names of most places in Europe , with their distances of miles , leagues , or hours , as punctually as a postboy ; but for any thing else as ignorant as the horse that carries the mail .", "Captain , you 're welcome .", "He 's a very great fool if it does . Captain , if you do n't list him this minute , I 'll leave the court .", "If you please to take her , sir .", "Sir , I thank you \u2014 \u2018 Tis plain he had no hand i n't .", "Take it .\u2014 Your name , pray , sir ?", "Put four horses to the coach .", "I begin to smell powder . Well , friend , but what did that gentleman with you ?", "Pho , pho ! I hate set speeches : if I have done you any service , captain , it was to please myself . I love thee , and if I could part with my girl , you should have her as soon as any young fellow I know ; but I hope you have more honour than to quit the service , and she more prudence than to follow the camp : but she 's at her own disposal ; she has five thousand pounds in her pocket , and so \u2014 Sylvia , Sylvia !", "Ay , ay , sir , you 're a man of business \u2014 But what have we got here ?", "Then , Sylvia , I must beg that once in your life you would grant me a favour .", "So that between you both , Rose has been finely managed .", "No ; what made you bring him hither ?", "Nay , sir , you shall have your price .", "Hold , sir ; the contents I have told you already ; only with this circumstance \u2014 that her intimacy with Mr. Worthy had drawn the secret from him .", "Have I ever denied you any thing you asked of me ?", "\u2018 Tis my opinion , that this constable be put into the captain 's hands , and if his friends do n't bring four good men for his ransom by to-morrow night , captain , you shall carry him to Flanders .", "Take this gentleman into custody , till further orders .", "So am not I , sir , since an honest gentleman has found her .", "Was ever man so imposed upon ! I had her promise , indeed , that she would never dispose of herself without my consent \u2014 I have consented with a witness , given her away as my act and my deed \u2014 and this , I warrant , the captain thinks will pass . No , I shall never pardon him the villany , first , of robbing me of my daughter , and then the mean opinion he must have of me , to think that I could be so wretchedly imposed upon : her extravagant passion might encourage her in the attempt , but the contrivance must be his . I 'll know the truth presently . Enter PLUME . Pray , captain , what have you done with our young gentleman soldier ?", "Because he is no less than what he said he was \u2014 born of as good a family as any in this county , and he is heir to twelve hundred pounds a-year .", "Pray , sir , did the French attack us , or we them , at Landen ?", "Who , that bluff fellow in the sash ? I do n't know him .", "Ho , Sylvia !", "Very well ; and to be even with you , I promise I never will dispose of you without your own consent : and so , Sylvia , the coach is ready . Farewell .Now , she 's gone , I 'll examine the contents of this letter a little nearer . SIR , My intimacy with Mr. Worthy has drawn a secret from him , that he had from his friend Captain Plume ; and my friendship and relation to your family oblige me to give you timely notice of it . The captain has dishonourable designs upon my cousin Sylvia . Evils of this nature are more easily prevented than amended ; and that you would immediately send my cousin into the country , is the advice of , Sir , your humble servant , MELINDA . Why , the devil 's in the young fellows of this age ; they are ten times worse than they were in my time : had he made my daughter a whore , and forswore it , like a gentleman , I could almost have pardoned it ; but to tell tales beforehand is monstrous .\u2014 Hang it ! I can fetch down a woodcock or a snipe , and why not a hat and cockade ? I have a case of good pistols , and have a good mind to try . Enter WORTHY . Worthy , your servant .", "Pardon ! no , no , child ; your crime shall be your punishment : here , captain , I deliver her over to the conjugal power , for her chastisement . Since she will be a wife , be you a husband , a very husband \u2014 When she tells you of her love , upbraid her with her folly ; be modishly ungrateful , because she has been unfashionably kind ; and use her worse than you would any body else , because you can n't use her so well as she deserves .", "Here , constable , bring in my man .Now , captain , I 'll fit you with a man such as you never listed in your life . Enter CONSTABLE and SYLVIA . Oh , my friend Pinch ! I 'm very glad to see you .", "And pray , sir , what brought you into Shropshire ?", "Are you sure of that , sir ?", "We must get this mad captain his complement of men , and send him packing , else he 'll overrun the country .", "I like him the better : I was just such another fellow at his age :", "How old were you when your mother died ?", "Like enough ; women are as subject to pride as men are ; and why may n't great women as well as great men forget their old acquaintance ? But come , where 's this young fellow ? I love him so well , it would break the heart of me to think him a rascal .\u2014 I am glad my daughter 's gone fairly off though .\u2014Where does the captain quarter ?", "Right Mecklin , by this light ! Where did you get this lace , child ?"], "true_target": ["Harkye , constable .", "The white , trimm 'd with silver ?", "We have but little reason to expect it ; the doctor acquaints me here , that before this comes to my hands he fears I shall have no son .\u2014 Poor Owen ! but the decree is just ; I was pleased with the death of my father , because he left me an estate ; and now I am punished with the loss of an heir to inherit mine . I must now look upon you as the only hopes of my family ; and I expect that the augmentation of your fortune will give you fresh thoughts and new prospects .", "What , then you are married , child ?", "Come , serjeant , you shall be heard , since nobody else will speak ; we wo n't come here for nothing .", "What ! are you a soldier ?", "Oh ! he 's a mighty familiar gentleman as can be .", "And I do so still ; he 's a very pretty fellow ; but though I liked him well enough for a bare son-in-law , I do n't approve of him for an heir to my estate and family ; five thousand pounds indeed I might trust in his hands , and it might do the young fellow a kindness ; but \u2014 od 's my life ! three thousand pounds a year would ruin him , quite turn his brain \u2014 A captain of foot worth three thousand pounds a year ! \u2018 tis a prodigy in nature !", "You shall have it , for his father is my intimate friend .", "Come , show me the messenger .", "That you will never dispose of yourself to any man without my consent .", "I apprehend it , sir ; you have heard that my son Owen is past recovery .", "Are you married , good woman ?", "Who was witness ?", "This letter , sir , which I tear in pieces , to conceal the person that sent it , informs me that Plume has a design upon Sylvia , and that you are privy to it .", "Oh , Brazen ! a very good name . I have known several of the Brazens abroad .", "Nay , I 'll follow you .", "No , \u2018 faith : were you mine , I would send you to Bedlam first , and into the army afterwards .", "Thou'rt mad , fellow ; thy sister 's safe enough .", "But how goes your affair with Melinda ?", "Right , and had we an order of government for't , we could raise you in this and the neighbouring county of Stafford , five hundred colliers , that would run you under ground like moles , and do more service in a siege , than all the miners in the army .", "Does he keep company with the common soldiers ?", "Very well ; now , captain , let me beg the favour of you not to discharge this fellow , upon any account whatsoever . Bring in the rest .", "Plume that I beg to speak with him .", "Is that all ? the fellow 's a fool .", "What think you , captain ?", "What are you , friend ?", "Wo n't you discharge him ?", "I understand you , sir \u2014 Here , constable \u2014\u2014", "Your cousin Sylvia is talking yonder with your cousin Plume .", "Or , perhaps , sir , like my countrymen , you rid upon half a dozen horses at once .", "Not much of that .", "You know I ought to be .", "And be sure you do n't . Go into the dining-room , and tell Captain", "Your pardon , dear Worthy ! I must allow a day or two to the death of my son . The decorum of mourning is what we owe the world , because they pay it to us ; afterwards I 'm yours over a bottle , or how you will .", "\u2018 Tis time to right all mistakes \u2014 My name , sir , is Balance .", "He 's certainly mad . Pray , captain , read the articles of war .", "No matter ; I will be with you in three or four days , and then give my reasons : but before you go , I expect you will make me one solemn promise .", "Lookye , Mr . Scale , for my own part I shall be very tender in what regards the officers of the army \u2014 I only speak in reference to Captain Plume \u2014 for the other spark I know nothing of .", "I do n't ; but I would rather counsel than command . I do n't propose this with the authority of a parent , but as the advice of your friend , that you would take the coach this moment , and go into the country .", "Enter CONSTABLE .", "Noble captain ! may I crave your name ?", "I question it much .", "No more ! There were five , two hours ago .", "But how came you not to go along with your sister ?", "Serjeant , go along with this fellow to your captain , give him my humble service , and desire him to discharge the wench , though he has listed her .", "Come , gentlemen , there needs no great ceremony in adjourning this court . Captain , you shall dine with me .", "You are a very apt scholar , pretty maid ! And pray , what did you give the captain for these fine things ?", "I could not refuse her , she was so pressing ; the coach went from the door the minute before you came .", "Pray , captain , read the articles of war ; we 'll see him listed immediately .", "Pray , sir \u2014\u2014", "He 's happy , and I am satisfied : the stroke of Heaven I can bear ; but injuries from men , Mr. Worthy , are not so easily supported .", "And here is a gentleman from Germany .\u2014Captain , you 'll excuse me ; I 'll go read my letters , and wait on you .", "He lies with you , I presume ?", "Give the gentleman his sword again \u2014 Wait you without .I 'm sorry , sir ,to know a gentleman upon such terms , that the occasion of our meeting should prevent the satisfaction of an acquaintance .", "Oh , my noble captain !", "Send that woman to the house of correction ,\u2014\u2014 and the man \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Madam Melinda has sent word that you need not trouble yourself to follow her , because her journey to Justice Balance 's is put off , and she 's gone to take the air another way .", "Sir , here 's one with a letter below for your worship , but he will deliver it into no hands but your own ."], "true_target": ["Madam , my master has received some ill news from London , and desires to speak with you immediately ; and he begs the captain 's pardon , that he can n't wait on him , as he promised .", "Sir , the gentleman 's below at the door , inquiring for the captain ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["O brave noble captain ! huzza ! A brave captain , \u2018 faith !"], "true_target": ["No ! no ! no !"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["But we return all gentlemen ;", "Over the hills , and far away .", "While conq'ring colours we display ,"], "true_target": ["Courage , boys , it 's one to ten", "Over the hills , and far away .", "Kite , take care of them ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["I have heard before , indeed , that you captains used to sell your men .", "Pray , your worship , do n't be uncivil to him , for he did me no hurt ; he 's the most harmless man in the world , for all he talks so .", "Who calls ?", "After I had sold my chickens \u2014 I hope there 's no harm in that .", "Yes , sir , to my sorrow .", "Then all I have is at your service .", "Yes ; and give it with an air too . Will your worship please to taste my snuff ?", "I know that ; but he promised to marry me afterwards .", "Nay , for that matter , I am not so simple as to say that I can do any thing with the captain but what I may do with any body else .", "Pray , sir , what will you give me ?", "And I too .", "Let me consider ; you 're both very handsome .", "Where have you been , you great booby ? you are always out of the way in the time of preferment .", "Will you please to buy , sir ?", "Yes , I do , and he knows me . He took the ribbands out of his shirt sleeves , and put them into my shoes : see there \u2014 I can assure you that I can do any thing with the captain .", "Buy chickens , young and tender chickens , young and tender chickens .", "Lookye , I 'm a great woman , and will provide for my relations : I told the captain how finely he played upon the tabor and pipe , so he sat him down for drum-major .", "No matter for that , sir ; I came honestly by it ."], "true_target": ["Nay , for that matter , put in your hand ; feel , sir ; I warrant my ware is as good as any in the market .", "And so must I too , captain .", "I would prefer you ! who should prefer a man , but a woman ? Come , throw away that great club , hold up your head , cock your hat , and look big .", "What 's that to you , oaf ? I can make as much out of a groat as you can out of fourpence , I 'm sure \u2014 The gentleman bids fair , and when I meet with a chapman , I know how to make the best of him \u2014 And so , sir , I say for a crown-piece the bargain 's yours .", "Rose , sir . My father is a farmer within three short miles o \u2019 the town : we keep this market ; I sell chickens , eggs , and butter , and my brother Bullock there sells corn .", "As ever you tasted in your life , sir .", "A dozen , sir , and they are richly worth a crown .", "And see here , sir , a fine Turkey-shell snuff-box , and fine mangere : see here .The captain learned me how to take it with an air .", "But will you be so kind to me , sir , as the captain would ?", "Pray , gentlemen , do n't be so violent .", "And I shall be a lady , a captain 's lady , and ride single , upon a white horse with a star , upon a velvet side-saddle ; and I shall go to London , and see the tombs , and the lions , and the king and queen . Sir , an please your worship , I have often seen your worship ride through our grounds a-hunting , begging your worship 's pardon . Pray , what may this lace be worth a-yard ?", "And my noble captain , too , sir .", "No , no ; though your worship be a handsome man , there be others as fine as you . My brother is engaged to Captain Plume .", "I can n't change your money , sir .", "We 'll go fetch him \u2014 Come , brother barrack-master \u2014 We shall find you at home , noble captain ?", "He 's to have my brother for a soldier , and two or three sweethearts I have in the country ; they shall all go with the captain . Oh ! he 's the finest man , and the humblest withal ! Would you believe it , sir ? he carried me up with him to his own chamber , with as much fam-mam-mil-yararality , as if I had been the best lady in the land .", "Sir , I can furnish you .", "I expect sir !\u2014 I expect \u2014 but he ordered me to tell nobody \u2014 but suppose he should propose to marry me ?"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["That is , in a modest way , sir . Have a care what you say , Rouse ; do n't shame your parentage .", "Nay , sister , why did not you keep that place for me ? you know I have always loved to be a drumming , if it were but on a table , or on a quart pot .", "Oh , sir , if you had not promised the place of drum-major !", "Ay , and if she be n't free for that , he shall have another man in her place .", "Ah , Rouse , Rouse ! I fear somebody will look big sooner than folk think of . Here has been Cartwheel , your sweetheart ; what will become of him ?", "I presume that your worship is a captain , by your clothes and your courage .", "Ay , that I am \u2014 Will your worship lend me your cane , and I 'll show you how I can exercise ?", "If the captain should press Rouse , I should be ruined \u2014\u2014 Which way went she ? Oh ! the devil take your rabelins and palisadoes !", "And the prettiest ceremony , so full of pastime and prodigality \u2014\u2014", "A play ! wauns ! Rouse , take the ticket , and let 's see the show .", "I know not whether they list them , or what they do with them , but", "That 's a fib , I believe .", "Why , sir , he entertained me with a fine story of a great sea-fight between the Hungarians , I think it was , and the wild Irish .", "Come , sister , haste \u2014 we shall be late home .", "Dunna be angry , sir , that my sister should be mercenary , for she 's but young ."], "true_target": ["Ay , you soldiers see very strange things ; but pray , sir , what is a rabelin ?", "Lord , sir , I thought no more of her going than I do of the day I shall die : but this gentleman here , not suspecting any hurt neither , I believe \u2014 you thought no harm , friend , did you ?", "Pray , captain , do not send Rouse to the Western Indies .", "Minister ! we are soldiers , and want no minister \u2014 they were married by the articles of war .", "I 'm sure they carry as many women as men with them out of the country .", "The captain ! wauns ! there 's no pressing of women , sure .", "Come , Rouse ; I sold fifty strake of barley to-day in half this time ; but you will higgle and higgle for a penny more than the commodity is worth .", "Rouse ! \u2018 Sflesh ! where 's Rouse gone ?", "I know that , a n't like your worship ; but if your worship pleases to grant me a warrant to bring her before your worship , for fear of the worst .", "That was I \u2014 I danc 'd , threw the stocking , and spoke jokes by their bedside , I 'm sure .", "So she did , I 'll swear \u2014 for she proposed marriage first .", "Eh ! where 's Rouse ? Rouse ,", "Preferment ! who should prefer me ?", "Then your palisado , pray what may he be ? Come , Rouse , pray ha \u2019 done .", "Wauns ! Rouse , what have you said ?"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Never mind him , child ; I 'll end the dispute presently . Harkye , my dear !", "So am I \u2014 You have got a pretty house here , Mr. Laconic .", "Have a care , the very eyes discover secrets .", "Why , you old bitch ! did you ever hear of love letters dated with the year and day of the month ? do you think billetdoux are like bank bills ?", "Harkye \u2014\u2014", "Brazen , at your service .", "Algebra ! \u2018 tis no country in Christendom , I 'm sure , unless it be some place in the Highlands in Scotland .", "How dare you contend for any thing , and not dare to draw your sword ? But you are a young fellow , and have not been much abroad ; I excuse that ; but pr'ythee , resign the man , pr'ythee do : you are a very honest fellow .", "Presently ; we 're to meet about half a mile out of town , at the waterside \u2014 and so forth \u2014For fear I should be known by any of Worthy 's friends , you must give me leave to wear my mask till after the ceremony which will make me for ever yours .\u2014 Lookye there , my dear dog !", "My dear boy ! how is't ? Your name , my dear ! If I be not mistaken , I have seen your face .", "Nay , for that matter , madam , there are women of very good quality of the name of Brazen .", "I 'll go and buy hooks and lines presently ; for you must know , madam , that I have served in Flanders against the French , in Hungary against the Turks , and in Tangier against the Moors , and I was never so much in love before ; and split me , madam , in all the campaigns I ever made , I have not seen so fine a woman as your ladyship .", "Gadso , ay \u2014\u2014", "My dear , I 'm yours .", "Intimately , sir , he played at billiards to a miracle \u2014 You had a brother too , that was a captain of a fire-ship \u2014 poor Dick \u2014 he had the most engaging way with him of making punch \u2014 and then his cabin was so neat \u2014 but his poor boy Jack was the most comical bastard \u2014 Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! a pickled dog , I shall never forget him .", "\u2018 Tis a project for laying out a thousand pounds .", "What , the Kentish Wilfuls , or those of Staffordshire ?", "No , but I will presently \u2014 Your name , my dear ?", "Have you any pretensions , sir ?", "Captain Brazen ! I 'm yours \u2014 The fellow dares not fight .", "I warrant you , my lad .", "Who 's that , madam ?", "Hold ! where 's the man ?", "True to the touch , \u2018 faith !Madam , I am your humble servant , and all that , madam . A fine river , this same Severn \u2014 Do you love fishing , madam ?", "Plume ! give me a buss .", "Oons , sir ! not fight for her ?", "So am I , my dear ! I am going to be married \u2014 I have had two letters from a lady of fortune , that loves me to madness , fits , cholic , spleen , and vapours \u2014\u2014 shall I marry her in four and twenty hours , ay or no ?", "Company ! mort de ma vie ! I beg the gentleman 's pardon \u2014 who is he ?", "Then what do we fight for ?Now let 's embrace , my dear !", "My hand , heart 's blood , and guts , are at your service . Mr. Worthy , your servant , my dear !", "No , no ; I 'm struck blind \u2014 Worthy ! odso ! well turned \u2014 My mistress has wit at her fingers \u2019 ends \u2014 Madam , I ask your pardon ; \u2018 tis our way abroad \u2014 Mr. Worthy , you 're the happy man .", "I 'll show you .", "This minute ; I must be gone .", "That is , sir , have you ever served abroad ?", "Not a stick , my dear !"], "true_target": ["Contents ! that you shall , old boy ! here they be both .", "Some of us , madam ; but there are brutes among us too , very sad brutes ; for my own part , I have always had the good luck to prove agreeable . I have had very considerable offers , madam \u2014 I might have married a German princess , worth fifty thousand crowns a-year , but her stove disgusted me . The daughter of a Turkish bashaw fell in love with me , too , when I was a prisoner among the Infidels ; she offered to rob her father of his treasure , and make her escape with me ; but I do n't know how , my time was not come : hanging and marriage , you know , go by destiny : Fate has reserved me for a Shropshire lady , worth twenty thousand pounds . Do you know any such person , madam ?", "What , here before me , my dear !", "Will you fight for the lady , sir ?", "What are you , sir ?", "Do n't mind him , madam \u2014 if he were not so well dressed , I should take him for a poet ; but I 'll show you the difference presently . Come , madam , we 'll place you between us , and now the longest sword carries her .", "Laconic ! a very good name truly . I have known several of the Laconics abroad . Poor Jack Laconic ! he was killed at the battle of Landen . I remember that he had a blue ribband in his hat that very day , and after he fell , we found a piece of neat 's tongue in his pocket .", "Hold , hold ; did not you refuse to fight for the lady ?", "He 's an incorrigible sot . Here , my Hector of Holborn , here 's forty shillings for you .", "Then your business is done \u2014 I 'll make you chaplain to the regiment .", "You can n't imagine , my dear , that I want twenty thousand pounds ! I have spent twenty times as much in the service \u2014 But if this twenty thousand pounds should not be in specie \u2014\u2014", "Conundrum ? rat me ! I knew a famous doctor in London of your name \u2014 Where were you born ?", "Lines ! what dost talk of lines ! you have something like a fishing-rod there , indeed ; but I come to be acquainted with you , man \u2014 What 's your name , my dear ?", "Ay , ay , a sad dog .", "No , no , I see a gentleman coming this way that may be inquisitive ; \u2018 tis Worthy , do you know him ?", "Balance ! Sir , I am your most obedient \u2014 I know your whole generation \u2014 had not you an uncle that was governor of the Leeward Islands , some years ago ?", "What do ye mean , gentlemen ? I tell you they were killed , all torn to pieces by cannon-shot , except six I staked to death upon the enemy 's cheveaux de frise .", "You shall drink with me . Then you shall receive your pay , and do no duty .", "Gentlemen , I am yours \u2014 Madam , I am not yours .", "Are you bewitched , my dear ?", "Mr. Worthy , I 'm your servant , and so forth \u2014 Harkye , my dear !", "No , sir , you are my man .", "With all my heart \u2014 I must give him \u2014Algebra ! I fancy , doctor , \u2018 tis hard to calculate the place of your nativity \u2014 Here \u2014And , if I succeed , I 'll build a watch-tower on the top of the highest mountain in Wales , for the study of astrology , and the benefit of the Conundrums .", "The French attack us ! No , sir , we attacked them on the \u2014\u2014 I have reason to remember the time , for I had two-and-twenty horses killed under me that day .", "Your servant , my dear ?", "Is he any thing related to Frank Plume in Northamptonshire ?\u2014 Honest Frank ! many , many a dry bottle have we cracked hand to fist . You must have known his brother Charles , that was concerned in the India company ; he married the daughter of Old Tonguepad , the master in Chancery , a very pretty woman , only she quinted a little ; she died in child-bed of her first child , but the child survived : \u2018 twas a daughter , but whether it was called Margaret or Margery , upon my soul , I can n't remember .But , gentlemen , I must meet a lady , a twenty thousand pounder , presently , upon the walk by the water \u2014 Worthy , your servant ; Laconic , yours .", "Um , um , um , the canonical hour \u2014\u2014 Um , um , very well \u2014 My dear", "Can you read and write , sir ?", "So I will . My dear ! I am your servant , and so forth \u2014 Your name , my dear ?", "Sir , I 'll prefer you ; I 'll make you a corporal this minute .", "Then you 're not worth my sword .", "No , no , I am Captain Plume .", "It cost me twenty pistoles in France , and my enemies thousands of lives in Flanders .", "I grant it \u2014\u2014 You see , Mr. Worthy , \u2018 twas only a random-shot ; it might have taken off your head as well as mine . Courage , my dear ! \u2018 tis the fortune of war ; but the enemy has thought fit to withdraw , I think .", "You are a brave fellow : I always fight with a man before I make him my friend ; and if once I find he will fight , I never quarrel with him afterwards . And now I 'll tell you a secret , my dear friend ! that lady we frightened out of the walk just now , I found in bed this morning , so beautiful , so inviting ; I presently locked the door \u2014 but I 'm a man of honour \u2014 but I believe I shall marry her nevertheless \u2014 her twenty thousand pounds , you know , will be a pretty conveniency . I had an assignation with her here , but your coming spoiled my sport . Curse you , my dear , but do n't do so again \u2014\u2014", "Ay \u2014 my dear !"], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["What then ! is that your respect to the bench ?", "A notorious rogue , I say , and very fit for a soldier .", "Did not the contents of your warrant direct you what sort of men to take up ?", "Innocence ! have you not seduced that young maid ?", "Here , you constable , the next . Set up that black-faced fellow , he has a gunpowder look ; what can you say against this man , constable ?"], "true_target": ["Come , come , child , I 'll take care of you .", "I say , \u2018 tis not to be borne , Mr. Balance .", "Discharge him , discharge him .", "Scrup . Agreed , agreed .", "Who married you , mistress ?", "Nor can I hear of any body that does \u2014 Oh ! here they come ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Nay , I 'm a serjeant myself \u2014 of the militia \u2014 Come , brother , you shall see me exercise . Suppose this a musket ; now I 'm shouldered .", "Ay , ay , so we will \u2014 we will be silent .", "Adso ! that 's true \u2014 Come , now give the word of command .", "It shall be done , sir \u2014 come along , sir .", "He in the middle is Justice Balance , he on the right is Justice Scale , and he on the left is Justice Scruple , and I am Mr. Constable ; four very honest gentlemen .", "Nothing , but that he 's a very honest man .", "Your exercise differs so much from ours , that we shall ne'er agree about it ; if my own captain had given me such a rap , I had taken the law of him ."], "true_target": ["A whoremaster , I say , and therefore fit to go .", "I can n't tell , an \u2019 please ye ; I can n't read .", "There are no more , a n't please your worship .", "May it please your worships , we took them in the very act , re infecta , sir \u2014 The gentleman , indeed , behaved himself like a gentleman , for he drew his sword and swore , and afterwards laid it down and said nothing .", "I do n't know , an \u2019 please your worship .", "That 's the way to silence a man with a witness . What do you mean , friend ?", "May it please your worships , I have a woman at the door to swear a rape against this rogue .", "I have nothing to say against him , an \u2019 please you ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["But his wife and children , Mr. Balance ?", "A very pretty constable , truly . I find we have no business here .", "Well , friend , what have you to say for yourself ?"], "true_target": ["Lookye , gentlemen , this fellow has a trade , and the act of parliament here expresses , that we are to impress no man that has any visible means of a livelihood .", "Come , honest captain , sit by me .\u2014 Now , produce your prisoners \u2014\u2014 Here , that fellow there , set him up . Mr. Constable , what have you to say against this man ?", "A wife and five children ? you constable , you rogue , how durst you impress a man that has a wife and five children ?", "Lookye , gentlemen , that 's enough ; he 's a very impudent fellow , and fit for a soldier ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["Ay , ay , that 's the reason you would send him away ; you know I have a child every year , and you are afraid that they should come upon the parish at last ."], "true_target": ["Lookye , Mr. Captain , the parish shall get nothing by sending him away , for I wo n't lose my teeming-time , if there be a man left in the parish .", "You lie , sirrah , you lie ; an please your worship , he 's the best natured pains-taking'st man in the parish , witness my five poor children ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["May it please your worship , I gave him half a crown , to say that I was an honest man ; but now , since that your worships have made me a rogue , I hope I shall have my money again .", "A collier ; I work in the coal-pits ."], "true_target": ["Here 's my wife , poor woman .", "I 'm married ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["I 'm married in conscience ."], "true_target": ["My husband : we agreed that I should call him husband , to avoid passing for a whore , and that he should call me wife , to shun going for a soldier ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["To none but your worship .", "I shall ."], "true_target": ["We did not miss her till the evening , sir ; and then , searching for her in the chamber that was my young master 's , we found her clothes there ; but the suit that your son left in the press , when he went to London , was gone .", "The same ."], "play_index": 26, "act_index": 26}, {"query": ["So , so ; you are sure they are married ?", "For which reason I resolved not to stir . At last the good old lady broke through her painful taciturnity with an invective against long visits . I would not have understood her , but Millamant joining in the argument , I rose and with a constrained smile told her , I thought nothing was so easy as to know when a visit began to be troublesome ; she reddened and I withdrew , without expecting her reply .", "He is the only man that does , madam .", "I did as much as man could , with any reasonable conscience ; I proceeded to the very last act of flattery with her , and was guilty of a song in her commendation . Nay , I got a friend to put her into a lampoon , and compliment her with the imputation of an affair with a young fellow , which I carried so far , that I told her the malicious town took notice that she was grown fat of a sudden ; and when she lay in of a dropsy , persuaded her she was reported to be in labour . The devil 's i n't , if an old woman is to be flattered further , unless a man should endeavour downright personally to debauch her : and that my virtue forbade me . But for the discovery of this amour , I am indebted to your friend , or your wife 's friend , Mrs. Marwood .", "I would give something that you did not know I could not help it .", "Yes , and Mrs. Marwood and three or four more , whom I never saw before ; seeing me , they all put on their grave faces , whispered one another , then complained aloud of the vapours , and after fell into a profound silence .", "Has the tailor brought Waitwell 's clothes home , and the new liveries ?", "I say that a man may as soon make a friend by his wit , or a fortune by his honesty , as win a woman with plain-dealing and sincerity .", "How ? Harkee , Petulant , come hither . Explain , or I shall call your interpreter .", "Oh , in good time . Your leave for the other offender and penitent to appear , madam . SCENE XII .", "Consider , madam ; in reality you could not receive much prejudice : it was an innocent device , though I confess it had a face of guiltiness \u2014 it was at most an artifice which love contrived - - and errors which love produces have ever been accounted venial . At least think it is punishment enough that I have lost what in my heart I hold most dear , that to your cruel indignation I have offered up this beauty , and with her my peace and quiet ; nay , all my hopes of future comfort .", "The persons concerned in that affair have yet a tolerable reputation . I am afraid Mr. Fainall will be censorious .", "I would beg a little private audience too . You had the tyranny to deny me last night , though you knew I came to impart a secret to you that concerned my love .", "Yes .", "Ay , marry , what 's that , Witwoud ?", "I confess this is something extraordinary . I believe he waits for himself now , he is so long a coming ; oh , I ask his pardon . SCENE IX . PETULANT , MIRABELL , FAINALL , WITWOUD , BETTY .", "I thank you . IMPRIMIS , then , I covenant that your acquaintance be general ; that you admit no sworn confidant or intimate of your own sex ; no she friend to screen her affairs under your countenance , and tempt you to make trial of a mutual secrecy . No decoy-duck to wheedle you a FOP-SCRAMBLING to the play in a mask , then bring you home in a pretended fright , when you think you shall be found out , and rail at me for missing the play , and disappointing the frolic which you had to pick me up and prove my constancy .", "I am of another opinion : the greater the coxcomb , always the more the scandal ; for a woman who is not a fool can have but one reason for associating with a man who is one .", "Your bill of fare is something advanced in this latter account . Well , have I liberty to offer conditions : -  that when you are dwindled into a wife , I may not be beyond measure enlarged into a husband ?", "Care is taken for that . She is won and worn by this time . They were married this morning .", "You are very free with your friend 's acquaintance .", "What , after the last ?", "I have seen him ; he promises to be an extraordinary person . I think you have the honour to be related to him .", "You seem to be unattended , madam . You used to have the BEAU MONDE throng after you , and a flock of gay fine perukes hovering round you .", "No ?", "I have something more .\u2014 Gone ! Think of you ? To think of a whirlwind , though \u2018 twere in a whirlwind , were a case of more steady contemplation , a very tranquillity of mind and mansion . A fellow that lives in a windmill has not a more whimsical dwelling than the heart of a man that is lodged in a woman . There is no point of the compass to which they cannot turn , and by which they are not turned , and by one as well as another ; for motion , not method , is their occupation . To know this , and yet continue to be in love , is to be made wise from the dictates of reason , and yet persevere to play the fool by the force of instinct .\u2014 Oh , here come my pair of turtles . What , billing so sweetly ? Is not Valentine 's day over with you yet ?", "Not always : but as often as his memory fails him and his commonplace of comparisons . He is a fool with a good memory and some few scraps of other folks \u2019 wit . He is one whose conversation can never be approved , yet it is now and then to be endured . He has indeed one good quality : he is not exceptious , for he so passionately affects the reputation of understanding raillery that he will construe an affront into a jest , and call downright rudeness and ill language satire and fire .", "I had rather be his relation than his acquaintance .", "I am all obedience . SCENE VII . MRS. MILLAMANT , MRS. FAINALL .", "Ay , ay ; suffer your cruelty to ruin the object of your power , to destroy your lover \u2014 and then how vain , how lost a thing you 'll be ! Nay , \u2018 tis true ; you are no longer handsome when you 've lost your lover : your beauty dies upon the instant . For beauty is the lover 's gift : \u2018 tis he bestows your charms : -  your glass is all a cheat . The ugly and the old , whom the looking-glass mortifies , yet after commendation can be flattered by it , and discover beauties in it : for that reflects our praises rather than your face .", "I hope they are not persons of condition that you use at this rate .", "Yes , upon condition that she consent to my marriage with her niece , and surrender the moiety of her fortune in her possession .", "What you please . I 'll play on to entertain you .", "Which may be presumed , with a blessing on our endeavours -", "Yes , I think the good lady would marry anything that resembled a man , though \u2018 twere no more than what a butler could pinch out of a napkin .", "You should have just so much disgust for your husband as may be sufficient to make you relish your lover .", "That I believe .", "What , he speaks unseasonable truths sometimes , because he has not wit enough to invent an evasion ?", "With all my heart , dear Sir Wilfull . What shall we do for music ?", "How pertinently the jade answers me ! Ha ! almost one a \u2019 clock !Oh , y'are come !", "Who are they ?", "Where are the gentlemen ?", "Though \u2018 twere a man whom he feared or a woman whom he loved .", "Not at all : I happen to be grave to-day , and you are gay ; that 's all .", "He wants words ?", "Mr. Fainall , it is now time that you should know that your lady , while she was at her own disposal , and before you had by your insinuations wheedled her out of a pretended settlement of the greatest part of her fortune -", "But do not you know that when favours are conferred upon instant and tedious solicitation , that they diminish in their value , and that both the giver loses the grace , and the receiver lessens his pleasure ?", "Sirrah , Waitwell , why , sure , you think you were married for your own recreation and not for my conveniency .", "Can you not find in the variety of your disposition one moment -", "Waitwell and Foible . I would not tempt my servant to betray me by trusting him too far . If your mother , in hopes to ruin me , should consent to marry my pretended uncle , he might , like Mosca in the FOX , stand upon terms ; so I made him sure beforehand .", "Meaning mine , sir ?", "Yes , sir . I say that this lady , while a widow , having , it seems , received some cautions respecting your inconstancy and tyranny of temper , which from her own partial opinion and fondness of you she could never have suspected \u2014 she did , I say , by the wholesome advice of friends and of sages learned in the laws of this land , deliver this same as her act and deed to me in trust , and to the uses within mentioned . You may read if you please, though perhaps what is written on the back may serve your occasions .", "What , courage ?", "You have a taste extremely delicate , and are for refining on your pleasures .", "Cry you mercy .", "And , sir , I have resigned my pretensions .", "Betty , what says your clock ?", "Then \u2018 tis possible he may be but half a fool .", "Oh , raillery , raillery ! Come , I know thou art in the women 's secrets . What , you 're a cabalist ; I know you stayed at Millamant 's last night after I went . Was there any mention made of my uncle or me ? Tell me ; if thou hadst but good nature equal to thy wit , Petulant , Tony Witwoud , who is now thy competitor in fame , would show as dim by thee as a dead whiting 's eye by a pearl of orient ; he would no more be seen by thee than Mercury is by the sun : come , I 'm sure thou wo't tell me .", "Excellent Foible ! Matrimony has made you eloquent in love .", "Give you joy , Mrs. Foible .", "You may remember , gentlemen , I once requested your hands as witnesses to a certain parchment .", "Come , thou art an honest fellow , Petulant , and shalt make love to my mistress , thou shalt , faith . What hast thou heard of my uncle ?", "Very well , now you shall know . Madam , your promise .", "Waitwell , my servant .", "Unkind ! You had the leisure to entertain a herd of fools : things who visit you from their excessive idleness , bestowing on your easiness that time which is the incumbrance of their lives . How can you find delight in such society ? It is impossible they should admire you ; they are not capable ; or , if they were , it should be to you as a mortification : for , sure , to please a fool is some degree of folly .", "It is in writing and with papers of concern ; but I have sent my servant for it , and will deliver it to you , with all acknowledgments for your transcendent goodness .", "She was always civil to me , till of late . I confess I am not one of those coxcombs who are apt to interpret a woman 's good manners to her prejudice , and think that she who does not refuse \u2018 em everything can refuse \u2018 em nothing .", "That 's well . Do you go home again , d'ye hear , and adjourn the consummation till farther order ; bid Waitwell shake his ears , and Dame Partlet rustle up her feathers , and meet me at one a \u2019 clock by Rosamond 's pond , that I may see her before she returns to her lady . And , as you tender your ears , be secret .", "A fool , and your brother , Witwoud ?", "Come , sir , will you endeavour to forget yourself \u2014 and transform into Sir Rowland ?", "An old woman 's appetite is depraved like that of a girl . \u2018 Tis the green-sickness of a second childhood , and , like the faint offer of a latter spring , serves but to usher in the fall , and withers in an affected bloom .", "And this is the sum of what you could collect last night ?", "What-d'eehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeN \u2018 ems ! What are they , Witwoud ?", "Foible is one , and a penitent . SCENE XI .", "Say you so ?"], "true_target": ["Well , is the grand affair over ? You have been something tedious .", "I thought you had been the greatest favourite .", "You pursue the argument with a distrust that seems to be unaffected , and confesses you are conscious of a concern for which the lady is more indebted to you than is your wife .", "Even so , sir : \u2018 tis the way of the world , sir ; of the widows of the world . I suppose this deed may bear an elder date than what you have obtained from your lady .", "Oh , you should hate with prudence .", "And for a discerning man somewhat too passionate a lover , for I like her with all her faults ; nay , like her for her faults . Her follies are so natural , or so artful , that they become her , and those affectations which in another woman would be odious serve but to make her more agreeable . I 'll tell thee , Fainall , she once used me with that insolence that in revenge I took her to pieces , sifted her , and separated her failings : I studied \u2018 em and got \u2018 em by rote . The catalogue was so large that I was not without hopes , one day or other , to hate her heartily . To which end I so used myself to think of \u2018 em , that at length , contrary to my design and expectation , they gave me every hour less and less disturbance , till in a few days it became habitual to me to remember \u2018 em without being displeased . They are now grown as familiar to me as my own frailties , and in all probability in a little time longer I shall like \u2018 em as well .", "Ay ; I have been engaged in a matter of some sort of mirth , which is not yet ripe for discovery . I am glad this is not a cabal - night . I wonder , Fainall , that you who are married , and of consequence should be discreet , will suffer your wife to be of such a party .", "You had better step and ask his wife , if you would be credibly informed .", "Of her understanding I am , if not of her person .", "You are not in a course of fools ?", "Draw off Witwoud .", "Ay .", "Names ?", "Where hast thou stumbled upon all this truth ?", "Maybe you think him too positive ?", "Witwoud and Petulant , and what was worse , her aunt , your wife 's mother , my evil genius \u2014 or to sum up all in her own name , my old Lady Wishfort came in .", "Your diligence will merit more . In the meantime \u2014", "Your health ! Is there a worse disease than the conversation of fools ?", "Would you have \u2018 em both before marriage ? Or will you be contented with the first now , and stay for the other till after grace ?", "I thought you were obliged to watch for your brother Sir", "But hast not thou then sense enough to know that thou ought'st to be most ashamed thyself when thou hast put another out of countenance ?", "True .", "I confess you ought to think so . You are in the right , that you may plead the error of your judgment in defence of your practice . Where modesty 's ill manners , \u2018 tis but fit That impudence and malice pass for wit .", "In justice to you , I have made you privy to my whole design , and put it in your power to ruin or advance my fortune .", "I thank you heartily , heartily .", "Are you ? Pray then walk by yourselves . Let not us be accessory to your putting the ladies out of countenance with your senseless ribaldry , which you roar out aloud as often as they pass by you , and when you have made a handsome woman blush , then you think you have been severe .", "Have you not left off your impudent pretensions there yet ? I shall cut your throat , sometime or other , Petulant , about that business .", "Give it me . Madam , you remember your promise .", "You do ?", "By your leave , Witwoud , that were like enquiring after an old fashion to ask a husband for his wife .", "They are turning into the other walk .", "Vain ?", "Faith , I 'll do what I can for thee , and I 'll pray that heav'n may grant it thee in the meantime .", "Stand off , sir , not a penny . Go on and prosper , Foible . The lease shall be made good and the farm stocked , if we succeed .", "For travel ! Why the man that I mean is above forty .", "You would affect a cruelty which is not in your nature ; your true vanity is in the power of pleasing .", "I do from my soul .", "You wrong him ; his name is fairly written , as shall appear . You do not remember , gentlemen , anything of what that parchment contained ?", "What , is the chief of that noble family in town , Sir Wilfull", "Yet , to those two vain empty things , you owe two the greatest pleasures of your life .", "If a deep sense of the many injuries I have offered to so good a lady , with a sincere remorse and a hearty contrition , can but obtain the least glance of compassion . I am too happy . Ah , madam , there was a time \u2014 but let it be forgotten . I confess I have deservedly forfeited the high place I once held , of sighing at your feet ; nay , kill me not by turning from me in disdain , I come not to plead for favour . Nay , not for pardon : I am a suppliant only for pity : -  I am going where I never shall behold you more .", "I do n't find that Petulant confesses the superiority of wit to be your talent , Witwoud .", "Ay , madam ; but that is too late , my reward is intercepted . You have disposed of her who only could have made me a compensation for all my services . But be it as it may , I am resolved I 'll serve you ; you shall not be wronged in this savage manner .", "And who may have been the foundress of this sect ? My Lady Wishfort , I warrant , who publishes her detestation of mankind , and full of the vigour of fifty-five , declares for a friend and ratafia ; and let posterity shift for itself , she 'll breed no more .", "Have you any more conditions to offer ? Hitherto your demands are pretty reasonable .", "Have a care of such apologies , Witwoud ; for I never knew a fool but he affected to complain either of the spleen or his memory .", "Ay , and over and over again .I would have you as often as possibly I can . Well , heav'n grant I love you not too well ; that 's all my fear .", "Here she comes , i'faith , full sail , with her fan spread and streamers out , and a shoal of fools for tenders .\u2014 Ha , no , I cry her mercy .", "Does that please you ?", "ITEM , I article , that you continue to like your own face as long as I shall , and while it passes current with me , that you endeavour not to new coin it . To which end , together with all vizards for the day , I prohibit all masks for the night , made of oiled skins and I know not what \u2014 hog 's bones , hare 's gall , pig water , and the marrow of a roasted cat . In short , I forbid all commerce with the gentlewomen in what-d'yehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeNit court . ITEM , I shut my doors against all bawds with baskets , and pennyworths of muslin , china , fans , atlases , etc . ITEM , when you shall be breeding", "She is more mistress of herself than to be under the necessity of such a resignation .", "But that you would not accept of a remedy from my hands \u2014 I own I have not deserved you should owe any obligation to me ; or else , perhaps , I could devise -", "I denounce against all strait lacing , squeezing for a shape , till you mould my boy 's head like a sugar-loaf , and instead of a man-child , make me father to a crooked billet . Lastly , to the dominion of the tea-table I submit ; but with proviso , that you exceed not in your province , but restrain yourself to native and simple tea-table drinks , as tea , chocolate , and coffee . As likewise to genuine and authorised tea-table talk , such as mending of fashions , spoiling reputations , railing at absent friends , and so forth . But that on no account you encroach upon the men 's prerogative , and presume to drink healths , or toast fellows ; for prevention of which , I banish all foreign forces , all auxiliaries to the tea-table , as orange-brandy , all aniseed , cinnamon , citron , and Barbadoes waters , together with ratafia and the most noble spirit of clary . But for cowslip-wine , poppy-water , and all dormitives , those I allow . These provisos admitted , in other things I may prove a tractable and complying husband .", "Not in our physic , it may be .", "For that , madam , give yourself no trouble ; let me have your consent . Sir Wilfull is my friend : he has had compassion upon lovers , and generously engaged a volunteer in this action , for our service , and now designs to prosecute his travels .", "To your lover you owe the pleasure of hearing yourselves praised , and to an echo the pleasure of hearing yourselves talk .", "Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous actions ? To save that idol , reputation . If the familiarities of our loves had produced that consequence of which you were apprehensive , where could you have fixed a father 's name with credit but on a husband ? I knew Fainall to be a man lavish of his morals , an interested and professing friend , a false and a designing lover , yet one whose wit and outward fair behaviour have gained a reputation with the town , enough to make that woman stand excused who has suffered herself to be won by his addresses . A better man ought not to have been sacrificed to the occasion ; a worse had not answered to the purpose . When you are weary of him you know your remedy .", "She has beauty enough to make any man think so , and complaisance enough not to contradict him who shall tell her so .", "You are a fortunate man , Mr. Fainall .", "Madam , disquiet not yourself on that account : to my knowledge his circumstances are such he must of force comply . For my part I will contribute all that in me lies to a reunion . In the meantime , madam, let me before these witnesses restore to you this deed of trust : it may be a means , well managed , to make you live easily together . From hence let those be warned , who mean to wed , Lest mutual falsehood stain the bridal-bed : For each deceiver to his cost may find That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind .EPILOGUE \u2014 Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle . After our Epilogue this crowd dismisses , I 'm thinking how this play 'll be pulled to pieces . But pray consider , e'er you doom its fall , How hard a thing \u2018 twould be to please you all . There are some critics so with spleen diseased , They scarcely come inclining to be pleased : And sure he must have more than mortal skill Who pleases anyone against his will . Then , all bad poets we are sure are foes , And how their number 's swelled the town well knows In shoals , I 've marked \u2018 em judging in the pit ; Though they 're on no pretence for judgment fit , But that they have been damned for want of wit . Since when , they , by their own offences taught , Set up for spies on plays , and finding fault . Others there are whose malice we 'd prevent : Such , who watch plays , with scurrilous intent To mark out who by characters are meant : And though no perfect likeness they can trace , Yet each pretends to know the copied face . These , with false glosses , feed their own ill-nature , And turn to libel what was meant a satire . May such malicious fops this fortune find , To think themselves alone the fools designed : If any are so arrogantly vain , To think they singly can support a scene , And furnish fool enough to entertain . For well the learned and the judicious know , That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low , As any one abstracted fop to show . For , as when painters form a matchless face , They from each fair one catch some diff'rent grace , And shining features in one portrait blend , To which no single beauty must pretend : So poets oft do in one piece expose Whole BELLES ASSEMBLEES of coquettes and beaux .", "Witwoud ?", "I was then in such a humour , that I should have been better pleased if she had been less discreet .", "You are merry , madam , but I would persuade you for a moment to be serious .", "I thank you , I know as much as my curiosity requires . Fainall , are you for the Mall ?", "Then we 're agreed . Shall I kiss your hand upon the contract ? And here comes one to be a witness to the sealing of the deed .", "Wilfull 's arrival .", "So one will be rotten before he be ripe , and the other will be rotten without ever being ripe at all .", "Like Daphne she , as lovely and as coy . Do you lock yourself up from me , to make my search more curious ? Or is this pretty artifice contrived , to signify that here the chase must end , and my pursuit be crowned , for you can fly no further ?", "Will you ? I take you at your word . I ask no more . I must have leave for two criminals to appear .", "Pray , are the follies of this knight-errant and those of the squire , his brother , anything related ?", "That was by Foible 's direction and my instruction , that she might seem to carry it more privately .", "Let me be pitied first , and afterwards forgotten . I ask no more .", "I wonder there is not an act of parliament to save the credit of the nation and prohibit the exportation of fools .", "But how you came to know it -", "How !", "Have you the certificate ?"], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["To let you know I see through all your little arts .\u2014 Come , you both love him , and both have equally dissembled your aversion . Your mutual jealousies of one another have made you clash till you have both struck fire . I have seen the warm confession red'ning on your cheeks , and sparkling from your eyes .", "Your fame I have preserved . Your fortune has been bestowed as the prodigality of your love would have it , in pleasures which we both have shared . Yet , had not you been false I had e'er this repaid it . \u2018 Tis true \u2014 had you permitted Mirabell with Millamant to have stolen their marriage , my lady had been incensed beyond all means of reconcilement : Millamant had forfeited the moiety of her fortune , which then would have descended to my wife . And wherefore did I marry but to make lawful prize of a rich widow 's wealth , and squander it on love and you ?", "Nay , this is extravagance . Come , I ask your pardon . No tears \u2014 I was to blame , I could not love you and be easy in my doubts . Pray forbear \u2014 I believe you ; I 'm convinced I 've done you wrong ; and any way , every way will make amends : I 'll hate my wife yet more , damn her , I 'll part with her , rob her of all she 's worth , and we 'll retire somewhere , anywhere , to another world ; I 'll marry thee \u2014 be pacified .\u2014 \u2018 Sdeath , they come : hide your face , your tears . You have a mask : wear it a moment . This way , this way : be persuaded .", "Ha , ha , ha ! you are my wife 's friend too .", "Well , madam , I have suffered myself to be overcome by the importunity of this lady , your friend , and am content you shall enjoy your own proper estate during life , on condition you oblige yourself never to marry , under such penalty as I think convenient .", "Your guilt , not your resentment , begets your rage . If yet you loved , you could forgive a jealousy : but you are stung to find you are discovered .", "You misinterpret my reproof . I meant but to remind you of the slight account you once could make of strictest ties when set in competition with your love to me .", "Come , I 'm sorry .", "For loving you ?", "\u2018 Tis impossible Millamant should hearken to it .", "I 'll answer you when I have the rest of it in my possession .", "He is expected to-day . Do you know him ?", "Death , am I not married ? What 's pretence ? Am I not imprisoned , fettered ? Have I not a wife ? Nay , a wife that was a widow , a young widow , a handsome widow , and would be again a widow , but that I have a heart of proof , and something of a constitution to bustle through the ways of wedlock and this world . Will you yet be reconciled to truth and me ?", "OF CONVEYANCE OF THE WHOLE ESTATE REAL OF ARABELLA LANGUISH , WIDOW ,", "Oh , my dear , I am satisfied of your tenderness ; I know you cannot resent anything from me ; especially what is an effect of my concern .", "What , I warrant he 's unsincere , or \u2018 tis some such trifle .", "Why do you think so ?", "What ? though half her fortune depends upon her marrying with my lady 's approbation ?", "A DEED", "Now I remember , I wonder not they were weary of you ; last night was one of their cabal-nights : they have \u2018 em three times a week and meet by turns at one another 's apartments , where they come together like the coroner 's inquest , to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week . You and I are excluded , and it was once proposed that all the male sex should be excepted ; but somebody moved that to avoid scandal there might be one man of the community , upon which motion Witwoud and Petulant were enrolled members .", "You do n't take your friend to be over-nicely bred ?", "Jealous ? No , by this kiss . Let husbands be jealous , but let the lover still believe : or if he doubt , let it be only to endear his pleasure , and prepare the joy that follows , when he proves his mistress true . But let husbands \u2019 doubts convert to endless jealousy ; or if they have belief , let it corrupt to superstition and blind credulity . I am single and will herd no more with \u2018 em . True , I wear the badge , but I 'll disown the order . And since I take my leave of \u2018 em , I care not if I leave \u2018 em a common motto to their common crest . All husbands must or pain or shame endure ; The wise too jealous are , fools too secure .", "Petulant and you both will find Mirabell as warm a rival as a lover .", "You know I love you .", "What , was it conscience then ? Professed a friendship ! Oh , the pious friendships of the female sex !", "That I have been deceived , madam , and you are false .", "Marry her , marry her ; be half as well acquainted with her charms as you are with her defects , and , my life o n't , you are your own man again .", "Your date of deliberation , madam , is expired . Here is the instrument ; are you prepared to sign ?", "If it must all come out , why let \u2018 em know it , \u2018 tis but the way of the world . That shall not urge me to relinquish or abate one tittle of my terms ; no , I will insist the more .", "Fie , fie , friend , if you grow censorious I must leave you : -", "Frenzy !", "For having only that one hope , the accomplishment of it of consequence must put an end to all my hopes , and what a wretch is he who must survive his hopes ! Nothing remains when that day comes but to sit down and weep like Alexander when he wanted other worlds to conquer .", "But he , I fear , is too insensible .", "It may be so . I do not now begin to apprehend it .", "I learned it from his Czarish Majesty 's retinue , in a winter evening 's conference over brandy and pepper , amongst other secrets of matrimony and policy , as they are at present practised in the northern hemisphere . But this must be agreed unto , and that positively . Lastly , I will be endowed , in right of my wife , with that six thousand pound , which is the moiety of Mrs. Millamant 's fortune in your possession , and which she has forfeitedby her disobedience in contracting herself against your consent or knowledge , and by refusing the offered match with Sir Wilfull Witwoud , which you , like a careful aunt , had provided for her .", "This continence is all dissembled ; this is in order to have something to brag of the next time he makes court to Millamant , and swear he has abandoned the whole sex for her sake .", "Yes , while the instrument is drawing , to which you must set your hand till more sufficient deeds can be perfected : which I will take care shall be done with all possible speed . In the meanwhile I will go for the said instrument , and till my return you may balance this matter in your own discretion . SCENE VII . LADY WISHFORT , MRS. MARWOOD .", "Why , then , Foible 's a bawd , an errant , rank match-making bawd . And I , it seems , am a husband , a rank husband , and my wife a very errant , rank wife ,\u2014 all in the way of the world . \u2018 Sdeath , to be a cuckold by anticipation , a cuckold in embryo ! Sure I was born with budding antlers like a young satyr , or a citizen 's child , \u2018 sdeath , to be out-witted , to be out-jilted , out-matrimonied . If I had kept my speed like a stag , \u2018 twere somewhat , but to crawl after , with my horns like a snail , and be outstripped by my wife \u2014 \u2018 tis scurvy wedlock .", "Witwoud says they are -", "You do her wrong ; for , to give her her due , she has wit .", "What have you done with Petulant ?", "You are very cruel , Petulant .", "Ay , I 'll take a turn before dinner .", "You would intimate then , as if there were a fellow-feeling between my wife and him ?", "I come to make demands \u2014 I 'll hear no objections .", "Millamant ?", "Perfidious fiend ! Then thus I 'll be revenged .", "Prithee , why so reserved ? Something has put you out of humour .", "Indeed ? Are you provided of your guard , with your single beef-eater there ? But I 'm prepared for you , and insist upon my first proposal . You shall submit your own estate to my management , and absolutely make over my wife 's to my sole use , as pursuant to the purport and tenor of this other covenant . I suppose , madam , your consent is not requisite in this case ; nor , Mr. Mirabell , your resignation ; nor , Sir Wilfull , your right . You may draw your fox if you please , sir , and make a bear-garden flourish somewhere else ; for here it will not avail . This , my Lady Wishfort , must be subscribed , or your darling daughter 's turned adrift , like a leaky hulk to sink or swim , as she and the current of this lewd town can agree .", "Faith , this has an appearance .", "O brave Petulant ! Three !", "IN TRUST TO EDWARD MIRABELL . Confusion !", "No more Sir Rowlands ,\u2014 the next imposture may not be so timely detected .", "Damn him , that had been mine \u2014 had you not made that fond discovery . That had been forfeited , had they been married . My wife had added lustre to my horns by that increase of fortune : I could have worn \u2018 em tipt with gold , though my forehead had been furnished like a deputy-lieutenant 's hall .", "You may allow him to win of you at play , for you are sure to be too hard for him at repartee : since you monopolise the wit that is between you , the fortune must be his of course .", "The discovery of your sham addresses to her , to conceal your love to her niece , has provoked this separation . Had you dissembled better , things might have continued in the state of nature .", "How ?", "Yes ; he is half-brother to this Witwoud by a former wife , who was sister to my Lady Wishfort , my wife 's mother . If you marry Millamant , you must call cousins too ."], "true_target": ["Sir Wilfull is an odd mixture of bashfulness and obstinacy . But when he 's drunk , he 's as loving as the monster in The Tempest , and much after the same manner . To give bother his due , he has something of good-nature , and does not always want wit .", "Oh , for that matter , leave me to manage him ; I 'll disable him for that , he will drink like a Dane . After dinner I 'll set his hand in .", "Call for himself ? What dost thou mean ?", "What ? What is it not ? What is it not yet ? It is not yet too late -", "I 'll look upon the gamesters in the next room .", "I thought you had died for her .", "And wherefore do you hate him ? He is insensible , and your resentment follows his neglect . An instance ? The injuries you have done him are a proof : your interposing in his love . What cause had you to make discoveries of his pretended passion ? To undeceive the credulous aunt , and be the officious obstacle of his match with Millamant ?", "Of Mirabell .", "Too illiterate ?", "You are a gallant man , Mirabell ; and though you may have cruelty enough not to satisfy a lady 's longing , you have too much generosity not to be tender of her honour . Yet you speak with an indifference which seems to be affected , and confesses you are conscious of a negligence .", "My dear .", "With infidelity , with loving another , with love of Mirabell .", "Why , what will you do ?", "I would not hurt you for the world . Have I no other hold to keep you here ?", "If the worst come to the worst , I 'll turn my wife to grass . I have already a deed of settlement of the best part of her estate , which I wheedled out of her , and that you shall partake at least .", "Ay , ay ; I have experience . I have a wife , and so forth .", "You were to blame to resent what she spoke only in compliance with her aunt .", "They had a mind to be rid of you .", "Hum ! That may be -", "Faith , I am not jealous . Besides , most who are engaged are women and relations ; and for the men , they are of a kind too contemptible to give scandal .", "It is , to love another .", "The means , the means ?", "If you have a mind to finish his picture , you have an opportunity to do it at full length . Behold the original .", "Go , you are an insignificant thing . Well , what are you the better for this ? Is this Mr. Mirabell 's expedient ? I 'll be put off no longer . You , thing , that was a wife , shall smart for this . I will not leave thee wherewithal to hide thy shame : your body shall be naked as your reputation .", "I 'll be fooled no longer .", "Europe should know we have blockheads of all ages .", "Faith , I think not ,", "Mirabell , you shall hear of this , sir ; be sure you shall . Let me pass , oaf .", "Petulant and Witwoud .\u2014 Bring me some chocolate .", "You do n't look well to-day , child .", "He 's impudent ?", "Not at all : Witwoud grows by the knight like a medlar grafted on a crab . One will melt in your mouth and t'other set your teeth on edge ; one is all pulp and the other all core .", "Have we done ?", "Confess , Millamant and you quarrelled last night , after I left you ; my fair cousin has some humours that would tempt the patience of a Stoic . What , some coxcomb came in , and was well received by her , while you were by ?", "No matter for that ; \u2018 tis for the honour of England that all", "For a passionate lover methinks you are a man somewhat too discerning in the failings of your mistress .", "Joy of your success , Mirabell ; you look pleased .", "Very likely , sir . What 's here ? Damnation !", "I do not . \u2018 Twas for my ease to oversee and wilfully neglect the gross advances made him by my wife , that by permitting her to be engaged , I might continue unsuspected in my pleasures , and take you oftener to my arms in full security . But could you think , because the nodding husband would not wake , that e'er the watchful lover slept ?", "You are not jealous ?", "Nay , we must not part thus .", "Hum ! Faith , and that 's well thought on : marriage is honourable , as you say ; and if so , wherefore should cuckoldom be a discredit , being derived from so honourable a root ?", "Excellent creature ! Well , sure , if I should live to be rid of my wife , I should be a miserable man .", "No , I 'll give you your revenge another time , when you are not so indifferent ; you are thinking of something else now , and play too negligently : the coldness of a losing gamester lessens the pleasure of the winner . I 'd no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune than I 'd make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation .", "Not while you are worth a groat , indeed , my dear . Madam ,", "Why , what 's the matter ?", "So , so ; why this point 's clear . Well , how do we proceed ?", "By no means , \u2018 tis better as \u2018 tis ; \u2018 tis better to trade with a little loss , than to be quite eaten up with being overstocked .", "She has wit .", "Are you jealous as often as you see Witwoud entertained by", "What should provoke her to be your enemy , unless she has made you advances which you have slighted ? Women do not easily forgive omissions of that nature .", "Sir ! Pretended ?", "He comes to town in order to equip himself for travel .", "Oh , if you are prescribed marriage , you shall be considered ; I will only reserve to myself the power to choose for you . If your physic be wholesome , it matters not who is your apothecary . Next , my wife shall settle on me the remainder of her fortune , not made over already ; and for her maintenance depend entirely on my discretion .", "\u2018 Tis well you do n't know what you say , or else your commendation would go near to make me either vain or jealous .", "That sham is too gross to pass on me , though \u2018 tis imposed on you , madam .", "Sir Wilfull , your most faithful servant .", "Why , faith , I 'm thinking of it . Let me see . I am married already ; so that 's over . My wife has played the jade with me ; well , that 's over too . I never loved her , or if I had , why that would have been over too by this time . Jealous of her I cannot be , for I am certain ; so there 's an end of jealousy . Weary of her I am and shall be . No , there 's no end of that ; no , no , that were too much to hope . Thus far concerning my repose . Now for my reputation : as to my own , I married not for it ; so that 's out of the question . And as to my part in my wife 's \u2014 why , she had parted with hers before ; so , bringing none to me , she can take none from me : \u2018 tis against all rule of play that I should lose to one who has not wherewithal to stake .", "Oh , there it is then : she has a lasting passion for you , and with reason .\u2014 What , then my wife was there ?"], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["They are gone , sir , in great anger .", "He 's in the next room , friend . That way .", "I 'll tell him .", "Sir , the coach stays ."], "true_target": ["Did not a messenger bring you one but now , sir ?", "Yes ; what 's your business ?", "Turned of the last canonical hour , sir .", "No , sir .", "Yes ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Married and bedded , sir ; I am witness .", "Here it is , sir ."], "true_target": ["Sir , there 's such coupling at Pancras that they stand behind one another , as \u2018 twere in a country-dance . Ours was the last couple to lead up ; and no hopes appearing of dispatch , besides , the parson growing hoarse , we were afraid his lungs would have failed before it came to our turn ; so we drove round to Duke 's Place , and there they were riveted in a trice .", "Yes , sir ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["I am charged to deliver into his own hands ."], "true_target": ["Is one Squire Witwoud here ?", "I have a letter for him , from his brother Sir Wilfull , which"], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["If there had been words enow between \u2018 em to have expressed provocation , they had gone together by the ears like a pair of castanets .", "Is that the way ? Pray , madam , do you pin up your hair with all your letters ? I find I must keep copies .", "Umh \u2014 no -", "Ay , we 'll all walk in the park ; the ladies talked of being there .", "I'gad , I understand nothing of the matter : I 'm in a maze yet , like a dog in a dancing school .", "A plot , a plot , to get rid of the knight \u2014 your husband 's advice ; but he sneaked off . SCENE X . SIR WILFULL , drunk , LADY WISHFORT , WITWOUD , MRS. MILLAMANT , MRS. FAINALL .", "I shall be troubled with him too ; what shall I do with the fool ?", "Come , knight . Pox on him , I do n't know what to say to him . Will you go to a cock-match ?", "As a physician of a good air . I cannot help it , madam , though \u2018 tis against myself .", "Mirabell !", "No , but prithee excuse me : -  my memory is such a memory .", "Faith , my dear , I can n't tell ; she 's a woman and a kind of a humorist .", "O rare Petulant , thou art as quick as fire in a frosty morning ; thou shalt to the Mall with us , and we 'll be very severe .", "No offence , I hope , brother ?", "Empresses , my dear . By your what-d'eehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeN \u2018 ems he means", "Now , Petulant ? All 's over , all 's well ? Gad , my head begins to whim it about . Why dost thou not speak ? Thou art both as drunk and as mute as a fish .", "Not I : -  yes , I think it is he . I 've almost forgot him ; I have not seen him since the revolution .", "Thou dost bite , my dear mustard-seed ; kiss me for that .", "Thou art a retailer of phrases , and dost deal in remnants of remnants , like a maker of pincushions ; thou art in trutha speaker of shorthand .", "Yes , refined like a Dutch skipper from a whale-fishing . SCENE XVI .", "Afford me your compassion , my dears ; pity me , Fainall ,", "No , no , he comes to his aunt 's , my Lady Wishfort ; pox on him ,", "That I confess I wonder at , too .", "You shall see he wo n't go to \u2018 em because there 's no more company here to take notice of him . Why , this is nothing to what he used to do : -  before he found out this way , I have known him call for himself -", "Ay , when he has a humour to contradict , then I contradict too . What , I know my cue . Then we contradict one another like two battledores ; for contradictions beget one another like Jews .", "No .", "No ; the rogue 's wit and readiness of invention charm me , dear", "That should be for two fasting strumpets , and a bawd troubled with wind . Now you may know what the three are .", "Do , Mrs. Mincing , like a screen before a great fire . I confess I do blaze to-day ; I am too bright .", "That 's hard , that 's very hard . A messenger , a mule , a beast of burden , he has brought me a letter from the fool my brother , as heavy as a panegyric in a funeral sermon , or a copy of commendatory verses from one poet to another . And what 's worse , \u2018 tis as sure a forerunner of the author as an epistle dedicatory .", "As a favourite just disgraced , and with as few followers .", "Do , wrap thyself up like a woodlouse , and dream revenge . And , hear me , if thou canst learn to write by to-morrow morning , pen me a challenge . I 'll carry it for thee .", "But I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly , she wo n't give an echo fair play ; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words .", "Good , good , Mirabell , LE DROLE ! Good , good , hang him , do n't let 's talk of him .\u2014 Fainall , how does your lady ? Gad , I say anything in the world to get this fellow out of my head . I beg pardon that I should ask a man of pleasure and the town a question at once so foreign and domestic . But I talk like an old maid at a marriage , I do n't know what I say : but she 's the best woman in the world .", "Petulant .", "No letters for me , Betty ?", "Hum , faith , I do n't know as to that , I can n't say as to that . Yes , faith , in a controversy he 'll contradict anybody .", "My dear , I ask ten thousand pardons . Gad , I have forgot what", "Not positively must . But it may ; it may .", "Raillery , raillery , madam ; we have no animosity . We hit off a little wit now and then , but no animosity . The falling out of wits is like the falling out of lovers : -  we agree in the main , like treble and bass . Ha , Petulant ?", "Ay ; but I like him for that now : for his want of words gives me the pleasure very often to explain his meaning .", "Hum , a hit , a hit , a palpable hit ; I confess it .", "Ay , ay , but that was but for a while . Not long , not long ; pshaw , I was not in my own power then . An orphan , and this fellow was my guardian ; ay , ay , I was glad to consent to that man to come to London . He had the disposal of me then . If I had not agreed to that , I might have been bound prentice to a feltmaker in Shrewsbury : this fellow would have bound me to a maker of felts ."], "true_target": ["He 's reckoning his money ; my money it was : I have no luck to - day .", "Smoke the boots , the boots , Petulant , the boots ; ha , ha , ha !", "Sultana Queens .", "Indeed , so crips ?", "Well , well , he does not always think before he speaks . We have all our failings ; you are too hard upon him , you are , faith . Let me excuse him ,\u2014 I can defend most of his faults , except one or two ; one he has , that 's the truth o n't ,\u2014 if he were my brother I could not acquit him \u2014 that indeed I could wish were otherwise .", "Hey day ! What , are you all got together , like players at the end of the last act ?", "Ay , I do , my hand I remember \u2014 Petulant set his mark .", "She 's handsome ; but she 's a sort of an uncertain woman .", "No man in town lives well with a wife but Fainall . Your judgment , Mirabell ?", "Horrible ! He has a breath like a bagpipe . Ay , ay ; come , will you march , my Salopian ?", "Why , brother Wilfull of Salop , you may be as short as a Shrewsbury cake , if you please . But I tell you \u2018 tis not modish to know relations in town . You think you 're in the country , where great lubberly brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet , like a call of sergeants . \u2018 Tis not the fashion here ; \u2018 tis not , indeed , dear brother .", "Oh , pardon me . Expose the infirmities of my friend ? No , my dear , excuse me there .", "Ay ; but no other ?", "Ay , upon proof positive it must ; but upon proof presumptive it only may . That 's a logical distinction now , madam .", "\u2018 Tis what she will hardly allow anybody else . Now , demme , I should hate that , if she were as handsome as Cleopatra . Mirabell is not so sure of her as he thinks for .", "I was going to say to you .", "No that 's not it .", "No .", "Ha , ha , ha ! I had a mind to see how the rogue would come off . Ha , ha , ha ! Gad , I can n't be angry with him , if he had said they were my mother and my sisters .", "Thou hast uttered volumes , folios , in less than decimo sexto , my dear Lacedemonian . Sirrah , Petulant , thou art an epitomiser of words .", "Ay , ay , my half-brother . My half-brother he is , no nearer , upon honour .", "Mirabell , pity me .", "No , no ; his being positive is an incentive to argument , and keeps up conversation .", "No , no ; what if he be ? \u2018 Tis no matter for that , his wit will excuse that . A wit should no more be sincere than a woman constant : one argues a decay of parts , as t'other of beauty .", "In the name of Bartlemew and his Fair , what have we here ?", "This is a vile dog , I see that already . No offence ? Ha , ha , ha . To him , to him , Petulant , smoke him .", "We stayed pretty late there last night , and heard something of an uncle to Mirabell , who is lately come to town , and is between him and the best part of his estate . Mirabell and he are at some distance , as my Lady Wishfort has been told ; and you know she hates Mirabell worse than a quaker hates a parrot , or than a fishmonger hates a hard frost . Whether this uncle has seen Mrs. Millamant or not , I cannot say ; but there were items of such a treaty being in embryo ; and if it should come to life , poor Mirabell would be in some sort unfortunately fobbed , i'faith .", "Truths ? Ha , ha , ha ! No , no , since you will have it , I mean he never speaks truth at all , that 's all . He will lie like a chambermaid , or a woman of quality 's porter . Now that is a fault . SCENE VII .", "Mean ? Why he would slip you out of this chocolate-house , just when you had been talking to him . As soon as your back was turned \u2014 whip he was gone ; then trip to his lodging , clap on a hood and scarf and a mask , slap into a hackney-coach , and drive hither to the door again in a trice ; where he would send in for himself ; that I mean , call for himself , wait for himself , nay , and what 's more , not finding himself , sometimes leave a letter for himself .", "Madam , truce with your similitudes .\u2014 No , you met her husband , and did not ask him for her .", "Very pretty . Why , you make no more of making of lovers , madam , than of making so many card-matches .", "Odso , brother , is it you ? Your servant , brother .", "Ay , ay ; friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment or wine without toasting : but to tell you a secret , these are trulls whom he allows coach-hire , and something more by the week , to call on him once a day at public places .", "Left \u2018 em ? I could stay no longer . I have laughed like ten Christ'nings . I am tipsy with laughing \u2014 if I had stayed any longer I should have burst ,\u2014 I must have been let out and pieced in the sides like an unsized camlet . Yes , yes , the fray is composed ; my lady came in like a NOLI PROSEQUI , and stopt the proceedings .", "I hope so . The devil take him that remembers first , I say .", "Like moths about a candle . I had like to have lost my comparison for want of breath .", "Come , come , you are malicious now , and would breed debates . Petulant 's my friend , and a very honest fellow , and a very pretty fellow , and has a smattering \u2014 faith and troth , a pretty deal of an odd sort of a small wit : nay , I 'll do him justice . I 'm his friend , I wo n't wrong him . And if he had any judgment in the world , he would not be altogether contemptible . Come , come , do n't detract from the merits of my friend .", "Pshaw , pshaw , that she laughs at Petulant is plain . And for my part , but that it is almost a fashion to admire her , I should \u2014 harkee \u2014 to tell you a secret , but let it go no further between friends , I shall never break my heart for her .", "Petulant , speak .", "That ? That 's his happiness . His want of learning gives him the more opportunities to show his natural parts .", "I ? Fine ladies , I say .", "Petulant 's an enemy to learning ; he relies altogether on his parts .", "No , no , hang him , the rogue has no manners at all , that I must own ; no more breeding than a bum-baily , that I grant you : -  \u2018 tis pity ; the fellow has fire and life .", "That 's the jest : there was no dispute . They could neither of \u2018 em speak for rage ; and so fell a sputt'ring at one another like two roasting apples . SCENE IX ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["You must bring two dishes of chocolate and a glass of cinnamon water ."], "true_target": ["Three gentlewomen in a coach would speak with him .", "Is Master Petulant here , mistress ?"], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["For my part , I say little . I think things are best off or on .", "Yes , it positively must , upon proof positive .", "I ? Nothing , I . If throats are to be cut , let swords clash . Snug 's the word ; I shrug and am silent .", "It seems as if you had come a journey , sir ; hem , hem .", "Witwoud ,\u2014 you are an annihilator of sense .", "Sir , I presume upon the information of your boots .", "Ay , in the main . But when I have a humour to contradict -", "Ay , tete-e-tete ; but not in public , because I make remarks .", "Enough , let \u2018 em trundle . Anger helps complexion , saves paint .", "No offence , I hope , sir ?", "\u2018 Slife , Witwoud , were you ever an attorney 's clerk ? Of the family of the Furnivals ? Ha , ha , ha !", "The quintessence . Maybe Witwoud knows more ; he stayed longer . Besides , they never mind him ; they say anything before him .", "Why , that 's enough . You and he are not friends ; and if he should marry and have a child , yon may be disinherited , ha !", "Thou artjust one half of an ass , and Baldwin yonder , thy half-brother , is the rest . A Gemini of asses split would make just four of you .", "Well , harkee .", "Ay , ay , let that pass . There are other throats to be cut .", "Look you , Mrs. Millamant , if you can love me , dear Nymph , say it , and that 's the conclusion \u2014 pass on , or pass off \u2014 that 's all .", "Not I , by this hand : I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt or ill-breeding .", "What , what ? Then let \u2018 em either show their innocence by not understanding what they hear , or else show their discretion by not hearing what they would not be thought to understand .", "Explain ? I know nothing . Why , you have an uncle , have you not , lately come to town , and lodges by my Lady Wishfort 's ?", "You were the quarrel .", "Well , well , I come . \u2018 Sbud , a man had as good be a professed midwife as a professed whoremaster , at this rate ; to be knocked up and raised at all hours , and in all places . Pox on \u2018 em , I wo n't come . D'ye hear , tell \u2018 em I wo n't come . Let \u2018 em snivel and cry their hearts out .", "No , I 'm no enemy to learning ; it hurts not me ."], "true_target": ["No , no , it 's no enemy to anybody but them that have it .", "There was no quarrel ; there might have been a quarrel .", "Not I \u2014 I mean nobody \u2014 I know nothing . But there are uncles and nephews in the world \u2014 and they may be rivals . What then ? All 's one for that .", "Beg him for his estate , that I may beg you afterwards , and so have but one trouble with you both .", "All 's one , let it pass . I have a humour to be cruel .", "Ay , Roxolanas .", "All 's one for that ; why , then , say I know something .", "How now ? What 's the matter ? Whose hand 's out ?", "Stand off \u2014 I 'll kiss no more males \u2014 I have kissed your Twin yonder in a humour of reconciliation till herises upon my stomach like a radish .", "Not I. I writ ; I read nothing .", "Why should a man be any further from being married , though he can n't read , than he is from being hanged ? The ordinary 's paid for setting the psalm , and the parish priest for reading the ceremony . And for the rest which is to follow in both cases , a man may do it without book . So all 's one for that .", "If I have a humour to quarrel , I can make less matters conclude premises . If you are not handsome , what then ? If I have a humour to prove it ? If I shall have my reward , say so ; if not , fight for your face the next time yourself \u2014 I 'll go sleep .", "Your horse , sir ! Your horse is an ass , sir !", "Importance is one thing and learning 's another ; but a debate 's a debate , that I assert .", "If he says black 's black \u2014 if I have a humour to say \u2018 tis blue - - let that pass \u2014 all 's one for that . If I have a humour to prove it , it must be granted .", "If I do , will you grant me common sense , then , for the future ?", "And you , sir .", "Pass on , Witwoud . Harkee , by this light , his relations \u2014 two co-heiresses his cousins , and an old aunt , who loves cater-wauling better than a conventicle .", "What does he say th'are ?", "Ay , ay , pox , I 'm malicious , man . Now he 's soft , you know , they are not in awe of him . The fellow 's well bred , he 's what you call a \u2014 what d'yehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeN \u2018 em \u2014 a fine gentleman , but he 's silly withal .", "Condition ? Condition 's a dried fig , if I am not in humour . By this hand , if they were your \u2014 a \u2014 a \u2014 your what-d'eehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeN \u2018 ems themselves , they must wait or rub off , if I want appetite .", "Carry your mistress 's monkey a spider ; go flea dogs and read romances . I 'll go to bed to my maid .", "And the wind serve .", "Enough ; I 'm in a humour to be severe ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["MARWOOD , FAINALL ."], "true_target": ["FAINALL and MRS. MARWOOD .", "MARWOOD alone ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Dear Foible , forget that .", "You change colour .", "Female frailty ! We must all come to it , if we live to be old , and feel the craving of a false appetite when the true is decayed .", "But , dear Millamant , why were you so long ?", "Mr. Mirabell , my mother interrupted you in a pleasant relation last night : I would fain hear it out .", "Who ?", "Immediately ; I have a word or two for Mr. Witwoud .", "O rare Foible !", "Ay , all 's out : my affair with Mirabell , everything discovered . This is the last day of our living together ; that 's my comfort .", "So , if my poor mother is caught in a contract , you will discover the imposture betimes , and release her by producing a certificate of her gallant 's former marriage .", "Mirabell , there 's a necessity for your obedience : you have neither time to talk nor stay . My mother is coming ; and in my conscience if she should see you , would fall into fits , and maybe not recover time enough to return to Sir Rowland , who , as Foible tells me , is in a fair way to succeed . Therefore spare your ecstasies for another occasion , and slip down the back stairs , where Foible waits to consult you .", "For you , for he has brought Mirabell with him .", "You are very fond of Sir John Suckling to-day ,", "Yonder Sir Wilfull 's drunk , and so noisy that my mother has been forced to leave Sir Rowland to appease him ; but he answers her only with singing and drinking . What they may have done by this time I know not , but Petulant and he were upon quarrelling as I came by .", "Mirabell .", "My soul .", "He is an humble servant to Foible , my mother 's woman , and may win her to your interest .", "Say'st thou so , Foible ? Canst thou prove this ?", "Madam , you seem to stifle your resentment . You had better give it vent .", "Thank Mr. Mirabell , a cautious friend , to whose advice all is owing .", "Here 's your mistress .", "There .", "My husband . Do n't you see him ? He turned short upon me unawares , and has almost overcome me .", "Nay , nay , put not on that strange face . I am privy to the whole design , and know that Waitwell , to whom thou wert this morning married , is to personate Mirabell 's uncle , and , as such winning my lady , to involve her in those difficulties from which Mirabell only must release her , by his making his conditions to have my cousin and her fortune left to her own disposal .", "Do I ? I think I am a little sick o \u2019 the sudden .", "Whom have you instructed to represent your pretended uncle ?", "Foible , you must tell Mincing that she must prepare to vouch when I call her .", "How ?", "Bless me , how have I been deceived ! Why , you profess a libertine .", "Millamant , and the poets .", "Never .", "I do n't understand your ladyship .", "You would not make him a cuckold ?", "I despise you and defy your malice . You have aspersed me wrongfully \u2014 I have proved your falsehood . Go , you and your treacherous \u2014 I will not name it , but starve together . Perish .", "So it seems ; for you mind not what 's said to you . If you doubt him , you had best take up with Sir Wilfull .", "He has a humour more prevailing than his curiosity , and will willingly dispense with the hearing of one scandalous story , to avoid giving an occasion to make another by being seen to walk with his wife . This way , Mr. Mirabell , and I dare promise you will oblige us both .", "Oh , fie , Sir Wilfull ! What , you must not be daunted .", "Why had not you as good do it ?", "I am sure you have a mind to him ."], "true_target": ["Ay , ay , dear Marwood , if we will be happy , we must find the means in ourselves , and among ourselves . Men are ever in extremes ; either doting or averse . While they are lovers , if they have fire and sense , their jealousies are insupportable : and when they cease to lovethey loathe , they look upon us with horror and distaste , they meet us like the ghosts of what we were , and as from such , fly from us .", "You have been the cause that I have loved without bounds , and would you set limits to that aversion of which you have been the occasion ? Why did you make me marry this man ?", "Most transcendently ; ay , though I say it , meritoriously .", "O Sir Wilfull , you are come at the critical instant . There 's your mistress up to the ears in love and contemplation ; pursue your point , now or never .", "Mirabell .", "Poor Foible , what 's the matter ?", "Is it possible ? Dost thou hate those vipers , men ?", "I am obliged to you that you would make me your proxy in this affair , but I have business of my own .", "I ought to stand in some degree of credit with you ,", "They are here yet .", "D'ye think so ?", "I know what I mean , madam , and so do you ; and so shall the world at a time convenient .", "I am wronged and abused , and so are you . \u2018 Tis a false accusation , as false as hell , as false as your friend there ; ay , or your friend 's friend , my false husband .", "Well , I have an opinion of your success , for I believe my lady will do anything to get an husband ; and when she has this , which you have provided for her , I suppose she will submit to anything to get rid of him .", "Then it seems you dissemble an aversion to mankind only in compliance to my mother 's humour .", "Have a good heart , Foible : Mirabell 's gone to give security for him . This is all Marwood 's and my husband 's doing .", "I see but one poor empty sculler , and he tows her woman after him .", "Yes , for I have loved with indiscretion .", "This discovery is the most opportune thing I could wish . Now , Mincing ?", "The only man that would tell me so at least , and the only man from whom I could hear it without mortification .", "Fie , fie , have him , and tell him so in plain terms : for", "Ay , ay , take him , take him , what should you do ?", "Was there no mention made of me in the letter ? My mother does not suspect my being in the confederacy ? I fancy Marwood has not told her , though she has told my husband .", "I tell you , madam , you 're abused . Stick to you ? Ay , like a leech , to suck your best blood ; she 'll drop off when she 's full . Madam , you sha n't pawn a bodkin , nor part with a brass counter , in composition for me . I defy \u2018 em all . Let \u2018 em prove their aspersions : I know my own innocence , and dare stand a trial .", "So , is the fray made up that you have left \u2018 em ?", "Does your lady or Mirabell know that ?", "Nay , I 'll swear you shall never lose so favourable an opportunity , if I can help it . I 'll leave you together and lock the door .", "So do I ; but I can hear him named . But what reason have you to hate him in particular ?", "He 's horridly drunk \u2014 how came you all in this pickle ?", "Heartily , inveterately .", "You were dressed before I came abroad .", "Ingenious mischief ! Would thou wert married to", "O Foible , I have been in a fright , lest I should come too late . That devil , Marwood , saw you in the park with Mirabell , and I 'm afraid will discover it to my lady .", "I 'll go with you up the back stairs , lest I should meet her . SCENE VII .", "There spoke the spirit of an Amazon , a Penthesilea .", "By the reason you give for your aversion , one would think it dissembled ; for you have laid a fault to his charge , of which his enemies must acquit him .", "Millamant and your uncle .", "She talked last night of endeavouring at a match between", "While I only hated my husband , I could bear to see him ; but since I have despised him , he 's too offensive ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Mr. Witwoud , your brother is not behindhand in forgetfulness . I fancy he has forgot you too .", "More tender , more sincere , and more enduring , than all the vain and empty vows of men , whether professing love to us or mutual faith to one another .", "I 'm surprised to find your ladyship in DESHABILLE at this time of day .", "And wherewithal can you reproach me ?", "I care not . Let me go . Break my hands , do \u2014 I 'd leave \u2018 em to get loose .", "\u2018 Tis severe indeed , madam , that you should smart for your daughter 's wantonness .", "You see my friendship by my freedom . Come , be as sincere , acknowledge that your sentiments agree with mine .", "Your husband ?", "They may prove a cap of maintenance to you still , if you can away with your wife . And she 's no worse than when you had her : -  I dare swear she had given up her game before she was married .", "Poor dissembling ! Oh , that \u2014 well , it is not yet -", "Indeed , my dear , you 'll tear another fan , if you do n't mitigate those violent airs .", "I am sorry to see you so passionate , madam . More temper would look more like innocence . But I have done . I am sorry my zeal to serve your ladyship and family should admit of misconstruction , or make me liable to affronts . You will pardon me , madam , if I meddle no more with an affair in which I am not personally concerned .", "Indeed , Mrs. Engine , is it thus with you ? Are you become a go-between of this importance ? Yes , I shall watch you . Why this wench is the PASSE-PARTOUT , a very master-key to everybody 's strong box . My friend Fainall , have you carried it so swimmingly ? I thought there was something in it ; but it seems it 's over with you . Your loathing is not from a want of appetite then , but from a surfeit . Else you could never be so cool to fall from a principal to be an assistant , to procure for him ! A pattern of generosity , that I confess . Well , Mr. Fainall , you have met with your match .\u2014 O man , man ! Woman , woman ! The devil 's an ass : if I were a painter , I would draw him like an idiot , a driveller with a bib and bells . Man should have his head and horns , and woman the rest of him . Poor , simple fiend ! \u2018 Madam Marwood has a month 's mind , but he can n't abide her . \u2019 \u2018 Twere better for him you had not been his confessor in that affair , without you could have kept his counsel closer . I shall not prove another pattern of generosity ; he has not obliged me to that with those excesses of himself , and now I 'll have none of him . Here comes the good lady , panting ripe , with a heart full of hope , and a head full of care , like any chymist upon the day of projection .", "True , \u2018 tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us , and that the man so often should outlive the lover . But say what you will , \u2018 tis better to be left than never to have been loved . To pass our youth in dull indifference , to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us , is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old , because we one day must be old . For my part , my youth may wear and waste , but it shall never rust in my possession .", "Discover to my lady your wife 's conduct ; threaten to part with her . My lady loves her , and will come to any composition to save her reputation . Take the opportunity of breaking it just upon the discovery of this imposture . My lady will be enraged beyond bounds , and sacrifice niece , and fortune and all at that conjuncture . And let me alone to keep her warm : if she should flag in her part , I will not fail to prompt her .", "You intend to travel , sir , as I 'm informed ?", "By all my wrongs I 'll do't . I 'll publish to the world the injuries you have done me , both in my fame and fortune : with both I trusted you , you bankrupt in honour , as indigent of wealth .", "I thought you had designed for France at all adventures .", "No doubt you will return very much improved .", "Yes , it shall have vent , and to your confusion , or I 'll perish in the attempt . SCENE the Last . LADY WISHFORT , MRS. MILLAMANT , MIRABELL , MRS. FAINALL , SIR WILFULL , PETULANT , WITWOUD , FOIBLE , MINCING , WAITWELL .", "You are nettled .", "Certainly . To be free , I have no taste of those insipid dry discourses with which our sex of force must entertain themselves apart from men . We may affect endearments to each other , profess eternal friendships , and seem to dote like lovers ; but \u2018 tis not in our natures long to persevere . Love will resume his empire in our breasts , and every heart , or soon or late , receive and readmit him as its lawful tyrant .", "\u2018 Tis false . I challenge you to show an instance that can confirm your groundless accusation . I hate him .", "This is precious fooling , if it would pass ; but I 'll know the bottom of it .", "Of whom ?", "Ay ?", "Because I hate him .", "And yet I am thinking sometimes to carry my aversion further .", "Will you not follow \u2018 em ?", "Methinks Mrs. Millamant and he would make a very fit match . He may travel afterwards . \u2018 Tis a thing very usual with young gentlemen .", "Mr. Mirabell and you both may think it a thing impossible , when I shall tell him by telling you -", "I think she does not hate him to that degree she would be thought .", "I have done hating \u2018 em , and am now come to despise \u2018 em ; the next thing I have to do is eternally to forget \u2018 em .", "Nay , I know not ; if the root be honourable , why not the branches ?", "You have a colour ; what 's the matter ?", "Give me your hand upon it .", "Let us first dispatch the affair in hand , madam . We shall have leisure to think of retirement afterwards . Here is one who is concerned in the treaty .", "If we had that liberty , we should be as weary of one set of acquaintance , though never so good , as we are of one suit , though never so fine . A fool and a doily stuff would now and then find days of grace , and be worn for variety .", "Would I were .", "That I am false ? What mean you ?", "My obligations to my lady urged me : I had professed a friendship to her , and could not see her easy nature so abused by that dissembler .", "I loathe the name of love after such usage ; and next to the guilt with which you would asperse me , I scorn you most . Farewell .", "Then shake it off : you have often wished for an opportunity to part , and now you have it . But first prevent their plot : -  the half of Millamant 's fortune is too considerable to be parted with to a foe , to Mirabell .", "\u2018 Twas much she should be deceived so long .", "I will contrive a letter which shall be delivered to my lady at the time when that rascal who is to act Sir Rowland is with her . It shall come as from an unknown hand \u2014 for the less I appear to know of the truth the better I can play the incendiary . Besides , I would not have Foible provoked if I could help it , because , you know , she knows some passages . Nay , I expect all will come out . But let the mine be sprung first , and then I care not if I am discovered .", "Let me go .", "\u2018 Tis your brother , I fancy . Do n't you know him ?", "These currupt things are brought hither to expose me .", "No ; but I 'd make him believe I did , and that 's as bad .", "You married her to keep you ; and if you can contrive to have her keep you better than you expected , why should you not keep her longer than you intended ?"], "true_target": ["Prove it , madam ? What , and have your name prostituted in a public court ; yours and your daughter 's reputation worried at the bar by a pack of bawling lawyers ? To be ushered in with an OH YES of scandal , and have your case opened by an old fumbling leacher in a quoif like a man midwife ; to bring your daughter 's infamy to light ; to be a theme for legal punsters and quibblers by the statute ; and become a jest , against a rule of court , where there is no precedent for a jest in any record , not even in Doomsday Book . To discompose the gravity of the bench , and provoke naughty interrogatories in more naughty law Latin ; while the good judge , tickled with the proceeding , simpers under a grey beard , and fidges off and on his cushion as if he had swallowed cantharides , or sate upon cow-itch .", "Besides you forget , marriage is honourable .", "Deceit and frivolous pretence !", "\u2018 Twere better so indeed . Or what think you of the playhouse ? A fine gay glossy fool should be given there , like a new masking habit , after the masquerade is over , and we have done with the disguise . For a fool 's visit is always a disguise , and never admitted by a woman of wit , but to blind her affair with a lover of sense . If you would but appear barefaced now , and own Mirabell , you might as easily put off Petulant and Witwoud as your hood and scarf . And indeed \u2018 tis time , for the town has found it , the secret is grown too big for the pretence . \u2018 Tis like Mrs. Primly 's great belly : she may lace it down before , but it burnishes on her hips . Indeed , Millamant , you can no more conceal it than my Lady Strammel can her face , that goodly face , which in defiance of her Rhenish-wine tea will not be comprehended in a mask .", "That I detest him , hate him , madam .", "Methinks Sir Wilfull should rather think of marrying than travelling at his years . I hear he is turned of forty .", "O my shame !", "Not far , madam ; I 'll return immediately . SCENE IX . LADY WISHFORT , MRS. MILLAMANT , SIR WILFULL , MIRABELL .", "That 's a sign , indeed , it 's no enemy to you .", "Shame and ingratitude ! Do you reproach me ? You , you upbraid me ? Have I been false to her , through strict fidelity to you , and sacrificed my friendship to keep my love inviolate ? And have you the baseness to charge me with the guilt , unmindful of the merit ? To you it should be meritorious that I have been vicious . And do you reflect that guilt upon me which should lie buried in your bosom ?", "But not to loathe , detest , abhor mankind , myself , and the whole treacherous world .", "Faith , by marrying ; if I could but find one that loved me very well , and would be throughly sensible of ill usage , I think I should do myself the violence of undergoing the ceremony .", "You do me wrong .", "I 'm sorry I hinted to my lady to endeavour a match between Millamant and Sir Wilfull ; that may be an obstacle .", "For shame , Mr. Witwoud ; why wo n't you speak to him ?\u2014 And you , sir .", "I hope you are convinced that I hate Mirabell now ? You 'll be no more jealous ?", "It may be you are deceived .", "Well , I have deserved it all .", "My friend , Mrs. Fainall ? Your husband my friend , what do you mean ?", "If I am , is it inconsistent with my love to you that I am tender of your honour ?", "What ails you ?", "Oh , if he should ever discover it , he would then know the worst , and be out of his pain ; but I would have him ever to continue upon the rack of fear and jealousy .", "The gentleman 's merry , that 's all , sir . \u2018 Slife , we shall have a quarrel betwixt an horse and an ass , before they find one another out .\u2014 You must not take anything amiss from your friends , sir . You are among your friends here , though it \u2014 may be you do n't know it . If I am not mistaken , you are Sir Wilfull Witwoud ?", "I join with you ; what I have said has been to try you .", "No , it is not yet too late \u2014 I have that comfort .", "No apologies , dear madam . I have been very well entertained .", "What pity \u2018 tis so much fine raillery , and delivered with so significant gesture , should be so unhappily directed to miscarry .", "O madam , you cannot suspect Mrs. Foible 's integrity .", "Impossible . Truth and you are inconsistent .\u2014 I hate you , and shall for ever .", "No . What has he done ?", "I perceive your debates are of importance , and very learnedly handled .", "No , sure , sir .", "Ha , ha , ha ! he comes opportunely for you .", "Have you so much ingratitude and injustice to give credit , against your friend , to the aspersions of two such mercenary trulls ?", "Here 's an academy in town for that use .", "It shall be all discovered . You too shall be discovered ; be sure you shall . I can but be exposed . If I do it myself I shall prevent your baseness .", "Nay , this is nothing ; if it would end here \u2018 twere well . But it must after this be consigned by the shorthand writers to the public press ; and from thence be transferred to the hands , nay , into the throats and lungs , of hawkers , with voices more licentious than the loud flounder-man 's . And this you must hear till you are stunned ; nay , you must hear nothing else for some days .", "Your merry note may be changed sooner than you think .", "That condition , I dare answer , my lady will consent to , without difficulty ; she has already but too much experienced the perfidiousness of men . Besides , madam , when we retire to our pastoral solitude , we shall bid adieu to all other thoughts .", "Do n't you know this gentleman , sir ?", "You hate mankind ?", "I never loved him ; he is , and always was , insufferably proud .", "Nay , madam , I advise nothing , I only lay before you , as a friend , the inconveniences which perhaps you have overseen . Here comes Mr. Fainall ; if he will be satisfied to huddle up all in silence , I shall be glad . You must think I would rather congratulate than condole with you .", "Disclose it to your wife ; own what has past between us .", "I saw her but now , as I came masked through the park , in conference with Mirabell .", "Oh , then it seems you are one of his favourable enemies . Methinks you look a little pale , and now you flush again .", "Well , how do you stand affected towards your lady ?", "Pray let us ; I have a reason .", "\u2018 Tis false , you urged it with deliberate malice . \u2018 Twas spoke in scorn , and I never will forgive it .", "What ?", "And then to have my young revellers of the Temple take notes , like prentices at a conventicle ; and after talk it over again in Commons , or before drawers in an eating-house ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["O madam , why , so do I . And yet the creature loves me , ha , ha , ha ! How can one forbear laughing to think of it ? I am a sibyl if I am not amazed to think what he can see in me . I 'll take my death , I think you are handsomer , and within a year or two as young . If you could but stay for me , I should overtake you \u2014 but that cannot be . Well , that thought makes me melancholic .\u2014 Now I 'll be sad .", "And yet our distemper in all likelihood will be the same ; for we shall be sick of one another . I sha n't endure to be reprimanded nor instructed ; \u2018 tis so dull to act always by advice , and so tedious to be told of one 's faults , I can n't bear it . Well , I wo n't have you , Mirabell \u2014 I 'm resolved \u2014 I think \u2014 you may go \u2014 ha , ha , ha ! What would you give that you could help loving me ?", "D'ye say so ? Then I 'm resolved I 'll have a song to keep up my spirits . SCENE XII .", "Mirabell , did you take exceptions last night ? Oh , ay , and went away . Now I think o n't I 'm angry \u2014 no , now I think o n't I 'm pleased : -  for I believe I gave you some pain .", "SCENE XIV .", "I 'll take my death , Marwood , you are more censorious than a decayed beauty , or a discarded toast : -  Mincing , tell the men they may come up . My aunt is not dressing here ; their folly is less provoking than your malice . SCENE XI . MRS. MILLAMANT , MRS. MARWOOD .", "Ah , rustic , ruder than Gothic .", "I please myself .\u2014 Besides , sometimes to converse with fools is for my health .", "Oh , horrid provisos ! Filthy strong waters ! I toast fellows , odious men ! I hate your odious provisos .", "Ah , L'ETOURDI ! I hate the town too .", "Have you any business with me , Sir Wilfull ?", "Vanity ! No \u2014 I 'll fly and be followed to the last moment ; though I am upon the very verge of matrimony , I expect you should solicit me as much as if I were wavering at the grate of a monastery , with one foot over the threshold . I 'll be solicited to the very last ; nay , and afterwards .", "Dear Mr. Witwoud , truce with your similitudes , for I am as sick of \u2018 em -", "- I swear it will not do its part , Though thou dost thine , employ'st thy power and art . Natural , easy Suckling !", "Oh , fiction ; Fainall , let us leave these men .", "D'ye hear the creature ? Lord , here 's company ; I 'll begone .", "Oh , I should think I was poor and had nothing to bestow if I were reduced to an inglorious ease , and freed from the agreeable fatigues of solicitation .", "Eh ! filthy creature ; what was the quarrel ?", "Oh , ay , letters \u2014 I had letters \u2014 I am persecuted with letters \u2014 I hate letters . Nobody knows how to write letters ; and yet one has \u2018 em , one does not know why . They serve one to pin up one 's hair .", "Are you ? I think I have ; and the horrid man looks as if he thought so too . Well , you ridiculous thing you , I 'll have you . I wo n't be kissed , nor I wo n't be thanked .\u2014 Here , kiss my hand though , so hold your tongue now ; do n't say a word .", "Ay , poor Mincing tift and tift all the morning .", "Infinitely ; I love to give pain .", "SIR WILFULL WITWOUD in a riding dress , MRS. MARWOOD , PETULANT ,", "You may go this way , sir .", "Fainall , I shall never say it . Well \u2014 I think \u2014 I 'll endure you .", "You have free leave : propose your utmost , speak and spare not .", "Sir Wilfull , you and he are to travel together , are you not ?", "Your pardon , madam , I can stay no longer . Sir Wilfull grows very powerful . Egh ! how he smells ! I shall be overcome if I stay . Come , cousin . SCENE XI . LADY WISHFORT , SIR WILFULL WITWOUD , MR. WITWOUD , FOIBLE .", "That foolish trifle of a heart -", "Ay , that 's true . Oh , but then I had \u2014 Mincing , what had I ? Why was I so long ?", "WITWOUD , FOOTMAN .", "Ah , to marry an ignorant that can hardly read or write !", "Mirabell , if you persist in this offensive freedom you 'll displease me . I think I must resolve after all not to have you : -  we sha n't agree .", "Ay , ay ; ha , ha , ha ! Like Phoebus sung the no less am'rous boy .", "I nauseate walking : \u2018 tis a country diversion ; I loathe the country and everything that relates to it .", "How can you name that superannuated lubber ? foh !", "Sir Wilfull !", "Oh dear , what ? For it is the same thing , if I hear it . Ha , ha , ha !", "Fainall , what shall I do ? Shall I have him ? I think I must have him .", "Ah , name it not !", "No . What would the dear man have ? I am thoughtful and would amuse myself ; bid him come another time . There never yet was woman made , Nor shall , but to be cursed .That 's hard !", "Oh , the vanity of these men ! Fainall , d'ye hear him ? If they did not commend us , we were not handsome ! Now you must know they could not commend one if one was not handsome . Beauty the lover 's gift ! Lord , what is a lover , that it can give ? Why , one makes lovers as fast as one pleases , and they live as long as one pleases , and they die as soon as one pleases ; and then , if one pleases , one makes more .", "You saw I was engaged .", "Ay , go , go . In the meantime I suppose you have said something to please me .", "It may be in things of common application , but never , sure , in love . Oh , I hate a lover that can dare to think he draws a moment 's air independent on the bounty of his mistress . There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an assured man confident of success : the pedantic arrogance of a very husband has not so pragmatical an air . Ah , I 'll never marry , unless I am first made sure of my will and pleasure ."], "true_target": ["Why does not the man take me ? Would you have me give myself to you over again ?", "He ? Ay , and filthy verses . So I am .", "That horrid fellow Petulant has provoked me into a flame \u2014 I have broke my fan \u2014 Mincing , lend me yours .\u2014 Is not all the powder out of my hair ?", "If it is of no great importance , Sir Wilfull , you will oblige me to leave me : I have just now a little business .", "Ah , do n't be impertinent . My dear liberty , shall I leave thee ? My faithful solitude , my darling contemplation , must I bid you then adieu ? Ay-h , adieu . My morning thoughts , agreeable wakings , indolent slumbers , all ye DOUCEURS , ye SOMMEILS DU MATIN , adieu . I can n't do't , \u2018 tis more than impossible \u2014 positively , Mirabell , I 'll lie a-bed in a morning as long as I please .", "Come , do n't look grave then . Well , what do you say to me ?", "Good Sir Wilfull , respite your valour .", "Detestable IMPRIMIS ! I go to the play in a mask !", "How so ?", "Nay , he has done nothing ; he has only talked . Nay , he has said nothing neither ; but he has contradicted everything that has been said . For my part , I thought Witwoud and he would have quarrelled .", "A walk ? What then ?", "Me ?", "The town has found it ? What has it found ? That Mirabell loves me is no more a secret than it is a secret that you discovered it to my aunt , or than the reason why you discovered it is a secret .", "Is your animosity composed , gentlemen ?", "Oh , I ask your pardon for that . One 's cruelty is one 's power , and when one parts with one 's cruelty one parts with one 's power , and when one has parted with that , I fancy one 's old and ugly .", "Sure , never anything was so unbred as that odious man . Marwood , your servant .", "Without the help of the devil , you can n't imagine ; unless she should tell me herself . Which of the two it may have been , I will leave you to consider ; and when you have done thinking of that , think of me . SCENE VII . MIRABELL alone .", "Yes , the vapours ; fools are physic for it , next to assafoetida .", "Oh , I have denied myself airs to-day . I have walked as fast through the crowd -", "Only with those in verse , Mr. Witwoud . I never pin up my hair with prose . I think I tried once , Mincing .", "- I prithee spare me , gentle boy , Press me no more for that slight toy .", "Long ! Lord , have I not made violent haste ? I have asked every living thing I met for you ; I have enquired after you , as after a new fashion .", "Ha , ha , ha ! Yes , \u2018 tis like I may . You have nothing further to say to me ?", "Yet again ! Mincing , stand between me and his wit .", "Sententious Mirabell ! Prithee do n't look with that violent and inflexible wise face , like Solomon at the dividing of the child in an old tapestry hanging !", "To hear you tell me Foible 's married , and your plot like to speed ? No .", "What , with that face ? No , if you keep your countenance , \u2018 tis impossible I should hold mine . Well , after all , there is something very moving in a lovesick face . Ha , ha , ha ! Well I wo n't laugh ; do n't be peevish . Heigho ! Now I 'll be melancholy , as melancholy as a watch-light . Well , Mirabell , if ever you will win me , woo me now .\u2014 Nay , if you are so tedious , fare you well : I see they are walking away .", "Well , \u2018 tis a lamentable thing , I swear , that one has not the liberty of choosing one 's acquaintance as one does one 's clothes .", "Odious endeavours !", "Ay , as wife , spouse , my dear , joy , jewel , love , sweet-heart , and the rest of that nauseous cant , in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar \u2014 I shall never bear that . Good Mirabell , do n't let us be familiar or fond , nor kiss before folks , like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis ; nor go to Hyde Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot , to provoke eyes and whispers , and then never be seen there together again , as if we were proud of one another the first week , and ashamed of one another ever after . Let us never visit together , nor go to a play together , but let us be very strange and well-bred . Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while , and as well-bred as if we were not married at all .", "Well , if Mirabell should not make a good husband , I am a lost thing : for I find I love him violently .", "Well , an illiterate man 's my aversion ; I wonder at the impudence of any illiterate man to offer to make love .", "Ah ! Idle creature , get up when you will . And d'ye hear , I wo n't be called names after I 'm married ; positively I wo n't be called names .", "Well then \u2014 I 'll take my death I 'm in a horrid fright \u2014", "I could consent to wear \u2018 em , if they would wear alike ; but fools never wear out . They are such DRAP DE BERRI things ! Without one could give \u2018 em to one 's chambermaid after a day or two .", "O silly ! Ha , ha , ha ! I could laugh immoderately . Poor Mirabell ! His constancy to me has quite destroyed his complaisance for all the world beside . I swear I never enjoined it him to be so coy . If I had the vanity to think he would obey me , I would command him to show more gallantry : \u2018 tis hardly well-bred to be so particular on one hand and so insensible on the other . But I despair to prevail , and so let him follow his own way . Ha , ha , ha ! Pardon me , dear creature , I must laugh ; ha , ha , ha ! Though I grant you \u2018 tis a little barbarous ; ha , ha , ha !", "You 're mistaken . Ridiculous !", "If you disoblige him he may resent your refusal , and insist upon the contract still . Then \u2018 tis the last time he will be offensive to you .", "Sir , I have given my consent .", "Heh ? Dear creature , I ask your pardon . I swear I did not mind you .", "Ay , if you please , Foible , send him away , or send him hither , just as you will , dear Foible . I think I 'll see him . Shall I ? Ay , let the wretch come . Thyrsis , a youth of the inspired train .Dear Fainall , entertain Sir Wilfull : -  thou hast philosophy to undergo a fool ; thou art married and hast patience . I would confer with my own thoughts .", "What was the dispute ?", "Trifles ; as liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please ; to write and receive letters , without interrogatories or wry faces on your part ; to wear what I please , and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste ; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I do n't like , because they are your acquaintance , or to be intimate with fools , because they may be your relations . Come to dinner when I please , dine in my dressing - room when I 'm out of humour , without giving a reason . To have my closet inviolate ; to be sole empress of my tea-table , which you must never presume to approach without first asking leave . And lastly , wherever I am , you shall always knock at the door before you come in . These articles subscribed , if I continue to endure you a little longer , I may by degrees dwindle into a wife .", "One no more owes one 's beauty to a lover than one 's wit to an echo . They can but reflect what we look and say : vain empty things if we are silent or unseen , and want a being .", "I am content to be a sacrifice to your repose , madam , and to convince you that I had no hand in the plot , as you were misinformed . I have laid my commands on Mirabell to come in person , and be a witness that I give my hand to this flower of knighthood ; and for the contract that passed between Mirabell and me , I have obliged him to make a resignation of it in your ladyship 's presence . He is without and waits your leave for admittance ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Yes mem ; they have sent me to see if Sir Wilfull be sober , and to bring him to them . My lady is resolved to have him , I think , rather than lose such a vast sum as six thousand pound . Oh , come , Mrs. Foible , I hear my old lady .", "I vow , mem , I thought once they would have fit .", "And so will I , mem .", "Till I had the cramp in my fingers , I 'll vow , mem . And all to no purpose . But when your laship pins it up with poetry , it fits so pleasant the next day as anything , and is so pure and so crips .", "O mem , your laship stayed to peruse a packet of letters .", "Oh , yes mem , I 'll vouch anything for your ladyship 's service , be what it will ."], "true_target": ["My lady would speak with Mrs. Foible , mem . Mr. Mirabell is with her ; he has set your spouse at liberty , Mrs. Foible , and would have you hide yourself in my lady 's closet till my old lady 's anger is abated . Oh , my old lady is in a perilous passion at something Mr. Fainall has said ; he swears , and my old lady cries . There 's a fearful hurricane , I vow . He says , mem , how that he 'll have my lady 's fortune made over to him , or he 'll be divorced .", "You 're such a critic , Mr. Witwoud .", "Mem , I come to acquaint your laship that dinner is impatient .", "The gentlemen stay but to comb , madam , and will wait on you .", "Mercenary , mem ? I scorn your words . \u2018 Tis true we found you and Mr. Fainall in the blue garret ; by the same token , you swore us to secrecy upon Messalinas 's poems . Mercenary ? No , if we would have been mercenary , we should have held our tongues ; you would have bribed us sufficiently .", "O mem , I shall never forget it ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["A woman 's hand ? No madam , that 's no woman 's hand : I see that already . That 's somebody whose throat must be cut .", "How , how , let me see , let me see .", "Dear madam , no . You are all camphire and frankincense , all chastity and odour .", "Enough , his date is short .", "Law ? I care not for law . I can but die , and \u2018 tis in a good cause . My lady shall be satisfied of my truth and innocence , though it cost me my life .", "A RASCAL , AND", "And may I presume to bring a contract to be signed this night ? May I hope so far ?", "That she did indeed , sir . It was my fault that she did not make more .", "I 'll do't . In three weeks he shall be barefoot ; in a month out at knees with begging an alms ; he shall starve upward and upward , \u2018 till he has nothing living but his head , and then go out in a stink like a candle 's end upon a save-all .", "I told you at first I knew the hand . A woman 's hand ? The rascal writes a sort of a large hand : your Roman hand .\u2014 I saw there was a throat to be cut presently . If he were my son , as he is my nephew , I 'd pistol him .", "Spouse -", "I do not , fair shrine of virtue .", "I think she has profited , sir . I think so .", "What your ladyship pleases . I have brought the black box at last , madam .", "What , my rival ? Is the rebel my rival ? A dies .", "Perfidious to you ?"], "true_target": ["Oh , she is the antidote to desire . Spouse , thou wilt fare the worse for't . I shall have no appetite to iteration of nuptials - - this eight-and-forty hours . By this hand I 'd rather be a chairman in the dog-days than act Sir Rowland till this time to-morrow . SCENE XV .", "Sure ? Am I here ? Do I live ? Do I love this pearl of India ? I have twenty letters in my pocket from him in the same character .", "DISGUISED AND SUBORNED FOR THAT IMPOSTURE \u2014 O villainy ! O villainy !\u2014", "BY THE CONTRIVANCE OF -", "Here 's a villain ! Madam , do n't you perceive it ? Do n't you see it ?", "I esteem it so -", "I do not , I do not -", "Your pardon , sir . With submission , we have indeed been solacing in lawful delights ; but still with an eye to business , sir . I have instructed her as well as I could . If she can take your directions as readily as my instructions , sir , your affairs are in a prosperous way .", "Why , sir , it will be impossible I should remember myself . Married , knighted , and attended all in one day ! \u2018 Tis enough to make any man forget himself . The difficulty will be how to recover my acquaintance and familiarity with my former self , and fall from my transformation to a reformation into Waitwell . Nay , I sha n't be quite the same Waitwell neither \u2014 for now I remember me , I 'm married , and can n't be my own man again . Ay , there 's my grief ; that 's the sad change of life : To lose my title , and yet keep my wife .", "Dead or alive I 'll come \u2014 and married we will be in spite of treachery ; ay , and get an heir that shall defeat the last remaining glimpse of hope in my abandoned nephew . Come , my buxom widow : E'er long you shall substantial proof receive That I 'm an arrant knight -", "For decency of funeral , madam ! The delay will break my heart \u2014 or if that should fail , I shall be poisoned . My nephew will get an inkling of my designs and poison me \u2014 and I would willingly starve him before I die \u2014 I would gladly go out of the world with that satisfaction . That would be some comfort to me , if I could but live so long as to be revenged on that unnatural viper .", "Far be it from me -", "I am charmed , madam ; I obey . But some proof you must let me give you : I 'll go for a black box , which contains the writings of my whole estate , and deliver that into your hands .", "My impatience , madam , is the effect of my transport ; and till I have the possession of your adorable person , I am tantalised on the rack , and do but hang , madam , on the tenter of expectation .", "Fie , fie ! What a slavery have I undergone ; spouse , hast thou any cordial ? I want spirits .", "At hand , sir , rubbing their eyes ,\u2014 just risen from sleep .", "Sir Rowland , if you please . The jade 's so pert upon her preferment she forgets herself ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Madam , the dancers are ready , and there 's one with a letter , who must deliver it into your own hands .", "So , the devil has been beforehand with me ; what shall I say ? -  - Alas , madam , could I help it , if I met that confident thing ? Was I in fault ? If you had heard how he used me , and all upon your ladyship 's account , I 'm sure you would not suspect my fidelity . Nay , if that had been the worst I could have borne : but he had a fling at your ladyship too , and then I could not hold ; but , i'faith I gave him his own .", "Oh , what luck it is , Sir Rowland , that you were present at this juncture ! This was the business that brought Mr. Mirabell disguised to Madam Millamant this afternoon . I thought something was contriving , when he stole by me and would have hid his face .", "Yes , yes ; I know it , madam : she was in my lady 's closet , and overheard all that you said to me before dinner . She sent the letter to my lady , and that missing effect , Mr. Fainall laid this plot to arrest Waitwell , when he pretended to go for the papers ; and in the meantime Mrs. Marwood declared all to my lady .", "A little scorn becomes your ladyship .", "The sooner the better , madam .", "O dear sir , your humble servant .", "O madam , \u2018 tis a shame to say what he said , with his taunts and his fleers , tossing up his nose . Humh , says he , what , you are a-hatching some plot , says he , you are so early abroad , or catering , says he , ferreting for some disbanded officer , I warrant . Half pay is but thin subsistence , says he . Well , what pension does your lady propose ? Let me see , says he , what , she must come down pretty deep now , she 's superannuated , says he , and -", "No , no , dear madam . Do but hear me , have but a moment 's patience \u2014 I 'll confess all . Mr. Mirabell seduced me ; I am not the first that he has wheedled with his dissembling tongue . Your ladyship 's own wisdom has been deluded by him ; then how should I , a poor ignorant , defend myself ? O madam , if you knew but what he promised me , and how he assured me your ladyship should come to no damage , or else the wealth of the Indies should not have bribed me to conspire against so good , so sweet , so kind a lady as you have been to me .", "He ? I hope to see him lodge in Ludgate first , and angle into", "Yes , madam .", "Yes , indeed , madam ; I 'll take my bible-oath of it .", "Indeed , madam , and so \u2018 tis a comfort , if you knew all . He has been even with your ladyship ; which I could have told you long enough since , but I love to keep peace and quietness by my good will . I had rather bring friends together than set \u2018 em at distance . But Mrs. Marwood and he are nearer related than ever their parents thought for .", "Madam , I have seen the party .", "O madam , my lady 's gone for a constable ; I shall be had to a justice , and put to Bridewell to beat hemp . Poor Waitwell 's gone to prison already .", "Discover what , madam ?", "Dear madam , I 'll beg pardon on my knees .", "I told her , sir , because I did not know that you might find an opportunity ; she had so much company last night .", "Humh , says he , I hear you are laying designs against me too , says he , and Mrs. Millamant is to marry my uncle; but , says he , I 'll fit you for that , I warrant you , says he , I 'll hamper you for that , says he , you and your old frippery too , says he , I 'll handle you -", "No , good Sir Rowland , do n't incur the law .", "Unfortunate ; all 's ruined .", "Blackfriars for brass farthings with an old mitten .", "Sir Wilfull is set in to drinking , madam , in the parlour .", "O dear madam , Mr. Mirabell is such a sweet winning gentleman . But your ladyship is the pattern of generosity . Sweet lady , to be so good ! Mr. Mirabell cannot choose but be grateful . I find your ladyship has his heart still . Now , madam , I can safely tell your ladyship our success : Mrs. Marwood had told my lady , but I warrant I managed myself . I turned it all for the better . I told my lady that Mr. Mirabell railed at her . I laid horrid things to his charge , I 'll vow ; and my lady is so incensed that she 'll be contracted to Sir Rowland to-night , she says ; I warrant I worked her up that he may have her for asking for , as they say of a Welsh maidenhead .", "Yes , madam . I have put wax-lights in the sconces , and placed the footmen in a row in the hall , in their best liveries , with the coachman and postillion to fill up the equipage .", "I can take my oath of it , madam ; so can Mrs. Mincing . We have had many a fair word from Madam Marwood to conceal something that passed in our chamber one evening when you were at Hyde Park , and we were thought to have gone a-walking . But we went up unawares \u2014 though we were sworn to secrecy too : Madam Marwood took a book and swore us upon it : but it was but a book of poems . So long as it was not a bible oath , we may break it with a safe conscience .", "Madam , I beg your ladyship to acquaint Mr. Mirabell of his success . I would be seen as little as possible to speak to him \u2014 besides , I believe Madam Marwood watches me . She has a month 's mind ; but I know Mr. Mirabell can n't abide her .John , remove my lady 's toilet . Madam , your servant . My lady is so impatient , I fear she 'll come for me , if I stay ."], "true_target": ["Pray do but hear me , madam ; he could not marry your ladyship , madam . No indeed , his marriage was to have been void in law ; for he was married to me first , to secure your ladyship . He could not have bedded your ladyship , for if he had consummated with your ladyship , he must have run the risk of the law , and been put upon his clergy . Yes indeed , I enquired of the law in that case before I would meddle or make .", "Incontinently , madam . No new sheriff 's wife expects the return of her husband after knighthood with that impatience in which Sir Rowland burns for the dear hour of kissing your ladyship 's hand after dinner .", "Yes , yes , madam .", "\u2018 Tis he , madam .", "Yes , madam ; but my lady did not see that part . We stifled the letter before she read so far . Has that mischievous devil told Mr. Fainall of your ladyship then ?", "But I told my lady as you instructed me , sir , that I had a prospect of seeing Sir Rowland , your uncle , and that I would put her ladyship 's picture in my pocket to show him , which I 'll be sure to say has made him so enamoured of her beauty , that he burns with impatience to lie at her ladyship 's feet and worship the original .", "Madam , I stayed here to tell your ladyship that Mr. Mirabell has waited this half hour for an opportunity to talk with you ; though my lady 's orders were to leave you and Sir Wilfull together . Shall I tell Mr. Mirabell that you are at leisure ?", "O \u2014 las , sir , I 'm so ashamed .\u2014 I 'm afraid my lady has been in a thousand inquietudes for me . But I protest , sir , I made as much haste as I could .", "What a washy rogue art thou , to pant thus for a quarter of an hour 's lying and swearing to a fine lady ?", "Then , then , madam , Mr. Mirabell waited for her in her chamber ; but I would not tell your ladyship to discompose you when you were to receive Sir Rowland .", "You have seen Madam Millamant , sir ?", "Sir Wilfull is coming , madam . Shall I send Mr. Mirabell away ?", "Oh , that ever I was born ! Oh , that I was ever married ! A bride ? Ay , I shall be a Bridewell bride . Oh !", "O treachery ! But are you sure , Sir Rowland , it is his writing ?", "By storm , madam . Sir Rowland 's a brisk man .", "Say \u2018 tis your nephew 's hand . Quickly , his plot , swear , swear it !", "Mr. Witwoud and Mr. Petulant are come to dine with your ladyship .", "All is ready , madam .", "Poison him ? Poisoning 's too good for him . Starve him , madam , starve him ; marry Sir Rowland , and get him disinherited . Oh , you would bless yourself to hear what he said .", "Or arrant knave .", "I warrant you , madam : a little art once made your picture like you , and now a little of the same art must make you like your picture . Your picture must sit for you , madam .", "O dear madam , I beg your pardon . It was not my confidence in your ladyship that was deficient ; but I thought the former good correspondence between your ladyship and Mr. Mirabell might have hindered his communicating this secret .", "Oh , sir , some that were provided for Sir Rowland 's entertainment are yet within call .", "Most killing well , madam .", "By heaven ! Mrs. Marwood 's , I know it ,\u2014 my heart aches \u2014 get it from her !", "Your ladyship has frowned a little too rashly , indeed , madam . There are some cracks discernible in the white vernish .", "Nay , \u2018 tis your ladyship has done , and are to do ; I have only promised . But a man so enamoured \u2014 so transported ! Well , if worshipping of pictures be a sin \u2014 poor Sir Rowland , I say .", "I do n't question your generosity , sir , and you need not doubt of success . If you have no more commands , sir , I 'll be gone ; I 'm sure my lady is at her toilet , and can n't dress till I come . Oh dear , I 'm sure thatwas Mrs. Marwood that went by in a mask ; if she has seen me with you I m sure she 'll tell my lady . I 'll make haste home and prevent her . Your servant , Sir .\u2014 B'w ' y , Waitwell . SCENE IX . MIRABELL , WAITWELL ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Away , out , out , go set up for yourself again , do ; drive a trade , do , with your threepennyworth of small ware , flaunting upon a packthread , under a brandy-seller 's bulk , or against a dead wall by a balladmonger . Go , hang out an old frisoneer-gorget , with a yard of yellow colberteen again , do ; an old gnawed mask , two rows of pins , and a child 's fiddle ; a glass necklace with the beads broken , and a quilted night-cap with one ear . Go , go , drive a trade . These were your commodities , you treacherous trull ; this was the merchandise you dealt in , when I took you into my house , placed you next myself , and made you governant of my whole family . You have forgot this , have you , now you have feathered your nest ?", "But art thou sure Sir Rowland will not fail to come ? Or will a not fail when he does come ? Will he be importunate , Foible , and push ? For if he should not be importunate I shall never break decorums . I shall die with confusion if I am forced to advance \u2014 oh no , I can never advance ; I shall swoon if he should expect advances . No , I hope Sir Rowland is better bred than to put a lady to the necessity of breaking her forms . I wo n't be too coy neither \u2014 I wo n't give him despair . But a little disdain is not amiss ; a little scorn is alluring .", "As I 'm a person , I am in a very chaos to think I should so forget myself . But I have such an olio of affairs , really I know not what to do .Foible !\u2014 I expect my nephew Sir Wilfull ev'ry moment too .\u2014 Why , Foible !\u2014 He means to travel for improvement .", "Well , and how shall I receive him ? In what figure shall I give his heart the first impression ? There is a great deal in the first impression . Shall I sit ? No , I wo n't sit , I 'll walk ,\u2014 ay , I 'll walk from the door upon his entrance , and then turn full upon him . No , that will be too sudden . I 'll lie ,\u2014 ay , I 'll lie down . I 'll receive him in my little dressing-room ; there 's a couch \u2014 yes , yes , I 'll give the first impression on a couch . I wo n't lie neither , but loll and lean upon one elbow , with one foot a little dangling off , jogging in a thoughtful way . Yes ; and then as soon as he appears , start , ay , start and be surprised , and rise to meet him in a pretty disorder . Yes ; oh , nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion . It shows the foot to advantage , and furnishes with blushes and re-composing airs beyond comparison . Hark ! There 's a coach .", "You will grant me time to consider ?", "No , do n't kill him at once , Sir Rowland : starve him gradually , inch by inch .", "Ay , dear Sir Rowland , that will be some comfort ; bring the black box .", "I promise you I have thought o n't \u2014 and since \u2018 tis your judgment , I 'll think o n't again . I assure you I will ; I value your judgment extremely . On my word , I 'll propose it . SCENE IX .", "Ay , dear Foible ; thank thee for that , dear Foible . He has put me out of all patience . I shall never recompose my features to receive Sir Rowland with any economy of face . This wretch has fretted me that I am absolutely decayed . Look , Foible .", "This is most inhumanly savage : exceeding the barbarity of a", "Sir Rowland impatient ? Good lack ! what shall I do with this beastly tumbril ? Go lie down and sleep , you sot , or as I 'm a person , I 'll have you bastinadoed with broomsticks . Call up the wenches with broomsticks .", "Oh , he 's a rallier , nephew . My cousin 's a wit : and your great wits always rally their best friends to choose . When you have been abroad , nephew , you 'll understand raillery better .", "Fie , fie , nephew , you would not pull off your boots here ? Go down into the hall : -  dinner shall stay for you . My nephew 's a little unbred : you 'll pardon him , madam . Gentlemen , will you walk ? Marwood ?", "Well , nephew , upon your account . Ah , he has a false insinuating tongue . Well , sir , I will stifle my just resentment at my nephew 's request . I will endeavour what I can to forget , but on proviso that you resign the contract with my niece immediately .", "Dear Cousin Witwoud , get him away , and you will bind me to you inviolably . I have an affair of moment that invades me with some precipitation .\u2014 You will oblige me to all futurity .", "Nephew , you are welcome .", "Hold , nephew , hold .", "No , dear Sir Rowland , do n't fight : if you should be killed I must never show my face ; or hanged ,\u2014 oh , consider my reputation , Sir Rowland . No , you sha n't fight : I 'll go in and examine my niece ; I 'll make her confess . I conjure you , Sir Rowland , by all your love not to fight .", "Call in the dancers ; Sir Rowland , we 'll sit , if you please , and see the entertainment .Now , with your permission , Sir Rowland , I will peruse my letter . I would open it in your presence , because I would not make you uneasy . If it should make you uneasy , I would burn it \u2014 speak if it does \u2014 but you may see , the superscription is like a woman 's hand .", "O daughter , daughter , \u2018 tis plain thou hast inherited thy mother 's prudence .", "Oh dear , has my nephew made his addresses to Millamant ? I ordered him .", "Cousin Witwoud , your servant ; Mr. Petulant , your servant . Nephew , you are welcome again . Will you drink anything after your journey , nephew , before you eat ? Dinner 's almost ready .", "Sir Rowland , will you give me leave ? Think favourably , judge candidly , and conclude you have found a person who would suffer racks in honour 's cause , dear Sir Rowland , and will wait on you incessantly . SCENE XIV . WAITWELL , FOIBLE .", "If I were prepared , I am not impowered . My niece exerts a lawful claim , having matched herself by my direction to Sir Wilfull .", "Oh , he 's in less danger of being spoiled by his travels . I am against my nephew 's marrying too young . It will be time enough when he comes back , and has acquired discretion to choose for himself .", "Nay , Sir Rowland , since you give me a proof of your passion by your jealousy , I promise you I 'll make a return by a frank communication . You shall see it \u2014 we 'll open it together . Look you here .MADAM , THOUGH UNKNOWN TO YOUI HAVE THAT HONOUR FOR YOUR CHARACTER , THAT I THINK MYSELF OBLIGED TO LET YOU KNOW YOU ARE ABUSED . HE WHO PRETENDS TO BE SIR ROWLAND IS A CHEAT AND A RASCAL . O heavens ! what 's this ?", "What ? Then I have been your property , have I ? I have been convenient to you , it seems , while you were catering for Mirabell ; I have been broker for you ? What , have you made a passive bawd of me ? This exceeds all precedent . I am brought to fine uses , to become a botcher of second-hand marriages between Abigails and Andrews ! I 'll couple you . Yes , I 'll baste you together , you and your Philander . I 'll Duke 's Place you , as I 'm a person . Your turtle is in custody already . You shall coo in the same cage , if there be constable or warrant in the parish .", "Ay , ay , anybody , anybody .", "A cup , save thee , and what a cup hast thou brought ! Dost thou take me for a fairy , to drink out of an acorn ? Why didst thou not bring thy thimble ? Hast thou ne'er a brass thimble clinking in thy pocket with a bit of nutmeg ? I warrant thee . Come , fill , fill . So , again . See who that is .Set down the bottle first . Here , here , under the table : -  what , wouldst thou go with the bottle in thy hand like a tapster ? As I 'm a person , this wench has lived in an inn upon the road , before she came to me , like Maritornes the Asturian in Don Quixote . No Foible yet ?", "No damage ? What , to betray me , to marry me to a cast serving-man ; to make me a receptacle , an hospital for a decayed pimp ? No damage ? O thou frontless impudence , more than a big - bellied actress !", "Ay , ay , I do not doubt it , dear Marwood . No , no , I do not doubt it .", "Me ? What did the filthy fellow say ?", "Will Sir Rowland be here , say'st thou ? When , Foible ?", "Not understand ? Why , have you not been naught ? Have you not been sophisticated ? Not understand ? Here I am ruined to compound for your caprices and your cuckoldoms . I must pawn my plate and my jewels , and ruin my niece , and all little enough -", "My nephew was NON COMPOS , and could not make his addresses .", "And \u2014 well \u2014 and how do I look , Foible ?", "Ods my life , I 'll send him to her . Call her down , Foible ; bring her hither . I 'll send him as I go . When they are together , then come to me , Foible , that I may not be too long alone with Sir Rowland .", "How , how ? I heard the villain was in the house indeed ; and now I remember , my niece went away abruptly when Sir Wilfull was to have made his addresses .", "This will never do . It will never make a match ,\u2014 at least before he has been abroad . SCENE XII . LADY WISHFORT , WAITWELL disguised as for SIR ROWLAND .", "Oh \u2018 tis insupportable . No , no , dear friend , make it up , make it up ; ay , ay , I 'll compound . I 'll give up all , myself and my all , my niece and her all , anything , everything , for composition .", "Audacious villain ! Handle me ? Would he durst ? Frippery ? Old frippery ? Was there ever such a foul-mouthed fellow ? I 'll be married to-morrow , I 'll be contracted to-night .", "Merciful ! No news of Foible yet ?", "Is there no means , no remedy , to stop my ruin ? Ungrateful wretch ! Dost thou not owe thy being , thy subsistance , to my daughter 's fortune ?", "O my dear friend , how can I enumerate the benefits that I have received from your goodness ? To you I owe the timely discovery of the false vows of Mirabell ; to you I owe the detection of the impostor Sir Rowland . And now you are become an intercessor with my son-in-law , to save the honour of my house and compound for the frailties of my daughter . Well , friend , you are enough to reconcile me to the bad world , or else I would retire to deserts and solitudes , and feed harmless sheep by groves and purling streams . Dear Marwood , let us leave the world , and retire by ourselves and be shepherdesses .", "O Foible , where hast thou been ? What hast thou been doing ?", "Well , sir , take her , and with her all the joy I can give you .", "If you think the least scruple of causality was an ingredient", "Muscovite husband .", "Oh , what ? what ? To save me and my child from ruin , from want , I 'll forgive all that 's past ; nay , I 'll consent to anything to come , to be delivered from this tyranny .", "Come , come , Foible \u2014 I had forgot my nephew will be here before dinner \u2014 I must make haste .", "Too well , too well . I have seen too much .", "My nephew 's a little overtaken , cousin , but \u2018 tis drinking your health . O \u2019 my word , you are obliged to him -", "O Sir Rowland ! Well , rascal ?", "Are you sure it will be the last time ? If I were sure of that \u2014 shall I never see him again ?", "Ay , ay , sir , upon my honour .", "A pox take you both .\u2014 Fetch me the cherry brandy then ."], "true_target": ["And are the dancers and the music ready , that he may be entertained in all points with correspondence to his passion ?", "Bring what you will ; but come alive , pray come alive . Oh , this is a happy discovery .", "Never to marry ?", "Out , caterpillar , call not me aunt ; I know thee not .", "Dear Sir Rowland , I am confounded with confusion at the retrospection of my own rudeness ,\u2014 I have more pardons to ask than the pope distributes in the year of jubilee . But I hope where there is likely to be so near an alliance , we may unbend the severity of decorum , and dispense with a little ceremony .", "Offence ? As I 'm a person , I 'm ashamed of you . Fogh ! How you stink of wine ! D'ye think my niece will ever endure such a Borachio ? You 're an absolute Borachio .", "You have excess of gallantry , Sir Rowland , and press things to a conclusion with a most prevailing vehemence . But a day or two for decency of marriage -", "A villain ; superannuated ?", "Oh , he has witchcraft in his eyes and tongue ; when I did not see him I could have bribed a villain to his assassination ; but his appearance rakes the embers which have so long lain smothered in my breast .SCENE X .", "Ay , dear sir .", "Frippery ? Superannuated frippery ? I 'll frippery the villain ; I 'll reduce him to frippery and rags , a tatterdemalion !\u2014 I hope to see him hung with tatters , like a Long Lane pent-house , or a gibbet thief . A slander-mouthed railer ! I warrant the spendthrift prodigal 's in debt as much as the million lottery , or the whole court upon a birthday . I 'll spoil his credit with his tailor . Yes , he shall have my niece with her fortune , he shall .", "If you do , I protest I must recede , or think that I have made a prostitution of decorums , but in the vehemence of compassion , and to save the life of a person of so much importance -", "Is he so unnatural , say you ? Truly I would contribute much both to the saving of your life and the accomplishment of your revenge . Not that I respect myself ; though he has been a perfidious wretch to me .", "Ods my life , I 'll have him \u2014 I 'll have him murdered . I 'll have him poisoned . Where does he eat ? I 'll marry a drawer to have him poisoned in his wine . I 'll send for Robin from Locket 's \u2014 immediately .", "O dear Marwood , what shall I say for this rude forgetfulness ? But my dear friend is all goodness .", "Well , Sir Rowland , you have the way ,\u2014 you are no novice in the labyrinth of love ,\u2014 you have the clue . But as I am a person , Sir Rowland , you must not attribute my yielding to any sinister appetite or indigestion of widowhood ; nor impute my complacency to any lethargy of continence . I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials ?", "Ratafia , fool ? No , fool . Not the ratafia , fool \u2014 grant me patience !\u2014 I mean the Spanish paper , idiot ; complexion , darling . Paint , paint , paint , dost thou understand that , changeling , dangling thy hands like bobbins before thee ? Why dost thou not stir , puppet ? Thou wooden thing upon wires !", "Oh , \u2018 tis very hard !", "Smells ? He would poison a tallow-chandler and his family . Beastly creature , I know not what to do with him . Travel , quotha ; ay , travel , travel , get thee gone , get thee but far enough , to the Saracens , or the Tartars , or the Turks \u2014 for thou art not fit to live in a Christian commonwealth , thou beastly pagan .", "The miniature has been counted like . But hast thou not betrayed me , Foible ? Hast thou not detected me to that faithless Mirabell ? What hast thou to do with him in the park ? Answer me , has he got nothing out of thee ?", "Ay , that 's true ; but in case of necessity , as of health , or some such emergency -", "This insolence is beyond all precedent , all parallel . Must I be subject to this merciless villain ?", "O daughter , daughter , is it possible thou shouldst be my child , bone of my bone , and flesh of my flesh , and as I may say , another me , and yet transgress the most minute particle of severe virtue ? Is it possible you should lean aside to iniquity , who have been cast in the direct mould of virtue ? I have not only been a mould but a pattern for you , and a model for you , after you were brought into the world .", "How ?", "Oh , Marwood : let her come in . Come in , good Marwood .", "Is he ? Oh , then , he 'll importune , if he 's a brisk man . I shall save decorums if Sir Rowland importunes . I have a mortal terror at the apprehension of offending against decorums . Oh , I 'm glad he 's a brisk man . Let my things be removed , good Foible .", "I have no more patience . If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again , there 's no veracity in me . Fetch me the red \u2014 the red , do you hear , sweetheart ? An errant ash colour , as I 'm a person . Look you how this wench stirs ! Why dost thou not fetch me a little red ? Didst thou not hear me , Mopus ?", "At a time when you should commence an amour , and put your best foot foremost -", "Ah , Mr. Mirabell , this is small comfort , the detection of this affair .", "O dear friend , I am so ashamed that you should meet with such returns . You ought to ask pardon on your knees , ungrateful creature ; she deserves more from you than all your life can accomplish . Oh , do n't leave me destitute in this perplexity ! No , stick to me , my good genius .", "Well , I 'll swear I am something revived at this testimony of your obedience ; but I cannot admit that traitor ,\u2014 I fear I cannot fortify myself to support his appearance . He is as terrible to me as a Gorgon : if I see him I swear I shall turn to stone , petrify incessantly .", "Or else you wrong my condescension -", "I warrant you , or she would never have borne to have been catechised by him , and have heard his long lectures against singing and dancing and such debaucheries , and going to filthy plays , and profane music meetings , where the lewd trebles squeak nothing but bawdy , and the basses roar blasphemy . Oh , she would have swooned at the sight or name of an obscene play-book \u2014 and can I think after all this that my daughter can be naught ? What , a whore ? And thought it excommunication to set her foot within the door of a playhouse . O dear friend , I can n't believe it . No , no ; as she says , let him prove it , let him prove it .", "Yes , but tenderness becomes me best \u2014 a sort of a dyingness . You see that picture has a sort of a \u2014 ha , Foible ? A swimmingness in the eyes . Yes , I 'll look so . My niece affects it ; but she wants features . Is Sir Rowland handsome ? Let my toilet be removed \u2014 I 'll dress above . I 'll receive Sir Rowland here . Is he handsome ? Do n't answer me . I wo n't know ; I 'll be surprised . I 'll be taken by surprise .", "Is Sir Rowland coming , say'st thou , Foible ? And are things in order ?", "O Sir Rowland , the hours that he has died away at my feet , the tears that he has shed , the oaths that he has sworn , the palpitations that he has felt , the trances and the tremblings , the ardours and the ecstasies , the kneelings and the risings , the heart - heavings and the hand-gripings , the pangs and the pathetic regards of his protesting eyes !\u2014 Oh , no memory can register .", "Why , if she should be innocent , if she should be wronged after all , ha ? I do n't know what to think , and I promise you , her education has been unexceptionable . I may say it , for I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue , and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men ; ay , friend , she would ha \u2019 shrieked if she had but seen a man till she was in her teens . As I 'm a person , \u2018 tis true . She was never suffered to play with a male child , though but in coats . Nay , her very babies were of the feminine gender . Oh , she never looked a man in the face but her own father or the chaplain , and him we made a shift to put upon her for a woman , by the help of his long garments , and his sleek face , till she was going in her fifteen .", "Foible 's a lost thing ; has been abroad since morning , and never heard of since .", "Oh , he carries poison in his tongue that would corrupt integrity itself . If she has given him an opportunity , she has as good as put her integrity into his hands . Ah , dear Marwood , what 's integrity to an opportunity ? Hark ! I hear her . Dear friend , retire into my closet , that I may examine her with more freedom \u2014 you 'll pardon me , dear friend , I can make bold with you \u2014 there are books over the chimney \u2014 Quarles and Pryn , and the SHORT VIEW OF THE STAGE , with Bunyan 's works to entertain you .\u2014 Go , you thing , and send her in .", "Well , Mr. Mirabell , you have kept your promise , and I must perform mine . First , I pardon for your sake Sir Rowland there and Foible . The next thing is to break the matter to my nephew , and how to do that -", "Worse and worse .", "Have you pulvilled the coachman and postillion , that they may not stink of the stable when Sir Rowland comes by ?", "O dear Marwood , you are not going ?", "Out of my house , out of my house , thou viper , thou serpent that I have fostered , thou bosom traitress that I raised from nothing ! Begone , begone , begone , go , go ; that I took from washing of old gauze and weaving of dead hair , with a bleak blue nose , over a chafing-dish of starved embers , and dining behind a traver 's rag , in a shop no bigger than a bird-cage . Go , go , starve again , do , do !", "O Marwood , Marwood , art thou false ? My friend deceive me ? Hast thou been a wicked accomplice with that profligate man ?", "Oh dear , I can n't appear till I am dressed . Dear Marwood , shall I be free with you again , and beg you to entertain em ? I 'll make all imaginable haste . Dear friend , excuse me . SCENE X . MRS. MARWOOD , MRS. MILLAMANT , MINCING .", "How 's this , dear niece ? Have I any comfort ? Can this be true ?", "But what hast thou done ?", "As I am a person , I can hold out no longer : I have wasted my spirits so to-day already that I am ready to sink under the fatigue ; and I cannot but have some fears upon me yet , that my son Fainall will pursue some desperate course .", "Let me see the glass . Cracks , say'st thou ? Why , I am arrantly flayed : I look like an old peeled wall . Thou must repair me , Foible , before Sir Rowland comes , or I shall never keep up to my picture .", "With Mirabell ? You call my blood into my face with mentioning that traitor . She durst not have the confidence . I sent her to negotiate an affair , in which if I 'm detected I 'm undone . If that wheedling villain has wrought upon Foible to detect me , I 'm ruined . O my dear friend , I 'm a wretch of wretches if I 'm detected .", "\u2018 Twas against my consent that she married this barbarian , but she would have him , though her year was not out . Ah ! her first husband , my son Languish , would not have carried it thus . Well , that was my choice , this is hers ; she is matched now with a witness - - I shall be mad , dear friend ; is there no comfort for me ? Must I live to be confiscated at this rebel-rate ? Here come two more of my Egyptian plagues too .", "I shall faint , I shall die . Oh !", "Out upo n't , out upo n't , at years of discretion , and comport yourself at this rantipole rate !", "How ? Dear Mr. Mirabell , can you be so generous at last ? But it is not possible . Harkee , I 'll break my nephew 's match ; you shall have my niece yet , and all her fortune , if you can but save me from this imminent danger .", "Indeed you do ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["No , madam .", "No , madam ; Mrs. Marwood ."], "true_target": ["The red ratafia , does your ladyship mean , or the cherry brandy ?", "Madam , I was looking for a cup .", "Lord , madam , your ladyship is so impatient .\u2014 I cannot come at the paint , madam : Mrs. Foible has locked it up , and carried the key with her ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Your aunt , sir ?", "Really , sir , I can n't tell ; here come so many here , \u2018 tis hard to know \u2018 em all . SCENE XV . SIR WILFULL WITWOUD , PETULANT , WITWOUD , MRS. MARWOOD .", "I shall , sir ."], "true_target": ["Why , truly , sir , I cannot safely swear to her face in a morning , before she is dressed . \u2018 Tis like I may give a shrewd guess at her by this time .", "Sir , my lady 's dressing . Here 's company , if you please to walk in , in the meantime .", "A week , sir ; longer than anybody in the house , except my lady 's woman ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["How , fellow-traveller ? You shall go by yourself then .", "No offence , I hope ?", "Look up , man , I 'll stand by you ; \u2018 sbud , an she do frown , she can n't kill you . Besides \u2014 harkee , she dare not frown desperately , because her face is none of her own . \u2018 Sheart , an she should , her forehead would wrinkle like the coat of a cream cheese ; but mum for that , fellow-traveller .", "Anan ? Cousin , your servant .", "Belike I may , madam . I may chance to sail upon the salt seas , if my mind hold .", "Aunt , your servant .", "Not at present , cousin . Yes , I made bold to see , to come and know if that how you were disposed to fetch a walk this evening ; if so be that I might not be troublesome , I would have sought a walk with you .", "Turks ? No ; no Turks , aunt . Your Turks are infidels , and believe not in the grape . Your Mahometan , your Mussulman is a dry stinkard . No offence , aunt . My map says that your Turk is not so honest a man as your Christian \u2014 I cannot find by the map that your Mufti is orthodox , whereby it is a plain case that orthodox is a hard word , aunt , andGreek for claret .- To drink is a Christian diversion , Unknown to the Turk or the Persian . Let Mahometan fools Live by heathenish rules , And be damned over tea-cups and coffee . But let British lads sing , Crown a health to the King , And a fig for your Sultan and Sophy . Ah , Tony !", "\u2018 Sheart , sir , but there is , and much offence . A pox , is this your inns o \u2019 court breeding , not to know your friends and your relations , your elders , and your betters ?", "Well , well , I shall understand your lingo one of these days , cousin ; in the meanwhile I must answer in plain English .", "Not at present , cousin . \u2018 Tis like when I have an opportunity to be more private \u2014 I may break my mind in some measure - - I conjecture you partly guess . However , that 's as time shall try . But spare to speak and spare to speed , as they say .", "Why , then , let him hold his tongue in the meantime , and rail when that day comes . SCENE XVII .", "Enough , enough , cousin . Yes , yes , all a case . When you 're disposed , when you 're disposed . Now 's as well as another time ; and another time as well as now . All 's one for that . Yes , yes ; if your concerns call you , there 's no haste : it will keep cold as they say . Cousin , your servant . I think this door 's locked .", "Borachio ?", "Lead on , little Tony . I 'll follow thee , my Anthony , my", "Cousin Fainall , give me your hand .", "Why , \u2018 tis like you may , sir : if you are not satisfied with the information of my boots , sir , if you will step to the stable , you may enquire further of my horse , sir .", "Dear heart , that 's much . Hah ! that you should hate \u2018 em both ! Hah ! \u2018 tis like you may ! There are some can n't relish the town , and others can n't away with the country , \u2018 tis like you may be one of those , cousin .", "Aunt , your servant .", "I 'm very well , I thank you , aunt . However , I thank you for your courteous offer . \u2018 Sheart , I was afraid you would have been in the fashion too , and have remembered to have forgot your relations . Here 's your cousin Tony , belike , I may n't call him brother for fear of offence .", "Why , then , belike thou dost not know thy lady , if thou seest her . Ha , friend ?", "Hold , sir ; now you may make your bear-garden flourish somewhere else , sir .", "And a fig for your Sultan and Sophy .", "I can n't tell that ; \u2018 tis like I may , and \u2018 tis like I may not . I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution , because when I make it I keep it . I do n't stand shill I , shall I , then ; if I say't , I 'll do't . But I have thoughts to tarry a small matter in town , to learn somewhat of your lingo first , before I cross the seas . I 'd gladly have a spice of your French as they say , whereby to hold discourse in foreign countries .", "\u2018 Sheart , aunt , I have no mind to marry . My cousin 's a fine lady , and the gentleman loves her and she loves him , and they deserve one another ; my resolution is to see foreign parts . I have set o n't , and when I 'm set o n't I must do't . And if these two gentlemen would travel too , I think they may be spared .", "Very likely , sir , that it may seem so .", "Indeed ! Hah ! Look ye , look ye , you do ? Nay , \u2018 tis like you may . Here are choice of pastimes here in town , as plays and the like , that must be confessed indeed -", "An he does not move me , would I may never be o \u2019 the quorum . An it were not as good a deed as to drink , to give her to him again , I would I might never take shipping . Aunt , if you do n't forgive quickly , I shall melt , I can tell you that . My contract went no farther than a little mouth-glue , and that 's hardly dry ; one doleful sigh more from my fellow-traveller and \u2018 tis dissolved .", "Oons , this fellow knows less than a starling : I do n't think a knows his own name .", "Hold ye , hear me , friend , a word with you in your ear : prithee who are these gallants ?"], "true_target": ["Your servant ? Why , yours , sir . Your servant again \u2014 \u2018 sheart , and your friend and servant to that \u2014 and a \u2014and a flap-dragon for your service , sir , and a hare 's foot and a hare 's scut for your service , sir , an you be so cold and so courtly !", "Serve or not serve , I sha n't ask license of you , sir , nor the weathercock your companion . I direct my discourse to the lady , sir . \u2018 Tis like my aunt may have told you , madam ? Yes , I have settled my concerns , I may say now , and am minded to see foreign parts . If an how that the peace holds , whereby , that is , taxes abate .", "And , sir , I assert my right ; and will maintain it in defiance of you , sir , and of your instrument . \u2018 Sheart , an you talk of an instrument sir , I have an old fox by my thigh shall hack your instrument of ram vellum to shreds , sir . It shall not be sufficient for a Mittimus or a tailor 's measure ; therefore withdraw your instrument , sir , or , by'r lady , I shall draw mine .", "Well , prithee try what thou canst do ; if thou canst not guess , enquire her out , dost hear , fellow ? And tell her her nephew , Sir Wilfull Witwoud , is in the house .", "Nay , nothing . Only for the walk 's sake , that 's all .", "There is ? \u2018 Tis like there may .", "Do you speak by way of offence , sir ?", "Save you , gentlemen and lady .", "Anan ? Suckling ? No such suckling neither , cousin , nor stripling : I thank heaven I 'm no minor .", "\u2018 Sheart , you 'll have time enough to toy after you 're married , or , if you will toy now , let us have a dance in the meantime ; that we who are not lovers may have some other employment besides looking on .", "Nay , nay , cousin . I have forgot my gloves . What d'ye do ? \u2018 Sheart , a has locked the door indeed , I think .\u2014 Nay , cousin Fainall , open the door . Pshaw , what a vixen trick is this ? Nay , now a has seen me too .\u2014 Cousin , I made bold to pass through as it were \u2014 I think this door 's enchanted .", "Ahey ! Wenches ? Where are the wenches ?", "My aunt , sir ? Yes my aunt , sir , and your lady , sir ; your lady is my aunt , sir . Why , what dost thou not know me , friend ? Why , then , send somebody hither that does . How long hast thou lived with thy lady , fellow , ha ?", "Your servant ; then with your leave I 'll return to my company .", "By'r lady , a very reasonable request , and will cost you nothing , aunt . Come , come , forgive and forget , aunt . Why you must an you are a Christian .", "Dressing ! What , it 's but morning here , I warrant , with you in London ; we should count it towards afternoon in our parts down in Shropshire : -  why , then , belike my aunt ha n't dined yet . Ha , friend ?", "Yes \u2014 your servant . No offence , I hope , cousin ?", "IN VINO VERITAS , aunt . If I drunk your health to-day , cousin ,\u2014 I am a Borachio .\u2014 But if you have a mind to be married , say the word and send for the piper ; Wilfull will do't . If not , dust it away , and let 's have t'other round . Tony \u2014 ods-heart , where 's Tony ? -  - Tony 's an honest fellow , but he spits after a bumper , and that 's a fault . We 'll drink and we 'll never ha \u2019 done , boys , Put the glass then around with the sun , boys , Let Apollo 's example invite us ; For he 's drunk every night , And that makes him so bright , That he 's able next morning to light us . The sun 's a good pimple , an honest soaker , he has a cellar at your antipodes . If I travel , aunt , I touch at your antipodes \u2014 your antipodes are a good rascally sort of topsy-turvy fellows . If I had a bumper I 'd stand upon my head and drink a health to \u2018 em . A match or no match , cousin with the hard name ; aunt , Wilfull will do't . If she has her maidenhead let her look to \u2018 t ; if she has not , let her keep her own counsel in the meantime , and cry out at the nine months \u2019 end .", "Right , lady ; I am Sir Wilfull Witwoud , so I write myself ; no offence to anybody , I hope ? and nephew to the Lady Wishfort of this mansion .", "\u2018 Sheart , an you grutch me your liquor , make a bill .\u2014 Give me more drink , and take my purse .- Prithee fill me the glass , Till it laugh in my face , With ale that is potent and mellow ; He that whines for a lass Is an ignorant ass , For a bumper has not its fellow . But if you would have me marry my cousin , say the word , and I 'll do't . Wilfull will do't , that 's the word . Wilfull will do't , that 's my crest ,\u2014 my motto I have forgot .", "The fashion 's a fool and you 're a fop , dear brother . \u2018 Sheart , I 've suspected this \u2014 by'r lady I conjectured you were a fop , since you began to change the style of your letters , and write in a scrap of paper gilt round the edges , no bigger than a subpoena . I might expect this when you left off \u2018 Honoured brother , \u2019 and \u2018 Hoping you are in good health , \u2019 and so forth , to begin with a \u2018 Rat me , knight , I 'm so sick of a last night 's debauch . \u2019 Ods heart , and then tell a familiar tale of a cock and a bull , and a whore and a bottle , and so conclude . You could write news before you were out of your time , when you lived with honest Pumple-Nose , the attorney of Furnival 's Inn . You could intreat to be remembered then to your friends round the Wrekin . We could have Gazettes then , and Dawks 's Letter , and the Weekly Bill , till of late days .", "No offence , aunt .", "Yes , my aunt will have it so . I would gladly have been encouraged with a bottle or two , because I 'm somewhat wary at first , before I am acquainted .But I hope , after a time , I shall break my mind \u2014 that is , upon further acquaintance .\u2014 So for the present , cousin , I 'll take my leave . If so be you 'll be so kind to make my excuse , I 'll return to my company -", "With a wench , Tony ? Is she a shake-bag , sirrah ? Let me bite your cheek for that .", "Hum ! What , sure \u2018 tis not \u2014 yea by'r lady but \u2018 tis \u2014 \u2018 sheart , I know not whether \u2018 tis or no . Yea , but \u2018 tis , by the Wrekin . Brother Antony ! What , Tony , i'faith ! What , dost thou not know me ? By'r lady , nor I thee , thou art so becravated and so beperiwigged . \u2018 Sheart , why dost not speak ? Art thou o'erjoyed ?", "\u2018 Sheart , the gentleman 's a civil gentleman , aunt , let him come in ; why , we are sworn brothers and fellow-travellers . We are to be Pylades and Orestes , he and I . He is to be my interpreter in foreign parts . He has been overseas once already ; and with proviso that I marry my cousin , will cross \u2018 em once again , only to bear me company . \u2018 Sheart , I 'll call him in ,\u2014 an I set o n't once , he shall come in ; and see who 'll hinder him .", "I confess I have been a little in disguise , as they say . \u2018 Sheart ! and I 'm sorry for't . What would you have ? I hope I committed no offence , aunt \u2014 and if I did I am willing to make satisfaction ; and what can a man say fairer ? If I have broke anything I 'll pay for't , an it cost a pound . And so let that content for what 's past , and make no more words . For what 's to come , to pleasure you I 'm willing to marry my cousin . So , pray , let 's all be friends , she and I are agreed upon the matter before a witness .", "Impatient ? Why , then , belike it wo n't stay till I pull off my boots . Sweetheart , can you help me to a pair of slippers ? My man 's with his horses , I warrant .", "Tantony . Sirrah , thou shalt be my Tantony , and I 'll be thy pig .", "\u2018 Sheart , and better than to be bound to a maker of fops , where , I suppose , you have served your time , and now you may set up for yourself .", "Daunted ? No , that 's not it ; it is not so much for that \u2014 for if so be that I set o n't I 'll do't . But only for the present , \u2018 tis sufficient till further acquaintance , that 's all \u2014 your servant ."], "play_index": 27, "act_index": 27}, {"query": ["Our feast within .", "Or Babylonian walls .", "Tis most true . And how returned ?", "Nay , pardon , guests ,", "They had conjured up stern Nimrod from his ashes ,", "Is master-mover of his warlike puppet ;", "Had it not been for this , he would have been", "A slave , who loves from passion \u2014 I 'll not say", "The brink ,\u2014 thou feel'st an inward shrinking from", "Bring frankincense and myrrh , too , for it is 280", "Better than mortals . Friends , a thought has struck me :", "Think well of it \u2014", "Left she behind in India to the vultures ?", "Inveterate enemies . Now it bears an aspect !", "Each formed a hideous river . Still she clung ;", "Are not more goodly than the verse ! Say what", "From whence I sprung are \u2014 what I see them \u2014 ashes .", "And better , as more faithful :\u2014 but , proceed ;", "But nothing \u2018 gainst the truth of that brief record .", "I thought \u2018 twas nothing .", "I am better .", "From whom ?", "Hear , Myrrha ; Salemenes has declared \u2014 460", "They dared not . They were kept to toil and combat ;", "Of this night 's tumults ?", "Not an hour", "Fall down and worship , or get up and toil . \u201d", "Oh , thou wouldst have me doubtless set up edicts \u2014", "Faggots , pine-nuts , and withered leaves , and such", "I thought you were exempt from this , as from", "Then wherefore dost thou turn so pale ?", "Female in garb , and crowned upon the brow ,", "Who conquered this same golden realm of Ind", "\u2014 Search", "Let his head be thrown from our walls within", "Who gave me water in his helmet ?", "Why , what wouldst have me do ? 470", "Dare not ?", "In fit adornment for the evening banquet ,", "And made thee weep and blush ?", "No :", "Thou speakest of them .", "Of what god or demon ? 290", "Re-enter PANIA .", "I do not bid thee not to shed them \u2014 \u2018 twere", "I let them pass their days as best might suit them ,", "Urged me to send them to their satrapies ?", "What ! more rebels ? Let us be first , then .", "For a King 's obsequies ?", "The advice was sound ; but , let them live : we will not", "For wolves to horde and howl in .", "Which I deny to them . We all are men .", "To my proper chamber .", "The last frail reed of our beleagured hopes ,", "In peril .", "Dead .", "And say'st thou so ?", "Myself a host that deemed himself but guest , 80", "Thou know'st the man \u2014 it is his usual custom .", "Though oft-reproving sufferance of my follies .", "From Nineveh with \u2014\u2014", "Things as catch fire and blaze with one sole spark ;", "So all men", "And better as my country than my kingdom .", "It forms no portion of your duties", "Remember , what you leave you leave the slaves", "Only dismissed them from our presence , who", "Not much as man . What , ho ! my cupbearer !", "Then fly from it .", "Thy gentle spirit , go ; but recollect", "Here , fellow , take thy weapon back . Well , sirs ,", "With greater strength than the grape ever gave me ,", "It grieves me most that thou couldst quit this life", "They lie .\u2014 Unhappily , I am unfit", "The pleasure of that draught ; for I was parched", "Thou knowest I have done so ever ;", "And this looked real ,", "Do so . Is that thy answer ?", "If they be in adversity , they 'll learn 280", "Enjoyment ! We have cut the way short to it ,", "The secret covert to which this will lead you ;", "Or for my trophies I have founded cities :", "Reply , not listen .", "I love to watch them in the deep blue vault ,", "Noble kinsman , If these barbarian Greeks of the far shores And skirts of these our realms lie not , this Bacchus Conquered the whole of India ,did he not ?", "In my very palace !", "Of Salemenes , to approve his zeal ,", "Wherefore do you start ?", "You here ! Who called you ?", "The Hall of Nimrod for the evening revel ;", "Oppose it ? thou !", "That waiting ; though it seems so safe to fight", "Because he turned a fruit to an enchantment ,", "You shall know", "And now I think o n't , \u2018 tis long since I 've used them ,", "Yet ! what YET ?", "I love to see their rays redoubled in", "Unto our enemies . Chief , keep your weapon .", "If the Euphrates be forbid us , and", "As on the river 's brink .", "Who can so feel it as I feel ? but yet ,", "What hinders me from cleaving you in twain ,", "Why , those few lines contain the history", "My best brother !", "It will .", "Cavil about their lives \u2014 so let them mend them .", "That I prefer your service militant", "Hoard your devotion for the Thunderer there :", "Ungroaning to the tomb : I take no license", "Thou dost forget thee : make me not remember", "Enrich thee .", "That were tyrannical .", "That thou shouldst rail , or they rise up against me ?", "And leave me to my fate .", "And who are they ? 300", "Even in our courts , and by the outer gate ,", "And deadly face ; I could not recognise it ,", "I speak of woman 's love .", "Till I wax peevish \u2014 heed it not : I shall", "\u2018 Tis full of treasure ;", "So much for monuments that have forgotten", "To call back \u2014\u2014 But I will not weep for thee ;", "Accompany our guests , or charm away", "But Salemenes hath declared my throne", "Let him have absolution . I dispense with", "To the new comers . Frame the whole as if", "Is my true realm , amidst bright eyes and faces", "The generous Victors !", "That is , their lives \u2014 it is not that I doubt", "All fresh and faithful ; they 'll be here anon .", "With thee \u2014 and wear no crowns but those of flowers .", "Would little suit the silken garments and", "But nothing godlike ,\u2014 unless it may be", "That peeped up bristling through his serpent hair .", "The sullen earth .", "I will dare all things to bequeath it them ;", "I am past the fear of portents : they can tell me 220", "Flattering dust with eternity .", "There comes", "That shall be never .", "I may be worthier of you \u2014 and , if not ,", "I know each glance of those Ionic eyes ,", "Not so \u2014 although he multiplied the stars , And gave them to me as a realm to share From you and with you ! I would not so purchase The empire of Eternity . Hence \u2014 hence \u2014 Old Hunter of the earliest brutes ! and ye ,Who hunted fellow-creatures as if brutes ! Once bloody mortals \u2014 and now bloodier idols , 30 If your priests lie not ! And thou , ghastly Beldame ! Dripping with dusky gore , and trampling on The carcasses of Inde \u2014 away ! away ! Where am I ? Where the spectres ? Where \u2014 No \u2014 that Is no false phantom : I should know it \u2018 midst All that the dead dare gloomily raise up From their black gulf to daunt the living . Myrrha !", "To spare mine ears \u2014 the truth .", "We are now secure by these men 's exile .", "Grief cannot come where perfect love exists ,", "Not quite ; but let it pass . 330", "In all these agonies ,\u2014 and woke and found thee .", "To add it to the memory of others . 510", "Necessity enforce it . I hate all pain ,", "But here \u2014 here in this goblet is his title", "My charge upon the rebels . Where 's the soldier", "I frowned upon him as a king should frown ;", "And all the inmates of the palace , of", "Are faithful ! This is true , yet monstrous .", "Do more , except destroy them ?", "Which , it may be , are menaced ;\u2014 yet I blench not .", "There 's Tarsus and Anchialus , both built", "And your Gods , then ,", "I can forgive the omen , not the ravage . How much is swept down of the wall ?", "Nor dote even on thy beauty \u2014 as I 've doted", "My father 's house shall never be a cave", "By the god Baal ! The man would make me tyrant .", "No , Pania ! that must not be ; get thee hence ,", "I turned from one face to another , in", "Thou think'st that I have wronged the Queen : is't not so ?", "Than \u2014\u2014 But our hearts are not in our own power . 250", "For yielding to thy nature : and there 's time", "Those Gods were merely men ; look to their issue \u2014", "To prize a love like thine , a mind like thine ,", "Nor poise it , but must grovel on , upturning 350", "Before your entrance in this hall , Zarina ,", "Draw near a close \u2014 I pray you take this key :", "Go , then . If e'er we meet again , perhaps 390", "Despair anticipates such things .", "Please you to hear me , Satraps !", "I fear it not ; but I have felt \u2014 have seen \u2014", "That ornament was ever aught to me , 370", "The river 's broad and swoln , and uncommanded ,", "While he too vanished , and left nothing but", "And what I seek of thee is love \u2014 not safety .", "Which the Chaldeans read \u2014 the restless slaves", "And all this is left 200", "Speak on .", "Which will not see it . What ! in tears , my Myrrha ?", "What they have found me , they belie ; that which", "A mountain on my temples .", "Which are your chronicles , I pray you note ,", "And now to serve for safety , and embark .", "Not even a grave .", "Whom you call glorious .", "I do not dare to breathe my own desire ,", "With kings \u2014 my equals .", "And find that all their father 's sins are theirs .", "Would I felt no more", "On which the Future would turn back and smile ,", "Let the pavilionover the Euphrates Be garlanded , and lit , and furnished forth For an especial banquet ; at the hour Of midnight we will sup there : see nought wanting , And bid the galley be prepared . There is A cooling breeze which crisps the broad clear river : We will embark anon . Fair Nymphs , who deign To share the soft hours of Sardanapalus , We 'll meet again in that the sweetest hour , When we shall gather like the stars above us , 10 And you will form a heaven as bright as theirs ; Till then , let each be mistress of her time , And thou , my own Ionian Myrrha ,choose ; Wilt thou along with them or me ?", "Her myriads of fond subjects . Is this Glory ?", "Now they have peace and pastime , and the license", "There 's something sweet in my uncertainty", "My Myrrha ! dost thou truly follow me ,", "But not a kingly one \u2014 I 'll none o n't ; or", "Adieu , Assyria !", "I sought thy sweet face in the circle \u2014 but", "Death all than such a being !", "Beyond my easy nature .", "And thicker yet ; and see that the foundation", "Nothing I have not told myself since midnight :", "I trembled at the fixed glare of his eye :", "Think not I am insensible to all 490", "No cause , perhaps ;", "And kings are \u2014\u2014 But I did not deem it so ;", "Than I am King . You should have been the monarch ,", "Of whom our captives often sing , related", "The meanest Mede might be the king instead .", "Then I will say for them \u2014", "\u2018 Twere better thus , perhaps , than prolong either ;", "Since it must be so , and this churl has checked", "Ye are injured men , and should be sad , not grateful .", "Myself that which I was .", "Rose up , methought , to drag me down to them .", "But I grow womanish again , and must not ;", "Rather than dip my hands in holy blood .", "Be silent .\u2014 Guilt is loud . If ye are loyal , 300", "Dilated from its symmetry ; her lips", "I 'd do it .", "Who answers ? How now , brother ?", "But let them not for this lose sight of it .", "Deep fosses , or behold them sprawl on spikes", "Thine , my Myrrha !", "I have not done you justice : rather make them", "Some twenty garments , than with twenty guards", "Whatever sex , now quit it in an hour .", "To gladden that of man , as some atonement", "She urged on with her voice and gesture , and", "If she or thou supposedst I could link me", "King of your nation , and we 'll hold together", "Within us lives beyond :\u2014 thou readest mine , 160", "Your way along the Euphrates : if you reach", "An hour 's truce to consider .", "Earned by the guilty ; this I 'll not pronounce ye , 280", "Or kine \u2014 for none know whether those proud piles", "The place", "These slaves whom I have nurtured , pampered , fed ,", "Easier to stop Euphrates at its source 400", "Farewell ! He 's gone ; and on his finger bears my signet , Which is to him a sceptre . He is stern As I am heedless ; and the slaves deserve To feel a master . What may be the danger , I know not : he hath found it , let him quell it . 390 Must I consume my life \u2014 this little life \u2014 In guarding against all may make it less ? It is not worth so much ! It were to die Before my hour , to live in dread of death , Tracing revolt ; suspecting all about me , Because they are near ; and all who are remote , Because they are far . But if it should be so \u2014 If they should sweep me off from Earth and Empire , Why , what is Earth or Empire of the Earth ? I have loved , and lived , and multiplied my image ; 400 To die is no less natural than those Acts of this clay ! \u2018 Tis true I have not shed Blood as I might have done , in oceans , till My name became the synonyme of Death \u2014 A terror and a trophy . But for this I feel no penitence ; my life is love : If I must shed blood , it shall be by force . Till now , no drop from an Assyrian vein Hath flowed for me , nor hath the smallest coin Of Nineveh 's vast treasures e'er been lavished 410 On objects which could cost her sons a tear : If then they hate me , \u2018 tis because I hate not : If they rebel , \u2018 tis because I oppress not . Oh , men ! ye must be ruled with scythes , not sceptres , And mowed down like the grass , else all we reap Is rank abundance , and a rotten harvest Of discontents infecting the fair soil , Making a desert of fertility .\u2014 I 'll think no more .\u2014 Within there , ho !", "That is not possible : he dared not ; no \u2014", "Ten thousand precious moments in vain words ,", "Who pride themselves upon it ; but direct me", "Curs\u00e9d be he who caused those tears to flow !", "As I have said , let all dispose their hours Till midnight , when again we pray your presence .who is going . ) Myrrha ! I thought thou wouldst remain .", "How ! of the Queen ?", "Behind high walls , and hurl down foes into", "Had been the son who slew her for her incest .", "Swear that you will obey when I shall give", "A trusty satrap for the guard of Zames ,", "An era of sweet peace \u2018 midst bloody annals ,", "Upon the trumpet as you quit the palace .", "Of soldiership , I loathe the word , and those", "What ?\u2014 and dost thou fear ?", "That is , reproach me not \u2014 for the last time \u2014\u2014", "Methinks the thunders still increase : it is", "Wert thou not half a warrior : let us part", "Thou wilt \u2018 gainst me , my mode of life or rule ,", "That which it could not scare away . Let 's in \u2014", "And blame me ?", "Thence launch the regal barks , once formed for pleasure , 260", "Between the hunter-founder of our race ,", "I shall be King , as heretofore .", "With my stern brother ? I shall soon be jealous .", "I 'm sick of one , perchance of both .", "This leap through flame into the future , say it :", "And , like my ancestor Semiramis , 180", "Grieve more above the blighted name and ashes", "Who founded our great realm , knows more than I \u2014", "The Hunter smiled upon me \u2014 I should say ,", "And what can I reply to comfort them ,", "Which sparkles at his feet ; nor dare he lift", "Banished , and far upon their way .", "It is already , or at least they marched", "Nor ever will . I fain would have them dutiful .", "Get thee hence , then ;", "Think upon 380", "And every moon an epoch of new pleasures .", "A little heavy , but yet not unwieldy .", "Save an incumbrance .", "To profit by them \u2014 as the miner lights", "Thy face seems ominous . Speak !", "While the few upon whom I have no claim", "That man is of a temper too severe ; Hard but as lofty as the rock , and free 520 From all the taints of common earth \u2014 while I Am softer clay , impregnated with flowers : But as our mould is , must the produce be . If I have erred this time , \u2018 tis on the side Where Error sits most lightly on that sense , I know not what to call it ; but it reckons With me ofttimes for pain , and sometimes pleasure ; A spirit which seems placed about my heart To count its throbs , not quicken them , and ask Questions which mortal never dared to ask me , 530 Nor Baal , though an oracular deity \u2014Albeit his marble face majestical Frowns as the shadows of the evening dim His brows to changed expression , till at times I think the statue looks in act to speak . Away with these vain thoughts , I will be joyous \u2014 And here comes Joy 's true herald .", "Yet stay \u2014 being here .", "What doth this mean ?", "Ours also has a property in thunder , 550", "Is safe with my three sons in Cotta 's court ,", "Not ill content to vary the smooth scene ,", "And why not her brother ?", "Too soon the scorn of crowds for crownless Princes ,", "Are timidly vindictive to a pitch", "And the pavilion , decked for our return ,", "Shall blaze with beauty and with light , until", "I have heard thee talk of as the favourite pastime", "And dinned , and deafened with dead men and Baal , 250", "Have fled to Bactria , leaving to the ravens ,", "Was thy true friend and my most trusted subject .", "And ancient conqueror . Some wine , I say .", "I have , by Baal ! done all I could to soothe them :", "Of perseverance , which I would not copy .", "The hour invites , the galley is prepared ,", "Rather let them hear", "And rolling water , sighing through the sedges", "Rage \u2014 not droop \u2014 it should have been . We 'll find the means to rouse them .", "What mean'st thou !\u2014 \u2018 tis thy secret ; thou desirest", "Higher , my good soldiers ,", "Though men , and gods , and elements , and omens ,", "How wears the night ?", "Upon your lives , I say . What , deaf or drunken ?", "Slew fifty thousand of his enemies . 260", "I perish \u2014 as is probable : well thought \u2014", "Till I grew stone , as they seemed half to be ,", "And share a cottage on the Caucasus", "And as you sail , turn back ; but still keep on", "They who have nothing more to fear may well", "Her large black eyes , that flashed through her long hair", "Of human sword in a friend 's hand ; the other", "Serry your ranks \u2014 stand firm . I have despatched", "A heavy one ; the hilt , too , hurts my hand .", "\u2018 Tis enough . Now order here", "Because I have not shed their blood , nor led them", "Than be polluted more by human hands", "Or if there be , they are gone .", "I am not what I should be \u2014 let it end .", "Myrrha , embrace me ;\u2014 yet once more \u2014 once more \u2014 170", "Word than this is to give it utterance .", "You see me here .", "Give me the cuirass \u2014 so : my baldric ; now My sword : I had forgot the helm \u2014 where is it ? That 's well \u2014 no , \u2018 tis too heavy ; you mistake , too \u2014 It was not this I meant , but that which bears 130 A diadem around it .", "They yet may find me \u2014 shall defy their wish", "Which once were mightiest in Assyria \u2014 than \u2014\u2014", "My eloquent Ionian ! thou speak'st music :", "take it for yourself", "Ye knew nor me \u2014 nor monarchs \u2014 nor mankind .", "Do so ,", "Comes o'er my heart , a cold sense of the falsehood", "My martial grandam , chaste Semiramis ,", "Been of the softer order \u2014\u2014 hide thy tears \u2014", "Oh ! for that I pray you", "Good out of evil . Happier than the bee ,", "Unto your ministry \u2014 not loving either .", "Him hence to meet me .", "And death , where they are neither Gods nor men .", "Anon \u2014 what the whole earth shall ne'er forget .", "But this they know not , or they will not know .", "Passing my own as suited me .", "And none could make me doubt it save yourself .", "The female who remained , she flew upon me ,", "This minion ?", "The truth from you than from a trampling world .", "In some mysterious twinkle of the stars ,", "Altada \u2014 Zames \u2014 forth , and arm ye ! There", "To be aught save a monarch ; else for me", "Were all Assyria raging round the walls", "Of friends for truth \u2014 the lips of woman for 520", "To speak it worse ; and let them thank themselves .", "After I had repealed them , or at least", "Of slaves and traitors . In this blazing palace , 480", "Is but the path . What is it that we seek ?", "But at the least , whate'er the past , their end", "Thy own sweet will shall be the only barrier", "In thy own chair \u2014 thy own place in the banquet \u2014", "And javelin , which might furnish Nimrod forth :", "Faster than I could follow with my Bactrians ,", "Of treason , though its proxy only . Pania !", "Away !", "Fate made me what I am \u2014 may make me nothing \u2014", "Blood \u2014 doubtless .", "Come down to hail us hers .", "For mind nor body : let me have a couch , 340", "To marshal half the horsemen of Arabia .", "On lesser charms , for no cause save that such", "I detest", "My life insures me that . How long , bethink you ,", "Slave , tell", "The last drops from his helm , he stood in act", "Dost thou say so , Myrrha ?", "But if not , they will only leave to me", "Of man 's adversity all things grow daring", "And to compare them with my Myrrha 's eyes ;", "Purged by the flames , and withered in the air !", "Thine honest wisdom , and thy rough yet kind ,", "Thrice have I drank of it , and thrice renewed ,", "Even in the chase . Hast ever seen them , brother ? 320", "And chiefly thou , my priest , because I doubt thee", "Remaining here , you may lose all ; departing ,", "And thus I will be seen ; unless the succour ,", "Give me thy weapon .", "\u2018 Tis most true ;", "The king , and son of Anacyndaraxes , 250", "You talk it well \u2014\u2014", "Give him his sword .", "Those words \u2014\u2014", "Is to contribute to thine every wish .", "A sort of semi-glorious human monster .", "All farewells should be sudden , when for ever ,", "That we must forthwith meet : I had rather lose", "Because he loved a Lydian queen : thou seest 330", "But thou looked'st it :", "Enough to spare even those who would not spare him", "340", "I know it now . I know this life again . Ah , Myrrha ! I have been where we shall be .", "I am the lawful King , descended from", "Though not for this occasion . Prithee keep it", "No .", "Than she has said !", "The very chorus of the tragic song", "Now , farewell ; one last embrace .", "Thin lips relaxed to something like a smile .", "Strewed to receive them , still I like it not \u2014 560", "Pervious to the assailants ?", "I ne'er doubted it .", "And fair investigation may permit ,", "Name it .", "No \u2014 set her down ; She 's dead \u2014 and you have slain her .", "What we have taken , nor the thing we give .", "To-morrow thou wilt smile at these vain fancies .", "And dost me justice now . Let me once clasp", "My Lord !\u2014 my Life ! why answerest thou so coldly ?", "Your swords .", "\u2018 Twas well you entered by another portal ,", "Lost !\u2014 why , who is the aspiring chief who dared", "I trust them with you \u2014 to you : fit them for", "Hear those sweet lips grow eloquent in aught", "I shall not love thee less ; nay , perhaps more ,", "They are not my subjects , girl ,", "Assume to win them ?", "Perhaps . I have the goodliest armour , and", "Suspect !\u2014 that 's a spy 's office . Oh ! we lose", "The realms he wasted , and the hearts he broke .", "The heads \u2014 how many ?", "Had lost a part of death to come to me ,", "Full in their phantom faces . But then \u2014 then", "What must we dread ?", "To make their sovereign 's dwelling what it was \u2014", "Scorned ! what , to be the envy of your sex ,", "Her right hand \u2014 her lank , bird-like , right hand \u2014 stood 110", "And proofs of all kinds , I might sacrifice", "Of all who discipline our nations \u2014\u2014 No ,", "I am answered ! When a king asks twice , and has", "Pania !\u2014", "I 've heard thy sister talk of nothing else .", "Your courage never \u2014 nor your love till now ;", "At least they banqueted upon your Gods , 270", "That thou shouldst come and dare to ask of me 320", "When we take those from others , we nor know", "Is all in readiness in the armoury . 120", "It is the curse of kings to be so answered .", "Why , he is ours .", "Pledge me to the Greek God !", "To think of these past dreams . Let 's not reproach \u2014", "Thou shall be mourned for as thou wouldst be mourned .", "As I am now .", "And good ones make 320", "Save me , my beauty ! Thou art very fair ,", "there 's enough to load ye ,", "Their present force , or aught save treachery :", "The features were a Giant 's , and the eye", "That worst of mockeries of a remedy ;", "Be brief .", "Or my wild Grandam 's chase in search of kingdoms", "Pania yet lives ; but Sfero 's fled or captive . 140", "\u2018 Tis bound \u2014", "I have observed your sex , once roused to wrath ,", "Answer , slave ! How long", "Too long to meet again \u2014 and now to meet !", "The gentle and the austere are both against me ,", "Nor sweated them to build up Pyramids ,", "Know'st thou , my brother , where I lighted on", "With new kings rise new altars . But , proceed ;", "Perhaps because I merit them too often ,", "Your brother said", "So sanguinary ? Thou !", "Of this my station , which represses feeling", "From heaven or earth \u2014\u2014 And rather let me see", "Here when I had remanned myself . My brother ,", "This is strange ;", "Indulge a smile at that which once appalled ;", "I thought to have made my realm a paradise ,", "Why , what makes thee the mouth-piece of the people ?", "And lord it o'er the heart of the World 's lord ?", "I know not what \u2014 a labyrinth of things \u2014", "Methinks it is the same within these walls", "If they prevail ; and , if it be so ,", "Let them set forth with a sure escort .", "To worship your new God", "In the exercise of your inquisitive function 310", "And cultivate , or sigh when it could not", "Nor doom ye guiltless . Albeit better men", "Of sympathy between us , as if they", "No , thine .\u2014 I 've lately read ,", "We deem our happiness : let me remove", "Me to the dust already . Get thee hence ;", "With Baal , Nimrod , and Semiramis ,", "Which loathes to shock its sovereign ; we can hear", "A race of Kings who knew no predecessors .", "These men would bow me down with . Never , never", "Myrrha , I can hear all these things , these names ,", "And I have never sought but for the last .", "Oh ! for that \u2014 I love them ;", "My sons ? It may 210", "Nay , but \u2018 tis fit to revel now and then .", "Then hasten to him \u2014\u2014 Is", "What I have dreamt :\u2014 and canst thou bear to hear it ?", "New monarchs of an hour 's growth as despotic", "I feel a thousand mortal things about me ,", "So my dogs \u2019 are ;", "You are wounded \u2014 give some wine . Take breath , good Pania .", "My boys !\u2014 I could have borne it were I childless .", "And died for lack of farther nutriment .", "A name from nothing . What are the rank tongues", "Well , Pania !", "Yet breathing stone , for I felt life in them ,", "As others hold , or simply lamps of night ,", "That ever shook a kingdom ! Let them come ,", "Embraced me , while I shrunk from her , as if ,", "Ingratitude ?", "Of thousands , tears of millions , for atonement ,", "In one day built Anchialus and Tarsus .", "Or why or how he hath divined it , Belus ,", "A throne , or , if that be denied \u2014\u2014 You have heard", "Praise him , but not so warmly . I must not 430", "Of this our palace , into the dry dust ,", "All is not over ,\u2014 Pania , look to Myrrha .", "In lieu of her remote descendant , I", "Place it beneath my canopy , as though", "An hour 's : if at the expiration of", "A pluck at them , or perish in hot blood !\u2014", "I pray thee say not so : my chiefest joy 20", "that is , when it is angry , 50", "Let them be tempered , yet not roughly , till", "And none but tearless triumphs . Let us on .", "There is no peril :\u2014 \u2018 tis a sullen scheme", "True \u2014, they love not censure", "Which their death had not left me .", "No : like the dam", "Thou hast my signet :\u2014 since they are tumultuous ,", "Which ever rises betwixt thee and me .", "Which cheers the sad , revives the old , inspires", "Upon", "To dry into the desert 's dust by myriads ,", "And they will swell the echo with a curse . 290", "The Hunter and the Crone ; and smiling on me \u2014", "Art thou of those who dread the roar of clouds ?", "My best ! my last friends ! 400", "One of the Guards . Slain , Sire !", "Aye , Myrrha , but the woman ,", "Here we are still unmenaced . Ho ! within there ! 640", "Since it is thus ,", "Before me can be Gods , I 'll not disgrace", "He was a God , that is , a Grecian god ,", "\u2018 Tis royal .", "I married her as monarchs wed \u2014 for state ,", "Drive from our presence with his savage jeers ,", "A few friends who have revelled till we are", "The other", "Recruit his phalanx \u2014 spill your blood at bidding \u2014", "Scarce a moment 450", "These words , perhaps among my last \u2014 that none", "Her seem unto the troops a prophetess", "The worship of dead men ; feeling that I 240", "You deemed ! Are you too turned a rebel ? Fellow !", "The breath of heaven ? Tell prince Salemenes ,", "Shall be so sooner . Now \u2014 my spear ! I 'm armed .", "Methought \u2014\u2014", "Dying .", "Buried , and raised again \u2014 consumed by worms ,", "Search well my chamber ,", "Sate :\u2014 my veins curdled .", "But would no more , by their own choice , be human .", "The throne \u2014 I say it not in fear \u2014 but \u2018 tis 270", "Let us then hold council ;", "That 's true , and , wer't my kingdom , must be granted . Well , for thy sake , I yield me . Pania , hence ! Thou hear'st me .", "Revoke my pardon ?", "To meet the invited guests who grace our feast .", "A brother I have injured \u2014 children whom", "I would not change for your Chaldean lore ;", "For the victorious mischiefs he had done .", "My worthy Pania ! further ties between us", "I have said it ,", "But i \u2019 the field \u2014\u2014", "I tell you : after that these eyes were open ,", "Wear Caucasus ! why , \u2018 tis", "The hour approaches , and we must prepare", "Commend me to Beleses ; 350", "And I \u2014 I know not what , and care not ; but", "They are so blotted o'er with blood , I cannot . But what wouldst have ? the Empire has been founded . I cannot go on multiplying empires . 550", "The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch , 350", "590", "You have done your duty faithfully , and as", "Where are the rebels ?", "Itself an opposite star ; and we will sit", "An empire than thy presence .", "Hirelings , who live by lies on good men 's lives .", "Her floating hair and flashing eyes ,", "Jarred but not drowned by the loud brattling ; her", "How ?", "Yes \u2014 for the priests . Well , we will not go forth", "\u2018 Twill be useless :", "No ;", "In the hands of the deities , if such", "To be indulgent to my own .", "To revel and to rail ; it irks me not .", "No , like sovereigns ,", "Than one tear of a true and tender heart \u2014", "And the cup ?", "Report of the true state of this irruption", "The moments from me ?", "Not know the word !", "That thou wilt now be crushed .", "Myrrha , retire unto a place of safety . Why went you not forth with the other damsels ?", "Of waters .", "All that can come , and how to meet it , our", "Altada , arm yourself , and return here ;", "To reach distinctly from its banks . Then fly ,\u2014 390", "I pray you pardon me : events have soured me", "Was man who more desired to rule in peace", "What , ho ! My armour there .", "Come , Myrrha , let us go on to the Euphrates :", "Though they were piled on mountains , I would have", "My present purpose : since thou wilt not pledge me ,", "Were they once masters \u2014 but that 's doubtful . Satraps !", "The childish helplessness of Asian women", "Were there no temples , would there , think ye , be", "Devotion was a duty , and I hated", "Now I am cooler .", "I come .", "That throws me into shade ; yet you speak truth .", "Look to thine own .", "Remember that my faults , though not atoned for ,", "And pardons ?", "Let 's not unman each other : part at once :", "Forbear the banquet ! Not for all the plotters", "You are sent to prate your master 's will , and not", "What \u2014 him ! Who dares assail Arbaces ? Sal . I !", "Yes , and be sermonised ,", "Which hives not but from wholesome flowers .", "And swoln with peace , and gorged with plenty , till", "I am content : and , trusting in my cause ,", "She could not keep when conquered ?", "You shall join them ere they will rise ,", "E'er valued more thy virtues , though he knew not", "For all the popular breath", "That is , I suffered them \u2014 from slaves and nobles ;", "But", "That she had better woven within her palace", "Bring me the golden goblet thick with gems , Which bears the name of Nimrod 's chalice . Hence , 160 Fill full , and bear it quickly .", "No more .", "And you have sworn .", "And must not all the present one day part ?", "From birth to manhood !", "Upon a vein of virgin ore , discovering", "But either that or nothing must I be :", "Am mortal , and believing that the race", "To use them as ye will \u2014 but from this hour 320", "Talk not of such to me ! the worms are Gods ;", "I will wait ,", "That I should prize their noisy praise , or dread", "Say it .", "Who spared no speed . I am spent : give me a seat .", "Rose also , as if aping their chief shades \u2014", "I passed hours in that vision .", "To peace \u2014 the only victory I covet .", "Yes , love ! but not from pain . ACT IV .", "Which said thou wouldst not leave me .", "Of mortal misery , but rather lessen ,", "Tis no place to rest on ,", "Or I have quaffed me down to their abasement .", "Grateful and trusty subject : yield , I pray thee .", "But if I fail , then they must win it back", "Each calumny they can to sink their sovereigns .", "And if I do not dread it , why shouldst thou ?", "For your safety , which I will have looked to ,", "That is , where mortals are , not where they must be ?", "That is to say , thou thinkest him a hero ,", "As children at discovered bugbears .", "And loved her as most husbands love their wives .", "They are to deem that I reject their terms ,", "Soon be myself again .", "Along her most transparent brow ; her nostril 390"], "true_target": ["To both of us , and to such loyal hearts", "To bear alone , that we must mingle sorrows , 230", "Its own too subtle flame ; nor yet be quenched 360", "Worse than the rabble 's shout , or splitting trumpet :", "A legion of the dead .", "That she remember what I said at one", "Though cooped within these walls , they are strong , and we 180", "Freedom only ! That slave deserves to share a throne .", "And do not I ? I love thee far \u2014 far more", "It was so palpable , I could have touched them .", "Yes \u2014\u2014 Stay a moment , my good Salemenes ,", "From Medes \u2014 and discontented troops and nations .", "Nor decimated them with savage laws , 230", "That 's strange . I pray thee break that loyal silence", "She has all power and splendour of her station , 210", "With shaft-heads feathered from the eagle 's wing , 90", "Though ye be many . Let the slaves be freed , too ;", "\u2014 Now call upon thy planets , will they shoot 280 From the sky to preserve their seer and credit ?The villain was a prophet after all . Upon them \u2014 ho ! there \u2014 victory is ours .", "To immortality \u2014 the immortal grape", "Come , I 'm indulgent , as thou knowest , patient ,", "Proceed .", "And who will do so now ?", "Was ranged on my left hand a haughty , dark ,", "We are so . What danger can they work upon the frontier ?", "But use it with more moderation .", "That 's a good sentence for a homily ,", "Be for their monarch , or their ox-god Apis :", "To one wide desert chase of brutes , who were ,", "And such gifts , as , if you had not been all", "And never changed their chains but for their armour :", "Will I not ?", "Lest it should clash with thine ; for thou art still", "Too prompt to sacrifice thy thoughts for others .", "\u2018 Midst joy and gentleness , and mirth and love ;", "No , retain it ;", "I have proved a thousand \u2014 A thousand , and a thousand .", "Will not be ruled with less , I 'll use the sword", "And life in me : there was a horrid kind", "About it straight ,", "Of victory , or Victory herself ,", "Zarina , he hath spoken well , and we", "And lovely ones , my beautiful !\u2014 but hear me !", "Willing to equal all in social freedom ;", "For ever something between us and what", "Although upon this breath of mine depends", "For me , if I can make my subjects feel", "Of their attainted gore from the high gates", "The table sate a range of crown\u00e9d wretches ,", "Air worshippers ?", "So let me fall like the plucked rose !\u2014 far better", "True , the commingling fire will mix our ashes .", "Apart ; her voice that clove through all the din ,", "To place it on his brows .", "And grasped it \u2014 but it melted from my own ;", "She but subdued them .", "More than the soldier ; and would doubt thee all", "Yes , sir , of polished brass ,", "Hark !", "Than him who ruleth many and slays none ;", "Our annals draw perchance unto their close ;", "Thy vow :\u2014 \u2018 tis sacred and irrevocable .", "Yet for thee to escape hence .", "A scratch from brave Beleses .", "And heap them round yon throne .", "I think so .", "And that reproof comes heavier on my heart", "Intoxicating glare , when the buffoons 440", "Yet I had seen it , though I knew not where :", "Take thou the signet .", "The peaceful only : if they rouse me , better", "Well , then , how wouldst thou save me , as thou saidst ?", "Hence , and be happy : trust me , I am not", "And bring me back , as speedily as full", "Hath piled in her brick mountains , o'er dead kings ,", "With aught officious aid would bring to quell it .", "But fear not \u2014 for that I am soft , not fearful \u2014", "And will not ; but I thought you wished it . Myr . I !", "Treason \u2014 Arbaces ! treachery and Beleses ! That were an union I will not believe .", "\u2018 Tis my command , my last command . Wilt thou", "Let the throne form the core of it ; I would not", "Gods , as some say , or the abodes of Gods , 260", "And may be pardoned , since they can n't be punished .", "To language such as this : yet urge me not 60", "To plead thy Sovereign 's cause before his people .", "And beyond nature \u2014 \u2018 tis nor mutual", "I sated thee with peace and joys ; and this", "A palace , not a prison \u2014 nor a fortress .", "But I dismiss them from my mind .\u2014 Yet pause ,", "That time your masters hear no further from me ,", "My only guerdon \u2014 so they are , my Myrrha :", "Were not I yet a king , should I be mortal ;", "Arrive with Ofratanes .", "Have gorged themselves up to equality ,", "You spoke of your abasement .", "And pleasure , good Altada , to which glory", "Humanise thee ; my surly , chiding brother ,", "The Shepherd Kings of patriarchal times , 560", "Or whiten with their bones the banks of Ganges ;", "No , nor in the palace ,", "I will not live degraded .", "Order my horse out .\u2014 There is space enough", "I must learn sternness now . My sins have all", "As thou hast often proved \u2014 speak out , what moves thee ?", "I can fix nothing further of my thoughts ,", "You must have been deceived , my brother .", "And ever and anon some falling bolt", "Let us", "Nor in the fortress , nor upon the top", "Here , brother .", "It seems unto the stars which are above us", "Not blush !", "How say you , Pania , will this pile suffice", "Well , all is remedied , and without bloodshed ,", "PANIA , returning with a Herald .", "And who persuaded me", "In one day \u2014 what could that blood-loving beldame ,", "Have slaves decided on the doom of kings ?", "Ho , my arms ! again , my arms ! ACT V .", "All safe off to your boats , blow one long blast", "And bloody-handed , ghastly , ghostly thing ,", "Brought from the spoils of India \u2014 but be speedy .", "Sole in Assyria , or with them elsewhere .", "Was still , yet lighted ; his long locks curled down", "As a lute pierceth through the cymbal 's clash ,", "Now that I see thee once more , what was seen", "Of the young lion , femininely raging", "Worlds \u2014 or the lights of Worlds \u2014 I know nor care not .", "I interfered not with their civic lives ,", "And how many", "And clog the last sad sands of life with tears .", "Of cloud-fenced Caucasus , where the eagle sits", "Here 's that which deified him \u2014 let it now", "What have I done to thee , or to the people ,", "Who slew me : and when you have borne away", "Then \u2014 then \u2014 a chaos of all loathsome things", "Smooth faces of our festive friends . Say , Myrrha ,", "Already captive ? can I not even breathe", "I am the very slave of Circumstance 330", "To look upon her , and her kindled cheek ;", "I 've heard my Greek girls speak of such \u2014 they say", "The steel will reach the earthly . But be calm ;", "Forth as a conqueror . By all the stars", "And dost thou feel this ?\u2014 Why ?", "Your part is to obey : return , and \u2014 no \u2014", "A desperate courage crept through every limb , 140", "Who should rebel ? or why ? what cause ? pretext ?", "Besides , I know of these all clay can know", "With a strong escort to your native land ;", "Nor lose one joyous hour .\u2014 I fear them not .", "Am I then ?", "Be set before them , with strict charge to quit", "Let him speak .", "I am no soldier , but a man : speak not", "Their banishment will leave me still sound sleep ,", "Impartially to thee \u2014 why not to them ?", "What is it ?", "To-morrow we set forth .", "The rebels \u2019 lines , his carcass down the river .", "Than either the brief life or the wide realm ,", "\u2018 Tis for some small addition to the temple .", "And if", "I loved thee well , my own , my fathers \u2019 land ,", "My gentle , wronged Zarina !", "And stared , but neither ate nor drank , but stared ,", "For all the predecessors of our line", "Speak further of the rites due to such ashes .", "Patience , Prince , and hear me .", "Dare beard me now , and Insolence within", "And I return not \u2014\u2014", "Deserve that I should curse them with their wishes ,", "The populace of all the nations seize", "A green spot amidst desert centuries ,", "It is a portent . What ! they are disheartened ?", "Worse than thou hast to tell .", "Then sheathe", "Take the fit steps ; and , since necessity", "But let her come .", "But when they falter from the lips I love ,", "And do their worst : I shall not blench for them ; 310", "Shame me ! By Baal , the cities , though well built ,", "And lead them forth to glory .", "Recall Sardanapalus \u2019 golden reign .", "Ere I saw theirs : but no \u2014 all turned upon me , 120", "By mild reciprocal alleviation ,", "\u2018 Gainst me !! What would the slaves ?", "I live in peace and pleasure : what can man 530", "Thou at the least shalt learn the penalty 310", "Yes , the enlarged but noble aspect of", "The lips which have been pressed to mine , a chill", "My word is past .", "These realms , of which thou wert the ornament ,", "So there are", "Dream ; though I know it now to be a dream", "From fear \u2014\u2014", "From a dead soldier 's grasp ;\u2014 all these things made", "But \u2018 tis not his \u2014 but some superior 's , who", "These are mere fantasies :", "Except to heighten it , and vanish from 600", "Yes , brother , and I would I had not slept ;", "Our clue being well nigh wound out , let 's be cheerful .", "In safety , mark me \u2014 and security \u2014", "Impiety !\u2014 nay , if the sires who reigned", "Business to-morrow .", "Then let me live in ignominy ever .", "And Impulse \u2014 borne away with every breath !", "Lead her away .", "Poor Salemenes ! thou hast died in time", "I love to learn .", "Longer than he can love . How my soul hates", "The men , or innocent or guilty , are", "Till they shall wish it turned into a distaff .", "With them and all things .", "A Queen , shall make your dowry worth a kingdom .", "As one , for they are nothing if I fall ;", "In those for whom I have felt most , and makes me 450", "Being bought without a tear . But that is not", "And pelting as even now .", "In the pursuit .", "Of thee and Zames , and our customed meeting ,", "And then reproach her with thine own cold blindness ,", "Two men , who , whatsoe'er they now are , were", "Cannot the thing be done without ? Who are they", "Your heads would now be dripping the last drops", "At least we 'll wear our fetters jocundly ;", "The river 's brink is too remote , its stream", "The trusty , rough , true soldier \u2014 the best captain", "Are spawned in courts by base intrigues , and baser", "Fly ! and be happy !", "Sing me a song of Sappho", "To school me in the worship of", "I made no wars , I added no new imposts ,", "And , hating not himself , yet loves his fellows", "On his vast bust , whence a huge quiver rose", "Else you had met . That pang at least is spared her !", "All that looked like a chain for me or others 340", "Child , if there be peril , 560", "At least , I will enjoy it .", "Furrowed with years , yet sneering with the passion", "It was your will to see me , ere you went", "The land of Paphlagonia , where the Queen", "Deem not", "That 's a hard question \u2014 But I answer , Yes .", "The orders fixed on ?", "Be it so .", "I know not what I could have been , but feel", "Assyria 's idols ! Let him be released \u2014", "Darest thou so much ?", "The barrier which that hesitating accent", "He 's right .\u2014 Let him go free .\u2014 My life 's last act", "Stood dull as in our temples , but she still", "Quite fall'n , nor now disposed to bear reproaches ,", "Ho , there !\u2014 but seek not for the buckler : \u2018 tis 100", "This , too \u2014 And this too must I suffer \u2014 I , who never Inflicted purposely on human hearts A voluntary pang ! But that is false \u2014 She loved me , and I loved her .\u2014 Fatal passion ! Why dost thou not expire at once in hearts Which thou hast lighted up at once ? Zarina !I must pay dearly for the desolation Now brought upon thee . Had I never loved 430 But thee , I should have been an unopposed Monarch of honouring nations . To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due , And find it , till they forfeit it themselves !", "But turned from it and her . But all along", "Eat , drink , and love ; the rest 's not worth a fillip . \u201d", "But , on my right hand and my left , instead", "Your post is near our person .", "Their very record !", "Return not", "Nor rise the sooner ; nor forbear the goblet ;", "What , crowned already ?\u2014 But , proceed .", "I would reserve thee for a fitter doom ,", "In the remote apartments : let a guard", "At Babylon . At least from thence he will depart to meet me .", "\u2018 Tis lost , all Earth will cry out , \u201c thank your father ! \u201d", "And should I leave your fate to sterner judges ,", "And the most tiresome . Where 's my cupbearer ? Bring me some water .", "She 's firm . My fathers ! whom I will rejoin , It may be , purified by death from some Of the gross stains of too material being , I would not leave your ancient first abode To the defilement of usurping bondmen ; If I have not kept your inheritance As ye bequeathed it , this bright part of it , Your treasure \u2014 your abode \u2014 your sacred relics 430 Of arms , and records \u2014 monuments , and spoils , In which they would have revelled , I bear with me To you in that absorbing element , Which most personifies the soul as leaving The least of matter unconsumed before Its fiery workings :\u2014 and the light of this Most royal of funereal pyres shall beNot a mere pillar formed of cloud and flame , A beacon in the horizon for a day , And then a mount of ashes \u2014 but a light440 To lesson ages , rebel nations , and Voluptuous princes . Time shall quench full many A people 's records , and a hero 's acts ; Sweep empire after empire , like this first Of empires , into nothing ; but even then Shall spare this deed of mine , and hold it up A problem few dare imitate , and none Despise \u2014 but , it may be , avoid the life Which led to such a consummation . MYRRHA returns with a lighted Torch in one Hand , and a Cup in the other .", "\u2014", "Bravely \u2014 and , won , wear it wisely , not as I", "Be such as will not speedily exhaust", "Ambition \u2014 she has seen thrones shake , and loves ;", "You save the better part of what is left ,", "Nay , I have listened", "Say what you saw at parting , and request", "What 's that ?", "Know'st thou of wounds ? yet wherefore do I ask ?", "; her , thou know'st ,", "This language , which makes life itself a lie ,", "I marvel at thee . What is thy motive , Myrrha , thus to urge me ?", "And him as a true man , who did his utmost", "The ungrateful and ungracious slaves ! they murmur", "My realm to one wide shelter for the wretched ,", "Lord \u2014 King \u2014 Sire \u2014 Monarch \u2014 nay , time was I prized them ;", "Shall be to make me worthier of your love .", "True \u2014 I forgot \u2014 he is my shield-bearer", "Between us , but he answered not ; I filled it ;", "I see their brilliancy and feel their beauty", "This cuirass fits me well , the baldric better , And the helm not at all . Methinks I seem", "Let me then charge .", "And , prithee , think more gently of thy brother .", "The signal .", "Hold your hands \u2014", "We will not think of them : there are none such ,", "Unto what end ? what purpose ? I will grant", "What dost dread ? 280", "\u2018 Tis flesh ; grasp \u2014 clasp \u2014 yet closer , till I feel", "But let me not behold them ; they unman me", "Who in thy country threw \u2014\u2014", "But what are words to us ? we have well nigh done", "Freely and fearlessly ?", "But no , it cannot be : the Mede Arbaces \u2014", "Against the falling ; but as I am not 470", "We 've cleared the palace \u2014\u2014", "Tell him to spare his person for the present ,", "That 's true , too ; but I must not think of it .", "Mouthpiece of mutiny !", "But the false satraps , who provide no better ?", "Had he but lived , I would have gorged him with", "They would be crowned to reign o'er \u2014 let that pass .", "Their lineage . But arise , my pious friends ;", "The Hunter laid his hand on mine : I took it ,", "My soul seems lukewarm ; but when I set on them ,", "Your swords and persons are at liberty", "I did .", "As the light breeze of midnight crisps the broad", "If you preach farther \u2014 Why , this is rank treason .", "In good or evil to surprise mankind .", "Apes Treason from without . Question no further ; 270", "A mortal still in name as in his grave ;", "Have not all past human beings parted ,", "Instead \u2014 a grey-haired , withered , bloody-eyed ,", "that e'er divided", "The memory of a hero , for he looked so .", "That there are worse things betwixt earth and heaven", "A goblet , bubbling o'er with blood ; and on", "Let us then part while peace is still between us .", "Spare not of thy free speech ,", "The follies of my species , and", "What cause ? true ,\u2014 fill the goblet up ;", "To have struck so weakly .", "We leave a nobler monument than Egypt", "Nor possible . You cannot pity her ,", "Proclaims to thine , and mine is sealed .", "The other phantoms , like a row of statues ,", "Nor crown me with a single rose the less ;", "Given or received ; we have enough within us ,", "I took the rabble 's shouts for love \u2014 the breath", "I have learned to-night the price of the pure element : 350", "That 's false ! but let them say so : the old Greeks ,", "The scimitar to me he never yielded", "As sovereigns swathed in purple , and enthroned", "Resemble your own line than their own Sire .", "Why , if I thought so \u2014", "And show himself more necessary to us . 600", "Is spacious , and the first to be sought out ,", "Where thou wert wont to be . But \u2014\u2014", "In mutinous myriads , I would still go forth .", "How ?", "The post but with their lives \u2014 command it , Zames .", "; yet hear", "Save that I longed for thee , and sought for thee ,", "Beyond the palace walls to-night , but make", "It is too late \u2014 I will go forth without it .", "If at this moment ,\u2014 for we now are on", "Sits heavier on my heart than all the wrongs", "His offspring needs none .", "And urge me to revenge .", "On earth , or should you read of it in heaven", "His death , who made their lives a jubilee ;", "Of aught above it , or below it \u2014 nothing .", "An arrow pierced his brain , while , scattering", "We 'll die where we were born \u2014 in our own halls", "Then let us end both !", "Now to reproof : methinks your aspect speaks 530", "Indeed ! Prince , you forget yourself . Upon what warrant ?", "Both rose , and the crowned figures on each hand", "While millions dare revolt with sword in hand !", "Of this vile herd , grown insolent with feeding ,", "Some say that there be traitors .", "Feel no remorse at bearing off the gold ;", "Myrrha , this is too feminine , and springs", "They reign themselves \u2014 all monarchs in their mansions \u2014", "And , flinging down the goblets on each hand ,", "No matter , still \u2018 tis fear .", "Oh ! if it must be so , and these rash slaves", "Save with some hollow hopes , and ill-worn smiles ?", "So I should :", "Rather say for Bactria !", "And all Chaldea 's starry mysteries .", "Like to the dying day on Caucasus ,", "There was a certain Bacchus , was there not ?", "I have neglected , and a spouse \u2014\u2014", "The summer-dwelling on its beauteous border ,", "Or thus \u2014 \u201c Sardanapalus on this spot", "From which he first expressed the soul , and gave", "Your own ; and , deadlier for ye , on my fears .", "For ever thus , addressed with awe . I ne'er", "That he shed blood by oceans ; and no God ,", "But fatal . Oh , my brother ! I would give", "Do more ?", "Renown . To be forced thus to uphold my right", "Art sure of that ? I have heard otherwise ;", "Jove !\u2014 aye , your Baal \u2014", "Too heavy :\u2014 a light cuirass and my sword .", "I over-ruled him .", "My faithful Bactrians , I will henceforth be", "Believing that I could survive what thou", "When this , the present , palls . Well , then I pledge thee", "And act befittingly .", "Have wasted down my royalty .", "Not to add to each other 's natural burthen", "I have no call for either . Salemenes !", "When they shine on my grave I shall know neither .", "by these besiegers .", "Myrrha , my love , hast thou thy shell in order ?", "My wife !", "Respect , the tutelage of Assyria 's heirs ,", "To me war is no glory \u2014 conquest no", "The young , makes Weariness forget his toil , 190", "A task they might have spared their king . Upon them !", "The landmarks of the seas of gore he shed ,", "The sword and shield , the sole-redeeming honour , 150", "That which avails him nothing : he hath found it ,", "Who knew no brighter gems than summer wreaths ,", "I 'll not insult him thus , to bid him render", "Rather let them be borne abroad upon", "Resolves , if firm , may merit a more noble", "Bring cedar , too , and precious drugs , and spices ,", "The fair Greek 's readiness of speech .", "Else they make an eternity of moments ,", "I parted not from this for such a purpose .", "Whom thou suspectest ?\u2014 Let them be arrested .", "Slain ! unrewarded !", "And Fear her danger ; opens a new world", "Thou prat'st of , where Semiramis was vanquished .", "Methought their poisons flowed around us , till", "For a great sacrifice I build the pyre !", "The path still open , and communication", "Glory ! what 's that ?", "Strikes his own altars .", "And its enormous walls of reeking ruin ,", "Away with him !", "Why , child , I loathe all war , and warriors ;", "Queen of Assyria , departed hence .", "I understand thee \u2014 thou wouldst have me go", "But many causers :\u2014 if ye meet with such", "Boy , retire .", "And burnt my lips up with her noisome kisses ; 150", "The railing drunkards ! why , what would they have ? Have they not peace and plenty ?", "Love me , whate'er betide . My chiefest glory", "And well ? say that much .", "Continue what thou pleasest .", "No \u2014 I 'll not hear of such things . These vain bickerings", "That is too much ,", "Of all things human : hear \u2014 \u201c Sardanapalus ,", "Because it changed not ; and I turned for refuge", "I will trust no man with unlimited lives .", "And what 's mine ?", "Well , then ,", "Then", "Misplaced upon the throne \u2014 misplaced in life .", "An awful night .", "We but await the signal .", "Must yield awhile to this necessity .", "The hope to find at last one which I knew", "The tremulous silver of Euphrates \u2019 wave ,", "Myrrha ! what , at whispers", "Waved arms , more dazzling with their own born whiteness", "Parting more mournful still .", "\u2018 Tis his . A worthy triad !", "But take this with thee : if I was not formed", "And I the half of life to sit by them .", "That 's true , my Myrrha ; and could I convert", "Are ended . Yet , I dread thy nature will", "The fillet of my diadem : the first time", "Is not this better now than Nimrod 's huntings ,", "Though thinly manned , may still hold out against", "\u2018 Twere to enkindle the strong tower of our", "I 've been i \u2019 the grave \u2014 where worms are lords", "Aught \u2014 all that she can ask \u2014 but such a meeting .", "Audacious brawlers ?", "Where I may pour upon them .", "As I have said , I will not deem ye guilty , 290", "Which may be his , and might be mine , if I", "Like a Chaldean peasant to his mate ,", "Aye , from dark plots and snares 470", "The thing which you condemn , a disposition", "I am alone .", "Then I may charge on horseback . Sfero , ho !", "To lay it down ?", "No , it must not be .", "They do not reach them \u2014 look to it !\u2014 in safety ,", "Is a mere soldier , a mere tool , a kind 460", "The fatal penalties imposed on life :", "Our walls ,", "The same of their chief hero , Hercules ,", "And slain to serve my thirst : that 's hard , poor slave !", "Oh , Myrrha ! if", "Placed him to dig , but not divide the wealth", "Can I forget this night , even should I live", "And in his godship I will honour him \u2014", "And watch the warring elements ; but this", "And wolves , and men \u2014 the fiercer of the three ,", "Thou whom he spurned so harshly , and now dared", "Thy hand \u2014 so \u2014 \u2018 tis thy hand ;", "Now , my good Pania !\u2014 quick \u2014 with what I ordered .", "Alas !", "And your companions :", "My Lord \u2014 my King \u2014 Sire \u2014 Sovereign ; thus it is \u2014", "In peril : they perhaps may never mount it :", "The winds of heaven , and scattered into air ,", "Feel ! who feels not 380", "His lips , for his eyes moved not \u2014 and the woman 's", "A sword of such a temper , and a bow ,", "And vainer fears . Within there !\u2014 ye slaves , deck", "In the sign of the Scorpion , which proclaims", "Thronged thick and shapeless : I was dead , yet feeling \u2014 160", "I am a monarch .", "You ! to battle ?", "The Ionian Myrrha we would crave her presence . 420", "Yes , when the Sun shines .", "Unman my heart , and the poor boys will weep ;", "Have I not cares enow , and pangs enow ,", "This realm as province .", "My sword ! O fool , I wear no sword : here , fellow ,", "Thus than be withered .", "And if I did , \u2018 twere better than a trophy ,", "\u2018 Tis too late", "Once honest . Ye are free , sirs .", "A question as an answer to his question ,", "And tell him , ere a year expire , I summon", "Well , Pania ! have you placed the guards , and issued", "Requires , I sanction and support thee . Ne'er 370", "Shall not be one of wrath . Here , fellow , take", "Tempest , say'st thou ?", "Is my reward ! and now I owe thee nothing ,", "Never was word yet rung so in my ears \u2014 90", "He never asked it .", "Why let it come then unexpectedly ,", "We were in an existence all apart", "Now swarm forth in rebellion , and demand", "That yet warm hand , and fold that throbless heart", "But of the midnight festival .", "I invited him to fill the cup which stood", "And ranging round the zodiac , found thy fate", "In peace \u2014 I 'll not say pardon \u2014 which must be", "Whose then is the crime ,", "Happy as fair ! Here sorrow cannot reach .", "If it so please you , Pontiff , for that knowledge . 270", "The better :", "Made warriors of more than me . I paused", "And yet it feels a little stiff and painful ,", "Even so , 270", "ACT III .", "Fill full ! why this is as it should be : here", "You need not shame to follow . I would fall", "I saw , that is , I dreamed myself", "These are their sepulchres , and this his trophy . \u201d", "He took it not , but stared upon me , till", "And mighty planks , to nourish a tall pile ;", "Proves his divinity ,\u2014 and yet sometimes", "I leave such things to conquerors ; enough", "The homage and the appanage of sovereignty .", "Though but a young astrologer , the stars ;", "Who have ceased to mingle love ?", "In the hour", "Here \u2014 here \u2014 even where we are , guests as we were ,", "I thought to have made mine inoffensive rule", "Is past than present ;\u2014 for the future , \u2018 tis", "Too loud at present to permit the echo", "\u201c The Mighty Hunter ! \u201d I will turn these realms", "A leech 's lancet would have scratched me deeper ;", "Against the hunter flying with her cub ,", "To milder guests , and sought them on the right , 100", "the soldiers ,", "Who can , and do not ?", "For my own part , I should be", "\u2018 Tis granted .", "Their only portion of the coveted kingdom", "Have those without will break their way through hosts ,", "Aye , if we conquer ;", "Yet oft", "I seek but to be loved , not worshipped .", "Not so :\u2014 of all his conquests a few columns .", "An idol foreign to Assyria 's worship , 150", "If not , we meet again soon ,\u2014 if the spirit", "Rule thy own hours , thou rulest mine \u2014 say , wouldst thou", "Nested in pathless clefts , if treachery be :", "At last I sate , marble , as they , when rose", "As yet beat in these kingdoms .", "Than the steel her hand held , which she caught up", "With the same aspect , which appalled me more ,", "I saw them in their flight \u2014 for then they fled .", "Not too much of that ;", "Their noisome clamour ?", "The weight of human misery less , and glide", "And hark ! a word more .", "Where sunset tints the snow with rosy shadows ,", "Will I not ?", "Bring down my spear too \u2014 Where 's Salemenes ?", "To enter here till sought for .", "Alone \u2014 I seek no partners but in pleasure .", "If I must make a prison of our palace ,", "My warlike priest , and precious prophet , and", "Mere mimics even in death \u2014 but I sate still :", "Re-enter SALEMENES and ZARINA .", "Zarina !", "See that the women are bestowed in safety", "Tempt me not ;", "Sleep shows such things , what may not Death disclose ?", "And do the soldiers keep their hearts up ?", "The King lay there : when this is done , we will", "Seems nothing .", "What ! am I then cooped ?", "But there 's enough of that shed ; as for wine ,", "Think we may yet be victors and return", "I go forth to be recognised , and thus", "Of thy far father-land . Nay , weep not \u2014 calm thee .", "Can see a smile , unless in some broad banquet 's", "The Queen is gone : 480", "My father was amongst them , too ; but he ,", "Of higher matter than a woman 's presence .", "If I have spared these men against thy counsel ,", "Follow me .", "Not now \u2014 I would not 70", "Priest ! keep your thanksgivings for Belus ;", "Crowned with fresh flowers like \u2014\u2014", "There be : I shall know soon . Farewell \u2014 Farewell .", "And that is \u2014\u2014", "Thought them worth purchase and conveyance , are 170", "They cannot answer ; when the priests speak for them ,", "And what", "Gold : all the gold of earth could ne'er repay 360", "And at the last I feared them not , but laughed", "Yet speak it ;", "And when I am gone \u2014\u2014 150", "And not gone tracking it through human ashes ,", "Even as the arrow finds the airy king , 570", "Thou hast no more eyes than heart to make her crimson", "And mine To make libations amongst men . I 've not Forgot the custom ; and although alone , Will drain one draught in memory of many A joyous banquet past .And this libation Is for the excellent Beleses .", "\u201c Obey the king \u2014 contribute to his treasure \u2014", "Leave that , save fraught with fire unquenchable ,", "I know there doth , but not its name :", "I know not why , kept from me , leaving me", "And that I will not spare my own \u2014 and say ,", "Away !", "Yes ,\u2014 I ask", "Making a grave with every footstep .", "\u2018 Tis healed \u2014 I had forgotten it . Away !", "And you will join us at the banquet ?", "He frowned not in his turn , but looked upon me", "Of various aspects , but of one expression .", "You know I cannot feign .", "Which fringe his banks : but whether they may be", "Nor she aught but \u2014\u2014", "Than ye or I stand ready to arraign you ;", "And so live on . Were I the thing some think me ,", "In the mean time receive your sword , and know", "It soon may be too late .", "If I redeem it , I will give thee blood", "My brother \u2014 my best subject \u2014 better Prince", "No , not to-night , if \u2018 tis not gone : methought", "No ; not despair precisely . When we know", "Have risen up \u2018 gainst one who ne'er provoked them ,", "Her left , another , filled with \u2014 what I saw not ,", "If ever I indulge i n't , it shall be", "Brother !", "For now it throbs sufficiently : but what", "Myrrha !", "I would not give the smile of one fair girl", "And her , the homicide and husband-killer , 180", "Now to be pitied ; or far more for what", "I sway them \u2014", "And that ?", "You see , this night", "Hast died for \u2014 our long royalty of race .", "Shall be like their beginning \u2014 memorable .", "Wish that I could lay down the dull tiara ,", "Reply to mine .", "We have lived asunder", "I can at least command myself , who listen", "As the torch in thy grasp .", "As it streamed o'er her ; her blue veins that rose", "The slave that gave it might be well ashamed", "Of vengeance , leering too with that of lust ,", "To see one treachery the less : this man", "But he is honest . Come , we 'll think no more o n't \u2014", "A maze of muttered threats and mysteries :", "Too many far have heralded", "Say on .", "Oh ! thou wilt hear it from my subjects . Yes \u2014", "To love and to be merciful , to pardon", "Left \u2018 twixt the palace and the phalanx ?", "In dust", "Few questions , and I 'm not of curious nature .", "By right of blood , derived from age to age ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Part !", "Still we meet again .", "And the King ?", "For having looked upon it oft , too oft ,", "King ! the sky", "Must not be wanting now . I ask no guard ,", "All ?", "Purged from the dross of earth , and earthly passion ,", "Did you not", "Receive a token from your dying brother ,", "Since that insidious hour ; and here , within", "The Chaldee 's God , which , when I gaze upon ,", "No , \u2018 twas mere fancy ;", "Could urge the Prince thy kinsman to require", "The very first", "And I would ask if this your palace were", "What I shall see with pleasure .", "Resisting my own wish and your injunction", "No palace to protect their worshippers . 40", "Mix pale with thine . A single thought yet irks me .", "To shield thee from them .", "Of the immortal sovereigns . Now he breaks", "To penetrate through many a winding way ,", "Beside , wherever you are borne by fate .", "The true value of a heart ;", "I love", "Ye Gods ,", "Fear !\u2014 I 'm a Greek , and how should I fear death ? A slave , and wherefore should I dread my freedom ? 480", "Which must be carried one by one before", "Unto the timid , who anticipate", "Then thou wilt not yield ,", "Hearts ?", "Were you sent by the King ?", "Leaving thy subjects \u2019 eyes ungratified ,", "A feeble female , \u2018 midst their desperate strife ,", "For you .", "Was for thee , my last thoughts , save one , were of thee !", "And dost thou think", "\u2018 Tis the soldier 's", "Even for that other 's sake . This is too rash :", "Are high and strong , and guarded . Treason has", "Or thou art shamed ! Nay , then , I will go forth ,", "Whate'er it have to fear , will not fear Death .", "Pray lean on me .", "Your lot be different , I 'll not weep , but share it .", "Chambers : the palace has become a fortress", "That is , it would be happy ; but \u2014\u2014", "Even for the sake of all that ever stirred", "Victims .", "And love , and mirth , was never King of Glory .", "Yet not oppressed \u2014 at least they must not think so ,", "The dust of both into one urn .", "Is ready .", "We are as much shut in even from the sound", "Nursed in effeminate arts from youth to manhood ,", "Man may despoil his brother man of all", "They penetrate to where they then arrived ,", "You have bound it with \u2014\u2014", "\u2018 Twill not recall the past \u2014 490", "I did abase myself as much in being", "And is all lost ?", "Of human life must spring from woman 's breast , 510", "Where 's Zames ?", "You wax paler .", "\u2018 Twill not restore my honour , nor my heart .", ",", "That a Greek girl should be his paramour ,", "I speak of civic popular love , self-love ,", "\u2018 Tis part of our instruction . War being constant ,", "Back to my duty . But thou spakest of peril", "As in late midnight conflict in the very", "Yield to the few still faithful a few hours ,", "How many a day and moon thou hast reclined", "In my native land a God ,", "He 's gone ; and told no more than that all 's lost ! What need have I to know more ? In those words , Those little words , a kingdom and a king , A line of thirteen ages , and the lives Of thousands , and the fortune of all left With life , are merged ; and I , too , with the great , Like a small bubble breaking with the wave Which bore it , shall be nothing . At the least , My fate is in my keeping : no proud victor Shall count me with his spoils .", "Well , Sir , the rebels ?", "Hold ! no , no , it cannot be .", "In fork\u00e9d flashes a commanding tempest .", "Within these palace walls in silken dalliance , 580", "And will partake your fortunes . You may live", "I would not have him less than what he should be .", "Unroofed and desolate , how many flatterers", "Aye \u2014 or death to-night .", "Shall I light", "Great King ,", "The substance of sweet peace ; and , for a king ,", "Did I do so ?", "Why ?", "That duty 's mine .", "Now !", "It is long", "In the spot where all must meet at last \u2014", "So different in their births , tongues , sexes , natures ,", "There doth .", "For what I am , and ever must be \u2014 thine .", "Is overcast , and musters muttering thunder ,", "But think not of these things \u2014 the mere creations", "That which may never be .", "Ask of the Gods thy fathers .", "\u2018 Tis fired ! I come .FOOTNOTES :{ 4 }{ 7 }]{ 9 }{ 10 } \u03a4\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c4 \u2019 \u1f14\u03c7\u03c9 \u1f45\u03c3 \u2019 \u1f14\u03c6\u03b1\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03c6\u1f7b\u03b2\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1 , \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4 \u2019 \u1f14\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2/ ch\u00f4 o/ phagon kai \\ e ) phy / brisa , kai \\ met \u2019 e )/ r\u00f4tos ] \u03a4\u1f73\u03c1\u03c0\u03bd \u2019 \u1f14\u03c0\u03b1\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd \u2019 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f44\u03bb\u03b2\u03b9\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd\u03b1 \u03bb\u1f73\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c0\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 ./ pathon \u2019 ta \\ de \\ polla \\ kai \\ o )/ lbia kei ~ na le / leiptai . ] \u201c What once I gorged I now enjoy , And wanton Lusts me still employ ; All other things by Mortals prized Are left as dirt by me despised . \u201d \u2014 The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian , made English by G. Booth , of the City of Chester , Esquire , 1700 , p. 65 . \u201c Another king of the sort was Sardanapalus .... And so , when Arbaces , who was one of the generals under him , a Mede by birth , endeavoured to manage by the assistance of one of the eunuchs , whose name was Sparamizus , to see Sardanapalus : and when ... he saw him painted with vermilion , and adorned like a woman , sitting among his concubines , carding purple wool , and sitting among them with his feet up , wearing a woman 's robe , and with his beard carefully scraped , and his face smoothed with pumice stoneMost historians , of whom Duris is one , relate that Arbaces , being indignant at his countrymen being ruled over by such a monarch as that , stabbed him and slew him . But Ctesias says that he went to war with him , and collected a great army , and then that Sardanapalus , being dethroned by Arbaces , died , burning himself alive in his palace , having heaped up a funeral pile four plethra in extent , on which he placed 150 golden couches . \u201d \u2014 The Deipnosophist\u00e6 ... of Athen\u00e6us , bk . xii . c. 38 , translated by C. D. Yonge , 1854 , iii . 847 . ]{ 13 }of the city wall , and by that means opened a passage to the enemy , he understood the meaning of the oracle , and thought himself lost . He resolved , however , to die in such a manner as , according to his opinion , should cover the infamy of his scandalous and effeminate life . He ordered a pile of wood to be made in his palace , and , setting fire to it , burnt himself , his eunuchs , his women , and his treasures .\u2014 Diod . Sic ., Bibl . Hist ., lib . ii . pag . 78 , sqq ., ed . 1604 , p . 109 . ]{ 14 } He sweats in dreary , dulled effeminacy .\u2014{ 15 } And see the gewgaws of the glittering girls .\u2014and pavilion occur , but it is not an allusion to his Britannic Majesty , as you may tremulouslyimagine . This you will one day see, as I have made Sardanapalus brave, and also as amiable as my poor powers could render him . So that it could neither be truth nor satire on any living monarch . \u201d \u2014 Letter to Murray , May 25 , 1821 , Letters , 1901 , v. 299 . Byron pretended , or , perhaps , really thought , that such a phrase as the \u201c Queen 's wrongs \u201d would be supposed to contain an allusion to the trial of Queen Caroline, and to the exclusion of her name from the State prayers , etc . Unquestionably if the play had been put on the stage at this time , the pit and gallery would have applauded the sentiment to the echo . There was , too , but one \u201c pavilion \u201d in 1821 , and that was not on the banks of the Euphrates , but at Brighton . Qui s'excuse s'accuse . Byron was not above \u201c paltering \u201d with his readers \u201c in a double sense . \u201d ]{ 16 } \u201c The Ionian name had been still more comprehensive ; having included the Achaians and the B\u0153otians , who , together with those to whom it was afterwards confined , would make nearly the whole of the Greek nation ; and among the Orientals it was always the general name for the Greeks . \u201d \u2014 MITFORD 'S Greece , 1818. i . 199 .{ 17 } To Byblis \u2014\u2014.\u2014I know each glance of those deep Greek-souled eyes .\u2014{ 19 } \u2014\u2014 I have a mind To curse the restless slaves with their own wishes .\u2014{ 21 }He did , and thence was deemed a God in story .\u2014throws some doubt on the existence of these columns , which he suggests were islands or \u201c pillar \u201d rocks . According to Plutarch, Alexander built great altars on the banks of the Ganges , on which the native kings were wont to \u201c offer sacrifices in the Grecian manner . \u201d Hence , perhaps , the legend of the columns erected by Dionysus . ]\u201c For this expedition he took only a small chosen body of the phalanx , but all his light troops . In the first day 's march he reached Anchialus , a town said to have been founded by the king of Assyria , Sardanapalus . The fortifications , in their magnitude and extent , still in Arrian 's time , bore the character of greatness , which the Assyrians appear singularly to have affected in works of the kind . A monument representing Sardanapalus was found there , warranted by an inscription in Assyrian characters , of course in the old Assyrian language , which the Greeks , whether well or ill , interpreted thus : \u2018 Sardanapalus , son of Anacyndaraxes , in one day founded Anchialus and Tarsus . Eat , drink , play ; all other human joys are not worth a fillip . \u2019 Supposing this version nearly exact, whether the purpose has not been to invite to civil order a people disposed to turbulence , rather than to recommend immoderate luxury , may perhaps reasonably be questioned . What , indeed , could be the object of a king of Assyria in founding such towns in a country so distant from his capital , and so divided from it by an immense extent of sandy deserts and lofty mountains , and , still more , how the inhabitants could be at once in circumstances to abandon themselves to the intemperate joys which their prince has been supposed to have recommended , is not obvious . But it may deserve observation that , in that line of coast , the southern of Lesser Asia , ruins of cities , evidently of an age after Alexander , yet barely named in history , at this day astonish the adventurous traveller by their magnificence and elegance amid the desolation which , under a singularly barbarian government , has for so many centuries been daily spreading in the finest countries of the globe . Whether more from soil and climate , or from opportunities for commerce , extraordinary means must have been found for communities to flourish there ; whence it may seem that the measures of Sardanapalus were directed by juster views than have been commonly ascribed to him . But that monarch having been the last of a dynasty ended by a revolution , obloquy on his memory would follow of course from the policy of his successors and their partisans . The inconsistency of traditions concerning Sardanapalus is striking in Diodorus 's account of him . \u201d \u2014 MITFORD 's Greece , 1820 , ix . 311-313 , and note 1 ., and as follows by Athen\u00e6usin the Deipnosophist\u00e6 : \u201c And Aristobulus says , \u2018 In Anchiale , which was built by Sardanapalus , did Alexander , when he was on his expedition against the Persians , pitch his camp . And at no great distance was the monument of Sardanapalus , on which there is a marble figure putting together the fingers of its right hand , as if it were giving a fillip . And there was on it the following inscription in Assyrian characters :\u2014 Sardanapalus The king , and son of Anacyndaraxes , In one day built Anchiale and Tarsus : Eat , drink , and love , the rest 's not worth e'en this . \u2019 By \u2018 this \u2019 meaning the fillip he was giving with his fingers . \u201d \u201c We may conjecture , \u201d says Canon Rawlinson , \u201c that the monument was in reality a stele containing the kingin an arched frame , with the right hand raised above the left , which is the ordinary attitude , and an inscription commemorating the occasion of its erection \u201d\u2014 The Five Great Monarchies , etc ., 1871 , ii . 216 . ]{ 25 }{ 27 }Compare \u2014 \u201c I have not flattered its rank breath . \u201d Childe Harold , Canto III . stanza cxiii . line 2 . Compare , too , Shakespeare , Coriolanus , act iii . sc . i , lines 66 , 67 .{ 28 }{ 31 } \u2014\u2014 and even dared Profane our presence with his savage jeers .\u2014{ 34 } Who loved no gems so well as those of nature .\u2014Wishing eternity to dust \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 38 } Each twinkle unto which Time trembles , and Nations grow nothing \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 40 }{ 43 } But found the Monarch claimed his privacy .\u2014\u2014\u2014 not else It quits this living hand .\u2014I know them beautiful , and see them brilliant .\u2014{ 49 } \u2014\u2014 by the foolish confidence .\u2014{ 50 }]{ 52 } Aye \u2014 that 's earnest !\u2014{ 54 } Nay , if thou wilt not \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 56 } Nor silent Baal , our imaged deity , Although his marble face looks frowningly , As the dusk shadows of the evening cast His trow in coming dimness and at times .\u2014/ a wide-spread \\ In distant flashes < tempest > \u2014\\ the approaching /As from the Gods to augur .\u2014{ 58 } The weaker merit of our Asian women .\u2014Rather than prove that love to you in griefs .\u2014{ 60 } Worshippers in the air .\u2014{ 61 }{ 63 }The trait is , perhaps , too familiar , but it is historical, and natural in an effeminate character . \u201d \u2014 Letter to Murray , May 30 , 1821 , Letters , 1901 , v. 301 . The quotation was not made in the first edition , 1821 , nor in any subsequent issue , till 1832 . It is from Juvenal , Sat . ii . lines 199-203 \u2014 \u201c Ille tenet speculum , pathici gestamen Othonis , Actoris Aurunci spolium , quo se ille videbat Armatum , cum jam tolli vexilla juberet . Res memoranda novis annalibus , atque recenti Historia , speculum civilis sarcina belli . \u201d \u201c This grasps a mirror \u2014 pathic Otho 's boast, where , while his host , With shouts , the signal of the fight required , He viewed his mailed form ; viewed , and admired ! Lo , a new subject for the historic page , A MIRROR , midst the arms of civil rage ! \u201d Gifford . ]", "In clouds that seem approaching fast , and show", "He is not here ; what wouldst thou with him ? How", "That shuts the world out . I can look no more .", "And without love where dwells security ?", "Aye , my good lord .", "\u2018 Tis the first 610", "The King 's choice is mine .", "Thus the very waves rise up", "He did well .", "And that is better than the power to smile .", "My sovereign ,", "Make a libation to the Gods .", "And now art neither .", "I almost wish now , what I never wished", "To which we tend , for which we 're born , and thread", "Before Baal 's shrine , in the adjoining hall ?", "The rage of the worst war \u2014 the war of brethren .", "Perhaps , recall some softer words of yours", "Why", "That were a dread omen .", "Were shamed in wearing Lydian Omphale 's", "Unused by toil , yet over-wrought by toil \u2014 170", "For then you cannot separate me from you .", "A rebel 's booty : forth , and do your bravest .", "Must rather be the abode of Gods than one", "He lives \u2014\u2014", "And regal halls of pyramid proportions ,", "More frequently , and he did well to call me", "Deeply \u2014 more deeply than all things but love .", "Before \u2014 that he were Grecian . If Alcides", "Speak it , \u2018 twill lighten thy dimmed mind .", "Those eyes , which never may behold it more ,", "\u2018 Tis no dishonour \u2014 no \u2014", "Although a Greek , and born a foe to monarchs \u2014", "Which might not yield to any cares of mine .", "And thou ?", "Thus much from thee , but some impending danger .", "Dwells thy mind rather upon that man 's name", "That flutter in the pageant of a monarch .", "Then yield for mine ;", "So shalt thou find me ever at thy side ,", "Well , the fault 's a brave one .", "They live , then ?", "At least know me", "I pray you talk not thus .", "That our last looks should be on loving faces .", "King , wilt thou bear this mad impiety ?", "Save one deed \u2014 the last", "Pursue ! Why stand'st thou here , and leavest the ranks Of fellow-soldiers conquering without thee ?", "Preserve thine own .", "Let me see the wound ; 100", "Against you .", "And wilt thou ?", "The ever-burning lamp that burns without , 420", "Nor of my attributes ; I have shared your splendour ,", "I loved him to the last .", "The only thing common to all mankind ,", "Why do I love this man ? My country 's daughters Love none but heroes . But I have no country ! The slave hath lost all save her bonds . I love him ; And that 's the heaviest link of the long chain \u2014 To love whom we esteem not . Be it so : The hour is coming when he 'll need all love , And find none . To fall from him now were baser Than to have stabbed him on his throne when highest Would have been noble in my country 's creed : I was not made for either . Could I save him , 650 I should not love him better , but myself ; And I have need of the last , for I have fallen In my own thoughts , by loving this soft stranger : And yet , methinks , I love him more , perceiving That he is hated of his own barbarians , The natural foes of all the blood of Greece . Could I but wake a single thought like those Which even the Phrygians felt when battling long \u2018 Twixt Ilion and the sea , within his heart , He would tread down the barbarous crowds , and triumph . 660 He loves me , and I love him ; the slave loves Her master , and would free him from his vices . If not , I have a means of freedom still , And if I cannot teach him how to reign , May show him how alone a King can leave His throne . I must not lose him from my sight . ACT II .", "And never shown thee to thy people 's longing ;", "So let it be ;", "Thy sovereign .", "For he who loves another loves himself ,", "As though it were a bed of love , deserves", "Your first small words are taught you from her lips ,", "I can bear all things , dreams of life or death ,", "But not so rare , my Pania , as thou think'st it .", "And I feel it", "But an hour only .", "In my own country we respect their voices", "Which means that men are kept in awe and law ,", "It is that no kind hand will gather", "Gather like night dew . My beloved , hush \u2014", "In the mean time , live thou .\u2014 Farewell ! the pile", "Triumph , perhaps , o'er one who vanquished him", "One of the torches which lie heaped beneath", "If it were so ,", "And by that heedless pity risked a crown .", "Scarcely one ;", "Beat back by valour : now at once we have", "\u2018 Twere not the first Greek girl had trod the path .", "Master , I am your slave ! Man , I have loved you !\u2014", "In Hades ! if there be , as I believe ,", "Is this all ?", "And pure as is my love to thee , shall they ,", "Posted with the guard appointed", "There needs too oft the show of war to keep", "The wretch was overthrown , but rescued to", "Goes on the conflict ?", "Then farewell , thou earth !", "I joy to see this portent shakes you not .", "I follow .", "I am not quite skilless : in my native land", "No one \u2014 but I heard", "Farewell to all of Nimrod ! Even the name", "His monument . How goes the strife , sir ?", "Who is he should dread 490", "Appointing Zames chief ?", "Your first tears quenched by her , and your last sighs", "Because I ever dreaded to intrude ;", "About my fathers or their land .", "A King of feasts , and flowers , and wine , and revel ,", "Friends fail \u2014 slaves fly \u2014 and all betray \u2014 and , more", "Of council ; it were better I retire . 30", "Me !", "Art thou ready ?", "But now I know thee .", "Which can impair both strength and spirit : seek", "And truly .", "And rushes from the banquet to the battle ,", "These men were honest : it is comfort still 410", "They are here , then :\u2014 aye , 250", "Thou didst not say so .", "The extracted weapon , I do fear thy life .", "Were words . I pray you , let the proofs", "Yes , by surprise , and were 70", "Never profaned by rebel echoes till", "A shore beyond the Styx ; and if there be not ,", "Lo ! I 've lit the lamp which lights us to the stars . 450", "Which centres in a single ray of his .", "In ashes .", "Loved you , I know not by what fatal weakness ,", "And I no pleasure but in parting not . You shall not force me from you .", "\u2018 Tis time", "We are nerved to look on such things .", "Which they may augur .\u2014 King , I am your subject !", "Think not of me \u2014 a single soldier 's arm", "Re-enter SFERO with the mirror .", "Exalted ; yet I own \u2018 tis only mortal ; 430", "Ah !", "As thy wish would imply .", "Than all , the most indebted \u2014 but a heart", "A monarch into action , to forego", "As I am in this form . Come , look upon it ,", "By teaching thee to save thyself , and not", "And bid thee guard me there \u2014 where thou shouldst shield"], "true_target": ["Go forth , and conquer !", "I should do both", "I thought \u2018 twas the intent", "Then thou wouldst know what thou canst never know .", "You did not doubt me a few hours ago .", "Uncalled for :\u2014 I retire .", "You are right ; some steps approach , but slowly .", "He , who springs up a Hercules at once ,", "Do not speak of that ,", "Who fulminate o'er my father 's land , protect him !", "For the sake of thy realm !", "To find one slave more true than subject myriads :", "I will await here your return .", "I have stolen upon his rest , if rest it be , Which thus convulses slumber : shall I wake him ? No , he seems calmer . Oh , thou God of Quiet ! Whose reign is o'er sealed eyelids and soft dreams , Or deep , deep sleep , so as to be unfathomed , Look like thy brother , Death ,\u2014 so still , so stirless \u2014 For then we are happiest , as it may be , we Are happiest of all within the realm Of thy stern , silent , and unwakening Twin . Again he moves \u2014 again the play of pain 10 Shoots o'er his features , as the sudden gust Crisps the reluctant lake that lay so calmBeneath the mountain shadow ; or the blast Ruffles the autumn leaves , that drooping cling Faintly and motionless to their loved boughs . I must awake him \u2014 yet not yet ; who knows From what I rouse him ? It seems pain ; but if I quicken him to heavier pain ? The fever Of this tumultuous night , the grief too of His wound , though slight , may cause all this , and shake 20 Me more to see than him to suffer . No : Let Nature use her own maternal means , And I await to second , not disturb her .", "What instead ?", "And now retire , to have your wound looked to ,", "Or full reality .", "Is now no more .", "These men sought to be so .", "Such as might try the sternest .", "Oh , Monarch , listen .\u2014", "A shore where Mind survives , \u2018 twill be as Mind", "Till ye were strengthened by the expected succours .", "That loves without self-love ! \u2018 Tis here \u2014 now prove it .", "I would not shrink", "No : I 'll die here !\u2014 Away , and tell your King", "I grow almost a convert to your Baal .", "Part to die for his sovereign , and why not", "Your paramour , as though you were a peasant \u2014", "Had earthly monarch half the power and glory", "How vainly !", "Are kinder to thee than thou to thyself ,", "Pania ? Sfero ?", "Will you then quit the palace ?", "Their shouts come ringing through the ancient halls ,", "To be beloved on trust for what I feel ,", "The day at last has broken . What a night Hath ushered it ! How beautiful in heaven ! Though varied with a transitory storm , More beautiful in that variety ! How hideous upon earth ! where Peace and Hope , And Love and Revel , in an hour were trampled By human passions to a human chaos , Not yet resolved to separate elements \u2014 \u2018 Tis warring still ! And can the sun so rise , So bright , so rolling back the clouds into 10 Vapours more lovely than the unclouded sky , With golden pinnacles , and snowy mountains , And billows purpler than the Ocean 's , making In heaven a glorious mockery of the earth , So like we almost deem it permanent ; So fleeting , we can scarcely call it aught Beyond a vision , \u2018 tis so transiently Scattered along the eternal vault : and yet It dwells upon the soul , and soothes the soul , And blends itself into the soul , until 20 Sunrise and sunset form the haunted epoch Of Sorrow and of Love ; which they who mark not , Know not the realms where those twin geniibuild the palaces Where their fond votaries repose and breathe Briefly ;\u2014 but in that brief cool calm inhale Enough of heaven to enable them to bear 30 The rest of common , heavy , human hours , And dream them through in placid sufferance , Though seemingly employed like all the rest Of toiling breathers in allotted tasksOf pain or pleasure , two names for one feeling , Which our internal , restless agony Would vary in the sound , although the sense Escapes our highest efforts to be happy .", "The woman 's with her lover ?", "Till all , save evil , slumbered through the realm !", "So wilt thou , I trust .", "Therefore that I so watch it , and reproach", "\u2018 Tis easy to astonish or appal", "Thyself alone , but these vast realms , from all", "By all that 's good and glorious take this counsel .", "But when another speaks of Greeks , it wounds me .", "The satraps uncontrolled , the Gods unworshipped ,", "You have cause , Sire ; for on the earth there breathes not A man more worthy of a woman 's love , A soldier 's trust , a subject 's reverence , A king 's esteem \u2014 the whole world 's admiration !", "That is the prayer of many , and", "A Greek girl dare not do for love , that which", "The dust we tread upon was once alive ,", "And Altada ?", "Will he then give way ?", "And fetters us to earth \u2014 at least the phantom ,", "Without the reverence and the rapture due", "All unincorporate : or if there flits", "Enough to overcome all former nature ,", "I watched by you : it was a heavy hour , 190", "To ward off worse oppression , their own passions .", "Thy safety ; and the certainty that nought", "To try so much ? When he who is their ruler", "That 's great or glittering \u2014 kingdoms fall , hosts yield ,", "No , never !", "Of watching the last hour of him who led them .", "My lord !", "I wait with patience ,", "Now , Jove be praised ! that he", "Alas ! thou art pale , and on thy brow the drops", "Aloof from desolation ! My last prayer 490", "\u2018 Tis sometimes better to be feared than loved .", "\u2018 Tis my country 's custom to", "Embrace , but not the last ; there is one more . 470", "When men have shrunk from the ignoble care", "Sire ! your brother \u2014\u2014", "Of late events , acting upon a frame", "The Persian prays", "My Lord \u2014", "Be thou still free and beautiful , and far", "Through all the clouds , and fills my eyes with light", "Will overflow in words unconsciously ;", "The vulgar mass which moulds a horde of slaves ; 80", "And thou art lord of this . Be of good cheer ;", "In sounding .", "It is 40", "The princely Salemenes .", "To watch before the apartment of the women . 230", ", which reproved me ,", "Calm thee . Thy speech seems of another world , 40", "With the blood that fast must follow", "I love .", "Because thou dost not fear , I fear for thee . 620", "This very night , and in my further bearing , 500", "If the worst come , I shall be where none weep ,", "Yet pause , thou art tired \u2014 in pain \u2014 exhausted ; all", "At least , a woman 's .", "Keep watch upon a woman ? Hence , I say , 290", "And greatest to all mortals ; crowning act", "I dare all things 160", "Than on his mate 's in villany ?", "Would that we could !", "The very centre , girded by vast courts", "This fatal night . Farewell , Assyria 's line !", "No \u2014 here I stand or fall . If that you conquer ,", "Hues , features , climes , times , feelings , intellects ,", "What mean you ?", "Say on .", "My Lord !\u2014", "From just infliction of due punishment", "Nay , more , if that the peasant were a Greek .", "A day which may redeem thee ? Wilt thou not", "The labyrinth of mystery , called life .", "Bitterer to bear than any punishment", "Would lick the dust in which the King lay low ?", "In fight , as he had spared him in his peril ;", "And flash this storm between thee and thy foes ,", "She-garb , and wielding her vile distaff ; surely 220", "Shall it not claim the privilege to save you ?", "Still I have loved you . If that love were strong", "And for thy sons \u2019 inheritance ?", "Courage and vigilance to guard us .", "There is no bulwark .", "To heed no time nor presence , but approach you", "Rather to sleep again .", "Oh , Jove !", "So it is ; except 50", "Forgets himself \u2014 will they remember him ?", "Oh yes , for those who have", "Though I might , 440", "As auguries of Jove .", "Rather than prove it to you in your griefs", "Oh ! he is wounded !", "And in my heart a feeling like a God 's ,", "To urge me on to this : I will not fail .", "And a Greek bard his minstrel \u2014 a Greek tomb", "I think the present is the wonted hour", "Were you the lord of twice ten thousand worlds \u2014", "Thou shalt see .", "And the end ? 130", "Frown not upon me : you have smiled", "\u2018 Tis no dishonour to have loved this man .", "I weep not .\u2014 But I pray thee , do not speak 520", "All will go well .", "Be in the past acts you were pleased to praise", "Menaced , rather . 30", "Not so ; these walls", "Lest we provoke them .", "Hadst thou felt", "Because my place is here .", "Summon speedily A leech of the most skilful : pray , retire : I will unbind your wound and tend it .", "And massy portal ; but in the pavilion", "I would remain : I have no happiness", "And all things in the anarchy of sloth ,", "Able to work a will so good and general ,", "Kingdoms and lives are not to be so lost .", "And thought \u2014\u2014", "I strive to keep it from my thoughts . Alas !", "Thus always , none would ever dare degrade thee . 630", "Peril to thee \u2014\u2014", "And thine no less .", "Of all that was , or is , or is to be \u2014 230", "Without one point of union save in this \u2014", "Dost thou suspect none ?", "How I do love thee !", "Despair !", "Thou'rt no God , then \u2014 not to be", "Except survive what I have loved , to be", "I live to joy in your great triumph : should", "He sways it now far more , then ; never 50", "Boon which I ever asked Assyria 's king .", "Or , if they think so , deem it necessary , 540", "And wretched . But proceed : what hast thou seen ?", "And felt you not this a mere vision ?", "Which stalks , methinks , between our souls and heaven , 60", "Then", "Too often breathed out in a woman 's hearing ,", "Sardanapalus .", "The dread of more : it is an anxious hour ;", "I know to feel for her .", "Prince !", "Spurned his sage cautions ?", "So we Greeks deem too ;", "I know no evil Death can show , which Life", "A slave , and hating fetters \u2014 an Ionian , 500", "For them , for thee , for thy past fathers \u2019 race ,", "\u2018 Tis no time for hesitation .", "Far off a voice of wail and lamentation ,", "And , therefore , when I love a stranger , more", "Where ?", "I need no guard : what , with a world at stake ,", "As you are like to lose the one you swayed \u2014", "But this the Gods avert ! I am content", "But he did bravely .", "So soon resign thee ?", "For what I feel is humble , and yet happy \u2014", "Is yours .", "Spare him \u2014 he 's none : a mere court butterfly , 90", "Of peril as from glory .", "\u2018 Tis a Greek virtue . 580", "The King ?", "For my sake !", "Upon his mountain .", "On those who seek your life : were't otherwise ,", "Degraded by that passion than by chains !", "Has not already shown to those who live", "True \u2014 true : constant thought", "Of Salemenes not to risk a sally", "And yet I sometimes think that gorgeous orb", "Which I participate with you in semblance", "Too often on me not to make those frowns", "Not one ! the time may come thou may'st .", "A shadow of this cumbrous clog of clay .", "Hath heard the prayer thou wouldst not hear . The Gods", "Embodied longest . If there be indeed", "That means thou lovest nor thyself nor me ;", "There needed not the voice of Salemenes 420", "An Indian widow braves for custom ?", "540", "And loveliest spot of earth ! farewell , Ionia !", "Prince , I take my leave .", "To that which keeps all earth from being as fragile", "Gallant and glorious Spirit ! must the earth", "And are these all the force still faithful ?", "I should not merit mine . Besides , you heard", "To think of aught save festivals . Thou hast not", "They battle it beyond the wall , and not 60", "Despise the favourite slave ? Not more than I have ever scorned myself . 460", "And so have I .", "My Lord , I am no boaster of my love ,", "A trifling revel .", "And wilt thou not now tarry for a day ,\u2014", "Here and hereafter , if the last may be .", "All that a woman 's weakness can \u2014\u2014", "Look to the annals of thine Empire 's founders .", "Alas ! my Lord , with common men", "I pray , and thou , too , Prince , permit my absence .", "And was : the ancestor of heroes , too ,", "Save in beholding thine ; yet \u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["As \u2018 tis , I have not outlived them .", "And somewhat in the Monarch who ne'er looks", "I only echo thee the voice of empires ,", "And in an hour or so against himself .", "Upon the palace towers as the swift galley", "Nay , then , I must use some fraternal force , Which you will pardon .", "At such a moment now is safe in absence \u2014", "Proclaim himself your subject by that duty ,", "I must part ye \u2014", "The triumph is", "Give me thy signet \u2014 trust me with the rest .", "So thou art .", "Which he who long neglects not long will govern .", "That , ere the dawn , she sets forth with her children", "Is it even so ; and must", "Is the king so soon awake ?", "My better bodings . But it must not be .", "A God , or at the least shinest like a God", "You may know that hereafter ; as it is ,", "Prolong it \u2014 end it .", "Virtue .", "Well , then , mark me : when", "Alone ! foolish slave \u2014", "All warlike spirits have not the same fate . 140", "Re-enter Cupbearer , with wine .", "You must spare", "Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that", "How ! dost thou brave me ? Tis well \u2014 this saves a trial , and false mercy . 160 Soldiers , hew down the rebel !", "Is to await the onset .", "I am with you .", "Or \u2014 180", "Thy peril .", "You have said they are men ;", "To hear your further pleasure .", "Flattering : they are beaten backward from the palace ,", "Who built up this vast empire , and wert made", "From whence we sprung . The Queen is present , Sire .", "Wherefore not ?", "The time presses .", "I go .", "And I too", "That they will need her sword more than your sceptre .", "Without that hollow semblance of respect .", "Sire , 480", "Omnipotent o'er such a heart as his :", "I have no time : thou lovest the King ?", "That what they ask in aught that touches on", "The Ionian slave says well : let her retire .", "I 'll answer that , if once 200", "But sure .", "Orders as I had given , and then return", "The heads of thy chief foes before thy feet .", "That easy \u2014 far too easy \u2014 idle nature ,", "Hence , I say ! Here 's a courtier and", "You have more power upon his spirit than", "Which sleeps at times , but is not dead within thee ,", "And those who should sustain it ; so that whether", "Doubt not , he will have it ,", "I would thou wouldst not ask me ; the next moment 300", "Our numbers gather ; and I 've ordered onward", "Ends as such partings end , in no departure .", "In arms again ; and , serrying their ranks ,", "Employed it for the best . Pronounce in person .", "The heart , is dearer to their feelings or", "In heritage , are loud in wrath against thee . 100", "Are not so numerous as to spare your absence .", "With words , but deeds . Keep thou awake that energy", "She will recover . Pray , keep back .\u2014", "Governs ; and there , at all events , secure", "Even so . I judged it fitting for their safety , 200", "And the battle", "A fitting one for the resumption of", "These our Assyrians to the solar shores", "This , thy presumed descendant , ne'er beheld", "But \u2018 twas her wish \u2014 she is my sister \u2014 you", "Of sensual sloth \u2014 produce ten thousand tyrants , 70", "For seeming slain in that cold dizzy trance ,", "Exert it wisely .", "You hear him and me . Take him not ,\u2014 kill .", "Is lost ?", "But to provoke \u2014 a pardon should be full ,", "To drop down the Euphrates ; but ere they", "To change them , my advices bring sure tidings", "A worthy moral , and a wise inscription ,", "Good her retreat to Bactria .", "Thou wilt lose both \u2014 and both for ever !", "The weakness and the wickedness of luxury ,", "And lavished treasures , and contemn\u00e9d virtues .", "And is herself the cause of bitterer tears .", "On what duty ?", "By their two leaders , are already up", "And your most faithful vassal , royal Lord .", "I had a grace to seek .", "Avail myself of this sole moment to 420", "To quell the machinations , and I lay", "To thee an unknown word .", "Let them flow on ; she weeps for more than one ,", "Indeed !", "My pangs , without sustaining life enough", "There stands the throne , Sire .", "They are not there yet \u2014 never should they be so ,", "I am sped , then !", "When even thine own 's in peril ? Let me go ;", "It may be ,", "Which has environed thee with snares ; but yet", "Since you have studied them so steadily", "Why , like a man \u2014 a hero ; baffled , but", "Which girds your arm ?", "Of midnight .", "But she said nothing .", "Mine 's sheathed : I pray you sheathe not yours :", "Reluctant love even from Assyria 's lord ! 220", "I have one more request .", "Corrupt no less than they oppress , and sap", "My sister :\u2014 all 's prepared to make your safety", "The king demands your fellow-traitor 's sword .", "Satraps !", "Also , another thing thou knowest not .", "Think ! Thou hast wronged her !", "I will .", "Thy strength : thy tooth is nought without its venom \u2014", "Euphrates , who may still be true ; nay , must be ,", "The worst acts of one energetic master ,", "Thine .", "Of blood and chains ? The despotism of vice ,", "That slave deserves her freedom .", "Or it is none .", "Her husband \u2014 will you grant it ?", "By the tricks taught thee in Chaldea .", "Is it usual", "Semiramis \u2014 a woman only \u2014 led", "To arrest two traitors . Guards ! Within there !", "Remain , and perish \u2014\u2014", "There is one Mede , at least , who seeks to be so .", "My sister ! Courage :", "Were I well listened to .", "I feel it ebbing !", "Hear me , sister , like", "Gentle Myrrha , \u2018 tis", "Permit me to depart ;", "And we have opened regular access", "In a strange land \u2014 so young , so distant ?", "Still let them be made quiet .", "As powerful in thy realm . Farewell !", "And thine and mine ; and in another day", "Faintness of o'erwrought passion : in the air", "Their safety shall be cared for .", "And should therefore be decisive .", "Thus , then : all the nations ,", "Which , were he not my sister 's lord \u2014\u2014 But now 410", "Upon the field , I 'll have no idle soldiers", "His lusts have made him mad . Then must I save him , Spite of himself .", "To the troops stationed on the other side", "Thy yet unslept-off revels ?", "Strike with a better aim !", "But doubt it . Wherefore did ye bear me here ?", "The serpent 's , not the lion 's . Cut him down .", "Now you have shown a spirit like to hers .", "Their just pretensions to the crown in case \u2014\u2014", "And I trust the city .", "At least , I trust so : in a word , the Queen", "That thou this night forbear the banquet", "In strength enough to venture an attack ,", "I take my leave to order forth the guard .", "Your hand ; this broken weapon but prolongs", "But thou wouldst arm thee , wouldst thou not , if needful ?", "Pale face and glittering eye , after a glance", "His Consort 's brother , minion of Ionia ! 40", "I fain would live this hour out , and the event ,", "\u2018 Twas not ill done :", "Faith to the King , a faith he may need shortly ,", "Now , may none this hour 580", "They say thou art unfit to be a monarch .", "He should , or should not be ; to have him live ,", "A foreign foe invade , or civil broil", "Certain , and of the boys too , our last hopes ; 370", "Now , though it was our first intention . If", "To expose your life too hastily ; \u2018 tis not", "This is too much . 400 Again the love-fit 's on him , and all 's lost , Unless we turn his thoughts .But pray thee , Sire , Think of your wound \u2014 you said even now \u2018 twas painful .", "Ambitious treachery ,", "And charge once more the rebel crew , who still", "A hundred kings , although she failed in India ,", "More than is glorious : of the last , far less", "Beyond his palace walls , or if he stirs 110", "Have lived for years .", "And I will answer all .", "If that this moment is not gained .", "Yet these are trophies", "For what ? to furnish imposts for a revel ,", "Of Ganges .", "Sire , I shall ever duly serve my sovereign .", "Thou art guarded by thy foes : in a few hours", "\u2018 Tis now too late to feel .", "Bestow it on Arbaces .", "Am upon duty .", "And that bandage , Sire ,", "Your children , with two parents and yet orphans \u2014", "Let him not sink back into luxury .", "And your wound !", "About my sick couch . Hence ! and do my bidding !", "A king .", "Been joined by other Satraps .", "Yes ! and let the King confirm it .", "And now against his brother ,", "Ere you reply too readily ; and \u2018 tis", "I have looked to all things needful , and will now", "So hoped for , yet delayed , of Ofratanes ,", "So I term you also ,", "Like frightened antelopes .", "The doom of Nineveh is sealed .\u2014 Woe \u2014 woe", "You have shown a soul to-night ,", "The last they rather would assist than vanquish .", ", 220", "It settled into tearless silence : her", "Satrap of Susa . Leave me here : our troops", "The moments , which must not be lost , are passing .", "That he is deemed a God for what he did .", "What is there in thee that a Prince should shrink from", "I must", "That were hardly prudent 550", "For Paphlagonia , where our kinsman Cotta", "Unit'st in thy own person the worst vices 230", "As king the kingdoms thou didst leave as hero ,", "Thou stopp'st 360", "Then why here ?"], "true_target": ["Is power", "Because I cannot keep it with my own .", "So \u2014 this feminine farewell", "I 've sent for by sure messengers , we shall be", "Till summer heats wear down . O glorious Baal !", "\u2018 Tis not a single question of mere feeling ,", "Requests to see you ere you part \u2014 for ever .", "When they hear of our victory . But where", "Blest !", "Keep gathering head , repulsed , but not quite quelled .", "Our annals say not .", "That the rebellious Medes and Chaldees , marshalled", "Which I would urge thee . O that I could rouse thee !", "Semiramis , the glorious parent of", "I will not pause to answer", "Than the King recks of .", "Fly , then , and tell him , \u2018 twas my last request", "But wouldst have him King still ?", "Conveyed me from the spot where I was stricken ?", "Since you ask it .", "Monarch , take back your signet .", "My lord !", "And my life with it , could I but hear how", "They are safe beyond the Median 's grasp , the rebels", "Tis the sole sceptre left you now with safety .", "Alone creates it , kindles , and may quench it \u2014", "The only woman whom it much imports me", "He shall not die alone ; but lonely you", "Built for a whim , recorded with a verse", "Raging without : look well that he relapse not .", "Have missed their chief aim \u2014 the extinction of", "I pray thee , change the theme : my blood disdains", "In their retreat , which soon will be a flight .", "You talk like a young soldier .", "Nay \u2014 then all is lost again ,", "For your ear only .", "A cloud of Parthians , hitherto reserved ,", "But elsewhere than the palace .", "For they are many , whom thy father left", "We have breathing time ; yet once more charge , my friends \u2014", "Your patience \u2014", "Receive reports of progress made in such", "Hark !", "Curse not thyself \u2014 millions do that already . 50", "If need be , wilt thou wear them ?", "As he who treads on flowers is from the adder", "Than songs , and lutes , and feasts , and concubines ,", "I \u2019 the royal galley on the river .", "I think as you do of my sister 's wish ;", "The whole war turns upon it \u2014 with it ; this", "The line of Nimrod . Though the present King", "Well then , to have him King , and yours , and all", "All fresh and fiery , to be poured upon them", "Trust me .", "They say thy Sceptre 's turned to that already .", "Won with thy blood , and toil , and time , and peril !", "Must I stay to number 290", "\u2018 Tis most true ; 240", "Bear her to where her children are embarked ,", "\u2018 Tis beyond", "Peace , factious priest , and faithless soldier ! thou", "To change the irksome theme , then , hear of vice .", "A woman , the best chamber company .", "Forgiveness of the Queen , my sister wrongs ;", "Your weakness .", "Thy Sires have been revered as Gods \u2014", "In mine a man who might be something still .", "I do the hangman 's office ? Recreants ! see", "A moment 's pang now changed for years of crime . 500", "\u2018 Tis not the hour .", "How darest thou name me and not blush ?", "Depart , will you not see \u2014\u2014", "Is this a time for such fantastic trifling ?\u2014", "Here I am but your slave \u2014 a moment past 190", "The first thy subjects have no heart to conquer ; 80", "Yes ,", "I would but have recalled thee from thy dream ; 200", "The monarch or the monarchy by this ;", "In their eyes a nothing ; but", "I used it for your honour , and restore it", "Upon yon traitor \u2014 whom you spare a moment ,", "What ! leave 380", "Let him deliver up his weapon , and 210", "Of darkness : use them for your further rest .", "Aye , and pursuit too ; but , till then , my voice", "The end I would have chosen , had I saved", "Fall , his sons live \u2014 for victory and vengeance .", "Is this moment", "True ; that I had forgotten ; that is , Sire , 510", "With foreign strumpets and Ionian slaves .", "Her transient weakness has passed o'er ; at least ,", "Wilt thou resume a revel at this hour ?", "Wisdom within these walls , or fierce rebellion", "The risk to sleep for ever , to save traitors \u2014", "For all thy realms", "Like mine or any other subject 's breath : 570", "I was your representative .", "Undo what you have done .", "Named next to the command ?", "Your feelings cannot cancel a sole pang :", "But you can feel !", "Whose delegated cruelty surpasses", "As you would not permit me to expire 120", "The Queen is silent .", "For a king to put up before his subjects !", "The Queen 's embarked .", "\u2018 Tis the mere", "I thought as much , and yielded against all", "Of paramours , and thence fly o'er the palace ,", "Dispense with me \u2014 I am no wassailer :", "However harsh and hard in his own bearing .", "Is all provided , and the galley ready", "The sight might shake our soldiers \u2014 but \u2014 \u2018 tis vain ,", "And fit that some should watch for those who revel", "I pray ye pause .", "Satraps , Your swords .", "And I not death . Where was the King when you", "Is , at the least , a bold one , and not tempered", "What is shall be the past of Belus \u2019 race .", "Even to the city , and so baffle all .\u2014", "The negligence , the apathy , the evils", "Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies", "The Queen 's brother ,", "By noon to-morrow we are joined by those", "And thou may'st yet be glorious in thy reign ,", "Then thou at last canst feel ?", "They did not speak thus of thy fathers .", "\u2018 Tis not yet vacant , and \u2018 tis of its partner", "The tempest may break out which overwhelms thee ,", "To make me useful : I would draw it forth 130", "In the same moment all thy pageant power", "For those who know thee not . Thy fellow 's sin", "Unhurt , I hope .", "One for Assyria !", "I come to speak with you .", "Stole down the hurrying stream beneath the starlight ; 540", "Complaint , and Salemenes \u2019 sister seeks not", "You parted with it for your safety \u2014 I", "This half-indulgence of an exile serves", "That", "Is the chief victor ? where 's the King ?", "Let him live on , then .", "A natural love unto my infant nephews ;", "That is false . Hew down the slave who says so , if a soldier .", "Nay , sister , I must be obeyed .", "In more than words ; respect for Nimrod 's line ;", "Nor would she deign to accept divided passion", "The offspring of their sovereign , and so crush \u2014\u2014", "The false and fond examples of thy lusts", "Prepare to attack : they have apparently", "My nephews and your sons their lives , and with them", "Would thou couldst !", "The fight goes .", "There is resource : empower me with thy signet", "Which shames both them and thee to coming ages .", "Reprove me more for my advice .", "Brought Persia \u2014 Media \u2014 Bactria \u2014 to the realm", "If they e'er reached their Satrapies \u2014 why , then ,", "But it may be recalled .", "What , are you not invited ?", "There yet remain some hours", "I trust , for torture \u2014 I 'm content .", "As such their hearts are something .", "Upon her sleeping children , were still fixed", "Even from the winds , if thou couldst listen", "Unto the echoes of the Nation 's voice .", "My Lord , and King , and Brother ,", "Command me in all service save the Bacchant 's .", "Shame not our blood with trembling , but remember", "Short of the duties of a king ; and therefore", "Better by me awakened than rebellion .", "Of open force ? We dread thy treason , not", "It may be ere long", "Alas !", "Though \u2018 twere against myself .", "Or multiplied extortions for a minion . 120", "Yes .", "This great hour has proved", "He did , and thence was deemed a Deity .", "Too oft . Am I permitted to depart ?", "Herding with the other females ,", "Though that were much \u2014 but \u2018 tis a point of state :", "Well met \u2014 I sought ye both ,", "Truth upon my part , treason upon theirs .", "That Zames take my post until the junction ,", "Myrrha !", "By day-break I propose that we set forth ,", "Whom heard ye", "Not vanquished . With but twenty guards , she made 130", "What means the King ?", "Distract within , both will alike prove fatal :", "But ere that time ,", "Will send my answer through thy babbling troop", "Of the most dangerous orders of mankind .", "Their fancy , than the whole external world .", "Now you know all \u2014 decide .", "I would not so blaspheme our country 's creed .", "Hark ! they come \u2014 they come .", "I own thy merit in those founded cities ,", "I 'd rather see you thus !", "Which she once swayed \u2014 and thou mightst sway .", "To the unrivalled city !", "Of the first", "Twined round their roots .", "First", "Thus to forget a Sovereign 's invitation ?", "The rebels would do more to seize upon", "Sire , 200", "Replace the crown now tottering on your temples .", "Thus you run", "Of what thou hast done to me , I speak not .", "The brightest and most glorious of your life .", "I sought you \u2014 How ! she here again ?", "And children .", "Strike ! so the blow 's repeated", "How you should fell a traitor .", "Hear it", "You know , or ought to know , enough of women ,", "Beyond them , \u2018 tis but to some mountain palace ,", "\u2018 Tis the first time he Ever had such an order : even I ,Your most austere of counsellors , would now Suggest a purpler beverage .", "I have heard of such a man ; and thou perceiv'st", "More worthy of a people and their prince", "Through the long centuries of thy renown ,", "Wouldst thou not take their lives who seek for thine ?", "In the pavilion over the Euphrates ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Which I was delegated with , they called 80", "Your orders with more pleasure than the present .", "Sole presence in this instant might do more", "For the assurance of the vacant space", "A moment \u2014 all that 's left us now .", "Might sadden even a victory .", "And obey .", "\u2018 Tis 240", "Our troops were steady , and the phalanx formed .", "I should shame to leave my sovereign", "Their stations in the city , they refused", "An orb around the palace , where they mean", "His daring , and perhaps obtain the pardon", "Hence with him , soldiers ! do not soil this hall", "An audience .", "Myrrha , return , and I obey you , though 300", "Where it was strongest , the required addition", "Upon their troops , who rose in fierce defiance .", "With but a single female to partake", "I ever disobeyed : but now \u2014\u2014", "Too many .", "Put him to rest without .", "My Lord !", "Which now has spoken .", "Away with me \u2014 away !", "Would fain die with you !", "Despair can do ; and step by step disputes", "Than hosts can do in his behalf .", "To watch the breach occasioned by the waters .", "To man , until the River grew its foe . \u201d", "Away with me , 240", "The very palace .", "Let me but fire the pile , and share it with you . 370", "For that", "For ages , \u201c That the City ne'er should yield", "With a heavy but true heart ,", "To march ; and on my attempt to use the power", "With your sanction ,", "A double guard , withdrawing from the wall ,", "Without a vow .", "Such a loss", "Of the exulting rebels on his fall ,", "More with my speed to warn my sovereign ,", "\u2018 Twas", "To centre all their force , and save the King .", "As Salemenes feared ; the faithless Satraps \u2014\u2014", "Look to the portals ; And with your best speed to the walls without . Your arms ! To arms ! The King 's in danger . Monarch 70 Excuse this haste ,\u2014 \u2018 tis faith .", "By strong suspicion of the Median chiefs ,", "And these poor soldiers who throng round you , and", "Who never flashed a scimitar till now ?", "From the outward wall the fiercest conflict rages .", "The rebels , fighting inch by inch , and forming 90", "I will retire to marshal forth the guard", "In the thick of the fight .", "Their household train .", "Reiterate his prayer unto the King ,", "When I late left him , and I have no fear ;", "He will adduce such reasons as will warrant", "The river , by a secret passage .", "And beg you to live on for his sake , till", "Under your protection ! So you accompany your faithful guard .", "Where a soldier should be , 110", "I must obey , and yet \u2014\u2014", "A woman 's !", "Of all thy faithful subjects , who will rally", "Of royalty with treasonable gore ;", "Let me then once more press it to my lips ;", "From the deep urgency with which the Prince", "As was reported : I have ordered there"], "true_target": ["Must dare to add my feeble voice to that", "As time and means permit .", "No \u2014", "Scarce a furlong 's length", "Of honour which befits your rank , and wait", "Forthwith , on this very night ,", "Are numerous , and make strong head against", "Sire ? 170", "The King 's command was not to quit thee .", "Of Babylon and Media .", "Prince Salemenes doth implore the King", "For that too ; and can I do less than he ,", "That royal hand !", "Sire , I have obeyed .", "\u2018 Tis most strange !", "Of his presumption .", "Than hurt in his defence .", "No \u2014", "He can rejoin you .", "Proceed \u2014 thou hearest .", "And charged me to secure your life ,", "Far dearer than his kingdom , yet he fights", "I never yet obeyed", "Aye , for a kingdom 's . I understand you , now .", "My own slight guard", "Soon as Arbaces and Beleses reached", "Depart , and not to bear your answer .", "That 's a black augury ! it has been said", "Your leisure , so that it the hour exceeds not .", "I will proceed to the spot , and take such measures 210", "My Lord ,\u2014 the soldiers are already charged . And see ! they enter . Soldiers enter , and form a Pile about the Throne , etc .", "May the King live for ever !", "To arm himself , although but for a moment ,", "Repair to your respective satrapies", "Myrrha , without delay ; we must not lose", "\u2018 Tis true ! 590", "My order is unto the Satraps and 410", "My King , in going forth upon my duty ,", "Had lost my life . Sardanapalus holds her", "I am charged by Salemenes to", "The Bactrians , now led on by Salemenes ,", "My order is to see you", "\u2018 Tis nothing \u2014 a mere flesh wound . I am worn", "This herald has been brought before me , craving", "And live wretched !", "I promise .", "Round thee and thine .", "The death of Salemenes , and the shouts", "In disobedience to the monarch .", "But yet \u2014 not yet .", "\u2018 Tis the first time", "And could keep my faith", "If aught of ill betide her , better I", "Have made them \u2014\u2014", "Yet stay , damsel !\u2014 She 's gone .", "There 's victory in the very word .", "Despatched me to your sacred presence , I", "Since it is so , farewell .", "Not till the last . Still , still he does whate'er", "Who even then was on his way , still urged", "Sent me here to conduct you hence , beyond", "It is", "My Lords , I bear an order from the king .", "And show himself unto the soldiers : his", "His death .", "Were faithful , and what 's left of it is still so .", "I am charged to \u2014\u2014", "The palace : when the General returns , 570", "That for this day , at least , he will not quit"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["The hour !\u2014 what hour ?", "Now were I a soothsayer ,", "Still \u2014 I like it not .", "True ,", "He loved that gay pavilion ,\u2014 it was ever", "If I thought so , this good sword should dig", "Why , what other", "Alone , you dare not .", "Your servant !", "Looking the monarch of the kings around it ,", "And be the warrior ?", "One more than mine .", "Though they came down ,", "I shall be nearer thrones than you to heaven ;", "Well ?", "On duty .", "So wrapt in thy devotions ? Dost thou stand", "I am a soldier \u2014 what is there to fear ?", "A bold and bloody despot from his throne ,", "Methought he looked like Nimrod as he spoke ,", "His summer dotage .", "In his Sire 's day for mighty Vice-royalties ,", "But here is more upon the die \u2014 a kingdom .", "But they all sickened by the way , it was", "I would have boded so much to myself .", "Our business is with night \u2014 \u2018 tis come .", "And not a soldier 's .", "As skilful in Chaldea 's worship : now ,", "And I should blush far more to take the grantor 's !", "Wherefore so ?", "I must serve him truly \u2014\u2014", "Stay .", "Does the prophet doubt ,", "Doubtless .", "The gathering of the stars .", "For he I own is , or at least was , bloodless \u2014", "A distant voyage , and an eternal sleep .", "Pardon and poison \u2014 favours and a sword \u2014", "How ! in the palace ? it was not thus ordered .", "Why \u2014 we but now received it . 150", "For the Queen 's sake , his sister . Mark you not", "If I but thought he did not mean my life \u2014", "I like not this same sudden change of place ;", "So long and heavy .", "And marshalled me the way in all their brightness ,", "He keeps aloof from all the revels ?", "But in your heart the blade \u2014", "Semiramis herself would not have done it .", "And is a weak one \u2014 \u2018 tis worn out \u2014 we 'll mend it .", "There is no more to thwart us . The she-king ,", "There is some mystery : wherefore should he change it ?", "No ; I own thee", "The meaner .\u2014 Would he had not spared us !", "Right and wrong , which I lack for my direction ,", "Sire , this clemency \u2014\u2014", "Alone !", "Gazing to trace thy disappearing God", "What , if we sound him ?", "Take mine .", "Degrades the very conqueror . To have plucked", "Your king of concubines ? why stir me up ?", "But no less we owe them ;", "Into some realm of undiscovered day ?", "How many Satraps in his father 's time \u2014", "As firm in fight as Babylonia 's captain ,", "Had held his life but lightly \u2014 as it is ,", "Soldiers ! Aye \u2014", "Basely \u2014\u2014", "And hear him whine , it may be \u2014\u2014", "And yet \u2014", "But in the hall of Nimrod \u2014\u2014", "The first cup which he drains will be the last", "But not their King .", "Beleses !", "And this slight arm , and die a king at least 170", "Or sober , rather . Yet he did it nobly ;", "Than in a phalanx .", "A fair summer 's twilight , and", "Saved them from Salemenes .", "Than live ungrateful .", "Let it roll on \u2014 we are ready .", "But by a single hair , and that still wavering ,", "The better ; 80", "Why , it is his revenge we work for .", "Were easy in the isolated bower , 130", "Lose any thing except my own esteem .", "That were heroic or to win or fall ;"], "true_target": ["The realm itself , in all its wide extension ,", "But it has touched me , and , whate'er betide , 340", "The King 's !", "Interpretation should it bear ? it is", "Its founder was a hunter \u2014", "When the hour comes ,", "And must pursue but what a plain heart teaches .", "How many Satraps have I seen set out", "Gave royally what we had forfeited", "And why ?", "Besides , he hates the effeminate thing that governs ,", "And sways , while they but ornament , the temple .", "May we crave its purport ?", "And yet it almost shames me , we shall have", "There is more peril in your subtle spirit", "Thou hast seen my life at stake \u2014 and gaily played for :", "If he has changed \u2014 why , so must we : the attack", "Beset with drowsy guards and drunken courtiers ;", "I would not follow .", "I will no further on .", "Even as the proud imperial statue stands", "And the priest , it may be : but", "If you thought thus , or think , why not retain", "That 's a sacerdotal thought ,", "My star is in this scabbard : when it shines , It shall out-dazzle comets . Let us think Of what is to be done to justify Thy planets and their portents . When we conquer , 70 They shall have temples \u2014 aye , and priests \u2014 and thou Shalt be the pontiff of \u2014 what Gods thou wilt ; For I observe that they are ever just , And own the bravest for the most devout .", "With you .", "But we", "A sword which hath been drawn as oft as thine Against his foes .", "And if not quite so haughty , yet more lofty .", "Towards our provinces ?", "No \u2014 but it had been better to have died", "To be blown down by his imperious breath", "And now you know me .", "No less than mine ?", "The hilt quits not this hand .", "\u2018 Twill be shortened at the gates ,", "Which spared us \u2014 why , I know not .", "And therefore need a soldier to command them .", "Thou shall perceive how far I fear or no .", "Yes \u2014", "As will out-sparkle our allies \u2014 your planets .", "He spared our lives , nay , more ,", "But", "Of my own breath and body \u2014 so far that", "No , sir , proudly \u2014 being honest .", "No \u2014", "Relapse to guilt !", "Is issued for the feast in the pavilion .", "Yawns dungeons at each step for thee and me .", "But to upraise my sword against this silkworm ,", "And ever thwarted : what would you have more", "And mysteries , and corollaries of 380", "Somewhat of both , perhaps \u2014", "What ? thus suspected \u2014 with the sword slung o'er us", "Will it but please thee to forget the priest ,", "Why spur me to this enterprise ? your own 60", "It is obeyed ere spoken .", "Well , let thy science settle that . Meantime", "But be the stars obeyed \u2014 I cannot quarrel", "I must forgive you , even as he forgave us \u2014", "But \u2014\u2014", "Whose tombs are on their path ! I know not how ,", "But this is filled .", "An hour ago , who dared to term me such 370", "To make a rebel out of ? A fool reigning , 100", "None else shall chain them .", "You may do your own deeming \u2014 you have codes ,", "I have prepared as many glittering spears", "No \u2014 I will sooner trust the stars thou prat'st of ,", "To whom the very stars shine Victory ?", "Beleses , why", "That we are lost .", "Set on , we have them in the toil . Charge ! charge !", "Thou hast harped the truth indeed ! 420", "That less than woman , is even now upon", "Quaffed by the line of Nimrod .", "They 'll not resist .", "It may be .", "The waters with his female mates . The order 50", "His blood dishonoured , and himself disdained :", "So little to effect . This woman 's warfare", "With them , nor their interpreter . Who 's here ?", "And I even yet repenting must", "The very policy of Orient monarchs \u2014 430", "And grappled with him , clashing steel with steel ,", "I look .", "I doubt it ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Fools treachery \u2014 and , behold , upon the sudden ,", "\u2018 Twas a brave one .", "So we should be , were justice always done", "Thine hour is come .", "Midnight , my Lord !", "To leave their foe at fault .\u2014 Why dost thou muse ?", "Where is the proof ?", "Mean ? Let us but rejoin our troops , and march .", "Self-defence is a virtue ,", "The Prince must answer that .", "Art sure of that ?", "And he has loved all things by turns , except", "Where we are known , and may have partisans :", "Seek not why ;", "If they had meant to slay us here , we were", "And midst them , mark", "To hear is to obey . In the pavilion ?", "On ! on !\u2014 Heaven fights for us , and with us \u2014 On !", "Yes \u2014 if the time served .", "Ho ! tyrant \u2014 I will end this war .", "That grate the palace , which is now our prison \u2014", "Suspicion into such a certainty", "And were he all you think , his guards are hardy , 90", "And humbly ?", "Fool ! hence \u2014 what else should despotism alarmed 450", "By earthly power omnipotent ; but Innocence", "And moves more parasangs in its intents", "My lord , behold my scimitar .", "As must make madness of delay .", "That we have won the kingdom .", "Could", "And headed by the cool , stern Salemenes .", "I have still aided , cherished , loved , and urged you ;", "Aye! Well , Sir \u2014 we will accompany you hence .", "He has that in him which may make you strife yet ;", "Be it what you will \u2014", "It shall have work enough .", "I trust there is no cause .", "Is it so ?", "They mean us to die privately , but not", "But not by thee .", "My liege \u2014 the son of Belus ! he blasphemes", "I know no name more ignominious .", "Then on , and prosper .", "Sloth is of all things the most fanciful \u2014 120", "And \u2014\u2014", "With worse than vacancy \u2014", "Sole bulwark of all right . Away , I say !", "Yes . Would it were over !", "Hear him ,", "As it would quit its place in the blue ether .", "I blush that we should owe our lives to such", "For neither , Sire , say better .", "Have you finished ?", "Must oft receive her right as a mere favour .", "Why not ? they are soldiers .", "Nay , there 's no other choice , but \u2014\u2014 hence , I say", "And thrice a thousand harlotry besides \u2014", "Let me hope better than thou augurest ;", "And lose the world !", "Because for something or for nothing , this", "Hush ! let him go his way . 110Yes , Balea , thank the Monarch , kiss the hem Of his imperial robe , and say , his slaves Will take the crumbs he deigns to scatter from His royal table at the hour \u2014 was't midnight ?", "Seen me turn back from battle .", "The orders of some parasangs from hence :", "The night the same we destined . He hath changed 330", "What , doubting still ?", "Do not deem it :", "Now then obey !", "Not even a husband .", "The hour is still our own \u2014 our power the same \u2014", "Thrones hold but one . 390", "Thou may'st endure whate'er thou wilt \u2014 the stars", "Our quick departure hinders our good escort ,", "The journey .", "Yes , to the gates", "With our troops ?", "The worthy Pania , from anticipating", "Thou dost agree with me in understanding", "Truce with these wranglings , and but hear me .", "Into \u2014 what shall I say ?\u2014 Sardanapalus !", "Oh , the souls of some men !", "Than generals in their marches , when they seek", "Our quick departure proves our civic zeal ;", "Into a shallow softness ; but now , rather", "This is weakness \u2014 worse", "And if I win \u2014 Arbaces is my servant .", "So strongly \u2018 gainst two subjects , than whom none", "I know not what hath prejudiced the Prince"], "true_target": ["But let us profit by the interval .", "Yon earliest , and the brightest , which so quivers ,", "\u2018 Tis thy natal ruler \u2014 thy birth planet .", "Why not both ?", "Let 's hear it .", "Away !", "But will not \u2014 can not be so now .", "There 's time \u2014 there 's heart , and hope , and power , and means \u2014", "But being innocent \u2014\u2014", "No \u2014 the Queen liked no sharers of the kingdom ,", "Oh ! yes \u2014 we had forgotten .", "Which their half measures leave us in full scope .\u2014", "Or one or both \u2014 for sometimes both are one ;", "At present , let us hence as best we may .", "So \u2014", "If it must be so \u2014", "Wisdom and Glory .", "Gone .", "The free air of the city , and we 'll shorten", "Doth he not change a thousand times a day ?", "King ! Do not deem so : they are with the stars ,", "To find there is a slipperier step or two", "I told you that you had too much despised him , And that there was some royalty within him \u2014 What then ? he is the nobler foe .", "Notwithstanding ,", "Was willing even to serve you , in the hope", "Let 's leave this place , the air grows thick and choking ,", "My Prince !", "Than see my country languish , I will be", "Wouldst thou be sacrificed thus readily ? 360", "Look to the sky !", "On the state 's .", "I do not doubt of Victory \u2014 but the Victor .", "Say , we depart .", "And how long", "Why not ? better than be slave ,", "Not from the council \u2014 there he is ever constant .", "Within the palace or the city walls ,", "Than what was counted on ?", "What seest thou ?", "A king of distaffs !", "I have foretold already \u2014 thou wilt win it : 140", "Thou wouldst digest what some call treason , and", "A despised monarch . Look to it , Arbaces :", "Aye , and the most devout for brave \u2014 thou hast not", "Than a scared beldam 's dreaming of the dead , 350", "A throne too easily \u2014 does it disappoint thee", "Her saviour or the victim of her tyrant \u2014 400", "The soldier .", "We have the privilege to approach the presence ;", "It must be obeyed :", "Sire , your justice .", "The worship of the land , which bows the knee", "And waking in the dark .\u2014 Go to \u2014 go to .", "But found the Monarch absent .", "And he loved his Queen \u2014", "As quit me ?", "Have been more zealous for Assyria 's weal .", "Rash reveller steps , ostentatiously ,", "This order as a sentence ?", "Graves !", "The pardoned slave of she Sardanapalus !", "Monarch ! respect them .", "No ; they hardly will risk that .", "\u2018 Twixt thee and Salemenes , thou art turned", "No ; towards your kingdom .", "Will he so spare ? till the first drunken minute .", "And the walls have a scent of night-shade \u2014 hence !", "I 'll on alone .", "And would , perhaps , betray as well", "No further .", "Say bravely .", "Let us but regain 440", "Methought the haughty soldier feared to mount", "But", "Even to the last , till that your spirit shrunk", "Seemed to consent , and all events were friendly ,", "Let us not leave them time for further council . 460", "To serve and save Assyria . Heaven itself", "Now , what think you ?", "No longer with the living . Let us hence .", "Have written otherwise .", "Is worthy of yourself ; and , although innocent , We thank \u2014\u2014", "But not 40", "Nothing except our ignorance of all", "That Salemenes is .", "He but be brought to think so : this I doubt of .", "Arbaces ! Are you mad ? Have I not rendered My sword ? Then trust like me our Sovereign 's justice .", "Before your fathers ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["The sunrise which may be our last ?", "In the late action scarcely more appalled", "It was : the place , the hall of Nimrod . Lords ,", "But they reached", "As now he reigns in heaven , so once on earth", "It is said the King 's demeanour", "Then all is over .", "You muse right calmly : and can you so watch", "May they", "Hark !", "Hark ! heard you not a sound ?"], "true_target": ["Slew he not Beleses ? I heard the soldiers say he struck him down .", "I humble me before you , and depart .", "The rebels than astonished his true subjects .", "Prosper !", "The feast to-night .", "No ; here in the palace .", "Surely he is a God !", "Satraps ! The king commands your presence at", "Thus far before .", "I know not . May I retire ?", "He swayed .", "It is so ordered now ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Nor elsewhere \u2014 where the King is , pleasure sparkles .", "Who dare to say so !\u2014 \u2018 Tis impossible .", "What cause ?", "The big rain pattering on the roof .", "All hearts are happy , and all voices bless", "Of distant portals shaken by the wind ."], "true_target": ["Traitors they 20", "No ;", "His father gods consented .", "That ! nothing but the jar", "The King of peace \u2014 who holds a world in jubilee .", "Why do you rise , my friends ? in that strong peal"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Both \u2014", "His silken son to save it : he defies", "What , Sfero ! I will seek the armoury \u2014", "Down on your knees , and drink a measure to", "By Salemenes , 210", "Dubiously and fiercely .", "Hark ! what was that ?", "He must be there .", "Ne'er fought more fiercely to win empire , than", "All augury of foes or friends ; and like", "And the foe too ; and in the moon 's broad light ,", "Ho , Sfero , ho !", "And the broad fillet which crowns both .", "Make him a mark too royal . Every arrow", "We honour her of all things next to thee .", "Yet none of those who went before have reached", "He fights till now bare-headed , and by far", "It sounded like the clash of \u2014 hark again !", "Mighty though", "They were , as all thy royal line have been ,", "Pardon ! sire : 60", "Too much exposed . The soldiers knew his face ,", "Baal himself", "The God Sardanapalus !", "Like a king . I must find Sfero , 200"], "true_target": ["The fair Ionian is too sarcastic", "A twilight tempest , bursts forth in such thunder", "Both you must ever be by all true subjects .", "The close and sultry summer 's day , which bodes", "And miss his own Ionian , we are doomed", "Who sent me privily upon this charge ,", "And Pania also . Can aught have befallen them ?", "The King ! the King fights as he revels ! ho !", "The acm\u00e9 of Sardanapalus , who 10", "As sweeps the air and deluges the earth .", "To worse than captive rebels .", "Without the knowledge of the careless sovereign .", "What , gone ? yet she was here when the fight raged ,", "Is pointed at the fair hair and fair features ,", "His silk tiara and his flowing hair", "Upon a nation whom she knows not well ;", "And homage is their pride .", "Myrrha !", "And bring him a new spear with his own helmet .", "The Assyrians know no pleasure but their King 's ,", "The safety of the King \u2014 the monarch , say I ?", "Guests , to my pledge !", "If the King", "Has placed his joy in peace \u2014 the sole true glory .", "Prove victor , as it seems even now he must ,", "The man 's inscrutable ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["They probably are but retired to make", "Their way back to the harem .", "All men will recognise you \u2014 for the storm", "Tortured for his infatuation , and", "Let us trace them :", "King ! your armour .", "Without : he has your shield in readiness .", "A richer prize to our soft sovereign", "Sire , I deemed", "Not more than others .", "At least , wear this .", "This is of better metal , though less rich ."], "true_target": ["Let 's seek the slave out , or prepare to be", "That too conspicuous from the precious stones", "Soldier goes not forth thus exposed to battle . 140", "Waiting , Sire ,", "All are the sons of circumstance : away \u2014 320", "Has ceased , and the moon breaks forth in her brightness .", "Sire , the meanest", "Condemned without a crime .", "Than his recovered kingdom .", "I saw both safe , when late the rebels fled ;", "To risk your sacred brow beneath \u2014 and trust me ,", "She cannot be fled far ; and , found , she makes 310", "The mirror , Sire ?"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Is Zames ?"], "true_target": ["Lost ,", "Lost almost past recovery . Zames ! Where"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Than I have ever been , or thou , with all", "Alone with him ! How many a year has passed", "Indifferent , not austere . My Lord !", "Oh , God ! I never shall", "Oh ! do not say so \u2014 do not poison all", "I pray thee , brother , leave me .", "An empire to indulge thee .", ",", "Of quitting .", "Once \u2014\u2014 but they have not changed .", "He speaks not \u2014 scarce regards me \u2014 not a word , 240", "Behold him more !", "Not be ?", "My brain turns \u2014", "Never . Help me ! Oh !", "Which gave me to behold your face again .", "And cannot pardon till I have condemned .", "Live but for those who love .", "And look upon me as you looked upon me", "Inhuman brother ! wilt thou thus weigh out 360", "No , not Zarina \u2014 do not say Zarina .", "Alas !", "Assyria is not all the earth \u2014 we 'll find", "Turn poison in bad minds .", "So gentle with me , that I cannot think", "With my husband \u2014\u2014", "Nor hands ; but I gave both .", "Those who are yours and mine , who look like you ,", "That they shall never do ; but rather honour", "My heart will break .", "Oh ! if thou hast at length", "Now blessings on thee for that word ! I never thought to hear it more \u2014 from thee . 310", "My heart from all that 's left it now to love \u2014", "A world out of our own \u2014 and be more blessed", "Discovered that my love is worth esteem ,", "I must remain \u2014 away ! you shall not hold me . What , shall he die alone ?\u2014 I live alone ?", "That 's false ! I knew he lived ,", "Perhaps too natural ; for benefits", "Which date the flight of time , but make no annals .", "Our children : it is true .", "I ask no more \u2014 but let us hence together ,", "\u2018 Tis"], "true_target": ["My eyes fail \u2014 where is he ?", "I know not . But yet live for my \u2014 that is ,", "That tone \u2014 That word \u2014 annihilate long years ,", "And first , I ne'er reproached you .", "And honour him who saved the realm for them ,", "Though we are still so young , since we have met ,", "A father . If thou conquerest , they shall reign ,", "And could have welcomed any grief save yours ,", "No \u2014", "They ne'er", "But could not I remain , alone ?", "Torn from thee ?", "Yet , be not rash \u2014 be careful of your life ,", "I have never thought of this ,", "Be satisfied \u2014 you are not all abandoned .", "And things which make them longer .", "Those infants , not alone from the blind love 260", "Instants so high and blest ?", "Ah ! do not name it .", "I cherish", "Then reap", "The name of him , who , dying like a king ,", "So little cared for as his own ; and if \u2014\u2014", "Than many monarchs in a length of days ,", "Nor look \u2014 yet he was soft of voice and aspect ,", "The honey , nor inquire whence \u2018 tis derived .", "Your children 's sake !", "They are now the only tie between us .", "Who loves .", "Changed to me only \u2014 would the change were mutual !", "I wish to thank you that you have not divided", "He hath been", "Shall know from me of aught but what may honour", "Of a fond mother , but as a fond woman .", "Which I have worn in widowhood of heart .", "In his last hours did more for his own memory", "Sardanapalus , wilt thou thus behold me", "My peace left , by unwishing that thou wert", "Their father 's memory .", "And I \u2014 let me say we \u2014 shall yet be happy .", "He loved me not : yet he seems little changed \u2014", "And lived upon his image \u2014 let me go ! 410", "I had half forgotten ,"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Best extract", "To bear you to this hall .", "By the King 's order . When the javelin struck you ,", "You fell and fainted : \u2018 twas his strict command", "Upon the same ground , and encouraging"], "true_target": ["Where ?", "The javelin .", "With voice and gesture the dispirited troops 110", "Who had seen you fall , and faltered back .", "I did not hear .", "But Prince \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["For the present", "In presence of another he says little ,", "To forward the preparatory rites", "O'erfloods its banks , and hath destroyed the bulwark .", "They \u2014\u2014", "Perhaps , in the air .", "Is rising \u2014 we are ready to attend you .", "May I pass on ?", "Take mine , sir ; \u2018 tis my duty to", "From the enormous mountains where it rises ,", "Apartment , mutter forth the words \u2014 \u201c My son ! \u201d", "Scarce audibly . I must proceed .", "And may be crossed by the accustomed barks ,", "And once or twice I heard him , from the adjoining", "Inform the Signory , and learn their pleasure .", "Be nearest to your person .", "I must", "Let me support you \u2014 paler \u2014 ho ! some aid there !", "For the late Foscari 's interment .", "Is thrown down by the sudden inundation 190", "Of the Euphrates , which now rolling , swoln", "We must remove the body .", "But when he shrinks into his wonted channel ,"], "true_target": ["With his wonted aspect .", "Signor ! the boat is at the shore \u2014 the wind", "About", "Some twenty stadia .", "As you please , Signor ;", "He 's gone !", "The wall which skirted near the river 's brink", "The River 's fury must impede the assault ;", "The palace is their own .", "With desperate firmness .", "He will be better ,", "I dared not disobey the Council when", "Some water !", "The sentence was not of my signing , but", "By the ducal order", "By the late rains of that tempestuous region ,", "You turn pale \u2014", "Bring in the prisoner !", "But I perceive his lips move now and then ;", "A leech . The prisoner has fainted .", "A melancholy one \u2014 to call the attendance", "I dare not .", "Of \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["My life waits your breath .", "Would it then suit the last hours of a line", "I shall not fail", "Since they were free .", "Such as is that of Nimrod , to destroy 330", "Be sure that he is now In the camp of the conquerors ; behold His signet ring .", "At the same peril if refused , as now", "Yours", "Holds sacred between man and man \u2014 but that", "Condition that the three young princes are", "Where thou shalt pass thy days in peace ; but on", "Beleses ,", "And violate not only all that man", "In any of the further provinces ,", "The anointed High-priest \u2014\u2014", "They offer thee thy life , and freedom 300", "I shall obey you to the letter .", "A single word :", "But an hour 's ?"], "true_target": ["Incurred by my obedience .", "The King Arbaces \u2014\u2014", "My office , King , is sacred .", "Whate'er it be .", "Given up as hostages .", "I but obeyed my orders ,", "To be a faithful legate of your pleasure .", "Of choice to single out a residence", "Most gorgeous gift , which renders it more precious .", "I thank you doubly for my life , and this 340", "I shall not forget it ,", "More holy tie which links us with the Gods ?", "I wait the answer .", "Where ?", "A peaceful herald , unarmed , in his office ;", "\u2014 but it may be \u2014 yours", "Guarded and watched , but not confined in person ,", "May also be in danger scarce less imminent :", "But must I bear no answer ?", "And Satrap Ofratanes \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["A bow-shot of the \u201c Riva di Schiavoni . \u201d 400", "That he has paid me !Chief of the Ten . What debt did he owe you ? 370", "Yes ,", "Between the Duke and me on the State 's service .", "If he die unattainted ?", "My sires by violent and mysterious maladies . 280", "No .", "He has seen his son 's half broken , and , except", "How !\u2014 my Giunta !", "May practise , she doth well to recommend it .", "And my dead father .", "Say rather", "We shall see .", "Now the rich man 's hell-fire upon your tongue , Unquenched , unquenchable ! I 'll have it torn From its vile babbling roots , till you shall utter Nothing but sobs through blood , for this ! Sage Signors , I pray ye be not hasty .", "And all will prosper .", "Is dead ; so is young Foscari and his brethren \u2014", "Neither are of my office , noble Lady !", "Its passage , but impedes it not \u2014 once passed .", "He receives them", "His sons \u2014 and he had four \u2014 are dead , without", "Where go you , sirrah ?", "Let him call up into life", "The hour 's past \u2014 fixed yesterday", "And I \u2014\u2014", "About by every breath , shook", "and \u201c the Ten \u201d", "He muttered many times between his teeth ,", "As the first of his son 's last banishment , 20", "And so he seemed not long", "I bear that of \u201c the Ten . \u201d", "Liberation .", "The delegates appointed to convey", "If we should measure forth the cities taken", "If she so wills it .", "\u201c There often has been question about you . \u201d", "No doubt : yet most men like to live their days out .", "Had we known this when 260", "Extinct , you may say this .\u2014 Let 's in to council . 20", "Your answer , Francis Foscari !", "Where ?", "ACT V .", "The death of Peter Loredano , both", "For Venice ! and a worthy statesman to", "What laws ?\u2014 \u201c The Ten \u201d are laws ; and if they were not ,", "Shall be the last of the old Doge 's reign ,", "When Princes set themselves", "When they are", "Which only tends to show how stubborn guilt is ,", "Announce \u201c the Ten 's \u201d decree .", "In early life its foe , but in his manhood ,", "And bow me to the Duke .", "You have consented to", "I have .", "What 's here ?", "Take mine .", "I 'll take their voices on it ne'ertheless ,", "True , in my father 's time ; I have heard him and", "We must be speedy : let us call together", "More seldom still .", "Should never deem himself a sovereign till", "With his guilt unavowed , he 'll be lamented . 350", "Come , they are met by this time ; let us join them ,", "You do well 270", "James Foscari return to banishment ,", "For the resumption of his trial .\u2014 Let us", "As they are offered .", "The whole isle .", "As rocks .", "They are , in all maternal things .", "The hour approaches , and the wind is fair .", "And the old Doge , who knew him doomed , smiled on him 300", "I fear not .", "Kind to relieve him from the cares of State .", "You must .", "Bid to his Dukedom .", "I remember mine .\u2014 Farewell !", "Lady !", "The time narrows , Signor . 410", "The presence of your husband 's Judges .", "After the very night in which \u201c the Ten \u201d 290", "The offspring of a noble house .", "I used no poison , bribed no subtle master", "decided his destruction ,", "See , the Duke comes !", "Could give him trouble farther .", "Well , sir !", "And men of eighty", "\u2018 Tis their choice", "Subject !", "Of the tribunal .", "Retire , But leave the torch .", "From its sad visions of the other world ,", "Who dares say so ?", "Of the destructive art of healing , to", "You see the number is complete . Follow me .", "No less than age .", "Uttered within these walls I bear no further 320", "When I came here . The galley floats within", "Be partner in my policy .", "Go to , you 're a child ,", "\u2018 Twas not tried .", "Wouldst thou have", "With or without the presence of the Doge .", "You forget , you cannot .", "And so the Council must break up , and Justice", "\u2018 Twill be full soon , and may be closed for ever !", "And should be all mine \u2014", "Doge ! have you aught in answer ?", "You , with your wonted scruples , teach us pause ,", "Cared for \u2014 what would he more ?", "Alike made difficult ; but I have such", "To grant it the third time .", "Demanding whether he should augur him", "Rejoin our colleagues in the council , and", "And see whose most may sway them , yours or mine .", "They sleep not", "Breaks in on our deliberations ?", "True \u2014 true \u2014", "It was not named .", "More soundly .", "\u2018 Twas true ; the question was the death resolved", "For his inauguration .", "I have \u2014 and had a father . 270", "Than calling it at moments back to this .", "Without owning", "The impression of his former instances :", "Of Carmagnuola , eight months ere he died ;", "Were fearfully against him , although narrowed", "Alone is aimed at .", "Of this \u201c the Ten \u201d said nothing .", "Saint Mark 's great bell is soon about to toll", "His crime ?", "Their office : they 'll be here soon after us .", "\u2018 Tis moderate \u2014 not even life for life , the rule", "Swerved .", "As I said , suddenly .", "I believed that swoon", "You know well 200", "Urge his recall .", "Denounced of retribution from all time ;", "Till balanced .", "Still .", "The act was passing , it might have suspended", "The public benefit ; and what the State", "Forthwith \u2014 when this long leave is taken . \u2018 Tis", "We have decided .", "\u2018 Twas his own wish that all should be done promptly . 120", "Pause in her full career , because a woman", "Time to admonish them again .", "Decides to-day must not give way before", "Met the great Duke at daybreak with a jest ,", "And had he not recovered ?", "Have made it law \u2014 who shall oppose that law ?", "Even ag\u00e9d men , be , or appear to be ,", "\u2018 Twas fit that some one of such different thoughts", "Yet \u2018 twas important .", "Ago to Carmagnuola .", "All that 's essential \u2014 leave the rest to me .", "With all their house , till theirs or mine are nothing .", "Lived longer than enough . Hence ! in to council !", "Think you not so ?", "In his own portion of the palace , with", "My mission here is to the Doge .", "I have prepared such arguments as will not 50", "I did so .", "They wished to spare your feelings ,", "Being"], "true_target": ["The Admiral , his brother , say as much .", "As how ?", "Your Highness may remember them ; they both", "We have higher business for our own . This day", "How far ?", "I have visited these places .", "\u2018 Tis not for me to anticipate the pleasure", "You talk unwarily . \u2018 Twere best they hear not", "He answered quickly , and must so be answered ;", "Thanks to you , sir ,", "And make him null .", "Than to the threshold , saving such as pass", "Why so ?", "As long as he can drag them : \u2018 tis his throne", "I never yet knew that a noble 's life", "Fail to move them , and to remove him : since", "Died suddenly .", "Its solitude , and nothing more diverts it", "gave a crown", "To nurse them wisely . Foscari \u2014 you know", "To work in secret , proofs and process are", "What ?", "That they have power to act at their discretion ,", "If they were from his heart , he may be thankful :", "And the chief judge , the Doge ?", "\u2018 Twas so", "My father and my uncle are no more .", "And sail in the same galley which conveyed him . 270", "I am sent hither to your husband , to", "There is none , I tell you , 40", "When the Doge declared that he", "Shorten the path to the eternal cure .", "We sought the Doge .", "Even so : when he ,", "He is safe , I tell you ;", "Should whisper that a harsh majority 130", "We have the implicit order of the Giunta", "The worthy voices which o'erhYpppHeNruled my own .", "An atom of their ancestors from earth .", "That they have mortal foes .", "And that is vengeance .", "Because we have waited long enough , and he", "Well ?", "Destroyed by him , or through him , the account", "Stalk frowning round my couch , and , pointing towards", "In which \u201d", "I kiss the hands of the illustrious Lady ,", "In Venice had to dread a Doge 's frown ,", "His sons expire by natural deaths , and I", "I have marked that \u2014 the wretch !", "As you please \u2014", "But inarticulately .", "We 'll elect another ,", "Hark ! 280", "Sorrow preys upon", "\u201c The Ten \u201d in council .", "To-morrow for a natural accident .", "That is , by open means .", "A last ! as , soon , he shall", "\u2018 Tis not the first time", "They are the State 's .", "As much of ceremony as you will ,", "In battle : the rewards are equal . Now ,", "If not , \u2018 twill punish his hypocrisy .", "How nobler ?", "Right ! 350", "A crown to him who saved a citizen", "A start of feeling in his dungeon , never", "So that the thing be done . You may , for aught", "The thing 's decreed . The Giunta", "A year 's imprisonment", "The Grave knows best : they died ,", "A long and just one ; Nature 's debt and mine .FOOTNOTES :{ 113 }Byron may have guessed that this passage would be quoted against him , and , by taking it as a motto , hoped to anticipate or disarm ridicule ; or he may have selected it out of bravado , as though , forsooth , the public were too stupid to find him out . ]\u2014\u2014 too soon repeated .\u2014{ 121 }runs thus : \u201c Si videtur vobis per ea qu\u00e6 dicta et lecta sunt , quod procedatur contra Ser Jacobum Foscari ; \u201d and it is argued,that the word procedatur is not a euphemism for \u201c tortured , \u201d but should be rendered \u201c judgment be given against ; \u201dthat if the X had decreed torture , torture would have been expressly enjoined ; andthat as the decrees of the Council were not divulged , there was no motive for ambiguity . S. Romaninand R. Sengertake the same view . On the other hand , Miss A. Wielpoints out that , according to the Dolfin Cronaca , which Berlan did not consult , Jacopo was in a \u201c mutilated \u201d condition when the trial was over , and he was permitted to take a last farewell of his wife and children in Torricella . Goethedid not share Eckermann 's astonishment that Byron \u201c could dwell so long on this torturing subject . \u201d \u201c He was always a self-tormentor , and hence such subjects were his darling theme . \u201d ]{ 122 }quando tractatur de rebus tangentibus ad attinentes Domini Ducis . \u201d The fact that \u201c Nos Franciscus Foscari , \u201d etc ., stood at the commencement of the decree of exile may have given rise to the tradition that the Doge , like a Roman father , tried and condemned his son .]{ 123 }Not long afterwards Marco Loredano , the admiral 's brother , met with a somewhat similar fate . He had been despatched by the X. to Legnano , to investigate the conduct of Andrea Donate , the Doge 's brother-in-law , who was suspected of having embezzled the public moneys . His report was unfavourable to Donato , and , shortly after , he too fell sick and died . It is most improbable that the Doge was directly or indirectly responsible for the death of either brother ; but there was an hereditary feud , and the libellous epitaph was a move in the game . ]{ 124 }4 \u2014\u2014 checked by nought The vessel that creaks \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 125 } \u2014\u2014 much pity .\u2014{ 126 } In this brief colloquy , and must redeem it .\u2014\u201c And I have loved thee , Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne , like thy bubbles , onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers . \u201d Childe Harold , Canto IV . stanza clxxxiv . lines 1-4 , Poetical Works , 1899 , ii . 461 , note 2 . ]{ 127 }I see your colour comes .\u2014{ 130 }\u2014 \u2018 A daughter of the house that now among Its ancestors in monumental brass Numbers eight Doges . \u2019 On the occasion of her marriage the Bucentaur came out in its splendour ; and a bridge of boats was thrown across the Canal Grande for the bridegroom and his retinue of three hundred horse . \u201d \u2014 Foscari , by Samuel Rogers , Poems , 1852 , ii . 93 , note . According to another footnote, \u201c this storyand the tragedy of the Two Foscari were published within a few days of each other , in November , 1821 . \u201d The first edition of Italy was published anonymously in 1822 . According to the announcement of a corrected and enlarged edition , which appeared in the Morning Chronicle , April 11 , 1823 , \u201c a few copies of this poem were printed off the winter before last , while the author was abroad . \u201d ]{ 132 } Do not deem so .\u2014{ 133 }, proves that the appeal to the Duke of Milan was bon\u00e2 fide , and not a mere act of desperation .]{ 134 }Moreover , Almoro Donato was not chief of the \u201c Ten \u201d at the date of his murder . The three \u201c Capi \u201d for November , 1450 , were Ermolao Vallaresso , Giovanni Giustiniani , and Andrea Marcello]{ 135 }\u201c \u2014 Cent . Dict ., art . \u201c Question . \u201d ]As was proved on him \u2014\u2014.\u2014) , which , according to the decree of the Council of Ten , dated March 26 , 1451 , Jacopo let fall \u201c while under torture \u201d during his second trial . ]{ 137 } I 'll hence and follow Loredano home .\u2014That I had dipped the pen too heedlessly .\u2014{ 138 } Mistress of Lombardy \u2014 \u2018 tis some comfort to me .\u2014Brescia fell to the Venetians , October , 1426 ; Bergamo , in April , 1428 ; Ravenna , in August , 1440 ; and Crema , in 1453 . ]{ 139 }]{ 141 } To tears save those of dotage \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 143 }]{ 144 }]{ 148 }Keep this for them \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 149 } The blackest leaf , his heart , and blankest , his brain .\u2014\u2014\u2014 and best in humblest stations .\u2014Where hunger swallows all \u2014 where ever was The monarch who could bear a three days \u2019 fast ?\u2014Their disposition \u2014\u2014.\u2014\u2014\u2014 the will itself dependent Upon a storm , a straw , and both alike Leading to death \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 152 } \u201c Our voices took a dreary tone , An echo of the dungeon stone . \u201d Prisoner of Chillon , lines 63 , 64 . Compare , too \u2014 \u201c \u2014\u2014 prisoned solitude . And the Mind 's canker in its savage mood , When the impatient thirst of light and air Parches the heart . \u201d Lament of Tasso , lines 4-7 . ]{ 153 }\u201c Run , run , Orlando ; carve on every tree The fair , the chaste and unexpressive she . \u201d As You Like It , act iii . sc . 2 , lines 9 , 10 . ]Which never can be read but , as \u2018 twas written , By wretched beings .\u2014{ 154 } Of the familiar 's torch , which seems to love Darkness far more than light .\u2014{ 157 } \u201c Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider . \u201d Childe Harold , Canto III . stanza ii . lines 1-3 , Poetical Works , 1899 , ii . 217 , note 1 . ]At once by briefer means and better .\u2014{ 158 } In Lady Morgan 's fearless and excellent work upon Italy , I perceive the expression of \u201c Rome of the Ocean \u201d applied to Venice . The same phrase occurs in the \u201c Two Foscari . \u201d My publisher can vouch for me , that the tragedy was written and sent to England some time before I had seen Lady Morgan 's work , which I only received on the 16th of August . I hasten , however , to notice the coincidence , and to yield the originality of the phrase to her who first placed it before the public .The passage which Byron feared might be quoted to his disparagement runs as follows : \u201c As the bark glides on , as the shore recedes , and the city of waves , the Rome of the ocean , rises on the horizon , the spirits rally ; ... and as the spires and cupolas of Venice come forth in the lustre of the mid-day sun , and its palaces , half-veiled in the a\u00ebrial tints of distance , gradually assume their superb proportions , then the dream of many a youthful vigil is realized \u201d]{ 159 } The Calenture .\u2014 \u201c So , by a calenture misled , The mariner with rapture sees , On the smooth ocean 's azure bed , Enamelled fields and verdant trees : With eager haste he longs to rove In that fantastic scene , and thinks It must be some enchanted grove ; And in he leaps , and down he sinks . \u201d Swift , The South-Sea Project , 1721 , ed . 1824 , xiv . 147 . ]Alluding to the Swiss air and its effects .\u2014That malady , which \u2014\u2014.\u2014\u201c The calentures of music which o'ercome The mountaineers with dreams that they are highlands . \u201d ]{ 160 } \u2014\u2014 upon your native towers .\u2014{ 162 } Come you here to insult us \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 163 }{ 165 } \u2014\u2014 which this noble lady worst ,\u2014{ 169 }{ 170 }the decision of the Ten with regard to his abdication , and noticed that Memmo watched him attentively . \u201c Foscari called to him , and , touching his hand , asked him whose son he was . He answered , \u2018 I am the son of Messer Marin Memmo . \u2019 \u2014 \u2019 He is my dear friend , \u2019 said the Doge ; \u2018 tell him from me that it would be pleasing to me if he would come and see me , so that we might go at our leisure in our boats to visit the monasteries \u2019 \u201d]{ 171 }Decemvirs , it is surely \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 172 }quotes the following anecdote from the Cronaca Dolfin :\u2014 \u201c Alla commozione , alle lagrime , ai singulti che accompagnavano gli ultimi abbraciamenti , Jacopo pi\u00f9 che mai sentendo il dolore di quel distacco , diceva : Padre ve priego , procur\u00e8 per mi , che ritorni a casa mia . E messer lo doxe : Jacomo va e obbedisci quel che vuol la terra e non cerear pi\u00f9 oltre . Ma , uscito l'infelice figlio dalla stanza , pi\u00f9 non resistendo alla piena degli affetti , si getto piangendo sopra una sedia e lamentando diceva : O piet\u00e0 grande ! \u201d ]{ 175 }\u2014\u2014 he would not Thus leave me .\u2014{ 178 }]{ 179 } An historical fact . See DARU, tom . ii .]{ 183 }]{ 188 } The act is passed \u2014 I will obey it .\u2014]{ 190 }]{ 192 } I take yours , Loredano \u2014 \u2018 tis the draught Most fitting such an hour as this .\u2014{ 193 }The wretchedness to die \u2014\u2014.\u2014Nani , opposed . \u201c She declined to give up the body , which she had caused to be dressed in plain clothes , and she maintained that no one but herself should provide for the funeral expenses , even should she have to give up her dower . \u201d It is needless to add that her protest was unavailing , and that the decree of the Ten was carried into effect .\u2014 The Two Doges , 1891 , pp . 129 , 130 . ]{ 194 } \u2014\u2014 comfort to my desolation .\u2014{ 195 } The Venetians appear to have had a particular turn for breaking the hearts of their Doges . The following is another instance of the kind in the Doge Marco Barbarigo : he was succeeded by his brother Agostino Barbarigo , whose chief merit is here mentioned .\u2014 \u201c Le doge , bless\u00e9 de trouver constamment un contradicteur et un censeur si amer dans son fr\u00e8re , lui dit un jour en plein conseil : \u2018 Messire Augustin , vous faites tout votre possible pour h\u00e2ter ma mort ; vous vous flattez de me succ\u00e9der ; mais , si les autres vous connaissent aussi bien que je vous connais , ils n'auront garde de vous \u00e9lire . \u2019 L\u00e0-dessus il se leva , \u00e9mu de colere , rentra dans son appartement , et mourut quelques jours apr\u00e8s . Ce fr\u00e8re , contre lequel il s'etait emport\u00e9 , fut pr\u00e9cisement le successeur qu'on lui donna . C'\u00e9tait un m\u00e9rite do n't on aimait \u00e0 tenir compte ; surtout \u00e0 un parent , de s'\u00eatre mis en opposition avec le chef de la r\u00e9publique . \u201d \u2014 DARU , Hist , de V\u00e9nise , 1821 , in . 29 .I trust Heavens will be done also .\u2014\u201c L'ha pagata . \u201d An historical fact . See Hist . de V\u00e9nise , par P. DARU , 1821 , ii . 528 , 529 ., Jacopo Loredano was at pains to announce the decree of the Ten to the Doge in courteous and considerate terms , and begged him to pardon him for what it was his duty to do . Romanin points out that this version of the interview is inconsistent with the famous \u201c L'hapagata . \u201d \u2014 Storia , etc ., iv . 290 , note i . ]{ 196 } Chief of the Ten . For what has he repaid thee ?", "Doubtless .", "Because his son is dead ?", "I care , depute the Council on their knees ,", "It is written thus .", "It begins to work , then .", "The better reason", "The Council 's resolution .", "In their accelerated graves , nor will 330", "His dignity is looked to , his estate", "Sires of a hundred sons , but cannot kindle", "And the old ducal dotard , who combined", "WHERE is the prisoner ?", "Their thoughts , their objects , have been sounded , do not", "From ours should be a witness , lest false tongues", "by a sigh , 330", "The Question , or continuance of the trial ,", "You may .", "Of the first , as shall make the second needless .", "Your sentence , then ?", "The ducal palace , marshal me to vengeance .", "His state descend to his children , as it must ,", "Its saviour first , then victim .", "By the Doge Foscari , with citizens", "In Canea \u2014 afterwards the freedom of", "The brothers sickened shortly :\u2014 he is Sovereign .", "His son , and the whole race of Foscaris .", "It shows", "Let her go on ; it irks not me .", "My dabbling in vile drugs .", "Feels he , think you ?", "And present", "Her sex 's privilege .", "Orphans ?", "If he dies innocent , that is to say ,", "I will be legislator in this business .", "For life .", "The busy have no time for tears .", "I said \u2014 for life .", "Age has no heart to break .", "He said himself that nought", "Let the fair dame preserve", "Lady ! words", "Eight months of such hypocrisy as is", "His last .", "To await their coming here , and join them in", "And be thou fixed in purpose for this once .", "They owe me still my father 's and my uncle 's .", "In my mind half so natural as theirs .", "To him who took a city : and they gave", "You may know him better .", "The Romans", "Till Foscari fills his . Each night I see them", "\u2018 Tis decreed , 260", "That , without further repetition of", "Which he would leave us .", "The present Duke is Paschal Malipiero .", "Not I , now", "What should they be who make", "Why , what should change me ?", "Yes . 40", "One who wars not with women .", "This from you .", "The virtue which this noble lady most", "He was the safeguard of the city .", "With deadly cozenage , eight long months beforehand \u2014", "Learnt but in eighty years . Brave Carmagnuola", "Most sure .", "By all the laws", "\u201c That he in truth had passed a night of vigil ,", "Infirm of feeling as of purpose , blown", "Dreaded to have its acts beheld by others .", "You best know if I should be so .", "Our powers are such .", "The torch , there !", "His fourscore years and five may linger on", "His last .", "What ! Do you regret a traitor ?", "Of private passion may not interrupt", "So far from strange , that never was there death", "He cried out twice .", "And melted by a tear \u2014 a precious judge", "The victims are not equal ; he has seen", "I never smiled on them .", "The feelings", ",", "You talk but idly .", "For my father 's And father 's brother 's death \u2014 by his son 's and own ! Ask Gifford about this . \u201d ]an extract from P. Daru 's Histoire de la R\u00e9publique Fran\u00e7aise , 1821 , ii . 520-537 ;an extract from J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi 's Histoire des R\u00e9publiques Italiennes du Moyen Age , 1815 , x . 36-46 ; anda note in response to certain charges of plagiarism brought against the author in the Literary Gazette and elsewhere ; and to Southey 's indictment of the \u201c Satanic School , \u201d which had recently appeared in the Preface to the Laureate 's Vision of JudgementSee , too , the \u201c Introduction to The Vision of Judgment , \u201d Poetical Works , 1891 , iv . pp . 475-480 . ] CAIN : A MYSTERY . \u201c Now the Serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made . \u201d Genesis , Chapter 3rd , verse 1 . INTRODUCTION TO CAIN . Cain was begun at Ravenna , July 16 , and finished September 9 , 1821Six months before , when he was at work on the first act of Sardanapalus , Byron had \u201c pondered \u201d Cain , but it was not till Sardanapalus and a second historical play , The Two Foscari , had been written , copied out , and sent to England , that he indulged his genius with a third drama \u2014 on \u201c a metaphysical subject , something in the style of Manfred \u201dGoethe 's comment on reading and reviewing Cain was that he should be surprised if Byron did not pursue the treatment of such \u201c biblical subjects , \u201d as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and , many years after , he told Crabb Robinsonthat Byron should have lived \u201c to execute his vocation ... to dramatize the Old Testament . \u201d He was better equipped for such a task than might have been imagined . A Scottish schoolboy , \u201c from a child he had known the Scriptures , \u201d and , as his Hebrew Melodies testify , he was not unwilling to turn to the Bible as a source of poetic inspiration . Moreover , he was born with the religious temperament . Questions \u201c of Providence , foreknowledge , will and fate , \u201d exercised his curiosity because they appealed to his imagination and moved his spirit . He was eager to plunge into controversy with friends and advisers who challenged or rebuked him , Hodgson , for instance , or Dallas ; and he responded with remarkable amenity to the strictures and exhortations of such orthodox professors as Mr. Sheppard and Dr. Kennedy . He was , no doubt , from first to last a heretic , impatient , not to say contemptuous , of authority , but he was by no means indifferent to religion altogether . To \u201c argue about it and about \u201d was a necessity , if not an agreeable relief , to his intellectual energies . It would appear from the Ravenna diary, that the conception of Lucifer was working in his brain before the \u201c tragedy of Cain \u201d was actually begun . He had been recording a \u201c thought \u201d which had come to him , that \u201c at the very height of human desire and pleasure , a certain sense of doubt and sorrow \u201d \u2014 an amari aliquid which links the future to the past , and so blots out the present \u2014 \u201c mingles with our bliss , \u201d making it of none effect , and , by way of moral or corollary to his soliloquy , he adds three lines of verse headed , \u201c Thought for a speech of Lucifer in the Tragedy of Cain \u201d \u2014 \u201c Were Death an Evil , would I let thee live ? Fool ! live as I live \u2014 as thy father lives , And thy son 's sons shall live for evermore . \u201d In these three lines , which were not inserted in the play , and in the preceding \u201c thought , \u201d we have the key-note to Cain . \u201c Man walketh in a vain shadow \u201d \u2014 a shadow which he can never overtake , the shadow of an eternally postponed fruition . With a being capable of infinite satisfaction , he is doomed to realize failure in attainment . In all that is best and most enjoyable , \u201c the rapturous moment and the placid hour , \u201d there is a foretaste of \u201c Death the Unknown \u201d ! The tragedy of Manfred lies in remorse for the inevitable past ; the tragedy of Cain , in revolt against the limitations of the inexorable present . The investigation of the \u201c sources \u201d of Cain does not lead to any very definite conclusionHe was pleased to call his play \u201c a Mystery , \u201d and , in his Preface, Byron alludes to the Old Mysteries as \u201c those very profane productions , whether in English , French , Italian , or Spanish . \u201d The first reprint of the Chester Plays was published by the Roxburghe Club in 1818 , but Byron 's knowledge of Mystery Plays was probably derived from Dodsley 's Plays, or from John Stevens 's Continuation of Dugdale 's Monasticon, or possibly , as Herr Schaffner suggests , from Warton 's History of English Poetry , ed . 1871 , ii . 222-230 . He may , too , have witnessed some belated Rappresentazione of the Creation and Fall at Ravenna , or in one of the remoter towns or villages of Italy . There is a superficial resemblance between the treatment of the actual encounter of Cain and Abel , and the conventional rendering of the same incident in the Ludus Coventri\u00e6 , and in the Mist\u00e8re du Viel Testament ; but it is unlikely that he had closely studied any one Mystery Play at first hand . On the other hand , his recollections of Gessner 's Death of Abel which \u201c he had never read since he was eight years old , \u201d were clearer than he imagined . Not only in such minor matters as the destruction of Cain 's altar by a whirlwind , and the substitution of the Angel of the Lord for the Deus of the Mysteries , but in the Teutonic domesticities of Cain and Adah , and the evangelical piety of Adam and Abel , there is a reflection , if not an imitation , of the German idyllOf his indebtedness to Milton he makes no formal acknowledgment , but he was not ashamed to shelter himself behind Milton 's shield when he was attacked on the score of blasphemy and profanity . \u201c If Cain be blasphemous , Paradise Lost is blasphemous \u201d, was , he would fain believe , a conclusive answer to his accusers . But apart from verbal parallels or coincidences , there is a genuine affinity between Byron 's Lucifer and Milton 's Satan . Lucifer , like Satan , is \u201c not less than Archangel ruined , \u201d a repulsed but \u201c unvanquished Titan , \u201d marred by a demonic sorrow , a confessor though a rival of Omnipotence . He is a majestic and , as a rule , a serious and solemn spirit , who compels the admiration and possibly the sympathy of the reader . There is , however , another strain in his ghostly attributes , which betrays a more recent consanguinity : now and again he gives token that he is of the lineage of Mephistopheles . He is sometimes , though rarely , a mocking as well as a rebellious spirit , and occasionally indulges in a grim persiflage beneath the dignity if not the capacity of Satan . It is needless to add that Lucifer has a most lifelike personality of his own . The conception of the spirit of evil justifying an eternal antagonism to the Creator from the standpoint of a superior morality , may , perhaps , be traced to a Manichean source , but it has been touched with a new emotion . Milton 's devil is an abstraction of infernal pride \u2014 \u201c Sole Positive of Night ! Antipathist of Light ! Fate 's only essence ! primal scorpion rod \u2014 The one permitted opposite of God ! \u201d Goethe 's devil is an abstraction of scorn . He \u201c maketh a mock \u201d alike of good and evil ! But Byron 's devil is a spirit , yet a mortal too \u2014 the traducer , because he has suffered for his sins ; the deceiver , because he is self-deceived ; the hoper against hope that there is a ransom for the soul in perfect self-will and not in perfect self-sacrifice . Byron did not uphold Lucifer , but he \u201c had passed that way , \u201d and could imagine a spiritual warfare not only against the Deus of the Mysteries or of the Book of Genesis , but against what he believed and acknowledged to be the Author and Principle of good . Autres temps , autres m\u0153urs ! It is all but impossible for the modern reader to appreciate the audacity of Cain , or to realize the alarm and indignation which it aroused by its appearance . Byron knew that he was raising a tempest , and pleads , in his Preface , \u201c that with regard to the language of Lucifer , it was difficult for me to make him talk like a clergyman , \u201d and again and again he assures his correspondentsthat it is Lucifer and not Byron who puts such awkward questions with regard to the \u201c politics of paradise \u201d and the origin of evil . Nobody seems to have believed him . It was taken for granted that Lucifer was the mouthpiece of Byron , that the author of Don Juan was not \u201c on the side of the angels . \u201d Little need be said of the \u201c literature , \u201d the pamphlets and poems which were evoked by the publication of Cain : A Mystery . One of the most prominent assailants, Archdeacon of Cleveland , 1832 , author inter alia of Original Sin , Free Will , etc ., 1818 ) issued A Remonstrance to Mr. John Murray , respecting a Recent Publication , 1822 , signed \u201c Oxoniensis . \u201d The sting of the Remonstrance lay in the exposure of the fact that Byron was indebted to Bayle 's Dictionary for his rabbinical legends , and that he had derived from the same source his Manichean doctrines of the Two Principles , etc ., and other \u201c often-refuted sophisms \u201d with regard to the origin of evil . Byron does not borrow more than a poet and a gentleman is at liberty to acquire by way of raw material , but it cannot be denied that he had read and inwardly digested more than one of Bayle 's \u201c most objectionable articles \u201dThe Remonstrance was answered in A Letter to Sir Walter Scott , etc ., by \u201c Harroviensis . \u201d Byron welcomed such a \u201c Defender of the Faith , \u201d and was anxious that Murray should print the letter together with the poem . But Murray belittled the \u201c defender , \u201d and was upbraided in turn for his slowness of heartFresh combatants rushed into the fray : \u201c Philo-Milton , \u201d with a Vindication of the \u201c Paradise Lost \u201d from the charge of exculpating \u201c Cain : A Mystery , \u201d London , 1822 ; \u201c Britannicus , \u201d with a pamphlet entitled , Revolutionary Causes , etc ., and A Postscript containing Strictures on \u201c Cain , \u201d etc ., London , 1822 , etc . ; but their works , which hardly deserve to be catalogued , have perished with them . Finally , in 1830 , a barrister named Harding Grant , author of Chancery Practice , compiled a workof more than four hundred pages , in which he treats \u201c the proceedings and speeches of Lucifer with the same earnestness as if they were existing and earthly personages . \u201d But it was \u201c a week too late . \u201d The \u201c Coryph\u00e6us of the Satanic School \u201d had passed away , and the tumult had \u201c dwindled to a calm . \u201d Cain \u201c appeared in conjunction with \u201d Sardanapalus and The Two Foscari , December 19 , 1821 . Last but not least of the three plays , it had been announced \u201c by a separate advertisement, for the purpose of exciting the greater curiosity \u201d, 1822 , p. 383 ) , and it was no sooner published than it was pirated . In the following January , \u201c Cain : A Mystery , by the author of Don Juan , \u201d was issued by W. Benbow , at Castle Street , Leicester SquareMurray had paid Byron \u00a3 2710 for the three tragedies , and in order to protect the copyright , he applied , through counsel, for an injunction in Chancery to stop the sale of piratical editions of Cain . In delivering judgment, the Chancellor , Lord Eldon, replying to Shadwell , drew a comparison between Cain and Paradise Lost , \u201c which he had read from beginning to end during the course of the last Long Vacation \u2014 solicit\u00e6 jucunda oblivia vit\u00e6 . \u201d No one , he argued , could deny that the object and effects of Paradise Lost were \u201c not to bring into disrepute , \u201d but \u201c to promote reverence for our religion , \u201d and , per contra , no one could affirm that it was impossible to arrive at an opposite conclusion with regard to \u201c the Preface , the poem , the general tone and manner of Cain . \u201d It was a question for a jury . A jury might decide that Cain was blasphemous , and void of copyright ; and as there was a reasonable doubt in his mind as to the character of the book , and a doubt as to the conclusion at which a jury would arrive , he was compelled to refuse the injunction . According to Dr . Smiles, the decision of a jury was taken , and an injunction eventually granted . If so , it was ineffectual , for Benbow issued another edition of Cain in 1824See , too , the case of Murray v. Benbow and Another , as reported in the Examiner , February 17 , 1822 ; and cases of Wolcot v. Walker , Southey v. Sherwood , Murray v. Benbow , and Lawrence v. Smith\u201c Cain , \u201d said Moore, \u201c has made a sensation . \u201d Friends and champions , the press , the public \u201c turned up their thumbs . \u201d Gifford shook his head ; Hobhouse \u201c launched out into a most violent invective \u201d; Jeffrey , in the Edinburgh , was regretful and hortatory ; Heber , in the Quarterly , was fault-finding and contemptuous . The \u201c parsons preached at it from Kentish Town to Pisa \u201dEven \u201c the very highest authority in the land , \u201d his Majesty King George IV ., \u201c expressed his disapprobation of the blasphemy and licentiousness of Lord Byron 's writings \u201dByron himself was forced to admit that \u201c my Mont Saint Jean seems Cain \u201dThe many were unanimous in their verdict , but the higher court of the few reversed the judgment . Goethe said that \u201c Its beauty is such as we shall not see a second time in the world \u201d; Scott , in speaking of \u201c the very grand and tremendous drama of Cain , \u201d said that the author had \u201c matched Milton on his own ground \u201d; \u201c Cain , \u201d wrote Shelley to Gisborne, \u201c is apocalyptic ; it is a revelation never before communicated to man . \u201d Uncritical praise , as well as uncritical censure , belongs to the past ; but the play remains , a singular exercise of \u201c poetic energy , \u201d a confession , ex animo , of \u201c the burthen of the mystery , ... the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world . \u201d For reviews of Cain : A Mystery , vide ante , \u201c Introduction to Sardanapalus , \u201d p. 5 ; see , too , Eclectic Review , May , 1822 , N. S . vol . xvii . pp . 418-427 ; Examiner , June 2 , 1822 ; British Review , 1822 , vol . xix . pp . 94-102 . For O'Doherty ' s parody of the \u201c Pisa \u201d Letter , February 8 , 1822 , see Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine , February , 1822 , vol . xi . pp . 215-217 ; and for a review of Harding Grant 's Lord Byron 's Cain , etc ., see Fraser 's Magazine , April , 1831 , iii . 285-304 . TO SIR WALTER SCOTT , BART ., THIS MYSTERY OF CAIN IS INSCRIBED , BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , THE AUTHOR .PREFACE The following scenes are entitled \u201c A Mystery , \u201d in conformity with the ancient title annexed to dramas upon similar subjects , which were styled \u201c Mysteries , or Moralities . \u201dThe author has by no means taken the same liberties with his subject which were common formerly , as may be seen by any reader curious enough to refer to those very profane productions , whether in English , French , Italian , or Spanish . The author has endeavoured to preserve the language adapted to his characters ; and where it istaken from actual Scripture , he has made as little alteration , even of words , as the rhythm would permit . The reader will recollect that the book of Genesis does not state that Eve was tempted by a demon , but by \u201c the Serpent; \u201d and that only because he was \u201c the most subtil of all the beasts of the field . \u201d Whatever interpretation the Rabbins and the Fathers may have put upon this , I take the words as I find them , and reply , with Bishop Watsonupon similar occasions , when the Fathers were quoted to him as Moderator in the schools of Cambridge , \u201c Behold the Book ! \u201d \u2014 holding up the Scripture . It is to be recollected , that my present subject has nothing to do with the New Testament , to which no reference can be here made without anachronism .With the poems upon similar topics I have not been recently familiar . Since I was twenty I have never read Milton ; but I had read him so frequently before , that this may make little difference . Gesner 's \u201c Death of Abel \u201d I have never read since I was eight years of age , at Aberdeen . The general impression of my recollection is delight ; but of the contents I remember only that Cain 's wife was called Mahala , and Abel 's Thirza ; in the following pages I have called them \u201c Adah \u201d and \u201c Zillah , \u201d the earliest female names which occur in Genesis . They were those of Lamech 's wives : those of Cain and Abel are not called by their names . Whether , then , a coincidence of subject may have caused the same in expression , I know nothing , and care as little .am prepared to be accused of Manicheism ,or some other hard name ending in ism , which makes a formidable figure and awful sound in the eyes and ears of those who would be as much puzzled to explain the terms so bandied about , as the liberal and pious indulgers in such epithets . Against such I can defend myself , or , if necessary , I can attack in turn . \u201c Claw for claw , as Conan said to Satan and the deevil take the shortest nails \u201d] The reader will please to bear in mind, that there is no allusion to a future state in any of the books of Moses , nor indeed in the Old Testament . For a reason for this extraordinary omission he may consult Warburton 's \u201c Divine Legation ; \u201dwhether satisfactory or not , no better has yet been assigned . I have therefore supposed it new to Cain , without , I hope , any perversion of Holy Writ . With regard to the language of Lucifer , it was difficult for me to make him talk like a clergyman upon the same subjects ; but I have done what I could to restrain him within the bounds of spiritual politeness . If he disclaims having tempted Eve in the shape of the Serpent , it is only because the book of Genesis has not the most distant allusion to anything of the kind , but merely to the Serpent in his serpentine capacity .", "To have the courtesy to abdicate .", "True \u2014", "My sire and uncle \u2014 I consent . Men may ,", "\u201c The good day or good night ? \u201d his Doge-ship answered ,", "Which leads me here .", "to beg him", "To private havoc , such as between him 320"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["No tears .", "Unasked ?", "Father and son , and all their noxious race ;", "A feud . But when all is accomplished , when", "Let him approach . I must not speak with him Further than thus : I have transgressed my duty 90 In this brief parley , and must now redeem itWithin the Council Chamber .", "But if this deposition should take place", "Of the sire as has fallen upon the son ,", "But will the laws uphold us ?", "We seek his presence ?", "Of our stern duty , which prescribes the Question ,", "When he was failing .", "We will remit him till the rites are over .", "Thy father sits amongst thy judges .", "Lady , we knew not of this sad event ,", "I owe , by way of foil to the more zealous ,", "When embarks the son ?", "But yesterday , I hear , on his return", "What if he will not ?", "You are ingenious , Loredano , in", "Against it at this moment .", "Our state as render retribution easier", "I 'll not consent .", "This stroke", "The attainted", "To relapse", "This is no prelude to such persecution", "Of humbling me for my vain opposition .", "My best to save his honours , and opposed", "But Grief is lonely , and the breaking in 250", "Could I but be certain", "Will move all Venice in his favour .", "And will you leave it unerased ?", "And you and yours triumphant , shall you sleep ?", "Whom we now act against not only saved 310", "Forbear ;", "Such weakness .", "But let him", "And why not wait these few years ?", "And how ?", "Heed not her rash words ;", "Reposing from", "A parent 's sorrows .", "More spectral or fantastical than Hate ;", "In stern serenity ; these moved you not ? 360", "But wrung from pangs , and followed by no prayers . 340", "These are words ;", "His sons all dead , his family depressed ,", "It must be done with all the deference", "Solicited permission to retire ,", "Or in some clammy drops , soon wiped away", "He dealt in such ?", "This undesired association in 140", "And the deep agony of his pale wife ,", "An escort fitting past and present rank .", "Where is the Doge ?", "As I do always .", "This proposition to the last , though vainly .", "That you have written in your books of commerce ,", "And art thou sure", "Chief of the Ten . We are agreed , then ?", "You have a son .", "The old man fainted .", "No \u2014 he ,", "Then deem not the laws too harsh", "This happens in the most contemned and abject", "Retrench not from their moments .", "Of Milan , and his sufferings half atone for", "And those two shrieks were not in supplication ,", "Which yield so much indulgence to a sire ,", "But did the Doge make you so ?", "So desolate , that the most clamorous grief", "Your Giunta 's duties .", "I yield not to you in love of justice ,", "First at the board in this unhappy process", "Makes me wish \u2014", "But he avowed the letter to the Duke", "I am a judge ; but must confess that part", "And have I not oft heard thee name", "In my mind , too deep .", "And the repressed convulsion of the high", "Most stoical endurance .", "He reigned : then let his funeral rites be princely .", "The Question .", "Chief of the Ten . Heaven 's peace be with him !", "Still so inexorable ?", "As to allow his voice in such high matter", "Proceed .", "Behold ! your work 's completed ! Chief of the Ten . Is there then No aid ? Call in assistance !", "And will they press their answer on the Doge ?", "From louder tongues than mine ; they have gone beyond", "All openness .", "At your own peril ?", "Their 340", "And have you confidence in such a project ?", "\u201c Doge Foscari , my debtor for the deaths", "By our united influence in the Council ,", "But you will move by law ?", "That 's an error , and you 'll find it", "Chief of the Ten . St. Mark 's , which tolls for the election", "Be troubled now .", "A very Ovid in the art of hating ;", "Upon it barbarous .", "A wretched one .", "That I heard not :", "They are such in this", "I have read their epitaph , which says they died", "To my surprise too , you were touched with mercy ,", "To extermination .", "My sire and uncle ? \u201d", "As was forced on him ; but he did not cry", "Let us return . \u2018 Tis time enough to-morrow .", "As the state 's safety \u2014", "And yet unburied .", "Chief of the Ten . We will not note them down .", "Bidding farewell .", "War with them too ?", "This last calamity ?", "Fancy 's distemperature ! There is no passion", "50", "Die in his robes :", "He has not had", "You shall not depart without", ", to you"], "true_target": ["And yet he seems", "He shed", "It shall not be 230", "This edict .", "Or hate of the ambitious Foscari , 10", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so ,", "I would support you .", "With more than Roman fortitude , is ever", "And twice it was refused .", "The body of his son .", "Inter his son before we press upon him", "The old man is deposed , his name degraded ,", "The Doge unto his private palace . Say !", "Oh ! they 'll hear as much one day", "A Saint had done so ,", "But discarded Princes 60", "In council were against you .", "My brethren , will we not ?", "They speak your language , watch your nod , approve", "\u2018 Tis thus", "We will accompany , with due respect , 270", "To the ducal chambers , as he passed the threshold 30", "ACT II .", "Was Carmagnuola", "Complete yet ; two are wanting ere we can", "Even with the crown of Glory in his eye ,", "How bears the Doge", "Humanity !", "The work is half your own .", "All , except Lor ., answer , Yes .", "No ,", "Of Malipiero .", "I would they could !", "And bids us sit and see its sharp infliction ,", "And may die under it if now repeated .", "Due to his years , his station , and his deeds . 30", "Chief of the Ten . Is the Duke aware", "But be human ! 160", "By poison .", "You stood more near him .", "\u2018 Tis vain to murmur ; the majority 320", "Against his last and only son .", "That which changes me .", "Not even its opposite , Love , so peoples air", "Nay , let him profit by", "\u2018 Twill break his heart .", "That you would sometimes feel ,", "Follow thee ! I have followed long Thy path of desolation , as the wave Sweeps after that before it , alike whelmingThe wreck that creaks to the wild winds , and wretch Who shrieks within its riven ribs , as gush 60 The waters through them ; but this son and sire Might move the elements to pause , and yet Must I on hardily like them \u2014 Oh ! would I could as blindly and remorselessly !\u2014 Lo , where he comes !\u2014 Be still , my heart ! they are Thy foes , must be thy victims : wilt thou beat For those who almost broke thee ?", "That 's not the cause ; you saw the prisoner 's state .", "Your modes of vengeance , nay , poetical ,", "And not less , I must needs think , for the sake", "At such inhuman artifice of pain", "But I have seen him sometimes in a calm", "Here come our colleagues .", "A few brief minutes for his tortured limbs ;", "The penalty of saving cities . He", "Had nought to envy him within . Where is he ? 10", "There is one who does : Yet fear not ; I will neither be thy judge Nor thy accuser ; though the hour is past , Wait their last summons \u2014 I am of \u201c the Ten , \u201dAnd waiting for that summons , sanction you Even by my presence : when the last call sounds , We 'll in together .\u2014 Look well to the prisoner !", "With phantoms , as this madness of the heart .", "Methought ,", "Enter the Deputation as before .", "He was o'erwrought by the Question yesterday ,", "Why would the general vote compel me hither ?", "Even their exorbitance of power : and when", "I do beseech you , lean upon us !", "Of Marco and Pietro Loredano ,", "We will not interrupt", "He means", "Ah ! that seems", "The Duke is with his son .", "He could not have lived long ; but I have done", "\u2018 Tis hard upon his years .", "Than \u2018 mongst remoter nations . Is it true", "And did not this shake your suspicion ?", "And princely brow of his old father , which", "Like a frail vessel . I respect your griefs .", "Your plans , and do your work . Are they not yours ?", "He must not", "Just now , though Venice tottered o'er the deep", "Did not the Doge deny this strongly ?", "The bell !", "Yet pause \u2014 the number of our colleagues is not", "To balance such a foe , if such there be ,", "No \u2014 not now .", "I protest", "Her circumstances must excuse her bearing .", "That remains for proof . 150", "The misery to die a subject where", "Let us return , then .", "What , wouldst thou slay his memory ?", "Are you then thus fixed ?", "States , stung humanity will rise to check it .", "Upon the least renewal .", "You , Loredano ,", "That were too much : believe me , \u2018 twas not meet The trial should go further at this moment .", "And therefore", "Broke forth in a slight shuddering , though rarely ,", "And were the first to call out for assistance", "Vault has been often opened of late years .", "What solid proofs ?", "Will nothing move you ?", "Ere you sleep with your fathers .", "I pray you sit .", "Why press his abdication now ?", "But he has twice already", "What art thou writing , With such an earnest brow , upon thy tablets ?", "You would deprive this old man of all business ?", "In his countenance , I grant you , never ;", "Your friend ?", "Perhaps without committing any .", "But passed here merely on our path from council .", "And foreign traitor ?", "His and his father 's death your nearest wish ?", "Our own , but added others to her sway .", "For pity ; not a word nor groan escaped him ,", "Pursue hereditary hate too far .", "But the poor wretch has suffered beyond Nature 's", "He sinks !\u2014 support him !\u2014 quick \u2014 a chair \u2014 support him !", "He shows it not .", "Yours !", "But you , I know , are marble to retain", "Are seldom long of life .", "Sit down , my Lord ! You tremble ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["And might be the last , did they", "Let him rest . Signor , take time .", "And can you so much love the soil which hates you ? 140", "Who rule behold us .", "I see the colour comes", "Open .\u2014 How feel you ?", "I 'll stand the hazard .", "Signor , you hear the order .", "What more may be imposed !\u2014 I dread to think o n't ."], "true_target": ["And the rack will be spared you .", "And the third time will slay you .", "There , sir , \u2018 tis", "Confess ,", "And your limbs ?", "130", "Of manhood 's strength .", "Back to your cheek : Heaven send you strength to bear", "Be a man now : there never was more need"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Who ought to be the prop of yours ?", "Appalled , turn their despairing eyes on me ,", "It must be borne . Father , your blessing .", "From my own land , like the old patriarchs , seeking", "I asked for even those outlines of their kind ,", "Fos . They may repent .", "Fos . I will do my endeavour .", "Familiarity with what was darkness ;", "The waves as they arose , and prouder still 110", "Fos . Aye , I am used to such a summons ; \u2018 tis", "Than me ; but \u2018 tis not all , for there are things", "Or like our fathers , driven by Attila", "Have heard thee name my name \u2014 our name !", "With a far-dashing stroke , and , drawing deep", "Let me approach , I pray you , for a breath", "Fos . Curse it not . If I am silent ,", "His dungeon barrier , like the lover 's record", "Fos . Ah ! you never yet", "Fos . My father ! DogeJacopo ! my son \u2014 my son ! 340", "My eyes swim strangely \u2014 where 's the door ?", "Of men 's hearts ; but I knew them not , and here", "Must youth support itself on age , and I", "Which kissed it like a wine-cup , rising o'er", "And yet for this I have returned to Venice ,", "Bounding o'er yon blue tide , as I have skimmed", "Unless thou tell'st my tale .", "Fos . And canst thou leave them ?", "With all their blank , or dismal stains , than is", "Her callow brood . What letters are these which", "Fos . And I", "Fos .", "Is't true my wife accompanies me ?", "Fos . Never yet did mariner", "And the grey twilight of such glimmerings as", "That melody ,", "Fos . Ah ! they relent , then \u2014 I had ceased to hope it :", "Raced for our pleasure , in the pride of strength ;", "And laughing from my lip the audacious brine ,", "Your hand !", "Fos . Not one ?", "Will be .\u2014 But wherefore breaks it not ? why live I ?", "Fos . No doubt ! but \u2018 tis", "What can avail such words ?", "And the cold drops strain through my brow , as if \u2014\u2014", "May I not see them also ?", "For Venice but with such a yearning as", "It sinks in solitude : my soul is social .", "Our only day ; for , save the gaoler 's torch ,", "And pleasant breezes , as I call upon you ,", "Fos . That 's sudden . Shall I not behold my father ?", "Fos . Return to Candia ?", "Who dares accuse my Country ?", "Exchange of chains for heavier chains I owe him .", "Of seeing thee again so soon , and so", "High in the air on her return to greet", "Till the sea dash me back on my own shore", ", without a groan , 90", "Their numbers and success ; but who can number 170", "Fos . That were difficult .", "Or with a cry which rather shamed my judges", "Fos . My poor mother , for my birth , 160", "Those lying likenesses of lying men .", "Fos . True ,", "Upon the bark of some tall tree ,", "The long-suspended breath , again I spurned", "And waken Auster , sovereign of the Tempest ! 130", "Hath nerved me to endure the risk of death ,", "Made my heart sick .", "My track like a sea-bird .\u2014 I was a boy then .", "And many thoughts ; but afterwards addressed", "Their hands upheld each other by the way ,", "My very soul seemed mouldering in my bosom ,", "Yet \u2014 yet \u2014 I pray you to obtain for me 100", "Fos . I doubt not . Father \u2014 wife \u2014 190", "My gay competitors , noble as I ,", "Would have but drawn upon his ag\u00e9d head", "Fos . That has a noble sound ; but \u2018 tis a sound ,", "Of the sad mountaineer , when far away", "Fos . O , ye Elements ! Where are your storms ?", "My true wife ,", "which out of tones and tunes", "Fos . No \u2014", "For I have such , and shown it before men ;", "Fos . How ! would'st thou share a dungeon ?", "Fos . Is this , sir , your whole mission ?", "Peopled with dusty atoms , which afford", "I ne'er saw aught here like a ray . Alas !", "And after dreaming a disturb\u00e9d vision", "I do not doubt my memory , but my life ;", "Fos . But we are not summoned yet ;", "Fos . The soil !\u2014 Oh no , it is the seed of the soil", "A dungeon , what they will , so it be here .", "Which might have been forbidden now , as \u2018 twas", "Fos . Let them do so ,", "To our departure . Who comes here ?", "Fos .I thank you : I am better .", "Not even a Foscari .\u2014 Sir , I attend you .", "Refused me ,\u2014 so these walls have been my study ,", "Of them and theirs , awoke and found them not .", "What I have undergone here keep me from", "While the fair populace of crowding beauties , 100", "I sometimes murmur for a moment ; but", "Which howled about my Candiote dungeon ,", "A point of time , as beacon to my heart ,", "Fos . I had not", "The brightness of our city , and her domes ,", "Fos . I rarely , sir , have murmured .", "My only Venice \u2014 this is breath ! Thy breeze ,", "Fos . And must I leave them \u2014 all ?", "Fos . So does the earth , and sky , the blue of Ocean ,", "And cool them into calmness ! How unlike", "Dead , but still bear me to a native grave ,", "I recognise some names familiar to me ,", "And , though events be hidden , just men 's groans 80", "Accumulated ills .", "Which calls up green and native fields to view", "From fishers \u2019 hands , upon the desolate strand ,", "Reflected upon this , but acquiesce .", "Ye tutelar saints of my own city ! which", "My doom is common ; many are in dungeons ,", "Another region , with their flocks and herds ;", "Our parting hours be lost in listening to", "And holding on its course ; but there , afar ,", "Fos . How know you that here , where the genial wind", "He could not now act otherwise . A show", "I ask no more than a Venetian grave ,", "To lash up from the deep the Adrian waves ,", "Fos . At once \u2014 by better means , as briefer .", "Fos . That thought would scarcely aid me to endure it .", "When gorgeously o'ergilding any towers", "Ne'er blows in all its blustering freedom ?", "Fos . Let me hope not .", "Fos . That of leaving", "And the poor captive 's tale is graven on", "I did not deem this poor place could have drawn 250", "To the poor exile 's fevered eye , that he", "With dazzling smiles , and wishes audible ,", "Repeat \u2014 not long .", "The tyranny of silence is not lasting ,", "Fos . My best Marina !\u2014 and our children ?", "Fos . \u2018 Tis the joy", "Indeed , our last of meetings ?", "Fos . Again , Marina !", "Seem to hint shrewdly of them . Such stern walls", "Fos . Ah , father ! though I must and will depart ,", "That I once more return unto my home ,", "Had I been cast out like the Jews from Zion ,", "And neither do I fear .", "Of feeling or compassion on his part", "Is one away from Venice , I look back", "And waving kerchiefs , and applauding hands ,", "160", "By those above , till they waxed fearful ; then", "And piecemeal I shall perish , if remanded .", "Saw day go down upon your native spires", "Who yesterday presided o'er my pangs \u2014", "The name of him who here preceded me ,\u2014", "Fos . Nothing at first ; but use and time had taught me 60", "But onward \u2014 I have borne it \u2014 I can bear it .\u2014", "Such presence hither .", "As the Phenicians did on Jonah , then", "What ! would they even deny me my Sire 's sepulchre ,", "Fos . Not long .", "Look back . I pray you think of me .", "70", "Fos . Most welcome , noble Signor .", "Fos . Now , I 'm ready \u2014", "I look upon thy hands my curdling limbs", "Fos . This is mere insanity .", "Fos .", "Of feet on which the iron clanked the groan", "You call this weakness ! It is strength ,", "This lady , of a house noble as yours .", "Plebeian as patrician , cheered us on", "Without expectancy , has sent the blood", "Which persecutes me : but my native earth", "Let them wring on ; I am strong yet .", "Were far away from Venice , never saw", "Fos . What voice is that ?\u2014 \u2018 Tis Barbarigo 's ! Ah ! Our House 's foe , and one of my few judges . 80", "Flinging the billows back from my drenched hair ,", "Fittest for such a chronicle as this ,", "Fos . You !\u2014 you are he 150", "Fos . My name : look , \u2018 tis there \u2014 recorded next", "Or after their departure ; of that malady", "A new home and fresh state : perhaps I could", "Fos . And I feel , besides , that mine", "Fos .", "For thou art pale too , my Marina !", "I am past hunger : but my lips are parched \u2014 30", "Thine arm .", "A like hereafter !", "In that accurs\u00e9d isle of slaves and captives ,", "Fos . They will not banish me again ?\u2014 No \u2014 no ,", "Will take me as a mother to her arms .", "Last night in yon enormous spider 's net ,", "Triple , and tenfold torture ! But you are right ,", "Fos . My father still ! How long it is since I", "Fos . Had I gone forth", "Have borne this \u2014 though I know not .", "Which men bequeath as portraits , and they were"], "true_target": ["I say ,\u2014 the parent of all honest feeling .", "While every furrow of the vessel 's track", "I loved you ever \u2014 never more than now . 360", "Fos . Nothing . I cannot charge", "Fos . Let us address us then , since so it must be ,", "From fertile Italy , to barren islets ,", "If dungeon dates say true .", "And torture positive , far worse than death", "Will burst all cerement , even a living grave 's !", "Fos . I cannot wish them all they have inflicted .", "To appease the waves . The billow which destroys me", "Their tents were pitched together \u2014 I 'm alone . 190", "In my native air that buoyed my spirits up", "Let them be all to you which he was once ,", "Which never echoed but to Sorrow 's sounds ,", "Fos . Where ?", "To leave abodes like this : but when I feel", "Fos . And I to be attended . Once more , father ,", "The loftier they uplifted me ; and oft ,", "I shall depart , then , without meeting them ?", "Her beautiful towers in the receding distance ,", "With the like answer \u2014 doubt and dreadful surmise \u2014", "Which , of its thousand wrecks , hath ne'er received", "The hot gales of the horrid Cyclades ,", "As well as home and heritage ?", "And dies .", "More faithful pictures of Venetian story ,", "Fos . No \u2014 nothing .", "Fos . Have I not borne ?", "Were never piled on high save o'er the dead ,", "Fos . I thank thee , friend , I 'm feeble ;", "The mirth of her Piazza \u2014 even now", "And unbelievers , like a stranded wreck ,", "A music most impressive , but too transient :", "Seemed ploughing deep into your heart ; you never 210", "Fos . Forgive \u2014\u2014", "Fos . Well !", "Fos . Till when ?", "That I was wicked . If it be so , may", "The wind may change .", "The marble down , had worn away the hate", "Fos . Alas ! I little thought so lingeringly", "Fos . Aye \u2014 we but hear", "Will stream along those moted rays of light", "And only friend ! What happiness !", "Fos . And wherefore not ? All then shall speak of me :", "And you perceive your presence doth disquiet", "Must I consume my own , which never beat 10", "Cloven with arm still lustier , breast more daring ,", "And never be to you what I am now .", "Thou askest .\u2014 What of me ? may soon be asked ,", "The dates of their despair , the brief words of", "No light , save yon faint gleam which shows me walls", "Fos . Both the same to me : the after", "Prepare my children to behold their father .", "And me for having lived , and you yourself", "Even to the goal !\u2014 How many a time have I", "As showed that I had searched the deep : exulting ,", "Look to my children \u2014 to your last child 's children :", "But proudly still bestriding", "Fos . Father ! I pray you to precede me , and", "Ye love not with more holy love than I ,", ", for the gift of life ,", "\u2018 Twas time .", "Thy very winds feel native to my veins ,", "A grief too great for many . This stone page", "Fos . Limbs ! how often have they borne me", "Fos . But still I must", "My memory with much save sorrow : but", "Fos . The light ! Is it the light ?\u2014 I am faint .", "Which they term annals , history , what you will ,", "Be ashes here than aught that lives elsewhere .", "Fos . And liberty ?", "He who loves not his Country , can love nothing .", "That every step I take , even from this cell ,", "Put up to patron saint such prayers for prosperous", "the high waves ,", "The dove has for her distant nest , when wheeling", "Chastened and visited , I needs must think", "Fos . I pray you , calm you :", "which bears", "Fos . No \u2014 you mistake ; \u2018 tis yours that shakes , my father . Farewell !", "With some faint hope , \u2018 tis true , that Time , which wears", "Will be more merciful than man , and bear me", "He knows this , or he had not sought to change them ,", "The sigh of long imprisonment , the step", "Your hands !", "Returning with my grasp full of such tokens", "Even on these dull damp walls , and \u2014\u2014", "How looks my father ?", "Fos . Ah ! if it were so ! 110", "But that they never granted \u2014 nor will grant ,", "Fos . Like a boy \u2014 Oh Venice !", "Fos . That 's kind :\u2014 I meet some pity , but no mercy ;", "My beautiful , my own ,", "The galley 's sails are not unfurled :\u2014 who knows ?", "From the rough deep , with such identity", "From his snow canopy of cliffs and clouds , 180", "Suspicion from \u201c the Ten , \u201d and upon mine", "Thy fond fidelity for a time deprives", "But thou mayst stand reproved .", "In wantonness of spirit , plunging down", "The time will come they will renew that order ,", "And , masqued as a young gondolier , amidst", "Live long to be a mother to those children", "May all the winds of Heaven howl down the Gulf , 140", "Cast me out from amongst them , as an offering", "Judged and destroyed in silence ,\u2014 all things wear 170", "Upon my former exile .", "Fos . Well I know how wretched !", "The foam which broke around me , and pursued 120", "I would have given some tears to my late country", "The water !", "Myself , with those about me , to create", "Of the survivors \u2019 toil in their new lands ,", "The hearts which broke in silence at that parting ,", "Its merry hum of nations pierces here ,", "No \u2014 not for thee , too good , too kind ! May'st thou", "Fos . I pray you set it down ;", "Venice without beholding him or you ,", "Fos . Aye , there it is ; \u2018 tis like a mother 's curse", "Of air , yon window which o'erlooks the waters .", "Which you bestowed upon me as my sire .", "Reproaches , which boot nothing . Is it \u2014 is it ,", "That he feeds on the sweet , but poisonous thought ,", "Fos . What then ?", "and", "Where I may mingle with the sands which skirt", "The exiles you speak of went forth by nations ,", "But I reproach not .", "One lacerated like the heart which then 150", "I know if mind may bear us up , or no ,", "He judges .", "Of Death , the imprecation of Despair !", "But let me still return .", "My way to shells and sea-weed , all unseen", "But then my heart is sometimes high , and hope 100", "Upon my soul \u2014 the mark is set upon me .", "Or those who soon must be so .\u2014 What of him ?", "I may breathe many years .", "Fos . I know it \u2014 look !", "Hundreds of Doges , and their deeds and dates .", "Fos . Alas !", "Thou earnest hither I was busy writing .", "Fos . Double ,", "Once \u2014 twice before : both times they exiled me .", "Fos . And his son 's . I 'm faint ;", "This is the first .", "The land I love , and never shall see more !", "Of such support ! But for myself alone ,", "And I shall be alone : no men ; no books \u2014", "Fos . Father , let not these", "Fos . And thine !\u2014 but I am blinded by the torch .", "Was kinder to mine eyes than the full Sun ,", "Because we have brief time for preparation ,", "Freedom as is the first imprisonment .", "And tear the vessel , till the mariners ,", "The self-same aspect , to my very sire !", "I could endure my dungeon , for \u2018 twas Venice ;", "Holds like an epitaph their history ; 20", "And blighted like to mine , which I will add ,", "I pray thee touch me not \u2014 that is , just now ;", "So I be buried in my birth-place : better", "Collects such pasture for the longing sorrow", "With any penalty annexed they please ,", "Into their green and glassy gulfs , and making", "Can scarcely be restrained from treading them ?", "The wave all roughened ; with a swimmer 's stroke", "Fos . Then my last hope 's gone .", "Fos . They might behold their parent any where .", "The third time they have tortured me :\u2014 then lend me", "Away !\u2014 I 'll walk alone .", "Even here , into these chambers of the unknown", "Save those of Venice ; but a moment ere", "Which only can be read , as writ , by wretches .", "The Hall not far from hence , which bears on high 120", "I could support the torture , there was something", "Who govern , and the unknown and the unnumbered", "So calmly with its gold and crimson glory ,", "Fos . Bade thee stretch me on their horrid engine .", "Thine Adrian sea-breeze , how it fans my face !", "Will never be so white . Embrace me , father !", "But keep off from me till \u2018 tis issued . As", "Howe'er remote the period . Let there be", "Like a ship on the Ocean tossed by storms , 130", "Back to my heart , and left my cheeks like thine ,", "Fos . I confessed", "Glide through the crevices made by the winds", "His own and his belov\u00e9d 's name . Alas !", "But none like mine , so near their father 's palace ;", "I have been so beyond the common lot", "Quiver with the anticipated wrenching , 160", "More woful \u2014 such as this small dungeon , where", "The Mind is much , but is not all . The Mind", "A broken corse upon the barren Lido ,", "Fos . These walls are silent of men 's ends ; they only", "Nothing can sympathise with Foscari ,", "And a strange firefly , which was quickly caught", "Fos . Blame him not .", "The gondola along in childish race ,"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["To mingle with a body so august .", "\u2018 Twas a cry of \u2014", "Command us .", "The Bridge which few repass .", "If you obey : and , if not , you no less", "High-born dame !bethink thee Where thou now art .", "They can .", "I understand thee , but I must not answer .", "But as a culprit .", "As we hope , Signor ,", "I am the son of Marco Memmo .", "Be thus admitted , though as novices ,", "You ! Remember , lady !", "In Venice \u201c but \"' s a traitor .", "The Duke 's palace .", "Why", "Be latest in obeying \u201c the Ten 's \u201d summons .", "And I another ; and it seems to me", "But here come two of \u201c the Ten ; \u201d let us retire .", "Be calm !", "Thus hesitate ? \u201c The Ten \u201d have called in aid", "\u201c The Ten \u201d", "The accusation of the bribes was proved .", "Lady ,", "And worse suspense .", "Chosen delegates , a school of wisdom , to", "\u2018 Twere better to retire .", "I trust not .", "Patricians of the Senate \u2014 you are one ,", "There must be more in this strange process than", "one day hope to be", "Most noble lady ,", "To such", "It will only serve", "Thy husband yet may be absolved .", "Alas ! this", "If we divulge them , doubtless they are worth 90", "Of yon terrific chamber are as hidden", "Will sit for any length of time to-day ?", "I hardly 280", "How now , friend , what seek you ? 250", "Both honoured by the choice or chance which leads us 80", "Or would permit assistance to this sufferer .", "Will not be admitted o'er the threshold .", "From us , the premier nobles of the state , 180", "Whom have we here ? the wife of Foscari ?"], "true_target": ["The voice was \u2014", "It is impossible .", "Something , at least to you or me .", "Then why not clear him ?", "In earnest councils \u2014 we will not be least so .", "The apparent crimes of the accused disclose \u2014 310", "All 's silent now .", "That is enough .", "By previous proclamation . We are summoned \u2014", "\u2018 Tis mere desperation : she", "Will know why you should have obeyed .", "Except \u201c the Ten , \u201d and their familiars .", "To view the mysteries .", "But with length of time", "Is limited : I 'd rather be an unit", "The earliest are most welcome", "We gain a step in knowledge , and I look", "Being worth our lives", "Of an united and Imperial \u201c Ten , \u201d", "What ! Again ?", "Confirms his crimes , but he avows them not .", "Justice is judge in Venice .", "And that is much ; the secrets", "Let us not", "Alone can answer ; they are rarely wont", "Of their deliberation five and twenty", "Why , no ; not if I can avoid it .", "Whose duty \u2018 tis to do so .", "Thought that \u201c the Ten \u201d had even this touch of pity ,", "Ingress is given to none within those chambers", "Is but to expose yourself to harsh repulse ,", "Than shine a lonely , though a gilded cipher .\u2014", "I marvel they condemn him not at once .", "I leave it ; though born noble , my ambition", "More to exasperate his judges .", "Signor ,", "And all may honestly ,", "Not so ;", "They 260", "To let their thoughts anticipate their purpose", "As from the people .", "Decemvir , it is surely for the Senate 's", "You will know why anon , 70", "But me no \u201c buts \u201d unless you would pass o'er", "Forward to be one day of the decemvirs .", "He 's gone \u2014 we are too late :\u2014 think you \u201c the Ten \u201d", "Circumstance"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["My heart bleeds for you .", "Now , or postpone it till to-morrow ?", "Is it your pleasure to sign the report", "Be lawfully desired , and lawfully", "Thirty-four years of nearly ceaseless warfare", "Attained by noble aspirants .", "To oppose them , but \u2014\u2014", "Which \u2014 like the tales of spectres , that are rife", "Resource against the tyranny of pain ?", "I would know why .", "Even if she be so , cannot save her husband .", "That 's not their policy : they 'd have him live ,", "I sought not", "Which should be made manifest .", "Not to feel deeply for your son .", "Yes , but to his country ;", "You have forgot ; it is not signed .", "I have too many duties towards you", ", I pray thee do so .", "\u2018 Tis the first station of the state , and may 190", "None , save the Letter , which , he says , was written", "Your hand , too , shakes , my Lord : allow me , thus \u2014", "A summons to \u201c the Ten ! \u201d why so ?", "\u2018 Tis almost", "And", "Was slain by Erizzo for private vengeance .", "That it would fall into the Senate 's hands ,", "I shall fulfil my office .", "Addressed to Milan 's duke , in the full knowledge", "By you and by \u201c the Ten \u201d gives peace to Venice .", "Unfathomed mysteries .", "And that was all he sought ,\u2014 so he avouches . 300", "And , feeling for thy husband 's wrongs , wouldst thou", "Or Doge ?", "The state had need of some repose .", "Pity ! Is't pity to recall to feeling", "They would accord some time for your repose .", "I mean not", "Consuming but not killing .", "So far \u2014 let 's in .", "Of Nicolas Erizzo , who slew the late"], "true_target": ["Has been annulled by the death-bed confession", "I am silent .", "They ought to answer ; for it is well known", "That", "That Almoro Donato , as I said ,", "By the compassionate trance , poor Nature 's last", "And merits all our country 's gratitude .", "More I know not .", "My good Lord , forgive me .", "Because he fears not death ; and banish him ,", "Nor wholly disbelieved : men know as little", "Hark !", "Thus the act confirmed 10", "All are not met , but I am of your thought", "A place within the sanctuary ; but being", "With the Turk , or the powers of Italy ;", "Near ruined buildings \u2014 never have been proved ,", "Chief of \u201c the Ten . \u201d", "To him is one wide prison , and each breath", "Of foreign air he draws seems a slow poison ,", "Poor lady !", "Have him bear more than mortal pain in silence ?", "The wretch too happy to escape to Death", "Because all earth , except his native land , 290", "Not clearly , and the charge of homicide", "\u2018 Tis most true ,", "No doubt , are worth it .", "And thus he should be re-conveyed to Venice .", "And for your \u2014\u2014", "For them , but not for us ;", "And all your house , for past and present kindness , 30", "Persisting in his first avowal ; but", "Let us view them : they ,", "But , see , the officer returns .", "Most true . I say no more .", "They say the prisoner is most obdurate ,", "It must have way , my Lord :", "What , my Lord ?", "Chosen , however reluctantly so chosen ,", "Save the wonted rumours ,", "Of the state 's real acts as of the grave 's"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Do as they have done by yours , and you yourself \u2014", "There now would be no Venice . But let it", "The gloomy guardian of that passage first", "No more than woman 's tears , that they should shake you .", "Are judges who give way to anger ? they", "110", "I know that none who enter there return", "Aye , weep on !", "I have sued to accompany thee hence , 140", "Yes \u2014 with many a pang !", "You , who abet them ?", "Aught in its favour , who would praise like thee ?", "The old martyrs would have shrunk from : he is gone ,", "A fearful pang , which wrung a groan from him .", "Had been so !", "A cell so far below the water 's level ,", "Though his possessions have been all consumed", "Of the familiar 's torch , which seems akin", "Has been one long entreaty , and a vain one .", "And not his honour .", "No , not thine eyes \u2014 they sparkle \u2014 how they sparkle !", "Doge", "And your son .", "Submits to all things rather than to exile , 170", "Ye treated him :\u2014 you did so , in so dealing", "Yes ; all things which conduce to other men 's", "ACT IV .", "And , if there were no other nearer , bitterer", "And sneering lip the pang , but he partakes it . 310", "No hand of ours would stretch itself to meet it .", ",", "Her best and bravest from her . Tyranny", "Then , father , 280 Surely you can obtain or grant me thus much :", "Believe it . Should he shrink , I cannot cease", "Then leave them .", "Sending its pestilence through every crevice ,", "The Stoic of the State ?", "They are his weapons , not his armour , for", "To exile ?", "Floating on the free waves \u2014 away \u2014 away \u2014", "From that atrocity .", "This means that you are more a Doge than father .", "May the worm which never dieth feed upon them !", "and this", "And unknown dooms , and sudden executions ,", "And wedded", "Unjust , and \u2014\u2014", "Touch it not , Foscari ; \u2018 twill sting you . Signor ,", "I have sons , who shall be men .", "Stand off ! be sure , that if a grasp of yours", "I have pierced him to the core of his cold heart .", "That shall be tried .", "Did you but love your Country like this victim", "I do , Signor .", "The holiest tie beneath the Heavens !\u2014 Oh God !", "We 'll part", "That these are demons : could it be else that", "You banished from his palace and tore down", "I have seen him pass through such an ordeal as", "In the State 's service , I have still my dowry ,", "Till he himself shall brood in it alone .", "That were too human , also . But it was not", "And if they do , Heaven will not", "Though", "So I be left with him .", "Are you content ? 330", "Neglects or violates his trust is more 390", "With a last look upon our misery ?", "In story or in fable , with a world", "\u2018 Tis revoked .", "What !", "And now defies them .", "And \u2014\u2014", "From him or such as he is .", "Not wisely , yet not wildly .", "They should , I will fly with him .", "And I must live !", "To use for the decrees of \u2014\u2014", "And here ?", "I would that they beheld their father in", "And how feel you ?", "Yes ; worse he could not .", "I thought you had no tears \u2014 you hoarded them", "I will not deem it : he hath nerved himself ,", "To love ; but \u2014 no \u2014 no \u2014 no \u2014 it must have been", "And I , who would have given my blood for him , 100", "Rather say ,", "Though last , not least , thy silence ! Couldst thou say", "Before the Tartar into these salt isles ,", "Upon your genealogic tree 's most green 300", "consigned to powers which may", "Of those who fain must deal perforce with vice :", "To make a pageant over what you trampled . 330", "Signers , your pardon : this is mockery . 320", "And full of reptiles , not less loathsome , though", "To Syria , Egypt , to the Ottoman \u2014 380", "Alive to love , are yet awake to terror ;", "Chief of the Ten . Know you , Lady ,", "True \u2014 none dare answer here save on the rack , Or question save those \u2014\u2014", "And yet they wrung me till I could have shrieked ,", "That in my heart would make its way through hosts", "Come with me !", "And by my uncles ; we must sail ere night . 220", "With death , and chains , and exile in his hand ,", "Upon their knees , perhaps have mourned above them \u2014", "Here !", "Who shall oppose me ?", "Any where , where we might respire unfettered ,", "Inhibited ?", "Of so much splendour in hypocrisy", "Thy life is safe .", "The sole fit habitant of such a cell ,", "Ah , he is dying !", "Doge", "A few brief words of truth shame the Devil 's servants", "To freeze their young blood in its natural current .", "Purpose , with idle and superfluous pomp ,", "Incarnate Lucifer ! \u2018 tis holy ground .", "Must I then retire ?", "How have you sped ? We are wretched , Signor , as", "And shall be more so when I see us both", "And what of him ? 70", "Till it meets ! and when it meets ,", "Your plots could make , and vengeance could desire us ,", "Alas ! I have shed some \u2014 always thanks to you !", "Created by degrees an ocean Rome ;", "The body bleeds in presence of the assassin .", "Chief of the Ten . We", "They feel not , but no less are shivered . Come ,", "Oh , no doubt !", "To those who will succeed them , as they can", "I thought the dead had been beyond even you ,", "Resemble that you exercise on earth .", "That word again ?", "And", "Men , who have been of women born and suckled \u2014", "I wished to speak to you of him .", "A brigand than the robber-chief .", "Who totters back in chains to tortures , and", "And these vile damps , too , and yon thick green wave", "In fatal moments ?", "No \u2014 not here .", "Last council on thy doom .", "They 'll torture him again ; and he and I", "The water 's level ;", "To Foscari from his father ?", "Despair defies even despotism : there is", "And this is Patriotism ?", "And can I not go with him ?", "Nobler !", "The retribution of his wrongs !\u2014 Well , well !", "Slaves , exiles \u2014 what you will ; or if they are", "Their sire was a mere hunted outlaw . Well , 370", "So far with a weak woman as deny me", "And wish you this with me beside you ?", "Which floats above the place where we now stand \u2014", "My husband !", "\u2018 Tis 50", "From tyrannous injustice , and enough", "Blush to find ancestors , who would have blushed", "It was the lot of millions , and must be", "Will not be suffered to proceed with us .", "Call me not \u201c child ! \u201d 70 You soon will have no children \u2014 you deserve none \u2014 You , who can talk thus calmly of a son In circumstances which would call forth tears Of blood from Spartans ! Though these did not weep Their boys who died in battle , is it written That they beheld them perish piecemeal , nor Stretched forth a hand to save them ?", "The fiends who will one day requite them in", "Alive , or dead , for Prince or Paladin", "Is none but guilt so ?", "But oppresses 280", "But would not gratify yon wretch so far .", "And no permission had been given in writing ,", "Aye ,", "To flow through the dead lips of Foscari \u2014", "The fate of myriads more .", "Let us proceed . Doge , lead the way .", "Pleasure ! what a word", "I had obtained permission from \u201c the Ten \u201d", "Or had ; they are there within , or were at least", "Females with portions , brides and bribes for nobles !", "You talk wildly , and 300", "And if", "I tell thee , Doge , \u2018 tis Venice is dishonoured ;", "Venetian", "As they have entered \u2014 many never ; but", "And that 's a mystery .", "It is my last of duties , and may prove 340", "Pity my husband , or I cast it from me ;", "A Prince 's and his subject 's .", "Why do I ask ? Thy paleness \u2014\u2014", "Shall weep more \u2014 never , never more .", "They shall not balk my entrance .", "The indulgence of your colleagues ; but he knew it .", "So is the Doge ; he has a son at stake", "For the only boon I would have asked or taken", "If it were so ,", "They live , they 'll make you soldiers , senators ,", "What hast thou done ?", "No \u2014 no \u2014 no more of that : even they relent", "Remained of Rome for their inheritance ,", "I 've heard of heirs in sables \u2014 you have left none", "Oh !", "\u2018 Tis not upon thy brow ,", "The presence that should silence my free thoughts ?", "Will one day thank you better .", "It galls you :\u2014 well , you are his equal , as 290", "Of hours .", "In Heaven . I pray you , Signer Senator ,", "You shall be so no more \u2014 I will go with thee .", "Or were , at least in seeming , human , could", "Their victims ; but ne'er heard , until this hour ,", "Bowed down by such oppression ; yes , I thought", "That is ,", "The dungeon walls must still divide us .", "The latter \u2014 like yourselves ; and can face both .", "And you , Signor ?", "We all must bear our tortures . I have not", "To darkness more than light , by lending to", "Might strike them : this is not their atmosphere ,", "Nor in thine eyes , nor in thine acts ,\u2014 where then 140", "To teach you not to shrink now from a lot ,", "Held in the bondage of ten bald-heads ; and", "Which you have made a Prince 's son \u2014 my husband ;", "His dregs of life , which you have kindly shortened :", "And I will find an hour to wipe away", "This crowd of palaces and prisons is not", "Aye , he may veil beneath a marble brow", "Who obtained that justice ?", "In short , to trample on the fallen \u2014 an office 330", "As I had been without it . Couldst thou see here ?", "By thunder blasted :", "And thus far I am also the State 's debtor ,", "In part your past imprisonment .", "Leave him to me ; you would have done so for", "The Country is the traitress , which thrusts forth", "Though they sweep both the Doge and son from life ;", "With Loredano mourning like an heir .", "I will be with thee .", "That 's false ! A truer , nobler , trustier heart ,", "Of leaves and most mature of fruits , and there", "Which he has peopled often , but ne'er fitly", "As my poor Foscari ? Nothing was wanting", "Until that high tribunal reassembled", "Thank God ! At least they will not drag him more", "These are things we cannot judge", "So I thought !", "There must be life yet in that heart \u2014 he could not", "They have fed well , slept soft , and knew not that", "More than in years ; and mine , which is as old", "For that thought now . Would I were in his grave !", "Behold the State 's care for its sons and mothers !", "My husband ! let us on : this but prolongs", "Not Foscari 's .", "Shall be exposed with wonted pomp , and followed", "To one whose foot was on an adder 's path .", "And with them power and will are one", "The mind should make its own !", "However you \u2014 and you \u2014 and most of all , 380", "For what he suffers , not for what he did .", "But for the poor children", "Such useless passion . Until now thou wert", "Ah ! I thought it would be so .", "Your spies , your galley and your other slaves ,", "The blood of myriads reeking up to Heaven ,", "Wherefore not ?", "The dungeon gloom is deep enough without you ,", "You came here to enjoy a heartless triumph", "May they thrive with him", "With levelled spears ; and think you a few jailors", "He 's busy , look , About the business you provided for him . Are ye content ?", "the coasts", "Sirs , I am ready .", "I have heard of murderers , who have interred", "Keep such for them : I fear ye not . I know ye ;", "Remembrances , would thank the illustrious Memmo", "What", "I do \u2014 I do \u2014 and so should you , methinks \u2014", "His voice ! it seemed so : I will not", "Left barren the great house of Foscari , 240", "Your privacy .", "Off ! I will tend him .", "Came you here to insult us , or remain", "That I would rather look upon his corse", "On earth to bear .", "Of cold looks upon manifold griefs ! You came", "That 's false !", "A Paradise ; its first inhabitants", "For your oppressors .", "There 's death in that damp , clammy grasp .", "Knew sunbeam , and the sallow sullen glare", "I thought they had been mine .", "To edicts of inquisitors of state .", "Variety of torturing ! Yet I 'll pass .", "He might have lived ,", "With less he surely might be saved .", "I know it ,", "A princely funeral will be your reproach ,", "your mysterious meetings ,", "No , no ; not my husband 's \u2014", "His name shall be her foulest , worst reproach ,", "Accurs\u00e9d be the city where the laws", "You think ; but that you are not , nor would be ,", "And scanty hairs , and shaking hands , and heads", "A dreary comfort in my desolation .", "I come to tell thee the result of their", "Cannot assist his father .", "Pass on .", "As far as touches torturing the living .", "To good , depress thee thus ?", "Were wretched exiles .", "Of such . Well , sirs , your will be done ! as one day ,", "I say he 's innocent ! And were he not so ,", "To scatter o'er his kind as he thinks fit ;", "How dost thou ? How are those worn limbs ? Alas !", "Most readily .", "Until they are useless ; but weep on ! he never", "They tortured from him . This", "And feel it nothing .", "No more .", "Yes , light us on , as to a funeral pyre ,", "Speak not of that ; you are a man of office ,", "Ends with his life , and goes not beyond murder ,", "No , ye only make them ,", "That is true ,"], "true_target": ["Ere he depart ? It may be the last time .", "As Doge , but simply as a senator .", "What ?", "Their antique energy of mind , all that", "And live nor girt by spies , nor liable", "And we must wait o n't . Ah ! a voice of wail !", "Desire , were to escape from such a land .", "Be left to me to tend them ; should they die , 390", "Accumulated ! 230", "Of him thou canst not , or thou wilt not save ,", "By duties paramount ; and \u2018 tis our first", "Nor would accept them if he could , you , Signors ,", "In the earth ?", "Even if I were of fearful nature , which", ",", "In leaving it : but mine were joyful pangs :", "Which I prepared to pass with Foscari ,", "Perhaps all 's over ; but", "Those maxims for your mass of scared mechanics , 300", "There .", "And they shall hear this !", "You 'd fling yourselves before him , and implore", "You have seen your son 's blood flow , and your flesh shook not ;", "And what shall I say", "Oh , God !\u2014 My Foscari , how fare you ?", "An hour since , face to face , as judge and culprit :", "The rack , the grave , all \u2014 any thing with thee , 40", "To shame him , and they cannot shame him now .", "What , no one ?\u2014 I am wrong , there still are two ;", "A moment , as the Eternal Fire , ere long ,", "As spy upon us , or as hostage for us ?", "I have endured as much in giving life", "Had better now be seated , nor as yet", "The last , were all men 's merits well rewarded .", "Foscari ; now let us go , and leave this felon ,", "And after that , what are a woman 's words ? 130", "May breathe it without prejudice .", "Look not so stern \u2014 but get you back , and pore", "O'er those they slew .", "In human breasts . Alas ! Will nothing calm you ?", "Will quickly clear the harbour .", "Learn you to sway your feelings , when exacted 200", "And I \u2014\u2014", "He is ,", "You know it well ,", "It may be so ; and who hath made us mad ?", "Are you , then ,", "That he is known .", "What pangs are those they have spared you ?", "Of Nature 's summons ; but \u201c the Ten 's \u201d is quicker ,", "And he but live , for him the very worst 320", "Of destinies : each day secures him more", "But they have crushed .", "Of the Duke 's son , the innocent Duke 's son ,", "No , \u2018 twas too human . May I share his exile ?", "Than his prolonged captivity :\u2014 I am punished", "Let him partake it !", "Come , come , old man !", "To me my husband and my children were", "The groans of slaves in chains , and men in dungeons ,", "Heroes , and would not welcome them with tears .", "To the deceased , so you would act the part 360", "Thus leave me .", "Wretch ! \u2018 tis no virtue , but the policy", "Live on , so the good die not , till the hour", "Let them flow on : he wept not on the rack", "Grief is fantastical , and loves the dead ,", "Of Egypt and her neighbour Araby :", "Unto his happiness and mine save not", "Farewell ! at least to this detested dungeon ,", "Nothing more easy . He partakes it now \u2014", "His grace for your enormous guilt .", "Your torturing instruments , have made ye seem 310", "Change their hearts , or your lot : the galley 's oars", "I speak of thee !", "Those tears , or add my own . I could weep now , 420", "To tears save drops of dotage , with long white", "The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke ,", "Process of my poor husband ! Treat me as", "A moment since , while yet it had a soul ,", "It is too much to have survived the first .", "Be it to the earth 's end , from this abhorred ,", "And shall an evil , which so often leads", "To bring them up to serve the State , and die", "Ah ! the Devil come to insult the dead ! Avaunt !", "But did not ; for my hope was to bring forth", "The interview of husband and of wife ,", "He does not , there are those will sentence both .", "In all things painful . If they 're sick , they will", "Is our own blood and kin to shrink from us", "The beings of another and worse world !", "My Lord , if I intrude \u2014", "As palsied as their hearts are hard , they counsel ,", "As more generous !", "You feel it then at last \u2014 you !\u2014 Where is now", "Small dungeon is all that belongs to thee", "None rebels except subjects ? The Prince who", "Not his \u2014 not his \u2014 he 'll die in silence .", "To be sued to in vain \u2014 to mark our tears ,", "The hangman shrinks from , as all men from him !", "A sufferer , but not a loud one : why", "To whom your midnight carryings off and drownings ,", "And everywhere .", "He said not which . I would that you could bear", "I trust I am not ?", "Which cloud whate'er we gaze on , even thine eyes \u2014", "To whom ye speak , and perils of such speech ?", "Of his high blood . Thus much I 've learnt , although", "Too much", "Might have repaid protection in this moment ,", "That tenderness", "As died their father . Oh ! what best of blessings 210", "To those who know to honour them .", "No \u2014 no , he is not dead ;", "Our sorrow .", "A moment 's access to his dungeon .", "My children ! true \u2014 they live , and I must live", "We say the \u201c generous steed \u201d to express the purity 290", "So formed for gentle privacy of life ,", "I know not , reck not \u2014", "Your exile as he bears it .", "Not his : no . 230", "Is Passion , and not Patriotism ; for me ,", "Chamber of state , her gratitude allots you .", "No less than Master ; I have probed his soul", "As yours , is better in its product , nay \u2014", "Come , Foscari , take the hand the altar gave you ;", "Who have loved , or talked at least of Love \u2014 have given", "With him . Then what have I to fear from you ,", "Accept the tardy penitence of demons .", "More loving , or more loyal , never beat", ",", "I command !\u2014 Alas ! my life 200", "To teach you to be less a child . From this", "Will he condemn him ?", "Strange to thy heart \u2014 how came it on thy lips ?", "My exiled , persecuted , mangled husband ,", "And why not say as soon the \u201c generous man ? \u201d", "Cabal , and put men 's lives out , as if Life", "Has been anticipated : it is known .", "Before that horrible tribunal . Would he", "In wickedness ;\u2014 my husband 's lost !", "\u201c The Ten ; \u201d \u2014 but as the Court no longer sate ,", "By some strange destiny , to him proved deadly . 80", "Have known and proved your worst , in the infernal", "We will , and for the sake of those who are ,", "Within a human breast . I would not change", "In their accurs\u00e9d bosoms .", "And those of \u2014\u2014", "I know the former better than yourselves ;", "Keep", "Indeed , thus to be pitied ?", "Were he a peasant :\u2014 well , then , you 're a Prince ,", "Groaned under the stern Oligarchs .", "So much !\u2014 no more .", "I 've heard of widows \u2019 tears \u2014", "The ruin of their children ?", "For pointing out the pleasures of the place . 210", "His tempter 's .", "A shrine . Get thee back to thy place of torment !", "Would stifle Nature 's !", "Doubtless , as your nice feelings would prescribe ,", "Were no more than the feelings long extinguished", "For such a son \u2014 thou cold inveterate hater !", "I care not for his frowns ! We can but die ,", "For an ungrateful and tyrannic soil", "Which shall be consecrated to his rites ,", "Doge , look there !", "And now , when he can neither know these honours ,", "To man thyself , I trust , with time , to master", "Well ,", "Alas ! and this", "A place which would not mingle fear with love ,", "Abhorrent policy ,", "Pity thy son ! Thou pity !\u2014 \u2018 tis a word", "\u2018 Tis their duty", "And the sweet freedom of the earth and air ,", "Obey her , then : \u2018 tis she that puts thee forth .", "I know his fate may one day be their heritage ,", "And not their present fee . Their senses , though", "Who do so are assassins . Give me way .", "What is this to the things thou hast borne in silence \u2014", "The gloom of this eternal cell , which never", "Cannot comply with your request . His relics 350", "Your \u201c Bridge of Sighs , \u201d your strangling chamber , and", "Country and home . I loved him \u2014 how I loved him !", "Our children will be cared for by the Doge ,", "Did they make it for", "Would raise us from the gulf wherein we are plunged , 430", "To me to bury and to mourn ; but if", "Depart . Ah ! now you look as looked my husband !", "Unto their home by the new Doge , not clad", "Touch it not , dungeon miscreants ! your base office", "Your merchants , your Dalmatian and Greek slaves ,", "To let him know", "May be pure patriotism . I am a woman :", "Aye , they are fatherless , I thank you .", "Let me seek out my husband : the sage \u201c Ten , \u201d", "I would not cavil about climes or regions .", "Wish you more funerals ?", "I have informed him , not so gently , 260", "Not he alone , but all who dwell here , could", "Away ! Let me support him \u2014 my best love ! Oh , God ! How faintly beats this heart \u2014 this pulse !", "Here , or in the ducal chamber \u2014", "Lo ! there is the blood beginning 240", "And the apparel of the grave .", "Men : howsoever let him have my thanks", "Is far the worst of treasons . Dost thou deem", "To attend my husband for a limited number", "Demurred : a messenger was sent back to", "To me it seems the worst barbarity .", "A princely noble ; and what then am I ?", "Imprisonment and actual torture ?", "Be ignorant of each other , yet I will", "I am ; but oh , thou eternal God ! Canst thou continue so , with such a world ?", "If race be aught , it is in qualities", "See you not , he comes here to glut his hate", "Again ! still , Marina .", "Must purchase by renewal of the rack", "But he , who , had he been enough protected , 90", "Of this wide realm , of which thy sire is Prince .", "If you come for our thanks , take them , and hence !", "A martyr 's ashes now lie there , which make it 220", "Pretend still to this office ?", "Fear not : that 's reserved 170", "My husband 's father 's palace .", "Chief of the Ten . Do you", "I trust , Heaven 's will be done too !", "But let it only be their heritage ,", "Their hands in sacred vows \u2014 have danced their babes 120", "Hope not ?", "Juggle no more with that poor remnant , which ,", "Hold thy peace , old man ! I am no daughter now \u2014 thou hast no son . Oh , Foscari !", "I have ventured , father , on", "Men and Angels ! 240", "Another land , and who so blest and blessing", "To trample on all human feelings , all", "On earth .", "Shall put me from my path ? Give me , then , way ; 270", "\u2018 Tis ye who are all traitors , Tyrant !\u2014 ye !", "And not so hopelessly . This love of thine", "And nothing more ? Will you not see him", "Were barrenness in Venice ! Would my mother", "And hoard our groans \u2014 to gaze upon the wreck", "Ties which bind man to man , to emulate", "So I could see thee with a quiet aspect ,", "Of our departure from this much-loved city ,", "They will relieve his heart \u2014 that too kind heart \u2014", "Mothers , and wives , and sons , and sires , and subjects ,", "Dost thou see this ?", "Chief of the Ten . Best retain it for your children .", "You were the last to bear it .", "Of late , is mercy .", "I was thrust back , with the assurance that 60", "The Prince of whom he was the elder born ,", "\u201c The Ten . \u201d \u2014 When we had reached \u201c the Bridge of Sighs , \u201d", "Chief of the Ten . Lady , we revoke not", "But think so , to my mind the happiest doom ,", "To be Venetian .", "How ?", "Have nought to give but tears ! But could I compass", "My best belov\u00e9d !", "Which , as compared with what you have undergone", "Austere ? Atrocious ! The old human fiends ,", "And your son ,\u2014 how long will he live ?", "Their sting is honester .", "In pain , in peril , or in death \u2014 who are ,", "It could not save , but will support you ever .", "As worthiest \u2014 you , sir , noble Loredano !", "But \u2014 I can leave them , children as they are ,", "Return to Candia .", "This is the Doge 's palace ; I am wife", "He shriek ! No ; that should be his father 's part ,", "Our purposes so readily .", "Perhaps you fain would be alone ?", "As such I recommend it , as I would 350", "Your tributaries , your dumb citizens ,", "Oppressed but not disgraced , crushed , overwhelmed , 160", "To one as noble . What , or whose , then , is", "I thought I could have borne it , when I saw him", "But they are senators .", "The Country and the People whom he loved ,", "That you", "And if it do , it will not 120", "I will divide this with you . Let us think", "Will reach it always . See how he shrinks from me !", "I have some sons , sir ,", "With all its jealousy , will hardly war 430", "Will you not now resent it ?\u2014 Oh , for vengeance !", "But the tomb last of all , for there we shall", "Our bridal bed is now his bier , 110", "But if 220", "And masked nobility , your sbirri , and", "Caution !", "To back his suit . Dishonoured !\u2014 he dishonoured !", "I fear , by the prevention of the state 's", "Oh , the tyrants ! In such an hour too !", "Here 's my arm !", "You will .", "And him to whose good offices you owe", "Doge", "Now , at this moment , and I have a husband ,", "Share that \u2014 all things except new separation ;", "Even by your murderous laws . Leave his remains 200", "Nor would be", "Where I now am !\u2014 It was", "Should I behold this sympathy ? or shall ?", "From those Venetians who have skirred", "All ! the consummate fiends ! A thousandfold", "So loving , so beloved ; the native of", "And his son 's prison !\u2014 True , I have not forgot it ;", "He is none !", "My God ! My God !", "Imperfect happiness or high ambition ,", "Your dungeons next the palace roofs , or under", "From his high place , with such relentless coldness ;", "With one foot in the grave , with dim eyes , strange", "Endeavour \u2014\u2014 Oh , my husband !", "And Foscari ? I do not think of such things ,", "They ,", "And yet you see how , from their banishment 150"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["I am not given to tears , but wept for joy", "No \u2014 I merely", "And even to move but slowly must begin", "Your husband ? 50", "Less than their breath ; our durance upon days", "Of the Republic , and the o'erwhelming cares 20", "Instead of that \u2014\u2014", "Our days on seasons ; our whole being on", "Son Jacopo ,", "The bell tolls on !\u2014 let 's hence \u2014 my brain 's on fire !", "For what ?", "Where I should be , and what I have been ever .", "So far take on myself , as order that", "Proceed , my daughter !", "Have judged it fitting , with all reverence ,", "Have consecrated my last moments to her .", "In such a curse as mine , provoked by such", "In all her mystery . Hear me \u2014 they who aim", "To me all hours are like . Let them approach .", "His Candiote exile , I had hopes \u2014 he has quenched them \u2014 100", "Chief of the Ten . If you would have the three days named extended ,", "Your ducal robes must be put off ; but for 170", "Now you are last ; but did the State demand", "The deaths of the two sons", "Ducats , to make retirement not less splendid", "You had so .", "It could avail thee ! but no less thou hast it .", "To the State 's service , to fulfil her wishes ,", "And gentle preludes to strong acts .\u2014 Go on !", "Hours are accorded you to give an answer .", "Better for me .\u2014 I have seen our house dishonoured .", "My wish to abdicate , it was refused me : 40", "The adept who pursues it : all the sins", "The father \u2014\u2014", "That he obey", "I cannot weep \u2014 I would I could ; but if", "My child ! this is a phantasy of grief .", "My last of children ! Tell him I will come .", "\u2018 Tis the fittest time ;", "Which you have worn so long and venerably :", "To sovereignty \u2014 the Giants \u2019 Stairs , on whose", "Three days are left you to remove from hence ,", "Applying poisons there as antidotes .", "The whole Republic : when the general will", "The malice of my foes will drive me down them .", "I trust ,", "By land has grown by thus much in my reign ,", "In glory", "Signers , you may depart : what would you more ?", "Cabal in commonwealth , nor secret means", "To the point \u2014", "It lies upon this heart , far lightlier , though", "I have none from you , my child .", "Daughter , know you", "Alone , come all the world around me , I", "Left by our fathers .", "No !", "Nor crushed as yet \u2014 I live .", "What ! have they met again , and met without", "With which the court adjourned ; and till it meets ,", "Within an hour I 'll hear you .", "Apprising me ?", "Live to hear this !\u2014 the first Doge who e'er heard 230", "Cold to your years and services , they add", "Cloak their soul 's hoarded triumph , as a fit one", "They were more numerous , nor can be less so 110", "From your imperial oath as Sovereign ;", "I must bear these reproaches , though they wrong me . Couldst thou but read \u2014\u2014", "If we had not for many centuries", "Save he who made ? or , if they can , the few", "The sound ! I heard it once , but once before ,", "Can touch me more than him thou look'st on there ;", "Be firm , my son !", "Time may restore his memory \u2014 I would hope so .", "ACT III .", "The greatest as the meanest \u2014 nothing rests", "Even then I was not young .", "He must return .", "At so much price as to require your absence ,", "Such sound for his successor : happier he ,", "\u2018 Tis said that our Venetian crystal has", "What you decree \u2014 decree .", "You know not \u2014\u2014", "Marina ! art thou willing ?", "In what a presence you pronounce these things ?", "Such rank as is permitted , or the meanest , 410", "\u2018 Tis long since she enjoyed it : may it be", "There are the princes of the Prince !", "Alas !", "Was theirs ; but I was openly their foe : 230", "I have borne so much ,", "I am what you behold .", "These white hairs !", "Alas ! how should you ? she knows not herself ,", "I have not complained , sir .", "My country faithfully \u2014 victoriously \u2014 370", "There five and thirty years ago was I", "I will endeavour .", "Take it . Alas ! how thine own trembles ! 180", "The laws .", "Bid her enter . Poor", "May the next Duke be better than the present !", "Stop !", "Had I as many sons 420", "And did not they ?", "Charge me with such a breach of faith .", "Already mentioned in our former congress .", "By the same portals , but as citizen .", "It does their wisdom honour ,", "I trust , have still such , Venice were no city .", "The health , the pride , and welfare of the State .", "Your fathers were my foes , and I have heard", "My Country called me here to exercise ,", "Bear hence the body .", "Chief of the Ten . Hear you then the last decree ,", "We are going ; do you fear that we shall bear", "Without a name , is alike nothing , when", "That I have added to her diadem", "Eternal .", "They", "Alone !", "I overlooked it yesterday : it wants", "An hour ago I should have felt it .", "Perhaps so .", "A face I know not .\u2014 Senator ! your name ,", "They work by different means to the same end ,", "You have heard it .", "Foul rumours were abroad ; I have also read", "Renew this instance . I have sworn to die", "You may be admitted .", "While he lived , he was theirs , as fits a subject \u2014", "But I have other duties than a father 's ;", "I do", "Having deliberated on the state", "Of Rome and Carthage in their best times , when", "Had he but borne a little , little longer", "And this is Hell : the best is , that it is not", "Chief of the Ten . Reduce us not", "The people swayed by Senates .", "Only repeat \u2014 I am ready .", "Nor should do so", "I never thought to be divorced except", "My son , you are feeble ; take this hand .", "Chief of the Ten . Will not the Duke", "Save with their hearts and eyes .", "A code of mercy by comparison .", "Woman , this clamorous grief of thine , I tell thee ,", "The people ,\u2014 There 's no people , you well know it ,", "Under the penalty to see confiscated", "And to prove that they are not ungrateful , nor", ",", "You hear , she speaks wildly .", "If \u2018 twas so , I can", "I !\u2014\u2014 \u2018 Tis true", "Under such laws , Venice 400", "As it , alas ! has been , to ostracism ,", "Your fathers were mine enemies , as bitter", "Merely the signature . Give me the pen \u2014", "I cannot", "And gifted spirits , who have studied long", "No doubt :", "And turn him into traitor ?", "So rashly ? \u2018 twill give scandal .", "What command ?", "You shall be so ;", "And now , sir , to your business .", "Depends upon a straw than on a storm ; 360", "That last clause ,", "Striven all they dare to weigh me down : be sure ,", "I cannot comfort thee .", "Against his Country , had he a thousand lives", "You behold", "That you would have me thought , you long ere now", "Avail you aught .", "Well I recognise", "For my own part , I credit neither ; \u2018 tis", "Providence", "Will now retire .", "Have chosen well their envoy .", "The landing-place of the canal .", "That can ne'er be . And whither would you fly ?", "For all that yet is past , as many years", "I have observed the strictest reverence ;", "You , by your garb , Chief of the Forty !", "With a selected giunta from the Senate", "Not even eight minutes \u2014 there 's the ducal ring , 190", "\u2014 So , we are slaves ,", "I dare them to the proof , the chart of what", "I am ready to lay down my life for her ,", "Are evil , you may say them ; nothing further", "Chief of the Ten . I have spoken . Twenty four", "That they can comfort me .", "She was and is : my reign has doubled realms ;", "That is not a Venetian thought , my daughter .", "And still towards Death , a thing which comes as much", "An oath from me that I would never more", "True ; but in freedom , 210", "Let them resume the gewgaws !", "I understand you ;", "And not alone refused , but ye exacted", "My services have called me up those steps ,", "He to his grave , and I to pray for mine .", "Had thousands of such citizens , and shall ,", "Fit for amendment ; but as Prince , I never", "You behold me :", "When he was born : those drops were ominous . 180", "His own high dignity before his Country ;", "As old as I am , and I 'm very old ,", "Envy the dead .", "What ?", "I shall not need so many seconds .", "I forgive this , for", "The Doge will choose his own ambassador ,", "There is a populace , perhaps , whose looks", "By whom ?", "Your grief distracts you .", "Such power I do believe there might exist", "And how then shall we judge each other ,", "And false , and hollow \u2014 clay from first to last ,", "Now ;", "Safety , and all save honour , the decrees ,", "Upon our will ; the will itself no less", "Inform the Signory from me , the Doge ,", "Mar No ; thou", "Which only ulcerate the heart the more ,", "At Foscari , aim no less at his father ;", "Of the State 's palace , at the least retire", "I have said it .", "That words have ceased to shake me .", "To one great end , must be maintained in vigour .", "Definitive and absolute !", "They have taken my son from me , and now aim", "To the point ! I know of old the forms of office ,", "Chief of the Ten . Why", "No .\u2014 Have you done ?", "Exile , or chains , or whatsoever worse", "Nor palliate , as parent or as Duke :", "Of practice against life by steel or drug .", "Would it were so !", "Then say", "And the original ordinance , that man", "Perhaps it is not requisite , if this 190", "Concerns your husband , and if not \u2014\u2014 Well , Signor ,", "If they be good , say on ; you need not fear", "And", "I was publicly", "My time is hers .", "The Doge ; it may be also from a parent .", "Get thee ready , we must mourn", "And when we think we lead , we are most led ,", "True \u2014 true \u2014 true : I crave your pardon . I Begin to fail in apprehension , and Wax very old \u2014 old almost as my years . Till now I fought them off , but they begin 10 To overtake me . Enter the Deputation , consisting of six of the Signory and the Chief of the Ten . Noble men , your pleasure ! Chief of the Ten . In the first place , the Council doth condole With the Doge on his late and private grief .", "Was prejudicial to the State , the Chief", "So die than live on lingeringly in pain .", "What , ho ! my servants there !", "The gems of Brescia and Ravenna ; Crema", "Else you dare not deal thus by them or me .", "An individual , be he richest of", "Would change , for the sake of my house , the charter", "He speaks truth .", "To wax more weak with age . I did not see", "Which \u2014\u2014 but I pity thee , my poor Marina !", "Doge", "The palace with us ? Its old walls , ten times", "Go and obey our Country 's will :", "As would have made you nothing . But in all things", "That you repeat the word emphatically ?", "\u2018 Tis done , I thank you .", "Ah !", "That Council when you were a young patrician .", "I see the man \u2014 what mean'st thou ?", "This prayer of yours was twice denied before", "In full exertion of the functions , which", "Would", "The loss of an hour 's time unto the State .", "\u2018 tis not", "Must sweat for his poor pittance , keeps all passions 350", "We ?", "The universal heritage , to battle", "The state would not dispense me from those duties ;", "Farewell , sirs !", "When I twice before reiterated", "You have reason . I have spoken much", "Was this", "Off with your arms !\u2014 That bell !", "Your father was my friend .\u2014 But sons and fathers !\u2014"], "true_target": ["And if they did so , better 210", "\u2018 Tis some years since I learned this , long before", "A priest 's for the High Altar , even unto", "I thank you . If the tidings which you bring", "Could tell a tale ; but I invoke them not", "My unhappy children !", "You well know", "I do .", "The resignation of the ducal ring ,", "We willingly will lengthen them to eight ,", "I take yours , Loredano , from the hand", "Child \u2014 child \u2014\u2014", "No . I", "You shall not", "The sacrifice of my own blood and quiet ,", "All things are so to mortals ; who can read them", "But yet subdued the World : in such a state", "An appanage of twenty hundred golden 30", "And no less to their courtesy .\u2014 Proceed .", "Than Jacopo 's disgrace .", "Our Fame is in men 's breath , our lives upon", "Chief of the Ten . My Lord , if you indeed", "Not signed ? Ah , I perceive my eyes begin", "You ever were my dearest offspring , when", "Return to those who sent us ?", "It is your province .", "Perhaps so ;", "Ye will reverberate this peal ; and I", "Observ'st , obey'st such laws as make old Draco 's", "Your sires were mine , and you are heir in all things . 220", "For us to look beyond .", "The last !\u2014 my boy !\u2014 the last time I shall see", "More than my wont : it is a foible which", "I am old , sir ,", "Earth and Heaven !", "According to my honour and my conscience \u2014", "Most fit for such an hour as this .", "Not useless to that Country , I would fain", "For me , Signor ?", "The proof is \u2014 your existence .", "To the alternative of a decree ,", "They must then be fulfilled .", "At my too long worn diadem and ring .", "Not till I pass the threshold of these doors .", "Installed , and traversed these same halls , from which", "All our advantages are those of Fortune ; 340", "Aloof , save fear of famine ! All is low ,", "Or state in person what is meet ; and for", "And he is in his shroud !", "In your commission ?", "Marina !", "Not eight hours , Signor ,", "A Sovereign should die standing . My poor boy !", "I found the law ; I did not make it . Were I", "Or a Prince 's son .", "Is he \u2014\u2014", "That falls from those who rule in Venice .", "But come ; my son and I will go together \u2014 250", "I must look on him once more .", "Without these jealous spies upon the great .", "By the private staircase , which conducts you towards", "Who dreaded to elect me , and have since", "somewhat beyond what", "Pitied ! None", "Let them meet when they will , I shall be found", "My only answer .", "Chief of the Ten . We grieve for such an answer ; but it cannot", "The Prince 's urn no less than potter 's vessel .", "Of things you know not : but the treaty 's signed ;", "You bore this goblet , and it is not broken .", "To judge my son ? I have administered", "I have obeyed your summons . Chief of the Ten . We come once more to urge our past request .", "My attainted predecessor , stern Faliero \u2014", "Better for him he never had been born ;", "Elected , and so will I be deposed .", "Chief of the Ten . Your answer , Duke !", "You have heard me .Chief of the Ten . With all due reverence we retire .", "Elsewhere .", "As sign of our esteem .", "Has he not been condemned ?", "Sen . I", "A fable .", "And Bergamo no less are hers ; her realm", "Is manifest , then you shall all be answered .", "A dotage which may justify this deed", "The exile of the disinterr\u00e9d ashes", "Twice I demanded it , but was refused :", "To mingle with my name ; that name shall be ,", "Those black and bloody leaves , his heart and brain ,", "We find in others , Nature made our own ;", "This prattle", "And when we cry out against Fate , \u2018 twere well", "He !\u2014 but admit him .", "I have no repose , that is , none which shall cause 40", "Then it is false , or you are true .", "Inasmuch as it shows , that I approach", "Am , or at least was , more than a mere duke ,", "Signors , if it please you ,", "Were past the sense of fear . Hate on ; I care not .", "Were I disposed to brawl ; but , as I said ,", "He 's free .", "Loaded with marble , than the thoughts which press it", "Daughter !", "The Israelite and his Philistine foes . 220", "But ye have no right to reproach my length", "As their son e'er can be , and I no less", "To poison . \u2018 Tis perhaps as true as most", "I can submit to all things ,", "Who bears it ?", "I am proud to say , would not enrich the treasury .", "Give it way : 70", "That I had dipped the pen without effect .", "If it so please them : I am the State 's servant .", "Was not of mine , but more excuses you ,", "As I have laid down dearer things than life :", "Prolongs my days to prove and chasten me ; 50", "Heaven took from me ,", "Are bent upon this rash abandonment", "Not without feeling , but I would have given them", "Now to solicit from your wisdom", "I became Doge , or dreamed of such advancement .", "Accept it as \u2018 tis given \u2014 proceed .", ", all that history has bequeathed", "If I could have foreseen that my old age", "Where Hunger swallows all in one low want ,", "Chief of the Ten . With this , then , must we", "That 's new \u2014 when spared they either ? I thank them , notwithstanding .", "Instead of your compliance .", "You have no cause , being what I am ; but were I", "Your children live , Marina .", "Obey . I had in charge , too , from the Council ,", "Daughter , it is superfluous ; I have long", "Birth , wealth , health , beauty , are her accidents ,", "Indeed all you have said . I better bore", "This ducal cap the Diadem of earth , 80", "It means , I am more citizen than either .", "Chief of the Ten . You are no longer Doge ; you are released", "This insult at the least was spared him .", "Of your Lord renders them still more austere .", "I feel too much thou hast not .", "Something from", "Will be accorded to a third request ,", "And their desponding shades came flitting round", "Your services , the State allots the appanage", "Lady of Lombardy ; it is a comfort", "A subject , still I might find parts and portions", "The sire 's destruction would not save the son ;", "The State .", "With womanish impatience to return ,", "When I received it .", "Which , at this moment , doubly must oppress", "Soon may be a Prince no longer .", "Not for the laws alone , for those you have strained 250", "Save what she gave \u2014 the rest was nakedness ,", "To burst , if aught of venom touches it .", "Has risen to what she is \u2014 a state to rival", "Is that so strange ,", "Who are all earth , and I , who am called upon", "As Sovereign \u2014 I go out as citizen", "True ,", "He was my pride , my \u2014\u2014 but \u2018 tis useless now \u2014", "In deeds , and days , and sway , and , let me add ,", "I am , but only to these gates .\u2014 Ah !", "As far as I have borne it , what it was 150", "That answer only shows you know not Venice .", "But this life having been so many years", "The form has been omitted in the haste", "Stir \u2014 in my train , at least . I entered here", "Methinks we must have sinned in some old world ,", "Broad eminence I was invested Duke .", "Am now and evermore . But we will bear it .", "Chief of the Ten . Speak !", "To which I am tending : when", "I feel athirst \u2014 will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water ? Bar . I \u2014\u2014", "Say on .", "All your own private fortune .", "The policy , irrevocably tending", "But for my dignity \u2014 I hold it of", "Pomp is for Princes \u2014 I am none !\u2014 That 's false ,", "And here my staff : thus propped will I go forth . Chief of the Ten . It must not be \u2014 the people will perceive it .", "Without our act or choice as birth , so that", "But I , good Signor , 240", "In blood , in mind , in means ; and that they know", "Command my time , when not commanded by", "Their epitaph , attributing their deaths", "Chief of the Ten . \u201c The Ten , \u201d", "Himself so far ungrateful , as to place", "But the decree being rendered , I obey .", "Chief of the Ten . You speak in passion ,", "Boy ! no tears .", "I 'll", "To move betimes . Methinks I see amongst you", "We should remember Fortune can take nought", "May shame you ; but they dare not groan nor curse you , 260", "You know not what you say .", "Else \u2014\u2014", "As you ; but I curse not . Adieu , good Signers !", "Chief of the Ten . We", "The pillars of stone Dagon 's temple on", "But learn a magic which recoils upon", "Now , you will know me better .", "Chief of the Ten . What ! thus in public ?", "I shrank not from him :", "Inscriptions upon tombs , and yet no less", "And , in reward , the gratitude of Venice", "No Prince \u2014 200", "And that is five and thirty years ago ;", "Is no more in the balance weighed with that", "And happier than his father . The rash boy ,", "But nothing will advance ; no , not a moment . 60", "With as we may , and least in humblest stations ,", "As long ere she resume her arms !", "Did I hear rightly ? Chief of the Ten . Need I say again ?", "Of the Republic never would have shown 180", "Say , when they will \u2014 now , even at this moment ,", "My daughter !", "As I have years , I would have given them all ,", "She might decree .", "Each white hair on this head were a young life ,", "I could enforce for my authority ,", "All these vain ceremonies are base insults ,", "Of days , since every hour has been the Country 's .", "A corse \u2014 a corse , it might be , fighting for them \u2014", "This ducal ring with which I wed the waves", "By the assembled \u201c Ten , \u201d and hardly now", "A talisman to still them \u2014 I 'd give all", "Of yours , although the law does not , nor will .", "You need not school me , Signor ; I sate in", "To impede the act , I must no less obey", "20", "\u2018 Tis dubious .", "Return with it to them who sent you .", "To fall upon you ! else they would , as erst", "Something which is not us !", "And lusts , and appetites , and vanities ,", "What should I think of mortals ?", "Accept the homage of respect ?", "While her sea-sway has not shrunk .", "Of your three goodly brothers , now in earth ,", "What mean you ?", "Such pure antipathy to poisons as", "Before or since that period , had I held you", "Not so : they shall await you in my chamber .", "What , wouldst thou have a renegade for husband ,", "Shall ever use that base word , with which men", "Farewell ! Is there aught else ?", "Since aggravated errors on the part", "I cannot break my oath .", "No ; my seat here has been a throne till now . Marina ! let us go .", "Will alter nothing which I have to say .", "A duty , paramount to every duty .", "I spoke not to you , but to Loredano . He understands me .", "He was", "Have served you , so have I , and I and they", "Will now descend the stairs by which I mounted 240", "My boy ! Couldst thou but know \u2014\u2014", "Answer that ;", "An idle legend .", "The deference due even to the lightest word", "\u2018 Tis the knell of my poor boy ! My heart aches bitterly .", "Known Loredano .", "For him .", "Than should become a Sovereign 's retreat .", "And call Marina ,", "Has left , or is about to leave , me single .", "Your years , so long devoted to your Country ,", "Of twenty-five of the best born patricians ,", "They have no further power upon those ashes :", "That you would fix an hour for their reunion .", "And that is \u2014 but they have not conquered yet . 90", "And I to answer . Chief of the Ten . What ?", "But not pushed hence by fellow-citizens .", "Hath ruined all by that detected letter :", "No more \u2014 no more of that .", "Chief of the Ten . Yet go not forth so quickly .", "Stay ! four and twenty hours", "That loathsome volume \u2014 man , and pored upon", "A high crime , which I neither can deny", "I found her Queen of Ocean , and I leave her", "On the flood , in the field , or , if it must be ,", "I never worked by plot in Council , nor", "Now he is mine \u2014 my broken-hearted boy !", "Thus much they cannot well deny .", "A word of mine had set such spirits to work", "I have observed with veneration , like"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Prince !", "His rank and his devotion to the duties", "The illustrious lady Foscari", "To do himself and them full justice . Brethren ,", "Noble Loredano .", "To the chamber where the body lies .", "A message from", "Shall be such as befits his name and nation ,", "But add , that if another hour would better", "Of the realm , while his age permitted him", "This instant retired hence ,"], "true_target": ["The noble dame Marina craves an audience .", "\u201c The Ten . \u201d", "With the illustrious lady his son 's widow .", "Requests an audience .", "Say , shall it not be so ?", "Accord with your will , they will make it theirs .", "Chief of the Ten . If it be so , at least his obsequies 310", "My Lord , the deputation is in waiting ;", "My Lord ,", "He shall be informed .", "\u2018 Tis all over ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["That your illustrious lady be admitted .", "There .", "I am commanded to inform you that"], "true_target": ["I bring you food .", "Your further trial is postponed .", "I know not .\u2014 It is also in my orders"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["The abbot , if it please", "My Prince !", "Your Excellency , whom you sent for , waits"], "true_target": ["Your Excellency .", "A stranger to wait on", "He gave no name .", "Upon you ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Eve ! let not this ,", "And wings of fiery Cherubim pursue him", "Who ,", "And Death itself wax something worse than Death", "From Eden , till his children do by him", "Dost thou not live ?", "Speak , and assure us , wretched as we are ,", "Through all the coming myriads of mankind ,", "Or what hath done this deed ?\u2014 speak , Cain , since thou", "Brute of the forest ?", "We will return again , when he is gone", "On which he lays his head to sleep be strewed", "Wert present ; was it some more hostile angel ,", "Cain ! get thee forth : we dwell no more together .", "Who hath provided for us this dread office .", "To him who first acquainted him with man !", "I curse him not : his spirit be his curse . Come , Zillah !", "But thou my eldest born ? art silent still ?", "Light on the waters with a word \u2014 All Hail !", "By day and night \u2014 snakes spring up in his path \u2014", "Who shall abhor thee , though thou wert their sire ! 440", "Drive him forth o'er the wilderness , like us", "Wherefore so ?", "Are faithful servants to his holy will .", "To pray .", "May the clear rivers turn to blood as he", "We have , most fervently .", "As he did by his brother ! May the swords", "Nor aught to thank for ?", "Son Cain ! my first-born \u2014 wherefore art thou silent ?", "Deny thee shelter ! earth a home ! the dust", "Thy natural grief , lead to impiety !", "Speak , my son !", "His will ! the will of yon Incarnate Spirit", "With scorpions ! May his dreams be of his victim ! 430"], "true_target": ["Henceforth alone \u2014 we never must meet more .", "What do I see ?\u2014 \u2018 Tis true !\u2014 My son !\u2014 my son !", "Eve", "So will God , I trust .", "That we are not more miserable still .", "May every element shun or change to him !", "Oh ! my son ,", "Woman , behold the Serpent 's work , and thine !", "May he live in the pangs which others die with !", "Come , Zillah !", "Jehovah ! with returning light \u2014 All Hail !", "Earth 's fruits be ashes in his mouth \u2014 the leaves", "Needful : the earth is young , and yields us kindly", "!", "God , the Eternal ! Infinite ! All-wise !\u2014", "His waking a continual dread of Death !", "A grave ! the sun his light ! and heaven her God", "Each to his task of toil \u2014 not heavy , though", "Her fruits with little labour .", "And now that it begins , let it be borne", "Our orisons completed , let us hence ,", "And we must gather it again . Oh God ! why didst thou plant the tree of knowledge ?", "Blaspheme not : these are Serpent 's words .", "Who out of darkness on the deep didst make", "Of life be on him ! and his agonies", "Of Death , whom I have brought upon the earth 420", "Depart ! and leave the dead to me \u2014 I am", "To strew it with the dead . May all the curses", "A voice of woe from Zillah brings me here \u2014 380", "Stoops down to stain them with his raging lip !", "Who walks not with Jehovah ? or some wild", "Hence , fratricide ! henceforth that word is Cain ,", "May the grass wither from thy feet ! the woods", "In such sort as may show our God , that we", "A heavy doom was long forespoken to us ;"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["My boy ! thou speakest as I spoke in sin ,", "All bonds I break between us , as he broke 410", "Incarnadine !", "Oh ! speak not of it now : the Serpent 's fangs", "Jehovah ! this is punishment beyond", "The snares beyond the walls of Paradise ,", "Cain \u2014 my son \u2014 50", "I see it now \u2014 he hangs his guilty head ,", "My misery in thine . I have repented .", "Zillah no husband \u2014 me no son ! for thus", "Let me not see my offspring fall into", "Behold thy father cheerful and resigned \u2014", "Hear , Jehovah ! May the eternal Serpent 's curse be on him ! For he was fitter for his seed than ours . May all his days be desolate ! May \u2014\u2014", "God ! who didst name the day , and separate", "Why dost thou not so now ?", "Are in my heart ! My best beloved , Abel !", "Content thee with what is . Had we been so ,", "To fall .", "And black with smoke , and red with \u2014\u2014"], "true_target": ["Why didst thou not take me , who first incurred thee ?", "That of his nature , in yon \u2014\u2014 Oh Death ! Death !", "Morning from night , till then divided never \u2014", "Part of thy work the firmament \u2014 All Hail !", "A mother 's sin , to take him from me !", "Who didst divide the wave from wave , and call", "I curse him from my sight for evermore !", "Ah ! a livid light 390", "Before thy birth : let me not see renewed 40", "It was !", "And covers his ferocious eye with hands", "Alas !", "The fruit of our forbidden tree begins 30", "Thou now hadst been contented .\u2014 Oh , my son !", "And do as he doth .", "Which even in Paradise destroyed his parents .", "Massy and bloody ! snatched from off the altar ,", "He hath left thee no brother \u2014", "Breaks through , as from a thunder-cloud ! yon brand"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Our sister tells me that thou hast been wandering ,", "Thine offerings .", "Nor what thou hast seen ?", "And love both them and thee \u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "The Eternal anger ?", "Think not upon my offering 's acceptance ,", "My father could not keep his place in Eden ?", "To do so now : thy soul seems labouring in", "Yet of a sterner and a sadder aspect", "Why then commune with him ? he may be", "The peace of God be on thee !", "Life ?\u2014 Toil ! and wherefore should I toil ?\u2014 because", "And the immortal trees which overtop", "I sought not to be born ; nor love the state", "Before the gates round which I linger oft ,", "Why should I quail from him who now approaches ?", "Cain", "One answer to all questions , \u201c \u2018 Twas his will ,", "And he is good . \u201d How know I that ? Because", "Which can avail thee nothing , save to rouse", "Term him ! your words are strange to-day , my brother .", "Then may God forgive him ! Cain ,", "Brother , I should ill", "The firstlings of the flock , and fat thereof \u2014", "Thy cheek is flushed with an unnatural hue \u2014", "Comfort poor Zillah :\u2014 she has but one brother", "On thee to join me , and precede me in", "In high communion with a Spirit , far", "Or shadow , madest beings to enjoy them ,", "He cometh .", "Half of his immortality .", "If , as my elder , I revered thee not ,", "I judge but by the fruits \u2014 and they are bitter \u2014", "Which I must feed on for a fault not mine .", "Ere the night closes o'er the inhibited walls", "Beyond our wonted range . Was he of those", "In his great name ,", "I stand between thee and the shrine which hath", "Thy words are fraught with an unnatural sound \u2014", "Beauteous , and yet not all as beautiful", "Both well , I hope .", "Brother , give back ! thou shalt not touch my altar", "God ! who didst call the elements into", "Thine eyes are flashing with unnatural light \u2014", "Yet \u2014 he seems mightier far than them , nor less", "We have seen and spoken with , like to our father ?", "Forgive his slayer , for he knew not what", "And this is", "Of spiritual essence : why do I quake ?", "What may this mean ?", "We mean to sacrifice", "Gardens which are my just inheritance ,", "If I shrink not from these , the fire-armed angels ,", "The fairest in the centre ? They have but", "Why should I fear him more than other spirits ,"], "true_target": ["Abel", "Some strong delusion ; it will calm thee .", "Cain", "Welcome , Cain ! My brother ,", "Earth , ocean , air and fire \u2014 and with the day 10", "Choose thou !", "To try another sacrifice , \u2018 tis thine .", "Neither ; we must perform our task together . Spurn me not .", "Yielding \u2014 why suffer ? What was there in this ?", "What 's he who speaks of God ?", "Be on your spirit , brother !", "As he hath been , and might be : sorrow seems", "Not till we have prayed and sacrificed together .", "Our priesthood \u2014 \u2018 tis thy place .", "He did \u2014 Cain , give me \u2014 give me thy hand ; and tell 320", "In Twilight 's hour , to catch a glimpse of those", "With violence : if that thou wilt adopt it ,", "Now .", "Amen !", "The Cherubim-defended battlements ? 90", "Where hast thou been ?", "Had his acceptance .", "My brother , as the elder , offer first 220", "If not , why place him near it , where it grew", "Oh , God ! receive thy servant ! and", "And night , and worlds which these illuminate ,", "My sister Adah , leave us for awhile \u2014", "Why wilt thou wear this gloom upon thy brow ,", "Choose one of those two altars . 210", "Behold them here \u2014", "Yield to the Serpent and the woman ? or 70", "A foe to the Most High .", "\u2018 Tis the highest ,", "The tree was planted , and why not for him ?", "Thy prayer and thanksgiving with sacrifice .", "What had I done in this ?\u2014 I was unborn :", "The peace of God", "A shepherd 's humble offering .", "But make another of thine own \u2014 before", "Poor Zillah \u2014", "The more my grief ; I pray thee", "And suits thee , as the elder . Now prepare", "Deserve the name of our great father 's son ,", "What mean'st thou ?", "So ? and can aught grieve save Humanity ?", "And is it", "Thy fruits are scattered on the earth .", "To which that birth has brought me . Why did he", "And in the worship of our God , called not", "Whom I see daily wave their fiery swords", "He is all-powerful , must all-good , too , follow ?", "What ?", "My hand ! \u2018 tis all red , and with \u2014\u2014", "Whom have we here ?\u2014 A shape like to the angels 80", "It is too late ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": [", where long white clouds", "And dread , and toil , and sweat , and heaviness ;", "And loving him ? Soft ! he awakes . Sweet Enoch !", "His hour of mid-day rest is nearly over ;", "Than to thyself ; thou at the least hast passed", "He is not God \u2014 nor God 's : I have beheld", "Surely a father 's blessing may avert", "Spoke with our mother first .", "So shall our children be . I will bear Enoch ,", "Shrink from the deed which leaves thee brotherless .", "Under the cloud of night .\u2014 Nay , speak to me .", "Art thou that steppest between heart and heart ?", "Cain ! thou hast heard , we must go forth . I am ready ,", "Shut out the sun like night , and therefore seemed", "Hardly hours .", "During thine absence , whereupon to offer", "Nor would be happy ; but with those around us", "There is a fastening attraction which 410", "Sound impious in mine ears .", "Nearer and nearer :\u2014 Cain \u2014 Cain \u2014 save me from him !", "Where'er thou wilt : where'er thou art , I feel not", "Who", "Because its branches", "And brighter , yet less beautiful and powerful", "And can forgive him all , that he so soon", "Which cometh not . Cain ! walk not with this Spirit .", "Or in his angels , who are like to thee \u2014", "Where dwellest thou ?", "Alas ! thou sinnest now , my Cain : thy words", "To be our guests \u2014 will he ?", "How can that be ?", "And Abel 's pious ministry , recall thee", "Them ?\u2014 And as I love thee , my Cain ! go not", "Hath given thee back to us .", "Or virtue ?\u2014 if it doth , we are the slaves", "My belov\u00e9d Cain", "Shall they not love and bring forth things that love", "\u2018 Tis scarcely", "Of a contented knowledge ; but I see 50", "Bear with what we have borne , and love me \u2014 I", "I must not speak of this \u2014 it is between thee", "Wilt thou ?", "But yet of all who mourn , none mourn like me ,", "Thou seem'st unhappy : do not make us so ,", "To be belov\u00e9d , more than all , save thee \u2014", "Aye \u2014 but not bless\u00e9d .", "The mother 's joys of watching , nourishing ,", "The Cherubs and the Seraphs ; he looks not", "Curse him not , mother , for he is my brother ,", "All light , they look upon us ; but thou seem'st 510", "I see an angel ; 340", "Whither ?", "He 's gone , let us go forth ;", "Cain ! that proud Spirit , who withdrew thee hence ,", "Are girt about by demons , who assume", "The want of this so much regretted Eden . 40", "Its beauty .", "Wilt thou frown even on me ?", "It seems an awful shadow \u2014 if I may 470", "Shall slay him .", "Come away .", "\u2018 Twill come to pass , that whoso findeth him", "Would I could die for them , so they might live !", "\u2014", "No ,", "Beats quick ; he awes me , and yet draws me near ,", "Streak the deep purple , and unnumbered stars", "Cain", "Things which will love each other as we love", "Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault", "Born of the same sole womb ,", "Oh , my God !", "Thou hast not spoken well , nor is that thought", "Two altars , which our brother Abel made", "How know'st thou ?", "Have less without thee . Thou hast laboured not", "Hath saddened thine still deeper . I had hoped", "But first embrace thy son . May his soft spirit ,", "Behold thou drivest him from the face of earth ,", "In seeming : as the silent sunny noon ,", "The angels and the mortals to make happy ,", "Given with a gentle and a contrite spirit .", "To whom we owe so much besides our birth ?", "Thy own , but of the Spirit who was with thee .", "And happy intercourse with happy spirits :", "Let us depart together .", "Thy guide hath done thee evil : still I thank him ,", "The fruits of the earth ,", "They fill my eyes with tears , and so dost thou .", "Like them .", "Never ,", "Would have composed thy mind into the calm", "Our father", "Than was the Serpent , and as false .", "He is not so ; he hath", "In multiplying our being multiply", "So did the Serpent , and it lied .", "How know we that some such atonement one day", "It soundeth like an angel 's tone .", "Dear Cain ! Nay , do not whisper o'er our son", "No \u2014", "It is our hour of rest and joy \u2014 and we", "And leave us ?", "His brother , and our children , and our parents .", "To peace and holiness !", "May not redeem our race ?", "Out of their love ? have they not drawn their milk", "Omnipotence 390", "What is the sin which is not 380", "Oh , my God ! Touch not the child \u2014 my child ! thy child ! Oh , Cain !", "Which , as I know it not , I dread not , though", "God ! the Eternal parent of all things !", "But all we know of it has gathered", "Dissatisfied and curious thoughts \u2014 as thou", "Which grief wrings from our parent .", "Alone ! Oh , my God !", "Judge from what I have heard .", "Oh , my mother ! thou", "I do . Is that a sin , too ?", "When I think how soon I shall see my brother ,", "Angel of Light ! be merciful , nor say", "Yes \u2014 in his works .", "Wherefore said he so ? Jehovah said not that .", "Sin in itself ? Can circumstance make sin", "Add thy deep curse to Eve 's upon his head !", "Which stands before me ; I cannot abhor him ;", "Fiend ! tempt me not with beauty ; thou art fairer", "Alone I could not ,", "Are ripe , and glowing as the light which ripens :", "Even for our parents \u2019 error .", "Of leaves , beneath the cypress .", "It shall .", "Go to our children \u2014 I will follow thee ."], "true_target": ["By me ?", "If not , I will", "Our parents ?", "And you his sister . Ere the sun declines", "And thus becomes so in diffusing joy . 480", "Have I not thee \u2014 our boy \u2014 our sire , and brother ,", "Has been thy lot ! Of all who mourn for thee ,", "These are a goodly offering to the Lord ,", "No more of threats : we have had too many of them :", "But he is welcome , as they were : they deigned", "Visions , thou say'st , of past and present worlds ,", "It is a beautiful star ; I love it for", "My brother , I have come for thee ;", "So beautiful , unnumbered , and endearing ,", "Let me love thee and them :\u2014 All Hail ! All Hail !", "And I will weep for thee .", "Aye \u2014 to our eternal sorrow .", "And the great God .", "But we , thy children , ignorant of Eden , 400", "Cain", "But it were pity to disturb him till", "Oh , do not say so ! Where were then the joys ,", "A fugitive and vagabond on earth , 480", "And my betrothed .", "Return to seek you here .", "In sooth , return within an hour ?", "Be thine ! Now let us carry forth our children .", "How beautifully parted ! No ; you shall not", "A Voice from within exclaims . Cain ! Cain !", "Cain ! clear thee from this horrible accusal , 400", "Out of this bosom ? was not he , their father , 370", "Lead ! thou shalt be my guide , and may our God", "Speak , Cain ! and say it was not thou !", "Why , all have left thee . 460", "A murderer in my boy , and of his father .", "I cannot answer this immortal thing", "Fixes my fluttering eyes on his ; my heart", "Our brother comes .", "And this should be a Cherub \u2014 since he loves not .", "Two hours since ye departed : two long hours", "Our bower .", "Wert worked on by the snake , in thy most flushed", "Surely , \u2018 tis well done .", "We have seen many : will he share our hour", "Oh , part not with him thus , my father : do not", "Such melancholy yearnings o'er the past :", "I am not wretched , Cain , and if thou", "Must be all goodness .", "Why wilt thou always mourn for Paradise ?", "Let us depart , nor walk the wilderness", "Farewell , my Cain ;", "Remorse of that which was \u2014 and hope of that 360", "Who didst create these best and beauteous beings ,", "Oh , Cain ! choose Love .", "Forth with this spirit ; he is not of ours .", "Hush ! tread softly , Cain !", "And heedless , harmless wantonness of bliss .", "And from the face of God shall he be hid .", "I think I could be so , despite of Death ,", "The promised wonders which thou hast beheld ,", "I hear our little Enoch cry within", "A dreary , and an early doom , my brother ,", "What ! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch ?", "Of \u2014\u2014", "Saith that he has beheld the God himself", "Love thee .", "Not only for thyself , but him who slew thee . 550", "This punishment is more than he can bear .", "And his lips , too ,", "A sacrifice to God on thy return .", "We were not born then \u2014 and if we had been ,", "And Zillah \u2014 our sweet sister , and our Eve ,", "With me ? did we not love each other ? and", "Let me go with thee .", "Wert happy \u2014\u2014", "Now , Cain ! I will divide thy burden with thee .", "Though thy God left thee .", "So they were when the fair Serpent", "To me \u2014 thine own .", "I fear", "Are you of Heaven ?", "The Seraphs love most \u2014 Cherubim know most", "Mother , thou dost him wrong \u2014", "To me , but only hours upon the sun .", "in the same hour", "Hear'st thou that voice ? The Voice within . Cain ! Cain !", "Will he return ?", "Curse him not , mother , for he is thy son \u2014", "I will not leave thee lonely with the dead \u2014", "I alone must not weep . My office is", "Of rest ?\u2014 he is welcome .", "Nothing except to leave thee , much as I", "Like an ethereal night", "Our little Enoch sleeps upon yon bed", "Should we not love them \u2014 and our children , Cain ?", "the early , beautiful ,", "I look upon him with a pleasing fear ,", "The words of God , and tempt us with our own", "Hast plucked a fruit more fatal to thine offspring", "Will he ,", "\u2018 Tis closed .", "Who could be happy and alone , or good ?", "Fitting to shadow slumber .", "A reptile 's subtlety .", "Evil on ill ; expulsion from our home ,", "And yet I fly not from him : in his eye", "Who made him and our mother .", "Are there , then , others ?", "Save in my father , who is God 's own image ;", "Hold !", "And me ?", "Thou know'st \u2014", "What all ?", "Henceforth to dry up tears , and not to shed them ;", "Not dazzling , and yet drawing us to them ,", "Our father", "Thy youth in Paradise , in innocent", "To me my solitude seems sin ; unless", "Adores the Invisible only .", "This morn ; but I have done thy task : the fruits", "Then , why so awful in thy speech ?", "Alas ! no ! and you \u2014", "Can we not make another ?", "Blossom and bud \u2014 and bloom of flowers and fruits \u2014", "With things that look as if they would be suns ;", "What else can joy be , but the spreading joy ?", "Kiss him , at least not now : he will awake soon \u2014", "O Cain ! This spirit curseth us .", "If I thought that he would not , I would \u2014\u2014", "Here , or", "That this poor aching breast now nourishes", "I have heard it said , 420", "Peace be with him !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Empoisoned all my life , before I knew", "My brother to his cold and still embrace ,", "The name of Death so deeply , that the thought", "Dost thou there , brother ? Doth he sleep ? Oh , Heaven ! 360", "Yet didst permit the Serpent to creep in ,", "Oh , God ! who loving , making , blessing all ,", "Had maddened me ;\u2014 but he shall ne'er awake !", "Between him and aggression ! Father !\u2014 Eve !\u2014", "I heard a heavy sound ; what can it be ?", "He breathes not : and his hands drop down from mine", "\u2018 Tis Cain ; and watching by my husband . What", "I am awake at last \u2014 a dreary dream", "With stony lifelessness ! Ah ! cruel Cain !", "And drive my father forth from Paradise , 20", "Thou wert the stronger , and shouldst have stepped in"], "true_target": ["Wilt thou not , my brother ?", "It is not blood ; for who would shed his blood ?", "And who hath brought him there ?\u2014 I \u2014 who abhor", "Yet one kiss on yon pale clay ,", "What means this paleness , and yon stream ?\u2014 No , no !", "I must watch my husband 's corse450", "Cain", "As if he would not have asserted his", "This violence ? Whatever hath assailed him ,", "Abel ! what 's this ?\u2014 who hath done this ? He moves not ;", "And those lips once so warm \u2014 my heart ! my heart !", "His aspect \u2014 I have led him here , and given", "Adah !\u2014 come hither ! Death is in the world ! 370", "Why camest thou not in time to save him from", "Inexorable claim without my aid .", "Keep us from further evil :\u2014 Hail ! All Hail !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["As yet unpeopled ?", "Lead me here only to inform me this ?", "No : I 'll stay here .", "Singing in thunder round me , as have made me", "Can never meet thee more , nor even dare", "I must one day return here from the earth ,", "How ?", "In play , till he ran roaring from my gripe .", "Where ?", "The ages prophesied , upon our seed .", "No less ! and why", "Thou art not the Lord my father worships .", "Seems dim and shadowy .", "With all the elements ere they will yield", "Which are so beautiful : shall they , too , die ?", "Of glorious azure which floats on beyond us ,", "To cast down yon vile flatterer of the clouds , 290", "To anticipate my immortality .", "Lead on .", "Of a world scarce less young : sleep on , and smile ! 20", "But with me !\u2014\u2014 FOOTNOTES :{ 205 }Sir Walter received a copy of Cain , as yet unpublished , from Murray , who had been instructed to ask whether he had any objection to having the \u201c Mystery \u201d dedicated to him . He replied in these words \u2014 \u201c Edinburgh , 4th December , 1821 . \u201c My Dear Sir ,\u2014 I accept , with feelings of great obligation , the flattering proposal of Lord Byron to prefix my name to the very grand and tremendous drama of \u2018 Cain . \u2019I may be partial to it , and you will allow I have cause ; but I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings . He has certainly matched Milton on his own ground . Some part of the language is bold , and may shock one class of readers , whose line will be adopted by others out of affectation or envy . But then they must condemn the \u2018 Paradise Lost , \u2019 if they have a mind to be consistent . The fiend-like reasoning and bold blasphemy of the fiend and of his pupil lead exactly to the point which was to be expected ,\u2014 the commission of the first murder , and the ruin and despair of the perpetrator . \u201c I do not see how any one can accuse the author himself of Manicheism . The Devil talks the language of that sect , doubtless ; because , not being able to deny the existence of the Good Principle , he endeavours to exalt himself \u2014 the Evil Principle \u2014 to a seeming equality with the Good ; but such arguments , in the mouth of such a being , can only be used to deceive and to betray . Lord Byron might have made this more evident , by placing in the mouth of Adam , or of some good and protecting spirit , the reasons which render the existence of moral evil consistent with the general benevolence of the Deity . The great key to the mystery is , perhaps , the imperfection of our own faculties , which see and feel strongly the partial evils which press upon us , but know too little of the general system of the universe , to be aware how the existence of these is to be reconciled with the benevolence of the great Creator . \u201c To drop these speculations , you have much occasion for some mighty spirit , like Lord Byron , to come down and trouble the waters ; for , excepting \u2018 The John Bull , \u2019you seem stagnating strangely in London . \u201c Yours , my dear Sir , \u201c Very truly , \u201c WALTER SCOTT . \u201c To John Murray , Esq . \u201d -Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott , by J. G. Lockhart , Esq ., 1838 , iii . 92 , 93 .\u201c However , the praise often given to Byron has been so exaggerated as to provoke , perhaps , a reaction in which he is unduly disparaged . \u2018 As various in composition as Shakespeare himself , Lord Byron has embraced , \u2019 says Sir Walter Scott , \u2018 every topic of human life , and sounded every string on the divine harp , from its slightest to its most powerful and heart-astounding tones .... In the very grand and tremendous drama of Cain , \u2019 etc .... \u2018 And Lord Byron has done all this , \u2019 Scott adds , \u2018 while managing his pen with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality . \u2019 \u201d \u2014 Poetry of Byron , chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold , 1881 , p. xiii . Scott does not add anything of the kind . The comparison with Shakespeare was written after Byron 's death in May , 1824 ; the appreciation of Cain in December , 1821; while the allusion to \u201c a man of quality \u201d is to be found in an article contributed to the Quarterly Review in 1816 ! ]The first number of John Bull , \u201c For God , the King , and the People , \u201d was published Sunday , December 17 , 1820 . Theodore Hook was the editor , and it is supposed that he owed his appointment to the intervention of Sir Walter Scott . The raison d'\u00eatre of John Bull was to write up George IV ., and to write down Queen Caroline . \u201c The national movementwas arrested ; and George IV . had mainly John Bull to thank for that result . \u201d \u2014 A Sketch ,, 1852 , p . 45 . ]]{ 207 }, printed in Stevens 's continuation of Dugdale 's Monasticon , 1722 , i . 139-153 . There is a sixteenth-century edition of Le Mist\u00e8re du Viel Testament , which was reprinted by the Baron James de Rothschild , in 1878; but it is improbable that it had come under Byron 's notice . For a quotation from an Italian Mystery Play , vide post , p. 264 ; and for Spanish \u201c Mystery Plays , \u201d see Teatro Completo de Juan del Encina , \u201c Proemio , \u201d Madrid , 1893 , and History of Spanish Literature , by George Ticknor , 1888 , i . 257 . For instances of the profanity of Mystery Plays , see the Towneley Plays, first published by the Surtees Society in 1836 , and republished by the Early English Text Society , 1897 , E. S . No . lxxi . ]{ 208 }, see La Bible enfin Expliqu\u00e9e , etc . ; \u0152uvres Compl\u00e8tes de Voltaire , Paris , 1837 , vi . 338 , note . \u201c La conversation de la femme et du serpent n'est point racont\u00e9e comme une chose surnaturelle et incroyable , comme un miracle , ou conune une all\u00e9gorie . \u201d See , too , Bayle, who quotes Josephus , Paracelsus , and \u201c some Rabbins , \u201d to the effect that it was an actual serpent which tempted Eve ; and compare Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures , by the Rev . Alexander Geddes , LL. D ., 1800 , p . 42 . ], Bishop of Llandaff , 1782 , was appointed Moderator of the Schools in 1762 , and Regius Professor of Divinity October 31 , 1771 . According to his own story, \u201c I determined to study nothing but my Bible .... I had no prejudice against , no predilection for , the Church of England , but a sincere regard for the Church of Christ , and an insuperable objection to every degree of dogmatical intolerance . I never troubled myself with answering any arguments which the opponents in the Divinity Schools brought against the articles of the Church , ... but I used on such occasions to say to them , holding the New Testament in my hand , \u2018 En sacrum codicem ! Here is the foundation of truth ! Why do you follow the streams derived from it by the sophistry , or polluted by the passions , of man ? \u2019 \u201d It may be conceived that Watson 's appeal to \u201c Scripture \u201d was against the sentence of orthodoxy . His authority as \u201c a school Divine \u201d is on a par with that of the author of Cain , or of an earlier theologian who \u201c quoted Genesis like a very learned clerk \u201d ! ]{ 209 }held that there were two co-eternal Creators \u2014 a God of Darkness who made the body , and a God of Light who was responsible for the soul \u2014 and that it was the aim and function of the good spirit to rescue the soul , the spiritual part of man , from the possession and grasp of the body , which had been created by and was in the possession of the spirit of evil . St. Augustine passed through a stage of Manicheism , and in after-life exposed and refuted the heretical tenets which he had advocated , and with which he was familiar . See , for instance , his account of the Manich\u00e6an heresy \u201c de duplici terr\u00e2 , de regno lucis et regno tenebrarum \u201d]\" Sometimes the proverb is worded thus : \u201c \u2018 Claw for claw , and the devil take the shortest nails , \u2019 as Conan said to the devil . \u201d \u2014 Waverley Novels , 1829, i . 241 , note 1 ; see , too , ibid ., p . 229 . ], Vol . II . pt . ii . bk . v. sect . 5 , pp . 449-461 , and bk . vi . pp . 569-678 . ) Compare the following passage from Dieu et les Hommes\u201c Notre Warburton s'est \u00e9puis\u00e9 a ramasser dans son fatras de la Divine l\u00e9gation , toutes les preuves que l'auteur du Pentateuque , n'a jamais parl\u00e9 d'une vie a venir , et il n'a pas eu grande peine ; mais il en tire une plaisante conclusion , et digne d'un esprit aussi faux que le sien . \u201d ]{ 210 }]{ 211 } \u201c In a long Preface ... dated April 25 , 1796 , Alfieri gives a curious account of the reasons which induced him to call it ... \u2018 Tramelogedy . \u2019 He says that Abel is neither a tragedy , a comedy , a drama , a tragi-comedy , nor a Greek tragedy , which last would , he thinks , be correctly described as melo-tragedy . Opera-tragedy would , in his opinion , be a fitting name for it ; but he prefers interpolating the word \u2018 melo \u2019 into the middle of the word \u2018 tragedy , \u2019 so as not to spoil the ending , although by so doing he has cut in two ... the root of the word \u2014 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\u201c \u2014 The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri , edited by E. A. Bowring , C. B ., 1876 , ii . 472 . There is no resemblance whatever between Byron 's Cain and Alfieri 's Abele . ]{ 216 } \" ... his form had not yet lost All her original brightness , nor appears Less than Arch-angel mind , and the excess Of glory obscure . \u201d Paradise Lost , i . 591-593 . Compare , too \u2014 \" ... but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched , and care Sat on his faded cheek . \u201d", "And all the unnumbered and innumerable", "Live , and yet so unlike them , that I scarce", "As yet have bowed unto my father 's God .", "I have nought to ask .", "Bless thee , boy !", "And loudly : I", "So soon ?", "Weeps when he 's named ; and Abel lifts his eyes", "Aye .", "Oh ! how we cleave the blue ! The stars fade from us !", "Might never taste of death nor human sorrow ,", "His eyes are open ! then he is not dead !", "But live to die ; and , living , see no thing 110", "That !\u2014 yonder !", "But the lights fade from me fast ,", "That they are beautiful in their own sphere ,", "Which bears them .", "Are ye happy ?", "Words ! let that altar stand \u2014 \u2018 tis hallowed now", "Are ye happy ?", "Dost thou love nothing ?", "Written upon his forehead . But at least", "Done , that we must be victims for a deed", "I seek it not ; but as I know there are", "Cain ! what meanest thou ?", "Huge dusky masses ; but unlike the worlds", "Sweep on in your unbounded revelry", "Like them ?", "Before our birth , or need have victims to 90", "This question of my father ; and he said ,", "Have some allotted dwelling \u2014 as all things ;", "Why do I exist ?", "I fain would be alone a little while .", "But what were they ?", "And must I be", "Jehovah loves thee well .", "Clay \u2014 Spirit \u2014 what thou wilt \u2014 I can survey .", "And knowledge ! My thoughts are not in this hour", "These dim realms ! I see them , but I know them not .", "And when I saw gigantic shadows in", "Ah me ! and did they perish ?", "So be they ! wherefore speak to me of this ?", "I dare not gaze on further .", "Or let me leave thee to thy pious purpose .", "Their seed will bear fresh fruit there ere the summer :", "Of the Intelligences I have seen", "So haughtily in spirit , and canst range", "Aught else but dust !", "Its deadly opposite . I lately saw", "And everlasting witness ! whose unsinking", "Say , what have we here ?", "to the things we have passed ,", "And some emitting sparks , and some displaying", "Little deems our young blooming sleeper , there ,", "I have done this \u2014 250", "But how ?", "Now that I know it leads to something definite .", "He shut him forth from Paradise , with death", "Abel , hail !", "Yes \u2014 Death , too , is amongst the debts we owe her .", "The angels we have seen .", "With my own death redeem him from the dust \u2014", "That I would join with him in sacrifice :\u2014", "Suns , moons , and earths , upon their loud-voiced spheres", "The knowledge , he was ignorant of Death .", "But few ; and some of those but bitter .", "For never more thyself , thy sons , nor fathers ,", "Which shut them out \u2014 and me : I feel the weight", "But I must retire", "And he who lieth there was childless ! I", "\u2018 Tis a fearful light !", "Infinity with Immortality ?", "Unfit for mortal converse : leave me , Abel .", "An unity of purpose might make union", "Be thou happy , then , alone \u2014", "Is yon our earth ?", "Thy beauty and thy love \u2014 my love and joy ,", "Yon blue immensity , is boundless ?", "At least , without me .", "Meekly !", "The native of another and worse world .", "Had more of beauty .", "To sink .", "But dost thou not love something like thyself ?", "And why not so ? let him return to day ,", "Which were not thine nor mine ? But now sleep on !", "And shining lids are trembling o'er his long", "Than the huge brilliant luminous orbs which swung", "I know not ! but if thou seest what I am ,", "Think'st thou my boy will bear to look on me ?", "What should I be without her ?", "I will .", "; little or almighty .", "No ;", "Roar nightly in the forest , but ten-fold", "The little shining fire-fly in its flight , 130", "Like them , too , without the so dear-bought knowledge ! 160", "For I was made of it .", "As the day closes over Eden 's walls ;\u2014", "\u2018 Tis better I should be so .", "I have no flocks ;", "No more ?", "Snows ! what are they ?", "To earth again ?", "This is a vision , else I am become", "And my conceptions .", "In the vast desolate night in search of him ;", "And yet I have approached that sun , and seen", "And they who guard them ?", "I never 310", "Gathers a halo round it , like the light", "And yon immeasurable liquid space", "Could master all things \u2014 but I thought alone", "Even now ?", "I understand not this .", "I know not what thou art : I see thy power ,", "Thoughts which arise within me , as if they", "Why should I speak ?", "\u2018 Tis well \u2014 I rather would consort with spirits .", "Revere him , then \u2014 but let it be alone \u2014", "Then I dread it less ,", "And might have tempered this stern blood of mine ,", "None on it ?", "And what are they ?", ", 30", "Which knew such things .", "The fatal fruit , nor even of the same aspect .", "And wherefore plucked ye not the tree of life ? Ye might have then defied him .", "Ill cannot come : they are too beautiful .", "The mother 's milk , who o'er it tremulous", "Of sin and pain \u2014 or few , but still of sorrow ,", "And still-increasing lights ! what are ye ? what", "If it be such a sin to seek for knowledge ?", "The vesper bird 's , which seems to sing of love ,", "If thou canst do man good , why dost thou not ?", ",", "And after flattering dust with glimpses of", "With the burnt offerings , which he daily brings 100", "would not cleanse my soul .", "And Life is good ; and how can both be evil ?", "And multiplying murder .", "Fades to a dreary twilight \u2014 yet I see 180", "The fumes of scorching flesh and smoking blood ,", "Is he not of the kind which basked beneath", "Show me .", "And is more than myself , because I love it !", "Our native and forbidden Paradise ,", "What ill ?", "Of some all unimaginable Heaven ,", "Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks", "And men ? 170", "And I none !\u2014 Who makes me brotherless ?", "In thunder .", "The wound ; and by degrees the helpless wretch", "He speaks like 350", "Leave them , and walk with dust ?", "By ages !\u2014 and I must be sire of such things ! 450", "Atone for this mysterious , nameless sin \u2014", "And when her beauty disappears , methinks", "The overpowering mysteries of space \u2014", "Then why is Evil \u2014 he being Good ? I asked", "With making us the nothing which we are ;", "To cull some first-fruits .", "Abel , I 'm sick at heart ; but it will pass ;", "Like them , the features of fair earth :\u2014 instead ,", "How beautiful ye are ! how beautiful", "Abel", "And I thee who lov'st nothing .", "Spirit , who art thou ?", "To dwell with one who hath done this ?", "His !", "It back to dust again \u2014 for what ?", "The same breast , clasped thee often to my own ,", "Am I then", "I watched for what I thought his coming ; for", "Thou hast said , I must be 90", "Why should I bow to thee ?", "But was mine theirs ?", "For being dust , and grovelling in the dust ,", "Intoxicated with eternity", "Name it .", "Their bark and branches \u2014 what were they ?", "If thou lov'st thyself , Stand back till I have strewed this turf along Its native soil :\u2014 else \u2014\u2014 AbelI love God far more Than life . CainThen take thy life unto thy God , Since he loves lives . AbelWhat hast thou done \u2014 my brother ?", "Haughty spirit !", "Which looks like that which lit our earthly night ?", "Lay foaming on the earth , beneath the vain", "What is it ?", "Him sink , and feel my heart float softly with him", "What", "But there are spirits loftier still \u2014", "Then my father 's God did well", "It was the Tree of Life : knowledge is good ,", "In the dim twilight , brighter than yon world", "Thy pious knife ? Give way ! this bloody record", "How know I what", "Which looks like water , and which I should deem", "Like sunbeams onward , it grows small and smaller ,", "So thickly in the upper air , that I", "His lips , too , are apart ; why then he breathes ;", "All temporary breathing creatures their", "My sister Zillah sings an earlier hymn", "And yet they have an aspect , which , though not", "And wherefore did it fall ?", "O Abel !", "Was withheld from us by my father 's folly ,", "And what art thou who dwellest", "Who sowed the seed of evil and mankind", "And do not thirst to know , and bear a mind", "And yet I feel it not .\u2014 His heart !\u2014 his heart !\u2014 340", "I feel at war \u2014 but that I may not profit", "But it grows dark , and dark \u2014 the stars are gone !", "Him will I follow .", "He is a God .", "And these , too \u2014 can they ne'er repass", "What dreads my Adah ? This is no ill spirit .", "Not of all things . No \u2014", "Some fully shown , some indistinct , and all", "How ! You know my thoughts ?", "The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden ?", ",", "The rocks , than let him live to \u2014\u2014", "The earth swims round me :\u2014 what is this ?\u2014 \u2018 tis wet ;", "Let them share it", "And measures it by that which it beholds ,", "The earth ! where is my earth ? Let me look on it ,", "But I will bend to neither .", "My father", "A hideous heritage I owe to them", "A whirlwind of such overwhelming things ,", "No : \u2018 twas my mother", "Eden and Immortality , resolves", "Shall men love the remembrance of the man", "Be it proved .", "And so do I .", "Seemed full of life even when their atmosphere", "Life to so much of sorrow as he must", "Have heard you .", "Which sways them , I would not accost yon infant", "I have felt much .", "Forth from the abyss , looking as he could coil", "I will build no more altars ,", "Of this almighty Death , who is , it seems ,", "A watching shepherd boy ,", "Round our regretted and unentered Eden ;", "But very fair .", "And the immortal star in its great course ,", "Of death \u2014 but knowledge still : but what knows man ?", "For what should I be gentle ? for a war", "Rather than see her weep , I would , methinks ,", "The Life-tree ?", "To offer up", "I must away with him .", "Your gentleness must not be harshly met :", "The bread we eat ? For what must I be grateful ?", "They say the Serpent was a spirit .", "Know nought of Death , save as a dreadful thing", "Belov\u00e9d Adah !", "Ev'n he who made us must be , as the maker", "Purchase renewal of its little life", "Here let me die : for to give birth to those", "No sun \u2014 no moon \u2014 no lights innumerable \u2014", "Which thou hast shown me ?", "To separate ? Are ye not as brethren in", "The road to happiness !", "And I who have shed blood cannot shed tears !", "Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye", "He is my father : but I thought , that \u2018 twere 300", "I should be proud of thought", "I know not .", "Than the birds \u2019 matins ; and my Adah \u2014 my", "Which might have graced his recent marriage couch ,", "But lead them and ourselves through many years", "Nor suffer any \u2014\u2014", "It be as thou hast said", "Thou art fitter for his worship than I am ;", "Long ceased to breathe our breath , have theirs , thou say'st ;", "For me \u2014 compose thy limbs into their grave \u2014 540", "Can I return ?", "That there was Death .", "Distant , and dazzling , and innumerable ,", "I said ,", "And what of that ?", "With an inferior circlet purpler it still", "Interchecked with an instant of brief pleasure ,", "My heart till then . He smiles , and sleeps !\u2014 sleep on ,", "Nor in my sister-bride 's , nor in my children 's : 50", "Oh , ye interminable gloomy realms 30", "I rather would remain ; I am sick of all", "It was a lying tree \u2014 for we know nothing .", "From me a being I ne'er loved to bear .", "Asserted it .", "To pluck the fruit forbidden ?", "Is spirit like to flesh ? can it fall out \u2014", "Thoughts unspeakable", "Multitudes , millions , myriads , which may be ,", "And why not now ? 400", "I snatched him in his sleep , and dashed him \u2018 gainst", "Air , where ye roll along , as I have seen", "Thy burnt flesh-offering prospers better ; see", "They too must share my sire 's fate , like his sons ;", "And longest ; but no matter \u2014 lead me to him .", "Must I not die ?", "But ye", "Did ye not tell me that", "No , Adah ! no ;", "Tamed down ; my mother has forgot the mind 180", "Nature and immortality \u2014 and yet", "Such evil things to beings save a being ?", "The germs of an eternal misery", "Give thee back this .\u2014 Now for the wilderness !", "They were , as I have heard from those who heard them ,", "Still yearn for their dead offspring ? or the pangs", "I , who sprung from the same womb with thee , drained", "Spirit ! let me expire , or see them nearer .", "The firstlings of the flock to him who bids", "Do so .", "Nor form of mightiest brute , nor aught that is", "Why not ?", "But one of you makes evil .", "O'er what it shadows ; wherefore didst thou choose it", "To the Creator ?", "Serpent , which rears his dripping mane and vasty", "And that the night , which makes both beautiful ,", "Which fed on milk , to be destroyed in blood .", "Born with me \u2014 but I love nought else .", "For crime , I know not ; but for pain ,", "Wilt thou teach me all ?", "Born on the same day , of the same womb ; and", "She wrung from me , with tears , this promise ; and", "Rather than life itself . But here , all is", "And thou !", "The mind which overwhelms me : never till", "Oh God ! Oh Gods ! or whatsoe'er ye are ! 110", "And unimaginable ether ! and", "If not the last , rose higher than the first ,", "Of an eternal curse ; my brother is", "Unequal , of deep valleys and vast mountains ;", "This misery was mine . My father is", "Another sacrifice ! Give way , or else", "Thy dwelling , or his dwelling .", "Of Death and Life .", "I 'm glad of that : I would not have them die \u2014", "Floating around me ?\u2014 They wear not the form", "The mind then hath capacity of time , 60", "Deal out in his long homilies , \u2018 tis a thing \u2014", "The forest shade , the green bough , the bird 's voice \u2014", "Crowd in my breast to burning , when I hear", "Shall not stand in the sun , to shame creation !", "Bear all \u2014 and worship aught .", "I will \u2014 but wherefore ?", "In visions through my thought : I never could", "A God .", "The rapturous moment and the placid hour ,", "What is that", "Abel , I pray thee , sacrifice alone \u2014 190", "I 'll follow you anon .", "My brow , but nought to that which is within it !", "Aye , the last \u2014", "A better portion for the animal", "Even Adam and my mother both are fair :", "Even for the innocent !", "With fear rose longing in my heart to know", "A gloomy tree , which looks as if it mourned", "My brother 's keeper ?", "Where ?", "Says he is something dreadful , and my mother", "?", "And some till now grew larger as we approached ,", "The dead \u2014", "Expiate with what we all have undergone ,", "The gates of what they call their Paradise", "The innumerable worlds that were and are \u2014 180", "Thy brother Abel .", "For what ?", "And boundless , and of an ethereal hue \u2014", "By the far-flashing of the Cherubs \u2019 swords ,", "Abel", "Although inferior still to my desires", "This seems too terrible . No doubt the other", "Cease to be beautiful ! how can that be ?", "My sister Adah .\u2014 All the stars of heaven ,", "Nor ever shall \u2014 the mysteries of Death . 140", "To myriads is within him ! better \u2018 twere", "Can ne'er forgive , nor his own soul .\u2014 Farewell !", "Choose for me : they to me are so much turf", "Unworthy what I see , though my dust is ;", "When nearer , must be more ineffable .", "Was plucked too soon ; and all the fruit is Death !", "Bequeathed to me ? I leave them my inheritance !", "Were I quiet earth , 290", "After the fall too soon was I begotten ;", "Let me but", "Inevitable . Could I wrestle with him ?", "Most assuredly :", "Would they could ! but who are they", "Said nothing , save that all shall die .", "Ah !", "Did they love us when they snatched from the Tree", "No less than life \u2014 a heritage not happy ,", "Of most innumerable lights .", "Give way !\u2014 thy God loves blood !\u2014 then look to it :\u2014 310", "But if it be as I have heard my father", "Shows more of fear than worship \u2014 as a bribe", "\u2018 Tis darkness !", "vying with", "What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that ?", "And what is that ?", "What \u2018 twas which shook us all \u2014 but nothing came .", "And those enormous creatures ,", "In his acceptance of the victims .", "I think thou wilt forgive him , whom his God", "Where are thine ?", "Deadly error !", "I had beheld the immemorial works", "The wing of Seraph , nor the face of man ,", "While that of Knowledge , by my mother 's haste ,", "No , let me die !", "By what it bears of beautiful , untoiling ,", "And yet I fear it \u2014 fear I know not what !", "Ye multiplying masses of increased 100"], "true_target": ["Fear not ! for all the stars , and all the power", "Thou ! for", "But all", "Wouldst thou with me ?", "Shape ; for I never saw such . They bear not", "I wrestled with the lion , when a boy , 260", "Ye are both eternal ?", "Head , ten times higher than the haughtiest cedar ,", "Than me in seeing perish such a work .", "Have ye not prayed ?", "His cheeks are reddening into deeper smiles ,", "Then what is Death ?", "To me ? should I not love that which all love ?", "The Tree in Eden ?", "And see thou show'st me things beyond my power , 80", "From earth they came , to earth let them return ;", "But thou canst not", "Thy murderer .", "When ?", "I knew not that , yet thought it , since I heard", "Of which I have heard my parents speak , as of", "Thou speak'st it proudly ; but thyself , though proud ,", "And to be more than expiated by 120", "Because this Evil only was the path", "The Other", "Alas ! the hopeless wretches !", "And stone .", "Would there were only one of ye ! perchance", "In Adam 's and in Abel 's , and in mine ,", "But who hath dug that grave ? Oh , earth ! Oh , earth !", "My eyes with pleasant tears as I behold 260", "Is this blue wilderness of interminable", "To till the earth \u2014 for I had promised \u2014\u2014", "Shall walk in that forbidden place of joy !", "And so we shall remain ; but were it not so ,", "And let me perish , so I see them !", "Nothing .", "From its immensity : but now I feel", "Past my own dwelling , but that it is bankless", "The clouds still open wide", "Till I return to dust ? If I am nothing \u2014", "How Heaven licks up the flames , when thick with blood !", "Shall slay me ? Where are these on the lone earth", ", or know ye in your might", "His creatures , as thou say'st we are , or show me", "What is that", "Is this our Paradise ? Where are its walls ,", "And wherefore lingerest thou ? Dost thou not fear", "And as it waxes little , and then less ,", "To Death \u2014 the unknown ! Methinks the Tree of Knowledge", "Would they had snatched both 210", "Be contrite ? for my father 's sin , already", "They are so lovely . What is Death ? I fear ,", "Behold , my son ! said Adam , how from Evil", "In the same hour ! They plucked the tree of science", "For serpents to tempt woman to .", "who offers up", "Of light gave way , and showed them taking shapes", "In magnitude and terror ; taller than", "And all that we inherit , liable", "And piteous bleating of its restless dam ;", "That sacrifice may be \u2014\u2014", "Resumed its careless life , and rose to drain", "Happy the day !", "And what is that ? 320", "I feel , it is a dreadful thing ; but what ,", "Cypress ! \u2018 tis", "Springs Good !", "Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering", "Ere we came down into this phantom realm ,", "Which made her thirst for knowledge at the risk", "Of Death ?", "One altar may suffice ; I have no offering .", "Give way , ere he hath more !", "Yes , but love more 320", "At least they ought to have known all things that are", "But animals \u2014", "Spirit ! I 60", "Your works , or accidents , or whatsoe'er", "Methinks they both , as we recede from them , 40", "If it must be so \u2014\u2014 well , then ,", "Why , what are things ?", "To gaze on it .", "By God the life to him he loved ; and taken", "Where is it ? I see nothing save a mass", "Which humbles me and mine .", "Lashes ,", "For nothing shall I be an hypocrite ,", "And Heaven 's ,", "In elements which seem now jarred in storms .", "Oh God ! or Demon ! or whate'er thou art ,", "Yes \u2014 as being 230", "What shall I do ?", "If that a mortal blessing may avail thee ,", "That which I am , I am ; I did not seek", "But bless him ne'er the less .", "Adam is the first .", "We were approaching , which , begirt with light ,", "Enormous liquid plains , and some begirt", "Nor hand it down to those who spring from him .", "Been seen .", "By the immortal pleasure of Jehovah ,", "That dust has shown me \u2014 let me dwell in shadows .", "Live ye , or have ye lived ?", "And Edens in them ?", "Worlds which he once shone on , and never more", "That which hath driven us all from Paradise ?", "Instinct of life , which I abhor , as I", "We knew already", "No .", "I 'm sorry for it ; but", "Of knowledge \u2014 and the mystery of Death", "Oh thou beautiful", "The fruits , or neither !", "But the four rivers", "But I have ne'er 200", "And those inordinate creatures sporting o'er", "Nor know I now .", "My father plucked some herbs , and laid them to", "Expansion \u2014 at which my soul aches to think \u2014", "No \u2014 I am new to this ; lead thou the way , And I will follow \u2014 as I may . AbelOh , God ! Who made us , and who breathed the breath of life Within our nostrils , who hath blessed us , And spared , despite our father 's sin , to make His children all lost , as they might have been , Had not thy justice been so tempered with The mercy which is thy delight , as to Accord a pardon like a Paradise , 230 Compared with our great crimes :\u2014 Sole Lord of light ! Of good , and glory , and eternity ! Without whom all were evil , and with whom Nothing can err , except to some good end Of thine omnipotent benevolence ! Inscrutable , but still to be fulfilled ! Accept from out thy humble first of shepherds \u2019 First of the first-born flocks \u2014 an offering , In itself nothing \u2014 as what offering can be Aught unto thee ?\u2014 but yet accept it for 240 The thanksgiving of him who spreads it in The face of thy high heaven \u2014 bowing his own Even to the dust , of which he is \u2014 in honour Of thee , and of thy name , for evermore ! CainSpirit whate'er or whosoe'er thou art , Omnipotent , it may be \u2014 and , if good , Shown in the exemption of thy deeds from evil ; Jehovah upon earth ! and God in heaven ! And it may be with other names , because Thine attributes seem many , as thy works :\u2014 250 If thou must be propitiated with prayers , Take them ! If thou must be induced with altars , And softened with a sacrifice , receive them ; Two beings here erect them unto thee . If thou lov'st blood , the shepherd 's shrine , which smokes On my right hand , hath shed it for thy service In the first of his flock , whose limbs now reek In sanguinary incense to thy skies ; Or , if the sweet and blooming fruits of earth , And milder seasons , which the unstained turf 260 I spread them on now offers in the face Of the broad sun which ripened them , may seem Good to thee \u2014 inasmuch as they have not Suffered in limb or life \u2014 and rather form A sample of thy works , than supplication To look on ours ! If a shrine without victim , And altar without gore , may win thy favour , Look on it ! and for him who dresseth it , He is \u2014 such as thou mad'st him ; and seeks nothing Which must be won by kneeling : if he 's evil, 270 Strike him ! thou art omnipotent , and may'st \u2014 For what can he oppose ? If he be good , Strike him , or spare him , as thou wilt ! since all Rests upon thee ; and Good and Evil seem To have no power themselves , save in thy will \u2014 And whether that be good or ill I know not , Not being omnipotent , nor fit to judge Omnipotence \u2014 but merely to endure Its mandate ; which thus far I have endured .AbelOh , brother , pray ! Jehovah 's wroth with thee . 280", "And what I have seen \u2014", "Give \u2014", "To know .", "Your essence \u2014 and your nature , and your glory ?", "At least it promised knowledge at the price", "Pleasing or painful", "You think so , being not her brother .", "Why , so say I \u2014 provided that one victim 80", "How the lights recede ! Where fly we ?", "Thine altar , with its blood of lambs and kids ,", "The loveliest thing I know is loveliest nearest .", "To Good . Strange Good , that must arise from out", "Like them , too , without having shared the apple ;", "Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown ,", "And I lie ghastly ! so shall be restored", "Hath not fulfilled its promise :\u2014 if they sinned ,", "Which looks a spirit , or a spirit 's world \u2014", "Speak aught of Knowledge which I would not know ,", "Thou know'st not thou art naked ! Must the time", "By sacrificing", "To the pain of the bleating mothers , which 300", "And , gazing on eternity , methought", "Knew I what calm was in the soul , although", "Or the dull mass of life , that , being life , 20", "And is !", "The snake spoke truth ; it was the Tree of Knowledge ;", "Why art thou wretched ? why are all things so ? 280", "Of Death : although I know not what it is \u2014", "Ah ! little knows he what he weeps for ! 520", "Nor gratify my thousand swelling thoughts", "For ever ! Since", "To save thee from the Serpent 's curse !", "Of endless beings ; skirred extinguished worlds ;", "I dare behold ? As yet , thou hast shown nought", "Is there more ? let me meet it as I may .", "Then thou canst have no fellowship with us .", "How came ye , being Spirits wise and infinite , 380", "When he prohibited the fatal Tree .", "Have dried the fountain of a gentle race ,", "To us ? they sinned , then let them die !", "200", "But the thing had a demon ?", "What immortal part ?", "And you , too , sisters , tarry not behind ; 60", "Beheld them from the skirts of Paradise :", "Never to have been stung at all , than to", "With me , their sire and brother ! What else is", "It means \u2014 I pray thee , leave me .", "Which shone the roundest of the stars , when I", "And sighs a prayer ; and Adah looks on me ,", "Uniting with our children Abel 's offspring ! 560", "Seem'st sorrowful ?", "Many of the same kind", "Could not retain , but needs must forfeit it \u2014", "Till I know", "The earth yield nothing to us without sweat ;", "The harmless for the guilty ? what atonement", "It burns 500", "Endure , and , harder still , bequeath ; but since", "Let me see , doth it beat ? methinks \u2014\u2014 No !\u2014 no !", "And wherefore didst thou", "He has not yet 250", "Might satiate the Insatiable of life ,", "Of that I doubt ; 160", "And to what end have I beheld these things", "Around a world where I seem nothing , with", "Ye do not dwell together ?", "His equal ?", "To Heaven , and Zillah casts hers to the earth ,", "Nothing can calm me more . Calm ! say I ? Never", "Like Adah 's face : I turn from earth and heaven", "And then I turned my weary eyes from off", "And how knew he , that I would be so ready", "Both them who sinned and sinned not , as an ill \u2014", "She is my sister , 330", "The Immortal \u2014 the Unbounded \u2014 the Omnipotent \u2014", "With agonies unutterable , though", "Yon small blue circle , swinging in far ether", "I will have nought to do with happiness ,", "To such , I would behold , at once , what I", "But", "\u2018 Tis like another world ; a liquid sun \u2014", "It speaks of a day past .", "The umbrage of the walls of Eden , chequered", "That I was nothing !", "I 'll not believe it \u2014 for I thirst for good .", "Brother !", "Shall light ; and worlds he never lit : methought", "For all the fruits thou hast rendered to me , I", "But not to live \u2014 or wherefore plucked he not", "But that on drawing near them I beheld", "I may be in the rest as angels are .", "My littleness again . Well said the Spirit ,", "For thee , my Adah , I choose not \u2014 It was", "Of what ? Of Paradise !\u2014 Aye ! dream of it ,", "Thou speak'st to me of things which long have swum", "With ruder greeting than a father 's kiss . 130", "Immortal in despite of me . I knew not", "That were no evil : would I ne'er had been", "Her favour , since the Serpent was the first", "Of men nor angels , looks like something , which ,", "Sustain such creatures .", "I have seen the elements stilled . My Abel , leave me !", "And if I have thought , why recall a thought that \u2014\u2014\u2014 Spirit ! Here we are in thy world ; speak not of mine . Thou hast shown me wonders : thou hast shown me those Mighty Pre-Adamites who walked the earth Of which ours is the wreck : thou hast pointed out 360 Myriads of starry worlds , of which our own Is the dim and remote companion , in Infinity of life : thou hast shown me shadows Of that existence with the dreaded name Which my sire brought us \u2014 Death ;thou hast shown me much But not all : show me where Jehovah dwells , In his especial Paradise \u2014 or thine : Where is it ?", "Years had rolled o'er my absence .", "But not as now .", "Eyes flashing like the fiery swords which fence them \u2014 140", "But time has passed , and hitherto", "For life , nor did I make myself ; but could I 510", "How silent and how vast are these dim worlds !", "Cannot conceive my love for her the less :", "Forget \u2014\u2014 but it can never be forgotten 440", "And yet my sire says he 's omnipotent :", "And seem well-pleased with pain ? For what should I", "Did they , too , eat of it , that they must die ?", "He who invented Life that leads to Death !", "Although my brother Abel oft implores", "The archangels .", "Yet it seems horrible . I have looked out 270", "All here seems dark and dreadful .", "And sin \u2014 and , not content with their own sorrow ,", "His pleasure ! what was his high pleasure in", "To do that for thee , which thou shouldst have done", "Jarring and turning space to misery \u2014", "And yon immense 190", "I live ,", "And smile , thou little , young inheritor", "All we love in our children and each other ,", "Death is like sleep", "Can I do so without impiety ?", "And must torture be immortal ?", "Till now he hath", "\u2018 Twere better that he never had been born .", "Nothing ; for", "Seest thou not ?", "And the Jehovah and thyself have thine \u2014", "Alas ! I seem 420", "The rose leaves strewn beneath them .", "Mighty and melancholy \u2014 what are ye ?", "Clay has its earth , and other worlds their tenants ; 370", "By what gate have we entered", "Then leave me !", "Ah ! didst thou tempt my mother ?", "Up to the lights above us , in the azure , 280", "Have I not said it ?\u2014 need I say it ? Could not thy mighty knowledge teach thee that ?", "Along that western paradise of clouds \u2014", "Of swimming shadows and enormous shapes ,", "The things I have not seen ,", "Hast a superior .", "This until lately \u2014 but since it must be ,", "Appear to join the innumerable stars", "And being so , canst thou", "We are brethren ,", "Of things unhappy ! To produce destruction", "The hues of twilight \u2014 the Sun 's gorgeous coming \u2014", "A lamb stung by a reptile : the poor suckling 290", "Oh ! thou dead", "Spake not of this unto my father , when", "If I may judge , till now . But , Spirit ! if", "No .", "And tusks projecting like the trees stripped of", "180", "Were there ? why , we are innocent : what have we", "Where dost thou lead me ?", "Alas ! I scarcely now know what it is ,", "The smoky harbinger of thy dull prayers \u2014", "Can it be ?", "Their swelling into palpable immensity", "How should I ? As we move", "But thee the better : I care not for that ;", "A loathsome , and yet all invincible", "Must one day see perforce .", "For our child 's canopy ?", "Thy precept comes too late : there is no more", "I tread on air , and sink not \u2014 yet I fear", "Yes \u2014", "Despise myself , yet cannot overcome \u2014", "Within those glorious orbs which we behold ,", "And all that in them is . So I have heard", "His Seraphs sing ; and so my father saith .", "My little Enoch ! and his lisping sister !", "Its shining surface ?", "460", "Nor wear the form of man as I have viewed it", "And wider , and make widening circles round us !", "Oh God ! I dare not think o n't ! Curs\u00e9d be", "Ah ! Thou look'st almost a god ; and \u2014\u2014", "Blood darkens earth and heaven ! what thou now art 530", "What do they know ?\u2014 that they are miserable .", "But why war ?", "Begot me \u2014 thee \u2014 and all the few that are ,", "Such , and that my sire 's sin makes him and me ,", "Not fair like Adah and the Seraphim \u2014 330", "The first grave yet dug for mortality .", "Increase their myriads .", "The river which flows out of Paradise", "I had borrowed more by a few drops of ages", "Let him keep", "To inherit agonies accumulated", "Now breathing ; mighty yet and beautiful", "Let me , or happy or unhappy , learn", "\u2018 Tis the most desolate , and suits my steps .", "I thought it was a being : who could do", "That which it really is , I cannot answer .", "And friend to man . Has the Most High been so \u2014 if so you term him ? 170", "Of matter , which seemed made for life to dwell on , 10", "Let what is mortal of me perish , that", "\u2018 Tis awful !", "Half open , from beneath them the clear blue", "Who tempted him \u2014 she tempted by the serpent .", "; and sleep shuts down our lids .", "Precede me , brother \u2014 I will follow shortly .", "And ye ?", "Yield what it yieldeth to my toil \u2014 its fruit :", "That saying jars you , let us only say \u2014", "Enormous vapours roll", "And that our little rosy sleeper there", "But he is not like", "So shadowy , and so full of twilight , that", "This has not been revealed : the Tree of Life", "To make death hateful , save an innate clinging ,", "And wore the look of worlds .", "Of the sad ignorant victims underneath", "I have chosen .", "As the most beautiful and mighty which 60", "Had deemed them rather the bright populace", "What ! is it not then new ?", "You have said well ; I will contain", "The very blue of the empurpled night", "I cannot see it .", "And wilt thou tell me so ?", "With luminous belts , and floating moons , which took ,", "Laughs out , although in slumber . He must dream \u2014 30", "Which are around us ; and , as we move on ,", "They may be ! Let me die , as atoms die ,", "The cherub-guarded walls of Eden \u2014 with", "But shall I know it ?", "I must not , dare not touch what I have made thee .", "Can surely never be the task of joy ,", "Through an a\u00ebrial universe of endless", "Own and belov\u00e9d \u2014 she , too , understands not", "How should I be so ? Look on me !", "Dispelled by antidotes .", "Of serpents , and of fruits and trees : I see", "Reconcile what I saw with what I heard .", "Resembling somewhat the wild habitants", "Can call them living .", "But didst thou tempt my parents ? Lucifer . I ? Poor clay \u2014 what should I tempt them for , or how ?", "I am a tiller of the ground , and must", "It is too little and too lowly to", "Who ?", "Could I but deem them happy , I would half", "Why , I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms", "dark as the cypress which waves o'er them ;", "To win it .", "But Abel 's earnest prayer has wrought upon me ;", "Apart \u2014 what 's this ?", "And speaks not .", "Of the deep woods of earth , the hugest which", "With knowledge , nor allay my thousand fears", "My disinherited boy ! \u2018 Tis but a dream ;", "All things , my father says ; but I confess", "Must both be guided .", "And so I live . Would I had never lived !", "And mingles with the song of Cherubim ,", "Peculiar element ; and things which have", "What makes my feelings more endurable ,", "All these are nothing , to my eyes and heart ,", "Through thrice a thousand generations ! never", "No : he contents him 70", "Of seeming strength , but of inexplicable", "Than things to be inhabited themselves ,", "Thou shalt not :\u2014 add not impious works to impious", "Then leave us", "Guarded by fiery-sworded Cherubim ,", "Stood licking its reviving limbs with joy .", "Aye ! and serpents too ?", "Who ?", "Let him say on ;", "I have toiled , and tilled , and sweaten in the sun ,", "Spirit , I have said it . AdahCain ! my brother ! Cain ! ACT II .", "It is not with the earth , though I must till it ,", "My father and my mother talk to me 170", "What are these mighty phantoms which I see", "His setting indescribable , which fills", "Why should he not ?", "The things I see .", "I see it not in their allotment here .", "How so ?", "The deep blue noon of night , lit by an orb", "Why so ?", "According to the curse :\u2014 must I do more ? 110", "Be taught the mystery of my being .", "With Abel on an altar .", "Cursed he not me in giving me my birth ?", "And innocent ! thou hast not plucked the fruit \u2014", "He who creates all beauty will lose more", "In fondness brotherly and boyish , I", "Who can but suffer many years , and die \u2014", "Rarely .", "Phantoms inferior in intelligence", "\u2018 Twere better that he ceased to live , than give", "Methinks is merely propagating Death , 70", "Of daily toil , and constant thought : I look", "I cannot compass : \u2018 tis denounced against us ,", "Himself around the orbs we lately looked on \u2014", "Cursed he not me before my birth , in daring", "Haughty , and high , and beautiful , and full", "Eastward from Eden will we take our way ;", "Not to snatch first that fruit :\u2014 but ere he plucked", "But never that precisely , which persuaded", "Leave me !", "Beyond all power of my born faculties ,", "For they seem more than one , and yet more peopled", "Now met I aught to sympathise with me . 190", "With a meek brow , whose base humility", "The Serpent , and my sire still mourned for Eden .", "Ere yet my mother 's mind subsided from", "Distance can but diminish glory \u2014 they ,", "I am :\u2014 and thou , with all thy might , what art thou ?", "The offering is more his than mine \u2014 and Adah \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Maker of life and living things ; it is", "Throughout all space . Where should I dwell ? Where are", "\u2018 Tis well and meekly done .", "and yet not less than those he tempted ,", "He but woke one", "The proud One will not so far falsify , 220", "As I have shown thee much which cannot die ?", "Aye , upon one condition .", "But for thy sons and brother ?", "Have stood before thee as I am : a serpent", "Conflict shall cease , if ever it shall cease ,", "Would run the edict of the other God ,", "Your reason :\u2014 let it not be overswayed 460", "The seed of the then world may thus array", "Is Life , and what ye shall have \u2014 Death : the rest", "Save what I am . He conquered ; let him reign ! 130", "Have made ye live for ever , in the joy", "But by whom or what ?", "Enter !", "Evil and Good are things in their own essence ,", "To reign .", "And his father 's ?", "A state , and many states beyond thine own \u2014", "His Seraphs say : but it is worth the trial ,", "Of the forbidden tree .", "Now let us back to earth !", "And when it ceases to be so , thy love", "What is true knowledge .", "To a place", "Thee to be mine .", "Yet they lived .", "What are they which dwell", "Then who was the Demon ? He", "He is the second born of flesh ,", "In the first dawn and bloom of young creation , 270", "Or no \u2014 except some vast and general purpose ,", "But bask beneath the clime which knows no winter .", "The Conqueror has left thee . Follow me .", ", shall come back to thee ,", "Thee and thy son ;\u2014 and how weak they are , judge", "To make that silent and expectant world", "By mine ! But , plighted to return ,", "By myriads underneath its surface .", "And pangs , and bitterness ; these were the fruits", "Of them for evermore .", "And fell . For what should spirits tempt them ? What", "Although inferior , and thy children shall", "And still loftier than the archangels .", "The Mammoth is in thy world ;\u2014 but these lie", "Of thine enjoyments a sweet degradation ,", "We are mighty .", "Couldst not have gone beyond thy world . On ! on !", "Thou'lt know here \u2014 and hereafter .", "One is yours already ,", "Through agonies unspeakable , and clogged 40", "Are beings past , and shadows still to come .", "Mortal !", "Or , if it irk thee , turn thee back and till", "But there", "Of thine , I grant thee \u2014 but too mean to be", "We and thy sons will try . But now , behold ! Is it not glorious ?", "Thy hour is yet afar , and matter cannot", "If truth be so ,", "Are its inhabitants ,", "Thou say'st well :", "That sight is for the other state .", "Each bright and sparkling \u2014 what dost think of them ?", "The phantasm of the world ; of which thy world", "On , then , with me . Wouldst thou behold things mortal or immortal ?", "In nature being earth also \u2014 more in wisdom ,", "What ?", "Is come !", "It cannot be : thou now beholdest as 110", "Knowing such things , aspiring to such things ,", "Him makes thee mine the same .", "Fond parents listened to a creeping thing ,", "What ye in common have with what they had", "Worship or worship not , thou shalt behold", "Till ye know better its true fount ; and judge", "And cannot I , who aided in this work ,", "Yes , from their earth , as thou wilt fade from thine .", "Darest thou look on Death ?", "Of being that which I am ,\u2014 and thou art \u2014", "And Truth in its own essence cannot be", "\u2018 Twill spare them many tortures .", "I cannot answer .", "Show in an hour what he hath made in many ,", "Thou shortly may'st be ; and that state again ,", "That is the prelude .", "One good gift has the fatal apple given ,\u2014", "And walk the waters ; \u201d and the man shall walk", "Nor would : I would be aught above \u2014 beneath \u2014", "It is omnipotent , and not from love ,", "In generations like to dust", "Souls who dare use their immortality \u2014", "Where I will lead thee .", "And multiply himself in misery !", "The star which watches , welcoming the morn .", "The myriad myriads \u2014 the all-peopled earth \u2014", "Did I plant things prohibited within 200", "I show thee what thy predecessors are ,", "By being", "Said'st thou not", "All die \u2014 there is what must survive .", "As thou ; and mightier things have been extinct", "The cause of this all-spreading happiness", "Create , and re-create \u2014 perhaps he 'll make", "They say \u2014 what they must sing and say , on pain", "And so it shall be ever \u2014 but we will", "Shalt soon return to earth , and all its dust :", "Could I stand here ? His angels are within", "Seem clearer to thine immortality .", "The unpeopled earth \u2014 and the o'erhYpppHeNpeopled Hell ,", "Is but the wreck .", "Art thou not nearer ? look back to thine earth !", "Fresh souls and bodies", "Of your existence , such as it must be .", "At least leads to the surest science : therefore", "Intelligent , good , great , and glorious things ,", "He who bows not to him has bowed to me .", "That he may torture :\u2014 let him ! He is great \u2014", "No other choice : your sire hath chosen already : 430", "And the unfathomable gulfs of Hades ,", "Knowledge ? And have I not , in what I showed ,", "Less burthensome to his immense existence 150", "Space \u2014\u2014 but I speak to thee of what thou know'st not ,", "A scarcely-yet shaped planet , peopled with", "His , and possess a kingdom which is not", "Evil springs from him , do not name it mine ,", "And man tempt woman :\u2014 let thy sons look to it !", "How long ?", "To which particular things must melt like snows .", "And therefore do I ask of thee , if thou", "Follow", "No end ; and some , which would pretend to have", "What ? Hath not he who made ye", "And scarce-born mortals , what have been his gifts", "Aught save a sharer or a servant of", "Didst thou not require", "Of mortals from that place", "Fallen , all had stood .", "But had done better in not planting it .", "But as thou saidst", "Yea !", "To the great double Mysteries ! the two Principles !", "Who shall \u2014 be thou amongst the first .", "And such they are .", "Of the Invisible are the loveliest 500", "Of your poor attributes is such as suits", "Which , knowing nought beyond their shallow senses ,", "Your Maker told ye , they were made for you ,", "One day a Son unto himself \u2014 as he", "\u2018 Tis now beyond thee ,", "One who aspired to be what made thee , and", "Shall tremble in the balance , till the great", "Ask Eve , your mother : bears she not the knowledge", "Thy pettier portion of the immortal part", "Yourselves , in your resistance . Nothing can", "And now I will convey thee to thy world ,", "And cannot be a sin in you \u2014 whate'er", "What am I ?", "Less , in the universe , than thou in it ;", "And thou ?", "That is a grovelling wish ,", "Alas ! those tears ! Couldst thou but know what oceans will be shed \u2014\u2014 520", "But in his being ?", "The Maker \u2014 Call him", "To save thee ; but fly with me o'er the gulf", "Point me out the site", "And is his mother 's favourite .", "Of dust , and feel for it , and with you .", "His evil is not good ! If he has made , 140", "With me , then , to thine earth , and try the rest 450", "It may be .", "Whence he shall come back to thee in an hour ;", "Where", "By thy own flesh .", "Together ; but our dwellings are asunder .", "By greater things \u2014 and they themselves far more", "If I were not that which I have said ,", "Who guard the tempting tree . When thousand ages", "And , therefore , thou canst not see if I love", "Those who once peopled or shall people both \u2014", "Why art thou wretched ?", "Believe in me , as a conditional creed", "Perhaps \u2014 but long outlive both thine and thee .", "He as a conqueror will call the conquered", "The past Leviathans .", "To make way for much meaner than we can 160", "So changed by its convulsion , they would not", "Since better may not be without : there is", "Was it so in Eden ?", "Consists in slavery \u2014 no .", "And , suffering in concert , make our pangs", "All living \u2014 and all doomed to death \u2014 and wretched ,", "With all thy Tree of Knowledge .", "Have rolled o'er your dead ashes , and your seed 's ,", "His own low failing . The snake was the snake \u2014", "The little I have shown thee into calm", "Which it ne'er shall , till he or I be quenched ! 440", "The last of these .", "The happier thou !\u2014", "Their earth is gone for ever \u2014 120", "Sits he not near thy heart ?", "Sate nearest it ?", "Reptiles engendered out of the subsiding", "Because thou hast thought of this ere now .", "The Tree was true , though deadly .", "Thyself most wicked and unhappy \u2014 is it", "Return ! be sure : how else should Death be peopled ? 200", "Divided with me : Life and Death \u2014 and Time \u2014", "Which name thou wilt : he makes but to destroy .", "And if there should be", "To the smooth agonies of adulation ,", "Ne'er the less ,", "That they are not compatible , the doom", "A man shall say to a man , \u201c Believe in me ,", "But ignorance of evil doth not save", "Which is not heaven nor earth , but peopled with 550", "No more ;", "By a most crushing and inexorable 80", "Thy Sire 's maker \u2014 and the Earth 's .", "Pass on , and gaze upon the past .", "Gods ; and even He who thrust ye forth , so thrust ye", "I tempt none ,", "Which being nearest to thine eyes is still", "Spirits and Men , at least we sympathise \u2014", "Of sorrow \u2014 and thou sufferest , are both Eden", "Have been and must be all unchangeable .", "Think and endure ,\u2014 and form an inner world", "Of knowledge , to know mortal nature 's nothingness ;", "All , all , will I dispute ! And world by world ,", "Thou errest , Adah !\u2014 was not the Tree that", "A Paradise of Ignorance , from which", "As I know not death ,", "But distinct . 190", "They have deceived thee ; thou shalt live .", "\u2018 Gainst all external sense and inward feeling :", "Yea , or things higher .", "But , if he made us \u2014 he cannot unmake :", "It is not tranquil .", "Higher things than ye are slaves : and higher", "Save with the truth : was not the Tree , the Tree", "In hymns and harpings , and self-seeking prayers ,", "Yet deem not that thou canst escape it ; thou", "By the unbounded sympathy of all 160", "Hast thou ne'er bowed", "Superior to your own ? Had Adam not", "You have forgotten the denunciation", "To you already , in your little world ?", "Worship the word which strikes their ear , and deem 10", "An hour , when , tossed upon some water-drops", "But what", "In its redoubled wretchedness , a Paradise", "Prefer an independency of torture", "Ask of your sire , the exile fresh from Eden ;", "No ! By heaven , which he", "Ye are his creatures , and not mine .", "Sit next thy heart ?", "Master of spirits .", "Did not your Maker make", "Let him crowd orb on orb : he is alone", "That which", "And if the higher knowledge quenches love ,", "I have a Victor \u2014 true ; but no superior .", "Inferior as thy petty feelings and", "But that 's a mystery . Cain , come on with me .", "But if that high thought were 50", "Yet unborn myriads of unconscious atoms ,", "To me a shape I scorn , as I scorn all", "Thou shalt be .", "Would not have made thee what thou art .", "A most enervating and filthy cheat", "Of which thy bosom is the germ .", "Less than thy father 's \u2014 for he wished to know !", "No : art thou ?", "Was there to envy in the narrow bounds", "We both reign .", "It may be that thine own shall be for me .", "Thou canst not", "Thou hast seen both worms and worlds ,", "Why ?", "But you have seen his angels .", "He shall .", "In your own bosom \u2014 where the outward fails ;", "Or stretch an hour into eternity :", "Art not thou Abel 's brother ?", "Which shall deprive thee of a single good 560", "It has no shape ; but will absorb all things", "No , not yet ;", "Since he could overcome them , and foreknew", "And yet that grief is knowledge \u2014 so he lied not :", "Behold !", "Thou hast it .", "And this thou knewest not this morn .", "The sixty-thousandth generation shall be ,", "Ne'er saw him , and I know not if he smiles . 350", "The only evil ones . And you , ye new", "And the Jehovah \u2014 the indulgent Lord ,", "In all its innocence compared to what", "In number than the dust of thy dull earth ,", "Thou lovest it , because \u2018 tis beautiful ,", "Oh , what a beautiful world it was !", "Said \u2018 tis another life ?", "In them and her .", "Greater than either : many things will have", "First-born of the first man !", "Taught thee to know thyself ?", "There is still some such on earth ,", "Ask the Destroyer .", "Wouldst be immortal ?", "But terror and self-hope .", "Being beyond all beauty in thine eyes ,", "Its present realm is thin to what it will be ,", "More than thy mother , and thy sire ?", "And gaze upon them on their secret thrones !", "Advance !", "The leaven of all life , and lifelessness .", "He was hindered .", "ACT III .", "By all .", "Worthy of thought ;\u2014 \u2018 tis your immortal part", "It one day will be in your children .", "Your father saw him not ?", "But we , who see the truth , must speak it . Thy 240", "We breathe not by a mortal measurement \u2014", "Be conscious to a single present spot", "Who would not let ye live , or he who would", "The gates of Death .", "Of high intelligence and earthly strength .", "More beautiful than beauteous things remote ?", "Can tell what shape of serpent tempted her .", "But in that hour see things of many days .", "Surmise ; for moments only and the space"], "true_target": ["Living , high ,", "The Earth , which is thine outward cov'ring , is", "Away , then ! on our mighty wings !", "Or of his first-born son : ask your own heart ;", "Who", "Back", "Of Death .\u2014 Wouldst have it present ?", "What thy world is , thou see'st , 130", "\u2018 Twould be destroyed so early .", "As frail , and few so happy \u2014\u2014", "Many there are who worship me , and more", "Are everlasting .", "But , in his greatness , is no happier than", "With all ! But He ! so wretched in his height ,", "His", "\u2018 Tis part of thy eternity , and mine . 150", "Given chiefly at my own expense ; \u2018 tis true ,", "Choose betwixt Love and Knowledge \u2014 since there is", "He ever granted : but let him reign on !", "Aye . 390", "Cain . I", "Mortality", "Dost thou curse thy father ?", "And science still beyond them , were chained down", "It may be death leads to the highest knowledge ;", "Where thou shall multiply the race of Adam ,", "And bounteous planter of barred Paradise \u2014", "Out of old worlds this new one in few days ? 530", "What didst thou answer ?", "Cain ! thou hast heard .", "Was not thy quest for knowledge ?", "Both ; but the time will come thou shalt see one", "And thy brother \u2014", "Cain . And cannot ye both reign , then ?\u2014 is there not", "Breathe , save the erect ones ?", "Evil or good what is proclaimed to them", "Were I the victor , his works would be deemed", "His everlasting face , and tell him that", "Which speaks within you .", "Either of these would be for thee to perish !", "Of Knowledge ? and was not the Tree of Life", "Though man 's vast fears and little vanity", "Aye , woman ! he alone 540", "What , if I show to thee things which have died ,", "Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee ?", "A wisdom in the spirit , which directs", "Can crowd eternity into an hour ,", "Of spirits and of men .", "For its own bitter sake ?\u2014 None \u2014 nothing ! \u2018 tis 240", "Hast thou ne'er beheld him ?", "To lure thee on to the renewal of", "Dar'st thou behold ?", "His power . I dwell apart ; but I am great :\u2014", "I am angelic : wouldst thou be as I am ?", "Thou knowest that there is", "His secret , and he keeps it . We must bear ,", "Thou livest \u2014 and must live for ever . Think not", "Which struck a world to chaos , as a chaos", "Believe \u2014 and sink not ! doubt \u2014 and perish ! thus", "Of its new scarcely hardened surface \u2014 \u2018 twas \u2014", "Thou dost fall down and worship me \u2014 thy Lord .", "Could he but crush himself , \u2018 twere the best boon", "But thou wouldst only perish , and not see them ; 410", "Holds , and the abyss , and the immensity", "As was the apple in thy mother 's eye ;", "Borne on the air", "So restless in his wretchedness , must still", "Unfold its gates !", "Both partly : but what doth", "In its dull damp degeneracy , to", "Away , then !", "True , it was more glorious .", "Of space an equal flight , and I will show", "Sufficiently to see they love your brother :", "Is leader of the host of Heaven .", "Had been enough to charm ye , as before .", "Eternity \u2014 and heaven and earth \u2014 and that", "Than them or ye would be so , did they not", "Are few inhabitants .", "Alone , thou say'st , be happy ?", "Thy human mind hath scarcely grasp to gather", "We in our conflict ! Goodness would not make", ",", "Thy present state of sin \u2014 and thou art evil , 220", "Thou hast seen them from afar .", "Thou art my worshipper ; not worshipping", "Thy father loves him well \u2014 so does thy God . 340", "What thou dar'st not deny ,\u2014 the history", "They are the thoughts of all", "As you for him .\u2014 You would not have their doom", "All foul and fulsome \u2014 and the very best", "To right , as in the dim blue air the eye", "Be content ; it will", "In their abasement . I will have none such :", "Or hath destroyed in few ?", "And clear thought : and thou wouldst go on aspiring", "And heart to look on ?", "With time .", "Saith that ? It is not written so on high :", "My spirit buoys thee up to breathe in regions", "The curse is mutual \u2018 twixt thy sire and thee \u2014", "Hast thou seen him ?", "Have faith in me , and thou shalt be", "They did inhabit .", "So shall you nearer be the spiritual", "Enough ?\u2014 why should ye differ ?", "Be happier in not knowing", "But changes make not death , except to clay ;", "And if he did betray you , \u2018 twas with Truth ;", "Good man ! whene'er thy wife , or thy sons \u2019 wives ,", "And why not he who made ? I made ye not ;", "Approach the things of earth most beautiful ,", "Evil ; and what else hath he made ? But let him", "And yet thou seest .", "Then follow me !", "And the infinity of endless ages ,", "What thy remoter offspring must encounter ;", "And why not adore ?", "Yet thy God is alone ; and is he happy ? Lonely , and good ?", "Subsiding has struck out a world : such things ,", "And power of Knowledge ?", "In highest Heaven \u2014 through all Eternity ,", "Of past \u2014 and present , and of future worlds .", "Then there must be delusion .\u2014 What is that", "Echo the sound to miserable things ,", "Thou seekest to behold Death , and dead things ?", "Why dost thou hesitate ?", "And having failed to be one , would be nought", "Of thy fond parents , for their daring , proves .", "And judge their beauty near .", "The billows and be safe . I will not say , 20", "Bequeath that science to thy children , and", "Of worlds and life , which I hold with him \u2014 No !", "But the symbols", "I am none :", "The other may be still .", "And centre of surrounding things \u2014 \u2018 tis made", "Dwell near it \u2014 \u2018 tis the phantasm of an Ocean .", "I know the thoughts 100", "I could show thee", "Through thee and thine .", "The worlds beyond thy little world , nor be", "What wouldst thou think ?", "Yes ; happy ! when unfolded ,", "And being of all things the sole thing certain ,", "Though multiplied to animated atoms ,", "Not so ?", "These are my realms ! so that I do divide", "The son of her who snatched the apple spake !", "Homage he has from all \u2014 but none from me : 430", "To him ?", "To the world of phantoms , which", "As populous as this : at present there", "To what was before thee !", "He , too , looks smilingly on Abel .", "As he saith \u2014 which I know not , nor believe \u2014", "To be resolved into the earth .", "of the all-great and good", "Eat , drink , toil , tremble , laugh , weep , sleep \u2014 and die !", "Of Paradise , that spirits who pervade", "\u2018 Twill not be followed , so there 's little lost .", "Quench the mind , if the mind will be itself", "Of Paradise .", "With agonies eternal , to innumerable", "Sit on his vast and solitary throne \u2014", "Things whose enjoyment was to be in blindness \u2014 100", "Of all belov\u00e9d things thou lovest her", "All to be animated for this only !", "A part of all things .", "I pity thee who lovest what must perish .", "Eve , thy mother , best", "Which drove your race from Eden \u2014 war with all things ,", "Mortal ! My brotherhood 's with those who have no children .", "Wouldst thou have men without them ? must no reptiles", "So humbly in their pride , as to sojourn", "I battle it against him , as I battled", "Perhaps", "If thou dost long for knowledge , I can satiate", "What does thy God love ? 310", "Can make its offspring ; still it is delusion .", "The dust which formed your father ?", "And hadst thou not been fit by thine own soul", "Thy world and thou are still too young ! Thou thinkest", "And dost thou love thyself ?", "No .", "My counsel is a kind one ; for \u2018 tis even", "If I am not , enquire", ", of which I am the Prince .", "And some of us resist \u2014 and both in vain , 490", "But if he gives you good \u2014 so call him ; if", "All that must pass away", "Poor clay ! And thou pretendest to be wretched ! Thou !", "Or mutual and irrevocable hate ?", "By suffering .", "It seem in those who will replace ye in", "By tyrannous threats to force you into faith", "I seem that which I am ;", "Or I were , or the things which seem to us", "But canst not comprehend the shadow of", "No less than thou art now .", "For such companionship , I would not now", "But if thou dost possess a beautiful", ", shall endure and do .\u2014", "And death to all things , and disease to most things , 150", "Material as thou art .", "The sin I speak of is not of my making ,", "No , we reign", "Though rare in time , are frequent in eternity .\u2014", "Innumerable , more endurable ,", "Adam could e'er have been in Eden , as 70", "Had no beginning , have had one as mean", "By their own innocence ? I would have made ye", "No : for thy frail race to war", "Indefinite , Indissoluble Tyrant ;", "Ask him who fells .", "Will cease , like any other appetite .", "From evil ; it must still roll on the same ,", "Yea .", "Be sure thou seest first who hath tempted them !", "But thou art clay \u2014 and canst but comprehend", "Let He", "To make thyself fit for this dwelling , thou", "Because", "Here , and o'er all space .", "Yet it sparkles still .", "But do not think to dwell here till thine hour", "The million millions \u2014", "Because \u201c ye should not eat the fruits of life ,", "And not made good or evil by the Giver ;", "His worship is but fear .", "To know there are such realms .", "Nature , and war triumphant with your own .", ", all foredoomed to be", "Not as thou lovest Cain .", "Which ?", "With torture of my dooming . There will come", "Thou didst before I came upon thee .", "And star by star , and universe by universe ,", "In those he spake to with his forky tongue . 230", "There", "With us acts are exempt from time , and we", "But", "Where all is breathless save thyself . Gaze on ;", "Of good and evil ?", "A vision that which is reality .", "And the interminable realms of space ,", "Mark me ! that Son will be a sacrifice !", "And what can quench our immortality ,", "It was .", "But not what was beyond it .", "With worms in clay ?", "Before his sullen , sole eternity ;", "I tell thee that the Serpent was no more", "That which it was .", "Knowledge was barred as poison . But behold", "That bows to him , who made things but to bend", "Fear not \u2014 without me thou", "Your vision .", "That thirst ; nor ask thee to partake of fruits", "His sacrifices are acceptable .", "Still fruitful ? Did I bid her pluck them not ?", "That bear the form of earth-born being .", "who made thee answer that .", "With them would render the curse on it useless \u2014", "Look there ! 120", "No , she must not .", "No ;\u2014 I have nought in common with him !", "Are some things still which woman may tempt man to , 210", "Of his celestial boons to you and yours .", "The reach of beings innocent , and curious", "Unto thy children \u2014\u2014", "To sway .", "It may be thou shalt be as we . 120", "Dust ! limit thy ambition ; for to see", "Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in", "Who shared thy mother 's milk , and giveth hers", "Creating worlds , to make eternity", "To the most gross and petty paltry wants ,", "To that which is omnipotent , because", "But good .", "And thou couldst not", "Evil ; but what will be the Good he gives ?", "Existence \u2014 it will cease \u2014 and thou wilt be \u2014", "Linked to a servile mass of matter \u2014 and ,", "What must he be you cannot love when known ?", "Must pass through what the things thou seest have passed \u2014", "That which", "As true .", "And earliest embraces of earth 's parents ,", "And unparticipated solitude ;", "As much superior unto all thy sire", "The earth , thy task \u2014 I 'll waft thee there in safety .", "And what they were thou feelest , in degree 90", "Of you , young mortals , lights at once upon", "Thy God or Gods \u2014 there am I : all things are", "That", "Comprehend spirit wholly \u2014 but \u2018 tis something 170", "Since the all-knowing Cherubim love least ,", "Slime of a mighty universe , crushed into", "Destruction and disorder of the elements ,", "Of what is visible ; and yon bright star", "Of Knowledge ?", "He one day will unfold that further secret .", "Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature", "And true . Behold these phantoms ! they were once", "No more than life is ; and that was ere thou", "Their earliest fault in fable , and attribute", "It is the realm", "Somewhat of both .", "And who and what doth not ? Who covets evil", "The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys .", "If the blessedness", "That which was clay , and such thou shall behold .", "To what thy sons \u2019 sons \u2019 sons , accumulating", "I ask", "Than a mere serpent : ask the Cherubim", "On what thou callest earth", "Gave you a father \u2014 and if he so doth ,", "The Seraphs \u2019 love can be but ignorance :", "Think'st thou I 'd take the shape of things that die ?", "And this should be the human sum", "But must be undergone .", "Amerced for doubts beyond thy little life ,", "Worlds greater than thine own \u2014 inhabited", "Thou livest .", "\u2018 Tis fair as frail mortality ,", "Tempt thee or them to aught that 's new or strange ,", "And become gods as we . \u201d Were those his words ?", "We are immortal !\u2014 nay , he 'd have us so ,", "Not by words , though of Spirits , but the fruits", "Who names me Demon to his angels ; they", "What these superior beings are or were ;", "And I , who know all things , fear nothing ; see 300", "Dost thou not recognise"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["And mine commandeth me to set his seal", "But it shall not be so \u2014 the Lord thy God", "Cursed from the earth , which opened late her mouth", "On Cain , so that he may go forth in safety .", "To drink thy brother 's blood from thy rash hand .", "Who shall heal murder ? what is done , is done ;", "Unlike the last !", "Then he would but be what his father is .", "To him thou now seest so besmeared with blood ?", "Cain ! what hast thou done ?", "And who shall warrant thee against thy son ?", "The fratricide might well engender parricides .\u2014", "Stern hast thou been and stubborn from the womb ,", "Yield thee her strength ; a fugitive shalt thou"], "true_target": ["Did not the milk of Eve give nutriment 490", "Where is thy brother Abel ?", "Even from the ground , unto the Lord !\u2014 Now art thou", "As the ground thou must henceforth till ; but he", "Henceforth , when thou shalt till the ground , it shall not", "Who slayeth Cain , a sevenfold vengeance shall", "Exemption from such deeds as thou hast done .", "It must not be .", "Be taken on his head . Come hither !", "Thou hast slain thy brother ,", "Be from this day , and vagabond on earth !", "Thou slew'st was gentle as the flocks he tended .", "To mark upon thy brow", "The voice of thy slain brother 's blood cries out , 470", "Go forth ! fulfil thy days ! and be thy deeds"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["OUR father sleeps : it is the hour when they", "That I do wrong , I feel a thousand fears", "My sister , though", "Of all my house . My sister ! oh , my sister !", "On Ararat 's late secret crest", "Who love us are accustomed to descend", "When sporting on the face of the calm deep ,", "What were the world , or other worlds , or all", "Of thine eternity should know a pang .", "I am glad he is not . I cannot outlive him . 20", "Azaziel not less were he mortal ; yet", "How my heart beats !", "My Azaziel !", "Will one day hover o'er the sepulchre", "Ah ! he speaks of Death .", "What was I going to say ? my heart grows impious .", "And he the perishable .", "Soft lights which were not mine ? Aholibamah !", "And mountains , land , and woods ! when ye are not , 780", "A mild and many-coloured bow , 150", "Making my dim existence radiant with", "Sister ! sister ! speak not", "I would resign the greater remnant of", "The God of Seth as Cain , I must obey ,", "Subsides soon after he again hath dashed", "Better thus than that he should weep for me .", "Through the deep clouds o'er rocky Ararat :\u2014", "They come ! he comes !\u2014 Azaziel !", "Now shines ! and now , behold ! it hath", "Yes , for thee :", "But , Aholibamah ,", "From his unfathomable home ,", "The things which sprang up with me , like the stars ,", "But if our father see the sight !", "Thus .", "Like a returning sunset ;\u2014 lo !"], "true_target": ["Of universal vengeance", "And when I think that his immortal wings", "It would not be to live , alone exempt", ",", "Which the Leviathan hath lashed", "Of the poor child of clay", "I love our God less since his angel loved me :", "Who shall dry up my tears ?", "His grief will be of ages , or at least", "Japhet , I cannot answer thee ; yet , yet", "I abhor Death , because that thou must die .", "Less terrible ; but yet I pity him :", "The brightest future , without the sweet past \u2014", "Returned to night , as rippling foam ,", "Which are not ominous of right .", "Forgive me \u2014\u2014", "Oh ! my dear father 's tents , my place of birth ,", "Their bright way through the parted night .", "And if it should be so , and she loved him ,", "Whate'er our God decrees ,", "Down , down , to where the Ocean 's fountains sleep .", "I love Azaziel more than \u2014\u2014 oh , too much !", "The remnant of their flashing path ,", "This little life of mine , before one hour", "And will endeavour patiently to obey .", "This cannot be of good ; and though I know not", "But could I dare to pray in his dread hour 430", "Thy love , my father 's , all the life , and all", "I should have loved", "Japhet !", "Oh ! if there should be mercy \u2014 seek it , find it : 440", "As he adores the Highest , death becomes", "But the stars are hidden . I tremble .", "which so adored him ,", "Lo ! they have kindled all the west ,", "Mine would be such for him , were I the Seraph ,", "Sister ! sister ! I view them winging"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["I have ever hailed our Maker , Samiasa ,", "With love more warm than mine", "But if it be in joy", "Ne'er wept beneath the skies .", "The worst of dreams , the fantasies engendered", "Thou deignest to partake their hymn \u2014", "The clouds from off their pinions flinging ,", "Forgive , my Seraph ! that such thoughts appear , 70", "A war unworthy : to an Adamite", "Anah .", "Whose tenants dying , while their world is falling ,", "More to be mortal , than I would to dare 360", "Seraph !", "And where is the impiety of loving 10", "My love . There is a ray", "Wheresoe'er", "With Samiasa !", "On Eden 's streams , 100", "That thou forget'st in thine eternity", "Unequal is the strife", "With other deeds between his God and him ?", "Then wed thee", "As though they bore to-morrow 's light .", "Yet , Seraph dear ! 60", "Change us he may , but not o'erwhelm ; we are 120", "Be it so ! but while yet their hours endure ,", "That secret rests with the Almighty giver ,", "Of Seraphs ? and if we were not , must we", "With Cain 's , the eldest born of Adam 's , blood", "Have seen them wear on their eternal way ?", "Delight", "Rather say ,", "Marry , and bring forth dust !", "Of earth , and love her as he once loved Anah . 30", "If I thought thus of Samiasa 's love ,", "My own Azaziel ! be but here ,", "I know not , nor would know ;", "And such , I feel , are waging in my heart", "Many may worship thee , that will I not :", "Thou walk'st thy many worlds , thou see'st", "Cling to a son of Noah for our lives ?", "Let us proceed upon", "No , not to save all Earth , were Earth in peril !", "That he will single forth some other daughter", "And dost thou think that we ,", "There 's Japhet loves thee well , hath loved thee long :", "Which tells me we are not abandoned quite .\u2014", "An hour too soon .", "Samiasa !", "As thine , and mine : a God of Love , not Sorrow . 460", "A mortal 's love", "Our race hath always dwelt apart from thine", "Rather than thus \u2014\u2014 But the enthusiast dreams", "He would but deem it was the moon 140", "Like the eternal thunders of the deep ,", "They have touched earth ! Samiasa !", "Of those cast out from Eden 's gate :", "But to our invocation !\u2014 \u2018 Tis the hour .", "I feel my immortality o'ersweep", "For sorrow is our element ;", "But thee and me he never can destroy ;", "And most enduring :\u2014 Shall I blush for him 420", "\u2018 Tis said so .", "Eternity is in thine years , 50", "Who folds in clouds the fonts of bliss and woe .", "Distinct from that which we and all our sires", "In the eternal depths of heaven", "The tempest cometh ; heaven and earth unite 770", "In me , which , though forbidden yet to shine ,", "I glory in my brethren and our fathers .", "Yet think that thou art all to her .", "The bugbear he hath built to scare the world ,", "With him if he will war with us ; with thee", "Dispute with him", "All pains , all tears , all fears , and peal ,", "And though she nothing is to thee ,", "Our invocation .", "The bitterness of tears .", "The face of him who made thee great ,", "Our race ; behold their stature and their beauty ,", "Great is their love who love in sin and fear ;", "Share the dim destiny of clay in this ;", "Though sometimes with our visions blent .", "As \u2014\u2014 but descend , and prove", "And thou of beams", "Back to thy tents , insulting son of Noah ! We know thee not .", "More bright than those of day", "What , hath this dreamer , with his father 's ark ,"], "true_target": ["Their courage , strength , and length of days \u2014\u2014", "For an immortal . If the skies contain", "Thou canst not tell ,\u2014 and never be", "The eldest born of man , the strongest , bravest ,", "Thou art immortal \u2014 so am I : I feel \u2014 110", "Haste", "From whom we had our being ? Look upon", "Is that a cause for thee and me to part ?", "Samiasa !", "Except in love , and there thou must", "Of as eternal essence , and must war", "Though I be formed of clay ,", "To Samiasa 's breast !", "Seth , the last offspring of old Adam 's dotage ?", "I can share all things , even immortal sorrow ;", "He was our father 's father ;", "Warm in our veins ,\u2014 strong Cain ! who was begotten 390", "Her whose heart Death could not keep from o'er-flowing", "Descend and share my lot !", "If they love as they are loved , they will not shrink", "So do I , but not with fear", "It may be hidden long : death and decay", "And thou thyself wert like the serpent , coil", "For thou hast ventured to share life with me ,", "I feel was lighted at thy God 's and thine .", "To meet them ! Oh ! for wings to bear", "Or warring with the spirits who may dare", "Such pangs decreed to aught save me ,\u2014", "Acknowledge that more loving dust", "Around me still ! and I will smile ,", "I call thee , I await thee , and I love thee .", "Celestial natures ?", "Shaken my sister ? Are we not the loved", "Before thy bright wings worlds be driven ,", "Albeit thou watchest with \u201c the seven , \u201d", "Unto some son of clay , and toil and spin !", "Unborn , undying beauty in thine eyes ;", "My spirit , while they hover there ,", "If that thy spirit down to mine may move thee ,", "Seraph !", "No ! though the serpent 's sting should pierce me thorough ,", "Some wandering star , which shoots through the abyss ,", "Thou rulest in the upper air \u2014", "All Seraph as he is , I 'd spurn him from me .", "For thee , immortal essence as thou art !", "As he hath made me of the least", "Whatever star contain thy glory ;", "Appear ! Appear !", "In Paradise", "From the beginning , and shall do so ever .", "Oh ! think of her who holds thee dear !", "And shall I shrink from thine eternity ?", "An immortality of agonies", "An Eden kept afar from sight ,", "But", "Our mother Eve bequeathed us \u2014 but my heart", "He slew not Seth : and what hast thou to do", "By hopeless love and heated vigils . Who", "And would'st thou have her like our father 's foe In mind , in soul ? If I partook thy thought , And dreamed that aught of Abel was in her !\u2014 410 Get thee hence , son of Noah ; thou makest strife .", "Shall shake these solid mountains , this firm earth , 450", ",\u2014 would mingle with Seth 's children ?", "Between our strength and the Eternal Might !", "For thou hast loved me , and I would not die", "For the annihilation of all life .", "Defies it : though this life must pass away ,", "Though through space infinite and hoary", "From thy sphere !", "Who made all empires , empire ; or recalling", "Until I know what I must die in knowing ,", "So be it !", "40", "The hour is near", "Of aught save their delay .", "Oh hear !", "Into my ears this truth \u2014 \u201c Thou liv'st for ever ! \u201d", "Yet hear !", "Thine immortality can not repay", "And bid those clouds and waters take a shape", "Rising unto some sorcerer 's tune", "Who shall do this ?", "Or joining with the inferior cherubim , 90", "Thee in as warm a fold 130", "More joy than thou canst give and take , remain !", "With me thou canst not sympathise ,", "And leave the stars to their own light ! 80", "Aho .", "Who heard that word ?", "And curse thee not ; but hold"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Then peace be with thee !", "As not being of them : turn thy steps aside ,", "But \u2018 tis dangerous ;", "I have some cause to think", "Wherefore so ? What wouldst thou there ?", "It may be , time too will avenge it .", "But evil things will be thy foe the more", "Thou wilt not to our tents then ? 40", "They cannot aid thee .", "I must go with thee .", "And so did I .", "Than all our father 's herds would bring , if weighed", "And proud Aholibamah spurns me also . 10", "Me ! why ?", "But she loves thee not .", "Or let mine be with thine .", "Strange sounds and sights have peopled it with terrors .", "I loved her well ; I would have loved her better ,", "Mine hath enabled me to bear her scorn :", "What can it profit thee ?", "Our flocks and wilderness afford .\u2014 Go , Japhet ,"], "true_target": ["The yellow dust they try to barter with us ,", "Whate'er she loveth , so she loves thee not ,", "As if such useless and discoloured trash ,", "Nor joy nor sorrow .", "Against the metal of the sons of Cain \u2014", "She loves another .", "Had love been met with love : as \u2018 tis , I leave her", "Yes .", "If not her words , tells me she loves another .", "The refuse of the earth , could be received", "Let her keep her pride ,", "And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars ?", "That I know not ; but her air , 20", "For milk , and wool , and flesh , and fruits , and all", "I take thy taunt as part of thy distemper ,", "No ; her sister .", "To brighter destinies , if so she deems them .", "And would not feel as thou dost for more shekels 30", "Despond not : wherefore wilt thou wander thus", "I must back to my rest .", "To add thy silence to the silent night ,", "Sigh to the stars , as wolves howl to the moon \u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Where man no more can fall as once he fell ,", "How the fiend mocks the tortures of a world ,", "Me still the same which I have ever been .", "The seed of Seth !", "The verge where brighter morns were wont to break .", "Spirit .", "And even the very demons shall do well !", "May'st know me better ; and thy sister know", "The fellowship of angels .", "Whether they live , or die with all Earth 's life ,", "By all that earth holds holiest , speak ! SpiritHa ! ha !", "Father , it cannot be a sin to seek", "Of earth nought left but the unbroken blue ;", "Look vast and lifeless in the eternal eye .", "When the Redeemer cometh ; first in pain ,", "Angel ! what", "All merged within the universal fountain ,", "Why dost thou laugh that horrid laugh ?", "His glaring disk around ,", "Partake his punishment ; or , at the least ,", "May the Heaven , which soon no more", "Of Death !", "Shall nought remain", "whose", "Had left a daughter , whose pure pious race", "Children of Cain ?", "What other ?", "In the name", "I brought him forth in woe ,", "Shall they drop off . Behold their last to-morrow !", "Aye , but not Anah : she but loves her God .", "Children of dust be quenched ; and of each hue", "My unweaned son \u2014", "Oh , father ! say it not .", "Not slow , not single , not by sword , nor sorrow ,", "Unchanged , or of the level plain ;", "It is even so .", "While safe amidst the elemental strife , 830", "After long looking o'er the ocean wide", "Alas ! where shall they dwell ?", "Who shall erect a home ?", "Cedar and pine shall lift their tops in vain :", "The heaven which will convert her clouds to seas ,", "Anah !", "Man , earth , and fire , shall die ,", "The abhorr\u00e9d race", "Between a mortal and an immortal , cannot 370", "Can rage and justice join in the same path ?", "And of the variegated mountain 100", "A Mother", "And no breath ,", "My sire and race but glory in their God ,", "Irad , no ; believe me", "For being happy ,", "Turn to thy Seraphs : if they attest it not ,", "Or curs\u00e9d be \u2014 with him who made", "Soothe further my sad spirit", "If I could rest .", "The hour may come when thou", "The coming desolation of an orb ,", "And hath not the Most High expounded them ? Then ye are lost as they are lost .", "Thee and thy race , for which we are betrayed !", "But thought it joy", "Of the forsaken world ; and never more ,", "Oh , father , stay ! Leave not my Anah to the swallowing tides !", "Save him , thou seed of Seth !", "To save an earth-born being ; and behold ,", "Oh , Anah !", "Angels shall tire their wings , but find no spot :", "Peace ! I have sought it where it should be found , In love \u2014 with love , too , which perhaps deserved it ; And , in its stead , a heaviness of heart , A weakness of the spirit , listless days , And nights inexorable to sweet sleep Have come upon me . Peace ! what peace ? the calm 60 Of desolation , and the stillness of The untrodden forest , only broken by The sweeping tempest through its groaning boughs ; Such is the sullen or the fitful state Of my mind overworn . The Earth 's grown wicked , And many signs and portents have proclaimed A change at hand , and an o'erwhelming doom To perishable beings . Oh , my Anah ! When the dread hour denounced shall open wide The fountains of the deep , how mightest thou 70 Have lain within this bosom , folded from The elements ; this bosom , which in vain Hath beat for thee , and then will beat more vainly , While thine \u2014 Oh , God ! at least remit to her Thy wrath ! for she is pure amidst the failing As a star in the clouds , which cannot quench , Although they obscure it for an hour . My Anah ! How would I have adored thee , but thou wouldst not ; And still would I redeem thee \u2014 see thee live When Ocean is earth 's grave , and , unopposed 80 By rock or shallow , the Leviathan , Lord of the shoreless sea and watery world , Shall wonder at his boundlessness of realm .", "That ye too know not ? Angels ! angels ! ye", "Or show the place where strong Despair hath died ,", "He riseth , but his better light is gone ;", "Methinks a being that is beautiful", "What is there in this milk of mine , that Death 840", "And now thou lov'st not ,", "Save of the winds , be on the unbounded wave !", "Are made to minister on high unto", "Part with , although I must from thee . My Anah !", "To save this beautiful \u2014 these beautiful 350", "And roll the waters o'er his placid breath ?", "Thou sitt'st within thy guarded ark ?", "And , gathered under his almighty wings ,", "The approaching chaos . Anah ! Anah ! my", "By the approaching deluge ! by the earth", "Restore the beauty of her birth , 200", "Which will be strangled by the ocean ! by", "Upon the earth to toil and die ; and they", "But listened to the voice", "All shall be void ,", "Deserve her . Farewell , Anah ! I have said", "Why walk'st thou with this Spirit , in those hours", "These are not of the sinful , since they have", "The last and loveliest of Cain 's race , could share", "I feel no evil thought , and fear no evil . 50", "And the Omnipotent who makes and crushes !", "Are nigh the hour , 80", "And then in glory .", "!", "But thou , my Anah ! let me call thee mine , 400", "His power was greater of redemption ! or", "Forth when they walk its surface .", "Or think'st thou lov'st not , art thou happier ?", "My boy ,", "And a black circle , bound 740", "Oh , let this child embark !", "Earth shall be Ocean !", "For earth and all her children .", "Chorus of Mortals .", "The clouds return into the hues of night ,", "Nor years , nor heart-break , nor Time 's sapping motion ,", "Upon the foam", "I am safe , not for my own deserts , but those 380", "Canst thou", "At which their wrathful vials shall be poured .", "The universe , which leaped", "To let the inner spirits of the earth", "To be repeated . Angel ! or whate'er", "Save where their brazen-coloured edges streak", "Proclaims Earth 's last of summer days hath shone !", "And sea and sky", "I grieve not for myself , nor fear ."], "true_target": ["Shall deign to expound this dream", "Yet quivers every leaf , and drops each blossom :", "My sire ! 110 Earth 's seed shall not expire ; Only the evil shall be put away From day . Avaunt ! ye exulting demons of the waste ! Who howl your hideous joy When God destroys whom you dare not destroy : Hence ! haste ! Back to your inner caves ! Until the waves Shall search you in your secret place , 120 And drive your sullen race Forth , to be rolled upon the tossing winds , In restless wretchedness along all space ! Spirit . Son of the saved ! When thou and thine have braved The wide and warring element ; When the great barrier of the deep is rent , Shall thou and thine be good or happy ?\u2014 No ! Thy new world and new race shall be of woe \u2014 Less goodly in their aspect , in their years 130 Less than the glorious giants , who Yet walk the world in pride , The Sons of Heaven by many a mortal bride . Thine shall be nothing of the past , save tears ! And art thou not ashamed Thus to survive , And eat , and drink , and wive ? With a base heart so far subdued and tamed , As even to hear this wide destruction named , Without such grief and courage , as should rather 140 Bid thee await the world-dissolving wave , Than seek a shelter with thy favoured father , And build thy city o'er the drowned earth 's grave ? Who would outlive their kind , Except the base and blind ? Mine Hateth thine As of a different order in the sphere , But not our own . There is not one who hath not left a throne 150 Vacant in heaven to dwell in darkness here , Rather than see his mates endure alone . Go , wretch ! and give A life like thine to other wretches \u2014 live ! And when the annihilating waters roar Above what they have done , Envy the giant patriarchs then no more , And scorn thy sire as the surviving one ! Thyself for being his son ! Chorus of Spirits issuing from the cavern . Rejoice ! 160 No more the human voice Shall vex our joys in middle air With prayer ; No more Shall they adore ; And we , who ne'er for ages have adored The prayer-exacting Lord , To whom the omission of a sacrifice Is vice ; We , we shall view the deep 's salt sources poured 170 Until one element shall do the work Of all in chaos ; until they , The creatures proud of their poor clay , Shall perish , and their bleached bones shall lurk In caves , in dens , in clefts of mountains , where The deep shall follow to their latest lair ; Where even the brutes , in their despair , Shall cease to prey on man and on each other , And the striped tiger shall lie down to die Beside the lamb , as though he were his brother ; 180 Till all things shall be as they were , Silent and uncreated , save the sky : While a brief truce Is made with Death , who shall forbear The little remnant of the past creation , To generate new nations for his use ; This remnant , floating o'er the undulation Of the subsiding deluge , from its slime , When the hot sun hath baked the reeking soil Into a world , shall give again to Time 190 New beings \u2014 years , diseases , sorrow , crime \u2014 With all companionship of hate and toil , Until \u2014\u2014", "While others , fixed as rocks , await the word", "It is for him , then ! for the Seraph thou", "The eternal beauty of undying things .", "Ye wilds , that look eternal ; and thou cave , Which seem'st unfathomable ; and ye mountains , So varied and so terrible in beauty ; Here , in your rugged majesty of rocks And toppling trees that twine their roots with stoneIn perpendicular places , where the foot Of man would tremble , could he reach them \u2014 yes , Ye look eternal ! Yet , in a few days , Perhaps even hours , ye will be changed , rent , hurled Before the mass of waters ; and yon cave , 10 Which seems to lead into a lower world , Shall have its depths searched by the sweeping wave , And dolphins gambol in the lion 's den ! And man \u2014\u2014 Oh , men ! my fellow-beings ! Who Shall weep above your universal grave , Save I ? Who shall be left to weep ? My kinsmen , Alas ! what am I better than ye are , That I must live beyond ye ? Where shall be The pleasant places where I thought of Anah While I had hope ? or the more savage haunts , 20 Scarce less beloved , where I despaired for her ? And can it be !\u2014 Shall yon exulting peak , Whose glittering top is like a distant star , Lie low beneath the boiling of the deep ? No more to have the morning sun break forth , And scatter back the mists in floating folds From its tremendous brow ? no more to have Day 's broad orb drop behind its head at even , Leaving it with a crown of many hues ? No more to be the beacon of the world , 30 For angels to alight on , as the spot Nearest the stars ? And can those words \u201c no more \u201d Be meant for thee , for all things , save for us , And the predestined creeping things reserved By my sire to Jehovah 's bidding ? May He preserve them , and I not have the power To snatch the loveliest of earth 's daughters from A doom which even some serpent , with his mate , Shall \u2018 scape to save his kind to be prolonged , To hiss and sting through some emerging world , 40 Reeking and dank from out the slime , whose ooze Shall slumber o'er the wreck of this , until The salt morass subside into a sphere Beneath the sun , and be the monument , The sole and undistinguished sepulchre , Of yet quick myriads of all life ? How much Breath will be stilled at once ! All beauteous world ! So young , so marked out for destruction , I With a cleft heart look on thee day by day , And night by night , thy numbered days and nights . 50 I cannot save thee , cannot save even her Whose love had made me love thee more ; but as A portion of thy dust , I cannot think Upon thy coming doom without a feeling Such as \u2014 Oh God ! and canst thou \u2014", "Shall lift its point to save , 90", "Alas !", "He who made earth in love had soon to grieve", "Peace ! \u2018 tis no hour for curses , but for prayer ! Chorus of Mortals . For prayer !!! And where Shall prayer ascend , 850 When the swoln clouds unto the mountains bend And burst , And gushing oceans every barrier rend , Until the very deserts know no thirst ? Accursed Be he who made thee and thy sire ! We deem our curses vain ; we must expire ; But as we know the worst , Why should our hymns be raised , our knees be bent Before the implacable Omnipotent , 860 Since we must fall the same ? If he hath made Earth , let it be his shame , To make a world for torture .\u2014 Lo ! they come , The loathsome waters , in their rage ! And with their roar make wholesome nature dumb ! The forest 's trees, So massy , vast , yet green in their old age , 870 Are overtopped , Their summer blossoms by the surges lopped , Which rise , and rise , and rise . Vainly we look up to the lowering skies \u2014 They meet the seas , And shut out God from our beseeching eyes . Fly , son of Noah , fly ! and take thine ease , In thine allotted ocean-tent ; And view , all floating o'er the element , The corpses of the world of thy young days : 880 Then to Jehovah raise Thy song of praise ! A Mortal . Bless\u00e9d are the dead Who die in the Lord ! And though the waters be o'er earth outspread , Yet , as his word , Be the decree adored ! He gave me life \u2014 he taketh but The breath which is his own : And though these eyes should be for ever shut , 890 Nor longer this weak voice before his throne Be heard in supplicating tone , Still blessed be the Lord , For what is past , For that which is : For all are his , From first to last \u2014 Time \u2014 Space \u2014 Eternity \u2014 Life \u2014 Death \u2014 The vast known and immeasurable unknown . He made , and can unmake ; 900 And shall I , for a little gasp of breath , Blaspheme and groan ? No ; let me die , as I have lived , in faith , Nor quiver , though the Universe may quake ! Chorus of Mortals . Where shall we fly ? Not to the mountains high ; For now their torrents rush , with double roar , To meet the Ocean , which , advancing still , Already grasps each drowning hill , Nor leaves an unsearched cave . 910 Enter a Woman . Woman . Oh , save me , save ! Our valley is no more : My father and my father 's tent , My brethren and my brethren 's herds , The pleasant trees that o'er our noonday bent , And sent forth evening songs from sweetest birds , The little rivulet which freshened all Our pastures green , No more are to be seen . When to the mountain cliff I climbed this morn , 920 I turned to bless the spot , And not a leaf appeared about to fall ;\u2014 And now they are not !\u2014 Why was I born ? Japh . To die ! in youth to die ! And happier in that doom , Than to behold the universal tomb , Which I Am thus condemned to weep above in vain . Why , when all perish , why must I remain ?FOOTNOTES :{ 285 }was daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon , Esau 's wife , Gen. xxxvi . 14 . Irad was the son of Enoch , and grandson of Cain , Gen. iv . 18 . ]{ 286 }The archangels , said to be seven in number , and to occupy the eighth rank in the celestial hierarchy .names the other archangels , \u201c Uriel , Rufael , Raguel , Michael , Saraqael , and Gabriel , who is over Paradise and the serpents and the cherubin . \u201d In the Celestial Hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite , a chapter is devoted to archangels , but their names are not recorded , or their number given . On the other hand , \u201c The teaching of the oracles concerning the angels affirms that they are thousand thousands and myriad myriads . \u201d \u2014 Celestial Hierarchy , etc ., translated by the Rev . J. Parker , 1894 , cap . xiv . p. 43 . It has been supposed that \u201c the seven which are the eyes of the Lord \u201dare the seven archangels . ]{ 289 }, who says , \u2018 Charmers draw down the horns of the blood-red moon , \u2019 ... Here it is to be observed that in the opinion of simple-minded persons , the moon could be actually drawn down from heaven . So Aristophanes says, \u2018 If I should purchase a Thessalian witch , and draw down the moon by night ; \u2019 and Claudian, \u2018 I know by what spell the Thessalian sorceress snatches away the lunar beam . \u2019 \u201d \u2014 Magic Incantations , by Christianus Pazig, edited by Edmund Goldsmid , F. R. H. S ., F. S. A ., 1886 , pp . 30 , 31 . See , too , Virgil , Eclogues , viii . 69 , \u201c Carmina vel c\u0153lo possunt de ducere Lunam . \u201d ]{ 291 }was an instructor of every artificer of brass and iron \u201dAccording to the Book of Enoch , cap . viii ., it was \u201c Az\u00e2z\u00eal , \u201d one of the \u201c sons of the heavens , \u201d who \u201c taught men to make swords , and knives , and skins , and coats of mail , and made known to them metals , and the art of working them , bracelets and ornaments , and the use of antimony , and the beautifying of the eyebrows , and the most costly and choicest stones , and all colouring tincture , so that the world was changed . \u201d ]{ 294 }, who are continually flying from one side to the other , has something in it very frightful . To form any idea of this place you must imagine one of the highest mountains in the world opening its bosom , only to show the most horrible spectacle that can be thought of . All the precipices are perpendicular , and the extremities are rough and blackish , as if a smoke came out of the sides and smutted them . \u201d \u2014 A Voyage in the Levant , by M .Tournefort , 1741 , iii . 205 , 206 . Kitto also describes this \u201c vast chasm , \u201d which contained \u201c an enormous mass of ice , which seems to have fallen from a cliff that overhangs the ice \u201d; but Professor Friedrich Parrot , who was the first to ascend Mount Ararat , does not enlarge upon the \u201c abyss \u201d or chasm .\u2014 Journey to Ararat , translated by W. D. Cowley , 1845 , p . 134 . ]{ 296 }compares the laughter of the fiends in the cave of Caucasus with the snoring of the Furies in the Eumenides of \u00c6schylus \u2014 \u1fec\u1f73\u03b3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9 \u03b4 \u2019 o\u1f50 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c6\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u1f71\u03bc\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bdplatoi ~ si physia / masin ]There is a closer parallel with \u2014 \u0393\u03b5\u03bb\u1fb6 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03b4\u03b1\u1f77\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd \u1f10\u03c0 \u2019 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1f76 \u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u1ff6p \u2019 a ) ndri \\ therm\u00f4 ~]]{ 297 }{ 300 } \"there were giants in the earth in those days ; and ... after , ... mighty men , which were of old , men of renown . \u201d \u2014 Genesis\u201c The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up , and the windows of heaven were opened . \u201d \u2014 Genesis{ 301 }{ 302 } The book of Enoch , preserved by the Ethiopians , is said by them to be anterior to the flood ., which were included by Georgius Syncellusin his Chronographia , pp . ii , 26, were printed by J. J. Scaliger in 1606 . They were , afterwards , includedin the Spicilegium SS . Patrum of Joannes Ernestus Grabius , which was published at Oxford in 1714 . A year afterone of the fragments was \u201c made English , \u201d and published under the title of The History of the Angels and their Gallantry with the Daughters of Men , written by Enoch the Patriarch . In 1785 James Bruce , the traveller , discovered three MSS . of the Book of Enoch . One he conveyed to the library at Paris : a second MS. he presented to the Bodleian Library at OxfordIn 1801 an article entitled , \u201c Notice du Libre d'Enoch , \u201d was contributed by Silvestre de Sacy to the Magasin Encyclop\u00e9dique; and in 1821 Richard Laurence , LL. D ., published a translation \u201c from the Ethiopic MS. in the Bodleian Library . \u201d This was the first translation of the book as a whole . The following extracts , which were evidently within Byron 's recollection when he planned Heaven and Earth , are taken from The Book of Enoch , translated from Professor Dillman 's Ethiopic Text , by R. H. Charles , Oxford , 1892 :\u2014", "That by exchanging my own life for hers ,", "They are none .", "Righteous enough to save his children . Would", "Sleep too upon the very eve of death !", "Some clouds sweep on as vultures for their prey ,", "Oh son of Noah ! mercy on thy kind !", "There 's not a breath of wind upon the hill ,", "Dost thou on earth when thou should'st be on high ?", "Hark , hark ! Deep sounds , and deeper still ,", "Thou unknown , terrible , and indistinct ,", "Which look like death in life , and speak like things", "Mouth they say opens from the internal world ,", "And so would I", "Abolish Hell !", "For the expected ebb which cometh not :", "Rejoice !", "Anah ! and thou ?\u2014\u2014", "Find joy in such a thought ?", "Of good and evil ; and redeem", "Not I .", "True , nothing ; but", "The rest of the stem Cainites , save in beauty ,", "That word so often ! but now say it , ne'er", "And to the expiated Earth", "Let me die with this , and them !", "The ark which shall receive a remnant of", "Should stir all Heaven and Earth up to destroy", "With gloom as sad : it is a hopeless spot ,", "And is it so ,", "Be happy or be hallowed . We are sent", "Which is condemned ; nay , even the evil fly", "Becometh more so as it looks on beauty ,", "Above its first and best inhabitants .", "But they soothe me \u2014 now", "Deprived of that which makes my misery .", "Her Eden in an endless paradise ,", "Are howling from the mountain 's bosom :", "No , neither , Irad ;", "No azure more shall robe the firmament ,", "Thou who dost rather make me dream that Abel", "To life before it . Ah ! smilest thou still in scorn ?", "In the Sun 's place a pale and ghastly glare", "Will pardon , do so ! for thou art greatly tempted .", "Earth groans as if beneath a heavy load .", "Another element shall be the lord", "They are gone ! They have disappeared amidst the roar", "From what he had done .", "I had not named his deed , but that thyself", "What ! wilt thou leave us all \u2014 all \u2014 all behind ?", "My sorrow .", "Have shared man 's sin , and , it may be , now must", "Destroyed !", "Yet awful Thing of Shadows , speak to me !", "Hath wound itself around the dying air .", "The deep which will lay open all her fountains ! 60", "From him who shed the first , and that a brother 's !", "Say'st well , though she be dust \u2014 I did not , could not ,", "He whose one word produced them .", "I must proceed alone .", "Spirit", "The sun ! the sun", "I feel for thee too .", "I did not speak to thee , Aholibamah !", "When no good Spirit longer lights below ?", "I pity thee .", "Now near its last , can aught restore", "Didst seem to glory in him , nor to shrink", "To see him to my bosom clinging so .", "Not even a rock from out the liquid grave", "Wrong ! the greatest of all wrongs ! but , thou", "On which the sun shall rise and warm no life !", "Thou speakest well : his God hath judged him , and", "In vain , and long , and still to be , beloved ! 330", "Why was he born ?", "Why should they wake to meet it ? What are here ,", "God hath proclaimed the destiny of earth ; My father 's ark of safety hath announced it ; The very demons shriek it from their caves ; The scrollof Enoch prophesied it long In silent books , which , in their silence , say More to the mind than thunder to the ear : And yet men listened not , nor listen ; but Walk darkling to their doom : which , though so nigh , Shakes them no more in their dim disbelief , 280 Than their last cries shall shake the Almighty purpose , Or deaf obedient Ocean , which fulfils it . No sign yet hangs its banner in the air ; The clouds are few , and of their wonted texture ; The Sun will rise upon the Earth 's last day As on the fourth day of creation , when God said unto him , \u201c Shine ! \u201d and he broke forth Into the dawn , which lighted not the yet Unformed forefather of mankind \u2014 but roused Before the human orison the earlier 290 Made and far sweeter voices of the birds , Which in the open firmament of heaven Have wings like angels , and like them salute Heaven first each day before the Adamites : Their matins now draw nigh \u2014 the east is kindling \u2014 And they will sing ! and day will break ! Both near , So near the awful close ! For these must drop Their outworn pinions on the deep ; and day , After the bright course of a few brief morrows ,\u2014 Aye , day will rise ; but upon what ?\u2014 a chaos , 300 Which was ere day ; and which , renewed , makes Time Nothing ! for , without life , what are the hours ? No more to dust than is Eternity Unto Jehovah , who created both . Without him , even Eternity would be A void : without man , Time , as made for man , Dies with man , and is swallowed in that deep Which has no fountain ; as his race will be Devoured by that which drowns his infant world .\u2014 What have we here ? Shapes of both earth and air ? 310 No \u2014 all of heaven , they are so beautiful . I cannot trace their features ; but their forms , How lovelily they move along the side Of the grey mountain , scattering its mist ! And after the swart savage spirits , whose Infernal immortality poured forth Their impious hymn of triumph , they shall be Welcome as Eden . It may be they come To tell me the reprieve of our young world , For which I have so often prayed .\u2014 They come ! 320 Anah ! oh , God ! and with her \u2014\u2014", "Anah unto these eyes .", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "To move Jehovah 's wrath or scorn ?", "Offspring of Cain , thy father did so !", "I love .", "Unto himself all times , all things ;", "Survived in thee , so much unlike thou art", "Alone can do so .", "Of the Most High , what art thou ?", "Alas ! what else is Love but Sorrow ? Even", "Left thy God too ! for unions like to these ,", "Albeit thou art not ; \u2018 tis a word I cannot", "Too much of the forefather whom thou vauntest", "Hast left me ! That is nothing , if thou hast not", "Nor spangled stars be glorious : Death hath risen : 810", "Of knowledge without power ,", "Perhaps she looks upon them as I look .", "No , Irad ; I will to the cavern ,", "Which could not keep in Eden their high place ,", "But all good angels have forsaken earth ,", "They are numbered .", "What hath he done \u2014", "And I am hopeless .", "The hour will come in which celestial aid", "Who could alone have made mine happy , she ,", "Of life , and the abhorred", "The Highest : but if he can save thee , soon", "Born ere this dying world ? They come like clouds !", "Thou art , or must be soon , hast thou the power", "The eternal Will", "For all of them are fairest in their favour \u2014\u2014", "What destinies ?", "Has come down in that haughty blood which springs", "Of a well-doing sire , who hath been found", "How the earth sleeps ! and all that in it is 70"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Can we in Desolation 's peace have rest ?", "And wailing less for us than those who shall", "Son ! son !", "A righteous death , unlike the seed of Cain 's .", "I loved him \u2014 beautiful he was : oh , Heaven ! 580", "In the great name and at the word of God ,", "Dear , dearest in themselves , and scarce less dear \u2014", "And that the hour approacheth , should indulge", "Save his who made , what beauty and what power", "Has deigned to commune with me , and reveal", "And Heaven , and limited each , kind to kind ?", "And , when the fatal waters are allayed ,", "Then die", "Hence to where our all-hallowed ark uprears 750", "Yet let me not retain thee \u2014 fly !", "What doth he there ? It is an evil spot", "Shall long outlast the Sun which gave them day .", "Too much already hast thou deigned", "Condemned .", "To be created , and to acknowledge him", "Thou shall not suffer woe", "But they", "Japhet ! What", "Long have I warred ,", "In the immortal ranks ? immortal still", "Nor see ye lose a portion of his grace , 640", "My pangs can be but brief ; but thine would be 660", "Least to be tempted messenger appears !", "But man , and was not made to judge mankind ,", "Has not God made a barrier between Earth", "Who leave the throne of God , to take them wives", "Ask him who made thee greater than myself", "And beautiful they are , but not the less", "And must I lose thee too ,", "Not ye in all your glory can redeem", "Rather than longer worship dared endure !", "Cease , or be sorrowful in silence ; cease", "Fly , Seraphs ! to your own eternal shore ,", "And meet the wave , as we would meet the sword ,", "Japh .", "The first and fairest of the sons of God ,", "In vain would be implored", "The first who taught us knowledge hath been hurled", "Raph .", "\u2018 Tis that an angel 's bride disdains to weep ,\u2014", "Japh .", "Yet , yet , oh fly !", "Shall pass away ,", "And lose Eternity by that delay !", "And ye to woman 's \u2014 beautiful she is , 590", "Written in fire", "A part of sin ;", "And better .", "To alter his intent", "Few shall be spared ,", "Far less the sons of God ; but as our God", "To us until this moment hidden ,", "Still loves this daughter of a fated race ,", "Weep for the myriads who can weep no more . 630", "Whose memory in your immortality 600", "Than even wicked men resort there : he", "Samiasa !", "And must we die ? 650", "And , as the latest birth of his great word ,", "Farewell ! Now rise , inexorable deep !", "From out the race of Cain ; the sons of Heaven ,", "Must lift their eyes to Adam 's God in vain .", "With your pure equals . Hence ! away ! away !", "Was ever like to Satan 's ! Would the hour", "Selected by Jehovah .\u2014 Let us on .", "Leaving the archangels at his right hand dim .", "Aza .", "Where winds nor howl , nor waters roar .", "Silence , vain boy ! each word of thine 's a crime . Angel ! forgive this stripling 's fond despair .", "An ocean is prepared ,", "till now we trod", "Seraphs ! less mighty than that mightiest one ,\u2014", "Renew not Adam 's fall :", "Through time to dust , unshortened by God 's wrath ,", "Her , whom the surges of the all-strangling deep", "Were your immortal mission safety , \u2018 twould", "Yet undestroyed , be warned ! Eternity", "Hark , hark ! the sea-birds cry ! 730", "And thou ! if Earth be thus forbidden", "The world he loved , and made", "Aho .", "Aye , father ! but when they are gone ,", "Cannot be good .", "In glorious homage with the elected \u201c Seven . \u201d", "That they exist : they soon shall cease to be ,", "Obey him , as we shall obey ;", "And as your pinions bear ye back to Heaven ,", "That pure severe serenity of brow :", "Anah .", "Her race , returned into her womb , must wither , 560", "Thy prophecies were true !", "Must we not leave all life to such ? Begone !", "Is thus a Seraph 's duty to be shown ,", "Eager to keep it worthy of our Lord .", "Sam .", "Your place is Heaven .", "Woe , woe , woe to such communion !", "Save in our ark , or let me be no more !", "In which he fell could ever be forgiven !", "Although he could not wed her if she loved him ,", "The angels , from his further snares exempt :", "With just Jehovah 's wrath !", "Almightiness . And lo ! his mildest and", "How darest thou look on that prophetic sky ,", "And that on high", "Blasphemer ! darest thou murmur even now !", "I hear the voice which says that all must die ,", "Whose seat is near the throne ,", "For me . Away ! nor weep !", "Think how he was undone ! 570", "Cannot this Earth be made , or be destroyed ,", "For Heaven desired too late ?", "But ye who still are pure !", "Even had their days been left to toil their path", "And wherefore speak'st thou of destruction near ? 530", "Do not fear for me :", "Who can , redeems thee .", "For perishable clay ,", "It cometh ! hence , away !", "Do God no wrong !", "Mankind were then but twain ,", "Its safe and wreckless sides !", "Our doom is sorrow : not to us alone ,", "In clouds they overspread the lurid sky ,", "For the remission of one hour of woe ,", "A second host from heaven , to break Heaven 's law .", "His judgments , I reply , that the descent", "Who seek Earth 's daughters for their beauty ?", "For Blindness is the first-born of Excess .", "In their immeasurable forfeiture .", "And much which she inherits : but oh ! why", "Even on the very eve of perishing", "If not within thy heart , yet with thy tongue", "And we are all alone ,", "Let us resign even what we have adored ,", "Let us still walk the stars", "His frequent mission with delighted pinions :", "How long hath this been law ,", "And yours to live for ever :", "Without involving ever some vast void", "The agony to which they must be heirs \u2014", "Watching this youngest star of his dominions ;", "In being here ?"], "true_target": ["Sister ! since it is so , 620", "the Archangel .", "All evil things are powerless on the man", "Such would it be", "Spirits !", "But ye are pardoned thus far , and replaced", "I am 480", "And thou , Azaziel ! No \u2014 670", "Think how your essence differeth from theirs", "Dost thou not err as we", "If not unmoved , yet undismayed ,", "And the eternal Lord", "What do ye here ?", "Find still .", "Let them not meet this sea without a shore ,", "Oh , my heart ! my heart !", "In all but suffering ! why partake", "By mortal feelings for a mortal maid :", "He hath not tempted you ; he cannot tempt", "Soon it shall be their only shore ,", "Floating upon the azure desert , and", "And reaped by Death , lord of the human soil ?", "The depth beneath us hides our own dear land ,", "May'st suffer more , not weeping : then forget", "The deep shall rise to meet Heaven 's overflow \u2014", "Why is thy brow severe ?", "In such forbidden yearnings ! Lead the way ; 100", "And even the Spirits \u2019 knowledge shall grow less", "And if I look up with a tearless eye ,", "Adoring him in his least works displayed ;", "Our brother Satan fell ; his burning will", "Even when the waters waxed too fierce to brave .", "And mine , but not less subject to his own", "True , Earth must die !", "Noah .", "While ye shall fill with shrieks the upper sky", "And that she doth not . Oh , the unhappy hearts", "And lo ! yon flash of light ,", "What he who made you glorious hath condemned . 490", "Were graves permitted to the seed of Cain .", "The snake but vanquished dust ; but she will draw", "I would not keep this life of mine in clay", "With him who deemed it hard", "In their true place , with the angelic choir ,", "No ; to the cavern of the Caucasus .", "Ye cannot die ;", "The wish is impious : but , oh ye !", "And think if tempting man can compensate", "Sooner than our white-bearded patriarchs died ;", "Never a white wing , wetted by the wave ,", "Where is thy brother Japhet ?", "The blow , though not unlocked for , falls as new :", "Be general , not for two , though beautiful ;", "In overwhelming unison 760", "When all good angels left the world , ye stayed ,", "The destiny and evil of these days ,", "Of men ! that one of my blood , knowing well", "Earth ! which oft saw 520", "Unto a perishable and perishing ,", "To weary Heaven 's ear with thy selfish plaint . 690", "Who midst the cherubim", "And seek to save what all things now condemn ,", "Leave to the elements their evil prey !", "But ignorance must ever be", "Let them fly ! 610", "As they wax proud within ; 540", "Wouldst thou have God commit a sin for thee ?", "Think that my love still mounts with thee on high ,", "Of Seraphs from their everlasting seat", "Oh God ! be thou a God , and spare", "Now that the hour is near 510", "And hover round the mountain , where before", "Yet dared to soar ,", "With them !", "Surely celestial mercy lurks below 680", "And not enquired their Maker 's breath of me :", "But they are numerous now as are the waves", "The serpent 's voice less subtle than her kiss .", "Or living , is but known to the great Giver .", "Father ! and thou , archangel , thou !", "Survive in mortal or immortal thrall ,", "For a mere mortal sorrow . Be a man !", "And bear what Adam 's race must bear , and can .", "And yet thou wert so happy too !", "Can bring no pang like this . Fly ! fly !", "But which is best , a dead Eternity ,", "Into some unknown world :", "Peace , child of passion , peace !", "Enter RAPHAEL", "For love ; and oft have we obeyed", "Long must I war", "I came to call ye back to your fit sphere ,", "Ah ! why ?", "And dearer , silent friends and brethren , all 700", "Our portion is to die ,", "To love us , cometh anguish with disgrace .", "And the tremendous rain ,", "In the decree 550", "Together the eternal space ; together", "Return !", "Thou shouldst for such a thought , but shalt not : he", "Still they are Evil 's prey , and Sorrow 's spoil .", "But to the Spirits who have not disdained", "Jehovah 's late decree ,", "Raphael !", "Whose drops shall be less thick than would their graves , 710", "?\u2014 world ,", "Or stay ,", "For all the mercy which Seth 's race", "While from below", "And then , no more !", "Stung with strange passions , and debased", "While thou shalt be the sire of a new world ,", "Adore and burn ,", "Dost thou here with these children of the wicked ?", "But man hath listened to his voice ,", "But yet depart !", "Born to be ploughed with years , and sown with cares ,", "Being gone , \u2018 twill be less difficult to die .", "From his once archangelic throne", "Yet while \u2018 tis time !", "With him , or with his God , is in your choice :", "That Earth by angels must be left untrod ?", "If that thou wouldst avoid their doom , forget", "Who , who , our tears , our shrieks , shall then command ?", "When Earth must be alone ?", "Had Samiasa and Azaziel been", "Live as he wills it \u2014 die , when he ordains ,", "Eternal , if repulsed from Heaven for me .", "It seems ; and , of that few , the race of Cain", "These are they , then , 470", "Dread'st thou not to partake their coming doom ?", "An hour beyond his will ;", "That which I came to do", "The distant thunder 's harbinger , appears !", "Azaziel ?", "Buried in its immeasurable breast ,", "Oh say not so !", "He must be sought for !", "They would have seen", "Raph .", "Made him as suns to a dependent star ,", "Fly !", "Thou canst not weep ; but yet", "Raph .", "Upon an earth all evil ; for things worse", "To one of Adam 's race !", "Jehovah 's footsteps not disdain her sod !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["He said ; but , as I fear , to bend his steps", "He went forth ,", "Like a dove round and round its pillaged nest ;", "I will seek Japhet .", "Towards Anah 's tents , round which he hovers nightly ,"], "true_target": ["To the tents of the father of the sisters ?", "Which opens to the heart of Ararat . 90", "Or else he walks the wild up to the cavern", "Go not forward , father :", "According to his wont , to meet with Irad ,"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["The wings which could not save :\u2014", "How shall he shriek o'er the remorseless sea !", "The mustering thunders of the threatening sphere ;", "The Ocean 's overflow !", "Shall be amongst your race in different forms ;", "The same old tears , old crimes , and oldest ill ,", "And loudly lift each superhuman voice \u2014", "The fountains of the great deep shall be broken ,", "Chorus of Spirits .", "Beings even in death so fair .", "The winds , too , plume their piercing wings ;", "The universal silence shall succeed !", "Save the slight remnant of Seth 's seed \u2014", "Nought to his eye beyond the deep , his grave ?", "Thy death is nearer than thy recent birth ;", "Meantime still struggle in the mortal chain ,", "The seed of Seth ,", "Yet undisplayed ,", "Their flashing banners , folded still on high ,", "Of growing Ocean 's gloomy swell ;", "Shall oversweep the future , as the waves", "In a few hours the glorious giants \u2019 graves", "It is decreed ,", "But the same moral storms", "; while mankind", "These petty foes of Heaven who shrink from Hell !", "And heaven set wide her windows", "Still , as they were from the beginning , blind .", "The little shells , of ocean 's least things be", "We fell !", "View , unacknowledged , each tremendous token \u2014", "With the blood reeking from each battle-plain ;", "Tremble , ye mountains , soon to shrink below", "Save to the Spirit 's all-pervading eye .", "Howl ! howl ! oh Earth !"], "true_target": ["War with yourselves , and Hell , and Heaven , in vain ,", "And all his goodly daughters", "Mortal , farewell !", "Hark ! hark ! already we can hear the voice 220", "Brethren , rejoice !", "Brethren , rejoice !", "And call his nestlings up with fruitless yell ,", "New times , new climes , new arts , new men ; but still ,", "And to the universal human cry", "But still rejoice !", "Until the clouds look gory 210", "Why weep'st thou ?", "But of the sons of Cain", "Unanswered , save by the encroaching swell ;\u2014", "While man shall long in vain for his broad wings ,", "They fall !", "All die !", "\u2014 240", "Exempt for future sorrow 's sake from death .", "All die , 250", "Or , floating upward , with their long hair laid", "The clouds have nearly filled their springs ;", "Deposed where now the eagle 's offspring dwells", "Where could he rest them , while the whole space brings", "Fly , brethren , fly !", "None shall remain ;", "Must lie beneath the desolating waters ;", "Which would not spare 260", "So perish all 270", "Along the wave , the cruel heaven upbraid ,", "Ha ! ha ! ha !", "We hear the sound they cannot hear ,", "Yet a few hours their coming is delayed ; 230", "Till Earth wax hoary ;", "The wave shall break upon your cliffs ; and shells ,"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Our forfeit Heaven shall also be forgot .", "Wrong ?", "Aholibamah , own thy God !", "Where thou , and Anah , shalt partake our lot :", "Upright before his God , whate'er thy gifts ,", "Did God not love what he had made ? And what", "More than what he , thy son , prefers to both ?", "Of death to us ! and those who are with us !", "But ours is with thee ; we will bear ye far", "How have Azaziel , or myself , brought on thee", "And if thou dost not weep for thy lost earth ,", "It may not be :"], "true_target": ["Son of the patriarch , who hath ever been 340", "But that the man seems full of sorrow , I", "And why him and thee , 500", "Was not man made in high Jehovah 's image ?", "Could smile .", "His love unto created love ?", "And thy words seem of sorrow , mixed with wrath ,", "Sorrow ! I ne'er thought till now", "Lo ! A son of Adam !", "We have chosen , and will endure .", "To some untroubled star ,", "Do we but imitate and emulate", "To hear an Adamite speak riddles to me ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Shorn as ye are of all celestial power ,", "Of our great function is to guard thine earth ?", "While all his race are slumbering ?", "Thy spirit-lord .", "To which the elements again repair ,", "From what ?", "Fear not ; though we are shut from Heaven ,", "What doth the earth-born here ,", "A brighter world than this , where thou shalt breathe 820", "Again !", "These darkened clouds are not the only skies .", "Ethereal life , will we explore :", "Its mother 's .\u2014 Let the coming chaos chafe", "What ! though it were to save ?", "Yet much is ours , whence we can not be driven ."], "true_target": ["And talk of weapons unto that which bleeds .", "What are thy swords in our immortal eyes ? 790", "And aliens from your God ,", "To turn it into what it was : beneath", "Come , Anah ! quit this chaos-founded prison ,", "With all its elements ! Heed not their din !", "Know'st thou not , or forget'st thou , that a part", "It cannot slay us : threaten dust with death ,", "Raph .", "Fearest thou , my Anah ?", "As was the eagle 's nestling once within", "Then from this hour , 720", "The shelter of these wings thou shall be safe ,", "Farewell !", "He hath said it , and I say , Amen !", "Patriarch ! Thou hast said it ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Yet , yet , Jehovah ! yet withdraw thy rod", "Which chased the first-born out of Paradise ,", "What have we done ? Yet spare !", "Nor perish like Heaven 's children with man 's daughters .", "The dragon crawls from out his den ,", "May now return with me .", "The moment cometh to approve thy strength ;", "Rebel ! thy words are wicked , as thy deeds", "Thy former force was in thy faith .", "I cannot , must not , aid you . \u2018 Tis decreed !", "Who are , or should be , passionless and pure ,", "Thy son , despite his folly , shall not sink :", "With sobs the salt foam of the swelling waters ;", "Patriarch , be still a father ! smooth thy brow :", "Enter Mortals , flying for refuge ."], "true_target": ["Shall henceforth be but weak : the flaming sword ,", "To herd , in terror , innocent with men ;", "And the birds scream their agony through air . 800", "How vain to war with what thy God commands :", "Say'st thou ?", "Hark ! even the forest beasts howl forth their prayer !", "Farewell , thou earth ! ye wretched sons of clay ,", "Still flashes in the angelic hands .", "But be , when passion passeth , good as thou ,", "Hear not man only but all nature plead !", "Of wrath , and pity thine own world 's despair !", "He knows not what he says , yet shall not drink", "The heavens and earth are mingling \u2014 God ! oh God !", "Chorus of Mortals .", "Seraphs ! these mortals speak in passion : Ye !", "And learn at length"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["viii ."], "true_target": ["vi .", "x . Then spake the Most High , the Great , the Holy One , and sent Arsjal\u00e2lj\u00fbrto the son of Lamech , and said to him , \u2018 Tell him in My Name to hide thyself ! \u2019 and reveal to him that the end is approaching ; for the whole earth will be destroyed , and a deluge will presently cover up the whole earth , and all that is in it will be destroyed .{ 306 }Baylehas a great deal to say with regard to the exact date of the birth of Cain . He concludes with Cornelius \u00e0 Lapide , who quotes Torniellus , \u201c Cain genitum ease mox post expulsionem Ad\u00e6 et Ev\u00e6 ex Paradiso . \u201d ]{ 309 }{ 311 }{ 315 }{ 321 }\u2014 \u201c Azazael and Samiasa ... rise into the air with the two sisters .... The appearance of the land strangled by the ocean will serve by way of scenery and decorations . The affectionate tenderness of Adah for those from whom she is parted , and for ever , and her fears contrasting with the loftier spirit of Aholibamah triumphing in the hopes of a new and greater destiny will make the dialogue . They , in the meantime , continue their a\u00ebrial voyage , everywhere denied admittance in those floating islands over the sea of space , and driven back by guardian-spirits of the different planets , till they are at length forced to alight on the only peak of the earth uncovered by water . Here a parting takes place between the lovers .... The fallen angels are suddenly called , and condemned , their destination and punishment unknown . The sisters cling to the rock , the waters mounting higher and higher . Now enter Ark . The scene draws up , and discovers Japhet endeavouring to persuade the Patriarch , with very strong arguments of love and pity , to receive the sisters , or at least Adah , on board . Adah joins in his entreaties , and endeavours to cling to the sides of the vessel . The proud and haughty Aholibamah scorns to pray either to God or man , and anticipates the grave by plunging into the waters . Noah is still inexorable .is momentarily in danger of perishing before the eyes of the Arkites . Japhet is in despair . The last wave sweeps her from the rock , and her lifeless corpse floats past in all its beauty , whilst a sea-bird screams over it , and seems to be the spirit of her angel lord . I once thought of conveying the lovers to the moon or one of the planets ; but it is not easy for the imagination to make any unknown world more beautiful than this ; besides , I did not think they would approve of the moon as a residence . I remember what Fontenelle said of its having no atmosphere , and the dark spots having caverns where the inhabitants reside . There was another objection : all the human interest would have been destroyed , which I have even endeavoured to give my angels . \u201d ] WERNER ; OR , THE INHERITANCE : A TRAGEDY .Werner was brought out at Drury Lane Theatre , and played , for the first time , December 15 , 1830 . Macready appeared as \u201c Werner , \u201d J. W. Wallack as \u201c Ulric , \u201d Mrs. Faucit as \u201c Josephine , \u201d and Miss Mordaunt as \u201c Ida . \u201d According to the Times , December 16 , 1830 , \u201c Mr. Macready appeared to very great advantage . We have never seen him exert himself more \u2014 we have never known him to exert himself with more powerful effect . Three of his scenes were masterpieces . \u201d Genest says that Werner was acted seventeen times in 1830-31 . There was a revival in 1833 . Macready saysthat he acted \u201c \u2018 Werner \u2019 with unusual force , truth , and collectedness ... finished off each burst of passion , and , in consequence , entered on the following emotion with clearness and earnestness \u201dWerner was played in 1834 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 9 ; in 1841 ; in 1843-4; in 1845; in 1846 , 1847 ; in America in 1848 ; in the provinces in 1849 ; in 1850 ; and , for the last time , at the Theatre Royal , Haymarket , January 14 , 1851 . At the farewell performance Macready appeared as \u201c Werner , \u201d Mr. Davenport as \u201c Ulric , \u201d Mrs. Warner as \u201c Josephine , \u201d Mrs. Ryder as \u201c Ida . \u201d In the same yeara portrait of Macready as \u201c Werner , \u201d by Daniel Maclise , R. A ., was on view at the Exhibition at the Royal Academy . The motto was taken from Werner , act i. sc . 1 , lines 114 , sq .Werner was brought out at Sadler 's Wells Theatre , November 21 , 1860 , and repeated November 22 , 23 , 24 , 28 , 29 ; December , 3 , 4 , 11 , 13 , 14 , 1860 . Phelps appeared as \u201c Werner , \u201d Mr. Edmund Phelps as \u201c Ulric , \u201d Miss Atkinson as \u201c Josephine . \u201d \u201c Perhaps the old actor never performed the part so finely as he did on that night . The identity between the real and ideal relations of the characters was as vivid to him as to the audience , and gave a deeper intensity , on both sides , to the scenes between father and son . \u201dOn the afternoon of June 1 , 1887 , Wernerwas performed at the Lyceum Theatre for the benefit of Westland Marston .Henry Irving appeared as \u201c Werner , \u201d Miss Ellen Terry as \u201c Josephine , \u201d Mr. Alexander as \u201c Ulric . \u201d] INTRODUCTION TO WERNER . Werner ; or , The Inheritance , was begun at Pisa , December 18 , 1821 , and finished January 20 , 1822 . At the end of the month , January 29 , Byron despatched the MS ., not to Murray , but to Moore , then in retreat at Paris , intending , no doubt , that it should be placed in the hands of another publisher ; but a letter from Murray \u201c melted him , \u201d and on March 6 , 1822, he desired Moore to forward the packet to Albemarle Street . The play was set up in type , and revised proofs were returned to Murray at the end of June ; but , for various reasons , publication was withheld , and , on October 31 , Byron informed John Hunt that he had empowered his friend Douglas Kinnaird to obtain Werner , with other MSS ., from Murray . None the less , milder counsels again prevailed , and on Saturday , November 23 , 1822 , Werner was published , not in the same volume with Heaven and Earth , as Byron intended and expected , nor by John Hunt , as he had threatened , but by itself , and , as heretofore , by John Murray . Werner was \u201c the last of all the flock \u201d to issue from Murray 's fold . In his Preface to WernerByron disclaims all pretensions to originality . \u201c The following drama , \u201d he writes , \u201c is taken entirely from the \u2018 German 's Tale , Kruitzner , \u2019 published ... in Lee 's Canterbury Tales .... I have adopted the characters , plan , and even the language , of many parts of this story . \u201d Kruitzner seems to have made a deep impression on his mind . When he was a boy of thirteen, and again in 1815 , he set himself to turn the tale into a drama . His first attempt , named Ulric and Ilvina , he threw into the fire , but he had nearly completed the first act of his second and maturer adaptation when he was \u201c interrupted by circumstances , \u201d that is , no doubt , the circumstances which led up to and ended in the separation from his wife .On his leaving England for the Continent , April 25 , 1816 , the fragment was left behind . Most probably the MS. fell into his sister 's hands , for in October , 1821 , it was not forthcoming when Byron gave directions that Hobhouse should search for it \u201c amongst my papers . \u201d Ultimately it came into the possession of the late Mr. Murray , and is now printed for the first time in its entiretyIt should be borne in mind that this unprinted first act of Werner , which synchronizes with the Siege of Corinth and Parisina , was written when Byron was a member of the sub-committee of management of Drury Lane Theatre , and , as the numerous stage directions testify , with a view to stage-representation . The MS. is scored with corrections , and betrays an unusual elaboration , and , perhaps , some difficulty and hesitation in the choice of words and the construction of sentences . In the opening scene the situation is not caught and gripped , while the melancholy squalor of the original narrative is only too faithfully reproduced . The Werner of 1821 , with all its shortcomings , is the production of a playwright . The Werner of 1815 is the attempt of a highly gifted amateur . When Byron once more bethought himself of his old subject , he not only sent for the MS. of the first act , but desired Murray \u201c to cut out Sophia Lee 's \u201d\u201c German 's Tale from the Canterbury Tales , and send it in a letter \u201dHe seems to have intended from the first to construct a drama out of the story , and , no doubt , to acknowledge the source of his inspiration . On the whole , he carried out his intention , taking places , characters , and incidents as he found them , but recasting the materials and turning prose into metre . But here and there , to save himself trouble , he \u201c stole his brooms ready made , \u201d and , as he acknowledges in the Preface , \u201c adopted even the language of the story . \u201d Act ii . sc . 2 , lines 87-172 ; act iii . sc . 4 ; and act v. sc . 1 , lines 94-479 , are , more or less , faithful and exact reproductions of pp . 203-206 , 228-232 , and 252-271 of the novelOn the other hand , in the remaining three-fourths of the play , the language is not Miss Lee 's , but Byron 's , and the \u201c conveyance \u201d of incidents occasional and insignificant . Much , too , was imported into the play, of which there is neither hint nor suggestion in the story . Maginn 's categorical statementthat \u201c here Lord Byron has invented nothing \u2014 absolutely , positively , undeniably NOTHING ; \u201d that \u201c there is not one incident in his play , not even the most trivial , that is not to be found in the novel , \u201d etc ., is \u201c positively and undeniably \u201d a falsehood . Maginn read Werner for the purpose of attacking Byron , and , by printing selected passages from the novel and the play , in parallel columns , gives the reader to understand that he had made an exhaustive analysis of the original and the copy . The review , which is quoted as an authority in the editions of 1832and 1837 , etc ., p. 341 , is disingenuous and misleading . The original story may be briefly retold . The prodigal and outlawed son of a Bohemian noble , Count Siegendorf , after various adventures , marries , under the assumed name of Friedrich Kruitzner , the daughter of an Italian scholar and man of science , of noble birth , but in narrow circumstances . A son , Conrad , is born to him , who , at eight years of age , is transferred to the charge of his grandfather . Twelve years go by , and , when the fortunes of the younger Siegendorf are at their lowest ebb , he learns , at the same moment , that his father is dead , and that a distant kinsman , the Baron Stralenheim , is meditating an attack on his person , with a view to claiming his inheritance . Of Conrad , who has disappeared , he hears nothing . An accident compels the count and the baron to occupy adjoining quarters in a small town on the northern frontier of Silesia ; and , again , another accident places the usurping and intriguing baron at the mercy of his poverty-stricken and exiled kinsman . Stralenheim has fallen asleep near the fire in his easy-chair . Papers and several rouleaux of gold are ranged on a cabinet beside the bed . Kruitzner , who is armed with \u201c a large and sharp knife , \u201d is suddenly confronted with his unarmed and slumbering foe , and though habit and conscience conspire to make murder impossible , he yields to a sudden and irresistible impulse , and snatches up \u201c the portion of gold which is nearest . \u201d He has no sooner returned to his wife and confessed his deed , than Conrad suddenly appears on the scene , and at the very moment of an unexpected and joyous reunion with his parents , learns that his father is a thief . Kruitzner pleads \u201c guilty with extenuating circumstances , \u201d and Conrad , who either is or pretends to be disgusted at his father 's sophistries , makes the best of a bad business , and undertakes to conceal his father 's dishonour and rescue him from the power of Stralenheim . The plot hinges on the unlooked-for and unsuspected action of Conrad . Unlike his father , he is not the man to let \u201c I dare not wait upon I would , \u201d but murders Stralenheim in cold blood , and , at the same time , diverts suspicion from his father and himself to the person of his comrade , a Hungarian soldier of fortune , who is already supposed to be the thief , and who had sought and obtained shelter in the apartments of the conscience-stricken Kruitzner . The scene changes to Prague . Siegendorf , no longer Kruitzner , has regained his inheritance , and is once more at the height of splendour and prosperity . A service of thanksgiving is being held in the cathedral to commemorate the signature of the Treaty of Prague, and the count is present in state . Suddenly he catches sight of the Hungarian , and , \u201c like a flash of lightning \u201d feels and remembers that he is a thief , and that he might , however unjustly , be suspected if not accused of the murder of Stralenheim . The service is over , and the count is recrossing \u201c Muldau 's Bridge , \u201d when he hears the fatal word Kruitzner , \u201c the seal of his shame , \u201d spoken in his ear . He returns to his castle , and issues orders that the Hungarian should be arrested and interrogated . An interview takes place , at which the Hungarian denounces Conrad as the murderer of Stralenheim . The son acknowledges the deed , and upbraids the father for his weakness and credulity in supposing that his escape from Stralenheim 's machinations could have been effected by any other means . If , he argues , circumstances can palliate dishonesty , they can compel and justify murder . Common sense even now demands the immediate slaughter of the Hungarian , as it compelled and sanctioned the effectual silencing of Stralenheim . But Siegendorf knows not \u201c thorough , \u201d and shrinks at assassination . He repudiates and denounces his son , and connives at the escape of the Hungarian . Conrad , who is banished from Prague , rejoins his former associates , the \u201c black bands , \u201d which were the scandal and terror of the neighbouring provinces , and is killed in a skirmish with the regular troops . Siegendorf dies of a broken heart . The conception of The German 's Tale , as Byron perceived , is superior to the execution . The style is laboured and involved , and the narrative long-winded and tiresome . It is , perhaps , an adaptation , though not a literal translation , of a German historical romance . But the motif \u2014 a son predestined to evil by the weakness and sensuality of his father , a father punished for his want of rectitude by the passionate criminality of his son , is the very key-note of tragedy . If from haste or indolence Byron scamped his task , and cut up whole cantles of the novel into nerveless and pointless blank verse , here and there throughout the play , in scattered lines and passages , he outdoes himself . The inspiration is fitful , but supreme . Werner was reviewed in Blackwood 's Edinburgh Magazine , December , 1822 , vol . xii . pp . 710-719; in the Scots Magazine , December , 1822 , N. S . vol . xi . pp . 688-694 ; the European Magazine , January , 1823 , vol . 83 , pp . 73-76 ; and in the Eclectic Review , February , 1823 , N. S . vol . xix . pp . 148-155 . NOTE TO THE INTRODUCTION TO WERNER . In an article entitled , \u201c Did Byron write Werner ? \u201d which appeared in the Nineteenth Century, the Hon . F. Leveson Gower undertakes to prove that Werner was not written by Lord Byron , but by Georgiana , Duchess of DevonshireHe adduces , in support of this claim ,a statement made to him by his sister , the late Lady Georgiana Fullerton , to the effect that their grandmother , the duchess , \u201c wrote the poem and gave the MS. to her niece , Lady Caroline Ponsonby, and that she , some years later , handed it over to Lord Byron , who , in 1822 , published it in his own name ; \u201da letter written in 1822 by his mother , Lady Granville , to her sister , Lady Carlisle , which asserts that their mother , the duchess , \u201c wrote an entire tragedy from Miss Lee 's Kreutzner the Hungarian, \u201d and that the MS. had been sent to her by Lady Caroline 's brother , Mr. William Ponsonby , and was in her possession ;another letter of Lady Granville 's , dated December 3 , 1822 , in which she informs her sister that her husband , Lord Granville , had promised to read Werner aloud to her, a promise which , if fulfilled , must have revealed one of two things \u2014 the existence of two dramas based on Miss Lee 's Kruitzner , or the identity of Byron 's version with that of the duchess . Now , argues Mr. Leveson Gower , if Lady Granville had known that two dramas were in existence , she would not have allowed her daughter , Lady Georgiana Fullerton , to believe \u201c that the duchess was the author of the published poem . \u201d I will deal with the external evidence first . Practically it amounts to this :that Lady Granville knew that her mother , the Duchess of Devonshire , dramatized Miss Lee 's Kruitzner ; andthat Lady Georgiana Fullerton believed that the duchess gave the MS. of her play to Lady Caroline Ponsonby , and that , many years after , Lady Caroline handed it over to Byron . The external evidence establishes the fact that the Duchess of Devonshire dramatized Kruitzner , but it does not prove that Byron purloined her adaptation . It records an unverified impression on the part of the duchess 's granddaughter , that the MS. of a play written between the years 1801-1806 , passed into Byron 's hands about the year 1813 ; that he took a copy of the MS .; and that in 1821-22 he caused his copy to be retranscribed and published under his own name ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Our unexpected journey , and this change", "Alas ! That bitter laugh !", "I must hope better still ,\u2014 at least we have yet", "The foreign daughter of a wandering exile .", "With aught more bitter .", "In this lone spot of wintry desolation :\u2014", "My memory by this oblivious transport !\u2014", "Beneath the biting wind and heavy rain ,", "My Ulric !\u2014 my belov\u00e9d !\u2014 can it be \u2014", "Follow him not , until this storm of passion Abates . Think'st thou , that were it well for him , I had not followed ?", "Have many outlets , and he may be gone", "Should the nobly born", "With Fortune win or weary her at last , 70", "Baffled the long pursuit of Stralenheim . 100", "But cannot think of sorrow now , and doubt", "I have said it .", "Rather than that of him whose life you saved ?", "Poor gentleman ! 240", "Of the universal vice , if one vice be", "Alas that I should doubt of thee ! 750", "Yes !", "My son \u2014 our son \u2014 our Ulric , Been clasped again in these long-empty arms , And all a mother 's hunger satisfied . Twelve years ! he was but eight then :\u2014 beautiful He was , and beautiful he must be now , 60 My Ulric ! my adored !", "Thy heart from the beginning : but for this ,", "Hark !", "My belov\u00e9d child ! For such , I trust , thou shalt be shortly .", "I know it ,", "I could not", "And that the depth is rich in better things .", "Alas ! we have known 210", "Made him what you beheld .", "Needful than to the peasant , when the ebb", "The very desert saves man from mankind .", "You are the latest stranger , and command", "And no one walks a chamber like to ours ,", "If we can be of service \u2014 say the word . 230", "Millions of myriads feel it \u2014 cheerfully ;", "To me , who have borne so much with him , and for him ,", "What is't we hear ? My Siegendorf ! Thank Heaven , I see you safe !", "Thy birth , thy hopes , thy pride ; nought , save thy sorrows :", "Even now uphold thy rights for thee ?", "So that they find the goal or cease to feel", "And that is something .", "Ah , no !", "I would", "Comfort ! We have struggled long ; and they who strive", "Yet there are other men ,", "Or , if it were so , how 650", "Thou mightst have earned thy bread , as thousands earn it ;", "The young Count Waldorf , who scarce once withdrew", "Have it a healthful current .", "Further . Take comfort ,\u2014 we shall find our boy .", "How more than all I sighed for ! Heaven receive", "Come ,", "Let us retire ! they will be here anon ,", "My \u2014\u2014", "We are not baffled .", "None hold us here for aught save what we seem .", "To me \u2014", "Especially in these dark troublous times ,", "Your father did not think so , though \u2018 twas noble ;", "And wealthy Baron , and the unknown Werner ?", "Alas !", "That to our sorrow for these five days ; since", "He comes not only as a son , but saviour .", "Not long since in his chamber . But these rooms", "Aside these nodding plumes and dragging trains . 70", "My heart 's first choice ;\u2014 which chose thee , knowing neither", "And where will you receive him ? here , I hope ,", "Then canst thou wish for that which must break mine ?", "And art thou not now sheltered from them all ? Wer . Yes . And from these alone .", "May have returned back to his grandsire , and", "Yet one question \u2014", "All which it", "Has done in our behalf ,\u2014 nothing .", "To see thee well is much \u2014", "Well , Heaven be praised ! the show is over .", "Oh ! glorious Heaven ! He 's safe !", "Well ?", "Were it a garden , I should deem thee happy ,", "Can you ask that question ? Is he not here ?", "Ida . A cloud comes o'er his blue eyes suddenly ,", "Condemn him not from his own mouth , but trust", "And not the worst , I hope .", "And am I nothing in thy heart ?", "Without there ! Ho ! help ! help !\u2014 Oh , God ! here 's murder ! GABOR and ULRIC fight . GABOR is disarmed just as STRALENHEIM , JOSEPHINE , IDENSTEIN , etc ., re-enter .", "Aye ! Hadst thou but done so !", "And stepping with the bee from flower to flower ;", "Come you to stir yourself in his behalf ,", "And I had not outlived thee ; but pray take", "To see thee happy \u2014\u2014", "What", "What no state high or low can ever change ,", "His eyes from yours to-day ."], "true_target": ["A mother 's thanks ! a mother 's tears of joy !", "And how obtained ?\u2014 that knife !", "Have much to think of .", "Or other civic means , to amend thy fortunes .", "Your good intentions .", "Lonely ! my dear husband ?", "Poor creatures ! are you sure ?", "We learn his purpose ?", "Of early delicacy render more 40", "It keeps us here .", "It is nothing : all men ,", "Oh ! he is good !", "But had my birth been all my claim to match 130", "He does not know thy person ; and his spies ,", "Who can it be at this lone hour ? We have", "No ! Look upon him ! What do you see ?", "More general than another .", "Stand back , and let me look on thee again !", "Will to the door . It cannot be of import 170", "O Ulric ! have a care \u2014", "Remember what depends on a rash word !", "My Werner ! when you deigned to choose for bride", "Not easy to persuade my consort of 660", "My son !", "Which hath no chamber for them save beneath", "To accompany the Intendant .", "What rest ? My God ! What doth this mean ?", "Patience , dear Werner !", "What can there be in common with the proud", "All places here .", "With steps like thine , when his heart is at rest .", "Think as he speaks . Alas ! long years of grief", "It would be", "You 120", "Poor child !", "Whate'er thou mightest have been , to me thou art", "But here !", "We ne'er were wealthy .", "What hast thou done ?", "Here , I thought : I left him", "But think", "See aught save Heaven , to which my eyes were raised ,", "Of fortune leaves them on the shoals of life ?", "Oh ! do not look so . I", "Or worse ; for it has been a canker in", "While they last , let me comfort or divide them :", "Pondered not thus upon these worldly things ,", "If he should hear you .", "Oh , yes ; we are , but distantly .", "Be thankless for that refuge which their habits", "Who so long watched thee , have been left at Hamburgh .", "With thee , I should have deemed it what it is .", "He was not once ; but time and troubles have", "He faints !", "Expectant of the banquet . We will lay", "Who knows ? our son", "My dream is realised \u2014 how beautiful !\u2014", "Yes , but not to thyself : thy pace is hurried ,", "After twelve years ?", "Have made him sometimes thus .", "My love , be calmer !", "Why so ? he loves you well .", "How should we ?", "You will spoil him , little flatterer ,", "Oh , my son ! Believe him not \u2014 and yet !\u2014", "Means my good Lord ?", "Nor doth he", "How many in this hour of tempest shiver", "No : I but envy ,", "Who seeks him ?", "That this is but the surface of his soul , 160", "Together with the people 's .", "In the world 's eye , as goodly . There 's , for instance ,", "But for these phantoms of thy feudal fathers ,", "Few visitors .", "Of name , leaves all discovery far behind : 110", "I dare not think thee guilty of dishonour .", "If I e'er felt it , \u2018 tis so dazzled from", "Her surface .", "I hope he will , with all my heart .", "Cannot you humour the dull gossip till", "Yet he says nothing .", "And that in sorrow , not in the world 's sense", "When they end \u2014 let mine end with them , or thee !", "I fain would shun these scenes , too oft repeated , Of feudal tyranny o'er petty victims ; I cannot aid , and will not witness such . Even here , in this remote , unnamed , dull spot , 700 The dimmest in the district 's map , exist The insolence of wealth in poverty O'er something poorer still \u2014 the pride of rank In servitude , o'er something still more servile ; And vice in misery affecting still A tattered splendour . What a state of being ! In Tuscany , my own dear sunny land , Our nobles were but citizens and merchants ,Like Cosmo . We had evils , but not such As these ; and our all-ripe and gushing valleys 710 Made poverty more cheerful , where each herb Was in itself a meal , and every vine Rained , as it were , the beverage which makes glad The heart of man ; and the ne'er unfelt sunMakes the worn mantle , and the thin robe , less Oppressive than an emperor 's jewelled purple . But , here ! the despots of the north appear To imitate the ice-wind of their clime , 720 Searching the shivering vassal through his rags , To wring his soul \u2014 as the bleak elements His form . And \u2018 tis to be amongst these sovereigns My husband pants ! and such his pride of birth \u2014 That twenty years of usage , such as no Father born in a humble state could nerve His soul to persecute a son withal , Hath changed no atom of his early nature ; But I , born nobly also , from my father 's Kindness was taught a different lesson . Father ! 730 May thy long-tried and now rewarded spirit Look down on us and our so long desired Ulric ! I love my son , as thou didst me ! What 's that ? Thou , Werner ! can it be ? and thus ?", "Whose every drop bows them down nearer earth ,", "We had not felt our poverty but as", "Or , if that seem too humble , tried by commerce , 140", "But whence comest thou ? 740", "This is indeed thy work !\u2014 At such an hour , too ,", "It does , my love ; and never may it throb 30", "How so ?", "Not so :"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Trust me , when , in my two-and-twentieth spring ,", "But not \u2014\u2014", "Thou wouldst say : I must bear it , and deserve it ;", "I am not journeying the same way !", "And stationed in the outskirts of the town ,", "You must also furnish me ,", "I will requite \u2014 that is , reply \u2014 in unison .", "Ah !", "Oh , God !", "I have important reasons", "You had best begin", "Answer ?", "And leaves us \u2014 no ! this is beyond me !\u2014 but", "And to be baffled thus !", "With but his folds between your steps and happiness ,", "The best and sweetest feeling of our hearts ;", "\u2018 Tis hopeless . 90", "It is a damned world , sir .", "Only one parent . I have lost alike", "Let it flow 10", "Thou art too late ! I 'll nought to do with blood . 150", "The splendour of my rank sustained \u2014 my name \u2014", "At his dull heedlessness , in leaving thus", "No ; but he guesses shrewdly at my person ,", "My spirit , though he would grasp all of mine ;", "My spirit where it cannot turn at bay ,\u2014", "Are you aware", "You see I am poor , and sick , and will not see", "The apartment 310", "Well \u2014 I am prepared .", "Than those \u2014\u2014", "And not unkind as to an unknown stranger ,", "How know you that ?", "And forfeited them by my father 's wrath ,", "By our Teutonic fathers in old days ,", "Spread for his canopy , o'er silken pillows ,", "Who ?", "I 'll not answer", "Because \u2018 tis dusky .", "Than to behold my boy and my boy 's mother", "Yes , but who knows to what place it may lead ?", "That which will send you hence .", "\u2018 Tis bloodless \u2014 yet . Away \u2014 we must to our chamber .", "A beggar , and should know the thing thou talk'st of .", "That I would be alone ; but to your business !", "But one way that the rich and poor must tread", "Left one thing undone , which Had made all well : let me not think of it ! Away !", "Except in thee \u2014 but we have borne it .", "Ne'er raised a thought to injure thee or thine .", "Who Taught you to mouth that name of \u201c villain ? \u201d", "Of you and yours , lie slumbering in your path ,", "A hunter , and a traveller , and am", "Is't not dangerous ?", "Sick , poor , and lonely .", "Of the third generation ; but Heaven seems", "Suspicion : two new victims in the lieu", "The high soul of the son of a long line ?", "Of rank and ancestry ? In this worn cheek", "Father and son , and stand alone .", "My guardian angel !", "Show me how ?", "What do you mean ?", "And one base sin hath done me less ill than", "Twined like the Gorgon 's round me .", "Lands , life itself , lies at your mercy , with", "There is a secret spring : Remember , I discovered it by chance , And used it but for safety .", "Youth of the choicest , my heart would have chosen", ", I ,", "From yonder terrace .", "Upon the forest 's edge , the vehicle", "Come , I 'll trust you : 310", "Sir , I thank you . 360", "Ask not ! but let us think where we shall go \u2014", "Thieves !", "Who , in this sunken , sickly eye , the pride", "But we will talk of that anon . Remember ,", "The only one ,", "This rashness , or this weakness of my temper , 150", "The myrmidons of Idenstein , who were", "But rather strove to trample back to hell", "True , true , I did so : you say well and wisely .", "I heard a noise of wheels and voices . How All sounds now jar me !", "Save those who come to make it poorer still .", "Because it takes not life , but life 's sole solace :", "So patient always .", "If then , like me , content with petty plunder ,", "Is it for you to measure Passion 's force ,", "Chastened , subdued , out-worn , and taught to know", "The fluttering bird , hath ere this time outstept me ,", "Intendant ,", "Accursed", "Of one , if I remain . The fled Hungarian , 100", "Thou canst not know me , I am not myself ;", "Dominion and domain .", "You have left", "Perhaps , as infancy", "Is free , and quick with virtuous wrath to accuse", "The irritation of my oppressed spirit \u2014", "I know not whither ; you must not advance :", "When , but for this untoward sickness , which", "You know me not .", "My Josephine ,", "Can scarcely lull a moment . I must find", "And rights , and sovereignty of Siegendorf", "Better , sir !", "I will .", "And poverty hath none ,", "True ; he hath sought his parents ,", "Why ! wouldst thou have it so ?", "May Heaven be shut for ever from my hopes ,", "For wishing to continue privily", "Famine and Poverty your guests at table ;", "Conceived deliberately such a thought ,", "Made venial by the occasion , and temptations", "Himself around all that is dear and noble", "Are we not penniless ?", "A spy of Stralenheim 's ?", "My noble boy !", "Left the path open , yet not without snares .", "My father hated me . Why not my son ?", "Here 's gold \u2014 gold , Josephine , Will rescue us from this detested dungeon .", "Those whom I know not .", "I will follow", "The last sole scion of a thousand sires", "What is that ?", "Something beyond our outward sufferings", "Which daily feast a thousand vassals ?", "Hush ! boy \u2014 The walls may hear that name !", "Of that which lifts him up to princes in", "And cry to all beholders , Lo ! a villain !", "All \u2014 all .", "But here he is all-powerful ; and has spread 70", "Which could bring compensation for past sorrow \u2014", "I know not , though I think that I could guess", "For chambers ? rest is all . The wretches whom 30", "Further \u2014 that you despise me .", "To bear the brand of bloodshed ?", "More fatal than a mortal malady ,", "Both from the walls . I am not used to answer", "My passions were all living serpents ,", "And wonder that I answer not \u2014 not knowing", "Why did you leave him ?", "With an infernal stigma ?", "And hunted through each change of time \u2014 name \u2014 fortune \u2014", "My soul in part : but how , without discovery ?\u2014", "Great God ! 40", "I will be soon .", "And I \u2014 nothing .", "Though in this most obscure abode of men \u2014\u2014", "Long ?", "Thou namest \u2014 aye , the wind howls round them , and", "Certain .", "Whom do you seek ?", "Upon my boy his father 's faults and follies .", "Your offer 's noble were it to a friend ,", "Engraved in crimson in men 's memories ,", "For what you may be led to .", "I have also served , and can", "No \u2014 I am better now \u2014 20", "Every thing . One who claims our father 's lands :", "And worthy by its birth to match with ours .", "Lands , freedom , life ,\u2014 and yet he sleeps as soundly", "As from mine eyes !", "My heart !\u2014 a never-dying canker-worm ,", "From sleep , and judge ! Should that day e'er arrive \u2014 110", "Hath stung me oft , and , more than ever , now .", "Discovered ! then I 'll stab \u2014Ah ! Josephine Why art thou not at rest ?", ", with gorgeous curtains", "But being taken for him might conduct", "You see he is not here .", "Hath wasted , not alone my strength , but means ,", "My name is Werner", "I am not ;", "My better angel ! Such I have ever found thee ;", "For motto , not the mintage of the state ;", "Were a fit marriage : but I still had hopes", "I know not \u2014", "Ulric !", "I deal plainly ,", "The leaving undone one far greater . Down ,", "And leave you ,", "Fill only with fresh venom . Will you be", "I must be known here but as Werner . Come !", "You mean to pursue it , as", "I perceived it , and applaud", "And , for the sovereign 's head , my own begirt", "A family ring .", "Your father 's house was noble , though decayed ;", "Entailing , as it were , my sins upon", "Situate as we are now ; although the first", "I found it ,", "As sometimes happens to the better clad .", "The bare knife in your hand , and earth asleep ,", "My faults deserved-exclusion ; although then", "Retire : I 'll sift this fool .", "Methinks it wears upon its face my guilt", "To whom you speak ?", "This cold and creeping kinsman , who so long", ", it hurt me less 160", "Awaits us . Now the dwindling stars begin", "No ; I hid him in that very", "Had such been my inheritance ; but now ,", "It must be done , however ; and I 'll pause", "Seized me upon this desolate frontier , and 50", "The very wretch who was the cause he needed", "Thou didst not mar my fortunes : my own nature", "You have guessed , no doubt , that I was born above", "Than his next neighbour . You must not advance", "Concealed and fatal gallery .", "And hollow cells , and obscure niches , to 90", "A maze hath my dim destiny involved me !", "Insolent ! 140", "To his uncertainty .", "Above our house !", "Or Misery 's temptation ? Wait \u2014", "He wishes to remain so to the man", "Beyond the two first windings ; if you do", "You appear to have drunk enough already ;", "You ?", "Who would read in this form", "Which all the coming splendour of the lands ,", "The creeping marrow . I have been a soldier ,", "Our roads must lie asunder , though they tend", "How ,\u2014 nothing ?", "Wait till , like me , your hopes are blighted", "By means of this accurs\u00e9d gold ; but now", "It yields to the least touch .", "On the other side ; and , when you would return ,", "Abated ? Is there hope of that ?", "My inquisitor . Explain what you would have ,", "It is not that , thou know'st it is not : we", "Yes ; and not without reproach", "Proceed .", "Learn to divine and judge his actions . Young ,", "Enjoyed them , loved them , and , alas ! abused them ,", "Nothing : but we are strangers to each other .", "Have borne all this , I 'll not say patiently ,", "Your poverty ?", "The promise that his anger would stop short", "Lead even into the chamber of your foe ?", "Who seems the culprit , and \u2014\u2014", "Who come ?", "I see it , and I feel it ; yet I feel", "Gaze on it freely ;", "\u2018 Tis he ! I am taken in the toils . Before 560 I quitted Hamburg , Giulio , his late steward , Informed me , that he had obtained an order From Brandenburg 's elector , for the arrest Of Kruitznerwhen I came upon the frontier ; the free city Alone preserved my freedom \u2014 till I left Its walls \u2014 fool that I was to quit them ! But I deemed this humble garb , and route obscure , Had baffled the slow hounds in their pursuit . What 's to be done ? He knows me not by person ; 570 Nor could aught , save the eye of apprehension , Have recognised him , after twenty years \u2014 We met so rarely and so coldly in Our youth . But those about him ! Now I can Divine the frankness of the Hungarian , who No doubt is a mere tool and spy of Stralenheim 's , To sound and to secure me . Without means ! Sick , poor \u2014 begirt too with the flooding rivers , Impassable even to the wealthy , with All the appliances which purchase modes 580 Of overpowering peril , with men 's lives ,\u2014 How can I hope ! An hour ago methought My state beyond despair ; and now , \u2018 tis such , The past seems paradise . Another day , And I 'm detected ,\u2014 on the very eve Of honours , rights , and my inheritance , When a few drops of gold might save me still In favouring an escape .", "Let me embrace thee !", "No , no \u2014 I cannot . 20", "He wound snares round me ; flung along my path", "\u2014 but who knows it might not", "What have I done ? Alas ! what had I done Before to make this fearful ? Let it be Still some atonement that I save the man , 110 Whose sacrifice had saved perhaps my own \u2014 They come ! to seek elsewhere what is before them !", "\u2018 Tis of our safety .", "But not dishonoured : and I leave them with", "This overpays the past . But how wilt thou 220", "Save what we seem ! save what we are \u2014 sick beggars ,", "Poverty is ever so .", "This \u2014 this will make us way \u2014", "and", "For the first time \u2014", "When he , who lives but to tear from you name ,"], "true_target": ["Who , in this garb , the heir of princely lands ?", "Such thoughts \u2014 if e'er they glared a moment through", "In Innocence 's shadow , it may be , 110", "Of dark fatality , like clouds , are gathering", "Linked with the Hungarian 's , or , preferred as poorest ,", "Aye ,", "And famine-hollowed brow , the Lord of halls", "Should you see then the Serpent , who hath coiled", "Could I shun it ?", "Then we may be safe .", "Hear me ! I will not brook a human voice \u2014 scarce dare Listen to my own\u2014 Hear me ! you do not know this man \u2014 I do .He 's mean , deceitful , avaricious . You Deem yourself safe , as young and brave ; but learn None are secure from desperation , few From subtilty . My worst foe , Stralenheim , 130 Housed in a Prince 's palace , couched within A Prince 's chamber , lay below my knife ! An instant \u2014 a mere motion \u2014 the least impulse \u2014 Had swept him and all fears of mine from earth . He was within my power \u2014 my knife was raised \u2014 Withdrawn \u2014 and I 'm in his :\u2014 are you not so ? Who tells you that he knows you not ? Who says He hath not lured you here to end you ? or To plunge you , with your parents , in a dungeon ?", "I have been full oft", "And all been over in a nameless grave .", "Are in thy words ! Thou know me ? in this guise", "How", "Give me your word .", "Why , then \u2014", "Who taught you , long-sought and ill-found boy ! that", "Yet", "To swoop the sire and son at once .", "What have we here ,\u2014 more strangers ?\u2014", "Upon the method the first hour of safety .", "Would this assist your knowledge ?", "At such an hour too !", "This place .", "Which nature cannot master or forbear .", "Ulric , before you dare despise your father , 100", "My father 's name \u2014 been still upheld ; and , more", "Even from my presence ; but , in spurning now ,", "I do not apprehend you .", "And then I 'll satisfy yourself , or me . 550", "Call me Werner still ;", "Me he hath ever known , 140", "The abyss of crime", "And that 's not the worst : who cares", "My present seeming .", "His shelterer 's asylum to the risk", "Ah ! The Hungarian ?", "To claim her stern prerogative , and visit", "The dull and dropping rain saps in their bones", "And to the Baron 's self hereafter \u2014 \u2018 tis 320", "Sir !", "Requite a soldier 's greeting .", "We should have done , but for this fatal sickness ;\u2014", "Besides , the search \u2014\u2014", "In what", "Sir !", "The murderer of any man . What mean you ?", "Have you not heard of Stralenheim ?", "Of him who was the first to offer what", "As e'er the hunted deer a covert \u2014\u2014", "Having seen the innocent oppressed for me ,", "I will have nought of Stralenheim 's upon", "Said you not that he was not here ?", "And when I beg of any one , it shall be", "Fare in our absence ?", "Look on these horrible walls . Oh ! never , never", "Be he who is the stifling cause which smothers", "Your noble guest right quickly .", "Dogging him yester-even .", "\u2018 Tis horrible ! \u2018 tis hideous , as \u2018 tis hateful !\u2014 50", "Of a discovery .", "Have you not learned his name ?", "Not I , though just now you doubted \u2014", "My boy ! My friend ! my only child , and sole preserver ! Oh , do not hate me !", "His death alone can save you :\u2014 Thank your God !", "Imploring a few hours \u2019 concealment from 90", "To yours ?", "I commanded \u2014 no \u2014 I mean 330 I served ; but it is many years ago , When first Bohemiaraised her banner \u2018 gainst The Austrian .", "Such refuge . Had he been a wolf , I could not", "For this I had been happy \u2014 thou been happy \u2014", "This for my son !", "I could not sleep \u2014 and now the hour 's at hand !", "Sure \u2018 tis no father 's fondness dazzles me ;", "\u2018 Tis chill ; the tapestry lets through", "Reptiles , whom , in my youth , I would have spurned", "Are you sure", "Come to my arms again ! Why , thou look'st all", "But , had I seen that form amid ten thousand", "I know not that . Are you aware my father is no more ?", "Again ! As I ?", "The madness of my misery led to this", "Most true : but still I would not have it", "I am a beggar in all save his trade ;", "Alas ! I have had that upon my soul", "And what is that in thine eyes ?", "No ! I 'll face it . Who shall dare suspect me ?", "Even to your deadliest foe ; and he as \u2018 twere", "Pray , pardon me ; my health \u2014\u2014", "You turn aside \u2014\u2014 I did so .", "Since his strange disappearance from my father 's ,", "Not afraid to demand it ?", "And favourable moment to escape", "But I was born to wealth , and rank , and power ;", "Have gold ?", "Every thing ! That ruffian is thy father !", "Who says that ?", "Else it were yours : but this you know , or should know :", "Ah ! I thought so : you have now 150", "To pale in heaven ; and for the last time I", "Despair your bed-fellow \u2014 then rise , but not", "One day .", "With hissing snakes , which curl around my temples ,", "In my o'erhYpppHeNfervent youth : but for the abuse 80", "To lift thee to the state we both were born for .", "To what must I", "I should have been , and was not . Josephine !", "\u2018 Tis your own on one condition .", "I am calm .", "True \u2014 to a peasant .", "I understand you not .", "A shelter ?\u2014 wanting such myself as much", "Insane or insolent !", "But , in a word , what would you with me ?", "My journey hence .", "Sorrow and Shame are handmaids of your cabin \u2014", "\u2018 Tis well that it is not beneath it ,", "Tis he !", "But owe my temporary liberty", "When man built less against the elements 100", "Himself , no tidings have revealed his course .", "You , my son !\u2014 doubted \u2014\u2014", "Are you not", "\u2014 I 'll fit them now .", "Who can have nought in common with him .", "Kept his eye on me , as the snake upon", "Where hast thou seen such ? Let me be wretched with the rest !", "All to one home .", "Appearances ; and views a criminal", "Fly ! and leave my name", "A stripling ,", "That hereafter you permit me", "I dare not use it , show it , scarce look on it . 180", "Who showed himself and father 's safety in", "And now your remedy ! I thought to escape", "Then forgive", "And if you have not , I 've no wine to offer ,", "Or worse \u2014 involving all I love , in this", "To spare both that I would avoid all bustle .", "Snares for thy father , which , if hitherto", "The wind to which it waves : my blood is frozen .", "All 's ready . Idenstein has kept his word ;", "Which masks it : I but thought he had snatched the silent", "Until \u2018 tis spilt or checked \u2014 how soon , I care not .", "To part no more !", "Many have such :\u2014 Have you none ?", "And found them ; but , oh ! how , and in what state ! 50", "Some means of restitution , which would ease", "I cannot .", "You have divined the man ?", "Oh , my boy ! what unknown woes", "Yes \u2014 you ! You know me not , and question me ,", "Rightly ; for how should such a wretch as I", "Scorpions 230", "Because there is", "For my own crime : a victim to my safety ,", "By favour .", "In youth was such as to unmake an empire ,", "Must I repeat my humiliation ?", "My father barred me from my father 's house ,", "When I know it such", "An hour ere daybreak , with all means to quit", "What ?", "If I e'er , in heart or mind ,", "Excluded in their innocence from what", "I quitted it . I found the secret panel 70", "Rash , new to life , and reared in Luxury 's lap ,", "May doubt even of the guilty 's guilt . Your heart", "Assuredly ,", "You may seek", "Can I , so wretched , give to Misery", "Is it ?", "Shall I forget them . Here I came most poor ,", "The chase of Fortune ; now she hath o'ertaken", "So strangely were contrived these galleries", "I never was as yet", "I was .", "But what have I to do with this ?", "You saved", "Dishonour !", "To many men the blackest .", "Some hours ago , and I some days : henceforth 540", "Together . You diverged from that dread path", "Our distant kinsman , and our nearest foe .", "Especially the next in blood .", "So lately found , in peril too ?", "This counsel 's safe \u2014 but is it honourable ?", "At thrice its value to redeem it : \u2018 tis", "A stain ,\u2014 if not upon my name , yet in 10", "\u2014 Wait !\u2014", "Who told you that I was disgraced ?", "So much embarrassment to me just now ,", "In all things your direction .", "As he betrayed last night ; and I , perhaps ,", "Such as when \u2014\u2014 Hark ! what noise is that ? Again !", "The same unknown and humble stranger , if", "Chance your conductor \u2014 midnight for your mantle \u2014", "His just discernment and your own .", "Long-sufferings have atoned . My father 's death", "Few can obtain by asking . Pardon me .", "Are you", "Let us hence :", "But for thee I had been \u2014 no matter what \u2014 But much of good and evil ; what I am , Thou knowest ; what I might or should have been , Thou knowest not : but still I love thee , nor Shall aught divide us .", "It is too late : he had left the palace ere", "\u2018 Tis but a snare he winds about us both ,", "Told you I was a beggar ?", "Which makes me look on all men with an eye", "\u201c To Frankfort ! \u201d So , so , it thickens ! Aye , \u201c the Commandant ! \u201d This tallies well with all the prior steps Of this cool , calculating fiend , who walks Between me and my father 's house . No doubt He writes for a detachment to convey me Into some secret fortress .\u2014 Sooner than 620 This \u2014\u2014", "Why need you come so far , then ?", "Boy ! since I fell into", "Thou busy devil , rising in my heart !", "What brings you here ?", "You may yet know me by a loftier title .", "Become the master of my rights , and lord", "A man pursued by my chief foe ; disgraced", "Possessor might , as usual , prove the strongest \u2014", "He hath escaped them , is by fortune , not", "In fitter order for a sickly guest .", "Designed for him you rescued will be found", "Far worse than solitude . Alone , I had died ,", "But this my sudden flight will give the Moloch", "We were in sight of him , of every thing", "An exile 's daughter with an outcast son ,", "The branches shake ; and some loose stones have fallen", "And I embrace it , as I did my son ,", "It would be safe for my own son to insult me ?", "\u2018 Tis the last night , I trust , that we need pass here .", "Inviting death , by looking like it , while 120", "I cannot think it :", "That only knows the evil at first glance .", "A gem ! It was my father 's !", "Why look you so ?", "Dare you insinuate ?", "The serpent who will sting us all !", "I parted with him to his grandsire , on", "As I have said : it leads through winding walls ,", "Your inquisition now : I may not be", "At day-dawn it is yours .", "And why not you ? Are you more versed in men ?", "Very true . 320", "Open , and the doors which lead from that hall", "A knocking !", "Have in such circumstances thrust him forth .", "Who taught you thus to brand an unknown being", "By the snares of this avaricious fiend :\u2014", "Hope ! I make sure . But let us to our chamber .", "Though scarcely prudent ; but no less I thank you .", "Aye , if at Prague :", "till", "You 'll find the spring more obvious", "More patient ? Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !\u2014 there are crimes", "Oh , just God ! 70 Thy hell is not hereafter ! Am I dust still ?", "Myself ,\u2014 to lose this for our son and thee !", "Even now I feel my spirit girt about", "How do I know he hath not tracked us here ?", "Base infamy ; repentance must retrieve it : 20", "Who", "And been an Hanseatic burgher ? Excellent !", "Even to our very hopes .\u2014 Ha ! ha !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["But where 's his Excellency ? and how fares he ?", "A monkey , and a mastiff \u2014 and a valet", "How many ?", "You see , sir : how he gave to each his due", "I 'll show thee I am honest \u2014", "That 's very well . You also know your place , too ; 300", "Be sprinkled by the Oder \u2014 look to it !", "I thank you for the respite : but there are", "Than does your Excellency .", "So let their bearer sleep \u2018 neath something like one", "As destiny , his Excellency 's come . 430", "As they could pay for firewood .", "My Lord , excuse this poor man 's want of breeding :", "Be spared \u2014 but never mind !", "I say you have been our lodger , and as yet", "You do n't mean me ?", "Those who have greater need of it than me . 180", "And now I think o n't , asking after you", "As frail as any other life or glory .", "Perhaps you are related to my relative ?", "To give an answer ; or if not , to put", "Well , if it must be so \u2014", "How !\u2014 What !\u2014 Eh ! A jewel !", "Dispute your claim , and weave a web that may", "The river has o'erflowed .", "Some days ago that looked the likeliest journey", "And devilish damp , but fine enough by torch-light ;", "Of yours be stretched as parchment on a drum ,", "The baron 's chamber , that it can n't be he .", "And seems to like that none should sleep besides .", "Nevertheless .", "May it please your Excellency , your thief looks", "Or no ; your noblemen are hard to drown , 220", "But there 's another whom he tracks more keenly ,", "Aye ,", "Here 's one his Excellency may be pleased", "Search empty pockets ; also , to arrest 70", "But \u2014\u2014", "Which paid their way up to the present hour ;", "For Werner .", "A cabinet with letters , papers , and", "Thou bright eye of the Mine ! thou loadstar of", "Several rouleaux of gold ; of which one only", "Through the dim Gothic glass by pious aid", "None whatsoever .", "And helms , and twisted armour , and long swords ,", "Wouldst have me suspect", "A villain .", "There is some sense in that \u2014\u2014", "If he 's a lad of mettle , he may yet", "Well , that 's strange ,", "Why , what is life", "Oh ! for that matter , very much suspected .", "Frankfort . Methinks the Baron 's own experience", "They had some valuables left at that time ,", "The country for some missing bits of coin ,", "Think all things made for them . Now here must I", "But lodged so far off , in the other wing , 20", "Almost a mile off , and which only leads", "Be better .", "Who was he ?", "That", "And so", "He 's poor as Job , and not so patient ; but", "Rouse up some half a dozen shivering vassals", "More worship than the majesty who sweats", "From whence he never dreamed to rise .", "Without there , Herman , Weilburg , Peter , Conrad !", "A fair good evening to my fair hostess", "A young heir , bred to wealth and luxury , 130", "And so am I . 10", "I do n't much like this fellow \u2014 close and dry He seems ,\u2014 two things which suit me not ; however , Wine he shall have ; if that unlocks him not , I shall not sleep to-night for curiosity .", "He 'll be worse lodged to-morrow : ne'ertheless ,", "Of Hamburgh skilled in precious stones . How many", "I tell thee , fellow , that two thalers in", "True ;", "Better or worse , like matrimony : what", "And yet we traced him 130", "And for the Baron 's gold \u2014 if \u2018 tis not found ,", "Of age , if \u2018 tis a day .", "A family !\u2014 yours !\u2014 a gem ! I 'm breathless !", "His heir 's upon his epitaph . Methought", "Who , at their proper peril , snatched him from", "But is it real ? Let me look on it :", "Pray ,", "Than can afford it . \u2018 Tis a poor sick man ,", "Fair !\u2014 Well , I trust your taste in wine is equal", "And prettily behaved ! He knows his station ,", "As e'er was gilt upon a trader 's board :", "The ghost of this rouleau . Here 's alchemy", "She has some of its properties which might", "For they pass by both names . And was he one ?", "Soldiers and desperadoes !", "to beat alarm to all", "When had you half the sum ?", "Here ? no ; but in the Prince 's own apartment ,", "And never offer a precise reward \u2014", "I cringe !\u2014 but I shall lose the opportunity \u2014", "To help him from his carriage , and present", "He 's gone , however .", "Of Frankfort , at all risks and all expenses ;", "Impossibilities .\u2014 Away , ye earth-worms !", "Though this looks like it : this is the true breeding", "Both paramount to his and mine . But come !", "This way \u2014 This way , your Excellency :\u2014 have a care , The staircase is a little gloomy , and Somewhat decayed ; but if we had expected So high a guest \u2014 Pray take my arm , my Lord !", "Fine doings ! goodly doings ! honest doings ! A Baron pillaged in a Prince 's palace ! Where , till this hour , such a sin ne'er was heard of .", "At least he shall have the full satisfaction", "Shall furnish forth the bed-apparel ; for ,", "Yes \u2014 he 's dozing , 610", "To read them", "Thou touch-stone of Philosophy herself ! 330", "We do not know your name .", "Should overtake thee .\u2014 Let me gaze again !", "Yourself ; I pray you make yourself at home :", "In the search", "Friends .", "Left it some dozen years ago . And then", "And has done miracles i \u2019 the way of business .", "\u2018 Tis only at the bar and in the dungeon ,", "Before", "Precedence !", ",", "To say the truth , they are marvellous scant of this", "Stand there : but where 's he gone ?", "But what is certain is , that he has swallowed", "Is more than I can say for Madame Idenstein ,", "Unlikely . But , hold \u2014 might it not have been 30", "Plague take it ! he 'll be here , and I not there !", "I would she were ! 390", "My intimate connection ;\u2014 \u201c Cousin Idenstein !", "He 's fortunate .", "As air , despite the waters ; let us hence :", "Still liable to cold \u2014 and if not , why", "Indifferent well , your Excellency .", "No , faith !", "Ho ! a chair ! 460 Instantly , knaves .", "Carats may it weigh ?\u2014 Come , Werner , I will wing thee .", "And that 's enough for your right noble blood", "What ho , there ! bustle !", "And my principles , I hope .", "Of gentle blood !", "His face shall be so .", "A well-spoken , pretty-faced young man !", "I thought so all along , such natural yearnings", "Please you , my good Lord ,", "Yes , of the monkey ,", "The very furniture the Prince used when", "Well , I 'm glad of that ;", "I 'll say so .", "But what you do n't know is ,", "It may be", "That Stralenheim 's in quest of .", "Now , as he one day will for ever lie .", "We 'll send out villains to strip beggars , and", "Small change will subdivide into a treasure .", "In case he should survive .", "To save a man 's life whom you do not know .", "From this proud , niggardly noble , who would raise", "\u2018 Tis here ! the supernaculum !", "His Excellency \u2014\u2014 But his name : what is it ?", "Against the stream and three postilions \u2019 wishes ,", "All gipsies , and ill-clothed and sallow people .", "And you shall have besides , in sparkling coin ,", "Kill him ! then", "And so let 's have some wine , and drink unto", "Most willingly . You see \u2014\u2014", "Pensive . Will it not please you to pass on ?", "you 'll order out a dozen villains . \u201d", "Can that low vice alloy so much ambition ?", "The Baron is retired to rest ?", "Oh ! Heaven knows where , unless to Heaven itself .", "Can only be approved by proofs . You see \u2014\u2014", "Refractory vassals , who can not effect", "Of pictured saints upon the red and yellow", "That wise men know your felon by his features ; 210", "Up to this hall . Are you accomplices ?", "Was there no cause assigned ?", "Here as at the small tavern , and I gave them", "twenty years", "In a most miserable old caleche ,", "The run of some of the oldest palace rooms .", "No \u2014 not you ,", "Without a living ? He has not a stiver .", "Right little speed , and \u2014\u2014", "To risk his life and honours with disbanded", "Two thalers .", "And the police", "Oh , thou sweet sparkler !", "Mine !\u2014 Name it !", "Last here , in its full splendour .", "Sir ! Lord \u2014 oh Lord ! Why do n't you say", "Appears to have been committed .", "To such a presence .", "Oh , no intrusion ! 250", "Gone back to his chamber :", "With nobly-born impatience .", "But no , \u201c it must \u201d and there 's an end . How now ?", "And soon , it may be , with authority", "So scarcely will catch cold i n't , if he be", "Except his name", "The Prince 's chamber is prepared , with all 510", "Do not five hundred thousand heroes daily 680", "The whirling river , have sent on to crave", "But this !\u2014 another look !", "A blaze of torches from without . As sure", "For every page of paper , shall a hide", "Exceeding poor .", "That 's more"], "true_target": ["Of crystal , which each rattling wind proclaims", "But I must not lose time : Good night !", "Beneath the crown which makes his head ache , like", "Or deal you in the black art ?", "Not afraid ?", "That 's true : but pity , as you know , does make", "Humph !\u2014 not exactly .", "Bustle , my boys ! we are at fault .", "And now a Saxon and Hungarian traveller ,", "Puzzle your Baron to unravel .", "It may turn out with the live or dead body .", "They served to air them , at the least as long 420", "The thief among so many ? In the crowd ,", "Just now you chid me for demanding names ?", "His Lordship , or his Excellency ? Pray ,", "A wise magician , who has bound the devil", "To be got ready for the worst \u2014 that is ,", "Suspect ! all people", "Absence , I am sovereign ; and the Baron is", "Prisoners we 'll have at least , if not the culprit ;", "And worthy \u2014\u2014 What 's your name , my friend ?", "Your humble duty at the door ?", "Without the forfeit of his soul . But come ,", "The velvet chair \u2014 in his embroidered night-gown ;", "But then he comes from a much damper place ,", "That I keep better company .", "Within the palace precincts , since his Highness", "Our search for t'other .", "Travel-tired , and lately risen from a bed", "But so much haste bodes", "Whether he be found criminal or no ,", "Of twenty quarterings upon a hatchment ;", "; post notices in manuscript", "Is drowned below the ford , with five post-horses ,", "Who knows if he hath now a name or no ?", "And yet you saved his life .", "Casements , through which the sunset streams like sunrise", "Besides , I bade him \u201c good night \u201d in the hall ,", "Without \u2014 within \u2014 above \u2014 below \u2014 Heaven help me !", "Of flight , that if thou wert a snail , not birds", "I like that article of war .", "Thou shalt be furnished , Werner , with such means 350", "to have burst two peasants ;", "Of melting twice its substance in the raising", "Why , if", "Poor as a miser", "I can n't say I did ,", "Out upon your avarice !", "For your Lord 's losses !", "In good sooth , if you really are the man", "Be you the man or no , \u2018 tis not my business ;", "The Hungarian ?", "Cannot be worse off than they are , and may 670", "My own acquaintances ? You have to learn", "Whom Stralenheim 's in quest of ?", "Shalt thou be mine ? I am , methinks , already", "Good friend , and who may you be ?", "This is the palace ; this a stranger like", "Risk lives and souls for the tithe of one thaler ?", "Like enough !", "\u2018 Tis time enough to ask it when he 's able", "No doubt you 'll have a swingeing sum as recompense .", "Belike ;\u2014 I 'm a civilian .", "Not having been inhabited these twelve years ;", "We know not if his Excellency 's dead", "Doubtless .", "The Baron was asleep in the great chair \u2014", "Not", "Why , what should bring me here ?", "And so I thought they might as well be lodged", "Certain . I have lived and served here since my birth ,", "Of whom I long have dreamed in a low garb .\u2014", "Their lives , despatch them o'er the river towards", "His name ? oh Lord !", "He !\u2014 no , my Lord ! he rather wants for rescue", "I think that all the world are grown anonymous , Since no one cares to tell me what he 's called ! Pray , has his Excellency a large suite ?", "Like Ziska 's skin ,", "An hour is past I 'll do my best to serve him . 600", "That 's well \u2014", "I doubt not .", "Expose his precious life \u2014 on which all rests .", "Exactly like the rest , or rather better :", "Shall I say more ? You have been a guest this month 180", "And so , you villains ! troop \u2014 march \u2014 march , I say ;", "A little king , a lucky alchymist !\u2014 340", "I have a cousin in the lazaretto", "The same . He is an officer of trust , 190", "To his own apartment , about the same time", "Or seen it .", "When this burglarious , larcenous felony", "At least in beauty : as for majesty ,", "Now , how much do you reckon on ?", "And if there were such , must have heard of such ,", "All hearts point duly north , like trembling needles !", "Some hours ago might teach him fellow-feeling :", "\u2014", "Have you forgot", "The devil he did !", "Secure him ! He hath got his sword again \u2014\u2014", "Your Lordship , being robbed , do n't recognise", "And gilded crosiers , and crossed arms , and cowls ,", "We 'll offer a reward ; move heaven and earth ,", "Thou more than stone of the philosopher !", "I must be at my post ; will you not join me ,", "Surgeon 's assistant", "Here in the prince 's palace \u2014", "Werner , or what else ?", "Oh ! I am dumb .", "And seems to know the use o n't ; \u2018 tis his trade , 320", "Why , do n't you know , my Lord ? 200", "Does he not ?", "Yes , one ;", "Of Hamburgh , who has got a wife who bore", "Somewhat tattered ,", "Here is a packet for the Commandant", "Is he not here ? He must have vanished then", "I do believe in thee ! thou art the spirit", "But come , I 'll serve thee ; thou shalt be as free", "Has disappeared :\u2014 the door unbolted , with", "On long pearl-coloured beards and crimson crosses .", "Are you there , Mynheer Werner ?", ", I know not .", "Our better acquaintance : relatives should be 200", "Who he may be , or what , or aught of him ,", "His Excellency will sup , doubtless ?", "All the fantastic furniture of windows 120", "That 's right . A gallant carle , and fit to be", "And the valet , and the cattle ; but as yet", "How so ?", "That cannot be .", "And yet I do n't know that I know your place .", "Help ! Hands off ! Touch an Intendant !", "The soul ! the true magnetic Pole to which", "One 's heart commit these follies ; and besides ,", "About a month since , and immediately", "Than you shall do , if there be judge or judgment", "Fell sick , almost to death . He should have died .", "Re-enter WERNER .", "No heir ?", "A soldier . I 'll promote you to the ranks", "But some of the inferior knaves . You say", "I tell you , \u2018 tis impossible .", "Besides , I never could obtain the half", "As it is fit that men in office should be ;", "I have ordered fire and all appliances", "From their scant pallets , and , at peril of", "I asked for something better than your name ,", "Oh ! that I e'er should live to see this day ! The honour of our city 's gone for ever .", "But I 'll engage , that if seen there but once ,", "A goodly name , a very worthy name ,", "Played round my heart :\u2014 blood is not water , cousin ;", "I will do what I can .", "As fits a noble guest :\u2014 \u2018 tis damp , no doubt ,", "And if a single dog 's ear of this packet 690", "Millions of hearts which bleed to lend it lustre !", "And have risked more than drowning for as much ,", "So then you are the man", "The devil take these great men ! they", "The rear up : a wise general never should", "But are you sure", "Egad ! I am afraid . You look as if", "Help !", "A lodging , or a grave , according as", "Which is called ?", "Likeness and fame alike rest in some panes", "Where ?", "The rogue ; how should I , not being robbed , identify", "One of the suite ?", "Your Lordship seems", "There I differ . 400", "One says he is no stranger .", "I have a question or two for yourself", "If there were aught to carry off , my Lord .", "That a great personage , who fain would cross", "A gipsy or Bohemian , \u2018 tis the same ,", "Of him who robbed the Baron .", "No difficult access to any .", "To that you show for beauty ; but I pledge you", "You do n't know what has happened , then ?", "As sure as you", "Was there", "Whose vassal you were born , knave ?", "In the Prince 's body-guard \u2014 if you succeed :", "Why , no one spoke of you , or to you !\u2014 but", "Was I \u2014 and that 's the cause I know no more", "By the face you put on it .", "In Germany . The Baron shall decide !", "Dim with brave knights and holy hermits , whose", "Enough of the Oder", "March , vassals ! I 'm your leader , and will bring", "I have a foster-brother in the mart", "Why , you will be well paid for \u2018 t ,", "But hark ! a noise of wheels and voices , and", "But you 're mistaken :\u2014 that 's the stranger 's wife .", "Hereafter ; but we must continue now", "He we sought .", "By which there 's no communication with", "He hath not been accustomed to admission", "Diamond , by all that 's glorious !", "I should like to know ,", "Nothing \u2014 but there 's a good deal to be said .", "Well , what would I give to save a great man ! 290", "Thou flaming Spirit of the Earth ! which , sitting", "And that", "; and set by my clerk", "Sirrah ! in the Prince 's", "To recognise .", "High on the Monarch 's Diadem , attractest", "His toilet spread before him , and upon it"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["\u2018 Midst every natural and acquired distinction ,", "Sufficient .", "I have sought you , comrade . So this is my reward !", "A truce , a peace , or what you will , remits 350", "Distinct as I beheld them , though the expression", "Does he abet you in your accusation ?", "You shall know it 370", "Re-enter IDENSTEIN and some Peasants .", "The worms ! You hound of malice !", "To wear a steel which may be stained with more 210", ",", "Disgraced \u2014\u2014", "Do not think", "You , Count , have made yourself accuser \u2014 judge : 300", "Such as would leave your scutcheon but a blank .", "In that case , I much wonder that a person 410", "Ere I do so ,", "Hockcheimer \u2014 a green glass ,", "by choking you myself .", "If you are not his friend you will assist me .", "Or", "By sympathy , that all the outspread gold", "I . \u2018 Twill rest", "I care not", "But show me any place . I do assure you ,", "As undeservedly as you .", "What the devil would you have ? You do n't believe me", "The villain I am deemed , the service rendered", "What am I to do", "Recede now , though it shake the very walls", "Werner ! I have heard the name . But it may be a feigned one .", "I followed it , and reached a door \u2014 a secret 310", "Its lone inhabitants show more respect", "I thought our bustling guest without had said", "To have at least waited your payment rather", "Your messengers were all checked like myself ;", "Youth , strength , and beauty , almost superhuman ,", "Greatly to care .", "A winter in obscurity , it was", "At once :\u2014 When you were poor , and I , though poor ,", "I needs must say but one , and he is absent .", "Which epoch makes", "Your own especial purpose \u2014 to sustain", "A goodly fellow by his looks , though worn As most good fellows are , by pain or pleasure , Which tear life out of us before our time ; 370 I scarce know which most quickly : but he seems To have seen better days , as who has not Who has seen yesterday ?\u2014 But here approaches Our sage intendant , with the wine : however , For the cup 's sake I 'll bear the cupbearer .", "as may leave no nightmare", "Once on a time .", "The presence of the murderer .", "But you at least 210", "Inhabited the palace of a sovereign !", "Or chamber :\u2014 is the charge your own or his ?", "If not , your son does ,\u2014 that the locks were changed", "Is not now what it then was !\u2014 but it was so", "I know no man , not even", "Farewell !", "We came up by mere accident , and just", "Dare you command me ?", "If the judge asked me , I would answer \u201c No \u201d \u2014", "If not , I 'll try my fortune elsewhere .", "If I mistake not . Whither were they going ?", "The steel into its scabbard , and lets sleep", "To suffer martyrdom , at least with such", "I did not pledge myself to serve him in", "An indescribable sensation drew me", "I 'll take it for so much .", "Weighed at its proper value in the balance ,", "Look at him , Count , and then hear me .", "In bearing .", "He", "After such", "Is he so suspicious ?", "Conceptions , \u2018 twas that I had rarely seen", "\u201c This is the man ! \u201d though he was then , as since ,", "Of the free town of Frankfort . Of their fate", "Resembling them \u2014 behold them in Count Ulric 's !", "In the poor town where Werner was concealed ,", "Your miserly Intendant and dense noble \u2014", "Would please him better than the table , after 270", "Myself : how should I then know one I ne'er", "And , seeing the case hopeless , I await", "A bandit of the woods , I could have borne it \u2014", "And think , for every bumper I shall quaff ,", "I 'll meet the consequences .", "In the most high of worldly rank ; you were", "Of Stralenheim pursued me on the grounds", "Not quite . You think me venal , and scarce true :", "Faith !", "Of the New World the Spaniard boasts about", "As she doth to the daring \u2014 and on whom", "I am the worst clothed , and least named amongst them ;", "And you , my Lord ?", "Hungarian .", "Count , you are bound to hear me . I came hither", "Who feels himself the guilty one amongst us .", "You are poor and sickly \u2014 I am not rich , but healthy ;", "Their castle walls \u2014 beyond them \u2018 tis but doubtful", "A vile equivocation ; you well know", "No ,", "It may be , may again encounter , why ,", "No more than you do", "No , sir , \u2018 tis enough", "I 'll in \u2014 farewell !", "I said I was so \u2014 and would add , with truth ,", "Therefore I 'll stick by this \u2014 as being both", "Keep the best shortly , and the last for all men ,", "Though not his friendship :\u2014 it was his intention", "I beheld his features", "All \u2014 all suspected me ; and why ? because", "The priests say", "Oppression . I know well these nobles , and", "From your own lips a disavowal of", "Or should be comrades , even though enemies .", "That you know best .", "Solicited his notice \u2014 and obtained it \u2014", "At Frankfort on the Oder , where I passed", "Run hazard of being drowned ,", "As might have envied mine , I offered you", "Guilty of this base theft ?", "\u2018 Sdeath ! have I lived to these years , and for this !But for your age and folly , I would \u2014\u2014", "A man above his station \u2014 and if not", "I did not enter Prague alone ; and should I 390", "By the same path I entered ?", "Scarce dare to recollect , was not then in", "Till yester evening .", "You sought this fatal interview !", "That I had robbed him .", "An ignominy not my own .", "The wholesome bitterness of life , know well ,", "But I will . A thousand thanks !", "In secret passages known to yourself ,", "A life which stood between the claims of others", "He best knows \u2014 but within an antechamber , 330", "Suspicion is a heavy armour , and", "There were , in company ;", "In peril ?", "No ; and I am not used", "The second . I have still a further shield .\u2014", "How should I make my way in darkness through", "I rendered him , I am his enemy :", "Have an accuser , let it be a man", "Chance led me here after so many moons \u2014", "You owe to the unknown , who asks no more ,", "Who will do honour to your good cheer with", "Intendant , of the pillage of your person", "It matters little .", "You are no thief \u2014 nor I \u2014 and , as true men ,", "Who calls ?", "To give me refuge for a few hours , well \u2014", "Be brief in your decision !", "The fates of others oft depend ; besides ,", "Amongst them there was said to be one man", "All roaring \u201c Help ! \u201d but offering none ; and as", "Even as you please .", "Marauders from the hostile camp .\u2014 They proved ,", "Justice at hands like theirs . Where shall I go ?", "Young women and old wine ; and \u2018 tis great pity ,", "Of the late troops , who levy on the country", "Have you aught with me ?", "To sup myself , and have a friend without", "Secured a band of desperate men , supposed", "Save mine , stained in this business ?", "His soaking in your river : but for fear", "Would we had left you there !", "I do n't . But who", "I accuse no man \u2014 save in my defence .", "My Lord , my Lord , this is mere cozenage", "Stature , and bearing \u2014 and amidst them all ,", "He , whom you dare not name , nor even I 320", "You pledged your honour for my safety !", "Was to be fixed by him .\u2014 There I was wrong .", "At last they were escorted o'er the frontiers ,", "One of your order .", "He will be here anon .", "I find them practising against the weak :\u2014", "There was", "This is the second safe asylum You have offered me .", "And Stralenheim was succoured \u2014\u2014 Now we are on", "I have not forgotten it : you spared me for", "I may live to requite it .", "If I have read it .\u2014 Well ! I fled and hid me \u2014", "Which skirt Bohemia \u2014 even into Lusatia .", "\u2018 Tis then Werner !", "Which I call helpless ; if you now deny it , 30", "Put many questions to the Intendant on", "Yours and your son 's . Weigh well what I have said .", "You strive to tread on .", "The door of which was half ajar , I saw", "Pursue me to the death , except through shame ,", "With its own weight impedes more than protects .", "To you I answer thus .", "?", "At noontide .", "And never thought to have asked so much .", "The imperial powers \u2014 you understand me ?", "I saw in you", "Than did the elements , is come .", "Wetly and wearily , but out of peril :", "Be patient ! I can not", "His kind suspicions \u2014 me ! whom he ne'er saw", "Not so much", "Still you owe me something ,", "I know you innocent , and deem you just .", "Blood became ice .", "A man who washed his bloody hands , and oft", "To honours and estates scarce less than princely .", "Worthy to be so of a man like me .", "This prodigy , if only to behold him .", "Of what I have done for you , and what you owe me ,", "Is not the same your spouse ?", "Or any other honest man .", "As much as made a crevice of the fastening ,", "Which still improves the one , should spoil the other . 380", "Pray", "Some take the shortest .", "In February last . A martial force ,", "Than theirs : but thus it is \u2014 you poor and helpless \u2014", "And yet unused to poverty ,", "Suspicion ; but you best know \u2014 what \u2014 and why .", "I am your equal .", "I looked through and beheld a purple bed ,", "Above his outward fortunes .", "In saying you were a soldier during peace-time .", "Except such villains as ne'er had it ?", "Travel for your rich Count or full-blown Baron .", "Not with your gold .", "Can vouch your courage , and , as far as my", "And placed beneath the civil jurisdiction 240", "I 'll pull you out for nothing . Quick , my friend ,", "In time to drag him through his carriage window .", "This is my only motive .", "Is it revenge or justice which inspires", "I cannot tell ; but I should think the pillow", "Where is your husband ?", "Rich enough to relieve such poverty", "Fit to decide . But I came here to seek you .", "You seem devoid of this \u2014 wilt share it ?", "Sent by the state , had , after strong resistance , 230", "I have not yet put up myself to sale :", "I could discern , methought , the assassin 's eye", "Aye , sir ; and , for", "Your hall 's my court , your heart is my tribunal .", "And I will use it for the same .", "Is not the lovely woman", "I do not ask for hints , and surmises , 220", "I thought to cheer up this old dungeon here", "As being anxious to resume my journey .", "Beneath his chief inspection on the morn", "The Intendant and his man-hounds after me :", "Wreathed with rich grapes and Bacchanal devices ,", "The moneys of a slumbering man !\u2014", "I do not know .", "And that 's the reason I would have us less so :", "An epitaph as larceny upon my tomb .", "By speaking of myself much : I began", "His by the public rumour ; and his sway ,", "Save in such guise", "I did not count them .", "Promise to make mine less ?", "A wave the less may roll above your head .", "In any magic save that of the mine \u2014", "Was roused with various feelings to seek out", "Not only over his associates , but", "The chamber .", "Which led to this same night : how he had entered", "And may sound better .\u2014 He appeared to me", "JOSEPHINE retires up the Hall .", "Be put to rest with Stralenheim , there are", "That 's harder still . You say you were a soldier .", "His barony or county to repel", "A popular affray in the public square", "I 'm sorry for it .", "Our swords when drawn must cross , our engines aim", "You 'll hear . Chance favoured me :", "Your viands should be thrown away , I mean", "Beheld till half an hour since ?", "Sir , I have told my tale : if it so please you", "I know not that even now \u2014 but will approve", "Of me and my companions .", "True : 190 I am a fool to lose myself because Fools deem me knave : it is their homage .", "Four \u2014 Five \u2014 six hours have I counted , like the guard Of outposts , on the never-merry clock , That hollow tongueof time , which , even when It sounds for joy , takes something from enjoyment With every clang . \u2018 Tis a perpetual knell , Though for a marriage-feast it rings : each stroke Peals for a hope the less ; the funeral note Of Love deep-buried , without resurrection , In the grave of Possession ; while the knoll10 Of long-lived parents finds a jovial echo To triple time in the son 's ear . I 'm cold \u2014 I 'm dark ;\u2014 I 've blown my fingers \u2014 numbered o'er And o'er my steps \u2014 and knocked my head against Some fifty buttresses \u2014 and roused the rats And bats in general insurrection , till Their curs\u00e9d pattering feet and whirling wings Leave me scarce hearing for another sound . A light ! It is at distancebut it blinks 20 As through a crevice or a key-hole , in The inhibited direction : I must on , Nevertheless , from curiosity . A distant lamp-light is an incident In such a den as this . Pray Heaven it lead me To nothing that may tempt me ! Else \u2014 Heaven aid me To obtain or to escape it ! Shining still ! Were it the star of Lucifer himself , Or he himself girt with its beams , I could Contain no longer . Softly : mighty well ! 30 That corner 's turned \u2014 so \u2014 ah ! no ;\u2014 right ! it draws Nearer . Here is a darksome angle \u2014 so , That 's weathered .\u2014 Let me pause .\u2014 Suppose it leads Into some greater danger than that which I have escaped \u2014 no matter , \u2018 tis a new one ; And novel perils , like fresh mistresses , Wear more magnetic aspects :\u2014 I will on , And be it where it may \u2014 I have my dagger Which may protect me at a pinch .\u2014 Burn still , Thou little light ! Thou art my ignis fatuus ! 40 My stationary Will-o \u2019 - the-wisp !\u2014 So ! so ! He hears my invocation , and fails not .", "Of Senators and Princes ; but you have called me , 190", "Before the breath of menials , and their master", "Together \u2014 and together we arrived 280", "Though not for that ; and I owed you my safety ,", "lattice in your breasts ,", "He paused to change his garments in a cottage", "In my return .", "My purse \u2014 you would not share it :\u2014 I 'll be franker", "I helped my friend to do so .", "Such was his influence :\u2014 I have no great faith 250", "If I intrude , I crave \u2014\u2014", "To watch for the abatement of the river ,", "Has turned some thousand gallant hearts adrift", "Must I bear this ?"], "true_target": ["Sir , you seem rapt ;", "Just what I say ; I thought my speech was plain : 40", "Give it utterance , and then", "I would have aided you \u2014 and also have 380", "With you : you are wealthy , noble , trusted by", "Not I ! and if", "Be just , and I 'll be merciful !", "The subject of your lord , and , to be plain ,", "And has almost recovered from his drenching .", "Although I almost wish you had the Baron 's .", "Near to this man , as if my point of fortune", "I thank you", "With these ?", "Amidst the people in the church , I dreamed not", "Although , I recollect , his frequent question", "We found you in the Oder ;", "You 're right : I ask for shelter at the hand", "With stern and anxious glance gazed back upon \u2014", "Not so ; for there are some I know so well , 280", "About you and your spouse might lead to some", "I 'd face them \u2014 but it were in vain to expect", "Their thousand modes of trampling on the poor .", "And poorer by suspicion on my name !", "Much beauty , and more majesty .", "And circumstance , and proof : I know enough", "Who shall", "And yet the time is not akin to thought . 450", ", returned my salutation \u2014", "Is it even so ? 10", "The dove did \u2014 trusting that they have abated . 50", "In phrases not equivocal , by yon", "in my whole life , and therefore am not", "I attend you . Stral ,Friend !", "My comfort is that , wander where I may ,", "I followed him ,", "To find the beggared Werner in the seat", "One of those beings to whom Fortune bends , 270", "Occasions where men 's souls look out of them ,", "The chief part of whatever aid was rendered", "Your meditation ?", "I recognise you both : father and son , It seems . Count , I have heard that you , or yours , Have lately been in search of me : I am here .", "I helped to save him , as in peril ; but", "My soul might brook to open it more widely", "If he avouches not my honour .", "Good night ! I trust to meet with him at day-break .", "Tender and true !\u2014 but why ?", "Which frown above us . You remember ,\u2014 or", "This master of the ceremonies is The intendant of the palace , I presume : \u2018 Tis a fine building , but decayed .", "At least my seeming safety , when the slaves", "I will ; and so provide To sell my life \u2014 not cheaply .", "From the Ravenstone", "This worthy personage has deigned to fix", "Oppose me ?", "First , who accuses me ?", "A treatment for the service which in part 80", "Farewell , then ! Recollect , however , Count ,", "I met in the adjacent hall , who , with", "And bleeding like a sacrifice . My own", "As I see yours \u2014 but yours they were not , though", "His sabre .", "Are practising your power on me \u2014 because", "So high , as now I find you , in my then", "His judges , was attributed to witchcraft ,", "At once , then ,", "My purse , though slender , with you \u2014 you refused it .", "So is the nearest of the two next , as", "If it be so , being much disposed to do 10", "With me at last to be so . You concealed me \u2014", "I know the assassin .", "I meant my peril only : you 've a roof ,", "Right easily , methinks . What is the spell in his asseveration 250 More than in mine ?", "The Baron lost in that last outrage neither", "Have made me both at present . You shall aid me :", "I seek no more , and scarce deserve", "I wonder then you occupied it not ,", "I am unarmed , Count , bid your son lay down", "Their maintenance : the Chatelains must keep 340", "Although , were Momus \u2019", "By my family ,", "The rushing river from his gurgling throat .", "\u2018 Tis no less true , however , that my fortunes", "Should aid each other .", "Many amongst them were reported of", "They might have ventured .", "And by her aspect she might be a Prince 's ;", "By", "O'erflowing with the oldest of your vintage :", "You said , and to none else . At dead of night ,", "I see you 're moved ; and it shows well in you :", "Baron Stralenheim", "I were well paid . But you , who seem to have proved", "Whom either accident or enterprise", "I am oppressed like you \u2014 and poor like you \u2014", "That we are both unarmed \u2014 I would not choose", "Aught that you know , superior ; but proceed \u2014", "Open it ,", "These old walls will be noisy soon . The baron ,", "I want for nothing which I cannot want ;", "A glass of your", "To leave the city privately \u2014 we left it", "You know best , if yesterday 's", "They lay their hands on . All Silesia and", "Blood than came there in battle .", "Perhaps .", "As those who fare well everywhere , when they 300", "Well , that 's over now , and peace", "Excuse me : have I said aught to offend you ?", "Your doubts are certainties to all around you \u2014 260", "You yourself ,", "Are you", "Poor souls !", "300", "Weary with watching in the dark , and dubious", "\u2014 I did mine then , 440", "The Oder to divide , as Moses did", "But ere I can proceed \u2014 dare you protect me ?", "Nay \u2014 but hear me to the end ! Now you must do so .\u2014 I conceived myself Betrayed by you and himinto this Pretended den of refuge , to become The victim of your guilt ; and my first thought Was vengeance : but though armed with a short poniard, I was no match For him at any time , as had been proved That morning \u2014 either in address or force . 350 I turned and fled \u2014 i \u2019 the dark : chance rather than Skill made me gain the secret door of the hall , And thence the chamber where you slept : if I Had found you waking , Heaven alone can tell What vengeance and suspicion might have prompted ; But ne'er slept guilt as Werner slept that night .", "Was his : it was his fortune to be first . 480", "I have proved them ; and my spirit boils up when", "To hear related a strange circumstance", "\u2018 Tis not my fault , 360", "But this is nothing : I demand of you 230", "So much . My comrade may speak for himself . 490", "From out that carriage when he would have given", "With the nobles of the city . I felt sure", "Your thanks on me . I was but a glad second", "Perchance , if I had left you to your fate .", "I can n't help that . 200", "Pause ere you answer : is no other name ,", "As you accuse . You hint the basest injury ,", "High rank \u2014 and martial law slept for a time .", "I will not detain you ,", "I am calm \u2014 live on !", "I seek not to disturb", "You look one still . All soldiers are", "I 'll honour you so much as save your throat", "Have supped and slumbered , no great matter how \u2014", "And youth outstripped me ; therefore do not waste", "And I retort it with an open warning .", "Could never tempt the man who knows its worth ,", "With cautious hand and slow , having first undone", "Must I bear to be deemed a thief ? If \u2018 twere", "If I should do so ?", "Guests so forlorn into this noble mansion .", "However , not to be so \u2014 but banditti ,", "But how ?", "Own brief connection led me , honour .", ",", "Than paid myself , had I been eager of", "The Red Sea", "Your looks a voice \u2014 your frowns a sentence ; you", "Think if it were your own case !", "For which I promise you , in case you e'er", "The Baron has been robbed , and upon me", "And rip the hunter 's entrails .", "Now do yours . Hence , and bow and cringe him here !", "My secret , and may weigh its worth .", "Must I turn an icicle", "Lusatia 's woods are tenanted by bands", "I have my doubts if he means well .", "Allow me to inquire , who profited", "There 's something daring in it :\u2014 but to steal", "I noted down his form \u2014 his gesture \u2014 features ,", "There goes my noble , feudal , self-willed Baron ! Epitome of what brave chivalry The preux Chevaliers of the good old times Have left us . Yesterday he would have given His lands, and , still dearer , His sixteen quarterings , for as much fresh air As would have filled a bladder , while he lay Gurgling and foaming half way through the window 330 Of his o'erset and water-logged conveyance ; And now he storms at half a dozen wretches Because they love their lives too ! Yet , he 's right : \u2018 Tis strange they should , when such as he may put them To hazard at his pleasure . Oh , thou world ! Thou art indeed a melancholy jest !", "True \u2014", "And show them as they are \u2014 even in their faces :", "To you for remedy \u2014 teach them their duty !", "Beside you !", "You may do so , and in safety ;", "Portal \u2014 which opened to the chamber , where ,", "To look for thieves at home were part of it ,", "I scarce should give myself the trouble .", ",", "What ?", "And on it Stralenheim !\u2014", "\u2018 Tis false ! 170", "But let the consequence alight on him", "That I know by long practice . Will you not", "You shall", "I 'll after him and \u2014\u2014", "He was already slain ,", "I know too well \u2014", "Or count", "To live as they best may : and , to say truth ,", "Could you order", "But how came he here ?", "And I have none ; I merely seek a covert .", "Some tongues without will wag in my behalf .", "But , in the service rendered to your Lordship ,", "And knew it ere yourself , unhappy Sire !", "Been somewhat damaged in my name to save", "Of tracing back my way , I saw a glimmer ,", ", for whom this desolate village and", "A traveller 's appetite .", "But hark ! they come !", "Shaking their dripping ears upon the shore ,", "Then you acquit me , Baron ?", "If duly taught ; but , in one word , if I", "For duty", "Of two such excellent things , increase of years ,", "Oppressed here by these menials , and I look", "And showed me Werner in Count Siegendorf !", "But here he comes !", "I heard", "The wounded lion his cool cave . Methinks", "And on me only ?", "Had carried from their usual haunt \u2014 the forests", "I went at daybreak , 310", "By Stralenheim 's death ? Was't I \u2014 as poor as ever ;", "An air , and port , and eye , which would have better", "Life early \u2014 and am what the world has made me .", "Though time hath touched her too , she still retains", "Your poverty my likeness ended ; but", "No \u2014 you do n't look a leech for that disorder ;", "Do I hear aright ? You too !", "\u2018 Sdeath ! who dare doubt it ,", "My noble Lord , I 'm here ! 200", "And courage as unrivalled , were proclaimed", "You sought me and have found me \u2014 now you know", "Less for my life than for your counsel .", "You were a chance and passing guest , the counterpart", "I dragged him", "To-morrow I will try the waters , as", "Drew crowds together \u2014 it was one of those", "I never had so much", "In the mean time , my best reward would be", "Should know whom not to suspect . I am insulted \u2014", "I 've earned them ; but might have earned more from others ,", "The fare of my companions and myself .", "at each other 's hearts ; but when", "Unto a nobler principal .", "I were , what is there to espy in you ?", "Ere I go hang for snatching him from drowning .", "I therefore deemed him wealthy .\u2014 But my soul", "In what service ? The Imperial ?", "May be this stranger ? He too hath a bearing", "Whate'er", "Poor , even to all save rags : I would have shared 290", "Beseemed this palace in its brightest days", "The bleeding body \u2014 but it moved no more .", "Justice upon your unjust servants , and", "Flood has not washed away your memory ;", "And we have met .", "You rather look like one would turn at bay ,", "I know no more .", "I had not erred , and watched him long and nearly ;", "It is but a night 's lodging which I crave ;", "Both still more than myself .", "It is unecessary :", "But that 's a trifle . I stand here accused ,", "Your couriers are turned back \u2014 I have outstripped them ,", "They shall . You 've wronged me , Ulric , More with your unkind thoughts than sword : I would The last were in my bosom rather than The first in yours . I could have borne yon noble 's 300 Absurd insinuations \u2014 ignorance And dull suspicion are a part of his Entail will last him longer than his lands \u2014 But I may fit him yet :\u2014 you have vanquished me . I was the fool of passion to conceive That I could cope with you , whom I had seen Already proved by greater perils than Rest in this arm . We may meet by and by , However \u2014 but in friendship .", ", and be obeyed , perhaps 320", "Ulr . I", "So recently would not permit you to", "I have been a soldier , and perhaps am blunt", "Of your apparent prudence should admit", "I speak to you , Count Siegendorf , because", "A Gothic labyrinth of unknown windings ?", "My chance at several places of resort", "Through distant crannies , of a twinkling light :", "If there be faith in man , I am most guiltless :", "No one ; nor did I say you were so : with", "The verge \u2014 dare you hear further ?", "Fill full \u2014 Here 's to our hostess !\u2014 your fair wife !", "The spark which lights the matchlock , we are brethren .", "by asking you to share", "For you seem delicate in health .", "And gladiator 's heart .", "Werner , whom I had sought in huts in vain ,", "The moment my eye met his , I exclaimed , 260", "His noble memory .", "You have it ; but beware ! you know not whom", "Not seeking you , but sought . When I knelt down", "Again ! Am I accused or no ?", "Upon his heart o \u2019 nights .", "Then , as we never met before , and never ,", "Men such as you appeared in height of mind ,", "Your gold . I also know , that were I even", "Of your late loss ; but \u2018 tis a trifle to", "My will was not inferior , but his strength", "Jewels nor gold ; his life alone was sought .\u2014", "When I first charged him with the crime \u2014 so lately . 340", "Of wonderful endowments :\u2014 birth and fortune ,", "I am his deadliest foe .", "All sanction of their insolence : thus much", "May have more names than one . Your Lordship had so", "Why that 's my heart of honour ! yon young gallant \u2014", "The same myself . But will you shelter me ?", "I 've little left to lose now .", "Then next time let him go sink", "The current 's pleasure .", "He has valets now enough : they stood aloof then ,", "Scarce honestly , to say the truth o n't , 60"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["In short , I was asleep upon my chair , My cabinet before me , with some gold Upon itsome ingenious person Contrived to glide through all my own attendants , Besides those of the place , and bore away A hundred golden ducats , which to find 240 I would be fain , and there 's an end . Perhaps Youwould add To yesterday 's great obligation , this , Though slighter , yet not slight , to aid these menin recovering it ?", "The gold before my scarce-closed eyes , would soon", "Well , sir , since you will not \u2014", "They seem so niggardly , compared with what", "I know not why , and therefore do fear more ,", "And living amidst commerce-fetching burghers ,", "By this you make me", "Too dull for wakefulness , too quick for slumber ,", "You saved my life \u2014 and acts like these beget", "Obeyed . No words !", "Peace , intendant !", "Mine inn is like to cost me dear .", "And let me know his slightest movement towards 430", "Like him he must be speared .", "Lay dying , and the stranger dashed aside", "No one knows whither ; and if he had not ,", "I must see to it :", "Except that circumstance is less against him ;", "I bow beneath them .", "I 'm satisfied .", "Interest a mere stranger .", "He calls his wife .", "Ulric ; what does that woman here ? Oh ! now 330", "To stand .\u2014 Why do you smile ?", "Call such your mother . You have seen the woman", "The villain out of public motives ; for", "You might obtain a post , which would ensure", "Sir , you will with me ?", "\u2014 he is a wretch , as likely", "Whom the old man \u2014 the grandsire", "Or scarcely to suspect .", "As one who did so much", "The life you rescued .\u2014 Keep your eye on him !", "No more", "Concealment or escape .", "That , ere you know my route ?", "You are made for the service : I have served ;", "I owe my life to you , and you refuse", "Ulric ! you know this man ?", "And lighted chambers , on my rest , and snatch", "I know not whom to accuse , or to acquit ,", "Who may he be ?", "You wax too insolent . If circumstance", "I will brook", "That mould which throws out heroes ; fair in favour ;", "I give you thanks , sir .", "I owed him heretofore for the so-vaunted", "Once \u2014 though too rash .", "Can I not serve you ? You are young , and of", "I only meant you service \u2014 but good night !", "None which can", ",", "Who 's safe !", "You might reply with courtesy to what", "All folly . Were the locks as I desired", "Aid which he added to your abler succour .", "Whom they name \u201c Werner . \u201d", "Ulric ! you know this man ; I found him in 240", "Then claim a recompense from it and me ,", "As I have said , you shall .", "I stand well with the Elector", "It is the richest of the rich Bohemia ,", "Watch him !\u2014 as you would watch the wild boar when", "But the imp stands not in my path \u2014 he has fled ,", "Because an undescribable \u2014\u2014 but \u2018 tis", "If I could aid you \u2014 journeying the same way ?", "All compensation , gentle stranger , save", "All 's to be feared , where all is to be gained .", "Get hence ; \u201c You think \u201d indeed ! you , who stood still", "\u2018 Tis past fatigue , which gives my weighed-down spirit", "Your company .", "But \u2018 twill not last , men 's spirits are too stirring ;", "May be of innocence .", "Your language is above", "You !", "This is one of the strangers to whose aid", "As it went chilly downward to the grave :", "Besides the loss", "The man avoids me , knows that I now know him .\u2014", "The intendant said , you had been detained by sickness \u2014", "An outward show of thought . I will to rest .", "You", "Intendant ! take your measures to secure Yon fellow : I revoke my former lenity . He shall be sent to Frankfort with an escort , The instant that the waters have abated .", "To have robbed me as the fellow more suspected ,", "These", "This tone", "Made deserts .", "Brave , I know , by my living now to say so ;", "The roaring torrent , and restored me to", "Since you have refused", "What should I", "Unbounded confidence .", "Indeed ! Ne'er the less , 530", "Yon score of vassals dogging at your heels", "How should I ? I was fast asleep .", "That which is of more import to me than", "He makes against you in the hunter 's gap \u2014", "He doth .", "You 'd be sorry to", "Most probably an Austrian , Whom these unsettled times forbid to boast His lineage on these wild and dangerous frontiers , Where the name of his country is abhorred .", "Decline all question of your guilt or innocence ?", "No \u2014 this \u201c Werner \u201d \u2014", "have made", "You !\u2014 Why ?", "But if he be the man I deem", "Where is he ?", "For me , you cannot be indifferent to", "And dabbling merchants , in a mart of Jews .", "I ?", "Ulric , you are not hurt ?\u2014", "To Frankfort , to the Governor , my friend ,", "I think too well of blood allied to mine , 420", "And yet I must to bed : I fain would say", "Would look into the fiery eyes of War , 160", "Of him who saved your master , as a litany", "Can recollect his name ! I will not waste 30", "To heap more obligations on me , till", "Who shall be yours . \u2018 Tis true this pause of peace", "I accuse no man .", "Your courteous courage did in my behalf \u2014\u2014", "Have rank by birth and soldiership , and friends ,", "There is or was a bastard ,", "I knew not that you had reasons for reserve .", "In all his acts \u2014 but chiefly by his marriage , 390", "And services to me and mine for ever .", "Is but a petty war , as the time shows us 170", "Oh ! could you see it ! But you shall .", "So dexterous a spoiler , who could creep", "Changed , to-day , of this chamber ? for last night 's", "I must be", "And blush at my own barren gratitude ,", "No more ! This outrage following upon his insults , 310", "Howling and dripping on the bank , whilst I", "Confronted with whole realms far and near", "Unto my pillow .", "You would hardly think so ,"], "true_target": ["And long-engendered circumstances", "In every forest , or a mere armed truce .", "Adventure makes it needful .", "Whose daily repetition marks your duty .\u2014", "An obscure death to save an unknown stranger ,", "Threat'st thou ?", "Unscathed by scorching war . It lies so near", "Which will not let the sunbeams through , nor yet", "As ardently for glory as you dared", "I recognise her , \u2018 tis the stranger 's wife", "Is asked in kindness .", "I apprehend", "Right ! none . A disinherited prodigal ,", "Have with you ?", "It cannot be ! and yet he must be looked to . \u2018 Tis twenty years since I beheld him with These eyes ; and , though my agents still have kept Theirs on him , policy has held aloof My own from his , not to alarm him into Suspicion of my plan . Why did I leave At Hamburgh those who would have made assurance If this be he or no ? I thought , ere now , To have been lord of Siegendorf , and parted In haste , though even the elements appear 500 To fight against me , and this sudden flood May keep me prisoner here till \u2014\u2014", "I fain would parley , Ulric , with yourself", "Have skimmed it lightly : so that now , besides", "Till", ", I needs would find", "Sir ,", "took to warm his bosom ,", "Indeed ! Is not your husband visible , fair dame ?\u2014", "Through my attendants , and so many peopled 220", "Between me and a brave inheritance ! 370", "I owe my rescue . Is not that the other ?", "Do so , and take yon old ass with you .", "I am to deem the plunderer is caught ?", "To rest , but something heavy on my spirit ,", "That is well .", "Thank him \u2014 and despise you . \u201c You think ! \u201d and scarce", "Your bosom", "Dolt !", "Would the dogs were in it ! Why did they not , at least , attempt the passage ? I ordered this at all risks .", "\u2018 Twixt earth and heaven , like envy between man", "Alone .", "Or , at least , suspected ?", "More words on you . Call me betimes .", "He is \u2014 \u2018 tis no matter ;\u2014 350", "The daughter of a banished man , who lives", "Its own exuberance , it bears double value", "Without approach to mine ; and , to say truth ,", "I feel , and fear , I shall .", "Leave bare your borough , Sir Intendant !", "Was satisfied \u2014 not that you are absolved .", "Then", "Prithee , Fritz , inform me What hath been done to trace the fellow ?", "Methought", "Have you been long here ?", "You joined us but this morning ,", "Enough to seize a dozen such ? Hence ! after him !", "Were the loss yours .", "Bars all access , and may do for some hours . 360", "In an as perilous , but opposite , element .", "How know ye", "Then", "The knaves ! the slaves !\u2014 but they shall smart for this .", "That there were two .", "And have not heard that I was robbed last night .", "Good night , good people ! Sir , I trust to-morrow Will find me apter to requite your service . In the meantime I crave your company 520 A moment in my chamber .", "He must be made secure ere twelve hours further .", "Aye \u2014 could you see it , you would say so \u2014 but ,", "A stalwart , active , soldier-looking stripling , Handsome as Hercules ere his first labour , And with a brow of thought beyond his years When in repose , till his eye kindles up In answering yours . I wish I could engage him : I have need of some such spirits near me now , For this inheritance is worth a struggle . 260 And though I am not the man to yield without one , Neither are they who now rise up between me And my desire . The boy , they say , \u2018 s a bold one ; But he hath played the truant in some hour Of freakish folly , leaving fortune to Champion his claims . That 's well . The father , whom For years I 've tracked , as does the blood-hound , never In sight , but constantly in scent , had put me To fault ; but here I have him , and that 's better . It must be he ! All circumstance proclaims it ; 270 And careless voices , knowing not the cause Of my enquiries , still confirm it .\u2014 Yes ! The man , his bearing , and the mystery Of his arrival , and the time ; the account , too , The Intendant gaveOf his wife 's dignified but foreign aspect ; Besides the antipathy with which we met , As snakes and lions shrink back from each other By secret instinct that both must be foes Deadly , without being natural prey to either ; 280 All \u2014 all \u2014 confirm it to my mind . However , We 'll grapple , ne'ertheless . In a few hours The order comes from Frankfort , if these waters Rise not the higher, and I 'll have him safe Within a dungeon , where he may avouch His real estate and name ; and there 's no harm done , Should he prove other than I deem . This robberyis lucky also ; He 's poor , and that 's suspicious \u2014 he 's unknown , 290 And that 's defenceless .\u2014 True , we have no proofs Of guilt \u2014 but what hath he of innocence ? Were he a man indifferent to my prospects , In other bearings , I should rather lay The inculpation on the Hungarian , who Hath something which I like not ; and alone Of all around , except the Intendant , and The Prince 's household and my own , had ingress Familiar to the chamber . Enter GABOR . Friend , how fare you ?", "Go to !", "I 'm better now . Who are these strangers ?", "Why , this is mere usury !", "I merely said that I", "The acquittance of the interest of the debt ,", "And general suspicion be against you ,", "Descend in rain and end , but spreads itself", "And , doubtlessly , with such a form and heart ,", "Than he 's your father :\u2014 an Italian girl ,", "Sits on me as a cloud along the sky ,", "Your station .", "Go to ! you are a wag . But say", "Perhaps his guilt , has cancelled all the little", "I am not sleepy ,", "Fool ! are not", "Such as both may make worthy your acceptance", "Ulric , I think that I may trust you ; 340", "To deem he would descend to such an act :", "What hath caused all this ?", "Favours such views at present scantily ;", "Are hot , sir .", "Inadequate thanks , you almost check even them , 150", "The strongest city , Prague , that fire and sword", "Mysterious", "On love and poverty with this same Werner .", "For which you seem disposed to pay yourself .", "Upon its frontier .", "As you have said , \u2018 tis true I owe you something ,", "To rise . I speak of Brandenburgh , wherein", "He being lodged far off , and in a chamber", "Your actions show it . Might I ask your name ?", "And then \u2014\u2014", "That hour arrives , I can but offer thanks ,", "I may be sure you 'll keep an eye on this man ,", "You are nobly born ?", "Brawls must end here .", "His claims alone were too contemptible", "This man obnoxious \u2014 perhaps fatal to me .", "Yours , and for ever .", "Or , at least , beyond", "Your house 's ?", "The Intendant can inform you of the facts . 230", "Your garb .", "Intendant , show the way !", "Well , sir !", "Let no foolish pity shake", "For a fit escort \u2014 but this curs\u00e9d flood", "; in Bohemia ,", "You think ! you supercilious slave ! what right 20", "And , after thirty years of conflict , peace", "Making me feel the worthlessness of words ,", "It is a strange business :", "No one \u2014 for the present : but", "I will not balk your humour , though untoward :", "Defer your tale , Till certain of the hearer 's patience .", "I have sent", "He stands", "Better in rest than purse :", "But", "War will reclaim his own ; and , in the meantime ,", "A higher soon , and , by my influence , fail not", "An answer , not an echo .", "Come hither ,", "You have harped the very string next to my heartI may depend upon you ?", "And man , an everlasting mist :\u2014 I will", "I sought", "With bootless insolence .", "Who for these twenty years disgraced his lineage", "Besides , he was a soldier , and a brave one", "Have you to tax your memory , which should be", "With the false name and habit .", "Like you , I am a stranger , and we are now", "Is the fault mine ? Is't not enough that I", "Quick , proud , and happy to retain the name", "I 'll rest here a moment ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Your Excellency rested for an hour ,"], "true_target": ["And said he would be here to-morrow .", "My Lord , he tarried in the cottage where"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Unto the savage love of enterprise ,", "The Baron is determined not to lose", "The only question is \u2014 Who else could have", "Arrives from Frankfort , from the commandant .", "Were but the same thing upon a grand scale ;", "And recollect", "Refused to kill the fatted calf ; and , therefore ,", "They who would follow the same pastime must", "The stranger \u2014\u2014", "It hardly could , unless the rats despoiled", "Was his chief aid in yesterday 's escape ,", "In a most immense inheritance .", "But did not leave the cottage by the Oder", "Weights , measures , larder , cellar , buttery ,", "Were fed on milk and honey . After all ,", "There 's another ,", "Oh , yes ; but he has disappeared", "Your talents \u2014\u2014", "To renovated strength and temper .", "Faith ! My Lord , not much as yet , except conjecture .", "Your Wallenstein , your Tilly and Gustavus ,", "May you rest there well ! 10", "For mettle , he has quite enough : they say ,", "Could brook the alliance ; and could ne'er be brought", "The mice of a few shreds of tapestry .", "Be not so quick ; the honour of the corps 40", "From steward to scullion , save in the fair way", "But , peace being made soon after his departure ,", "\u2018 Twas none of our corps ; but some petty , trivial", "Are you sure of that ?", "A fourth set charitably have surmised ,", "The man called Werner 's poor !", "Good sir ,", "Of the old man 's death , whose heart was broken by it .", "Have been so poor a spirit as to hazard", "It was to seek his parents ; some because", "How ? We , sir !", "Why ,", "No , sir ; I honour more 60", "The Baron would find means to silence him ,", "Be tried , however ; and if one express 590", "This sum without a search .", "The honest trades who furnish noble masters", "To see the parents , though he took the son . 100", "Tenfold .", ", who lay waste Lusatia ,", "Purveying feasts , and understanding with", "He hath thrown himself into an easy chair", "He forms a happy mixture of his sire", "It must", "Well , but now to discover the delinquent :", "The old man held his spirit in so strictly", "I trust to-morrow will restore your Lordship", "No , Sir , be sure", "His sire made", "Certainly ,", "Then it must be some one who", "Fail , you must send on others , till the answer", "And wherefore fear ?", "Of course . But to the point : What 's to be done ?", "Pursue it on their own account . Here comes", "Until this morning .", "Were he to re-appear : he 's politic ,", "All 's ready , my good Lord !", "He hath found a better .", "That they will seek for peril as a pleasure .", "A house as Siegendorf 's . The grandsire ill", "Heaven best knows !", "To fish the baron from the Oder ."], "true_target": ["Why , yes :", "To spare no trouble ; you will be repaid", "But for your petty , picking , downright thievery ,", "But there are human natures so allied", "Had access to the antechamber .", "And none , perhaps , the true one . Some averred", "And grandsire 's qualities ,\u2014 impetuous as", "Your Bannier , and your Torstenson and Weimar", "Is there no other entrance to the chamber ?", "He who helped", "Of bandit-warfare ; each troop with its chief ,", "Remember !", "Had one of our folks done it , he would not", "That in the wild exuberance of his nature", "Where all men take their prey ; as also in", "A kind of general condottiero system", ", 140", "Access , save the Hungarian and yourself ?", "Good night !", "If living , he must chew the husks still . But", "As there was something strange and mystic in him ,", "Or tame the tiger , though their infancy", "He might have since returned , were that the motive ; 120", "It must have been at his suggestion , at 110", "The former , and deep as the latter ; but", "According to your order , and beneath", "The strangest is , that he too disappeared", "And now that they are gone , and peace proclaimed ,", "A third believed he wished to serve in war ,", "Since the last years of war had dwindled into", "His neck for one rouleau , but have swooped all ;", "Long from the world 's eye , and , perhaps , the world .", "The late Count Siegendorf , his distant kinsman ,", "And all against mankind .", "The inspection of myself and the young Saxon", "Picker and stealer , without art or genius .", "The Baron , and the Saxon stranger , who", "And has much influence with a certain court . 90", "Which forms the Baron 's household 's unimpeached", "Is dead near Prague , in his castle , and my Lord 80", "Also the cabinet , if portable .", "A left-hand , love , imprudent sort of marriage ,", "Some months ago .", "Whom the late Count reclaimed from his son 's hands ,", "Hence !", "For the last twenty years ; for whom his sire", ";", "His birth is doubtful .", "Noble , they say , too ; but no match for such", "Postage of letters , gathering of rents ,", "He may not be disturbed until eleven ,", "Of peculation ; such as in accompts ,", "Is on his way to take possession .", "With an Italian exile 's dark-eyed daughter :", "We scorn it as we do board wages . Then 50", "I 've heard that nothing can reclaim your Indian ,", "Beside the fire , and slumbers ; and has ordered", "And educated as his heir ; but , then ,", "\u2018 Tis true , there is a grandson ,", "Immediately .", "An hour so critical as was the eve", ";", "Who saved your life . I think they call him \u201c Ulric . \u201d", "But whom do you suspect ?", "Plenty , no doubt ,", "When he will take himself to bed .", "He had joined the black bands", "A prodigal son , beneath his father 's ban", "I will , sir , with his Excellency 's leave .", "The mountains of Bohemia and Silesia ,"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["No \u2014 the Prince 's ,", "And not the stranger 's .", "No more !"], "true_target": ["The less I must have three .", "Never \u2014 but ne'er", "I have neither , and will venture ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["And shrink you from a few sharp sneers and words ? 280", "Of this same Baron to make way for him .", "And do you doubt of him", "His life : when due , I but resumed the debt .", "He sends me here a spy upon your actions ,", "Of his broad lands as to make mine the foremost ,", "In any case ,", "I have helped you .", "Is roused : such is not here the case ; he died", "I behold", "The sneer of the last courtier whom he has made", "You , Baron , I believe ; but as the effect", "Hate my father !", "My Lord , he is", "Disturb your right , or mine , if once we were 250", "I may prepare to face him , or at least", "Tis usual ,", "Your own reason , with a moment 's", "You must not use it , at least now ; but take", "I named a villain . What is there in common", "In open day ? By his disgrace which stamped", "Good morrow , worthy Henrick . Eric , is", "All dreams are false .", "You jest .", "But to oppress ? You must not stand the hazard .", "Your great men", "Behold my father , or \u2014\u2014", "Aye ! doth it ?", "I know no further .", "And what have I to do with this ?", "Of the steep mountain-tops ,", "With such brief greeting .\u2014 You have heard our bugle ;", "Right ; I stand corrected . 170", "Then we shall never", "You err . My nature is not given", "Forgo it .", "Let us have done with that which cankers life \u2014", "And smile at pretty prattle , and look into", "I will provide against", "You prize your life , or mine !", "And you did well to listen to it : what", "My spirit \u2014 I 'm a forester and breather", "True ; and aught done to save or to obtain it . 410", "\u2018 Tis his name .", "Have fled , unless by many an hour before", "What 's this to the Hungarian ?", "With right and wrong ; and now must only ponder", "Was a rock in our way which I cut through ,", "This Paradise ?\u2014", "Doubting if you were false or feeble : I 420", "Were never named before me \u2014 and what then ?", "I did , and do .", "I pledge myself to accomplish this \u2014 but would 170", "His peace \u2014 he also is a partner in", "To baffle such , than countermine a mole ,", "As never to have hit on this before ? 410", "Swords , hearts , and hands are mine .", "Is not fenced from his chamberlain 's slander , or", "And yet you knew me not ! 30", "Who showed me his humanity secured", "Like Theban brethren :", "In the same thicket where he hewed for bread .", "Are we not so ?", "And out of them , it is a different thing \u2014", "To the point \u2014\u2014 the Hungarian ?", "No more : forget it .", "Alone , and leave all other thoughts to me ,", "The man is helpless .", "Away ! it is your father 's !", "Continue .", "My memory served me far more fondly : I", "So be it of your wooing ; but to please you ,", "And Idenstein will serve you .", "You describe it faithfully .", "That he died alone .", "In searching for this man , or \u2014\u2014 When he 's found ,", "As stranger I preserved him , and he owed me", "Not even by a scratch .", "Of doubtful birth \u2014 can startle a grandee !", "Your servant !\u2014 Werner", "Retrace the secret passage ? Did you not", "You are sure you closed it ? 80", "An assassin ?", "More clearly , then , these claims of Stralenheim ,", "And so it should be , when the same in blood", "Let it not be against your friends .", "But will the world do so ? will even the judge ,", "You shall be safe ; let that suffice .", "With all my heart !", "You saw him", "I thought you knew it better than to take", "It is abating .", "The least we 'll meet again once more .", "cast his skin \u2014", "Yes , curse \u2014 it will ease you ! Here is the Intendant .", "What would you have ? You have forbid my stirring", "Whom ? Where ?", "Just now I am not violently transported", "Escape ?", "And may your age be happy !\u2014 I will kiss", "You are not guilty .", "Confiding have I found you , that I doubted", "Master of the horse .", "And wept to see another day go down 40", "Do I 30", "Your wish is granted \u2014", "Until the chase begins ; then draw thou off ,", "I think so ; for I love", "Obscure as his deserts , without a scutcheon ,", "Have found , in searching for another 's dross ,", "Blood !", "Obey you in espousing her ?", "Unites the future and destroys the past .", "More understand each other . But to change", "\u2014", "Is feigned .", "Of this no more . Or , if it must be ever , 240", "I must not now 210", ": it will answer thus", "What is all this ?", "With such a being and my father ?", "Have taught me feeling for you and myself ;", "Your Senators that they look well to Prague ;", "Count , \u2018 tis a marriage of your making ,", "Which winds its blind but living path beneath you .", "And I an outcast , bastardised by practice", "Will serve to warn our vessels through these shoals .", "I have plunged our enemy . You kindled first", "So will not I", "Then fare you well !", "If \u2014 but you must away this instant .", "By and by .", "Can do for parents shall be done for mine .", "As I directed : and by his best speed", "Together with my mother .", "Nor e'er be robbed : their spoils are a bequest \u2014", "Show the spot , and then I 'll answer you . 250", "How fare you in your purpose ? Have you caught", "Did not you this night", "Devout , too ! Well , sir , I obey at once .Ludwig , dismiss the train without !", "\u2018 Twill sink into his venal soul like lead", "Uttered by \u2014\u2014", "And our true destination \u2014 but not idly .", "Pshaw ! we all must bear", "No bolt", "Henceforth you have no son !", "I cannot", "We will not speak of that until", "If nature \u2014\u2014", "This is no hour to think of petty crimes ,", "The world ?", "Some rumour of it reached me as I passed", "They knock the brains out first \u2014 which makes them heirs ,", "Will bring you six boars \u2019 heads for trophies home .", "We know , we can provide against . He must", "Of the stung steed replies unto the spur :", "when a part is bad ,", "Known as our foe \u2014 but not from vengeance . He", "Wherefore should I ?", "Amidst the elements , whilst younger trees", "\u2018 Twere too late", "My time 's your vassal .\u2014", "To pick up gloves , and fans , and knitting-needles ,", "Stop ! before", "To outward fondling : how should it be so , 330", "I 've seen you brave the elements , and bear", "Ere sunset .", "It is no time", "So that I must prefer my claim for form :", "Yet say so .", "Be silenced .", "At your vain fears :", "; but Stralenheim", "But you do not see his face ?", "What in his stead ?", "You , Count , 240", "Is time for union and for action , not", "When we met in the garden , what except", "I see the subject now more clearly , and", "You reclosed", "You and my mother must away to-night .", "In the mean time be sure that all a son", "And if it fled , It only was because your presence sent it 160 Back to my heart , which beats for you , sweet Cousin !", "We can repeat the same with like success :", "Hush ! hush ! no transports : we 'll indulge in them", "Then summoned , would the cry for the police", "It must be so", "I fear that men must draw their chariots , as", "In favour of such unions .", "\u2014 but i \u2019 the pomp", "A part of the long debt of duty , not", "A word of many meanings ; in the veins ,", "I would have saved a peasant 's or a dog 's , I slew", "Too , that the unknown Werner shall give way", "And", ",", "are all in abeyance", "Is to be strengthened . I must join them soon .", "Wondrous kind ! 140", "Upon the dawn of a world-winning battle \u2014 410", "I mean it \u2014 and indeed it could not well", "You had no guests \u2014 no visitors \u2014 no life", "Say !", "By those he rules and those he ranks with .", "Is sick , a stranger , and as such not now", "The torch \u2014 you showed the path ; now trace me that", "To take an interest in you , and still more", "Pshaw ! leave any thing", "I 'll wed her , ne'ertheless ; though , to say truth ,", "Nought else .\u2014 But I have not the time to pause", "Am peremptory : \u2018 tis your son that speaks ,", "Stir not , and speak not ;\u2014 leave the rest to me :", "His life but yesterday : he 's here .", "Sweet Ida , wish me a fair chase , and I", "You shall say so when", "Not now . Your error has redoubled all", "The outer chambers of the palace , but", "To doubt it .", "For which you have so long panted , and in vain !", "To nearer thoughts of self . The laws", "I am not alone ; nor merely the vain heir", "We have to do ere long . Speed ! speed ! good Rodolph !", "So cannot say .", "Will well supply the place of both \u2014 I am not", "By his nerves only ? Who deprived me of", "Or any of the ties between us : more \u2014", "Deeming me wholly his .", "Here comes the Intendant : sound him with the gem ;", "Except our fathers \u2019 sovereignty and castles , 120", "How can this be ?", "Of things which cannot be undone . We have 470", "And wherefore ? Were you seen ?", "Show Idenstein the gem", "The waters are abating ; a few hours", "Stralenheim , although noble , is unheeded", "Is harmless , let it not disturb you .\u2014 Gabor !", "The vassals wait .", "To me : I 'll answer for the event as far", "Perhaps : my father wishes it , and , sooth , 130", "where I love all", "I have pledged myself to do so ; and the business", "We approach , tell me \u2014\u2014", "This long delay was not my fault .", "So they will do of most men . Even the monarch", "To all my plans .", "It is nothing .", "And I obey ; you bid me turn a chamberer ,", "Hath he no right ?", "And you avow it ?", "\u2014 forgive me !", "With your connivance ?", "Aught that can touch you . No one knows you here", "Upon effects , not causes . Stralenheim ,", "My journey . In the mean time , when we are", "I will retire with you .", "How Fare you ?", "Whom Wolffe leads \u2014 keep the forests on your route :", "Keep your own secret , keep a steady eye ,", "That sacrifices your whole race to save", "There I 'll find him .", "Or rather yours ; for I waive all , unless", "Master Idenstein ,", "No jewel : therefore it could not be his ;", "Shall !", "Against your own example ?", "Say on .", "What can a son or man do more ?", "I have fathomed it and you . But let us talk", "Engaged in the chase , draw off the eighty men", "Here , save as such \u2014 without lands , influence ,", "What then ?", "Would , though with naked limbs , were the wolf rustling", "Then \u2018 tis time", "Oh , Heavens ! I left him in a green old age ,", "What", "The tale sounds well .", "And like the wolf he hath repaid you . But", "Let us hear no more", "Is not impassable ; and when you gain", "I 'll be led by no man .", "A few hours \u2019 start , the difficulties will be", "Save what hath perished with him . Few prolong", "but no less", ", if that be your name ,", "Unriddle this vile wrangling , or \u2014\u2014", "And this sole , sick , and miserable wretch \u2014", "Of Stralenheim ?", "Save on his body . Part of his own household", "By our experience , never plunder till", "Did you not warn me", "Have fallen out at a time more opposite", "I would bind in my youth and glorious years , 120", "An accusation for a sentence .", "None ; so let 's march : we 'll talk as we go on .", "A week beyond their funeral rites their sway 140", "To Hamburgh .That Word will , I think , put a firm padlock on His further inquisition .", "\u2018 Tis rumoured that the column sent against them", "Absent , I took upon myself the care", "Past doubt , been entered secretly . Excuse me ,", "Indeed !", "And looking like the oak , worn , but still steady", "I had forgotten \u2014 let it be the grey , then ,", "are aliens to each other ,", "Why so ?", "What will mankind , who know you not , or knew", "A double purpose . Stralenheim lost gold \u2014", "And learn if he would aught with me before", "He hath been plundered too , since he came hither :", "For twelve long years , my father !", "How ?", "In high Silesia will permit and cover", "You perceive my garb", "\u2018 Tis well they have horses , too ; for if they had not ,", "I think you wrong him", "You may be sure", "For that would make our ties beyond all doubt .", "I obey you , mother ,", "The eyes of feminine , as though they were", "He longs to do , but dare not . Is it strange", "Some obscure village on", "We 'll overfly or rend them .", "Have not forgotten aught ; and oft-times in", "That there were crimes made venial by the occasion ?", "Of safety \u2014 or let me !", "Great and ungrateful .", "But must break through them , as an unarmed carle 160", "Can you not guess ?", "His tale is true .", "Thought .", "In Castle Siegendorf ! Display no gold :", "And do as I have said .", "No ; Stralenheim is ignorant of all", "The devil you cannot lay between us . This", "Begins to grizzle the black hair of night .", "Nay , then , I 'll call you sister .", "And horses to pursue your route at sunrise , 190", "Will for his own sake and his jewel 's hold", "You may have better luck another chase .", "But I trust better , and that all is yours .", "It is too late to ponder thus :\u2014 you must", "Come on , old oracle , expound thy riddle !", "The rogue ?", "Yet hear me still !\u2014 If you condemn me , yet ,", "Nets are for thrushes , eagles are not caught so :", "I merely asked a simple question .", "Is to proceed , and to assert our rights ,", "Is not what you prejudge him , or , if so ,", "But Stralenheim is dead .", "An old Bohemian \u2014 an imperial gipsy . 290"], "true_target": ["In your address , nor yet too arrogant ,", "The stars receding early to our wish", "Farewell ! I scarce have time , but yet your hand ,", "No more , then ?", "Where ?", "Most true , father !", "This ring to more than Stralenheim has lost", "Selfish remorse , and temporizing pity ,", "He hath ta'en a jump i \u2019 the dark .", "To which the march of armies trampled them .", "Sir , you wed for love . 360", "Unite with Hecate \u2014 can a son say more ?", "Your long-lost , late-found son .\u2014 Let 's call my mother !", "You are innocent , then ! my father 's innocent !", "No ! Oh , my God ! do you ?", "Dearest Ida ! Did I not echo your own wish ?", "HIM . I have shown one way .", "No more .", "Fear nothing !", "The daughter of dead Stralenheim , your foe :", "I never heard his name till now . The Count ,", "As doth the bolt , because it stood between us 460", "\u2018 Tis nothing ; but if \u2018 twere , the air", "By his last night 's slumber . Be not over timid", "For trifling or dissembling . I have said", "Ulric .", "Have been alarmed ; but as the Intendant is", "Whose youth may better battle with them \u2014 Hence !", "My dearest mother !", "Am I concerned ?", "May howl above his ashes", "Yours .", "You are early , my sweet cousin !", "Again revisit Stralenheim 's chamber ? and \u2014\u2014", "The stars are almost faded , and the grey", "I fain would see unshaken , when she gives", "But how", "No !", "As heir of Siegendorf : if Idenstein", "Can be so ?", "Which brought me here was chiefly that :", "To my own Sovereign . If I must decline 180", "Standing motionless", "Of Heaven waited on the goods of fortune ?", "The Baron 's coin , when he could thus convert 210", "Ourselves \u2014 the highest cannot temper Satan ,", "Suspicion woke ? I sought and fathomed you ,", "No , father ; do not speak of this :", "Have loitered on the way ? Or could you , Werner ,", "Of this : he must be found . You have not let him 30", "And live but on the atmosphere ;", "What I now feel , and lighten from my heart 10", "Come hither , mynheer !", "My father ! I acquit you ! 60", "But stay !", "Of me as aught of kindred with yourself .", "Are you or are you not the assassin", "None else ; though all the full-fed train of menials", "My mother once more , then Heaven 's speed be with you !", "Pause in each petty fear , and stumble at", "It was so .", "O'er thee and me , with those huge hills between us .", "Will not excite her too great curiosity :", "What name ? You have no name , since that you bear", "And ooze , too , from the bottom , as the lead doth", "When you will be a prisoner , perhaps worse ,", "Yet", "Why do you ask ?", "Our general situation in its bearings .", "What shall we do with him ?", "Your offer , \u2018 tis with the same feeling which", "I have heard my kinsmen say so .", "He , you , and I stood o'er a gulf wherein", "More noble name belongs to common thieves ? 90", "Why would you shelter this man ?", "Then grew between them .", "At times your weakness .", "He is gone ! he disappeared", "Which miseries", "I accept the omen . 380", "Doth he personally know you ?", "Let the man go on !", "Old Tilly 's ?", "His eyes , and look before he leaps ; till now 390", "The topic \u2014\u2014", "Could I be calm ? Think you that I have heard 430", "All \u2014 all \u2014\u2014", "Familiar feuds and vain recriminations", "Your father knew you not as I do .", "That 's well ; but had been better , if", "Ida , this is mere childishness ; your weakness 200 Infects me , to my shame : but as all feelings Of yours are common to me , it affects me . Prithee , sweet child , change \u2014\u2014", "Of your sire 's feudal mansion , I looked back", "My mother !", "I saved", "No more to learn or hide : I know no fear ,", "All we have now to think of is to baffle", "A lover of these pageantries .", "Ida , you scarcely", "Set out ere dawn . I will remain here to", "Whose life I saved from impulse , as unknown ,", "As Stralenheim is . Are you so dull", "Admitted to our lands ?", "And I love her , and therefore would think twice .", "I will but wait a day or two with him", "But to prevent the consequence of great ones .", "And readiest means let Rosenberg reply . 280", "I have said", "As regards you , and that is the chief point ,", "Hence ! hence ! I must not hear your answer .\u2014 Look !", "You here , sir !", "That is strange . Came the thought ne'er into your mind last night ?", "If such a joy await me , it must double", "Able to trace the villain who hath robbed him :", "Of mustering the police . His chamber has ,", "I will obey your orders , were they to", "This ring .", ":", "Observed : subdue your nature to the hour !", "If his own line should fail , might be remotely", "You shall not answer :\u2014 Pardon me that I", "By your inherent weakness , half-humanity ,", "Spared you the trouble ; but had I appeared", "I sought you , father .", "For any woman : and as what I fix ,", "The route on to Bohemia , though encumbered ,", "That passion was our nature ? that the goods", "Upon these gewgaws of the heart . Great things", "Who says that ?", "Fell fast around him . \u2018 Twas scarce three months since .", "We may be", "Nay , no violence : He 's old , unarmed \u2014 be temperate , Gabor !", "I will now pay my duty to my mother , 400", "And why not", "There is your sword ; and when you bare it next ,", "Although \u2018 twere that of Venus :\u2014 but I love her ,", "Let it work on ! the grave will keep it down !", "I 've heard so ; but I must take leave . Intendant ,", "Can hardly be suspected of abstracting", "The present difficulties of our house", "His death ? Or had the Prince 's household been", "You ne'er had turned it to a den for \u2014\u2014", "That , when I see the subject in its bearings ,", "Will make a soldier 's wife .", "They say kings did Sesostris", "When I 'm worthy of it , 190", "Will no more stir a finger now than then . 150", "My own feelings", "Sickness sits caverned in his hollow eye", "But \u2014\u2014", "Lord of a Prince 's appanage , and honoured 320", "With its greased understratum ;", "The object of the Baron 's hate and fears ,", "Leave that unto me .", "Go to my father , and present my duty ,", "Would we never had !", "Yes , but the unsettled state of our domain", "That I should act what you could think ? We have done", "Is Saxon , and , of course , my service due", "Will be his sentinel .", "Involved in the succession ; but his titles", "The dun ,", "but I", "Your flight \u2014 moreover \u2014\u2014", "True , good Eric ;", "To the Bohemian mountains many a sunset ,", "Bribe the Intendant for his old caleche", "A poor man almost in his grasp \u2014 a child", "His right must yield to ours .", "Walstein .", "As my first duty , which shall be observed . 160", "At once both warm and weak invites to deeds", "So brief and burning , with a lady 's zone ,", "The last bud of the rival branch at once", "Himself \u2014 a felon 's brand ! The man who is 450", "Then wherefore seek ?", "Of your domains ; a thousand , aye , ten thousand", "My father !\u2014\u2014", "They shall not part us more .", "This fellow 's tale without some feeling ?\u2014 You", "Noble by birth , of one of the first houses", "O'er men , unless by relatives , whose interest", "Died he not by your hand ?", "After twelve years \u2019 divorcement from my parents ?", "Softly and swiftly step , and leave the rest", "We 'll meet in Castle Siegendorf \u2014 once more", "Remember who hath taught me once too often 440", "And list to songs and tunes , and watch for smiles ,", "Would Stralenheim 's appearance in Bohemia", "Perceived you were the latter : and yet so", "At secret war with that of Stralenheim :", "And have within these very walls men who", "I claim the payment .", "You speak 60", "Well , there are plenty more : 280", "Breathing around you , save my mother 's ?", "Most willingly , and without loss of time \u2014", "And they , my Lord , we know", "Is she not so ?", "dare venture all things .", "Who dare say that ?", "Despatch !\u2014 he 's there !", "Not a step .", "My own whole treasure \u2014 you , my parents !", "I had arrived a few hours sooner !", "To save a father is a child 's chief honour .", "As such is now your own . With this you must", "Been left to such a stranger ? Or should I", "Keep off from me as from your foe !", ", and", "Her answer , I 'll give mine .", "I would have", "Where is the ruffian who hath plundered you ? Vassals , despatch in search of him ! You see \u2018 Twas as I said \u2014 the wretch hath stript my father Of jewels which might form a Prince 's heir-loom ! Away ! I 'll follow you forthwith .", "Who seems ? Who else", "Trace the murderer , if \u2018 tis possible .", "I hope so .", "To extricate you from your present perils .", "Or crushed , or rising slowly from the dust ,", "He owes me something both for past and present . 80", "your feasts 220", "To lull all doubts , and then rejoin my father .", "Alone , unknown ,\u2014 a solitary grave ,", "Must be answered on the instant , as the bound", "The frontier , and you 're safe .", "All had been known at once .", "Your father has disposed in such a sort", "But I 'll aid you now .", "This burgh and Frankfort : so far 's in our favour", "I know not that ; but at", "Why ,", "Dear Ida !", "You have mine \u2014 you have me .", "Discovery in the act could make me know", "Although reluctantly . My first act shall not", "And when you have joined , give Rosenberg this letter . 110", "Especially as little kindness till", "Is awkward from the \u2014\u2014", "The eagle loves .", "What matters it , if I am ready to", "Both ! 290 Here 's no great harm done .", "A wretch to profit by our ruin ! No , Count ,", "The prosperous and belov\u00e9d Siegendorf ,", "Had never been but for this love-match .", "Rodolph , hence ! and do", "Is all he 'll have , or wants . If I discover", "There are more spirits abroad than have been laid", "You dream .", "Father , do not raise", "With Wallenstein !", "They are childless , then ?", "Explain to me", "Yes \u2014 men \u2014 who are worthy of the name ! Go tell", "I pray you press the theme no further .", "Our banners shall be glorious ! Think of that", "As woman should be loved \u2014 fairly and solely .", "He should begin , and take the bandage from", "What do you mean ?", "How should I know ?", "This way-worn stranger \u2014 stands between you and", "Such is my intention .", "Riddles : what is this Stralenheim to us ?", "The only fear were if we fled together ,", "It seems , then ,", "In castle halls , and social banquets , nurse not", "By dabbling with a jewel in your favour ,", "And , certes , courteous , to leave that to the lady .", "Be one of disobedience .", "I leave that to Weilburgh , our", "Is forced ; no violence can be detected ,", "And should , perhaps \u2014 and yet \u2014 but get ye ready ;", "Stralenheim knows nothing", "A fool : his folly shall have such employment , 130", "Old Ziska : he has not been out this fortnight .", "Will bring his summoned myrmidons from Frankfort ,", "Suspects , \u2018 tis but suspicion , and he is", "What ! remain to be", "Induced it .", "I 'll wait !", "And will you believe", "With the late general war of thirty years ,", "All ready for the chase ?", "The assassin , \u2018 twill be well \u2014 if not , believe me ,", "You yourself could not watch him more than I", "Reply , sir , as", "The arrogance of something higher than", "bastardy on me , and on", "He has a wife , then ?", "My father , Siegendorf !", "For whom or what else did you ever teach it ?", "The news", "Into the deep , and bring up slime and mud ,", "To listen to him ! Who proclaimed to me", "Who ? Gabor , the Hungarian ?", "Not thieves . The dead , who feel nought , can lose nothing ,", "A few spilt ounces purify the rest . 260", "The same to your pursuers . Once beyond 200", "Nor the lowest his vicegerents upon earth .", "I do so \u2014 but it follows not from that", "Away !\u2014 I 'll make all easy . Idenstein", "Ida", "And then the man who was possest of this", "Baron , I do beseech you !", "I 'll answer you .", "That may be \u2014", "I mount .", "And if I do so ,", "\u2018 Tis no bad policy : this union with", "Indeed , spoke sometimes of a kinsman , who ,", "You know it well ?", "These then are but my father 's principles? My mother thinks not with him ?", "Would soon restore me . I 'm the true cameleon ,", "With whom , you know , the lady Ida is .\u2014", "I saved his life , he therefore trusts in me .", "You stand high with the state ; what passes here", "For family disputes . While you were tortured ,", "My father , I salute you , and it grieves me", "Proceed . The tale is doubtless worthy the relater . But is it of my father to hear further ?", "In Saxony .", "The proud and princely halls of \u2014", "He is the poorest of the poor \u2014 and yellow", "If they were near him ,", "I am neither confessor nor notary ,", "The freight is rich , so heave the line in time ! 270", "Ashes are feeble foes : it is more easy", "What name ?", "For manly sports beyond the castle walls ,", "Take it .", "Things which had made this silkworm", "You shall be 170", "Where is the Baron ?", "It \u2014 or some Such other weapon in my hand \u2014 spared yours Once , when disarmed and at my mercy .", "All shall be bettered . What we have to do", "Their Feast of Peace was early for the times ; 50", "The panel ?", "Of love", "Denounced \u2014 dragged , it may be , in chains ; and all", "The waters only lie in flood between", "Embrace me ! Yes ,\u2014 your tone \u2014 your look \u2014 yes , yes ,\u2014", "Taught me to name a ruffian from his deeds .", "The Saxon or Silesian frontier .", "He could not die neglected or alone .", "Proceed \u2014 proceed !", "Yet hold \u2014 we had better keep together", "The doubts that rise like briers in our path ,", "Behold me !", "All power to vindicate myself and race", "Blood ! \u2018 tis", "His story 's true ; and he too must be silenced .", "Fear not !\u2014", "The fugitive ?", "We must have no third babblers thrust between us ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["But Count Ulric \u2014", "The dogs are ordered", "I will , upon what you have said .", "And we all love him .", "What ?", "The cheer but scantily , our sizings were", "Old walls new masters and high wassail \u2014 both", "The wars are over : in the hall , who like", "Pity the wars are o'er !", "A sword like him ? Whose plume nods knightlier ?", "You 'd better ask himself .", "A long desideratum .", "Shall I call forth your Excellency 's suite ?", "Nonsense ! they are all brave iron-visaged fellows ,", "What courser will you please to mount ?", "So , better times are come at last ; to these", "His tusks , and ripping up , from right to left ,", "The howling hounds , the boar makes for the thicket ?", "Who backs a horse , or bears a hawk , or wears", "Pity , as I said ,", "What do you mean ?", "To beat the bushes , and the day looks promising .", "And here he comes !"], "true_target": ["What has all this to do with him ?", "Such as old Tilly loved .", "I fear he scarcely has recovered 80", "Pray Heaven he keep the present ! 20", "He shall be straight caparisoned . How many", "For the mere cup and trencher , we no doubt", "Who like him with his spear in hand , when gnashing 30", "The toils of Monday : \u2018 twas a noble chase :", "Why do you turn so pale ?", "Rest ! But what beyond \u2018 tis not ours to pronounce .", "Of your immediate retainers shall", "Then his brave son , Count Ulric \u2014 there 's a knight !", "Down to the forest , and the vassals out", "Look on him ! And answer that yourself .", "You speared four with your own hand .", "That 's not a faithful vassal 's likeness .", "As yet he hath been courteous as he 's bounteous ,", "Count Ulric for a well-supported pride ,", "Fared passing well ; but as for merriment 10", "Even of the narrowest .", "Escort you ?", "Why", "Which awes , but yet offends not ? in the field ,", "And sport , without which salt and sauces season"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["As e'er another Prince of the empire .", "Hardly a year o'erpast its honeymoon ,", "Perhaps a true one .", "Ida of Stralenheim , the late Baron 's heiress ;", "He 's very youthful ,", "Enter ULRIC and RODOLPH .", "Who were born in them , and bred up upon 70", "By night , and disappear with sunrise ; but", "His feudal hospitality as high", "The country", "\u2014 or , for that matter ,", "For your commands , my Lord . 90", "Though made by a new grave : but , as for wassail ,", "Anon , we shall perceive his real sway", "You can n't deny his train of followers", "The warleaves living . Like other parents , she spoils her worst children .", "I would as soon", "And who loved Tilly ?", "Than the most open warfare .", "Have given all natures , and most unto those", "Why so ?", "Ask that at Magdebourg", "Be long in coming , he is of that kind", "Ask the lion why he laps not milk .", "Of fierceness the late long intestine wars", "I wish they had left us something of their rest :", "His reign is as yet", "It might be unto those who long for novelty ,", "The devil ! you 'll hold your tongue ? 60"], "true_target": ["But", "The knees of Homicide ; sprinkled , as it were ,", "With him !", "Already done as much .", "Good morrow , count .", "And moods of mind .", "Is over-run with \u2014 God knows who : they fly", "And she , no doubt , will soften whatsoever", "Wallenstein either ;\u2014 they are gone to \u2014\u2014", "Methinks the old Count Siegendorf maintained", "And the first year of sovereigns is bridal :", "Yes , for masters ,", "Leave us no less desolation , nay , even more ,", "The roar of revel ; are you sure that this does ?", "\u2018 Tis nothing \u2014 but", "No one 's , I grant you . Do not fear , if war", "On all that I have said !", "The old count loved not", "are such a sort of knaves", "Of words , no more ; besides , had it been otherwise ,", "50", "He is to espouse the gentle Baroness", "And strong and beautiful as a young tiger .", "As \u2014\u2014", "Of war , why makes he it not on those marauders ?", "Be silent .", "Will make it for himself , if he hath not", "With blood even at their baptism . Prithee , peace", "I assure you I meant nothing ,\u2014 a mere sport", "He \u2014\u2014 might prevent it . As you say he 's fond"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["My Lord , within this quarter of an hour", "For this fair orphan of the Baron , and", "The Baroness Ida lost in Countess Siegendorf ?", "The Silesian , on", "Of a fever , did he not ?", "Hark , my Lord , the bugle !", "Lady , need aid of mine .", "I thought you loved the lady Ida ?", "It will be difficult 100", "In years .", "Why need you tell him that ? Can he not hear it", "As well as on that night", "Best wait for further and more sure advices .", "About his death \u2014 and even the place of it", "Truly ,", "Ah ! here 's the lady Ida . 150", "I have heard it whispered there was something strange", "To excuse your absence to the Count your father .", "When we \u2014\u2014", "He", "Ida"], "true_target": ["And constantly ?", "Upon a journey past the frontier .", "The late Baron died", "My Lord !", "My way \u2014", "I will . But to", "You will not ,", "Is scarcely known .", "Count , to Hamburgh .", "On my return , however , I shall find", "Has left no testament \u2014 no farewell words ?", "Adieu .", "Without your echo ?", "Fare ye well , Count Siegendorf !", "\u2014 Where shall I say ?", "Return \u2014 \u2018 twas a most kind act in the count", "Pardon me , fair Baroness !", "To hail her as his daughter .", "Count Siegendorf , command you aught ? I am bound", "Your father to send up to Konigsberg", "You have changed more than e'er I saw you change"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["You would have loved him ,", "Had such as you been near him on his journey ,", "Yes , dear father !", "How all eyes followed him ! The flowers fell faster \u2014", "Call me Ida ,", "To hear of sorrow : how can we be sad ,", "Yes , or be", "Why does yours start from your cheeks ?", "Shape my thoughts of him into words to him :", "Dear Ulric , if I do not interrupt you .", "Do you pity me ?", "Beneath their glitter o'er my brow and zone .", "His last and lonely moments .", "Because you look as if you saw a murderer !", "The general rumour ,", "I will not pardon you , unless you earn it", "Your Ida , for I would be yours , none else 's \u2014", "He you ; for the brave ever love each other :", "Rained from each lattice at his feet , methought ,", "And you to me are so already ;", "But then I wished it not with such a glance ,", "In aspect and demeanour .", "And disappearance of his servants , who", "When all knelt , and I wept ? and yet , methought ,", "Be sure I 'll sound it better than your bugles ; 270", "I do not wish", "It loves ?\u2014 They say he died of a fever .", "And scarce knew what I said ; but let me be", "I like that name still worse .\u2014 Would we had ne'er", "He had not died without a friend to soothe", "Yes , but I do not like the name ; methinks", "And you will live in peace on your domains .", "Oh , heavens ! and can you wish that ?", "Count Ulric from the chase to-day .", "Oh ! I am so already . Feel how my heart beats !", "Dear mother , I am with you .", "Beside him .", "The white robes and the lifted eyes ; the world", "No true knight .\u2014 Come , dear Ulric ! yield to me", "Then good morrow , my kind kinsmen ! Ulric , you 'll come and hear me ?", "Our pedigree , and only weighed our blood .", "The banners , and the nobles , and the knights ,", "I did not see him , 60", "Indeed I do not :\u2014 ask of Rodolph .", "My father could but view my happiness ,", "Oh , great God ! 60", "I sometimes dream otherwise .", "But I cannot think", "But he never will . I dare not say so much to him \u2014 I fear him .", "Than mounted there \u2014 the bursting organ 's peal", "I dare be sworn that they grow still , nor e'er", "Through my fast tears , though they were thick and warm ,", "How can you say so ? Never have I dreamt", "And you are turned so pale and ill .", "Which wants but this !", "To be so ; for I trust these wars are over , 230", "Rolling on high like an harmonious thunder ;", "Dear Ulric , how I wish", "But I should like to govern now .", "I saw him smiling on me .", "It doth \u2014 but no ! it rushes like a torrent", "Of aught save him .", "I 'll not hear"], "true_target": ["The Count , and Ulric , and your daughter Ida .", "In sleep \u2014 I see him lie", "My harp-strings rang with groans , and not with music ,", "What ?", "Of Heaven , although I looked on Ulric .", "Of aught so beautiful . The flowers , the boughs ,", "His manner was a little cold , his spirit", "When the dim eye rolls vainly round for what", "Indeed I have none else left , since my poor father \u2014", "This grave exterior \u2014\u2014 Would you had known each other !", "Why do you call me \u201c Cousin ? \u201d", "I still to you am something .", "I see you .", "And far the noblest", "Than before all the rest ; and where he trod", "\u201c Cousin \u201d again .", "Will wither .", "How should it ? What should make us grieve ? I hate", "Who love each other so entirely ? You ,", "It sounds so cold , as if you thought upon", "Streaming through the stained windows , even the tombs , 20", "Then pray you be as punctual to its notes :", "By aiding me in my dissuasion of", "Proud", "Yes , Ulric ,", "And , above all , these stiff and heavy jewels ,", "At peace ! and all at peace with one another !", "But you shall !", "I thought too", "Even to your brow again .", "Pale , bleeding , and a man with a raised knife", "I 'll play you King Gustavus \u2019 march .", "Been aught of kindred !", "Not that monster 's ! I should think", "But Ulric . Did you not see at the moment", "The gems , the robes , the plumes , the happy faces ,", "Child , indeed ! I have", "Aught like him ? How he towered amongst them all !", "In this , for this one day : the day looks heavy ,", "You and my Ulric . Did you ever see", "Your mother will be eager to receive you .", "Which make my head and heart ache , as both throb", "Could aught of his sound on it :\u2014 but come quickly ;", "Never shall it do so !", "Oh , my sweet mother !", "Not too early ,", "Which looked so calm , and the celestial hymns ,", "And will you not stay , then ? You shall not go ! Come ! I will sing to you .", "But I can wait .", "And I have loved this man !", "The coursers , and the incense , and the sun", "And yet I see him as", "A word against a world which still contains 40", "Have ne'er returned : that fever was most deadly", "Except his prey , I hope .", "Full fifteen summers !", "But I can never 50", "Sister , or cousin , what you will , so that", "Which seemed as if they rather came from Heaven", "Alas ! what is a menial to a death-bed , 190", "Which swept them all away .", "Besides , he sometimes frightens me .", "; but under 180"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["My destinies were woven in that name : 90", "Had almost then forgot him in my son ;", "And prosper ; but delay not , or you are lost !", "Will lead thee \u2014\u2014", "No , Ulric ;", "All things ,", "Where will you go ? I would not send you forth", "Thou'dst say at once \u2014 \u201c I love young Ida , and", "The bloom or blight of all men 's happiness ,", "According to the Orient tale .", "The powers on earth shall never make me . \u201d \u2014 So", "And may not be right now .", "Liar and fiend ! but you shall not be slain ;", "And every speck of circumstance unite", "I did not !\u2014 nay , once spared it , when I might", "\u201c Te Deum \u201d pealed from nations rather than", "And now my dream is out !", "And would you ne'er had borne the useless name !", "Or act so carelessly , in that which is 350", "Forgive this man . I loathed him to the last ,", "Son !", "Neither \u2014 I was weighing", ", with whom thou consortest ,", "\u2018 Gainst whom thy breath would blow thy bloody slander .", "A long and loud farewell to its great doings ,", "Father ! I have spoken 520", "But dark deeds", "One of those strange companions whom I fain", "With all the nobles , and as I looked down", "I could only guess at one ,", "The stars had not gone down when I awoke .", "In what ?", "Must thus redeem it . Fly ! I am not master ,", "Ah !\u2014 Where ? on what frontier ?", "But pray for him , for me , and all my house ;", "Too much !\u2014 Too much of duty , and too little love ! He pays me in the coin he owes me not : For such hath been my wayward fate , I could not Fulfil a parent 's duties by his side Till now ; but love he owes me , for my thoughts Ne'er left him , nor my eyes longed without tears To see my child again ,\u2014 and now I have found him ! But how ! obedient , but with coldness ; duteous In my sight , but with carelessness ; mysterious \u2014 420 Abstracted \u2014 distant \u2014 much given to long absence , And where \u2014 none know \u2014 in league with the most riotous Of our young nobles ; though , to do him justice , He never stoops down to their vulgar pleasures ; Yet there 's some tie between them which I can not Unravel . They look up to him \u2014 consult him \u2014 Throng round him as a leader : but with me He hath no confidence ! Ah ! can I hope it After \u2014 what ! doth my father 's curse descend Even to my child ? Or is the Hungarian near 430 To shed more blood ? or \u2014 Oh ! if it should be ! Spirit of Stralenheim , dost thou walk these walls To wither him and his \u2014 who , though they slew not , Unlatched the door of Death for thee ? \u2018 Twas not Our fault , nor is our sin : thou wert our foe , And yet I spared thee when my own destruction Slept with thee , to awake with thine awakening ! And only took \u2014 Accurs\u00e9d gold ! thou liest Like poison in my hands ; I dare not use thee , Nor part from thee ; thou camest in such a guise , 440 Methinks thou wouldst contaminate all hands Like mine . Yet I have done , to atone for thee , Thou villanous gold ! and thy dead master 's doom , Though he died not by me or mine , as much As if he were my brother ! I have ta'en His orphan Ida \u2014 cherished her as one Who will be mine .", "Break her heart with a man who has none to break !", "Dare you await the event of a few minutes \u2019", "And now you have it \u2014 perished on his pillow", "Who shall dare say this of Ulric ?", "Parricide ! no less", "Yet say I am not guilty ! for the blood", "Why didst thou spare me ? I dreamt of my father \u2014", "Ulric , I wish to speak with you alone .", "My fullest , freest aid .", "Yes , good father ;", "Ah !", "But I will talk no further with a wretch ,", "The Countess in her chamber . She complains", "These walls are mine , and you are safe within them .", "Who says so ? Gab . I .", "My destiny has so involved about me", "And could \u2014 aye , perhaps , should", "Or thought of mine , could make you deem me fit", "Nor of thy temperament , to talk so coolly ,", "Of this man weighs on me , as if I shed it ,", "She attends you .", "Permit you to return to-day , or if", "I live ! and as I live , I saw him \u2014", "But still I saw him not ; but in his stead \u2014\u2014", "I will be so .\u2014", "For \u2014 for \u2014 the dead .", "\u2018 Tis yours , or theirs .", "So let them .\u2014 You forget", "Ida", "If you mean me , I dare", "Upon your dancing crest ; the loftiest .", "The deadliest and the stanchest .", "Where is he ?", "Werner ! \u2018 twas mine .", "By mine , and you behold me !", ",", "But she loves you .", "I know not why , a like remorse is on me ,", "I have to offer humbly this donation", "E'er answered thus till now ?", "Twenty long years of misery and famine", "And giving so much happiness , deserves", "True , father : and to avert those pangs from one ,", "The officious care", "Aye , with half of my domains ;", "Much ! for I", "With", "These hints , as vague as vain , attach no less", "Then fix the day .", "If I must be plain ,", "As you feel , nothing \u2014 but all life for her . 370", "To-morrow is the appointed festival", "Some master fiend is in thy service , to", "True , dear child , Though somewhat frankly said for a fair damsel .\u2014 But , Ulric , recollect too our position , So lately reinstated in our honours . Believe me , \u2018 twould be marked in any house , But most in ours , that ONE should be found wanting 250 At such a time and place . Besides , the Heaven Which gave us back our own , in the same moment It spread its peace o'er all , hath double claims On us for thanksgiving : first , for our country ; And next , that we are here to share its blessings .", "In masses for his spirit .", "Stop ! I command \u2014 entreat \u2014 implore ! Oh , Ulric ! Will you then leave me ?", "Ulric , repel this calumny , as I", "Than would your adversary , who dared say so ,", "And was not the first so ?", "But he was all alone !", "The truth , and nought but truth , if not the whole ;", "Looked down , I saw him not . The thanksgiving", "Against your age and nature ! Who at twenty", "Each bloodier than the former : I arose ,", "Father , \u2018 tis not my gold .", "They say he is leagued with the \u201c black bands \u201d who still", "He says too much in saying this . It is not", "It will not be engraved upon my tomb ,", "When we met in the garden .", "Oh ! am I ?\u2014 say !", "My son , I know my own innocence , and doubt not Of yours \u2014 but I have promised this man patience ; 220 Let him continue .", "The chase with such an ardour as will scarce", "Hereafter", "Let 's change the theme . I wish you to consider", "To woo .", "In many miseries .", "And may thy prayer be heard !\u2014 all men have need", "No matter whose \u2014 of this be sure , that he", "As I can one day God 's .", "Never ! never ! all", "Though the schismatic Swede , Gustavus , is", "I pledge my life for yours . Withdraw into", "As he did me . I do not love him now ,", "And haughty spirit , I have thought it well", "But \u2018 tis your office", "Doth my refusal make a debt to you ,", "You are not jealous Of me , I trust , my pretty rebel ! who 260 Would sanction disobedience against all Except thyself ? But fear not ; thou shalt rule him Hereafter with a fonder sway and firmer .", ",", "Listen !\u2014 The church was thronged : the hymn was raised ;", "Than the late cannon 's volume , this word \u2014 \u201c Werner ! \u201d", "There are two , sir : which", "Because I cannot rest", "You saw none else ? You did not see the \u2014\u2014", "But calmness is not", "Of far artillery , which seemed to bid", "Ulric , this man , who has just departed , is 290", "But if my son 's is cold !\u2014\u2014", "Without protection .", "Is he not found ?", "Be leader of such , I would hope : at once 340", "Sick ; and when I recovered from the mist", "Your utmost .", "To a demon !", "Ida , beware ! there 's blood upon that hand . IdaI 'd kiss it off , though it were mine .", "As thou appear'st to love her .", "Which curled about my senses , and again", "In that which it may purchase from your altars : 500", "Whom and whose house you arraign , reviving viper !", "Now , Count Ulric ! For son I dare not call thee \u2014 What say'st thou ? 400", "My eye for ever fell", "Secret ! I have none : but , father , he who 's gone", "In a like absence ? But \u2018 tis vain to urge you \u2014", "The wretch hath slain Them both !\u2014 My Josephine ! we are now alone ! Would we had ever been so !\u2014 All is over For me !\u2014 Now open wide , my sire , thy grave ; Thy curse hath dug it deeper for thy son In mine !\u2014 The race of Siegendorf is past . The end of the fifth act and the Drama . B. P. J ^ y 20 , 1822 . FOOTNOTES :{ 337 }, the younger of the sisters . Miss Lee began her literary career as a dramatist . A comedy , The New Peerage ; or , Our Eyes may deceive us , was played at Drury Lane , November 10 , 1787 . In 1798 she published The Mysterious Marriage ; or , The Heirship of Rosalva . After the publication of Byron 's Werner , she wrote a dramatic version of The German 's Tale , under the title of The Three Strangers . It was brought out at Covent Garden , December 10 , 1825 , and acted four times . The first volume of the Canterbury Tales , by Harriet Lee , was published in 1797 ; the second volume , by Sophia Lee , in 1798; a third volume, by Sophia and Harriet Lee , appeared in 1800 ; the fourth volume , by Harriet Leewas published in 1801 ; and the fifth volume , by Harriet Lee , in 1805 . There can be little doubt that Byron 's visit to Churchill 's grave at Dover , which took place April 25 , 1816, was suggested by a passage in the Introduction , pp . vii. - ix ., to the first volumeof the Canterbury Tales . The author \u201c wanders forth to note the memorabilia of Dover , \u201d is informed that \u201c the greatest curiosity in the place is the tomb of a poet , \u201d and hastens \u201c to a spot surrounded by ruined walls , in the midst of which stood the white marble tablet marked with Churchill 's name , \u201d etc . ]{ 338 }folly which may injure me \u2014 andno one . If it be understood that all dramatic writing is generically intended for the stage , I deny itWith the exception of Shakespeare, not one in fifty plays of our dramatists is ever acted , however much they may be read . Only one of Massinger \u2014 none of Ford \u2014 none of Marlowe , one of Ben Jonson \u2014 none of Webster , none of Heywood : and , even in Comedy , Congreve is rarely acted , and that in only one of his plays . Neither is Joanna Baillie . I am far from attempting to raise myself to a level with the least of these names \u2014 I only wish to befrom a stage which is not theirs . Perhaps Mr. Lamb 's essay upon the effects of dramatic representation on the intelligent auditor\u2014\u2014 marks are just with regard to this \u2014 plays of Shakespeare himself \u2014 the hundredfold to those of others .\u2014 From a mutilated page of MS. M .]\u201c A drama is not merely a dialogue , but an action : and necessarily supposes that something is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators .... If an author does not bear this continually in his mind , and does not write in the ideal presence of an eager and diversified assemblage , he may be a poet , perhaps , but assuredly he will never be a dramatist . \u201d ]{ 340 }{ 342 } Yea \u2014 to a peasant .\u2014{ 346 }, Poetical Works , 1901 , iv . 564 . ]{ 347 }, and that a similarity of character and incident suggested the renaming of Kruitzner . But the change of name was made in 1815 , not in 1821 , and it is far more probable that Byron called his hero \u201c Werner , \u201d because \u201c Kruitzner \u201d is unrhythmical , or simply because \u201c Werner , \u201d a common German surname , is not unlike \u201c Werther , \u201d which was \u201c familiar as a household word . \u201d ]{ 348 }{ 349 }{ 351 }{ 352 }{ 354 }{ 355 } Without means and he has not a stiver left .\u2014{ 357 } This is one of those to whom I owe aid .\u2014{ 364 }{ 365 }{ 367 }\u2014 Letter to Murray , May 29 , 1822 , Letters , 1901 , vi . 75 . ]{ 368 } \u2014\u2014 who furnish our good masters .\u2014{ 385 }were formed ; that these pursued on their own account the trade that they had formerly carried on under the cover of military law , and that commerce became again unsafe on the highways . \u201d \u2014 History of the Thirty Years \u2019 War , by A. Gindely , 1885 , ii . 382 , 383 . ]Johann Tsercl\u00e4s Count von Tilly , born 1559 , defeated the Bohemians at the battle of Prague , November 8 , 1620 , died April 30 , 1632 . Gustavus Adolphus , the \u201c Lion of the North , \u201d born December 9 , 1594 , succeeded his father , Charles IX ., King of Sweden , in 1611 . As head of the Protestant League , he invaded Germany , defeated the armies of Conti and Schaumburg , June-December , 1630 ; defeated Tilly at Leipzig and Breitenfeld , September 7 , 1631 ; defeated Wallenstein at Lutzen ; but was killed in battle , November 16 , 1632 . Johan Bannier , or Baner , Swedish general , born June 23 , 1595 , defeated the Saxons near Chemnitz , April 4 , 1639 , died December , 1649 . Lennart Torstenson , Swedish general , born 1603 , fought at the battle of Leipzig , and was taken prisoner at N\u00fcrnburg . In 1641 he was appointed General-in-Chief of the Swedes in Germany , and died at Stockholm , April , 1651 . Bernhard , Duke of Saxe-Weimar , born 1604 , succeeded Gustavus Adolphus in command in Germany , November 16 , 1632 ; defeated the Imperialists at Rheinfeld , 1638 ; died at Huningen , 1639 . Banier and Torstenson were living when the Peace of Westphalia was proclaimed , November 3 , 1648 . ]{ 373 }, was in alliance with Gustavus Adolphus ; John George , Elector of Saxony, was on the side of the Imperialists . ]{ 377 }{ 381 }{ 382 }{ 383 }{ 384 }{ 385 } The Ravenstone , \u201c Rabenstein , \u201d is the stone gibbet of Germany , and so called from the ravens perching on it .{ 387 } \u2014\u2014 and a master .\u2014{ 388 } If further proof were needed , the repetition or echo of Shakespearian phrases , here and elsewhere in the play , would reveal Byron 's handiwork . ]{ 389 } Silkwormis an Italianism . See Poetical Works , 1901 , iv . 386 , note 4 . ]{ 391 } \u2014\u2014 and hollow Sickness sits caverned in his yellow eye .\u2014{ 393 }{ 396 }There was a proverb , \u03a4\u1ff7 \u039c\u1f7d\u03bc\u1ff3 \u1f00\u03c1\u1f73\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03bdre / skein ] Momo santisfacere ; vide Adagia Variorum , 1643 , p. 58 . Byron describes Suwarrow as \u201c Now Mars , now Momus \u201d]{ 403 }{ 404 }, to which the bottom , especially if it be sand , shells , or fine gravel , adheres .\u2014 Knights 's American Mechanical Dictionary , 1877 , art . \u201c Sounding-Apparatus . \u201d ]{ 405 }]{ 406 } And never offered aught as a reward .\u2014{ 407 } \u2014\u2014 that if thou wert a snail , none else .\u2014{ 408 }{ 409 }{ 410 }{ 416 }{ 418 }{ 423 }]\u201c Had his free breathing been denied The range of the steep mountain 's side . \u201d Prisoner of Chillon , lines 142 , 143 . ]{ 428 }{ 446 }WERNER Nov. 1815 .ACT I .", "Would I have answered .", "A crime as \u2014\u2014", "Nor", "Unravelled , till \u2014\u2014", "Barks manned with revellers in their best garbs , 110", "Saw , like a flash of lightning", "Our bannered and escutcheoned gallery , I 100", "Who owned it never more will need it , save", "He", "Returned , too much fatigued to join to-morrow", "No , not bequeath \u2014 but I bestow this sum", "The music , and the crowd embraced in lieu", "And he to me a stranger , unconnected ,", "To all else \u2014 the Hungarian 's face ! I grew", "None else but I , who see it \u2014 feel it \u2014 keener", "Or I would bid them fall and crush me ! Fly !", "Chase this man from my mind , although my senses", "For , as I said , though I be innocent ,", "That you have given birth", "Unsay this villany .", "Always the attribute of innocence .", "In this case \u2014 yes .", "Misrule the mortal who believes him slave ,", "And yet I had horrid dreams ! and such brief sleep ,", ": some strong bias ,", "To wean thee from the perils of thy youth", "Till he is found . His fate , and Stralenheim 's ,", "You , too , were too remote in the procession", "For pious purposes .", "Or I have heard too much .", "As unemployed . Except by one day 's knowledge ,", "I must do so \u2014"], "true_target": ["Along the lines of lifted faces ,\u2014 from", "Who play'st with thine own guilt ! Of all that breathe", "Within these walls , but it extends no further .", "The roar of rushing thousands ,\u2014 all \u2014 all could not", "But I did not 490", "Though , by the Power who abhorreth human blood ,", "And what is this to Ulric ?", "Ulric , be warned by a father !\u2014 I was not", "And", "Was over , and we marched back in procession .", "Are you in quest of ?", "The joyous crowd above , the numberless", "Asleep ! And yet", "Than common stabber ! What deed of my life ,", "The foresters ! With whom the Hungarian found you first at Frankfort !", "In Prague", "Her spider web , that I can only flutter", "\u2018 Tis from a soul , and not a name ,", "You shall ,", "Who ?", "Alas ! He did .", "The Hungarian , who slew Stralenheim .", "No longer held him palpable .", "And", "Where 's Ulric ?", "And with the other half , could he and thou", "It is so !", "Or wither on her stalk like some pale rose 380", ", what struck me sightless", "Our young nobility \u2014\u2014", "If not all men : the universal rumour \u2014", "Of those around me dragged me from the spot ,", "In these dim days of heresies and blood ,", "And ours , seem intertwisted ! nor can be", "Deliberation ?", "My word is sacred and irrevocable", "I have seen the murderer .", "I understand you : you refer to \u2014\u2014 but", "Died , I scarce know \u2014 but \u2014 he was stabbed i \u2019 the dark ,", "Your sabre in his heart ! But mine survives", "All hearts but one may beat in kindness for me \u2014", "As on that dread night ,", "140", "The wound .", "For thee ? Belov\u00e9d , when thou lovest me not !", "I concealed you \u2014 I ,", "See they cease not Their quest of him I have described .", "I am not the man . I 'll meet your eye on that point ,", "with such", "But he who 's gone was not my friend , but foe ,", "You merciful ?\u2014", "I have sought you , and have found you : you are charged", "Which shot along the glancing tide below ,", "I have done with life !", "And did not I too pass those twelve torn years", "For which Philosophy might barter Wisdom ;", "Your harp , which by the way awaits you with", "By a cut-throat !\u2014 Aye !\u2014 you may look upon me ! 510", "Take also that \u2014 I saw you eye it eagerly , and him Distrustfully .", "The world speaks more than lightly of this Rodolph : 300", "That thou shouldst wed the lady Ida \u2014 more", "To aid me .", "I \u2014 Siegendorf ! Take these and fly ! Lose not a moment !", "And how disprove it ?", "It were not well that you alone of all", "Would reason with you on .", "This is so \u2014", "The nature of thine age , nor of thy blood ,", "Thou best dost know the innocence of him", "Gone home .", "Yes .", "To fix the blot on you .", "I looked , as a dying soldier 120", "Let it not be more fatal still !\u2014 Begone !", "This tower .", "When just as the artillery ceased , and paused 130", "Such as rounds common life into a dream", "Yet died without its last and dearest offices ,", "Go on , sir .", "Seeing my faintness , ignorant of the cause :", "Which smooth the soul through purgatorial pains ,", "Hamburgh ! No , I have nought to do there , nor Am aught connected with that city . Then God speed you !", "Indeed !", "Might have one ; or , in short , he did bequeath \u2014", "Distinct and keener far upon my ear", "The madness and dishonour of an instant .", "That you are a sad truant to your music :", "May not obliterate or expiate", "But it may lead me there .", "Like the poor fly , but break it not . Take heed ,", "Looks at a draught of water , for this man ;", "I never saw the man who was suspected .", "Welcome , welcome , holy father ! 450", "Further than justice asks . Answer at once ,", "You shall do so \u2014", "Yes ; that 's safe still ;", "Boyish sophist ! In a word , do you love , or love not , Ida ?", "The standards o'er me , and the tramplings round ,", "I feel it is not .", "She 's young \u2014 all-beautiful \u2014 adores you \u2014 is", "The same you knew , sir , by that name ; and you ! 150", "Still", "Ulric ; you have seen to what the passions led me : 310", "For one day 's peace , after thrice ten dread years ,", "Retainers \u2014 nay , even of these very walls ,", "He 's gone .", "But \u2014\u2014", "I hear thee . My God ! you look \u2014\u2014", "I talk not of his birth ,", "for peace restored . You are apt to follow", "Endowed with qualities to give happiness ,", "Who , though of our most faultless holy Church ,", "No , no ; I have no children : never more", "Am I awake ? are these my father 's halls ? And you \u2014 my son ? My son ! mine ! I who have ever 480 Abhorred both mystery and blood , and yet Am plunged into the deepest hell of both ! I must be speedy , or more will be shed \u2014 The Hungarian 's !\u2014 Ulric \u2014 he hath partisans , It seems : I might have guessed as much . Oh fool ! Wolves prowl in company . He hath the keyof the opposite door which leads Into the turret . Now then ! or once more To be the father of fresh crimes , no less Than of the criminal ! Ho ! Gabor ! Gabor ! 490", "True , monster !", "Oh ! God of fathers !", "Deserted by the bird she thought a nightingale ,", "And did you so ?", "When we reached the Muldau 's bridge ,", "Safe !", "I will engage for her .", "The value of your secret .", "But you consent ?", "He hath cleared the staircase . Ah ! I hear The door sound loud behind him ! He is safe ! Safe !\u2014 Oh , my father 's spirit !\u2014 I am faint \u2014 20", "I would avert perdition .", "The decorated street , the long array ,", "Alas ! Love never did so .", "I never had one ; 40", "Then , my boy ! thou art guiltless still \u2014 Thou bad'st me say I was so once .\u2014 Oh ! now Do thou as much .", "Of such , and I \u2014\u2014", "How so ?", "A little in return . I would not have her", "I did :", "Whate'er you will : sell them , or hoard ,", "With whom you have to deal .", ":", "The clashing music , and the thundering", "Yes : if you want another victim , strike !", "As on the loftiest and the loveliest head ,", "Which overflowed the glittering streets of Prague .", "Will wed her ; \u201d or , \u201c I love her not , and all", "Why wilt thou call me prosperous , while I fear", "That thus you urge it ?", "HIM ! I turned \u2014 and saw \u2014 and fell .", "It seems , of my own castle \u2014 of my own", "Admit him , ne'ertheless .", "His death was fathomlessly deep in blood .", "Call me by that worst name of parent .", "No ; but there 's worse than blood \u2014 eternal shame !", "Of shouting , I heard in a deep , low voice ,", "Heard him ! he dared to utter even my name .", "Unless \u2014\u2014", "No ! by the God who sees and strikes !", "As if he had fallen by me or mine . Pray for me ,", "Father ! I have prayed myself in vain .", "The nobles in our marshalled ranks .", "She is \u2014\u2014", "And without quibbling , to my charge .", "That these young violent nobles of high name ,", "I did , and it has been my only refuge", "Trifling villain !", "Quenched them not \u2014 twenty thousand more , perchance ,", "Nature was never called back by remonstrance .", "Continue daily orisons for us", "I know not that .", "Oh ! my dead father 's curse ! \u2018 tis working now .", "Of something which your poets cannot paint ,", "But loiter not in Prague ;\u2014 you do not know", "But of his bearing . Men speak lightly of him .", "Name him .", "You ! Base calumniator !", "For your accomplice ?", "My own presence on the spot \u2014 the place \u2014 the time \u2014 160", "Ravage the frontier .", "Or you will be slain by \u2014\u2014", "And makes his every thought subservient ; else", "It rose the highest of the stream of plumes ,", "From choirs , in one great cry of \u201c God be praised \u201d", "You slew him !\u2014 Wretch !", "As far", "To me than to my son ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Nor in the general orison of thanks", "Eternal and the worm which dieth not !", "To employ our means to obtain Heaven for the souls", "Our House needs no donations , thanks to yours ,", "Of our dead enemies is worthy those", "Be comforted ! You are innocent , and should", "Be calm as innocence .", "Gnashing of teeth , and tears of blood , and fire", "Such things , and leave remorse unto the guilty .", "Have the first claim to all", "Is there no blood upon it ?", "Better still !", "Did he who owned it die in his bed ?", "A proper deed", "Your own gold too !", "The largess shall be only dealt in alms ,", "When the mind gathers up its truth within it .", "Who can forgive them living .", "Nor did he die", "His name ?", "Count , if I", "Who slew him ?", "A cloud , upon your thoughts . This were to be", "Remember the great festival to-morrow ,", "The prayers of our community . Our convent ,", "You fain would rescue him you hate from hell \u2014", "For whom shall mass be said ?", "In which you rank amidst our chiefest nobles ,", "But it will be so ,"], "true_target": ["To pry into your secret . We will pray", "Where there is everlasting wail and woe , 460", "Receive it , \u2018 tis because I know too well", "An evangelical compassion \u2014 with", "Refusal would offend you . Be assured 470", "Erected by your ancestors , is still", "In the behalf of our departed friends .", "And yours in all meet things \u2018 tis fit we obey .", "Nor know you", "Best of all ! for this is pure religion !", "If you regret your enemy 's bloodless death .", "As well as your brave son ; and smooth your aspect ,", "For one unknown , the same as for the proudest . 480", "By means , or men , or instrument of yours ?", "Son ! you relapse into revenge ,", "For bloodshed stopt , let blood you shed not rise ,", "I will .", "Then you are free from guilt .", "You said he died in his bed , not battle .", "Peace be with these walls , and all", "Whose , then ? You said it was no legacy .", "I meant not", "Protected by their children .", "To the endless home of unbelievers ,", "You have said so , and know best .", "And every mass no less sung for the dead .", "Which has of old endowed it ; but from you", "Too sensitive . Take comfort , and forget", "Within them !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["On the stones he will not stumble , 560", "How old ? What ! are there 10", "Both them and me .", "And will not such a voyage be sweet ?", "And prophet , pontiff , doctor , alchymist ,", "To-morrow sounds the assault", "Then let it be as thou deem'st best .", "Philosopher , and what not , they have built", "And my thirst increases ;\u2014 but 50", "On earth you have often only fiends for friends ;", "C\u00e6s . As softly as they bear the dead ,", "Led you o'er Rome 's eternal battlements ?", "Then waste not 130", "C\u00e6s . There is no cleaner now", "No ; I will not . I must not compromise my soul .", "You may be devil .", "C\u00e6s . Oh ! I know 190", "I have done so .", "Was educated for a monk of all times , 100", "And what is that ? C\u00e6s . Thou feelest and thou see'st .", "Thyself .", "Think'st thou I beat for hares when lions roar ?", "Would be belov\u00e9d . As thou showest me", "Each day \u2014 each hour \u2014 each minute shows me more", "Which is now set in gold , as jewels should be .", "The helmless dromedary !\u2014 and I 'll bear", "Give me the strength then of the buffalo 's foot ,", "Get you hence !", "Since I have risked my soul because I find not", "Pile above pile of everlasting wall , 50", "Shall be plain Arnold still .", "Prepare our armour for the assault , And wait within my tent . C\u00e6s .Within thy tent ! 310 Think'st thou that I pass from thee with my presence ? Or that this crooked coffer , which contained Thy principle of life , is aught to me Except a mask ? And these are men , forsooth ! Heroes and chiefs , the flower of Adam 's bastards ! This is the consequence of giving matter The power of thought . It is a stubborn substance , And thinks chaotically , as it acts , Ever relapsing into its first elements . Well ! I must play with these poor puppets : \u2018 tis 320 The Spirit 's pastime in his idler hours . When I grow weary of it , I have business Amongst the stars , which these poor creatures deem Were made for them to look at . \u2018 Twere a jest now To bring one down amongst them , and set fire Unto their anthill : how the pismires then Would scamper o'er the scalding soil , and , ceasing From tearing down each other 's nests , pipe forth One universal orison ! ha ! ha ! PART II .", "What do I see ? Accurs\u00e9d jackals ! Forbear !", "Whose blood then ?", "Well , then ,", "In requisition , but by no means easiest", "Know you not ?", "Thou ! C\u00e6s . I ! But fear not . I 'll not be your rival .", "A spur in its halt movements , to become", "A form of beauty , and an", "Have as much right as he . But to the issue !", "Surely , he", "What wilt thou do for me ?", "Yet one shadow more . 260", "No . As you leave me choice , I am difficult .", "Is mighty \u2014 as you mortals deem \u2014 and to", "So , you are learned ,", "Had no power presented me", "For stepdame Nature 's avarice at first .", "The sun goes down as calmly , and perhaps 70", "An Idol , but a cold one to your heat", "stood at gaze upon", "Of gaining , or \u2014 what is more difficult \u2014", "And free companion of the gallant Bourbon ,", "Then learn to grant it . Have I taught you who", "Do as thou wilt .", "By the World 's lords .", "Up ! up with the Lily !", "To taunt me with my born deformity ?", "Of many deaths , it may be of their own .", "But our leader from France is ,", "And by the dawn there will be work .", "Colonna , as I told you !", "Paws the ground and snuffs the air !", "Self-loved \u2014 loved for yourself \u2014 for neither health ,", "To plunder old Rome . 170", "And shall the city yield ? I see the giant", "C\u00e6s . The Bourbon hath given orders for the assault ,", "It all , had not my mother spurned me from her .", "To be myself possessed \u2014 100 To be her heart as she is mine . FOOTNOTES :{ 473 }\u2014 \u201c Arnaud , the natural son of the Marquis de Souvricour , was a child \u2018 extraordinary in Beauty and Intellect . \u2019 When travelling with his parents to Languedoc , Arnaud being 8 years old , he was shot at by banditti , and forsaken by his parents . The Captain of the band nursed him . \u2018 But those perfections to which Arnaud owed his existence , ceased to adorn it . The ball had gored his shoulder , and the fall had dislocated it ; by the latter misadventure his spine likewise was so fatally injured as to be irrecoverable to its pristine uprightness . Injuries so compound confounded the Captain , who sorrowed to see a creature so charming , at once deformed by a crooked back and an excrescent shoulder . \u2019 Arnaud was found and taken back to his parents . \u2018 The bitterest consciousness of his deformity was derived from their indelicate , though , perhaps , insensible alteration of conduct .... Of his person he continued to speak as of an abhorrent enemy .... \u201c Were a blessing submitted to my choice , I would say ,be it my immediate dissolution . \u201d \u201c I think , \u201d said his mother , ... \u201c that you could wish better . \u201d \u201c Yes , \u201d adjoined Arnaud , \u201c for that wish should be that I ever had remained unborn . \" \u2019 He polishes the broken blade of a sword , and views himself therein ; the sight so horrifies him that he determines to throw himself over a precipice , but draws back at the last moment . He goes to a cavern , and conjures up the prince of hell . \u201c Arnaud knew himself to be interrogated . What he required .... What was that answer the effects explain .... There passed in liveliest portraiture the various men distinguished for that beauty and grace which Arnaud so much desired , that he was ambitious to purchase them with his soul . He felt that it was his part to chuse whom he would resemble , yet he remained unresolved , though the spectator of an hundred shades of renown , among which glided by Alexander , Alcibiades , and Hephestion : at length appeared the supernatural effigy of a man , whose perfections human artist never could depict or insculp \u2014 Demetrius , the son of Antigonus . Arnaud 's heart heaved quick with preference , and strait he found within his hand the resemblance of a poniard , its point inverted towards his breast . A mere automaton in the hands of the Demon , he thrust the point through his heart , and underwent a painless death . During his trance , his spirit metempsychosed from the body of his detestation to that of his admiration ... Arnaud awoke a Julian ! \u2019 \u201d ]{ 474 }, see \u201c First Visit to the Theatre in London , \u201d Poems , by Hartley Coleridge , 1851 , i ., Appendix C , pp . cxcix. - cciii . The Wood Demon in its original form was never published . ]\u201c This had long been a favourite subject with Lord Byron . I think that he mentioned it also in Switzerland . I copied it \u2014 he sending a portion of it at a time , as it was finished , to me . At this time he had a great horror of its being said that he plagiarised , or that he studied for ideas , and wrote with difficulty . Thus he gave Shelley Aikins \u2019 edition of the British poets , that it might not be found in his house by some English lounger , and reported home ; thus , too , he always dated when he began and when he ended a poem , to prove hereafter how quickly it was done . I do not think that he altered a line in this drama after he had once written it down . He composed and corrected in his mind . I do not know how he meant to finish it ; but he said himself that the whole conduct of the story was already conceived . It was at this time that a brutal paragraphalluding to his lameness appeared , which he repeated to me lest I should hear it from some one else . No action of Lord Byron 's life \u2014 scarce a line he has written \u2014 but was influenced by his personal defect . \u201dIt is possible that Mrs. Shelley alludes to a sentence in the Memoirs , etc ., of Lord Byron ., 1822 , p. 46 : \u201c A malformation of one of his feet , and other indications of a rickety constitution , served as a plea for suffering him to range the hills and to wander about at his pleasure on the seashore , that his frame might be invigorated by air and exercise . \u201d ]{ 477 } The Deformed \u2014 a drama .\u2014 B . Pisa , 1822 .quotes these lines in connection with a passage in Byron 's \u201c Memoranda , \u201d where , in speaking of his own sensitiveness on the subject of his deformed foot , he described the feeling of horror and humiliation that came over him , when his mother , in one of her fits of passion , called him \u201c a lame brat ! \u201d ... \u201c It may be questioned , \u201d he adds , \u201c whether that whole dramawas not indebted for its origin to that single recollection . \u201d Byron 's early lettersare full of complaints of his mother 's \u201c eccentric behaviour , \u201d her \u201c fits of phrenzy , \u201d her \u201c caprices , \u201d \u201c passions , \u201d and so forth ; and there is convincing proof \u2014 see Life , pp . 28 , 306 ; Letters , 1898 , ii . 122; Letters , 1901 , vi . 179\u2014 that he regarded the contraction of the muscles of his legs as a more or less repulsive deformity . And yet , to quote one of a hundred testimonies ,\u2014 \u201c with regard to Lord Byron 's features , Mr. Mathews observed , that he was the only man he ever contemplated , to whom he felt disposed to apply the word beautiful \u201dThe looker-on or the consoler computes the magnitude and the liberality of the compensation . The sufferer thinks only of his sufferings . ]{ 478 }{ 479 }{ 480 }{ 481 } Give me the strength of the buffalo 's foot\u2014The sailless dromedary \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 482 } Now I can gibe the mightiest .\u2014{ 483 }, Faustus stabs his arm , \u201c and with his proper blood Assures his soul to be great Lucifer 's . \u201d ]Walk lively and pliant . You shall rise up as pliant .\u2014This is a well-known German superstition \u2014 a gigantic shadow produced by reflection on the Brocken .And such my command .\u2014{ 484 }dilexit M. Bruti matrem Serviliam ... dilexit et reginas ... sed maxime Cleopatram \u201dCleopatra , born B. C . 69 , was twenty-one years old when she met C\u00e6sar , B. C . 48 . ]And can It be ? the man who shook the earth is gone .\u2014{ 485 }, No . 108 , Letters , 1901 , v. 461 . For Sir Walter Scott 's note on this passage , see Letters , 1900 , iv . 77 , 78 , note 2 . ]{ 486 }were so inimitable that no statuary or painter could hit off a likeness . His countenance had a mixture of grace and dignity ; and was at once amiable and awful ; and the unsubdued and eager air of youth was blended with the majesty of the hero and the king .\u2014 Plutarch 's Lives , Langhorne 's Translation , 1838 , p. 616 . Demetrius the Besieger rescued Greece from the sway of Ptolemy and Cassander , B. C . 307 . He passed the following winter at Athens , where divine honours were paid to him under the title of \u201c the Preserver \u201d) . He was \u201c the shame of Greece in peace , \u201d by reason of his profligacy \u2014 \u201c the citadel was so polluted with his debaucheries , that it appeared to be kept sacred in some degree when he indulged himself only with such Het\u00e6r\u00e6 as Chrysis , Lamia , Demo , and Anticyra . \u201d He was the unspiritual ancestor of Charles the Second . Once when his father , Antigonus , had been told that he was indisposed , \u201c he went to see him ; and when he came to the door , he met one of his favourites going out . He went in , however , and , sitting down by him , took hold of his hand . \u2018 My fever , \u2019 said Demetrius , \u2018 has left me . \u2019 \u2018 I knew it , \u2019 said Antigonus , \u2018 for I met it this moment at the door . \u2019 \u201d \u2014 Plutarch 's Lives , ibid ., pp . 621-623 . ]{ 488 }{ 489 }Byron 's \u201c chief incentive , when a boy , to distinction was that mark of deformity on his person , by an acute sense of which he was first stung into the ambition of being great . \u201d \u2014 Life , p . 306 . ], was the founder of the Mogul dynasty . He was the Tamerlane of history and of legend . Byron had certainly read the selections from Marlowe 's Tamburlaine the Great , in Lamb 's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets . ]{ 491 }Adam means \u201c red earth , \u201d from which the first man was formed .{ 492 } This shape into Life .\u2014{ 493 } \u201c The glass rings low , the charming power that lives Within it makes the music that it gives . It dims ! it brightens ! it will shape itself . And see ! a graceful dazzling little elf . He lives ! he moves ! spruce mannikin of fire , What more can we ? what more can earth desire ? \u201d Anster 's Translation , 1886 , p . 91 . ]Your Interloper \u2014\u2014.\u2014{ 494 }]{ 495 }]{ 496 }Kochlani \u2014\u2014.\u2014; and for Analyse de Huon de Bordeaux , etc ., see Les Epop\u00e9es Fran\u00e7aises , by L\u00e9on Gautier , 1880 , ii . 719-773 . ]{ 497 }, is now known to be that of Amenhotep III ., who reigned in the eighteenth dynasty , about 1430 B. C . Strabo , ed . 1807. p. 1155 , was the first to record the musical note which sounded from the statue when it was touched by the rays of the rising sun . It used to be arguedthat the sounds were produced by a trick , but of late years it has been maintained that the Memnon 's wail was due to natural causes , the pressure of suddenly-warmed currents of air through the pores and crevices of the stone . After the statue was restored , the phenomenon ceased .]We 'll add a \u201c Count \u201d to it .\u2014{ 498 } \u2014\u2014 my eyes are full .\u2014He was appointed Constable of France by Francis I ., January , 1515 , and fought at the battle of Marignano , September 13 , 1515 . Not long afterwards he lost the king 's favour , who was set against him by his mother , Louise de Savoie ; was recalled from his command in Italy , and superseded by Odet de Foix , brother of the king 's mistress . It was not , however , till he became a widowerthat he finally broke with Francis and attached himself to the Emperor Charles V. Madame , the king 's mother , not only coveted the vast estates of the house of Bourbon , but was enamoured of the Constable 's person , and , so to speak , gave him his choice between marriage and a suit for his fiefs . Charles would have nothing to say to the lady 's proposals or to her son 's entreaties , and seeing that rejection meant ruin , he \u201c entered into a correspondence with the Emperor and the Kingof England ... and , finding this discovered , went into the Emperor 's service . \u201d After various and varying successes , both in the South of France and in Lombardy , he found himself , in the spring of 1527 , not so much the commander-in-chief as the popular capo of a mixed body of German , Spanish , and Italian condottieri , unpaid and ill-disciplined , who had mutinied more than once , who could only be kept together by the prospect of unlimited booty , and a timely concession to their demands . \u201c To Rome ! to Rome ! \u201d cried the hungry and tumultuous landsknechts , and on May 5 , 1527 , the \u201c late Constable of France , \u201d at the head of an army of 30 , 000 troops , appeared before the walls of the sacred city . On the morning of the 6th of May , he was killed by a shot from an arquebuse . His epitaph recounts his honours : \u201c Aucto Imperio , Gallo victo , Superat\u00e2 Itali\u00e2 , Pontifice obsesso , Rom\u00e2 capt\u00e2 , Borbonius , Hic Jacet ; \u201d but in Paris they painted the sill of his gate-way yellow , because he was a renegade and a traitor . He could not have said , with the dying Bayard , \u201c Ne me plaignez pas-je meurs sans avoir servi contre ma patrie , mon roy , et mon serment . \u201d]{ 499 }Compare Part II . sc . iii . line 26 , vide post , p . 521 . ]{ 500 }{ 501 }{ 503 }With a soldier 's firm foot .\u2014With the Bourbon will count o'er .\u2014{ 504 }quotes a \u201c chanson \u201d of \u201c Les soldats Espagnols \u201d as they marched Romewards . \u201c Calla calla Julio Cesar , Hannibal , y Scipion ! Viva la fama de Bourbon . \u201d ]The General with his men of confidence .\u2014{ 505 } And present phantom of that deathless world .\u2014{ 506 }{ 507 } Of a mere starving \u2014\u2014.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Work away with words .\u2014{ 508 } First City rests upon to-morrow 's action .\u2014{ 510 }, who claims to speak as an eye-witness, describes \u201c Borbonius \u201d as \u201c insignemque veste et armis \u201d]\u2018 Tis the morning \u2014 Hark ! Hark ! Hark !\u2014{ 512 } Scipio , the second Africanus , is said to have repeated a verse of Homer, and wept over the burning of CarthageHe had better have granted it a capitulation .Than such victors should pollute .\u2014{ 514 }{ 515 }{ 516 }{ 517 } Covered with gore and glory \u2014 those good times .\u2014{ 519 }\u2018 Tis the moment When such I fain would show me .\u2014{ 520 }Brant\u00f4megives a vivid picture of their fanatical savagery : \u201c Leur cruaut\u00e9 ne s'estendit pas seulement sur les personnes , mais sur les marbres et les anciennes statu\u00ebs . Les Lansquenets , qui nouvellement estoient imbus de la nouvelle Religion , et les Espagnols encore aussi bien que les autres , s'habilloient en Cardinaux et evesques en leur habits Pontificaux et se pourmenoient ainsi parray la Ville . \u201d In the Schmalkald articles , 1530 , the pious belief that the Pope was Antichrist became an article of the Lutheran creed . Compare the following extracts , quoted by Hans Schultz in Der Sacco di Roma , 1894 , p. 63 , from the Historia von der Romischen Bischoff , etc ., 1527 : \u201c Der Papst ist f\u00fcr den Verfasser der Antichrist , der durch Lug und Trug seine Herrschaft in der Welt behauptet . \u201d \u201c Quant \u00e0 l'arm\u00e9e imp\u00e9riale , on n'en vit jamais de plus \u00e9tonnante .... Allemands et Espagnols , luth\u00e9riens iconoclastes qui br\u00fblaient les \u00e9glises , ou furieux mystiques qui br\u00fblaient Juils et Maures , barbares plus raffin\u00e9s que leur vieux anc\u00eatres les Visigoths , les Vandales et les Huns , ils frappaient l'Italie d'une terreur sans exemple . \u201d \u2014 De I'italie , by E. Gebliart , chap . vii ., \u201c Le Sac de Rome en 1527 , \u201d p . 245 . ]Hush ! do n't let him hear you Or he might take you off before your time .\u2014{ 521 } So , too , Jacques Buonaparte\u201c Le Pape Clement , avoit entendu les cris des soldats ; il se sauvoit pr\u00e9cipitamment par un long corridor pratiqu\u00e9 dans un mur double et se laissoit emporter de son palais an ch\u00e2teau Saint-Ange . \u201d ]{ 526 }{ 527 }{ 528 } The first born who burst the winter sun .\u2014\u2014\u2014 through the brine .\u2014{ 533 }THE AGE OF BRONZE ; OR ,", "Swifter as it waxes higher ;", "And he who is so is the master of", "In old Rome , the seven-hilly ,", "Let us but leave it there ;", "I combat with a mass , or not at all . 60", "Spirit , till I took up with your cast shape ,", "To come at .", "With the first cock-crow .", "How staunch a friend is what you call a fiend .", "C\u00e6s . Yes , Sir ! You forget I am or was", "And done \u2014\u2014 30", "And never seen the light !", "Thine own , although I have not injured thee .", "Olimpia ! C\u00e6s . I thought as much \u2014 go on .", "And oft , like Timour the lame Tartar ,", "Of the then untamed desert , brought to joust", "Could make their hieroglyphics plainer than", "He hath an ignorant audience .", "And Father 's house from ashes .", "Who cares ? Let wolves", "And such calamity ! how wert thou fallen 20", "Is yours , as in the field .", "His hand is on the battlement \u2014 he grasps it", "The black bands came over", "Who warred with his brother .", "Do you \u2014 dare you", "I 'll call him", "Aye , the superior of the rest . There is", "By heart and soul , and make itself the equal \u2014", "And next to the Spaniard", "You have his heart , and yet it was no soft one .", "\u2018 Tis a scratch . Lend me thy scarf . He shall not \u2018 scape me thus . C\u00e6s . Where is it ?", "They are soldiers singing", "A fiend !", "All wretched as I am , I would not quit", "The messengers in search of him he seeks for ?", "Now . Well ! the first of C\u00e6sars was a bald-head ,", "But , great as He appears , and is to you ,", "Who slew him , that of Paris : or \u2014 still higher \u2014", "Slave !", "Nor pause at the brook 's side to drink ;", "And this is a new office :\u2014 \u2018 tis not oft 170", "Cabala \u2014 their best brick-work , wherewithal", "Well , his blood 's up ; and , if a little 's shed ,", "And down with the Keys !", "No .", "C\u00e6s . Oh , yes ! when atoms jostle ,", "C\u00e6s . Then wipe them , and see clearly . Why !", "Even so : there is a woman", "C\u00e6s .", "What is it ?", "C\u00e6s . An indifferent song", "But not of mind , which is not mine to give .", "We have beaten all foemen ,", "Oh ! then you are indeed the Demon , for", "Nor wealth , nor youth , nor power , nor rank , nor beauty \u2014", "Its workings .", "Something new in the annals of great sieges ;", "And harquebusses , and what not ; besides", "And fire , fire away !", "My way through Rome .", "\u2018 Tis an aspiring one , whate'er the tenement", "And wherefore do you not ?", "Your present Nothing , too , is something to you \u2014", "Who truly looketh like a demigod ,", "And perseverance could have done , perchance", "I dipped thee not in Styx ; and \u2018 gainst a foe 20", "And sweeter to my heart . As I am now ,", "Is for a flying enemy . I gave thee", "Softly ! methinks her lips move , her eyes open !", "Save that his jocund eye hath more of Bacchus", "Have made their never-ceasing scene of slaughter ,", "There was a Slave of yore to tell him truth !", "I will : but when I bring it ,", "For Valour , since Deformity is daring .", "In the stall he will not stiffen ,", "The she-bear licks her cubs into a sort", "And Italy 's lances", "Whatever dreads to die .", "Romans o'erswept ?\u2014 Hark !", "No . I was not born for philosophy ,", "; and now to be", "Aye , \u2018 gainst an oak .", "Nothing \u2014 eternal nothing \u2014 of these nothings", "Now I desert not mine . Soft ! bear her hence ,", "They woo with fearless deeds the smiles of fortune ,", "And these", "Not of love , but despair ; nor sought to win ,", "Of something which has made it live and die . 30", "Which makes me lonely . Nay , I could have borne", "We 'll follow the Bourbon ,", "Where that the path \u2014 I 'd not pursue it .", "Though I have that about me which has need o n't .", "Their Shibboleth \u2014 their Koran \u2014 Talmud \u2014 their", "C\u00e6s . And what had they done , whom the old", "Because he leapt a ditch", "She breathes ! But no , \u2018 twas nothing , or the last", "Thou canst ?", "A noble sight !", "Shall clang with our tread .", "And know thyself a mortal still .", "As the free chase they follow , do not spurn me :", "Good words , however , are as well at times .", "Hence to your quarters ! you will find them fixed", "She be so , I have nought to do with that :", "But found would it content you ? would you owe", "To thankfulness what you desire from Passion ? 60", "Had made me something \u2014 as it has made heroes", "Of these men , though \u2014\u2014", "Of this immortal change .", "The Olympic games . When I behold a prize", "C\u00e6s . Come then ! raise her up !", "\u2018 Twill serve to curb his fever .", "Ugliest , and meanest of mankind \u2014 what courage 350", "You must be", "No matter what becomes o n't .", "More human than the shape", "Which shines from him , and yet is but the flashing", "Beat Germany 's drums ;", "Thou art still", "C\u00e6s . \u2018 Tis no rebellion .", "We 'll have one more endeavour", "I love , or , at the least , I loved you : nothing 10", "Is yet within her breast , and may revive .", "Oh ! horrible !", "And they themselves alone the real \u201c Nothings . \u201d", "In Rome .", "And dubious notice of your eyes and ears .", "C\u00e6s . That 's a liquid now", "For those within the walls , methinks , to hear .", "Villain , hold your peace ! C\u00e6s . What , when a Christian dies ? Shall I not offer A Christian \u201c Vade in pace? \u201d", "I love , and I shall be beloved ! Oh , life ! At last I feel thee ! Glorious Spirit !", "I see , too ?", "By its rich harvests , new disease , and gold ;", "A disappointed courtier \u2014 What 's the matter ?", "Take it all .", "Content ! I will fix here .", "Envelope mine .", "C\u00e6s . A rare blood-hound , when his own is heated !", "C\u00e6s . Like stars , no doubt ; for that 's a metaphor", "C\u00e6s . These are nothing .", "Be quick ! the Count will soon return : the ladies", "At day-dawn before", "Until I waved my banners from its height ,", "Leave your arms ; ye have no further need Of such : the city 's rendered . And mark well You keep your hands clean , or I 'll find out a stream As red as Tiber now runs , for your baptism . SoldiersWe obey !", "The stars , goes out . The poor worm winds its way ,", "I had better 220", "Such as you think so , such as you now are ;", "Why , that name", "The resurrection is beyond me .", "I gaze upon him", "With Bourbon , the rover ,", "But what cold Sceptic hath appalled your faith", "I am almost enamoured of her , as", "Yes ! her heart beats . Alas ! that the first beat of the only heart I ever wished to beat with mine should vibrate To an assassin 's pulse . C\u00e6s . A sage reflection , But somewhat late i \u2019 the day . Where shall we bear her ? I say she lives .", "On Beauty in that sex which is the type", "I cannot blame him ,", "His aspect may be fair , but suits me not .", "C\u00e6s . How mortals lie by instinct ! If you ask", "Etruscan letters , and \u2014 were I so minded \u2014", "Oh , thou everlasting sneerer ! Be silent ! How the soldier 's rough strain seems Softened by distance to a hymn-like cadence ! Listen ! C\u00e6s . Yes . I have heard the angels sing . 120", "Softly !", "Our shout shall grow gladder ,", "Silence ! Oh !", "C\u00e6s . We 'll add a title", "No , she is calm , and meek , and silent with me , 50", "In the wave he will not sink ,", "For Lucifer and Venus .", "In feeling , on my heart as on my shoulders \u2014", "On what condition ?", "C\u00e6s . His shape can \u2014 would you have me weep ,", "More beautifully , than he did on Rome", "I knew the passionate part of life , I had", "And saw no equal .", "I will look further .", "Discouraging weight upon me , like a mountain ,", "There 's not a foal of Arab 's breed 550", "C\u00e6s . You do me right \u2014", "Dusky , but not uncomely .", "Where the World", "C\u00e6s . Do ! They will deceive you sweetly ,", "The body of your Credence ?", "They are wiser now , and will not separate", "I am employed in such ; but you perceive", "From the Alps to the Caucasus , ride we , or fly !", "C\u00e6s . Blessings on your Creed !", "Leaning dejected on his club of conquest ,", "It bears its burthen ;\u2014 but , my heart ! Will it", "Sans country or home ,", "with his form it seems", "Eternal God ! I feel thee now ! Help ! help ! she 's gone . C\u00e6s .I am here .", "The wall : on the ladder ,", "Your form is man 's , and yet", "Can smile .", "C\u00e6s . To you . You 'll find there are such shortly ,", "Pelides now before us . Perhaps his", "What ails him ? \u201c Nothing ! \u201d or a Monarch who 30", "And those scarce mortal arches ,", "In the fair form I wear , to please you ?", "Of the same mould as mine . You lately saw me", "What ! that low , swarthy , short-nosed , round-eyed satyr ,", "I would not warrant thy chivalric heart", "The deep hue of the Ocean and the Earth ,", "And who", "C\u00e6s . In my grammar , certes . I", "Nothing moves you ;", "God and God 's Son , man 's sole and only refuge !", "He shall be Memnon", "But since I slew the seven husbands of 180", "With the wide nostrils and Silenus \u2019 aspect ,", "Teach me the way to win the woman 's love . C\u00e6s . Leave her .", "C\u00e6s . And thou \u2014 a man .", "More than Pelides \u2019 heel ; why , then , be cautious ,", "Not so \u2014", "Which is just now to gaze , since all these labourers", "Invulnerable ? That were pretty sport .", "A goodly rebel .", "And so let us sing ! 130", "Your humid earth enables you to look", "Song of the Soldiers within .", "C\u00e6s . Aye , slave or master , \u2018 tis all one : methinks", "C\u00e6s . You have possessed the woman \u2014 still possess .", "Been born with it ! But since I may choose further ,", "The spoils of each dome ?", "I love all music .", "Must it be signed in blood ?", "C\u00e6s . I tell thee , be not rash ; a golden bridge", ", from the Ethiop king", "C\u00e6s . I only know", "And can it", "From one half of the world named a whole new one ,", "For whom he had fought .", "You seek for Gratitude \u2014 the Philosopher 's stone .", "Nothing can blind a mortal like to light .", "The walls of old Rome ,", "Thou mockest me .", "You have opened brighter prospects to my eyes ,", ",", "What 's here ? whose broad brow and whose curly beard", "Above , and many altar shrines below .", "Also some culverins upon the walls ,", "; and Rome 's earliest cement", "Blooming and bright , with golden hair , and stature ,", "Remote descendants , who have lived in peace ,", "Despatch ! despatch !", "For we 'll leave them behind in the glance of an eye .", "True . I forget all things in the new joy", "But not even these till he permits .", "As you are bold within it .", "You are a Conqueror \u2014 command your Slave .", "C\u00e6s . And where wouldst thou be ?", "And a worse name . I 'm C\u00e6sar and a hunch-back", "Our dark-eyed pages \u2014 what may be their names ? 520", "Round common steeds towards sunset .", "My word is known .", "Life to their amphitheatre , as well", "I wish to merit his forgiveness , and", "The rub ! at least to mortals .", "Are couched at their mother ;", "Oh ! she is lifeless !", "Not sceptre , an Hermaphrodite of Empire \u2014", "The world runs on , but we 'll be merry still .", "C\u00e6s . Which , if it end with", "How pale ! how beautiful ! how lifeless !", "Speak to me kindly . Though my brothers are", "They passed the broad Po .", "Removed ; the aid of \u2014\u2014", "\u201c Count Arnold : \u201d it hath no ungracious sound ,", "Has been o'er carcasses : mine eyes are full", "In the combat he 'll not faint ;", "Son of the Morning ! and yet Lucifer", "That sky whence Christ ascended from the cross , 40", "Had she exposed me , like the Spartan , ere", "Beyond the world they brighten , with a sigh \u2014", "Lady , you are safe .", "With aught of soul would combat if he were", "Or break or climb o'er", "Would be for a disease already cured .", "Emanation of a thing more glorious still .", "Which he wears as the Sun his rays \u2014 a something", "Devil ! C\u00e6s . Your obedient humble servant .", "How you should be commanded , and who led you 90", "Something superior even to that which was", "Nothing .", "And coldly dutiful , and proudly patient \u2014", "I love but thee !", "But though I gave the form of Thetis \u2019 son ,", "Aside intrigue : \u2018 tis rarely worth the trouble", "Here 's the Bourbon for ever !", "With Spain for the vanguard ,", "Promethean , and unkindled by your torch .", "C\u00e6s . And why should they not sing as well as swans ?", "Away ! they must not rally .", "Would that I had", "C\u00e6s . And man , too . Let us listen :", "For what ?", "C\u00e6s . In the victor 's Chariot , when Rome triumphed , 90", "Aye , did he so ? Then he hath carved his monument .", "C\u00e6s . Even so Achilles loved", "Then she is dead !"], "true_target": ["Let her but live !", "All are a lie \u2014 for all to them are much !", "C\u00e6s . A forest , when it suits me :", "For a sole instant 's pastime , and \u201c Pass on", "Living upon the death of other things ,", "For your existence . Had you touched a hair", "Be , that the man who shook the earth is gone ,", "In the marsh he will not slacken ,", "C\u00e6s . The Crucifix", "Let him fleet on .", "I have laid", "Who bears the golden horn , and wears such bright", "Tobias \u2019 future bride", "Of our song bear the burden !", "Is on it , and \u2014\u2014 What have we here ?\u2014 a Roman ?", "Its way with all Deformity 's dull , deadly ,", "Worth wrestling for , I may be found a Milo .", "True . I 'll weep hereafter .The Bourbon ! Bourbon ! On , boys ! Rome is ours ! C\u00e6s . Good night , Lord Constable ! thou wert a Man .C\u00e6s . A precious somerset ! Is your countship injured ?", "And will look well upon a billet-doux .", "Sustain that which you lay upon it , Mother ?", "C\u00e6s . You cannot find what is not .", "A reckless roundelay , upon the eve", "Like to the lovely boy lost in the forest ,", "That which redeemed it \u2014 no .", "On the hill he will not tire ,", "Aye ; but my path", "For men must have their prey after long toil .", "Your aspect is", "Our varied host comes ; 160", "Save You , in nature , can love aught like me .", "C\u00e6s . It may be of yourself ,", "Convey her unto the Colonna palace ,", "C\u00e6s . Doth she rebel ?", "And find it not .", "I was born so , Mother !", "Late constable of France", "But be wing\u00e8d as a Griffin ,", "For ages .", "Through scenes of blood and lust , till I am here . 20", "Yield thee , slave ! I promise quarter .", "And demons howl .", "Around their manes , as common insects swarm", "You are beautiful and brave ! the first is much", "I saved her life , too ; and her Father 's life ,", "And sparks of flame , like dancing fire-flies wheel", "But doth she live indeed ? C\u00e6s . Nay , never fear ! But , if you rue it after , blame not me .", "With the Bourbon we 'll mount o'er", "Of life . The planet wheels till it becomes", "As an abstraction \u2014 for \u2014 you know not what !", "The Bourbon for aye !", "Mine !", "From their proud nostrils , burns the very air ;", "Because no man could understand his neighbour .", "Ah ! C\u00e6s . You are grave \u2014 what have you on your spirit !", "C\u00e6s . She breathes .", "And you ?", "This marvellous Virgin , is a marble maid \u2014", "Faint flutter Life disputes with Death .", "The phantom 's bald ; my quest is beauty . Could I", "Thou lately worest ?", "They are beautiful , and cannot , sure , be demons .", "I ask not", "And \u2018 tis no boy 's play . Now he strikes them down ! 160", "The possibility of change , I would", "If his form could bring me", "A choice of forms , I take the one I view .", "Her Tiber all red ,", "Her smooth brow crisp \u2014 \u201c Oh , Nothing ! \u201d \u2014 a young heir", "If but to see the heroes I should ne'er", "And eat your thoughts \u2014 till they breed snakes within you .", "In life commotion is the extremest point", "All that the others cannot , in such things", "And loved his laurels better as a wig", "When they had left no human foe unconquered \u2014", "Her streets shall be gory ,", "Who was this glory of mankind ?", "Thou ! but oh , save her ! C\u00e6s .She hath done it well ! The leap was serious .", "Dog ! C\u00e6s . Man !", "On the day Remus leapt her wall .", "You nursed me \u2014 do not kill me !", "As though it were an altar ; now his foot", "I might be feared \u2014 admired \u2014 respected \u2014 loved 360", "The peace of Heaven , and in her sunshine of", "In the shoulder , not the sword arm \u2014", "The Devil speaks truth much oftener than he 's deemed : 150", "C\u00e6s . Yes ! and not believe", "On the plain be overtaken ;", "What a good Christian you were found to be !", "The answer \u2014 You are jealous .", "In the arena \u2014 as right well they might ,", "We have turned back on no men ,", "More Babels , without new dispersion , than", "Be spilt till the choked Tiber be as red", "I have heard as much , my Lord .", "C\u00e6s . Your old philosophers", "The gates , and together", "Merrily ! merrily ! never unsound ,", "We will 160", "You must obey what all obey , the rule", "And patient swiftness of the desert-ship ,", "Exemption from some maladies of body ,", "The men who are to kindle them to death", "But not as a mock C\u00e6sar . Let him pass :", "Will it prosper now ?", "Go to ! my Lady Countess comes .", "win them .", "A helm of water !", "Of all we know or dream of beautiful ,", "Whose statue turns a harper once a day .", "Alive or dead , thou Essence of all Beauty ,", "In the race he will not pant ,", "You !", "You !", "These are the wishes of a moderate lover \u2014", "The general with his chiefs and men of trust", "Aye , as the dunghill may conceal a gem", "The theatre where Emperors and their subjects", "And that is better than the bitter truth .", "As e'er \u2018 twas yellow , it will never wear", "Piety ?", "Haste ! haste !", "No , thou know'st me not ; I am not", "Already are at the portal . Have you sent", "for Jealousy 70", "The battles of the monarchs of the wild", "C\u00e6s . That seems strange .", "If you seek aid from me \u2014 or else be silent . 40", "Slave !", "Than what I am . But even thus \u2014 the lowest ,", "Prithee , peace !", "To the palace", "As if he knew the worthlessness of those", "Slay his own twin , quick-born of the same womb ,", "And who then shall count o'er", "I 'll trust them .", "Ye jackals ! gnaw the bones the lion leaves ,", "Say master rather . Thou hast lured me on ,", "Thou say'st it ? Then \u2018 tis truth .", "You have interrupted me .", "No ! No ! you would be loved \u2014 what you call loved \u2014", "Beheld mankind , as mere spectators of", "C\u00e6s . True \u2014 as men are .", "Count ! count ! I am your servant in all things ,", "He is", "!", "C\u00e6s . I could be one right formidable ;", "And manly aspect look like Hercules ,", "And blooming aspect , Huon ;", "A cloud of your own raising .", "Remain that which I am .", "C\u00e6s . I will try . A sprinkling", "Of things you know not . Well , to earth again !", "I thought she had loved me .", "Beyond you \u2014 and your Jealousy 's of Earth \u2014", "They build more \u2014\u2014", "Thou art a conqueror ; the chosen knight", "Than the sad purger of the infernal world ,", "Of old the Angels of her earliest sex .", "In turn , because of this vile crook\u00e9d clog ,", "Endures my Love \u2014 not meets it .", "Was he e'er human only ?", "Though penniless all ,", "Omniscience upon phantoms . Out with it !", "Inherit but his fame with his defects !", "When his Sire has recovered from the Gout ,", "Master of my own life , and quick to quit it ;", "For passion \u2014 and the rest for Vanity .", "Themselves a poetry .", "Was brother 's blood ; and if its native blood", "Alas !", "Of those dishevelled locks , I would have thinned", "And without thee .", "Is as a shadow of the Sun . The Orb", "Oh , the Bourbon ! the Bourbon !", ", 140", "I trust .", "Within .", "And that 's enough . I am thirsty : would I had", "The first bird of the covey ! he has fallen", "We have captured a King", "Of all save those next to me , of whom I", "The Alps and their snow ;", "If not more high than mortal , yet immortal", "Oh , mother !\u2014 She is gone , and I must do Her bidding ;\u2014 wearily but willingly I would fulfil it , could I only hope 30 A kind word in return . What shall I do ?My labour for the day is over now . Accursed be this blood that flows so fast ; For double curses will be my meed now At home \u2014 What home ? I have no home , no kin , No kind \u2014 not made like other creatures , or To share their sports or pleasures . Must I bleed , too , Like them ? Oh , that each drop which falls to earth Would rise a snake to sting them , as they have stung me ! Or that the Devil , to whom they liken me , 40 Would aid his likeness ! If I must partakeHis form , why not his power ? Is it because I have not his will too ? For one kind word From her who bore me would still reconcile me Even to this hateful aspect . Let me wash The wound .They are right ; and Nature 's mirror shows me , What she hath made me . I will not look on it Again , and scarce dare think o n't . Hideous wretch That I am ! The very waters mock me with 50 My horrid shadow \u2014 like a demon placed Deep in the fountain to scare back the cattle From drinking therein .Now \u2018 tis set , And I can fall upon it . Yet one glance On the fair day , which sees no foul thing like Myself , and the sweet sun which warmed me , but 70 In vain . The birds \u2014 how joyously they sing ! So let them , for I would not be lamented : But let their merriest notes be Arnold 's knell ; The fallen leaves my monument ; the murmur Of the near fountain my sole elegy . Now , knife , stand firmly , as I fain would fall !The fountain moves without a wind : but shall The ripple of a spring change my resolve ? No . Yet it moves again ! The waters stir , Not as with air , but by some subterrane 80 And rocking Power of the internal world . What 's here ? A mist ! No more ?\u2014", "For nonsense . Nay , it is their brotherhood ,", "Why , such I fain would show me .", "Must I wait ?", "What do I see ?", "Is thickest , that I may behold it in", "Who would do so ?", "For these you may be stript of \u2014 but beloved", "And never found till now . And for the other", "I would be spared this .", "Of shape ;\u2014 my Dam beheld my shape was hopeless .", "Ah ! could I be beloved ,", "I take thee at thy word .", "Getting rid of your prize again ; for there 's", "I said not", "C\u00e6sar thou shalt be . For myself , my name", "Was like one .", "The dice thereon . But I lose time in prating ;", "As Dacia men to die the eternal death 60", "Begone ! and rail", "How", "Which his blood made a badge of glory and", "Abode of the true God , and his true saint ,", "The chance is even ; we will throw", "Yes , if they keep to their chorus . But here comes", "Who can command all forms will choose the highest ,", "Of other men .", "Thus", "Lord of the city which hath been Earth 's Lord", "Would I ask wherefore ?", "And wood \u2014 the lion and his tusky rebels", "The splay feet and low stature !", "The smallest cloud \u2014 the slightest vapour of", ",\u2014", "\u2014", "In which it is mislodged . But name your compact :", "C\u00e6s . I saw him .", "Worthy a brave man 's liking . Were ye such ,", "Where I have pitched my banner .", "And Death only be mute", "Will reap my harvest gratis .", "C\u00e6s . The city , or the amphitheatre ?", "Of joy", "But still , like them , must live and die , the subject", "Near enemy ; or let me have the long", "Our milk has been the same .", "A hateful and unsightly molehill to", "New worlds ?", "Come ! Be quick ! I am impatient .", "You were the Demon , but that your approach", "Now onward , onward ! Gently ! PART III .", "Thy fiendish sarcasm with a saintly patience .", "And will she live ?", "But we must work by human means .", "Your alphabet .", "What ?", "C\u00e6s . No doubt ! for if you did , the remedy", "Time nor toil shall make him humble ;", "And thank your meanness , other God you have none ,", "The evening 's first nightingale , will be", "Ha ! ha ! here 's equity ! The dogs", "The beautiful half-clay , and nearly spirit !", "Must thou be my companion ?", "Who is this ?", "In all that nameless bearing of his limbs , 250", "The eyes of happier men . I would have looked", "No one \u2014 but \u2014", "Been a clod of the valley ,\u2014 happier nothing", "Eternal powers ! The host will be appalled ,\u2014 but vengeance ! vengeance !", "Those eyes are glazing which o'erlooked the world ,", "Oh , the Bourbon ! the Bourbon", "Ye would have honoured her . But get ye hence , 80", "We 'll revel at ease . 150", "Upon a Sky which you revile as dull ;", "This precious thing of dust \u2014 this bright Olimpia \u2014", "As still are free to both , to compensate 320", "Back into hieroglyphics . Like your statesman ,", "My unrequited love , for all that 's happy .", "Your little Universe seems universal ;", "As if I were his soul , whose form shall soon", "With what weapon ?", "And when it prospers \u2014\u2014", "I will fight , too ,", "And once I was well versed in the forgotten", "Nought else would wittingly wear mine .", "\u201c Nothing \u201d \u2014 an outshone Beauty what has made", "That which he exchanged the earth for .", "I 'll find a way to quench it .", "Oh , at peace \u2014 in peace !", "Why not ?", "Who is he ? 210", "Since I must not lead .", "And of whom ?", "Hold ! hold ! I swear .", "Now Love in you is as the Sun \u2014 a thing 80", "What need you more ?", "Come on ! I 'm glad o n't ! I will show you , slaves ,", "C\u00e6s .", "The mighty steam , which volumes high", "Made even the forest pay its tribute of", "But I must not leave thee thus .", "C\u00e6s . Or be quenched", "Of that same holy water may be useful . 140", "Shall our bonny black horses skim over the ground !", "Of fixed Necessity : against her edict", "Not so always !", "Shall we proceed ?", "And darker , and more thoughtful , who smiles not , 530", "Would that I had been so ,", "C\u00e6s . \u2018 Tis there , and shall be .", "Who failed and fled each other . Why ? why , marry ,", "With the Bourbon we 'll gather", "More lovely than the last . How beautiful !", "And transubstantiated to crumbs again", "You scoff even at your own calamity \u2014", "C\u00e6s . And where is that which is so ? From the star", "Under its emperors , and \u2014 changing sex ,", "But looks as serious though serene as night ,", "My betters !", "for he looks", "Mutineer ! Rebel in hell \u2014 you shall obey on earth !", "What ! in holy water ?", "More knows whom he must bear ;", "C\u00e6s . It answers better to resolve the alphabet", "The System is in peril . But I speak", "There is a cause at times .", "Your ranks more than the enemy . Away !", "And left no footstep ?", "80", "At yonder old wall .", "What clouds his royal aspect ? \u201c Nothing , \u201d \u201c Nothing ! \u201d", "The Poet 's God , clothed in such limbs as are", "As mounts each firm foot", "Have done the best which spirit may to make 330", "Words !\u2014 Canst thou aid her ?", "Lady of the old world", "Saint Peter , rear its dome and cross into", "Thy time on me : I seek thee not .", "I have heard great things of Rome .", "In the Colonna palace .", "\u2018 Tis mixed with blood .", "And more she loves me not \u2014", "Though your eyes dare not gaze on it when cloudless .", "than as a glory .", "C\u00e6s . Bah ! bah ! You are so ,", ",", "What I desire to know ! and will not waste", "Whence they float back before us .", "Rival !", "Though to a heart all love , what could not love me 340", "They are black ones , to be sure .", "First o'er the wall you were so shy to scale ,", "I saw your Romulus", "Not so , my Lord .", "Because you know no better than the dull", "So beautiful and lusty , and as free", "Of blood .", "Perhaps because they cannot feel the jolting .", "A comet , and destroying as it sweeps", "To a new gladiator ! \u201d \u2014 Must it fall ?", "C\u00e6s . If", "Rebellion prospers not .", "Penthesilea ;", "Prince ! my service", "C\u00e6s . The Spirit of her life", "C\u00e6s . A precious sample of humanity !", "Has heard the truth , and looks imperial on it \u2014", "Have seen else , on this side of the dim shore ,", "It is its essence to o'ertake mankind", "Belongs to Empire , and has been but borne", "And do not know it . She will come to life \u2014", "But what have these done , their far 90", "The church , or one , or all ? for you confound", "And so you love .", "I merely shudder . Where is fled the shape", "To horse ! to horse ! my coal-black steed", "Which the great robber sons of fratricide", "The stammering young ones of the flood 's dull ooze , 110", "Or in an order for a battle-field .", "To the winding worm , all life is motion ; and", "Meantime , pursue thy sport as I do mine ;", "What would you ? Speak ! Spirit or man ?", "And her temples so hoary", "Prithee be quick .", "And vultures take it , if they will .", "Only flying with his feet :", "When he spurns high the dust , beholding his"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["must fall to the spectators ,\u2014", "Ride a day 's hunting on an outworn jade ,", "These revels and processions ! All the pleasure", "As far as the man 's dress and figure could", "Than follow in the train of a great man ,"], "true_target": ["I 'd rather 10", "By your description track him . The devil take", "I have , in all directions , over Prague ,", "In these dull pageantries .", "I 'm sure none doth to us who make the show ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["And , if I err not , not a minute since", "He rode round the other way", "The man be in Prague , be sure he will be found .", "The Count , my Lord !"], "true_target": ["I heard his Excellency , with his train , 80", "Strict search is making every where ; and if", "With some young nobles ; but he left them soon ;", "Gallop o'er the west drawbridge ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Tomorrow 's dawn I trust will find thee healthful ;", "\u2018 Twas the voice ,", "Fool that I was \u2014 I thought this quick compliance ,", "Would thou never hadst !", "What noise is that ? \u2018 tis nearer \u2014 hush ! they knock .", "And , then , our Ulric may perchance \u2014", "Gone with the other stranger to gaze o'er These shattered corridors , and spread themselves A pillow with their mantles , in the least ruinous : I must replenish the diminished hearth 280 In the inner chamber \u2014 the repast is ready , And Ulric will be here again .\u2014 THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED : A DRAMA . INTRODUCTION TO THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED . The date of the original MS. of The Deformed Transformed is \u201c Pisa , 1822 . \u201d There is nothing to show in what month it was written , but it may be conjectured that it was begun and finished within the period which elapsed between the death of Allegra , April 20 , and the death of Shelley , July 8 , 1822 . According to Medwin, an unfavourable criticism of Shelley 's, together with a discovery that \u201c two entire lines \u201d of Southey 's \u2014 \u201c And water shall see thee , And fear thee , and flee thee \u201d \u2014 were imbedded in one of his \u201c Songs , \u201d touched Byron so deeply that he \u201c threw the poem into the fire , \u201d and concealed the existence of a second copy for more than two years . It is a fact that Byron 's correspondence does not contain the remotest allusion to The Deformed Transformed ; but , with regard to the plagiarism from Southey , in the play as written in 1822 there is neither Song nor Incantation which could have contained two lines from The Curse of Kehama . As a dramatist , Byron 's function , or m\u00e9tier , was twofold . In Manfred , in Cain , in Heaven and Earth , he is concerned with the analysis and evolution of metaphysical or ethical notions ; in Marino Faliero , in Sardanapalus , and The Two Foscari , he set himself \u201c to dramatize striking passages of history ; \u201d in The Deformed Transformed he sought to combine the solution of a metaphysical puzzle or problem , the relation of personality to individuality , with the scenic rendering of a striking historical episode , the Sack of Rome in 1527 . In the note or advertisement prefixed to the drama , Byron acknowledges that \u201c the production \u201d is founded partly on the story of a forgotten novel , The Three Brothers , and partly on \u201c the Faust of the great Goethe . \u201d Arnaud , or Julian , the hero of The Three Brothers, \u201c sells his soul to the Devil , and becomes an arch-fiend in order to avenge himself for the taunts of strangers on the deformity of his person \u201dThe idea of an escape from natural bonds or disabilities by supernatural means and at the price of the soul or will , the un-Christlike surrender to the tempter , which is the grund-stoff of the Faust-legend , was brought home to Byron , in the first instance , not by Goethe , or Calderon , or Marlowe , but by Joshua Pickersgill . A fellow-feeling lent an intimate and peculiar interest to the theme . He had suffered all his life from a painful and inconvenient defect , which his proud and sensitive spirit had magnified into a deformity . He had been stung to the quick by his mother 's taunts and his sweetheart 's ridicule , by the jeers of the base and thoughtless , by slanderous and brutal paragraphs in newspapers . He could not forget that he was lame . If his enemies had but possessed the wit , they might have given him \u201c the sobriquet of Le Diable Boiteux \u201dIt was no wonder that so poignant , so persistent a calamity should be \u201c reproduced in his poetry \u201d, or that his passionate impatience of such a \u201c thorn in the flesh \u201d should picture to itself a mysterious and unhallowed miracle of healing . It is true , as Moore says, that \u201c the trifling deformity of his foot \u201d was the embittering circumstance of his life , that it \u201c haunted him like a curse ; \u201d but it by no means follows that he seriously regarded his physical peculiarity as a stamp of the Divine reprobation , that \u201c he was possessed by an id\u00e9e fixe that every blessing would be \u2018 turned into a curse \u2019 to him \u201dNo doubt he indulged himself in morbid fancies , played with the extravagances of a restless imagination , and wedded them to verse ; but his intellect , \u201c brooding like the day , a master o'er a slave , \u201d kept guard . He would never have pleaded on his own behalf that the tyranny of an id\u00e9e fixe , a delusion that he was predestined to evil , was an excuse for his shortcomings or his sins . Byron 's very considerable obligations to The Three Brothers might have escaped notice , but the resemblance between his \u201c Stranger , \u201d or \u201c C\u00e6sar , \u201d and the Mephistopheles of \u201c the great Goethe \u201d was open and palpable . If Medwin may be trusted, Byron had read \u201c Faust in a sorry French translation , \u201d and it is probable that Shelley 's inspired rendering of \u201c May-day Night , \u201d which was published in The Liberal, had been read to him , and had attracted his attention . The Deformed Transformed is \u201c a Faustish kind of drama ; \u201d and Goethe , who maintained that Byron 's play as a whole was \u201c no imitation , \u201d but \u201c new and original , close , genuine , and spirited , \u201d could not fail to perceive that \u201c his devil was suggested by my Mephistopheles \u201dThe tempter who cannot resist the temptation of sneering at his own wiles , who mocks for mocking 's sake , is not Byron 's creation , but Goethe 's . Lucifer talked at the clergy , if he did not \u201c talk like a clergyman ; \u201d but the \u201c bitter hunchback , \u201d even when he is solus , sneers as the river wanders , \u201c at his own sweet will . \u201d He is not a doctor , but a spirit of unbelief ! The second part of The Deformed Transformed represents , in three scenes , the Siege and Sack of Rome in 1527 . Byron had read Robertson 's Charles the Fifthin his boyhood, but it is on record that he had studied , more or less closely , the narratives of contemporary authorities . A note to The Prophecy of Danterefers to the Sacco di Roma , descritto da Luigi Guicciardini , and the Ragguaglio Storico ... sacco di Roma dell \u2019 anno MDXXVII . of Jacopo Buonaparte ; and it is evident that he was familiar with Cellini 's story of the marvellous gests and exploits quorum maxima pars fuit , which were wrought at \u201c the walls by the Campo Santo , \u201d or on the ramparts of the Castle of San Angelo . The Sack of Rome was a great national calamity , and it was something more : it was a profanation and a sacrilege . The literature which it evoked was a cry of anguish , a prophetic burden of despair . \u201c Chants populaires , \u201d writes M. Emile Gebhart, \u201c Nouvelles de Giraldi Cintio , en forme de D\u00e9cam\u00e9ron ... r\u00e9cits historiques ... de C\u00e9sar Grollier , Dialogues anonymes ... po\u00e9sies de Pasquin , toute une litt\u00e9rature se developpa sur ce th\u00e8me douloureux .... Le Lamento di Roma , \u0153uvre \u00e9trange , d'inspiration gibeline , rappelle les esp\u00e9rances politiques exprim\u00e9es jadis par Dante ... \u2018 Bien que C\u00e9sar m'ait d\u00e9pouille\u00e9 de libert\u00e9 , nous avons toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 d'accord dans une m\u00eame volont\u00e9 . Je ne me lamenterais pas si lui r\u00e9gnait ; mais je crois qu'il est ressuscit\u00e9 , ou qu'il ressuscitera v\u00e9ritablement , car souvent un Ange m'a annonc\u00e9 qu'un C\u00e9sar viendrait me d\u00e9livrer . \u2019 ... Enfin , voici une chanson fran\u00e7aise que r\u00e9p\u00e9taient en repassant les monts les soldats du Marquis de Saluces :\u2014 \u201c Parlons de la d\u00e9ffaiete De ces pouvres Rommains , Aussi de la complainete De notre p\u00e8re saint . \u201c \u2018 O noble roy de France , Regarde en piti\u00e9 L'Eglise en ballance ... Pour Dieu ! ne tarde plus , C'est ta m\u00e8re , ta substance ; O fils , n'en faictz reffus . \u2019 \u201d \u201c Le dernier monument , \u201d adds M. Gebhart , in a footnote , \u201c de cette litt\u00e9rature , est le singulier drame de Byron , The Deformed Transformed , dont Jules C\u00e9sar est le h\u00e9ros , et le Sac de Rome le cadre . \u201d It is unlikely that Byron , who read everything he could lay his hands upon , and spared no trouble to master his \u201c period , \u201d had not , either at first or second hand , acquainted himself with specimens of this popular literature ., Scelta di Curiosit\u00e0 , etc ., 235 , 236 , 237 , Bologna , 1890 , vol . iii . See , too , for \u201c Chanson sur la Mort du Conn\u00e9table de Bourbon , \u201d Recueil de Chants historiques fran\u00e7ais , par A. J. V. Le Roux de Lincy , 1842 , ii . 99 . ) The Deformed Transformed was published by John Hunt , February 20 , 1824 . A third edition appeared February 23 , 1824 . It was reviewed , unfavourably , in the London Magazine , March , 1824 , vol . 9 , pp . 315-321 ; the Scots Magazine , March , 1824 , N. S . vol . xiv . pp . 353-356 ; and in the Monthly Review , March , 1824 , Enlarged Series , 103 , pp . 321 , 324 . One reviewer , however, had the candour to admit that \u201c Lord Byron may write below himself , but he can never write below us ! \u201d For the unfinished third part , vide post , pp . 532-534 . ADVERTISEMENT This production is founded partly on the story of a novel called \u201c The Three Brothers, \u201d published many years ago , from which M. G. Lewis 's \u201c Wood Demon \u201dwas also taken ; and partly on the \u201c Faust \u201d of the great Goethe . The present publicationcontains the two first Parts only , and the opening chorus of the third . The rest may perhaps appear hereafter . DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . Stranger , afterwards C\u00e6sar Arnold . Bourbon . Philibert . Cellini . Bertha . Olimpia . Spirits , Soldiers , Citizens of Rome , Priests , Peasants , etc .", "At such a lonely hour , too \u2014", "I would thou wert , indeed , the peasant Werner ;", "So we have ever been \u2014 but I remember", "To live \u2014 and unforgiving died \u2014 Oh God !", "Restrain thy wandering Spirit \u2014 Ulric cannot", "I 'll not be taken tamely .", "Till the last year , the wretched pittance came \u2014", "The offer of a scanty stipend which", "And that 's a Swedish token on thy brow .", "In thy pale cheek and in thy bloodshot eye", "Was it for this our Ulric left us so ?", "Forfeit in me forever . Since that hour ,", "This fearful secret that hath gnawed thy soul ?", "Why say ye so ?", "Thy hand is burning ;", "Not for their actions \u2014 had he Adam 's brow , 20", "Since I have been a blight upon thy hope , 100", "Open and goodly as before the fall ,", "Then once again \u2014 Good night !", "But Ulric \u2014 wherefore didst thou let him leave", "Have left his native land \u2014 thou dost not know ,", "I needs must earn by rendering up my son \u2014", "For Hospitality 's more cordial welcome :", "Though it looks strangely , thy Sire and he", "I know not what", "It may be that the bloodhounds of the villain ,", "And I would share thy sorrow : lay it open .", "I 've lived too long to trust the frankest aspect .", "Since my hard father , half-relenting , sent", "My heart is rent in twain for thee \u2014 I scarce 150", "Who long has tracked me , have approached at last :", "For then thy soul had been of calmer mould ,", "\u201c Trustworthiness in looks ! \u201d I 'll trust no looks !", "Werner", "Whence come you Sir ?", "Oh banish these discomfortable thoughts", "I will prepare a potion :\u2014 peace be with thee \u2014", "What words ,", "Yet rest were as a healing balm to thee \u2014", "Such as our vintage is shall give you welcome : I 'll bring you some anon . CarlA goodly mansion ! And has been nobly tenanted , I doubt not . This worn magnificence some day has shone On light hearts and long revels \u2014 those torn banners Have waved o'er courtly guests \u2014 and yon huge lamp 60 High blazed through many a midnight \u2014 I could wish My lot had led me here in those gay times ! Your days , my host , must pass but heavily . Are you the vassal of these antient chiefs , Whose heir wastes elsewhere their fast melting hoards , And placed to keep their cobwebs company ? WernerA Vassal !\u2014 I a vassal !\u2014 who accosts me With such familiar question ?\u2014\u2014 Down startled pride ! Have not long years of wretchedness yet quenched thee , And , suffering evil , wilt thou start at scorn ? 70Sir ! if I boast no birth \u2014 and , as you see , My state bespeaks none \u2014 still , no being breathes Who calls me slave or servant .\u2014 Like yourself I am a stranger here \u2014 a lonely guest \u2014 But , for a time , on sufferance . On my way , From \u2014 a far distant city \u2014 Sickness seized , And long detained me in the neighbouring hamlet . The Intendant of the owner of this castle , Then uninhabited , with kind intent , Permitted me to wait returning health 80 Within these walls \u2014 more sheltered than the cot Of humble peasants .", "Thou dids't deceive me then \u2014 he went not forth"], "true_target": ["Werner", "His home and us ? tis now three weary years .", "What fearful words are these ! what may they mean ?", "Werner", "Should seem officious and ill timed :\u2014 \u2018 tis early \u2014", "But as it is \u2018 tis yours .", "So let it now \u2014 alas ! you hear me not .", "Aye , \u2018 tis dear Ulric \u2014 yet , methinks , he 's changed , too :", "The time when thy Josepha 's smile could turn 30", "In anger parted \u2014 Hope is left us still .", "At once such hearty greeting to a stranger ?", "\u2018 Tis his \u2014 I knew it \u2014 Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !\u2014 Ulric !", "Yet tell the rest \u2014 or , if thou wilt not , say \u2014", "And Sire \u2014 till late I heard the last had ceased", "Werner", "Nay \u2014 he 's honest .", "That thus contend within you : we are poor ,", "I do entreat thee to thy rest .", "Thy heart to hers \u2014 despite of every ill .", "That scar , too , dearest Ulric \u2014 I do fear me \u2014", "Josepha", "And never more assuming in myself", "A strange distemperature \u2014 nay , as a boon ,", "Dear Werner ,", "I must not leave thee thus \u2014 my husband \u2014 friend \u2014", "Dare greet thee as I would , lest that my love", "And for our child secure the heritage", "Thy mystery may tend to , but my fate \u2014", "I 'll to the door .", "Tis spacious , but too cold and crazy now", "Yet say \u2014 why , through long years , from me withheld ,", "My heart \u2014 my will \u2014 my love are linked with thine ,", "I look into men 's faces for their age ,", "There is trust-worthiness in his blunt looks .", "Thou hast been battling with these heretics ,", "Oh , I could weep \u2014 but that were little solace :", "To join the legions of Count Tilly 's war ?", "The single voice of some lone traveller .", "Yet there 's comfort .", "Then ceased with every tidings of my son", "Then get thee to thy couch . I do perceive", "The haught name of my house would soften him \u2014 120", "THE storm is at it 's height \u2014 how the wind howls , Like an unearthly voice , through these lone chambers ! And the rain patters on the flapping casement Which quivers in it 's frame \u2014 the night is starless \u2014 Yet cheerly Werner ! still our hearts are warm : The tempest is without , or should be so \u2014 For we are sheltered here where Fortune 's clouds May roll all harmless o'er us as the wrath Of these wild elements that menace now , Yet do not reach us . WernerNo \u2014 \u2018 Tis past \u2014 \u2018 tis blighted , 10 The last faint hope to which my withered fortune Clung with a feeble and a fluttering grasp , Yet clung convulsively \u2014 for twas the last \u2014 Is broken with the rest : would that my heart were ! But there is pride , and passion 's war within , Which give my breast vitality to suffer , As it hath suffered through long years till now . My father 's wrath extends beyond the grave , And haunts me in the shape of Stralenheim ! He revels in my fathers palace \u2014 I \u2014 20 Exiled \u2014 disherited \u2014 a nameless outcast !", "And marred alike the present and the future .", "You shall have it , 10", "And suited to thy lot \u2014\u2014", "His cheek is tanned , his frame more firmly knit !", "Such as this ruinous mansion may afford :"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["I forfeited the name in wedding thee :", "The thirst of grandeur in thy gentle spirit \u2014", "The best hope that I ever held in youth , 140", "And I am heartsick of the heavy thought .", "Know you the name of him you saved ?", "\u2014", "And thou ?\u2014 well \u2014 be it so \u2014", "No \u2014 stay thou here \u2014 again !", "The hunter of a shadow \u2014 let boys hope :", "Which Princes gaze at with unquiet eyes !", "And then it did elude me \u2014 then \u2014 and now .", "Carl", "And I have loved thee deeply \u2014 long and dearly \u2014", "My father , Sir , was born not far from Prague ,", "And by my father 's unrelenting pride , 50", "And last night 's watching have oppressed me much .", "Left it as I did ere his birth , perchance ,", "Ulric has left us ! all , save thou , have left me !", "My bowed down spirit to assume too well \u2014", "My youthful riot and a father 's frown , 90", "Oh God ! forgive , for thou dids't not forget me .", "Curse on his father and his father 's Sire !", "As wont to look command with a quick glance \u2014", "Then , sudden quailing in that lofty tone ,", "Well \u2014 be it so \u2014 Good Night !", "A wayward son \u2014\u2014 tis a long tale \u2014 too long \u2014", "Although I murmured \u2014 tis \u2014 it is my Son ! 120", "Has been with thee and from thee : wert thou not ,", "Father and son \u2014 Fortune \u2014 Fame \u2014 Power \u2014 Ambition \u2014", "Look on me \u2014 thou hast known me , hitherto ,", "Is at this hour , perchance , undone . This night", "Carl", "There is no pillow for my thoughts .", "No \u2014 no \u2014 tis silent \u2014 Sir \u2014 I say \u2014 that voice \u2014", "Our Ulric by his father 's fault or folly ,", "Stralenheim", "While others soared \u2014 Away , I 'll think no more .", "And the oerjutting eye-brow dark and large ,", "The name endeared to him by native thoughts ,", "Since it deceived the world , myself , and thee :", "Can swerve me to the crooked path thou pointest .", "And the peculiar wild variety", "And all the broad domain it frowns upon .", "And ought again to be \u2014", "I know not \u2014 he had left my father 's castle , 130", "My brain is hot and busy \u2014 long fatigue", "That should and shall behold me as I was ,", "Beneath a humble name and garb \u2014 the which", "And knows it 's environs \u2014 and , when he hears ,", "Think me not churlish , Sweet , I am not well .", "Of feature , even unto the Viper 's eye ,", "Of one , in power \u2014 birth \u2014 wealth , preeminent \u2014", ",", "His air imperious \u2014 and his eye shines out", "Ere I beheld thee \u2014", "Tomorrow shall secure him and unfold .", "I turn a spy \u2014 no \u2014 not for Mansfeldt Castle ,", "hath lured and left me .", "Even as I love thee still \u2014 but these late crosses ,", "Oh , that long wished for voice !\u2014 I dreamed of it \u2014", "Was it not so ?", "I 've wearied thee \u2014 Good night \u2014 my patient Love !", "Two more :", "Here 's a strange fellow !", "Josepha \u2014 where is Ulric ?"], "true_target": ["You shall Sir \u2014 but \u2014 to Mansfeldt !\u2014", "What \u2014 who I am \u2014 or whence \u2014 you are welcome \u2014 sit \u2014", "Thou see'st the son of Count \u2014 but let it pass \u2014", "Yet say not so \u2014 for all that I have known", "My father meeker \u2014 and my son , Alas !", "Proclaimed the last and worst \u2014 and , from that hour ,", "Enter ULRIC and JOSEPHA . WERNER falls on his neck .", "And I am wild and wayward as in youth ,", "I linked my lot irrevocably with thine \u2014", "To bid thee soothe thy husband \u2014 peasant Werner ?", "You will excuse his plain blunt mode of question .", "Wild , churlish , angry \u2014 why , I know not , seek not .", "And , yet , \u2018 tis my companion 's : he 's like you ,", "He disavowed , disherited , debased", "And does not care to tell his name and station . 100", "For Prague \u2014 Sir \u2014 Say you ?\u2014", "Thy sin and mine \u2014 Thy child and mine atones \u2014", "Of Hope I now know nothing but the name \u2014", "And that 's a sound which jars upon my heart .", "What imports it ? 90", "Ah \u2014 here it sparkles !", "My rest ! 40", "Whose is it \u2014 speak \u2014", "What said you ?\u2014 let it pass \u2014 no matter what \u2014", "Whate'er I know , there is no bribe of thine", "Whose is it ? faith , I know not \u2014", "Of that detested race , and it 's descendant", "To tell thee what thou shouldst have been \u2014 the wife", "Of true and calm content \u2014 of love \u2014 of peace \u2014", "Our Ulric \u2014 thine and mine \u2014 our only boy \u2014", "That shelters us may shower it 's wrath on him \u2014", "For patience and for pity \u2014 to awake 80", "Like me an outcast . Old age had not made", "His garb befits him not \u2014 why , he may be", "The man I look for ! now , I look again ,", "A homeless beggar for his parent 's sin \u2014", "\u2018 Tis strange \u2014 this peasant 's tone is wondrous high , 210", "You shall have cheer anon .", "Would that the wine were come ! my doublet 's wet ,", "That voice \u2014 that voice \u2014 Hark !", "The curse of living on , regretting life 110", "There is the very lip \u2014 short curling lip \u2014", "And most of all the last ,\u2014 have maddened me ;", "All save the long remorse \u2014 the consciousness ,", "When every pulse was life , each thought a joy ,", "I will not be a dreamer in mine age \u2014", "But my throat dry as Summer 's drought in desarts .", "Too justly fixed upon me , had compelled", "The chamber 's ready , which your rest demands .", "This way , Sir .", "This is no peasant \u2014 but , whate'er he be ,", "Where is he ?", "In bitter silence \u2014 but the hour is come ,", "Our Ulric \u2014 Woman !\u2014 I 'll to no bed to-night \u2014", "By birth predestined to the yoke I 've borne . 60", "That fault of many faults a father 's pride 70", "Too much his Sire resembled \u2014\u2014", "He would ask of it , and it 's habitants \u2014 170", "Mispent in miserably gazing upward ,", "Till now I 've borne it patiently , at least ,", "The ties of being \u2014 the high soul of man \u2014", "Who stands alone between me and a power , 220", "I were a lonely and self-loathing thing .", "Why ? had it not been base to call on thee", "Some months before his death \u2014 but why ?\u2014 but why ?", "As an oppressed , but yet a humble creature ;"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Unless you please to grant it .", "If it be he \u2014 I cannot move to meet him .", "If counted over by the noble wearer . 50", "We 'll sup within \u2014", "From Frankfort , on my way", "You 'll not deny us for a single night ?", "One kicked me as I would have helped him on .", "And I to mine : pray , where are we to rest ? 230", "When down came driver , carriage , mules , and all \u2014", "And I am \u2014", "Not I !", "The flask 's unhurt \u2014 but every drop is spilt .", "We found it swoln by storms \u2014 a stranger 's carriage ,", "They will be here , anon \u2014 they , too , want cheering :", "From acts alone . You bid me share your shelter ,", "Worthy Sir , your mercy !", "Pray heed him not \u2014 he 's Phrenzy 's next door neighbour ,", "You may suppose the worthy Lord within", "I 'm weary , wet , and wayworn \u2014 without shelter ,", "Noble Sir !", "And faith ! to me , he has been nearly so \u2014", "That so could sound and shake me : he is here ,", "My pleasure , for to-night , depends on yours \u2014", "Come take the lamp , and we 'll explore together .", "And full of these strange starts and causeless jarrings .", "My comrade waited to escort the Baron :", "I meant not to offend you \u2014 plain of speech ,", "Josepha", "You know they are sometimes tedious in the reckoning ,", "I think I heard him called a Baron Something \u2014", "Essayed to pass , and nearly reached the middle", "A silent and unsocial travelling mate .", "You 've room enough , methinks \u2014 and this vast ruin", "We saw the light and made for the nearest shelter : 40", "And blunt in apprehension , I do judge", "A curse upon thee , stranger !"], "true_target": ["Thanks most worthy Sir !", "I left it floating that way .", "Out ! Out ! I say . Thou shalt not harbour here .", "Confound the voice ! I say \u2014 would he were dumb !", "To my own country \u2014 I 've a companion too \u2014", "Despite the current , drawn by sturdy mules ,", "Fared ill enough :\u2014 worse still he might have suffered ,", "On reaching that same river on your frontier ,", "The mules are drowned \u2014 a murrain on them both !", "The lowliest vassal had not thanked you less ,", "Yes \u2014 it must be so \u2014 there is no such voice", "Nay \u2014 that 's hopeless . 140", "Will not be worse for three more guests .", "Than I do now , believing you his better ,", "His equipage by this time is at Dresden \u2014", "Enter STRALENHEIM .", "But that my comrade and myself rushed in ,", "I would fain see my way through this vast ruin ;", "But was too chill to stay and hear his titles :", "And I will with my son .", "And I am bound to you ; and had you been", "Perhaps my own superior \u2014", "Where dids't thou learn a tone so like my boy 's ? 110", "And with main strength and some good luck beside ,", "I 'll taste for them , if it please you , courteous host !", "Thou mock bird of my hopes \u2014 a curse upon thee !", "Hitherward on his way , even like myself \u2014", "Dislodged and saved him : he 'll be here anon .", "They must not only mend but draw it too .", "I would , indeed !", "Werner", "Has't any wine ? I 'm wet , stung to the marrow \u2014", "Men 's station from their seeming \u2014 but themselves", "He tarries now behind :\u2014 an hour ago ,", "And , if I find it , I will break the thread . What , all the world against one luckless wight ! And he a fugitive \u2014 I would I knew him !", "Of that which was the ford in gentler weather , 30", "Werner"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Steal my time from it 's uses \u2014 but \u2014 my people ?", "And other evil acts of moment :\u2014 he", "In the mean time \u2014 to my chamber \u2014 so \u2014 Good Night !", "It is not more than three days travel , hence , 160", ",", "Of crimes against the State \u2014 league with Swedes \u2014", "He never met my eyes \u2014 but Circumstance", "What means the peasant ? knows he unto whom", "Aye !", "Mansfeldt again !\u2014 you know it then ? perchance ,", "You also know the story of it 's lords ?", "I have much need of rest : no more refreshment !", "There are strong reasons to suspect this man 180", "Into Silesia \u2014 and not far from hence \u2014", "Nay \u2014 I do not say so \u2014 there is no haste .", "To all men \u2014 most to me ! If earth contain him ,", "Yes , my host ! for Prague .", "Indeed , perchance , then , he may aid my search .", "I must be on my journey \u2014 and betimes .", "To Mansfeldt Castle .", "And tomorrow", "And rescue of my life from the wild waters , 200", "It is most irksome to me \u2014 this delay . I was for Prague on business of great moment .", "Who shall deliver him , bound hand and foot ,", "He shall be found and fettered : I have hopes , 190"], "true_target": ["And now I think again \u2014 I 'll tarry here \u2014", "I will reward him doubly too .", "Perhaps until the floods abate \u2014 we 'll see \u2014", "Will double in it 's strength and it 's requital .", "Aught of him , or his hiding-place , will find", "Where do they shelter ?", "A fresh clue to his lurking spot is nigh .", "For thither tends my progress \u2014 so , betimes ,", "Lived long in Hamburgh \u2014 and has thence been traced", "If it be so \u2014 my gratitude for aid ,", "Has led me to near knowledge of the man .", "Mine host I would be stirring \u2014 think of that !", "Were all my people housed within the hamlet ,", "And let me find my couch of rest at present .", "Your father , too , perhaps can help our search ?", "But there we lost him ; he who can disclose", "Pray , know you aught of one named Werner ? who", "Advantage in revealing it .", "Will benefit his country and himself :", "And these vile floods and villainous cross roads", "Or can they follow ?", "He dares address this language ?", "By traces which tomorrow will unravel ,", "He is a villain \u2014 and an enemy", "Werner and Ulric . Mansfeldt Castle !\u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["You know him ?", "That asks a gentle welcome . Noble Baron ,", "And they had best be guardians of the baggage .", "I feel them prey upon me by reflection , 260", "Shalt slumber underneath a velvet cloud", "From hospitable greeting \u2014 you 'll be seated \u2014", "Some gorgeous canopy , and , thence , unroost", "JOSEPHA goes out here .", "These chilly damps and the cold rush of winds", "Is swansdown to a seasoned traveller :", "Late deep distemperature of mind and fortunes ,", "Yet they can play with sorrow \u2014 and live on .", "And show not how they shake me :\u2014 when alone ,", "Nay ! tarry here by the blaze of the bright hearth :\u2014", "Who never would have parted :\u2014 of the past", "That mantles o'er the couch of some dead Countess .", "The woodfire warm them \u2014 and , for beds , a cloak", "My heart is glad with yours \u2014 we meet like those", "Will be but rough \u2014 but \u2018 tis a single night ,", "My father 's silence looks discourtesy : 130", "Not to night I fear .", "Ulric must be my comforter \u2014 his father 's", "It has been mine for many a moon , and may", "Fling a rough paleness o'er thy delicate cheek \u2014", "Of a long truant that has rapt him , thus ,", "What matter where \u2014 there 's room .", "The greater greenhorn you ! I would secure him \u2014 nay \u2014 I will do so .", "The body wears to ruin , and the struggle , 270", "And though that I would soothe , not share , such passions ,", "At once in gathered rapture \u2014 which did change", "Near to the ferry : you mistook the ford \u2014 150", "My agony of mother-feelings curdled 250", "Which since have almost driven him into phrenzy :\u2014", "As Sunshine glittering o'er unburied bones \u2014\u2014", "Yet must I plead his pardon \u2014 \u2018 tis his love", "With us beyond tomorrow ?", "Why so \u2014 Sir ?"], "true_target": ["It was my joy to see him \u2014 nothing more", "However long , is deadly \u2014\u2014 He is lost ,", "Though to the Mad thoughts are realities ,", "It was my weary hope 's unthought fulfilment ,", "It will not please you , Sir , then to remain", "You 'd help him to escape \u2014 is it not so ?", "His very laughter moves me oft to tears ,", "Nay \u2014 stay \u2014 dear mother !", "They staid in hope the damaged Cabriole", "And want the very solace I bestowed ;", "Soft \u2014 he is here .\u2014\u2014", "I should have answered thus \u2014 and yet I could not :", "And I have turned to hide them \u2014 for , in him ,", "For though \u2018 twas true \u2014 it was not all the truth .", "Might , with the dawn of day , have such repairs ,", "Tis higher to the right :\u2014 their entertainment", "And all around him tasteless :\u2014 in his mirth", "I will return anon \u2014 and we have much 240", "It 's present bedfellows the bats \u2014 and thou", "Tonight , for aught it recks me .", "And , better , had he leapt into it 's gulph :", "You shall know more anon \u2014 but , here 's a guest", "And thou seem'st lovely in thy sickliness", "As circumstance admits of .", "That ever hovered o'er the verge of Madness :", "But with the mind of consciousness and care", "I have much suffered in the thought of Werner 's", "In the boatman 's shed ,", "Josepha", "And , Father , we will sup like famished hunters .", "Back on my full heart with a dancing tide :", "To listen and impart . Come , Carl , we 'll find", "My cheek into the hue of fainting Nature .", "I should have said \u2014 which sent my gush of blood", "Hath long been the most melancholy soul", "The shed will hold the weather from their sleep ,", "And which , it seems , I cannot give and have .", "Of most transparent beauty :\u2014 but it grieves me ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["That monstrous sport of Nature . But get hence ,", "If there would be another unlike thee ,", "That back of thine may bear its burthen ; \u2018 tis", "Because thou wert my first-born , and I knew not", "Of the young bull , until the milkmaid finds", "As is the hedgehog 's , 20", "Sitting upon strange eggs . Out , urchin , out !", "The nipple , next day , sore , and udder dry .", "Out ,", "More high , if not so broad as that of others ."], "true_target": ["And gather wood !", "Out , Hunchback !", "Yes \u2014 I nursed thee ,", "I would so , too !", "Which sucks at midnight from the wholesome dam", "The sole abortion !", "Call not thy brothers brethren ! Call me not", "But as thou hast \u2014 hence , hence \u2014 and do thy best !", "As foolish hens at times hatch vipers , by", "Thou incubus ! Thou nightmare ! Of seven sons ,", "Mother ; for if I brought thee forth , it was"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Are you content ?", "He was the fairest and the bravest of", "Than the Adulterer 's arrow through his heel", "As beautiful and clear as the amber waves", "There 's a question ! 140", "But thou , my manikin , wouldst soar a show 300", "Unless you keep company", "I have no power", "To which you please , without much wrong to either .", "What ! tremblest thou ?", "You have quitted .", "In Styx .", "Afric with all its Moors . In very truth ,", "Greece looked her last upon her best , the instant", "In a few moments", "Shall change with Thetis \u2019 son , and I with Bertha ,", "But dream it is what must be .", "If I chose ,", "No ; that were a pity . But a word or two :", "as they were \u2014 behold them !", "I 'll show thee", "Even so . 380Beautiful shadow Of Thetis 's boy ! Who sleeps in the meadow Whose grass grows o'er Troy : From the red earth , like Adam ,Thy likeness I shape , As the Being who made him , Whose actions I ape . Thou Clay , be all glowing , Till the Rose in his cheek 390 Be as fair as , when blowing , It wears its first streak ! Ye Violets , I scatter , Now turn into eyes ! And thou , sunshiny Water , Of blood take the guise ! Let these Hyacinth boughs Be his long flowing hair , And wave o'er his brows , As thou wavest in air ! 400 Let his heart be this marble I tear from the rock ! But his voice as the warble Of birds on yon oak ! Let his flesh be the purest Of mould , in which grew The Lily-root surest , And drank the best dew ! Let his limbs be the lightest Which clay can compound , 410 And his aspect the brightest On earth to be found ! Elements , near me , Be mingled and stirred , Know me , and hear me , And leap to my word ! Sunbeams , awaken This earth 's animation !\u2018 Tis done ! He hath taken His stand in creation ! 420", "Had patents for the same , and do not love", "Taker of cities .", "\u2014", "You shall baptize them .", "Now then !\u2014", "When love is not less in the eye than heart .", "To wear the form of heroes .", "The eagle 's beak between those eyes which ne'er", "What , ho ! my chargers ! Never yet were better ,", "Your purpose .", "I have ten thousand names , and twice", "You inhabited your present dome of beauty .", "Thy Cleopatra 's waiting .", "As a youthful beauty", "Mine , and for ever , by your suicide ;", "Can neither blush with shame nor pale with fear ;", "Which is so called or thought , that you may add me", "If there be atoms of him left , or even", "By fair exchange , not robbery . For they", "I will .", "His stature is twelve cubits ; would you so far", "And all the fierce and fair of the same kind 110", "And yet he was", "Looks likest what the boors believe to be", "Lo ! behold again !", "Why not ? The deeper sinner , better saint .", "Ere Paris \u2019 arrow flew .", "Must be long sought and fought for .", "But be it so ! Shadow , pass on !", "What is that resolution which can e'er 90", "Thy choice .", "Would rise against thee now , as if to hunt", "Like gallants , on good coursers .", "I said it ere", "Hence , Triumvir ,", "I 'm not so easily recalled to do", ",", "Change", "From seeing what you were ?", "Less will content me ; 370", "But bear with me : indeed you 'll find me useful", "The brightest which the world e'er bore , and give thee", "Were I to taunt a buffalo with this", "Since so far 240", "Except a little longer and less crooked", "The sunny shores of the World 's garden .", "Spain \u2014 Italy \u2014 the new Atlantic world", "What all are mocking ? That 's poor sport , methinks .", "The unshorn boy of Peleus , with his locks", "But your own will , no contract save your deeds .", "The earth 's perfection of all mental beauty ,", "Are not far from me . Do not send me back :", "Look upon him well .", "You have yours \u2014 I mine .", "Say both in one ?", "Well spoken ! And thou doubtless wilt remain", "To look like other men , and now you pause", ", the forester", "And make the charm effective .", "And scarce a better to be found on earth ,", "Their walls , to fill their household cauldrons with", "I \u2019 the sun . Behold another !", "But I 'll be moderate with you , for I see 150", "There is small choice : the whole race are just now 500", "Where shall we now be errant ?", "Great things within you . You shall have no bond", "A little less removed from present men", "Be air , thou Hemlock-drinker ! 230", "Demetrius the Macedonian , and", "Which Thetis had forgotten to baptize 310", "Of rich Pactolus , rolled o'er sands of gold , 270", "Not make them ,\u2014 though he reap the benefit 440", "I 'm glad of that . Ungrateful too ! That 's well ;", "What soul ,", "I can but promise you his form ; his fame", "A new-found Mammoth ; and their curs\u00e9d engines ,", "Then call me C\u00e6sar .", "Nature 's mistaken largess to bestow", "This daring soul , which could achieve no less", "And personification of all virtue .", "Would revel in the compliment . And yet", "To promise that ; but you may try , and find it", "Yourself for ever by you , as your shadow .", "True ; the devil 's always ugly : and your beauty", "To the world of shadows . But let us thread the present . Whither wilt thou ?", "A human shape , will take a human name .", "For black \u2014 it is so honest , and , besides ,", "Is never diabolical .", "They do , and are not scared by it , you 'll say", "Yes . You", "For the sweet downcast virgin , whose young hand", "Since Phaeton was upset into the Po", "The Devil in disguise \u2014 since so you deem me ,", "Since Sodom was put out . The field is wide too ;", "But you reject him ?", "There you err . His substance", "They and I are your servitors .", "As many attributes ; but as I wear", "And strong as what it was , and \u2014\u2014", "Both beings are more swift , more strong , more mighty", "And now I 'll take your figure .", "Athenians .", "Without it .", "To mingle with the magic of the waters ,", "And Priam weeping , mingled with deep passion", "You see his aspect \u2014 choose it , or reject .", "His own Goliath down to a slight David :", "Their cloven-footed terror .", "But I have worn it long enough of late ,", "And you are old in the World 's ways already ."], "true_target": ["Invest thee with his form ?", "If not ungrateful . Whatsoe'er it be ,", "We will talk of that hereafter .", "And what shall I wear ?", "What ! shrink already , being what you are ,", "You deem , a single moment would have made you", "A goodly choice \u2014", "And for his aspect , look upon the fountain ,", "Clay ! not dead , but soul-less ! Though no man would choose thee , An Immortal no less Deigns not to refuse thee . Clay thou art ; and unto spirit All clay is of equal merit . Fire ! without which nought can live ; Fire ! but in which nought can live , 460 Save the fabled salamander , Or immortal souls , which wander , Praying what doth not forgive , Howling for a drop of water , Burning in a quenchless lot : Fire ! the only element Where nor fish , beast , bird , nor worm , Save the Worm which dieth not , Can preserve a moment 's form , But must with thyself be blent : 470 Fire ! man 's safeguard and his slaughter : Fire ! Creation 's first-born Daughter , And Destruction 's threatened Son , When Heaven with the world hath done : Fire ! assist me to renew Life in what lies in my view Stiff and cold ! His resurrection rests with me and you ! One little , marshy spark of flame \u2014And he again shall seem the same ; 480 But I his Spirit 's place shall hold !", "What shall become of your abandoned garment ,", "Shapes with you , if you will , since yours so irks you ;", "Worth naming so , would dwell in such a carcase ?", "With him", "If such be thy desire ; and , yet , by being", "Cloven foot of thine , or the swift dromedary", "And him \u2014 as he stood by Polixena ,", "Then you are far more difficult to please", "In action and endurance than thyself ,", "Rather than hero . Thou shalt be indulged ,", "Yon hump , and lump , and clod of ugliness ,", "Beheld a conqueror , or looked along", "Thou shalt be beauteous as the thing thou seest ,", "For now the Frank , and Hun , and Spanish scion", "Let the earth speak ,", "Than Cato 's sister , or than Brutus 's mother , 200", "And yet my coming saves you .", "Some one must be found to assume the shape", "What you have been , or will be .", "Unless you call me Pope instead .", "I love thee most in dwarfs ! A mortal of", "You have done well . The greatest", "But if I give another form , it must be", "But come : you wish to kill yourself ;\u2014 pursue", "Formed as thou art . I may dismiss the mould", "That 's to say , where there is War", "All vowed to Sperchius", "His , and all theirs who heired his very name . 190", "Upon your pilgrimage . But come , pronounce", "you can n't tell how he approaches ;", "And if", "Of the more solid gold that formed his urn .", "Or Cleopatra at sixteen", "Or your Kochlini race of Araby", "The land he made not Rome 's , while Rome became", "Or wolf , or lion \u2014 leaving paltry game", "Who make men without women 's aid have long", "Your thoughts", "And Woman in activity . Let 's see !", "Of the original workmanship :\u2014 and therefore", "Your choice . The godlike son of the sea-goddess ,", "Outstep these times , and be a Titan ? Or", "Your mother 's offspring . People have their tastes ;", "Decide between", "Hunts not the wretched coney , but the boar ,", "That 's ungracious ; 430", "The gifts which are of others upon man .", "Mount , my lord :", "And therefore fittest for 540", "With some remorse within for Hector slain", "The black-eyed Roman ,", "Perhaps . Would you aught else ? 120", "Now I can mock the mightiest .", "510", "He stood i \u2019 the temple ! Look upon him as", "Of the old Vandals , are at play along", "Not now . A few drops will suffice for this .Shadows of Beauty ! Shadows of Power ! Rise to your duty \u2014 160 This is the hour ! Walk lovely and pliantFrom the depth of this fountain , As the cloud-shapen giant Bestrides the Hartz Mountain .Come as ye were , That our eyes may behold The model in air Of the form I will mould , Bright as the Iris 170 When ether is spanned ;\u2014 Such his desire is ,Demons heroic \u2014 Demons who wore The form of the Stoic Or sophist of yore \u2014 Or the shape of each victor \u2014 From Macedon 's boy , To each high Roman 's picture , 180 Who breathed to destroy \u2014 Shadows of Beauty ! Shadows of Power ! Up to your duty \u2014 This is the hour !", "Stop !", "Of Anak ?", "I might be whiter ; but I have a penchant", "wax a son", "Be interrupted ? If I be the devil", "Glorious ambition !", "Philistine stature would have gladly pared", "You seem congenial , will you wear his features ?", "And then on me , and judge which of us twain 100", "Your Interlopers . The Devil may take men ,", "Tugging as usual at each other 's hearts .", "Oh ! you wax proud , I see , of your new form :", "Easier in such a form \u2014 or in your own .", "To petty burghers , who leave once a year", "Which late you wore , or were ?", "Such was the curled son of Clinias ;\u2014 wouldst thou", "with", "Through our friend 's armour there , with greater ease", "Softened by intervening crystal , and", "With thee . Thy form is natural : \u2018 twas only", "Their culverins , and so forth , would find way", "Abroad i \u2019 the fields .", "As man is both , why not", "Wherefore not ? Your betters keep worse company .", "It hath sustained your soul full many a day .", "The altar , gazing on his Trojan bride ,", "I will be as you were , and you shall see", "It must be peace-time , and no better fare", "Left graves enough , and woes enough , and fame", "A little of your blood .", "To talk to thee in human language", "For I , too , love a change .", "With these !", "Good service .", "\u2014 an age", "I must commend", "With thy Sublime of Humps , the animals", "The extremest beauty \u2014 if the proverb 's true", "It was the man who lost", "You improve apace ;\u2014 two changes in an instant , 490", "Of Greece in peace , her thunderbolt in war \u2014", "Such scullion prey . The meanest gibe at thee ,\u2014", "Before her glass . You both see what is not , 290", "His brow was girt with laurels more than hairs .", "And therefore I must .", "So many men are that", "Not in your own .", "And of", "Of mortals , that Extremes meet .", "The shame", "But for his shadow \u2014 \u2018 tis no more than yours ,", "A nobler breed . Match me in Barbary ,", "That I know not ,", "Get thee to Lamia 's lap !", "Or form you to your wish in any shape .", "Rippled like flowing waters by the wind ,", "Our pages too !", "In figure , thou canst sway them more ; for all", "Of shadow , which must turn to flesh , to incase", "But it cannot be . 450", "Deformity should only barter with", "Not I . Why should I mock", "More than enough to track his memory ;", "The ancient world for love .", "With sanctioned and with softened love , before", "Trembled in his who slew her brother . So 280", "An hour ago you would have given your soul"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["How now , noble Prince ,", "C\u00e6s . One half", "A guard in sight ; they wisely keep below ,", "Then conquer", "Of a buffoon .", "More swiftly , not less surely .", "Practise in the cool twilight .", "For calling you a hero .", "If seeing nothing more than may be seen", "I 'll lie \u2014 it is as easy : then you 'll praise me", "Be so .", "Turn back from shadowy menaces of shadows ?", "Thou waxest insolent , beyond the privilege", "Why so ?", "Of your brave bands of their own bold accord", "What means the audacious prater ? C\u00e6s . To prate , like other prophets .", "How now , fellow !", "The dawn of an eternal day , than death ."], "true_target": ["Not even", "So let them ! Wilt thou", "C\u00e6s . You mean I speak the truth .", "They are but men who war with mortals .", "Upon the eve of conquest , such as ours ,", "In such an enterprise to die is rather", "C\u00e6s . And the mere men \u2014 do they , too , sweat beneath", "A lofty battlement .", "Stray bullet of our lansquenets , who might", "They 'd crack them . Hunger is a sharp artillery . 180", "The walls for which he conquered and be greater !", "I look upon 200", "You are not cheerful ?", "Most men would be so .", "Will go to him , the other half be sent ,", "The noon of this same ever-scorching glory ?", "Doubt not our soldiers . Were the walls of adamant ,", "Sheltered by the grey parapet from some", "You can not ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["To think on ? Arnold ! I will lead the attack", "For but an hour , a minute more of life ,", "So please your Highness , no less for yourself .", "So shall he have his full deserts .", "Be serious ?", "To die within the wall ! Hence , Arnold , hence !", "Till they are conquerors \u2014 then do as you may .", "C\u00e6s . Aye , but not idle . Work yourself with words !", "C\u00e6s . And if I were , I might have saved myself", "And tears his bowels , rather than survive", "From battlement to battlement .", "C\u00e6s . Would not your Highness choose to kiss the cross ?", "Death is upon me . But what is one life ?", "In danger 's face as yours , were you the devil .", "\u2018 Tis a great name for blood-hounds .", "Whom nothing can convince save a full meal ,", "And you will follow ?", "Placed in the rear in action \u2014 but your foes", "We have no priest here , but the hilt of sword", "Must be more cheerful . Wherefore should we think ?", "Ah !", "Great capital perchance is ours to-morrow .", "Their chief , and all their kindled appetites", "Our tutelar Deity , in a leader 's shape ,", "Retained her sway o'er nations , and the C\u00e6sars", "\u2018 Twas their turn \u2014 now \u2018 tis ours ; and let us hope", "But , Philibert , we 'll in to council . Arnold ,", "And the sharp stinging of a lively rogue", "To crack those walls alone .", "The beauty of our host , and brave as beauteous , 220", "With all their heroes ,\u2014 the last Cato", "True : but those walls have girded in great ages ,", "And for my deeds , I only sting when stung . 240", "But now \u2014\u2014", "What would you make of Rome ?", "stands", "That I have ceased to breathe . Away ! and be", "That they will be repulsed , with Bourbon for", "For you have seen that back \u2014 as general ,", "Comrade .", "Methinks , a Sylla 's menace ; but they clasp ,", "Why will you vex him ? Have we not enough", "Hold , sir , I charge you ! Follow ! I am proud", "Be silent !", "Of a mere famished sullen grumbling slave ,", "With which he deems him rich .", "C\u00e6s . Upon its topmost , let us hope :", "That they will falter is my least of fears .", "That were not soldier-like . \u2018 Tis for the general", "And with their thin aspen faces and fixed eyes", "The world 's", "If I were secure !", "C\u00e6s . No doubt , the camp 's the school of civic rights .", "For I provoked it :\u2014 but the Bourbon 's breast", "And beckon me away !", "Look on those towers ; they hold my treasury :", "The liberty of that I would enslave . 210", "Well , sir , to-morrow you shall pay yourself .", "Philibert ! 250", "In spirit . Cover up my dust , and breathe not", "You may sneer , since", "Keep them yet ignorant that I am but clay ,", "France \u2014\u2014 But hark ! hark ! the assault grows warmer \u2014 Oh !", "To be more pensive : we adventurers", "The Bourbon 's spirit shall command them still .", "Fascinate mine . Look there !", "You must \u2014 farewell \u2014 Up ! up ! the world is winning . C\u00e6s .Come , Count , to business .", "You are blind .", "Have been the circus of an Empire . Well !", "Hold , Arnold ! I am first .", "Is peopled with those warriors ; and methinks", "Of such a follower , but will brook no leader .", "No , slave ! in the first C\u00e6sar 's ,", "More permanent acquaintance .", "There 's a demon", "A thousand years have manned the walls", "That which it was . C\u00e6s . In Alaric 's time ?", "You are brave , and that 's enough for me ; and quick", "If the earth 's princes asked no more ."], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . You may well say so ,", "C\u00e6s . On the eve of battle , no ;\u2014", "\u2018 Tis necessary for the further daring", "\u2018 Tis lucky for you that you fight no worse for \u2018 t .", "Still the world 's masters ! Civilised , barbarian ,", "To follow glory with the Bourbon . Good night !", "More forward , Hunchback !", "Arnold , shouldst thou see", "C\u00e6s . And kings !", "Of the old fables , I would trust my Titans ;\u2014", "In both we prize it ,", "Slight crooked friend 's as snake-like in his words", "Whose name you bear like other curs \u2014\u2014", "And if I do , there will not be a labourer", "That we will fight as well , and rule much better .", "Mountains , and those who guard them like the gods", "Why should I be so ?", "They flit along the eternal City 's rampart ,", "Thou bitter slave ! to name him at this time ! 140", "May serve instead :\u2014 it did the same for Bayard", "Have never seen it .", "And there !", "The toil of coming here .", "In speech as sharp in action \u2014 and that 's more .", "To marshal them on \u2014 were those hoary walls", "But I deserve it .", "But yielded to the Alarics , the Alarics", "And yours will be a post of trust at daybreak .", "You lose time \u2014 they will conquer Rome without thee .", "The first snake was a flatterer \u2014 I am none ;", "And present phantom of imperious Rome", "Unto the pontiffs . Roman , Goth , or priest .", "Or saintly , still the walls of Romulus", "And the first Cassar with his triumphs flits", "As his deeds .", "Work for you both ere morning .", "And generous as lovely . We shall find", "And wine , and sleep , and a few Maravedis , 260", "Been first , with that swart face and mountain shoulder ,", "And stretch their glorious , gory , shadowy hands ,", "That 's a fair retort ,", "And raise , and wring their dim and deathlike hands ,", "They do not menace me . I could have faced ,", "Is , to my mind , far preferable to", "C\u00e6s . Your Highness much mistakes me .", "\u2018 Tis nothing \u2014 lend me your hand .Arnold ! I am sped . Conceal my fall\u2014 all will go well \u2014 conceal it ! Fling my cloak o'er what will be dust anon ; 130 Let not the soldiers see it .", "If the knaves take to thinking , you will have", "Arnold , your", "In field or storm , and patient in starvation ;", "Let him alone ; he 's brave , and ever has", "Philibert !", "First step .", "Through every change the seven-hilled city hath", "C\u00e6s . And off !", "Not so ; I 'll lead them still 150", "True : so I will , or perish .", "C\u00e6s . And mine ?", "Victorious .", "C\u00e6s . They are but bad company , your Highness ;", "And worse even for their friends than foes , as being", "We would request your presence .", "In that fierce rattlesnake thy tongue . Wilt never", "The gross , dull , heavy , gloomy execration", "You have few to speak .", "Plant the first foot upon the foremost ladder 's", "Pay I have taken in your Highness \u2019 service .", "C\u00e6s . You will find ,", "Has been , and ever shall be , far advanced 230", "To-morrow .", "C\u00e6s . I thank you for the freedom ; \u2018 tis the only 300", "C\u00e6s . It would be well", "And for his tongue , the camp is full of licence ,", "Of our too needy army , that their chief", "No , my gallant boy !", "I am not alone the soldier , but the soldiers \u2019", "190", "And sent forth mighty spirits . The past earth", "Welcome the bitter Hunchback ! and his master ,", "Takes care of us . Keep thought aloof from hosts !"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Nearer than Tiber .", "By this time i \u2019 the Forum . Charge ! charge !", "A drop of water !", "But I must after my young charge . He is 170"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . Blood 's the only liquid", "I have died for Rome .", "Oh , these immortal men ! and their great motives !", "C\u00e6s . And so did Bourbon , in another sense ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["That 's soon said .", "A famous artisan , a cunning sculptor ;", "So shall be my deeds .", "Also a dealer in the sword and dagger ."], "true_target": ["I yet May live to carve your better 's . C\u00e6s . Well said , my man of marble ! Benvenuto , Thou hast some practice in both ways ; and he 40 Who slays Cellini will have worked as hard As e'er thou didst upon Carrara 's blocks .C\u00e6s . How farest thou ? Thou hast a taste , methinks , Of red Bellona 's banquet .", "Not so , my musqueteer ; \u2018 twas he who slew", "C\u00e6s . Why , Arnold ! hold thine own : thou hast in hand", "The Bourbon from the wall ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Revenge ! revenge !", "Yonder stands Anti-Christ !", "Plunder hereafter , but for vengeance now \u2014"], "true_target": ["What wouldst thou ?", "C\u00e6s .", "How now , schismatic ?"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["With your best friends ? You had far best be quiet ;", "C\u00e6s . Not I ! You know that \u201c Vengeance is the Lord 's : \u201d", "Sold . I say he is the Devil .", "Together by the ears and hearts ! I have not", "Sold . That shall be seen !C\u00e6s .I told you so .", "Sold . In the holy name of Christ ,", "Hath changed her scarlet raiment for sackcloth", "And take thy servant to thy mercy . \u2018 Tis", "Seen a more comic pantomime since Titus", "Destroy proud Anti-Christ .", "Crowned with eternal glory ! Heaven , forgive", "No more ; the Harlot of the Seven Hills", "Sold .", "My feebleness of arm that reached him not ,", "C\u00e6s . Ha ! right nobly battled !", "Lest he should recognise you for his own .", "C\u00e6s . Yea , a disciple that would make the founder", "Such proselytes . Best stint thyself to plunder . 10"], "true_target": ["Oh ! 20", "Took Jewry . But the Romans had the best then ;", "C\u00e6s . And that 's the reason : would you make a quarrel", "Sold . And will you not avenge me ?", "C\u00e6s . Hush ! keep that secret ,", "His hour is not yet come .", "Now , priest ! now , soldier ! the two great professions , 30", "Now they must take their turn .", "A glorious triumph still ; proud Babylon 's", "Had I but slain him , I had gone on high ,", "And ashes !", "Of your belief renounce it , could he see", "Sold . Why would you save him ? I repeat he is", "The Devil , or the Devil 's vicar upon earth .", "I am a Christian .", "Well done , old Babel !", "You see he loves no interlopers .", "C\u00e6s . Yes , thine own amidst the rest ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["We saw it , and we know it ; yet forgive", "He speaks the truth ; the heretics will bear 50", "Assist in their conversion .", "And others come : so flows the wave on wave", "While they are but its bubbles , ignorant", "A moment 's error in the heat of conquest \u2014", "By holy Peter !", "That foam is their foundation . So , another !"], "true_target": ["C\u00e6s . And that were shame ! Go to !", "The conquest which you led to .", "Deeming themselves the breakers of the Ocean ,", "Mercy ! mercy !", "The best away .", "C\u00e6s . They are gone ,", "He hath escaped ! Follow !", "Of what these creatures call Eternity ,", "Count , she hath slain our comrade ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twere worth one half our empire : his indulgences", "Of his infallibility .", "They have barred the narrow passage up ,", "C\u00e6s . I am glad he hath escaped : he may thank me for't", "A future miracle , in future proof"], "true_target": ["You lie , I tracked her first : and were she The Pope 's niece , I 'll not yield her . 3d Sold .You may settle Your claims ; I 'll make mine good .", "Demand some in return ; no , no , he must not 40", "Fall ;\u2014 and besides , his now escape may furnish", "And it is clogged with dead even to the door .", "In part . I would not have his bulls abolished \u2014"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["She 's mine !", "Lie there , more like a worm than man ; she cast it"], "true_target": ["The cross , beneath which he is crushed ; behold him", "Upon his head ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["I offer him a blood less holy", "And thy Son 's Mother , now receive me as 70", "A den of thieves ! No injury !\u2014 this temple \u2014", "Ah ! now you recognise him .3d Sold . My brain 's crushed ! Comrades , help , ho ! All 's darkness ! Other SoldiersSlay her , although she had a thousand lives : She hath killed our comrade .", "And here , upon the marble of this temple ,", "A perjury for which even Hell would loathe thee . 120", "It is for God to judge thee as thou art .", "Where the baptismal font baptized me God 's ,", "The saints have sanctified !", "I would approach thee , worthy her , and him , and thee !", "I know thee .", "Had I a knife even ; but it matters not \u2014", "I see thee purple with the blood of Rome ;", "Take mine , \u2018 tis all thou e'er shalt have of me ,", "I judge thee by thy mates ;", "Ere thou ascend it . God forgive thee , man ! 110", "You have no life to give , which the worst slave"], "true_target": ["than the holy water 130", "Infernal slave ! 60 You touch me not alive . 3d Sold . Alive or dead !", "Welcome such a death !", "I should be so ,", "Spare thine already forfeit soul", "No injury ! And now thou wouldst preserve me ,", "Death hath a thousand gates ; and on the marble ,", "In my father 's 100 House !", "Upon destruction , shall my head be dashed ,", "To be \u2014\u2014 but that shall never be !", "No injury !\u2014 and made my father 's house", "Respect your God ! 3d Sold . Yes , when he shines in gold . Girl , you but grasp your dowry .3d Sold . Oh , great God !", "Slippery with Roman and with holy gore !", "Would take . Great God ! through thy redeeming Son ,", "Even at the altar foot , whence I look down", "No ! Thou hast only sacked my native land ,\u2014", "But not less pure"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["As much"], "true_target": ["As dust can ."], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["The land of Song \u2014 and Canticles you know", "Were once my avocation ."], "true_target": ["You are merry , Sir \u2014 what ? singing too ?", "C\u00e6sar . It is"], "play_index": 28, "act_index": 28}, {"query": ["Alive ! why , we were never in any danger : Well , she is a rare manager of a fool !", "It belongs to one of them , that 's certain .\u2014 Mr Limberham , I must desire you to restore this letter ; it is from my mistress .", "I am sure I am no bastard ; witness one good quality I have . If any of your children have a stronger tang of the father in them , I am content to be disowned .", "Seignior , io non canno takare ten guinneo possibilment\u00e8 ; \u2018 tis to my losso .", "Let me alone .\u2014 Ladies , your servant ; I have a little private business with a friend of mine .", "I have nothing to say for her . Nay , I told her her own ; you can both bear me witness . If a sober man cannot be quiet in his own chamber for her \u2014", "So he told me .", "Beyond my hopes , if she consent .", "I shall find two dozen more of women 's gloves among my trifles , if you please to accept them , ladies .", "Gervase , thou shalt be my chronicler ; thou losest none of my heroic actions .", "You will find me so much employment in my own family , that I shall have little need to look out for journey-work .", "Then this is as you would desire it , a love-adventure . This French gentleman was made a slave to the Dey of Tripoli ; by his good qualities , gained his master 's favour ; and after , by corrupting an eunuch , was brought into the seraglio privately , to see the Dey 's mistress .", "There you have hit me . I am the most loving soul , and shall be conformable to all of you .", "A dio , seigniora .", "Immediately .\u2014What is the matter here ? the key turns round , and will not open ! As I live , we are undone ! with too much haste it is broken !", "I will see what is the matter in it .", "Well , if ever son was blest with a hopeful father ,", "Peace , you lying rogue !\u2014 Believe me , sir , bating his necessary expences of women , which I know you would not have him want , in all things else , he was the best manager of your allowance ; and , though I say it \u2014", "Nay , that 's no argument , if I should be so base to tell ; for women get good fortunes now-a-days , by losing their credit , as a cunning citizen does by breaking .", "Like night and the moon , in the Maid 's Tragedy : I into mist ; you into daySCENE changes to LIMBERHAM 'S apartment .", "Have you done ? these covenants are so tedious !", "To take in the horn-work . It happens as I wish ; for Mrs Tricksy , and her keeper , are gone out with father Aldo , to complete her settlement ; my landlady is safe at her morning exercise with my man Gervase , and her daughter not stirring : the house is our own , and iniquity may walk bare-faced .", "I 'll not be long after you ; for I think I have hidden my blushes where I shall never find them . Re-enter TRICKSY .", "Faith , sir , I have been too long from my catechism , to answer so many questions ; but , suppose there be no news of your quondam son , you may comfort up your heart for such a loss ; father Aldo has a numerous progeny about the town , heaven bless them .", "She has a notable smack with her ! I believe zeal first taught the art of kissing close .", "No , sir ; I made some scruple of going to the foresaid place , for fear of meeting my own father there .", "Giles here ! O rogue , rogue ! Now , would I were safe stowed over head and ears in the chest again .", "The maid will give warning , that is my comfort ; for she is bribed on my side . I have another kind of love to this girl , than to either of the other two ; but a fanatic 's daughter , and the noose of matrimony , are such intolerable terms ! O , here she comes , who will sell me better cheap . SCENE opens to BRAINSICK 'S Apartment .", "Who is it ?", "Thank you , for your own sake . Hark ! they are coming ! cry thief again , and help to save all yet .", "Sir , I see you mistake me for some other : I should be happy to be better known to you .", "But you shall , verily . I will thrust you down , out of pure pity .", "Then , I suppose , you are a gainer by your pains .", "I have no adventures of my own , can deserve your curiosity ; but , now I think on it , I can tell you one that happened to a French cavalier , a friend of mine , at Tripoli .", "If you get this keeper out of doors , father , and give me but an opportunity \u2014", "Who better than your wife ? She cannot be partial , because she knows not on which side you have laid .", "Or , if he be not , well make him such a kind of man .", "Hark ! I hear Judith 's voice : it happens well that she 's returned : slip into your chamber immediately , and send back the gown .", "All 's well : he knows me not .\u2014 Sir , your civility is obliging to a stranger , and may befriend me , in the acquaintance of our fellow-lodgers .", "In this very street ! how knows he that ?", "And down went chairs and table , and out went every candle . Ho , brave old patriarch in the middle of the church militant ! whores of all sorts ; forkers and ruin-tailed : Now come I gingling in with my bells , and fly at the whole covey .", "Long ago , long ago ;\u2014 and then we come panting out together . Oh , I am ravished with the imagination o n't !", "So ! here 's a fine business ! my whole seraglio up in arms !", "Pray , ladies , for my sake , let this business go no farther .", "Troppo poco , troppo poco .", "I find we two shall scarce agree : I must not come to your closet when I have got a bottle ; for , at such a time , I am horribly given to it .", "I have no vocation to it , Gervase : A man of sense is not made for marriage ; \u2018 tis a game , which none but dull plodding fellows can play at well ; and \u2018 tis as natural to them , as crimp is to a Dutchman .", "Are you thereabouts , i'faith ! A pox of Artemidorus", "I am sensible of it , little Judith ; there 's a time to come shall pay for all . I hear her returning : not a word ; away . Re-enter TRICKSY .", "Why , what a Turk Mahomet shall I be ! No , I will not make myself drunk with the conceit of so much joy : The fortune 's too great for mortal man ; and I a poor unworthy sinner .", "Then will I go to the elders of thy church , and lay thee open before them , that thou didst feloniously unlock that chest , with wicked intentions of purloining : So thou shalt be excommunicated from the congregation , thou Jezebel , and delivered over to Satan .", "No , no , my hours are very early ; betwixt three and four in the morning , commonly .", "Away , old Epictetus , about your business , and leave your musty morals , or I shall \u2014", "What is that you mutter ?", "Since he has not seen you , there is no danger ; you need but step into my chamber , and there we will lock ourselves up , and transform him in a twinkling .", "Nay , since you are so revengeful , you shall suffer your part of the disgrace ; if you testify against me for adultery , I shall testify against you for theft : There 's an eighth for your seventh .", "Why , that is well said .\u2014Gad , and so must I too ; for my people is dissatisfied , and my government in danger : But this is no place for meditation .\u2014 Ladies , I wait on you .", "They are pillars , gross enough to support a larger building ; of the", "But Limberham will return immediately , when he finds not his mistress where he thought he left her .", "I think the devil 's in her ; she has given me the hint again .\u2014 Well , it shall go hard , but I will offer violence sometimes ; will that content you ?", "It is impossible : I 'll not believe it .", "Now the wife 's returned , and the daughter too , and I have seen them both , and am more distracted than before : I would enjoy all , and have not yet determined with which I should begin . It is but a kind of clergy-covetousness in me , to desire so many ; if I stand gaping after pluralities , one of them is in danger to be made a sine cure \u2014O , fortune has determined for me . It is just here , as it is in the world ; the mistress will be served before the wife .", "Mr who , sir ?", "Then she 's a two-piled punk , a punk of two descents .", "My honest father stumbles into truth , in spite of lying .", "A most excellent reformation , and at a most seasonable time ! The moral of it is pleasant , if well considered . Now , let us to dinner .\u2014 Mrs Saintly , lead the way , as becomes you , in your own house .", "The dialogue will go no farther . Farewell , gentle , quiet lady .", "Nay , an your conscience can suffer you to swear , it shall suffer you to lie too : I mean in this sense . Come , no denial , you must do it ; she is rich , and there is a provision for your life .", "That then will make a man venture any thing .", "Now do I humbly conceive , that this mistress in matrimony will give me more pleasure than the former ; for your coupled spaniels , when they are once let loose , are afterwards the highest rangers .", "Keep the door open , and help to secure the retreat , father :", "Give me leave , madam , to thank you , in my friend 's behalf , for your favourable judgment .He kissed her hand with an exceeding transport ; and finding that she prest his at the same instant , he proceeded with a greater eagerness to her lips \u2014 but , madam , the story would be without life , unless you give me leave to act the circumstances .", "Stop thief , stop thief ! cry you mercy , gentleman , if I have hurt you .", "That , besides herself , is a cooling card .\u2014 Pray , how young are they ?", "Well , they are now retired together , like Rinaldo and Armida , to private dalliance ; but we shall find a time to separate their loves , and strike in betwixt them , daddy . But I hear there 's another lady in the house , my landlady 's fair daughter ; how came you to leave her out of your catalogue ?", "His friends would not suffer him : Virgil was not permitted to burn his \u00c6neids .", "Though I am a stranger in the house , it is impossible I should be so much mistaken : I say , this is Limberham 's lodging .", "If Giles be discovered , I am undone !\u2014 Why , Gervase , where are you , sirrah ! Hey , hey ! Enter GERVASE . Run quickly to that betraying rascal Giles , a rogue , who would take Judas 's bargain out of his hands , and undersell him . Command him strictly to mew himself up in his lodgings , till farther orders : and in case he be refractory , let him know , I have not forgot to kick and cudgel . That memento would do well for you too , sirrah .", "Yes , by your appointment . But so much the better ; for when the cuckold finds no company , he will certainly go a sauntering again .", "Ay , to those of her own church , I grant you , Gervase ; but I am none of those .", "What , she 's gone to the parish church , it seems , to her devotions !", "Has he seen you ?", "Uds-niggers , I confess , is a very dreadful oath . You could lie naturally before , as you are a fanatic ; if you can swear such rappers too , there is hope of you ; you may be a woman of the world in time . Well , you shall be satisfied , to the utmost farthing , to-night , and in your own chamber .", "I must wheedle her , and whet my courage first on her ; as a good musician always preludes before a tune . Come , here is my first oath .", "With all my heart .", "The curse o n't is too , I bid my man tell the family I was gone abroad ; so that , if I am seen , you are infallibly discovered .", "Pox on me ! nothing but such a positive coxcomb as I am , would have laid his money upon such odds ; as if you did not know your own lodgings better than I , at half a day 's warning ! And that which vexes me more than the loss of my money , is the loss of my adventure !", "No , sirrah ; since you have not the grace to offer yours , I will for once make use of my authority and command you to perform the foresaid drudgery in my place .", "You have both our words for it .", "Mrs Saintly ?", "I did his chamber the honour , when my own was not open , to retire thither ; and he to disturb me , like a profane rascal as he was .", "What will become of me now ?", "Ladies , I am sorry this should happen to you for my sake : She is in a raging fit , you see ; \u2018 tis best withdrawing , till the spirit of prophecy has left her .", "I am considering how to thank you for your homily ; and , to make a sober application of it , you may have some laudable design yourself in this advice .", "Seignioro , non intendo Inglese .", "\u2018 Twould become your bounty to give it her at parting .", "He both desired and obtained them , madam , and so will \u2014", "Hold , good landlady , not so fast ; let me have time to consider o n't ; I may mollify , for flesh is frail . An hour or two hence we will confer together upon the premises .", "What mean you ?", "Drinking and wenching are but slips of youth : I had those two good qualities from my father .", "Well , for once I 'll be good-natured , and try my interest .\u2014", "Sure he has some tutelar devil to guard his brows ! just when she had bobbed him , and made an errand home , to come to me !", "Are you gloating already ? then there 's hopes , i'faith .", "England but five days .", "Aldo , my own natural father , as I live ! I remember the lines of that hide-bound face : Does he lodge here ? If he should know me , I am ruined .", "What , my old enemy , Mrs Pleasance !", "Not a syllable of counsel : The next grave sentence , thou marchest after Giles . Woodall 's my name ; remember that . Enter Mrs SAINTLY . Is this the lady of the house ?", "But is this conscience in you ? not to let him have his bargain , when he has paid so dear for it ?", "She can have none : There 's not room enough for a thought to play in .", "With the same face that all mistresses look upon theirs . Come , come .", "Rather \u2018 tis like gun powder ; that which fires quickest , is commonly the strongest .\u2014 By this burning kiss \u2014", "This paper was sent me from her this morning ; and I was so fond of it , that I left it in my glove : If one of the ladies had found it there , I should have been laughed at most unmercifully .", "Recover breath , and I 'll instruct you in the next chamber .", "The worst I know of him is , that he loves a wench ; and that good quality he has not stolen .\u2014 Hark ! There 's music above .", "I would go to China , or Japan , to be rid of that impetuous clack of yours . Farewell , thou legion of tongues in one woman !", "You may guess it , by the post I have taken up .", "Hitherto , sweet Gervase , we have carried matters swimmingly . I have danced in a net before my father , almost check-mated the keeper , retired to my chamber undiscovered , shifted my habit , and am come out an absolute monsieur , to allure the ladies . How sits my chedreux ?", "Yes , I must ask thy advice in a most important business . I have promised a charity to Mrs Saintly , and she expects it with a beating heart a-bed : Now , I have at present no running cash to throw away ; my ready money is all paid to Mrs Tricksy , and the bill is drawn upon me for to-night .", "But cannot I be yours without a priest ? They were cunning people , doubtless , who began that trade ; to have a double hank upon us , for two worlds : that no pleasure here , or hereafter , should be had , without a bribe to them .", "O , does she so ?\u2014 Why , I am of your religion , be it what it will ; I warrant it a right one : I 'll not stand with you for a trifle ; presbyterian , independent , anabaptist , they are all of them too good for us , unless we had the grace to follow them .", "A word to the wise : I shall consider him , for your sake .", "Plague of all impertinent cuckolds ! they are ever troublesome to us honest lovers : so intruding !", "Persepolis : tuez , tuez , tuez ! point de quartier .", "You shall find me an apt scholar .", "A match , i'faith : and let the world pass .", "Tuscan order , by my troth .", "I must venture it ; because to be seen here would have the same effect , as to be taken within . Yet I doubt you are too confident .", "She was so foolish to wear short petticoats , and show them .", "You may tell , but who will believe you ? where 's your witness ?", "Have you pity of your body : There is all the wages you must expect .", "You lately honoured mine ; and it is the part of a well-bred man , to return your visit .", "I warrant you , let me alone : I am chosen , I .", "I have been in", "Are they very alluring , say you ? very wanton ?", "Ay , ay ; your figure breaks no bones . With your good leave .\u2014", "Both together ! either of them , apart , had been my business : but I shall never play well at this three-hand game .", "\u2018 Twas my study to avoid my father , and I have run full into his mouth : and yet I have a strong hank upon him too ; for I am privy to as many of his virtues , as he is of mine . After all , if I had an ounce of discretion left , I should pursue this business no farther : but two fine women in a house ! well , it is resolved , come what will on it , thou art answerable for all my sins , old Aldo \u2014 Enter TRICKSY , with a box of essences .Here she comes , this heir-apparent of a sempstress , and a cobler ! and yet , as she 's adorned , she looks like any princess of the blood .", "But now , madam , my heart beats with joy , when I come to tell you the sweetest part of his adventure : opportunity was favourable , and love was on his side ; he told her , the chamber was more private , and a fitter scene for pleasure . Then , looking on her eyes , he found them languishing ; he saw her cheeks blushing , and heard her voice faultering in a half-denial : he seized her hand with an amorous ecstacy , and \u2014", "Nothing , but the love I bear thy mistress , could keep me in the house with such a fury . When will the bright nymph appear ?", "But I speak no Italian ; only a few broken scraps , which I picked from Scaramouch and Harlequin at Paris .", "Because he was too saucy , and was ever offering to give me counsel : Mark that , and tremble at his destiny .", "Nay , no relapsing into verily ; that is in our bargain . Look how she weeps for joy ! It is a good old soul , I warrant her .", "But such a terrible wasp , as she , will spoil the snare , if I durst tell her so .", "To nothing but my pleasures , I .", "And you have richly deserved it .", "Do you speak to me , sir ?", "I dare not against you , madam : I am sure you will worst me at all weapons . All I can say is , I do not now begin to love you .", "Much is the word .\u2014 This feud makes well for me .", "Now , madam , you may venture out in safety .", "Let me embrace you , my dear deliverer ! Bless us ! is it you ,", "None ."], "true_target": ["Then you desire I should proceed to justify I am lawfully begotten ? The evidence is ready , sir ; and , if you please , I shall relate , before this honourable assembly , those excellent lessons of morality you gave me at our first acquaintance . As , in the first place \u2014", "Bid the footman receive the trunks and portmantua ; and see them placed in the lodgings you have taken for me , while I walk a turn here in the garden .", "How now , baron Tell-clock, is the passage clear ?", "Two thousand ! then it must be hers .\u201c Away to your chamber immediately , and I 'll give my fool the slip . \u201d \u2014 The fool ! that may be either the keeper , or the husband ; but commonly the keeper is the greater . Humh ! without subscription ! it must be Tricksy .\u2014 Father Aldo , pr'ythee rid me of this coxcomb .", "Your servant , your servant , madam : I am in a little haste at present .", "Nay , no conditions : The fortress is reduced to extremity ; and you must yield upon discretion , or I storm .", "A twang of the mother ; but I love to graff on such a crab-tree ; she may bear good fruit another year .", "Get you quickly to your closet , and fall to your mirabilis ; this is no place for sick people . Begone , begone !", "Go , Gervase , and do as you are directed .", "Woodall .", "I find the ladies of pleasure are beholden to you .", "Mr Woodall , you rogue ! that is my nomme de guerre . You know I have laid by Aldo , for fear that name should bring me to the notice of my father .", "What , does he take me for a thief ? nay then \u2014", "How could I guess , that you intended me the favour , without first acquainting me ?", "Well , I have won the party and revenge , however : A minute longer , and I had won the tout .", "The most hopeful young gentleman in Paris .", "A slave , to come and interrupt me at my devotions ! but I will \u2014", "Go you into your bed-chamber , and leave me to my fortune .", "I 'll avoid him .", "Seignior , si .", "For , look you , the offence was properly to my person ; and charity has taught me to forgive my enemies . I hope , Mrs Saintly , this will be a warning to you , to amend your life : I speak like a Christian , as one that tenders the welfare of your soul .", "Pr'ythee , no more .", "I understand thee ;\u2014 she fetched me a short turn , like a hare before her muse , and will immediately run hither to covert ?", "Mrs Tricksy , a word in private with you , by your keeper 's leave .", "Sure you expect some kindness in return .", "This next room is Limberham 's . See ! the door 's open ; and he and his mistress are both abroad .", "Sir , I should now make a speech to you in my own defence ; but the short of all is this : If you can forgive what is past , your hand , and I 'll endeavour to make up the breach betwixt you and your mistress : If not , I am ready to give you the satisfaction of a gentleman .", "Most delicate cadence !", "I kiss the book upon it .Oh , are you at your love-tricks already ? If you pinch me thus , I shall bite your lip .", "Will you oblige me , sir ?", "Pray , what company do you invite ?", "Who , I exalted ? Good faith , I am as sober , a melancholy poor soul !\u2014", "See there ! Mrs Tricksy has left her Indian gown upon the bed ; clap it on , and turn your back : he will easily mistake you for her , if he should look in upon you .", "I have waited for you above an hour ; but friar Bacon 's head has been lately speaking to me ,\u2014 that time is past . In a word , your keeper has been here , and will return immediately ; we must defer our happiness till some more favourable time .", "If I durst trust it , it is heroic .", "Oh , very good ! Two more young women besides yourself , and both handsome ?", "Then thou art even too good for me ; a worse man will serve my turn .", "All were complete , sir , if S. Andre would make steps to them .", "I confess , I am vain enough to hope it ; for why should you remove the two dishes , but to make me fall more hungrily on the third ?", "That I could find her coming , Mrs Judith ! Enter MRS BRAINSICK . You have made me languish in expectation , madam . Was it nothing , do you think , to be so near a happiness , with violent desires , and to be delayed ?", "Lambeth Palace .", "I wish you would give me leave to please you better . But you transact as gravely with me as a Spaniard ; and are losing love , as he does Flanders : you consider and demur , when the monarch is up in arms , and at your gates", "I shall be smothered .", "Came by it !How do you say I came by it , father Aldo ?", "I do promise , I do swear , I do any thing .Oh , the devil ! what do you mean to run pins into me ? this is perfect caterwauling .", "I must have a ramble in the town : When I have spent my money , I will grow dutiful , see my father , and ask for more . In the mean time , I have beheld a handsome woman at a play , I am fallen in love with her , and have found her easy : Thou , I thank thee , hast traced her to her lodging in this boarding-house , and hither I am come , to accomplish my design .", "Let it be upon the bed then . Please you to sit ?", "How 's that , sir ?", "Chi vala , amici : Ho di casa ! taratapa , taratapa , eus , matou , meau !\u2014I am at the end of my Italian ; what will become of me ?", "A song against keepers ! this makes well for us lusty lovers .", "\u2018 Tis well : I will plot the rest of my affairs a-bed ; for it is resolved that Limberham shall not wear horns alone : and I am impatient till I add to my trophy the spoils of Brainsick .", "Mine are Roman , madam .", "Give you joy , Mr Bridegroom .", "Then I 'm acquainted with your business : You would be a kind of deputy-fumbler under me .", "Look you , sir , I 'll spare your pains ; four hundred a-year will serve to comfort a poor cast mistress .", "I came from France .", "Happily arrived , i'faith , my old sub-fornicator ; I have been taken up on suspicion here with Mrs Tricksy .", "I must confess I do know the gentleman ; satisfy yourself , he 's in health , and upon his return .", "Pox verily her ! it is my landlady : Here , hide yourself behind the curtains , while I run to the door , to stop her entry .", "Most certainly a thief ; for , hearing my landlady cry out , I flew from my chamber to her help , and met him running down stairs , and then he turned back to the balcony , and leapt into the street .", "Was it yours , then ? I believed it came from Mrs Tricksy .", "Might not I ask you one civil question ? How pass you your time in this noble family ? For I find you are a lover of the game , and I should be loth to hunt in your purlieus .", "We will have a night of it , like Alexander , when he burnt", "So ! there is one broadside already : I must sheer off .", "There is no pity to be expected .", "Then let us put your friends , too , into the quarrel : it shall go hard , but I 'll give you a revenge for them . Enter JUDITH again , hastily . How now ? what 's the matter ?", "Sir , begone , and make no noise , or you will spoil all .", "Or ! you will not swear , I hope ?", "Let what can happen , my comfort is , at least , I have enjoyed . But this is no place for consideration . Be jogging , good Mr Woodall , out of this family , while you are well ; and go plant in some other country , where your virtues are not so famous .", "Make haste , and comfort her .", "No faith , madam , I was thinking of the fair lady , who , at parting , bespoke so cunningly of me all my essences .", "Come , come , no half resolutions among lovers ; I 'll hear no more of him , till I have revenged you fully . Go out and watch , Judith .", "The nymph was gracious , and came down to him ; but with so goddess-like a presence , that the poor gentleman was thunder-struck again .", "Should he know hereafter his wife were here , he would think I had enjoyed her , though I had not ; it is best venturing for something . He takes pains enough , on conscience , for his cuckoldom ; and , by my troth , has earned it fairly .\u2014 But , may a man venture upon your promise ?", "Io losero multo ; ma pergagnare il vestro costumo , datemi hansello .", "By your favour , sir , but he must not .", "She has me there , too !", "Why , of Covent-Garden church , I think .", "That last , for maids , would be thrown away : Few of your age are qualified for the medicine . What the devil would you be at , madam ?", "All shall be atoned ere then . Go , provide the bottle of clary , the Westphalia ham , and other fortifications of nature ; we shall see what may be done . What ! an old woman must not be cast away .", "And hast thou trepanned me into a tabernacle of the godly ? Is this pious boarding-house a place for me , thou wicked varlet ?", "But my comfort is , that love has overcome . Your honour is , in other words , but your good repute ; and \u2018 tis my part to take care of that : for the fountain of a woman 's honour is in the lover , as that of the subject is in the king .", "Some sprinklings of it , madam : We must not boast .", "Keep but your own counsel , father ; for whatever he knows , must come from you .", "Truth is , I wanted thy assistance , old Methusalem ; but , my comfort is , I fell greatly .", "A kept mistress , too ! my bowels yearn to her already : she is certain prize .", "I knew , if I could once speak with her , all would be set right immediately ; for , had I been there , look you \u2014", "You but suspect it at most , and cannot prove it : if you value me , you will not engage me in a quarrel with her husband .", "I think I should not , if I were sober .", "Limberham must have found me out ; that fe-fa-fum of a keeper would have smelt the blood of a cuckold-maker : They say , he was peeping and butting about in every cranny .", "This business is out , and I am now Aldo . My father has forgiven me , and we are friends .", "Just ripe for horns : His destiny , like a Turk 's , is written in his forehead .", "It is done : I will lay you .", "Go in , madam : I was never dared before . I 'll but scout a little , and follow you immediately .I find a mistress is only kept for other men : and the keeper is but her man in a green livery , bound to serve a warrant for the doe , whenever she pleases , or is in season .", "Thank you for your own sake ; but I fear \u2018 tis too late .", "Say no more , it shall be done .", "I shall never make you amends for this kindness , my dear Padron . But would it not be better , if you would take the pains to run after Limberham , and stop him in his way ere he reach the place where he thinks he left his mistress ; then hold him in discourse as long as possibly you can , till you guess your wife may be returned , that so they may appear together ?", "All on fire : A most urging creature !", "It is a private quarrel , to be decided without seconds ; and therefore you would do me a favour to withdraw .", "Sure this is not the phrase of your family ! I thought to have found a sanctified sister ; but I suspect now , madam , that if your mother kept a pension in your father 's time , there might be some gentleman-lodger in the house ; for I humbly conceive you are of the half-strain at least .", "Mad daddy !", "The very ghost of queen Dido in the ballad .", "What , you can talk in the language of the world , I see !", "I am glad you did ; for you could not but observe , with how much care I avoided all occasions of railing at you ; to which she urged me , like a malicious woman , as she was .", "Why , you turn my brains , with talking to me of your wife 's chamber ! do you lie in common ? the wife and husband , the keeper and the mistress ?", "It is the spirit of persecution . Dioclesian , and Julian the apostate , were but types of thee . Get thee hence , thou old Geneva testament : thou art a part of the ceremonial law , and hast been abolished these twenty years .", "That 's your witness too , that you would have allured me to lewdness , have seduced a hopeful young man , as I am ; you would have enticed youth : Mark that , beldam .", "You mean , I suppose , the peaking creature , the married woman , with a sideling look , as if one cheek carried more bias than the other ?", "O , fear not the vigorous five-and-twenty .", "I stand corrected ; you have reason indeed to go , if I can use my time no better : We 'll withdraw if you please , and dispute the rest within .", "Paw , paw ! that word honour has almost turned my stomach : it carries a villainous interpretation of matrimony along with it . But , in a civil way , I could be content to deal with you , as the church does with the heads of your fanatics , offer you a lusty benefice to stop your mouth ; if fifty guineas , and a courtesy more worth , will win you .", "Thus am I ever tantalized !", "Like enough : Pray , what 's his name ?", "I had rather sit five hours at one of his greasy feasts , then hear you talk .", "Dost thou think I have no compassion for thy gray hairs ? Away , away ; our love may be discovered : We must avoid scandal ; it is thy own maxim . Enter PLEASANCE . That fury here again !", "O , your true lover will read you over a letter from his mistress , a thousand times .", "Faith , madam \u2014", "You are like to be put upon the trial , for I hear his voice .", "I call myself so .", "Yes , I think I should partly know you , sir : You may remember some private passages betwixt us .", "Believe me , madam , lovers are not to trust to-morrow . Love may die upon our hands , or opportunity be wanting ; \u2018 tis best securing the present hour .", "Your humility becomes your age . For my part , I am vigorous , and throw at all .", "Your beauty will allow of no competition ; and I am sure my love could make none .", "Thou wert predestinated for a husband , I see , by that natural instinct : As we walk , I will instruct thee how to behave thyself , with secrecy and silence .", "I answer you not , but with my leg , madam .", "Hold , I beseech you ! a truce for me .", "Well , fortune at the last is favourable , and now you are my prisoner .", "Pr'ythee , what should a man do with such a father , but use him thus ? besides , he does journey-work under me ; \u2018 tis his humour to fumble , and my duty to provide for his old age .", "Oh , I understand the business ; he is married to the widow .", "Speak softly ; Mrs Tricksy is returned .Oh , she 's gone into her closet , to lay up her writings : I can throw it on the bed , ere she perceive it has been wanting .", "A plague of her suspicions ; they 'll ruin me on that side .", "And heart too , my comfortable importance . Mistress and wife , by turns , I have possessed : He , who enjoys them both in one , is blessed . Footnotes : 1 . The Mahommedan doctrine of predestination is well known . They reconcile themselves to all dispensations , by saying , \u201c They are written on the forehead \u201d of him , to whose lot they have fallen .", "I know it ; and therefore mean to leave you first .", "Now thou art tempting me again . Well , if I had not the gift of continency , what might become of me ?", "Hark you , Mr Brainsick , is the devil in you , that you and your wife come hither , to disturb my intrigue , which you yourself engaged me in , with Mrs Tricksy , to revenge you on Limberham ? Why , I had made an appointment with her here ; but , hearing somebody come up , I retired into the closet , till I was satisfied it was not the keeper .", "Hang scandal ; I am above it at those times .", "Yes , the second part of the same tune ! Strike by yourself , sweet larum ; you 're true bell-metal I warrant you .", "Faith , madam \u2014 cry you mercy ;", "He was so much amazed , when he first beheld her leaning over a balcony , that he scarcely dared to lift his eyes , or speak to her .", "I was willing to secure my happiness from interruption . A true soldier never falls upon the plunder , while the enemy is in the field .", "With one cheek blue , the other red ; just like the covering of", "At your service , madam .", "The danger 's over ; I may come out safely .", "Mr Limberham , where are you ? Come , cheer up , man ! How go matters on your side of the country ? Cry him , Gervase .", "Nay , do not insult too much , good Mr Saintly : Thou wert but my deputy ; thou knowest the widow intended it to me .", "I know it ; but still gentle means are best : You may come to force at last . Perhaps you may wheedle him away : it is but drawing a trope or two upon him .", "Let me see ; I 'll read it once again .", "You must pardon me , sir , if I do not much relish the close of your compliment .", "One I know , indeed ; a wife : But bona roba 's , say you ?", "I am .", "But I had my mental reservations in a readiness . I had vowed fidelity to you before ; and there went my second oath , i'faith : it vanished in a twinkling , and never gnawed my conscience in the least .", "Well , the squib 's run to the end of the line , and now for the cracker : I must bear up ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Well , sir , you have persuaded me : I will arm my conscience with a resolution of making her an honourable amends by marriage ; for to-morrow morning a parson shall authorise my labours , and turn fornication into duty . And , moreover , I will enjoin myself , by way of penance , not to touch her for seven nights after .", "O lord , sir , are we alive !", "Make haste , and save yourself , sir ; the enemy 's at hand : I have discovered him from the corner , where you set me sentry .", "If I had a thousand sons , none of the race of the", "Saintly , if you please .", "Lord , O Lord !", "I beseech you , sir , have pity on my soul .", "When will Giles , with his honesty , come to this ?", "But I am satisfied she performed it with me , sir . Well , there is much good will in these precise old women ; they are the most zealous bed-fellows ! Look , an \u2019 she does not blush now ! you see there is grace in her .", "Give good words , while you live , sir ; your landlord , and Mr", "What a comfort are you like to prove to your good old father ! You have run a campaigning among the French these last three years , without his leave ; and now he sends for you back , to settle you in the world , and marry you to the heiress of a rich gentleman , of whom he had the guardianship , yet you do not make your application to him .", "He spared for nothing ; he laid it on , sir , as I have heard .", "Are you disposed yet to receive good counsel ? Has affliction wrought upon you ?", "If I were worthy to read you a lecture in the mystery of wickedness , I would instruct you first in the art of seeming holiness : But , heaven be thanked , you have a toward and pregnant genius to vice , and need not any man 's instruction ; and I am too good , I thank my stars , for the vile employment of a pimp .", "I know the reason why I am kept ; because you cannot be discovered by my means ; for you took me up in France , and your father knows me not .", "According to human appearance , I must confess , it is neither fit for you , nor you for it ; but have patience , sir ; matters are not so bad as they may seem . There are pious bawdy-houses in the world , or conventicles would not be so much frequented . Neither is it impossible , but a devout fanatic landlady of a boarding-house may be a bawd .", "There 's somewhat bounces , like him , i n't . \u2018 Tis plaguy heavy ; but we 'll take t'other heave .", "Macedon , when he is little better than Sir Pandarus of Troy .", "My old master would fain pass for Philip of", "Gervases should ever be educated by thee , thou vile old Satan !", "Well , heaven mend all . I hear our landlady 's voice without ;", "Yes , Mr Woodall , for want of a better , as she will tell you ."], "true_target": ["Let me come to't ; I 'll break it open , and you may take out your writings .", "Cry you mercy , good Mr Woodall . How often have I said ,\u2014 Into what courses do you run ! Your father sent you into France at twelve years old ; bred you up at Paris , first in a college , and then at an academy : At the first , instead of running through a course of philosophy , you ran through all the bawdy-houses in town : At the latter , instead of managing the great horse , you exercised on your master 's wife . What you did in Germany , I know not ; but that you beat them all at their own weapon , drinking , and have brought home a goblet of plate from Munster , for the prize of swallowing a gallon of Rhenish more than the bishop .", "It is already ordered , sir . But they are like to stay in the outer-room , till the mistress of the house return from morning exercise .", "You are come over , have been in town above a week incognito , haunting play-houses , and other places , which for modesty I name not ; and have changed your name from Aldo to Woodall , for fear of being discovered to him : You have not so much as inquired where he is lodged , though you know he is most commonly in London : And lastly , you have discharged my honest fellow-servant Giles , because \u2014", "Who should it be , but Limberham ? armed with a two-hand fox . O", "I have a key of the garden , to let us out the back-way into the street , and so privately to our lodging .", "Nay , I wo n't forfeit my own wisdom so far as to suffer for it . Rest you merry : I 'll do my best , and heaven mend all .", "Save you , gentlemen ; and you , my quondam master : You are welcome all , as I may say .", "Of an hour 's acquaintance .", "O very finely ! with the locks combed down , like a mermaid 's on a sign-post . Well , you think now your father may live in the same house with you till doomsday , and never find you ; or , when he has found you , he will be kind enough not to consider what a property you have made of him . My employment is at an end ; you have got a better pimp , thanks to your filial reverence .", "That should not say it .", "Mr Limberham , Mr Limberham , make your appearance in the court , and save your recognizance .", "Think o n't , however , sir ; debauchery is upon its last legs in England : Witty men began the fashion , and now the fops are got into it , \u2018 tis time to leave it .", "Zookers , I cannot answer it to my conscience .", "I will not say , who has better deserved it of my old master .", "Thank your worship ; you have always been liberal of your hands to me .", "I call your conscience to witness , how often I have given you wholesome counsel ; how often I have said to you , with tears in my eyes , master , or master Aldo \u2014", "Take advice of your pillow .", "and therefore shall defer my counsel to a fitter season .", "No , sir ; the servants have informed me , that she rises every morning , and goes to a private meeting-house ; where they pray for the government , and practise against the authority of it .", "Take my advice yet ; down o \u2019 your marrow bones , and ask forgiveness ; espouse the wife he has provided for you ; lie by the side of a wholesome woman , and procreate your own progeny in the fear of heaven .", "How lewdly and ignorantly he answers !She means , of what religion are you ?", "When a man is married to his betters , it is but decency to take her name . A pretty house , a pretty situation , and prettily furnished ! I have been unlawfully labouring at hard duty ; but a parson has soldered up the matter : Thank your worship , Mr Woodall \u2014 How ? Giles here !"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["About my age : some eighteen , or twenty , or thereabouts .", "As I watched the chest , behold a vision rushed out of it , on the sudden ; and I lifted up my voice , and shrieked .", "In sadness , gentleman , I can hold no longer : I will not keep your wicked counsel , how you were locked up in the chest ; for it lies heavy upon my conscience , and out it must , and shall .", "I care not ; my single evidence is enough to Mr Limberham ; he will believe me , that thou burnest in unlawful lust to his beloved : So thou shalt be an outcast from my family .", "In the first place , you must know , we are a company of ourselves , and expect you should live conformably and lovingly amongst us .", "I may season you . I hope you do not use the parish-church .", "Verily , heaven is my witness .", "Stop thief , stop thief !", "Again backsliding !", "No swearing , I beseech you . Of what church are you ?", "Who would have imagined you had been such a kind of man , Mr", "Delay no longer , or \u2014", "Verily , a little swearing may be then allowable : You may swear you love me , it is a lawful oath ; but then , you must not look on harlots .", "Verily , they are approaching : Return to my embraces , and it shall be forgiven thee .", "I see you are ignorant ; but verily , you are a new vessel , and", "Arise , Mr Limberham , arise ; for conspiracies are hatched against you , and a new Faux is preparing to blow up your happiness .", "I have a cup of cordial water in my closet , which will help to strengthen nature , and to carry off a debauch : I do not invite you thither ; but the house will be safe a-bed , and scandal will be avoided .", "Verily the good work is accomplished .", "They are a couple of alluring wanton minxes .", "All this is nothing , sir . I am privy to your plots : I 'll discover them to Mr Limberham , and make the house too hot for you .", "Oh , my eyes grow dim ! my heart quops , and my back acheth ! here I will lay me down , and rest me .", "Make haste , and thine own eyes shall testify against her .", "The means have been offered thee , and thou hast kicked with the heel . I will go immediately to the tabernacle of Mr Limberham , and discover thee , O thou serpent , in thy crooked paths .", "Heaven of his mercy ! Stop thief , stop thief !", "No , verily , they are painted outsides ; you must not cast your eyes upon them , nor listen to their conversation : You are already chosen for a better work .", "You are welcome , gentleman . Woodall is your name ?", "You will not fail ?", "And to me especially . Then , I hope , you are no keeper of late hours .", "Mr Woodall , where are you , verily ?", "You look like a sober discreet gentleman ; there is grace in your countenance .", "Verily , thou has not the spirit of a cock-chicken ."], "true_target": ["Bless us ! what 's here to do ? My neighbours will think I keep a nest of unclean birds here .", "What , in the midst of Sodom ! O thou lewd young man ! my indignation boils over against these harlots ; and thus I sweep them from out my family .", "Verily , I think all hell 's broke loose among you . What , a schism in my family ! Does this become the purity of my house ? What will the ungodly say ?", "How they can be ! I have heard them ; I have seen them .", "That must be amended ; but , to remedy the inconvenience , I will myself sit up for you . I hope , you would not offer violence to me ?", "Verily , I can go no farther .", "Verily , I will consider .", "But scandal is the greatest part of the offence ; you must be secret . And I must warn you of another thing ; there are , besides myself , two more young women in my house .", "I find a certain motion within me to this young man , and must secure him to myself , ere he see my lodgers .\u2014 O , seriously , I had forgotten ; your trunk and portmantua are standing in the hall ; your lodgings are ready , and your man may place them , if he please , while you and I confer together .", "Verily , our teacher will not excommunicate me , for taking the spoils of the ungodly , to clothe him ; for it is a judged case amongst us , that a married woman may steal from her husband , to relieve a brother . But yet them mayest atone this difference betwixt us ; verily , thou mayest .", "Then , verily , I am appeased .", "Verily , boasting is of an evil principle .", "Oh , on the sudden , I feel myself exceeding sick ! Oh ! oh !", "Curse on his coming ! he has disturbed us .Well , young gentleman , I shall take a time to instruct you better .", "I can , I can , sir ; and in the language of the flesh and devil too , if you provoke me to despair : You must , and shall be mine , this night .", "Limberham ! O heaven , O heaven !", "Above all things , have a care of him yourself ; for surely there is witchcraft betwixt his lips : He is a wolf within the sheepfold ; and therefore I will be earnest , that you may not fall .", "Uds-niggers but I will ; and that so loud , that Mr Limberham shall hear me .", "This is Mr Woodall , your new fellow-lodger .", "According to thy wickedness , shall it be done unto thee . Have I discovered thy backslidings , thou unfaithful man ! thy treachery to me shall be rewarded , verily ; for I will testify against thee .", "Then , if you were overtaken , and should offer violence , and I consent not , you may do your filthy part , and I am blameless .", "Verily , I am raised up for a judge amongst you ; and I say \u2014", "I must go abroad upon some business ; but remember your promise , to carry yourself soberly , and without scandal in my family ; and so I leave you to this gentleman , who is a member of it .", "I see this abominable sin of swearing is rooted in you . Tear it out ; oh , tear it out ! it will destroy your precious soul .", "You appear exalted , when I mention those pit-falls of iniquity .", "So , so ; if Providence had not sent me hither , what folly had been this day committed !", "Or , expect to-morrow \u2014", "Sweet Mr Woodall , intercede for me , or I shall be ruined .", "Take to thee thy resolution , and avenge thyself .", "Verily , I have waited till you were alone , and am come to rebuke you , out of the zeal of my spirit .", "Verily , thy beloved is led astray , by the young man Woodall , that vessel of uncleanness : I beheld them communing together ; she feigned herself sick , and retired to her tent in the garden-house ; and I watched her out-going , and behold he followed her .", "There is a certain motion put into my mind , and it is of good . I have keys here , which a precious brother , a devout blacksmith , made me , and which will open any lock of the same bore . Verily , it can be no sin to unlock this chest therewith , and take from thence the spoils of the ungodly . I will satisfy my conscience , by giving part thereof to the hungry and the needy ; some to our pastor , that he may prove it lawful ; and some I will sanctify to my own use ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Why , look you now , son Limberham , is this a song to be sung at such a time , when I am labouring your reconcilement ? Come , daughter Tricksy , you must be ruled ; I 'll be the peace-maker .", "Why son , why daughter , why Mrs Saintly ; are you all mad ? Hear me , I am sober , I am discreet ; let a smith be sent for hither , let him break open the chest ; let the things contained be taken out , and the thing containing be restored .", "Before George , there can come no good of your swearing , Mrs Overdon : Say your prayers , Prue , and go duly to church o'Sundays , you 'll thrive the better all the week . Come , have a good heart , child ; I will keep thee myself : Thou shalt do my little business ; and I 'll find thee an able young fellow to do thine . Enter Mrs PAD . Daughter Pad , you are welcome : What , you have performed the last Christian office to your keeper ; I saw you follow him up the heavy hill to Tyburn . Have you had never a business since his death ?", "We must get her a husband then in the city ; they bite rarely at a stale whore at this end of the town , new furbished up in a tawdry manteau .", "Despatch , Geoffery , despatch : The outlying punks will be upon us , ere I am in a readiness to give audience . Is the office well provided ?", "Your man told me , you were just returned from travel : What parts have you last visited ?", "II .", "You have me right . Be you the lion , to devour the prey ; I am your jackall , to provide it for you : There will be a bone for me to pick .", "Hold you there , sir : I must first understand you a little better ; and yet , methinks , you should be true to love .", "Before George , son Limberham , you shall read it .", "Judith 's secrets .", "How now , Mrs Saintly ! what work have we here towards ?", "And will you have that dreadful oath lie gnawing on your conscience ?", "\u2018 Tis honest and fair ,", "That a feast I prepare ;", "I will make him leave his honey-comb .", "I say , bona roba 's , in the plural number .", "Then , perhaps , you may have known an ungracious boy of mine there .", "No matter for that .", "Pray for him ! fy , daughter , fy ; is that an answer for a", "Peace ! they are beginning .", "Bless thee , and make thee a substantial , thriving whore . Have your mother in your eye , Prue ; it is good to follow good example . How old are you , Prue ? Hold up your head , child .", "I am sorry I cannot stay to present my son , Woodall , to you ; but I have set you together , that 's enough for me .", "Hold , a word first : Thou saidst my son was shortly to come over .", "Nay , dear daughter !", "I must set a face of authority on the matter , for my credit .\u2014 Pray , who am I ? do you know me , sir ?", "Well , from this time forward , I pronounce thee \u2014 no son of mine .", "I will , I will ; and yet I have a vexatious business , which calls me first another way . The rogue , my son , is certainly come over ; he has been seen in town four days ago .", "Not a syllable . What the devil 's in you , daughter ? Open , son , open .", "As right as if I had begot thee ! Wilt thou give me leave to call thee son ?", "Not a word of any passages betwixt us ; it is enough we know each other ; hereafter we will banish all pomp and ceremony , and live familiarly together . I 'll be Pylades , and thou mad Orestes , and we will divide the estate betwixt us , and have fresh wenches , and ballum rankum every night .", "Why , what is the matter , daughter Hackney ?", "Be sure thou dost not discover my frailties to the young scoundrel : \u2018 Twere enough to make the boy my master . I must keep up the dignity of old age with him .", "Before George , I could find in my heart to disinherit thee .", "This is the first business that was ever made up without me .", "I meant of Hampshire . But that I should forget he was a knight , when I got him knighted , at the king 's coming in ! Two fat bucks , I am sure he sent me .", "No , no , avoid her ; I warrant thee , young Alexander , I will provide thee more worlds to conquer .", "Christian ?", "Nay , for that , you must excuse me ; I must not disclose little", "She 's pretty , I confess , but most damnably honest ; have a care of her , I warn you , for she 's prying and malicious .", "Would I lie to my friend ? Am I a man ? Am I a christian ? There is that wife you mentioned , a delicate little wheedling devil , with such an appearance of simplicity ; and with that , she does so undermine , so fool her conceited husband , that he despises her !", "Yes , a mistress , sir . I 'll be his voucher , he has a mistress , and a fair one too .", "Peace , peace , I am coming to you : Why , you must know I am tender-natured ; and if any unhappy difference have arisen betwixt a mistress and her gallant , then I strike in , to do good offices betwixt them ; and , at my own proper charges , conclude the quarrel with a reconciling supper .", "I never saw a woman , before you , but first or last she would be brought to reason . Hark you , child , you will scarcely find so kind a keeper . What if he has some impediment one way ? Every body is not a Hercules . You shall have my son Woodall , to supply his wants ; but , as long as he maintains you , be ruled by him that bears the purse . LIMBERHAM SINGING . I my own jailor was ; my only foe , Who did my liberty forego ; I was a prisoner , because I would be so .", "In the free-born subject , woman .", "Well , thou art a wag ; no more of that . Thou shall want neither man 's meat , nor woman 's meat , as far as his provision will hold out .", "Trust my diligence ; I will smoke him out , as they do bees , but", "Before George , \u2018 tis so ! I read it in that leering look : What a", "Know him ! from his cradle \u2014 What 's your name ?", "Whoop holyday ! our trusty and well-beloved Giles , most welcome ! Now for some news of my ungracious son .", "Do so , daughter . Not a word of my familiarity with his mother , to prevent bloodshed betwixt us : but I have her name down in my almanack , I warrant her .", "So , now you will part , for a mere punctilio ! Turn to him , daughter : Speak to her , son : Why should you be so refractory both , to bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave ?", "Ay ; and pay the lawyer too . Why , this is as it should be ! I 'll be at the charge of the reconciling supper .\u2014Daughter , my son Woodall is waiting for you .\u2014 Come away , son Limberham to the temple .", "Well said , daughter .\u2014 Lift up your voices , and sing like nightingales , you tory rory jades . Courage , I say ; as long as the merry pence hold out , you shall none of you die in Shoreditch . Enter WOODALL . A hey , boys , a hey ! here he comes , that will swinge you all ! down , you little jades , and worship him ; it is the genius of whoring .", "I my body have sold ,", "Geoffery , set her down in the register , that I may provide her a mid-wife , and a dry and wet nurse : When you are up again , as heaven send you a good hour , we will pay him off at law , i'faith . You have him under black and white , I hope ?", "Look you now , son Woodall , I told you I was not mistaken ; my rascal 's in town , with a vengeance to him .", "I think the devil 's i n't .", "Peace , peace ! thou art yet ordained for greater things . There is another , too , a kept mistress , a brave strapping jade , a two-handed whore !", "A SONG .", "Unconscionable villain , to cozen you in your own calling !", "He dogged him to the corner of it ; and then my son turned back , and threatened him . But I 'll find out Giles , and then I 'll make such an example of my reprobate !", "A mingle of profit would do well though . Come , here is a girl ; look well upon her ; it is a mettled toad , I can tell you that : She will make notable work betwixt two sheets , in a lawful way .", "A hey , a hey , boys ! the town 's thy own ; burn , ravish , and destroy !", "Oh , my sins ! my sins ! and he keeps my book of conscience too ! He can display them , with a witness ! Oh , treacherous young devil !", "But how came you by this letter , son Woodall ? let me examine you .", "Before George , I am on t'other side : I think , as good no song , as no Phillis .", "\u2018 Tis at my daughter Tricksy 's lodging ; the kept mistress I told you of , the lass of mettle . But for all she carries it so high , I know her pedigree ; her mother 's a sempstress in Dog-and-Bitch yard , and was , in her youth , as right as she is .", "Come , there is no better place than little London . You shall not part for a trifle . What , son Limberham ! four hundred a year is a square sum , and you shall give it .", "Brainsick ?", "Ha , mad son !", "Before George , there is not enough to rig out a mournival of whores : They 'll think me grown a mere curmudgeon . Mercy on me , how will this glorious trade be carried on , with such a miserable stock !", "I must first tell you something of my condition . I am here a friend to all of them ; I am their factotum , do all their business ; for , not to boast , sir , I am a man of general acquaintance : There is no news in town , either foreign or domestic , but I have it first ; no mortgage of lands , no sale of houses , but I have a finger in them .", "Look you , daughter , see how nature works in him .", "You are a sorrowful widow , daughter Pad ; but I 'll take care of you .\u2014 Geoffery , see her rigged out immediately for a new voyage : Look in figure 9 , in the upper drawer , and give her out the flowered justacorps , with the petticoat belonging to it .", "Know it ! I know the match is as good as made already : old Woodall and I are all one . You , son , were sent for over on purpose ; the articles for her jointure are all concluded , and a friend of mine drew them .", "Thou , boy ! Aha , boy ! a true Trojan , I warrant thee !Well , I say no more ; but you are lighted into such a family , such food for concupiscence , such bona roba 's !", "\u2018 Gainst keepers we petition ,", "Son Woodall , thou vigorous young rogue , I congratulate thy good fortune ; thy man has told me the adventure of the Italian merchant ."], "true_target": ["Before George , son Limberham , you will spoil all , if you underbid so . Come , down with your dust , man : What , shew a base mind , when a fair lady 's in question !", "Some welcomer guest ,", "I thought as much ; he has me already !\u2014 But pray , sir , why this ceremony amongst friends ? Put on , put on ; and let us hear what news from France . Have you heard lately from my son ? does he continue still the most hopeful and esteemed young gentleman in Paris ? does he manage his allowance with the same discretion ? and , lastly , has he still the same respect and duty for his good old father ?", "But feel again , the lawyer stays .", "The truth o n't is , I sent for him over ; partly to have married him , and partly because his villainous bills came so thick upon me , that I grew weary of the charge .", "Hold , hold ; I charge thee hold , on thy obedience . I forgive thee heartily : I have proof enough thou art my son ; but tame thee that can , thou art a mad one .", "Before George , I should not see it starve , for the mother 's sake : For , if she were a punk , she was good-natured , I warrant her .", "Daughter Tricksy , are you there , child ? your friends at Barnet are all well , and your dear master Limberham , that noble Hephestion , is returning with them .", "A pox of his unlucky handsel ! He can but fumble , and will not pay neither .", "Why , there 's it , now . This morning I met your mistress 's father , Mr you know who \u2014", "Before George , and so it was : for she had the prettiest black mole upon her left ancle , it does me good to think o n't ! His father was squire What-d'yehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeNhim , of what-d'yehYpppHeNcallhYpppHeNem shire . What think you , little Judith ? do I know him now ?", "Who would inclose the common :", "Known whom ?", "And would keep me as bare as his wife .", "What 's the matter trow ? what , in martial posture , son", "But hold a little ; I had forgot one point : I hope you are not married , nor engaged ?", "\u2018 Gainst keepers we petition , & c .", "A note under his hand ! that is a chip in porridge ; it is just nothing .\u2014 Look , Geoffery , to the figure 12 , for old half-shirts for childbed linen .", "Before George , I smell a rat , son Limberham . I doubt , I doubt , here has been some great omission in love affairs .", "But when his dull appetite 's o'er ,", "Then this matter is composed .", "It is very well , sir ; I find you have been searching for your relations , then , in Whetstone 's Park!", "No , no , I 'll not whisper . Do not stand in your own light , but produce the keys , daughter .", "You are of the violentest temper , daughter Termagant ! When had you a business last ?", "Push hard , son .", "That thou should'st think to keep this secret ! why , I know it as well as he that made thee .", "O here 's a monsieur , new come over , and a fellow-lodger ; I must endear you two to one another .", "Nay , good son !", "The truth is , she has past for her daughter , by my appointment ; but she has as good blood running in her veins , as the best of you . Her father , Mr Palms , on his death-bed , left her to my care and disposal , besides a fortune of twelve hundred a year ; a pretty convenience , by my faith .", "Before George , he shall do thee reason , ere thou sleepest .", "Well , somewhat in ornament for the body , somewhat in counsel for the mind ; one thing must help out another , in this bad world : Whoring must go on .", "What ? every one must have their own ; Fiat justitia , aut ruat mundus .", "I 'll treat with the rest", "Then there is a father for your child , my lord 's son and heir by Mr Caster . But henceforward , to preserve peace betwixt you , I ordain , that you shall ply no more in my daughter Hackney 's quarters : You shall have the city , from White-Chapel to Temple-Bar , and she shall have to Covent-Garden downwards : At the play-houses , she shall ply the boxes , because she has the better face ; and you shall have the pit , because you can prattle best out of a vizor mask .", "It shall be so , it shall be so : Come , now buss , and seal the bargain .", "Report speaks otherwise ; and , before George , I shall read him a wormwood lecture , when I see him . But , hark , I hear the door unlock ; the lovers are coming out : I 'll stay here , to wheedle him abroad ; but you must vanish .", "To be taken , to be seen ! Before George , that 's a point next the worst , son Woodall .", "Now cannot I for shame hold up my head , to think what this young rogue is privy to !", "Well , thou art the happiest rogue in a kind keeper ! He drank thy health five times , supernaculum ,to my son Brain-sick ; and dipt my daughter Pleasance 's little finger , to make it go down more glibly :And , before George , I grew tory rory , as they say , and strained a brimmer through the lily-white smock , i'faith .", "George Aldo .", "He rants , domineers ,", "Carry me this letter , quoth he , to your son Woodall ; \u2018 tis from my daughter such a one , and then whispered me her name .", "Tartar have I caught !", "Because for his gold ,", "For the reckoning was paid me before .", "No , I do all gratis , and am most commonly a loser ; only a buck sometimes from this good lord , or that good lady in the country : and I eat it not alone , I must have company .", "How now , son Limberham ? There 's no quarrel towards , I hope .", "That I should ever live to see this day !", "I .", "Away , boy ! Fix thy arms , and whet , like the lusty German boys , before a charge : He shall bolt immediately .", "How now , sirrah ? what is the matter ?", "Nay , you shall excuse me for that ; but we are intimate : his name begins with some vowel or consonant , no matter which : Well , her father gave me this very numerical letter , subscribed , for Mr. Woodall .", "He swaggers and swears ,", "Let me speak for thee : Thou shalt be used , little Pleasance , like a sovereign princess : Thou shalt not touch a bit of butchers \u2019 meat in a twelve-month ; and thou shall be treated \u2014", "Come , son Limberham , we let our friend Brainsick walk too long alone : Shall we follow him ? we must make haste ; for I expect a whole bevy of whores , a chamber-full of temptation this afternoon : \u2018 tis my day of audience .", "No deferring in these cases , daughter .", "I have taken some care of her education , and placed her here with Mrs Saintly , as her daughter , to avoid her being blown upon by fops , and younger brothers . So now , son , I hope I have matched your concealment with my discovery ; there is hit for hit , ere I cross the cudgels .", "A friend of mine met his old man , Giles , this very morning , in quest of me ; and Giles assured him , his master is lodged in this very street .", "Faith , not much : Nature in me is at low water-mark ; my body 's a jade , and tires under me ; yet I love to smuggle still in a corner ; pat them down , and pur over them ; but , after that , I can do them little harm .", "Let me see \u2014 let me see :\u2014 Before George , I have it , and it comes as pat too ! Go me to the very judge that sate upon him ; it is an amorous , impotent old magistrate , and keeps admirably . I saw him leer upon you from the bench : He will tell you what is sweeter than strawberries and cream , before you part .", "\u2018 Tis enough to raise sedition", "Daughter Tricksy , a word with you .", "O spare my daughters , Mrs Saintly ! Sweet Mrs Pleasance , spare my flesh and blood !", "Do I dote ? or art thou drunk , Giles ?", "That 's some comfort : But , I hear , a very rogue , a lewd young fellow .", "Know them ! I think I do . His mother was an arch-deacon 's daughter ; as honest a woman as ever broke bread : she and I have been cater-cousins in our youth ; we have tumbled together between a pair of sheets , i'faith .", "Welladay , welladay ! one of my daughters is big with bastard , and she laid at her gascoins most unmercifully ! every stripe she had , I felt it : The first fruit of whoredom is irrecoverably lost !", "A young monsieur returned from travel ; a lusty young rogue ; a true-milled whoremaster , with the right stamp . He is a fellow-lodger , incorporate in our society : For whose sake he came hither , let him tell you .", "Thou art my bosom friend .", "But this lady is so termagant an empress ! and he is so submissive , so tame , so led a keeper , and as proud of his slavery as a Frenchman . I am confident he dares not find her false , for fear of a quarrel with her ; because he is sure to be at the charges of the war . She knows he cannot live without her , and therefore seeks occasions of falling out , to make him purchase peace . I believe she is now aiming at a settlement .", "And her father , the famous cobler , who taught Walsingham to the black-birds . How stand thy affections to her , thou lusty rogue ?", "Before George , Gervase and I will carry it away ; and a smith shall be sent for to my daughter Pleasance 's chamber , to open it without damage .", "Would I were worthy to be a young man , for her sake ! She should eat pearls , if she would have them .", "Before George , a proper fellow , and a swinger he should be , by his make ! the rogue would humble a whore , I warrant him .\u2014 You are welcome , sir , amongst us ; most heartily welcome , as I may say .", "He thinks I 'm a slave for my life ;", "Well , young Ph\u00e6ton , that 's somewhat yet , if you made a blaze at your departure .", "Before George , I love the poor little devils . I am indeed a father to them , and so they call me : I give them my counsel , and assist them with my purse . I cannot see a pretty sinner hurried to prison by the land-pirates , but nature works , and I must bail her ; or want a supper , but I have a couple of crammed chickens , a cream tart , and a bottle of wine to offer her .", "We will follow you immediately .", "Nay , but son Limberham , this must not be . A word in private ;\u2014 you will never get such another woman , for love nor money . Do but look upon her ; she is a mistress for an emperor .", "And you have been initiated but these two years : Loss of time , loss of precious time ! Mrs Overdon , how much have you made of Prue , since she has been man 's meat ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Enter quickly into the still-house , both of you , and leave me to him : There is a spring-lock within , to open it when we are gone .", "But I am resolved I 'll not lose my time with you ; I 'll part .", "Well , I am going to the nunnery ; but , to shew I am in charity , I 'll pray for you .", "Hold ; I say it shall not stir .", "Then I 'll fetch out the jewels : will that satisfy you ?", "That he should be so silly to imagine I would go into a nunnery ! it is likely ; I have much nun 's flesh about me . But here comes my gentleman .", "Come , you shall make it twelve , and he shall take it for my sake .", "My dear , I have it for you : come , and kiss me . Why would you be so unkind to suspect my faith now ! when I have forsaken all the world for you .\u2014But I am not in the mood of quarrelling to-night ; I take this jealousy the best way , as the effect of your passion . Come up , and we will go to bed together , and be friends .", "Dear Mr Limberham , come back , and hear me .", "Then farewell .", "I 'll not wrong my innocence so much , nor this gentleman 's ; but , since you have accused us falsely , four hundred a-year betwixt us two will make us some part of reparation .", "Woodall a thief , madam .", "No matter where ; I am never the nearer to your wicked purpose . But you men are commonly great comedians in love-matters ; therefore you must swear , in the first place \u2014", "I have had a dream , too , concerning Mrs Brainsick , and perhaps \u2014", "How now , sir , are you rehearsing your lingua Franca by yourself , that you walk so pensively ?", "That savoured little of the monsieur 's gallantry , especially when the lady gave him encouragement . Wood The gentleman was not so dull , but he understood the favour , and was presuming enough to try if she were mortal . He advanced with more assurance , and took her fair hands : was he not too bold , madam ? and would not you have drawn back yours , had you been in the sultana 's place ?", "What would you have , you eternal sot ? the man 's in haste .", "Did you call , Mr Limberham ?", "And you are come upon the spur before , to acquaint me with the news .", "Who is that gentleman with you ?", "Here , sir , take your glove again ; the perfume 's too strong for me .", "Yes , and with a high nose , as visible as a land-mark .", "I looked all over it ; I 'm sure he is not there .\u2014 Come away , dear .", "Why should you persuade him against his will ?", "Thou art a forsworn man , however ; for thou sworest to love me eternally .", "You are resolved , then ?", "Yes , it shall put an end to all our quarrels : Farewell for the last time , sir . Look well upon my face , that you may remember it ; for , from this time forward , I have sworn it irrevocably too , that you shall never see it more .", "I think indeed I may safely trust you with such charms ; and you have pleased me with your description of her .", "To show I can live honest , in spite of all mankind , I 'll go into a nunnery , and that is my resolution .", "As I live , Mr Limberham and father Aldo are just returned ; I saw them entering . My settlement will miscarry , if you are found here : What shall we do ?", "You lovers are such froward children , ever crying for the breast ; and , when you have once had it , fall fast asleep in the nurse 's arms . And with what face should I look upon my keeper after it ?", "Well , in hope you will love me , I will obey .", "You are sure ; have not I said it ?\u2014 You had best make Mr", "Let me alone ; I care not .", "Oh the old woman in the oven ! we both overheard your pious documents : Did we not , Mrs Brainsick ?", "No more apologies ; give Judith the words , she sings at sight .", "Now I shall have leisure to instruct his man , and set him free , without discovery . Come , Mr Gervase .", "That 's impossible ; he 'll meet you . Let me think a moment :\u2014 Mrs Saintly is abroad , and cannot discover you : have any of the servants seen you ?", "Necessity has no law ; I must be patient .", "This is ridiculous : I 'll speak to your mother , madam , not to suffer you to eat such heavy suppers .", "I 'll take shelter in my chamber ,\u2014 whither , I hope , he 'll have the grace to follow me .", "Well , I 'll swear you are the most natural historian !", "What a difference there is between this gentleman , and my feeble keeper , Mr Limberham ! he 's to my wish , if he would but make the least advances to me .\u2014 Father Aldo tells me , sir , you are a traveller : What adventures have you had in foreign countries ?", "Ay , two thousand , if he be in the humour .", "Well , to satisfy you , I will feel .\u2014 They are not here \u2014 nor here neither .", "When I saw you came not for me , I was loth to be long without you .", "No ; here is the key : Take it , and satisfy your foolish curiosity .", "I find him now .\u2014 But what followed of this dumb interview ?", "No , I 'm just going .", "The back way ; by the garden door .", "I am provoked too far .", "For , you know , sir , when Mrs Brainsick and I over-heard her coming , having been before acquainted with her wicked purpose , we both agreed to trap her in it .", "But to yield upon the first summons , ere you have laid a formal siege \u2014 To-morrow may prove a luckier day to you .", "Then you shall carry me too . Help , murder , murder !", "No doubt \u2018 twas meant to Mrs Brainsick .", "And her little head , upon that long neck , shows like a traitor 's skull upon a pole . Then , for her wit \u2014", "But , I 'm so shame-faced ! Well , I 'll go in , and hide my blushes .", "A thief , I warrant you , who had gotten into the chest .", "We are both under safe convoy , madam ; a lover and a husband .", "I fear him not ; he has this morning armed me against himself , by this settlement ; the next time he rebels , he gives me a fair occasion of leaving him for ever .", "Then I may be bound to make good the loss .", "I did not pinch you : But you are apt , I see , to take any occasion of gathering up more close to me .\u2014 Next , you shall not so much as look on Mrs Brainsick .", "No , love 's like fruit ; it must have time to ripen on the tree ; if it be green gathered , \u2018 twill but wither afterwards .", "I dare be sworn \u2018 twas in your sleep ; for , when you are waking , you are the most honest , quiet bed-fellow , that ever lay by woman .", "No , no : While you are in it , you will secure it from that scandal .\u2014 Hark hither , Mrs Saintly .", "and Mrs Brain . You may command us .", "But I have lost the keys .", "Never to love any other woman .", "You will never leave these fumbling tricks , father , till you are taken up on suspicion of manhood , and have a bastard laid at your door : I am sure you would own it , for your credit .", "If the sultana liked him well enough to come down into the garden to him , I suppose she came not thither to gather nosegays .", "Foh ! how you smell of sweat , dear !", "I said so , sir ! Who am I ? Is not my word as good as yours ?", "Hark , I hear them ! Here 's a chest which I borrowed of Mrs Pleasance ; get quickly into it , and I will lock you up : there 's nothing i n't but clothes of Limberham 's , and a box of writings .", "What , wandering up and down , as if you wanted an owner ? Do you know that I am lady of the manor ; and that all wefts and strays belong to me ?", "The more shame for you , that you have done no more for me :", "Speak any thing , and make it pass for Italian ; but be sure you take his money .", "The scent I love , of all the world . Pray let me see them .", "Hang your pitiful excuses . \u2018 Tis well known what offers I have had , and what fortunes I might have made with others , like a fool as I was , to throw away my youth and beauty upon you . I could have had a young handsome lord , that offered me my coach and six ; besides many a good knight and gentleman , that would have parted with their own ladies , and have settled half they had upon me .", "Their nose and mouth are quite different .", "Now I find it : You are willing to save your settlement , and are sent by some of your wise counsellors , to pick a quarrel with me .", "It was something of a flagelet , that a shepherd played upon so sweetly , that three women followed him for his music , and still one of them snatched it from the other .", "You do not know him : he must perpetually be used ill , or he insults . Besides , I have gained an absolute dominion over him : he must not see , when I bid him wink . If you argue after this , either you love me not , or dare not .", "I defy you , slanderer ; I defy you .", "Alas , I know , by experience , I may safely trust my person with you ."], "true_target": ["Let him be damned ; and so farewell for ever .\u2014", "Limberham .", "This is somewhat ; proceed , sweet sir .", "After a quarter of an hour , I suppose , I shall have my liberty upon easy terms . But pray let us parley a little first .", "Father , father Aldo !", "Make haste , for heaven 's sake ; they 'll quickly be gone , and then \u2014", "You see what a good natured fool I am , Mr Limberham , to come back into a wicked world , for love of you .\u2014 You will see the writings drawn , father ?", "You oaf you , do you not perceive it is the Italian seignior , who is come to sell me essences ?", "Now I see you are so reasonable , I 'll show you I dare trust your honesty ; the settlement shall be deferred till another day .", "Hold , sir , you act your part too far . Your friend was unconscionable , if he desired more favours at the first interview .", "He has been so often baffled , that he grows contemptible . Were he here , should he see you enter into my closet ; yet \u2014", "Woodall must have told him of our appointment .\u2014 What think you of walking down , Mr Limberham ?", "You are not jealous ?", "If you will present me , I have bidden him ten guineas .", "Come , what foolish curiosity ?", "It shall not be opened ; I will have my will , though I lose my settlement . Would I were within the chest ! I would hold it down , to spite you . I say again , would I were within the chest , I would hold it so fast , you should not open it .\u2014 The best o n't is , there 's good inkle on the top of the inside , if he have the wit to lay hold o n't .", "Yes , you have seen Mrs Brainsick ; she 's a beauty .", "Not to a boarding-house , I hope ?", "Let me alone : I 'll have him cudgelled by my footman .", "Loraine and Crequi .", "Heavens ! I hear Mr Limberham 's voice : he 's returned from Barnet .", "No , keep it , keep it : the lodgings are your own .", "I was just coming down to the garden-house , before you came .", "If I have any , you know him best : You are the only ruin of my reputation . But if I have dishonoured my family , for the love of you , methinks you should be the last man to upbraid me with it .", "Nay , but swear then .", "I have put him to a stand .", "What , is a second summons needful ? my favours have not been so cheap , that they should stick upon my hands . It seems , you slight your bill of fare , because you know it ; or fear to be invited to your loss .", "That you should be so dull ! their suspicion will be as strong still : for what should make you here ?", "But what reason had you to forbid him , then , sir ?", "Then I know the worst , and care not .", "No matter for that ; I knew not he was there .", "Why , now I can consent with honour .", "Just come before you .", "Then all 's safe again .", "Fear him not , sweet Mr Brainsick .", "We 'll enquire the cause at better leisure ; come down , Mr", "You fancy all this ; I would not hurt you for the world . Come , you shall see how well I love you .Oh ! I think you have needles growing in your bed .", "Your servant , till we meet again .", "No more ; but satisfy your foolish fancy , for you are master : and , besides , I am willing to be justified .", "English ! away , you fop : \u2018 tis a kind of lingua Franca , as I have heard the merchants call it ; a certain compound language , made up of all tongues , that passes through the Levant .", "I have been looking over the last present of orange gloves you made me ; and methinks I do not like the scent .\u2014 O Lord , Mr Woodall , did you bring those you wear from Paris ?", "Oh , if that be your business , you had best search : And when you have wearied yourself , and spent your idle humour , you may find me above , in my chamber , and come to ask my pardon .", "\u2018 Tis so : go in , and mark the event now : be but as unconcerned , as you are safe , and trust him to my management .", "The jewels are all safe ; I looked on them .", "Mrs Pleasance is come to call us : pray let us go .", "Pr'ythee leave thy foppery , that we may have done with him . He asks an unreasonable price , and we cannot agree . Here , seignior , take your trinkets , and be gone .", "I make him my trustee ; he shall not restore it .", "No , it is no matter ; my thoughts are on a better place .", "For my sake , spare him .", "You had best tell now , and make yourself ridiculous .", "The devil 's in him ; will he confess ?", "Their eyes are nothing like :\u2014 you 'll have a quarrel .", "Nay , but her legs , if you could see them \u2014", "Still I am in the dark .", "Come , let us go down ; by this time Gervase has brought the smith , and then Mrs Pleasance may have her chest . Please you , sir , to bear us company .", "You must venture that : When we are rid of Limberham , \u2018 tis but slipping into your chamber , throwing off your black perriwig , and riding suit , and you come out an Englishman . No more ; he 's here .", "What new maggot 's this ? you dare not , sure , be jealous !", "Father Aldo ! I wonder you are not ashamed to call him so ; you may be his father , if the truth were known .", "No , I am prepared for any foolish freak of yours : I knew you would have a qualm , when you came to settlement .", "But there are other beauties in the house ; and I should be impatient of a rival : for I am apt to be partial to myself , and think I deserve to be preferred before them .", "I hate to be tormented with your jealous humours , and am glad to be rid of them .", "Now , see your folly : There 's the key .", "And his dam take me , if I return , except you do .", "Well , to show I am reasonable , I am content . Mr Gervase and I will fetch an instrument from the next smith ; in the mean time , let the chest remain where it now stands , and let every one depart the chamber .", "The chest open , and Woodall discovered ! I am ruined .", "You are not worthy my answer : I am gone .", "I will not satisfy your humour .", "What humour is this ? you are drunk , it seems : Go sleep .", "He 'll know my hand , and I am ruined !", "Why , by signs , you coxcomb .", "Look to it ; we shall expect them .\u2014 Now to put in my billet-doux !", "Then you shall pass for my Italian merchant of essences : here 's a little box of them just ready .", "Father Aldo , a word with you , for heaven 's sake .", "Good-morrow , seignior ; I like your spirits very well ; pray let me have all your essence you can spare .", "You shall feel no where : I have felt already and am sure they are lost .", "I know I shall : Farewell .", "Rise , sir : I will endeavour to overcome my nature , and forgive you ; for I am so scrupulously nice in love , that it grates my very soul to be suspected : Yet , take my counsel , and satisfy yourself .", "But my reputation !", "No wars , I beseech you : I am so weary of father Aldo 's", "No , no , he is there : You 'll find him up in the chimney , or behind the door ; or , it may be , crowded into some little galley-pot .", "I 'll hear nothing : I am for a nunnery .", "Pray let him go , he understands no English .", "I 'll have no judge : it shall not go .", "You seem to know him , father ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Pug 's absence .", "Yes , you have been in the dark ; I know it : But I shall bring you to light immediately .", "I thought what would come of your devil 's pater nosters !", "Well , honour is honour , and I must go : But I shall never get me such another Pug again ! O , my heart ! my poor tender heart ! it is just breaking with Pug 's unkindness !", "I 'll not be forsworn , I swore first ;", "That is well thought on . I will accuse him heinously ; there \u2014 and therefore fear and tremble .", "This lingua , what you call it , is the most rarest language ! I understand it as well as if it were English ; you shall see me answer him : Seignioro , stay a littlo , and consider wello , ten guinnio is monyo , a very considerablo summo .", "I believe he had the devil for his chaplain , an \u2019 a man durst tell him so .", "This confidence amazes me ! If those two gipsies have abused me , and I should not find him there now , this would make an immortal quarrel .", "Heard them , and seen them ! It may be so ; but yet I cannot enter into this same business : I am amazed , I must confess ; but the best is , I do not believe one word of it .", "Hang it , it is no matter ; I will be satisfied : If it comes to a rupture , I know the way to buy my peace . Pug , produce the key .", "Pray , for my sake , let it be your Chloris .", "Disloyal Pug !", "Nay , Mr Woodall is no thief , that 's certain ; but if a thief should be turned to Mr Woodall , that may be something .", "That is , Pug , he cannot possibly take ten guineas , \u2018 tis to his loss : Now I understand him ; this is almost English .", "How now , bully Brainsick ! What , upon the Tan ta ra , by yourself ?", "Hold , hold , divine Pug , and let me recollect a little .\u2014 This is no time for meditation neither : while I deliberate , she may be gone . She must be innocent , or she could never be so confident and careless .\u2014 Sweet Pug , forgive me .", "You had best peach now , and make her house be thought a bawdy-house !", "What have we here ?for Mr Woodall !", "You had as good call her your Succuba .", "I am sure you are of the family of your abominable great grandam Eve ; but produce the man , or , by my father 's soul \u2014", "Nay , if father Aldo knows it , I am satisfied .", "But Pug 's fortune does : that is dearer to me than Greece , and sweeter than ambergrease .", "O mercy , mercy !", "You may spare your breath , sir , if you please ; I desire none from you . It is true , I am satisfied of her virtue , in spite of slander ; but , to silence calumny , I shall civilly desire you henceforth , not to make a chapel-of-ease of Pug 's closet .", "Pray lead the way , sir .", "Then you shall be justified .", "English . How much shall I offer him , Pug ?", "Aldo , she has the stomach of an ostrich .", "Why a kek shoes let it be then ! and a kek shoes for your song .", "Nay , I am no predestinated fool ; and therefore , Pug , give way .", "Aldo .", "I cannot push ; I was never good at pushing . When I push , I think the devil pushes too . Well , I must let it alone , for I am a fumbler . Here , take the keys , Pug .", "She can digest them , and gold too . Let me tell you , father", "What , are you not acquainted with the contents of it ?", "It may be , ay ; it may be , no .", "Not very like , I confess .", "It is a round sum indeed ; I wish a three-cornered sum would have served her turn .\u2014 Why should you be so pervicacious now , Pug ? Pray take three hundred . Nay , rather than part , Pug , it shall be so .\u2014", "Some foolish French quelque chose , I warrant you .", "Now hear me too , for I am sober and discreet ; father Aldo is an oracle : It shall be so .", "Marry , heaven forbid !", "Never the sooner for your asking . But oh , that word parting ! can I bear it ? if she could find in her heart but so much grace , as to acknowledge what a traitress she has been , I think , in my conscience I could forgive her .", "Let her be a mistress for a pope , like a whore of Babylon , as she is .", "Do , tell , tell , no matter for that .", "Then , Seignioro , for Pugsakio , addo two moro : je vous donne bon advise : prenez vitement : prenez me \u00e0 mon mot .", "I have been your cully above these seven years ; but , at last , my eyes are opened to your witchcraft ; and indulgent heaven has taken care of my preservation . In short , madam , I have found you out ; and , to cut off preambles , produce your adulterer .", "I am deaf as an adder ; I will not hear thee , nor have no commiseration .", "Do you know it , father Aldo .", "I would not be satisfied , to be possessor of Potosi , as my brother Brainsick says . Come to bed , dear Pug .\u2014 Now would not I change my condition , to be an eastern monarch !", "What , wilt thou kill me , Pug , with thy unkindness , when thou knowest I cannot live without thee ? It goes to my heart , that this wicked fellow \u2014", "So , now you have spit your venom , and the storm 's over .", "Ay , for all your fate and furies , I charge you , in his majesty 's name , to keep the peace : now , disobey authority , if you dare .", "Yes , I am resolved ; for I have sworn to myself by Styx ; and that is an irrevocable oath .", "Here are jewels , that cost me above two thousand pounds ; a queen might wear them . Behold this orient necklace , Pug ! \u2018 tis pity any neck should touch it , after thine , that pretty neck ! but oh , \u2018 tis the falsest neck that e'er was hanged in pearl .", "Ay , what reason had you to forbid me , then , sir ?", "Mr Woodall , we leave you here \u2014 you remember ?", "Be not musty , my pretty St Peter , but produce the keys . I must have the writings out , that concern thy settlement .", "Nay , but hold a little , Pug . What 's the meaning of this new commotion ?", "Yes , I was such a fool , to swear so .", "Pug !", "Why , who says against it ? Let it be carried ; I 'm all for reason .", "But you would be entreated , and say , Nolo , nolo , nolo , three times , like any bishop , when your mouth waters at the diocese .", "O save me , Pug , save me !", "Why , how now , Pug ? Nay , I must lay you over the lips , to take hansel of them , for my welcome .", "Why all this shrieking , Mrs Saintly ?", "Yes , sir , you may speak your pleasure to her ; and , if you have a mind to go to prayers together , the closet is open .", "Very good ! then I 'll first pull him by the sleeve , that 's a sign to stay . Look you , Mr Seignior , I would make a present of your essences to this lady ; for I find I cannot speak too plain to you , because you understand no English . Be not you refractory now , but take ready money : that 's a rule .", "The close of it is the most ravishing I ever heard !", "But , are you sure you shall ?", "There is both hansello and guinnio ; tako , tako , and so good-morrow .", "If her dream should come out now ! \u2018 tis good to be sure , however .", "English , and leave thy canting .", "Ay , fiat justitia , Pug : She must have her own ; for justitia is Latin for justice .", "Yes , I am a man ; but a man 's but a man , you know : I am recollecting myself , how these things can be .", "Yes , we will come after you , bully Brainsick : but I hope you will not draw upon us there .", "Before George , and so it is .", "Sir , I am a peaceable man , and a good Christian , though I say it , and desire no satisfaction from any man . Pug and I are partly agreed upon the point already ; and therefore lay thy hand upon thy heart , Pug , and , if thou canst , from the bottom of thy soul , defy mankind , naming no body , I 'll forgive thy past enormities ; and , to give good example to all Christian keepers , will take thee to be my wedded wife ; and thy four hundred a-year shall be settled upon thee , for separate maintenance .", "Is that all you make of me ?", "Then how could you drive a bargain with him , Pug ?", "But yet , if I should look , and not find her false , then I must cast in another hundred , to make her satisfaction .", "The devil take me , if I call you back .", "Before George , but I have the spirit of a lion , and I will tear her limb from limb \u2014 if I could believe it .", "Well , Pug , all shall be amended ; I am come home on purpose to pay old debts . But who is that same fellow there ? What makes he in our territories ?", "It is the property of a goddess to forgive . Accept of this oblation ; with this humble kiss , I here present it to thy fair hand : I conclude thee innocent without looking , and depend wholly upon thy mercy .", "\u2018 Tis unreasonable it should be broken open .", "No , I protest , sweet Pug , I am not : only to satisfy my curiosity ; that 's but reasonable , you know .", "You may use your pleasure with your own ."], "true_target": ["If this maggot bite a little deeper , we shall have you a citizen of Bethlem yet , ere dog-days . Well , I say little ; but I will tell Pug on it .", "Bully Brainsick , Pug has sent me to you on an embassy , to bring you down to cards again ; she is in her mulligrubs already ; she will never forgive you the last vol you won . It is but losing a little to her , out of complaisance , as they say , to a fair lady ; and whatever she wins , I will make up to you again in private .", "Cry you mercy , sir ; I durst have sworn you could have spoken lingua Franca \u2014 I thought , in my conscience , Pug , this had been thy Italian merchanto .", "No ; I am too certain to be jealous : But you have a man here , that shall be nameless ; let me see him .", "O , then all 's well . For , to tell you true , Pug , I had a kind of villainous apprehension that you had been here longer : but whatever thou sayest is an oracle , sweet Pug , and I am satisfied .", "And , before George , you bid him fair . Look you , Mr Seignior , I will give you all these . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 . Do you see , Seignior ?", "Well , if I must give three hundred \u2014", "Dost thou not wonder to see me come again so quickly , Pug ?", "I 'll settle two hundred a-year upon thee , because thou said'st thou would'st pray for me .", "As mine gentlewoman ? though I say it , my word will go for thousands .", "My heart was at my mouth , for fear it had been Pug 's .\u2014 There \u2018 tis again \u2014 Hold , hold ; pray let me see it once more : a mistress , said you ?", "I defy her too .", "Nay , if it were only his caprichio , I am satisfied ; though I must tell you , I was in a kind of huff , to hear him Tan ta ra , tan ta ra , a quarter of an hour together ; for Tan ta ra is but an odd kind of sound , you know , before a man 's chamber .", "Before George , I am thunder-struck !", "But then thou wilt not love me , Pug .", "Before George , I think you have the devil in a string , Pug ; I cannot open it , for the guts of me . Hictius doctius ! what 's here to do ? I believe , in my conscience , Pug can conjure : Marry , God bless us all good Christians !", "Nay , nothing ; but that I thought you had not been so well given . I was only afraid of Pug 's jewels .", "Sir , I beg your pardon , with all my hearto . Before George , I was caught again there ! But you are so very like a paltry fellow , who came to sell Pug essences this morning , that one would swear those eyes , and that nose and mouth , belonged to that rascal .", "How now , Pug ? returned so soon !", "With all my heart , while she is in a good humour : It would cost me another hundred , if I should stay till Pug were in wrath again . Adieu , sweet Pug .\u2014", "Yes , I will hear thee , Pug .", "But why should you be in your frumps , Pug , when I design only to oblige you ? I must present you with this box of essences ; nothing can be too dear for thee .", "Nay , if my own eyes testify , it may be so :\u2014 but it is impossible , however ; for I am making a settlement upon her , this very day .", "Yes , for Pug 's sake , spare me .", "Pray do , sir : consider him much .", "Of a Roman gladiator !\u2014 Now are you as mad as a March hare ; but I am in haste , to return to Pug : yet , by your favour , I will first secure the cabinet .", "I have put myself into this same unsavoury heat , out of my violent affection to see thee , Pug . Before George , as father Aldo says , I could not live without thee ; thou art the purest bed-fellow , though I say it , that I did nothing but dream of thee all night ; and then I was so troublesome to father Aldo ,that , in my conscience , I did so kiss him , and so hug him in my sleep !", "Under the rose , good Mr Woodall ; but , I speak it with all submission , in the bitterness of my spirit , that you , or any man , should have the disposing of my four hundred a-year gratis ; therefore dear Pug , a word in private , with your permission , good Mr Woodall .", "Hold , hold , since you are so devout ; for heaven 's sake , hold !", "Do not hinder her , good father Aldo ; I am sure she will come back from France , before she gets half way over to Calais .", "This is a very dull fellow ! he says , he does not intend", "As Pug says , they are quite different , indeed ; but I durst have sworn it had been he ; and , therefore , once again , I demand your pardono .", "Ay , you said so .", "A vision , landlady ! what , have we Gog and Magog in our chamber ?", "Must not ? What , may not a man come by you , to look upon his own goods and chattels , in his own chamber ?", "I have been whetting all this while : They shall be so taken in the manner , that Mars and Venus shall be nothing to them .", "Why , that is a loving Pug ; I will prove thee innocent immediately : And that will put an end to all controversies betwixt us .", "Then I will satisfy it myself : for my generous blood is up , and I 'll force my entrance .", "You may go , madam ; but I shall beseech your ladyship to leave the key of the still-house door behind you : I have a mind to some of the sweet-meats you have locked up there ; you understand me . Now , for the old dog-trick ! you have lost the key , I know already , but I am prepared for that ; you shall know you have no fool to deal with .", "A poco , a poco ! why a pox on you too , an \u2019 you go to that . Stay , now I think o n't , I can tickle him up with French ; he 'll understand that sure . Monsieur , voulez vous prendre ces dix guinees , pour ces essences ? mon foy c'est assez .", "But you will not leave me , if I should look ?", "How long have you been here ?", "Pug is in a pure humour to-night , and it would vex a man to lose it ; but yet I must be satisfied :\u2014 and therefore , upon mature consideration , give me the key .", "She 's in passion : Pray do you moderate this matter , father", "O Pug , how have you been passing your time ?", "Would I could believe thee !", "What is the matter , landlady ? Pr'ythee , speak good honest", "Look you now , Pug ! who 's in the right ? Well , thou art born to be a lucky Pug , in spite of thyself . TrickO , I am ruined !\u2014 One word , I beseech you , father Aldo .", "Since you wo n't persuade me , I care not much ; here are the jewels in my possession , and I 'll fetch out the settlement immediately .", "Yes , I will go on ;\u2014 and yet my mind misgives me plaguily .", "Nay , but dear sweet honey Pug , forgive me but this once : It may be any man 's case , when his desires are too vehement .", "I 'll but visit the chamber a little first .", "That 's a jest ! let me feel in thy pocket , for I must oblige thee .", "Come , Puggio , and let us retire in secreto , like lovers , into our chambro ; for I grow impatiento \u2014 bon matin , monsieur , bon matin et bon jour .", "What did Pug say ? will she pray for me ? Well , to shew I am in charity , she shall not pray for me . Come back , Pug . But did I ever think thou couldst have been so unkind to have parted with me ?", "Hold , pray stay a little , seignior ; a thing is come into my head of the sudden .", "Is this the seignior ? I warrant you , it is he the lampoon was made on .", "Then ignorance , by your leave ; for I must enter .", "Bear witness , good people , of her ingratitude ! Nothing vexes me , but that she calls me jealous ; when I found him as close as a butterfly in her closet .", "Nay , nay , leave but your madrigal behind : draw not that upon us , and it is no matter for your sword .", "But give me leave to consider first : A man must do nothing rashly .", "That no violence be offered to the person of the chest , in", "Do , who cares ? Go to Dog-and-Bitch yard , and help your mother to make footmen 's shirts .", "Thou hast robbed me of my repose for ever : I am like Macbeth , after the death of good king Duncan ; methinks a voice says to me ,\u2014 Sleep no more ; Tricksy has murdered sleep .", "Will you leave your perboles , and come then ?", "That 's true : \u2018 Tis but reasonable it should be broken open .", "Hark you , Mr Woodall ; this fool Brainsick grows insupportable ; he 's a public nuisance ; but I scorn to set my wit against him : he has a pretty wife : I say no more ; but if you do not graff him \u2014", "Commend me to honest lingua Franca . Why , this is enough to stun a Christian , with your Hebrew , and your Greek , and such like Latin .", "Yes , that shall satisfy me .", "I think all the stars in heaven have conspired my ruin . I 'll look in my almanack .\u2014 As I hope for mercy , \u2018 tis cross day now .", "Pr'ythee , what have we to do with potentates and princes ? Will you leave your troping , and let me pass ?", "\u2018 Tis a fine time to cry a man mercy , when you have beaten his wind out of his body .", "Lo \u2019 you there , Pug , he does see . Here , will you take me at my word ?", "No matter for the ungodly ; this is all among ourselves : For , look you , the business is this . Mrs Pleasance has sent for this same business here , which she lent to Pug ; now Pug has some private businesses within this business , which she would take out first , and the business will not be opened : and this makes all the business .", "You must know , Pug , I was going but just now , in obedience to your commands , to enquire of the health and safety of your jewels , and my brother Brainsick most barbarously forbade me entrance :\u2014 nay , I dare accuse you , when Pug 's by to back me ;\u2014 but now I am resolved I will go see them , or somebody shall smoke for it .", "I thought , indeed , that something held down the chest , when I would have opened it :\u2014 But my writings are there still , that 's one comfort .\u2014 Oh seignioro , are you here ?", "If I should keep it , I were unworthy of forgiveness : I will no longer hold this fatal instrument of our separation .", "Nay , I confess , Phillis is a very pretty name .", "Your settlement depends most absolutely on that chest .", "That flagelet was , by interpretation ,\u2014 but let that pass ; and Mr Woodall , there , was the shepherd , that played the tan ta ra upon it : but a generous heart , like mine , will endure the infamy no longer ; therefore , Pug , I banish thee for ever .", "Well , that 's but reason : If she must have it , she must have it . Trick Tell her , it shall be returned some time to-day ; at present we must crave her pardon , because we have some writings in it , which must first be taken out , when we can open it .", "In good time be it spoken ; and so I did , Mrs Pleasance .", "Nay , that 's but reason too : Then she must not have it .", "Nay , that 's very true ; for , you may remember she fed very much upon larks and pigeons ; and they are very heavy meat , as Pug says .", "But why , of all names , would you chuse a Phillis ? There have been so many Phillises in songs , I thought there had not been another left , for love or money .", "Nay , an you are in your perbole 's again ! Look you , it is Pug is jealous of her jewels : she has left the key of her cabinet behind , and has desired me to bring it back to her .", "But which way came you , that I saw you not ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And hollow mountains", "Every woman would not have done this for you , which I have done .", "I suppose you may be mistaken : my servant 's father is a knight of Hampshire .", "I would have told you so , if I could have spoken for fear .", "Every nymph mourns me ,", "The best way will be , for father Aldo to lend me the key of his door , which opens into my chamber ; and so I can convey him out .", "Still you 're a lucky man ! Mr Brainsick has been exceeding honourable : he ran , as if a legion of bailiffs had been at his heels , and overtook Limberham in the street . Here , take the gown ; lay it where you found it , and the danger 's over .", "Pray , father Aldo , do you beg my pardon of my master . I have committed a fault ; I have hidden a gentleman in my chamber , who is to marry me without his friends \u2019 consent , and therefore came in private to me .", "Madam , your mother would speak with you .", "You may enter in safety , sir ; the enemy 's marched off . Re-enter WOODALL .", "I 'll try my skill .", "A SONG FROM THE ITALIAN .", "But cruel she I loved in vain .", "Who caused my anguish .", "What , kiss and tell , father Aldo ? kiss and tell !", "Kind is death , that ends my pain ,", "Like a swan , so sung he dying ,\u2014", "She only scorns me ,", "But one . You must excuse my unbelief , though Mrs Brainsick is better satisfied . She and her husband , you know , went out this morning to the New Exchange : There she has given him the slip ; and pretending to call at her tailor 's to try her stays for a new gown \u2014", "As you were , most certainly ."], "true_target": ["Well , I must retire ; good-morrow to you , sir .", "Damon cried , all pale and dying ,\u2014", "O Lord , madam , what shall I say ?", "Immediately ; I hear her coming .", "Murmur my trouble ,", "The mossy fountains", "My master 's so outrageous ! sweet madam , do you intercede for me , and I 'll tell you all in private .", "Mr Brainsick , Mr Brainsick , what do you mean , to make my lady lose her game thus ? Pray , come back , and take up her cards again .", "Madam , Mrs Pleasance has sent for the chest you borrowed of her . She has present occasion for it ; and has desired us to carry it away .", "And , to make all sure , I am ordered to be from home . When I come back again , I shall knock at your door , with , Speak , brother , speak ;", "But cruel she I loved in vain .", "Kind is death , that ends my pain ,", "Follow me , sir .", "Well , you are a lucky man ! Mrs Brainsick is fool enough to believe you wholly innocent ; and that the adventure of the garden-house , last night , was only a vision of Mrs Saintly 's .", "My groans redouble :", "Thus while I languish ;", "Are you mad ? you shall not .", "By a dismal cypress lying ,", "By a dismal cypress lying ,", "No love returning me , but all hope denying ;", "Yes ; but because your chamber will be least suspicious , she appoints to meet you there ; that , if her husband should come back , he may think her still abroad , and you may have time \u2014"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["I 'll go in , and vent my passion , by railing at them , and him too .", "And as for you , young gallant \u2014", "Make haste ; go on then .", "Perhaps , indeed , in the way of honour \u2014", "I make him nothing , madam : but the thief in my dream was like", "O , father Aldo , we have wanted you ! Here has been made the rarest discovery !", "If I am not mistaken in you , too , he has works of charity enough upon his hands already ; but \u2018 tis a willing soul , I 'll warrant him , eager upon the quarry , and as sharp as a governor of Covent-Garden .", "Was there ever such a meek , hen-hearted creature !", "Now , good John among the maids , how mean you to bestow your time ? Away to your study , I advise you ; invoke your muses , and make madrigals upon absence .", "I will not come ; I 'm mad , I think ; I come immediately . Well ,", "Your hand , sweet moiety .", "Why this ceremony betwixt you ? \u2018 Tis a likely proper fellow , and looks as he could people a new isle of Pines", "O , I find it now ! you are going to set up your bills , like a love-mountebank , for the speedy cure of distressed widows , old ladies , and languishing maids in the green-sickness : a sovereign remedy .", "Nay , for your part , you are notably guarded , I confess ; but keepers have their rooks , as well as gamesters ; but they only venture under them till they pick up a sum , and then push for themselves .", "Down with the Suburbians , down with them .", "This mads me ; but I cannot help it .", "Your two mistresses keep both shop and warehouse ; and what they cannot put off in gross , to the keeper and the husband , they sell by retail to the next chance-customer . Come , are you edified ?", "I could tear out the villain 's eyes , for dishonouring you , while you stand considering , as you call it . Are you a man , and suffer this ?", "So ; let but little minx go proud , and the dogs in", "By these languishing eyes , and those simagres of yours , we are given to understand , sir , you have a mistress in this company ; come , make a free discovery which of them your poetry is to charm , and put the other out of pain .", "For all the rudeness of your language , I am resolved to know upon what voyage you are bound ; your privateer of love , you Argier 's man , that cruize up and down for prize in the Straitsmouth ; which of the vessels would you snap now ?", "And that a great swinging thief came in , and whipt them out .", "Why this is as it should be .", "Never fear it , I 'll be a spy upon his actions ; he shall neither whisper nor gloat on either of them , but I 'll ring him such a peal !", "Will you not stay , sir ? it may be I have a little business with you .", "Out upon thee ! fifty guineas ! Dost thou think I 'll sell myself ? And at a playhouse price too ? Whenever I go , I go all together : No cutting from the whole piece ; he who has me shall have the fag-end with the rest , I warrant him . Be satisfied , thy sheers shall never enter into my cloth . But , look to thyself , thou impudent belswagger : I will he revenged ; I will .", "I 'll take care of false worship , I 'll warrant him . He shall have no more to do with Bel and the Dragon .", "Not with ballum rankum every night , I hope !", "This spitefulness of mine will be my ruin : To rail them off , was well enough ; but to talk him away , too ! O tongue , tongue , thou wert given for a curse to all our sex !", "But I fear he is so horribly given to go a house-warming abroad , that the least part of the provision will come to my share at home ."], "true_target": ["Not by you ; correct your matrimony .\u2014 And methought , of a sudden this thief was turned to Mr Woodall ; and that , hearing Mr Limberham come , he slipt for fear into the closet .", "Then you are a predestinated fool , and somewhat worse , that shall be nameless . Do you not see how grossly she abuses you ? my life o n't , there 's somebody within , and she knows it ; otherwise she would suffer you to bring out the jewels .", "Mr Woodall ; and that thief may have made Mr Limberham something .", "Go on ; my life for yours , he is there .", "Why should my mother be so inquisitive about this lodger ? I half suspect old Eve herself has a mind to be nibbling at the pippin . He makes love to one of them , I am confident ; it may be to both ; for , methinks , I should have done so , if I had been a man ; but the damned petticoats have perverted me to honesty , and therefore I have a grudge to him for the privilege of his sex . He shuns me , too , and that vexes me ; for , though I would deny him , I scorn he should not think me worth a civil question . Re-enter WOODALL , with TRICKSY , MRS BRAINSICK , JUDITH , and Music .", "What , you have been pricking up and down here upon a cold scent; but , at last , you have hit it off , it seems ! Now for a fair view at the wife or mistress : up the wind , and away with it : Hey , Jowler !\u2014 I think I am bewitched , I cannot hold .", "to Brain . But , if you should hinder him , he may trouble you at law , sir , and say you robbed him of his jewels .", "It is unconscionably done of me , to debar you the freedom and civilities of the house . Alas , poor gentleman ! to take a lodging at so dear a rate , and not to have the benefit of his bargain !\u2014 Mischief on me , what needed I have said that ?", "You will not take them up , sir ?", "I am in the humour of giving you good counsel . The wife can afford you but the leavings of a fop ; and to a witty man , as you think yourself , that is nauseous : The mistress has fed upon a fool so long , she is carrion too , and common into the bargain . Would you beat a ground for game in the afternoon , when my lord mayor 's pack had been before you in the morning ?", "Yes , as much as your husbands do after the first month of marriage ; but you requite their negligence in household-duties , by making them husbands of the first head , ere the year be over .", "Have you no sense of honour in you ?", "What , young father Aldo !", "I am contented to cancel the old score ; but take heed of bringing me an after-reckoning .", "Hold , sir ; it was a foolish dream of mine that set him on . I dreamt , a thief , who had been just reprieved for a former robbery , was venturing his neck a minute after in Mr Limberham 's closet .", "Look , and satisfy yourself , ere you make that settlement on so false a creature .", "If they were wise , they would rather go to a brothel-house ; for there most mistresses have left behind them their maiden-heads , of blessed memory : and those , which would not go off in that market , are carried about by bawds , and sold at doors , like stale flesh in baskets . Then , for your honesty , or justness , as you call it , to your keepers , your kept-mistress is originally a punk ; and let the cat be changed into a lady never so formally , she still retains her natural property of mousing .", "I 'll conquer my proud spirit , I am resolved on it , and speak kindly to him .\u2014 What , alone , sir ! If my company be not troublesome ; or a tender young creature , as I am , may safely trust herself with a man of such prowess , in love affairs \u2014 It wonnot be .", "Meaning , some secret inclination to that amiable person of yours ?", "In troth , I pity you ; for you have undertaken a most difficult task ,\u2014 to cozen two women , who are no babies in their art : if you bring it about , you perform as much as he that cheated the very lottery .", "Oh dear , Mr Limberham , I have had the dreadfullest dream to-night , and am come to tell it you : I dreamed you left your mistress 's jewels in your chamber , and the door open .", "No ; he shall have an honourable truce for one day at least ; for it is not fair to put a fresh enemy upon him .", "To him : I 'll second you : now for mischief !", "Do you stand unmoved , and hear all this ?", "Pray resolve me first , for which of them you lie in ambush ; for , methinks , you have the mien of a spider in her den . Come , I know the web is spread , and whoever comes , Sir Cranion stands ready to dart out , hale her in , and shed his venom .", "Covent-Garden have her in the wind immediately ; all pursue the scent .", "I understand her ; but I find she is bribed to secrecy .", "Judith has assured me , he must be there ; and , I am resolved , I 'll satisfy my revenge at any rate upon my rivals .", "Love , jealousy , and disdain , how they torture me at once ! and this insensible creature \u2014 were I but in his place \u2014Think , that this very instant she is yours no more : Now , now she is giving up herself , with so much violence of love , that if thunder roared , she could not hear it .", "Sure you cannot be so unnatural .", "Pray stay a little ; I 'll not leave you thus ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u2018 Twere a work of charity to convert a fair young schismatick , like you , if \u2018 twere but to gain you to a better opinion of the government .", "Well , I shall never heartily forgive you .", "Is it nothing , do you think , for a woman of honour , to overcome the ties of virtue and reputation ; to do that for you , which I thought I should never have ventured for the sake of any man ?", "Nay , but why should he be so fretful now ? and knows I dote on him ? to leave a poor dear so long without him , and then come home in an angry humour ! indeed I 'll ky .", "Though I believe he dares not venture in , yet I must not put it to the trial . Why Judith , come out , come out , huswife . Enter JUDITH , trembling . What villain have you hid within ?", "I hope not : I thought I had left him sure enough at the Exchange ; but , looking behind me , as I entered into the house , I saw him walking a round rate this way .", "Oh dear Mr Woodall , what shall I do ?", "I had rather have got into my own ; but Judith is gone out with the key , I doubt .", "I believe , dear , she 's making it .\u2014 Would the fool would go !", "But my husband follows me at heels .", "Let my own dear alone , to find a fool out .", "He must be discovered , and I unavoidably undone !", "My note has taken , as I wished : he will be here immediately . If I could but resolve to lose no time , out of modesty ; but it is his part to be violent , for both our credits . Never so little force and ruffling , and a poor weak woman is excused .Hark , I hear him coming .\u2014 Ah me ! the steps beat double : He comes not alone . If it should be my husband with him ! where shall I hide myself ? I see no other place , but under his bed : I must lie as silently as my fear will suffer me . Heaven send me safe again to my own chamber !", "Could I do it , ungrateful as you are , with more obligation to you , or more hazard to myself , than by putting my note into your glove ?", "Nay , if that were all , I expect not my husband till to-morrow . The truth is , he is so oddly humoured , that , if I were ill inclined , it would half justify a woman ; he 's such a kind of man !", "I have a dismal apprehension in my head , that he 's giving my maid a cast of his office , in my stead . O , how it stings me !", "Can'st thou not speak ? hast thou seen a ghost ?\u2014 As I live , she signs horns ! that must be for my husband : he 's returned .", "Make haste , then .", "All this while the poor gentleman is left in pain : we must let him out in secret ; for I believe the young fellow is so bashful , he would not willingly be seen .", "Meaning me .\u2014 Well , sir , your servant .", "Come , your works , your works ; they shall have the approbation of Mrs Pleasance .", "So , now I 'm ruined unavoidably .", "So fantastical , so musical , his talk all rapture , and half nonsense : like a clock out of order , set him a-going , and he strikes eternally . Besides , he thinks me such a fool , that I could half resolve to revenge myself , in justification of my wit .", "A venial love-trespass , dear : \u2018 tis a sweetheart of hers ; one that is to marry her ; and she was unwilling I should know it , so she hid him in her chamber .", "Not for the world : there may be a thief there ; and should I put \u2018 nown dear in danger of his life ?\u2014 What shall I do ? betwixt the jealousy of my love , and fear of this fool , I am distracted : I must not venture them together , whatever comes on it .Why Judith , I say ! come forth , damsel .", "Mrs Brainsick !", "Who would have thought , that \u2018 nown dear would have come so soon ? I was even lying down on my bed , and dreaming of him . Tum a \u2019 me , and buss , poor dear ; piddee buss .", "By the same token , you vowed and swore never to look on", "Heaven be praised , for this knower of all things ! Now will he lie three or four rapping volunteers , rather than be thought ignorant in any thing .", "Then I am lost ; for I cannot enter into my own .", "He blunders ; I must help him .I warrant \u2018 twas before marriage , that you were so great .", "We wives are despicable creatures ; we know it , madam , when a mistress is in presence .", "My husband , as I live ! Well , for all my quarrel to you , step immediately into that little dark closet : it is for my private occasions ; there is no lock , but he will not stay ."], "true_target": ["There is no remedy , I must venture in ; for his knowing I am come back so soon , must be cause of jealousy enough , if the fool should find me .", "I 'll go and pass an hour with Mrs Tricksy .", "I am afraid they are quarrelling ; pray heaven I get off .", "I thought so : some light huswife has bewitched him from me : I was a little fool , so I was , to leave a dear behind at Barnet , when I knew the women would run mad for him .", "So , now , I have the opportunity to thrust in my note .", "You had concluded well , if you had been my husband : you know where our subjection lies .", "Then my steps , which are not so precious , shall be employed for you : I will call up Judith .", "Yet , I could say , in my defence , that my friends married me to him against my will .", "How now , sir ? what impudence is this of yours , to approach my lodgings ?", "Yes , we did overhear her ; and we will both testify against her .", "If I could have imagined how base a fellow you had been , you should not then have been troubled with my company .", "And now she would \u2018 scape herself , by accusing us ! but let us both conclude to cast an infamy upon her house , and leave it .", "Marry Mrs Saintly 's daughter !", "Perhaps , I meant not so . Wood , I understand your meaning at your eyes . You 'll watch , Judith ?", "Nay , not both , good Mrs Tricksy ; for I love that scent as well as you .", "Oh , goes it there ?\u2014 Why should you ask me such a question , when every body in the house can tell they are \u2018 nown dear 's ?", "My dear , I am coming to do my duty . I did but go up a little ,and am returning immediately .", "Well , I 'm resolved , I 'll read , against the next time I see you ; for the truth is , I am not very well prepared with arguments for marriage ; meanwhile , farewell .", "Let me alone .\u2014 And is this all ? Why would you not confess it before , Judith ? when you know I am an indulgent mistress .", "O lord , dear , it is not worthy to receive such a man as you are .", "Pray heaven I may .", "And now I think o n't , I have some letters to dispatch .", "The most dumb interview I ever saw !", "I beseech you , madam , discover nothing betwixt him and me .", "It is not in the way , child : You may go down into the garden .", "You wished it so ; which made you so easily believe it . I heard the pleasant dialogue betwixt you .", "That 's well come off !", "I will put on my vizor-mask , however , for more security .Hark ! I hear him .", "Hark , a knocking ! What shall we do ?", "How should I know what you should say ? Mr Brainsick has heard a man 's voice within ; if you know what he makes there , confess the truth ; I am almost dead with fear , and he stands shaking .", "Oh , my misfortune ! Mr Woodall , will you suffer your secrets to be discovered !", "Pray take the other to it ; though I should have kept it for a pawn .", "I will :\u2014 but are not you a wicked man , to put me into all this danger ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["It is the office of a friend : I will do it .", "Nay , monsieur Woodall !", "Will you never stand corrected , Mrs Pleasance ?", "You would not venture a wager of ten pounds , that you are not mistaken ?", "Yet again !\u2014 My Phillis \u2014", "George for merry England . Tan ta ra ra ra , ra ra ! Dub , a dub , dub ;", "But , why Mr Saintly ?", "If you fear that , Bilbo shall be left behind .", "It shall be spent : We will have a treat with it . This is a fool of the first magnitude .", "Thou hast it , boy . Turn to him , madam ; to her Woodall : and St", "Why in such haste ? the fortune of Greece depends not on it .", "Your Limberham is nearer than you imagine : I left him almost entering at the door .", "What , I think you are in a dream too , brother Limberham .", "With the most comical catastrophe !", "Terror , I ! \u2018 tis indignation shakes me . With this sabre I 'll slice him as small as atoms ; he shall be doomed by the judge , and damned upon the gibbet .", "Do you know his friends , father Aldo ?", "I dwell not on your commendations . What say you , sir ?", "My allegiance charms me : I acquiesce . The occasion is plausible to let him pass .\u2014 Now let the burnished beams upon his brow blaze broad , for the brand he cast upon the Brainsick .", "An honest woman , and yet you two have tumbled together ! those are inconsistent .", "Clangor , taratantara , murmur .", "Friendship , which has done much , will yet do more .With this passe par tout , I will instantly conduct her to my own chamber , that she may out-face the keeper , she has been there ; and , when my wife returns , who is my slave , I will lay my conjugal commands upon her , to affirm , they have been all this time together .", "No , you must not .", "Clear as a level , without hills or woods , and void of ambuscade .", "Out , ignorance !", "I 'll enter , and find the reason of this tumult .", "But I resolve you shall not . If she pleases to command my person , I can comply with the obligation of a cavalier .", "Nay , thanks to my genius , that care 's over : you shall see , you shall see . But first the air .Is it not very fine ? Ha , messieurs !", "She knows it already , by your favour \u2014", "Tan ta ra ra ra .", "If a man should listen to a fop !", "Is it not admirable ? Do you enter into it ?", "Monsieur Woodall !", "Come hither , wedlock , and let me seal my lasting love upon thy lips . Saintly has been seduced , and so has Tricksy ; but thou alone art kind and constant . Hitherto I have not valued modesty , according to its merit ; but hereafter , Memphis shall not boast a monument more firm than my affection .", "Content .\u2014 Come hither , lady mine : Whose lodgings are these ? who is lord , and grand seignior of them ?", "I will not dance attendance . At the present , your closet shall be honoured .", "Morbleu ! will you not give me leave ? I am full of Phillis .My Phillis \u2014", "My Phillis \u2014", "Whoever thou art , I have pronounced thy doom ; the dreadful Brainsick bares his brawny arm in tearing terror ; kneeling queens in vain should beg thy being .\u2014 Sa , sa , there .", "Sir , \u2018 tis my extreme ambition to be better known to you ; you come out of the country I adore . And how does the dear Battist? I long for some of his new compositions in the last opera . A propos ! I have had the most happy invention this morning , and a tune trouling in my head ; I rise immediately in my night-gown and slippers , down I put the notes slap-dash , made words to them like lightning ; and I warrant you have them at the circle in the evening .", "Bars of brass , and doors of adamant , could not more secure you .", "O , at the door of the damsel Tricksy ! your business is known by your abode ; as the posture of a porter before a gate , denotes to what family he belongs .It is an assignation , I see ; for yonder she stands , with her back toward me , drest up for the duel , with all the ornaments of the east . Now for the judges of the field , to divide the sun and wind betwixt the combatants , and a tearing trumpeter to sound the charge .", "Now , damsel Tricksy , your dream , your dream !", "I have a luscious air forming , like a Pallas , in my brain-pain : and now thou com'st across my fancy , to disturb the rich ideas , with the yellow jaundice of thy jealousy ."], "true_target": ["And what 's his name ?", "You might command me , sir ; for I sing too en cavalier : but \u2014", "Your sex is but one universal ordure , a nuisance , and incumbrance of that majestic creature , man : yet I myself am mortal too . Nature 's necessities have called me up ; produce your utensil of urine .", "I 'll give you the opportunity , and rid you of him .\u2014 Come away , little Limberham ; you , and I , and father Aldo , will take a turn together in the square .", "I nauseate these foolish feats of love .", "Spoil all , quotha ! what does he mean , in the name of wonder ?", "What 's the matter , gentlewoman ? Am I excluded from my own fortress ; and by the way of barricado ? Am I to dance attendance at the door , as if I were some base plebeian groom ? I 'll have you know , that , when my foot assaults , the lightning and the thunder are not so terrible as the strokes : brazen gates shall tremble , and bolts of adamant dismount from off their hinges , to admit me .", "I will slice the slave . Ha ! fate and furies !", "Dear sir , I 'll not die ungrateful for your approbation .You see this fellow ? he is an ass already ; he has a handsome mistress , and you shall make an ox of him ere long .", "The voyage is too far : though the way were paved with pearls and diamonds , every step of mine is precious , as the march of monarchs .", "Diable ! Now I will not sing , to spite you . By the world , you are not worthy of it . Well , I have a gentleman 's fortune ; I have courage , and make no inconsiderable figure in the world : yet I would quit my pretensions to all these , rather than not be author of this sonnet , which your rudeness has irrevocably lost .", "Poor fool ! he little thinks she is here before him !\u2014 Well , this pretence will never pass on me ; for I dive deeper into your affairs ; you are jealous . But , rather than my soul should be concerned for a sex so insignificant \u2014 Ha ! the gods ! If I thought my proper wife were now within , and prostituting all her treasures to the lawless love of an adulterer , I would stand as intrepid , as firm , and as unmoved , as the statue of a Roman gladiator .", "I would not be that slave you are , to enjoy the treasures of the east . The possession of Peru , and of Potosi , should not buy me to the bargain .", "It is unconscionably done of him . But you shall not adjourn your love for this : the Brainsick has an ascendant over him ; I am your guarantee ; he is doomed a cuckold , in disdain of destiny .", "Pr'ythee , leave thy fulsome fondness ; I have surfeited on conjugal embraces .", "How infinitely she gulls him ! and he so stupid not to find it !If he be still within , madam ,here 's Bilbo ready to forbid your keeper entrance .", "I warrant you : laissez faire a Marc Antoine .", "Quelque chose ! O ignorance , in supreme perfection ! he means a kek shose", "What , the lusty lover Limberham !", "What has she confessed ?", "To stand before the door with my brandished blade , and defend the entrance : He dies upon the point , if he approaches .", "Nature presses ; I am in haste .", "Woodall his son !", "I have no voice ; but since this gentleman commands me , let the words commend themselves .", "What , have you beheld the Gorgon 's head on either side ?", "What , am I become your drudge ? your slave ? the property of all your pleasures ? Shall I , the lord and master of your life , become subservient ; and the noble name of husband be dishonoured ? No , though all the cards were kings and queens , and Indies to be gained by every deal \u2014", "That shall satisfy him .", "Restore it to him for pity , Woodall .", "No ; with this sabre I defy the destinies , and dam up the passage with my person ; like a rugged rock , opposed against the roaring of the boisterous billows . Your jealousy shall have no course through me , though potentates and princes \u2014", "Now are you satisfied ? Children and fools , you know the proverb \u2014", "They are indeed , where their company is not desired .", "Gad , I think so , without vanity . Battist and I have but one soul . But the close , the close !I have words too upon the air ; but I am naturally so bashful !", "No ; for I have won a wager , to be spent luxuriously at Long 's ; with Pleasance of the party , and Termagant Tricksy ; and I will pass , in person , to the preparation : Come , matrimony .", "Once again , I am the sultan of this place : Mr Limberham is the mogul of the next mansion .", "But why this intrigue in my wife 's chamber ?", "Hark , again !", "I give to the devil such a judge . Well , were I to be born again , I would as soon be the elephant , as a wit ; he 's less a monster in this age of malice . I could burn my sonnet , out of rage .", "You have your utmost answer .", "Who shall be judge ?", "He shall have it , with all the artillery of eloquence .", "\u2018 Twas only my caprichio , madam .\u2014 Now must I seem ignorant of what she knows full well .", "Here 's Bilbo , then , shall bar you ; atoms are not so small , as", "You will not find her here . Come , you are jealous ; you are haunted with a raging fiend , that robs you of your sweet repose .", "What , in a musty musing , monsieur Woodall ! Let me enter into the affair ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["I hear a coach already stopping at the door ."], "true_target": ["The stores are very low , sir : Some dolly petticoats , and manteaus we have ; and half a dozen pair of laced shoes , bought from court at second hand ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And since then , the poor child has dwindled , and dwindled away . Her next maiden-head brought me but ten ; and from ten she fell to five ; and at last to a single guinea : She has no luck to keeping ; they all leave her , the more my sorrow .", "Lord , how it quops ! you are half a year gone , madam .\u2014"], "true_target": ["Ask blessing , Prue : He is the best father you ever had .", "A very small matter , by my troth ; considering the charges I have been at in her education : Poor Prue was born under an unlucky planet ; I despair of a coach for her . Her first maiden-head brought me in but little , the weather-beaten old knight , that bought her of me , beat down the price so low . I held her at an hundred guineas , and he bid ten ; and higher than thirty would not rise .", "No : Pray let her try her fortune a little longer in the world first : By my troth , I should be loth to be at all this cost , in her French , and her singing , to have her thrown away upon a husband ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Going o'my sixteen , father Aldo ."], "true_target": ["Hang him ; I could never endure him , father : He is the filthiest old goat ; and then he comes every day to our house , and eats out his thirty guineas ; and at three months end , he threw me off ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Aldo 's delight , and so adjourn the house .", "Then all friends , and confederates . Now let us have father"], "true_target": ["No indeed , father ; never since execution-day . The night before , we lay together most lovingly in Newgate ; and the next morning he lift up his eyes , and prepared his soul with a prayer , while one might tell twenty ; and then mounted the cart as merrily , as if he had been going for a purse .", "Could you not help to prefer me , father ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["I feel the young rascal kicking already , like his father .\u2014 Oh , there is an elbow thrusting out : I think , in my conscience , he is palming and topping in my belly ; and practising for a livelihood , before he comes into the world .", "The last I had was with young Caster , that son-of-a-whore gamester : he brought me to taverns , to draw in young cullies , while he bubbled them at play ; and , when he had picked up a considerable sum , and should divide , the cheating dog would sink my share , and swear ,\u2014 Damn him , he won nothing ."], "true_target": ["Yes , I have a note under his hand for two hundred pounds .", "When he loses upon the square , he comes home zoundsing and blooding ; first beats me unmercifully , and then squeezes me to the last penny . He has used me so , that , Gad forgive me , I could almost forswear my trade . The rogue starves me too : He made me keep Lent last year till Whitsuntide , and out-faced me with oaths it was but Easter . And what mads me most , I carry a bastard of the rogue 's in my belly ; and now he turns me off , and will not own it .", "O father , I think I shall go mad ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["O , madam Termagant , are you here ? Justice , father Aldo , justice !"], "true_target": ["My comfort is , I have had the best of him ; he can take up no more , till his father dies : And so , much good may do you with my cully , and my clap into the bargain .", "She has violated the law of nations ; for yesterday she inveigled my own natural cully from me , a married lord , and made him false to my bed , father ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Your son here , my young master .", "Why , this is he , sir ; I thought you had known him ."], "true_target": ["Nay , I am sober enough , I 'm sure ; I have been kept fasting almost these two days .", "By your leave , gentlemen , I have followed an old master of mine these two long hours , and had a fair course at him up the street ; here he entered , I 'm sure ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Thus Seneca is justly ridiculed by Dacier , for sending Laius forth with a numerous party of guards , to avoid the indecorum of a king going abroad too slenderly attended . The guards lose their way within a league of their master 's capital ; and , by this awkward contrivance , their absence is accounted for , when he is met by OEdipus .", "Beyond example , and beyond excuse .", "When servants snarl we ought to kick them out .", "See note on OEdipus , p. 151 .", "They that disdain their benefactor 's bread .", "And straight a true-blue protestant crept out .", "The custom of drinking supernaculum , consisted in turning down the cup upon the thumb-nail of the drinker after his pledge , when , if duly quaffed off , no drop of liquor ought to appear upon his nail . With that she set it to her nose , And off at once the rumkin goes ; No drops beside her muzzle falling , Until that she had supped it all in : Then turning't topsey on her thumb , Says \u2014 look , here 's supernaculum . Cotton 's Virgil travestie . This custom seems to have been derived from the Germans , who held , that if a drop appeared on the thumb , it presaged grief and misfortune to the person whose health was drunk .", "Called treacherous , shameless , profligate , unjust ,", "They smell a malcontent through all the play .", "The Friar now was writ , and some will say ,", "And kingly power thought arbitrary lust .", "Fell foul on all thy friends among the rest ;", "But an obscene , a sauntering wretch declared .", "No longer ought by bounty to be fed ."], "true_target": ["O strange return , to a forgiving king ,", "Alluding to the institution of an academy for fixing the language , often proposed about this period .", "The story of the Sphinx is generally known : She was a monster , who delighted in putting a riddle to the Thebans , and slaying each poor dull Boeotian , who could not interpret it . OEdipus guessed the enigma , on which the monster destroyed herself for shame . Thus he attained the throne of Thebes , and the bed of Jocasta .", "The papist too was damned , unfit for trust ,", "To satire next thy talent was addressed ,", "A red cross , with the words , \u201c Lord have mercy upon us , \u201d was placed , during the great plague , upon the houses visited by the disease .", "Nay , even thy royal patron was not spared ,", "For pension lost , and justly without doubt ;", "And that changed both thy morals and thy strain .", "The Laureat , 24th October , 1678 .", "That lost , the visor changed , you turn about ,", "Alluding apparently to the assassination of Thomas Thynne , esq . in Pall-Mall , by the hired bravoes of count Coningsmark . DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . TORRISMOND , Son of SANCHO , the deposed King , believing himself Son of RAYMOND . BERTRAN , a Prince of the blood . ALPHONSO , a general Officer , Brother to RAYMOND . LORENZO , his Son . RAYMOND , a Nobleman , supposed Father of TORRISMOND . PEDRO , an Officer . GOMEZ , an old Usurer . DOMINICK , the Spanish Friar . LEONORA , Queen of Arragon . TERESA , Woman to LEONORA . ELVIRA , Wife to GOMEZ . THE SPANISH FRIAR : OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY .", "Thy loyal libel we can still produce ,", "This lasted till thou didst thy pension gain ,", "It had been much to be wished , that our author had preferred his own better judgment , and the simplicity of the Greek plot , to compliance with this foolish custom ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Raised in extremes , and in extremes decryed ,", "How the glass in thy hand with charms does abound !", "But swallowed in the mass unchewed and crude .", "Author of a treatise on the French language .", "For that does redouble , as you double your charms .", "To dare a lark , is to fly a hawk , or present some other object of fear , to engage the bird 's attention , and prevent it from taking wing , while the fowler draws his net : Farewell , nobility ; let his grace go forward , And dare us with his cap , like larks . Henry VIII . Act III . Scene II .", "And I find that my love", "To please the fools , and puzzle all the wise .", "Nor weighed nor winnowed by the multitude ,", "Bad in itself , but represented worse .", "Succeeding times did equal folly call ."], "true_target": ["Believing nothing , or believing all .", "Some truth there was , but dashed and bruised with lies ,", "Does for either improve ,", "You and the wine to each other lend arms ,", "Come , Phyllis , thy finger , to begin the go round ;", "Voltaire , however , held a different opinion . He thought a powerful effect might be produced by the exhibition of the blind king , indistinctly seen in the back ground , amid the shrieks of Jocasta , and the exclamations of the Thebans ; provided the actor was capable of powerful gesture , and of expressing much passion , with little declamation .", "Dryden appears to have alluded to the following passage in Strada , though without a very accurate recollection of its contents : \u201c Sane Andreas Naugerius Valerio Martiali acriter infensus , solemne jam habebat in illum aliquanto petulantius jocari . Etenim natali suo , accitis ad geniale epulum amicis , postquam prolixe de poetic\u00e6 laudibus super mensam disputaverat ; ostensurum se aiebat a c\u00e6na , quo tandem modo laudari poesim deceret : Mox aferri jubebat Martialis volumen ,atque igni proprior factus , illustri conflagratione absumendum flammis imponebat : addebatque eo incendio litare se Musis , Manibusque Virgilij , cujus imitatorem cultoremque prestare se melius haud posset , quam si vilia poetarum capita per undas insecutus ac flammas perpetuo perdidisset . Nec se eo loco tenuit , sed cum Silvas aliquot ab se conscriptas legisset , audissetque Statianu characteri similes videri , iratus sibi , quod a Martiale fugiens alio declinasset a Virgilio , cum primum se recessit domum , in Silvas conjecit ignem . \u201d Strad\u00e6 Prolusiones , Lib . II . Pro . 5 . From this passage , it is obvious , that it was Martial , not Statius , whom Andreas Navagero sacrificed to Virgil , although he burned his own verses when they were accused of a resemblance to the style of the author of the Thebaid . In the same prolusion , Strada quotes the \u201c blustering \u201d line , afterwards censured by Dryden ; but erroneously reads , Super imposito moles gemmata colosso .", "With oaths affirmed , with dying vows denied ;", "This piece of dirty gallantry seems to have been fashionable :", "From hence began that plot , the nation 's curse ,", "This seems to allude to the French , who , after having repeatedly reduced the Dutch to extremity , were about this period defeated by the Prince of Orange , in the battle of Mons . See the next note . PROLOGUE . When Athens all the Grecian slate did guide , And Greece gave laws to all the world beside ; Then Sophocles with Socrates did sit , Supreme in wisdom one , and one in wit : And wit from wisdom differed not in those , But as \u2018 twas sung in verse , or said in prose . Then , OEdipus , on crowded theatres , Drew all admiring eyes and list'ning ears : The pleased spectator shouted every line , The noblest , manliest , and the best design ! And every critic of each learned age , By this just model has reformed the stage . Now , should it fail ,Damn it in silence , lest the world should hear . For were it known this poem did not please , You might set up for perfect savages : Your neighbours would not look on you as men , But think the nation all turned Picts again . Faith , as you manage matters , \u2018 tis not fit You should suspect yourselves of too much wit : Drive not the jest too far , but spare this piece ; And , for this once , be not more wise than Greece . See twice ! do not pell-mell to damning fall , Like true-born Britons , who ne'er think at all : Pray be advised ; and though at Monsyou won , On pointed cannon do not always run . With some respect to ancient wit proceed ; You take the four first councils for your creed . But , when you lay tradition wholly by , And on the private spirit alone rely , You turn fanatics in your poetry . If , notwithstanding all that we can say , You needs will have your penn'orths of the play , And come resolved to damn , because you pay , Record it , in memorial of the fact , The first play buried since the woollen act . Footnote : 1 . On the 17th of August , 1678 , the Prince of Orange , afterwards William III . marched to the attack of the French army , which blockaded Mons , and lay secured by the most formidable entrenchments . Notwithstanding a powerful and well-served artillery , the duke of Luxemburgh was forced to abandon his trenches , and retire with great loss . The English and Scottish regiments , under the gallant earl of Ossory , had their full share in the glory of the day . It is strongly suspected , that the Prince of Orange , when he undertook this perilous atchievement , knew that a peace had been signed betwixt France and the States , though the intelligence was not made public till next day . Carleton says , that the troops , when drawn up for the attack , supposed the purpose was to fire a feu-de-joie for the conclusion of the war . The enterprize , therefore , though successful , was needless as well as desperate , and merited Dryden 's oblique censure . DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . OEDIPUS , King of Thebes . ADRASTUS , Prince of Argos . CREON , Brother to JOCASTA . TIRESIAS , a blind Prophet . H\u00c6MON , Captain of the Guard . ALCANDER , } DIOCLES , } Lords of CREON 'S faction . PYRACMON , } PHORBAS , an old Shepherd . DYMAS , the Messenger returned from Delphos . \u00c6GEON , the Corinthian Embassador . Ghost of LAIUS , the late King of Thebes . JOCASTA , Queen of Thebes . EURYDICE , her Daughter , by LAIUS , her first husband . MANTO , Daughter of TIRESIAS . Priests , Citizens , Attendants , & c . SCENE \u2014 Thebes . OEDIPUS . ACT I ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u201c Bussy D'Ambois , \u201d a tragedy , once much applauded , was the favourite production of George Chapman . If Dryden could have exhausted every copy of this bombast performance in one holocaust , the public would have been no great losers , as may be apparent from the following quotations :", "Quoi ! la necessite des vertus et des vices D'un astre imperieux doit suivre les caprices ? Et Delphes malgr\u00e9 nous conduit nos actions Au plus bizarre effet de ses predictions ? L'ame est donc toute esclave ; une loi soveraine Vers le bien ou le mal incessamment l'entraine ; Et nous recevons ni crainte ni desir , De cette libert\u00e9 qui n'a rien a choisir ; Attach\u00e9s sans relache \u00e1 cet ordre sublime , Vertueux sans merite , et vicieux sans crime ; Qu'on massare les rois , qu'on brise les autels , C'est la faute des dieux , et non pas des mortels ; De toute la vertu sur la terre epandue Tout le prix ces dieux , toute la gloire est due ; Ils agissent en nous , quand nous pensons agir , Alons qu'on delibere , on ne fait qu'obeir ; Et notre volont\u00e9 n'aime , hait , cherche , evite , Que suivant que d'en haut leur bras la precipite ! D'un tel aveuglement daignez me dispenser Le ciel juste a punir , juste a recompenser , Pour rendre aux actions leur peine ou leur salaire , Doit nous offrir son aide et puis nous laisser faire . PREFACE . Though it be dangerous to raise too great an expectation , especially in works of this nature , where we are to please an insatiable audience , yet it is reasonable to prepossess them in favour of an author ; and therefore , both the prologue and epilogue informed you , that OEdipus was the most celebrated piece of all antiquity ; that Sophocles , not only the greatest wit , but one of the greatest men in Athens , made it for the stage at the public cost ; and that it had the reputation of being his masterpiece , not only among the seven of his which are still remaining , but of the greater number which are perished . Aristotle has more than once admired it , in his Book of Poetry ; Horace has mentioned it : Lucullus , Julius C\u00e6sar , and other noble Romans , have written on the same subject , though their poems are wholly lost ; but Seneca 's is still preserved . In our own age , Corneille has attempted it , and , it appears by his preface , with great success . But a judicious reader will easily observe , how much the copy is inferior to the original . He tells you himself , that he owes a great part of his success , to the happy episode of Theseus and Dirce ; which is the same thing , as if we should acknowledge , that we were indebted for our good fortune to the under-plot of Adrastus , Eurydice , and Creon . The truth is , he miserably failed in the character of his hero : If he desired that OEdipus should be pitied , he should have made him a better man . He forgot , that Sophocles had taken care to show him , in his first entrance , a just , a merciful , a successful , a religious prince , and , in short , a father of his country . Instead of these , he has drawn him suspicious , designing , more anxious of keeping the Theban crown , than solicitous for the safety of his people ; hectored by Theseus , condemned by Dirce , and scarce maintaining a second part in his own tragedy . This was an error in the first concoction ; and therefore never to be mended in the second or the third . He introduced a greater hero than OEdipus himself ; for when Theseus was once there , that companion of Hercules must yield to none . The poet was obliged to furnish him with business , to make him an equipage suitable to his dignity ; and , by following him too close , to lose his other king of Brentford in the crowd . Seneca , on the other side , as if there were no such thing as nature to be minded in a play , is always running after pompous expression , pointed sentences , and philosophical notions , more proper for the study than the stage : the Frenchman followed a wrong scent ; and the Roman was absolutely at cold hunting . All we could gather out of Corneille was , that an episode must be , but not his way : and Seneca supplied us with no new hint , but only a relation which he makes of his Tiresias raising the ghost of Laius ; which is here performed in view of the audience ,\u2014 the rites and ceremonies , so far his , as he agreed with antiquity , and the religion of the Greeks . But he himself was beholden to Homer 's Tiresias , in the \u201c Odysses , \u201d for some of them ; and the rest have been collected from Heliodore 's \u201c Ethiopiques , \u201d and Lucan 's EricthoSophocles , indeed , is admirable everywhere ; and therefore we have followed him as close as possibly we could . But the Athenian theatre ,had a perfection differing from ours . You see there in every act a single scene ,which manage the business of the play ; and after that succeeds the chorus , which commonly takes up more time in singing , than there has been employed in speaking . The principal person appears almost constantly through the play ; but the inferior parts seldom above once in the whole tragedy . The conduct of our stage is much more difficult , where we are obliged never to lose any considerable character , which we have once presented . Custom likewise has obtained , that we must form an under-plot of second persons , which must be depending on the first ; and their by-walks must be like those in a labyrinth , which all of them lead into the great parterre ; or like so many several lodging chambers , which have their outlets into the same gallery . Perhaps , after all , if we could think so , the ancient method , as it is the easiest , is also the most natural , and the best . For variety , as it is managed , is too often subject to breed distraction ; and while we would please too many ways , for want of art in the conduct , we please in noneBut we have given you more already than was necessary for a preface ; and , for aught we know , may gain no more by our instructions , than that politic nation is like to do , who have taught their enemies to fight so long , that at last they are in a condition to invade themFootnotes : 1 . Heliodorus , bishop of Trica , wrote a romance in Greek , called the \u201c Ethiopiques , \u201d containing the amours of Theagenes and Chariclea . He was so fond of this production , that , the option being proposed to him by a synod , he rather chose to resign his bishopric than destroy his work . There occurs a scene of incantation in this romance . The story of Lucan 's witch occurs in the sixth book of the Pharsalia . Dryden has judiciously imitated Seneca , in representing necromancy as the last resort of Tiresias , after all milder modes of augury had failed .", "Dapper , a silly character in Jonson 's Alchemist , tricked by an astrologer , who persuades him the queen of fairies is his aunt ."], "true_target": ["\u201c Thus we see , \u201d says Collier , \u201c how hearty these people are in their ill-will ; how they attack religion under every form , and pursue the priesthood through all the subdivisions of opinion . Neither Jews nor Heathens , Turk nor Christians , Rome nor Geneva , church nor conventicle , can escape them . They are afraid lest virtue should have any quarters , undisturbed conscience any corner to retire to , or God worshipped in any place . \u201d Short View , & c. p. 110 .", "Dutch is here used generally for the High Dutch or German . THE PREFACE . The poet \u00c6schylus was held in the same veneration by the Athenians of after-ages , as Shakespeare is by us ; and Longinus has judged , in favour of him , that he had a noble boldness of expression , and that his imaginations were lofty and heroic ; but , on the other side , Quintilian affirms , that he was daring to extravagance . It is certain , that he affected pompous words , and that his sense was obscured by figures ; notwithstanding these imperfections , the value of his writings after his decease was such , that his countrymen ordained an equal reward to those poets , who could alter his plays to be acted on the theatre , with those whose productions were wholly new , and of their own . The case is not the same in England ; though the difficulties of altering are greater , and our reverence for Shakespeare much more just , than that of the Grecians for \u00c6schylus . In the age of that poet , the Greek tongue was arrived to its full perfection ; they had then amongst them an exact standard of writing and of speaking : the English language is not capable of such a certainty ; and we are at present so far from it , that we are wanting in the very foundation of it , a perfect grammar . Yet it must be allowed to the present age , that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakespeare 's time , that many of his words , and more of his phrases , are scarce intelligible . And of those which we understand , some are ungrammatical , others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions , that it is as affected as it is obscure . It is true , that in his latter plays he had worn off somewhat of the rust ; but the tragedy , which I have undertaken to correct , was in all probability one of his first endeavours on the stage . The original story was written by one Lollius a Lombard , in Latin verse , and translated by Chaucer into English ; intended , I suppose , a satire on the inconstancy of women : I find nothing of it among the ancients ; not so much as the name Cressida once mentioned . Shakespeare ,in the apprenticeship of his writing , modelled it into that play , which is now called by the name of \u201c Troilus and Cressida , \u201d but so lamely is it left to us , that it is not divided into acts ; which fault I ascribe to the actors who printed it after Shakespeare 's death ; and that too so carelessly , that a more uncorrected copy I never saw . For the play itself , the author seems to have begun it with some fire ; the characters of Pandarus and Thersites , are promising enough ; but as if he grew weary of his task , after an entrance or two , he lets them fall : and the latter part of the tragedy is nothing but a confusion of drums and trumpets , excursions and alarms . The chief persons , who give name to the tragedy , are left alive ; Cressida is false , and is not punished . Yet , after all , because the play was Shakespeare 's , and that there appeared in some places of it the admirable genius of the author , I undertook to remove that heap of rubbish under which many excellent thoughts lay wholly buried . Accordingly , I new modelled the plot , threw out many unnecessary persons , improved those characters which were begun and left unfinished , as Hector , Troilus , Pandarus , and Thersites , and added that of Andromache . After this , I made , with no small trouble , an order and connection of all the scenes ; removing them from the places where they were inartificially set ; and , though it was impossible to keep them all unbroken , because the scene must be sometimes in the city and sometimes in the camp , yet I have so ordered them , that there is a coherence of them with one another , and a dependence on the main design ; no leaping from Troy to the Grecian tents , and thence back again , in the same act , but a due proportion of time allowed for every motion . I need not say that I have refined his language , which before was obsolete ; but I am willing to acknowledge , that as I have often drawn his English nearer to our times , so I have sometimes conformed my own to his ; and consequently , the language is not altogether so pure as it is significant . The scenes of Pandarus and Cressida , of Troilus and Pandarus , of Andromache with Hector and the Trojans , in the second act , are wholly new ; together with that of Nestor and Ulysses with Thersites , and that of Thersites with Ajax and Achilles . I will not weary my reader with the scenes which are added of Pandarus and the lovers , in the third , and those of Thersites , which are wholly altered ; but I cannot omit the last scene in it , which is almost half the act , betwixt Troilus and Hector . The occasion of raising it was hinted to me by Mr Betterton ; the contrivance and working of it was my own . They who think to do me an injury , by saying , that it is an imitation of the scene betwixt Brutus and Cassius , do me an honour , by supposing I could imitate the incomparable Shakespeare ; but let me add , that if Shakespeare 's scene , or that faulty copy of it in \u201c Amintor and Melantius , \u201d had never been , yet Euripides had furnished me with an excellent example in his \u201c Iphigenia , \u201d between Agamemnon and Menelaus ; and from thence , indeed , the last turn of it is borrowed . The occasion which Shakespeare , Euripides , and Fletcher , have all taken , is the same ,\u2014 grounded upon friendship ; and the quarrel of two virtuous men , raised by natural degrees to the extremity of passion , is conducted in all three , to the declination of the same passion , and concludes with a warm renewing of their friendship . But the particular ground-work which Shakespeare has taken , is incomparably the best ; because he has not only chosen two of the greatest heroes of their age , but has likewise interested the liberty of Rome , and their own honours , who were the redeemers of it , in this debate . And if he has made Brutus , who was naturally a patient man , to fly into excess at first , let it be remembered in his defence , that , just before , he has received the news of Portia 's death ; whom the poet , on purpose neglecting a little chronology , supposes to have died before Brutus , only to give him an occasion of being more easily exasperated . Add to this , that the injury he had received from Cassius , had long been brooding in his mind ; and that a melancholy man , upon consideration of an affront , especially from a friend , would be more eager in his passion , than he who had given it , though naturally more choleric . Euripides , whom I have followed , has raised the quarrel betwixt two brothers , who were friends . The foundation of the scene was this : The Grecians were wind-bound at the port of Aulis , and the oracle had said , that they could not sail , unless Agamemnon delivered up his daughter to be sacrificed : he refuses ; his brother Menelaus urges the public safety ; the father defends himself by arguments of natural affection , and hereupon they quarrel . Agamemnon is at last convinced , and promises to deliver up Iphigenia , but so passionately laments his loss , that Menelaus is grieved to have been the occasion of it , and , by a return of kindness , offers to intercede for him with the Grecians , that his daughter might not be sacrificed . But my friend Mr Rymer has so largely , and with so much judgment , described this scene , in comparing it with that of Melantius and Amintor , that it is superfluous to say more of it ; I only named the heads of it , that any reasonable man might judge it was from thence I modelled my scene betwixt Troilus and Hector . I will conclude my reflections on it , with a passage of Longinus , concerning Plato 's imitation of Homer : \u201c We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a new wrestler , to dispute the prize with the former champion . This sort of emulation , says Hesiod , is honourable ,\u2014 when we combat for victory with a hero , and are not without glory even in our overthrow . Those great men , whom we propose to ourselves as patterns of our imitation , serve us as a torch , which is lifted up before us , to enlighten our passage , and often elevate our thoughts as high as the conception we have of our author 's genius . \u201d I have been so tedious in three acts , that I shall contract myself in the two last . The beginning scenes of the fourth act are either added or changed wholly by me ; the middle of it is Shakespeare altered , and mingled with my own ; three or four of the last scenes are altogether new . And the whole fifth act , both the plot and the writing , are my own additions . But having written so much for imitation of what is excellent , in that part of the preface which related only to myself , methinks it would neither be unprofitable nor unpleasant to inquire how far we ought to imitate our own poets , Shakespeare and Fletcher , in their tragedies ; and this will occasion another inquiry , how those two writers differ between themselves : but since neither of these questions can be solved , unless some measures be first taken , by which we may be enabled to judge truly of their writings , I shall endeavour , as briefly as I can , to discover the grounds and reason of all criticism , applying them in this place only to Tragedy . Aristotle with his interpreters , and Horace , and Longinus , are the authors to whom I owe my lights ; and what part soever of my own plays , or of this , which no mending could make regular , shall fall under the condemnation of such judges , it would be impudence in me to defend . I think it no shame to retract my errors , and am well pleased to suffer in the cause , if the art may be improved at my expence : I therefore proceed to THE GROUNDS OF CRITICISM IN TRAGEDY . Tragedy is thus defined by AristotleIt is an imitation of one entire , great , and probable action ; not told , but represented ; which , by moving in us fear and pity , is conducive to the purging of those two passions in our minds . More largely thus : Tragedy describes or paints an action , which action must have all the properties above named . First , it must be one or single ; that is , it must not be a history of one man 's life , suppose of Alexander the Great , or Julius C\u00e6sar , but one single action of theirs . This condemns all Shakespeare 's historical plays , which are rather chronicles represented , than tragedies ; and all double action of plays . As , to avoid a satire upon others , I will make bold with my own \u201c Marriage A-la-mode , \u201d where there are manifestly two actions , not depending on one another ; but in \u201c OEdipus \u201d there cannot properly be said to be two actions , because the love of Adrastus and Eurydice has a necessary dependence on the principal design into which it is woven . The natural reason of this rule is plain ; for two different independent actions distract the attention and concernment of the audience , and consequently destroy the intention of the poet ; if his business be to move terror and pity , and one of his actions he comical , the other tragical , the former will divert the people , and utterly make void his greater purpose . Therefore , as in perspective , so in tragedy , there must be a point of sight in which all the lines terminate ; otherwise the eye wanders , and the work is false . This was the practice of the Grecian stage . But Terence made an innovation in the Roman : all his plays have double actions ; for it was his custom to translate two Greek comedies , and to weave them into one of his , yet so , that both their actions were comical , and one was principal , the other but secondary or subservient . And this has obtained on the English stage , to give us the pleasure of variety . As the action ought to be one , it ought , as such , to have order in it ; that is , to have a natural beginning , a middle , and an end . A natural beginning , says Aristotle , is that which could not necessarily have been placed after another thing ; and so of the rest . This consideration will arraign all plays after the new model of Spanish plots , where accident is heaped upon accident , and that which is first might as reasonably be last ; an inconvenience not to be remedied , but by making one accident naturally produce another , otherwise it is a farce and not a play . Of this nature is the \u201c Slighted Maid ; \u201d where there is no scene in the first act , which might not by as good reason be in the fifth . And if the action ought to be one , the tragedy ought likewise to conclude with the action of it . Thus in \u201c Mustapha , \u201d the play should naturally have ended with the death of Zanger , and not have given us the grace-cup after dinner , of Solyman 's divorce from Roxolana . The following properties of the action are so easy , that they need not my explaining . It ought to be great , and to consist of great persons , to distinguish it from comedy , where the action is trivial , and the persons of inferior rank . The last quality of the action is , that it ought to be probable , as well as admirable and great . It is not necessary that there should be historical truth in it ; but always necessary that there should be a likeness of truth , something that is more than barely possible ; probable being that which succeeds , or happens , oftener than it misses . To invent therefore a probability and to make it wonderful , is the most difficult undertaking in the art of poetry ; for that , which is not wonderful , is not great ; and that , which is not probable , will not delight a reasonable audience . This action , thus described , must be represented and not told , to distinguish dramatic poetry from epic : but I hasten to the end or scope of tragedy , which is , to rectify or purge our passions , fear and pity . To instruct delightfully is the general end of all poetry . Philosophy instructs , but it performs its work by precept ; which is not delightful , or not so delightful as example . To purge the passions by example , is therefore the particular instruction which belongs to tragedy . Rapin , a judicious critic , has observed from Aristotle , that pride and want of commiseration are the most predominant vices in mankind ; therefore , to cure us of these two , the inventors of tragedy have chosen to work upon two other passions , which are , fear and pity . We are wrought to fear , by their setting before our eyes some terrible example of misfortune , which happened to persons of the highest quality ; for such an action demonstrates to us , that no condition is privileged from the turns of fortune ; this must of necessity cause terror in us , and consequently abate our pride . But when we see that the most virtuous , as well as the greatest , are not exempt from such misfortunes , that consideration moves pity in us , and insensibly works us to be helpful to , and tender over , the distressed ; which is the noblest and most godlike of moral virtues , Here it is observable , that it is absolutely necessary to make a man virtuous , if we desire he should be pitied : we lament not , but detest , a wicked man ; we are glad when we behold his crimes are punished , and that poetical justice is done upon him . Euripides was censured by the critics of his time , for making his chief characters too wicked ; for example , Ph\u00e6dra , though she loved her son-in-law with reluctancy , and that it was a curse upon her family for offending Venus , yet was thought too ill a pattern for the stage . Shall we therefore banish all characters of villainy ? I confess I am not of that opinion ; but it is necessary that the hero of the play be not a villain ; that is , the characters , which should move our pity , ought to have virtuous inclinations , and degrees of moral goodness in them . As for a perfect character of virtue , it never was in nature , and therefore there can be no imitation of it ; but there are allays of frailty to be allowed for the chief persons , yet so that the good which is in them shall outweigh the bad , and consequently leave room for punishment on the one side , and pity on the other . After all , if any one will ask me , whether a tragedy cannot be made upon any other grounds than those of exciting pity and terror in us ;\u2014 Bossu , the best of modern critics , answers thus in general : That all excellent arts , and particularly that of poetry , have been invented and brought to perfection by men of a transcendent genius ; and that , therefore , they , who practise afterwards the same arts , are obliged to tread in their footsteps , and to search in their writings the foundation of them ; for it is not just that new rules should destroy the authority of the old . But Rapin writes more particularly thus , that no passions in a story are so proper to move our concernment , as fear and pity ; and that it is from our concernment we receive our pleasure , is undoubted . When the soul becomes agitated with fear for one character , or hope for another ; then it is that we are pleased in tragedy , by the interest which we take in their adventures . Here , therefore , the general answer may be given to the first question , how far we ought to imitate Shakespeare and Fletcher in their plots ; namely , that we ought to follow them so far only , as they have copied the excellencies of those who invented and brought to perfection dramatic poetry ; those things only excepted , which religion , custom of countries , idioms of languages , & c. have altered in the superstructures , but not in the foundation of the design . How defective Shakespeare and Fletcher have been in all their plots , Mr Rymer has discovered in his criticisms . Neither can we , who follow them , be excused from the same , or greater errors ; which are the more unpardonable in us , because we want their beauties to countervail our faults . The best of their designs , the most approaching to antiquity , and the most conducing to move pity , is the \u201c King and no King ; \u201d which , if the farce of Bessus were thrown away , is of that inferior sort of tragedies , which end with a prosperous event . It is probably derived from the story of OEdipus , with the character of Alexander the Great , in his extravagances , given to Arbaces . The taking of this play , amongst many others , I cannot wholly ascribe to the excellency of the action ; for I find it moving when it is read . It is true , the faults of the plot are so evidently proved , that they can no longer be denied . The beauties of it must therefore lie either in the lively touches of the passion ; or we must conclude , as I think we may , that even in imperfect plots there are less degrees of nature , by which some faint emotions of pity and terror are raised in us ; as a less engine will raise a less proportion of weight , though not so much as one of Archimedes 's making ; for nothing can move our nature , but by some natural reason , which works upon passions . And , since we acknowledge the effect , there must be something in the cause . The difference between Shakespeare and Fletcher , in their plottings , seems to be this ; that Shakespeare generally moves more terror , and Fletcher more compassion : for the first had a more masculine , a bolder , and more fiery genius ; the second , a more soft and womanish . In the mechanic beauties of the plot , which are the observation of the three unities , time , place , and action , they are both deficient ; but Shakespeare most . Ben Jonson reformed those errors in his comedies , yet one of Shakespeare 's was regular before him ; which is , \u201c The Merry Wives of Windsor . \u201d For what remains concerning the design , you are to be referred to our English critic . That method which he has prescribed to raise it , from mistake , or ignorance of the crime , is certainly the best , though it is not the only ; for amongst all the tragedies of Sophocles , there is but one , OEdipus , which is wholly built after that model . After the plot , which is the foundation of the play , the next thing to which we ought to apply our judgment , is the manners ; for now the poet comes to work above ground . The ground-work , indeed , is that which is most necessary , as that upon which depends the firmness of the whole fabric ; yet it strikes not the eye so much , as the beauties or imperfections of the manners , the thoughts , and the expressions . The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem , and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry , is to make the moral of the work ; that is , to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be , which you would insinuate into the people ; as , namely , Homer 'swas , that union preserves a commonwealth and discord destroys it . Sophocles , in his OEdipus , that no man is to be accounted happy before his death . It is the moral that directs the whole action of the play to one centre ; and that action or fable is the example built upon the moral , which confirms the truth of it to our experience . When the fable is designed , then , and not before , the persons are to be introduced , with their manners , characters , and passions . The manners , in a poem , are understood to be those inclinations , whether natural or acquired , which move and carry us to actions , good , bad , or indifferent , in a play ; or which incline the persons to such or such actions . I have anticipated part of this discourse already , in declaring that a poet ought not to make the manners perfectly good in his best persons ; but neither are they to be more wicked in any of his characters , than necessity requires . To produce a villain , without other reason than a natural inclination to villainy , is , in poetry , to produce an effect without a cause ; and to make him more a villain than he has just reason to be , is to make an effect which is stronger than the cause . The manners arise from many causes ; and are either distinguished by complexion , as choleric and phlegmatic , or by the differences of age or sex , of climates , or quality of the persons , or their present condition . They are likewise to be gathered from the several virtues , vices , or passions , and many other common-places , which a poet must be supposed to have learned from natural philosophy , ethics , and history ; of all which , whosoever is ignorant , does not deserve the name of poet . But as the manners are useful in this art , they may be all comprised under these general heads : First , they must be apparent ; that is , in every character of the play , some inclinations of the person must appear ; and these are shown in the actions and discourse . Secondly , the manners must be suitable , or agreeing to the persons ; that is , to the age , sex , dignity , and the other general heads of manners : thus , when a poet has given the dignity of a king to one of his persons , in all his actions and speeches , that person must discover majesty , magnanimity , and jealousy of power , because these are suitable to the general manners of a kingThe third property of manners is resemblance ; and this is founded upon the particular characters of men , as we have them delivered to us by relation or history ; that is , when a poet has the known character of this or that man before him , he is bound to represent him such , at least not contrary to that which fame has reported him to have been . Thus , it is not a poet 's choice to make Ulysses choleric , or Achilles patient , because Homer has described them quite otherwise . Yet this is a rock , on which ignorant writers daily split ; and the absurdity is as monstrous , as if a painter should draw a coward running from a battle , and tell us it was the picture of Alexander the Great . The last property of manners is , that they be constant and equal , that is , maintained the same through the whole design : thus , when Virgil had once given the name of pious to \u00c6neas , he was bound to show him such , in all his words and actions through the whole poem . All these properties Horace has hinted to a judicious observer .\u2014 1 . Notandi sunt tibi mores ; 2 . Aut famam sequere , 3. aut sibi concenientia finge ; 4 . Sercetur ad imum , qualis ab incepto processerit , et sibi constet . From the manners , the characters of persons are derived ; for , indeed , the characters are no other than the inclinations , as they appear in the several persons of the poem ; a character being thus defined ,\u2014 that which distinguishes one man from another . Not to repeat the same things over again , which have been said of the manners , I will only add what is necessary here . A character , or that which distinguishes one man from all others , cannot be supposed to consist of one particular virtue , or vice , or passion only ; but it is a composition of qualities which are not contrary to one another in the same person . Thus , the same man may be liberal and valiant , but not liberal and covetous ; so in a comical character , or humour ,Falstaff is a liar , and a coward , a glutton , and a buffoon , because all these qualities may agree in the same man ; yet it is still to be observed , that one virtue , vice , and passion , ought to be shown in every man , as predominant over all the rest ; as covetousness in Crassus , love of his country in Brutus ; and the same in characters which are feigned . The chief character or hero in a tragedy , as I have already shown , ought in prudence to be such a man , who has so much more of virtue in him than of vice , that he may be left amiable to the audience , which otherwise cannot have any concernment for his sufferings ; and it is on this one character , that the pity and terror must be principally , if not wholly , founded : a rule which is extremely necessary , and which none of the critics , that I know , have fully enough discovered to us . For terror and compassion work but weakly when they are divided into many persons . If Creon had been the chief character in \u201c OEdipus , \u201d there had neither been terror nor compassion moved ; but only detestation of the man , and joy for his punishment ; if Adrastus and Eurydice had been made more appearing characters , then the pity had been divided , and lessened on the part of OEdipus . But making OEdipus the best and bravest person , and even Jocasta but an underpart to him , his virtues , and the punishment of his fatal crime , drew both the pity , and the terror to himself . By what has been said of the manners , it will be easy for a reasonable man to judge , whether the characters be truly or falsely drawn in a tragedy ; for if there be no manners appearing in the characters , no concernment for the persons can be raised ; no pity or horror can be moved , but by vice or virtue ; therefore , without them , no person can have any business in the play . If the inclinations be obscure , it is a sign the poet is in the dark , and knows not what manner of man he presents to you ; and consequently you can have no idea , or very imperfect , of that man ; nor can judge what resolutions he ought to take ; or what words or actions are proper for him . Most comedies , made up of accidents or adventures , are liable to fall into this error ; and tragedies with many turns are subject to it ; for the manners can never be evident , where the surprises of fortune take up all the business of the stage ; and where the poet is more in pain , to tell you what happened to such a man , than what he was . It is one of the excellencies of Shakespeare , that the manners of his persons are generally apparent ; and you see their bent and inclinations . Fletcher comes far short of him in this , as indeed he does almost in every thing . There are but glimmerings of manners in most of his comedies , which run upon adventures ; and in his tragedies , Rollo , Otto , the King and no King , Melantius , and many others of his best , are but pictures shown you in the twilight ; you know not whether they resemble vice or virtue , and they are either good , bad , or indifferent , as the present scene requires it . But of all poets , this commendation is to be given to Ben Jonson , that the manners even of the most inconsiderable persons in his plays , are every where apparent . By considering the second quality of manners , which is , that they be suitable to the age , quality , country , dignity , & c. of the character , we may likewise judge whether a poet has followed nature . In this kind , Sophocles and Euripides have more excelled among the Greeks than \u00c6schylus ; and Terence more than Plautus , among the Romans . Thus , Sophocles gives to OEdipus the true qualities of a king , in both those plays which bear his name ; but in the latter , which is the \u201c OEdipus Coloneus , \u201d he lets fall on purpose his tragic style ; his hero speaks not in the arbitrary tone ; but remembers , in the softness of his complaints , that he is an unfortunate blind old man ; that he is banished from his country , and persecuted by his next relations . The present French poets are generally accused , that wheresoever they lay the scene , or in whatsoever age , the manners of their heroes are wholly French . Racine 's Bajazet is bred at Constantinople ; but his civilities are conveyed to him , by some secret passage , from Versailles into the seraglio . But our Shakespeare , having ascribed to Henry the Fourth the character of a king and of a father , gives him the perfect manners of each relation , when either he transacts with his son or with his subjects . Fletcher , on the other side , gives neither to Arbaces , nor to his king , in \u201c The Maid 's Tragedy , \u201d the qualities which are suitable to a monarch ; though he may be excused a little in the latter , for the king there is not uppermost in the character ; it is the lover of Evadne , who is king only in a second consideration ; and though he be unjust , and has other faults which shall be nameless , yet he is not the hero of the play . It is true , we find him a lawful prince ,and therefore Mr Rymer 's criticism stands good ,\u2014 that he should not be shown in so vicious a character . Sophocles has been more judicious in his \u201c Antigona ; \u201d for , though he represents in Creon a bloody prince , yet he makes him not a lawful king , but an usurper , and Antigona herself is the heroine of the tragedy : but when Philaster wounds Arethusa and the boy ; and Perigot his mistress , in the \u201c Faithful Shepherdess , \u201d both these are contrary to the character of manhood . Nor is Valentinian managed much better ; for , though Fletcher has taken his picture truly , and shown him as he was , an effeminate , voluptuous man , yet he has forgotten that he was an emperor , and has given him none of those royal marks , which ought to appear in a lawful successor of the throne . If it be enquired , what Fletcher should have done on this occasion ; ought he not to have represented Valentinian as he was ;\u2014 Bossu shall answer this question for me , by an instance of the like nature : Mauritius , the Greek emperor , was a prince far surpassing Valentinian , for he was endued with many kingly virtues ; he was religious , merciful , and valiant , but withal he was noted of extreme covetousness , a vice which is contrary to the character of a hero , or a prince : therefore , says the critic , that emperor was no fit person to be represented in a tragedy , unless his good qualities were only to be shown , and his covetousnesswere slurred over by the artifice of the poet . To return once more to Shakespeare ; no man ever drew so many characters , or generally distinguished them better from one another , excepting only Jonson . I will instance but in one , to show the copiousness of his invention ; it is that of Caliban , or the monster , in \u201c The Tempest . \u201d He seems there to have created a person which was not in nature , a boldness which , at first sight , would appear intolerable ; for he makes him a species of himself , begotten by an incubus on a witch ; but this , as I have elsewhere proved , is not wholly beyond the bounds of credibility , at least the vulgar still believe it . We have the separated notions of a spirit , and of a witch ;therefore , as from the distinct apprehensions of a horse , and of a man , imagination has formed a centaur ; so , from those of an incubus and a sorceress , Shakespeare has produced his monster . Whether or no his generation can be defended , I leave to philosophy ; but of this I am certain , that the poet has most judiciously furnished him with a person , a language , and a character , which will suit him , both by father 's and mother 's side : he has all the discontents , and malice of a witch , and of a devil , besides a convenient proportion of the deadly sins ; gluttony , sloth , and lust , are manifest ; the dejectedness of a slave is likewise given him , and the ignorance of one bred up in a desert island . His person is monstrous , and he is the product of unnatural lust ; and his language is as hobgoblin as his person ; in all things he is distinguished from other mortals . The characters of Fletcher are poor and narrow , in comparison of Shakspeare 's ; I remember not one which is not borrowed from him ; unless you will except that strange mixture of a man in the \u201c King and no King ; \u201d so that in this part Shakespeare is generally worth our imitation ; and to imitate Fletcher is but to copy after him who was a copyer . Under this general head of manners , the passions are naturally included , as belonging to the characters . I speak not of pity and of terror , which are to be moved in the audience by the plot ; but of anger , hatred , love , ambition , jealousy , revenge , & c. as they are shown in this or that person of the play . To describe these naturally , and to move them artfully , is one of the greatest commendations which can be given to a poet : to write pathetically , says Longinus , cannot proceed but from a lofty genius . A poet must be born with this quality : yet , unless he help himself by an acquired knowledge of the passions , what they are in their own nature , and by what springs they are to be moved , he will be subject either to raise them where they ought not to be raised , or not to raise them by the just degrees of nature , or to amplify them beyond the natural bounds , or not to observe the crisis and turns of them , in their cooling and decay ; all which errors proceed from want of judgment in the poet , and from being unskilled in the principles of moral philosophy . Nothing is more frequent in a fanciful writer , than to foil himself by not managing his strength ; therefore , as , in a wrestler , there is first required some measure of force , a well-knit body and active limbs , without which all instruction would be vain ; yet , these being granted , if he want the skill which is necessary to a wrestler , he shall make but small advantage of his natural robustuousness : so , in a poet , his inborn vehemence and force of spirit will only run him out of breath the sooner , if it be not supported by the help of art . The roar of passion , indeed , may please an audience , three parts of which are ignorant enough to think all is moving which is noisy , and it may stretch the lungs of an ambitious actor , who will die upon the spot for a thundering clap ; but it will move no other passion than indignation and contempt from judicious men . Longinus , whom I have hitherto followed , continues thus :\u2014 If the passions be artfully employed , the discourse becomes vehement and lofty : if otherwise , there is nothing more ridiculous than a great passion out of season : and to this purpose he animadverts severely upon \u00c6schylus , who writ nothing in cold blood , but was always in a rapture , and in fury with his audience : the inspiration was still upon him , he was ever tearing it upon the tripos ; orhe was always at high-flood of passion , even in the dead ebb , and lowest water-mark of the scene . He who would raise the passion of a judicious audience , says a learned critic , must be sure to take his hearers along with him ; if they be in a calm , \u2018 tis in vain for him to be in a huff : he must move them by degrees , and kindle with them ; otherwise he will be in danger of setting his own heap of stubble on fire , and of burning out by himself , without warming the company that stand about him . They who would justify the madness of poetry from the authority of Aristotle , have mistaken the text , and consequently the interpretation : I imagine it to be false read , where he says of poetry , that it is, that it had always somewhat in it either of a genius , or of a madman . \u2018 Tis more probable that the original ran thus , that poetry was, That it belongs to a witty man , but not to a madman . Thus then the passions , as they are considered simply and in themselves , suffer violence when they are perpetually maintained at the same height ; for what melody can be made on that instrument , all whose strings are screwed up at first to their utmost stretch , and to the same sound ? But this is not the worst : for the characters likewise bear a part in the general calamity , if you consider the passions as embodied in them ; for it follows of necessity , that no man can be distinguished from another by his discourse , when every man is ranting , swaggering , and exclaiming with the same excess : as if it were the only business of all the characters to contend with each other for the prize at Billingsgate ; or that the scene of the tragedy lay in Bethlem . Suppose the poet should intend this man to be choleric , and that man to be patient ; yet when they are confounded in the writing , you cannot distinguish them from one another : for the man who was called patient and tame , is only so before he speaks ; but let his clack be set a-going , and he shall tongue it as impetuously and as loudly , as the arrantest hero in the play . By this means , the characters are only distinct in name ; but , in reality , all the men and women in the play are the same person . No man should pretend to write , who cannot temper his fancy with his judgment : nothing is more dangerous to a raw horseman , than a hot-mouthed jade without a curb . It is necessary therefore for a poet , who would concern an audience by describing of a passion , first to prepare it , and not to rush upon it all at once . Ovid has judiciously shown the difference of these two ways , in the speeches of Ajax and Ulysses : Ajax , from the very beginning , breaks out into his exclamations , and is swearing by his Maker ,\u2014 Agimus , proh Jupiter , inquit . Ulysses , on the contrary , prepares his audience with all the submissiveness he can practise , and all the calmness of a reasonable man ; he found his judges in a tranquillity of spirit , and therefore set out leisurely and softly with them , till he had warmed them by degrees ; and then he began to mend his pace , and to draw them along with his own impetuousness : yet so managing his breath , that it might not fail him at his need , and reserving his utmost proofs of ability even to the last . The success , you see , was answerable ; for the crowd only applauded the speech of Ajax ;\u2014 Vulgique secutum ultima murmur erat :\u2014 But the judges awarded the prize , for which they contended , to Ulysses ; Mota manus procerum est ; et quid facundia posset Tum patuit , fortisque viri tulit arma disertus . The next necessary rule is , to put nothing into the discourse , which may hinder your moving of the passions . Too many accidents , as I have said , incumber the poet , as much as the arms of Saul did David ; for the variety of passions , which they produce , are ever crossing and justling each other out of the way . He , who treats of joy and grief together , is in a fair way of causing neither of those effects . There is yet another obstacle to be removed , which is ,\u2014 pointed wit , and sentences affected out of season ; these are nothing of kin to the violence of passion : no man is at leisure to make sentences and similes , when his soul is in an agony . I the rather name this fault , that it may serve to mind me of my former errors ; neither will I spare myself , but give an example of this kind from my \u201c Indian Emperor . \u201d Montezuma , pursued by his enemies , and seeking sanctuary , stands parleying without the fort , and describing his danger to Cydaria , in a simile of six lines ; As on the sands the frighted traveller Sees the high seas come rolling from afar , & c . My Indian potentate was well skilled in the sea for an inland prince , and well improved since the first act , when he sent his son to discover it . The image had not been amiss from another man , at another time : Sed nunc non erat his locus : he destroyed the concernment which the audience might otherwise have had for him ; for they could not think the danger near , when he had the leisure to invent a simile . If Shakespeare be allowed , as I think he must , to have made his characters distinct , it will easily be inferred , that he understood the nature of the passions : because it has been proved already , that confused passions make distinguishable characters : yet I cannot deny that he has his failings ; but they are not so much in the passions themselves , as in his manner of expression : he often obscures his meaning by his words , and sometimes makes it unintelligible . I will not say of so great a poet , that he distinguished not the blown puffy stile , from true sublimity ; but I may venture to maintain , that the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment , either in coining of new words and phrases , or racking words which were in use , into the violence of a catachresis . It is not that I would explode the use of metaphors from passion , for Longinus thinks them necessary to raise it : but to use them at every word , to say nothing without a metaphor , a simile , an image , or description ; is , I doubt , to smell a little too strongly of the buskin . I must be forced to give an example of expressing passion figuratively ; but that I may do it with respect to Shakespeare , it shall not be taken from any thing of his : it is an exclamation against Fortune , quoted in his Hamlet , but written by some other poet : Out , out , thou strumpet Fortune ! all you gods , In general synod , take away her power ; Break all the spokes and felleys from her wheel , And bowl the round nave down the hill of heav'n , As low as to the fiends . And immediately after , speaking of Hecuba , when Priam was killed before her eyes : But who , ah woe ! had seen the mobled queen Run barefoot up and down , threatening the flame With bisson rheum ; a clout about that head , Where late the diadem stood ; and , for a rob About her lank and all o'erhYpppHeNteemed loins , A blanket in th \u2019 alarm of fear caught up . Who this had seen , with tongue in venom steep 'd \u2018 Gainst fortune 's state would treason have pronounc 'd ; But if the gods themselves did see her then , When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband 's limbs , The instant burst of clamour that she madeWould have made milch the burning eyes of heaven , And passion in the gods . What a pudder is here kept in raising the expression of trifling thoughts ! would not a man have thought that the poet had been bound prentice to a wheel-wright , for his first rant ? and had followed a rag-man , for the clout and blanket , in the second ? Fortune is painted on a wheel , and therefore the writer , in a rage , will have poetical justice done upon every member of that engine : after this execution , he bowls the nave down-hill , from heaven , to the fiends :\u2018 tis well there are no solid orbs to stop it in the way , or no element of fire to consume it : but when it came to the earth , it must be monstrous heavy , to break ground as low as the center . His making milch the burning eyes of heaven , was a pretty tolerable flight too : and I think no man ever drew milk out of eyes before him : yet , to make the wonder greater , these eyes were burning . Such a sight indeed were enough to have raised passion in the gods ; but to excuse the effects of it , he tells you , perhaps they did not see it . Wise men would be glad to find a little sense couched under all these pompous words ; for bombast is commonly the delight of that audience , which loves poetry , but understands it not : and as commonly has been the practice of those writers , who , not being able to infuse a natural passion into the mind , have made it their business to ply the ears , and to stun their judges by the noise . But Shakespeare does not often thus ; for the passions in his scene between Brutus and Cassius are extremely natural , the thoughts are such as arise from the matter , the expression of them not viciously figurative . I cannot leave this subject , before I do justice to that divine poet , by giving you one of his passionate descriptions : \u2018 tis of Richard the Second when he was deposed , and led in triumph through the streets of London by Henry of Bolingbroke : the painting of it is so lively , and the words so moving that I have scarce read any thing comparable to it , in any other language . Suppose you have seen already the fortunate usurper passing through the crowd , and followed by the shouts and acclamations of the people ; and now behold King Richard entering upon the scene : consider the wretchedness of his condition , and his carriage in it ; and refrain from pity , if you can : As in a theatre , the eyes of men , After a well-grac 'd actor leaves the stage , Are idly bent on him that enters next , Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so , or with much more contempt , men 's eyes Did scowl on Richard : no man cry 'd , God save him : No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home , But dust was thrown upon his sacred head , Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off , His face still combating with tears and smiles ,That had not Godsteel 'd The hearts of men , they must perforce have melted , And barbarism itself have pitied him . To speak justly of this whole matter : it is neither height of thought that is discommended , nor pathetic vehemence , nor any nobleness of expression in its proper place ; but it is a false measure of all these , something which is like them , and is not them : it is the Bristol-stone , which appears like a diamond ; it is an extravagant thought , instead of a sublime one ; it is roaring madness , instead of vehemence ; and a sound of words , instead of sense . If Shakespeare were stripped of all the bombasts in his passions , and dressed in the most vulgar words , we should find the beauties of his thoughts remaining ; if his embroideries were burnt down , there would still be silver at the bottom of the melting-pot : but I fearthat we , who ape his sounding words , have nothing of his thought , but are all outside ; there is not so much as a dwarf within our giant 's clothes . Therefore , let not Shakespeare suffer for our sakes ; it is our fault , who succeed him in an age which is more refined , if we imitate him so ill , that we copy his failings only , and make a virtue of that in our writings , which in his was an imperfection . For what remains , the excellency of that poet was , as I have said , in the more manly passions ; Fletcher 's in the softer : Shakespeare writ better betwixt man and man ; Fletcher , betwixt man and woman : consequently , the one described friendship better ; the other love : yet Shakespeare taught Fletcher to write love : and Juliet and Desdemona are originals . It is true , the scholar had the softer soul ; but the master had the kinder . Friendship is both a virtue and a passion essentially ; love is a passion only in its nature , and is not a virtue but by accident : good nature makes friendship ; but effeminacy love . Shakespeare had an universal mind , which comprehended all characters and passions ; Fletcher a more confined and limited : for though he treated love in perfection , yet honour , ambition , revenge , and generally all the stronger , passions , he either touched not , or not masterly . To conclude all , he was a limb of Shakespeare . I had intended to have proceeded to the last property of manners , which is , that they must be constant , and the characters maintained the same from the beginning to the end ; and from thence to have proceeded to the thoughts and expressions suitable to a tragedy : but I will first see how this will relish with the age . It is , I confess , but cursorily written ; yet the judgment , which is given here , is generally founded upon experience : but because many men are shocked at the name of rules , as if they were a kind of magisterial prescription upon poets , I will conclude with the words of Rapin , in his Reflections on Aristotle 's Work of Poetry : \u201c If the rules be well considered , we shall find them to be made only to reduce nature into method , to trace her step by step , and not to suffer the least mark of her to escape us : it is only by these , that probability in fiction is maintained , which is the soul of poetry . They are founded upon good sense , and sound reason , rather than on authority ; for though Aristotle and Horace are produced , yet no man must argue , that what they write is true , because they writ it ; but \u2018 tis evident , by the ridiculous mistakes and gross absurdities , which have been made by those poets who have taken their fancy only for their guide , that if this fancy be not regulated , it is a mere caprice , and utterly incapable to produce a reasonable and judicious poem . \u201d Footnote : 1 . The dictum of Rymer , concerning the royal prerogative in poetry , is thus expressed : \u201c We are to presume the highest virtues , where we find the highest of rewards ; and though it is not necessary that all heroes should be kings , yet , undoubtedly , all crowned heads , by poetical right , are heroes . This character is a flower ; a prerogative so certain , so inseparably annexed to the crown , as by no parliament of poets ever to be invaded . \u201d The Tragedies of the last Age considered , p. 61 . Dryden has elsewhere given his assent to this maxim , that a king , in poetry , as in our constitution , can do no wrong . The only apology for introducing a tyrant upon the stage , was to make him at the same time an usurper . PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY MR BETTERTON , REPRESENTING THE GHOST OF SHAKESPEARE . See , my loved Britons , see your Shakespeare rise , An awful ghost confessed to human eyes ! Unnamed , methinks , distinguished I had been From other shades , by this eternal green , About whose wreaths the vulgar poets strive , And with a touch , their withered bays revive . Untaught , unpractised , in a barbarous age , I found not , but created first the stage . And , if I drained no Greek or Latin store , \u2018 Twas , that my own abundance gave me more . On foreign trade I needed not rely , Like fruitful Britain , rich without supply . In this my rough-drawn play , you shall behold Some master-strokes , so manly and so bold , That he who meant to alter , found \u2018 em such , He shook , and thought it sacrilege to touch . Now , where are the successors to my name ? What bring they to fill out a poet 's fame ? Weak , short-lived issues of a feeble age ; Scarce living to be christened on the stage ! For humour farce , for love they rhyme dispense , That tolls the knell for their departed sense . Dulness might thrive in any trade but this : \u2018 Twould recommend to some fat benefice . Dulness , that in a playhouse meets disgrace , Might meet with reverence , in its proper place . The fulsome clench , that nauseates the town , Would from a judge or alderman go down , Such virtue is there in a robe and gown ! And that insipid stuff which here you hate , Might somewhere else be called a grave debate ; Dulness is decent in the church and state . But I forget that still \u2018 tis understood , Bad plays are best decried by showing good . Sit silent then , that my pleased soul may see A judging audience once , and worthy me ; My faithful scene from true records shall tell , How Trojan valour did the Greek excell ; Your great forefathers shall their fame regain , And Homer 's angry ghost repine in vainFootnote : 1 . The conceit , which our ancestors had adopted , of their descent from Brutus , a fugitive Trojan , induced their poets to load the Grecian chiefs with every accusation of cowardice and treachery , and to extol the character of the Trojans in the same proportion . Hector is always represented as having been treacherously slain . DRAMATIS PERSON\u00c6 . HECTOR , } Sons of PRIAM . TROILUS , } PRIAM , King of Troy . \u00c6NEAS , a Trojan Warrior . PANDARUS , Uncle to CRESSIDA . CALCHAS , a Trojan Priest , and Father to CRESSIDA , a fugitive to the Grecian camp . AGAMEMNON , } ULYSSES , } ACHILLES , } AJAX , } Grecian Warriors , engaged in the NESTOR , } siege of Troy . DIOMEDES , } PATROCLUS , } MENELAUS , } THERSITES , a slanderous Buffoon . CRESSIDA , Daughter to CALCHAS . ANDROMACHE , Wife to HECTOR . TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ACT I .", "The carelessness of OEdipus about the fate of his predecessor is very unnatural ; but to such expedients dramatists are often reduced , to communicate to their audience what must have been known to the persons of the drama ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["The mask , introduced in the first act of the Maid 's Tragedy , ends with the following dialogue betwixt Cinthia and Night : Cinthia Whip up thy team , The day breaks here , and yon sun-flaring beam Shot from the south . Say , which way wilt thou go ?", "\u201c I have read somewhere in Mons . Rapin 's Reflections sur la Poetique , that a certain Venetian nobleman , Andrea Naugeria by name , was wont every year to sacrifice a Martial to the manes of Catullus : In imitation of this , a celebrated poet , in the preface before the Spanish Friar , is pleased to acquaint the world , that he has indignation enough to burn a Bussy D'Amboys , annually , to the memory of Ben Jonson . Since the modern ceremony , of offering up one author at the altar of another , is likely to advance into a fashion ; and having already the authority of two such great men to recommend it , the courteous reader may be pleased to take notice , that the author of the following dialogue is resolved ,on the festival of the Seven Sleepers , as long as he lives , to sacrifice the Hind and Panther to the memory of Mr Quarels and John Bunyan : Or , if a writer that has notoriously contradicted himself , and espoused the quarrel of two different parties , may be considered under two distinct characters , he designs to deliver up the author of the Hind and Panther , to be lashed severely by , and to beg pardon of , the worthy gentleman that wrote the Spanish Friar , and the Religion Laici . \u201d The reason of Mr Bayes \u2019 changing his religion . Preface ."], "true_target": ["Dryden has elsewhere ridiculed this absurd passage . The original has \u201c periwig with wool . \u201d PROLOGUE . Now , luck for us , and a kind hearty pit ; For he , who pleases , never fails of wit : Honour is yours ; And you , like kings at city-treats , bestow it ; The writer kneels , and is bid rise a poet ; But you are fickle sovereigns , to our sorrow ; You dub to-day , and hang a man to-morrow : You cry the same sense up , and down again , Just like brass-money once a year in Spain : Take you in the mood , whate'er base metal come , You coin as fast as groats at Birmingham : Though \u2018 tis no more like sense , in antient plays , Than Rome 's religion like St Peter 's days . In short , so swift your judgments turn and wind , You cast our fleetest wits a mile behind . \u2018 Twere well your judgments but in plays did range , But e'en your follies and debauches change With such a whirl , the poets of our age Are tired , and cannot score them on the stage ; Unless each vice in short-hand they indict , Even as notch 'd prentices whole sermons writeThe heavy Hollanders no vices know , But what they used a hundred years ago ; Like honest plants , where they were stuck , they grow . They cheat , but still from cheating sires they come ; They drink , but they were christened first in mum . Their patrimonial sloth the Spaniards keep , And Philip first taught Philip how to sleep . The French and we still change ; but here 's the curse , They change for better , and we change for worse ; They take up our old trade of conquering , And we are taking theirs , to dance and sing : Our fathers did , for change , to France repair , And they , for change , will try our English air ; As children , when they throw one toy away , Strait a more foolish gewgaw comes in play : So we , grown penitent , on serious thinking , Leave whoring , and devoutly fall to drinking . Scowering the watch grows out-of-fashion wit : Now we set up for tilting in the pit , Where \u2018 tis agreed by bullies chicken-hearted , To fright the ladies first , and then be parted . A fair attempt has twice or thrice been made , To hire night murderers , and make death a tradeWhen murder 's out , what vice can we advance ? Unless the new-found poisoning trick of France : And , when their art of rats-bane we have got , By way of thanks , we 'll send them o'er our plot . Footnotes 1 . It was anciently a part of the apprentice 's duty , not only to carry the family bible to church , but to take notes of the sermon for the edification of his master or mistress .", "Start is here , and in p. 136 , used for started , being borrowed from sterte , the old perfect of the verb ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u201c The Revolter , \u201d a tragi-comedy , 1687 , p. 29 ."], "true_target": ["It is a common idea , that falling stars , as they are called , are converted into a sort of jelly . \u201c Among the rest , I had often the opportunity to see the seeming shooting of the stars from place to place , and sometimes they appeared as if falling to the ground , where I once or twice found a white jelly-like matter among the grass , which I imagined to be distilled from them ; and hence foolishly conjectured , that the stars themselves must certainly consist of a like substance . \u201d", "In spring 1677 , whilst the treaty of Nimeguen was under discussion , the French took the three important frontier towns , Valenciennes , St Omer , and Cambray . The Spaniards seemed , with the most passive infatuation , to have left the defence of Flanders to the Prince of Orange and the Dutch ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Serpens , serpentem vorans , fit draco . Peccata , peccatis superaddita , monstra fiunt . Hieroglyphica animalium , per Archibaldum Simsonum Dalkethensis Ecclesi\u00e6 pastorem , p. 95 ."], "true_target": ["It is impossible to avoid transcribing the whole account of this representation , with some other curious particulars , contained in a letter from the earl of Nottingham , published by Sir John Dalrymple , from a copy given him by the bishop of Dromore ; and also inserted by Mr Malone in his third volume of Dryden 's prose works . \u201c I am loth to send blank paper by a carrier , but am rather willing to send some of the tattle of the town , than nothing at all ; which will at least serve for an hour 's chat ,\u2014 and then convert the scrawl to its proper use . \u201c The only day her Majesty gave herself the diversion of a play , and that on which she designed to see another , has furnished the town with discourse for near a month . The choice of the play was THE SPANISH FRIAR , the only play forbid by the late K, Some unhappy expressions , among which those that follow , put her in some disorder , and forced her to hold up her fan , and often look behind her , and call for her palatine and hood , and any thing she could next think of ; while those who were in the pit before her , turned their heads over their shoulders , and all in general directed their looks towards her , whenever their fancy led them to make any application of what was said . In one place , where the queen of Arragon is going to church in procession , \u2018 tis said by a spectator , \u2018 Very good ; she usurps the throne , keeps the old king in prison , and , at the same time , is praying for a blessing on her army ; \u2019 \u2014 And when said , \u2018 That \u2018 tis observed at Court , who weeps , and who wears black for good king Sancho 's death , \u2019 \u2018 tis said , \u2018 Who is that , that can flatter a Court like this ? Can I sooth tyranny ? seem pleas 'd to see my Royal Master murthered ; his crown usurped ; a distaff in the throne ? \u2019 \u2014 And \u2018 What title has this queen , but lawless force ; and force must pull her down \u2019 \u2014 Twenty more things are said , which may be wrested to what they were never designed : but however , the observations then made furnished the town with talk , till something else happened , which gave it much occasion for discourse ; for another play being ordered to be acted , the queen came not , being taken up with other diversion . She dined with Mrs Gradens , the famous woman in the hall , that sells fine laces and head-dresses ; from thence she went to the Jew 's , that sells Indian things ; to Mrs Ferguson 's , De Vett 's , Mrs Harrison 's , and other Indian houses ; but not to Mrs Potter 's , though in her way ; which caused Mrs Potter to say , that she might as well have hoped for that honour as others , considering that the whole design of bringing the queen and king was managed at her house , and the consultations held there ; so that she might as well have thrown away a little money in raffling there , as well as at the other houses : but it seems that my lord Devonshire has got Mrs Potter to be laundress : she has not much countenance of the queen , her daughter still keeping the Indian house her mother had . The same day the queen went to one Mrs Wise 's , a famous woman for telling fortunes , but could not prevail with her to tell anything ; though to others she has been very true , and has foretold that king James shall came in again , and the duke of Norfolk shall lose his head : the last , I suppose , will naturally be the consequence of the first . These things , however innocent , have passed the censure of the town : and , besides a private reprimand given , the king gave one in public ; saying to the queen , that he heard she dined at a bawdy-house , and desired the next time she went , he might go . She said , she had done nothing but what the late queen had done . He asked her , if she meant to make her , her example . More was said on this occasion than ever was known before ; but it was borne with all the submission of a good wife , who leaves all to the direction of the k \u2014\u2014, and diverts herself with walking six or seven miles a-day , and looking after her buildings , making of fringes , and such like innocent things ; and does not meddle in government , though she has better title to do it than the late queen had . \u201d TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN , LORD HAUGHTONMY LORD , When I first designed this play , I found , or thought I found , somewhat so moving in the serious part of it , and so pleasant in the comic , as might deserve a more than ordinary care in both ; accordingly , I used the best of my endeavour , in the management of two plots , so very different from each other , that it was not perhaps the talent of every writer to have made them of a piece . Neither have I attempted other plays of the same nature , in my opinion , with the same judgment , though with like success . And though many poets may suspect themselves for the fondness and partiality of parents to their youngest children , yet I hope I may stand exempted from this rule , because I know myself too well to be ever satisfied with my own conceptions , which have seldom reached to those ideas that I had within me ; and consequently , I may presume to have liberty to judge when I write more or less pardonably , as an ordinary marksman may know certainly when he shoots less wide at what he aims . Besides , the care and pains I have bestowed on this , beyond my other tragi-comedies , may reasonably make the world conclude , that either I can do nothing tolerably , or that this poem is not much amiss . Few good pictures have been finished at one sitting ; neither can a true just play , which is to bear the test of ages , be produced at a heat , or by the force of fancy , without the maturity of judgment . For my own part , I have both so just a diffidence of myself , and so great a reverence for my audience , that I dare venture nothing without a strict examination ; and am as much ashamed to put a loose indigested play upon the public , as I should be to offer brass money in a payment ; for though it should be taken ,yet it would be found in the second telling ; and a judicious reader will discover , in his closet , that trashy stuff , whose glittering deceived him in the action . I have often heard the stationer sighing in his shop , and wishing for those hands to take off his melancholy bargain , which clapped its performance on the stage . In a playhouse , every thing contributes to impose upon the judgment ; the lights , the scenes , the habits , and , above all , the grace of action , which is commonly the best where there is the most need of it , surprise the audience , and cast a mist upon their understandings ; not unlike the cunning of a juggler , who is always staring us in the face , and over-whelming us with gibberish , only that he may gain the opportunity of making the cleaner conveyance of his trick . But these false beauties of the stage are no more lasting than a rainbow ; when the actor ceases to shine upon them , when he gilds them no longer with his reflection , they vanish in a twinkling . I have sometimes wondered , in the reading , what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in \u201c Bussy D'Amboys \u201d upon the theatre ; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star , I found I had been cozened with a jelly; nothing but a cold , dull mass , which glittered no longer than it was shooting ; a dwarfish thought , dressed up in gigantic words , repetition in abundance , looseness of expression , and gross hyperboles ; the sense of one line expanded prodigiously into ten ; and , to sum up all , uncorrect English , and a hideous mingle of false poetry , and true nonsense ; or , at best , a scantling of wit , which lay gasping for life , and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish . A famous modern poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil 's manes; and I have indignation enough to burn a D'AMBOIS annually , to the memory of JonsonBut now , my lord , I am sensible , perhaps too late , that I have gone too far : for , I remember some verses of my own Maximin and Almanzor , which cry vengeance upon me for their extravagance , and which I wish heartily in the same fire with Statius and Chapman . All I can say for those passages , which are , I hope , not many , is , that I knew they were bad enough to please , even when I wrote them ; but I repent of them amongst my sins ; and , if any of their fellows intrude by chance into my present writings , I draw a stroke over all those Dalilah 's of the theatre ; and am resolved I will settle myself no reputation by the applause of fools . It is not that I am mortified to all ambition , but I scorn as much to take it from half-witted judges , as I should to raise an estate by cheating of bubbles . Neither do I discommend the lofty style in tragedy , which is naturally pompous and magnificent ; but nothing is truly sublime , that is not just and proper . If the antients had judged by the same measure , which a common reader takes , they had concluded Statius to have written higher than Virgil , for , Qu\u00e6 super-imposito moles geminata Colosso carries a more thundering kind of sound , than Tityre , tu patul\u00e6 recubans sub tegmine fagi : yet Virgil had all the majesty of a lawful prince , and Statius only the blustering of a tyrant . But when men affect a virtue which they cannot easily reach , they fall into a vice , which bears the nearest resemblance to it . Thus , an injudicious poet , who aims at loftiness , runs easily into the swelling puffy style , because it looks like greatness . I remember , when I was a boy , I thought inimitable Spencer a mean poet , in comparison of Sylvester 's \u201c Dubartas , \u201d and was wrapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : Now , when the winter 's keener breath began To crystalize the Baltic ocean ; To glaze the lakes , to bridle up the floods , And periwig with snow the bald-pate woods :\u2014I am much deceived if this be not abominable fustian , that is , thoughts and words ill-sorted , and without the least relation to each other ; yet I dare not answer for an audience , that they would not clap it on the stage : so little value there is to be given to the common cry , that nothing but madness can please madmen , and the poet must be of a piece with the spectators , to gain a reputation with them . But , as in a room , contrived for state , the height of the roof should bear a proportion to the area ; so , in the heightenings of poetry , the strength and vehemence of figures should be suited to the occasion , the subject , and the persons . All beyond this is monstrous : it is out of nature , it is an excrescence , and not a living part of poetry . I had not said thus much , if some young gallants , who pretend to criticism , had not told me , that this tragi-comedy wanted the dignity of style ; but , as a man , who is charged with a crime of which he thinks himself innocent , is apt to be too eager in his own defence ; so , perhaps , I have vindicated my play with more partiality than I ought , or than such a trifle can deserve . Yet , whatever beauties it may want , it is free at least from the grossness of those faults I mentioned : what credit it has gained upon the stage , I value no farther than in reference to my profit , and the satisfaction I had , in seeing it represented with all the justness and gracefulness of action . But , as it is my interest to please my audience , so it is my ambition to be read : that I am sure is the more lasting and the nobler design : for the propriety of thoughts and words , which are the hidden beauties of a play , are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action : all things are there beheld , as in a hasty motion , where the objects only glide before the eye , and disappear . The most discerning critic can judge no more of these silent graces in the action , than he who rides post through an unknown country can distinguish the situation of places , and the nature of the soil . The purity of phrase , the clearness of conception and expression , the boldness maintained to majesty , the significancy and sound of words , not strained into bombast , but justly elevated ; in short , those very words and thoughts , which cannot be changed , but for the worse , must of necessity escape our transient view upon the theatre ; and yet , without all these , a play may take . For , if either the story move us , or the actor help the lameness of it with his performance , or now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strike through the obscurity of the poem , any of these are sufficient to effect a present liking , but not to fix a lasting admiration ; for nothing but truth can long continue ; and time is the surest judge of truth . I am not vain enough to think that I have left no faults in this , which that touchstone will not discover ; neither , indeed , is it possible to avoid them in a play of this nature . There are evidently two actions in it ; but it will be clear to any judicious man , that with half the pains I could have raised a play from either of them ; for this time I satisfied my humour , which was to tack two plays together ; and to break a rule for the pleasure of variety . The truth is , the audience are grown weary of continued melancholy scenes ; and I dare venture to prophecy , that few tragedies , except those in verse , shall succeed in this age , if they are not lightened with a course of mirth ; for the feast is too dull and solemn without the fiddles . But how difficult a task this is , will soon be tried ; for a several genius is required to either way ; and , without both of them , a man , in my opinion , is but half a poet for the stage . Neither is it so trivial an undertaking , to make a tragedy end happily ; for it is more difficult to save , than it is to kill . The dagger and the cup of poison are always in a readiness ; but to bring the action to the last extremity , and then by probable means to recover all , will require the art and judgement of a writer ; and cost him many a pang in the performance . And now , my lord , I must confess , that what I have written , looks more like a Preface , than a Dedication ; and , truly , it was thus far my design , that I might entertain you with somewhat in my own art , which might be more worthy of a noble mind , than the stale exploded trick of fulsome panegyrics . It is difficult to write justly on any thing , but almost impossible in praise . I shall therefore wave so nice a subject ; and only tell you , that , in recommending a protestant play to a protestant patron , as I do myself an honour , so I do your noble family a right , who have been always eminent in the support and favour of our religion and liberties . And if the promises of your youth , your education at home , and your experience abroad , deceive me not , the principles you have embraced are such , as will no way degenerate from your ancestors , but refresh their memory in the minds of all true Englishmen , and renew their lustre in your person ; which , my lord , is not more the wish , than it is the constant expectation , of Your lordship 's Most obedient , faithful servant , JOHN DRYDEN . Footnotes : 1 . John , Lord Haughton , eldest son of the Earl of Clare . succeeded to his father , was created Marquis of Clare , and died 1711 , leaving an only daughter , who married the eldest son of the famous Robert Harley , Earl of Oxford .", "Alluding to the imaginary history of Pine , a merchant 's clerk , who , being wrecked on a desert island in the South Seas , bestowed on it his own name , and peopled it by the assistance of his master 's daughter and her two maid servants , who had escaped from the wreck by his aid ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["The idea of this sacred grove seems to be taken from that of Colonus near Athens , dedicated to the Eumenides , which gives name to Sophocles 's second tragedy . Seneca describes the scene of the incantation in the following lines : Est procul ab urbe lucus illicibus niger Dirc\u00e6a circa vallis irrigu\u00e6 loca . Cupressus altis exerens silvis caput Virente semper alligat trunco nemus ; Curvosque tendit quercus et putres situ Annosa ramos : hujus abrupit latus Edax vetustas : illa jam fessa cadens Radice , fulta pendet aliena trabe . Amara baccas laurus ; et tili\u00e6 leves Et Paphia myrtus ; et per immensum mare Motura remos alnus ; et Phoebo obvia Enode Zephyris pinus opponens latus . Medio stat ingens arbor , atque umbra gravi Silvas minores urget ; et magno ambitu Diffusa ramos , una defendit nemus . Tristis sub illa , lucis et Phoebi inscius Restagnat humor , frigore \u00e6terno rigens . Limosa pigrum circuit fontem palus ."], "true_target": ["Sulli , the famous composer ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["It would seem that about this time the French were adopting their present mode of pronunciation , so capriciously distinct from the orthography ."], "true_target": ["The quarrel betwixt OEdipus and the prophet , who announces his guilt , is imitated from a similar scene in the OEdipus Tyrannus ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Borrowed from Shakespeare ; And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change . Richard II . EPILOGUE . What Sophocles could undertake alone , Our poets found a work for more than one ; And therefore two lay tugging at the piece , With all their force , to draw the ponderous mass from Greece ; A weight that bent even Seneca 's strong muse , And which Corneille 's shoulders did refuse . So hard it is the Athenian harp to string ! So much two consuls yield to one just king . Terror and pity this whole poem sway ; The mightiest machines that can mount a play . How heavy will those vulgar souls be found , Whom two such engines cannot move from ground ! When Greece and Rome have smiled upon this birth , You can but damn for one poor spot of earth ; And when your children find your judgment such , They 'll scorn their sires , and wish themselves born Dutch ; Each haughty poet will infer with ease , How much his wit must under-write to please . As some strong churl would , brandishing , advance The monumental sword that conquered France ; So you , by judging this , your judgment teach , Thus far you like , that is , thus far you reach . Since then the vote of full two thousand years Has crowned this plot , and all the dead are theirs , Think it a debt you pay , not alms you give , And , in your own defence , let this play live . Think them not vain , when Sophocles is shown , To praise his worth they humbly doubt their own . Yet as weak states each other 's power assure , Weak poets by conjunction are secure . Their treat is what your palates relish most , Charm ! song ! and show ! a murder and a ghost ! We know not what you can desire or hope , To please you more , but burning of a Pope .Footnote : 1 . The burning a Pope in effigy , was a ceremony performed upon the anniversary of queen Elizabeth 's coronation . When parties ran high betwixt the courtiers and opposition , in the latter part of Charles the II . reign , these anti-papal solemnities were conducted by the latter , with great state and expence , and employed as engines to excite the popular resentment against the duke of York , and his religion . The following curious description of one of these tumultuary processions , in 1679 , was extracted by Ralph , from a very scarce pamphlet ; it is the ceremony referred to in the epilogue ; and it shall be given at length , as the subject is frequently alluded to by Dryden .London Published January 1808 by William Miller , Albemarle Street . Dryden Works to face Vol 6th page 223 ] \u201c On the said 17th of November , 1679 , the bells , generally , about the town , began to ring at three o'clock in the morning . At the approach of the evening ,the solemn procession began , setting forth from Moregate , and so passed , first to Aldgate , and thence through Leadenhall-street , by the Royal Exchange , through Cheapside , and so to Temple-bar in the ensuing order , viz ."], "true_target": ["\u201c Queen Dido , or the wandering Prince of Troy , \u201d an old ballad , printed in the \u201c Reliques of Ancient Poetry , \u201d in which the ghost of queen Dido thus addresses the perfidious \u00c6neas : Therefore prepare thy flitting soul , To wander with me in the air ; When deadly grief shall make it howl , Because of me thou took'st no care . Delay not time , thy glass is run , Thy date is past , thy life is done ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["I read the same .", "Be resolute ,", "Your curses have already taken effect ,", "That whate'er is , could not but so have been ;", "There 's a chain of causes", "Ravish , and leave her dead with her Adrastus .", "I always thought so .", "When did OEdipus salute you by that familiar name ?", "Survey cursed OEdipus ,", "He 's now a foe to Thebes .", "Grew more domestic , and the faithful dog", "Your claim to her is strong ; you are betrothed .", "There stands your plague , the ruin , desolation", "Long-bearded comets stick , Like flaming porcupines , to their left sides , As they would shoot their quills into their hearts .H\u00e6m . But see ! the king , and queen , and all the court ! Did ever day or night shew aught like this ?", "A monarch , Theban born !", "About us ; and the universal frame", "And call your utmost fury to revenge .", "Of conquered Argians , to renew his Thebes .", "By all the Thebans : you must mark him dead ,", "Methinks we stand on ruins ; nature shakes", "Thought innocent , and therefore much lamented", "O that our Thebes might once again behold"], "true_target": ["Nothing these ,", "On bleating flocks , and on the lowing herds :", "Linked to effects ; invincible necessity ,", "But since the war broke out about our frontiers ,", "To leap from off its hinges .", "For number , to the crowds that soon will follow ;", "Where , where 's this cruel king ?\u2014 Thebans , behold ,", "So loose , that it but wants another push ,", "Since hell 's broke loose , why should not you be mad ?", "Hence murrains followed", "Try promises and threats , and if all fail ,", "Or shall he be cast out to banishment ?", "Can give assurance to your doubtful reign .", "Since nothing but his death , not banishment ,", "To them , enter CREON .", "At last , the malady", "Of this unhappy \u2014 speak ; shall I kill him ?", "Died at his master 's feet", "That 's my security .", "As one who , though unfortunate , beloved ,", "He would do well to bring the wives and children", "For he looks very sad ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["You must not meet her ,", "The people , prone , as in all general ills ,", "But will not long be so : This tell-tale ghost", "Echo to him , groves : cry villain .", "For all those plagues , which earth and air had brooded ,", "For single stakes , but families and tribes .", "We 'll about it .", "Now OEdipus", "to Cre . See what you 've gained .", "Forgets your first ; were you not sworn before", "Nay , now you are too sharp .", "Will scarce find half he left , to grace his triumphs .", "A stranger !", "His face o'erhYpppHeNgrown with scurf : The sun 's sick , too ;", "Basely you killed him .", "You are not wretched .", "Alc . Pyr . We 'll hear no more .", "Your fortune hindered .", "You rave ; call home your thoughts .", "That rolls above , a bald and beamless fire ,", "No sun to cheer us ; but a bloody globe ,", "You seemed to fear it .", "I heard the prince of Argos , young Adrastus ,", "To Laius and his blood ?", "No more : he 's here .", "Is heir to Laius ; let her marry Creon .", "We are your creatures .", "Now death 's grown riotous , and will play no more", "A stranger to his blood .", "Or not enjoy your mistress :", "A troop of ghosts took flight together there .", "Your first oath still must bind : Eurydice", "And more , since you accused her .", "When he was hostage here \u2014", "By half a people ?", "The princess walks this way ;", "Something might be produced ."], "true_target": ["Till this be done .", "See , he stands mute .", "To sudden change ; the king , in wars abroad ;", "Then Creon had been king ; but OEdipus ,", "A serpent ne'er becomes a flying dragon ,", "No , villain , villain .", "Her former husband too .", "Till he has eat a serpent", "Are you content , Creon should be your king ? All A Creon , A Creon , A Creon !", "Shall not be built upon , and overlaid", "Eurydice , the daughter of dead Laius ,", "Perhaps will clear \u2018 em both .", "Our bodies , cast into some common pit ,", "Fellow-citizens ! there was a word of kindness !", "This holy sire , who presses you with oaths ,", "What mean you by these words ?", "First on inferior creatures tried their force ,", "And last they seized on man .", "And that , next minute ,", "We might have had one .", "O false love , false honour !", "She hates your sight ;", "Methinks , from these disjointed propositions ,", "Of his children .", "While Laius has a lawful successor ,", "While OEdipus pollutes the throne of Laius ,", "How are you traitors , countrymen of Thebes ?", "Had merit , not her dotage , been considered ;", "Offended heaven will never be appeased ,", "A princess young and beauteous , and unmarried ,\u2014", "The queen , a woman weak and unregarded ;", "He much resembles", "And next , his master :", "Nor alone .", "How are we sure we breathe not now our last ,", "Eurydice and he are prisoners here ,", "Shortly he 'll be an earth ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["No more ; you tear yourself , but vex not him .", "A feeble p\u00e6an will be sung before him .", "Lie all confused ; and , by the heavens neglected ,", "True , in her nonage .", "The palace , and implore , as from a god ,", "With flaggy wings , fly heavily about ,", "Has driven him headlong back ; and the raw damps ,", "To cool a little , sir ; find out Eurydice ;", "He will be very Laius .", "By the red lightning 's glare descried afar ,", "Dropt in the pious act .\u2014 Heard you that groan ?", "And OEdipus cast out .", "When twenty winters more have grizzled his black locks ,", "A third , who stooped to raise his dying friend ,", "A glowing pleasure . Sure you smile revenge ,", "To wonder , and straight fell a wonder too ;", "\u2018 Tis midnight , yet there 's not a Theban sleeps ,", "Scattering their pestilential colds and rheums", "When you are pleased , by a malicious joy ,", "And , with the resolution of a man", "He 's strangely thoughtful .", "You seem to go with ; nor is it hard to guess", "And see , their faces are quite hid in clouds .", "All dart at once their baleful influence ,", "A dangerous undertaking ;", "A sceptre , bright with gems , in each right hand ,", "This cannot fail : I see you on the throne :", "Help of the king ; who , from the battlement ,"], "true_target": ["Methinks \u2018 twere brave this night to force the temple ,", "But such as ne'er must wake . All crowd about", "While blind Tiresias conjures up the fiends ,", "That scarce a first man fell ; one but began", "Distinctly yonder in that point they stand ,", "Whose red and fiery beams cast through your visage", "And then a thousand deaths at once advanced ,", "Their flowing robes of dazzling purple made :", "Through all the lazy air .", "Therefore the seasons", "And every dart took place ; all was so sudden ,", "Yes , had the people pleased .", "And seem so crowded , that they burst upon them :", "Might I be counsellor , I would intreat you", "Some business of import , that triumph wears ,", "Atones the angry powers .", "And I could gladly hear .", "Forget themselves : Blind winter meets the summer", "Marked out for greatness , give the fatal choice", "In his mid-way , and , seeing not his livery ,", "Behold , Alcander , from yon \u2019 west of heaven ,", "And pass the time with nice Eurydice .", "Directly opposite to your own interest .", "The perfect figures of a man and woman ;", "Just west ; a bloody red stains all the place ;", "Clusters of golden stars hang o'er their heads ,", "H\u00e6m . Ha ! Pyracmon , look ;", "In leaking fire .", "Of death or marriage ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Gods , I 'm beholden to you , for making me your image ;", "Into your lifeless lips ;", "Burn , burn for ever , O weak substitute", "For me , alas ,", "Forego the advantage which thy arms have won .", "Work him , be sure ,", "I must .", "Of her , whom more than life I know thou lovest ,", "But in my own defence .", "A man , she loses by't , \u2018 tis too expensive ;", "And wanting for thy triumphs ;", "To walk as spirits do , in brakes all day ;", "Would his Apollo had him ! he 's too holy", "Forego thy sword , and yield thyself my prisoner .", "Then she is faultless , and I ask her pardon .", "Pyracmon to the palace ; dispatch", "You killed her father ; you confessed you did :", "Lest she repent , and hasten on thy doom .", "Eurydice shall die , or be my bride .", "But fly , my lord ; fly as your life is sacred .", "Best revoke your words ,", "Enter TIRESIAS , leaning on a staff , and led by his Daughter", "And her , and even by him , the slave of both .", "I may foretel there is a fatal cause .", "More young , and vigorous too , by twenty springs .", "H\u00e6m . Is't possible you should be ignorant", "\u2018 Twas you first poisoned mine ; and yet , methinks ,", "My lord ,", "Why not then ? There 's the more need of comfort .", "What she has told me \u2014 an offence to sight :", "And when the darkness comes , to glide in paths", "With interrupting sobs , cry 'd out ,\u2014 O Thebes !", "Because a stranger ruled ; but what of that ?", "Of your young minion , spoil the gods \u2019 fine work ,", "To let your head-long love triumph o'er nature :", "Of that , the god , ambition .", "As if the breeze had stung them .", "H\u00e6mon , you do your duty ; As they go off , OEDIPUS enters , walking asleep in his shirt , with a dagger in his right hand , and a taper in his left .", "But love with malice . As an angry cur", "To wise Tiresias , if my accusation", "No , dull Pyracmon ; when I left his presence", "And I am too unworthy ; think again ,", "To please a woman yet more fool than he .", "Superior virtue .", "And Creon shall point out the great offender .", "My hurt is nothing , sir ; but I appeal", "This ill-shaped body with a daring soul ;", "Then every thought draws blood .", "Even of thy foolish death , shall all be mine .", "My life 's not worth a thought , when weighed with yours !", "Draw all ; and when I give the word , fall on .\u2014", "This giddy hair-brained king , whom old Tiresias", "Dissembled both , and false !", "All left him there , at his desire , alone ;", "To thy own Thebes ; to all that 's left of Thebes ;", "No , parricide ! if thou must weep , weep blood ;", "If I must plunge in flames ,", "Cooled again !", "Well have you done , to snatch me from the storm", "For any trifle their fond hearts are set on ;", "I 'll break through all , to succour thee , poor city !", "Oh name him not ! the bane of all my hopes .", "My conscience shall not do me the ill office", "Die first thyself , then .", "I see thou hast been diligent .", "That beautify the sky , so he informed", "You killed him not ! proclaim your innocence ,", "Of love , revenge , and all the under passions ,", "That thoughtless sex is caught by outward form .", "And , making less than man , he made me more .", "Turn all at once the fatal point upon thee .\u2014", "By adamantine locks against my love .", "Were quite devoured in the vast gulph of empire .", "When I but offered at your innocence ,", "Then with a groan , that seemed the call of death ,", "Accuse the princess : So I knew \u2018 twould be .", "So to the palace I returned , to meet", "Be blacker than the place I wish him , hell .", "Swears that Adrastus , and the lean-looked prophet", "Of death and hell . Let me inform you better .", "Of life ; because he flatly had denied", "And stab you in his heart .", "The robber , who bereft the unhappy king", "Your fate is precious to your faithful Creon ,", "Feared to lie single ; and supplied his place", "And empty noise , and loves itself in man .", "And with such modest , chaste , and pure affection ,", "Against your sacred person , and those traitors", "I know no more but that he was conducted", "He snatched , he tore , from forth their bloody orbs ,", "He ne'er could prove it in a better time .", "His eye-balls never move , brows be unbent ,", "You provoked me :", "Her bungled work , she stampt my mind more fair ;", "The king , and greet him with another story .\u2014", "And leave the scraps for slaves .", "Much more the power of my eternal love !", "Of Thebes has made you false , and break the vows", "A glut of them in Thebes .", "This is the best of what comes after death .", "Nay worse , a woman 's fool ;", "They conquered , and you killed .", "For bloodiest murder , and for burning lust :", "And through a chink I found , not only heard ,", "Then , like a lone benighted traveller ,", "There 's it ; I have a soul to do them all :", "And lets in day to make my vices seen", "But under him our Thebes is half destroyed .", "Adrastus is his oracle , and he ,", "\u2018 Tis offered you . The fool Adrastus has accused himself .", "both gods", "Here I renounce all tie of blood and nature ,", "A mighty argument to prove your passion to the daughter !", "And head the forces while the heat was in them .", "Heaven will reward", "That haunt his gloomy soul ?", "Had cracked the strings of life , and burst away .", "\u2018 Tis a fool 's just reward ;", "She 's bribed to save her lover 's life .", "They gathered stones , and menaced me with death ,", "To save a rival 's life ; when thou art dead ,", "The pious juggler , but Adrastus \u2019 organ .", "To snatch the crown and her \u2014 for I still love ,", "But is not so to her . See , she appears ;", "Upon the floor ; thence gazing at the skies ,", "Let him say so .", "The king ; hang H\u00e6mon up , for he is loyal ,", "That lead to graves ; and in the silent vault ,", "May funerals meet him at the city gates ,", "And fortune still takes care they should be seen :", "\u2018 Tis my slave , my drudge , my supple glove ,", "Stretched at the feet of false Eurydice .", "Revenge me .", "To make so poor a prince his son-in-law ;", "Not I , my gracious lord , nor any here .", "\u2018 Tis better not to be , than be unhappy .", "As next of blood to Laius : Be advised ,", "As waters are by sucking whirlpools drawn ,", "Ha ! thou hast given", "And straight grew famous ; a mad boist'rous fool ,", "Murmurs , and groans that shook the outward rooms .", "H\u00e6m . Thrice he struck ,", "Thy arrogance , thy scorn , my wound 's remembrance .", "Let me entreat you , sacred sir , be calm ,", "And yield thee to my mercy , or I strike .", "For when the gods destroy so fast , \u2018 tis time", "To whom my vows were ever paid , till now ;", "And as from chaos , huddled and deformed ,", "She places \u2018 em aloft , o'th \u2019 topmost spoke", "But hear me , maid :", "H\u00e6m . I did ; and , having locked the door , I stood ;", "And roared , and with a thousand antic mouths", "Should reach your perjuries ?", "Where lies your own pale shroud , to hover o'er it ,", "With all his force , his hollow groaning breast ,", "Who , with his wisdom , may allay those furies ,", "Then groaned again , as if his sorrowful soul", "Thou mighty conqueror , hail ; welcome to Thebes ;", "To act the dictates of my daring mind ;", "Then I had killed a monster , gained a battle ,", "I have o'erhYpppHeNheard thy black design , Adrastus ,", "Or , by the blood which trembles through the heart", "And you shall see them toss their tails , and gad ,", "As I think best : \u2018 Tis my obedient conscience .", "Now see whose arm can launch the surer bolt ,", "That word , stranger , I confess ,", "All hail , great OEdipus !", "Hold , hold your arms , Adrastus , prince of Argos ! Hear , and behold ; Eurydice is my prisoner .", "Into his closet , where I saw him fling", "Charybdis roar , and death be set before him !", "This moment , all thy soldiers straight disband .", "You had your fellow thieves about you , prince ;", "And earth exposes bodies on the pavements ,", "Were the globe mine , I 'd give a province hourly", "For half thy citizens are swept away ,", "No ; let them leave", "The alarm to cruelty ; and never may", "I must make haste , ere OEdipus return ,", "For nobler game , the princess .", "Forbid it , heaven , the residue should perish", "Am I to blame , if nature threw my body", "Be not most true . The first of Laius \u2019 blood", "Their part , by sending this commodious plague .", "Betwixt the bride and bridegroom have I seen", "MANTO .", "Take , eyes , your last , your fatal farewel-view .", "To welcome thee , and die .", "The gods have done", "Jocasta too , no longer now my sister ,", "I grudge him not that favour .", "In so perverse a mould ? yet when she cast", "Nay , though she be my sister , of his wife .", "These eyes be closed , till they behold Adrastus", "These women are such cunning purveyors !", "A thinking soul is punishment enough ;", "My upper garment , to put on , throw off ,", "Will view your heaven , till , with more durable glasses ,", "Therefore , Pyracmon , as you boldly urged ,", "Of state , and hope of the new monarch 's favour ,", "Come , you are my friends :", "My flight , I gained the midst o'the city ;", "Kind thoughts of me into the multitude ;", "By all discerning eyes , but the blind vulgar .", "H\u00e6m . My lord , the troubled king is gone to rest ;", "Mark me , the fruit of all thy faith and passion ,", "From precipices hurl him headlong down ,", "I to the mad and sickly multitude ,", "I find your dazzling beings : Take , he cried ,", "So had it need , when all our streets lie covered", "Art thou the murdress , then , of wretched Laius ?", "\u2018 Tis true , respect of nature might enjoin", "For earth and me ; I 'll shun his walk , and seek", "\u2018 Tis true , the gods might send this plague among you ,", "So he will .", "But thou canst weep then , and thou think'st \u2018 tis well ,", "Yet these thou think'st are ample satisfaction", "O , sacred sir , my royal lord \u2014", "O perjured woman !", "And made thee of such kindred mould to heaven ,", "Hail , royal maid ! thou bright Eurydice ,", "The Argian prince for you . That enemy", "Which said , he smiled revengefully , and leapt", "I drew not first ,", "Unable to resist , and rumpled them", "Crows feed on nothing else : plenty of fools ;", "Come , \u2018 tis brave bearing in him , not to envy", "\u2018 Tis better not to be , than to be Creon .", "But sure no ill , unless he died with grief ,", "Sleep seal your eyes up , sir ,\u2014 eternal sleep !", "My popular friends .", "I cannot stay to tell thee my design ;", "Sounds harshly in my ears .", "None : You must leave", "For she 's too near .", "Priests , priests ; all bribed , all priests .", "He fears Jocasta , fears himself , his shadow ;", "You made to me .", "Is found complotter in the horrid deed ."], "true_target": ["She play me fair , why , let her turn for ever .", "And you may live .", "The hunger of my love on this proud beauty ,", "Thy care , most honest , faithful ,\u2014 foolish H\u00e6mon !", "Gods I accuse you not , though I no more", "For he had plucked the remnant strings away .", "Told , as from heaven , was cause of their destruction .", "To do .", "For her Adrastus !", "A man .", "Are joint conspirators ; and wished me to", "It works , it stings , it will not let him utter", "But when \u2018 tis great , like mine , and wretched too ,", "Enter H\u00c6MON .", "And may this blood ne'er cease to drop , O Thebes ,", "Snarls while he feeds , so will I seize and stanch", "But oh , the princess ! her hard heart is shut", "These bubbles of the shallowest emptiest sorrow ,", "That , that should strike me dumb ; yet Thebes , my country \u2014", "Is by the oracle , the wise Tiresias ,", "Has thunder-struck with heavy accusation ,", "Alcander , summon to their master 's aid", "His eye-balls fiery red , and glowing vengeance ,\u2014", "Pyracmon you and I must wheel about", "And turn the guilt , on you .", "And to enjoy the woman whom I love !", "Appease the raving Thebans ; which I swore", "Had been the better match .", "Would'st thou believe !", "Make him the aggressor .", "Fall on , Alcander .\u2014", "With dead and dying men ;", "Then were they not well sorted : Life and me", "Traitor , resign the princess , or this moment", "Help , soldiers , help ;", "O , I must speak .", "Could I but breathe myself into Adrastus !\u2014", "Upon this spot straight to be hewn in pieces .", "But that thy beauteous , barbarous hand destroyed", "I ask no more of my auspicious stars ,", "The antichambers ; none must dare be near him .", "The wise can make a better use of life .", "You give what 's nothing , when you give your honour :", "What then remains , but that I find Tiresias ,", "You will not be believed , for I 'll forswear it .", "Yes , they are ;", "O beauty ! O illustrious , royal maid !", "Can I redress it now ?", "With a young successor .", "Fine fighting things ; in camps they are so common ,", "But a cold lump of clay ;", "Yet hear me , fellow-citizens .", "With horrid force lifting his impious hands ,", "And say you killed him not .", "\u2018 Tis greatly thought , he cried , and fits my woes .", "When H\u00e6mon weeps , without the help of ghosts", "Of all her wheel . Fools are the daily work", "And who 's the better Jove !", "Enter H\u00c6MON .", "Lay load upon the court ; gull them with freedom ;", "Fairly , I 'm sure , you could not .", "The thought of death to one near death is dreadful !", "Then strait came on", "And hags of fancy , wing him through the air :", "Her envious hand upon my supple joints ,", "And thus , with outcries , to himself complained :\u2014", "Under a Theban born !", "OEdipus may return ; you may be ruined .", "Thy father ,", "Of nature ; her vocation ; if she form", "Though conscious of no inward guilt , yet fears :", "This instrument of my revenge .", "But by young handsome fools ; body and brawn", "Do what thou wilt , when she is dead ; my soldiers", "This barbarous stranger , this usurper , monster ,", "The honours you intend me ; they 're too great ,", "A master-piece of horror ; new and dreadful !", "The rest as fortune please ; so but this night", "Is master of a sword , to reach the blood", "He chuses me to be his orator ;", "For such another thought .\u2014 Lust and revenge !", "With all the wings , with which revenge could aid", "H\u00e6m . Had you beheld him fight , you had said otherwise .", "My menial servants , and all those whom change", "Once more I 'll prove my fortune . You insinuate", "To rage ; he is passionate ;", "Whom he had wrought ; I whispered him to join .", "Expect , with all those most unfortunate wretches ,", "And there I wept , and then the rabble howled .", "The mighty soul 's immortal perspectives ,", "With numbers will o'erpower thee . Is't thy wish", "My face and person should not make you sport .", "Fatal ! yes , foolish love-sick prince , it shall :", "By whistling winds , whose every blast will shake", "Know this ,\u2014 and let it grate thy very soul ,\u2014", "But , to the fatal period .", "Which then your discontented ghost will leave ,", "Would I could make you mine !", "I am : my soul 's ill married to my body .", "The coldest nymph might read'em without blushing ;", "Mark , where their appetites have once been pleased ,", "Fine empty things , like him , the court swarms with them .", "Could happen , for you bore his sword away .", "Vows made in wine are not so false as that :", "The balls of sight , and dashed them on the ground .", "Alcander , with a wild and bellowing crowd ,", "With their detested omen !", "And make a better choice .", "And urges their remembrance to desire .", "You would remove from Thebes , that vows your ruin .", "To you ! why what are you , that I should fear you ?", "Thou seem'st more heaven 's than ours .", "One syllable , one ,\u2014 no , to clear himself", "Of youth , and somewhat of a lucky rashness ,", "Why , doubt you I 'm a man ?", "You turn to gallantry , what is but justice ;", "And yet I only did thus far accuse you ,", "H\u00e6m . I ran to succour him ; but , oh ! too late ;", "\u2018 Tis true , I am", "\u2018 Tis what I wished .", "Had I beheld this wondrous heap of sorrow !", "This beauteous body ; all this youth and freshness", "She shall be mine :", "My body opens inward to my soul ,", "How mean it shews , to fawn upon the victor !", "Death ought to be thy lot : Let it suffice", "Shut out from lodging , shall your groans be answered", "Dare you defend your father 's murderer ?", "Hear him not speak .", "Every where .", "Proclaimed the murderer of thy royal Laius :", "That Thebes surveys thee as a prince ; abuse not", "But see , he enters .", "More than she hides in graves .", "His blood , his entrails , liver , heart , and bowels ,", "Must be no more the object of desire ,", "An age of laughter ,\u2014 out of all mankind ,", "If pity of thy sufferings did not move me ,", "Even to the best .", "To shew the cure which heaven itself prescribed .", "Why have not I done these ?", "\u2018 Tis gone ; \u2018 tis lost in battle . For your love ,", "I thank ye , countrymen ; but must refuse", "And loath its former lodging .", "May he be rooted , where he stands , for ever ;", "And often , often , vainly breathe your ghost", "The queen my sister , after Laius \u2019 death ,", "What makes this blind prophetic fool abroad ?", "Even at its highest value .", "But fortune will have nothing done that 's great ,", "Goes it there ? I understand thee ; I must kill Adrastus .", "Burn first my arm ; base instrument , unfit", "Well : \u2018 tis resolved .", "Speak , Diocles ; all goes wrong .", "From the most base , detested , horrid act", "He fears the multitude ; and ,\u2014 which is worth", "Urge it not .", "At first , deep sighs heaved from his woful heart", "But see , Alcander enters , well attended .", "And , since your pride provokes me , worth your love .", "For thee , O Thebes , dear Thebes , poor bleeding Thebes !\u2014", "But \u2018 tis the young man 's pleasure ; his ambition :", "Can win to take our part : Away .\u2014 What now ?", "That hot-brained , head-long warrior , has the charms", "Yet , ere he slept , commanded me to clear", "But if he sleep and wake again , O all", "Gabbled revenge ! revenge was all the cry .", "And we , the happy remnant , only live", "Were she in OEdipus , I were a king ;", "Indeed he could not , for he was a stranger ;", "And I , must I accuse thee ! O my tears !", "Her proffered mercy , but retire betimes ,", "Why will you fall in so abhorred a cause ?", "Proof will be easy made . Adrastus was", "Who therefore , on his knees , thus prostrate begs", "Of racking transport , where the little streams", "\u2018 Twould make ten fools : A man 's a prodigy .", "Your tender form to atoms .", "Then I am conquered thrice ; by OEdipus ,", "I am not Laius . Hear me , prince of Argos ;", "And therefore , as a traitor to this state ,", "Who justified your guilt , which cursed Tiresias", "Of marriage and of death .", "You talk too slightly", ",", "To stab at once the only man I hate ,", "I 'll bury to the haft , in her fair breast ,", "O \u2018 tis a fearful thing to be no more ;", "Therefore \u2018 twere fit that both should perish .", "And had my rival prisoner ; brave , brave actions !", "Enter EURYDICE .", "How , madam , were your thoughts employed ?", "I pr'ythee let my soul take air a while ;", "Of what has happened to the desperate king ?", "Me silence , at another time ; but , oh ,", "The cheat 's too gross .", "O power of conscience , even in wicked men !", "Unjust Eurydice ! can you accuse me", "But see , they are here ! retire a while , and mark .", "O wretched Thebes , thy king , thy OEdipus ,", "I would be young , be handsome , be beloved :", "Weep eyes , instead of tears :\u2014 O , by the gods !", "Of love , which is heaven 's precept , and not fear", "Die both , then ; there is now no time for dallying .", "Eurydice should fall before thee ?", "You do ill , madam ,", "Meantime , she stands provided of a Laius ,", "Gave him his death . Is there a prince before her ?", "And art thou still alive , O wretch ! he cried ;", "We should renew the race .", "The same resemblance , in a younger lover ,", "Give order , then , that on this instant , now ,", "Lies brooding in their fancies the same pleasures ,", "I weep to hear ; how then should I have grieved ,", "Or , if to be , to wander after death ;", "His trembling body on the royal bed ;", "That vengeance , which you say pursues our crimes ,", "But saw him , when he thought no eye beheld him .", "Tormenting dreams , wild horrors of the night ,", "This blot of nature , this deformed , loathed Creon ,", "The nuptial torch do common offices", "There , standing on a pile of dead and dying ,", "The god struck fire , and lighted up the lamps", "Striving to enter your forbidden corps ,", "Do all her work : Hercules was a fool ,", "A lavish planet reigned when thou wert born ,", "See this brandished dagger ;", "And men at once take notice .", "On heaps in their dark lodging , to revenge", "Tiresias attends your pleasure .", "And will oppose me .\u2014 Come , sir , are you ready ?", "He says he loves you ; if he does , \u2018 tis well :", "Fool is the stuff , of which heaven makes a hero .", "Which children vent for toys , and women rain", "Enter ALCANDER , attended .", "Then cast thy sword away ,", "A prince , who loves you ;", "That ere could stain a villain ,\u2014 not a prince .", "And drove me through the streets , with imprecations"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Where shall I find his equal !", "Still the old argument .", "Like pebbles , paving all our public ways ;", "And I provoke my trial .", "Made when I was at nurse .", "For any other part o'the whole creation ,", "When you have thought on this , then answer me ,\u2014", "Who spit'st thy venom against gods and men !", "You best can tell the news of your own country .", "And knew not , if to burn thee in the flames", "And that 's thyself ; who hast conspired against", "If all the excellence of woman-kind", "Thou , who usurp'st the sacred name of conscience ,", "Were not the holier work .", "Were mine ;\u2014 No , \u2018 tis too little all for him :", "Hear me .", "Hear me , and dare not , as you prize your lives ,", "\u2018 Tis true , a crown seems dreadful , and I wish", "Traitor , go on ; I scorn thy little malice ;", "Thou poison to my eyes !", "Hang his contagious quarters on the gates ;", "Eternal torments , baths of boiling sulphur ,", "Be greatly wretched in a court with you .", "And let his ghost \u2014 No , let his ghost have rest \u2014", "Love from thee !", "Reproach not thus the weakness of my sex ,", "For death shall ne'er divide us : Death ? what 's death !", "By queen Jocasta 's order , by what 's more ,", "Pronounce my sentence : For to fall by him ,", "Than gods and men , then how much more than thee ,", "He who would give his life , give up his fame \u2014", "Thou , who lov'st nothing but what nothing loves ,", "Help ; murther , help ! Enter H\u00c6MON and guards , run betwixt them , and beat down their swords . H\u00e6m . Hold , hold your impious hands ! I think the furies , To whom this grove is hallowed , have inspired you : Now , by my soul , the holiest earth of Thebes You have profaned with war . Nor tree , nor plant Grows here , but what is fed with magick juice ; All full of human souls , that cleave their barks To dance at midnight by the moon 's pale beams : At least two hundred years these reverend shades Have known no blood , but of black sheep and oxen , Shed by the priest 's own hand to Proserpine .", "Are they all deaf ; or have the giants heaven ?", "The midwife stood aghast ; and when she saw", "He shall be ever here .", "And knowing more my perfect innocence ,", "His horrid love will spare me . Keep thy sword ;", "Now look for those erected heads , and see them ,", "But I more fear Creon :", "Who can controul the malice of our fate ?", "To take that hunch-backed monster in my arms !", "Yet , while there 's any dawn of hope to save", "Half-minted with the royal stamp of man ,", "My life and fame , to make me loathed by all ,", "The excrescence of a man !", "And seek not from our sex to raise an offspring ,", "Let Creon haunt himself .", "Death only can be dreadful to the bad :", "I here resign , to prince Adrastus \u2019 arms ,", "You know he killed him not .", "Hold , Creon , or through me , through me you wound .", "Of her whom fate ordained to be your queen ;", "Thy face itself ;", "Why love renounced thee ere thou saw'st the light ;", "Ah , my Adrastus ! call them , call them back !", "Thy precious life , my dear Adrastus ,", "Thou enemy of eyes ;", "As if I could not bear a shameful death ,", "Who art their opposite , and formed a liar ,", "Thou dost accuse me .", "Whate'er thou dost , deliver not thy sword ;", "For me , O fear not ; no , he dares not touch me ;", "Nature herself start back when thou wert born ,", "I bade you cast your eyes on other men ,", "And an old guardian fiend , ugly as thou art ,", "Rude in the making art , and ape of Jove .", "Not but I love you to that infinite height ,", "To me declare him so ? The king shall know it .", "When he 's dead ,", "What curse shall I invent ?", "Cast round your eyes ,", "But let this good , this wise , this holy man ,", "\u2018 Tis well you tell me so ; I should mistake you", "And only fit for thee .", "And half o'ercome with beast , stood doubting long ,", "Thy mountain back , and thy distorted legs ,", "I thus disdain thee ! Thou once didst talk of love ;", "The first young trial of some unskilled power ,"], "true_target": ["By the vile breath of that prodigious villain ,", "That you and I , more lowly placed , might pass", "Because I hate thy love ,", "What , in the midst of horror ?", "Then death must be his recompence for love ?", "On death , and thee .", "Ah , prince , farewell ! farewell , my dear Adrastus !", "They were my mother 's vows ,", "Oh , wretched OEdipus !", "H\u00e6m . \u2018 Tis at hand .", "The means ?", "Nor let my death affright you .", "Our softer hours in humble cells away :", "Like Cadmus \u2019 brood , they jostled for the passage ;", "Make love , if thou canst find it in the world ;", "But let the greatest , fiercest , foulest fury ,", "And cried ,\u2014 the work 's not mine .", "All to his ruin ? drag him through the streets ,", "Thy crooked mind within hunched out thy back ,", "Must I be this thin being ? and thus wander ? No quiet after death !", "Where late the streets were so thick sown with men ,", "All that the world can make me mistress of .", "The priests with yew , a venerable band ;", "Then mayst thou still be cursed with loving me ;", "Now cast them on yourself ; think what you are .", "Rather than see you burdened with a crime", "By the decree of royal OEdipus ,", "That is , a Creon : O thou black detractor ,", "He has indeed , to take the guilt from me .", "Which , mingled with the rest , would tempt the gods ,", "Of which I know you free .", "This when thou dost ,", "For see , the prophet comes , with vervain crowned ;", "To take the part of that rebellious traitor .", "Did not thy own declare him innocent ?", "Enter ADRASTUS .", "On two the most detested things in nature :", "Were I made up of endless , endless joys !", "I 'll guard your life with mine .", "Impious Creon !", "Hear me , O Thebans , if you dread the wrath", "We leave you to the gods .", "With that thou may'st get off , tho \u2019 odds oppose thee .", "Is there no God so much a friend to love ,", "Vicissitudes of fires , and then of frosts ;", "A man !", "To hollow in thy ears at every lash ,\u2014", "But for Adrastus \u2019 death ,\u2014 good Gods , his death !\u2014", "What then shall be thy lot ?\u2014", "Yes ; for her Adrastus :", "This for Eurydice ; these for her Adrastus !", "More willingly than you can wish my fate ;", "No ; thou art all one error , soul and body ;", "And they are death and thee .", "To shew you what you are .", "Rather than think you man . Hence from my sight ,", "What 's now thy conscience ?", "Lest I be ravished after thou art slain .", "And he 'll appear a friend .", "My own dear vows of everlasting love ,", "Of murder and of parricide ?", "To innocence , \u2018 tis like a bug-bear dressed", "Whose right in thee were more ;", "If these be hours of courtship ?", "Why rather rush you not at once together", "To frighten children ; pull but off his masque ,", "Stand there ; come back ! O , cruel barbarous men !", "Can I be so to one , who has accused me", "I could", "After so bravely having fought his cause ,", "Then we must die !", "To cut off human kind .", "And wandered in thy limbs . To thy own kind", "To perish by the hand of this base villain ?", "Yes , Thebans , I will die to save your lives .", "No , I was thinking", "And , as thou art , be still unpitied , loathed ;", "Would sink my soul , though I should die a martyr .", "You force me , by your importunities ,", "Could you then leave your lord , your prince , your king ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["To reach each other 's hand ;\u2014 remember Laius !", "Let me not answer .", "All harmonious heavenly things !", "The depth of fate ; and if our oracles", "And heave it up : they pant and stick half-way .", "Feast the ghosts that love the steam ;", "Of Thrace , and forced the raging bacchanals ,", "Than yet you dream ; for something still there lies", "Whose hollow womb could not contain this murder ,", "Like what we think can never shun remembrance ;", "Your king returns ; the Argians are o'ercome ;", "Secure of greater ills ?", "Called by his own high courage and the gods ,", "Murther and incest ! but to hear them named", "Full betwixt her horns and brows :", "With lifted prongs , to listen to thy airs .", "Their warlike prince in single combat taken ,", "With what face could you tell offended heaven ,", "Where are we ?", "The monster Sphinx laid your rich country waste ,", "His name is Phorbas :", "Would make thee more unhappy : \u2018 Twill be found ,", "Lives , and is great ;", "And shaded all beneath ; till , stooping down ,", "So full of horror , that I once rejoice", "You had not sinned ?", "Whither can age and blindness take their flight ?", "Ten thousand thousand forms before him drive :", "\u00c6ge . Your royal mother Merope , as if", "I pity thee :", "To tell ; yet something , and of moment , I 'll unfold ,", "Your queen and crown ;", "Thebans , what madness makes you drunk with rage ?", "\u2018 Till OEdipus arrived .", "Unjust in punishing ? are there no crimes ,", "And I 'll unbind the charm .", "Fierce Creon has accused Eurydice ,", "Can benefits thus die , ungrateful Thebans !", "Fate ! Nature ! Fortune ! what is all this world ?", "With impious steps , upon dead corps . Now stay ;", "Exceeds thy \u2018 pointed hour ;\u2014 remember Laius !", "She drove the air around her like a whirlwind ,", "OEDIPUS solus .", "If innocent , then let Tiresias die .", "And turn your faces from the sun :", "Phoebus , god beloved by men !", "First made to Creon : But the time calls on ;", "Shall straight be done .\u2014 Lead , Manto , to the tower .", "The danger 's imminent this day .", "Phoebus , god beloved by men ,", "\u2018 Tis great , prodigious ; \u2018 tis a dreadful birth ,", "Let him tell it in groans , though he bend with the load ,", "Enough of guilty death 's already acted :", "The blood of Laius curdled in his veins ,", "For , blushing , thou hast seen it ; hear me , earth ,", "This Creon shook for fear ,", "I submit .", "Answer me , if this be done ?", "Reason ! alas , it does not know itself !", "But when she raised her bulk to sail above you ,", "If this be true !", "His thunder round , and the lightning wings ;", "No more ; if e'er we meet again , \u2018 twill be", "Fathom the vast abyss of heavenly justice .", "Indulge thy brain this night with softer slumbers :", "H\u00e6m . Rouse up , you Thebans ; tune your Io P\u00e6ans !", "I charge you , by the gods , to hear me .", "If that the god would wake ; I feel him now ,", "Oh , fatal king !", "Thou shalt know too soon .", "Who would not now conclude a happy end !", "To mother Earth and Proserpine :", "In mutual darkness ; we shall feel before us", "Must you have musick too ? then tune your voices ,", "SONG TO APOLLO .", "Such as ghosts at noon-day love .", "Ill-fated pair ! whom , seeing not , I know ,", "Which pull this vengeance down ?", "By the judges of the dead !", "O sacred prince , pardon distracted Thebes ,", "The first of Laius \u2019 blood his life did seize ,", "Cease your complaints , and bear his body hence ; The dreadful sight will daunt the drooping Thebans , Whom heaven decrees to raise with peace and glory . Yet , by these terrible examples warned , The sacred Fury thus alarms the world :\u2014 Let none , though ne'er so virtuous , great , and high , Be judged entirely blest before they die . Footnotes : 1 . Imitated from the commencement of the plague in the first book of the Iliad .", "Am I but half obeyed ? infernal gods ,", "Manent OEDIPUS , JOCASTA , CREON , PYRACMON , H\u00c6MON , and ALCANDER .", "Thy parents thought not so .", "Your vineyards spoiled , your labouring oxen slew ,", "My life 's engaged , I 'll guard them in the fane ,", "You add rebellion to them , impious Thebans !", "O , OEdipus , to-morrow \u2014 but no more .", "Are these two innocent ?", "The mystic deed , I 'll to the grove of furies ;", "Falls heavy on thyself .", "Thy drowsy prophet to revive ,", "Stands to her weapons , takes the first alarm", "Where the bones of Laius lie ;", "To guard me from such crimes .\u2014 Did I kill Laius ?", "To invoke the gods for aid ; the proudest he ,", "Is the sacrifice made fit ?", "Then I walked sleeping , in some frightful dream ;", "If I could fly , what could I suffer worse ,", "God of songs , and Orphean strings ,", "Yourselves for fear mewed up within your walls ;", "By hell 's blue flame : By the Stygian Lake : And by Demogorgon 's name , At which ghosts quake , Hear and appear ! Ghost of Laius . Why hast thou drawn me from my pain below , To suffer worse above ? to see the day , And Thebes , more hated ? Hell is heaven to Thebes . For pity send me back , where I may hide , In willing night , this ignominious head : In hell I shun the public scorn ; and then They hunt me for their sport , and hoot me as I fly : Behold even now they grin at my gored side , And chatter at my wounds .", "But how can finite measure infinite ?", "\u2018 Tis OEdipus indeed : Your king more lawful", "Cut the curled hair , that grows", "Follow me , princes ; Thebans , all to rest .", "O , if the guilt were mine ,", "By public voice elected ? answer me ,", "Since Orpheus bribed the shades .", "Since that the powers divine refuse to clear", "The gods are just ;", "Yet man , vain man , would with this short-lined plummet ,", "Approach , ye lovers ;", "Bow down , and touch his knees , and beg from him", "When lo , an envious planet interposed ,", "Mingle milk into the stream ;", "As \u2018 twas to kill thy father , wed thy mother ,", "She clap 'd her leathern wing against your towers ,", "Calm then your rage , and once more seek the gods .", "We must no more than Fate commissions us", "Since all things are by fate . But purblind man", "And to obey this OEdipus , your king", "\u2018 Tis lost ,", "\u2018 Till the dark mysteries of hell are done .", "And , as you use to supplicate your gods ,", "Or Thebes , consumed with plagues , in ruins lie .", "But cruel greatness ne'er was long .", "By inward checks , and leaves their fates in doubt .", "His envy , malice , lying , perjuries ,", "His weights and measures , the other man 's extortions ,", "But some dark hint would justle forward now ,", "Idol of the eastern kings ,", "Obscure enigma , which when thou unty'st ,", "Hear and appear ! By the Fates that spun thy thread !"], "true_target": ["So short a time as I have yet to live ,", "Sees but a part o'the chain ; the nearest links ;", "All justified alike , and yet all guilty !", "My rivell 'd skin ,", "With chariots and horses all o'fire awake him ,", "I want the use of sight !\u2014", "Himself to you a god , ye offered him", "With powerful strains ; Manto , my lovely child ,", "For me and for thyself , beware thou tread not ,", "Which else had lasting been and strong .", "Answer me , if all be done ?", "Yet of a sudden 's gone beyond the clouds .", "Toss it in to make them boil :", "Thou canst not kill me ; \u2018 tis not in thy fate ,", "By the furies fierce and dread !", "Like a strong spirit charmed into a tree ,", "But oh ! guiltless and guilty : murder ! parricide !", "A Trumpet within : enter H\u00c6MON .", "H\u00e6m . Follow me all , and help to part this fray ,", "The roused god , as all this while he lay", "Sooth the unruly godhead to be mild .", "Dig a trench , and dig it nigh", "O charm this god , this fury in my bosom ,", "My soul starts in me : The good sentinel", "And thrust out her long neck , even to your doors", "When angry heaven scatters its plagues among you ,", "And let them have such sounds as hell ne'er heard ,", "Thou wretched daughter of a dark old man ,", "Yes , heaven knows why thou weep'st .\u2014 Go , countrymen ,", "Pardon her , if she acts by heaven 's award ;", "To-morrow , O to-morrow !\u2014 Sleep , my son ;", "My soul then stole my body out by night ;", "That poises all above .", "And all your sufferings o'er .", "But let thy wretched Thebes at least complain .", "That leaps , and moves the wood without a wind :", "Of wondrous fate ; and now , just now disclosing .", "An end of all your woes ; for only he", "Advise , rest where you are , and seek no farther .", "Awful as the god who flings", "Heaven prosper your intent , and give a period", "lark :", "Though I am silent .", "Were every man 's false dealing brought to light ,", "Thou art thyself a riddle ; a perplext", "She , taller than your gates , o'erhYpppHeNlooked your town ;", "And leave their grisly king without a waiter .", "Barren let her be , and black .", "If that the infernal spirits have declared", "And turn your faces from the sun :", "Pour in blood , and blood like wine ,", "Altars , raised of turf or stone ,", "Draw the barren heifer back ;", "Methinks I draw more open , vital air .", "There I can force the infernal gods to shew", "I dare not name him to thee .", "Chuse the darkest part o'the grove :", "Thou shalt be found and lost .", "And my soul sickens with it !", "Remember Laius ! that 's the burden still :", "I shall be young again :\u2014 Manto , my daughter ,", "With holy fury ; my old arteries burst ;", "Can give it you .", "But sent it back to light ! And thou , hell , hear me !", "To all our plagues . What old Tiresias can ,", "What omen sawest thou , entering ?", "It were not half so great : Know , wretched man ,", "I see , I see ! how terrible it dawns ,", "Their horrid forms ; each trembling ghost shall rise ,", "For prince Adrastus and Eurydice ,", "And led in bands by god-like OEdipus !", "And goad my memory .\u2014 Oh my Jocasta !", "With prince Adrastus ; which the god reproves", "Have you not sworn before the gods to serve", "Tell but why Thebes is for thy death accurst ,", "Snatch a brand from funeral pile ;", "Like parchment , crackles at the hallowed fire ;", "Will the infernal powers have none .", "Who to this mortal bosom brings", "And Laius \u2019 death must now be made more plain .", "And beget sons , thy brothers", "Waves all the neighbouring princes that adore her .", "A little farther ; yet a little farther ,", "The wretch , who shed the blood of old Labdacides ,", "Whatever is , is in its causes just ;", "The infernal powers themselves exact no more :", "And heaven authorized it by his success .", "Answer me , if this be done ?", "Remember yet , when , after Laius \u2019 death ,", "Thou only , thou art guilty ! thy own curse", "So meet your king with bays , and olive branches ;", "Though he burst with the weight of the terrible god .", "Then hear me , heaven !", "At thy setting , all the birds of thy absence complain ,", "Incest ! discovery ! punishment \u2014 \u2018 tis ended ,", "His eyes not carrying to that equal beam ,", "And urged his fate ,", "Thou hast a voice that might have saved the bard", "Who leads you now , then cowered , like a dared", "And threatened both with death : I fear , I fear !\u2014", "Is it for nought , ye Thebans ? are the gods", "He comes , he comes ! Victory ! conquest ! triumph !", "This day your kindly stars in heaven were joined ;", "Though banished Thebes , in Corinth you may reign ;", "And yet , as if all these were less than nothing ,", "The groans of ghosts , that cleave the heart with pain ,", "Entombed alive , starts and dilates himself ;", "Speak then , who is your lawful king ?", "Urge me no more to tell a thing , which , known ,", "Thou knowest not what thou sayest .", "Conduct my weary steps : And thou , who seest", "Lull him with tuneful notes , and artful strings ,", "She had no soul since you forsook the land ,", "She broke her vow ,", "If that thy wakeful genius will permit ,", "OEdipus murthered Laius !", "Hear me , ye Thebans , and thou Creon , hear me .", "He struggles , and he tears my aged trunk", "Draw her backward to the pit :", "If there be nigh this place a sunny bank , There let me rest awhile :\u2014 A sunny bank ! Alas ! how can it be , where no sun shines , But a dim winking taper in the skies , That nods , and scarce holds up his drowzy head , To glimmer through the damps !", "In heaven 's dark volume , which I read through mists :", "And we die , all die , till the morning comes again .", "If thou art guilty , heaven will make it known ;", "It cannot be even this remotest way ,", "Jocasta knows him well ; but , if I may", "Whose own black seal has \u2018 firmed this horrid truth ,", "May speak , O do not too severely deal !", "Convulsions , and furies , and prophesies shake him :", "You durst not meet in temples ,", "The wretch , who Laius killed , must bleed or fly ;", "How loth I am to have recourse to rites", "At thy dawn , every beast is roused in his den ;", "But all fate 's turns are swift and unexpected .", "And in prophetic dreams thy fate be shown .", "And brought me back to bed ere morning-wake"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Under covert of a wall ;", "The most frequented once , and noisy part", "And now a sudden darkness covers all ,", "The fogs are blown full in the face of heaven ."], "true_target": ["Fly , the tempest drives this way .", "O , what laments are those ?", "Of Thebes ; now midnight silence reigns even here ,", "True genuine night , night added to the groves ;", "And grass untrodden springs beneath our feet ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Never , never ; he was too proud .", "How the god shakes him !", "Who 's that would be heard ? we 'll hear no man ; we can scarce hear one another .", "Nay , if that be the matter , we are ruined already ."], "true_target": ["Yes , yes ; no doubt there are some sins stirring , that are the cause of all .", "He puts the prophet in a mouse-hole .", "Nor I .", "Think twice ! I ne'er thought twice in all my life ;", "That 's double work ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["For my part , I can speak it with a safe conscience , I never sinned in all my life .", "For coming from the gods , that 's no great matter , they can all say that : but he is a great scholar ; he can make almanacks , an \u2019 he were put to it ; and therefore I say , hear him .", "Oh , it is Apollo 's priest , we must hear him ; it is the old blind prophet , that sees all things .", "I knew it would be so ; the last man ever speaks the best reason .", "This is true ; but its a hard world , neighbours ,"], "true_target": ["My first word is always my second ; and therefore I 'll have no second word ; and therefore , once again , I say , A Creon !", "Then we are all justified ; the sin lies not at our doors .", "Half of us , that are here present , were living men but yesterday ; and we , that are absent , do but drop and drop , and no man knows whether he be dead or living . And therefore , while we are sound and well , let us satisfy our consciences , and make a new king .", "Nay , if these be sins , the case is altered ; for my part , I never thought any thing but murder had been a sin .", "If a man 's oath must be his master ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["We were ; we were .", "A Creon , A Creon , A Creon !", "We 'll no OEdipus , no OEdipus ."], "true_target": ["OEdipus , OEdipus , OEdipus !", "To the question , to the question .", "\u2018 Tis OEdipus ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Because he reigns .", "Ha , if we were but worthy to see another coronation ! and then , if we must die , we 'll go merrily together .", "He comes from the gods too , and they are our betters ; and , in good manners , we must hear him :\u2014 Speak , prophet ."], "true_target": ["Yes , there are sins , or we should have no taxes .", "Nor I .", "Yes , you or none .", "\u2018 Tis certain that the gods are angry with us ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Where all its different lines are reconciled ,", "O diadem , thou centre of ambition ,", "Thebes is at length my own ; and all my wishes ,"], "true_target": ["As if thou wert the burning glass of glory !", "Which sure were great as royalty e'er formed ,", "Furies confound his fortune !\u2014", "Fortune and my auspicious stars have crowned ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["With such a god-like offspring . Sir , I found you", "But that the tempest of my joy may rise", "Near mount Cith\u00e6ron ?", "I 'll break them , with Jocasta in my arms ;", "Ere it can reach our lips , \u2018 tis dashed with gall", "Therefore retire : And , once more , if thou lovest me ,", "Holds fancy down , and makes her act again ,", "Thou ravest ; thy husband 's here .", "Thou thinkest my dreams are forged ; but by thyself ,", "And I 'll approach the arms of my beloved .", "With wife and mother :\u2014 Tortures , hell and furies !", "H\u00e6m . The queen , my lord , at present holds him", "While Merope 's alive , I 'll ne'er return .", "My mother !", "My sword ! a dagger ! ha , who waits there ? Slaves ,", "Didst thou e'er see him ? e'er converse with him", "He shall be bound and gashed , his skin flead off ,", "O worse than worst of my most barbarous foes !", "Secure him , dear Jocasta ; for my genius", "Hell has a right in you . I thank you , gods ,", "Are passable as air , and fleet like winds .", "\u00c6ge . Is this the cause ,", "Presents in larger size her black ideas ,", "That throws me on my fate .\u2014 Impossible !", "And sues for audience .", "Why seek I truth from thee ?", "Melt down your golden roofs , and make your doors", "That is the bar ;", "The force of majesty is never known", "Suspend your thoughts ; and flatter not too soon .", "To gain a friend like you : Why were we foes ?", "This man , this old , this venerable man :", "May brave the majesty of thundering Jove .", "\u201c Fly , wretch , whom fate has doomed thy father 's blood to spill ,", "Ten attick talents be his just reward :", "Is this thou bring'st , which so transports Jocasta ?", "What mutters he ? tell me , Eurydice :", "Speak then .", "Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds ;", "Nor any from him ? came there no attendant ? None to bring news ?", "But lent by heaven upon hard usury ;", "As much thou seem'st to know ,\u2014 delay no longer .", "And cried aloud ,\u2014 The Gods forbid thy death .", "That shakes my very soul !", "A beggar , than accept a diadem", "That brand which sets our city in a flame .", "For , by the stars , he dies !", "Burst forth such myriads of abortive stars ?", "Rage will have way , and \u2018 tis but just ; I 'll fetch him ,", "This imprecation was for Laius \u2019 death ,", "H\u00e6m . Seize him , and bear him to the western tower .\u2014", "And she thy daughter : Nature would abhor", "I 'll face these babbling d\u00e6mons of the air ;", "The difference \u2018 twixt a threshold and a throne .", "H\u00e6m . Here , my royal lord .", "Old and obstinate ! Then thou thyself", "Riddles , riddles !", "My friend ! that other name keeps enmity alive .", "May all the gods , too , from their battlements ,", "O all you powers , is't possible ? what , dead !", "Here one , with all the obedience of a son ,", "The blood of Laius was to murder Laius :", "Draw from my heart my blood , with more content", "O , to my arms , welcome , my dear \u00c6geon ;", "So !\u2014 How long ? when happened this ?", "I will not writhe my body at the wound ,", "This rack of heaven , and speak your fatal pleasure .", "Presume to look into their monarch 's breast ,", "By all our languishings , our fears in pleasure ,", "This will I do , unless you show me Laius ,", "But small , appear most long and terrible ;", "But he , who brings him forth , shall have reward", "In private conference ; but behold her here .", "Avaunt , begone , you vizors of the Gods !", "By heaven , thou hast awakened somewhat in me ,", "Not search in vain for friends , whose promised sight", "Cruel Adrastus ! wilt thou , H\u00e6mon , too ?", "Dreadful indeed ! Blood , and a king 's blood too !", "To mark the gallantry of her distraction ;", "Or how must I atone it ? Tell me , Thebans ,", "By all the endearments of miraculous love ,", "Therefore produce him .", "And with preposterous births thy mother 's womb to fill ! \u201d", "It hollowed loud , as if my guardian spirit", "Art author or accomplice of this murther ,", "Each mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus ;", "Not incest ! what , not incest with my mother ?", "Rank them in equal part upon the square ,", "He , that could tear his eyes out , sure can find", "I challenge Fate to find another wretch", "His name , I charge thee once more , speak .", "The sacred veils that wrapt thee yet unborn !", "Hide swifter than the gallopping heaven 's round ,", "Speak first , \u00c6geon , say , is this the man ?", "Hot flashing lust , and necromantic incest :", "It happened once ,\u2014 \u2018 twas at a bridal feast ,\u2014", "O'er all the shepherds , who about those vales", "How fares my love ? this taper will inform me .\u2014", "Was he thy own , or given thee by another ?", "Whom you describe for Laius : insolent ,", "And shake my soul quite empty in your sight .", "Of aught concerning what we have discovered ?", "O speak , go on , the air grows sensible", "As if this curse touched me , and touched me nearer", "No , my Jocasta , though Thebes cast me out ,", "Attended , when he travelled ?", "One \u2018 scaped , I hear ; what since became of him ?", "\u00c6ge . O rise , and call not to this aged cheek", "Here sob my sorrows , till I burst with sighing ;", "The little blood which should keep warm my heart ;", "With nations for his guard . Alcander , you", "For they , who let my vengeance , make themselves", "To have seen her mouth the heavens , and mate the gods ,", "Called from some vaulted mansion , OEdipus !", "Fires shall be kindled in the midst of Thebes ;", "Why gave she thee her child ?", "Sound there , sound all our instruments of war ;", "I need not tell you Corinth claims my birth ;", "All must be emptied on us : Not one bolt", "Like empty clouds , but drop not on our heads .", "And tell me on thy life , say , dost thou know him ?", "Chatter futurity ? And where are now", "\u00c6ge . And why , O sacred sir , if subjects may", "I 'll seek no more ; but hush my genius up ,", "There 's not a beam it darts , but carries hell ,", "Nay , if thy brain be sick , then thou art happy .", "The airy soul can easily o'er-shoot", "Grows cold , even in the summer of her age ,", "Enter H\u00c6MON , with Guards .", "Of our Corinthian lords .", "Could'st thou not answer without naming murder ?", "\u00c6ge . Oft-times before , I thither did resort ,", "Yet I 'm too well acquainted with the ground ,", "After the toils of war , \u2018 tis wondrous strange", "But fell like autumn-fruit that mellowed long ;", "Needless ! O , all you Gods ! By heaven , I would rather", "Thou shak'st : Thy soul 's a woman ;\u2014 speak , Adrastus ,", "Nature 's worst vermin scare her godlike sons ;", "What hast thou said ! an ill hour hast thou chosen", "Alas , my people !", "That bore his aged parent on his back ;", "Look wistly on him ,\u2014 through him , if thou canst !", "Forward , I say , and face to face confront him :", "In darkness here , and kept from means of death .", "Find him , ye powers celestial and infernal !", "Yet what most shocks the niceness of my temper ,", "To rule such brutes , so barbarous a people .", "But I shall find a way \u2014", "Could you but reach him too .", "None e'er in dreams was tortured so before .", "Old Polybus , the king my father 's dead !", "Lay waste our Thebes , some deed that shuns the light", "Thou softest , sweetest of the world ! good night .\u2014", "His place .", "By all the Gods celestial and infernal ,", "As well thou may'st advise a tortured wretch ,", "Extend your arms to embrace me , for I come .", "But , as I am , I have reason to rejoice :", "The more ; be pointed at , There goes the monster !", "On me for aid , as if thou wert pursued :", "Reveal this murder , or produce its author ,", "What office hadst thou ? what was thy employment ?", "The smiles of courtiers , and the harlot 's tears ,", "Art thou not gone then ? ha ! How darest thou stand the fury of the gods ? Or comest thou in the grave to reap new pleasures ?", "Peeped from the watry brink , and glowed upon me .", "O , for this death , let waters break their bounds ;", "She charged me give you , with the general homage", "Attends the search . I have already past", "Pardon me , dear Jocasta !", "Till , like a clock worn out with eating time ,", "Mark , Thebans , mark !", "This house of clay into a thousand pieces ;", "Where is that Phorbas ?", "O you gods !\u2014 But did she give it thee ?", "Lest I should sleep , and dream the like again .", "Know , be it known to the limits of the world ;", "I love thee more : So well I love , words cannot speak how well .", "Whence ? and from whom ? what city ? of what house ?", "That I 'm no Theban born : How my blood curdles !", "Speak , I command thee ;", "Art living , canst not , wilt not find the road", "I am satisfied .", "Ha ! how 's this , Jocasta ?", "And thou hast wished me like him .", "And now , while thus I stalk about the room ,", "\u00c6ge . My lord , it is ; Though time has ploughed that face", "What shall I call this medley of creation ?", "Echoes , the very leavings of a voice ,", "Are nobly born , therefore shall lose your head :", "And , when I knock the goal of dreadful death ,", "Rest on my hand . Thus , armed with innocence ,", "Yes , my \u00c6geon ; but the sad remembrance", "Whom grief has left a tongue , speak for the rest .", "And some lag fiend yet lingers in the grove .", "Would it had lied !", "Has old Tiresias practised long this trade ?", "His action , and his mien ? quick , quick , your answer !\u2014", "Drive you all out from your ambrosial hives ,", "On the earth , here blow my utmost gale ;", "As I with mine , this presence should be thronged", "To speak ; concealment shall be sudden death :", "Thy slaughtered sons now smile , and think they won ,", "And dated thence your woes : Thence will I trace them .", "These dismal words are heard :", "Infuse such thoughts , as I must blush to name ?", "Of much more worth than thousand vulgar years :", "That even the act became a violation .", "\u00c6ge . Since in few words , my royal lord , you ask", "I 'll hear no more : Away with him .", "All weeping ranged along the gloomy shore ;", "With all the low submissions of a slave ,", "Begot those fears ; if thou respect'st my peace ,", "For this , he bears the storms", "And , like a whirlpool , swallow her own streams .", "Search the queen 's lodgings ; find , and force him hither .", "I did not hear him speak it : They accuse me ,\u2014", "Yet what avails ? He , and the gods together ,", "For , though corporeal light be lost for ever ,", "Grow babbling ghosts , and call us to our graves ;", "And Phorbas be the umpire .", "No choice but Creon left her of mankind ,", "To bed , my fair , my dear , my best Jocasta .", "Passed through my ears , when first I took the crown ;", "Then he has got that quality in hell .", "Dares act as on his throne , encompast round", "These feuds within ; while I without extinguish ,", "To swarm like bees about the field of heaven .", "\u2018 Tis laid on all ; not any one exempt :", "Upon me , and I sigh to be at rest .", "I take thee at thy word .\u2014 Run , haste , and save Alcander :", "But speak it to the winds , when they are loudest ,", "To your immortal dwellings .", "Why breaks yon dark and dusky orb away ?", "An unknown hand still checked my forward joy ,", "Which , though impossible , so damps my spirits ,", "What mean those trumpets ?", "Those bounds , with which thou striv'st to pale her in .", "O , rather let me walk round the wide world", "Flattered my toils of war .", "She 's all o'er blood ! and look , behold again ,", "And strangely it perplexed me .", "The first of Laius \u2019 blood ! pronounce the person ;", "Quite to forget it .", "Excellent grief ! why , this is as it should be !", "Forbear , rash man .\u2014 Once more I ask your pleasure ! If that the glow-worm light of human reason Might dare to offer at immortal knowledge , And cope with gods , why all this storm of nature ? Why do the rocks split , and why rolls the sea ? Why those portents in heaven , and plagues on earth ? Why yon gigantic forms , ethereal monsters ? Alas ! is all this but to fright the dwarfs , Which your own hands have made ? Then be it so . Or if the fates resolve some expiation For murdered Laius ; hear me , hear me , gods ! Hear me thus prostrate : Spare this groaning land , Save innocent Thebes , stop the tyrant death ; Do this , and lo , I stand up an oblation , To meet your swiftest and severest anger ; Shoot all at once , and strike me to the centre . The Cloud draws , that veiled the Heads of the Figures in the Sky , and shews them crowned , with the names of OEDIPUS and JOCASTA , written above in great characters of gold .", "Speak no more !", "Peace ; stand back a while .\u2014", "Are burst ; my eyes , as if they had been knocked", "Owls , ravens , crickets seem the watch of death ;", "And beat a thousand drums , to help her labour .", "Are truths to what priests tell .", "No mourning can be suitable to crimes", "The malice of a vanquished man has seized thee !", "Ten thousand welcomes ! O , my foster-father ,", "\u00c6ge . He from my arms", "Cry , OEdipus .\u2014 The prophet bade me sleep .", "But sink upon your feet with a last sigh ,", "Thou hast incurred .", "Not for the world .", "His wife and kindred , all of his , be cursed !", "Starved soldier lies on the cold ground ;", "He charges me \u2014 but why accuse I him ?", "Then we are blest ;", "The greatest oath , I swear , they are most true ;", "I 'll do a justice that becomes a monarch ;", "Struck me , just entering ; and some unseen hand", "I saw you smiling at a fatal dagger ,", "Thou seem'st affrighted at some dreadful action ;", "And then be plunged in his first fires again .", "O speak .", "Ha ! my Jocasta , look ! the silver moon !", "Hence fly ; begone ! O thou far worse than worst", "The act would prove no incest .", "And yet to be believed !\u2014 thy age protects thee .", "Or did he languish under some disease ?", "He talked of dreams , and visions , and to-morrow !", "Yet farther , let it pass yon dazzling roof ,", "To love , and to Eurydice , go free .", "Resolved my destiny should wait in vain ,", "Driven by whole Jove . What , touch anointed power !", "Come hither , friend ; I hear thy name is Phorbas .", "The gods took hold even of the offending minute ,", "And pecked out both his eyes .", "Joc . Ha ! will you not ? shall I not find him out ?", "What mean these exclamations on my name ?", "What , sons and brothers ! Sisters and daughters too !", "Damned hypocrite , equivocating slave !", "How poor a pity is alas ,", "Say where , where was it done !", "Worse than a plague infects you : You 're devoted", "As if , like Atlas , with these mortal shoulders", "Out , thou infernal flame !\u2014 Now all is dark ,", "Slaves , unhand me !\u2014", "Is there a fault in us ? Have we not searched", "The middle of the stream ; and to return ,", "This indeed is conquest ,", "Is he not dead ? deep laid in his monument ?", "I 've found a window , and I thank the gods", "Why should the chaste and spotless Merope", "But an unusual chillness came upon me ;", "Forgive me , then , if , to preserve you from him ,", "Rocks , valleys , hills , with splitting Io 's ring :", "Though rocks should hide him : Nay , he shall be dragged", "For I grow cold .", "But speak , O tell me what so mighty joy", "With thousand sighs and wishes for your safety ,", "When not a breath disturbs the drowzy waves :", "Than all this presence !\u2014 Yes , \u2018 tis a king 's blood ,", "The servant to king Laius here in Thebes ?", "True , you have ;", "Quite blasts my soul : See then the swelling priest !", "\u00c6ge . Great sir , you may return ; and though you should", "Thrice have I heard , thrice , since the morning dawned ,", "What will the gods do with me !", "The oracle takes place before the priest ;", "Nay , she is beauteous too ; yet , mighty love !", "O , honest Creon , how hast thou been belied !", "ACT III .", "By this fierce prince , when cooped within your walls ,", "That 's strange ! methought I heard a doleful voice", "That even the dead may start up , to behold ;", "Here , bind his hands ; he dallies with my fury :", "My fit returns .", "He shall be made example . H\u00e6mon , take him .", "I 'll have no more to do with gods , nor men ;", "His ghost shall be , by sage Tiresias \u2019 power ,\u2014", "To blooming youth , a crime by me committed ,", "My thoughts are clearer than unclouded stars ;", "And kept them from soft use .", "My dear , my murdered lord . O Laius ! Laius ! Laius !", "But for the murderer 's self , unfound by man ,", "Though thousand ways lead to his thousand doors ,", "Why you refuse the diadem of Corinth ?", "Am I his picture ?", "What has it done ? I shall be gazed at now", "Rise , worthy Creon ; haste and take our guard ,", "Nor have I hid my horrors from myself ;", "By some tempestuous hand , shoot flashing fire ;\u2014", "Then , Gods , beware ; Jove would himself be next ,", "Some desperate way to stifle this cursed breath :", "I will rejoice for Polybus 's death .", "Ye gods , and place them there : From fire and water ,", "The tradesman 's oaths , and mourning of an heir ,", "These fixed regards , and silent threats of eyes .", "Are we so like ?", "Shrinks at his name .", "Struggled to push me backward ! tell me why", "Tended their numerous flocks : in this man 's arms ,", "Name him , I say , that most accursed wretch ,", "Life of my life , and treasure of my soul ,", "Of the great things you utter , and is calm :", "Of winter camps , and freezes in his arms ;", "Dymas was sent to Delphos , to enquire", "And all these curses sweep along the skies", "With many furrows since I saw it first ,", "She has outdone me in revenge and murder ,", "Hence , incest , murder ! hence , you ghastly figures !", "The cause ! why , is it not a monstrous one !", "Than e'er I wore thy crown .\u2014 Yet , O Jocasta !", "That empire could bestow , in costly mantles ,", "An human name ?", "Then wonder not that I can bear unmoved", "The gloom of glowing embers ?", "Behold and wonder at a mortal 's daring ;", "And lifted hands ? If there be one among you ,", "O fatal sound ! unfortunate Jocasta !", "With all I left alive ; and my sad eyes", "To expiate this blood . But where , from whom ,", "\u2018 Tis a king speaks ; and royal minutes are", "Whose royal word is sacred , clear my fame .", "Hark ! who was that ? Ha ! Creon , didst thou call me ?", "Still as we rise , will dash our spirits down .", "But full of hurry , like a morning dream ,", "When they can count more Theban ghosts than theirs .", "Or is't a change of death ? By all my honours ,", "Have you ere this inquired who did this murder ?", "Where was thy residence ? to what part of the country", "What were they ? something may be learnt from thence .", "And speak in short , what my Jocasta 's transport", "While from his mouth ,", "The womb of heaven , examined all the entrails", "The murderer he conceal , the curse of Thebes", "To embrace him .", "Speak , then , and blast my soul .", "Disarm them both !\u2014 Prince , I shall make you know ,", "What 's this ! methought some pestilential blast", "Though I enjoy my mother , not incestuous !", "Talk not of life , for that will make me rave :", "And smother thy old age in my embraces .", "I 'll snatch celestial flames , fire all your dwellings ,", "And whose the guilty head !", "Rot the tongue ,", "What dreadful deed has mad Jocasta done ?", "Is ne'er at rest ; the soul for ever wakes .", "I order your confinement .", "Where am I ?\u2014 O , Jocasta , let me hold thee ,", "Because \u00c6geon 's hands presented me ?", "I sent thee to the Thebans ; speak thy wonder :", "And his bones broke , to wait a better day .", "To be thus circled , to be thus embraced .", "O , in my heart I feel the pangs of nature ;", "On such abhorred conditions .", "Thy breath comes short , thy darted eyes are fixt", "These tears , and groans , and strugglings ? speak , my fair ,", "Accurst thyself , thou shifting traitor , villain ,", "While with her thundering voice she menaced high ,", "Yes , yes , you gods ! you shall have ample vengeance", "And act my joys , though thunder shake the room .", "Methought thou said'st \u2014", "And such a king 's , and by his subjects shed !", "Direct me to thy knees : yet , oh forbear ,", "Thou blind of sight , but thou more blind of soul !", "Or do , I dare ; but , oh you powers , this was ,", "O why has priest-hood privilege to lie ,", "My love , my queen , give orders , Ha ! what mean", "Gods , how she shakes me !\u2014 stay thee , O Jocasta ! Speak something ere thou goest for ever from me !", "Not but you were adorned with all the riches", "May over-do .", "This man must be produced : he must , Jocasta .", "Or water ? by assassinates , or poison ? speak :", "What , violate , with bestial appetite ,", "The height will fit my fatal purpose well .", "What was the number of the assassinates ?", "And thus go downwards to the darker sky .", "But one thing more .", "Bears up , and with his cold hand grasping mine ,", "Your birds of knowledge , that in dusky air", "Her blazing eyes darting the wandering stars ,", "I 'll muse no more ; come what will , or can ,", "The thought disturbs me .", "And shun'st the justice , which by public ban", "That I could do a mischief on myself ,", "\u2018 Tis too like incest ; \u2018 tis offence to kind :", "Yes , you shall know : For where should I repose", "Great sir , the famed \u00c6geon is arrived ,", "Clasped in the folds of love , I 'll wait my doom ;", "Why dost thou turn thy face ? I charge thee answer", "Fly all , begone , fly from my whirling brain !", "To farther plagues .", "My parents , Polybus and Merope ,", "Then all goes well , since Phorbas is secured", "How , Jocasta ?", "I swear , the prophet , or the king shall die .", "Who were my parents ?", "O wretched man , whose too too busy thoughts", "Let me groan my horrors !\u2014 here", "Nor shall the sceptre of the earth now win me", "I could have wished , methought , for sight again ,", "Struck him : My father heard of it : The man", "Enjoy the queen ,", "O , you immortal gods !\u2014 But say , who was't ? Which of the family of Laius gave it ? A servant , or one of the royal blood ?", "And near that time , five persons I encountered ;", "But , be they what they will , I here dismiss them .", "Welcome as mercy to a man condemned !", "The Gods be praised , I needed not your empire ,", "And burnt alive .", "And will , though his cold shade should rise and blast me .", "I do conjure thee , give my horrors way !", "But longer to detain thee were a crime ;", "But yet they frighted me ;", "Seem , like physicians , at a loss to help us ;", "How , \u00c6geon ?", "Incest and parricide ,\u2014 thy father 's murderer !", "Waves all the princes ! poor heart ! for what ?", "O , by these melting eyes , unused to weep ,", "Addrest to one who sleeps .", "\u00c6ge . Nor was Polybus your father ."], "true_target": ["By marrying her who bore me .", "All blind and dismal , most triumphant mischief !", "For all thou say'st is ominous : We were cursing ;", "Till weary with the weight , he shook him off ,", "From Corinth , fate .", "Tiresias , that rules all beneath the moon ,\u2014", "But took this bare relation ?", "Or if I starve !\u2014 but that 's a lingering fate ;", "Said you that Phorbas is returned , and yet", "A grief more sensible than all my torments .", "Io , Jocasta , Io p\u00e6an sing !", "Tempests will be heard ,", "Then truth is lost on earth .", "This was not like the mercy of the heavens ,", "Jocasta told me , thou wert by the chariot", "\u00c6ge . May I entreat to know them ?", "Bear witness , heaven , avenge it on the perjured !", "To wash the guilt of royal blood away .", "Which oft have made us wonder ; here I swear ,", "Didst thou most frequently resort ?", "A point or smallest grain of what thou knowest :", "My mercy gave it ;\u2014 Bring me comfort now .", "Hear then this dreadful imprecation ; hear it ;", "Take off thy eye ; it burdens me too much .", "H\u00e6m . Tiresias , after him , and with your counsel ,", "His clouded head knocks at the temple-roof ;", "But what 's all this to thee ? thou , coward , yet", "H\u00e6m . O prophet , OEdipus is now no more !", "And nature all unravelled .", "Well you may ;", "Than when hard gauntlets clenched our warlike hands ,", "If monsters , wars , and plagues , revenge such crimes !", "\u2018 Tis plain , the priest 's suborned to free the prisoner .", "Tiresias , thee I summon by thy priesthood ,", "I well remember .", "Did'st thou e'er see this man near mount Cith\u00e6ron ?", "Seem to stand still , as if that Jove were talking .", "And is this day returned ; but , since his message", "So , when we think fate hovers o'er our heads ,", "That sleep should do this !", "Where are your boding ghosts , your altars now ;", "It vanished in the business of the day .", "Speak , did'st thou ever meet him there ?", "Just in the place you named , where three ways met .", "Ha ! again that scream of woe !", "In the dear entrails of the best of fathers ,", "Who led a rural life , and had command", "Come then , since destiny thus drives us on ,", "I thank the gods , no secret thoughts reproach me :", "Furies and hell ! H\u00e6mon , bring forth the rack ,", "Hence , you wild herd ! For your ringleader here ,", "New-moulded thunder of a larger size ,", "And fright you with my cries . Yes , cruel gods ,", "Let it come .", "Seething like rising bubbles on the brim ,", "Upon its infant heir .", "That he was of the family of Laius ,", "Without a cause !", "Or if I leave my brains upon the wall !\u2014", "Fall heavy on his head : Unite our plagues ,", "Be witness , all you Thebans , of my oath ;", "Or suffer ; for I feel a sleep like death", "It shall be so .", "If it be so , I 'll kneel and weep before you .", "Our loves should thus be dashed . One moment 's thought ,", "And with my last breath I must call you tyrants .", "The priest , Adrastus and Eurydice ,\u2014", "To thank the gods for my success , and pray", "Why from the bleeding womb of monstrous night ,", "Beyond ambition 's lust .", "And blasted be the mouth that spoke that lie !", "To what I shall enquire : Wert thou not once", "Embrue my arms , up to my very shoulders ,", "Hence , from my arms , avaunt . Enjoy thy mother !", "Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ;", "By just degrees , and hit at last the stars ,", "We 'll snatch the strongest cordial of our love ;", "Were I as other sons , now I should weep ;", "All that the hardest-tempered weathered flesh ,", "Expect from me ; the rest let her supply .", "With all the obedience of a penitent child ,", "No questions .", "To kill my father , and pollute his bed ,", "But think not thou shalt ever enter there ;", "Uncle and niece ! they are too near , my love ;", "Kill me , if you please ;", "Let us know the bottom .\u2014 H\u00e6mon , you I sent ;", "With thy own poniard perish .\u2014 Ha ! who 's this ?", "Lest the dead embers should revive .", "Is't possible ?", "Why was I called his son ?", "By all the Gods , I 'll know my birth , though death", "Upon the mount Cith\u00e6ron .", "Why , this foretelling trade .", "And to the very brink of fate reduced ;", "Though my eyes burst , no matter :\u2014 wilt thou tell me ,", "Dear , dear Adrastus , look with half an eye", "Even far beyond the killing of my father ,", "Cries out , how fares my brother OEdipus ?", "You are not mine , nor ought I to be blest", "Than does the plague ? But I rejoice I know you ,", "And sweat with an imagination 's weight ;", "Grew larger , while a thousand frantic spirits ,", "My reign is at an end ; yet , ere I finish ,", "Then lifted it again ,\u2014 you smiled again :", "If there be any here that knows the person", "O Gods ! Gods , answer ; is there any mean ?", "What does the soul of all my joys intend ? And whither would this rapture ?", "Why , would'st thou think it ? No less than murder .", "No more captive ,", "That , I can tame you twice . Guards , seize him .", "Too mighty for the anger of the gods !", "To mother earth , and to the infernal powers ;", "Resembling Laius just as when I killed him ,", "And incest ; bear not these a frightful sound ?", "Strike then , imperial ghost ; dash all at once", "Accomplices in my most horrid guilt .", "This murder was on Laius \u2019 person done ,", "The anguish of my soul , but in your breast !", "Hoard up your thunder-stones ; keep , keep your bolts ,", "With everlasting peals of thundering joy .", "Of lying mount to kings ? Can they be tainted ?", "For I shall never ask thee aught again ,\u2014", "That renowned favourite of the king your father :", "Either forbear this subject , or retire .", "One , warm with wine , told me I was a foundling ,", "And is your friend alive ? for if he be ,", "Born to a greater , nobler , of my own ;", "Haste , H\u00e6mon , fly , and tell him that I burn", "O , let me press thee in my youthful arms ,", "But if , for fear , for favour , or for hire ,", "I never offered to obey thy laws ,", "Ha ! who calls ? Didst thou not hear a voice ?", "By some left-handed god . O mournful triumph !", "Fear not ; this palace is a sanctuary ,", "Yes , I will perish in despite of thee ;", "And , by the rage that stirs me , if I meet thee", "Though round my bed the furies plant their charms ,", "Seems greater labour than to venture over :", "Seems to stand still , dead calms are in the ocean ,", "And sooner will believe .", "Received you , as the fairest gift of nature .", "Let Phorbas be retained .", "Jocasta ! lo , I come .", "May the god roar from thy prophetic mouth ,", "Rocks are removed , and towers are thundered down ;", "New murder ; thou hast slain old Polybus :", "And can but vent itself in sobs and murmurs :", "The earth does shake , and the old ocean groans ,", "O conquest gained abroad , and lost at home !", "\u00c6ge . His name I knew not , or I have forgot :", "I cannot call to mind , from budding childhood", "Thus to my bosom ! ages let me grasp thee !", "Of murdering Laius !\u2014 Tell me , while I think o n't ,", "You stare at me ! then hell has been among ye ,", "Trust me , thou fairest , best of all thy kind ,", "Then all my days and nights must now be spent", "Though his dread eyes were basilisks . Guards , haste ,", "How Laius fell ; for a confused report", "Adrastus , I have found thee :", "With thundering oracles .", "Yes , Thebans , yes , Jocasta , yes , Adrastus ,", "But oh , my children ! oh , what have they done ?", "Fix to the earth your sordid looks ; for he ,", "Made you no more enquiry ,", "At whose approach , when starting from his dungeon ,", "By your description , sure as plagues and death", "Shall err from Thebes ; but more be called for , more ;", "Ha ! Lightning blast me , thunder", "Pardon me , sacred sir ; I am informed", "Sayest thou , woman ?", "Concerns the public , I refused to hear it", "Rise then , and speak .", "Nay , there 's a time when even the rolling year", "What are thy troubles ?", "Welcome to me , as , to a sinking mariner ,", "And every accent twanged with smarting sorrow ;", "Eurydice !", "Night , horror , death , confusion , hell , and furies !", "To be forced back again upon herself ,", "A settling crimson stains her beauteous face !", "Ha ! what seest thou there ?", "Imploring pardon .", "For my dispatch : And you , you merciless powers ,", "We could sustain the burden of the world .", "And was not I in Thebes when fate attacked him ?", "Two royal names ; their only child am I .", "And waves will dash , though rocks their basis keep .", "It works with kindness o'er : give , give me way !", "Who stirs , dares more than madmen , fiends , or furies .", "And , for your sake , has sworn to die unmarried .", "Fetch hither cords , and knives , and sulphurous flames :", "Yes , I will die , O Thebes , to save thee !", "That I could hold thee ever !\u2014 Ha ! where art thou ?", "What wouldst thou have ?", "Begone , chimeras , to your mother clouds !", "Speak then , O answer to my doubts directly ,", "Whether he lives , or not ; and who has now", "Be witness , Gods , how near this touches me .", "Now , dotard ; now , thou blind old wizard prophet ,", "Clarions and trumpets , silver , brass , and iron ,", "Perhaps I then am yours ; instruct me , sir ;", "I 'll buy his presence , though it cost my crown .", "For two such crimes !\u2014 was Laius us 'd to lie ?", "Whom he described , I charge him on his life", "Is murder then no more ? add parricide ,", "But see , they enter . If thou truly lovest me ,", "Shout and applaud me with a clap of thunder .", "By all my woes ,", "Here shall he fall , bleed on this very spot ;", "Methinks , I have his image now in view !\u2014", "In curious search , to find out those dark parents", "Did I for this relieve you , when besieged", "Of the Cadmean race , prepare to meet me ,", "Why dost thou gaze upon me ? pr'ythee , love ,", "What means this melancholy light , that seems", "Confined to flesh , to suffer death once more ;", "Mutiny in my presence ! Hence , let me see that busy face no more .", "By all the ties of nature , blood and friendship ,", "Conceal not from this racked despairing king ,", "And vultures gnaw out my incestuous heart !\u2014", "I dreamt , Jocasta , that thou wert my mother ;", "Nor are now your vows", "Doubling the bloody prospect of my crimes ;", "If it be fit that such a wretch should live !", "Ha ! now the baleful offspring 's brought to light !", "The cause and cure of this contagious ill ,", "The mansion of the Gods , and strike them deaf", "And calls me father ; there , a sturdy boy ,", "Let be his lot : His children be accurst ;", "Jocasta ? Ha ! what , fallen asleep so soon ?", "Of damned incest : therefore no more of her .", "The hurried orbs , with storms so racked of late ,", "O were our gods as ready with their pity ,", "Hence , you barbarians , to your slavish distance !", "The king himself 's thy guard .", "To the great palace of magnificent Death ;", "A young stork ,", "Like ours , but what death makes , or madness forms .", "I stole away to Delphos , and implored", "Had I not promised , were there no Adrastus ,", "On Laius \u2019 murderer . O , the traitor 's name !", "When this unwelcome news first reached my ears ,", "Well counted still :\u2014", "Ha ! can it be ? \u00c6geon , answer me ;", "Whose point he often offered at your throat ;", "Which , day and night , are still unbarred for all .", "Near mount Cith\u00e6ron ; answer to the purpose ,", "Impossible !\u2014", "To bed , my fair .", "The bright reflecting soul , through glaring optics ,", "No : I dare challenge heaven to turn me outward ,", "Enter H\u00c6MON with ALCANDER , & c .", "H\u00e6m . From your native country ,", "The golden gates are barred with adamant ,", "O , thou wilt kill me with thy love 's excess ! All , all is well ; retire , the Thebans come .", "Borrowing Jocasta 's look , kneels at my feet ,", "By infinite degrees , too much for man .", "Than offer at the execrable act", "Heaven knows I love thee .", "Converse , and all things common , be he banished .", "Know the base stuff that tempered your vile souls :", "On Thebes , and thee , and me , and all of us .", "The force they used : In short , four men I slew :", "O , \u2018 tis too little this ; thy loss of sight ,", "In the other world , I 'll curse thee for this usage .", "By all my fears , I think Jocasta 's voice !\u2014", "My hair stands bristling up , why my flesh trembles ?", "Are by her fury slain .", "Or to the raging seas ; they 'll hear as soon ,", "Dar'st thou not speak ? why then \u2018 tis bad indeed .\u2014", "Of birds and beasts , and tired the prophet 's art ?", "She 's gone ; and , as she went , methought her eyes", "Moment ! Thou shalt be hours , days , years , a dying .\u2014", "One was too like ,", "\u00c6ge . Your menial attendants best can tell", "Haste , and bring him in .\u2014 O , my Jocasta , Eurydice , Adrastus , Creon , and all ye Thebans , now the end Of plagues , of madness , murders , prodigies , Draws on : This battle of the heavens and earth Shall by his wisdom be reduced to peace . Enter TIRESIAS , leaning on a staff , led by his Daughter MANTO , followed by other Thebans . O thou , whose most aspiring mind Knows all the business of the courts above , Opens the closets of the gods , and dares To mix with Jove himself and Fate at council ; O prophet , answer me , declare aloud The traitor , who conspired the death of Laius ; Or be they more , who from malignant stars Have drawn this plague , that blasts unhappy Thebes ?", "\u2018 Gainst thee , and me ; and the celestial guards ,", "Are these the obligations of my friends ?", "Of crystal fly from off their diamond hinges ;", "Swift as a falling meteor ; lo , I fly ,", "Fetch it from thence ; I 'll have't , wheree'er it be .", "O cursed effect of the most deep despair !", "And never catch me there .", "On my unheard of woes , and judge thyself ,", "Come forth , \u00c6geon .\u2014 Ha ! why start'st thou , Phorbas ?", "He took , embraced , and owned you for his son .", "You must be raised , and Phorbas shall appear ,", "Creon , you shall be satisfied at full .", "Who gave that infant to thee ?", "\u00c6ge . She , though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty ,", "To set her madness on such cruelty :", "Or must I ask for ever ? for what end ,", "And ask forgiveness with my dying hands .", "How ! for my sake , die and not marry ! O", "I pray , no more .", "The god , to tell my certain parentage .", "I judged them robbers , and by force repelled", "Call louder , till you burst your airy forms !\u2014", "O , my Jocasta ! \u2018 tis for this , the wet", "When the old king was slain : Speak , I conjure thee ,", "Than I my dear Jocasta .", "O rise , and add not , by thy cruel kindness ,", "I feel a melting here , a tenderness ,", "But man , the very monster of the world ,", "All mangled o'er from head to foot with wounds ,", "He bade me seek no farther :\u2014 \u2018 Twas my fate", "When lean-jawed famine made more havock of you ,", "And while Jove holds us out the bowl of joy ,", "Why speak you not according to my charge ?", "Cith\u00e6ron ! speak , the valley of Cith\u00e6ron !", "Something : But \u2018 tis not yet your turn to ask :", "And that dire imprecation has thou fastened", "My sword !\u2014 What , H\u00e6mon , dar'st thou , villain , stop me ?", "By my Jocasta .\u2014 Haste , and bring him forth :", "There 's magic in it , take it from my sight ;", "I looked on Corinth as a place accurst ,", "Where three ways meet ?", "And I should envy her the sad applause :", "For crimes of little note .", "With fiercest human spirit inspired , can dare ,", "Your oracles , that called me parricide ?", "Forbear to curse the innocent ; and be", "For which the awful gods should doom my death .", "Thus pleasure never comes sincere to man ,", "Yet , to restore my peace , I 'll find him out .", "Wherefore ? for what ?\u2014 O break not yet , my heart ;", "O more than savage ! murder her own bowels ,", "The curtain 's drawn ; and see she 's here again !", "Say , how , how died he ? ha ! by sword , by fire ,", "\u00c6ge . This diamond , with a thousand kisses blest ,", "Being past all hope of children ,", "If any Theban born , if any stranger", "Or perish in the attempt , the furious Creon ;", "Dashed my sick fancy with an act of incest :", "And fierce they were , as men who lived on spoil .", "A monarch , who , in the midst of swords and javelins ,", "Was made ask pardon ; and the business hushed .", "And I , a king , am tied in deeper bonds", "Why , then I 'll thunder , yes , I will be mad ,", "Let me go mad , or die .", "While we fantastic dreamers heave and puff ,", "Therefore instruct us what remains to do ,", "Of damning charmers ! O abhorred , loathed creature !", "The fifth upon his knees demanding life ,", "No wonder then", "In the midst of tumult , wars , and pestilence ,", "\u00c6ge . My lord , queen Merope is not your mother .", "If royal Polybus was not my father ,", "Though vultures , eagles , dragons tear my heart ,", "And conscious virtue is allowed some pride .", "Who dares to face me , by the Gods , as well", "Did this old man take from your arms an infant ?", "I think thou hast a sword ;\u2014 \u2018 twas the wrong side .", "Charmed with the conversation of a man ,", "Thou knowest I cannot come to thee , detained", "He comes as an ambassador from Corinth ,", "Intreats he may return , without being asked", "Dar'st thou converse with hell , and canst thou fear", "H\u00e6m . What mean you , sir ?", "Take it from these sick eyes , oh hide it from me !\u2014", "The wheels of weary life at last stood still .", "Here gasp and languish out my wounded soul .", "I 'll know't , I will ; art shall be conjured for it ,", "\u2018 Tis busy time with me ; despatch mine first ;", "From Thebes , and you , my curse has banished me :", "\u00c6ge . By my advice ,", "Then I rushed in , and , after some discourse ,", "Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more :", "Hark , the Thebans come !", "That my poor lingering soul may take her flight", "What means this speechless sorrow , downcast eyes ,", "A generous fierceness dwells with innocence ;", "\u00c6ge . Of no distemper , of no blast he died ,", "Stand off , and at just distance", "Speak then , if aught thou knowest ,", "How old was Laius , what his shape , his stature ,", "By Phoebus , speak ; for sudden death 's his doom :", "No , do not ; for , I know not why , it shakes me ,", "And let the torrent in . Hark , it comes .", "If heaven be just , its whole artillery ,", "Thou shalt not die . Speak , then , who was it ? speak ,", "Though lodged in air upon a dragon 's wing ,", "And walls of brass , and gates of adamant", "In spite of ghosts , I 'll on .", "H\u00e6m . The queen herself , and all your wretched offspring ,", "Torments shall force .", "Will you not show him ? are my tears despised ?", "And with those thoughts I 'll rest . Creon , good-night .", "Then \u2018 tis an infant-lye ; but one day old .", "\u2018 Tis quite unbarred ; sure , by the distant noise ,", "Just then , the Sphinx began to rage among you ;", "But then you smiled , and then he drew it back ,", "Dashed me with blushes , though no light was near ;", "And boldly , as thou met'st my arms in fight :\u2014", "Tell me what news from hell ; where Laius points ,", "Speak , H\u00e6mon ; what has fate been doing there ?", "My madness ; look , they 're dead with deep distraction :", "And I , the welcome care to Polybus .", "And the same fate , or worse than Laius met ,", "Because the god of Delphos did forewarn me ,", "\u2018 Tis well ! I thank you , gods ! \u2018 tis wondrous well !", "Speak this again :", "What mean the mystic heavens she journies on ?", "Then open every gate of this our palace ,", "When the sun sets , shadows , that shewed at noon", "And what foretold it ?", "Like OEdipus !", "Far as the East , West , North , or South of heaven ,", "While I have sense to understand the horror ;", "From hell , if charms can hurry him along :", "To know the truth ,\u2014 king Polybus is dead .", "Who gave me to the world ; speak then , \u00c6geon .", "When I but think on incest . Move we forward ,", "Adrastus , speak ; and , as thou art a king ,", "Methinks my deafened ears", "But in this general presence : Let him speak .", "No pious son e'er loved his mother more ,", "Advise him humbly : charm , if possible ,", "But in a general wreck : Then , then is seen", "To whom belongs the master of the shepherds ?", "On thy fair hand , upon thy breast I swear ,", "I 've heard a spirit 's force is wonderful ;", "Daggers , and poison ! O there is no need", "Thou ravest , and so do I ; and these all catch", "Therefore , like wretches that have lingered long ,", "They should not marry : Speak no more of it ;", "That Creon has designs upon your life :", "He mounts the tripos in a minute 's space ,", "For these fore-boding words ! why , we were cursing !", "Ha ! did I hear thee right ? not Merope", "Rivet me ever to Prometheus \u2019 rock ,", "Fly , by the gods , or by the fiends , I charge thee ,", "Ha , wilt thou not ? Can that plebeian vice", "But brother of the war . \u2018 Tis much more pleasant ,", "In horrid form , they rank themselves before me ;\u2014", "O Argos , now rejoice , for Thebes lies low !", "This is not to be borne ! Hence ; off , I say !", "Be dumb then , and betray thy native soil", "With an eternal hurry of the soul .", "Add that unto the rest :\u2014 How was the king", "By all the gods , my mother Merope !", "Even wondered at , because he dropt no sooner .", "What , yet again ? the third time hast thou cursed me :", "What now ?", "Such welcome , as a ruined town can give ,", "To me he did bequeath your innocent life ;", "I 'm not of Laius \u2019 blood .", "Swear I am , And I 'll believe thee ; steal into thy arms , Renew endearments , think them no pollutions , But chaste as spirits \u2019 joys . Gently I 'll come , Thus weeping blind , like dewy night , upon thee , And fold thee softly in my arms to slumber .", "Once more , thus winged by horrid fate , I come ,", "\u2018 Till he at last in fury threw it from him ,", "This stirs me more than all my sufferings ,", "Pray heaven he drew me not !\u2014", "The lucky plank that bears him to the shore !", "Pardon a heart that sinks with sufferings ,", "Answer , you powers divine ! spare all this noise ,", "Or is it but the work of melancholy ?", "And my own death , is , that this horrid sleep", "The worse for you . O barbarous men , and oh the hated light , Why did you force me back , to curse the day ; To curse my friends ; to blast with this dark breath The yet untainted earth and circling air ? To raise new plagues , and call new vengeance down , Why did you tempt the gods , and dare to touch me ? Methinks there 's not a hand that grasps this hell , But should run up like flax all blazing fire . Stand from this spot , I wish you as my friends , And come not near me , lest the gaping earth Swallow you too .\u2014 Lo , I am gone already .", "O Laius , Labdacus , and all you spirits", "Has he before this day accused me ?", "But was I made the heir of Corinth 's crown ,", "Not the king 's son ; I , stung with this reproach ,", "And safer , trust me , thus to meet thy love ,", "If I slew Laius , what can be more wretched !", "Yet , cruel H\u00e6mon , think not I will live ;", "A vast eclipse darkens the labouring planet :\u2014", "Bring forth the rack : since mildness cannot win you ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Than life or liberty .", "The manlier virtue , and much more prevailed ;", "Darest thou say this to me ?", "O , I burn inward : my blood 's all on fire !", "What would'st thou , hell-hound ?", "And awe the rebels with your dauntless virtue .", "My son , said he , let this be thy last refuge ;", "Lay for the next chance-comer .", "Not OEdipus , were all his foes here lodged ,", "And these eyes seen , I must believe you guiltless ;", "To fall and pash thee dead .", "Know this , that were my army at thy gates ,", "That disobeys .\u2014 See , art thou now appeased ?", "What inconsiderate and ambitious fool ,", "O , I charge thee hold !\u2014", "I thank thee , thou instructest me :", "Your city", "Thou diest : Nor shall the sacred majesty ,", "Alas , Eurydice , what fond rash man ,", "Thus , like a villain ?", "When ruin comes , may help to break your fall .", "Tiresias , and the brother-hood of priests ,", "Let it be so ; we 'll fence heav'n ' s fury from you ,", "And suffer all together . This , perhaps ,", "See at your feet a prince not used to kneel ;", "I doubt not in this cause to vanquish thee .\u2014", "See here thy nuptials ; see , thou rash Ixion ,", "I have addrest my prayer to this fair princess ;", "Yet , for Eurydice , even this I 'll suffer ,", "Cry ,\u2014 fire the palace ! where is the cruel king ?", "I heard but now , where I was close confined ,", "Think not , most abject , most abhorred of men ,", "I go without a blush , though conquered twice ,", "And vigorous nature breaks through opposition .\u2014", "I 'm not unarmed , my poniard 's in my hand ;", "Defend your innocence , speak like yourself ,", "Which , like a toy dropt from the hands of fortune ,", "H\u00e6m . Thou , Creon , didst .", "Let me consider \u2014 did I murder Laius ,", "If , OEdipus , thou think'st \u2014", "And here have sworn to perish by his side .", "Away , my friends , since fate has so allotted ;", "To our one day ? give me a night with her ,", "Penurious heaven , can'st thou not add a night", "Struggle for vent ! But see , he breathes again ,", "Half-strangled with the damp his sorrows raised ,", "Parle as in truce , or surlily avoid", "Sir ,", "Thebans to you I justify my love :", "No matter how I killed him .", "Creon , Alcander , H\u00e6mon , help to hold him .", "What humblest adorations could not win ,", "Lord Creon , you and Diocles retire :", "Adrastus will vouchsafe to answer thee ;\u2014", "Assassins are driven off .", "Which in a day must pass ? something , or nothing ;\u2014", "The spotless virtue of the brightest beauty ;", "OEdipus and Jocasta .", "I fought to have it in my power to do", "The lye to his foul throat !", "Would think even infamy , the worst of ills ,", "Thine , say'st thou , monster ! shall my love be thine ?", "I 'll stamp thee still , thus , to the gaping furies .", "With twice those odds of men ,", "Should be no more .", "Or thought to ravish , as that traitor did ,", "To free my love .\u2014 Well then , I killed him basely .", "Had but an ague-fit to this my fever .", "Villain , inglorious villain ,", "Upon your guilty heads .", "Traitor , no ;", "While Argos is a people , think your Thebes", "Her lips too tremble , as if she would speak", "Captain remember to your care I give", "And wondrous pleasures in the other world ;", "To leave you in this tempest of your soul .", "Off , madam , or we perish both ; behold", "Forgive a stranger 's ignorance : I knew not", "Either I dream , and all my cooler senses", "Vouchsafe that I , o'erhYpppHeNjoyed , may bear you hence ,", "But hark ! the storm comes nearer .", "O , I can bear no more !", "By you , and by my princess .", "How fares my royal friend ?", "Unhand me , slaves .\u2014 O mightiest of kings ,", "What most he longed to kill", "That shall hereafter read the fate of OEdipus ,", "Let 's gaze no more , the gods are humorous .", "H\u00e6m . \u2018 Tis OEdipus , not I , must judge this act .\u2014", "Touch not Eurydice , by all the gods ,", "Not like a villain ; pr'ythee , change me that", "A general consternation spread among them .", "In this , and smile to see the traitor 's blood .", "\u2018 Tis wonderful ; yet ought not man to wade", "Approach the place : None at these rites assist ,", "Gods , must I bear this brand , and not retort", "A thundering shout , which made my jailors vanish ,", "Why then there 's one day less for human ills ;", "But you the accused , who by the mouth of Laius", "That have accused you , which these ears have heard ,"], "true_target": ["Take then this most loved innocence away ;", "Begone , and leave me to the villain 's mercy .", "O H\u00e6mon , I am slain ; nor need I name", "Is all in arms , all bent to your destruction :", "The honours of the place .", "And at your feet present the crown of Argos .", "And so thou art :", "Must be absolved or doomed .", "I was Adrastus .\u2014", "Yet love now charms it from me ; which in all", "Ha ! villain !", "As you would save your Thebes , but take my life :", "Rain sulphur down , hurl kindled bolts", "Uncrowned , a captive , nothing left but honour ,\u2014", "Would I could !", "Infamous wretch !", "To touch one single hair ; but must , unarmed ,", "Rapes , death , and treason , from that fury Creon :", "My conqueror !", "I must acknowledge , in another cause", "Or just above those two majestic heads ,", "Help , H\u00e6mon , help , and bow him gently forward ;", "But when the storm grows loud , and threatens love ,", "The hazards of my life I never lost .", "For , since I knew the royal OEdipus ,", "Are vanished with that cloud that fleets away ,", "And traitor , doubly damned , who durst blaspheme", "What thou hast done , and so to use my conquest .", "She 's gone ;\u2014 O deadly marksman , in the heart !", "And let men curse me by the name of Creon !", "Too far in the vast deep of destiny .", "And Thebes thus waste , I would not take the gift ,", "There he lies gasping .", "And I 'll give all the rest .", "\u2018 Tis vain ; you see the prodigies continue ;", "Fly from tumultuous Thebes , from blood and murder ,", "Methinks , my lord , I see a sad repentance ,", "Ah , traitor , dost thou shun me ? Follow , follow , My brave companions ! see , the cowards fly !", "My father , when he blest me , gave me this :", "Alcides , when the poisoned shirt sate closest ,", "And I with justice should be thought your foe ,", "Thy cunning engines have with labour raised", "They talk of heroes , and celestial beauties ,", "For should she perish , heaven would heap plagues on plagues ,", "Durst violate the religion of these groves ,", "I bear my fortune .", "Instruct me , gods , what shall Adrastus do ?", "More ; yet more ; a thousand wounds !", "I have observed in all his acts such truth ,", "Beyond man 's patience ; all reproach could urge", "But , if I ever meant a violence ,", "Can never want for subjects . Every nation", "Therefore , away .", "Will crowd to serve where OEdipus commands .", "Let me but find her there , I ask no more .", "Repentance might abash me ; but I glory", "I shall be what I was again , before", "Was used to kindle one , not apt to bear .", "The inhuman author of all villainies ;", "Unheard-of monster ! eldest-born of hell ! Down , to thy primitive flame .", "\u2018 Cause we were kings , and each disdained an equal .", "\u2018 Tis the last thing a prince should throw away ;", "For any other lye .", "I was provoked", "Her last farewell .\u2014 O , OEdipus , thy fall", "Of blood and spirits , I 'll defend his life ,", "\u2018 Tis thine , my faithful sword ; my only trust ;", "And last it must be kept .", "Is great ; and nobly now thou goest attended !", "You shall no more be trusted with your life :\u2014", "Oh , OEdipus !", "Chafe , chafe his temples : How the mighty spirits ,", "Yes , villain , for whatever thou canst dare .", "Throw even that o'erhYpppHeNboard ; for love 's the jewel ,", "No , villain , no ;", "Hold thy raised arm ; give me a moment 's pause .", "Yet in the pangs of death she grasps my hand ;", "Stay thee , damned wretch ; hold , stop thy bloody hand !", "Better that thou , and I , and all mankind ,", "And who would moan himself , for suffering that ,", "If envy and not truth \u2014", "Brand me , you gods , blot me with foul dishonour ,", "No ; Argos mourns with Thebes ; you tempered so", "Will dare , with his frail hand , to grasp a sceptre ?", "Though my heart tells me that the gift is fatal .", "Yet , by the infernal Gods , those awful powers", "I see , I read distinctly , in large gold ,", "Enter H\u00c6MON , Guards , with ALCANDER and PYRACMON bound ; the", "And god-like clearness , that , to the last gush", "To shew thee , honour was my only motive ,", "Hence from my presence , all ; he 's not my friend", "My lord , you ask me things impossible ;", "Down , swelling heart ! \u2018 Tis for thy princess all :\u2014 O my Eurydice !\u2014", "Were cheaply purchased , were thy love the price .", "My love ; ten thousand , thousand times more clear ,", "The man , who loves like me ,", "If thou forego'st it , misery attends thee .\u2014", "Your courage while you fought , that mercy seemed", "Then hear these holy men .", "My heavy anger , like a mighty weight ,", "Fly from the author of all villainies ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["The ceremonies stay .", "A midnight silence at the noon of day .", "As to a visible divinity ;", "To thee these knees are bent , these eyes are lifted ,", "A prince , on whom heaven safely might repose", "Millions of subjects shalt thou have ; but mute .", "He said , a band of robbers watched their passage ,", "To murder Laius and the rest ; himself", "And leave her task to thee .", "A people of the dead ; a crowded desert ;"], "true_target": ["Who took advantage of a narrow way ,", "And ne'er returned to Thebes .", "Might on thy careful bosom sleep secure ,", "Even that 's destroyed , when none shall live to speak it .", "But where 's the glory of thy former acts ?", "The business of mankind ; for Providence", "He went in private forth , but thinly followed ,", "Twice our deliverer !", "Left too for dead .", "\u2018 Tis just thou should'st .", "O father of thy country !"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["In these mysterious words ."], "true_target": ["A dreadful answer from the hallowed urn ,", "And sacred tripos , did the priestess give ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Your plague shall cease . The rest let Laius tell .", "Blood-royal unrevenged has cursed the land ."], "true_target": ["Shed in a cursed hour , by cursed hand ,", "When Laius \u2019 death is expiated well ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["We mourn the sad remembrance .", "So was it hushed , and never since revived .", "But one ; and he so wounded ,"], "true_target": ["For then the monster Sphinx began to rage ,", "He scarce drew breath to speak some few faint words .", "\u2018 Twas neglected ;", "And present cares soon buried the remote :"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["In vain you sooth me with your soft endearments ,", "Never .", "And found a different fate ; by robbers murdered ,", "Prepare then , wretched prince , prepare to hear", "Let me conjure you , take the prophet 's counsel ,", "Keep from your eyes and mine the dreadful Phorbas .", "Consume whole years in care , so now and then", "I know the wrath of heaven , the care of Thebes ,", "Vain , vain oracles !", "On you , and me , and all .", "And with his dotage mad the gaping world .", "Was dull to mine : Methinks , I should have made", "He started when I told him your intent ,", "What new disturbance ?", "What hoa , my OEdipus ! see where he stands !", "With such a willingness , as if that heaven", "They say in Phocide ; on the verge that parts it", "To a wild fury .", "And sees the boiling furnace just beneath :", "Of those dear babes ? O let me run , and seal", "Yet hear me on \u2014", "To send me hence without a kind farewell .", "My bosom bare against the armed god ,", "And stop their entrance , ere it be too late ;", "And inward languishing : That oracle", "To try if hell can yet more deeply wound .", "You are his picture .", "Ah , cruel women !", "Who saw her children slaughtered all at once ,", "Nor can you comprehend , with deepest thought ,", "True as the Gods , and affable as men .", "But you more tenderly , as part of me :", "Were you , which is impossible , the man ,", "Is heaved no more ; the busy emmets cease :", "I may have leave to feed my famished eyes", "With furies ,\u2014 slain out-right with mere distraction !", "The wretched infant of a guilty fate ,", "I 'll mount , I 'll fly , and with a port divine", "\u2018 Tis woman 's weakness , that I would be pitied ;", "But he who murdered Laius , frees the land .", "I beg , my OEdipus , my lord , my life ,", "\u2018 Tis horror , worse than thousand thousand deaths ,", "Polybus , king of Corinth , is no more .", "From Daulia , and from Delphos .", "Let virgins \u2019 hands adorn the sacrifice ;", "Rear in the streets bright altars to the Gods ,", "Thought me his blessing ; be thou like my Laius .", "I 'll wrap thy shivering spirit in lambent flames ; and so we 'll sail .\u2014", "What means that thought ?", "Then I will tell thee that my wings are on .", "Winds , bear me to some barren island ,", "Haste thee , then ,", "With one short passing glance , and sigh my vows :", "O wretched pair ! O greatly wretched we ! Two worlds of woe !", "One who abhorred a lie .", "Sacred sir \u2014", "In spite of all those crimes the cruel gods", "By four servants :", "Perplex not thus your mind .", "Some little time before you came to Thebes .", "A son was born ; but , to prevent that crime ,", "But see , the oracle that I will trust ,", "To pry into the bowels of the victim ,", "My murdered Laius !", "That had he been the murderer of Laius ,", "My melting soul upon their bubbling wounds !", "Deny me all things else ; but for my sake ,", "O OEdipus , too well I understand you !", "What trade ?", "Where three ways met : Yet these are oracles ,", "But see ! we 're landed on the happy coast ;", "Groan still more death ; and may those dismal sources", "Fight with the waves ; now , in a still small tone", "Erect his countenance : Manly majesty", "\u2018 Tis not you , my lord ,", "Never let Phorbas come into your presence .", "Why are you thus disturbed ?", "Sleep without fears the blackest nights away ;", "The hand of lust from the pale virgin 's hair ,", "Perhaps my poniard first should drink your blood ;", "O , OEdipus , yet send ,", "And see , he waves Jocasta from the world !", "This , and no more , my lord , is all the passion", "He kneeled , and trembling begged I would dismiss him :", "You 've silenced me , my lord .", "And throw the ravisher before her feet ?", "And bless your people , who devour each word", "Whose story told , whose very name but mentioned ,", "O my love , my lord , support me !", "Then , falling on his knees , begged , as for life ,", "Henceforth be blest , blest as thou canst desire ;", "Laius had one , which never was fulfilled ,", "But this blest meeting has o'erhYpppHeNpaid them all .", "And OEdipus shall now be ever mine .", "And bring the effect of these your pious prayers", "Are always doubtful , and are often forged :", "Big made he was , and tall : His port was fierce ,", "Then my fears were true .", "Are then my blessings turned into a curse ?", "Of all thy kind ! My soul is on the brink ,", "Remember , he is my brother .", "Could there be hewn a monstrous gap in nature ,", "For I love Laius still , as wives should love ;", "And stammered in his abrupt prayer so wildly ,", "And not a grey-beard forging priest come near ,", "He , who himself burns in unlawful fires ,", "Let me go , let me go , or I will tear you piece-meal .", "I lull my child asleep .", "Who hast no use of eyes ; for here 's a sight", "And bade me not be angry . Be not you ;", "To make my brother happy .", "Where , where is this most wretched of mankind ,", "Often ; but still in vain .", "My husband fell by multitudes opprest ;", "Yours ; and yours are mine :", "My love , my all , my only , utmost hope !", "O , you think me vile ,", "Begone , my lord ! Alas , what are we doing ?", "For I have seen it ,\u2014 but ne'er bent on me .", "Heaven can never bless", "As if convulsive death had seized upon him ,", "He went out private .", "The sea , nor ebbs , nor flows ; this mole-hill earth", "Through which the groans of ghosts may strike thy ears ,", "Horror seizes me !", "Mean you the murder ?", "Too nice a fear .", "And bubble up a noise .", "A story , that shall turn thee into stone .", "Unless you wish to see Jocasta rent", "When the whole heaven is clear , as if the gods", "Of languishing Jocasta .", "Then may that curse fall only where you laid it .", "Alas !", "Tear off this curling hair ,", "As shall recal their wandering spirits home .", "Pardon me then , O greatest , though most wretched .", "Sate in his front , and darted from his eyes ,", "Murder ! what of murder ?", "In his bright palace , if he knows my Laius ,", "Know yours . \u2018 Tis fate alone that makes us wretched ,"], "true_target": ["Your gloomy eyes , my lord , betray a deadness", "Jove , Jove , whose majesty now sinks me down ,", "The self-same way ; and when you chid , methought", "With glorious gods , that come to try our cause .", "And let this Phorbas go .", "Even oracles", "Where print of human feet was never seen ;", "Forbear this search , I 'll think you more than mortal ;", "And all the golden strands are covered o'er", "A vow so broken , which I made to Creon ;", "You make , my lord , your own unhappiness ,", "Your dying accents fell , as wrecking ships ,", "Fly from my arms ! Whirlwinds , seas , continents ,", "From crimes like those . This made me violent", "So my poor boding heart would have it be ,", "So Phorbas said : This band you chanced to meet :", "Preys on your heart , and rots the noble core ,", "Howe'er the beauteous out-side shews so lovely .", "That robbed my love of rest : If we must pray ,", "As infants \u2019 dreams .", "To be dismissed from court : He trembled too ,", "From whence resounded those false oracles ,", "Commanding all he viewed : His hair just grizzled ,", "O , I could rave ,", "Replying , what he knew of that affair", "For you are still my husband .", "To save your life , which you unjust would lose :", "\u2018 Twas somewhat odd .", "The cries of its inhabitants , war 's toils ,", "He shall \u2014 yet have I leave to ask you why ?", "Was that a raven 's croak , or my son 's voice ? No matter which ; I 'll to the grave and hide me . Earth open , or I 'll tear thy bowels up . Hark ! he goes on , and blabs the deed of incest .", "Help , OEdipus ; help , Gods ; Jocasta dies .", "Hail , happy OEdipus , happiest of kings !", "You shall , while I", "The horrid agony you cast me in ,", "Their baleful tops are washed with bellying clouds ;", "O that I could for ever charm , as now ,", "Hark , hark ! a hollow voice calls out aloud ,", "Nor can it find the road . Mount , mount , my soul ;", "Jocasta ! Yes , I 'll to the royal bed ,", "So I have often told you .", "Be not displeased : I 'll move the suit no more .", "Glide all along the gaudy milky soil ,", "And when I have you in my arms , methinks", "I beg you , banish Phorbas : O , the Gods ,", "Be gorged with fire , stab every vital part ,", "Beneath whose venomous shade I may have vent", "Good fortune , that comes seldom , comes more welcome .", "Rather let him go :", "I love you too", "Bored through his untried feet , and bound with cords ,", "In all things but his love .", "The murderer of his father : True , indeed ,", "If an immodest thought , or low desire ,", "For ever from Jocasta .", "There , there he mounts", "All I can wish for now , is your consent", "They would not wound thee , as this story will .", "And worlds , divide us ! O , thrice happy thou ,", "I kneel , that you may grant this first request .", "Alas ! why start you so ? Her stiffening grief ,", "Let furies haunt thy palace , thou shalt sleep", "When you resolved to die .", "A mother 's love start", "The more I look , the more I find of Laius :", "Without a reason .", "Are all referred to you , and ought to take you", "To match my crimes ; by all my miseries ,", "Would cool the rage of fevers , and unlock", "Nor ever can be now .", "\u2018 Tis fixt by fate , upon record divine ;", "And this the faith we owe them .", "With all its glory glowed for my reception .", "Will you not let me take my last farewell", "Pull down those lying fanes , and burn that vault ,", "For many years .", "Inflamed my breast , since first our loves were lighted .", "Have life , be still obeyed .", "up in your defence ,", "And set the fairest countenance to view ;", "And as you prize your own eternal quiet ,", "Or I shall be before thee . See ,\u2014 thou canst not see !", "So common fame reports .", "Help , H\u00e6mon , help ;", "Secure , thy slumbers shall be soft and gentle", "But you are innocent , as your Jocasta ,", "When he beheld you first , as king in Thebes ,", "O'erhYpppHeNgrown with weeds of such a monstrous height ,", "In circling fire among the blushing clouds !", "His groping ghost is lodged upon a tower ,", "Now roaring like the ocean , when the winds", "I 'll print upon their coral mouths such kisses ,", "I have not joyed an hour since you departed ,", "And of an inclination so ignoble ,", "The king himself lived many , many years ,", "O unkind OEdipus ! My former lord", "At your devotions ? Heaven succeed your wishes ;", "This stately image of imperial sorrow ,", "That he should have a son by me , foredoomed", "And murdered not my Laius , but revenged him .", "To save my OEdipus !", "Guilt and distraction could not have shook him more .", "You breathe ?", "My dearest OEdipus ! Thy royal father ,", "After the dreadful yell , sink murmuring down ,", "Would turn the melting face of mercy 's self", "Oh no : The most sincere , plain , honest man ;", "To find my Laius out ; ask every god", "By marriage with his niece , Eurydice .", "And , when at last I 'm slain , to crown the horror ,", "Peace , peace , \u00c6geon , let Jocasta tell him !\u2014", "For public miseries , and for private fears ;", "Methought I heard your voice ,\u2014 and yet I doubted ,\u2014", "Talk on , till thou mak'st mad my rolling brain ;", "Why , good my lord ?", "Methinks , at such a meeting , heaven stands still ;", "Had some new monsters made ? will you not turn ,", "Be witness , gods , and strike Jocasta dead ,", "That I must hide me from your eyes for ever .", "And thousand other labours of the state ,", "Alas ! I did .", "A flaw made through the centre , by some God ,", "Would give no satisfaction to the king ;", "His speech , his garb , his action ; nay , his frown ,\u2014", "For horrors , that would blast the barbarous world !", "O , my loved lord , though I resolve a ruin ,", "Shall judge , and shall acquit us . O , \u2018 tis done ;", "The spirit of my husband ! O , the gods ! How wan he looks !", "Once more , by the Gods ,", "By these extravagant and needless fears .", "Will you yet hear me ?", "My lord , my OEdipus , why gaze you now ,", "On a bleak mountain naked was exposed :", "Still bubble on , and pour forth blood and tears .", "Where first the mysteries of our loves were acted ,", "Eats like a subtle worm its venomed way ,", "He had my leave ; and now he lives retired .", "Can charge me with , I know my innocence ;", "And double-dye it with imperial crimson ;", "Do not thou push me off , and I will go ,", "As in a green old age : Bate but his years ,", "My poor tormented ghost shall cleave the ground ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Mercy , O mercy !"], "true_target": ["Both , let both die ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["To banishment , away with him !"], "true_target": ["Both , both ; let them die ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Venoms my airy substance ! hence with him ,", "OEdipus !", "Before he yet was born . I broke their laws ,", "Who stains my bed with incest ? OEdipus :", "Of my death they are .", "Will blast your fields , and mark his way with ruin .", "Jocasta , OEdipus .", "OEdipus !", "Some kinder power , too weak for destiny ,", "Was doomed to do what nature most abhors .", "From Thebes , my throne , my bed , let him be driven :", "Took pity , and endued his new-formed mass", "And clothed with flesh his pre-existing soul ."], "true_target": ["Jocasta !", "Performed its work by his mistaking hands .", "And every kingly virtue : But in vain .", "The Gods foresaw it ; and forbade his being ,", "Banish him ; sweep him out ; the plague he bears", "Ask'st thou who murdered me ? \u2018 twas OEdipus :", "For whom then are you curst , but OEdipus !", "But he who holds my crown ,\u2014 Oh , must I speak !\u2014", "O spare my shame !", "For fate , that sent him hood-winked to the world ,", "My wounds ake at him : Oh , his murderous breath", "Do you forbid him earth , and I 'll forbid him heaven .", "With temperance , justice , prudence , fortitude ,", "He comes , the parricide ! I cannot bear him :"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis done ."], "true_target": ["All is done .", "\u2018 Tis done ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["1 . Come away ,", "But obey ,", "Till they go", "Laius ! 2 . Laius ! 3 . Laius !", "2 . You that boiling cauldrons blow ,", "3 . You that pinch with red-hot tongs ;", "Hear , ye sullen powers below :", "With your sharpened prongs ;", "You that scum the molten lead .", "From their eternal bands ;", "On a row ,", "Till the snakes drop from her head ,", "Shall your cares beguile :", "Of poor , poor ghosts ,", "3 . You that plunge them when they swim :"], "true_target": ["Musick for awhile", "Hear , ye taskers of the dead .", "Do not stay ,", "For hell 's broke up , and ghosts have holiday .", "2 . You that thrust them off the brim ;", "Down , down , down :", "1 . Till Alecto free the dead", "1 . You that drive the trembling hosts", "While we play ,", "Hear ! 2 . Hear ! 3 . Hear !", "Wondering how your pains were eased ;", "And whip from out her hands .", "2 . And disdaining to be pleas 'd ;", "1 . Till they drown ;", "Ten thousand , thousand , thousand fathoms low ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Come away , & c ."], "true_target": ["Till they drown , & c ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Which are three ."], "true_target": ["Which are three . Three times three !", "Which are three ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Alas ! What would you have me say ?", "I gave the infant to him .", "The queen Jocasta told me ,", "Dread sir , I will .", "Would I could sink beneath it ! by the gods ,", "The dreadful deed was acted but by one ;", "One of king Laius \u2019 family .", "Should kill his father , and enjoy his mother .", "His visage bears ; but know not where , nor when .", "The swaddling-bands were purple , wrought with gold .", "Dost thou betray the secrets of thy friend ?", "There was a dreadful one ,", "Doomed to be murdered in that gloomy vale ?", "O spare my age .", "I was , great sir , his true and faithful servant ;", "To mount Cith\u00e6ron , and the pleasant vallies", "Hold , hold , O dreadful sir ! You will not rack an innocent old man ?", "Phorbas had perished in that very moment .", "\u00c6ge . Be not too rash . That infant grew at last", "Whate'er I begged , thou , like a dotard , speak'st", "A king ; and here the happy monarch stands .", "More than is requisite ; and what of this ?", "O heavens ! wherein , my lord , have I offended ?", "And sure that one had much of your resemblance .", "He made me lord of all his rural pleasures ;"], "true_target": ["Have you forgot , too , how you wept , and begged", "Have you forgot I took an infant from you ,", "And if I speak , most certain death attends me !", "For much he loved them : oft I entertained him", "Who , my lord , this man ?", "There are , perhaps ,", "That I should breed him up , and ask no more ?", "He did : And , Oh ! I wish to all the gods ,", "Ha ! whither would'st thou ? O what hast thou uttered ! For what thou hast said , death strike thee dumb for ever !", "My lord , I said", "To murder it .", "My lord , she did .", "Where , sacred sir ?", "He was not mine , but given me by another .", "With sporting swains , o'er whom I had command .", "O , royal sir , I bow me to the ground ;", "O wretched state ! I die , unless I speak ;", "I do conjure you to inquire no more .", "Why is it mentioned now ? And why , O why", "Which all about lie shadowing its large feet .", "Which had foretold , that most unhappy son", "Born and bred up in court , no foreign slave .", "\u00c6ge . Is't possible you should forget your ancient friend ?", "Particulars , which may excite your dead remembrance .", "Most sure , my lord , I have seen lines like those", "It was her son by Laius ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself", "Making his wit their nonsense : nay , they scorn him ;", "They tax our policy with cowardice ,", "I 'd be revenged of both . When wine fumes high ,", "Pride must be cured by pride .", "And at this fulsome stuff ,\u2014 the wit of apes ,\u2014", "To Ajax , to Achilles , to the rest ;", "The residue with mounds may be restrained ,", "Or peaceful traffic from divided shores ,", "The crow chides blackness :\u2014 Here is a man ,\u2014 but \u2018 tis before his face , and therefore I am silent .", "Is this a man , O Nestor , to be bought ?", "As if he were forgot ; and , princes all ,", "Should be inclosed ,\u2014 hear what Ulysses speaks .", "And therefore distant death does all the work ;", "You shake , my lord , at something : will you go ? You will break out .", "All 's done , my lord . Troil Is it ?", "Give him allowance as the braver man ;", "Till Hector drag him from his tent to fight ;", "But give it way awhile , and let it waste .", "Relates in purpose only to Achilles .", "But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view", "Tempered like his , you never should excel him ,", "So I hope . Pray heaven Thersites have informed me true !\u2014", "And his racked voice jar to his audience ;", "Disarmed our great Achilles of his rage .", "Will show the better : let us not consent ,", "Enter THERSITES .", "He keeps a table too , makes factious feasts ,", "Then close again to charge upon their backs ,", "May cure the madman 's pride .", "And yet , by ill repeating , libel him ,", "And , by device , let blockish Ajax draw", "However it be spread in general terms ,", "For , when the general is not like the hive ,", "On Cressida alone .", "Nor was with less concernment entertained .", "Our greatest warrior should be matched with Hector ;", "Else must he often grieve the patient 's sense ,", "Tell him , I hope he shall not need to arm ;", "\u2018 Tis not ripe .", "That knot of friendship first must be untied ,", "In rank Achilles , must or now be cropped ,", "Are not Achilles and dull Ajax friends ?", "The rising deluge is not stopt with dams ;", "\u2018 Tis but a keen-edged sword , spread o'er with balm ,", "They are opposed already . \u00c6n .Princes , enough ; you have both shown much valour .", "Be worshipped by a greater than himself ,", "I have conceived an embryo in my brain :", "To heal the wound it makes .", "O Agamemnon , let it not be so .", "And say in thunder , go to him , Achilles .", "His crest , if brainless Ajax come safe off :", "Than in his pride , should he \u2018 scape Hector fair .", "The large Achilles , on his prest bed lolling ,", "When they go from Achilles . Shall that proud man", "And place the power of war in madmen 's hands .", "And will it wake him to the answer , think you ?", "To wrathful terms : this place is dangerous ;", "For that will physic the great Myrmidon ,", "In brief , esteem no act , but that of hand ;", "To overtop us all .", "Which , slanderer , he imitation calls ,", "Count wisdom of no moment in the war ,", "That we have better men .", "The fair Polyxena has , by a letter ,", "What glory our Achilles gains from Hector ,", "\u2018 Twill give the law to cool and sober sense ,", "At Menelaus \u2019 tent :", "And all the camp will lean that way they draw ;", "In that of our best man . No , make a lottery ;", "And last devour itself .", "Therefore \u2018 tis fit Achilles meet not Hector .", "Disdaining that his lot should be so low ,", "I shall impart a counsel , which , observed ,", "Time hath , my lord , a wallet at his back , Wherein he puts alms for oblivion , A great-siz 'd monster of ingratitudes : These scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour 'd As fast as they are made , forgot as soon As done : Pers\u00e9verance , dear my lord , Keeps honour bright : To have done , is to hang Quite out of fashion , like a rusty mail In monumental mockery . Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow , Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons , That one by one pursue : If you give way , Or hedge aside from the direct forthright , Like to an enter 'd tide , they all rush by , And leave you hindmost .\u2014 Or , like a gallant horse fallen in first rank , Lie there for pavement to the abject rear , O'er run and trampled on : Then what they do in present , Though less than yours in past , must o'ertop yours : For time is like a fashionable host , That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; And with his arms out stretch 'd , as he would fly , Grasps-in the comer : Welcome ever smiles , And Farewel goes out sighing . O , let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty , wit , High birth , vigour of bone , desert in service , Love , friendship , charity , are subjects all To envious and calumniating time . One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ,\u2014 That all , with one consent , praise new-born gawds , Though they are made and moulded of things past ; And give to dust , that is a little gilt , More laud than gilt o'erhYpppHeNdusted . The present eye praises the present object : Then marvel not , thou great and complete man , That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax ; Since things in motion sooner catch the eye , Than what not stirs . The cry went once on thee , And still it might , and yet it may again , If thou would'st not entomb thyself alive , And case thy reputation in thy tent ; Whose glorious deeds , but in these fields of late , Made emulous missions \u2018 mongst the gods themselves , And drave great Mars to faction . TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT , EARL OF SUNDERLAND, PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE , ONE OF HIS MAJESTY 'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY-COUNCIL , & C . MY LORD , Since I cannot promise you much of poetry in my play , it is but reasonable that I should secure you from any part of it in my dedication . And indeed I cannot better distinguish the exactness of your taste from that of other men , than by the plainness and sincerity of my address . I must keep my hyperboles in reserve for men of other understandings . An hungry appetite after praise , and a strong digestion of it , will bear the grossness of that diet ; but one of so critical a judgment as your lordship , who can set the bounds of just and proper in every subject , would give me small encouragement for so bold an undertaking . I more than suspect , my lord , that you would not do common justice to yourself ; and , therefore , were I to give that character of you , which I think you truly merit , I would make my appeal from your lordship to the reader , and would justify myself from flattery by the public voice , whatever protestation you might enter to the contrary . But I find I am to take other measures with your lordship ; I am to stand upon my guard with you , and to approach you as warily as Horace did Augustus : Cui mal\u00e8 si palpere , recalcitrat undique tutus . An ill-timed , or an extravagant commendation , would not pass upon you ; but you would keep off such a dedicator at arms-end , and send him back with his encomiums to this lord , or that lady , who stood in need of such trifling merchandise . You see , my lord , what an awe you have upon me , when I dare not offer you that incense which would be acceptable to other patrons ; but am forced to curb myself from ascribing to you those honours , which even an enemy could not deny you . Yet I must confess , I never practised that virtue of moderationwith so much reluctancy as now : for it hinders me from being true to my own knowledge , in not witnessing your worth , and deprives me of the only means which I had left , to shew the world that true honour and uninterested respect which I have always paid you . I would say somewhat , if it were possible which might distinguish that veneration I have for you , from the flatteries of those who adore your fortune . But the eminence of your condition , in this particular , is my unhappiness ; for it renders whatever I would say suspected . Professions of service , submissions , and attendance , are the practice of all men to the great ; and commonly they , who have the least sincerity , perform them best ; as they , who are least engaged in love , have their tongues the freest to counterfeit a passion . For my own part , I never could shake off the rustic bashfulness which hangs upon my nature ; but , valuing myself at as little as I am worth , have been afraid to render even the common duties of respect to those who are in power . The ceremonious visits , which are generally paid on such occasions , are not my talent . They may be real even in courtiers , but they appear with such a face of interest , that a modest man would think himself in danger of having his sincerity mistaken for his design . My congratulations keep their distance , and pass no farther than my heart . There it is that I have all the joy imaginable , when I see true worth rewarded , and virtue uppermost in the world . If , therefore , there were one to whom I had the honour to be known ; and to know him so perfectly , that I could say , without flattery , he had all the depth of understanding that was requisite in an able statesman , and all that honesty which commonly is wanting ; that he was brave without vanity , and knowing without positiveness ; that he was loyal to his prince , and a lover of his country ; that his principles were full of moderation , and all his counsels such as tended to heal , and not to widen , the breaches of the nation : that in all his conversation there appeared a native candour , and a desire of doing good in all his actions : if such an one , whom I have described , were at the helm ; if he had risen by his merits , and were chosen out in the necessity and pressures of affairs , to remedy our confusions by the seasonableness of his advice , and to put a stop to our ruin , when we were just rolling downward to the precipice ; I should then congratulate the age in which I live , for the common safety ; I should not despair of the republic , though Hannibal were at the gates ; I should send up my vows for the success of such an action , as Virgil did , on the like occasion , for his patron , when he was raising up his country from the desolations of a civil war : Hunc saltem everso juvenem succurrere seclo Ne , superi , prohibete . I know not whither I am running , in this extacy which is now upon me : I am almost ready to re-assume the ancient rights of poetry ; to point out , and prophecy the man , who was born for no less an undertaking , and whom posterity shall bless for its accomplishment . Methinks , I am already taking fire from such a character , and making room for him , under a borrowed name , amongst the heroes of an epic poem . Neither could mine , or some more happy genius , want encouragement under such a patron : Pollio amat nostram , quamvis sit rustica , musam . But these are considerations afar off , my lord : the former part of the prophecy must be first accomplished ; the quiet of the nation must be secured ; and a mutual trust , betwixt prince and people , be renewed ; and then this great and good man will have leisure for the ornaments of peace ; and make our language as much indebted to his care , as the French is to the memory of their famous RichelieuYou know , my lord , how low he laid the foundations of so great a work ; that he began it with a grammar and a dictionary ; without which all those remarks and observations , which have since been made , had been performed to as little purpose , as it would be to consider the furniture of the rooms , before the contrivance of the house . Propriety must first be stated , ere any measures of elegance can be taken . Neither is one Vaugelas sufficient for such a workIt was the employment of the whole academy for many years ; for the perfect knowledge of a tongue was never attained by any single person . The court , the college , and the town , must be joined in it . And as our English is a composition of the dead and living tongues , there is required a perfect knowledge , not only of the Greek and Latin , but of the old German , the French , and the Italian ; and , to help all these , a conversation with those authors of our own , who have written with the fewest faults in prose and verse . But how barbarously we yet write and speak , your lordship knows , and I am sufficiently sensible in my own English . For I am often put to a stand , in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue , or false grammar , and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism ; and have no other way to clear my doubts , but by translating my English into Latin , and thereby trying what sense the words will bear in a more stable language . I am desirous , if it were possible , that we might all write with the same certainty of words , and purity of phrase , to which the Italians first arrived , and after them the French ; at least that we might advance so far , as our tongue is capable of such a standard . It would mortify an Englishman to consider , that from the time of Boccace and of Petrarch , the Italian has varied very little ; and that the English of Chaucer , their contemporary , is not to be understood without the help of an old dictionary . But their Goth and Vandal had the fortune to be grafted on a Roman stock ; ours has the disadvantage to be founded on the DutchWe are full of monosyllables , and those clogged with consonants , and our pronunciation is effeminate ; all which are enemies to a sounding language . It is true , that to supply our poverty , we have trafficked with our neighbour nations ; by which means we abound as much in words , as Amsterdam does in religions ; but to order them , and make them useful after their admission , is the difficulty . A greater progress has been made in this , since his majesty 's return , than , perhaps , since the conquest to his time . But the better part of the work remains unfinished ; and that which has been done already , since it has only been in the practice of some few writers , must be digested into rules and method , before it can be profitable to the general . Will your lordship give me leave to speak out at last ? and to acquaint the world , that from your encouragement and patronage , we may one day expect to speak and write a language , worthy of the English wit , and which foreigners may not disdain to learn ? Your birth , your education , your natural endowments , the former employments which you have had abroad , and that which , to the joy of good men you now exercise at home , seem all to conspire to this design : the genius of the nation seems to call you out as it were by name , to polish and adorn your native language , and to take from it the reproach of its barbarity . It is upon this encouragement that I have adventured on the following critique , which I humbly present you , together with the play ; in which , though I have not had the leisure , nor indeed the encouragement , to proceed to the principal subject of it , which is the words and thoughts that are suitable to tragedy ; yet the whole discourse has a tendency that way , and is preliminary to it . In what I have already done , I doubt not but I have contradicted some of my former opinions , in my loose essays of the like nature ; but of this , I dare affirm , that it is the fruit of my riper age and experience , and that self-love , or envy have no part in it . The application to English authors is my own , and therein , perhaps , I may have erred unknowingly ; but the foundation of the rules is reason , and the authority of those living critics who have had the honour to be known to you abroad , as well as of the ancients , who are not less of your acquaintance . Whatsoever it be , I submit it to your lordship 's judgment , from which I never will appeal , unless it be to your good nature , and your candour . If you can allow an hour of leisure to the perusal of it , I shall be fortunate that I could so long entertain you ; if not , I shall at least have the satisfaction to know , that your time was more usefully employed upon the public . I am , MY LORD , Your Lordship 's most Obedient , Humble Servant , JOHN DRYDEN . Footnotes : 1 . This was the famous Earl of Sunderland , who , being a Tory under the reign of Charles , a Papist in that of his successor , and a Whig in that of William , was a favourite minister of all these monarchs . He was a man of eminent abilities ; and our author shews a high opinion of his taste , by abstaining from the gross flattery , which was then the fashionable stile of dedication .", "The time unlit : beseech you , let us go .", "But by degree , stand on their solid base ?", "His satires are the physic of the camp .", "Whose clashing points strike fire , and gild the dusk ;", "Heart of our body , soul of our designs ,", "Ajax is grown self-willed as broad Achilles .", "Follow his torch : he goes to Calchas 's tent .", "Having his ears buzzed with his noisy fame ,", "What malice is there in a mirthful scene ?", "What can succeed ? How could communities ,", "Sit lag of Ajax \u2019 table , almost minstrel ,", "And summer days not tedious .", "Upon this plain , so many hollow factions :", "Ere we can reach our ends ; for , while they love each other ,", "The chance to fight with Hector : among ourselves ,", "In whom the tempers , and the minds of all", "Spurred on by will , and seconded by power ,", "Please it our general to pass strangely by him ,", "The skilful surgeon will not lance a sore ,", "Shall be attended with strange followers .", "Upon a lazy bed , breaks scurril jests ,", "The great Achilles , whom opinion crowns", "So thick the prease ; so lusty are their arms ,", "Or when supremacy of kings is shaken ,", "Call him bought railer , mercenary tongue !", "One , whom we hold our idol ?", "And headlong force is led by hoodwinked will .", "Troy had been down ere this , and Hector 's sword", "Must make an universal prey of all ,", "That death seemed never sent with better will .", "When one incision , once well-timed , would serve .", "Lies , mocking our designs ; with him Patroclus ,", "to Nest . Away ; our work is done .", "Ay , my good son .", "Hail , Agamemnon ! truly victor now ! While secret envy , and while open pride , Among thy factious nobles discord threw ; While public good was urged for private ends , And those thought patriots , who disturbed it most ; Then , like the headstrong horses of the sun , That light , which should have cheered the world , consumed it : Now peaceful order has resumed the reins , Old Time looks young , and Nature seems renewed . Then , since from home-bred factions ruin springs , Let subjects learn obedience to their kings . EPILOGUE , SPOKEN BY THERSITES . These cruel critics put me into passion ; For , in their lowering looks I read damnation : You expect a satire , and I seldom fail ; When I 'm first beaten , \u2018 tis my part to rail . You British fools , of the old Trojan stock , That stand so thick , one cannot miss the flock , Poets have cause to dread a keeping pit , When women 's cullies come to judge of wit . As we strew rat'shYpppHeNbane when we vermin fear , \u2018 Twere worth our cost to scatter fool-bane here ; And , after all our judging fops were served , Dull poets , too , should have a dose reserved ; Such reprobates , as , past all sense of shaming , Write on , and ne'er are satisfied with damning : Next , those , to whom the stage does not belong , Such whose vocation only is \u2014 to song ; At most to prologue , when , for want of time , Poets take in for journey-work in rhime . But I want curses for those mighty shoals Of scribbling Chloris 's , and Phyllis \u2019 fools : Those oafs should be restrained , during their lives , From pen and ink , as madmen are from knives . I could rail on , but \u2018 twere a task as vain , As preaching truth at Rome , or wit in Spain : Yet , to huff out our play was worth my trying ; John Lilburn \u2018 scaped his judges by defying :If guilty , yet I 'm sure o \u2019 the church 's blessing , By suffering for the plot , without confessing . Footnote : 1 . Lilburn , the most turbulent , but the boldest and most upright of men , had the merit of defying and resisting the tyranny of the king , of the parliament , and of the protector . He was convicted in the star-chamber , but liberated by the parliament ; he was tried on the parliamentary statute for treasons in 1651 , and before Cromwell 's high court of justice in 1654 ; and notwithstanding an audacious defence ,\u2014 which to some has been more perilous than a feeble cause ,\u2014 he was , in both cases , triumphantly acquitted . THE SPANISH FRIAR ; OR , THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY . Ut melius possis fallere , sume togam . \u2014 MART . \u2014 Alterna revisens Lasit , et in solido rursus fortuna locavit . \u2014 VIRG . THE SPANISH FRIAR . The Spanish Friar , or the Double Discovery , is one of the best and most popular of our poet 's dramatic efforts . The plot is , as Johnson remarks , particularly happy , for the coincidence and coalition of the tragic and comic plots . The grounds for this eminent critic 's encomium will be found to lie more deep than appears at first sight . It was , indeed , a sufficiently obvious connection , to make the gay Lorenzo an officer of the conquering army , and attached to the person of Torrismond . This expedient could hardly have escaped the invention of the most vulgar playwright , that ever dovetailed tragedy and comedy together . The felicity of Dryden 's plot , therefore , does not consist in the ingenuity of his original conception , but in the minutely artificial strokes , by which the reader is perpetually reminded of the dependence of the one part of the play on the other . These are so frequent , and appear so very natural , that the comic plot , instead of diverting our attention from the tragic business , recals it to our mind by constant and unaffected allusion . No great event happens in the higher region of the camp or court , that has not some indirect influence upon the intrigues of Lorenzo and Elvira ; and the part which the gallant is called upon to act in the revolution that winds up the tragic interest , while it is highly in character , serves to bring the catastrophe of both parts of the play under the eye of the spectator , at one and the same time . Thus much seemed necessary to explain the felicity of combination , upon which Dryden justly valued himself , and which Johnson sanctioned by his high commendation . But , although artfully conjoined , the different departments of this tragi-comedy are separate subjects of critical remark . The comic part of the Spanish Friar , as it gives the first title to the play , seems to claim our first attention . Indeed , some precedence is due to it in another point of view ; for , though the tragic scenes may be matched in All for Love , Don Sebastian , and else where , the Spanish Friar contains by far the most happy of Dryden 's comic effusions . It has , comparatively speaking , this high claim to commendation , that , although the intrigue is licentious , according to the invariable licence of the age , the language is , in general , free from the extreme and disgusting coarseness , which our author too frequently mistook for wit , or was contented to substitute in its stead . The liveliness and even brilliancy of the dialogue , shows that Dryden , from the stores of his imagination , could , when he pleased , command that essential requisite of comedy ; and that , if he has seldom succeeded , it was only because he mistook the road , or felt difficulty in travelling it . The character of Dominic is of that broadly ludicrous nature , which was proper to the old comedy . It would be difficult to show an ordinary conception more fully brought out . He is , like Falstaff , a compound of sensuality and talent , finely varied by the professional traits with which it suited the author 's purpose to adorn his character . Such an addition was , it is true , more comic than liberal ; but Dryden , whose constant dislike to the clerical order glances out in many of his performances , was not likely to be scrupulous , when called upon to pourtray one of their members in his very worst colours . To counterbalance the Friar 's scandalous propensities of every sort , and to render him an object of laughter , rather than abhorrence , the author has gifted this reprobate churchman with a large portion of wit ; by means of which , and by a ready presence of mind , always indicative of energy , he preserves an ascendence over the other characters , and escapes detection and disgrace , until poetical justice , and the conclusion of the play , called for his punishment . We have a natural indulgence for an amusing libertine ; and , I believe , that , as most readers commiserate the disgrace of Falstaff , a few may be found to wish that Dominic 's penance had been of a nature more decent and more theatrical than the poet has assigned himFrom the dedication , as well as the prologue , it appears that Dryden , however contrary to his sentiments at a future period , was , at present , among those who held up to contempt and execration the character of the Roman catholic priesthood . By one anonymous lampoon , this is ascribed to a temporary desertion of the court party , in resentment for the loss , or discontinuance of his pension . This allowance , during the pressure upon the Exchequer , was , at least , irregularly paid , of which Dryden repeatedly complains , and particularly in a letter to the Earl of Rochester . But the hardship was owing entirely to the poverty of the public purse ; and , when the anonymous libeller affirms , that Dryden 's pension was withdrawn , on account of his share in the Essay on Satire , he only shows that his veracity is on a level with his povertyThe truth seems to be , that Dryden partook in some degree of the general ferment which the discovery of the Popish Plot had excited ; and we may easily suppose him to have done so without any impeachment to his monarchial tenets , since North himself admits , that at the first opening of the plot , the chiefs of the loyal party joined in the cry . Indeed , that mysterious transaction had been investigated by none more warmly than by Danby , the king 's favourite minister , and a high favourer of the prerogative . Even when writing Absalom and Achitophel , our author by no means avows an absolute disbelief of the whole plot , while condemning the extraordinary exaggerations , by which it had been rendered the means of much bloodshed and persecutionIt seems , therefore , fair to believe , that , without either betraying or disguising his own principles , he chose , as a popular subject for the drama , an attack upon an obnoxious priesthood , whom he , in common with all the nation , believed to have been engaged in the darkest intrigues against the king and government . I am afraid that this task was the more pleasing , from that prejudice against the clergy , of all countries and religions , which , as already noticed , our author displays , in common with other wits of that licentious ageThe character of the Spanish Friar was not , however , forgotten , when Dryden became a convert to the Roman Catholic persuasion ; and , in many instances , as well as in that just quoted , it was assumed as the means of fixing upon him a charge of inconsistency in politics , and versatility in religionThe tragic part of the \u201c Spanish Friar \u201d has uncommon merit . The opening of the Drama , and the picture of a besieged town in the last extremity , is deeply impressive , while the description of the noise of the night attack , and the gradual manner in which the intelligence of its success is communicated , arrests the attention , and prepares expectation for the appearance of the hero , with all the splendour which ought to attend the principal character in tragedy . The subsequent progress of the plot is liable to a capital objection , from the facility with which the queen , amiable and virtuous , as we are bound to suppose her , consents to the murder of the old dethroned monarch . We question if the operation of any motive , however powerful , could have been pleaded with propriety , in apology for a breach of theatrical decorum , so gross , and so unnatural . But , in fact , the queen is only actuated by a sort of reflected ambition , a desire to secure to her lover a crown , which she thought in danger ; but which , according to her own statement , she only valued on his account . This is surely too remote and indirect a motive , to urge a female to so horrid a crime . There is also something vilely cold-hearted , in her attempt to turn the guilt and consequences of her own crime upon Bertran , who , whatever faults he might have to others , was to the queen no otherwise obnoxious , than because the victim of her own inconstancy . The gallant , virtuous , and enthusiastic character of Torrismond , must be allowed , in some measure , to counterbalance that of his mistress , however unhappily he has placed his affections . But the real excellence of these scenes consists less in peculiarity of character , than in the vivacity and power of the language , which , seldom sinking into vulgarity , or rising into bombast , maintains the mixture of force and dignity , best adapted to the expression of tragic passion . Upon the whole , as the comic part of this play is our author 's master-piece in comedy , the tragic plot may be ranked with his very best efforts of that kind , whether in \u201c Don Sebastian , \u201d or \u201c All for Love . \u201d The \u201c Spanish Friar \u201d appears to have been brought out shortly after Mr Thynne 's murder , which is alluded to in the Prologue , probably early in 1681-2 . The whimsical caricature , which it presented to the public , in Father Dominic , was received with rapture by the prejudiced spectators , who thought nothing could be exaggerated in the character of a Roman Catholic priest . Yet , the satire was still more severe in the first edition , and afterwards considerably softenedIt was , as Dryden himself calls it , a Protestant play ; and certainly , as Jeremy Collier somewhere says , was rare Protestant diversion , and much for the credit of the Reformation . Accordingly , the \u201c Spanish Friar \u201d was the only play prohibited by James II . after his accession ; an interdict , which may be easily believed no way disagreeable to the author , now a convert to the Roman church . It is very remarkable , that , after the Revolution , it was the first play represented by order of queen Mary , and honoured with her presence ; a choice , of which she had abundant reason to repent , as the serious part of the piece gave as much scope for malicious application against herself , as the comic against the religion of her fatherFootnotes : 1 . Collier remarks the injustice of punishing the agent of Lorenzo 's vice , while he was himself brought off with flying colours . He observes , \u201c \u2018 Tis not the fault which is corrected , but the priest . The author 's discipline is seldom without a bias . He commonly gives the laity the pleasure of an ill action , and the clergy the punishment . \u201d View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage , p. 100 .", "Hates all he sees , and rails at all he knows ;", "For both our honour and our shame in this", "Must imitate our aukward motions first ;", "Bellowing his passion till he break the spring ,", "Nestor shall do't ; but , pardon , father Nestor ,\u2014"], "true_target": ["I cannot conjure , Trojan .", "Play him for sport at meals , and kick him off .", "Who mourn her absence ?", "You have sworn patience .", "Tickling his spleen , and laughing till he wheeze .", "Who swells with loud applause ; and make him fall", "To be performed by valour .", "Disdains thy sovereign charge , and in his tent", "Rails on our state of war , and sets Thersites", "But nothing without Ajax ;", "Soul of our mirth , and joy of sullen war ,", "And give him half . I will not praise your wisdom ,", "And quite consume the relics of the war .", "But grant he should be foiled ;", "Those , that reach home , from neither host are vain ,", "But , wisely managed , its divided strength", "To whom the foragers should all repair ,", "Those it o'erbears , and drowns the hopes of harvest ;", "Hold , you mistake him , Nestor ; \u2018 tis his custom :", "The lustre of our better , yet unshown ,", "We 'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes ,", "But hates them most from whom he most receives ,", "And think , perchance they 'll sell ; but , if they do not ,", "With them are but the tasks cut out by fear ,", "Stand where the torch may not discover us .", "Is sluiced in channels , and securely drained .", "And play at hard head with their empty skulls .", "Oh noble general , let it not be so .", "What honey can our empty combs expect ?", "Or , shedding , breed a nursery of like ill ,", "But he already is too insolent :", "The flights of whistling darts make brown the sky ,", "And with ridiculous and aukward action ,", "but thy greatness pageants ,", "There is no staying here ; the hart Achilles", "Pardon me , Nestor , if I contradict you :", "But he , who taught you first the use of arms ,", "From his deep chest roars out a loud applause ,", "In imitation of this scurril fool ,", "Than Vulcan is to Venus .", "Mighty Agamemnon !", "Keeps thicket ;\u2014 please it our great general ,", "The growing humours to her healing purpose ;", "And I am but his shadow .", "But be as Ajax is .", "First , let small parties dally with their fury ;", "As freely tell me , of what honour was", "Even thee , the king of men , he does not spare ,", "Set them to prate , to boast their brutal strength ,", "But tell us the occasion of thy mirth ?", "Be you my time to bring it to some shape .", "Hail , noble Grecian ! thou relief of toils ,", "And we had better parch in Afric sun ,", "To vie their stupid courage , till they quarrel ,", "Prince , you are moved : let us depart in time ,", "The same prescription does the wise Thersites", "This Cressida in Troy ? had she no lovers there ,", "I wonder now , how yonder city stands ,", "Why then our common reputation suffers", "Mimics the Grecian chiefs .", "Were you as green as Ajax , and your brain", "Who neither looks on heaven or on earth ,", "Here comes Thersites ,", "Pray let us go .", "He hits \u2018 em right ;", "Oppose not rage , while rage is in its force ,", "The seeded pride ,", "Think not on Achilles ,", "To level us with low comparisons .", "Commend me , gallant Troilus , to your brother :", "Let Mars divide eternity in two ,", "When we have here her base and pillar by us .", "The still and thoughtful parts , which move those hands ,", "Apply , to mend our minds . The same he uses", "Prerogative of age , crowns , sceptres , laurels ,", "This challenge which \u00c6neas brings from Hector ,", "The observance due to rule has been neglected ,", "Let us , like merchants , show our coarsest wares ,", "If not , we yet preserve a fair opinion ,", "Who forms the body to a graceful carriage ,", "He is the soul and substance of my counsels ,", "Which sure he will , for I have laid the train .", "So , if one prove contemptuous , backed by t'other ,", "Observe how many Grecian tents stand void", "I shall wait on you .", "And dry-shod we may pass the naked ford .", "Then every thing resolves to brutal force ,", "Were he not proud , we all should share with him :", "And shall this man , this Hermes , this Apollo ,", "Why they con sense from him , grow wits by rote ,", "Know all the world , he is as valiant .", "That he should want the kindness which he takes .", "Thank heaven , my lord , you 're of a gentle nature ;", "The chief of all our host ,", "Praise him that got you , her that brought you forth ;", "Both hating us , will draw too strong a bias ,", "Till nature has digested and prepared", "And with his presence grace a brainless feast ?", "Look on him with neglectful eyes and scorn :", "There Diomede does feast with him to-night ;", "Who feeds on Ajax , yet loves him not , because he cannot love ;", "Open your ranks , and make these madmen way ,", "Shall Ajax go to him ? No , Jove forbid ,", "So represents he thee , though more unlike", "Wanted a master , but for our disorders :", "In whose converse our winter nights are short ,", "And makes of it rehearsals : like a player ,", "For brutal courage is the soldier 's idol :", "Then we shall learn all day .", "Are they not such , my Nestor ?", "Achilles stands i \u2019 the entrance of his tent :", "Asia 's not price enough ! bid the world for him .", "But when their force is spent and unsupplied ,", "That has to this maturity blown up", "For wild ambition , like a ravenous wolf ,", "But , as a species differing from mankind ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Go , Diomede , and stand by valiant Ajax ; As you and lord \u00c6neas shall consent , So let the fight proceed , or terminate .", "\u00c6n .", "Has with long difficulties been involved ,", "And under-honest . Tell him this ; and add ,", "Haste , Ulysses , bid Ajax issue forth and second him .", "Must vindicate the dignity of kings .", "\u00c6neas rather loses ground than gains .", "Like Time and Wisdom marching hand in hand ,", "Than is a sleeping giant : tell him so .", "Worthy of arms , as welcome as to one ,", "How ! how 's this , Patroclus ?", "Let this be granted , and Achilles \u2019 horse", "If you return , we think him over-proud ,", "Are the protractive trials of the gods ,", "Which gave it birth ; why then , you Grecian chiefs ,", "You , who could show whence the distemper springs ,", "Is more of use than he ; but you , grave pair ,", "That if he overhold his price so much ,", "Let Ajax go to him .", "Thus far the promise of the day is fair .", "When he was born , and played a trick on nature ,", "From whence it draws its birth ?", "And think them our dishonour , which indeed", "And leaning on his spear , behold our trenches ,", "And guardian-gods , for fear , forsook their fanes .", "So do each prince ; either salute him not ,", "Who would be rid of such an enemy .\u2014", "But when he would seem wise :", "That , after nine years siege , Troy makes defence ,", "Not portable , lie lag of all the camp .", "Threatened from high the amazed inhabitants ;", "Appears so wretched , that he mocks his title ,", "We go wrong , we go wrong .", "To him that shall be vanquished ? or do you purpose", "When mighty Hector fell beneath thy sword ,", "I 'll not be satisfied , but by himself :", "Since every action of recorded fame", "And is his own buffoon .", "And call him hither .", "Health to the Grecian lords :\u2014 What shall be done", "Not answering that idea of the thought ,", "We came to speak with him ; you shall not err ,", "I saw him over-laboured , taking breath ,", "We 'll none of him ; but let him , like an engine", "Princes , it seems not strange to us , nor new ,", "The alarm sounds near , and shouts are driven upon us ,", "A form of strangeness as we pass along ;"], "true_target": ["No more than what he thinks himself .", "You have free leave .", "Which way would Hector have it ? \u00c6n . He cares not , he 'll obey conditions .", "Shall to the edge of all extremity", "We 'll execute your purpose , and put on", "May pierce the ears of the great challenger ,", "Now , Nestor , what 's the news ?", "Thou noble champion , that the sounding air", "Give , with thy trumpet , a loud note to Troy ,", "O no , you shall not go .", "By any voice or order of the field ?", "To make a mimic prince ; he ne'er acts ill ,", "Fortune was merry", "Their old foundations shook ; their nodding towers", "Which yet he durst not leap .", "What says Achilles ? would he aught with us ?", "No , noble Ajax ; you are as strong , as valiant but much more courteous .", "So now , brave prince of Troy , I take my leave ; Ajax commands the guard to wait on you .", "Pursue each other , or shall be divided", "Though he has much desert , yet all his virtues", "Than if not looked on . I will lead the way .", "We are too well acquainted with these answers .", "Revenge will arm him now , and bring us aid .", "The better .", "To prove heroic constancy in men ?", "As of a crowd confused in their retreat .", "With sickly eyes do you behold our labours ,", "Where 's great Achilles ?", "For all he says or does , from serious thought ,", "Bear off Patroclus \u2019 body to Achilles ;", "Yonder comes the troop .", "To you we leave the care ;", "A stirring dwarf is of more use to us ,", "Hector bade ask .", "In my own tent our talk will be more private .", "Like a fierce lion looking up to toils ,", "Or else disdainfully , which will shake him more", "As how , Ulysses ?", "Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss .", "My well-famed lord of Troy , no less to you .", "A victor should be known ? will you , the knights", "So tell him , Menelaus .", "First , all you Grecian princes , go with me , And entertain great Hector ; afterwards , As his own leisure shall concur with yours , You may invite him to your several tents .", "Must put a stop to these encroaching ills :", "The nature of this sickness found , inform us", "What 's his excuse ?", "Here art thou , daring combat , valiant Ajax ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Great Agamemnon , Nestor shall apply", "I 'll hear no more of him , his poison works ;", "That 's my opinion .", "Do empty show , and true-prized worth , divide", "Like Perseus mounted on his Pegasus .", "All of you but the sense .", "Great actions weighed of each ; and each the best ,", "And , doing this , may'st claim a just reward", "How , hang us both !", "Now I begin to relish thy advice :", "Nothing , my lord .", "The other 's towering growth , and keep both low ,", "Or , to avoid the tempest , fled to port ,", "Casts down his looks , and winks with half an eye ;", "That rent the heaven ; as if all Troy were swarmed .", "Not letting it decline on prostrate foes ;", "To inform him of our project .", "Blown in their breast ; comparisons of worth ;", "Come , let us go to Agamemnon strait ,", "And then behold the strong-ribbed argosie ,", "What is't , Ulysses ?", "Labouring for destiny , make cruel way", "Thy well-weighed words . In struggling with misfortunes", "Expanding as it travels to our camp ;", "O , this is well ; he rubs him where it itches .", "And make an equal way with firmer vessels !", "And on the wing this way .", "They are indeed .", "With due observance of thy sovereign seat ,", "There 's none so fit an engine :\u2014 Save ye , Thersites .", "Canst tame and train them to their proper use ;", "As instruments , and not as lords of war .", "How many bauble-boats dare set their sails ,", "That I have said to all the standers-by ,", "How he describes himself !", "What , curse me for my age !", "Has every action , cadence , motion , tone ,", "Resolves to dare the Trojans .", "Through ranks of Grecian youth ; and I have seen thee"], "true_target": ["As much as fools can be .", "No ; they are headstrong fools , to be corrected", "The malady , whereof our state is sick .", "And from the midst I heard a bursting shout ,", "Who could from Hector bring his honour off ,", "Most prudently Ulysses has discovered", "And seen thee scorning many forfeit lives ,", "He 'll rail all day .", "He hems ere he begins , then strokes his beard ,", "I have , thou gallant Trojan , seen thee often ,", "Would you , my lord , aught with the general ?", "In storms of fortune .", "And in their front , even in the face of Hector ,", "As we shall give him voice .", "And Agamemnon \u2014", "But let the tempest once enrage that sea ,", "Now I conceive you ; were they once divided ,", "Although particular , will give an omen", "And this must be by secret coals of envy", "Bounding between the ocean and the air ,", "Lies the true proof of virtue : On smooth seas ,", "Wherefore are you ? He is not envious , as Achilles is .", "Or made a prey to Neptune . Even thus", "A cloud of dust , that mounts in pillars upwards ,", "By none but by Thersites ; thou alone", "And one of them made ours , that one would check", "Then where are those weak rivals of the main ?", "But young Patroclus leads his Myrmidons ,", "A fine greeting .", "If not Achilles ? the success of this ,", "When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i \u2019 th \u2019 air ,", "I 'm no man 's fool .", "I see them not with my old eyes ; what are they ?", "Of good or bad , even to the general cause .", "It ought to do : whom can we else oppose ,", "As swift as lightning spur thy Phrygian steed ,", "Nor are you spared , Ulysses ; but , as you speak in council ,", "I have descried", "From Greece and royal Agamemnon 's hands .", "Lo , Jove is yonder , distributing life ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Thy name our sportful theme for evening-walks ,", "Who , wanting merit to preserve her heart ,", "To satisfy an enemy 's request .", "My lord , the king has sent for me in haste ;", "Thy worst , for mine has been beforehand with thee ;", "I 'm sorry I have pressed my charge so far :", "You are too inquisitive : nor am I bound", "Your stay will be unsafe .", "\u00c6n . Then let it be as Hector shall determine .", "Makes thine the sharper and more shameful loss .", "And we , as judges of the field , declare ,", "The thing he means to kill more excellently .", "Be't so ; and were it on some precipice ,", "We know each other well .", "Hinder us not , \u00c6neas ,", "Think where we are .", "With his face backward . Welcome , Diomede ,", "Ajax , I am not warm yet , let us fight again .", "And know thou art too brave a foe to break it .\u2014", "My lord , I am by Ajax sent to inform you ,", "If it were ,", "Know you the reason ?", "Help ! save her , help !", "I triumph in thy vain credulity ,", "That next by him below : So each degree", "But know ,", "How now , my charge ?", "\u2018 Tis truth he speaks ; the general 's disdained", "Thus our distempers are their sole support ;", "She shall be willing to come out of debt .", "Why then thou lov'st him still : farewell for ever :", "Troy in our weakness lives , not in her strength .", "That , if you have a promise of her person ,", "The combat here shall cease .", "I 'm satisfied ; and dare engage for Cressida ,", "Then thou , it seems , art that forsaken fool ,", "Be ruled by him , lord Ajax .", "Nay , grieve not ; I resign her freely up ;", "Call when thou dar'st , just on the sharpest point", "When hand in hand we went .", "By him one step beneath , he by the next ;", "No doubt he does .", "Welcome to Troy . Now , by Anchises \u2019 soul ,", "But will you then ?", "I cannot , sir ; I have important business .", "I know he is not sick ."], "true_target": ["But when contention and occasion meet ,", "I 'll meet , and tumble with thee to destruction .", "Thou art so lost a thing in her esteem ,", "\u00c6n . to Troil . Contain yourself :", "I came to see your daughter , worthy Calchas .", "Repines in vain to see it better placed ;", "Both one and t'other Diomede embraces .", "But yet thy folly , to believe a foe ,", "This hour must end the truce .", "Beseech you , sir , make haste ; my own affairs call me another way .", "Thou never shalt mock Diomede again .", "Ho , Calchas , Calchas !", "Both long to see the valiant Hector there .", "Thou wert our table-talk for laughing meals ;", "No ! witness this .\u2014", "Where shall we meet ?", "No ; use thy fortune :", "Will you remember ?", "I 'll hear no more : good night .", "Good-morrow , lord \u00c6neas .", "I shall expect your promise .", "Nay , since you 're so concerned to be believed ,", "Our bloods are now in calm ; and so long , health ;", "My blood rides high as his ; I trust thy honour ,", "\u2018 Tis strange he should , and love himself so well . Re-enter MENELAUS .", "I do not like this fooling .", "Plagues and tortures !", "\u00c6n . And thou shall hunt a lion , that will fly", "And intermissive hours of cooler love ,", "Which levels thy despairing state to mine ;", "\u2018 Twas given to one that can defend her gift .", "I never heard thee named , but some scorn followed :", "\u2018 Tis Agamemnon 's wish , and great Achilles ;", "Farewell , cozener .", "No man alive can love in such a sort", "\u00c6n . We do ; and long to know each other worse .\u2014", "I loath the life , which thou canst give , or take .", "Oh , it concerns you not .", "But I disdain to answer with a boast .", "High as Olympus , and a sea beneath ,", "Be sure thou shalt be met .", "By Jove I 'll play the hunter for thy life .", "\u2018 Tis largely promised ;", "Whose was't ?", "Spurns upward at superior eminence .", "Be what you would be thought ; I can be grateful ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Be torn by some avenging deity ,", "Of my false fair ; which , perjured as she is ,", "It will have vent ,\u2014", "Staying for waftage . O , be thou my Charon ,", "Earth to the centre , iron to adamant ,\u2014", "For such as these ; who , were one soul extracted", "And in private prayed \u2014", "Priesthood , that makes a merchandise of heaven !", "I have , with mighty anguish of my soul ,", "What prisoner have you there ?", "If you confess , \u2018 twas wisdom Paris went ;\u2014", "Throw not away , because we now are full .", "And try to lose an anxious thought or two", "Did I not hear the voice of perjured Cressida ?", "Methinks , my soul is roused to her last work ;", "You may , and be deceived .", "O I can bear no more ! she 's falsehood all :", "What do you mean to be thus long unarmed ?", "It may , for those I hate .", "And mends his pace to reach his inn betimes .", "Lest Hector or my father should perceive me ,", "Hear why I speak it , love .", "In triumph would I bear thee back to Troy ,", "Cressid , I love thee with so strange a purity ,", "There is , between my will and all my actions ,", "Did she deserve ?", "Are called , the public ! Millions of such cyphers", "\u2018 Tis too much .", "For it is parting from us .", "But fiery fumes mount upward to my brains ,", "The rich advantage of his future fame", "Thus , coward-like , from love to war I run ,", "Jostle betwixt , and part the dear adieus", "I 'm satisfied .", "And hurled at me , a bolder wretch than they ,", "And then I 'll answer that ,\u2014 be sure I will ,\u2014", "No , Pandarus ; I stalk about your doors .", "Hope for no more ; for , should some goddess offer", "Could she have cursed me worse ! she died for me ,", "I will not rage .", "Let her sink spotted down ! let the dark host", "Hark , you are called !\u2014 Some say , the genius so", "Farewell , my life ! leave me , and back to bed :", "\u2018 Tis true , he said not , in broad words , you feared ;", "She is a subject of renown and honour ;", "And Hector is the universal shout .", "O Cressida , how often have I wished me here !", "But , oh , thou syren , I will stop my ears", "Hell , show me such another tortured wretch as Troilus !", "To meet mine there , and panted at the passage ;", "For defamation , to square all the sex", "Scorn'st thou my mercy , villain !\u2014 Take thy wish .\u2014", "And can forgive the sallies of my passion ?", "Know this , the Grecians think you fear Achilles ,", "I pray you stay ; by hell , and by hell 's torments , I will not speak a word .", "I 'll plunge in after , through the boiling flames ,", "Were it not glory that we covet more", "And he 's as peevish to be wooed to woo ,", "And , when I breathe , methinks my nostrils hiss !", "Thou art some god , or much , much more than man !", "What 's life to him , who has no use of life ?", "Good night , my lord ; accept distracted thanks !", "Just such a passion does heave up my breast !", "My vengeance rolls within my breast ; it must ,", "It comes , like thunder grumbling in a cloud ,", "Who , loth to find the breaking day , looked out ,", "I shall turn basilisk , and with my sight", "This she ! no , this was Diomede 's Cressida .", "O brother !", "And made the public sacrifice for Troy .", "\u00c6neas . How now , prince Troilus ; why not in the battle ?", "By heaven , as chaste as thy Andromache .", "For whom ?", "I laugh at thee .", "May all my curses , and ten thousand more ,", "The Trojan who is master of a soul ,", "My lord Ulysses , tell me , I beseech you ,", "The sword that made it .", "Let dogs eat Troilus .", "Why there you touched the life of our design :", "Fye , fye , my noble brother !", "And then ! but why should I defer till then ?", "As if her soul flew upward to her lips ,", "The sooner \u2018 twill dispatch me .", "This I shall say to Hector .", "Ay , so familiar !", "My lord , is the lady ready yet ?", "Live ; thou art honest , for thou hat'st a priest .", "\u00c6n . May we not guess ?", "And sanctify the numbers .", "Was yours there ?", "When both our joys were fullest !\u2014 If he keeps it ,", "Then , fate , thy worst ! for I will see thee , love ;", "Do , for I need it : Let me lean my head", "Reproof is due : she loved and was beloved ;", "I never will resign , but with my soul .", "No spoil of mine shall grace a traitor 's hand :", "To give herself and all her heaven in change ,", "If still you have ,", "Hear me , my love ! be thou but true , like me .", "I care not if you could .", "I will believe thee : go then , but be sure .", "Re-enter PANDARUS .", "Thither , through all your troops , I 'll fight my way ;", "I fear it much : and I do fear beside ,", "The matrons to the turrets \u2019 tops ascend ,", "Has much to do , and little time to spare .", "She shall ? then I am dared .", "Some victim wants a heart , or crow flies wrong .", "For the capacity of human powers .", "After we part from Agamemnon 's tent ,", "I 'll bring her forth , and you shall bear her hence ;", "Thou hast deserved thy life for cursing priests .", "A friend , have lost him too !", "Love is a child that talks in broken language ,", "Shall be to-morrow silent as the grave .", "And blushing virgins , when they read our annals ,", "No matter .", "\u00c6n . Paris is hurt .", "When shall we meet ?", "That I shall lose distinction in my joys ;", "Not all the Grecian host shall keep me out ,", "This sun shall shine the last for them or us ;", "In what part of the field does Calchas lodge ?", "Hence from my sight !", "Begin , and try my temper .", "And let the children hoot him for his pains .", "Pr'ythee , go out , and gain one minute more .", "Heavier than they , fall back upon my head ;", "Let them eat , drink , and sleep ; the only use", "That I 'm the man marked out to be unhappy ,", "You have bereft me of all words , fair Cressida .", "At Priam 's table pensive do I sit ,", "Thou lay'st , in every wound her love has given me ,", "She shall not go .", "The poison 's kind : the more I drink of it ,", "You cannot shun yourself .", "More bright in zeal than that I pay their altars ,", "Make up the public sum . An eagle 's life", "Than all the sun sees in his race beside .", "From Troy and Troilus ,\u2014 and suddenly ;", "As true as Troilus , shall crown up the verse ,", "Else you would kill me ?", "Then you 'll refuse no more to fight ?", "Hell and death !", "Is worth a world of crows . Are princes made", "It must not be , my brother ;", "O gods , how do you torture me !", "Let me embrace thee ; thou art beautiful :", "As you must needs , for you all cried , Go , go :\u2014", "I love you , brother , with that awful love", "That thought has blessed me ! But to lose this love ,", "Skip o'er the guilty page that holds thy legend ,", "Whose hand sealed this exchange ?", "When I shall taste that nectar ?", "Only to wish another , and another ,", "And , in a moment , turn my heart to ashes .", "I cannot come to Cressida but by him ,", "There can be nothing .", "The Greeks are strong , and skilful to their strength , Fierce to their skill , and to their fierceness wary ; But I am weaker than a woman 's tears , Tamer than sleep , fonder than ignorance , And artless as unpractised infancy . Pand Well , I have told you enough of this ; for my part I 'll not meddle nor make any further in your love ; he , that will eat of the roastmeat , must stay for the kindling of the fire .", "Holding their helpless children in their arms ,", "The storm 's blown o'er , and those but after-drops .", "What should they grant ? what makes this pretty interruption in thy words ?", "Said I she was not beautiful ?", "I have not quenched my eyes with dewy sleep this night ;", "Some frantic augur has observed the skies ;", "Employ some coward to bear back this news ,", "Praisest her eyes , her stature , and her wit ;", "I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood", "No , brother , care not .", "Though winds and tempests beat their aged feet ,", "I cannot speak for rage ;\u2014 that ring was mine :\u2014", "\u2018 Tis heat of blood ,", "When Helen is the subject .", "And I , methinks , stand on some icy cliff ,", "I 'll make one ,", "There is but one that can be .", "Dear Pandarus \u2014", "But whether that , or fondness of a wife ,", "And blots the noble work .", "Indeed , indeed !", "She sucked the infusion of her father 's soul .", "Who kissed and sighed , and sighed and kissed again ,", "You have condemned me , and I 'll do't myself .", "I promised too , but I have broke my vow ,", "And thus , I puff it from me .", "Hold yet , my spirits : let him pour it in :", "Upon their wings thy words , more light than they .", "Does that grieve thee ? O withered truth !", "Give death to her through thee .", "Receive her quick , with all her crimes upon her !", "As she is to be won .", "And shrunk into my bosom , there to make", "But praising thus , instead of oil and balm ,", "And that Polyxena has begged your life .", "As I 'll haunt thee , to summon thee to this ;", "And rashness of my youth ; I 'll mend that error :", "And given you by a lady .", "Have I not staid ?", "For the wide world 's revenue :\u2014 I have business ;", "To make you early known to their young eyes ,", "Before the dreadful break : If here it fall ,", "But my own merit .", "If beauty have a soul , this is not she :\u2014", "Weigh you the worth and honour of a king ,", "The fairest , dearest , kindest , of her sex ;", "Here pity calls me to weep out my eyes ,", "Will take thee from my sight .", "But be thou true , I said , to introduce", "What could the god see in a brain-sick priest ,", "Let ignominy brand thy hated name ;", "Of meeting lips , clasped hands , and locked embraces .", "Still have I staid ; and still the farther off .", "And , like a woman , I lament for her .", "I am taught :", "That 's all I must impart . Lead on , my lord .", "And lay the weight of heaven and gods upon me ,", "By all the gods , and by my just revenge ,", "Who durst invade the skies !", "Now beg thy life , or die .", "\u2018 Till he sink down from heaven ! O only Cressida ,", "At last , when truth is tired with repetition ,", "Who , without fighting , am o'erthrown within ?", "Cressida comes forth to him !", "But hear me !", "When Helen is defended : None so noble ,", "When , whistled off , she mounts into the wind .", "In Cressid 's love , thou answer'st she is fair ;", "And in the sight of perjured Cressida ,", "Let her \u2014", "In this I do not call your faith in question ,", "Let Paris give up Helen ; she 's the cause ,", "Upon thy bosom , all my peace dwells there ;", "Where are you , brother ? now , in honour 's name ,", "A guard of patience : stay a little while .", "Was ready with a sigh to cleave in two ,", "Whose life were ill bestowed , or death unfamed ,", "I was about to tell thee , when my heart", "To push thee hissing down the vast abyss .", "Make room , and point , and hiss her as she goes !", "But thou shalt hear what grief has done with me .", "He could not press me more .", "Nay , we must use expostulation kindly ,", "A flying enemy .", "O now I know from whence his change proceeds ;", "To make them happy ? Let me tell you , brother ,", "When \u2018 tis unjust .", "And you keep yours too well .", "If you 'll confess , he brought home noble prize ;\u2014", "And tie thy senses in as soft a band ,", "I 'll not suspect my fate", "Of common ounces thus ?", "My blood calls now , there is no truce for traitors ;", "Then sure she was no common creature ?", "In spite of me , thou wilt mistake my meaning ."], "true_target": ["Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks ,", "That you have pitied me is my reward .", "You must restore it , Greek , by heaven you must ;", "Speak ever so ; and if I answer you", "For such I know thee now , too late I know it !\u2014", "To watch the last low circles that he makes ,", "Not such as thou , a traitor to thy brother ;", "You would say ,", "Die I a villain then !", "And fly with me to Cressida .", "And cried , Inestimable !\u2014 Why do you now", "On him I have offended .", "\u00c6n . By Menelaus . Hark what good sport", "Will you go then ?\u2014 What 's this to Cressida ?", "If thou depart from me , I cannot live :", "She was not , sure ! she was not ;", "O , she 's my life , my being , and my soul !", "Ulysses so informed me at our parting ,", "So under-rate the value of your purchase ?", "The embattled soldiers throng about the gates ;", "You do not care to have it .", "Then , as the earth were scanty for their power ,", "But much more fair .", "That the blest gods , angry with my devotions ,", "And thou be found .", "has seized you ,", "Dispatch him , and away .", "She 's gone for ever , and she blest me dying !", "To bring me thither ?", "I know not what \u2014 it shows the more of love .", "That it enchants my sense ; what will it be ,", "Grateful ! Oh torment ! now hell 's bluest flames", "Which none but brave and honest men should wear :", "I think I do ,", "You have a ring upon your finger , Diomede ,", "Slaves , with the minds of slaves ; so born , so bred .", "But still thou stayest :\u2014 what 's this to Cressida ?", "I bear to heaven , and to superior virtue :", "The subtle flame will lick up all my blood ,", "Yet such as these , united in a herd ,", "The same return from her , who has my heart ,", "Nay , shouldst thou take the Stygian lake for refuge ,", "Why was my Cressida then so hard to win ?", "Cries ,\u2014 Come , to him who instantly must die .", "Are fears and reasons fit to be considered ,", "Thou giv'st her not so much .", "In thee \u2018 tis vile ; \u2018 tis prostitute ; \u2018 tis air ;", "Distraction pulls me several ways at once :", "A sweet command , and willingly obeyed .", "Shew me that Diomede , and thou shalt live .", "Though Greece could rally all her shattered troops ,", "And I will see thee .", "As you must needs , for you all clapped your hands ,", "And root , of all this mischief .", "So far ; I know I stand possessed of that .", "But in well-mannered terms \u2018 twas so agreed ,", "Thou couldst not thus , even to my face , prefer .", "The public is the lees of vulgar slaves ;", "I care not ; but be true .", "The eye of majesty .\u2014 Lead on , I 'll follow .", "\u00c6neas .", "This were too much , even if thou hadst been false !", "And give me swift transportance to Elysium ,", "Or true as flowing tides are to the moon ,", "No , I do not :", "And for your sake ,\u2014 now mark me what I say ,\u2014", "I do ; and know myself .", "Despair then turns me back upon myself ,", "Because a madman dreamt he talked with Jove ?", "When we have worn them ; the remaining food", "Without a heart to dare , or sword to draw ,", "Of our great father 's soul .", "But yet thou dost not go .", "What news , \u00c6neas , from the field to-day ?", "Just like a slave , at unawares encountering", "As if the proofs of all thy former falsehood", "And forces us to pay for our own cozenage !", "And what are they , that I should give up her ,", "Let it not be believed , for womanhood :", "And I presume brave Hector would not lose", "A gnawing conscience haunts not guilty men ,", "I know not where I am , nor what I do ;", "It must be either death , or joy too fine", "O sir , to such as boasting show their scars ,", "Nay , more , thy friend : But friend 's a sacred name ,", "A little longer darkness .", "Sleep seal those pretty eyes ,", "Who sluggishly outslept his morning hour ,", "To biting satire , apt without a theme", "The Grecian youths are full of Grecian arts :", "Even that 's bereft us too : Our envious fates", "As infants void of thought .", "I would not part with Cressida : So return", "By my few moments of remaining life , I did not hope for any future joy ; But thou hast given me pleasure ere I die , To punish such a villain .\u2014 Fight apart ;", "As does a battle , when they charge on heaps", "A boy ! I 'm glad I am not such a man ,", "Which Hector ne'er can be .", "Hell , death , confusion , how he tortures me !", "Makes me afraid how far you may be tempted .", "That he should sooner talk to him than me ?", "Was Cressida here ?", "Farewell .\u2014 Come , Greek .", "If urged beyond my temper : Prove my daring ,", "Why , \u2018 tis to be no more ; another name for death :", "And when I quit this love , you must be that ,", "They have of life .", "That my integrity and faith might meet", "Spent more in her defence ; but oh ! my brother ,", "We turn not back the silks upon the merchant ,", "They drew the pomp of heaven to wait on them .", "If one must stay , the other shall not go .", "Let him to battle ; Troilus has none .", "May I enquire where your affairs conduct you ?", "Because not there . This woman 's answer suits me ,", "Why , what offends you , madam ?", "When a king 's fame is questioned ?", "Have said such words , nay , done such actions too ,", "Come you to bring me news of Priam 's death ,", "And bids me seek no more , but finish here .", "Now , Pandarus .", "Shall I go publish , Hector dares not fight ,", "And lost her even by him , by him , ye gods !", "My following protestation ,\u2014 be thou true ,", "So great as Asia 's monarch , in a scale", "By heaven I gave it , in that point of time ,", "For , let me tell you , \u2018 tis unmanly theft ,", "These noisy streets , or yonder echoing plains ,", "Were not enough convincing , com'st thou now", "Fly , fly , thou torturest me .", "Seek the less dangers , and the greater shun .", "Yet then he speaks most plain .", "Hector said true : I find , I find it now !", "And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts \u2014", "All constant lovers shall , in future ages ,", "For I have been to blame , oh ! much to blame ;", "Fair Cressida is first ; as chaste as she ,", "Then I will live , that I may keep that treasure ;", "You told me , I must call you friend no more .", "And see which of us has the larger share", "Let them have it ;", "I fear she will not come ; most sure she will not .", "In heat of action .", "When such arms strike , ne'er doubt of the success .", "Who in my arms lay melting all the night ;", "My heart beats thicker than a feverish pulse :", "With a malicious and disdainful smile :", "Oh that I thought truth could be in a woman ,", "I have not soul enough to last for grief ,", "Priesthood , that sells even to their prayers and blessings", "So suddenly , \u2018 tis counted out by minutes .", "By Cressid 's rule ; rather think this not Cressida .", "Perhaps it does .", "Before the tent of Calchas .", "And , with it , give me back the broken vows", "For then your error would be more than mine :", "Their peaceful heads nor storm nor thunder know ,", "Never to be but yours !", "Let modest matrons at thy mention start ;", "Hell and furies !", "To thy enchanting notes ; the winds shall bear", "When we have taken what we fear to keep .", "Com'st thou to give the last stab to my heart ?", "By heaven , \u2018 twas never well , since saucy priests", "And if I had a joy beyond that love ,", "Just at the birth , stifled this still-born sigh ,", "Yes , to the worst of fear ,\u2014 to superstition .", "I spoke not , be thou true , as fearing thee ;", "Could I believe thee , could I think thee true ,", "A longer struggling with the pangs of death .", "That I should trust the daughter of a priest !", "What would this pomp of preparation mean ?", "Answer me first ,", "Enter \u00c6NEAS .", "Forbear :", "You bore me worse .", "Then you 're no more my friend :", "If I mistake not , \u2018 tis their last reserve :", "Shall I , brave lord , be bound to you so much ,", "Sinks in my breast , nor dare I lift an eye", "Again thou torturest me .", "Once again I say , she shall not .", "Whom , oh , if any spark of truth remained ,", "See , Hector , what it is to be your brother ! I stand prepared already .", "I 'm giddy ; expectation whirls me round :", "Her soul 's a whore already .", "I dare more ,", "Heavens prosper me , as I devoutly swear ,", "that my awed conscious soul", "Who only could , and only should protect me !", "When I but think this sight may be our last ,", "And stand embattled to oppose my way .", "False by both kinds ; for with her mother 's milk", "Alas ! a kind of holy jealousy ,", "That back , that nose , those eyes are beautiful :", "But scorn the threatening rack that rolls below .", "This answer as my last .", "Then , that one spot of earth contains more falsehood ,", "Is't possible ! Then you are still my friend .", "Which , I beseech you , call a virtuous sin ,", "A barren purchase , held upon hard terms !", "Wilt thou not break yet , heart ?\u2014 stay , brother , stay ;", "Grew to be masters of the listening herd ,", "For womanish it is to be from thence .", "\u00c6ne . There 's not the meanest spirit in our party ,", "\u2018 Tis the sun parting from the frozen north ;", "Rejoice , and cry ,\u2014 \u201c Here comes a blacker fiend ! \u201d", "By whom ?", "If Jove could set me in the place of Atlas ,", "What 's aught , but as \u2018 tis valued ?", "I will not be a woman .", "My lord , my lord Troilus ! I must call you .", "Yet this was she , ye gods , that very she ,", "I am more plain than dull simplicity ,", "Still thou flatter'st me ; but pr'ythee flatter still ; for I would hope ; I would not wake out of my pleasing dream . Oh hope , how sweet thou art ! but to hope always , and have no effect of what we hope !", "Our love 's like mountains high above the clouds ;", "Heavens , what should she remember ! Plague and madness !", "Why should I fight without the Trojan walls ,", "She only wants an opportunity ;", "\u00c6n . to Pand . Peace , thou babbler !", "And forced my face into a painful smile .", "Approve their truth by Troilus . When their verse", "The ring ? nay , then , \u2018 tis plain ! O beauty , where 's thy faith !", "Than war and vengeance ,", "Pelion and Ossa , from the giants \u2019 graves", "To beg my rival 's life ?", "Loose , yet secure as is the gentle hawk ,", "But oh , thou purest , whitest innocence ,\u2014", "What , art thou angry , Pandarus , with thy friend ?", "By all the gods I will not .", "For whom ?", "After long pains , and after short possession !", "Think we had mothers , do not give advantage", "And into mitres cleft the regal crown ;", "And , armed with this assurance , let thee go ,", "\u00c6neas .", "Nor Troy , though walled with fire , should hold me in .", "Have I not staid ?", "A hateful truth .", "Ha !", "But glad I am to leave you thus resolved .", "How should I be exalted ! but , alas ,", "For I have lost", "And artless as the infancy of truth !", "From all their beings , could not raise a man ?\u2014", "Wants similes ,\u2014 as turtles to their mates ,", "Let the most branded ghosts of all her sex", "How , common !", "That I yet live to hear you . But no more ;", "Or Hecuba 's ?", "Achilles should avoid to meet with Hector .", "She starts within me , like a traveller ,", "You know your pledges now ; your uncle 's word , and my firm faith .", "The imaginary relish is so sweet ,", "Oh Pandarus , when I tell thee I am mad", "Do my hands \u2019 work on Diomede this day ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Marry and I will : follow you your business ; lose no time , \u2018 tis very precious ; go , bill again : I 'll tell the rogue his own , I warrant him .", "Faith , to say truth , brown and not brown . Come , I swear to you , I think Helen loves him better than Paris : nay , I 'm sure she does . She comes me to him the other day , into the bow-window ,\u2014 and you know Troilus has not above three or four hairs on his chin ,\u2014", "Thou must , thou must .", "Now , my sweet prince ! have you seen my niece ? no , I know you have not .", "Hear ye , my lord , hear ye ; I have been seeing yon poor girl . There have been old doings there , i'faith .", "How , not come , and I her uncle ! why , I tell you , prince , she twitters at you . Ah poor sweet rogue ! ah , little rogue , now does she think , and think , and think again of what must be betwixt you two . Oh sweet ,\u2014 oh sweet \u2014 O \u2014 what , not come , and I her uncle ?", "Not I .", "That 's \u00c6neas . Is it not a brave man that ? he 's a swinger , many a Grecian he has laid with his face upward ; but mark Troilus : you shall see anon . Enter ANTENOR passing . That 's Antenor ; he has a notable head-piece I can tell you , and he 's the ablest man for judgment in all Troy ; you may turn him loose , i'faith , and by my troth a proper person . When comes Troilus ? I 'll shew you Troilus anon ; if he see me , you shall see him nod at me . HECTOR passes over . That 's Hector , that , that , look you that ; there 's a fellow ! go thy way , Hector ; there 's a brave man , niece . O brave Hector , look how he looks ! there 's a countenance . Is it not a brave man , niece ?", "Walk here a moment more : I 'll bring her strait .", "Pr'ythee get thee in ; would thou hadst never been born ! I knew thou wouldst be his death ; oh , poor gentleman ! A plague upon Antenor !", "Well , she 's a most ravishing creature ; and she looked yesterday most killingly ; she had such a stroke with her eyes , she cut to the quick with every glance of them .", "And that rogue-priest , my brother , is so courted and treated for her sake : the young sparks do so pull him about , and haul him by the cassock : nothing but invitations to his tent , and his tent , and his tent . Nay , and one of \u2018 em was so bold , as to ask him , if she were a virgin ; and with that , the rogue , my brother , takes me up a little god in his hand , and kisses it , and swears devoutly that she was ; then was I ready to burst my sides with laughing , to think what had passed betwixt you two .", "If thou wert my own daughter a thousand times over , I could do no better for thee ; what wouldst thou have , girl ? he 's a prince , and a young prince and a loving young prince ! an uncle , dost thou call me ? by Cupid , I am a father to thee ; get thee in , get thee in , girl , I hear him coming . And do you hear , niece ! I give you leave to deny a little , \u2018 twill be decent ; but take heed of obstinacy , that 's a vice ; no obstinacy , my dear niece .", "Alas , poor wench ! alas , poor devil ! Has not slept to-night ? would a'not , a naughty man , let it sleep one twinkle ? A bugbear take him !", "That is Helenus .\u2014 I marvel where Troilus is all this while ;\u2014 that is Helenus .\u2014 I think Troilus went not forth to-day ;\u2014 that 's Helenus .", "Good boy , tell him I come instantly : I doubt he 's wounded . Farewell , good niece . But I 'll be with you by and by .", "Who , Troilus ? Troilus is the better man of the two .", "Nor his beauty , nor his fashion , nor his wit ; he shall have nothing of him .", "Himself ! alas , poor Troilus ! I would he were himself : well , the gods are all-sufficient , and time must mend or end . I would he were himself , and would I were a lady for his sake . I would not answer for my maidenhead .\u2014 No , Hector is not a better man than Troilus .", "Achilles ! a carman , a beast of burden ; a very camel : have you any eyes , niece ? do you know a man ? is he to be compared with Troilus ?", "Thou must be gone , girl ; thou must be gone , to the fugitive rogue-priest , thy father :A pox upon Antenor !", "Was he angry , say you ? true , he was so , and I know the cause . He was struck down yesterday in the battle , but he 'll lay about him ; he 'll cry quittance with them to-day . I 'll answer for him . And there 's Troilus will not come far behind him : let them take heed of Troilus , I can tell them that too .", "What were you a talking , when I came ? Was Hector armed , and gone ere ye came ? Hector was stirring early .", "Swords , or bucklers , faulchions , darts , and lances ! any thing , he cares not ! an \u2019 the devil come , it is all one to him : by Jupiter he looks so terribly , that I am half afraid to praise him . Enter PARIS . Yonder comes Paris , yonder comes Paris ! look ye yonder , niece ; is it not a brave young prince too ? He draws the best bow in all Troy ; he hits you to a span twelve-score level :\u2014 who said he came home hurt to-day ? why , this will do Helen 's heart good now ! ha ! that I could see Troilus now !", "How now , how now ; how go matters ? Hear you , maid , hear you ; where 's my cousin Cressida ?", "Is he not ? it does a man 's heart good to look on him ; look you , look you there , what hacks are on his helmet ! this was no boy 's play , i'faith ; he laid it on with a vengeance , take it off who will , as they say ! there are hacks , niece !", "Who 's there ? prince Hector ! What news with you so early ?", "What , no comparison between Hector and Troilus ? do you know a man if you see him ?", "Because she 's my niece , therefore she 's not so fair as Helen ; an \u2019 she were not my niece , show me such another piece of woman 's flesh : take her limb by limb : I say no more , but if Paris had seen her first , Menelaus had been no cuckold : but what care I if she were a blackamoor ? what am I the better for her face ?", "I give her but her due .", "Helenus ! No , yes ; he 'll fight indifferently well .\u2014 I marvel in my heart what 's become of Troilus :\u2014 Hark ! do you not hear the people cry , Troilus ?\u2014 Helenus is a priest , and keeps a whore ; he 'll fight for his whore , or he 's no true priest , I warrant him .", "Ay , the spitting ; but there 's two words to a bargain ; you must stay the roasting too .", "I 'll be sworn it is true ; he will weep ye , an \u2019 it were a man born in April .", "A mischief call him ! nothing but screech-owls ? do , do , call again ; you had best part them now in the sweetness of their love !\u2014 I 'll be hanged if this \u00c6neas be the son of Venus , for all his bragging . Honest Venus was a punk ; would she have parted lovers ? no , he has not a drop of Venus \u2019 blood in him \u2014 honest Venus was a punk .", "I thank you for that ; if my lord get a boy of you , you 'll give him me . Be true to my lord ; if he flinch , I 'll be hanged for him .\u2014 Now am I in my kingdom !", "Pardon me ; Troilus is in the bud , \u2018 tis early day with him ; you shall tell me another tale when Troilus is come to bearing ; and yet he will not bear neither , in some sense . No , Hector shall never have his virtues .", "Why go to then , he cannot fly away then ; then , that 's certain , that 's undoubted : there he lies to be taken up : but if you had seen him , when I said to him ,\u2014 Take a good heart , man , and follow me ; and fear no colours , and speak your mind , man : she can never stand you ; she will fall , an \u2019 \u2018 twere a leaf in autumn ,\u2014", "Ay , do , do swear ; a pretty woman 's worth an oath at any time . Keep or break , as time shall try ; but it is good to swear , for the saving of her credit . Hang them , sweet rogues , they never expect a man should keep it . Let him but swear , and that 's all they care for .", "Oh , oh !", "Whereupon I will lead you into a chamber ; and suppose there be a bed in it , as , ifack , I know not , but you 'll forgive me if there be \u2014 away , away , you naughty hildings ; get you together , get you together . Ah you wags , do you leer indeed at one another ! do the neyes twinkle at him ! get you together , get you together .", "Nay , I 'll give my word for her too : Our kindred are constant ; they are burs , I can assure you ; they 'll stick where they are thrown .", "Pray speak no more o n't ; I 'll not burn my fingers in another body 's business ; I 'll leave it as I found it , and there 's an end .", "Where boy , where ?", "I measured her with my girdle yesterday ; she 's not half a yard about the waist , but so taper a shape did I never see ; but when I had her in my arms , Lord , thought I ,\u2014 and by my troth I could not forbear sighing ,\u2014 If prince Troilus had her at this advantage and I were holding of the door !\u2014 An she were a thought taller ,\u2014 but as she is , she wants not an inch of Helen neither ; but there 's no more comparison between the women \u2014 there was wit , there was a sweet tongue ! How her words melted in her mouth ! Mercury would have been glad to have such a tongue in his mouth , I warrant him . I would somebody had heard her talk yesterday , as I did .", "Nay , I was tortured too ; old as I am , I was tortured too : but for all that , I could make a shift , to make him , to make your excuse , to make your father \u2014 by Jove , when I think of that hand , I am so ravished , that I know not what I say : I was tortured too .", "No venture in the world ; thy mother ventured it for thee , and thou shalt venture it for my little cousin , that must be .", "Who 's there ? What 's the matter ? Will you beat down the house there !", "Where are my tears ? some rain to lay this wind ,", "Who , I damned ? Faith , I doubt I shall ; by my troth I think I shall : nay if a man be damned for doing good , as thou say'st , it may go hard with me .", "No fear yet ; thou art a woman , and he 's a man ; put them together , put them together .", "Priests ! marry hang them , they make you one ! Go in , go in , and make yourselves one without a priest ; I 'll have no priest 's work in my house .", "Where , yonder ? that 's Deiphobus : No , I lie . I lie , that 's Troilus ! there 's a man , niece ! hem ! O brave Troilus ! the prince of chivalry , and flower of fidelity !", "The devil take Antenor ! the young prince will go mad :", "Nothing , do you call it ! is that nothing , do you call that nothing ? why he looks , for all the world , like one of your rascally malefactors , just thrown off the gibbet , with his cap down , his arms tied down , his feet sprunting , his body swinging . Nothing do you call it ? this is nothing , with a vengeance !", "Softly , villain , softly ; I would not for half Troy the lovers should be disturbed under my roof : listen , rogue , listen ; do they breathe ?"], "true_target": ["What , blushing still ! have you not done talking yet ?", "What , would you make a monopoly of a woman 's lips ? a little consolation , or so , might be allowed , one would think , in a lover 's absence .", "How , his own better ! you have no judgment , niece ; Helen herself swore , the other day , that Troilus , for a manly brown complexion ,\u2014 for so it is , I must confess \u2014 not brown neither .", "She 's making her ready ; she 'll come strait : you must be witty now !\u2014 she does so blush , and fetches her breath so short , as if she were frighted with a sprite ; \u2018 tis the prettiest villain ! she fetches her breath so short , as \u2018 twere a new-ta'en sparrow .", "Ay , ay , ay ; \u2018 tis too plain a case !", "She has been mightily made on by the Greeks : she takes most wonderfully among \u2018 em . Achilles kissed her , and Patroclus kissed her : nay , and old Nestor put aside his grey beard , and brushed her with his whiskers . Then comes me Agamemnon with his general 's staff , diving with a low bow even to the ground , and rising again , just at her lips : and after him came Ulysses , and Ajax , and Menelaus : and they so pelted her , i'faith , pitter patter , pitter patter , as thick as hail-stones . And after that , a whole rout of \u2018 em : never was a woman in Phrygia better kissed .", "Marry is he ; there 's no fear in that , I hope : the fear were , if he were old and feeble .", "Go to , little ones ; a bargain made . Here I hold your hand , and here my cousin 's : if ever you prove false to one another , after I have taken such pains to bring you together , let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world 's end after my name , Pandars .", "I go immediately , directly , in a twinkling , with a thought : yet you think a man never does enough for you ; I have been labouring in your business like any moyle . I was with prince Paris this morning , to make your excuse at night for not supping at court ; and I found him \u2014 faith , how do you think I found him ? it does my heart good to think how I found him : yet you think a man never does enough for you .", "And , last of all , comes me Diomede , so demurely : that 's a notable sly rogue , I warrant him ! mercy upon us , how he laid her on upon the lips ! for , as I told you , she 's most mightily made on among the Greeks . What , cheer up , I say , man ! she has every one 's good word . I think , in my conscience , she was born with a caul upon her head .", "Good-morrow , cousin Cressida . When were you at court ?", "No , you would not have me go ; you are indifferent \u2014 shall I go , say you ? speak the word then :\u2014 yet I care not : you may stand in your own light , and lose a sweet young lady 's heart \u2014 well , I shall not go then .", "Will this never be at an end with you ?", "Why , I made your excuse to your brother Paris ; that I think 's to Cressida :\u2014 but such an arm , such a hand , such taper fingers ! t'other hand was under the bed-cloaths ; that I saw not , I confess ; that hand I saw not .", "Words pay no debts ; give her deeds .\u2014 What billing again ! Here 's , in witness whereof the parties interchangeably \u2014 come in , come in , you lose time both .", "That 's but the roasting , but there 's more in this word stay ; there 's the taking off the spit , the making of the sauce , the dishing , the setting on the table , and saying grace ; nay , you must stay the cooling too , or you may chance to burn your chaps .", "Faith , I 'll speak no more of her , let her be as she is ; if she be a beauty , \u2018 tis the better for her ; an \u2019 she be not , she has the mends in her own hands , for Pandarus .", "How , not see prince Troilus ? why I have engaged , I have promised , I have past my word . I care not for damning , let me alone for damning ; I value not damning in comparison with my word . If I am damned , it shall be a good damning to thee , girl , thou shalt be my heir ; come , \u2018 tis a virtuous girl ; thou shalt help me to keep my word , thou shalt see prince Troilus .", "Pretty , i'faith !", "Would I were as deep under the earth , as", "Art thou sure they do not know the parties ?", "To the man in the moon ? ah rogue ! do they so indeed , rogue ! I understand thee ; thou art a wag ; thou art a wag . Come , towze rowze ! in the name of love , strike up , boys . Music , and then a Song ; during which PANDARUS listens . I . Can life be a blessing , Or worth the possessing , Can life be a blessing , if love were away ? Ah , no ! though our love all night keep us waking , And though he torment us with cares all the day , Yet he sweetens , he sweetens our pains in the taking ; There 's an hour at the last , there 's an hour to repay . II . In every possessing , The ravishing blessing , In every possessing , the fruit of our pain , Poor lovers forget long ages of anguish , Whate'er they have suffered and done to obtain ; \u2018 Tis a pleasure , a pleasure to sigh and to languish , When we hope , when we hope to be happy again .", "Nay , but mark him then ! O brave Troilus ! there 's a man of men , niece ! look you how his sword is bloody , and his helmet more hacked than Hector 's , and how he looks , and how he goes ! O admirable youth ! he never saw two-and-twenty . Go thy way , Troilus , go thy way ! had I a sister were a grace , and a daughter a goddess , he should take his choice of them . O admirable man ! Paris , Paris is dirt to him , and I warrant , Helen , to change , would give all the shoes in her shop to boot .", "What a pair of spectacles is here ! let me embrace too . Oh , heart ,\u2014 as the saying is ,\u2014 \u2014 o heart , o heavy heart , Why sigh'st thou without breaking ! Where he answers again , Because thou can'st not ease thy smart , By friendship nor by speaking . There was never a truer rhyme : let us cast away nothing , for we may live to have need of such a verse ; we see it , we see it .\u2014 How now , lambs ?", "I am above it !", "What ill have I brought you to do ? Say what , if you dare now ?\u2014 My lord , have I brought her to do ill ?", "Here ! what should he do here ?", "Why , ready money , ready money ; you carry it about you : give and take is square-dealing ; for in my conscience he 's as arrant a maid as you are . I was fain to use violence to him , to pull him hither : and he pulled , and I pulled : for you must know he 's absolutely the strongest youth in Troy . T'other day he took Helen in one hand , and Paris in t'other , and danc 'd \u2018 em at one another at arms-end an \u2019 \u2018 twere two moppets :\u2014 there was a back ! there were bone and sinews ! there was a back for you !", "Leave ! an you take leave till to-morrow morning , call me Cut .", "Ay , a token from prince Troilus .", "A plague upon Antenor ! would they had broke his neck !", "Why , you will not hear a man ! what 's this to Cressida ? Why , I found him a-bed , a-bed with Helena , by my troth : \u2018 Tis a sweet queen , a sweet queen ; a very sweet queen ,\u2014 but she 's nothing to my cousin Cressida ; she 's a blowse , a gipsy , a tawny moor to my cousin Cressida ; and she lay with one white arm underneath the whoreson 's neck : Oh such a white , lilly-white , round , plump arm as it was \u2014 and you must know it was stripped up to the elbows ; and she did so kiss him , and so huggle him !\u2014 as who should say \u2014", "Ay , the kindling ; but you must stay the spitting of the meat .", "Is he here , say you ? It is more than I know , I 'll be sworn ! For my part , I came in late .\u2014 What should he do here ?", "But to prove to you that Helen loves him , she comes , and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin .", "Here , here , here he comes , sweet duck !", "Oh faint heart , faint heart ! well , there 's much good matter in these old proverbs ! No , she 'll not come , I warrant her ; she has no blood of mine in her , not so much as will fill a flea . But if she does not come , and come , and come with a swing into your arms \u2014 I say no more , but she has renounced all grace , and there 's an end .", "Do I so , do I so ? do I torture you indeed ? well , I will go .", "I care not if you did ; she 's a fool to stay behind her father Calchas : let her to the Greeks ; and so I 'll tell her . For my part , I am resolute , I 'll meddle no more in your affairs .", "I have had but my labour for my pains ; ill thought on of her , and ill thought on of you ; gone between and between , and am ground in the mill-stones for my labour .", "Asses , fools , dolts , dirt , and dung , stuff , and lumber , porridge after meat ; but I could live and die with Troilus . Ne'er look , niece , ne'er look , the lions are gone : apes and monkeys , the fag end of the creation . I had rather be such a man as Troilus , than Agamemnon and all Greece .", "Yonder he stands , poor wretch ! there stands he with such a look , and such a face , and such begging eyes ! there he stands , poor prisoner !", "No , nor Hector is not Troilus : make your best of that , niece !", "Come , come , what need you blush ? Shame 's a baby ; swear the oaths now to her , that you swore to me : What , are you gone again ? you must be watched ere you are made tame , must you ? Why do n't you speak to her first ?\u2014 Come , draw this curtain and let 's see your picture ; alas-a-day , how loth you are to offend day-light !That 's well , that 's well ; nay , you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you . So so \u2014 so so \u2014", "Why , you know it is dimpled . I cannot chuse but laugh , to think how she tickled his cloven chin . She has a marvellous white hand , I must needs confess . But let that pass , for I know who has a whiter . Well , cousin , I told you a thing yesterday ; think on it , think on it .", "Put up , and vanish ; they are coming out : What a ferrup , will you play when the dance is done ? I say , vanish .Good , i'faith ! good , i'faith ! what , hand in hand \u2014 a fair quarrel , well ended ! Do , do , walk him , walk him ;\u2014 a good girl , a discreet girl : I see she will make the most of him .", "There 's all my fear , that thou art not frail : thou should'st be frail , all flesh is frail .", "Or my heart will be blown up by the roots !", "Why you did consent , your eyes consented ; they blabbed , they leered , their very corners blabbed . But you 'll say , your tongue said nothing . No , I warrant it : your tongue was wiser ; your tongue was better bred ; your tongue kept its own counsel : nay , I 'll say that for you , your tongue said nothing .\u2014 Well , such a shamefaced couple did I never see , days o'my life ! so \u2018 fraid of one another ; such ado to bring you to the business ! Well , if this job were well over , if ever I lose my pains again with an aukward couple , let me be painted in the sign-post for the labour in vain : Fye upo n't , fye upo n't ! there 's no conscience i n't : all honest people will cry shame o n't .", "Is't possible ? no sooner got but lost ?", "O world , world : thou art an ungrateful patch of earth ! Thus the poor agent is despised ! he labours painfully in his calling , and trudges between parties : but when their turns are served , come out 's too good for him . I am mighty melancholy . I 'll e'en go home , and shut up my doors , and die o \u2019 the sullens , like an old bird in a cage !", "What 's that , what 's that ?", "That 's as it should be ; that 's well o \u2019 both sides .\u2014 Yes , \u2018 faith , they are both alive :\u2014 There was a creak ! there was a creak ! they are both alive , and alive like ;\u2014 there was a creak ! a ha , boys !\u2014 Is the music ready ?", "Here , here , here is an excellent place ; we may see them here most bravely , and I 'll tell you all their names as they pass by ; but mark Troilus above the rest ; mark Troilus , he 's worth your marking . \u00c6NEAS passes over the Stage .", "Well , I say Troilus is Troilus ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Prince Troilus , I have loved you long .", "So I do , uncle .", "As my dear Troilus !", "They would not become him , his own are better .", "For this time let me take my leave , my lord .", "Excuse me .", "Has struck me dumb ! but let him live , my Troilus ;", "I true ! how now , what wicked thought is this ?", "By all Diana 's waiting train of stars ,", "That doomed my days unfortunate and few ,", "And what he most desires , he throws away .", "In that I must not yield to you , my lord .", "Your pardon , lady , that 's my business too .", "My only lord , by all those holy vows ,", "How can I answer this to love and Troilus ?", "Prophet may you be !", "I trust my heart with thee ; and to the Greeks", "Or , if there be a hell below , are fearful ,", "Well may we men , when we ourselves deceive .", "Myself in hated bonds a captive held .", "My father , treated like a slave , and scorned ;", "Remember ? yes .", "Well , uncle , what folly I commit , I dedicate to you .", "I drunk his praises from my uncle 's mouth ,", "I find it true , that to be wise , and love ,", "Is far less painful than the wound you gave it .", "I will , as soon as e'er the war 's concluded .", "Afford my mind some ease .", "O , ye immortal gods ! I will not go .", "How could my tongue conspire against my heart ,", "Be true , again ?", "Whose height commands , as subject , all the vale ,", "Come , come ,\u2014 beshrew your heart , you 'll neither be good yourself , nor suffer others .", "But I too soon shall know what absence is .", "Good-morrow , uncle Pandarus .", "Shall make us one for ever ?", "Hector 's a gallant warrior .", "There 's Achilles among the Greeks , he 's a brave man .", "Boldness comes to me now , and I can speak :", "Where is he ? I 'll be justified , or die .", "Nay , but you part in anger !", "O , Troilus , Troilus !", "But you , my only Troilus , come near :", "You 'll be exposed to dangers .", "Bear but an empty casket .", "\u2018 Tis true , for each of them is himself .", "And I die happy , that he thinks me true .", "You smile and mock , as if I meant naughtily !", "O , those , who do not know what parting is ,", "This night to meet my Troilus , while \u2018 tis truce ,", "O bid me hold my tongue ; for , in this rapture ,", "Has he been fighting then ? how came it cloven ?", "Can never learn to die !", "To stab the heart of perjury in maids ,", "For once you shall command me .", "Which thus I give you ,\u2014 thus \u2014", "But hear me bless him with my latest breath !", "Grief is but guessed , while thou art standing by :", "Shall be no more the subject of your curses :", "No : for he may look like a man , and not be one .", "Is fixed like that of heaven , to-day was moved ;", "Would be cut off for ever by his death ;", "Can Helenus fight , uncle ?", "That 's what I say ; for I am sure he is not Hector .", "What sneaking fellow comes yonder ?", "What have I blabbed ? who will be true to us ,", "In all things else , let it remember me ;", "Oh Jupiter ! there 's no comparison ! Troilus the better man .", "Diom Give me some token , for the surety of it ;", "\u2018 Tis but for this , that my return to you", "This faithless , perjured , hated Cressida ,", "Oh , can you yet believe , that I am true ?", "Heaven knows , against my will ; and yet my hopes ,", "To say I loved him not ? O childish love !", "By the same token , you are a procurer , uncle .", "I 'll not consent , unless you swear .", "\u2018 Tis like an infant , froward in his play ,", "O , the gods ! What 's the matter ?", "My lord , come you again into my chamber .\u2014", "Come , you 're deceived ; I think of no such thing .\u2014", "Alas ! I but dissembled love to him .", "Are inconsistent things .", "I speak I know not what !", "But , as a careful traveller , who , fearing", "Speak not so loud then .", "I will not : I have quite forgot my father .", "No kin , no blood , no life ; nothing so near me ,", "I am ashamed ;\u2014 O heavens , what have I done !", "No , but very brown .", "If I am false , or swerve from truth of love ,", "Believe me still your faithful Cressida ;", "How now ? what 's the matter ? Who was here ?"], "true_target": ["A virtuous conquest !", "Here come more .", "If Troilus die , I have no share in life .", "If you must have it .", "When Time is old , and has forgot itself", "To see the battle . Hector , whose patience", "Alas !", "O unexampled , frontless impudence !", "Good uncle , I beseech you on my knees , tell me what 's the matter ?", "Stand off , and touch me not , thou traitor Diomede ;\u2014", "I do adjure thee , spare him .", "And though my innocence appear like guilt ,", "Fear not ; I 'll be true .", "And fear \u2018 tis past prevention .", "Hard to seem won ; but I was won , my lord \u2014", "If ever he had any proof , beyond", "Now , my sweet guardian ; hark , a word with you .", "Let me go try ;", "Ah me ! I hear them ,", "Can wish on me , take place , if I am false !", "A strange dissembling sex we women are :", "\u2018 Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss .", "Not a word more , good night \u2014 I hope for ever :", "Enough , my lord ; you 've said enough .", "Thus to deceive deceivers is no fraud .", "That I was talking of , and of his anger .", "\u00c6n . Up to the western tower ,", "He chid Andromache , and struck his armourer ,", "As if my ears could ne'er be satisfied :", "That 's but a bare commendation .", "By all our loves , by all our past endearments ,", "To bring me , uncle !", "What shall I say !\u2014 that you suspect me false ,", "O heavens , you love me not !", "My lord \u00c6neas , who were those went by ? I mean the ladies . \u00c6n . Queen Hecuba and Helen .", "And will you promise , that the holy priest", "Long has my secret soul loved Troilus ;", "Go hang yourself , you naughty mocking uncle :", "And , after all comparisons of falsehood ,", "Sure I shall speak what I should soon repent .", "Have the gods envy ?", "Some few hours hence , and grief had done your work ;", "Hold , hold your hand , my lord , and hear me speak .", "And , as there were good husbandry in war .", "What modesty might give \u2014", "I have a kind of self resides in you .", "And by herself , I will not tell you whose .", "May every imprecation , which your rage", "And whither go they ?", "Oh let me go , that I may know my grief ;", "Peace , for shame , peace !", "The ring I saw you wear .", "Who 's that at door ? good uncle , go and see :\u2014", "If ever I had power to bend your mind ,", "Indeed I am not : pray , come back again .", "Were those with swords ?", "Why sigh you so ? O , where 's my Troilus ? Tell me , sweet uncle , what 's the matter ?", "I 'll perform it .", "And , since I question not your hard decree ,", "What then remains ?", "Why then , why said I not , I love this prince ?", "You bring me to do ill , and then you jeer me !", "Wished , my lord !\u2014 The gods grant !\u2014 O , my lord \u2014", "When we are so unfaithful to ourselves !", "What , was he struck down too ?", "What , and from Troilus too ?", "Because I make his forfeit life my suit ,", "Time must instruct us how .", "No matter .", "But then your eyes had missed the satisfaction ,", "You shall not go : one cannot speak a word ,", "Before the sun was up he went to field ;", "But stop my mouth .", "Who 's that black man , uncle ?", "Which , if there be a Power above , are binding ,", "Pray , let me go .", "Add all to him you take away from me ;", "Let it be said \u2014 as false as Cressida .", "Hear him not , heavens ;", "My lord , I do beseech you pardon me ;", "I always told you so .", "What have we gained by this one minute more ?", "I have no touch of birth , no spark of nature ,", "But straight it starts you .", "If I could live to hear it , I were false .", "And is it true , that I must go from Troy ?", "What , not an hour allowed for taking leave ?", "This morning , uncle .", "My own company .", "Trust me , the wound , which I have given this breast ,", "CRESSIDA alone .", "Assaults of robbers , leaves his wealth behind ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Sir , my lord Troilus would instantly speak with you ."], "true_target": ["At his own house , if you think convenient ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And breathe her last in you .", "And make it bear in manhood ? the young sapling", "Suppose you win , what would the profit be ?", "They can repair with more that single loss :", "Who shall instruct his tenderness in arms ,", "But , as it is , we throw our utmost stake", "\u00c6n . Suppose one Ajax , or Achilles lost ,", "Set sail for this ? then it were worth your danger .", "But he would have the stain of Helen 's rape", "Troy has but one , one Hector .", "Troy with a groan would feel her soul go out ,", "Like one besotted on effeminate joys ;", "Your own blood , Hector .", "I did not name myself , because I know", "Is shrouded long beneath the mother-tree ,", "\u00c6ne . He not proposes merely to himself", "See , here 's your wife ,", "Your thundering arm , would all the rest depart ?", "Against whole heaps of theirs .", "If Ajax or Achilles fell beneath", "And who shall make him such , when you are gone ?", "The pleasures such a beauty brings with it ;", "Daughter , why speak not you ? why stand you silent ?", "After the expence of so much time and blood ,", "This would be courage ; but in him \u2018 tis madness ."], "true_target": ["If Hector only were a private man ,", "And , should you perish in this rash attempt ,", "Shall be forgotten .\u2014 Hector , what say you to it ?", "Deliver Helen , and all other loss", "An Hector one day ,", "\u00c6n . The task you undertake is hazardous :", "Wiped off , in honourable keeping her .", "Have you no right in Hector , as a wife ?", "The general safety on your life depends ;", "Would Agamemnon , or his injured brother ,", "Who shall defend the promise of his youth ,", "So says Paris ,", "He has the honey still , but these the gall .", "And trust itself for growth .", "But you must let him live to be a Hector ;", "Yet still I fear !", "When thou art gone , I need no Grecian sword", "Before it be transplanted from its earth ,", "Thus once again the Grecians send to Troy ;\u2014", "To help me die , but only Hector 's loss .\u2014", "To make that maxim good .", "Or give his childhood lessons of the war ?", "He tells you true .", "Heaven protect thee !", "What means my son ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["No dispute of ceremony :", "Come , come , you do him wrong ere you 're aware ; you 'll be so true to him , that you 'll be false to him : You shall not know he 's here ; but yet go fetch him hither ; go . Enter TROILUS . I bring you , brother , most unwelcome news ; But since of force you are to hear it told , I thought a friend and brother best might tell it : Therefore , before I speak , arm well your mind , And think you 're to be touched even to the quick ; That so , prepared for ill , you may be less Surprised to hear the worst .", "For I could hear it ever ,\u2014 saidst thou not ,", "And dares avow her beauty and her worth ,", "That any drop , thou borrowest from my mother ,", "Nay , I will swear , as you have sworn to me ,", "What sport will be , when we return at evening ,", "If parting from a mistress can procure", "Witness the process of your speech within ;", "Unless you give up Cressida .", "But if this Helen be another 's wife ,", "Or , by our father 's soul , of which no part", "It does import him much to speak with me .", "I know you , Troilus , you are hot and fiery :", "Religion , state-affairs , whate'er ' s the theme ,", "With manly courage best : let Helen go .", "How ! no matter , Troilus ? A king , a father 's will !", "Good night , sweet lord Menelaus .", "\u00c6n . I assure you ,", "\u00c6n . He will not hear me speak ;", "As if my mind , mastering my mortal part ,", "In doing wrong , extenuates not wrong ,", "And make you hate even me ?", "By all the gods I would .", "And bear it like a man .", "That doubting if was kind : then thou'rt divided ;", "I pray you , let us see you in the field ;", "They shall be charged ; Achilles must be there ,", "And now I fear , lest thou shouldst think it fear ,", "For I , methinks , am lifted into air ,", "I showed a friend : your part must follow next ;", "The triumph of this kindness be thy own ;", "That if thou hadst a joy beyond that love ,", "You ought to give her up .", "Were no inferior creatures here on earth ?", "To send a challenge to the boldest Greek .", "If nothing else will do .", "Methought I heard you sigh , Andromache .", "Who dares presume my life is in his gift .", "I trouble you .", "What , namest thou them together !", "For few we are and spent , as having born", "To see those modest tears , ashamed to fall ,", "That friendship never gained a nobler field .", "I thank the gods , for calling to my mind My promise , that no words of thine should urge me Beyond the bounds of reason : But in thee \u2018 Twas brutal baseness , so forewarned , to fall Beneath the name of man ; to spurn my kindness ; And when I offered theeThe wholesome bitter cup of friendly counsel , To dash it in my face . Farewell , farewell , Ungrateful as thou art : hereafter use The name of brother ; but of friend no more .", "As stubble does the flame .", "For \u2018 tis the only way I could disarm thee .", "Imagine .", "I reckon this one day a blank of life .", "A valiant Greek , \u00c6neas ; take his hand ;", "Speak that again ,\u2014", "That , largely vaunting , in my heat of blood ,", "And give me earnest of desired success .", "As in the prizer : \u2018 tis idolatry ,", "To keep a thing not ours , not worth to us", "Is this , in way of truth : yet , ne'ertheless ,", "And bear my challenge to the Grecian camp .", "Common as the tainted shambles ,", "Alas , to lose the joys of all thy youth ,", "Suppose she were ,\u2014 which yet I will not grant ,\u2014", "Last night I dreamt Jove sat on Ida 's top ,", "In this neglecting that main argument ,", "By heaven , too little ; for I think her common .", "Divide our troops , and take the fresher half .", "Alas , my father !", "A more than brother 's love ; an awful homage", "No , \u00c6neas ! What then art thou ; and what is Troilus ? What will Astyanax be ?", "Thou better name than wife ! would'st thou not blush", "As heart can think , or courage execute .", "And this is Trojan ,\u2014 hence thou shouldst not bear", "And , with her , all the quiet of thy mind !", "Than Cressida from Troy .", "I will not rest , till , prostrate on the ground ,", "Upon what errand ?", "To arms , to arms ! the vanguards are engaged", "As boldly as you gave it .", "And therefore Cressida must be returned .", "Which is , to curb your choler , tame your grief ,", "These are enow for me , in faith enow .", "Before those ants , that blacken all yon hill ,", "Therefore to thee , and not to fear of fate ,", "Then shall I say , at my return to Troy ,", "bring her out ;", "\u00c6n . Health to you , valiant sir ,", "Take heed , young man , how you too far provoke me !", "The gods forbid I should !", "\u00c6n .", "To fly to worst extremities with those ,", "For rest assured , that , to regain this hour ,", "Or as the dust we tread .", "That thou couldst say , this part is Grecian all ,", "But I 'll endeavour deeds to match these words ,", "Wert thou an oracle to tell me this ,", "To vast eternity , is virtue 's work ;", "I 'd not believe thee ; henceforth guard thee well ,", "And all our common safety , which depends", "Brother and friend , farewell .", "But , were thy mixture Greek and Trojan so ,", "Or they 'll refuse to serve us .", "If I should lose my honour for a dream ?", "Then all the council 's after .", "So tender , and so fearful to offend ,", "To make the service greater than the god .", "And heaven and earth this testimony yield ,", "But I have struggling in my manly soul ,", "Maintain what I have said . If any come ,", "One who deserved thy love !", "How ! that my life is begged , and by my sister ?", "Come , he is here , my lord ; do not deny him :", "Speak loud she be restored . Thus to persist", "No more !\u2014 thou know'st me .", "The moral laws of nature and of nations", "If saying superficial things be reason .", "But there 's more in me than thou understand'st .", "Or what will Troy , or what wilt thou thyself ,", "By all the gods , should Jove himself descend ,", "And for the daughter of a fugitive ,", "Bid all unarm ; I will not fight to-day .", "Hector would have them fall upon him thus :\u2014", "And turned to them , by giving up this pledge ?", "Antenor is exchanged .", "Washed by yon silver flood , are they not ours ?", "Ho ! bid my trumpet sound .", "Upon the extremest proof , you fetched a groan ;", "And thee , and Troy .", "But take it as a boon ,\u2014 I would not live .", "Thou dar'st not .", "That traitor Calchas , who forsook his country ,", "I sought evasion .", "I would say so indeed ; for , can you find", "Come , gird my sword , and smile upon me , love ;", "Those teeming vines that tempt our longing eyes ,", "Even those , who serve , have their expectancies ,", "Just when I said , that I would put our fate", "Lo there 's a place for Hector .", "And what are we , but for such men as these ?", "And dare not make them so ? by heavens I 'll know", "It was to bring this Greek to Calchas \u2019 house ,", "Drive you to madness , plunge you in despair ,", "Who loves his mistress more than in confession ,", "I 'll kill thee every where .", "A woman , on my life : even so it happens ,", "\u2018 Tis well : consider at whose house I find you .", "I 'll be thy champion , and secure both her ,", "I know your count'nance , lord Ulysses , well .", "You stifled it and stopt . Come , you are sad .", "He pointed to a choir of demi-gods ,", "The fiery youth pays to your elder virtue .", "\u2018 Twill not be taken :", "Which once must come to all , give I this day .", "To whom we are most kind .", "I 'll break this treaty off ; or let me fight :", "Worse for yourself ; not for the general state ,", "to Thers . Speak what part thou fightest on !", "Welcome , Andromache : your looks are chearful ,", "Do not , brother :", "I mean this day to waste the stock of war ,", "Did you , my lord ? you answer indirectly ;", "Would bear my exalted body to the gods .", "I feel it for thee : Let me go to Priam ,", "To words intemperate , I will bear with you .", "Though no man less can fear the Greeks than I ,", "The Grecian dames are sun-burnt , and not worth", "Fly from this child ! the gods speak in him sure :", "What her defence has cost us .", "And will to-morrow , with the trumpet 's call ,", "Degrees of happiness , which they must share ,", "Why , it portends me honour and renown .", "On freed Antenor 's wisdom .", "I pity thee , indeed I pity thee .", "He can keep Hector prisoner here in Troy .", "I know it well ; and how he is , beside ,", "For our Antenor , now redeemed from prison ,", "Peace be to thee ,", "Go to thy bed again , and there dream better .\u2014", "Mean time , let destiny attend thy leisure ;", "\u00c6n . What ! Has the king resolved to gratify", "Come , she shall go .", "How , not care !", "Than Hector is ; for modest doubt is mixed", "It ends in woman still .", "And him I seek , or death .", "Does it start you ? I must wake you more ;", "One Grecian limb , wherein my pointed sword", "O yes , Polyxena to beg my life .", "Troilus and \u00c6neas , you have said ;", "I shall expect performance .", "Nor will I bear such news .", "Who dares to trust his future fame so far ,", "But makes it much more so . Hector 's opinion", "The blue mists rise from off the nether grounds ,", "Thou tempt'st me strangely : should I kill thee now ,", "And who should pay it , where would be their altars ,", "Am I but thy brother ?", "During all business of the gentle truce ;", "And I will tell my news in terms so mild ,", "Bacchus and Hercules , and all the rest ,", "Which will , I fear , be much unwelcome to him .", "Refuse ! I 'll not be hindered , brother .", "Is not that country ours ? those fruitful fields"], "true_target": ["By Troy , or by my son , or any name", "The public .", "And , beckoning with his hand divine from far ,", "Ajax , thou art my aunt Hesione 's son ;", "More than I could , it seems , or durst perform ,", "Because I knew \u2018 twas harsh , I would not tell ;", "But that a mortal man , and he , of all men ,", "My father 's first ;", "Is such , though Calchas , as a fugitive ,", "Let me not \u2018 scape the danger of this day ;", "I have a lady of more truth and beauty ,", "I wish our men be not too far engaged ;", "Go Hector , day grows old , and part of fame", "Well , young man ,", "Why then thy former soul is flown to me ;", "His insolence draws folly from my lips ;", "The bitter disposition of the time", "And as one body move , whose soul am I .", "And common reputation will depend .", "Since first I saw yourself and Diomede", "Of all thy words and deeds , on that mad passion :", "But , when I meet you armed , as black defiance ,", "Had not impression made . But heaven forbid", "I know not if the gods can he offended ,", "Than ever Greek did compass in his arms ;", "We have had pelting wars , since you refused", "Most reverend Nestor , I am glad to clasp thee .", "The fate of Troy this day .", "A gleaning of the war ; a rogue , he says .", "Know , when I told thee so , I loved thee most .", "You know my name 's not liable to fear .", "Your brother Troilus , to my certain knowledge ,", "Where Pandarus his brother , and his daughter", "Are crept into the earth . Farewell .", "Be summoned all , our utmost fate to try ,", "Come , you are hot ;", "An ill more yours .", "Not urge me ! then thou think'st I need his urging .", "It holds the dignity and estimation ,", "\u2018 Tis adoration , some say , makes a god :", "And , as you checked yourself for what you did ,", "The value of a man , what reason is there", "I cast the wild disorderly account ,", "Who knows his valour , and knows not his fear ;", "Nor wearied limbs confess mortality ,", "And stay inglorious in thy arms at home .", "The Grecian cause .", "O , patience , patience , heaven !", "Of blest eternity ;\u2014 Lo there , he said ,", "I make him , atheist-like , implore his breath", "Did e'er descend to thee , I 'll force her hence .", "Like victory , come flying to my arms ,", "Ah , sir , there 's many a Greek and Trojan dead ,", "I know thou lov'st ; and what can love not do !", "But I have noted long betwixt you two", "But value dwells not in opinion only :", "And mend thy error .", "My sprightly brother , I incline to you", "Go you before . Tell him of our approach ,", "More ready to cry out ,\u2014 who knows the consequence ?", "To-morrow will I tempt a double danger .", "That Cressida for Antenor is exchanged ,", "And calmness ever there . I blame thee not :", "Shall we behold them ? shall we call them ours ,", "Both old and young , the coward and the brave ,", "As if I could be won from my resolves", "Nay , I have done already .", "Till I have found that large-sized boasting fool ,", "Perhaps , \u2018 tis that .", "\u00c6n . It shall be told them ,", "Gods make me worthy of thee !", "In resolution to defend her still :", "My lord , I wait you .", "When once this ague fit of fear is o'er ,", "But see thou move no more the like request ;", "Come to my arms , thou manlier virtue , come !", "More dear to me than yours .", "For \u2018 tis a cause on which our Trojan honour", "She did .", "To stand the shock of annals , blotted thus ,\u2014", "Trust me you chide my filial piety ;", "Go , then ; and the good gods restore her to thee ,", "Did haunt you in the field .", "I am glad ;", "Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece ,", "Thou art a Greek ; art thou a match for Hector ? Art thou of blood and honour ?", "All this , ye gods !", "Is this Achilles ?", "A nation 's happiness , show me that prince", "On whose wise counsels we can most rely ;", "Who , free from human toils , had gained the pitch", "Should think my life were in his power to give ,", "Your own suffrage", "Our father has decreed it otherwise .", "Alas ! it is the use of human frailty ,", "What would'st thou more ?", "What sparks of honour", "Condemns you there : you voted for her stay .", "Remember well", "In Ilion , on your Greekish embassy .", "But public safety , and my son 's green years :", "A fate more glorious than to be that victim ?", "If , thus dissuaded , I refuse to fight ,", "Begone , or I shall shake thee into atoms ;", "Their bodies shall not flag while I can lead ;", "How far my words were distant from my heart !", "You bring some pleasing news .", "Thou know'st I can .", "And quite o'erpower your soul : In this , I think ,", "Nor grieve beyond a man ?", "Heaven knows I am !", "Is not my brother Troilus here ?", "Deserve it not , that we must free Antenor ,", "You have not drawn one reason from yourself ,", "O , like a book of sport , thou read'st me o'er ;", "That I preserve my faith .", "By him who thunders , thou hast sinewy arms :", "It was a friend ? O , saidst thou not , a friend !", "If we have lost so many lives of ours ,", "Good morrow , my lord Pandarus ; good morrow !", "Thou know'st me well , and thou shalt praise me more ;", "Our life is short , but to extend that span", "So ho , who goes there ? \u00c6neas ! \u00c6n . Prince Hector !", "I 'll through and through them , even their hindmost ranks ,", "A foolish omen ! take it up again ,", "You kindle at a wrong , and catch it quick ,", "And I have still some part .", "She shall not ?", "Of hasty blood .", "Else may I never \u2014", "What you have said ; for , when I claim your promise ,", "My honour stands engaged to meet Achilles .", "Yet there 's no virgin of more tender heart ,", "To hug a coward thus ?", "Mid-way between their tents and these our walls ,", "Who hast so long walked hand in hand with time :", "Is ravished from thee by thy slothful stay .", "Here we must part , our destinies divide us ;", "Brother , she 's not worth", "I said it in my rage ; I thought not so .", "The obligation of our blood forbids us .", "And lay it prodigally out in blows .", "Does lodge this night in Pandarus 's house .", "Can you think", "In other arms than hers ,\u2014 to him this challenge .", "But what I bring is nearer you , more close ,", "Or think I slew a brother : But , begone !", "Not all at once ; but by degrees and glimpses", "If it be left to me , I will no more .\u2014", "Mine was there too .", "\u2014 It shall be so \u2014 I 'll do't .", "Ye noble Grecians , pardon me this boast ;", "Still to retain the cause of so much ill ?", "My sword shall honour him ; if none shall dare ,", "To laugh her out of countenance for her dreams !", "The burthen of the day : But , hap what can ,", "Stand fair , I pr'ythee , let me look on thee .", "Let us not leave one man to guard the walls ;", "The lady Cressida .", "Should e'er be drained by me : let me embrace thee , cousin .", "What should the gods forbid ?", "He thinks my sister 's treason my petition ;", "As well , wherein \u2018 tis precious of itself ,", "As mothers use to sooth their froward babes ;", "No more ; even as thou lovest my fame , no more ;", "Thou excellently good , but oh too soft ,", "Since I 'm no friend ,", "I am resolved to put to the utmost proof", "I do believe thee ; live .", "What , grown a coward ! Thou wert used , Andromache ,", "\u00c6n . A word , my lord \u2014 Your pardon , Diomede \u2014", "And witness any part of woman in thee !", "When the gods please ; if not , we once must part . Look ; on yon hill their squandered troops unite .", "Who holds his honour higher than his ease ,", "Leave it to me ; I 'll manage him alone ;", "That , if some gust of passion swell your soul", "I let it in , lest it might rush upon you ,", "Thy hand upon that match .", "You take all these away ,", "\u00c6neas , go ,", "Of me , and not of heaven .", "Which of these haughty Grecians dares to think", "He sold his country for a woman 's love !", "Of that one thing , which most could urge your anger ,", "To give my courage courage ; thou would'st cry ,\u2014", "If there be one amongst the best of Greece ,", "Attend you Diomede .\u2014 My lord , good-morrow ;", "Go to ; you are a boy .", "Yes ; his purpose meets you .", "You told how Diomede a whole week by days", "What will the Grecians think , or what will he ,", "Let me embrace thee , good old chronicle ,", "\u00c6neas , call my brother Troilus to me ; And you two sign this friendly interview .", "For heaven can witness , \u2018 tis with much constraint", "And tell me ,\u2014 Hector , thou deservest not life ,", "And the sun mounts apace . To arms , to arms !", "The splinter of a lance .", "You say well ; but you look not chearfully .", "A traitor to his country !", "Fair Cressida reside ; and there to render"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["You 'll kill them all ; and leave no work for him .", "How I love Hector ,\u2014 need I say I love him ?\u2014", "Of thick-ranked Grecians , and shall one affright him ?", "To Agamemnon , Ajax , or Achilles ,", "To prove they do not well to burn our fields ,", "Has he not met a thousand lifted swords", "But when I see him arming for his honour ,", "For should he stay to be a man , he thinks", "And keep us cooped like prisoners in a town ,", "And when the Trojan matrons wait him out", "They may not blush to crown .", "I am not but in him :", "Your little son Astyanax has employed me", "The pride of virtue beats within my breast ,", "I had aspired a nobler name ,\u2014 his friend .", "That mounts his courage , kindles even to me :", "But when you fight for honour and for me ,", "His country and his gods , that martial fire ,", "And had I been a man , as my soul 's one ,"], "true_target": ["Let Paris fight for Helen ; guilt for guilt :", "As his ambassadress .", "With prayers , and meet with blessings his return ,", "My knight this day ; you shall not wear a cause", "And therefore he designs to send a challenge", "Then let our equal gods behold an act ,", "Would make him knight : he longs to kill a Grecian :", "There spoke a woman ; pardon , royal sir ;", "I would be worthy to be Hector 's wife :", "There 's not a day but he encounters armies ;", "You shall be", "To lead this lazy life .", "And yet as safe , as if the broad-brimmed shield ,", "No less than that his grandfather this day", "So black as Helen 's rape upon your breast .", "To wipe away the sweat and dust of war ,", "Nothing that 's serious .", "And dress my hero glorious in his wounds .", "That Pallas wears , were held \u2018 twixt him and death ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And if I should be frail \u2014", "Or , what think you of a hurt bird , that flutters about with a broken wing ?", "For these good procuring offices you 'll be damned one day , uncle .", "What a deluge of words do you pour out , uncle , to say just nothing ?", "Where is this monster to be shown ? what 's to be given for a sight of him ?"], "true_target": ["Weigh but my fears : Prince Troilus is young .\u2014", "The venture 's great .", "Did you tell him all this , without my consent ?", "And I a woman .", "Are you my uncle , and can give this counsel to your own brother 's daughter ?", "Then I 'll not see prince Troilus ; I 'll not be accessary to your damnation ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Now these rival rogues will clapperclaw one another , and I shall have the sport of it .", "And he brings only beard to vouch thy plots .", "Thou mongrel mastiff , thou beef-witted lord !", "\u2018 Tis no matter ; I shall speak as much sense as thou afterwards . I 'll see you hanged ere I come any more to your tent ; I 'll keep where there 's wit stirring , and leave the faction of fools .", "Yes , meaning thy no meaning ; pr'ythee , be silent , boy , I profit not by thy talk . Now the rotten diseases of the south , gut-gripings , ruptures , catarrhs , loads of gravel in the back , lethargies , cold palsies , and the like , take thee , and take thee again ! thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye , thou tassel of a prodigal 's purse , thou ! Ah how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies , such diminutives of nature !", "Who hangs on thee ! thou lead'st him by the nose ;", "O , you would be learning to practise against such another time ?\u2014 Why , he tosses up his head as he had built castles in the air ; and he treads upward to them , stalks into the element ; he surveys himself , as it were to look for Ajax : he would be cried , for he has lost himself ; nay , he knows nobody ; I said , \u201c Good-morrow , Ajax , \u201d and he replied , \u201c Thanks , Agamemnon . \u201d", "Pox of Agamemnon !", "I fight not at all ; I am for neither side .", "A fine old dotard , to repine at hanging", "Humh !", "Thou hast forgot thy use some hundred years .", "Thou lord !\u2014 Ay , do , do ,\u2014 would my buttocks were iron , for thy sake !", "Good , good , by Pluto ! their fool 's mad , to lose his harlot ; and our fool 's mad , that t'other fool had her first . If I sought peace now , I could tell \u2018 em there 's punk enough to satisfy \u2018 em both : whore sufficient ! but let \u2018 em worry one another , the foolish curs ; they think they never can have enough of carrion . \u00c6n . My lords , this fury is not proper here In time of truce ; if either side be injured , To-morrow 's sun will rise apace , and then \u2014", "Why , you empty fuz-balls , your heads are full of nothing else but proclamations .", "Now , moon ! now shine , sweet moon ! let them have just light enough to make their passes ; and not enough to ward them . \u00c6n .By heaven , he comes on this , who strikes the first . You both are mad ; is this like gallant men , To fight at midnight ; at the murderer 's hour ; When only guilt and rapine draw a sword ? Let night enjoy her dues of soft repose ; But let the sun behold the brave man 's courage . And this I dare engage for Diomede ,\u2014 For though I am ,\u2014 he shall not hide his head , But meet you in the very face of danger .", "They shall eat dry , and choak for want of wit ,", "Make that demand to heaven ; it suffices me , thou art one .", "What affairs ? what affairs ? demand that , dolt-head ! the rogue will lose a quarrel , for want of wit to ask that question .", "And now , in thy three hundredth year , repin'st", "Thy commander , Achilles .\u2014 Then tell me , Patroclus , what 's", "The death of men ; thou canst not hang ; thy trunk", "Thou sapless oak , that liv'st by wanting thought ,", "Thou lay'st thy cuckoo 's egg within his nest ,", "To lie , and say , the like of it was practised", "No ; but he 's thus out of tune . What music will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains , I know not , nor I care not ; but if emptiness makes noise , his head will make melody .", "And mak'st him hatch it ; teachest his remembrance", "O well stung , scorpion ! Now Menelaus 's Greek horns are out o \u2019 doors , there 's a new cuckold starts up on the Trojan side .", "Ay , when you need a man , you talk of giving ,", "Why , thou fool in season , cannot a man laugh , but thou thinkest he makes horns at thee ? Thou prince of the herd , what hast thou to do with laughing ? \u2018 Tis the prerogative of a man , to laugh . Thou risibility without reason , thou subject of laughter , thou fool royal !", "Why , thou full dish of fool , from Troy .", "But when you do not want him , then stale porridge ,", "With too much blood , and too little brain , these two are running mad before the dog-days . There 's Agamemnon , too , an honest fellow enough , and loves a brimmer heartily ; but he has not so much brains as an old gander . But his brother Menelaus , there 's a fellow ! the goodly transformation of Jupiter when he loved Europa ; the primitive cuckold ; a vile monkey tied eternally to his brother 's tail ,\u2014 to be a dog , a mule , a cat , a toad , an owl , a lizard , a herring without a roe , I would not care ; but to be Menelaus , I would conspire against destiny .\u2014 Hey day ! Will with a Wisp , and Jack a Lanthorn ! HECTOR , AJAX , AGAMEMNON , DIOMEDE , ULYSSES , TROILUS , going with Torches over the Stage .", "Ha !", "Gives it the garbage of a sacrifice ,", "Dolt-heads , asses ,", "What art thou ?", "The pillars , no , the porters of the war .", "Nay , you may take a child 's part o n't if you have so much courage , for Hector has challenged the toughest of the Greeks ; and it is in dispute which of your two heads is the soundest timber . A knotty piece of work he 'll have betwixt your noddles .", "Yes , they can kick ; my buttocks feel they can ;", "Nor I , by Pluto : but that , which likes not you , pleases me best .", "Hang you both .", "If I could have remembered an ass with gilt trappings , thou hadst not slipped out of my contemplation . But it is no matter : thyself upon thyself ! the common curse of mankind , folly and ignorance , be thine in great abundance ! Heavens bless thee from a tutor , and discipline come not near thee !\u2014 I have said my prayers ; and the devil , Envy , say Amen . Where 's Achilles ?", "How the devil luxury , with his fat rump , and potato-finger , tickles these together !\u2014 Put him off a little , you foolish harlot ! \u2018 twill sharpen him the more .", "I 'll decline the whole question . Agamemnon commands Achilles ; Achilles is my benefactor ; I am Patroclus 's knower ; and Patroclus is a fool .", "Sweet , quotha ! Sweet sink , sweet sewer , sweet jakes !", "But hang thee first , thou very reverend fool !", "Usurp'st upon heaven 's fools , and mak'st them thine .", "Now , would I were either invisible or invulnerable ! These gods have a fine time on it ; they can see and make mischief , and never feel it .", "A standard to march under .", "Will he swagger himself out on 's own eyes ?", "Ere they be moistened with one drop of mine .", "Yes ; they shall butt and kick , and all the while", "Ha !", "Then be thy own , that 's worse .", "Cannot I do a mischief for myself ,", "Is only fit for gallows to hang others .", "Jove , if it be thy will , let these two fools quarrel about nothing ! \u2018 tis a cause that 's worthy of them .", "Thou stump of man , thou worn-out broom , thou lumber !", "Farewell , Trojan ; if I escape with life , as I hope , and thou art knocked on the head , as I hope too , I shall be the first that ever escaped the revenge of a priest after cursing him ; and thou wilt not be the last , I prophesy , that a priest will bring to ruin .", "And thou put'st on their harness , rid'st and spurr'st them ;", "So he had need ; for , to my certain knowledge , neither of you two are conjurers to inform him .", "Thou mean'st so always .", "And thou shouldst last three ages ? he 's thy better ;", "Well said , Trojan : there 's the first hit .", "There , there he is ; now let it work : now play thy part , jealousy , and twinge \u2018 em : put \u2018 em between thy mill-stones , and grind the rogues together .", "So , now they quarrel in monosyllables ; a word and a blow , a n't be thy will .", "And keeps the best for private luxury .", "And beasts of burden ; Ajax and Achilles !", "At such an age ! what saw the Gods in thee ,", "And all these foresaid men are fools . Agamemnon 's a fool , to offer to command Achilles ; Achilles is a fool , to be commanded by him ; I am a fool , to serve such a fool ; and Patroclus is a fool positive ."], "true_target": ["Agamemnon ?", "But he must thank me for't ?", "Hold , hold !\u2014 what , is it no more but dispatch a man and away ! I am in no such haste : I will not die for Greece ; I hate Greece , and by my good will would never have been born there ; I was mistaken into that country , and betrayed by my parents to be born there . And besides , I have a mortal enemy among the Grecians , one Diomede , a damned villain , and cannot die with a safe conscience till I have first murdered him .", "Why , he is an old wooden top , set up by father Time three hundred years ago , that hums to Agamemnon and Ulysses , and sleeps to all the world besides .", "Thou scurvy valiant ass !", "To lose a thousand Greeks , make dogs-meat of us ,", "I shall sooner rail thee into wit ; thou canst kick , canst thou ? A red murrain on thy jades tricks !", "Thou shouldst be felled : hanging 's a civil death ,", "I 'll have no gifts with hooks at end of them .", "Weak indeed ; God help you both !", "Now a man asks me , I care not if I answer to my own kind .\u2014 Why , the enemies are broken into our trenches ; fools like Menelaus fall by thousands yet not a human soul departs on either side . Troilus and Ajax have almost beaten one another 's heads off , but are both immortal for want of brains . Patroclus has killed Sarpedon , and Hector Patroclus , so there is a towardly springing fop gone off ; he might have made a prince one day , but now he 's nipt in the very bud and promise of a most prodigious coxcomb .", "He 'll tickle it for his concupy : this will be sport to see ! Patroclus will give me any thing for the intelligence of this whore ; a parrot will not do more for an almond , than he will for a commodious drab :\u2014 I would I could meet with this rogue Diomede too : I would croak like a raven to him ; I would bode : it shall go hard but I 'll find him out . Enter \u00c6NEAS . \u00c6n . I have been seeking you this hour , my lord : Hector by this is arming him in Troy .", "The plague of Greece , and Helen 's pox light on thee ,", "I say this Ajax wears his wit in 's belly , and his guts in 's brains .", "Fools .", "I serve thee not .", "So , so ; the boars begin to gruntle at one another : set up your bristles now , a'both sides : whet and foam , rogues .", "Two hundred years ago ; thou bring'st the brain ,", "For wit 's a dear commodity among you ;", "Come along with me , and I will conduct thee to Calchas 's tent , where I believe he is now , making war with the priest 's daughter .", "God-a-mercy , that thou wilt believe me ; but the devil break thy neck for frighting me .", "Thy knower , Patroclus . Then tell me , Patroclus , what art thou ?", "This Agamemnon is a king of clouts ,", "They have their asses tricks ; but I 'll eat pebbles ,", "You say ! why you never said any thing in all your life . But , since you will know , it is proclaimed through the army , that Hector is to cudgel you to-morrow .", "Thou beg'st a curse ?", "Pushed on to do your work .", "If to-morrow be a fair day , by eleven o'clock it will go one way or the other ; however , he shall buy me dearly . Fare you well , with all my heart .", "Shall the idiot Ajax use me thus ? he beats me , and I rail at him . O worthy satisfaction ! would I could but beat him , and he railed at me ! Then there 's Achilles , a rare engineer ; if Troy be not taken till these two undermine it , the walls will stand till they fall of themselves . Now the plague on the whole camp , or rather the pox ; for that 's a curse dependent on those that fight , as we do , for a cuckold 's quean .\u2014 What , ho , my lord Achilles !", "That a cock-sparrow should but live three years ,", "What shoals of fools one battle sweeps away ! How it purges families of younger brothers , highways of robbers , and cities of cuckold-makers ! There is nothing like a pitched battle for these brisk addle-heads ! Your physician is a pretty fellow , but his fees make him tedious , he rides not fast enough ; the fools grow upon him , and their horse bodies are poison proof . Your pestilence is a quicker remedy , but it has not the grace to make distinction ; it huddles up honest men and rogues together . But your battle has discretion ; it picks out all the forward fools , and sowses them together into immortality .Plague upon these drums and trumpets ! these sharp sauces of the war , to get fools an appetite to fighting ! What do I among them ? I shall be mistaken for some valiant ass , and die a martyr in a wrong religion .", "That 's well , that 's well , the pledge is given ; hold her to her word , good devil , and her soul 's thine , I warrant thee .", "Set up to frighten daws from cherry-trees ,\u2014", "And when thou hast contrived some dark design ,", "Nay , cheats heaven too with entrails and with offals ;", "Thou play'st him like a puppet ; speak'st within him ;", "I 'll starve ,\u2014 \u2018 tis brave to starve , \u2018 tis like a soldier ,\u2014", "Curse on them , they want wine ; your true fool will never fight without it . Or a drab , a drab ; Oh for a commodious drab betwixt them ! would Helen had been here ! then it had come to something . Dogs , lions , bulls , for females tear and gore ; And the beast , man , is valiant for his whore .", "A starved dog would not lap , and furrow water ,", "Ajax and Achilles ! two mud-walls of fool ,", "Because a fool 's my whetstone .", "Farewell , with all my heart .", "He uses life ; he treads himself to death .", "No , I 'll put on his person ; let Patroclus make his demands to me , and you shall see the pageant of Ajax .", "This Diomede 's a false-hearted rogue , an unjust knave ; I will no more trust him when he winks with one eye , than I will a serpent when he hisses . He will spend his mouth , and promise , like Brabbler the hound ; but when he performs , astronomers set it down for a prodigy : though I long to see Hector , I cannot forbear dogging him . They say he keeps a Trojan drab ; and uses Calchas 's tent , that fugitive priest of Troy , that canonical rogue of our side . I 'll after him ; nothing but whoring in this age ; all incontinent rascals !", "May'st thou quit scores then , and be hanged on Nestor ,", "No , I am a rascal , a scurvy railing knave , a very filthy rogue .", "I am a bastard too , I love bastards , I am bastard in body , bastard in mind , bastard in valour , in every thing illegitimate . A bear will not fasten upon a bear ; why should one bastard offend another ! Let us part fair , like true sons of whores , and have the fear of our mothers before our eyes .", "On both sides , and then logwood will be cheap .", "That 's Calchas 's tent .", "That only differ in degrees of thickness .", "Would they were poison to't , ratsbane and hemlock ! Nothing else can mend you , and those two brawny fools .", "A chip in porridge ,\u2014", "Is all the wine we taste : give drabs and pimps ;", "Achilles ?", "Why , thou picture of what thou seemest , thou idol of ideot worshippers , there 's a letter for thee .", "Now the furies take \u00c6neas , for letting them sleep upon their quarrel ; who knows but rest may cool their brains , and make them rise maukish to mischief upon consideration ? May each of them dream he sees his cockatrice in t'other ' s arms ; and be stabbing one another in their sleep , to remember them of their business when they wake : let them be punctual to the point of honour ; and , if it were possible , let both be first at the place of execution ; let neither of them have cogitation enough , to consider \u2018 tis a whore they fight for ; and let them value their lives at as little as they are worth : and lastly , let no succeeding fools take warning by them ; but , in imitation of them , when a strumpet is in question , Let them beneath their feet all reason trample , And think it great to perish by example .", "Would the fountain of his mind were clear , that he might see an ass in it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep , than such a valiant ignorance .", "I 'll think they kick for me ; they shall fell timber", "Well said again ; I beg thy pardon .", "Before I 'll feed those wit-starved rogues with sense .", "Nay , that 's no wonder , for he never did .", "I would have peace , but the fool will not .", "Thou art proclaimed a fool , I think .", "I hope to see his praise upon his shoulders , in blows and bruises ; his arms , thighs , and body , all full of fame , such fame as he gave me ; and a wide hole at last full in his bosom , to let in day upon him , and discover the inside of a fool .", "But what a rogue art thou ,", "There 's no cause for't", "Humh !", "To say they are indeed ! Heaven made them horses ,", "Ho , ho , ho !", "Hard-headed rogues ! engines , mere wooden engines"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Thou bitch-wolf ! can'st thou not hear ? feel then .", "Can scarce intreat you to perform your boast .", "Trojan !", "Speak , or I 'll beat thee into handsomeness .", "I shall cut out your tongue .", "Yes , lion-sick , sick of a proud heart : you may call it melancholy , if you will humour him ; but , on my honour , it is no more than pride ; and why should he be proud ?", "I mean nothing .", "I thank thee , Hector ;", "Nor I .", "I bade him tell me the proclamation , and he rails upon me .", "I would desire to see thee at my tent .", "Dog !", "Shall I call you father ?", "You said he knew his man ; is there but one ? One man amongst the Greeks ?", "Now crack thy lungs , and split the sounding brass ;", "An he be proud with me , I 'll cure his pride ; a paultry insolent fellow !", "I am not like Achilles .", "And so fell Hector ; but \u2018 tis vain to talk .", "Is he so much ? Do you not think , he thinks himself a better man than me ?", "For Troilus fell by multitudes opprest ,", "You may have every day enough of Hector ,", "If I might in intreaty find success ,", "How now , Patroclus ?", "A great addition from that glorious act :", "Thou art too gentle , and too free a man .", "Trumpet , take that purse :", "But thou hast quite disarmed me .", "You whorson cur , take that ."], "true_target": ["A whoreson dog , that shall palter thus with us ! Would a were a", "And you , Achilles , let these threats alone ;", "Why should a man be proud ? I know not what pride is ; I hate a proud man , as I hate the engendering of toads .", "Speak then , thou mouldy leaven of the camp ;", "Revenged it basely :", "Do not chafe thee , cousin ;\u2014", "Thersites .", "Well , Achilles .", "Tell us the news , I say .", "Yes ; he may know his man without art magic .", "You shall see", "If you have stomach ; the general state , I fear ,", "Do you think so ?", "Tell me the proclamation .", "Ha !", "Weak Achilles .", "Thou blow'st for Hector .", "Ay ; and good next day too .", "I would .", "Not at all , cousin ; here comes Achilles himself , to guide us .", "Thou slave !", "No , yonder \u2018 tis ; there , where we see the light .", "Farewell .", "What 's he more than another ?", "If I go to him , with my gauntlet clenched I 'll pash him o'er the face .", "I came to kill thee , cousin , and to gain", "Let us confer , and I 'll give counsel too .", "Then I am he ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u00c6n . Therefore Achilles ; but whoe'er , know this ;", "As feel in his own fall ; for men , like butterflies ,", "Our toils are done , and those aspiring walls ,", "Patroclus , let us feast him to the height .", "And quoted joint by joint .", "And noble Diomede beneath , whose death", "Trumpet .", "If Hector be to fight with any Greek ,", "Expect .", "If not Achilles , nothing .", "Ere yet the tender nerves had strung thy limbs ,", "O thou art gone , thou sweetest , best of friends !", "Shall I destroy him ? there , or there , or there ?", "To-morrow will I meet thee , fierce as death ;", "How , cudgel him , Thersites !", "Now , Hector , I have fed mine eyes on thee ;", "Keep Hector company an hour or two .", "I but force a smile ; Ajax has drawn the lot , and all the praise of", "Why did I let thee tempt the shock of war ,", "I see my reputation is at stake .", "Welcome , brave Hector ; welcome , princes all .", "He knows his man .", "You may hear more .", "\u2018 Tis certain , greatness , once fallen out with fortune ,", "And that , which looks like pride , is courtesy .", "Re-enter AJAX , AGAMEMNON , MENELAUS , ULYSSES , NESTOR , DIOMEDE ,", "He shall as soon read in the eyes of others ,", "Thersites .", "I will , I will revenge thee , my Patroclus !", "Must fall out with men too : what the declined is ,", "Nay , thou shalt not go , Thersites , till we have squeezed the venom out of thee : pr'ythee , inform us of this proclamation .", "My dear Patroclus , I am quite prevented", "Tell me , ye heavens , in which part of his body", "O , tell , tell .\u2014 This must be very foolish ; and I die to have my spleen tickled .", "For my dead friend : strike every hand with mine ,", "Why , how now , Ajax ! wherefore do you this ? How now , Thersites , what 's the matter , man ?", "Shall Ajax fight with Hector ?", "To-night , all peace .", "Must crumble into rubbish on the plain .", "So let him sleep , for I 'll no more of him .\u2014 O , my Patroclus ,", "Revenge is honour , the securest way .", "Good morrow , Ajax .", "Thou shalt be my ambassador to him , Thersites .", "Make haste , my soldiers ; give me this day 's pains", "Peace , fool .", "This hand of mine revenged .", "To him , Patroclus ; tell him I humbly desire the valiant Ajax to invite the noble Hector to my tent ; and to procure safe conduct for him from our captain general Agamemnon .", "Hector 's great spirit flew ! answer me , heavens !", "What , comes the general to speak with me ? You know my mind ; I 'll fight no more with Troy .", "I have with exact view perused thee , Hector ,", "The knight opposed ; he might have found his match .", "Why , but he is not in this tune , is he ?", "Do'st thou entreat me , Hector ?", "That I may give the imagined wound a name ,"], "true_target": ["From whence , fragment ?", "I am Achilles .", "Weak Ajax !", "Since you will have it ,", "Great Hector knows no pride : weigh him but well ,", "This Ajax is half made of Hector 's blood ,", "But what I know not yet .\u2014 No more ; our champion .", "To save all Greece . Let honour go or stay ,", "Umh ! mean nothing !", "Patroclus , I 'll speak with nobody ;\u2014 come in after me ,", "Good morrow .", "\u2018 Tis done like Hector , but securely done ;", "to Ajax . You do not mean yourself , sure ?", "My mind is troubled , like a fountain stirred ; And I myself see not the bottom o n't .", "I 'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night ,", "Thou crusty batch of nature , what 's the news ?", "Show not their mealy wings but to the summer .", "But thou shalt hear him calling Charon back ,", "Nestor will stay ; and you , lord Diomede ,", "\u00c6n . If not Achilles , sir , what is your name ?", "But one to fight with Hector .", "No .", "An oath that I have sworn ; and will not break it", "And knotted into strength ! Yet , though too late ,", "And make distinct the very breach , whereout", "Thou art too brief . I will , the second time ,", "From my great purpose , bent on Hector 's life .", "As I would buy thee , view thee limb by limb .", "Behold thy fill .", "Am I poor of late ?", "Enter , my lords .", "A maiden battle ? I perceive you then .", "What mean these fellows ? know they not Achilles ?", "Till Hector breathless on the ground we lay !", "There 's more religion in my love than fame .", "Hector must be his .", "What , does the cuckold scorn me !", "Who 's there , Thersites ? Why , my digestion , why hast thou not served thyself to my table so many meals ? Come , begin ; what 's Agamemnon ?", "Nor shall thy ghost thy murderers long attend ,", "The work of gods , and almost mating heaven ,", "Here is a letter from my love Polyxena ,", "Ere thou art wafted to the farther shore .\u2014", "Which with my sword I mean to cool to-morrow .", "Lies Troilus high upon a heap of slain ;", "A little proudly , and too much despising", "I can brook no comparisons .", "In love whereof half Hector stays at home .", "Patroclus , now be quiet ; Hector 's dead ;", "How now , thou core of envy ,", "Both taxing and engaging me to keep", "Well , Ajax .", "And , as a second offering to thy ghost ,", "Pr'ythee , say how he behaves himself ?", "I 'll do something ;"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And love shall from your neck unloose his folds ;", "O then beware ; those wounds heal ill , that men", "A woman , impudent and mannish grown ,", "You rascal ! Achil , He is a privileged man ; proceed , Thersites . Ha , ha , ha ! pr'ythee , proceed , while I am in the vein of laughing .", "Is not more loathed than an effeminate man ,", "Did move you to this visit : He 's not well ,", "And send their smiles before them to Achilles ;", "Be shaken into air .", "Nestor shall not escape so ; he has told us what we are . Come , what 's Nestor ?", "Well said , adversity ! what makes thee so keen to-day ?", "Here comes Thersites .", "Or , like a dew-drop from a lion 's mane ,", "\u2018 Tis known you are in love with Hector 's sister ,", "How he struts in expectation of honour ! he knows not what he does .", "If any thing more than your sport and pleasure", "To holy altars .", "Look , who comes here .", "In time of action : I am condemned for this :", "Your answer , sir ?", "Achilles bids me tell you , he is sorry", "Thou mayest tell , that knowest .", "To come as humbly as they used to creep", "Draws on you this contempt . I oft have told you ,"], "true_target": ["But what 's the quarrel ?", "Jove bless the mighty Ajax !", "And to procure him safe conduct from Agamemnon .", "Yes , and perhaps shall gain much honour by him .", "I shall say so to him .", "Have given themselves , because they give them deepest .", "Within , but ill disposed , my lord .", "And begs you would excuse him , as unfit", "Why am I a fool ?", "They pass by strangely ; they were used to bow ,", "Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent .", "Meaning me ?", "And therefore will not fight ; and your not fighting", "What say you to it ?", "For present business .", "I come from the great Achilles .", "Deads all the fire in you ; but rouse yourself ,", "Ay , my lord .", "I shall , and bring his answer presently .", "They think my little appetite to war", "He tells you true , you are both equal .", "Who 's there , Thersites ? Good Thersites , come in and rail .", "Thy benefactor , Thersites . Then tell me , pr'ythee , what 's thyself ?", "Come , this must be no quarrel ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Let it be known to him , that we are here ."], "true_target": ["Where 's Achilles ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Why , he relies on none", "Here comes Patroclus ; but no Achilles with him .", "We saw him at the opening of his tent .", "That the death-tokens of it are upon him ,"], "true_target": ["What should I say ? he is so plaguy proud ,", "Achilles will not to the field to-morrow .", "Good night , my lord .", "And bode there 's no recovery .", "But his own will ; possessed he is with vanity ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["There 's a huge , fat , religious gentleman coming up , sir . He says he 's but a friar , but he 's big enough to be a pope ; his gills are as rosy as a turkey cock 's ; his great belly walks in state before him , like an harbinger ; and his gouty legs come limping after it : Never was such a ton of devotion seen .", "Shall they strike up , sir ?"], "true_target": ["They play to the man in the moon , for aught they know .", "Yes , sir ; I hear , by some certain signs , they are both awake ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["How do you , how do you ?"], "true_target": ["Let them come , let them come .", "Why dost thou laugh , unseasonable fool ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Of anger and revenge ; my love to Troy", "That ring he saw you wear , he much suspects", "But are debarred all future means of flight .", "My lord , I 'll call her to you .", "To intercede for him , who shall be vanquished .", "So quickly vanished ! he was here but now .", "For Diomede told me , here they were to fight .", "To interpose betimes", "Thou has reclaimed my mind , and calmed my passions", "False Diomede , bred in Ulysses \u2019 school ,", "And leave our flight more easy .", "Revives within me , and my lost tiara", "No more disturbs my mind .", "No more : retire .", "You must prevent , and not complain .", "Betwixt their swords ; or , if that cannot be ,"], "true_target": ["I have a woman 's longing to return ;", "If Diomede sink beneath the sword of Troilus", "O , what a blessing is a virtuous child !", "This Argus then may close his hundred eyes ,", "Clashing within .", "Put them in practice all ; seem lost and won ,", "He must be gone to search for Diomede ;", "You must dissemble love to Diomede still :", "Fate leaves no middle course .", "But by strong arts and blandishments of love .", "But yet which way , without your aid , I know not .", "Was given you by a lover ; let him have it .", "Why , \u2018 tis for him you do it ; promise largely ;", "Can never be deceived ,", "Hark ! I hear his voice . Pursue your project ; doubt not the success .", "And draw him on , and give him line again .", "We lose not only a protector here ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And conquest sit as close and sure as this .", "That I should give you cause of just offence .", "Oh , could I have that thought , I should not love thee ;", "\u2018 Tis not for nothing when my spirits droop ;", "For , when you leave me , my presaging mind", "Thy soul is proof to all things but to kindness ;", "And all cry , Hector , Hector 's dead ! Oh Hector !", "And heaven abhors the forfeit of rash vows ,", "I cannot , O I dare not let you go ;", "Your enemies too well your courage know ,", "The steep of heaven , to some obscure retreat .", "And Ilium brightened with a midnight blaze :", "The gods protect you , and restore you to me !", "From our imagined fears , our idle feet", "Did you , my lord ?", "Grow to the ground , our struggling voice dies inward ;", "Farewell , farewell ; \u2018 tis vain to strive with fate !", "Behold distraction , frenzy , and amazement ,", "The gods forbid !", "Such honour as the brave gain after death ;", "No notes of sally , for the heaven 's sweet sake !", "Of trampling horses , and of chariot wheels", "How mad Cassandra , full of prophecy ,", "Ran round the streets , and , like a Bacchanal ,", "Hark how Troy roars , how Hecuba cries out ,", "Come , let me gird thy fortune to thy side ,", "Cried ,\u2014 Hold him , Priam , \u2018 tis an ominous day ;"], "true_target": ["My faltering tongue can give no glad presage :", "Cassandra 's raging god inspires my breast", "Alas , I am no more Andromache .", "And , when the storm is past , put out to sea .", "With truths that must be told , and not believed .", "Look how he dies ! look how his eyes turn pale !", "So now , when I would force myself to chear you ,", "Be to thy enemies this boding dream !", "Look how his blood bursts out at many vents !", "Wading in blood up to their axle-trees ;", "Like spotted livers in a sacrifice .", "Like antiques meet , and tumble upon heaps !", "Oh wretched woman , oh !", "For I have dreamt all night of horrid slaughters ,", "Of fiery demons gliding down the skies ,", "O brother , do not urge a brother 's fate ,", "When they have driven thy helpless genius down", "He cannot think so ;\u2014 do not urge him thus .", "O therefore , if thou lovest me , go not forth .", "This is a day when thy ill stars are strong ,", "What shall I do to seem the same I was ?\u2014", "And widowed I fill all the streets with screams !", "Let him not go , for Hector is no more .", "And therefore \u2018 twas that I forbore to tell thee ,", "But , as in slumbers , when we fain would run", "I cannot , for my hand obeys me not ;", "Says , I shall never , never see you more .", "But , let this wreck of heaven and earth roll o'er ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Turn , slave , and fight ."], "true_target": ["A bastard son of Priam 's .", "The devil take thee , coward ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Against the rising , spent with painful march ,", "Up yon sandy hill ;"], "true_target": ["A wavering body working with bent hams", "You may discern them by their smoking track :", "And by loose footing cast on heaps together ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["How swift he shot away ! I find it stung him ,", "All night devoutly watched , and bribed the saints", "In spite of his dissembling .", "Of Arragon our squandered troops he rallies .", "Learn respect", "to Lor . You know I put your sister into a nunnery , with a strict command not to see you , for fear you should have wrought upon her to have taken the habit , which was never my intention ; and consequently , I married her without your knowledge , that it might not be in your power to prevent it .", "Forced , for her safety , to commit a crime ,", "Mark how disdainfully he throws his eyes on us .", "Well \u2014 but all this while , who is this colonel Hernando ?", "His utmost forces on this next assault ,", "Who knows which way she points ?", "Well , we are soldiers , Pedro ; and , like lawyers ,", "What means this pause ?", "His father absent on an embassy ;", "Mourn inward , brother ; \u2018 tis observed at court ,", "Is easier to be stopt , than is his ruin .", "Noise so confused and dreadful ; jostling crowds .", "Had this colonel any former design upon your wife ? for , if that be proved , you shall have justice .", "Well , what have you to say against your wife , Gomez ?", "Our lawful prince !", "As true as your wife Elvira is my daughter .", "But now , I have accomplished my designs ,", "Answer these questions first , and then a thousand more ;", "I told him so ;", "We were so close blocked up , that none could peep", "Like meteors , by each other in the streets .", "O welcome , welcome ! is the general safe ?", "Himself a stranger almost ; wholly friendless !", "For my part , I see no wrong that has been offered him .", "I have no secular power to reward the pains you have taken with my daughter ; but I shall do it by proxy , friar : your bishop 's my friend , and is too honest to let such as you infect a cloister .", "The Moor will \u2018 gage", "I am sorry you are come hither to accuse your wife ; her education has been virtuous , her nature mild and easy .", "It could not be :", "Upon the walls and live . But yet \u2018 tis time .", "\u2018 Tis a procession .", "Doubling and turning like an hunted hare ;\u2014", "Virtue must be thrown off ; \u2018 tis a coarse garment ,", "Now he begins to open .", "How far did you pursue them ?", "To pray for our success against the Moors .", "Speak boldly , man ! and say what thou wilt stand by : did he strike thee ?", "Leap on your hunters . Speak your actions boldly ;", "Pedro ?\u2014 how goes the night ?", "How many of the enemy are slain ?", "No more ; behold the queen .", "I should be glad he knew them . His wild riots", "Call up your courage timely to your aid ,", "Allowed to praise itself .", "A torrent , rolling down a precipice ,", "Which most her soul abhors .", "What colonel ?", "Will fix all eyes on every act of yours ,", "Disturb my soul ; but they would sit more close ,", "Mark how he sounds and fathoms him ,"], "true_target": ["Truth is , I pity Leonora 's case ;", "Thou reviv'st me .", "In Torrismond , o'erwhelm my private ills .", "With vows for her deliverance .", "Weak remedies ;", "Our old imprisoned king wore no such looks .", "She has not been abed , but in her chapel", "To win a queen and kingdom .", "Plead for our pay .", "For his safe conduct he entreats your presence ,", "Who weeps , and who wears black ; and your return", "Then welcome day-light ; we shall have warm work o n't .", "You know what reasons urged me ;", "No honest man but must .", "I wish I were ; to be past sense of this !", "There is a time when modest virtue is", "He 's a successful warrior ,", "And , like a lion , pressed upon the toils ,", "Heaven avert it !", "The queen is going to the great cathedral ,", "Ha , boy , what say'st thou ?", "Find out the meaning of her mind who can .", "No more .\u2014 Duke Bertran .", "Expect his swift arrival .", "Or , are we succoured ? are the Moors removed ?", "That may breed bad blood betwixt him and Bertran .", "That run , and know not whither ; torches gliding ,", "And has the soldiers \u2019 hearts : upon the skirts", "Brother , there 's news from Bertran ; he desires", "Answer them all together .", "Such triumphs as were given by ancient Rome :", "When will he make his entry ? he deserves", "How , rebel , art thou there ?", "When saw you my Lorenzo ?", "And begs you would be speedy .", "She came a spotless virgin to your bed .", "Never was known a night of such distraction ;", "But had an answer louder than a storm .", "Now you are mad indeed , Gomez ; this is my son", "Did not the threatened downfal of our house ,", "His foreign breeding might have taught him better .", "To find the shallows of his soul !", "But all must be attempted .", "Then to declare his madness to his rival !", "Too heavy for the sun-shine of a court .", "Lorenzo .", "Admittance to the king , and cries aloud ,\u2014", "This day shall end our fears of civil war !\u2014", "Stand : give the word .", "Our watchmen from the towers with longing eyes", "To the first prince of the blood .", "Lorenzo .", "How near our army ? when shall we be succoured ?", "To see how you resent King Sancho 's death ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Had helped to make him great .", "Sit heavy on her , and weigh down her prayers .", "But theirs embroidered ; they are sent out fools ,", "The rabble gather round the man of news ,", "Whole droves of lenders crowd the bankers \u2019 doors ,", "The fawning joy of courtiers and of dogs .", "Gomez , give way to the old gentleman in black .", "Where money goes ; for when they rise , \u2018 tis plunder :", "It gives my sword an edge . You see this Bertran", "What can we less expect than what we feel ,", "Very good : she usurps the throne , keeps the old king in prison , and , at the same time , is praying for a blessing . Oh religion and roguery , how they go together ! Look down , ye blessed above , look down , Behold our weeping matrons \u2019 tears , Behold our tender virgins \u2019 fears , And with success our armies crown .Look down , ye blessed above , look down : Oh ! save us , save as , and our state restore ; For pity , pity , pity , we implore : For pity , pity , pity , we implore .", "Well said , i'faith ;", "There hung a wench , the label of his function ,", "Another sin , before he left the world .", "And harassed out with duty .", "How he will be received ; I fear , but coldly .", "Then heaven must not be heaven . Judge the event", "It must be swift , or it will come too late .", "Of our own growth ; his dulness is but plain ,", "Be for the colonel ; Oh , he 's the finest man !", "O ! would the general shake off his dotage to the usurping queen ,", "Say a short soldier 's prayer , to spare the trouble", "There sprung the mine .", "Come puffing with his greasy bald-pate choir ,", "The doors are all shut up ; the wealthier sort ,", "And re-enthrone good venerable Sancho ,", "And he , who lies most loud , is most believed .", "He draws his army off .", "His children murdered , and his friends destroyed ,\u2014", "\u2018 Twas rumoured in the camp , he loves the queen .", "Nay , for my part , \u2018 tis but a single life", "For his destruction . Old Penelope 's tale", "I fear they come too late . Her father 's crimes", "As much as when physicians shake their heads ,", "This speech is e'en too good for an usurper .", "And fumbling o'er his beads in such an agony ,", "How , idle murmurs ! Let me plainly speak :", "Give me an honest home-spun country clown", "By what has passed . The usurper joyed not long", "The rest , an heartless number , spent with watching ,", "As if cold water had been poured upon you .", "Inverted ; he has unravelled all by day ,", "Mine are drawn off", "Peace ; nature works within them .", "Now , plague and pox on his smock-loyalty !", "Come , come , your grievances , your grievances .", "A good cause would do well though :", "I hear the general 's trumpet . Stand and mark", "I believe the friar has bewitched him .", "\u2018 Tis fruitless to complain ; haste to the court ;", "Is this a time for fooling ? Your cousin is run honourably mad in love with her majesty ; he is split upon a rock , and you , who are in chase of harlots , are sinking in the main ocean . I think , the devil 's in the family .", "With a globe in one hand , and a sceptre in t'other ?", "Oh envy , envy , how it works within him !", "A crown usurped ; a lawful king deposed ,", "O you mistake him ; \u2018 twas an humble grin ,", "Pox on this lion-way of wooing , though . Is the queen stirring yet ?", "He has supplied his only foe with arms", "But since this message came , you sink and settle ,", "O , here he comes ! what will their greetings be ?", "O , Alphonso !", "Put on your t'other face , the queen approaches .", "Now we want your son Lorenzo : what a mighty faction", "A drivelling hero , fit for a romance .\u2014", "Whom he shook off , i'faith , methought , unkindly .", "The usurper gained the kingdom , was refused ;", "Wont you be for the colonel ? if you love me ,"], "true_target": ["Let me come ; if he be mad , I have that shall cure him . There 's no surgeon in all Arragon has so much dexterity as I have at breathing of the temple-vein .", "I 'll undertake , should Bertran sound his trumpets ,", "Your brother 's son .", "Fresh-coloured , well thriven on his trade ,\u2014", "With arms across , and hats upon their eyes ,", "What , backward and forward , Gomez ! dost thou hunt counter ?", "The queen of Arragon .", "Had bad men feared him , but as good men loved him ,", "And listen with their mouths ;", "Would I had but a lease of life so long ,", "Why , how now , Gomez ? what mak'st thou here , with a whole brotherhood of city-bailiffs ? Why , thou look'st like Adam in Paradise , with his guard of beasts about him .", "He 's gone a harlot-hunting .", "Against our sovereign lady ;\u2014 mad for a queen ?", "Might rest upon it ; a true son of the church ;", "And Torrismond but whistle through his fingers ,", "With ,\u2014 Oh , dear husband , my sweet honey husband ,", "Made sour and senseless , turned to whey by love ;", "And , as an infidel , his love despised .", "Our walls are thinly manned ; our best men slain ;", "It seems the holy stallion durst not score", "Because the Moor Abdalla , with whose troops", "Would he make for us of the city-wives ,", "In bondage held , debarred the common light ;", "By my computation now , the victory was gained before the procession was made for it ; and yet it will go hard but the priests will make a miracle of it .", "What learn our youth abroad , but to refine", "So , here 's fine work !", "The homely vices of their native land ?", "I want time to unriddle it :", "Improve your interest there for pardon from the queen .", "He told them false , for fear . About his neck", "What hope we have , is in young Torrismond ,", "Your fury then boiled upward to a foam ;", "His ill-got crown :\u2014 \u2018 tis true , he died in peace ,\u2014", "Unriddle that , ye powers !\u2014 but left his daughter ,", "To take a short repose .", "Yes , in private . But Bertran has been taught the arts of court , To gild a face with smiles , and leer a man to ruin , O here they come .\u2014 Enter TORRISMOND and Officers on one Side , BERTRAN attended on the other ; they embrace , BERTRAN bowing low . Just as I prophesied .\u2014", "A very pretty moppet !", "I met a reverend , fat , old gouty friar ,\u2014", "I have to lose . I 'll plant my colours down", "With a paunch swoll'n so high , his double chin", "As \u2018 till my flesh and blood rebelled this way ,", "In the mid-breach , and by them fix my foot ;", "Some tell , some hear , some judge of news , some make it ;", "Now my tongue itches .", "He 's ruined , past redemption !", "I hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted ,", "But come back fops .", "I had a glimpse of him ; but he shot by me ,", "Hence , you well know , this fatal war arose ;", "That 's young Lorenzo 's duty .", "There hung a cloud , methought , on Bertran 's brow .", "To marry with young Bertran , whose cursed father", "She wears apace .", "\u2018 Tis that has taught him this .", "And what we fear will follow ?", "What title has this queen , but lawless force ? And force must pull her down .", "The next fair bullet .", "Heart ! you were hot enough , too hot , but now ;", "Walk to and fro before their silent shops ;", "Our present queen , engaged upon his death-bed ,", "Of my new friends above ; and then expect", "Has now three times been beaten by the Moors :", "Like a young hound upon a burning scent ;", "He had not yet been sainted .", "To call in money ; those , who have none , mark", "And bid their dying patient think of heaven .", "That he has done by night . What , planet struck !"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["\u2018 Tis what I feared ; her words are cold enough ,", "I humbly take my leave ; but they , who blast", "Good-night all , then .", "Level their cannon lower : On my soul", "Neglects her champions after noble acts ,", "I will not fall , nor single .", "What price you hold yourself at . You have fought", "Why stand you mute ?", "To-morrow will deliver all her charms", "Mercy is good , a very good dull virtue ;", "\u2014 May I presume", "He reined them strongly , and he spurred them hard :", "Thou walkest as on a narrow mountain 's neck ,", "This anvil of affronts , but sent him hence", "This turn 's too quick to be without design ;", "So left it to my care .", "He might have sent us word though ;", "She threw the odium of the fact on me ,", "Self-preservation is the first of laws ;", "He 's mad , beyond the cure of hellebore . Whips , darkness , dungeons , for this insolence .", "Thither will all the mounting spirits fly ;", "Your country rescued , and your queen relieved ,\u2014", "For him she loves ?", "You much surprise me , to demand that question :", "A praise , a smile , a look from her is worth", "Whose fierce demeanour , and whose insolence ,", "And publicly avowed her love to you .", "She named not me ; that may be Torrismond ,", "I hope I need not , madam ;", "So long as there 's a head ,", "What business , madam ?", "Your father knew them well ; and , when he mounted ,", "The praises of a young and beauteous queen", "One to the gunners on St Jago 's tower ; bid them , for shame ,", "And , but he durst not do it all at once ,", "O , let him rave ! I 'll not contend with madmen .", "Yet this is he , who filled your court with tumult ,", "Short let it be :", "Of promised blessings ; for they then are debts .", "And pointed full upon the stroke of murder :", "They are all corrupted with the gold of Barbary ,", "And whom should kings esteem above heaven 's darlings ?", "I 'll think again .", "There has been heard a distant humming noise ,", "There might you read your own dominion doubled ,", "Believe me , madam ,", "When manly courage bids them be severe :", "Love is the freest motion of our minds :", "But as , when men in sickness lingering lie ,", "The patience of a god could not support .", "The thronging crowds press on you as you pass ,", "I did my best ;", "I 'll try him farther .\u2014", "But , still suspecting that her love was changed ,", "And then we could have favoured his attempt", "This \u2018 tis , to serve a prince too faithfully ;", "I 'll sound the bottom of't , ere I believe .", "My genius whispers me ,\u2014 Be cautious , Bertran !", "To know , I am no coward .", "Far be it from me to believe you bound ;", "Relieve the sentries that have watched all night .", "Unrevenged", "To cut for them , when self-defence requires it .", "Which makes it pass unquestioned through the world .", "But lucky men are favourites of heaven :", "That you stand idle here ?", "Is the first fame . Virtue without success", "The people rend the skies with loud applause ,", "I might have found it sooner .", "So , every day deferred , to dying lovers ,", "Who , free from laws himself , will have that done ,", "Is a whole age of pain !", "O , never man so much , for saint-like goodness .", "He thinks you owe him more than you can pay ;", "And lets their laurels wither on their heads .", "What courage in our soldiers ? Speak ! What hope ?", "Whose lenity first pleased the gaping crowd ;", "O , now I find where your ambition drives ! You ought not to think of her .", "Methinks I start as from some dreadful dream ,", "Of her new worshipper .", "If princes not protect their ministers ,", "O could you see into my secret soul ,", "Not speak , my lord ! How were your thoughts employed ?", "And bear the news .", "He had not left alive this patient saint ,", "Yes : you have seen her , and you must confess ,", "Lorenzo . Good news , kind heaven !", "Know I can die , but dare not be displeased .", "To freeze a man to death .", "You brand us all with black ingratitude :", "A joyful cry ; and see your son", "Thought of the queen , perhaps ?", "I 'll spare his trouble .\u2014", "I 'll to the queen ,", "He tempts his certain ruin ."], "true_target": ["Fond young man !", "The more she thinks , \u2018 twill work the stronger in her .", "Both as a queen and mistress . If you leave me ,", "I think all fortune is reserved for him !\u2014", "Yet this you said ,", "Would work too fiercely on the giddy crowd :", "Shall I upbraid her ? Shall I call her false ?", "This \u2018 tis to have a virtue out of season .", "Death and hell ! Dare to speak thus when you come out again .", "Objects of pity , when the cause is new ,", "Yet men are suffered to put heaven in mind", "But when long tried , and found supinely good ,", "You answer nothing .", "And hymn it in the quire .", "I plead no merit , but a bare forgiveness .", "The dial spoke not , but it made shrewd signs ,", "And if , when subjects are oppressed by kings ,", "Like \u00c6sop 's Log , they leapt upon his back .", "On pain of death , let no man dare to sally .", "Your good opinion of me , may have cause", "And looks as he were lord of human kind .", "The wings of your ambition must be clipt :", "Your shame-faced virtue shunned the people 's praise ,", "I see for whom I must be sacrificed ;", "Yet happiness", "And with their eager joy make triumph slow .", "Whom she has thrice in private seen this day ;", "Then I am fairly caught in my own snare .", "Had C\u00e6sar 's body never been exposed ,", "\u2018 Tis of so high a nature , should I speak it ,", "To carry over , and not hurt the Moor .", "To hold a peaceful branch of palm above ,", "With some success , and that has sealed your pardon .", "That my presumption then would equal his .", "No , \u2018 tis too late ; I will not hazard it :", "Which , not performed , brings us to sure disgrace ;", "You bade me .", "Of god-like senates , is the stamp of virtue ,", "Some discontents there are ; some idle murmurs .", "They justify rebellion by that law ,", "And , had I not been sotted with my zeal ,", "But , since truth must be told , \u2018 twas by your own .", "These jealousies , however large they spread ,", "For times to come shall say ,\u2014 Our Spain , like Rome ,", "Be last to fix them on you . If refused ,", "This Torrismond begins to grow too fast ;", "A dreadful height , with scanty room to tread .", "Some false attack : expect on t'other side .", "The just applause", "A glorious conquest , noble Torrismond !", "Better be cruel once , than anxious ever .", "No , I confess , you bade me not in words ;", "Fate was not in my power .", "And senate 's honours : But \u2018 tis well we know", "Have but one root , the old imprisoned king ;", "You were a woman , ignorant and weak ,", "And then securely take the man you love .", "And heaven can hear no other name but yours .", "And , if performed , to ruin .", "Brutus had gained his cause .", "Shall crown your glorious acts .", "They count the tedious hours by months and years ,\u2014", "If she be false , \u2018 tis what she most desires .", "Lop that but off , and then \u2014", "If one of you must fall ,", "And mine be all the blame .", "But kings mistake its timing , and are mild ,", "She , she shall praise you , for I can oblige her :", "To sound the very soul of her designs .", "\u2018 Tis well ; the goddess shall be told , she shall ,", "What man will dare to serve them ?", "I spread abroad the rumour of his death ,", "The event , you know , was answering to my fears ;", "\u2014 Madam , it shall be done ;", "With sallies from the town .", "Now , colonel , have you disposed your men ,", "These honours you deserve ; nor shall my suffrage", "Bad men , when \u2018 tis their interest , may do good .", "It was not safe :", "Into my arms , and make her mine for ever .\u2014", "I would not have her think , he dared to love her ;", "And often ask myself if yet I wake .\u2014", "For , from the Moorish camp , this hour and more ,", "Remove this threatening danger from your crown ,", "And urged the queen by specious arguments :", "If he presume to own it , she 's so proud ,", "The shouts of thousand amphitheatres .", "As well may monarchs turn the edge of right", "To speak , and to complain ?", "Like bees disturbed , and arming in their hives .", "He must be mine , or ruined .", "Then , was it but a trial ?", "Is a fair picture shewn by an ill light ;", "So young a stoick !", "I must confess , I counselled Sancho 's murder ;", "Make way , my lords , and let the pageant pass ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Rattling of armour , trumpets , drums , and ataballes ;", "Like those of vanquished men ; but every echo", "From the Moors \u2019 camp the noise grows louder still :"], "true_target": ["To arms , my lord , to arms !", "Goes fainter off , and dies in distant sounds .", "Like victory : then groans again , and howlings ,", "And sometimes peals of shouts that rend the heavens ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Our army , led by valiant Torrismond ,", "My lord , here 's fresh intelligence arrived ."], "true_target": ["Is now in hot engagement with the Moors ;", "\u2018 Tis said , within their trenches ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Welcome , father .", "That 's but a hair 's breadth at farthest .", "And took what joint came next , arms , heads , or legs ,", "I mean , a female , mortal , married-woman-saint : Look upon the superscription of this note ; you know Don Gomez 's wife .", "What , take away a man 's wife , and kill him too ! The wickedness of this old villain startles me , and gives me a twinge for my own sin , though it comes far short of his .\u2014 Hark you , soldiers , be sure you use as little violence to him as is possible .", "This is unconscionable dealing ; to be made a slave , and know not whose livery I wear . Who have we yonder ? Enter GOMEZ .By that shambling in his walk , it should be my rich old banker , Gomez , whom I knew at Barcelona : As I live \u2018 tis he !\u2014 What , old Mammon here !", "I perceive , madam , by your holding me at this distance , that there is somewhat you expect from me : what am I to undertake , or suffer , ere I can be happy ?", "How , thy conscience not digest them ! There is ne'er a friar in Spain can shew a conscience , that comes near it for digestion . It digested pimping , when I sent thee with my letter ; and it digested perjury , when thou swor'st thou didst not know me : I am sure it has digested me fifty pounds , of as hard gold as is in all Barbary . Pr'ythee , why shouldest thou discourage fornication , when thou knowest thou lovest a sweet young girl ?", "No ; I 'll keep thee from hanging thyself for such an extravagance ; and , instead of it , thou shalt do me a mere verbal courtesy . I have just now seen a most incomparable young lady .", "Troth , I also made bold to strike up a bargain with him , that , if I escaped with life and plunder , I would present some brother of his order with part of the booty taken from the infidels , to be employed in charitable uses .", "Meaning me , madam ?", "Three as good qualities for my purpose as I could wish : now love be praised !", "What , have I taken all this pains about a sister ?", "I 'll not hang alone , friar ; I 'm resolved to peach thee before thy superiors , for what thou hast done already .", "Troth , sir , we were in haste , and could not stay", "This is but the interest of my debt , master usurer ; the principal shall be paid you at our next meeting .", "Well said , i'faith , friar ; thou art come off thyself , but poor", "To score the men we killed ; but there they lie :", "Take your rebel back again , father mine : The beaten party are rebels to the conquerors . I have been at hard-head with your butting citizens ; I have routed your herd ; I have dispersed them ; and now they are retreated quietly , from their extraordinary vocation of fighting in the streets , to their ordinary vocation of cozening in their shops .", "How ! not call him father ? I see preferment alters a man strangely ; this may serve me for a use of instruction , to cast off my father when I am great . Methought too , he called himself the lawful king ; intimating sweetly , that he knows what 's what with our sovereign lady :\u2014 Well if I rout my father , as I hope in heaven I shall , I am in a fair way to be the prince of the blood .\u2014 Farewell , general ; I will bring up those that shall try what mettle there is in orange tawny .", "\u2018 Tis no qualm of conscience , I 'll be sworn . You see , madam , it is interest governs all the world . He preaches against sin ; why ? because he gets by it : He holds his tongue ; why ? because so much more is bidden for his silence .", "Nay , I 'll wait on you down stairs .\u2014 Fifty pounds for the postage of a letter ! to send by the church is certainly the dearest road in Christendom .", "Lead up your myrmidons , and enter .", "All clustering in a heap , like swarming hives ,", "If railing and reproaching be to name her .", "My cousin ruined , says he ! hum , not that I wish my kinsman 's ruin ; that were unchristian : but , if the general is ruined , I am heir ; there 's comfort for a Christian ! Money I have ; I thank the honest Moors for it ; but I want a mistress . I am willing to be lewd ; but the tempter is wanting on his part .", "Here are nothing but lies to be expected : I 'll even go lose myself in some blind alley , and try if any courteous damsel will think me worth the finding .", "But now they cry , \u201c Down with the palace , fire it ,", "The friar has an hawk 's eye to gold and jewels .", "Then you are married ?", "Thou hast all her marks ; but she has a husband , a jealous , covetous , old hunks : Speak ! canst thou tell me news of her ?", "Come , thou art so suspicious upon an idle story ! That woman I saw , I mean that little , crooked , ugly woman ,\u2014 for t'other was a lie ,\u2014 is no more thy wife ,\u2014 As I 'll go home with thee , and satisfy thee immediately , my dear friend .", "Pedro , they must be had , and speedily ;", "Why thy mouth waters at the very mention of them .", "In sign and token whereof , the parties interchangeably , and so forth .\u2014 When should I be weary of sealing upon this soft wax ?", "Well , I am the most unlucky rogue ! I have been ranging over half the town ; but have sprung no game . Our women are worse infidels than the Moors : I told them I was one of the knight-errants , that delivered them from ravishment ; and I think in my conscience , that is their quarrel to me .", "I shall make bold to disburden him of my hundred pistoles , to make him the lighter for his journey : indeed , \u2018 tis partly out of conscience , that I may not be accessory to his breaking his vow of poverty .", "I have some business of importance with her , which I have communicated in this paper ; but her husband is so horribly given to be jealous ,\u2014", "Right ; thou speak'st my very soul .", "How now ! What 's here to do ? my cause a trying , as I live , and that before my own father .\u2014 Now fourscore take him for an old bawdy magistrate , that stands like the picture of madam Justice , with a pair of scales in his hand , to weigh lechery by ounces !", "It 's best marching off , while I can retreat with honour . There 's no trusting this friar 's conscience ; he has renounced me already more heartily than e'er he did the devil , and is in a fair way to prosecute me for putting on these holy robes . This is the old church-trick ; the clergy is ever at the bottom of the plot , but they are wise enough to slip their own necks out of the collar , and leave the laity to be fairly hanged for it .", "Looks fright not men . The general has seen Moors", "Hang it , I hate such ripping up of old unkindness : I was upon the frolic this evening , and came to visit thee in masquerade .", "I dare say for thee , thou hast such a respect for a single billet , thou wouldst almost have thrown on thyself to save it ; thou art for saving every thing but thy soul .", "But how shall I send her word to be ready at the door ? for I must reveal it in confession to you , that I mean to carry her away this evening , by the help of these two soldiers . I know Gomez suspects you , and you will hardly gain admittance .", "What eyes were there ! how keen their glances ! you do well to keep them veiled ; they are too sharp to be trusted out of the scabbard .", "Art thou so obstinate ? Then I denounce open war against thee ; I 'll demolish thy citadel by force ; or , at least , I 'll bring my whole regiment upon thee ; my thousand red locusts , that shall devour thee in free quarters . Farewell , wrought night-cap .", "Arm , arm , my lord ! the city bands are up ;", "As victory can make them . The Moors \u2019 king", "He drinks her health devoutly .", "I hate a formal obligation with an Anno Domini at end o n't ; there may be an evil meaning in the word years , called matrimony .", "Being in the late battle , in great hazard of my life , I recommended my person to good Saint Dominick .", "I am glad he knows me only by that name of Hernando , by which I went at Barcelona ; now he can tell no tales of me to my father .\u2014Come , thou wer't ever good-natured , when thou couldst get by it \u2014 Look here , rogue ; \u2018 tis of the right damning colour : Thou art not proof against gold , sure !\u2014 Do not I know thee for a covetous \u2014", "She is of a middle stature , dark-coloured hair , the most bewitching leer with her eyes , the most roguish cast ! her cheeks are dimpled when she smiles , and her smiles would tempt an hermit .", "Even as thou seest , I make bold here .", "Oh the devil ! What a rogue in understanding was I , not to find him out sooner !", "And , faith , we 'll drink the church 's health out of them . But all this while I stand on thorns . Pr'ythee , dear , look out , and see if the coast be free for our escape ; for I dare not peep , for fear of being known .", "No , faith , I am only your brother in iniquity ; my holiness , like yours , is mere outside .", "A seasonable girl , just in the nick now \u2014", "Then look to see a storm on Torrismond 's ;", "Let her but have a nose ; and you may tell her ,", "\u2018 Tis not so free as you suppose ; for there 's an old gentleman of my acquaintance , that blocks up the passage at the corner of the street .", "I must confess , I did not expect to have been charged first : I see souls will not be lost for want of diligence in this devil 's reign .Now , Madam Cynthia , behind a cloud , your will and pleasure with me ?", "And bear down all before them .", "Now , sir , who proves the traitor ? My conscience is true to me ; it always whispers right , when I have my regiment to back it .", "Nay , if you talk of considering , let us consider why we are alone . Do you think the friar left us together to tell beads ? Love is a kind of penurious god , very niggardly of his opportunities : he must be watched like a hard-hearted treasurer ; for he bolts out on the sudden , and , if you take him not in the nick , he vanishes in a twinkling .", "With as bad faces ; no dispraise to Bertran 's .", "Thus far we have sailed with a merry gale , and now we have the Cape of Good Hope in sight ; the trade-wind is our own , if we can but double it .Ah , my father and Pedro stand at the corner of the street with company ; there 's no stirring till they are past .", "Death and hell , he laughs at him !\u2014 in his face too .", "Then you 're betrayed , my lord .", "I am left in limbo .", "O , I love an easy woman ! there 's such ado , to crack a thick-shelled mistress ; we break our teeth , and find no kernel . \u2018 Tis generous in you , to take pity on a stranger , and not to suffer him to fall into ill hands at his first arrival .", "If he meet with a repulse , we must throw off the fox 's skin , and put on the lion 's .\u2014 Come , gentlemen , you 'll stand by me ?", "Is safe enough , I warrant him , for one .", "It is a habit , that , in all ages , has been friendly to fornication : you have begun the design in this clothing , and I 'll try to accomplish it . The husband is absent , that evil counsellor is removed and the sovereign is graciously disposed to hear my grievances .", "Did he so ? that reflects upon you all ; on my word , father , that touches your copy-hold . If you would do a meritorious action , you might revenge the church 's quarrel .\u2014 My letter , father ,\u2014", "Fear nothing ; the adventure 's ended , and the knight may carry off the lady safely .", "By all that 's holy ! by these dear eyes !\u2014", "I cry thee mercy with all my heart , for suspecting a friar of the least good nature ; what , would you accuse him wrongfully ?"], "true_target": ["On forfeit of your lives , lay down your arms .", "And rising in a moment .", "Good store of harlots , say you , and dog-cheap ?", "If you are modest , I must force you ; for I am strongest .", "What devil has set his claws in thy haunches , and brought thee hither to Saragossa ? Sure he meant a farther journey with thee .", "Here , take them , father .", "And make what haste you can , to bring out the lady .\u2014 What say you , father ? Burglary is but a venial sin among soldiers .", "I never knew a churchman , if he were personally offended , but he would bring in heaven by hook or crook into his quarrel .\u2014 Soldiers , do as you were first ordered .", "You know you cannot marry me ; but , by heavens , if you were in a condition \u2014", "I 'm loth to tell you ;", "The spoils were mighty ; and I scorn to wrong him of a farthing . To make short my story ; I inquired among the jacobins for an almoner , and the general fame has pointed out your reverence as the worthiest man :\u2014 here are fifty good pieces in this purse .", "Drums beating , colours flying , shouts confused ;", "Spite of his woollen night-cap : a slight wound ;", "To confess freely to you , madam , I was never in love with less than your whole sex before ; but now I have seen you , I am in the direct road of languishing and sighing ; and , if love goes on as it begins , for aught I know , by to-morrow morning you may hear of me in rhyme and sonnet . I tell you truly , I do not like these symptoms in myself . Perhaps I may go shufflingly at first ; for I was never before walked in trammels ; yet , I shall drudge and moil at constancy , till I have worn off the hitching in my pace .", "There 's circumcision in abundance for them .", "Is it to your palate , father ?", "As you say , sir , that Rome was very ancient .", "Excepting you , father .", "You may stay , father , but no fifty pounds without it ; that was only promised in the bond : \u201c But the condition of this obligation is such , that if the above-named father , father Dominick , do not well and faithfully perform \u2014 \u201d", "Yes , when I have a thousand tongues , I will .", "Why then , father , you must have recourse to your infallible church-remedies ; lie impudently , and swear devoutly , and , as you told me but now , let him try whose oath will be first believed . Retire , I hear them coming .", "Father Dominick , father Dominick ; why in such haste , man ?", "They make but bungling work .", "Somewhat busy", "No , I 'll be sworn , by what I see of you , you are not :\u2014 To the bottom ;\u2014 I warrant him a true church-man .\u2014 Now , father , to our business : \u2018 tis agreeable to your calling ; I do intend to do an act of charity .", "Give me thy hand ; thou art the honestest , kind man !\u2014 I was resolved I would not out of thy house till I had seen thee .", "Plucked from Moors \u2019 ears .", "At dawn of day our general cleft his pate ,", "Somewhat near your own design , but not altogether so mischievous . The people are infinitely discontented , as they have reason ; and mutinies there are , or will be , against the queen : now I am content to put him thus far into the plot , that he should be secured as a traitor ; but he shall only be prisoner at the soldiers \u2019 quarters ; and when I am out of reach , he shall be released .", "If you please , father , we will not trouble him \u2018 till the next battle . But you may do me a greater kindness , by conveying my prayers to a female saint .", "Let me consider :\u2014 Bear arms against my father ? he begat me ;\u2014 That 's true ; but for whose sake did he beget me ? For his own , sure enough : for me he knew not . Oh ! but says conscience ,\u2014 Fly in nature 's face ?\u2014 But how , if nature fly in my face first ? Then nature 's the aggressor ; let her look to't .\u2014 He gave me life , and he may take it back : No , that 's boys \u2019 play , say I . \u2018 Tis policy for a son and father to take different sides : For then , lands and tenements commit no treason .Sir , upon mature consideration , I have found my father to be little better than a rebel , and therefore , I 'll do my best to secure him , for your sake ; in hope , you may secure him hereafter for my sake .", "And took them unprepared to give us welcome .", "No harm , I warrant you .", "Here , man , just before this corner-house : Pray heaven , it prove no bawdy-house .", "No , faith , father , I was never for taking such long journeys . Repose yourself , I beseech you , sir , if those spindle legs of yours will carry you to the next chair .", "Yes , faith ; we came like bold intruding guests ,", "I leave the choice to you ; fair , black , tall , low ,", "I never was out at a mad frolic , though this is the maddest I ever undertook . Have with you , lady mine ; I take you at your word ; and if you are for a merry jaunt , I 'll try for once who can foot it farthest . There are hedges in summer , and barns in winter , to be found ; I with my knapsack , and you with your bottle at your back : we will leave honour to madmen , and riches to knaves ; and travel till we come to \u2019 the ridge of the world , and then drop together into the next .", "\u2018 Tis a sign by your wan complexion , and your thin jowls , father . Come , to our better acquaintance :\u2014 here 's a sovereign remedy for old age and sorrow .", "Best send our women out to take the tale ;", "I am rich in jewels , rings , and bobbing pearls ,", "Their scouts we killed , then found their body sleeping ;", "Bring him in , and vanish .", "If thou help'st me not to the knowledge of her , thou art a circumcised Jew .", "Hang pumping ! I was thinking a little upon a point of gratitude . We two have been long acquaintance ; I know thy merits , and can make some interest ;\u2014 Go to ; thou wert born to authority ; I 'll make thee Alcaide , Mayor of Saragossa .", "Pedro a word :\u2014", "Cheer up , man , thou art out of jeopardy ; I heard thee crying out just now , and came running in full speed , with the wings of an eagle , and the feet of a tiger , to thy rescue .", "I 'll shew you that immediately .", "Why there 's the satisfaction o n't .", "About affairs relating to the public .\u2014", "Pull out the usurping queen ! \u201d", "I find , Gomez , you are not the man I thought you . We may meet before we come to the bar , we may ; and our differences may be decided by other weapons than by lawyers \u2019 tongues . In the mean time , no ill treatment of your wife , as you hope to die a natural death , and go to hell in your bed . Bilbo is the word , remember that and tremble .\u2014", "Oh , those eyes of yours reproach me justly , that I neglect the subject which brought me hither .", "The devil is punctual , I see ; he has paid me the shame he owed me ; and now the friar is coming in for his part too .", "\u2018 Tis true , they block the castle kept by Bertran ,", "How , madam ! do you invite me to a feast , and then preach abstinence ?", "Not absolutely slain , I must confess ; but I am drawing on apace : you have a dangerous tongue in your head , I can tell you that ; and if your eyes prove of as killing metal , there is but one way with me . Let me see you , for the safeguard of my honour ; \u2018 tis but decent the cannon should be drawn down upon me before I yield .", "Somewhat indecently . But when men want light ,", "Nay , if you will complain , you shall for something .", "Some few miles .\u2014", "My life !", "O , I understand your hint ; the other fifty pieces are ready to be condemned to charity .", "Love , almighty love ; that , which turned Jupiter into a town-bull , has transformed me into a friar . I have had a letter from Elvira , in answer to that I sent by you .", "What a delicious harlot have I lost ! Now , pox upon me , for being so near a-kin to thee !", "I will not ask you your success ; for I overheard part of it , and saw the conclusion . I find we are now put upon our last trump ; the fox is earthed , but I shall send my two terriers in after him .", "But both our fathers thrust them headlong on ,", "If you bring an answer back , that purse in your hand has a twin-brother , as like him as ever he can look ; there are fifty pieces lie dormant in it , for more charities .", "Faith , not for that , clear Gomez ; but \u2014", "What dost thou mutter to thyself ? Hast thou any thing to say against the honesty of that house ?", "I 've kept a tedious fast .", "O miracle , the friar is grown conscientious !", "If you do n't , it were no matter if you did .", "Faith , but I will ; thou hast the face of a magistrate already .", "I am discovered ; now , impudence be my refuge .\u2014 Yes , faith , \u2018 tis I , honest Gomez ; thou seest I use thee like a friend ; this is a familiar visit .", "This may hit ; \u2018 tis more than barely possible ; for friars have free admittance into every house . This jacobin , whom I have sent to , is her confessor ; and who can suspect a man of such reverence for a pimp ? I 'll try for once ; I 'll bribe him high ; for commonly none love money better than they , who have made a vow of poverty .", "The general 's well ; his army too is safe ,", "How ! will you turn recreant at the last cast ? You must along to countenance my undertaking : we are at the door , man .", "And as they lay confused , we stumbled o'er them ,", "Perhaps he may recover ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Of giddy crowds , as changeable as winds ;", "Where darkness and surprise made conquest cheap !", "I have done :", "Thrice vanquished Bertran , if thou dar'st , look out", "Power , promise , choice , the living and the dead ;", "As , what it loudly dares to tell a rival ,", "You wrong me , if you think I 'll sell one drop", "Shall fear to whisper there . Queens may be loved ,", "Why shines the sun , but that he may be viewed ?", "And fortune take the praise .", "Mankind my foes ; and only love to friend :", "Where virtue borrowed but the arms of chance ,", "Turn fortune loose again to my pursuit ,", "Heaven may be thought on , though too high to climb .", "A statue , for a battle blindly fought ,", "\u2018 Tis true , my hopes are vanishing as clouds ;", "Why , if it were ,", "There seal my pardon , where thy fame was lost .", "Nor can I think , or I am lost in thought .", "Pardon from thee !\u2014 O , give me patience , heaven !\u2014", "Of swoln success ; but veering with its ebb ,", "But , oh ! when he 's too bright , if then we gaze ,", "My lord , I have no taste"], "true_target": ["Call for my blood , and sluice it into streams :", "Within these veins for pageants ; but , let honour", "Servant to chance , and blowing in the tide", "Of popular applause ; the noisy praise", "But such a love , kept at such awful distance ,", "And so may gods ; else why are altars raised ?", "My merit 's but the rash result of chance ;", "So I say too ,", "There will I be the first .", "My birth unequal ; all the stars against me :", "I know , \u2018 twas madness to declare this truth :", "Still vehement , and still without a cause ;", "Lighter than children 's bubbles blown by winds :", "I ought not ; madmen ought not to be mad ;", "And yet , \u2018 twere baseness to deny my love .", "Upon yon slaughtered host , that field of blood ;", "Alas ! I cannot speak .", "In dusty plains , amidst the cannons \u2019 roar ,", "The queen ! that were a happiness too great ! Named you the queen , my lord ?", "And struck a random blow !\u2014 \u2018 Twas fortune 's work ,", "And let me hunt her through embattled foes ,", "It leaves the channel dry .", "\u2018 Tis but to weep , and close our eyes in darkness .", "But who can help his frenzy ?"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["My soul !", "Oh , sir , there are arts to reclaim the wildest men , as there are to make spaniels fetch and carry : chide them often , and feed them seldom . Now I know your temper , you may thank yourself , if you are kept to hard meat . You are in for years , if you make love to me .", "Why do you make such haste to have done loving me ? You men are all like watches , wound up for striking twelve immediately ; but after you are satisfied , the very next that follows , is the solitary sound of a single \u2014 one !", "Stranger ! Cavalier !\u2014 will you not hear me ? you Moor-killer , you", "I could not hinder his entrance , for he took me unprovided .", "You know my husband is a man in years ; but he 's my husband , and therefore I shall be silent ; but his humours are more intolerable than his age : he 's grown so froward , so covetous , and so jealous , that he has turned my heart quite from him ; and , if I durst confess it , has forced me to cast my affections on another man .", "\u2018 Twas for joy at your return .", "No ; but my dear , little , old man , tell me now , that I may avoid him for your sake .", "What a terrible similitude have you made , colonel , to shew that you are inclining to the wars ? I could answer you with another in my profession : Suppose you were in want of money , would you not be glad to take a sum upon content in a sealed bag , without peeping ?\u2014 but , however , I will not stand with you for a sample .", "I have read the note , father , and will send him an answer immediately ; for I know his lodgings by his letter .", "This is certainly the dust of gold which you have thrown in the good man 's eyes , that on the sudden he cannot see ; for my mind misgives me , this sickness of his is but apocryphal .", "Yes , to my sorrow , father , I do remember it ; a miserable woman it has made me : but you know , father , a marriage-vow is but a thing of course , which all women take when they would get a husband .", "I 'm sure he has not been here above a quarter of an hour .", "Stay , and I 'll fetch you some comfortable water .", "How he got in I know not , unless it were by virtue of his habit .", "Was it such a crime to inquire how the battle passed ?", "Only to meet you , sweet husband .", "I can easily rid you of that fear : I wish I could rid myself as easily of the bondage .", "No , I invite you to a feast where the dishes are served up in order : you are for making a hasty meal , and for chopping up your entertainment , like a hungry clown . Trust my management , good colonel , and call not for your desert too soon : believe me , that which comes last , as it is the sweetest , so it cloys the soonest .", "This friar is a comfortable man ! He will understand nothing of the business , and yet does it all . Pray , wives and virgins , at your time of need , For a true guide , of my good father 's breed .", "If a covetous , and a jealous , and an old man be a husband .", "When comes my share of the reckoning to be called for ?", "O , my love !", "He 'll come , that 's certain ; young appetites are sharp , and seldom need twice bidding to such a banquet . Well , if I prove frail ,\u2014 as I hope I shall not till I have compassed my design ,\u2014 never woman had such a husband to provoke her , such a lover to allure her , or such a confessor to absolve her . Of what am I afraid , then ? not my conscience , that 's safe enough ; my ghostly father has given it a dose of church-opium , to lull it . Well , for soothing sin , I 'll say that for him , he 's a chaplain for any court in Christendom . Enter LORENZO and DOMINICK . O , father Dominick , what news ?\u2014 How , a companion with you ! What game have you in hand , that you hunt in couples ?", "Who , dear husband , who ?", "I wish , father , you would give me an opportunity of entertaining you in private : I have somewhat upon my spirits that presses me exceedingly .", "I am all obedience .", "I know not what to do , father ; I find myself in a most desperate condition ; and so is the colonel , for love of me .", "I care not ; the sooner I am starved , the sooner I am rid of wedlock . I shall learn the knack to fast o \u2019 days ; you have used me to fasting nights already .", "I am ashamed to acknowledge my infirmities ; but you have been always an indulgent father , and therefore I will venture to \u2014 and yet I dare not !\u2014", "He is but a novice in his order , and is enjoined silence for a penance .", "However , we are both beholden to friar Dominick ; the church is an indulgent mother , she never fails to do her part ."], "true_target": ["What should it be , but to give me some spiritual instructions .", "He will be found , there 's no prevention .", "An honest woman would be glad to hear , that her honour was safe , and her enemies were slain .", "Here 's that will make you dance without a fiddle , and provide better entertainment for us , than hedges in summer , and barns in winter . Here 's the very heart , and soul , and life-blood of Gomez ; pawns in abundance , old gold of widows , and new gold of prodigals , and pearls and diamonds of court ladies , till the next bribe helps their husbands to redeem them .", "Perhaps now , you may accuse my forwardness ; but this day of jubilee is the only time of freedom I have had ; and there is nothing so extravagant as a prisoner , when he gets loose a little , and is immediately to return into his fetters .", "Give me your hand , and strike a bargain .", "And so much for the friar .", "Then you would not be so prodigal of your promises , but have the fear of matrimony before your eyes . In few words , if you love me , as you profess , deliver me from this bondage , take me out of Egypt , and I 'll wander with you as far as earth , and seas , and love , can carry us .", "Ay , and my colonel too , father :\u2014 I am overjoyed !\u2014 and are you then acquainted with him ?", "You have the appearance of a cavalier ; and if you are as deserving as you seem , perhaps you may not repent of your adventure . If a lady like you well enough to hold discourse with you at first sight ; you are gentleman enough , I hope , to help her out with an apology , and to lay the blame on stars , or destiny , or what you please , to excuse the frailty of a woman ?", "I 'll kneel down , father , as if I were taking absolution , if you 'll but please to stand before me .", "I 'm so overjoyed , I can scarce believe I am at liberty ; but stand panting , like a bird that has often beaten her wings in vain against her cage , and at last dares hardly venture out , though she sees it open .", "Matador !\u2014", "No , I need not ; he describes himself sufficiently : but , in what dream did I do this ?", "You see , sir , he contradicts himself at every word ; he 's plainly mad .", "Only to preserve it from the thieves .", "Am I come at last into your arms ?", "Go hence , good father ; my husband , you see , is in an ill humour , and I would not have you witness of his folly .", "I must first be satisfied , that you love me .", "I have done you no injury , and therefore I 'll make you no submission : but I 'll complain to my ghostly father .", "But was ever poor innocent creature so hardly dealt with , for a little harmless chat ?", "You may have a better opinion of me than I deserve ; you have not seen me yet ; and , therefore , I am confident you are heart-whole .", "Yes , I have striven ; but I found it was against the stream . Love , you know , father , is a great vow-maker ; but he 's a greater vow-breaker .", "Oh , dear father , let me have it , or I shall die !", "Indeed , sir , I have no reason to complain of him for disturbing of my sleep .", "Spare your oaths and protestations ; I know you gallants of the time have a mint at your tongue 's end to coin them .", "I have seen this man , father , and have encouraged his addresses ; he 's a young gentleman , a soldier , of a most winning carriage : and what his courtship may produce at last , I know not ; but I am afraid of my own frailty .", "You see , brother , I had a natural affection to you .", "Do you consider the hazard I have run to see you here ? if you do , methinks it should inform you , that I love not at a common rate .", "If I get not home before my husband , I shall be ruined .I dare not stay to tell you where . Farewell !\u2014 Could I once more \u2014", "And so will I .", "O heavens ! I hear my husband 's voice .", "Face about , man ! you a soldier , and afraid of the enemy !"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["I always remove before the enemy : When the Moors are ready to besiege one town , I shift quarters to the next ; I keep as far from the infidels as I can .", "And to ask , if he were wounded in your defence ; and , in case he were , to offer yourself to be his chirurgeon ;\u2014 then , you did not describe your husband to him , for a covetous , jealous , rich , old hunks .", "Now I dare speak ,\u2014 let him look as dreadfully as he will .\u2014 I say , sir , and I will prove it , that he had a lewd design upon her body , and attempted to corrupt her honesty .", "Lord , you will force a man to speak ;\u2014 why , ever since your last defeat .", "By your reverence 's favour , hold a little ; I must examine you something better , before you go .\u2014 Heyday ! who have we here ? Father Dominick is shrunk in the wetting two yards and a half about the belly . What are become of those two timber logs , that he used to wear for legs , that stood strutting like the two black posts before a door ? I am afraid some bad body has been setting him over a fire in a great cauldron , and boiled him down half the quantity , for a recipe . This is no father Dominick , no huge overgrown abbey-lubber ; this is but a diminutive sucking friar . As sure as a gun , now , father Dominick has been spawning this young slender anti-christ .", "A little sleep will do her more good , I 'm sure : You know , she disburthened her conscience but this morning to you .", "Yes ; this news , colonel , that you have seen your last of her .", "Just as you 'd have her ; thinking on nothing but her dear colonel , and conspiring cuckoldom against me .", "Do , do , look sillily , good colonel ; \u2018 tis a decent melancholy after an absolute defeat .", "O Lord ! O Lord !", "She 's a little indisposed at present , and it will not be convenient to disturb her .", "What ! colonel Hernando turned a friar ! who could have suspected you of so much godliness ?", "O my gold ! my wife ! my wife ! my gold ! As I hope to be saved now , I know no more of the plot than they that made it .", "A novice , quotha ! you would make a novice of me , too , if you could . But what was his business here ? answer me that , gentlewoman , answer me that .", "Who ? he meek ? I 'm sure I quake at the very thought of him ; why , he 's as fierce as Rhodomont ; he made assault and battery upon my person , beat me into all the colours of the rainbow ; and every word this abominable priest has uttered is as false as the Alcoran . But if you want a thorough-paced liar , that will swear through thick and thin , commend me to a friar .", "Why , you are not like to trouble heaven ; those fat guts were never made for mounting .", "Hold , hold , father , you go beyond your commission ; palming is always held foul play amongst gamesters .", "Farewell , Buff . Free quarters for a regiment of red-coat locusts ? I hope to see them all in the Red-Sea first ! But oh , this Jezabel of mine ! I 'll get a physician that shall prescribe her an ounce of camphire every morning , for her breakfast , to abate incontinency . She shall never peep abroad , no , not to church for confession ; and , for never going , she shall be condemned for a heretic . She shall have stripes by Troy weight , and sustenance by drachms and scruples : Nay , I 'll have a fasting almanack , printed on purpose for her use , in which No Carnival nor Christmas shall appear , But lents and ember-weeks shall fill the year .", "Once more , you have seen your last of her .", "Indeed , you are a charitable belswagger ! My wife cried out ,\u2014 \u201c Fire , fire ! \u201d and you brought out your church-buckets , and called for engines to play against it .", "Why , am not I a friend , then , to help thee out ? you would have been fumbling half an hour for this excuse . But , as I remember , you promised to storm my citadel , and bring your regiment of red locusts upon me for free quarters : I find , colonel , by your habit , there are black locusts in the world , as well as red .", "Very good ; and you are like to edify much from a dumb preacher . This will not pass , I must examine the contents of him a little closer .\u2014 O thou confessor , confess who thou art , or thou art no friar of this world !\u2014\u2014 As I live , this is a manifest member of the church militant .", "Why , my colonel \u2014 I mean my wife 's colonel , that appears there to me like my malus genius , terrifies me .", "And a quarter of that time would have served the turn . O thou epitome of thy virtuous sex ! Madam Messalina the second , retire to thy apartment : I have an assignation there to make with thee .", "Yes , and he 's in the right o n't , father : when a swinging sin is to be committed , nothing will cover it so close as a friar 's hood ; for there the devil plays at bo-peep ,\u2014 puts out his horns to do a mischief , and then shrinks them back for safety , like a snail into her shell .", "Very likely ; and not finding me at home , you were forced to toy away an hour with my wife , or so .", "\u2018 Tis liker one of the seven deadly sins : but make your best o n't , I care not ; \u2018 tis but binding a man neck and heels , for all that . But , as for my wife , that crocodile of Nilus , she has wickedly and traitorously conspired the cuckoldom of me , her anointed sovereign lord ; and , with the help of the aforesaid friar , whom heaven confound , and with the limbs of one colonel Hernando , cuckold-maker of this city , devilishly contrived to steal herself away , and under her arm feloniously to bear one casket of diamonds , pearls , and other jewels , to the value of 30 , 000 pistoles .\u2014 Guilty , or not guilty ? how sayest thou , culprit ?", "Yes ! she 's easy , with a vengeance ; there 's a certain colonel has found her so .", "Where you make doctrines for the people , and uses and applications for yourselves .", "O , colonel are you there ?\u2014 and you , friar ? nay , then I find how the world goes .", "O horrible ! to find a woman upon her knees , he says , is an unseemly posture ; there 's a priest for you !", "I shall not put you to that trouble ; no , not so much as a single visit ; not so much as an embassy by a civil old woman , nor a serenade of twinkledum twinkledum under my windows ; nay , I will advise you , out of my tenderness to your person , that you walk not near yon corner-house by night ; for , to my certain knowledge , there are blunderbusses planted in every loop-hole , that go off constantly of their own accord , at the squeaking of a fiddle , and the thrumming of a guitar .", "And he 'll bring an apothecary , with a chargeable long bill of ana 's : those of my family have the grace to die cheaper . In a word , Sir Dominick , we understand one another 's business here : I am resolved to stand like the Swiss of my own family , to defend the entrance ; you may mumble over your pater nosters , if you please , and try if you can make my doors fly open , and batter down my walls with bell , book , and candle ; but I am not of opinion , that you are holy enough to commit miracles .", "Follow your leader , friar ; your colonel is trooped off , but he had not gone so easily , if I durst have trusted you in the house behind me . Gather up your gouty legs , I say , and rid my house of that huge body of divinity .", "I am dead , I am buried , I am damned .\u2014 Go on , colonel ; have you no other marks of her ?", "Whereabouts did you see this most incomparable young lady ?\u2014 My mind misgives me plaguily .", "You may spare your instructions , if you please , father ; she has no farther need of them .", "Ay , do , father-in-law , let him be stript of his habit , and disordered .\u2014 I would fain see him walk in querpo , like a cased rabbit , without his holy fur upon his back , that the world may once behold the inside of a friar .", "What the devil have I said ?\u2014 You would have farther information , would you ?", "I can hold no longer .\u2014 Now , gentlewoman , you are confessing your enormities ; I know it , by that hypocritical downcast look :\u2014 enjoin her to sit bare upon a bed of nettles , father ; you can do no less , in conscience .", "And you would provide me with a magistrate 's head to my magistrate 's face ; I thank you , colonel .", "Was ever man thus priest-ridden ? would the steeple of his church were in his belly : I am sure there 's room for it .", "He 's the first begotten of Beelzebub , with a face as terrible as Demogorgon .", "Murder , murder ! I give up the ghost ! I am destroyed ! help , murder , murder !", "Jealous old hunks ? those were the marks of your mistress 's husband , as I remember , colonel .", "Get you up into your chamber , cockatrice ; and there immure yourself ; be confined , I say , during our royal pleasure . But , first , down on your marrowbones , upon your allegiance , and make an acknowledgement of your offences ; for I will have ample satisfaction .", "Circumcise me no more than I circumcise you , colonel Hernando :", "Ay , there 's your remedy ; when you receive condign punishment , you run with open mouth to your confessor ; that parcel of holy guts and garbadge : he must chuckle you and moan you ; but I 'll rid my hands of his ghostly authority one day ,and make him know he 's the son of a \u2014So ;\u2014 no sooner conjure , but the devil 's in the circle .", "I will speak boldly ; he struck me on the face before my own threshold , that the very walls cried shame to him .", "Ay , you are always at hand to do me a courtesy , with your eagle 's feet , and your tiger 's wings .\u2014 And what were you here for , friar ?", "To resist him .", "I believe there are some offences there of your planting .Lord , Lord , that men should have sense enough to set snares in their warrens to catch polecats and foxes , and yet \u2014 Want wit a priest-trap at their door to lay , For holy vermin that in houses prey .", "Marry , because you make us laymen of the tribe of Issachar . You make asses of us , to bear your burthens . When we are young , you put panniers upon us with your church-discipline ; and when we are grown up , you load us with a wife : after that , you procure for other men , and then you load our wives too . A fine phrase you have amongst you to draw us into marriage , you call it \u2014 settling of a man ; just as when a fellow has got a sound knock upon the head , they say \u2014 he 's settled : Marriage is a settling-blow indeed . They say every thing in the world is good for something ; as a toad , to suck up the venom of the earth ; but I never knew what a friar was good for , till your pimping shewed me ."], "true_target": ["Ay , whose good angels sent you hither , that you best know , father .", "Why , you see a cuckold of this honest gentleman 's making ; I thank him for his pains .", "Well , you have got a famous victory ; all true subjects are overjoyed at it : There are bonfires decreed ; an the times had not been hard , my billet should have burnt too .", "And why did you shriek out , gentlewoman ?", "Such churchmen as you would make any man an infidel .\u2014 Get you into your kennel , gentlewoman ; I shall thank you within doors for your safe custody of my jewels and your own .", "Whispering still ! A pox of your close committee ! I 'll listen ,", "And she 's a spotless virgin still for me \u2014 she 's never the worse for my wearing , I 'll take my oath o n't . I have lived with her with all the innocence of a man of threescore , like a peaceable bed-fellow as I am .", "No , you are not acquainted with him , the more 's the pity ; you do not know him , under this disguise , for the greatest cuckold-maker in all Spain .", "Not I , colonel ; the walls are very honest stone , and the timber very honest wood , for aught I know ; but for the woman , I cannot say , till I know her better : Describe her person , and , if she live in this quarter , I may give you tidings of her .", "Angle in some other ford , good father , you shall catch no gudgeons here . Look upon the prisoner at the bar , friar , and inform the court what you know concerning him ; he is arraigned here by the name of colonel Hernando .", "No , in my conscience , if I had staid abroad till midnight . But , colonel , you and I shall talk in another tone hereafter ; I mean , in cold friendship , at a bar before a judge , by the way of plaintiff and defendant . Your excuses want some grains to make them current : Hum , and ha , will not do the business .\u2014 There 's a modest lady of your acquaintance , she has so much grace to make none at all , but silently to confess the power of dame Nature working in her body to youthful appetite .", "Ah , devil on him ; there 's his hold ! If there were no more in excommunication than the church 's censure , a wise man would lick his conscience whole with a wet finger ; but , if I am excommunicated , I am outlawed , and then there is no calling in my money .", "Put pride , hypocrisy , and gluttony into your scale , father , and you shall weigh against me : Nay , an sins come to be divided once , the clergy puts in for nine parts , and scarce leaves the laity a tithe .", "Since you will have me speak plainer ,\u2014 she has profited so well already by your counsel , that she can say her lesson without your teaching : Do you understand me now ?", "No ! the t'other old gentleman in black shall take me if I do ; I will speak first !\u2014 Nay , I will , friar , for all your verbum sacerdotis . I 'll speak truth in few words , and then you may come afterwards and lie by the clock as you use to do .\u2014 For , let me tell you , gentlemen , he shall lie and forswear himself with any friar in all Spain ; that 's a bold word now .\u2014", "There 's no harm in that ; she shall fast too : fasting saves money .", "No , you have taken some about me ; I am sure , if you are her brother , my sides can show the tokens of our alliance .", "Thanks to my stars , I have recovered my own territories .\u2014 What do I see ? I 'm ruined ! I 'm undone ! I 'm betrayed !", "Pray heaven , he does not make it one !", "How ? your son Lorenzo ! it is impossible .", "A very frank manner of proceeding ; but I do not wonder at your visit , after so friendly an invitation as I made you . Marry , I hope you will excuse the blunderbusses for not being in readiness to salute you ; but let me know your hour , and all shall be mended another time .", "Indeed , as you order matters with the colonel , she may have occasion of confessing herself every hour .", "Oh , the impudence of this wicked sex ! Lascivious dialogues are innocent with you !", "Ay , and a man had need of them , Don Pedro ; for here are the two old seducers , a wife and priest ,\u2014 that 's Eve and the serpent ,\u2014 at my elbow .", "You walked in your sleep , with your eyes broad open , at noon-day ; and dreamt you were talking to the foresaid purpose with one Colonel Hernando \u2014", "Ay , ay , the virtues of that habit are known abundantly .", "Why does he not speak ? What ! is the friar possessed with a dumb devil ? if he be , I shall make bold to conjure him .", "But \u2014 no pumping , my dear colonel .", "How ? no wrong ? why , he ravished me , with the help of two soldiers , carried me away vi et armis , and would put me into a plot against government .", "Why , a son of a church ; I hope there 's no harm in that , father ?", "Henceforth I banish flesh and wine : I 'll have none stirring within these walls these twelve months .", "How , not last ! I say , it will last , and it shall last ; she shall be sick these seven or eight days , and perhaps longer , as I see occasion . What ? I know the mind of her sickness a little better than you do .", "Why , I say , in the first place , that I and all men are married for our sins , and that our wives are a judgment ; that a batchelor-cobler is a happier man than a prince in wedlock ; that we are all visited with a household plague , and , Lord have mercy upon us should be written on all our doors", "This whispering bodes me no good , for certain ; but he has me so plaguily under the lash , that I dare not interrupt him .", "Where are you , gentlewoman ? there 's something in the wind , I 'm sure , because your woman would have run up stairs before me ; but I have secured her below , with a gag in her chaps .\u2014 Now , in the devil 's name , what makes this friar here again ? I do not like these frequent conjunctions of the flesh and spirit ; they are boding .", "Peace , friar ! and let me speak first . I am the plaintiff . Sure you think you are in the pulpit , where you preach by hours .", "A fine evidence summed up among you ; thank you heartily , you are all my friends . The colonel was walking by accidentally , and hearing my voice , came in to save me ; the friar , who was hobbling the same way too , accidentally again , and not knowing of the colonel , I warrant you , he comes in to pray for me ; and my faithful wife runs out of doors to meet me , with all my jewels under her arm , and shrieks out for joy at my return . But if my father-in-law had not met your soldiers , colonel , and delivered me in the nick , I should neither have found a friend nor a friar here , and might have shrieked out for joy myself , for the loss of my jewels and my wife .", "Why , what will you have me say ? I think you 'll make me mad : truth has been at my tongue 's end this half hour , and I have not power to bring it out , for fear of this bloody-minded colonel .", "What , at a cuckoldom of your own contrivance ! your head-piece , and his limbs , have done my business . Nay , do not look so strangely ; remember your own words ,\u2014 Here will be fine work at your next confession . What naughty couple were they whom you durst not trust together any longer ?\u2014 when the hypocritical rogue had trusted them a full quarter of an hour ;\u2014 and , by the way , horns will sprout in less time than mushrooms .", "But that was not the business , gentlewoman : you were not asking news of a battle passed ; you were engaging for a skirmish that was to come .", "Satisfy yourself ; you shall not make me what you think , colonel .", "Yes , by certainty .", "I would treat the pope and all his cardinals in the same manner , if they offered to see my wife , without my leave .", "And you came running out of doors \u2014", "I 'll be revenged of him , if I dare ; but he 's such a terrible fellow , that my mind misgives me ; I shall tremble when I have him before the judge . All my misfortunes come together . I have been robbed , and cuckolded , and ravished , and beaten , in one quarter of an hour ; my poor limbs smart , and my poor head aches : ay , do , do , smart limb , ache head , and sprout horns ; but I 'll be hanged before I 'll pity you :\u2014 you must needs be married , must ye ? there 's for that ;and to a fine , young , modish lady , must ye ? there 's for that too ; and , at threescore , you old , doting cuckold ! take that remembrance ;\u2014 a fine time of day for a man to be bound prentice , when he is past using of his trade ; to set up an equipage of noise , when he has most need of quiet ; instead of her being under covert-baron , to be under covert-femme myself ; to have my body disabled , and my head fortified ; and , lastly , to be crowded into a narrow box with a shrill treble , That with one blast through the whole house does bound , And first taught speaking-trumpets how to sound .", "Help , good Christians ! help , neighbours ! my house is broken open by force , and I am ravished , and like to be assassinated !\u2014 What do you mean , villains ? will you carry me away , like a pedlar 's pack , upon your backs ? will you murder a man in plain day-light ?", "I 'm resolved .", "How ! young Beelzebub ?", "Well , well , you 'll not believe me generous , \u2018 till I carry you to the tavern , and crack half a pint with you at my own charges .", "Stay ; I 'll conduct you to the door ,\u2014 that I may be sure you steal nothing by the way . Friars wear not their long sleeves for nothing .\u2014 Oh , \u2018 tis a Judas Iscariot .", "How the gipsey answers me ! Oh , \u2018 tis a most notorious hilding .", "And that casket under your arm , for what end and purpose ?", "And I excommunicate you from my wife , if you go to that : there 's promulgation for promulgation , and bull for bull ; and so I leave you to recreate yourself with the end of an old song \u2014 And sorrow came to the old friar . LORENZO comes to him ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Who lay in torture , and desired to die .", "The secret is alone between us two ;", "Then all the blest will beg , that thou may'st live ,", "You see \u2018 tis vain contending with the truth ;", "As I would reach out opium to a friend ,", "Yet do not ; but , in kindness to yourself ,", "By heaven , I will , as I would punish rebels ,", "Ye angels , to that sound ; and thou , my heart ,", "Be as my foster-father near my breast ,", "Heaven ! Can you wish it , to be mine no more ?", "He praised my courage ; prayed for my success :", "Mad as I am , yet I know when to bear .", "O spare this great , this good , this aged king ;", "The damned themselves start wide , and shun that band ,", "O ! that I could , with honour , love her more ,", "O Leonora , beauteous in thy crimes ,", "Upon the unwholesome earth , his eyes fixed upward ;", "A boldness more than this I never knew ;", "Some angel with a golden trumpet sound ,", "Mark that , inexorable Raymond , mark ! \u2018 Twas fatal ignorance , that caused his death .", "The power , that guards the sacred lives of kings ?", "As lightning does the thunder ! Tune your harps ,", "On these harsh terms ? thou very reverend rebel ;", "\u2018 Tis to be worse deposed than Sancho was .", "Death , take me in this moment of my joy ;", "When from the conqueror we hold our lives ,", "Shall with a fearful curse remember ours ;", "Not only that , but favour . Sancho 's life ,", "Why slept the lightning and the thunder-bolts ,", "And Bertran 's death 's resolved .", "The sword of justice cuts upon the knot ,", "Oh !\u2014", "My heart is withered at that piteous sight ,", "Nothing can ,", "O , cruel man , to tell me that it must !", "O Leonora , what can love do more ?", "Or , if I do , her beauty makes it none :", "And spare your soul the crime !", "Fortune cannot ,", "Have kindled up a wildfire in my breast ,", "As far more black , and more forlorn than they .", "Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven ,", "Dare to provoke me thus , insulting man !", "And crusted it with base plebeian clay ?", "The royal family is all extinct ,", "Enter Queen and TERESA , at a distance .", "I see no danger ;", "She 'll know too soon her own and my misfortunes .", "We two were born when sullen planets reigned ;", "He lives ! he lives ! my royal father lives !", "And pity still foreruns approaching love ,", "Let never man believe he can be happy !", "To crown the various seasons of our love ;", "Hunts in the face of danger all the day ;", "To save the effusion of my subjects \u2019 blood ; and thou shalt still", "And hoary hairs treason is sanctified ,", "But you , my lord , are good at a retreat .", "Be still my sorrows , and be loud my joys .", "I cannot , nay , I wish not to be cured .", "Desert I 've none , for what I did was duty :\u2014", "And , seeing that I wept , he pressed me close :", "There is a pleasure , sure ,", "To swell my tide of joys to their full height ,", "And yet at last that tyrant justice ! Oh \u2014", "Was ever criminal forbid to plead ? Curb your ill-mannered zeal .", "To be but vainly pious to the dead ,", "And doubt you if such love can make me happy ?", "Your pardon , sir ; my duty calls me hence ;", "We mingled tears in a dumb scene of sorrow .", "Empire , and wealth , and all she brings beside ,", "And , so deceived , think all my life was blessed .", "So wond'rous fair , you justify rebellion ;", "And leave me nothing farther to desire .", "Are not so dreadful as this beauteous queen .", "I see no crime in her whom I adore ,", "O , very welcome , sir !", "Yet , pinched with raging hunger , scowers away ,", "Why do I live , ye powers !", "Now , by my soul , she shall not go : why , Raymond ,", "Or , if you needs will know it , think , oh think ,", "A grove of pikes ,", "Hold , hold your arms .", "He weeps ! now he is vanquished .", "Stops short , and looks about for some kind shrub", "With design to punish Bertran , and revenge the king ;", "In whose possession years roll round on years ,", "So power , which , in one age , is tyranny ,", "That wanted wings to reach me in the deep .", "But she has conquered , to her ruin conquered :", "I heard \u2018 twas your command .", "From pole to pole resound , king Sancho lives !\u2014", "The sovereign of my soul , my earthly heaven .", "My order 's issued to recall the army ,", "Spare this one thought ! let me remember pity ,", "Speaks louder yet ! and all together cry ,\u2014", "Kisses , embraces , languishing , and death ,", "Kings \u2019 titles commonly begin by force ,", "From a long restive race of droning kings ?", "Grant she be ;", "And severs them for ever .", "Think , timely think , on the last dreadful day ;", "And , since you are too great to be beloved ,", "Fly to the utmost circles of the sea ,", "Whether by virtue or design preserved ,", "And even my father 's ghost his death forgive .", "Malicious powers ! is this to be restored ?", "To whom I owe my hopes , my life , my love .", "But , when my soul is plunged in long oblivion ,", "That troop is placed apart from common crimes ;", "That must be doomed for murder ! think on murder :", "The usurper of my throne , my house 's ruin !", "Bertran , oh ! no more my foe , but brother ;", "And drew the stars to factions at our birth .", "\u2018 Tis but a moment since I have been king ,", "If she can make me blest ? she only can ;", "He told me ,\u2014 when my father did return ,", "I love and I despair .", "By some o'erhYpppHeNhasty angel was misplaced", "Fate shall but have the leavings of my love :", "Produce your lawful prince , and you shall see", "I cannot hate you .", "To pull , and pinch , and wound me , cannot cure ,", "To an eternal lethargy of love ;", "To show how I can punish .", "For when my heavy burden I remove ,", "My youngest and alone surviving son ,", "Then see how much unhappy love has made us .", "Look upward , fair , but as thou look'st on me ;", "As no desert or services can reach .\u2014", "If I am he , that son , that Torrismond ,", "To throw himself beneath his judge 's feet :", "Fiends tear him ! blasted be the arm that struck ,", "My right for me !", "The good old king , majestic in his bonds ,", "So , leaning cheek to cheek , and eyes to eyes ,", "Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest ,", "Perish that crown \u2014 on any head but yours !", "O words , to charm an angel from his orb !", "How will you tremble , there to stand exposed ,", "Death and hell !", "Before the palace-gate .\u2014 By heaven , I 'll face", "This vile blaspheming rout ?", "So much the name of father awes me still \u2014", "\u2018 Twas ordered so .", "To break his dreadful fall .\u2014 so I \u2014", "Oh that it were !\u2014 that it were duty all !", "Thinks me unkind , or false , and knows not why", "She bids me hope ; oh heavens , she pities me !", "And call him Torrismond \u2014", "I go to find my queen , my earthly goddess ,", "O , never , never , shall it be forgotten !", "As early blossoms are with eastern blasts :", "Is ebbing to the last :", "When each the other 's influence opposed ,", "Friends I have none , for friendship follows favour ;", "And laugh securely at the lazy storm ,", "I need not caution thee for Raymond 's life ,", "And all my future too !", "Haste there ; command the guards be all drawn up", "Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever !", "Hopes I have none , for I am all despair ;", "Let us not think what future ills may fall .", "And when two hearts were joined by mutual love ,", "If you have any pity in your breast ,", "Hear , you mistaken men , whose loyalty", "And will not do a good one !", "O , recollect your thoughts !", "Oh ! I would speak , but cannot .", "To see , with joy , her miseries on earth .", "But drink deep draughts of love , and lose them all .", "Proclaim my title ,", "To help me save the queen ?", "Which , dear departed spirit , here I vow .", "When vengeance called them here ?", "No , no ! Pray , let me go .", "With what a load of vengeance am I prest ,", "Thou venerable traitor , in whose face", "Stole down , and trickled from his hoary beard .", "My every action speaks my heart aloud :", "Be greater , greater yet , and be adored .", "She 's in possession .", "When that , for which he is accused and seized ,", "And heaven has given me blessings for a curse .", "Hence , all my griefs and every anxious care ;", "Combated heaven and earth to keep you mine ;", "And what can shock my honour in a queen ?", "And next my Leonora .", "The gloomy vapours , he lay stretched along", "Since you must know ,\u2014 but break , O break , my heart ,", "We yield ourselves his subjects from that hour ;", "Hear me yet ; I am \u2014", "O there 's the utmost malice of my fate ,", "And , \u2018 midst his griefs , most venerably great :"], "true_target": ["And I am all a civil war within !", "A little longer , yet a little longer ,", "How say'st thou , my Lorenzo ? dar'st thou be", "Ten thousand plagues consume him ! furies drag him ,", "Look on me as a man abandoned o'er", "Can you have grief , and not have pity too ?", "I will that Raymond educate as his ,", "But you adjured me , madam , by my hopes !", "Why was not I the twentieth by descent", "How could my hand rebel against my heart ?", "No honour bids me fight against myself ;", "Am I then pitied ! I have lived enough !\u2014", "I , the king .", "I cannot .", "But doubly now ! You come in such a time ,", "And every slackened fibre drops its hold ,", "O , yet be kind , conceal me from the world ,", "Still from each other to each other move ,", "Then farewell , pity ; I will be obeyed .\u2014", "Though I no more must call him father now .", "Where joy ne'er enters , which the sun ne'er cheers ,", "He threw his aged arms about my neck ;", "He had a wond'rous secret to disclose :", "Oh ! better , better had it been for us ,", "And weary o n't already ; I 'm a lover ,", "And , more than all , the queen , with public favour ,", "And joys , in circles , meet new joys again ;", "Acknowledge what I am .", "And be my father still !", "Fly round the fire that scorches me to death .", "My joys are gloomy , but withal are great .", "And who could dare to disavow his crime ,", "I thus estrange my person from her bed !", "That 's a stale cheat ;", "Because they were his subjects .", "O , Pedro , O , Alphonso , pity me !", "Be witness all ye powers , that know my heart ,", "For mutual benefits make mutual ties .", "That I am bound to hate , and born to love !", "As if this day were fatal ? be it so ;", "In being mad , which none but madmen know !", "Her every tear is worth a father 's life .", "In not forbidding , you command the crime :", "My heart sinks in me while I hear him speak ,", "Not to maintain , but bear them unrevenged .", "Mine ! is she mine ? my father 's murderer mine ?", "And leave no thought , but Leonora there .\u2014", "But heaven , with looking on it , must forgive .", "Or bent their idle rage on fields and trees ,", "To break my fetters , or revenge my fate ,", "But , oh , the madness of my high attempt", "O sacrilege ! say quickly , who commands", "No more ; lest you be made the first example ,", "He bears about him still ! My eyes confess it ;", "Yet , never , never , can I hope for rest ;", "And sin 's black dye seems blanched by age to virtue .", "By a dim winking lamp , which feebly broke", "As if propitious fortune took a care ,", "Never was fatal mischief meant so kind ,", "And , though you would not hide me from myself ,", "Thou stubborn loyal man !", "That sigh was added to your alms for me !", "He must be more than man , who makes me tremble .", "Make room to entertain thy flowing joy .", "Shall I not tell her ?\u2014 no ; \u2018 twill break her heart ;", "That , that 's the wound ! I see you set so high ,", "How darest thou serve thy king against his will ?", "Proclaim me , as I am , the lawful king :", "Bound in with darkness , overspread with damps ;", "Condemn a wife ! That were to atone for parricide with murder .", "But bloody vengeance on that traitor 's head ,\u2014", "O Leonora ! Oh !", "To thank me , for defending even his foes ,", "See , Raymond , see ; she makes a large amends :", "Like mellow fruit , without a winter storm .", "That we had never seen , or never loved .", "Alas ! thou know'st not what it is to love ! When we behold an angel , not to fear , Is to be impudent : No , I am resolved , Like a led victim , to my death I 'll go , And , dying , bless the hand , that gave the blow . The SCENE draws , and shews the Queen sitting in state ; BERTRAN standing next to her ; then TERESA , & c. She rises , and comes to the front .", "Hear this , hear this , thou tribune of the people ! Thou zealous , public blood-hound , hear , and melt !", "But wander , like some discontented ghost ,", "The weight falls down , and crushes her I love .", "Shake not his hour-glass , when his hasty sand", "But whither am I going ? If to death ,", "One word , and one kind glance , can cure despair .", "Oh ! fear not him ! pity and he are one ; So merciful a king did never live ; Loth to revenge , and easy to forgive . But let the bold conspirator beware , For heaven makes princes its peculiar care . Footnotes : 1 . Alluding to the common superstition , that the continuance of the favours of fairies depends upon the receiver 's secrecy :\u2014 \u201c This is fairy gold , boy , and \u2018 twill prove so : up with it , keep it close ; home , home , the nearest way . We are lucky , boy , and , to be so still , requires nothing but secrecy ; \u201d Winter 's Tale .", "And , like a giddy bird in dead of night ,", "And fate can scarce ; I 've made the port already ,", "Or hate her less , with reason !\u2014 See , she weeps !", "The sweetest , kindest , truest of her sex ,", "Are but the train and trappings of her love :", "Like nature letting down the springs of life ;", "Sancho is dead ; no punishment of her", "That hindered not the deed ! O , where was then", "And nature drops him down , without your sin ;", "As if that faultless face could make no sin ,", "As unwillingly ,", "You are so beautiful ,", "Which every moment I expect to arrive ;", "Can raise his cold stiff limbs from the dark grave ;", "He looks so lovely sweet in beauty 's pomp ,", "And such a span to grasp them ? Sure , my lot", "What have I lost by my forefathers \u2019 fault !", "The city , army , court , espouse my cause ,", "Why , \u2018 tis the only business of my life ;", "Which time wears off , and mellows into right ;", "Redeem me from this labyrinth of fate ,", "Love ! what a poor omnipotence hast thou ,", "And she , who reigns , bestows her crown on me :", "I make my way , where'er I see my foe ;", "The murderer of my father ,\u2014 is my wife !", "Here , take this paper , read our destinies ;\u2014", "Into your presence , madam ? If I am \u2014", "Now , by your joys on earth , your hopes in heaven ,", "Be ignorantly safe .", "I have no Moors behind me .", "I would have kept the fatal secret hid ;", "Claims all within my power .", "My Leonora there !\u2014", "And foremost , in the rank of guilty ghosts ,", "Whose polished steel from far severely shines ,", "In fate 's eternal volume !\u2014 But I rave ,", "What 's this I feel , a boding in my soul ,", "This tempest , and deserve the name of king !", "Put on thy utmost speed to head the troops ,", "I dare him to the field , with all the odds", "For all she gave has taken all away .", "The world contains not so forlorn a wretch !", "If \u2018 tis presumption , for a wretch condemned ,", "Which I can ne'er repent , nor can you pardon ;", "King Sancho lives ! and let the echoing skies", "Come to my arms , come , my fair penitent !", "Dismiss your arms , and I forgive your crimes .", "And was the first reformer of the skies .", "Rise .", "Why gave you me desires of such extent ,", "Somewhat must be resolved , and speedily .", "Where I have seen", "Cruel fates ! To what have you reserved me ?", "Of justice on his side , against my tyrant :", "As one , condemned to leap a precipice ,", "Discharge thy weight on me .", "Till happier times shall call his courage forth ,", "One fatal moment tears me from my joys ;", "The queen , Lorenzo ! durst they name the queen ?", "One act like this blots out a thousand crimes .", "And plunge me in my first obscurity .", "Who sees before his eyes the depth below ,", "How comes it , good old man , that we two meet", "He sent for me , and , while I raised his head ,", "I 'll punish thee ;", "That oft appears , but is forbid to talk .", "And loved , possess ,\u2014 yet all these make me wretched ;", "And but disturb the quiet of my death .", "Am I not rudely bold , and press too often", "Divorce ! that 's worse than death , \u2018 tis death of love .", "And ever and anon a silent tear", "Indulges my pretensions to her love .", "Before I tell my fatal story out !\u2014", "The lion , though he sees the toils are set ,", "How brave a rebel love has made your son .", "He draws me to his dart .\u2014 I dare no more .", "Or , if I did , \u2018 twas only to your foes .", "Unless commanded , would have died in silence .", "Never were hell and heaven so matched before !", "The primitive rebel , Lucifer , first used it ,", "When gold and titles buy thee ?", "I have opposed your ill fate to the utmost ;", "A friend , and once forget thou art a son ,", "That he who , thus commanded , dares to speak ,", "A tear ! You have o'erbid all my past sufferings ,", "Good heavens , why gave you me a monarch 's soul ,", "The tongue that ordered !\u2014 only she be spared ,", "Reported dead , to escape rebellious rage ,", "And blood shall never leave the nation more !", "So must I be ungrateful to the living ,", "Still she is here , and still I cannot speak ;", "Thou furious tempest , that hast tossed my mind ,", "Love , justice , nature , pity , and revenge ,", "He kissed me , blessed me , nay \u2014 he called me son ;", "At night , with sullen pleasure , grumbles o'er his prey .", "Let every one partake the general joy .", "Welcome , as kindly showers to long-parched earth !", "I take the blame of all upon myself ;", "But I have been in such a dismal place ,", "Is ripened , in the next , to true succession :", "Runs headlong into treason : See your prince !", "Would you , for me , have done so ill an act ,", "O seek not to convince me of a crime ,", "While you defraud your offspring of their fate .", "For , when I thought my fortune most secure ,", "In me behold your murdered Sancho 's son ;", "He was so true a father of his country ,", "High heaven will not forget it ; after-ages", "Might I presume ,\u2014 but , oh , I dare not hope"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["But , when you see him not , you are in pain .", "He only fears to make you share his sorrows .", "Think much , speak little , and , in speaking , sigh :", "The people will be glad , the soldiers shout ,", "You pine , you languish , love to be alone ;", "He waits your pleasure .", "Or I am much deceived .", "My lords , you are too loud so near the queen ; You , Torrismond , have much offended her . \u2018 Tis her command you instantly appear , To answer your demeanour to the prince .", "What , all the night ?", "Madam , he sends to tell you , \u2018 tis performed .", "Your food forsakes you , and your needful rest ;", "This dream portends some ill which you shall \u2018 scape .", "Sighs and groans ,", "Your Torrismond within your arms to sleep ;", "Whom , madam ?", "Would you see fairer visions , take this night"], "true_target": ["When you see Torrismond , you are unquiet ;", "You are not what you were , since yesterday ;", "A rising sun ,", "To break with Bertran : \u2018 twould be better yet ,", "Can you not guess from whence this change proceeds ?", "And Bertran , though repining , will be awed .", "Could you provoke him to give you the occasion ,", "And , to that end , invent some apt pretence", "For heaven 's sake , madam , moderate your passion !", "How then can you suspect him lost so soon ?", "Paleness and trembling , all are signs of love ;", "What hinders you to take the man you love ?", "Prince Bertran ?", "What fear you more ?", "And then , to throw him off .", "Then , sure his transports were not less than yours ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Who shortly shall command him .", "But I would learn the cause , why Torrismond ,", "Your own deserts , and all my people 's voice ,"], "true_target": ["Within my palace-walls , within my hearing ,", "I blame not you , my lord ; my father 's will ,", "Almost within my sight ,\u2014 affronts a prince ,", "Have placed you in the view of sovereign power ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["And knew , besides , our army was removed", "\u2018 Tis done , and , since \u2018 tis done , \u2018 tis past recal ;", "I have not often seen him ; if I did ,", "Say but you hate me not .", "Cast off these fearful melancholy thoughts .", "Let me view him well .", "His jealousy will furnish him with fury ,", "Surpasses all expressing ,", "Nay , more , this execution , done by Bertran ,", "Let pity lend a tear , when rigour strikes .", "Gross feeders , lion talkers , lamb-like fighters .", "I loved away myself ; in one short hour", "I wonder how the people bear his death .", "Then , was he loved ?", "I will never rise ;", "I , to enhance his ruin , gave no leave ,", "And yet , what need I blush at such a choice ?", "Disarm the justice of the powers above .", "Let me but do this one injustice more . His doom is past , and , for your sake , he dies .", "I leave it all to you ; think , what you do ,", "to Bert . Buried in private , and so suddenly ! It crosses my design , which was to allow The rites of funeral fitting his degree , With all the pomp of mourning .", "Yet , Torrismond , you 've not so ill deserved ,", "Than death can make me ; for death ends our woes ,", "No ! give it me ,", "Here end thy sad discourse , and , for my sake ,", "To load the scale , and weighed myself with earth ,", "Farewell , my perjured swain !", "Forebodes some ill at hand : to sooth my sadness ,", "Last night he flew not with a bridegroom 's haste ,", "Farewell , ungrateful traitor !", "It rushed upon me like a mighty stream ,", "While both our souls came upward to our mouths ,", "From Bertran 's mouth ; they should displease from you :", "I ne'er was covetous of wealth before ;", "And now the peaceful planets take their turn .", "That can secure my throne to Torrismond :", "To be a saint , he makes himself a slave .", "That to have had you mine for one short day ,", "The priesthood grossly cheat us with free-will :", "And therefore fix this doom upon myself .", "To leave you blest , I would be more accurst", "You urged , you drove me headlong to your toils ;", "When I had raised his grovelling fate from ground ,", "As boys to venture on the unknown ice ,", "\u2018 Twas always in my power to take his life ;", "My father sent him early to the frontiers ;", "No sooner gained , but slighted and betrayed ;", "None will dare", "Re-enter TORRISMOND .", "To wither on the ground .", "And hoard up every moment of my life ,", "Methought I stood on a wide river 's bank ,", "Immediate punishment .", "If he were vanquished , I am still unconquered .", "First , to debauch a king to break his laws ,", "But where 's the fierceness , the disdainful pride ,", "And give a crown in dowry with my love .", "To credit so unlikely a command ;", "Give me but present ease , and let me die .", "With what a zeal he joined his lips to mine !", "The soul and body part not with such pain ,", "More , more ! for , by the high-hung tapers \u2019 light ,", "And me with means , to part .", "When living is a pain .", "Why namest thou heaven ? there is no heaven for me .", "Till we have lost our treasure ;", "Where have you been ? and how could you suppose ,", "The bloody Bertran , diligent in ill ,", "All have not paid that debt , like noble Torrismond .", "Mere senseless engines that are moved by fate ;", "But centered on himself , and used his master ,", "He 's gone , and I am lost ; did'st thou not see", "And with a silent earthquake shook his soul .", "He will not hear me out !", "My father , with his dying voice , bequeathed", "Cruel Raymond !", "As unconcerned as now .", "Alphonso , Pedro , haste to raise the rabble ;", "With that I burst into a flood of tears ,", "That I could live these two long hours without you ?", "By all my foes at once , I swear , my Torrismond ,", "And sparkled through their casements humid fires ;", "That I would think on Torrismond no more ;", "This \u2018 tis , to counsel things that are unjust ;", "Despair , death , hell , have seized my tortured soul !", "I am ashamed to say , \u2018 tis but a fancy .", "But was too fierce to throw away the time ;", "Is such an image of the powers above ,", "Have I heaped on my person , crown , and state ,", "Do not sigh , or tell me why you sigh .", "Fain would I tell thee what I feel within ,", "Have I refused their blood , to mix with yours ,", "I give you leave to guess , and not forbid you", "Shall do dead Sancho justice every hour .", "This night , this happy night , is yours and mine .", "By all your hopes , I do command you , speak .", "Yes , my lord , what business ?", "But when we love , you leave us ,", "Has cancelled half my mighty sum of woes !", "I could discern his cheeks were glowing red ,", "What have I done , ye powers , what have I done ,", "He bills the closer ; but , ungrateful man ,", "But only smelt , and cheaply thrown aside ,", "Whose interests , though unknown to you , are mine ?", "To him , whom dearer than my life I love .", "My stars have sent him ;", "Enter TERESA .", "Even when my heart is beating out its way ,", "For you , my lord ,\u2014", "What bull dares bellow , or what sheep dares bleat ,", "A chapel will I build , with large endowment ,", "And listened to each softly-treading step ,", "SONG .", "To power and love , to empire , and to me ;", "I say they should ; but women are so vain ,", "Be the chief mourner at his obsequies ;", "You 'll make yourself a tyrant ; let these know", "\u2018 Tis of deep concernment ,", "And , by the moon-shine , to the windows went ;", "Which eagerly prevents the appointed hour :", "By these true tears , which , from my wounded heart ,", "And writ , for Leonora , Torrismond .", "And had no sense of honour , country , king ,", "But dying is a pleasure ,", "What hinders now , but that the holy priest", "O heaven , what have I done !\u2014 my gentle love ,", "Send speedily to Bertran ; charge him strictly", "Fasting and tears , and penitence and prayer ,", "As neighbouring monarchs at their borders meet ;", "So softly , that , like flakes of feathered snow ,", "There is no other he .", "But yet \u2014", "Sure you affect stupidity , my lord ;", "Already am I gone an age of passion .", "Why do you pause ? proceed .", "Which could secure my throne to Torrismond .", "Torrismond ;", "Yet he must die , that I may make you great ,", "If he , as I suspect , have found my love ,", "To save one drop of his .", "So , restless , past the night ; and , at the dawn ,", "He sighed , and kissed ; breathed short , and would have spoke ,", "Broke by the melancholy midnight bell .", "\u2018 Twas first proposed , and must be done , by Bertran ,", "That hot-mouthed beast , that bears against the curb ,", "But some new blast of wind may turn those flames", "Even though it be the sentence of my death .", "As guardians do their wards , with shews of care ,", "Shall he remember Leonora 's love ,", "For crimes are swift , but penitence is slow :", "You shall not go !", "Hard-hearted man , I yield my guilty cause ;", "I 'll try if I can live a day without you .\u2014", "There , thinking to exclude him from my thoughts ,", "Thinking on him , I quite forgot my name ,", "Seized on my senses , with long watching worn :", "Have you not heard ,", "As if he drew his inspiration hence :", "These are the words which I must only hear", "Or you of royal blood \u2014", "No more , lest I should chide you for your stay :", "The more we pall , and kill , and cool his ardour .", "But , when a counsellor , to save himself ,", "He pulled it back , as if he touched a serpent .", "Great in forgiving , and in suffering brave ;", "I will myself", "Bertran , stay .", "I am the accurst of heaven , the hate of earth ,", "Makes him the object of the people 's hate .", "He passed unmarked by my unheeding eyes :\u2014", "What find you in my crown to be contemned ;", "Ha ! let me think of that :\u2014 The man I love ?", "That I much fear , if I should make you one ,", "When , on a sudden , Torrismond appeared ,", "Dispel the factions of my foes on earth ,", "To quarters too remote for sudden use .", "Who knows , when fires are kindled for my foes ,", "But harder by usurpers .", "But she , that once has tried it ,", "If ever I was loved , though now I 'm not ,", "Guide with your breath this whirling tempest round ,", "\u2018 Tis terrible ! it shakes , it staggers me ;", "And see its fury fall where I design .", "And yet , would this were all !", "Why do I live to hear you speak that word ? Some black-mouthed villain has defamed my virtue .", "Was it his youth , his valour , or success ?", "For , see , he comes . How gloomily he looks !", "And expiate my offence .", "Fev'rish , for want of rest , I rose , and walked ,", "Can he not punish me , but he must hate ?", "So distant from my heart !\u2014", "O , Torrismond , if you resolve my death ,", "Produce it ; or , by heaven , your head shall answer", "So wild , so ghastly , as if some ghost had met him :", "I cast my eyes upon the neighbouring fields ,", "What exercise of patience have you here ?", "Your love by ours we measure ,", "More deep than those he tempted .", "This deed of Bertran 's has removed all fears ,", "To see my youth , my beauty , and my love ,", "Then , then to be contemned ; then , then thrown off !", "But interest never could my conscience blind ,", "Believe a man again .", "And could not furnish out another meal .", "What business have you at the court , my lord ?", "Which I must needs o'erpass , but knew not how ;", "The haughty port , the fiery arrogance ?\u2014", "But , when he spoke , what tender words he said !", "I would have poured a deluge of my blood ,", "Sleep that thought too ;", "There may be danger in that boisterous rout :", "My virtue shrinks from such an horrid act .", "And in the temple then , I 'll drag him thence ,", "A drowzy slumber , rather than a sleep ,", "Need I inform you , \u2018 tis for Torrismond ,", "And , when the most obdurate swear they do not ,", "\u2018 Tis somewhat , sure , of weighty consequence ,", "To save my crown , as he will do to seize it .", "Be secret and discreet ; these fairy favours", "But he brings worth and virtue to my bed ;", "Our passions ,\u2014 fear and anger , love and hate ,\u2014", "Sing me the song , which poor Olympia made ,", "Shall all hold up their withered hands to heaven ,", "Why I repose such confidence in you ?", "Yet I complain not of the powers above ;", "Base , barbarous man ! the more we raise our love ,", "A change so swift what heart did ever feel !", "You do for him I love .", "Echoes the sound , and jars within my soul ;\u2014", "Will you not speak , to save a lady 's blush ?", "Betwixt my doubt and love , methinks I stand", "You hear , how Bertran brands me with a crime ,", "And am well pleased my inclination gives", "O let them never love , who never tried !", "My heavy heart , the prophetess of woes ,", "Except an host from heaven can make such haste", "Racks , poison , daggers , rid me of my life ;", "O , \u2018 tis an act as infamously base ,", "Our actions then are neither good nor ill ,", "And shed a parting tear to her misfortunes ?", "But , far from me , as far as he could move ,", "And , like a rose , just gathered from the stalk ,", "And sighed and tossed , and turned , but still from me .", "And there with holy virgins live immured :", "Leaping and bounding on the billows \u2019 heads ,", "Was only to obtain ;", "What if I ne'er consent to make you mine ?", "How eloquent is mischief to persuade !", "If I endure it , what imports it you ?", "If then I break divine and human laws ,", "There 's some more powerful cause than loyalty :", "Fate scarce knew where to find them , when I called ?", "The crime 's not mine ;", "Let never injured creature", "You place such arbitrary power in kings ,", "I find your love , and would reward it too ,", "Him ."], "true_target": ["My lord , heaven knows its own time when to give ;", "As I from you ; but yet \u2018 tis just , my lord :", "To try your love , and make you doubt of mine ?", "And love too long a pain .", "Past by my fellow-rulers of the world ,", "But \u2018 tis too short a blessing ,", "I was a woman , ignorant and weak ,", "Flew to prevent the soft returns of pity .", "They made me a miser 's feast of happiness ,", "\u2018 Tis easy to deceive us ,", "It shews , he only served himself before ,", "But all my guilt was caused by too much love .", "Few are so wicked , as to take delight", "Were you to take the advantage of my sex ,", "And pocket up his prince .", "He looked not like the Torrismond I loved .", "Which hates the offender 's person with his crimes !", "Gave me his hand , and led me lightly o'er ,", "Will never love again .", "\u2018 Tis written here in characters so deep ,", "I turned , and tried each corner of my bed ,", "To your misfortunes .", "In crimes unprofitable , nor do I :", "What , if I said ,", "To affront me with your love !", "From him you have endangered ; but , just heaven ,", "By all these marks , this is not , sure , the man .", "No bribe but love could gain so bad a cause .", "And raise new kings from so obscure a race ,", "\u2018 Tis well ; retire .\u2014 Oh heavens , that I must speak", "Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues .", "There fought my Torrismond .", "But I would live without you , to be wretched long ;", "Then shut my eyes , but could not shut out him .", "All these I have , and these I can bestow ;", "Against my palace-walls ?", "\u2018 Tis past , \u2018 tis past , and love is ours no more ;", "And virtue is the wealth which tyrants want :", "Would lay miscarriages upon his prince ,", "Now let her die , for she has grieved enough .", "What gratitude would force . O pardon me ;", "Nor I , heaven knows !", "Speak ! oh , speak ! Your anger would be kinder than your silence .", "And ruled the day , yet love will rule the night .", "Are lost , when not concealed", "And bonds , without a date , they say , are void .", "\u2014 provoke not Bertran .\u2014", "As is the statue of the thundering god ,", "To like the love , though they despise the lover .", "Tost by the winds , and driven by the tide .", "I thought \u2014 Oh , no ; \u2018 tis false ! I could not think ;", "Or in my person loathed ? Have I , a queen ,", "Will you not speak ?", "But Sancho 's leave to authorise our marriage .", "They melted as they fell .\u2014", "And end it at a blow .", "You need no more , but to go hence again ;", "Guilt keeps you silent then ; you love me not :", "That brings you here so often , and unsent for .", "Name his offence , my lord , and he shall have", "His very eyeballs trembled with his love ,", "That crackles underneath them while they slide .", "If that would help , I could cast in a tear", "In secret join our mutual vows ? and then", "But with intent to sell the public safety ,", "And , since \u2018 tis past recal , must be forgotten .", "How now ! What boldness brings you back again ?", "Sure there is none , but fears a future state ;", "There lies my grief .", "When , and where ?", "Go , raise the ministers of my revenge ,", "He shall appear to head them .", "A raw young warrior take your baffled work ,", "And I have nothing farther to desire ,", "At break of day , when dreams , they say , are true ,", "Even from the holy altar to the block .", "As if the world were paved with diadems ?", "Whose bolts the boys may play with .", "His body shall be royally interred ,", "And you return , full of the same presumption ,", "How dear , how sweet his first embraces were !", "Here end our sorrows , and begin our joys :", "These might , perhaps , be found in other men :", "They , who complain to princes , think them tame :", "How , patience , Raymond ?", "Never , never :", "Till even fierce Raymond , at the last , shall say ,\u2014", "You 've hit upon the very string , which , touched .", "\u2018 Twas neither life nor death , but both in one .", "\u2018 Till safely we had reached the farther shore .", "In absolute despair ,\u2014 I pity you .", "But shame and modesty have tied my tongue !", "Bleed at my eyes \u2014", "Remember me !\u2014 speak , Raymond , will you let him ?", "And given me just occasion to refuse him .", "Oh , my torture !\u2014", "To lose a crown and lover in a day :", "My crown and me to Bertran ? And dare you ,", "There is no bliss beside it ;", "The prince , who bears an insolence like this ,", "Had I , for jealousy of empire , sought", "No : there 's the grief , Teresa : Oh , Teresa !", "The turtle flies not from his billing mate ,", "And the last funeral-pomps adorn his hearse ;", "Judge then , my lord , with all these cares opprest ,", "Retire : I must no more but this ,\u2014 Hope , Torrismond .", "And made me think his death the only means", "Leapt from the bed , and vanished .", "Then , with a groan , he threw himself a-bed ,", "O , that it were ! I would not do this crime ,", "He was , he was , even more than you can say ;", "All pale , and speechless , he surveyed me round ;", "Exposing him to public rage and hate ;", "The charmer you disdain .", "So both of you depart , and live in peace .", "To lengthen out the payment of my tears ,", "Three battles to the Moors , you coldly stood", "All dumb ! On your allegiance , Torrismond ,", "Hard to be broken even by lawful kings ,", "O , there 's none ;", "My prayers are heard ;", "Now , Raymond , now be satisfied at last :", "Yet , my lord ,", "You 're both too bold .\u2014 You , Torrismond , withdraw ,", "At last ,", "And him too rich a jewel , to be set", "And bore me , in a moment , far from shore .", "And any death is welcome .", "Forbear ; you know not how you wound my soul .", "He answered nothing , but with sighs and groans ;", "Some one among you speak .", "Were you to make my doubts your own commission ?", "The passion you pretended ,", "And sucked my breath at every word I spoke ,", "That all this grace is shown ?", "And those , I grant , were great ; but you confess", "And who more proper for that trust than you ,", "And the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene :", "Too great for any private man 's possession ;", "I wish \u2018 twere so ; but love still doubts the worst ;", "And play the devil to tempt me ? You contrived ,", "To make the best construction for your love :", "For you to spurn the balance ?", "And yet , like heaven , permit it to be done .", "I pressed his hand , and laid me by his side ;", "Your subjects \u2019 detestation , and your ruin ;", "His sullen eyes ? how gloomily they glanced ?", "And loathsome ! Oh ! what woman can bear loathsome ?", "In vulgar metal , or for vulgar use .", "The pleasure of possessing", "I knew this truth , but I repelled that thought .", "Farewell , a last farewell , my dear , dear lord !", "Before we have descried it ,", "Some solitary cloister will I chuse ,", "This may be dangerous .", "I went to bed , and to myself I thought", "The king must die ,\u2014 he must , my Torrismond ,", "There is no faith in heaven , if heaven says so ;", "Where every day an hundred aged men", "In hope \u2018 twas he ; but still it was not he .", "My future days shall be one whole contrition :", "If they be ,\u2014 then what am I ?", "Though pity softly plead within my soul ;", "Love calls , my Torrismond ; though hate has raged ,", "I love a man whom I am proud to love ,", "Good Sancho 's death , Sancho had died before .", "Still more exposed , the more he pardons wrong ;", "You dare not give it .", "Altering , like one that waits an ague fit ;", "I fear to try new love ,", "The solemn marks of mourning , to atone ,", "I have enough to overwhelm one woman ,", "The spiteful stars have shed their venom down ,", "Yet think so vast a treasure as your son ,", "If I can think of love .", "And , with the like tame gravity , you saw", "Will to do what \u2014 but what heaven first decreed ?", "A private man , presume to love a queen ?", "But I may give you counsel for your cure .", "Were I no queen \u2014", "O , \u2018 tis not justice , but a brutal rage ,", "You would insinuate your past services ,", "This may produce some dismal consequence", "Oh , how shall I describe this growing ill !", "Of which , your son can witness , I am free .", "And asked him how I had offended him ?", "I have a thirsty fever in my soul ;", "I 'll teach you all what 's owing to your queen .\u2014", "In pity of your pain ;", "At last he came , but with such altered looks ,", "\u2018 Tis true , this murder is the only means ,", "\u2018 Twas that respect , that awful homage , paid me ;", "That seven years hence ,", "But when the charm is ended ,", "When false Bireno left her .", "And struggles to you most .", "All he could say was \u2014 love and Leonora .", "What if I add a little to my alms ?", "Have I not managed my contrivance well ,", "When each embrace was dearer than the first ;", "Or give me cause to think , that , when you lost", "To serve them ill , when they are left to laws ;", "And if , much tired , and frighted more , I paused ,", "When sins are judged , will damn the tempting devil ,", "Even all the livelong night .", "To find if sleep were there , but sleep was lost .", "Coarse my attire , and short shall be my sleep ,", "Whose vying crowns lay glittering in my way ,", "To pardon Sancho 's death .", "They brought a paper to me to be signed ;", "And thrust his general in the front of war :", "Like ships on stormy seas , without a guide ,", "A fault committed since , that cancels all .", "Haste , my Teresa , haste , and call him back .", "Yet , that I may not send you from my sight", "And not your queen ?", "The forfeit of your tongue .", "That fearful love , which trembled in his eyes ,", "Now , by yon stars , by heaven , and earth , and men ,", "Not to proceed , but wait my farther pleasure .", "Revenge , the darling attribute of heaven :", "Within the lion 's den ?", "To rail at you in vain .", "You saw , he came surrounded with his friends ,", "I 'll leave you in the height of all my love ,", "But anxious fears solicit my weak breast .", "Since from eternal causes they proceed ;", "Till love had cast a mist before my eyes ,", "And last , that I can make you of my love .", "It calls me old , and withered , and deformed ,", "The priest to-morrow was to join our hands ;", "A fond mistake ,", "By what authority you did this act .", "Had I but known that Sancho was his father ,", "Fed with false hopes to gain my crown and me ;", "I sent to stop the murder , but too late ;", "But barely bade him think , and then resolve .", "I cannot chuse a better place to die .", "Redeem my crimes , ally me to his fame ,", "Yet , I will tell , that thou may'st weep with me .\u2014", "Now , to you , Raymond : can you guess no reason", "I told the clocks , and watched the wasting light ,", "Which are his safety , and then seek protection", "And yearly fix on the revolving day", "As , should a common soldier sculk behind ,", "But you , it seems , charge me with breach of faith !", "You needs must think ,", "At last a time for just revenge is given ;", "Yes , I can wish it , as the dearest proof ,", "By all the pleasures of our nuptial bed ,", "And , ere I was aware , sighed to myself ,\u2014", "And I a woman , ignorant and weak :", "From my sight !", "I fear my people 's faith ;", "Welcome , welcome !", "But man , unlike his Maker , bears too long ;", "I stand in need of one , whose glories may", "My father 's promise ties me not to time ;"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["What ! my noble colonel in metamorphosis ! On what occasion are you transformed ?", "How , no need of them ! do you speak in riddles ?", "Me , I grant you ; I am her director and her guide in spiritual affairs : But he has his humours with me too ; for t'other day he called me false apostle .", "There you hit him ; Saint Dominick loves charity exceedingly ; that argument never fails with him .", "Where is this naughty couple ? where are you , in the name of goodness ? My mind misgave me , and I durst trust you no longer with yourselves : Here will be fine work , I 'm afraid , at your next confession .", "No , in troth , I dare not ; do not tempt me to break my vow of poverty .", "What a hopeful enterprise is here spoiled !", "Thus good intentions are misconstrued by wicked men ; you will never be warned till you are excommunicated .", "Hold your peace ; are you growing malapert ? will you force me to make use of my authority ? your wife 's a well disposed and a virtuous lady ; I say it , In verbo sacerdotis .", "A word or two of devotion will do her no harm , I 'm sure .", "\u2018 Tis your duty to strive always ; but , notwithstanding , when we have done our utmost , it extenuates the sin .", "Beware how you accuse one of my order upon light suspicions . The naughty couple , that I meant , were your wife and you , whom I left together with great animosities on both sides . Now , that was the occasion ,\u2014 mark me , Gomez ,\u2014 that I thought it convenient to return again , and not to trust your enraged spirits too long together . You might have broken out into revilings and matrimonial warfare , which are sins ; and new sins make work for new confessions .", "Heavens ! what will become of me ?", "This goes well :Gomez , stand you at a distance ,\u2014 farther yet ,\u2014 stand out of ear shot ;\u2014 I have somewhat to say to your wife in private .", "The colonel , say you ! I wish it be not the same young gentleman I know . \u2018 Tis a gallant young man , I must confess , worthy of any lady 's love in Christendom ,\u2014 in a lawful way , I mean : of such a charming behaviour , so bewitching to a woman 's eye , and , furthermore , so charitably given ; by all good tokens , this must be my colonel Hernando .", "A fine commendation you have given yourself ; the church did not marry you for that .", "But , if she be ill this afternoon , she may have new occasion to confess .", "How dar'st thou reproach the tribe of Levi ?", "Acquainted with him ! why , he haunts me up and down ; and , I am afraid , it is for love of you ; for he pressed a letter upon me , within this hour , to deliver to you . I confess I received it , lest he should send it by some other ; but with full resolution never to put it into your hands .", "Let him alone ; let him alone ; I shall fetch him back with a circum-bendibus , I warrant him .", "Take notice how uncharitably he talks of churchmen .", "You see I have delivered my message faithfully ; I am a friar of honour , where I am engaged .", "Nay , if you compel me , there 's no contending ; but , will you set your strength against a decrepit , poor , old man ?As I said , \u2018 tis too great a bounty ; but Saint Dominick shall owe you another scape : I 'll put him in mind of you .", "What have you gotten there under your arm , daughter ? somewhat ,", "Ah , if your soldiers had but dispatched him , his tongue had been laid asleep , colonel ; but this comes of not following good counsel ; ah \u2014", "I am old , I am infirm , I must confess , with fasting .", "A female saint ! good now , good now , how your devotions jump with mine ! I always loved the female saints .", "The looks of it are indeed alluring : I 'll do you reason .", "Art thou an infidel ? Wilt thou not believe us ?", "Peace be here : I thought I had been sent for to a dying man ; to have fitted him for another world .", "And you edify by minutes .", "That must not be ; not a farthing more , upon my priesthood .\u2014 But what may be the purport and meaning of this letter ? that , I confess , a little troubles me .", "Farewell , kind gentlemen ; I give you all my blessing before I go .\u2014 May your sisters , wives , and daughters , be so naturally lewd , that they may have no occasion for a devil to tempt , or a friar to pimp for them .", "The old king , you know , is just murdered , and the persons that did it are unknown ; let the soldiers seize him for one of the assassinates , and let me alone to accuse him afterwards .", "What was't you ordered them ? Are you sure it 's safe , and not scandalous ?", "Pray , how long has she been sick ?", "Fresh straw , and a dark chamber ; a most manifest judgment ! there never comes better of railing against the church .", "Thou shalt answer for this , thou slanderer ; thy offences be upon thy head .", "I must not neglect my duty , for all that ; once again , Gomez , by your leave .", "Men of my order are not to be treated after this manner .", "Hold a little ; I have thought better how to secure him , with less danger to us .", "What colonel do you mean , Gomez ? I see no man but a reverend brother of our order , whose profession I honour , but whose person I know not , as I hope for paradise .", "Well , you are a charitable man ; and I 'll take your word : my comfort is , I know not the contents ; and so far I am blameless . But an answer you shall have ; though not for the sake of your fifty pieces more : I have sworn not to take them ; they shall not be altogether fifty . Your mistress \u2014 forgive me , that I should call her your mistress , I meant Elvira ,\u2014 lives but at next door : I 'll visit her immediately ; but not a word more of the nine-and-forty pieces .", "And I love to hear of charity ; \u2018 tis a comfortable subject .", "Lose no time , but make haste while the way is free for you ; and thereupon I give you my benediction .", "Away , colonel ; let us fly for our lives : the neighbours are coming out with forks , and fire-shovels , and spits , and other domestic weapons ; the militia of a whole alley is raised against us .", "A vow is a very solemn thing ; and \u2018 tis good to keep it : but , notwithstanding , it may be broken upon some occasions . Have you striven with all your might against this frailty ?", "I confess , I am astonished !", "Now I better think o n't , I will bear you company ; for the reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies .", "This incontinency may proceed to adultery , and adultery to murder , and murder to hanging ; and there 's the satisfaction o n't ."], "true_target": ["Good :\u2014 hold , hold ; I meant abominable .\u2014 Pray heaven this may be my colonel !", "How , fifty pieces ? \u2018 tis too much , too much in conscience .", "Go to , go to ; I find good counsel is but thrown away upon you . Fare you well , fare you well , son ! Ah \u2014", "And what will become of me then ? for when he is free , he will infallibly accuse me .", "It should seem , a brother of our order .", "Why , noble sir , I 'll tell you .", "Bless my eyes ! what do I see ?", "Ay , and O lady ! O lady too !\u2014 I redouble my oath , I had never seen him . Well , this noble colonel , like a true gentleman , was for taking the weaker part , you may be sure ; whereupon this Gomez flew upon him like a dragon , got him down , the devil being strong in him , and gave him bastinado upon bastinado , and buffet upon buffet , which the poor meek colonel , being prostrate , suffered with a most Christian patience .", "\u2018 Tis he , for certain ;\u2014 she has saved the credit of my function , by speaking first ; now must I take gravity upon me .", "I must confess , \u2018 tis wrongful , quoad hoc , as to the fact itself ; but \u2018 tis rightful , quoad hunc , as to this heretical rogue , whom we must dispatch . He has railed against the church , which is a fouler crime than the murder of a thousand kings . Omne majus continet in se minus : He , that is an enemy to the church , is an enemy unto heaven ; and he , that is an enemy to heaven , would have killed the king if he had been in the circumstances of doing it ; so it is not wrongful to accuse him .", "Indisposed , say you ? O , it is upon those occasions that a confessor is most necessary ; I think , it was my good angel that sent me hither so opportunely .", "You take a mighty pleasure in defamation , colonel ; but I wonder what you find in running restless up and down , breaking your brains , emptying your purse , and wearing out your body , with hunting after unlawful game .", "O impudence ! O rogue ! O villain ! Nay , if he be such a man , my righteous spirit rises at him ! Does he put on holy garments , for a cover-shame of lewdness ?", "I dare say , you wrong her ; she is employing her thoughts how to cure you of your jealousy .", "By your leave , Gomez ; I have some spiritual advice to impart to her on that subject .", "Well , so far as a letter , I will take upon me ; for what can I refuse to a man so charitably given ?", "I will lay up your words for you , till time shall serve ; and to-morrow I enjoin you to fast , for penance .", "I hope , that will bear your charges in your pilgrimage .", "What was the reason that I found you upon your knees , in that unseemly posture ?", "Son of a what , Don Gomez ?", "No , no ; nothing but the open air will do me good . I 'll take a turn in your garden ; but remember that I trust you both , and do not wrong my good opinion of you .", "I 'm resolved to forswear it , if you do . Let me advise you better , colonel , than to accuse a church-man to a church-man ; in the common cause we are all of a piece ; we hang together .", "False and scandalous ! Give me the book . I 'll take my corporal oath point-blank against every particular of this charge .", "Second thoughts , they say , are best : I 'll consider of it once again .It has a most delicious flavour with it . Gad forgive me , I have forgotten to drink your health , Son , I am not used to be so unmannerly .", "This can be but some slight indisposition ; it will not last , and I may see her .", "Nay , if you talk of peaching , I 'll peach first , and see whose oath will be believed ; I 'll trounce you for offering to corrupt my honesty , and bribe my conscience : you shall be summoned by an host of parators ; you shall be sentenced in the spiritual court ; you shall be excommunicated ; you shall be outlawed ;\u2014 and \u2014I say , a man might do this now , if he were maliciously disposed , and had a mind to bring matters to extremity : but , considering that you are my friend , a person of honour , and a worthy good charitable man , I would rather die a thousand deaths than disoblige you .", "Nay , if you are obstinately bent to see it , use your discretion ; but , for my part , I wash my hands of it .\u2014 What makes you listening there ? get farther off ; I preach not to thee , thou wicked eaves dropper .", "I expect some judgment should fall upon you , for your want of reverence to your spiritual director : Slander , covetousness , and jealousy , will weigh thee down .", "Nay , if you are bashful ;\u2014 if you keep your wound from the knowledge of your surgeon ,\u2014", "I am taken on the sudden with a grievous swimming in my head , and such a mist before my eyes , that I can neither hear nor see .", "Now he reviles marriage , which is one of the seven blessed sacraments .", "They are the spoils of the wicked , and the church endows you with them .", "You could not have pitched upon a better ; he 's a sure card ; I never knew him fail his votaries .", "To interpose my spiritual authority in your behalf .", "As I was walking in the streets , telling my beads , and praying to myself , according to my usual custom , I heard a foul out-cry before Gomez \u2019 portal ; and his wife , my penitent , making doleful lamentations : thereupon , making what haste my limbs would suffer me , that are crippled with often kneeling , I saw him spurning and listing her most unmercifully ; whereupon , using Christian arguments with him to desist , he fell violently upon me , without respect to my sacerdotal orders , pushed me from him , and turned me about with a finger and a thumb , just as a man would set up a top . Mercy ! quoth I .\u2014 Damme ! quoth he ;\u2014 and still continued labouring me , until a good-minded colonel came by , whom , as heaven shall save me , I had never seen before .", "Let me alone ; I fear him not . I am armed with the authority of my clothing : yonder I see him keeping sentry at his door :\u2014 have you never seen a citizen , in a cold morning , clapping his sides , and walking forward and backward , a mighty pace before his shop ? but I 'll gain the pass , in spite of his suspicion ; stand you aside , and do but mark how I accost him .", "Good even , Gomez ; how does your wife ?", "I 'll not wag an ace farther : the whole world shall not bribe me to it ; for my conscience will digest these gross enormities no longer .", "Who ? Donna Elvira ? I think I have some reason ; I am her ghostly father .", "Well , I have thought o n't , and I will not go .", "I understand it not , for my part ; but I wish your intentions be honest . Remember , that adultery , though it be a silent sin , yet it is a crying sin also . Nevertheless , if you believe absolutely he will die , unless you pity him ; to save a man 's life is a point of charity ; and actions of charity do alleviate , as I may say , and take off from the mortality of the sin . Farewell , daughter .\u2014 Gomez , cherish your virtuous wife ; and thereupon I give you my benediction .", "But this habit , son ! this habit !", "I shall absolve them , because he is an enemy of the church .\u2014 There is a proverb , I confess , which says , that dead men tell no tales ; but let your soldiers apply it at their own perils .", "Daughter , daughter , do you remember your matrimonial vow ?", "At your peril be it then . I have told you the ill consequences ; et liberavi animam meam . Your reputation is in danger , to say nothing of your soul . Notwithstanding , when the spiritual means have been applied , and fail , in that case the carnal may be used . You are a tender child , you are , and must not be put into despair ; your heart is as soft and melting as your hand .", "I excommunicate thee from the church , if thou dost not open ; there 's promulgation coming out .", "Now the truth comes out , in spite of him .", "I find , then , I must bring a doctor .", "Away , away ; I do not love them ;\u2014 pah ; no ,\u2014I do not love a pretty girl \u2014 you are so waggish !\u2014", "Ho , jealous ? he 's the very quintessence of jealousy ; he keeps no male creature in his house ; and from abroad he lets no man come near her ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["To be your country 's curse in after ages .", "My zeal for you must lay the father by ,", "Mark who defraud their offspring , you or I ?", "She 's fired , as I would wish her ; aid me , justice ,", "And could not , if they durst ; whence honest men", "Had man been waking , he had ne'er consented .", "An ocean poured upon a narrow brook ?", "With which I flattered my long , tedious absence ,", "And men are born for kings , as beasts for men ,", "And turns his brains to frenzy .", "To be perused by you .", "When he 's produced , as soon he shall , among you ,", "A court like this ! Can I sooth tyranny ?", "By all the powers , worse , worse than what I feared !", "And hug your father 's murderer in your arms !", "As not to head the party ?", "Upon his soul , to bear , much less to flatter ,", "By heaven , it must not be ! or , if it be ,", "But , aiming to possess the usurping queen ,", "Law , justice , honour , bid farewell to earth ,", "Though I loath", "Well then , I will dissemble , for an end", "Why that sigh ?", "Banish themselves , for shame of being there :", "Before their rage has finished my designs", "O horror , horror !\u2014 After this alliance ,", "I could cry now ; my eyes grow womanish ,", "Are these , are these , ye powers , the promised joys ,", "Shall justice turn her edge within your hand ?", "Could you so far belie your country 's hope ,", "But yet you barbarously murdered him .", "Can you forgive the traitor ?", "Read that ; \u2018 tis with the royal signet signed ,", "You see he knows not me , his natural father ;", "And then insinuate to them , that I bring", "Can you not ? say that once more ,", "Now , valiant citizens , the time is come ,", "No : \u2018 tis a salt rheum , that scalds my eyes .", "For I shall stop my ears : Now mince the sin ,", "Your fame and glory to the usurper 's bed .", "This one black deed has damned .", "Since I must use authority no more ,\u2014", "Birth to match birth , and power to balance power .", "O virtue , virtue ! what art thou become ,", "Because he took it not by lawless force ?", "Permitted you to fight for this usurper ,", "And plead my country 's cause against my son .", "Bate the last , and \u2018 tis what I would say :", "What , shall I think the world was made for one ,", "Take your own crown from Leonora 's gift ,", "His crown usurped , a distaff in the throne ,", "Indeed to save a crown , not hers , but yours ,", "I dare not trust him with himself so far ,", "But spare his person , for his father 's sake .", "I would have chaffered it before for vengeance ;", "The traitor 's sight , I 'll go . Attend us here .", "Their lawful prince to place upon the throne .", "On this important now .", "I rest assured to see you pale with fear ,", "I hope , I come in time , if not to make ,", "Fall on , fall on , and hear him not ;", "Your good or ill , your infamy or fame ,", "What , if I see my prince mistake a poison ,", "Into an unseen whirlpool draws you fast ,", "Say , you consented not to Sancho 's death ,", "Or is she grown , as sure she ought to be ,", "To punish tyrants , and redeem the land ,", "Nay , if possessing her can make you happy ,", "And let him raise the train-bands of the city .", "Oh , when young kings begin with scorn of justice ,", "To some bold man , whose loyalty you trust ,", "All to make sure the vengeance of this day ,", "So high he 's mounted in his airy hopes ,", "Without the pilot 's care .", "Seem pleased to see my royal master murdered ,", "Why , \u2018 tis to leave a ship , tossed in a tempest ,", "Heaven took him , sleeping , when he made her too ;", "And think to break his hold ; he toils in vain .", "That man should leave thee for that toy , a woman ,", "On Bertran and the queen ; but in despite ,", "Upon his father 's throne ?", "Then , then you should have thought of tears and pity ,", "You have a prince of Sancho 's royal blood ,", "At least to save your fortune and your honour .", "Which even this day has ruined . One more question", "True , it must .", "Will make him sick , and then I have him sure .", "Call it a cordial ,\u2014 am I then a traitor ,", "O , that I could but weep , to vent my passion !", "What , if he did not all the ill he could ?", "What pushing force they have ; some popular chief ,", "Retire .", "O baseness , to support a tyrant throne ,", "But barely not forbade it .", "The darling of the heavens , and joy of earth ;", "Can I , can any loyal subject , see", "So , now we have a plot behind the plot .", "Because \u2018 tis then the only time to serve him .", "Once again :", "Arm me with patience , heaven !", "More odious to your sight than toads and adders ?", "Even of himself , I 'll save him .", "But man , who knows not hearts , should make examples", "By your leave , manhood !", "And I shall die well pleased .", "And to reform the state ?", "Should not a lingering fever be removed ,", "You are my king ;\u2014 would you would be your own !", "And murderer of your father .", "And not the queen 's ? O , she 's the chief offender !", "And blot their annals in the foremost page .", "I bred you up to arms , raised you to power ,", "O cursed haste , of making sure of sin !\u2014", "And last , to fall herself .", "For heaven can judge if penitence be true ;", "This love , the bait he gorged so greedily ,", "This calm of heaven , this mermaid 's melody ,", "Because it long has raged within my blood ?", "Why , can you think I owe a thief my life ,", "Brave mischief towards .", "Pleaded for Sancho 's life .", "For know , there yet survives the lawful heir", "But this dry sorrow burns up all my tears ."], "true_target": ["She knew he was a man , the best of men ;", "So diseases are :", "Her punished , who misleads you from your fame ;", "To find , at my return , my master murdered ?", "And that \u2018 tis all for her ; but time shall show ,", "And that accursed Bertran", "A tyrant , an usurper ?", "Am I obliged by that to assist his rapines ,", "No , if she \u2018 scape , you are yourself the tyrant ,", "What though his heart be great , his actions gallant ,", "With patience , such a stoop from sovereignty ,", "All she has done , or e'er can do , of good ,", "O never , never !", "Then let her be divorced : we 'll be content", "And given me , by the king , when time should serve ,", "Mark those , who dote on arbitrary power ,", "\u2018 Tis granted , nothing hinders your design .", "And all the colour of your life , depends", "You 'll join with me ?", "No matter yet , he has my hook within him .", "Now let him frisk and flounce , and run and roll ,", "The gates are barred , the ways are barricadoed ,", "But turn them out , and shew them but a foe ,", "Let tigers match with hinds , and wolves with sheep ,", "Take heed you steer your vessel right , my son ;", "And every creature couple with his foe .", "Or needy bankrupts , servile in their greatness ,", "Behold the basilisk of Torrismond ,", "And trembling at his name .", "How could your heart rebel against your reason ?", "And One and all 's the word ; true cocks o'the game ,", "That all the saints may witness it against you .", "When virtue , majesty , and hoary age ,", "To show your courage , and your loyalty .", "Ped , You 'll hardly gain your son to our design .", "They make an omen to their after reign ,", "Some brave conspiracy were ready formed ,", "And you shall find them either hot-brained youth ,", "Pressing to be employed ; stand , and observe them .", "Of Sancho 's blood , whom when I shall produce ,", "Heaven 's image double-stamped , as man and king .", "For heaven leaves all to tyrants .", "More noisy than the rest , but cries halloo ,", "Your reason for't ?", "And slaves to some , to lord it o'er the rest .", "A council made of such as dare not speak ,", "Now , son , suppose", "What treason is it to redeem my king ,", "Till you deserve that title by your justice .", "And mollify damnation with a phrase ;", "You do not know the virtues of your city ,", "That I may see your father 's death revenged .", "What generous man can live with that constraint", "First sieze Bertran ,", "What ! if she did not know he was your father ,", "His actions were but duty .", "How vainly man designs , when heaven opposes !", "Stalks close behind her , like a witch 's fiend ,", "Heaven guided all , to save the innocent .", "Believe him not ; he raves ; his words are loose", "To espouse the tyrant 's person and her crimes ,", "And , in a moment , sinks you .", "To fright the rest from crimes .", "But o'er the tyrant 's guards to force our way ?", "And crush your freeborn brethren of the world !", "Is scorned abroad , and lives on tricks at home ?", "Sing to him , syren ;", "With that poor scanty justice ; let her part .", "As heaps of sand , and scattering wide from sense .", "Stay , I command you stay , and hear me first .", "This hour 's the very crisis of your fate ,", "She thinks , she 's in the depth of my design ,", "Marriage with Torrismond ! it must not be ,", "Nay , to become a part of usurpation ;", "Heaven has restored you , you depose yourself .", "But , by a fatal fondness , you betray", "And to maintain his murders ?", "Speak , what will you adventure to reseat him", "He wants a crown to poise against a crown ,", "The husband of a tyrant ; but no king ,", "That never ask , for what , or whom , they fight ;", "But yet my heart holds out .", "Our liberty for us !", "Now , in the name of honour , sir , I beg you ,\u2014", "No more !\u2014 Farewell , my much lamented king !\u2014", "Must be some one , whose loyalty you trust .", "Now let it go for failing .", "Enjoy the fruits of blood and parricide ,", "So great , so pious , as a just revenge :", "That word stabs me .", "Not for protection , but to be devoured ?", "Fear not ; I can produce him .", "That kills him with her eyes \u2014 I will speak on ;", "The people never will endure this choice .", "My life is of no farther use to me :", "What then remains to perfect our success ;", "A government , that , knowing not true wisdom ,", "She only lives to help me ruin others ,", "Let her be made your father 's sacrifice ,", "Your lot 's too glorious , and the proof 's too plain .", "Because I hold his hand , or break the glass ?", "And , on a tyrant , get a race of tyrants ,", "Then burn me , hack me , hew me into pieces ,", "But still their chief", "Yes , yes , he shall ; pray go .", "You owe her more , perhaps , than you imagine ;", "You shall be still plain Torrismond with me ;", "Made from the dross and refuse of a man !", "Yet you may give commission", "To own him to the people as their king ,", "Cry \u2014 Liberty ! and that 's a cause of quarrel .", "The abettor , partner ,", "And after make me hers .", "On these old knees , I beg you , ere I die ,", "Do you yet love the cause of all your woes ,", "Heaven may forgive a crime to penitence ,", "Which , like a warning piece , must be shot off ,", "Do I rebel , when I would thrust it out ?", "Pray heaven it may !", "And , in a trice , the bellowing herd come out ;", "Yes ; for , I think , you love your honour more .", "First let me see", "Let me but ask , and I have done for ever ;\u2014", "That now the wind is got into his head ,"], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["Our lives and fortunes ."], "true_target": ["Liberty , liberty ! As they are ready to Fight , enter LORENZO and his Party .", "Lead on , lead on ."], "play_index": 29, "act_index": 29}, {"query": ["The price of vinegar ! who 'll buy !\u2014 Not I !", "For lord Amaury ! does he so indeed ?", "But s-sh ! beware ! there 's something of import .", "Now , is he not ?", "Not I ! Not I ! Not I !", "Mauria", "Ho !", "Was ever sight so sweet upon the world ?", "You 're not a man , Mauria ! we were duped .", "Verily !", "And not a man ! he has discovered it !"], "true_target": ["Look at him ! Maga ! Mauria ! behold !", "Of Alessa !", "Who died of choler !", "But see him now \u2014 a mummy of the Nile !", "What does he think of ?", "With the price of vinegar upon his face .", "To appease him !", "Is he not very Joy ?", "The \u2014! heigh ! heigh-o ! awaits ! la , la ! he does !", "Or little ants and gnats that buzz about him .", "Or of Alessa !"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["That still as a madness measures to your sight .", "Then they besought of him", "Now , woman !", "So much lord Renier who slipt him in", "And flower-lips breathe innocent above her .", "He listened to them as one in a grave .", "What do you know ? Be silent .", "Ah !", "Venture it , venture !", "Itch ! would", "Lady , I will .", "And Cyprus , to be free !\u2014", "Silent and pale and suffering ; in leash .", "And lady Yolanda .", "Revealed , that I might guile you .", "Lord Renier ... remember , if she learns !", "Now you shall hear , with shame ,", "If you will dare it .", "That never more shall know a holy rite \u2014", "No , lady , no .", "He 's coming here .", "With reason ! ... knowing , lady , what , here , now ,", "There is a means \u2014 a might .", "No breath in him .", "Who with their ears ever at secrecy", "You order ; then upon a vessel quick", "Lady , I will go in .", "It shall be .", "He came ... on yesterday ... at dusk . Was led", "Had never better title to its truth .", "To compel her .", "Renier", "Then shall you hear this mystery 's content ,", "And from these gates , I care not to what tomb .", "Stained , as you know \u2014", "Up to his chamber ...", "I would serve you .", "Now he has risen ,", "Shall have a letter of her guile and flight .", "Bear him without ."], "true_target": ["Now , as she has this morning thrice , to ask .", "She and lord Renier . They broke his sleep .", "Wench .", "The Venetian , who nursed him", "You have lady Yolanda hear ? She comes", "Of a baron", "But with exalted pride and happy tears ;", "Yes !", "If it can be done ,", "And lady Yolanda !... Pardon !", "Alessa", "And you have ?", "Yolanda", "Some oath against you , were they right : he would not .", "Speak , girl .... Nobility", "Last night , pouring his potions \u2014", "Rumour it . But , lady , it is a lie ?", "This Camarin , this prinker ,", "Is rumoured of a baron", "Whose purse is daily loose to us .... I curse him !", "Perhaps \u2014 with reason .", "Seize her and shut her fast an hour within", "I swear .", "Bear him without then ever from this place ,", "The Venetian !", "The leprous keep , and she shall write whate'er", "Yes : it is the women", "Yes .", "Then come obliteration !", "But I 'll avenge her doom .", "Lady Yolanda \u2014", "Be sent to Venice whence she came .", "Now . CamarinNo !... Sateless God !", "But \u2018 tis not , lady ! and lord Renier", "Lady Yolanda \u2014", "His father ... Well , my mother 's ten years dead ,", "Then ... let me but", "Nothing .", "To know of lord Amaury ?", "Yolanda"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Sphinxes and the spheres ."], "true_target": ["And how to make them smart for sauciness .", "Then , a care , he 'll bite . He 's been in the grave a long while and he 's hungry . A barley-loaf , quick , Maga !"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Your pitcher , come . He 's troubled by the tale", "No .", "No , no , Civa ! come ;"], "true_target": ["Enough of teasing .", "And waits for lord Amaury from the battle .", "Of lady Yolanda \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Honour was here and innocence lies now", "His doubt that would have sunk !", "When once Amaury hears all that has passed .", "Hassan", "Am I not needy , fain of it , and can", "And yet no word from him .", "But he \u2014 you mean \u2014 is here ?", "Warn ! Warn him a fever 's here", "Who shepherded each happy flock of waves", "It should not .", "Vain , and I cannot have you . No , but listen \u2014\u2014", "And till this pall of doubt be rent away", "Amaury , enough !... I know !", "Then watch", "Mother of God ! is there no gentleness", "And I again shall see him , hear him speak ,", "Ah , and he seeks us now ! unwhelmed of it !", "It is ! it is ! Alessa !", "My want is still the same \u2014 words are unneeded .", "The guilt be !", "Too \u2014?You by a trick \u2014 some trick have \u2014!", "Dawn was enchanted incense once , and day ,", "You trust me to dispel his love , to pall", "Ah , you are merciless !", "Thou'rt vowed in heaven .", "Your lover , you shall clasp him openly", "No ; no , no ! The thought of it is soil !... Rather ... his death !", "Their vessels \u2014 all the Allah-crying horde .", "Do you hear ?", "For this Venetian has now , I bode ,", "Have lost the sky of love that I had arched", "Though I am bidden .", "All that I could to spare her I have done ;", "But I will search her face ... till it reveals .", "And you , Hassan .... But why do you stand stone ?", "He has not yet returned ?", "To utter .", "Is evil mad enchantment come upon", "I show befitting shame that I was here", "Well ?", "Amaury ! Oh !", "Amaury !... Come ! we 'll go to him ! we 'll go !", "You know something .... He 's dead !", "Infection worse than fetid marshes send", "But you , mother , are come at last to say", "Lord Amaury \u2014", "Whose alabaster broke amid her tears", "In thee to move her and dissolve away", "Look on her face and see .", "Again , peace , peace !", "You touched my hand gently , as might a father .", "That he must fend his ear from . \u2018 Twill suffice .", "He does .", "No , no ! But let him .... Then I will go far", "As in a tomb a taper 's flame , would know", "My heart as a bird of May !", "Upon her face !", "And all the stars of it . See , he is dumb !\u2014", "Hear no more of it , ever !", "But can leave me so laden here within", "Ah ! ... he will kill her ! Stop , my lord ! mother !", "The heaping mass of horror ! VittiaLiar , on her own ; for she has sinned .", "Then have you not , unshameable !", "From Mesaoria \u2014", "You hear , mother ?Out of my way at once .", "Pled him to silence which alone can save us ?", "Of Renier Lusignan \u2014 on your peace", "Before any within Lusignan \u2014!", "Renier", "Yes , yes .", "Your promises , broken two days , are kept ?", "Because", "To separate us with this horror ; that", "Trampled and tore !", "Must null his doubt and ease the sobbing ebb", "Would lie preventing ; so there is no fear .", "But you it was who struck and kindled first", "Or through eternity had desecrated ,", "No , my Amaury ! I ... do you not see ?", "My father 's gift \u2014 so desecrated ? So ?\u2014", "And \u2014 all because I have these days delayed", "Granite against even its memory .", "And overtake you though it were as far", "Has driven here .... Alessa \u2014 Tremitus !", "Knowing I have already borne for her", "Then \u2014 to save her who 's dead \u2014 from death and shame ,", "Out of my love ,", "And to your pity .", "For you !\u2014 and her who sleeps forgiven there ,Now while her spirit weightless overwingeth Night , to that Throne whose seeing heals all shame ! For her I did ! but oh , for you , whose least Murmur to me is infinite with Spring , Whose smile is light , filling the air with dawn , Whose touch , wafture of immortality Unto my weariness ; and whose eyes , now , Are as the beams God lifted first , they tell us , Over the uncreated , In the far singing mother-dawn of the world !\u2014 Come with me then , but tearless , to her side .While there is sin to sway the soul and sink it , Pity should be as strong as love or death !", "None ...", "Amaury ! AmauryPriest , be brief ! MOROThe Church invests me , and the powers of This island , here to make you man and wife . Be joined , ye who have sinned , In soul , peace and repentances for ever .YolandaAlessa !", "And you it is \u2014", "Who numbered the little leaves with laughing names", "I have a stab for Camarin of Paphos", "The breath still in the veins", "Rode in the battle as a seraph might", "So to suspect her , since in Camarin 's", "He cannot .", "Though with the wounds of battle he you \u201c love \u201d", "If , ere it come , all under Lusignan", "Pity and pity ! ever pity ! No .", "For somewhere in you there is tenderness .", "Can he not smile too on his handiwork ?", "Mother !... Tell you that", "Whenever he has lived \u2014 but say !\u2014 too long .", "Oh !", "Once on the tower when alone at dusk", "Yolanda", "Where I have dwelt as under tented love \u2014", "Mother !", "Though it is truthless \u2014 hear :", "Away from here to any alien air ,", "And \u2014 for some reason of less honour \u2014 you .", "Send for the priest and for Amaury , for", "To wed with Camarin .", "Dear mother \u2014\u2014?", "We found her \u201d .... Ah , the memory is fire !\u2014\u2014", "Liar that I am to say it !", "Mother ! Her breast ! Mother ! She moves !", "Amaury ... it is true .", "Wait not to question , but obey me ! if \u2014", "His troop ! Amaury 's ! O the silver chime !", "I cast the burden of your cruelty .", "One whose abiding", "Yet could I think !", "Wound ! he is wounded ?", "A help for it or healing ? you who know", "What have I left ...", "If he could trust you \u2014 but he could not .", "The truth !", "Your thought ! I have no fear .", "To-morrow then , unless Amaury runs", "Be deaf to it as to a taunt of doom ,", "I cannot \u2014 cannot !", "And lord Amaury \u2014 said the courier not ?\u2014\u2014", "Yielding \u2014 still ,", "Your peace and this compelling pain .... Ah no !", "Not true that lord Amaury from the battle", "At once ! it rings again ! again ! we 'll go !", "Return !", "No ; but to your heart I leave her", "And at lord Renier 's command .... It is", "You are her murderer ?", "Trembling to muse on !", "Be still .", "Come here ... look in my eyes , and \u2014 deeper .... Shame !", "The Saracens we know were routed to", "Holy Magdalen , defend him !", "Though driven o'er", "Chose as the planet-mate of your proud star !", "She must be borne , she your cold violence", "The presage beat of them like hungry hands", "I cannot understand .", "Has not returned .", "What have you told him ?", "Where not oblivion the void of death", "The pleading of it . And upon you , back ,", "And sinking !... Go away from her , go , go !", "And it is all through him", "Because", "And I will lie to you no longer ;", "I took her place within the Paphian 's arms .", "Our days were merciful and he has made", "Oh ...!", "And it is you ... you who have urged again", "Nor heard ?", "Dared momently peril ,", "Before all of Lusignan .", "You only could against Camarin now !", "It is well .", "Not I shall wed him !", "What to me left ! to me !", "Has learnt in cunning lands and used to lure .", "Stand off from her ... Mother !", "And past all season of recovery ?", "A man would have , a man .", "The portals of this castle ?", "To see ,", "Alone , alone .", "Have seen Amaury ! Now \u2014\u2014!", "But you will heed ?", "Amaury , in !", "While to me", "This may undo me ! First of all I should", "And they who love may stray , it seems , beyond", "Now I will wed him , heedless , wantless , wild .", "Ah , it was ruthless , kindless !", "The least of earth , an ides of heaven bliss .", "Found in his arms ... when to Amaury", "Gulfs wide as the hate of God for infamy", "Leaving my breast a torrent 's barren bed ."], "true_target": ["Mother !...", "Hassan", "Which you would feign , but cannot .", "And her torn hair , forbade me with a voice .", "May to the world , you came and suddenly", "I have not seen him .", "Well ?", "This ne'erhYpppHeNbeforehYpppHeNenvenomed air would banish .", "The shame is left , and silence \u2014 no defence ,", "Where still pursuit would follow ! even ,", "Who came last night at dusk , as well you know .", "Fitting revenge through Camarin of Paphos ,", "While , in the battle ,", "Camarin", "With murder ? no . But if you would indeed ,", "Something of evil more ,", "And \u2014 if she dies in terror of the lips", "Came with the chivalry and manly show", "Go to his fear and with persuasion say", "Sir , no !... She means", "When it is told Amaury , \u201c See her you", "No earth shall fall and quicken with her dust !", "I 'll go myself to him .", "A deeper than disdain .", "Ah , for sceptre and for might", "I grieve to leave Lusignan , this my home \u2014", "Compel lord Renier back ! he cannot live ,", "Again I breathe , I breathe !", "Amaury !... Oh !", "As the sea foams , or past the sandy void", "And must be .", "For there at the gates that guard your rest you hear", "Through it has risen mystery that chokes", "For his sake I ask it .", "These words can wait on what may yet be helped .", "But only this \u2014\u2014", "Lead her within . O mother ! piteous mother !\u2014\u2014", "That it is folly of him and of you", "All that was duty and of love the most .", "Yes , Amaury , then", "Or , ... Venetian \u2014", "Only that you spare", "Ready of step , impassive , cold ! And see \u2014", "To sway me to forgetting \u2014 I to whom", "His wound !", "Wed you to Remorse !", "Plentiful scorn !", "To the last peak of arid Caucasus .", "Insolence , false", "My heart they trample the lone flower of hope .", "Only the pale archangels may endure", "Mother !", "Or though yon image of the Magdalen ,", "Then , mother \u2014\u2014", "To opiate India , a lost sea-isle !", "All justice of our judging .\u2014", "A nun to pity I will be no more .", "A flawless courtesy ! as of a king !", "He cannot ask me more than breast can bear \u2014", "Of her his love so wronged ,", "On \u2014 whom ?", "Laughter and lights and revelry \u2014 for all", "As it will be ! in deadlier dark ,", "To bring Amaury grateful to my feet !", "The Venetian , and when Amaury comes", "These walls would loathe aloud \u2014 had they a tongue", "Camarin ?", "While I have breath .", "To the Holy Sepulchre 's deliverance .", "Shattering love for ever at my feet ?", "Within this castle . But first to her bed ,", "Amaury", "A sacrifice that pain cannot consume .\u2014", "So you , who do not hush this tale of you ,", "That now are spent ... as summer waters ,", "Would you were ! ... not one", "Bitterly tho \u2019 it be , he must , for shame !", "Then to compel you .", "If you attend me not !", "Amaury \u2014\u2014", "With whoever", "But you , cruel Venetian .... Ah , ah ,", "And quickened the winds with quicker winds of hope ,", "A thing may still", "I speak with love .", "As if I had struck , murdered a little child !", "Each moment 's beat a blow upon the breast .", "And pledge him but to wait !", "To ... what ?", "And is in danger \u2014 jeopardy ?", "Here ! In league with you ! in this !", "Find me at once . What sound was that ?... A bugle ?", "Peace , peace , peace .", "Now , now defend him , if to chastity", "And that you could ! though in her heart remorse", "And to tranquillity ,", "Vittia Visani , who withholds Amaury \u2014", "I thank ... Madonna ... thee !", "Now of submission in me ; numb and dead", "That you have had of her .", "Believe !\u2014 believe !", "I sang \u2014 I know not why \u2014 of lost delights ,", "Hassan", "And suffered ! But you \u2014\u2014", "Mother ! you hear me ? mother !", "Who as a guest came pledged into this house .", "You ever \u2014!", "In triple mail to every peaceless word ,", "This jeopardy congealing over us ?", "Say that you will , and now !...", "Saw you not ?", "Of reverence and grace , that he too well", "Be still , be still .", "Of her last terror \u2014 but it trembles still .", "Vainly , virginity and trust and truth !", "Quickly , and take her .", "Blest with betrothal and the boon of faith ,", "Not ? ah ! ... then what ? \u2018 Twas not his trumpet ?", "Not faithless , hear ! it is not true ! not true !", "I tell you , no . Grief was enough , but now", "Of vanished roses that are e'er recalling", "Then ... quell this delirium !", "Dim now the risen phantom cries of it ,", "My brain less weary !", "This gulf 's dishonour ? Never !... So return", "And I will do it .", "No , you are duped . For empty , cold are the veins", "White orange blossoms dewy to your pillow", "Within lord Renier fire of suspicion .", "Or palsied one who put a hand to help me ;", "As oft you have \u2014\u2014", "No !... No !", "Is livid still .", "Even a moment", "Lady of Venice , yes ; for very shame !", "Amaury ! Amaury !", "Mother !", "Has hid away , or can , the agony", "Cold is she , stony pale ,", "Ah , you remember ; you will hear me ?", "Arms I was found . You will !", "And feigning ! But no matter ; lies are brief .", "And may have destiny you cannot know .", "Only one thing \u2014 innocence in his sight .", "You 've spoken ? won lord Renier to wisdom ?", "Will \u2014?", "One searching of my face shall free your fear .", "No , no ; I have not been faithless to you \u2014", "And you , whose heart is shaken", "Hassan", "Running with silvery foaming there to shore ,", "So well the world and its unwonted ways !", "I was betrothed !", "Out of your thought forever let it fall ,", "Once when you chafed in fever and I bore", "I will not bear it .", "You with the weal of Cyprus on your brow", "And even now perhaps Amaury hears", "Do not look scorn on Vittia Pisani .", "Hassan !I hear you , speak . His wounds I know . The rest ! They 've told him ?", "Here in my breast ! to the immutable", "Lifted my brow up silent to your kiss .", "Were", "Pity alone we owe to sin not blame .", "To the divinity of love high-altared", "I fear , Amaury 's ?\u2014", "Since in the worst that live there yet is heaven !\u2014", "And turns away in horror !", "Ah !", "Yes , though you hold me purgeless of that sin", "As a miasma from Iscariot 's tomb .", "It is suspicion ! is that mad suspicion", "Be done to lift my hope out of this ruin !", "Hang on his battle-story blessedly !", "Lord Renier !", "And flood of her sick spirit ; you who must", "Of joy to ripple in me or of light", "Though for obedience it be or life ;", "Say not pity to me !", "Endurance ever dure !", "That will o'erwhelm you !", "It cannot be ! mother ! cannot ! awake her !", "He 's wounded !", "Beauty of it ! ... look , look not on me so \u2014", "She breathes !", "And tell her I have wed him ! mother ! cannot !", "Of stricken Africa ? It would be vain .", "And chill his passion from me . For I crave", "No .", "On him !", "For though he would waste the air of the world to keep"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Ah , you were", "The dead are strange ! I knew not of their power .", "The acolytes", "Are waiting .", "Lady , I would have wed him \u2014 wed this toad !", "Yolanda", "Lady Berengere is dead .", "Would that it might Upon the head of \u2014\u2014You are awaited There in the sacristy .... The chant begins !Begins ! and lady Yolanda still awaits Heedless , though Lord Amaury 's desperate , As is the Paphian !... They near !... The curtains !MoroNo moan or any toil of grief be here Where we have brought her for sainted appeal . But in this holy place until the tomb Let her find rest .", "Good father ! Father Moro ! ... He is not here .", "Lady Yolanda ! you have wed him ? YolandaYes .", "And I ; to wait .", "Hovered beneath the pallor of her face", "Father !", "Worm ! with dust ? Heeling away from him ?", "But I to see Amaury ."], "true_target": ["I may not speak .", "Though you boasted love to me ?", "It is as if her spirit still imprisoned", "And strove to speak . Good father !", "There in the sacristy .", "To aid your rites before her burial", "And tell him ?", "The Magdalen !", "The acolytes summoned from Famagouste", "At once .", "And he would not ?", "Have come , and wait .", "Lady !", "Who 'd kill the Paphian , too !", "I may not . It is best ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["To win his father 's lenience ?... No ... I see !", "No , and I would that gentle words might be", "And you will heed it well ; I fear not . But first I have thought of requital . SmardaOuie !", "As , wooing dolt , he will . But see to it . I shall be in this place with lord Amaury , Whom I must ... but no matter . He left me suddenly a season since Seeing his father look strangely upon His mother ; for lord Renier 's doubt I still Have been compelled to feed \u2014 to move Yolanda . Here in this place then I shall be , at need .SmardaA-ha ! ha-ha ! ha-ha ! if she but win ! A talisman with might upon the Moor !If she but win ! a-ha ! a curse on him !PietroHold , fair one ! Stay ! You look on Pietro Of Venice ! Pietro ! SmardaA-ha ... ha-ha ! PietroIt is the slave !I greet you , slave .", "And then embrace him in whose arms three nights", "Smarda", "And he has come now for your answer .", "Enter , my lord of Paphos \u2014 I have spoken .", "No ; unblushingly !", "Pietro ?", "A prophesy !", "Yet I may be mistress of them . Ere all is done \u2014 since still it is my purpose .", "The reason for your sake I must withhold .", "Sent me of Venice", "What ?", "Merely to sigh \u2014 and fear her innocence", "Yes , Pietro , it must be , has arrived", "Fitly reply , but I \u2014\u2014", "Fool !... Camarin , strike !", "More , my lord ?", "With papers that will help .", "Are for revenge \u2014 to bring revenge !", "Will ... for you suffer !", "To-morrow I return to Venice , then", "They came with you .", "Yolanda", "Fools , to me !", "I say her own . I 've done no crime . And you will wed him .", "My gratitude ! I wished , and you are here .", "Can only seem simple as dew again", "Camarin with us , willing . So I 've learned", "Hindered ? Little", "Your Scythian home , over the hated sea ,", "To let her ... but for to-day ...", "Were torn by the Moor who was your one-time master .", "O do , my lord !", "Will , though indelicacy seem to soil", "Since she is numbed and drained", "Of lord Amaury ?", "As waters of enchantment on his grief .\u2014", "Is wed with Camarin ... no , do not speak ;", "To be repelled ? BERENGERE enters .", "Rather I 'll bring you this :\u2014 Authority", "Or to abase him even of Famagouste ;", "She ... shall do it .", "Still , before", "And ready skilfully to disavow ,", "These \u2014 but not these alone have brought you ! What ?", "My lord \u2014\u2014?", "Surprised yearning and truth upon my lips .", "With every force , your innocence \u2014 if you", "Those amulets you wear , of jade and sard \u2014", "Unless I have the pledge that you will wed ,", "Ago she was embraced .", "Unblushingly to one who knows \u2014 though by", "And from", "Smarda ! what do you mean ? why are you here ?", "Well , if I win to-night what is begun", "Yes , implanted deep .", "What !", "You see , none .", "Which ... do you mean ,", "Which I will do \u2014", "Yolanda", "Alone would serve you . That I must not bring", "It is , but tardy . Therefore I must have", "And grieves ?\u2014 Be comforted !", "The loggia \u2014 at once .... Ah !", "It is this :", "Denial .", "Ah !", "Momently by the terror of her husband ,", "Still to achieve this wedding , though we have", "Guileless Yolanda , you shall wed with him", "To the grave .", "Were it folly to make sure ?", "Of Berengere Lusignan fall for it ,", "Fa .", "Verging \u2014 go learn !\u2014 to death .", "A chance \u2014 my love to him \u2014 my lowered love .", "Had you but trusted me , Amaury .", "\u201c Ah \u201d indeed .", "A Paphian ere this has fondled two ?", "But listen , every sinew will be needed"], "true_target": ["Ha !", "Them instantly .", "Yolanda", "And yet I cannot rue", "Yes , and will add \u2014\u2014", "Knowing", "You will when she who 's guilty", "I needed .... Her wings are flightless . She is ill ,", "I think you are . Think that you are \u2014 if ever the leopard yields .", "Amaury", "If you wed freely Camarin of Paphos .", "Whose every pulse seems to her a suspicion .", "My tongue to falter .", "If she is near , the Paphian is in", "And from these gates be led wanton away .", "Attempt betrayal !\u2014", "Can you so say !", "Amaury ! what is this ?", "Lady ... your slave !", "Still , there is none .", "You shall not want , to-morrow ,", "Gold for a weightier witchery upon him .", "Or than your love of Camarin of Paphos !", "Amaury", "Smarda", "Then ... it will cease , my lord \u2014", "Most loyally ;", "And wholly ?", "Smarda", "So as a flail of doubt it should not still", "Another could", "Only aware", "To make Amaury lordly over Cyprus ,", "Smarda \u2014\u2014", "She hopes of ?", "This Paphian ,", "And though Amaury .... But you may avail .", "It was enough", "Evening is done , you will become his wife .", "YOLANDA enters .", "What ? what ?", "A ship has come from Venice .", "And with him from Lusignan hence will pass .", "And yet ...", "Beat in you \u2014 when Yolanda", "I will bear it .", "Is it not so ?", "That do not ask , I pray .", "That , ere a dawn ,", "She will come here . Go to the curtains , see .", "Yolanda , does not know ? nothing ?", "How to compel your pity to my ends ;", "Again unshameful ? No ; one thing", "The bower by the cypress : there , tell him ,", "And \u2014 then go pray ?", "Whatever bloom I boasted .", "I , a dear guest ? fa !", "How !", "Have chosen \u2014 to wed me .", "Is ! though an instant since it seemed disaster .", "And you alone , she knows , can put it far \u2014", "For to-day .", "And this enamoured Paphian are fled !", "For he is \u2014 now security has come .", "That he awaking sudden from the potion", "Amaury", "Though not to be his wife and free to leave him ,", "What ! how ?", "For you will spare his mother .", "Lady \u2014?", "When they are fled ! ha .... And it is too late .", "As he is , do not fear .", "Yet I must bend to ! and , my lord , I will !", "From the home whence you", "And yet may reach \u2014 the realm .", "But of Yolanda \u2014", "Think you ... for she 's aware of my affection ...", "Tell ? ... vowing him first", "The whole ?", "But she has pledged no further \u2014 though the life", "Then \u2014 I can compel her .", "Since you are Lusignan ,", "You refuse ?", "Heir of a sceptred line ,", "Your paramour of Paphos \u2014\u2014"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["And we might be", "No step was ever taken in the world", "Then \u2014 I 'll not stay for death ,", "Of an unreckoned love are mine as yours .", "The beauty and ache and dream and glow and urge", "And that you know .", "It sickens me .", "In none ;", "And yet I must .... It is that , till I bid ,", "Too am a woman , and the woman wants ,", "From happiness whose air is ever sin .", "But from a brink of danger , or in flight", "Life is fear .", "Renier ... no .", "This trouble fallen from a night of evil \u2014\u2014", "I too have been aware and kept you blind .", "These hours of ill !", "Stay , stay ! She has not told him ! nothing !... Yes ,", "To some retreat", "If the leech Tremitus has any skill ;", "Perhaps .", "Myself the truth .", "Will lead peace back to us ... and from us draw", "Will go from here .", "My lord ?", "Yolanda", "Yolanda \u2014", "He sleeps .", "Christ , save me ... Christ ! Yolanda 's innocent , and I ... \u2018 twas I .", "No !", "Trust to me .", "To-day ... no more .", "The unaccustomed wind of these ill hours"], "true_target": ["Camarin ! Ah !AmauryYolanda ; what is this ?", "You ?", "Then hear , hear me ! I", "Amaury may not know of this ... not know", "I am not well . I will go to my chamber .", "Renier", "Renier !", "Nothing ; a pain", "But I have a request that , if you grant ,", "Again \u2014 wrong .", "Here in my breast .", "Do not call me so again .", "It grieves you not .", "I have not \u2014 and I will not .", "My brain and breath ! ... the pall ... where am I ... how", "Has torn tranquillity from her and reason .", "I cannot ....", "As those that wedded love ?", "But now his wound \u2014\u2014", "Away !", "For he was overworn , and still is , much .", "That now ... I cannot plead .", "This fang of fate .", "Little .", "Long must I lie !...", "Yes .", "And wait for shame . But now with Camarin", "Yolanda", "Yolanda !", "My lord , she knows not what she says .", "Pitiless on us as a meteor 's ash .", "I will not lose Amaury ; but will tell him", "I cannot .", "Yes , as she says \u2014 tranquillity and reason ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["But I never until this guiler grants", "Unfaltering . I fear him .", "I say \u2014 only delayed ? and you \u2014?", "I suffered in the furnace of suspicion", "Yolanda", "And time that is e'erhYpppHeNpitiful must pass", "Girl , what rends you ?", "She knows what I would bid and does she hurl", "Yet ask her this , If she three nights ago \u2014\u2014", "That you recoil even as now you do", "That you were the guilty one \u2014 you my own wife .", "With Camarin of Paphos ?", "Nobly you pity ! But it will not veil her .", "Girl !", "Allure him yet to wed you ?", "It has ,", "With him , with him , I say ?...", "Then it shall be , at once .... But no , I first", "Stand off !\u2014 As dogs forget", "So that you may", "Matin and Vesper in a round remote ,", "Withheld her , but ... what ails you ?", "For", "As now a fool is doing ?", "No !", "But brings to me no light \u2014 only again", "Dumb to deny it .", "And to this wanton 's perfidy to bind", "The stumbling in suspicion .", "Yet madder I , if to this murk my brain", "From stain upon your wedded constancy ....", "Bid Moro and Amaury .\u2014 As for her ,", "About Amaury \u2014 till he could not move", "Yes , yes ?", "I found her in the arms of Camarin ,", "Insult ?", "Have a confession .", "... Yet \u2014 it is just", "Vainly implored .\u2014", "Speak !", "I say , withheld her . But she now has chosen .", "She troubles you too much .", "In secret , thus , and with", "Before there is forgiveness . And perhaps", "Before I found Yolanda on the breast", "She is silent ;", "Beyond you .", "What , what ?", "Yes , Amaury ... you", "Still to befool him ! YolandaChoose ! I cannot suffer more of this .", "Whom now he holds pure as a spirit sped", "Amaury . I", "Desiring much your peace .", "Your hair that he believes an aureole"], "true_target": ["Him witless to her \u2014 with a charm perhaps \u2014", "Drinking the frenzied wine of passion", "Brought with you out of Heaven .", "The truth !", "Though you are cunning .\u2014 Thus you wove the mesh", "Are sent for to behold Yolanda wed ,", "How !", "I did ; but rue , rue it !...", "Will speak to her alone . Go , all of you ,", "Over it \u2014", "His mood and mien \u2014 that tremor in his throat ,", "Of the sun , to be his bride ?", "Still to deceive Amaury ?", "The lash in hunger of the wonted bone ?", "You cherish her and reap unchastity", "Too much .", "He poured from his soul .", "Now the request .", "And senseless beads , for such .\u2014 But what more now", "From immortality , or the fair fields", "I will \u2014 that you are mad .", "Power of \u2014!\u2014 No !", "Yet see her shameless .", "No ... she shall tell me .", "Ah .", "There to the fountain .", "That brings you low :", "No ; I think you wrong her .", "Rather the convent and the crucifix ,", "Her soul in any disavowal ?", "Then not ! and half I fear \u2014 you hear ?\u2014 it should not . There 's midnight in this thing and mystery . Does she not love \u2014 Camarin ? YolandaSay no more . Be all \u2014 all as you will .", "She would .", "A pang !\u2014 For days", "So deem you and , my Berengere , I grieve ,", "For gratitude \u2014 unchastity against", "Not of it ? he ? not know ?", "Is she demanding ?", "The fume and suffocation of the thought", "Our very son who was betrothed to her .", "This can be ? BerengereYolanda !", "Not the means", "That \u2014 love !", "Were blind .", "Delayed ?", "I 'll send her Camarin .", "Or , past releasing , with a philtre ? She", "Of Camarin of Paphos \u2014\u2014", "No sake but to o'ersway him with your eyes", "We shall see .", "Berengere", "Then I shall win you as I never have .\u2014", "As you commanded ,", "I soon may come and seek forgiveness .", "Here unto Camarin . Shame has till now", "It is ! It is !"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["To the guilt I bear , or to the misery", "Enough is here without \u2014\u2014", "Strike !", "Is need .", "Her eyes !... They open ! open !", "Amaury was not then delayed ? is \u2014 here ?", "Or death .", "Yolanda !", "That Berengere be saved .", "At Keryneia ! Do you hear me ?", "Yolanda ! Yolanda . I \u2014\u2014", "Fate may fall . I swore in dread , but will not ! YolandaMadonna !", "Mad ! mad ! Venice would rise !", "Suspicion and the peril-feet of shame", "My love has made unholy .", "Why , you are mad !", "And I am barren .", "Amaury still is many leagues away \u2014", "Do your will . I 'll put no more", "Then will , still \u2014 if there", "I must keep from her still .", "He raves .", "Folly ! you wander !"], "true_target": ["Yolanda", "Despite of them ! in to his side and say", "Though for your suffering I am pitiful ,", "Then how ? what ?... You must .", "For to one thing , one only now I 'm bent \u2014\u2014", "I 'll go to him !", "That was anguish ? whose ?", "That guilt has brought upon you .", "As an anchorite covets , Venetian ,", "Amaury , I will not .", "My brain an arid waste under remorse .", "It stays within its sheath .", "She knows no shred of it .", "Immortal calm , I crave and covet this !", "Yolanda", "Oh !... Berengere ! ... treachery !HassanHe 's dead .", "That I am innocent \u2014 as the first dawn", "A frenzy ! Mere", "Yet ... I will not entreat it of her more .", "And dew of Eden !... Yes !", "Only one thing it yields \u2014 the love of her", "Unswerving love .", "You must !", "What ? Come , come ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Not one .", "And she must tell me !", "Fear in my mother !", "My father 's look ! you saw it !", "Nor I", "Then would you hear me say \u2014", "And did not wonder ?", "Mean well this monster breath 's unchastity ,", "Whose lips refuse .", "As quickly !", "With Camarin .", "More , Camarin of Paphos , than is clear !", "To tell us of you !", "Of this invisible but heavy hydra ;", "Say it at once that I may rend and fling it", "Whom you have so accused .", "Now of my mother .", "Before your sleep . Therefore my purpose is", "Only your death , your death or mine stands pale", "But this to all , I answer !\u2014", "The reason of this sudden piteous death", "These wounds and all your wants were urging it !", "Wounded with wonder of this plight , and pity .", "On ; go on . The sudden blood up to my wounds .", "Vows I have kept \u2014", "My being \u2014", "Christ , and the world that craves His blood , I think", "You are my father , and , I must believe ,", "An angel ? Speak !", "Yolanda ! my Yolanda !\u2014 Never , never !", "Yolanda ?", "And to dispel your minds", "I 'll clasp his hand", "If you are firm .", "You cannot duped inoculate me with .", "Would know it unbelievable and laugh .", "The sun that falls upon you shall not foul", "There is my mother , see ,", "For though nought 's in the world but prayer may move ,", "Her that I hold here in my arms is more", "Out , quickly .", "By the white doe on mount Chionodes .", "Still but the lips that loved her", "See ; her lips ! They strive to speak ! O faintly . O so faint ! Can you not hear ?", "You drive and drain her .", "Invisible and without any voice", "Between us now , awaiting silently .", "From her dead father 's hand \u2014", "Draw , and at once .", "But she will , she will . You 've driven her with dread and awe . VittiaAnd truth ?", "Her holiness up to contamination", "Henceforth I will .", "O ! ... and by me , driven by me , bore this ?", "They say , you , who are stainless to my eyes", "To breathe ever the burning of this mist", "Lady of Venice , nothing !", "Were you and now could hear through what of cold", "If any tare has been unseemly sown", "As is the sacring-bell to holy ears ,", "I would as quick believe that she had given", "The issue 's utterance . And stay , wear this \u2014", "Till I prove it !", "Yolanda !", "And I forbid those who", "I ? who know nought ? In what ?", "Coward !", "Sirocco !... It is unintelligible !", "Trust in my veins makes of it but more love .", "My father ?", "I 'll not return unto my couch though twice", "O , sir , pardon .", "Thus ?", "I will not so insult her .", "A hollow word for what had never being .", "For , trust me , ere to-morrow all will cease \u2014", "Bathing a thousand years in angel song !", "A poison so incredible and dark", "Sir !", "Have wounded her . But do not fear , Yolanda ;", "Still I love her , still !", "How ? speak .", "Iscariot ! yes !", "Near ! would it were to hear me and impart", "Now to forget it .", "An image of the Magdalen within", "This wound upon my throat , fever it not", "So undefiled even the perfect lily", "Be it so .", "Stand away from me ."], "true_target": ["Or silence wrap you , oh , so humanly ,", "As a proof to her of any tie soever .", "Come , let it be .", "Away from us . Say it !", "Yet you speak gently .", "You who are purity if Mary still", "Then is He not my God .", "But now \u2014 for the sails make home along the sea \u2014", "As well she knows , so may refuse to wed", "Of anguish and insatiate accusal .\u2014", "Set down the bier .", "Listen , they tell me you \u2014 A fool , a fool", "What ! It is moving in me clouded ,", "Its dim unhappiness and hollow want .", "Because you love her ?", "What is beyond this shame upon Yolanda ?", "Deeper than sight but pressing at my peace .", "Hard on the haunted flight before my father ,", "Then it shall be . And grateful I 'll await", "I to believe her pure as my own mother !", "As that Yolanda \u2014\u2014", "Until I prove you that a word against", "You in whose presence I am purged as one", "I 've striven with it till no more I can .", "O pause not !", "who has gently nursed me .", "Yes , mother , were you now about us , vain ,", "Have prized her not !", "Upon the April vision of our love ,", "That you may palter !", "For \u2014 if her soul is near \u2014 it now is wrung .", "Vittia", "My hands and strangle life from it !", "Should for her any sin beseeching lift .", "Pendent upon your breast fears to pollute it !", "Ah , God !", "That I may loathe her not o'ermuch ; and to", "Though as under sirocco I am kept .", "Fiercely disown .", "So ; and ... it is well . And here are her", "The chapel yonder fell \u2014 presaging this .", "And seeming but a veil \u2014", "Never !", "Yolanda !", "You lie to say it .", "Then , by", "Yolanda has dwelt by her", "Still in the love that you a thief have stolen .", "For the same sky you breathe I will not .", "The day you first set step in Lusignan", "She , if she would , or you , could point to me ,", "Though I must take your leper throat into", "Its yearning and regret to us who live ,", "So my Yolanda now dissolve the cling", "As the fawn", "That name again ?", "You !", "And \u2018 tis that you may live", "You play a part !", "Or you , Vittia Pisani ,", "Muffle my sword from him that now she weds .", "And saw", "So , with your steel \u2014\u2014!", "This only . To-morrow when again she ... Scythian !", "Though I must go down into hell for it .", "Is mother of God and lighteth Paradise !", "When I knew its source ?", "As does this lady", "Crush you as one a viper with his heel ,", "God ! God !", "Vittia", "No other better !", "She ?", "To me her words shall be \u2014 me and no other .", "That she may not grieve .", "Yolanda", "No need , my lord \u2014 though your pang too I marked \u2014", "They and no other !", "For ... my Yolanda !...", "Yolanda !... He ?... This reverence as to", "Lady , you I mean .", "You ?", "Vows and remembrances ... I shall aspire \u2014", "Then I will not be thwarted though I must", "But you were tricked ; it was illusion swum", "With longer fire of doubt , Yolanda .", "Pure as the rills of Paradise , endured ?", "What ? what is it she says ?", "Not here yet .... There is more in this than seems .", "To me than any peril ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Now to my drugs .", "She speaks to visions . So , So can the blood do \u2014 trick us utterly !YolandaSpeak , speak , and tell him !", "Aieh ! and to return"], "true_target": ["Aieh \u2014\u2014", "Aeih , aeih ! at last .", "But , sir \u2014!... Aeih ! My precious physic wasted !"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["And how ?", "Sent in your keeping to her ?", "The lord of Lusignan .", "So .", "This is again fortune ! ... fortune !", "Some officer of Famagouste \u2014 - and men .", "The spirits strangle him !", "Eh ! And she will hear no doubt with love", "And you are sought below , I heard it said :", "Yes .", "Ere he has time , lady ,", "Lady ?", "Greeting !", "Vittia", "To you , lady ? A-ha ! let him refuse . Command !"], "true_target": ["So .", "To see her suffer .", "Of his mother .", "So !... So !", "To vaunt his loves , in Lusignan , and babble .", "With love and with delight ? since she awaits them ? With joy ? When told your amorous mouthings yonder ?", "Ha ! Fortune 's touch !", "She lies in danger . Hear \u2014 \u2018 twas as she fled", "Civa !", "He .", "As I came hither , I stole there at noon", "Nothing . She was returning from the rocks ,", "That you delay the powers of the Senate", "Where nest the windy gulls ,", "Swooned !", "She swooned of terror at the castle gate ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Slave , you \u2014\u2014! By my sins !", "I , Pietro , who , as you know , am sought", "In to her ... quickly !...", "Beside the fount ?", "And then \u2014", "For \u2014 for a lady by the marble knight ,", "Who fell enamoured of me at the gate .", "Slave ! ...the papers ?", "\u201c Proud Pietro ! \u201d", "That I was led astray", "And for all this , O prince of paramours ,", "By all the loveliest", "The papers , quickly !", "Dear slave , you will \u2014 and say if she inquire", "That is , by the fountain , swooned , as I came in ."], "true_target": ["And then they sigh .", "Smarda", "Smarda", "As I came !", "The same ! I sought to run away ,", "Then they weep and pine \u2014", "\u201c The gentle Pietro , \u201d they say . You may remember .", "Who ? which ? lady Yolanda ? lady Berengere ?", "By the little Cyprian with guiling eyes", "My lady no doubt has bid you to sail from Venice ?", "O slave , say to her , but I could not for \u2014", "Did no one say ?... My mistress must know this !", "Slave , she must never ! You will take them to her !", "Eh ?", "Attending on the lords and high of Venice .", "\u201c For Pietro \u201d \u2014 until I must console them ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Prepare that altar \u2014 masses for the dead .", "And wherefore may not ?", "Her darkly bid the Paphian be gone \u2014\u2014", "Send hither two .", "The evil that has risen in this house ?", "To shrivel thee \u2014 whether with pain or fear !", "Kindle all", "Salt tears that rust the fountain of the heart .", "But who , now , in a lofty grief above", "In blindness still ! For Vittia Pisani , who alone Seems with these twain to share this mystery Is silent to all importunity . Oh , Berengere Lusignan !\u2014 But , \u2018 tis mine To pray and to prepare .The acolytes .Come here .... You 're Serlio , Of the Ascension . You ? 2nd Acolyte . Hilarion . From Santa Maria by the Templars \u2019 well , Which God looks on with gratitude , father . For though we 're poor and are unworthy servants We 've given willingly our widow 's mite . And now we ...", "Woman , this passes silence . There must be", "As says Yolanda ,", "My son , relentless words . AmauryTo the relentless !", "Look to that image of the Magdalen ,", "Low to this couch , be never ease again .", "Go .... But if this hour brings forth", "And answers only ,\u2014", "From here \u2014 without her .", "Who is to-day impenetrable in all .", "God hear you not !", "Be it so !", "Lone rest !", "For ministrations other than the tongue 's .", "Do you ?"], "true_target": ["And be appeaseless tears ,", "But unto any , mother , who have brought thee", "Amaury", "Hither for holy care and sacred rest .", "Does she not see Amaury dangerous", "Then bliss Afar for ever !", "But go and for her soul", "So do \u2014 then after", "\u201c God in His season will ,", "Some question . Do you understand this wedding ?", "Yes , Your desire ?", "But in them be the burning that has seemed", "What you shall rue \u2014\u2014", "I bid .", "Enough , enough .", "Once it has fallen .", "And yet I heard", "To any who have put thy life out , never !", "The misery that blasted her , seems calm ,", "Its tapers . The departed will be borne", "You are summoned to this place", "For truth \u2014 which you conceal ?", "I trust , unfold it soon ; I cannot , now ! \u201d ...", "No .", "Freight all of you this tide of night with prayer ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Or any here . For till the dead are three", "I lay that it is wiser never to foul", "There , it is done . Now to the image .", "Ah !", "Days gone , you know \u2014! But there 's the woman . Feign .", "Tchuck ! tchuck !", "Man is as grass that withers !", "My mother saw a dead man who had gone", "Better no breath about that lord of Paphos ,"], "true_target": ["The dead , even in thinking ,", "To wife or maid \u2014 till we have sipped !", "The blessed dead ! in Purgatory may", "For they may hear us , none can say , and once", "They briefly bide .", "Unshriven start up white and cry out loud", "When he was curst .", "When we are priests we 'll give no comforting", "Now have I , now ! It will not totter again ."], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}, {"query": ["Hilarion", "No !... Well , such things", "Olympio , the cock who fetched us , said", "And supped ! Though \u2018 tis a Friday and the Pope is dead !", "That image fell first on the day \u2014\u2014", "Alessa", "There are perchance . And now they say that Venus ,", "We 'll have good wine for this !"], "true_target": ["The Chian ! Hee ! None 's like the Chian ! and to-morrow , meat ! Last week old Ugo died and we had pheasant .", "Aye ! aye ! AlessaWhat say you ?", "Domine , dirige !", "O Lord !", "They bring her body here .", "Well ,", "Is come again .... But you have finished ? Soon", "The Anadyomene , who once ruled this isle ,"], "play_index": 30, "act_index": 30}]
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